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I recently bought a Xoom (since the Android Honeycomb emulator is unusable), and it's a laughably poor product from the unboxing experience all the way to the horrible UI that is Honeycomb (even worse than standard phone Android, and that's laughable UI -- where's the HIG, Google?).

Honeycomb is like taking the worst Linux WM you can find and sticking it onto a tablet with no thought for how a tablet should work. This is going to appeal to some Android fans, but that's about it.

Everything on this device is horrible. The device feels chunky and heavy, the screen looks dithered (you can see individual pixels) and unevenly lit, and you can see UI element flicker into place. And there are about 2 or 3 tablet specific apps that are actually tablet apps in the Market (Angry Birds, and some other poor quality Android games). ClockOS even lives on, with a dedicated clock on the home screen, and the bottom right corner, and there's even a 'Clock' app. Fantastic.

Oh, it also doesn't charge via USB. WTF?

Anyway, it has one thing going for it: it has Angry Birds and it works more or less like the iPad version of Angry Birds. That's about it.
>> 1. at amazon.com, the only site I have been tracking the tablets in actual sales, the Xoom is either #1 or #2 in tablet sales over the past two months. I mean, it is ahead of even the iPad 2

Amazon itself doesn't sell the iPad. It is only sold through Amazon via 3rd party merchants for a huge markup. Obviously sales are going to be low on Amazon when the cheapest price is $130 over the price in the Apple Store or other authorized resellers like macconnection.com.

It's amazing that the iPad is on Amazon's best seller list at all, since it doesn't make any financial sense to buy an iPad on Amazon.
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erlang is concise, and useful for systems with a lot of message passing. and scales on both multi-core and clusters seamlessly
definitely going to learn it in the near future
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Must be lucky to have a customer like this
Seconded, I have been eying off their cloud service as a way to manage our server costs as we have some pretty wild but predictable swings in load throughout the day/week. We currently have dedicated hosting with Softlayer so a cloud in the same data centre as our existing databases etc would be great.

This however has made me pause, we are a small team and I like my sleep. A response would be awesome.

ps. pretty happy with Softlayer over all btw.
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Hey email clients. More than 10 recipients? Make the user confirm with "Are you sure you want to send this to 11 people?"

And just add another message for every order of magnitude increase in the number of recipients.
Let's bring back the example in the parent: you see a coworker down the hall, wave, then walk towards him only to pass him awkwardly. In this scenario, the wave coupled with walking towards a person sends a signal like "I have something to say to you." The awkwardness is caused because there was an expectation set up that was not what you intended. Also, the next time he sees you down the hallway he'll feel like he has to wave since that is what you did before.

Instead, consider this: just ignore the guy, if he waves or says Hi, just nod while you pass him. It might seem rude/dismissive at first, but if you have no underlying reason for malice and you can prove that at a subsequent interaction (e.g. conversation at a water cooler) then what you'll have done is set up an expectation that you don't want to be bothered when you're walking from point A to point B.
I was recently looking up some guidelines on storing credit card information, and according to section 3.2 of the official PCI guidelines (https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCI%20SSC%20Q...), CCV is not allowed to be stored, along with PIN or Full Magnetic Stripe data. Hopefully, Sony didn't do that or they will also face hefty fines in addition to bad PR and lawsuits.
A typical open source experience for me (some 90% of cases) is I download a package, compile it, and it doesn't compile. Something is missing or it can't handle the latest version of the OS, or there is some library with the wrong version.

If you're using Debian stable or Ubuntu, in almost 100% of cases, you can get things to build. apt-get source and apt-get build-depends will get the exact source code and prebuilt dependencies that were used to build the exact binary you are running. Gentoo is presumably even better, since they don't even distribute binaries. And, of course, anything in an interpreted language lacks this problem.

Most projects these days have public bug-tracking systems where you can post your patch. Then anyone else who has the same problem or wants the same feature can use your patch, even if it hasn't been accepted.
That is a legitimate argument against Wayland. There's no reason to weaken it by trying unclearly to tie that to DRM.
Perhaps you could elaborate a bit on how it's not better than craigslist.

Also, twitter, kayak, hipmunk etc. all take advantage of UI animations quite similar to the ones used here. A bit more complex than simply changing the color of a car ;)
The box says Motorola AND Google.

The device has both logos on the back, and they're the same size.
All 4 points can be reduced to one: lack of a sufficient market to support the startup.

Notice that even crappy startups having all of those problems will do fine if they are in a hot market.

1. Running out of money may be the technical reason why a startup dies, but in reality it is a symptom that they either weren't selling or couldn't convince anybody to invest -- both bad signs.

2. Team implosion does not happen when times are good. Even if it does, the momentum of a good market will mean that the startup can survive because there will readily be people to take their place.

3. Lifestyle businesses either come from huge but highly fragmented markets or small markets. Either way, not good if you had higher ambitions. Being able to recognize where your idea falls is an important skill.

4. If your startup has a lot of potential or is making a lot of gains, there is no reason you should have bad investors. Bad investors pray on companies with little to no leverage.
How about having favorites button in each HN post?
I am very much addicted to HN and I like many posts everyday. I dont see anyway to make these posts as my favorites like we see favorites in stackoverflow.com. Is there any way to do so? If not then HN should think about it. Its very useful.
Raising money is not making money. You give up a % of your company when you get funded.
Hmm, maybe it's because I can't see it out of context, but I sort of understand what you mean. I guess people who haven't seen the show don't know that Barney basically doesn't date, which makes this line even more nonsensical.
What would you say is important if those things aren't

(seriously asking. New grad in about a weeks time, been keeping track of different peoples opinions)
If antimatter are repulsed by gravity, they might be in the outer shell of the universe being pushed further away. If antimatter also repulsed among themselves (??), then they won't have a chance to come together to create antimatter star.

Most people believe antimatter attract just like matter, so it's a moot point.
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Interesting, so you are suggesting some sort of gun that creates antimatter in a remote location. That's a great idea!
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So what's your point? Imagine if facebook or google had let the fear of a potential legal dispute stop them.
Yes, the recent generation of Nvidia GPUs has added hardware support for doubles. This was done to be able to sell hardware for use in financial analysis rather than any use in graphics.
One of the most amazing things about kids are that they are state machines, unfortunately you don't get to see all the states :-).

It amused me (I know, easily amused) that for a while I could end a pointless argument with my daughter by using a non sequitor. You know "But why can't I play for another 15 minutes!?", "There are zeppelins in the sky." "... huh? really? Where?"

Then it amused my wife, after my daughter had identified this edge in her particular state machine, when we had battling non sequitor arguments, "Oh yeah? Zebras are monochromatic!" "So? Water ice subliminates below 5% relative humidity!"

At 19 months (the original article stated this as an age) the evolution of how kids interact and choose to interact changes almost daily. With my kids there was a peak around 3 years of age before things normalized out. Always interesting raising kids.
iguana and gecko look good, but chameleon and huey are a bit off..

chameleon gives you 50% more storage and clients than iguana, but costs way more.. $132 would give it about the same relative value, but it's $158..

I'm ignoring the number of clients cause I don't believe $26 is a good price for 5 extra clients. maybe it is, but it's a lot less clear to the end user.

Also, another similar service that might be worth checking out (a lot more complicated for designers but quite cool and cheaper): https://github.com/blog/817-behold-image-view-modes

and here is a demo
https://github.com/cameronmcefee/Image-Diff-View-Modes/commi...
"My idea has cash flow built in. My idea provides value even with a very small user base, but is highly scalable. My idea is social by nature, and can piggyback buzz on social capital from FB and Twitter networks. My idea appeals to one of the biggest web demographics, is fun and clever and has an intrinsic sense of irony. My idea is really useful,"

If you knew these things to be true then you would certainly have no problem overcoming the relatively low hurtle of beginning to code up an mvp from scratch by yourself.
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Connecting to the internet and to other computers on our network wirelessly might be the best and most effective way to connect to the internet but one great downside of this is that it is also the most vulnerable.
Why the focus on language? Programming languages abstract some programming ideas and provide a framework for expressing them easily, but the ideas and abstractions that are used to construct programs are independent of the programming language. I am reminded of a quote from Michael Griffiths (I think from one of the 1962 Software Engineering Conferences) to the effect that he always used the same programming language [that is, programming elements] no matter what the compiler.
Yes, their dedicated servers hosting is just awesome - the best I've seen! But their cloud stuff is terrible and this is what made me really frustrated and guess about it being a 3rd party service poorly integrated - their cloud offering sucked, they could not offer any reasonable support for it, etc.
I've had great luck with Softlayer dedicated hosting in the past -- just as good as rackspace dedicated, and about half the cost. The only limitation was not being able to do custom VLANs between servers in multiple cabinets (which I needed for a multicast logging solution). I've never tried their cloud product, though (they should offer discounts to the hackernews affiliated organization...)

Disks seem to be the real weakness of all cloud solutions so far. Local storage is the only cost effective way to have high performance disk, and that makes provisioning cloud instances much harder. There might actually be some stuff to do in this space using dual-ported SAS or SATA with dual port SAS drives, purely for failover.
> His grandmother knew radix sort.

Radix sort? I read it as a trick question where the answer is 'hash table with numberOfYearsOld as the key'.

I suggested that as the solution to an almost identical question when interviewing with Google - and it got rejected by the interviewer. Ah, the arbitrariness of it all!
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Upscale food trucks are starting to fill in this gap for many US cities.
Antimatter torpedo is more profitable. Funding shouldn't be a problem since it's defense related.
Can we finally upload files that google thinks might be executable? It's so frustrating trying to tar up and upload a working directory as a backup and then having it rejected by gmail because it included some random executable classfile.
This is a great point. How do you think an application such as craiggers can re-introduce that trust? Do you think integrating facebook/twitter would help? How about a mashup of facebook marketplace and craigslist in which you could send your friends posting, see what your friends have 'liked', etc.?
Cool idea in that it's more efficient than the status quo.
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>...models of the big bang that have been confirmed by experiment ...

to put it mildly, it is a very overreaching statement.

>Second, dark matter doesn't seem to behave the same way that baryonic matter behaves (normal matter clumps, dark matter doesn't appear to do so).

double whammy - we couldn't observe dark matter and we couldn't observe its clumps.

Or consider it another way - while it supposedly have gravitational attraction, and have no other strong interactions known, we somehow should suppose that its non-clumping, ie. gaseous/cloudy/spread-around state is still a normal thing.
We had a good experience (from what I remember) with using Softlayer cloud to supplement our physical hardware when we had high load. We'd bring online ~5 cloud instances to handle the load.
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A weapon that could create antimatter at a remote location would be a particle accelerator. One that could create non-trivial amounts of antimatter would cause far more damage from its direct consequences than from antimatter. By factors of millions or billions.

It would be heinously expensive and would require the kind of energy input that only gigawatt-grade nuclear power plants could provide. Rather than using a complicated, failure prone and inefficient way to transform nuclear fission into destruction, it would be simpler and more effective to lob a nuke with the same amount of uranium or plutonium.

Hence, for your day-to-day megadeath needs, thermonuclear weapons will remain the tool of choice for the foreseeable future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985

The spec allows the programmer to decide if the various degenerate cases in arithmetic will raise a signal, or result in a special value which propagates through the rest of the calcuations (INF, NaN, etc.).

Certainly there are times to prefer one over the other, but the facilities that were standardized back in the 80's are generally more than adequate for most uses.

Whether or not your platform C compiler lets you access these settings in a convenient and portable way is another question however...:-)
My data on SL Cloud is about 6 months old now - but it's seriously far behind their dedicated offerring. A poor control panel lacking vital functions, frequent downtime, and slow io mire it.
Unless we could convince the enemy to use that weapon!

I guess thermonuclear weapons are cheaper, though...
I can't believe how much you sacrificed. Here I am thinking I had it hard. It's so great that you are upbeat and energetic long after the YC days despite all your sacrifice. Best of luck to all your efforts!

Strange and pathetic as it may sound to my non-startup friends, I couldn't agree more on the point of having a support group. Everyday there are things pushing my limit, and if not for my friends, I would have gone crazy by now.
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Hey Gang,

I just thought you may find it interesting to see the live campaign of twitter users against an archaic voting law in Canada as Canadians wrap up their election.

http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23tweettheresults

http://tweettheresults.ca/
I don’t think that Motorola had the hardware, or the software, ready at all. That’s why the LTE upgrade will require mailing the tablet to Motorola and a one week turnaround time.

Apparently, it’s a software issue, but the SD card doesn't work at all. However, this isn’t a Google issue, as other Honeycomb tablets have working SD card slots.
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I bet that expectation applies to writers, designers, and other creative jobs.

I don't think so. I think programming is a weird mix because it is largely populated by somewhat awkward introverts. Writers I know do like to write, and write each day, but they're very scheduled. One of my friends says he writes six hours a day, if he wants to more or less.

In part, I think other "creatives" value time among other humans. Whereas programmers tend not to value that as much.

Plus programming had a weird dynamic where staying up late (or not sleeping) is something to have pride in. For other creatives -- inspiration and elegance seems to be something they take much more pride in, over brute hours on a task.
Surely he could have at least kept it trimmed.
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3.	Huffington Post
4.	Springwise
5.	CrunchBase
6.	www.mo.com
7.	GotoWeb2.0.
8.	StartupMeme
9.	SimpleSpark.
10.	VentureBeat Profiles
11.	FeedMyApp (3/31)
12.	BigStartups
13.	GreatWebApps
14.	Wwwhatsnew
15.	101 Best Websites
16.	MakeUseOf
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21.	DzineBlog
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25.	Ziipa
26.	On The App
27.	Next Web App
28.	DIY Startup News
29.	AppUseful
30.	Startup Booster
31.	Paggu
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33.	Submit Startup
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35.	YouNoodle
36.	Lovely Pages.
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40.	The Atlantic Technology Channel
41.	Appsumo
42.	Appvita
43.	Techattitude
44.	Minisprout
45. Startuplift

Fair warning though your audience is almost exclusively tech people and you may be solicited to buy things after submitting via email.

The cool part is some genuinely interested people will probably want to interview you or write an article about your company.
Be extremely careful if following this advice. Hyponatremia--dilution of the blood resulting in low levels of sodium--is a serious concern for marathon runners. Dehydration during a race won't kill you; hyponatremia might.

Absolutely, positively do not "get as much water as your stomach can handle". Your stomach can handle enough water to kill you.
Are starups really that hard, or do they just require certain skills? Is it luck? Are you in the wrong place in the wrong time? Do you just lack the necessary skills? Do you lack the social support?

In school, you just gotta do what the teacher tells you to do, and you get an 'A'. You get a job and you just gotta be able to do what your boss wants you to do. Startups require you to find your own nitch, and do something different. No one is telling you what to do.

So, you can work real hard and work like before, but end up pursuing an empty hole. However, is this really harder?
But I don't think OBL ever got over the US, I mean the US had moved on and was seeing other people, and he tried too but it just wasn't ever the same. ;)
"This was enough and we’ve finally made the decision to give up and go back to real hardware only we control and manage. It took us more than a month of work, but we think we’ve got pretty good system built as the replacement for Softlayer cloud based solution."

This can't possibly be a good end solution! Haven't you read everyone else's blog posts and forum comments that there's no possible way you can ever build anything as good as _insert_vendor_name_here_ has done with their cloud?

There's 0 chance that you'll be able to respond to a 2400% increase in traffic/usage in under 43 seconds! And you'll never ever be able to replicate around the globe instantly, and even if you could, it'll cost so much more than _cloud_vendor_ because they have economies of scale you can never achieve. Ever. Seriously.

I just can't believe someone would consider - you know - owning and managing hardware that they control with their own SLAs and support people in place. Where's your sense of cloudsourcing?
Blogs are written by subject matter experts that know their topic better than any generalist. They are, by definition going to have their hands in the pie.

So if you want coverage from people that are unbiased (or less biased) but who don't quite get it, stick with mainstream media. If you want expertise with potentially an axe to grind, go with blogs.

Better to look at both and always question what you read from both angles of competence and integrity.
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I was trying to parse the last part. Interviewing practice with technology companies would generally involve three departments:

- Recruiting. They'll reach out and arrange your interview. They might also have some basic questions towards you just to ensure your resume is not a complete work of fiction.

- Engineering. They'll interview you, and make a hiring decision.

- HR. They'll greet you on your first day of your becoming a "human resource", set you up with benefits, and ask you to fill in some basic paperwork.
Indeed, considering that there are 360 degrees of sideways. Which one? :)
Well, but he's conditioning on "machine learning" already (the little caption on the histogram says "P(neural network | machine learning"), so that most likely filters out the straight neuroscience papers.
TweetDeck might make sense as some sort of "Business or Pro" edition of Twitter
To build either nukes or particle accelerators you need physicists, who are the kind of non-team-players likely to point out that nukes would work better.
Same here, been about 2 months and didn't hear anything. Just sent a new one, already seems much improved in that you get an application url. However, part of the application is critiquing a visual design - that seems biased against developers. There are definitely some very talented developers who would be great members of the community but don't know anything about graphic design.

If anyone would be willing to vote a fellow HNer here's mine: http://forrst.com/i/5uz

Sidenote: There's is something to be said for the allure of exclusivity in these types of networks. Also, perhaps requiring a community vote / interview process before allowing write permissions on HN could be a way to stem the decline there's been so much talk about lately. Perhaps a short form of the yc application to be voted on.

edit: bout 40 minutes later, I'm in. thanks anyone who voted.
I see a name change in their not so distant future.
Ok, I'll bite.

Any idea how they go from your photo to your facebook profile?

Presumably they'd need to scrape facebook for all profile photos and names, which isn't that easy? (I could be wrong here, I'm sure some company would sell you that data) Alternatively they'd need to link your picture to a name, which they could do with a loyalty card, but I don't think that's very likely for cheaters (why would they have a way for the casino to easily track them?)
Are your people better than the competition? If your competitors have great engineers, you may top talent to compete. If it is some forgotten nitch, you may be able to get away with less.
I like my Xoom and those of us without super human vision think the display looks just fine. Not charging via the usb is annoying but not a deal killer for me. The apps will come eventually plus I can write my own apps if I want without having to shell out another $800. I have no love for apple.