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The Xoom will mostly compete with the yet-to-be-announced iPad 2. The Xoom's specs completely blow the original iPad out of the water, so it's likely okay that it's priced above the current iPad; we'll have to wait and see what the iPad 2 brings to the table. If Apple can hit similar specs at a cheaper price then you might be right, but I doubt that'll happen.

The Xoom also has the Honeycomb advantage; I wonder what iPad 2's UI will look like. I think you underestimate how impressed average people will be when casually browsing tablets in stores. Honeycomb is gorgeous.
(Comment I wrote on my blog)...

Just got an anonymous email - no idea if anyone can verify the truth behind it...

http://i.imgur.com/BDuMM.png

"here is no such person as Brutus Lyon, it is Jenn Prentice from
Experts Exchange. She always does shit like this under aliases."

I assumed Brutus was working or staff from EE, I don't see why a fake name is needed or the reason behind it / how it changes anything.
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i wonder if you can use this as a generic web application paid subscription solution like a merchant + recurly (for example).
Well, the 32Gb iPad 1 with Wi-Fi is $599 and Motorola is quoting $600 for 32Gb Xoom with load of more features - USB 2.0 port in itself is a big win along with plenty (1Gb) of RAM.
Even if it isn't feasible for building end-user-targeting apps, I could see this useful for exploring the Android APIs interactively from your dev machine with a swank server. I see it already comes with a nailgun server, which is a great start.
It's nice to see so many of these tools that solve smaller problems really well being released. I was just considering implementing something like this for a later version of my own application, and now I can probably just use their API when I'm ready for this feature, assuming prices are reasonable. Everybody wins.
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You aren't a designer if you actually produce code. If you "can" code but do not, and use dreamweaver or a similar drawing to code tool, then yeah, you are a designer.
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This is not true. The runtime environment for Java is capable of changing the program on the fly in response to dynamically determined bottlenecks. To implement such a system in C would be to re-implement Java.

What you cannot do in C/C++ that you can in Java is respond to program inefficiencies at runtime, with runtime knowledge.
Really wish I could go this year. I'd love to be able to network my new startup and learn new things about Python.

Its my favourite event of the year so hopefully I'll be able to go next year.
Note: If you use scala, escape analysis can be particularly helpful. The "pimp my library" pattern for extending classes involves creating wrapper objects, and these can often be optimized away. http://www.decodified.com/scala/2010/08/27/scala-rich-wrappi... has more details
Small, 800 px wide, Asus EEE PC (may not be typical, but still a common resolution)...
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No biggie ;)

Back on topic - I think the iPhone was a risky launch. It was really unknown at the time whether it would succeed. I didn't think it would, but I didn't think the iPod would succeed either when it was launched in 2001.
Its not clear to me whether those returns are total or annualized. If the latter, the 15 and 20 year returns are eye-popping.
Didn't Scribd do this first?
Because banning books invokes Fahrenheit 451 and 1984, but banning websites doesn't. In short, because they think they can get away with it for websites.
I'm almost certain the iPad 2 will have 1gb RAM, a dual Core CPU, and at least a front facing camera. It won't have a USB port though.

Guess we'll have to wait and see though!
It's rather like people who buy a book just so they can burn it. If I'm the publisher, that's my cue to reprint as fast as possible.
Apple "got away" with it because they have a product that's compelling despite the problem AND they provided a (partial?) solution to the problem.

Which is what Apple does best in every category in which they're successful. Is the iPod the most feature-laden PMP? No. It is still the best across the categories that matter for most users. Same with the iPad: I know no 'normal' user with an iPad that doesn't like it. And they almost all have some point of "I wish x was better." It's just that the goods far outweigh the bads.

Oh, and their branding doesn't hurt, either.
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If Apple is handling Billing, Subscriptions, Payments, Merchant fees, etc, then isn't that a savings to the content maker? Does the economies of scale with handling those services rest of the vendor, or with Apple?

From everything I have ever read about iTunes and App stores, the 30% cut isn't profitable for Apple. It covers operating costs of the stores. Could someone point to me the place where Apple is making an actual profit on this?
It seems that the site is down
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I'd be more likely to donate if I knew more about him, about what he was going to do with them, etc.

90% chance of him doing exactly what I'm doing with a couple of mine - sitting on them, and doing nothing.
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Incremental GC is yet another JVM trade-off. It trashes the CPU cache all the time and with 100ns slowdown for each cache miss the gains I've seen on real life code are not even remotely close to what's advertised.

And Java objects in real life tend to be big and not very local, from what I've seen.
It's fascinating watching the HN community ebb and flow around topics, there's this collective conscious that discusses programming languages (mostly) and some days the tide takes us to a heavily Pythonic view of the world, and this week we're having a c revivalist movement.

I thinking writing a system to identify topics on HN day after day and try to correlate this with other events might be interesting, is it for example all reactionary, is it some form of herding, does it follow topics on other similar forums, or just pseudo-random.

Back to the topic. There is one definitive C resource, K&R.
I thought the engineers might be trying to make its score end in a particular number if Watson was correct, as a sort of Easter egg.

It looked like it might be 658, which spells "BSG" upside-down on a calculator. Now that would be a great moment in geek history, hiding a Battlestar Galactica reference with a calculator message using a computer on Jeopardy!

Alas, the number it was betting towards was 37,628, which (at the risk of paraphrasing Hardy) is not a very interesting number. Or is it?!
So maybe it would be nice if they wrote up an essay somewhere detailing exactly what they mean by "freedom" so that no one gets confused. Maybe they could call it the "The Free Software Definition".

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

I'll leave aside the issue of whether or not this matches what you consider a "rational" or "sane" definition of "free" and just point out that it makes pretty good sense to me.
I don't see why it has to be doomed at this price. It is in the same ballpark as the iPad. With a subsidy, it will appear even cheaper than iPad. I am sure it won't ever beat the iPad on sales, but I can easily imagine it being a very successful and profitable product.

We learned from the iPod competitors that cheaper price and cheaper looking devices, even with more features/storage, won't win. So why not go head to head with a similarly priced, similar build quality device? I feel like Apple gets this win-win perception. Competitor releases a cheaper product, it is called a piece of junk that is DOA. Competitor releases a similar or higher priced product, it is overpriced and DOA.

Plus, "[a]ny tablet with a higher price than the iPad fails to generate any kind of lasting interest, I don't see why it will be different here"? Isn't a bit early to say? There has been only one real competitor, and while the Galaxy Tab hasn't taken the world by storm, it seems to be doing a tidy business.
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thanks, glad I'm not alone :-).
I guess it deploys a sophisticated, proprietary, patent-pending algo involving weighted averages, uni-directional vectors and other related mumbo-jumbo. :-)))

[A method and a process to calculate the Karma score of members]

On a serious note, I joined here only early this month and have wondered about this once or twice myself. However, I post here mainly to share what (I think) I know and because I generally like this community; I'm sure there's a lot to learn here.

In the end, I reckon if I keep doing my thing, Karma will (eventually) sort itself out. ;-)
There are good and bad VC's, and with funds lasting 10 years it takes a long time to sort them out. It'll be interesting to see if the institutional money really pulls out of the industry or if they start driving up the price of the good VC's. Folks with solid track records might use this data to justify a better deal than 2 and 20 with their LPs.
This is hardly a hack. Advertirials have been used for decades, long before AdWords.
This is an idea I've been interested in for a while. The real benefits will occur when the equivalent of derivatives become common.

The clearest example is mapping a RAID server (multiple disk drives, with some technique for splitting up the data to achieve high reliability) into a contract backed by multiple cloud computing providers. A 3rd party company could sell high reliability contracts by buying up cheap low reliability contracts and applying a RAID technique.

Cloud providers and hardware companies could also look at the price curve of different types of performance/reliability contractts in long term options contracts (eg. 1 hour of 1Ghz processor delivered 18 months from today) to plan for future demand.

It's a bit dated now, but I once took a stab at writing this up when I was trying to pick a startup idea. Amazon S3 came out shortly after this was written and changed the assumptions considerably: http://bit.ly/dWIpqC
I disagree. The Xoom has superior specs to the iPad. Pricing it any lower would give the consumer an unmistakable whiff of inferiority. Pricing it dead even with the iPad is exactly what Motorola should be doing.
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What an awful name. Of course the iPad gas a lame name, but at least it has an obvious pronunciation. I see "Xoom" and say "exhume" which means to dig a body up.

I think I smell the reek of death. Now if the exhume was only say, $300 for the wifi only unit, they'd have something. Even $400 would be too much for what consumers will call a "generic iPad" as even the hard-up could find another $99 if they already had $400 to drop on a toy like a tablet.

Exhume indeed. This may illustrate to clever marketers that for a lot of people, the obvious and seemingly correct pronunciation for a clever brand might bite them. My grandpa called Qwest "queue west" as they made him wait for a customer service agent too long for his liking. He was onto something.
Nope. I'm nearly at 400 and I can't find a downvote button anywhere.
Because there was still a slim chance that it thought it was right. If it's well ahead, it shouldn't bet $0 unless it knows with absolutely confidence that it's wrong.
Bank wire transfers, that's what everybody here does including Apple, Amazon etc.
This reminded me of this article from some time ago: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Of course, what they are doing here is much less sophisticated.
The only way to have a publication legally banned in the United States is to have it declared legally obscene. Obscenity is a local consideration and it's practically impossible to get something banned universally. The only way publications are kept out are complaints to vendors and/or the willful adoption of mandatory rating systems, which generally have a rating that is equivalent to a commercial blackout (see "AO" from the ESRB or "NC-17" from MPAA; material so rated is not generally available because most "respectable" vendors refuse to stock it).

IANAL.
I am hardly surprised that the ten year return rate is as miserable as it is. Ten years ago, in 2000, we were in the midst of the tech bubble, and many companies got funding that they should not have. It's like looking at the ten year return rate on property purchased in Miami in 2006.

edit: pets.com evaporated 300 mil in less than a year in 2000, and that's just one example.
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That $600 is a good price point for this device. I'm tempted to get one...
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It was increased recently to 500, I believe.
I think the real masterstroke was putting the attention on the nebulous antenna problem, so that the quality of the camera --a problem with no fix-- was totally ignored.

It's like a new twist on "the emperor has no clothes" every day. See if you start noticing how many photos you see have giant green color distortions in the middle of the image. Those are iPhone 4 photos, and no one talks about it.
> Isn't one of the advantages of the Internet bringing developers together to work on things? Can't we put our collective capabilities toward improving things instead of rewriting them from scratch simply because they're not our favorite license or favorite language?

Well, that is pretty much the purpose of GPL, isn't it. It sets up a co-operative rule: if you want to gain from GPL software, then you must give something back, and that is to let other people gain from your additions. It is better to co-operate, and GPL reifies that instinct into a legal form to give it a bit more strength.
I just got it at 500. I'd reached the downvoting threshold once or twice before, but then lost the privilege when the threshold was raised.
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Their HTML5 viewer currently only works on their website, not embeddable on your own site.

They embed a flash app.
It needs to have higher specs, as it is running a knocked off Java. And as good as honeycomb cereal is, Android is pretty sluggish and ugly compared to iOS. iOS is <I><b>gorgeous.</b></I>

Nobody bought the iPad because of specs, aside from the battery life. If you think they did, you still do not understand the market, and are probably baffled that people are not buying Intel based tablets.
Do these types of screw ups ever really have that huge of an effect? Even BP seems to have come out looking pretty good. I can't recall this type of thing having a medium-term effect on a company.
when the Apple tablet was announced, the chosen name for the device was subject to ridicule for weeks on the internet. After it became one of the fastest selling tech products ever, the internet whiners were nowhere to be found...
The main problem for me is that they destroyed trust by refusing to update the Android OS on some of their phones. Presumably the same thing will happen on the tablet.

I wish for a "Nexus One" of Honeycomb tablets...
Do you realize that HN is just a fancy database ?
>... Scribd’s embeddable document reader still uses Flash ...

Probably not for much longer, though.
No. You can go on Quora and ask how much it cost AOL to send out all those free trial CDs in the 90s, and the former freaking CEO of AOL himself gets on and answers.
http://www.quora.com/How-much-did-it-cost-AOL-to-distribute-...

The mods on HN would kill a question like the following one, no doubt:
http://www.quora.com/It-is-possible-to-drop-a-marshmallow-fr...

The discussion on the Tiger Mom stuff was much better on Quora than HN:
http://www.quora.com/Parenting/Is-Amy-Chua-right-when-she-ex...

Hacker News is great at answering startup and coding-related questions, but none of you will be able to answer this one:
http://www.quora.com/Hearing/Why-and-how-do-we-hear-ringing-...

Quora has an incredible array of people with domain expertise, many of whom are good writers who tend towards writing much longer answers than what you see on HN. I can't exactly pinpoint why the design of Quora prompts such a different array of questions and answers, beyond the different user base, but it's definitely not a fancy HN. It's trying to solve a different problem. If anything, it's a fancy cross between the Q&A-ness of Yahoo! Answers and a rabid, tight-knit fangirl community, but it's much better executed than Yahoo! Answers so far.
In general I am shocked whenever a single anecdote like this is reported as the truth. They try to add some cachet by saying they looked at 1,300 firms, but picking only one start date is awful.

I'd be really interested in average 10 year returns on VC from the past 10 years. I.e funds raised from 1990 to 2000. Obviously even more interesting will be how the current funds do.
Fascinating. As the author touches on, this is technically a violation of Adwords guidelines. You are not allowed to use Adwords to send traffic to a particular page for the sole purpose of having those visitors click through to another domain, in this case, GoldFellow.

I wonder though, could GoldFellow argue that they really just want these visitors to read the article, as opposed to just wanting them to click through the link at the bottom?

I guess it's a moot point, because GoldFellow can argue all they want. If Google comes down on them, it won't matter. Certainly doesn't seem like it would be worth it if you ended up on Google's bad side.
Relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227181
I assume you're being sarcastic.

How about the government concentrate on reducing the massive debt or getting a decent healthcare system setup?

Waging war and pointless internet censorship aren't high on my list.
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Tell me when you've done as much as the author. His point - thats we're giving money to companies that for services that they can't provide for themselves - is valid.
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Why you choose turbotax.com
One day someone realized that buying books online can be more convenient than going to a book store; that is how Amazon became so popular. With turbotax.com you can enjoy listening to your favorite radio, while drinking your favorite Starbucks coffee and preparing your taxes. Who said it’s impossible?

As a user experience designer I always chase for good patterns I can reuse, learn from or at least do a good analysis for future projects.

Since it is time to prepare taxes, one of the ideas I had in my mind was to analyze one of the online tax preparation services, and since I have never used any tax preparation online services before I became excited to try it.

Couple of months ago one of my friends recommended me to try Turbo Tax by saying:

“Turbo tax is an amazing online tool; the process of tax preparation is simple and intuitive, user interface is clean and attractive! Try it buddy, you will like it.”

I went to check the website the same day, and now couple months later I have a chance to test drive it.

I set up a list of criteria and began exploring.
Sorry, I had to jam a lot of info into a short title to make the basic point.
It was amazing to see how much faster Watson was.
Pretty awesome HN has a post on the front page by a fellow Neumontonian
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I learned from the original edition back in the 80's. When I saw the price at Amazon I was surprised. The list price is given as $67. The Amazon price is $48. The book's a classic but the pricing seems excessive given that the edition is 22 years old.
Nobody cares dude.
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One other point should be made, though: creating an on demand market for network bandwidth was Enron's last spectacular flame out. They were trying to bring their expertise for trading electricity (which had caused serious problems in California) to the new big thing of the time: the internet.
"You reuse masses of OO code every time you write a non-trivial program using a modern standard library."

How much of that is due to OO, though? I reuse masses of code without OO all the time.
What do you mean? The name is still awful.

Hell I am writing this on my iPad, and I still think it is an awful name.

On edit: you missed my main point, which is that Xoom has no clear pronunciation. Is it "zoom?" I am supposing that is what they want me to call it, but "exhume" is what it looks like.
We use Scribd's viewer inside of Twiddla so that users can pull up documents inside of whiteboard sessions and collaboratively scribble on them.

I'm sure there are plenty of other tools like ours that need something similar.
So does this render DNSSEC effectively moot? It's not much good for authentication if the government can change the authoritative name servers for any .com/.org/.net domain and then sign that change.

But perhaps I don't understand how DNSSEC works. It seems unlikely that its designers would ignore that concern.

Edit: Or were they only concerned cache poisoning? There's been much talk of using DNSSEC to authenticate websites and even people. If I'm understanding DNSSEC correctly, it seems terribly misguided, even worse than the idea of "government key escrow".
That's true, but most programs don't encounter situations where a whole new class of unforeseen optimizations are needed right now, /and/ it's possible to make a significant improvement without changing any algorithms.

For everything else, there is Profile Guided Optimization.
Excellent AND working from countless countries. Payment is one proble Apple has actually solved.
Google got burned when they tried to sell Nexus phones directly; they couldn't match the carriers' bundled prices. But it might make sense for Google to sell a WiFi-only tablet directly.
Heh, yeah I think we're the first officially funded startup by Neumont alums. Glad to see some people from there reading Hacker News.
is this the rebranded SocialGold?
$600 is a good price point. Great to see that they will not only be selling a $800 model.
Actually, OCaml never generates objects like this on the stack - value creation is always taken literally. The OCaml compiler is really allocating all those records. It's just that their lifetime is almost zero, so the cost to clean them up is zero (as none get promoted from the minor heap to the major heap). And the cost to create them is almost zero, just a += and a compare.
It's against Adwords guidelines, so the case is pretty much closed. It's inappropriate.

That being said, it seems like a perfectly acceptable method of marketing to me -- what's wrong with directing people to positive press about your product in the first place? Loads of products do this, from movies and bestselling books to startups and universities. Is this just another round of demonizing companies that give people cash for gold?