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Louis Gray now lives in Chrome: Is browser-only the future of software?
Any TL;DR with a picture?
It won't have android market access without a hack, just Amazon's market. The lack of a camera (among other things) means it doesn't meet the hardware standards google requires for shipping google apps which includes the market. Not that Amazon would want to anyway, they clearly would like to drive traffic to their store.
Will Windows 8 Just Have One SKU?
Talk about eating your own dog food.
It's quite possible to produce a nuclear reaction with lasers. You just need some very serious lasers, for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility
Understanding syntax is a very small part of understanding a programming language. It takes a long time after you've grasped the syntax of a language to begin to understand its idioms and best practices. A talented programmer can pick up a new syntax in a few weeks, picking up a new paradigm takes much longer. The primary obstacle in learning both Clojure and Scala, I would say, is understanding the functional programming paradigm. In that sense, they're not so different.
This is precisely what I pictured for clojure when reading fogus' post on scala. Coming from a java background with no lisp experience I did not find clojure syntax "difficult". Any difficulty was, as Alex noted, in not doing things the imperative way. If anything, the fact that the language got out of my way allowed me to focus on writing functional programs.

It's also worth noting that learning new ways to solve problems is fun; learning reams of new syntax is not. It's for this reason that I became frustrated when trying to learn scala after working in clojure for a while.
The problem is that spam and genuinely inappropriate items need to be flagged and deleted quickly, but people now seem to flag things simply because they don't like them, disagree, or are grumpy.

I flag stuff that contains nothing to make me think. I frequently upvote things I disagree with provided they have some depth and make me think.

But so much stuff here is now complete fluff.

The balance is difficult. What should a flag mean? What should the effect of a flag be? Certainly it should penalise the ranking, and certainly enough flags should result in an item being deleted, but what is "enough"?

It's a problem. Personally I don't see it getting fixed - I'm not convinced the existing structure can be fixed. That's why I'm doing something different.
In terms of desktop publishing you might be right, but I think we've seen amazing strides in the realms of audio and video production in the past ten years. It's now possible to buy cameras and audio recording gear for pennies on the dollar of what you used to pay for tools with similar capabilities. Meanwhile the software side of things has advanced just as rapidly... For example, I had to do some noise reduction on some audio recordings a couple of weeks ago and what used to take hours to do in early iterations of Protools now only takes a few clicks in Adobe's Audition (and probably in the latest version of protools too...). Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash... All of these tools have advanced considerably in the last few years, much less the last decade.

Tablets have any number of interesting productivity software being developed for them (innovative word processors spring immediately to mind), but developers are severely limited by the hardware capabilities of those platforms... Obviously we won't see a full fledged version of Photoshop or Final Cut written for a tablet for many years to come, but I think we might see that eventually.
Creation is much easier today, it's true. And for a while, it looked like the old model of a few rich broadcasting/production companies making things for the rest of us to sit at home and passivel consume was going away, replaced by a model where we all have the means to produce better and better stuff, where merit, originality, expressiveness, communication were rewarded more than the means to invest the necessary capital. It looked like livejournal, flickr, deviantart - the blogging revolution - was empowering a generation to turn off the television and engage in an active, participatory way in a global conversation.

Not that passive consumption is inherently evil. I just was imagining a world where the power of creation is more evenly distributed. I'm a little sad to see that trend start to reverse.

I agree that creation isn't for everyone. But the available tools have an effect. They encourage or discourage in subtle ways. The iPad's software keyboard imposes just a slight amount of friction on inputting text. That has an effect. It matters, to some however small degree, and it aggregates with every other way that Apple optimizes consumption over production.

On centralized authority: again, the way you are consuming content is not the case Apple is optimizing for. They have allowed it, but their most sanctioned way is for you to buy content from their partners through their distribution channels. It's not a complete restriction, but an optimization of a certain model through UI. TFA's description of the new Kindle seems to follow, and, indeed, to go farther down this path.

Meta: Not that I'm particularly offended, but why take such an abrasive tone? "Central authority bullshit," "obvious nonsense"? Do you simply not consider it a possibility that you didn't fully understand what I was trying to say, either because I communicated it poorly or because it doesn't align with your preconceived notions? I'm actually quite happy to be having this discussion, as it's one I've tried to have many times, but never got much uptake. But, why start with such a dismissive tone? I've seen so many threads start with mild, mutual abrasiveness and spiral quickly into full-out flamewar. Why take a step down that path? Is it so hard to be overtly civil? Honest question.
There're also SketchyPad and iMockups. I've created a list of the tools presented here, you can see it on http://www.romku.com/list/343849/ui-mockup-tools.
I'm not saying there's a 95% chance the Higgs isn't there. I'm saying there was some non-zero probability that it was in the specified energy range before, and given these results the probability that it's now in that range is now 5% of the value it was before. Or more precisely, the probability that we're in the universe where the Higgs is in the specified energy range and it's detectable with this experiment just went down to 5% of it's original value. Even if we can't accurately identify what the value of the probability is, we can still say it went down to 5% of its original value on the basis of the evidence from this experiment. I would also argue that prior to this experiment the probability of the Higgs appearing in this energy range given our state of evidence of how the universe works was significant (more than 15% I'd say) otherwise we wouldn't have built the LHC. I understand you can't say this with a frequentist approach because we don't have a sample of universes to draw on to estimate priors.

Finally we're not talking about the probability of some state of the universe in the absolute (as frequentists claim, we can't meaningfully talk about such things), we're talking about some state of the universe given the evidence we have.
I'm a designer myself and I don't consider myself a "technical" founder (though I will use the term "semi-technical". I feel that in order to be considered a technical founder, you should have mastery of programming and servers and all those super-technical details — HTML/CSS/Design don't cut it.
Good points, not sure why I disregarded the 6 other people at the door.

Although, it is a bit odd that after all this, he (Calderon) still hasn't reached out to the SFPD, as indicated in the SF Weekly's latest updates.
Was that a happy coincidence after the fact?

I always thought the official name was "Practical Extraction and Report Language", or perl for short.

At least that's according to the man pages on my linux machine.
The US will have not have 50 states. Some states might secede, some states might split (e.g. Northern and Southern California), or some territories might be granted statehood (so their natural resources and cheap labor can be more readily extracted). Of course, some combination of the above could bring the state count full circle to 50, but I think that's unlikely.
To me things haven't really changed. The non-techy users never made good use of the freedoms of the PC-era, so to them their environment was just as restricted as the Kindle or iPad environment.

As for the geeks, things haven't changed either. We find ways to open up the devices and get the freedoms we want.
I really liked Aardvark, and used it for a while I suspected Google was going to shut it down, thing is, they acquired a great team, that's why the $50M.

I wonder if the founders stayed at Google.
Yea, it's pretty weak, and I'm sure the executives gave some ultimatums to the security team. Who knows though, when bonuses are on the line people will do some crazy things.
iOS's Objective-C doesn't support garbage collection. iOS 5 will add support for Automatic Reference Counting, but no real garbage collection. So if you are writing cross-platform Objective-C code that must support iOS devices and Macs, then you can't rely on garbage collection. And if you must support iOS < 5, then you can't rely on Automatic Reference Counting either.
You're seeing this as a crippled android tablet. It's not. It's a kindle.

There's a big market out there for people who just want to read a book. They don't want to GPS with Google Maps, they don't want to install Yelp, or Trulia, or GrubHub apps. They just want to read, listen to music, and watch a video when they're on the bus or on the couch.

Amazon has done well by providing focus to the Kindle. Where I commute it's more popular than the iPad. They may someday decide to take Apple head-on with an Android tablet, but it's not gonna be this year.
I'll be part of the backlash if there's enough popular demand. I still think it's a great idea. There's nothing out there like having a Q/A service via IM. Maybe they can spin it off?
Gondor Launches
http://illusion.scene360.com/wp-content/themes/sahara-10/sub... this is why negative space is important. It can create unintended things if you are not aware that it exists.
Acquisitions are about talent and not products more often than not with Google.
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Nope, it works for anything. You don't have to anthropomorphize a boat to call it "she". Countries are also referred to as women in general. But these are all just defaults. You can use masculine pronouns for any object, boat, or country, if you want to emphasize some masculine traits.
For further reading, Gondor has been discussed previously on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2075158

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2728855

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2728855
so proud of you guys, great work! =D
It probably doesn't matter too much unless the company is looking for proficiency in a particular language, and in that case you would know it going in to the interview. When we give a coding problem, we let the candidate choose between C++ and C#, and the problems are such that the language doesn't really make much of a difference; other than minor IO and collections, there aren't any library calls. I prefer not having to explain why a reference to "cout" raises a compiler error (it's in a namespace), but the correctness of the algorithm is way more important.
Amazon is more than just books or at least they want to be. E-ink is great for books. But if you want to sell music, movies, and games then you need something like this.
Right, he was on medical leave. He retained the title and was involved in all major strategic decisions. Tim Cook was left to handle daily operations and was essentially acting CEO. While I would be surprised if Jobs didn't know about a lost iPhone given his heavy involvement in the company I also don't see how this isn't a daily operations issue falling to Tim Cook.
Was the podcast created by a guy on a iPad?

How about the webcomic, do you think it was done in the iPad / Android version photoshop?

Was the HP fan fiction typed on a tablet keyboard?

The point the OP is trying to make is not that tablets discourage production of content at a higher level. It's that companies are spending a lot of money improving consumption device /software , instead of creative devices/software

It's that there is more money is creating consumption devices, and most of the R&D is going into creating better and better consumption devices, with less focus on creation better tools for production.

This is however a natural state of the free market - creating consumer-oriented consumption devices is suddenly a lot more profitable than creating devices targeted and production of content, and therefore that is where we are seeing the most innovation/investment right now.
I'm pretty sure you guys owe my employer for several hours of time I've spent playing with eightbitbeats over the past few days.
George Aaronow: When I talk to the police I get nervous.

Ricky Roma: Yes. You know who doesn't?

George Aaronow: Who?

Ricky Roma: Thieves.
In the words of Steve Jobs, "It isn’t the consumers’ job to know what they want." But after testing some iPhone screenshots on a 4.0 inch, 800x480 Android display, I liked the look and feel of it.
I imagine developers will produce interesting productivity software for these platforms, but I think the form factor inherently privileges consumption. There are the ergonomics, for example. Also limited screen size, and necessarily limited input. Maybe my overall point, though, is that with development going into optimizing consumption, less goes to figuring out more robust ways to interact with a more powerful platform. I feel like the desktop GUI has stagnated over the last couple of decades, and now there's less hope than ever that there's going to be any significant innovation in this vector.
He may have simply thought he didn't need to do anything since the police are obviously aware of the situation.
After reading the small print, the article reduces to "someone with an email address from company X is using our product, therefore our product is better than their industry standard". (Map this argument to the Fortune 50, 100 and 500 lists.)
I think it's hit and miss like everything else, but maybe a little more 'miss' in this case. I just spent 5 months in India working on my startup. I'm not Indian, but I absolutely loved it. New York is a bore compared to the sensory overload of most Indian cities. I hit the railroad for 2 weeks and circumnavigated the country. Used a GSM dongle to work from my train berth. There was some 3G, but mostly slow going up in the Northern states (lots of time to write code). Can't wait to go back.
I think one iPhone with a larger screen size (3.7-4.0 inches) but same pixels (960x640) is most probable.
I agree with you on the extreme ends of the spectrum. But there are plenty of people in the middle who can be encouraged in either direction by the way we construct our tools. I think the explosion of content on the web, or Web 2.0, is all the evidence you need.
The only local files I have are the ones I haven't had time to put in the cloud yet.
really love this: "football camps"
http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:Vv0RVxr9d...
Here are some suggestions:

If you are on *nix you can list all the files that a process is using:
$ lsof -p <PID>,<PID>,<PID>

Then do a diff of the listed files against older versions of the files (e.g from a backup).

On Windows you can use procmon.exe (its a free tool from Microsoft that lists all network, registry and files) and see the updates in realtime.

Hope those work.
The pricing structure seems extremely reasonable. I hope Django developers jump on board and keep them afloat.

One of the reasons I switched from Django to Rails was because of the community support in the form of awesome tools like Heroku. If Gondor had been around a year ago I likely wouldn't have switched.
thanks for all the support man!
Thanks for explaining. I guess it's hard for me to think of these things in isolation. Tax revenue is one factor in the equation; employment levels are another.

One thing the state presumably would like to do with the tax revenue is promote job creation. Having 7,000 extra jobs available would bring all sorts of great benefits to California - some of which are easy to quantify, and some of which aren't.

The whole situation reminds me of a little skirmish recently between the San Francisco board of supervisors, and Twitter. Twitter was willing to move its main offices to a slightly run-down section of San Francisco in exchange for some city tax breaks; otherwise, they'd relocate to (I think) Burlingame instead. Twitter was going to have those jobs SOMEWHERE; the only question was whether it was going to be in SF, or somewhere else. And it didn't make economic sense for them to set up shop in SF without the tax breaks.

Providing jobs in an area, as well as the local business benefits of those people spending their salary in that location, was expected to bring enough benefit that the tax breaks were given, and Twitter decided to stay [0]. A lot of people were howling about corporate subsidies, though.

This whole subject is near and dear to my heart. One primary goal with my own startup is to create jobs that help financially support people and their families.

And on that note, back to work ;)

[0] http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/22/twitter-san-francisco/
This whole thread is a great discussion. Commenting so I can come back and read the replies. I agree with many points regarding content creation vs. content consumption and the lines drawn between the two. I do believe the tablet is a great consumption device and that is a major function in the consumer market as well as business (even more so for business based on my experience with my software)
I know it's a tech thing, but it's a really good idea in the practice of launch posts to explain what the thing is and what it does, at least to some degree.
What various Hacker Houses or the like are available in SF?
Seems to me it doesn’t need to be special by any other means than sharing space with other hackers who are interested in talking shop, etc.

If you don't have a web site, maybe you could list availability of rooms and some contact info.
The iPad and other tablets are not great tools for writing. Emails or comments on HN (another one of those things that wasn’t possible for very many people one or two decades ago) work great, longer or more complicated stuff quite often not. There are, however, quite a few use cases where tablets are better tools for content creation than, say, a PC or at least could become better tools given time and software.

But I feel you are ignoring the larger picture. Tablets are currently third devices and prices have developed in such a way to actually allow for a third device. What’s wrong with a consumption oriented device when what most people were already doing was consuming?

Given that creation is as simple as it never before has been and that all the tablets actually can receive all of the created content I just do not understand how tablets could threaten content creation in any way whatsoever. It seems absurd to me.

Tablets are freaking awesome for content consumption of any kind and they can do quite a few other things. They are also cheap enough to make it possible to also buy a very capable PC. I … I really don’t understand how that could have any negative impact.

(Meta: I actually feel very bad about my tone now. I sometimes start to furiously write stuff like that and I always regret it but hardly ever learn. I’m very sorry for my tone. It was a mistake.)
haha don't get fired!
I take it you don't use pip, gem, sbt, (insert your favorite language's package manager) either?

If you do, what's the difference?
Just the name "CyanogenMod" makes me itch with a sense of fiddlyness completely at odds with why tablets are a welcome break from normal computers.
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How Much Do I Really Need To Learn About SEO?
In this latest installment of the iNoobs series I thought we would quickly touch upon the issue of marketing, particularly online marketing and SEO (or search engine optimization).
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Will people vote on tweets?
I debated over getting the Kindle for a while but since getting it about 6 weeks ago it is by far my favourite device. I'm reading so much more now (and spending much more on books). I just wish I got it sooner.
Five or Six Things That Occurred In My Brain When I Read This Article:

(1) $250 with free Prime? Buying one for sure, maybe two.

(2) No camera? Ugg. At least a front facing camera for Skype pls, I'll pay extra.

(3) November, meh I was hoping late September.

(4) Eclair fork? That has to be wrong lots of optimizations made in Froyo which has been available for over a year.

(5) Maybe this provided some additional incentive for Google to withhold Honeycomb source?

(6) MG Siegler continues to break character and occasionally commit actual journalism. Would love to see this trend continue.
Did Aardvark have 50 key devs? Isn't that roughly the valuation in premium talent deals?
The Kindle Tablet: Interesting, but Not Really
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I would be surprised if Amazon ditches their existing Kindle. I'm sure this will just be an addition to the product lineup, rather than a replacement.
When Google+ first came out, there was code that seemed to imply an upcoming "Google Questions". I was assuming it would be based on Aardvark ... apparently not.
Nice write up.
Tech Industry Becomes a Force in Local Politics
0.9665 correlation between "iphone" and "cancel tmobile". Amazing.

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=iphone&t...
We use some Google tools where I work. I'm always afraid the Goog will lose interest and send us scrambling to find some other way to do what we're doing.
Nothing good is going to come out of Google's obsession with "social".

It's a fool's errand that may end up costing them the company. If they succeed, they become what, fuckbook with coupons? And move on to organizing the world's stupidity into neat little crap piles, perhaps.

Way for allegedly smart guys to microsoft themselves.
For me a major hill to overcome for learning any Lisp is Emacs. I've used Vim all my life, but I haven't found any way to make it "S-expression aware" the way emacs is. In emacs, I can navigate and manipulate the code based on S-expressions. I can move, cut, and select up, down, left, and right. In DrRacket I also know how to do things like rotate s-expressions and move an s-expression outside.

Since I've always felt that Vim is inferior for Lisp development, I try to use Emacs. Unfortunately, I feel a million times slower in Emacs than Vim simply because I've used vim for years.

I feel like, if I wanted to feel comfortable coding in any Lisp, I would have to code non-stop in an Emacs-like environment for a year, and I haven't had the discipline to do that yet. Does anyone know how to make Vim comparable to Emacs in this regard?
We did, sadly their conditions on business travels and subcontracting are a bit more strict than what we're looking for. We left it as a last option and haven't discarded it yet, but right now we're looking for a bit more freedom.
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Gizmodo took the description and created a mock-up: http://gizmodo.com/5837061/this-is-amazons-kindle-tablet
The $100K Taxi Ride, One Year Later
strace can do it (Linux). Watch out for "open", "read","write","unlink" in the output - these are some of the filesystem operations.

inotifywatch (from inotify-tools) can show you changes made to files in a particular directory.
This will have a hard time competing with the iPad internationally, if it really is focused on deep integration with their digital stores. Amazon has been extremely reluctant to roll out their content stores beyond the US. For example, they still haven't expanded their mp3 store to Canada.
Yo guys. It's a joke. I'm friends with the founders.