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As expected, there are a number of complaints/fears about how non-configurable Unity could be. For these expert users, if they don't like Unity there's always KDE, Gnome or some other UI. I hope the Unity team, for the most part, ignores these power users and optimizes the UI for novices. That would be refreshing to see happen and might result in increased adoption of desktop Linux by the general public. Think Different!
I'm not a fan of the new designs, a lot of pages now have a huge wasted whitespace header taking up big chunks of real estate. It's weird because the design in browsers has been going in the opposite direction trying to reduce the header size.
Nice execution! I like the badges and WPM counter on the right, and it steps you nicely into using it.
Awesome app! I'd actually enjoy reading regular books like this. Can I upload PDFs to have read to me at my speed of choice? If you could access my kindle library that be even better.
They've done that successfully enough that I just dumped my ubuntu netbook in favor of a Mac. Ubuntu has been steadily removing all the advantages Linux has for power users without counterbalancing improvements.
And we coded it in 8 hours, at a noisy bar in DC, using an tethered iPhone for internet. There's no caching, no compression, heck the images are stored as base64 in mogo as strings. We had NO IDEA this thing would take off the way it did.
1) I actually don't have that much of a problem with the Kindle (the e-ink one), at least not as much as with the iPad, because it's not a replacement for the PC, which is a production device as well as a consumption device.

The iPad, on the other hand, is a replacement for device for a large class of people, and it's optimized for the consumption of centrally mediated content. It's not strictly at odds with the web, but it privileges its own distribution channels. I believe that has an effect.

2) Again, not an argument against the Kindle so much as the iPad for reasons stated in (1). But the iPad offers a degraded experience for writing blog posts, for example, compared to a PC. I believe that friction matters. I believe this optimization will only continue to privilege consumption and specifically mediated consumption as time goes on, because that's where the incentives lie. This makes me sad.

[Edit: I'm not necessarily trying to criticize manufacturers as nefarious. They're just doing what the market dictates. I am saying the phenomenon is unfortunate, and I'm trying to raise awareness of the issue to get people thinking of ways to empower more people to create more, better, richer, things. I was also pointing out that Google is maybe the one large corporation that has the power and the motivation to do so.]
FWIW, the main (only?) reason Scala needs "implicits" is to deal with polymorphism of generics while being screwed by the JVM's "type erasure": an implementation of Scala that targeted .NET would not need to deal with that, and would therefore also not need the implicits feature.

(That said, the port of Scala to .NET made the design decision to not fix this; however, the reason is not "we liked it", but "we don't want to be incompatible with Scala for the JVM": a decision I consider totally reasonable.)
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Checkout http://locate32.net it's lightweight, simple and fast. The setup takes a little know-how but once you have it running from startup and scheduling database updates it is indispensable.
see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2956098
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2956098
Probably true. I have Amazon Mom and the free Prime is only good for a year, there's no way they'd give away lifetime free shipping on such a cheap device.
There's a button Safari toolbar that allows you to save a bookmark as an app icon on the home screen. Your argument that Apple hates the web makes no sense.

That is a pre-tablet mindset. It wasn't long ago that GUIs were chided for being "just a fad".

"GUIs are just a fad,when their novelty wears off, users will soon return to true command-line interfaces like DOS", Jon Gladden 1986.

http://www.gladdengraphics.com/academics/GradCourses/Compute...
Say I figure out which people are influencing sales more than others, what should I do with that data? Maybe get with these people to have them share more often.
Who has the means for production? Everyone has the means for production! It doesn't take some special equipment to write a book and publish it to the Kindle. People's ability to publish long-form writing is at an all-time high thanks to e-readers. The fact that the device used to create the content is different from the one people prefer to use to consume it doesn't really matter if everybody has both — which they do.
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Whoops - the article's from 2009 but I am pretty sure that they hit somewhere near 100 million in revenue last year.
Aha! Never made that connection. Thanks!
I think that Ninite[1] is more than up to the task of replacing Google Pack. It even lets you select what software you want.

[1]: http://ninite.com/
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But then us Ruby programmers would be called "Reefers".
Do the seeking work posts even make sense at all? Typically that's not the way people are hired.
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Looks like it's not so far fetched, the SFPD has now admitted that they stood by while Apple staff searched the home. The only remaining piece is if they identified themselves properly.

Even without more information, this is extraordinarily embarrassing for both the SFPD and Apple. What other companies get policing privileges?
Napster, at least (I don't know about Pirate Bay), also enabled a class of underground/amateur music by giving it a distribution channel that never existed before. In a way that iTunes does not. I think, at least to some degree, you have the causality backwards. People consumed mainstream content because that was what was largely available to them. How much of mainstream content consumption has been replaced by amateur content on the web? As the culture at large gets more and more used to this, I think the idea of mainstream will hold less and less power. Of course, unless devices like tablets continue to convince them that the mainstream is the only valuable stream.

The content is available on tablets, too, but the device subtly privileges its own centrally mediated distribution channels. I believe this privilege will only get stronger.
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The problem is the price, though. Spinning up a couple EC2 micro instances to run your app is $0.02/hr per instance and you can run a few threads per instance. Appengine is $0.04/hr (double that soon), with one thread per instance.
People who otherwise wouldn't consider themselves content creators can be inspired to become such if their devices come with content-creation features. As the divide increases between content-consuming devices and content-creation devices, more and more people are going to opt for the less expensive consuming devices and just not get the other kind, as they don't anticipate in advance a desire to create. Thus the barrier for becoming a content-creator could go from "hey neat, look what I can make with this!" to having to buy a separate device first. If the creation abilities come packaged with the consuming device, more people are going to feel empowered make the easy leap, perhaps discovering a new passion in the process.
But my point is that if tablets, which people refer to as "post-PC" devices, in some significant measure replace PCs, then they only have consumption devices.
Sure, but the point is, his "DNA" argument is a complete non-starter. Game studios have to do a ridiculous number of things that have nothing to do with the core business of game design, like rendering, physics, networking, tool development, and so on. The same's true of a few movie studios who've led the way for the rest. Are we supposed to believe that a Pixar or a LucasArts or a James Cameron is somehow incapable of developing and deploying a simple networked Silverlight player?

I hope that Netflix's long term business model doesn't depend on the answer to that question being "No, that's not in their DNA."
Yes, it's probably a dozen or so different apps if you go over their website: http://www.fiplab.com/
There are few real graphic artists who are working with "just" paper and pen. They have favorite pens, favorite papers. Brush pens are plenty sensitive to pressure, and they're around $17 for a good one.

So far the closest thing to a real argument for this product is the vector thing, but I am having trouble envisioning what that really enables. It could enable a lot of cool stuff, but until there is a more concrete sell than "something cool," not a lot of artists are gonna bite.
No, you need a lazy signup process -- let me use (most) everything immediately. Save my data in a cookie or in a temporary user object on your server, and make it permanent once I signup.
Why wouldn't you just draw the thing the character is carrying a few millimeters away, and save $150? (Bear in mind, these are artists we're talking about; that money matters.)
Agreed about drawing on paper, but is convenience worth $200 to a target audience that has probably already paid for a scanner?
I think now that the anti-trust stuff in the US has expired they may start a more integrated and nickle and dime type of integration. As an MSDN subscriber I would love a more barebones Windows that allows me to add on what i need when I need it.
Maybe it should include a first step of piping it to less for review, followed by piping to bash if it looks fine. Slightly better...
My favorite example of this was some code that would always fail in production, but test out fine for devs.

Turned out the developer had used static variables to communicate between runs of dynamically loaded modules, which sadly, you get different sets of when you are loaded onto multiple processors in the production environment, versus single instance testing by the dev concerned.
It's good for netbooks. That being said, I've got 11.04 running unity on the mother of all netbooks, the original eeePC 7". I click on the application finder and it is too large to show the search box on-screen - there's no intelligence; instead of showing one line of icons and the search box, it shows the stock two lines and kicks the search box offscreen.

I have unity on a VM on a 1920x1200 screen as well. Here I have a lot of screen-estate... and the interface is too small, really. On such a large screen, when I want to interact with it, it's too much out of the way.

So, in my experience, unity isn't for large or small screens.
Everything is a must-have Windows utility. It's blazingly fast (because it's searching file names only) and up-to-date (presumably because it's watching the NTFS change journal).

You can also install the client on multiple networked PCs, run the "ETP Server," and search a remote computer's files, and double-clicking a result will open the SMB path to that file. I use this all the time to quickly find videos on my file server.
You've been running NodeJS on GAE?
Nice idea! A couple of suggestions:
1) Make the quizzes shorter than 2 minutes.
2) As avree and bherms suggested, you need an intro. before the sign-up. I'm just an impulsive sign-upper because I like checking out new sites, but I suggested the site to my friend and he just stared at it before getting distracted by something else.
Programming is not a content creation.
Graphics, at least on Linux, seem to be headed in a much better direction than at the time of this presentation. Intel open source drivers, Gallium3D, DRI, etc. all are culminating in the much-simpler, less redundant, and (imo) more Unix-y architecture of Wayland.

I also think it's interesting how he describes text files as both a strength and a weakness. I definitely agree here- grepping or awking a log file is very flexible, but ad-hoc, regex-style parsing-and-unparsing through pipes is very bad for real systems (i.e. not bash one-liners).

He also says "Drifting back towards typed, binary files (Ugly)." I would have to disagree here and say that something like a Lisp machine environment could have many (all?) of the advantages of Unix while solving some of the problems of text interfaces.
For Windows, I recommend Everything. See this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2956146

http://www.voidtools.com/
A while back Ubuntu had a media release where they said they were simplifying the UI for use by normal folks, and that yes, if you're a power user, Ubuntu may not appeal to you in future, and that you'll probably want a different distro.

The bit I find bizarre is that they've stripped out a lot of small-but-very-useful sysadmin tools. I hate having to troubleshoot on my 11.04 VM as it invariably means having to apt-get install some random tiny cli tool that most distros include, including older ubuntu.
You've misunderstood me. I don't believe tablets are a fad, if anything I'm lamenting they're inevitable success.

I also don't claim that Apple hates the web. I just think it's in their interest to privilege 1. Consumption over production; and 2. Consumption through their centrally mediated channels of distribution.
I agree also, you really need a lot more information up front to tell people what the service actually does. Especially for a service like this, I don't see a lot of value hiding the content behind a registration wall.
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Oh, I just read this in the API doc.. "
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location may build on our platform. However, due to legal restrictions, we block players
from accessing Betable’s real-money play in they are located in the United States,
Turkey, Holland or any other jurisdiction that Betable deems unsuitible for it’s services."
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We are at our very early stages and we are now open for website application to join our network

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They should make the code open source!
Existing Kindles have email, web browsing, music, and games. True, there are limitations. Movies are the only "new" thing.
If information (cash flow, cash in the bank, bad debts) is released to the staff before the public, there's problems with insider trading of stocks, etc. And I'm sure it has to do with stock stability as well. If there's a bad day in the company and everyone knows about it, stocks will likely fall. You don't have time to fix the problem before the public hears of the news.
This site is fundamentally flawed. The key to fast reading is learning to read phrases rather than words. It is the same concept as reading words instead of letters (obviously after you have passed the phonetics reading stage).

The only site I know of to truly learn to read fast, without silly scams or even a cost, is http://www.readspeeder.com/ It takes a little figuring out as it is really lacking in usability (I suggest reading the help files) but it will give you staggering results.
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Amen bro. The biggest frustration was we followed Google's preaching and spent lots of time to fit our apps to their restricted model, then have them turned around to destroy it. I don't have faith to do another round of optimization to fit their new restricted model. What is stopping them to change the ground rule again. I rather spend time to develop to a generic model that I have more control.
I really don't get the point of a Kindle with a battery life of only 10 hours.
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While I do agree it's mainly a consumption device I think it's already quite useful as a creation platform (I write/sketch out music on it). IMO it's a reflection a culture where most people are consumers not creators.

Mainstream PC use is for games, netflix, and facebook. All passive. I guess facebook is 50/50, if you call writing a never ending Christmas card update letter creative :)
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Love the website design.
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Ask HN: Why are so many Python Cloud Hosts in Beta?
I'm fairly new to HN and very naive of the startup world. After doing a Google search for "Heroku for Python", I found a quora Q&A[0] that lists a large number of python cloud hosts that function like heroku...but many are in Beta and require an email invite. Is it a common pattern for multiple startups offering similar services to be in beta at the same time and not try to beat each other to the punch of releasing first?

I appreciate the insight!

[0]: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Heroku-equivalent-for-Django-applications
Wonder if they'll be selling it internationally, like a Kindle. The major difference is that this probably won't have a 3G connection so it should be even simpler.
How is it consumption when someone e.g., records a song in GarageBand?
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What does the widget look like? Is it customizable? "Quality site" and "concerned with how new gadgets look/behave" tend to go together.
The form on http://www.kiveve.com/webmasters/start/ isn't working.
Maybe they are worse at assessing value. If a VC has no real idea what the value of a company is, they have to make a conservative valuation, to avoid being conned. They will also take longer to do the due diligence. A good VC may be able to make a good guess whether a company is worth investing in just by speaking to the founders for a few hours. A less skilled VC might take weeks, and still have no idea, so they can only offer a lowball bid.
Aren't all these available to people with desktop/laptop computers? Aren't there something like an order and a half magnitude more of those than tablets?

And this was all possible a decade ago. There were at least 50M people with web connections a year ago.
My wife has one of those $87 Android 2.2 tablets and they're near-unusable. We had to replace the clunky firmware to a real Google Marketplace rather than a Chinese knock-off. Even then, the performance was sub-par. The thing struggled to even perform the most basic UI operations. There is a market for a quality tablet at a $250 price point.
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It sounds to me like the scarce resource was found to be RAM, not CPU. If an "instance" uses a big piece of RAM to serve a request, and doesn't give it up while waiting for a backend, then scalability is RAM-bound, not CPU-bound, and they should probably charge that way.
Yes, but look at the carriers. Depending on your device (Blackberry, Android, iPhone), the price of 3g varies. This is because some devices (Android, iPhone) are much more likely to consume more data. The Kindle could get away with free 3g because of how limited it was. A full fledged Android device would be able to call, tether, watch movies, play music, play games, etc easily. People are starting to replace their internet connections with 3g. If you price it at free, you won't make that money back.
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These are some of the most obnoxious headlines I've read in a while.

"If you are like Sweeet... Tell me more! Click Here"
"Fancy Pants Algorithm"
"Ninja Time Analytics"

I suppose there's a demographic that responds positively to that type of diction. If that's the case, you've done a good job of narrowing your target market.

Also, use more text and less text-images!
How can you send 2x traffic back to every site? Is this a click-based ponzi scheme
If a tablet has the android market place, and google apps, users do not have to use them. Surely it would be better to include these apps, and get both markets, rather than concentrating on those who do not want to run other stuff on your tablet.
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I always thought it had patriotic meaning, because the ruby is the red stone, like the red of the Japanese flag.
Never mind, it sent the data correctly, but it displayed an error page upon submission.
I was momentarily excited...until I read the description of the new Kindle.

I played with a Nook a few weeks ago, and almost bought one. $249 is nearly an impulse purchase price point. But, I already had a netbook, a Kindle, a laptop, a Nexus One (which broke a few days ago, to be replaced by a Sensation), a desktop, and a DS, so I talked myself out of it.

One of the big reasons is because I wouldn't be able to get rid of my existing Kindle. The Kindle has a killer feature, which I can't replicate: International 3G Internet for free. It's a piss poor excuse for a web browser, but when I'm out of the country, I can google "wifi hotspot city-name" and find a place to connect my netbook or laptop and get some work done. This is a miracle for someone that travels as much as I do.

The battery life is also spectacular. Since I travel in a motorhome, and sometimes go days without plugging in, the ability to read books without having to think about charging my ebook reader is awesome.

So, the two really awesome things about the current Kindle that I have, are not present in the Android Kindle. Also, the fact that they've forked Android hard makes me more than a little hesitant to consider it. My new phone is only a slight divergence from standard Android, and I find it annoying as hell...I'll probably be rooting it and putting a more standard Android on it when I have more free time. The notion of a total fork without a standard Market and all the Google apps (Maps is my lifeline when travelling), and possibly without some of the other apps I rely on, is just crazy. It's hard to imagine such a thing not sucking.

In short, it sounds like I'll be better served by a Nook, should I decide to buy a little ebook/tablet. At least it is readily converted to a standard Android device. Or, maybe I'll just wait out the next round of tablets...or, maybe I'll just not buy a tablet. I still have yet to figure out what I'd use one for. They seem to be highly focused consumption devices, and I do enough consumption as it is.
Aardvark was truly great when it first started. I was an early adopter, got the t-shirt, and received and shared a lot of great information. It's sad to see it go, but I checked out a long time ago. Maybe it was a question of incentives, but at a certain point the whole thing tipped and after that point nearly every answer I got was some combination of poorly punctuated, flippant, ignorant, or willfully spiteful. At the same time the question pool became very thin, and I started receiving a half-dozen let-google-that-for-you queries a day.

Really neat t-shirt, though.