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Apple is not in the tablet market or the phone market. They are in the clairvoyance market. If you're reacting to the present instead of predicting the future, you're obviously not in the same market.
Download Calibre to manage your ebooks. It makes conversion pretty much transparent, and with the right plugins you can set it up to remove the DRM from the books you purchase.
The title is misleading. He doesn't mean competition like "there are no other tablets out that can compete against ipad", he means competition in the sense that he believes that nobody is doing anything innovative in tablets except for Apple. Apple does something, then everyone rushes to copy it. Nobody else is doing anything impressive that Apple rushes and other vendors try to copy.
The creator of the RAT, if it is the same creator as DarkComet isn't English and is very bad at it. This is very good news for the Black-hat community. I'm gonna try and talk to him and probably him with the project.
How to roll out your own Javascript API with V8
This is what "cloud" means to non-techies near enough to tech to have heard the word (I've asked):

"If my computer, or server, or laptop dies or really slows down, everything keeps working just fine because there are lots of other computers that remember what the other lost and they start working as soon as I need them."

If you look at it like that, all of a sudden all these marketing buzzwords start making sense.

"Private clouds" = "Oohhh, like normal clouds only just for our company"

"Clouds as a Service" = "Oooohhh, like normal clouds only someone does all the hard work"

"Blah Blah clouds" = "Oooooohhh, I really like Blah Blah, so this must be like normal clouds only Blah Blah"

All just different ways for heavenly angels to make sure things still keep working after a disgruntled employee drop kicked a server or your laptop.
Show HN: My idea to help job searchers. Link inside.
Good evening HN.

I have been building a service for a few weeks in Rails, partly to gain familiarity with Ruby on Rails, but mostly as it's the service I was looking for a few weeks ago and couldn't find. Some days I think it's a fantastic idea; it would have solved my problem a few weeks ago, so surely other would like it! On other days it feels pointless. I'm looking for advice and opinion from HN before I sink too much time into this.

A bit of background: I have just got a new job. I already had a job, so I was in no rush to make a bad decision. When trawling the various job sites and careers pages of companies I was interested in, the problem for me wasn't finding job that I was interested in. Rather it was narrowing down to the ones that I wanted to apply for.

I had (still have!) a huge mess of bookmarked jobs.
I tried to enter the job details into a spreadsheet to compare them side by side (salary/bonus/skills etc). This doesn't work.
I create a directory for each company that I like, which will contain:
- Any info from the company (PDFs detailing the job, assessment work they ask me to complete)
- CV, tailored for that position
- Cover letter, again tailored for that position
- Notes, detailing any contact with the company and anything that enters my head (I usually end up with a good list of questions for interviews this way)

This was the most frustrating part of the job search for me; I found it hard to organize digitally.

My idea is to simplify this process by allowing the user to give my site a URL (in most cases from a job site such as monster) and my site goes away and grabs all the data it can about the job. The user collects jobs painlessly this way, and can then examine them at their leisure - something I'm very much still working on. I used a very early version of my site during the last week or so of my job search, and found it to be extremely useful.

To illustrate my idea, I have put online a VERY scrappy version. In the future when the site is 'finished', most of the ongoing development would be in writing and maintaining the interfaces to the various job sites. At the moment they aren't my focus as I have a decent base of data to work with; as such they have fallen into a state of... disrepair. As such I have only uploaded the monster.co.uk interface, and it isn't in that great condition. The following link is worth copying, if you paste it into my app it will serve as a good example, though feel free to play with any other links!

http://jobview.monster.co.uk/Social-Media-Assistant-Graduate-Online-Marketing-Executive-%E2%80%93-2-1-or-above-exceptional-graduate-Job-London-London-UK-97033328.aspx

Again, this isn't supposed to be an MVP! I am simply offering a peek into my idea! Is it worth pursuing further? I hope I explained it well, I'm no writer :)

The site is at: http://mycalling.co.uk (clickable link in comments)

Thanks for your time.
Clickable link: http://mycalling.co.uk
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1. No, I am not saying that. Please try to understand what I'm saying. I meant less frequent updates you have to pay for.

2. What do you mean "playing semantics"? Its service packs are about as frequent as OS X's.

3. I am referring to the incremental updates (Like Snow Leopard) despite having already paid for Leopard, which I am comparing to service packs.

Basically you're not making an attempt to understand my point, and instead trying to confuse other readers with your confusion.
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The next evolutionary step after:

"Nearly every email they send includes names of people or firms who’ve committed to invest."

would be:

"Nearly every email they send includes the number of people or firms who’ve committed to use."
There's enough users that each 3 second downtime is long enough to get someone who submits stories like 'WHY WAS REDDIT DOWN' and enough upvotes to stay on the front page long enough for everyone else to see it. And then recency effect kicks in as soon as reddit is down for another 4 seconds later on.
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Both Windows and Mac OS X have major updates that you pay for, and minor updates you don't pay for. You are trying to create a distinction where there is none.

Mac OS X doesn't have "service packs", so I don't know how you can say they are "less frequent" -- they simply don't exist, as such.

That's what I mean by semantics. You're talking FUD like a computer store sales drone.
My point was that the money goes somewhere. They move things around through sibling corporations, so that if you have a contract for a percentage of profits with one of them, then they move the profits to another sibling corp that you don't have a contract with. It doesn't have to specifically be the DVD production/sales that they are moved around through.
Well, Step is apparently just the Sequence-subset of FutureJS and FutureJS as a whole is mostly syntactic sugar and baseline infrastructure (Deferreds, Promises) without tackling the fundamental problem.

Quite frankly, I've been down that rabbit hole with Twisted which also has most of these primitives. More magic does not help!

I do not want to deal with 'Future-ish object for the purpose of synchronizing other Futures'. Just let me write my code in sequential order where appropriate - which is about 90% of the business logic.

I'll quote jerf from this thread:
You shouldn't even have to think about this, let alone argue which way is the best way to do it.

And Larry Wall:
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
This chart is bullshit. The cheapest Kindle is $139, not $189, and became available at the same time the $189 Kindle did.

I guess that actual data ruins the beautiful line?
You don't seem to understand people that suffer from gadget inadequacy. They look at their own and other people's choices in purchasing consumer electronics as a reflection of self worth.
Perhaps I'm naive, but with today's technology (GPS, processing power for scheduling, communications, etc.) and a modest investment in some more switching tracks (compared to high speed rail) why couldn't we saturate the bus?

Because of geography and property rights this is pretty much a monopoly as a class of transport. And while the government's stewardship of rail thus far is not seen as a paragon of efficiency or customer service (http://reason.com/archives/2005/12/01/amtrak-sucks), the only way to make this work would be to have the tracks effectively nationalized.

Class 1 Railroads of North Ameria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Class1rr.png
The audio is messed up for me on SMB using Chrome on a MBR running OSX. Anyone else?
It might be worth noting that unless you travel widely, you don't need a data plan for GPS. Cache maps when on wifi then use your device's GPS/A-GPS/tower triangulation functionality.
The case for not using HTTP status codes (and thus breaking the cacheability and layering which are key to the REST model) is very weak. I just don't see why it all has to be wrapped in so many layers. GET /posts.json should return a list, GET /posts/1.json should return an object, and DELETE /post/1.json should result in a HTTP 204 if successful. In the case of errors, the response's status code and an object with exception information should suffice.
It will be interesting to see how JCalcanis spins this. Last I heard he was congratulating Google on going after the content farms and changing their algorithms, claiming Mahalo had superior original content. Assuming these stats aren't totally bunk, something's gotta change in that statement to avoid massive cognitive dissonance.
It's my understanding that the status of being CEO of such a large company also has enormous non-monetary rewards in Japan.
Horrid sound glitches on mozilla in windows 7 as well.
>> "the American system for unleashing that potential – a system that has worked wonders for over two centuries despite frequent interruptions for recessions and even a Civil War – remains alive and effective"

as feel-goody as that might sound to patriotic american ears, you also have to take into account that america pretty much had the playing field (much) to itself for a long time. there was competition of different systems and it turns out the market-based system is best. good.

now that everybody has learnt that and is busy implementing that system (more or less gradually), there is no obvious reason why america should remain special.

turns out human potential is great everywhere, and in the brief period after world war 2, i'd say germany, japan, korea, etc. have done a mighty good job catching up and even surpassing the us in many areas, measured by social as well as industrial metrics. now comes china et al.

if i was american, i wouldn't take anything for granted. you guys were lucky to live in the winning system, other than that, there is nothing special about you.
Most put it a bit below the iPad.

Thats what he is saying, all aiming for #2. Why the customer buy bit below gadget for higher price.
wow and it runs just as fast as it did back then too!
Try going to about:flags and enabling web audio (if you have that option.). Doing so will allow you to use native audio instead of data uri generation in real time. Kind of like mozAudio, but for webkit.
I came to read about Roman hot air balloons, instead everyone is talking about plutonium and nuclear weapons. Thanks guys, I am probably on a watch list now.

Reported.
There's also JSNES: http://benfirshman.com/projects/jsnes/ which probably benefits from not stretching to fullscreen.
If I understood correctly, the JSend statuses should be used in conjunction with HTTP status codes when appropriate. I guess to me the spec seems redundant, as I don't see the advantage over using just HTTP status codes.
The conclusion seems a bit forced to me. Considering how long the iPhone was without credible competition, and how quickly the landscape changed (and is still changing) you'd have expected a more circumspect reading of the iPad situation.

And the article does not take into account the effects of Apple's overreaching control of their platform, which I think has as big a punitive effect on their platform's growth as anything their competitors do.
I agree, I am absolutely not a fan of this. REST is about documents; documents do not contain status information about the transport protocol used to transfer them, they just contain the free-form data that the application wants to convey to you.

For example, imagine the document at /foo/bar has moved to /new-api/foo/bar. Well, if you use HTTP for status, the server sends a 302 redirect when you try to request /foo/bar, and the user agent automatically grabs /new-api/foo/bar. If we reinvent this wheel for some reason, you can't use HTTP clients anymore, you have to use some proprietary bullshit client instead.

No thanks. This is not a problem and it does not need a "solution".

(I also agree about 204 responses for DELETE requests. The thing is gone, why does any data need to be sent back other than, "yeah, it went away"?)
I'm guessing you're not using Firefox 4 then, I take it?

Edit: Firefox 4 on linux has a GC issue, not my fault.
"Motorola has the Xoom, but so far the reviews haven’t been the best."

What reviews has he been reading? I have read several and most have said in short "While there are still a few kinks to work out, this is better than the iPad right now."

"Go where the puck is going to be"

You mean like putting 2 cameras, HD aspect ratio and resolution, dual core processors, 4G upgrade-ability, true multi-tasking, a UI that relies on no hardware buttons other than power and volume (orientation free), Wi-fi hot-spotting, workstation style docks, etc. into a tablet ahead of the current market line? Kind of like the Xoom perhaps? Yes I know iPad 2 is coming but I don't expect it's specs to exceed that by much feature wise.

From the very first line: "Jim Dalrymple has been writing about Apple for more than 15 years." I had a strong expectation this was going to be an "Apple's Best' article and that's exactly what it was. I would like to give it more weight than that as I have occasionally respected his views in the past but this time I just can't. There are "fan-boys" in every camp and this article is to me another example.
What's the animosity against Mahalo? I looked at it years ago when it first started, have they degenerated into a content farm since then?
Apple asks security experts to examine OS X Lion
"Wil.i.am, what do you think about the cloud?"

The "cloud" has no meaning anymore, it's as useless in description as "web 2.0".
A method for producing new-style baby names (with working javascript example)
Hmm, enabling web audio API disabled the sound completely. Oh well. Still, a very cool emulator!
What's a good introduction to contracts? I'd like to know how a basic contract system works and which extensions are there? What's the relation between contracts and assert?
Ask HN Startups: Which web language/framework are you using?
I don't know how to make a poll. If someone could edit this to add one, that'd be nice.
Here's the basic problems with the XOOM: it is priced higher than the iPad, isn't much better, and has less apps designed for it. It has more ports, but consumers don't seem to care.

A lot of the old PC vs Mac decision making factors in on the consumer side. Cheaper has its own quality, but combined with Apple's design - well. It is very much if the Mac mini was priced at $199 versus the rest of the PC market at $399.

I think HP will be seriously competitive and Microsoft might finally give up on the Windows 7 tablets and get someone to make WP7 tablets. Honeycomb looks good, but cellphone makers seem to have a lot of problems crossing to tablets because they love their business model with subsidies from the carriers. I think the first company that has a better iPod touch based on Android, webOS, or WP7 will be the sign post for their tablet to be a true iPad competitor. I think it will show they get the whole market.
Agree, it claims to be simple while not being consistent, also GET /post.json have invalid JSON in example.
If the audio stops playing after enabling web audio, then you just ran into a bad bug in chrome. :P

I've run into this bug before, it seems to be a bug with the GC possibly in V8.
If I recall right during second world war many jewish scientist emigrated from Germany to America. It was these emigrated scientist, their students and American scientist who played the scientific part of cold war. With so many new scientist moving in and political motivation to beat those communists, it sounds only natural that there was an outburst of technology at that era.

Meanwhile in northern European countries (I'm seeing this mostly in Finland's perspective) had to play nice and humble with the Soviet union it being geologically right next to it. In addition to that Finland had huge amount of war reparations to pay due to losing winter and continuation wars against Soviet Union.
Also since Soviet Union was the other big player of that time, with its own space programs and so on, it was only natural that the brightest minds in technological perspective went to Soviet universities and did their possible contributions there (I'm not expert of this matter but I remember reading there was at least some level of brain leakage during that era)
Fall of Soviet union wasn't either that good of a change for Nordic countries since Soviet Union was one of our biggest sources of export.

Of course this is all just historical blabbering the real deal being imho the fact that in Nordic countries are good places in average, which means we do well in global rankings like PISA tests, but for technological innovation and economical rise it usually is the right side of gaussian curve that is needed. Also in eyes of Finn (I really don't know how these things are in states) due to more or less powerful labor movement and being "Nordic welfare state" (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Nordic_welfar...) we have high labor expenses for employer. Add this to seemingly high bureaucracy to start a company, I don't see it that odd that we don't have any startup culture and every one just goes to work for Nokia (this is of course just extrapolation as there are interesting startups here and there but I feel the general culture isn't that motivating towards innovation).
Lebedev Studios and Yandex have been friends since 1997.
He also writes on mathematics, and presented a TV series on mathematics which occasionally appears on BBC Four.

Currently I have, and am enjoying, his book The Music of The Primes.

Useful links in these discussions, by the way, including the link in the original post. Thank you.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843083
There are other professions that bring more status than CEO in Japan.. one of the former Toyota heads emphasized his status as a professor in a renowned university over his being a top executive.
Google found a way to more-or-less reliably process Big Data using commodity hardware and an underpinning of failover logic.

Everyone wanted to beat Google. The first step (a fallacy) seemed to be to copy their way of doing things. So started "cloud computing".

Of course most of the players that tried bastardized the whole thing immensely.

At this point the original cloud model of computing (very thinly interfaced, commodity hardware as a foundation for scalability) was bastardized into a sludge of "outsourced administration", "throwing more servers at the problem", and "shoving traditional product models into datacenters and hoping they'll magically work at massive scale".

And that's why cloud computing today is meaningless.

Wait a few years until the companies that "just don't get it" die out, and cloud computing will be taken back as a legitimate description of a technological approach much like AJAX.
The problem I see with markup, is that for-non technical people it's hard to understand and use. I think they would rather prefer a WYSIWYG-style. Wiki-style-markup isn't for everyone. So that's why I chose WYSIWYG editing, but with restricting it to just semantical annotations.

Regarding PDF. I totally see your point. And it has high priority. I got offered some help by Kevin Lynagh (http://www.dirigibleflightcraft.com/index.html) already. He'd help with implementing LaTeX/PDF export of Substance Documents. You're invited to join too :)
What’s The Real Deal With AngelList?
District 9 is available on Netflix as well.
What about a $10,000 or $1,000 category?
Sounds like the re-invention of one of the features of the old "Hot or Not" site.
I guess my central thesis is if generation n didn't teach/push generation n+1 to be better than them, then they failed at continuing the chain and don't deserve the title.

I think Wilson and FDR's group did more damage to the future US generations than the Baby Boomers did.
Of course. I was speaking in regards to the folks who try to sell the iPad as a better book reader. I don't doubt the iPad will continue to sell.
Surely any technology company is trying to predict the future and create products that people want. The iPad was, what, 5 years after Microsoft's tablets, the difference is that Apple can execute well.

Most the of the other vendors, Motorola included, don't control their OS.
Mainly Groovy on Grails, with some plain old fashioned Java here and there. Will probably be exploring some possible usage of Clojure or Scala in the near future.
This would be a rather weird claim unless you are only looking at the hardware specs, which obviously would be pretty stupid.

You cannot exclude things like ecosystem from the equation.
Same setup, same issue.
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Color Warfare has entered open beta phase. Anyone can access the site, sign up, and share the best of their social news.

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The "You need a PHD to understand Haskell" slur is so bloody ridiculous. I certainly didn't have a problem with it, and I haven't even finished my degree yet! On a more general note, I find the idea that a programming language can be "too smart" troubling. Is the solution to have dumber programming languages then?
Use Firefox 4 for OSX and all will be resolved (I have Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro, so it better work well on your Mac too). :P

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/
Impressively, it runs (very slowly) to the point of showing a title screen on an HTC Desire, but then I can't figure out how to send input.
Nice work! As it stands, you seem to be doing pure interpretation for the CPU; have you considered dynamic recompilation? You can see this in practice for the 6502 here: https://github.com/daeken/Dyna6502Asm

In essence, you accumulate instructions in basic blocks and turn them into functions, which are then 'executed' (meaning turned into function objects) and then cached. In your case it becomes a little more complex as you do cycle timing, interrupts, etc, but there's no reason you can't bake this into your basic block functions. This drastically increases the performance of CPU emulation, while maintaining the same high quality.

If you're interested in doing this and/or have any questions, feel free to contact me.
FTA: Think Mike Moritz, John Doerr, Jim Breyer, Fred WIlson, Peter Fenton, Danny Rimer, Reid Hoffman and the like are just exceptionally good at throwing darts in the dark? I don’t.

I don't doubt your sincerity, but there is no statistically sound justification for it. Put 1000 people in a room, have them flip for double or nothing 10 times, and at the end you'll have a handful of geniuses. That's assuming that they're playing a game where winning once doesn't increase you chance of winning again, which clearly isn't the case in the VC world where the first qualification is to have a lot of money. And let's not forget the element of ruin, which is the likelihood of losing one's bankroll given the size and frequency of bets placed.

The one expertise VCs can lay claim to is in the ritual and detail that surrounds the deal-making process: the term sheets, funding rounds, and exit strategies. They're generally skilled at getting contracts written. Beyond that, it's not at all clear that they're any better than 'throwing darts in the dark' in terms of predicting or facilitating business success.