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Ask HN: Why is HP making more Touchpads to sell them at a loss ?
HP had put a firesale to clear their stocks, and thats understandably fair(sale)! But why in this world they want to make more touchpads and sell them at loss (presumably at the same firesale prices)?
Thanks for clarifying! It's a really great idea!
10 years ago, foreign students would come to the U.S. to get advanced degrees and then stay in the U.S. to get good paying jobs.

Here in India, Going to America is very fashionable and earns a lot of respect in society. A lot of friends went to America for further studies for just 'America returned' brand factor.

Indians have a lot of misconceptions about America. Some of the most ridiculous economic assumptions.

a. Everybody in America is ultra rich.
b. There are no poor people in America, Everybody in America is a millionaire.
c. Everybody owns a car in America.
d. In America all houses have gardens, beautiful parks around them.
e. If you are in America you are in heaven.

Thereby the mad rush to get settled in America, somehow. Some people take ridiculous loans to study there. Ultimately leaving no other option but to stay back in America work there even for throw away prices just to pay of the massive debt back home.

People back here in India, find it very difficult to believe that there are a lot people in America who have to work very hard just to make ends meet.
Thanks for the feedback.

1. I hope so to, looking for a smaller more focused market than deviantart/dribbble/flickr etc, people who need to put a whole portfolio together rather than individual images and get it reviewed by experts

2. Yep agree, still needs some love to get it looking okay

3. Thats a neat idea, the work is more important than the text as you say

4. Yeah good shout on threadless, like their rating style as well

5. It's to give people a chance to see the work in case they don't want to review it, might have to rethink how this is presented though

6. I have this in progress now, the dropdown is plain ugly

7. Yep good spot, added to the list

Thanks again for taking a look
You are almost right but you are neglecting a major factor: the uneven distribution of wealth. Simple example:

Lets say I make 100k but 30k goes to "taxes", meant to be spent on public utilities that (more or less) benefit me, such as roads, schools, infrastructure, etc.

However, of that 30k, 10k goes into the pockets of executive bankers (golden parachutes, salaries, etc) or privately held companies. This does not really benefit me - I was expecting that money to go towards things that benefit me.

That money will go back into the economy, but not to my (direct) benefit -- the bank execs will spend it on things that probably only benefit them. Only part of it will go back to taxes (whatever taxes the execs pay on their golden parachutes, salaries, etc).

So, not only is my money being spent on things that do not benefit me, but it is rewarding the reckless behavior of bank executives.

In shorter words: I am paying 30k to the government, I expect them to use that 30k to provide services that benefit everybody equally, not reward a few reckless bank execs.
To perhaps supplement the acronyms somewhat...

There are two basic parts to graphics drivers: kernel and userspace. All policy is in userspace; for graphics, this means things like rendering APIs (Cairo, GTK, X11, GL, VG). The kernel part manages the card's low-level state, handling its memory, outputs, onboard audio, power states, and so forth, but doesn't actually control how the card renders things.

The big complexity is how many different userspace clients there are that can ask the graphics card to render something fancy for them. In the X11 world, there's the internal X11 driver, which speaks EXA and uses the card to draw the general desktop, but there's also GLX, which goes through Mesa to get GL commands translated into commands for the specific graphics card. On top of those, there's special drivers for video, with four (!!) different APIs: Xvideo, Xvideo MC, VDPAU, VAAPI, and those each require helper code. VDPAU and VAAPI each require external helper libraries too.

Still with me? Awesome. Your toolkits also have graphics stuff, although they usually target an intermediate API rather than a specific card. These include Cairo, GTK, Qt, Wx, Pango, and so forth. Usually these toolkits speak the neutral X11 protocol, but they might decide to speak GL if they think it can make things go faster.
Sergey Brin has been in the United States since he was six.

> Not sure about Google and Microsoft, but it does say something that 50% of Google's founders were foreign born.

I'm not sure it says anything beyond the point that brilliant people will be successful regardless of where they were born.
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Can I ask why you don't want to write anything in javascript, used in the right way, it is a very powerful and expressive language, plus with technologies like coffeescript, you can write Javascript (the good parts) in a clean and neat format.

Although I agree with your point on the different layers, and different technologies, its worth considering the reach of a web-app, and the theoretical develop once, deploy on the most important platforms (iOS, android etc).
Also look at this :

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5. Let them browse the project images at top and review it at bottom that is optional.

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Yeah, I use Readability in Inverse mode myself so I can get my reading in dark background and light text.

To be fair, that is not white on black, it's very-light-grey on dark grey. Personally I find white #FFFFFF on black #000000 hard to read too, but very few sites use such colors.

Light grey on black, which this blog uses, seems perfectly fine for me.

Might there be differences of opinion because of differences in monitors? I'm using Eizo S-PVA, so I might have it better than those with cheaper LCD monitors.
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Funny that their "View Demo" button does not use the buttons that the article is advocating. And ditto for the subscribe button on the right.
Heh, I never realised IANA supports example.com and example.org. Did you all know that already and forget to tell me?
I agree. That's why I go mostly with open software. If I care enough I'll go and get my hands dirty with code.

However I trust open source because people _I know_ told me they are trust-able not because of a higher authority.
I trust Amazon because friends of mine are satisfied customers and not because Verisign says so.
Forward we'll be happy to host the event at http://forwardtechnology.co.uk/venue and I'll help organise it, as I said before.
I can't find any evidence that any version of Opera actually runs on WebOS. Their forums are full of people assuring each other that there is no such thing. Unless I'm being thick and one of these download options is a synonym for "WebOS", I have no idea how to find it. http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/versions/
You are spot on.
This false statement comes from the same misconception that started with "thanks the Cloud(tm)(r)(c) hosting my multimillion page views website is now free" that marketers spinned.
There has been a continuous price drop in commodities, it does not mean that the cost of operating these commodities drop at the same rate.

A whole operations team is needed to attend the infrastructure, whether or not your company actually owns its infrastructure.

Granted, thanks to automation, an operation team can attend to a larger number of servers than before, but this cancels out with the growth in the number of servers needed as the application complexity grows.
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In my opinion, they are creating a market for webOS with the Touchpad as a loss leader. What they intend to do with that market is anyone's guess, but if you think about it: it will be much easier for them to get other hardware makers and software vendors involved when they have hundreds of thousands of users out there, many of which will grow to like webOS and will want to buy new hardware when their Touchpads need replacing in 1-2 years time, as well as making app purchases which have already shot up according to the webOS devs I follow on Twitter.

Of course a few Touchpad owners will be technical enough to install some form of Android on their tablets and there are already efforts under way, but in my opinion these will be the minority. The majority will stick with webOS, giving HP a valuable user base to build on.
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Where did you get the idea that the government would be spending your $30k on public utilities? Most of your $30k would merely be taken and redistributed to other people. Another substantial chunk would be devoted to defending Europe from the Soviets/Islamists/whoever the military is actually set up to protect.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year2008_US.html

I'm not sure why you feel more valuable to to take money from the banker and give it to old people than to allow the banker to invest in Netflix/Walmart/other businesses that provide value to millions of people. Could you explain?
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That probably would have made sense to me if I already knew how the Linux Graphics Stack worked...
> No one was pining for that functionality in 1995, but for some reason we got it, and every browser maker since then has seen fit to faithfully recreate it.

Ever done some real data entry? Serious data entry, that is, where its all you do, all day. Thats where the RESET button came from - traditional data entry jobs, which, without that button, just wouldn't be as productive.

I concur it doesn't belong on a typically-not-optimized-for-quick-entry web form, but I wanted to point out that it is really very useful if you are doing a ton of data entry.
What this really seems to highlight for me is quite how useless bug trackers on large projects used by the general public can be.

249 comments, with so much noise it would be impossible to find any actual discussion amongst them if you tried, most along the lines of "WTF, sort it out Google".
If they had called an equal number of people and spread the false rumor, you bet your ass they would.
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most m$ products are not research but commercial. and software evolved a lot. (scala, node and also c++). maybe computer research has cooled, but it also depends on basis research on physics.
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One theory is that they already have the components to build them purchased. They may also have a contract with the factory to build 'X' number of devices, in order to have achieved a discounter labor rate, etc.

So, HP has a sunk cost in components in stock, and an obligation to the factory to build more units (or else pay a penalty).

Is it then cheaper or even slightly more profitable for them to build more tablets rather than try to dispose of the parts and deal with broken contract issues.

(my theory)
I'd say you're extracting information, not meaning.
Thanks, will add that to the list
The architecture sounds good, but that's an enormous amount of text for such a simple concept - full decoupling of everything via modules which communicate everything over pub/sub with a mediator (which contains the logic to execute new pubs / subs based on others, and load/kill modules as necessary). Ideally with a facade over the mediator so modules aren't bound to mediators. Modules are therefore as totally atomic as possible.

There are some interesting links scattered throughout, as well - YMMV on those, of course, but the ones I clicked through were interesting.

And thanks hblanks, I'm in the process of watching the GWT video :)
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Respectfully, I think you are overanalyzing something that is very simple.

1) Humans are very good at cheating the system. In fact, we are built to cheat, and we have come up with amazing ways of cheating and scamming people out of their money. To ignore this is to ignore hard facts that are right in our face.

2) Most people are honest. But it only takes a few dishonest people to do a lot of damage. And with the right amount of money, you can get away with anything in this country.

3) Corruption is the most seductive activity you can engage in with your clothes still on.

4) It goes beyond conspiracy at this point - we can literally see money transferring hands. Is it not funny that almost everybody was against the bailouts, but the govt. green flagged them regardless? Is it also not a bit strange that every past Secretary of Treasury for the past few decades has been affiliated with Goldman Sachs?

As for free markets and regulation:

Do you believe in evolution? I do. Evolution gets a LOT of things wrong in the beginning, but in the end, it usually produces pretty ideal designs. Evolution is what happens when you have an environment free of artificial contraints.

Likewise, I think that the best economy will be produced by many mistakes, and learning from them. One thing I am pretty sure we will learn is that no corruptible entity should ever control an economy, because corruption is always the end result. (All hail our new robot overlords :D)

And I will just leave this here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_von_Hayek
I'm sure you have probably read up on this guy.
I don't really understand this post. Why would a VC stay in a crappy hotel? Traveling is stressful and a burden. A company should do everything in its power to ease that burden. Everyone from our CEO to our admins stays at the Ritz Cartlon when traveling to NYC. If a company can't make similar accommodations then I wonder how much they truly care about their employees.
How hard would it be for someone to download both versions, do the diffs, and create the instructions, get torrent X, and play from 0:30 to 6:25, skip straight to 7:45, etc?

The differencing task would be the perfect app for the new unlimited inbound bandwidth at linode. :)
OP never said he used Opera on his WebOS device: he said that WebOS's standard browser is very good and that mobile Opera (as well as mobile browsers in general) is big in Taiwan.
Yup. Most people don't seem to have noticed that it was declined back in 2010, and therefore Google are probably not paying any attention to new comments on it at all.
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Yes. Chrome Experiments is not about Chrome-specific experiments but about pushing Javascript and the new cross-browser APIs.

I always try to use APIs supported by more than one browser. It just happened that it performed much faster on Chrome than any other browser for a year or so (until the other browsers catched up).

Good to see that, 2 years after relase, people on Firefox/Opera/IE can finally see the thing properly ;)
Are you seriously trying to tell me that the banks are the only industry which either a) has been bailed out at some point or b) receives government subsidies?
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This makes some fair points, but I think this also suffers from some of the general disconnect between techies and the general web browsing populace (who probably provide the largest fraction of ad clicks, by the by).

After watching some non-technical people browse the web, I think all modern browsers are pretty much equivalent (as far as the user is concerned). Normal users don't install extensions, they don't care about easy bookmark access or browser speed (as long as the difference isn't in the order of magnitudes) or really any of the things that browsers might do differently. It's just slightly different window dressing around websites. So I think cleaning up the Opera user interface as the article mentions, while nice, won't make a difference to user numbers.

When products are effectively the same, marketing is the ONLY thing that matters (bundling aside).

Now having said all that, there is of course a big difference amongst web browser when it comes to power users and as a long time Opera user, I find that it enables me to browse the web in ways that are not possible in Firefox and Chrome.

1. Good defaults (in terms of functionality and settings). I can install Opera on a new computer, connect to Opera Link to import bookmarks / searches, change three settings and I have my complete web browsing experience set up on another computer. I don't have to install ANY extensions, widgets or what have you.

2. The reason that I don't need extension is partially because some functionality is already included in the browser, and partially because the address bar in conjunction with bookmark aliases replaces a ton of extensions I might need to have and acts in many ways like a command line to the web. Bookmark aliases let you specify some "command" that you type in in the address bar that invokes a bookmark. So I can type "hn" into the address bar, hit enter and it will take me to hacker news. In addition to that, the address bar consumes javascript. That means that you can set aliases for bookmarklets and for multi argument quick searches. So if I type "bm" (for bookmark) into the address bar, it will open the window to bookmark something on delicious. The same thing that would happen if you click on a delicious bookmarklet button... only you don't have to click on a button. And it will get synced when you set up Opera Link on a new install. And you can hook up any old snippet of javascript you can think of to such a command.

3. Find on page acts as an element selector. If you see a link on a page that you want to click on, you can do "Ctrl + F -> type in part of link name -> enter" to "click" on the link. I know that FF has extensions (vimperator?) to do something similar, but again... that's one less extension you need.

In short, with a very small combination of extra features, Opera will save you a million mouse clicks with zero setup / configuration hassle.

(I once wrote a blog post about multi argument address bar searches: http://www.pushingbits.net/posts/google-date-range-address-b...)
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...oh. :) Somehow I had convinced myself that the screenshots at the bottom were of Opera running on WebOS.
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To be honest, most people subscribe and wants to be subscribed to /r/reddit.com, where this was posted.
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The only extension I use in Opera is Meme smileys: https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/meme-smil...

Anyway, the only extension I've ever really wanted for Opera, is Firebug. The lack of a good debugging tool has long been a good drawback, and even though Opera now has Dragonfly, it still doesn't feel as good as Firebug.
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Sounds like a hyper version of what's here in Kenya(and africa). More mobile, Opera mini everywhere, native apps preference, a little bit of Android, far much less Apple,. Even Nokia's running a S40 app contest for its Ovi Store(50K Euro top-prize).
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I think the author tries hard to ignore the role of technology.

1. It's clear that most books will be ebooks , especially for people interested in book communities.

2. It's pretty easy for anybody with an interest to form an offline(or offline/online) community anywhere using digital tools. reddit meetups are a good example.grubwithus is another. And they facilitate better communities at a cheaper(sometimes free) price.

3. The capability and benefits of online communities is always improving. Google+ hangouts is the latest example. Maybe in the future they'll replace offline book communities at all ?
You're probably going to find that the development world leaves you behind then.
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Or maybe we should think twice about saying things like "your kids are being killed at school". I am open to suggestions but I have never heard about a book causing mayhem in a couple of minutes.
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In it's current state of affairs jQuery mobile is too slow to be a universal solution for mobile.

That and it makes everything look like an iPhone app and there are enough people out there who dislikes that particular sense of aesthetics.

I honestly don't see jQuery mobile having the same "thing" as plain jQuery had which made it successfull: It stayed out of your way and just worked, without making any assumptions about what you liked and what you wanted beyond that.

Any word on how well knockoutjs or other options is working on mobile?
Yes, I think you still miss the point though:

Lets say 10k goes to this banker, and he spends it on Netflix/Wallmart/etc. That mostly benefits HIM. Really, I should get to spend that 10k on Wallmart/Netflix/etc. so that it benefits ME.

Both cases benefit the economy, but the banker benefits more if he spends the money. In otherwords, money that I could spend on myself to boost the economy is instead being given to someone else who does not deserve it. Does that make sense?

In general, I am for a SMALL government - that means I would prefer that taxes be minimized, and whatever can be privatized should be. I do not support our government's excessive defense budget (although I do support the troops, who actually get very little of the overall defense budget).