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I'm trying to think of features that would get me to trade up from my original iPad.

A Retina display would do it, but it sounds like that's not happening this time round.

FaceTime? I already have a couple of devices that do FaceTime.

Thinner or lighter? It would have to be significantly lighter before I'd even consider it.

So I'm quite sure I will stick with my original iPad, at least until v3. It's a killer device that's completely changed the way I read, the way I watch TV, the way I spend my "leisure computing" time, and the way I listen to music at home, and I'm certainly very happy I jumped in early.
I took a look at the complaint with Go's bracing and it seemed like a bug. Put in a bug report and they responded positively and have since corrected the issue.

Newest versions of Go do not exhibit this issue.
That's an excellent point. Personally I've never considered that because I feel that experience 'programming' beats experience 'programming $language', at least for people who are above average.

Above average means giving a shit about being a developer, not just being in it for the employment.
I see startups (or at least companies much younger than P&G etc) in those spaces too - seventh generation and 'simple' are the ones that pop into mind first.
> I think its more that no one is taking the time to write great and compelling stories.

Seriously? Pick up a book, that's so far from true it isn't even funny.

> It takes time and patience and a lot of effort to create a story like the The Lord of the Rings.

Sure, and there's a ton of them already out there in the form of books.

> Hollywood seems to be just mining stories from the past. Its gonna run out at some point and all we'll get are sequels.

You can't run out of mining stories from the past; more great stories have already been written than will likely ever be able to be put on film.

> There needs to be some infusion of creativity. "Contemporary" creativity. Ie new but compelling and interesting stories. It seems to be a lost skill.

Or you're simply misdiagnosing the problem. Perhaps movies just suck more recently because exec's have gotten really good at shooting for the lowest common denominator to gain the largest audience and thus revenue.

Making money is not a guarantee of a great movie and great movies are quite often box office failures because they're too niche, by necessity.

The more the business folks pull the strings, the worse the movies will be artistically, but their goal is money, so they don't care, nor should they.

Movies will become great again, when Avatar style technology drives down the cost of making one to the point that making cheaper niche movies can be profitable.
If you're an employee it sucks.

If you're the initial owner you'll be happy to let Yahoo buy your product for multi-millions of dollars, and you'll be even happier to leave the company as quick as possible to start up your next app.

Its a pattern: sell, get out ASAP, start next project, (allude to what could have been).
I'm a huge fan of Node.Js and the direction it is taking. It has become the middleware stack of choice for all my new applications. My new stack is:

Nginx / Redis / Node.Js / Riak

Node.Js has bindings for practically everything, is simple to get up and running, has a very light footprint and is fast (duh) among other things. Pairing javascript programming with data in json format has been a big win. Using Node.Js as a request broker with additional logic for application specifics is such a great way to program in this api centric environment the web and other services seem to be moving in.
Why is it that when OS X has a new update (version+1), I get excited, but when Windows has a new service pack, I shit my pants?
Well, Gorbachev had said so, sure. And Gorbachev could very well have come down with a really bad cold that autumn. Lucky for all of us (Gorbachev included), he actually managed to convince his hardliners - or things really were that iffy in the Soviet Union.
Wait, so, you can choose NOT to rent to me because I'm gay/male/Scottish/a Republican, but you're also disallowed from saying "Sorry, no gays/men/Scots/Republicans"?

What an excellent way the time of people looking for housing.
IMO, a tag system like StackOverflow or Quora seems a good way to go.
I've worked at companies where accounting was needed to qualify for R&D tax credits, which required tracking what percentage of developers' time was spent on particular projects. My bosses at those times said something like "we have to fill these out or the company will pay more taxes, they're not for me. Make them as accurate as you can, but don't obsess over them. I'm not going use them to manage your time."
A house like that isn't 7 figures in California - it would definitely be above 500k but it wouldn't break a million in a lot of places near SF, LA, or SD.
Sure, if nothing has changed in the product, the press doesn't want to write about it, the news is about whats changed in the world.

But what the press does like is hearing about how existing products have made businesses successful. These stories are about the success of the business as a result of the product, which is the thing that is changing for companies with more static products that are very successful.
This blows my mind. I'd love to put it on my homepage or something, but it really hurts your personal "brand" when over half the people who visit your site can't view it properly.

I feel this way about most of the tricks I see on HN, sadly.
Thanks! We do too. :-) Naming websites is one of our least favorite things to do, so we consider ourselves lucky to have one that fits our idea so well.
What do you mean integrated? I bought Home Premium and Pro version from Microsoft online store and they did provide ISOs and even USB tool to put the ISO on flash drives.
Your problem is not unique to Indian software contractors.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of profiteering opportunists who will cut and paste code from programming sites and pass it of as their work. Some of the work I've seen wasn't even worth the low rate paid for it. So your key strategy is to rise above that swamp. Bidding for work on some outsourcing site is probably always going to be an uphill battle.

I think that you need to specialize, in an area that really interests you. You'd research the forums in that area and contribute to them. Find open source projects in your area. I would even go as far as to suggest doing a masters degree part-time in that same field. After a while, you start noticing the same people and companies popping up in multiple places. You build contacts with them. You build up a profile of the sorts of companies that do stuff in your area and then you actively seek out others like them.

Yes, as many others have said, you are a brand and that requires persistent marketing and selling activities. When you work for a company, then others fulfill that role. But it still needs to be done in order to succeed.
I can confirm Visa does not allow you to charge a premium/pass on fees but a discount is allowed for cash and check. MasterCard, American Express and Discover let you charge any sort of fee basically. My employer does not accept Visa due to the terms (and it's really annoying - Visa is what all the banks in town issue).
bitches

I cannot explain how much the injection of this in current use irks me.

Is this lack of civility, and appalling misogyny, really needed for satisfying self-expression nowadays?
Perhaps pg is too busy these days to really tend to HN? God knows I would be if I were carrying his load.
I teach part-time. Being able to use an instant-on, anytime-anywhere networking device lets me juggle an extra class amid whatever sporadic 5-15 minute breaks I can find. My iPad paid for itself in 3 weeks.
Small technicality: Visa and MasterCard don't receive the interchange fees, the issuing institutions do.

Swipe(total) Fee = Switch Fee + Interchange Fee
Surely one of the key features of a tablet is mobility - doesn't plugging it into a TV with a HDMI cable kind of defeat the point?
There are a fair number of new features though, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7
It's almost a naive thing to say and I probably wouldn't ever do it myself either (and perfectly understand everyone's reasons not to) but somehow it's awkward that no one said "come on guys, join forces".

No criticism towards the respective project owners either, don't get me wrong. And like other comments pointed out, there's definitely room for more than one solution.
Nope, I got an email from him the other day telling me not to editorialise in submission titles after I posted that Nissan Leaf HTML5 extravaganza with the heading "Behold: We don't need flash for anything anymore. Ever".

I'm sure that post itself rankled our OP.
As long as the VP who championed the purchase remains in charge of the aquisition...
Didn't work for Nullsoft, did it?
Yup. I pay $400 for a 2br, all to myself, in Oakland. Doesn't get much cheaper than that.

The weather is pretty bad though - and I say this as a native.
If he wanted to advertise for BankSimple, he could've done a heck of a lot better than a passing reference in a blog post about HN.
Tags concede defeat, fragmenting one dysfunctional community into a whole spectrum of subcommunities. How will we handle the tag for "good enough for '08 Hacker News"?
For what it's worth: I feel safe saying that most high-karma users of HN have a variety of severe concerns with it. My experience asking this question over email has generally been one of getting gigantic essay-length responses.

In my official capacity as "representative of people dorky enough to have karma this high", we do officially declare: stuff's broken. Needs unbreaking.
"Quiet" is a very diplomatic term for what Silicon Valley is.

It is a deathly boring suburb hell, with absolutely nothing interesting in it except for what might go on inside some of those office buildings and private residences.

There's no culture there. There are virtually no interesting activities whatsoever, except for work (if you're lucky) and mostly solitary hobbies (at best).

The place is an embarrassment in pretty much every way except technologically, and in that the residents are rich enough to keep the streets clean.
"Laptop is too heavy and cumbersome to hold with one hand, and email/file-sharing is cumbersome as well -- bosses are generally unwilling to listen to their subordinates tell them to open this or that file while they are in the middle of something on their screen."

The importance of this is under-recognized.

A friend realized it is much cheaper to just pre-load an iPad with demo software and mail it free to a prospective client, than to fly to said customer and arrange for meeting times and persuade them to load & run software on their computers. Open an envelope, turn it on, start using the product - send us a check and we'll keep it on and send you more. "$500, it just works" is _cheap_ for what it buys.
Hey, we're actually using Asterisk. Out of curiousity, what are you using your fax server for?
You have to draw the line somewhere. Early and clearly is best.
HealPay
Collections in the cloud.
This absolutely happens, sometimes even in the same round - for example, in YC W09 there were two photo sharing services: Divvyshot and Picurio.
I certainly don't think that. If you're incompetent you can get lucky, have a moderately successful failure, and still know 4/5ths of fuckall. And you may then become that most dangerous of individuals, the ignorant 'expert'.
You absolutely right. I think in our rush to launch, we missed out on some important polish.
It's not at all hard to know what ladies want. Start by talking to ladies. The Internet improves your nerdy guy private life in a variety of ways. Distill them to crisp examples. Seek isomorphisms in your conversations with women. You buy hobby item X, they may buy hobby item Y. Or, maybe they buy X too, but are too put off by the culture of the sites/apps that help you with X. You have job N. They have job K. You rarely think about K because you're an N and a guy. And so on.

Teaching. Fabric and crafts. Child care (holy is there ever a billion dollars waiting for whoever cracks the code on babysitters). PR work. Marketing/communications. Office managers. Metalworking. Literary fiction. I'm sure you can find something.
...all programming, will, in one sense, be maintenance programming
Assuming the ratings have been made since the launch of the site, there's also a massive systematic error introduced by people being inclined to forget films they considered to be pretty rubbish a decade ago, whilst being determined to challenge popular opinion on the stuff they wished they hadn't watched last year.

Whilst people feel the need to use ranking systems to express their dismay at Avatar not being the experience they'd hoped for and correct their teenage daughter's friends' belief that the Twilight Saga is deep and insightful, it's mostly the people that actually consider themselves fans of Adam Sandler and Hugh Grant's stock characters that bother to go and rate Happy Gilmore and Four Weddings and a Funeral.
FTC To Examine Apple’s In-App Purchases For Being Too Easy
Try the One-Click Network. Interesting idea where you are connected with other entrepreneurs. Uses an interesting algorithm, doesn't just look at industry and geo location.
Question: Why'd you give it such a sensational title?
Researchers Unveil First mm-Scale Computing System
It seems there's always been reluctance to add features, for the sake of simplicity. Personal messages, for example, would have been useful in many, many instances, but instead we find ourselves checking out the plain-text profile and finding alternate methods of communication.

This limitation has also sprouted ancillary sites attached to the HN Tree of Life, such as searchyc.com, hackermonthly.com, and hnrecap.com as mentioned in the post.

In a similar vein, carving out a sub-HN seems to be: a) downloading the source code, b) bringing it online at another domain and c) announcing via "Tell HN".

All in all, unless someone with >10^5 karma decides to take the time and add some community features to HN (for various values of "community" and "features"), we're all going to continue and see more noise and many different signals.

As an aside, I wholeheartedly appreciate the name, "Bloomfilter."
Agreed - with the usual exit strategy of getting bought by P&G.
Exactly, Meh. Wires.
Why I still need to physically plug my Ipad to my computer just to deal with Itunes is beyond me.

with that regard i prefer android for syncing to my music library. And the Xbox360 beats the pants off the AppleTV.

Itunes is the cable that holds this platform, at least where i see it, Itunes is obsolete.
Did you forward those essays to the powers that be?
No revenue. Usability slammed in the New York Times and elsewhere. Concerns from old-timers that the site's going to hell even though they're not out of beta. Resolute refusal to consider languages other than English.

Sure it's an attractive space, but a $300M valuation and a $1B offer price? Sounds optimistic to me.
"I had no idea where to go or what to see"

That's because there is nowhere to go. And nothing to see.

The only reason I'd ever voluntarily go to SV is to visit friends unlucky enough to live there, or to get a job.
As a low-karma, long-time lurker, I'm not sure I've ever really seen the kind of submissions he is looking for. Can someone provide examples of submitted content that would meet his criteria of deeply technical discussion worthy news?
Did you forget all about the "More" debacle?

Gods know it was a terrible decision, but it showed some active participation by pg.
You drink laxatives heavily right before a new Windows service pack comes out? Maybe it's a form of prescience - you should see if you can use it to make money, somehow.
No. I'm high-drama enough as it is.
Machine Learning Video Lectures (Stanford)
As a longtime MeFite and a longtime member of this community, I believe that most of the issues could be dealt with by having obvious and active moderation.

As MetaFilter, not only do we know who the mods are, we know which mods are on call at what times. (And there's 24/7 coverage.) HN relies very heavily on a flagging system, but it's just not as responsive to stuff that is broken as is a human who's responsible for what's on the front page and what's in the comments. Having a handful of humans who are responsible for curating the front page (and possibly also pinning really good stories from new onto the front page) would solve most of these problems. Is this less democratic? Sure it is. Would the unfairness be worth it? In my opinion, yes.

This problem just isn't solvable with code; it takes benevolent dictators.
We tried this approach at MyBlogLog. Managements response is: we'll not let you ship and refuse you resources.
what about tagging? automatic or crowd-powered.
Seems a great way to sort through the noise.
tags could be "technical", "startup", "YC" etc.
The greatest trick women have ever played is convincing the world they don't share secret stashes of female knowledge.
1992 was a good year in movies!
I kind of understand why (this one and many others):

"My cousin who is 8yrs old proceeded to make nearly AUD$1500 worth of purchases of these gold coins within the app, without any need for password or any warnings. Remember this game is designed for children."
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2589575...
HN would be better if it were invite-only like Dribbble. I'm not a member of Dribbble, but it's a good example of why restricting community growth is beneficial.

We're too late for that here. I don't think PG has enough bandwidth or interest to truly solve the problem. New users will continue to join, adding noise to the signal, unless HN changes course. It's going to become more generic and more biased the longer the site stays open.

I hesitate to suggest more moderation as some posters suggest. I'm already uncomfortable with the murmurs of unfair moderation in the system here.
I think you've forgotten what was being discussed, because your objection isn't relevant. The claim in dispute is: "he does not normalize the graph relative to the total amount of code in each language".
dcurtis has a link to what may be the iPad 2: http://blog.dustincurtis.com/photos-of-ipad-2.
Ah yes, the cycle of website life.

* Hot new community forms at Site X.

* Site X residents refer to themselves as the New Wave of whatever. Much better than older Site W because of features/members/dynamic/demographics 1, 2 and 3!

* Site X's reputation spreads to former hot new sites T, U, V and W. Site X begins to attract more and more new users.

* Site X denizens begin linking articles at T, U, V, W and vice versa.

* Site X begins to exhaust natural topics of conversation. Denizens of more than 3 months standing become sick of 100th
"What does Site X think about AlphaGamma?" post and begin to slap down newbies.

* Someone reminisces out loud about the Golden Days of Site X.

* Discussions on Site X become more and more about Site X. Extremely intelligent individuals begin to earnestly argue that their proposed feature will save Site X from itself.

* Someone proposes or launches Site Y. A how new community begins to form there ...

I've been watching this same story play itself out since Slashdot circa 1998.
He is using his own subjectivity like the OP did. Just because they get Oscar's doesn't guarantee anything at all.

True Grit while good was such a pale movie compared to the original John Wayne version.
Actually HN is the reason I don't have enough bandwidth for other things, not the other way around.
What's the threshold HN crossed where it started needing active moderation? Because '08 HN threads were just better than '11 threads. Is it just a number of users, past which no set of guidelines restrains pathological conversations? Why? If you can trace it back to what thing happens when you get to your 50,000th user, maybe there's some passive moderation mechanism you can identify to keep it in check.
The Nspire is actually pretty powerful compared to the 6mhz z80 TI-8X's many of us grew up with.

It's running an ARM 9 CPU at 150 MHz and has 32MB of SDRAM.
Could this phenomenon be in any way attributable to nostalgia? Personally, I find any online community loses attractiveness after a certain period of time.
This comes across as snide. Slashdot circa 2011 is largely unreadable. So is Digg, so is main Reddit. The cycle may be real, but so is the phenomenon driving it.
Founding Father, Entrepreneur: Washington's Overlooked Business Career [2009]
Do you have some examples of where that has worked in the medium - long term? (i.e longer than the 2-3 year mark most of these founders have bailed out at)

I am guessing it can work but founders/entrepreneurs aren't necessarily the best managers and are likely to get bored and be looking for their next startup. As a new owner of a company it seems to make sense to transition the senior management to people who are more suited to managing and running a company rather than those who like building a company.

This goes two fold for those companies who have primarily technical founders who are almost always unsuited for the roles in senior management.
I like the concept of Convore -- if it were an internal product, or a product I could run within my own firewalls, I think it'd make a brilliant enterprise tool.

What I dislike about Convore is the same thing I dislike about Quora, Digg, et al., in that it caters to far too large a population.

There is generally great conversation, but I cringe every time I see a question like "What is a function?" or something equally inane.
I think it's probably because to take that plunge and go all-out with a venture (which is how most tech startups work) you can't really have kids and a wife and a mortgage and the need for health insurance weighing you down and dividing your attention.

Now that it's becoming more practical to bootstrap yourself into existence on the side - primarily because of cloud resources, but also just because it's getting easier in terms of support structure - I think we're going to see more older entrepreneurs.

I mean, I'm 44 and I'm only now starting to get interested in startups.

[I tell my wife similar things about physics when she gets despondent about not getting ahead in the field fast enough. There, I really think that the daily grind of academia, plus the terrible burden of having a professional reputation, is what makes it impossible for older folks to contribute the big stuff.]
What's everyone going to do with their first gen iPads?
Some phones, at least in the Droid line, have car mounts which include chargers; he mentioned a car mount in the article, so it's quite likely using it as a GPS was having a positive impact on battery life in this case!
If there is one thing that causes an internet community to break down, its when a subsection of that community has too muh communication out-of-band in another medium that the rest of the members are unaware of. Especially if that other medium is more synchronous than the primary medium.

Many forums have been driven to civil war by a clique plotting on a secret IRC channel. (Note: I am not suggesting that is happening here! Just that I've seen it before.)
Thanks. We're working on suggested users now based on who you already follow on Twitter. Global "recommended reads" will come after public profiles are launched. All the above will be done in the next few weeks.

Nothing is planned for Facebook.
I think if we could see random frontpages from days a few years ago, we'd find that the top stories weren't that different, and that there was the same "jack of all trades, master of none" aspect to the site that Alex complains about. It may be that a site whose design spec is to satisfy hackers' intellectual curiosity would necessarily feel that way.

Maybe I'll write something to regenerate past front pages, so we can check if things are different now. That should be possible, because news.arc has always logged vote times.