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Just tweeted pg this but thought I'd say it here too. This is exactly what iRobot did when they saw the Roomba platform being taken apart and used for projects. They gave hackers the tools to use their platform and now sell quite a few Roomba based development kits instead of just plain old robot vacuums.
"Capable" and "hackable" are completely different than "ease of use". Apple really does have great ease of use (for normal people), and part of how they get it is by reducing the other two.
$90k+ for 27% is a higher valuation than most alternatives, particularly the alternatives available in Europe.
Companies like Arbor Networks have products like Peakflow[1] that are supposed to mitigate DDoS attacks by filtering the traffic. How are they not using tools such as those?

[1] http://www.arbornetworks.com/en/delivering-in-cloud-ddos-pro...

Disclaimer: I will be interning at Arbor this summer.
Don't be bashin' our Monaco 11pt.

Chrome's behavior is actually WebKit's behavior, and WebKit is developed by Apple. Open up a default terminal.app session: same font.
The naming convention for these goes back to some research at Xerox PARC http://www.ubiq.com/weiser/testbeddevices.htm

Ubiquitious Computing is upon us, and much like the PC revolution, it will have been invented at Xerox and perfected at Apple.
Something is fishy on HN. This story was #3 and then immediately jumped to #38 (on the second page). Was it secretly penalized or something?
I think a really disrupting and interesting field will be tablets as replacement for textbooks in education. The possibilities to create amazing educational material are endless.

On the other side, you have textbook publishers, who generally learn a lot of money with ever slightly changing editions and will do a lot to not see that income stream dying...
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I think they're still just computers, and will be thought of as such. Sure, they're computers you hold in your hand, not the kind that sit on your desk. Gaming consoles and set top boxes are morphing into general purpose computers too. Those are computers that sit on a table near the TV. But they're all computers the same.

http://luigimontanez.com/2010/the-computer-for-the-room/
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Replacing keys sounds like an interesting idea, but on one hand you have the problem that the tech needs to be rock-solid (if github is down I get mildly annoyed. If I can't get my door to open, I freeze to death) and you are competing against an already established technology that works really well (rfid tags) and isn't very expensive.

That said, I would love to hear more about your idea, if possible.
The most tragic goof from the airline's standpoint seems to be the "you may check in online" email, implicitly confirming the 2nd leg was still on.

I'm guessing the moment he booked his flight, a script somewhere inserted two rows into a database, and a daily cron slurped up each one to send the automated emails. So few people miss the first legs these days that they haven't bothered to make the "cancel entire itinerary" cron stop the return leg email from sending.

I still think that complaining to customer service might get him a flight voucher if he plays his cards properly.
Equally as fishy: I swear I clicked to upvote your comment, yet somehow it downvoted it.
This is absolutely right. My company been working on a medical device accessory for the iPhone and the possibilities the "tablet" form factor are amazing.

Lower Cost Structure - In our industry (diabetes) you give away hardware to get ongoing disposable revenue. This hardware is expensive to produce and develop. Plus you spend a lot of effort on areas that don't add much value e.g. reinventing the wheel re: display drivers. This completely changes the economics of the industry.

Higher Product Quality - By taking advantage of the core Tablet attributes like color touch screen display and processor you can do things feature wise that would be prohibitive with custom hardware. The amount of "ooohs" we get showing off our iPhone UI vs the current LCD one is staggering.

New Revenue Opportunities - Again our business has thrived on a single revenue stream, the disposable test strips. With connections to the web all manner of "virtual good", subscription services, and other digital business models get opened up.

Overall it is a huge win for both user and entrepreneur and is going to fundamentally change a bunch of hardware businesses.

If you want to see our product, here is a nice review (http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662351/blood-glucose-monitor-fo...)
You never know.

Exactly, so I might as well be committing to signing up for a paid plan.

EDIT: Not trying to be snarky, I'm a ridiculously happy micro subscriber, just don't see the real appeal of this...
Thanks! It is useful. I am surprised that there are not more of these restricted markdown projects. It's a common need.
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Agreed. Bitbucket offers unlimited private (and pubilc as well) repos for up to 5 committers. Github is great for public repos though. It would be great if github offered one free private repo (up to x committers) as well.
Doesn't the etherealization of hardware mean that we won't be referring to tablets, mobile devices, or laptops at all?

Isn't the only difference between an iPad and iPhone the screen size. So really, we're starting to refer to these devices based on size rather than power/memory/speed.
oops, i found a different "original" review. thanks.
I want to add my support for the author. I didn't know about this policy before reading his blog and I've been flying for years. I've never missed a flight so this has never come up.

Secondly I think there can't be a more appropriate place to criticize a business than on a business blog. I've had interactions with businesses in high throughput high stress situations that have been great and ones that have been terrible. If your business strives to give good customer service it's valuable to demonstrate your awareness of bad practices and make a public commitment to do better.
A carefully selected small subset of the leaks have been on the home page of the NY Times for days.
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The reason why airlines have this policy of canceling the roundtrip if you miss the outbound flight is because it used to be (maybe it still is) that you'd get a lower cost rate if your itinerary included a Saturday night stay (weekend fare). If you booked the roundtrip to get advantage of the lower fare, but only intended to use the return segment(to travel on a Monday), then you'd get a lower price than if you booked a one-way on Monday.

Also, people would start the ticket from a low-cost city hub so they can take advantage of the cheap return fare.

Pricing probably doesn't work that way anymore, but the policy still exists. Any seasoned traveler should already have experience with this. To avoid the problem, you can call the airlines BEFORE you miss your outbound flight and they will provide options for you if you are nice.
Lying about it does, or at least it should.
Doesn't the fact that the iPad is itself a closed...errr, integrated...system counter your argument?

I'm all for open standards, API's and community cooperation of course. I just don't think that Apple is necessarily the antithesis.

The fundamental difference between Apple's position today to Microsoft's monoculture of the previous decade lies in their motivations.

Apple wants to make great stuff.

Microsoft wanted to control the world.

btw PG: I rfs8.html is not on the rfs.html page yet.
And, speaking of "too good to be true", the sudden availability of the "rewardlevel.com" domain name a month ago was definitely too good to be true. It only became available for you to purchase because spammers got tired of spamming people with it. It's always a crying shame to see someone create a cool new web site on a blacklisted domain name.

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/rewardlevel.com
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/rewardlevel.com/msgpage

It pays to check SiteAdvisor and MyWOT before you purchase a domain name. Better safe than sorry.
I do wish the Chrome team would fix the inability to view local XML files.
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Maybe a mod flagged or something? I have seen stories dropping off the homepage just like it and have no clue why that happens.
Hey Sebastian, I wanted to give you a heads up. I saw your recent post, but you spelled "wisen" as "wizen" - easy spelling error to make, since they're uncommonly used words, but I thought you should know. "Wizen" means for things to dry up and lose water. Cheers and best wishes.

I see where he is going and agree, but if it takes someone a whole paragraph to tell me I misspelled a single word I am not going to be as joyful as he makes it sound like.
"Computers" still get viruses, require backups done by the user to be safe from data loss, have out-of-date software packages (each with its own broken update mechanism), take ages to boot up, are clunky and slow...the list goes on.

Sure, none of those are specific to the "computer" form factor. But they are all things that people think of when they think about their desktop computer (some mac and linux users excluded, of course: but that's still only 10% of the computer-using population). NONE of those items I just listed are problems with any "Tablet" computer.

The form factor is different, but so is the very model of user software and computing.
How does this work on non-US websites? Do you geo-locate offers or only offer US-specific offers at this time?
Also, it's more or equally probable to win the lottery, casino, poker?
What blows my mind is that I might have been able to see this coming in the 80's - but Buckminster Fuller saw it coming in 19 fricking 38. That man was incredible.
I haven't used bitbucket much, but things like the Compare view make Github really nice:

https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/v3.0.2...3-0-stable

Github Pages are really useful. Maintaining a project site is really easy when you can just create a gh-pages branch and push to it to update your site.

Also, network effects are undeniably part of the appeal. I'm much more likely to hack on a project or library if I can fork it on Github. It makes for a nice workflow.
Why do you place more value on "power and memory", than the way people use a device (tablet vs. PC)?

Let me give you a clear example: my computer 10 years ago had 128 MB of RAM. My iPhone has 16 GB of RAM. Does that make my old computer not a computer?

My point is that the usage is what matters. I still use my computer to browse the web, compile code, run Excel and Word, etc.
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After my crazy announcement that I wasn't pursuing a position at another company, but was taking a metaphorical jump off a cliff, I must admit that I wasn't super-confident.

Well, it's been 3 months, and I'm feeling good in some ways, but apprehensive in others...
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I'd be surprised if this was held on the server hosting the data.
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What's the YC funded startup which is a replacement for keys? As in "We funded one startup that's replacing keys."
Other stuff being replaced by smart devices: watches, alarm clocks, portable radios, cheap digital cameras, spirit levels, dictionaries and perhaps soon your wallet and physical mass-produced books. Looking at some of the creative stuff people do with mounting their iPad in vehicles, perhaps iPad-like devices will replace traditional dials in cars in the near future.

The only reason we even consider calling them "mobile devices" is that the iPhone preceded the iPad. If the iPad had come first, we wouldn't think of the iPhone as a phone; we'd think of it as a tablet small enough to hold up to your ear. Hence the joke calling the iPad a giant iPhone. That was a pretty good description. If the future of telephony is VoIP, then that is pretty much bang on.
Ah, I was looking for something like that. Thanks for the pointer! This is a feature which I, personally, would like to see soon.
Care to explain? Clearly there is a correlation here. Do you believe it's just coincidence that there is one non-white person and one non-male in the entire group?
As much as the software is the window to opportunity for these devices, the hardware is just as important. Apple's form factor is exceptional! Their Industrial Design sense and abilities is one of the most important recipes to their success, I think.

Google unfortunately discounts this, or rather, is late to understand how important UX is in the tangible world as much as the intangible. When you pickup a phone, tablet rather, your first impressions are based on the physical device. The intrinsic value during this interaction is irreplaceable by any software, no matter how good.
It sounds a cool idea, and I'll be interested to see the results. I just signed up and received a confirmation link:

When I clicked it I got:

Resend confirmation instructions
1 error prohibited this user from being saved:

* Confirmation token is invalid

Edit: I'm using Evolution for my email, when I looked at the HTML and copied the URL out and used that, it worked :)
Tablets are obviously great, but does anyone think they'll really replace cameras or GPSes? It seems to me that tablets will cut the bottom out of these markets (those with casual interest in photography or GPS or computing won't need to buy a dedicated device) but they'll never approach the quality of an SLR or a dedicated GPS. Or am I just being short-sighted?
Don't tell Peter Thiel.
I always thought of these devices as 'casual computing'
Holy crap the .NET Gadgeteer is awesome
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Most of them can't handle really large attacks. Wikileaks was supposedly getting hit with more than 10Gbps, which is right around the maximum Peakflow can handle.

When an attack this big targets a small business, they usually just null route the servers, essentially sending all data into a blackhole. The downside is that their website will be inaccessible by legitimate users. The upside is that they don't have to pay for the used bandwidth, which is pricey at 10Gbps.
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Thanks! I think I have my next weekend project.
I'm a game designer. I can tell you that seeing the "gamification" movement makes my stomach churn. These are just a bunch of f*ing reward schemes. Web developers don't have a clue what game design or game mechanics are, and with sites like these, they never will. I think we need a new term, perhaps "reward structures" is enough. Sadly it isn't as "trendy" as gamification sounds. Equating game design with reward structures blatantly disregards the "toy" aspect of games. Games are meant to be fun. Reward structure is part of that, but not nearly the entire thing.
One that includes why "ways <inventor> could never have imagined" is desirable so it would convince people who don't already believe it to be the case?

If they used the accelerometer to measure how hard they hit people over the head with iPad when mugging them, and triggered a string of copycat attacks, that wouldn't be desirable for Apple or society.

It's almost arguing against firewalls - why restrict computer access when developers can find so many new and interesting uses for it? (Buffer overflows, spam and more is why. Default-deny is the good practise alternative. Assuming that's my stance, your suggestion isn't a convincing argument at all).
In 2001, Bill Gates said that by 2006 tablets would be the most popular form factor for PCs. They obviously weren't back then. It's funny how Apple changes ecosystems.

http://gizmodo.com/5324866/vintage-bill-gates-predicts-table...
Really? We're going to complain about something that's free? Oh yeah, it's the Internet.
Right, Apple's shareholders are out there saying "I'm so glad we're making great stuff". Apple wants to make money, no matter how much fandom we bestow upon Apple for having a great design aesthetic, Apple is a corporation whose aim is to make money. Apple is a golden boy because they aren't Microsoft, and if we keep comparing the two, we never give Apple an honest shake.
Features don't make platforms interesting. Windows CE devices had features pouring out of them, but no-one cared. Similarly with maemo. (I can commiserate: I loved my n800. But no-one else did.)

Use makes things interesting. Particularly as relates to platforms. If the platform isn't used, its potential is a moot point.
From the title I thought this would link to code: some sort of OSS library/abstraction-layer for providing common game mechanics. Is there anything like that yet, in any language?
In general, the tablet enables all the ideas that people have had over the years that were perfect "except you'd have to carry around a computer to run the thing". I'd love to see communications protocols and hardware (next gen bluetooth?) developed to allow devices that need a computer to wirelessly use the one in my pocket.

I'd also like to see more innovation in the space where users hold tablets while they're facing a television set. The tablet-as-remote-control where the program listings are on the tablet. The tablet-as-gaming-controller where you and your opponent both have tablets (draw a path on a map to move a character instead of guiding the character turn-by-turn).
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You could distribute it via a torrent ... oh, wait.

Am I the only one that wonders if there is a casual connection between shutting down the torrent trackers, WikiLeaks releasing the diplomatic cables, and the DDoS against WikiLeaks ?
Incidentally, I know the Wikipedia article has been deleted, but I'm assuming someone will fix that.

(Is this the current world record for deletionism, or have there been more egregious examples?)
I see it's easy to sign up to put the rewardLevel code on one's website but nowhere to sign up to become a reward offerer? I assume it's only for a handful of known clients for now, will this change and eventually allow any business to offer it's products/services to be shown in the rewards network?
Good call on the geo-location. Coming soon.

Right now the algorithm optimizes to the rewards that work best for your site.
> I wouldn't be surprised if by playing some clever tricks with the accelerometer you could even replace the bathroom scale.

Galileo might take issue with that: http://www.jimloy.com/physics/galileo.htm
But that's exactly the point of patents. If there's evil here, it's because of using offensively a patent that should not have been granted, not because other platforms are also involved.
maybe we just have a disagreement over what's appropriate to put in company blogs. maybe it's safer to stick with simple product updates and policy changes (and it probably is in most cases), but this is the type of stuff i like to see. it shows me there are human beings behind a company and that they're committed to certain values. i enjoy supporting those types of companies, and i know if i have a problem i'll be able to e-mail or call them and they're going to help me out.

i can't remember the last time i've actually read a company blog. i don't read them because they're boring. they usually have nothing worth reading, and i don't consider myself attracted to sensationalist material either.

the fact that it's a trivial mistake in the eyes of experienced travelers can probably go dismissed here because wepay primarily caters to college students and roommates.
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Love the idea! Just some design suggestions/thoughts from my first look around. Because of the heavy contrast between the white in the upper portion and the blue on the bottom, I get the impression that the bluk of your relevant content is in the lower section.. when in reality of ease of adding the 'Reward' feature to the form seems like it should be your focus.

When looking at your signup form, it's not really obvious what I'm supposed to do, because the reward button, question button, and submission button are grouped so closely and look so similar. I would tone down the yellow of the input boxes a bit and change the colors for the reward info buttons - example: http://i53.tinypic.com/29mt4l5.jpg

Also, I think if they click in the reward box it should only check the box, not check/uncheck like a label.

Great idea though! I Apologize if you don't like my thoughts, just some quick first impressions!
Yeah, I thought about that, but if you go look at all of these sites, they publish their embed codes for the purpose of you adding them to your own site. It's just that nobody has aggregated them into one place. I would love to make money but traffic would be good enough.
At least for C.S. I would guess that most people will happily send you a PDF copy of their theses (if they're not available from their websites already). Just send them a friendly email.
What I was trying to point out about the email link is if you're going to share it as a link in the top nav, you should do the same in the about page. (At least for consistency/convenience.)
they'll never approach the quality of an SLR or a dedicated GPS

They won't for people who need all of the functionality of an SLR or dedicated GPS. But how many of the people buying such things actually need all of the functionality? Quite often, they don't. They buy more than they need to indicate status, or because they fear having an inadequate device.

Tablets provide an alternate form of status at the moment. And the fear of inadequacy is mitigated by their popularity: If everyone is buying one, how bad can it be?

Single-purpose cameras and GPS devices are well on their way to marginalization as extremely niche devices. I think that will be true of almost everything a tablet can replace.
Well, the main point is the beautiful interface that makes reading RSS fields hugely pleasurable. That Reeder syncs with Google is because the author doesn't want to maintain an RSS aggregation/syncing service himself (and who can blame him?) I just don't like using Google's services, so I am bemoaning the fact not that the author isn't HOPPING TO MY PERSONAL DEMANDS but rather that I don't get to use Reeder.
The fact that you can change font sizes easily means the iPad effectively replaces reading glasses.

Really? I mean it might help someone not need reading glasses for the tasks they do on the iPad... but they still have to have them to read the dinner menu, instructions on the box of food, and so on. If you can't replace it fully how good is it? The iPhone replaced regular cell phones because of the fact you no longer need two devices.

Or... I read too much into that.
Also interesting is how many of them grew up without a father.
pretty sure your iPhone doesn't have 16 GB of RAM- iPhone 4 apparently has 512 MB RAM...so still more than your old computer, but not so drastic.
These need fleshing out. By shortening them to fit in tweets you've made some of them ambiguous, and others lack any context to apply them. For example, We judge a lot about how good a design is by how long it takes to implement. could go either way, on KISS principle, or persistent A/B testing.