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I couldn't tell you from personal experience since I'm only 16, but from yelp:
http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=live+music+clubs&ns...

LUCID looks promising, and since it's in the U district it's probably popular among college students.

Btw - Any advice on the YC application?
Relevant references from Matt Cutts in regards to Google handling hidden content:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpK1VGJN4XY

http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts.sht... (do a search for hidden)
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I don't expect mysql to ever win at graph traversal when pitted against a graph database, but...

However, no attempts have been made to optimize the Java VM, the SQL queries, etc. These experiments were run with both Neo4j and MySQL “out of the box” and with a “natural syntax” for both types of queries.

This, along with all the other factors overlooked, makes the results nothing more than a very cursory starting point to actually comparing the two data stores. There is not enough data, or effort into collecting accurate data to draw any conclusions.
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You jest, but I think an Amazon store could be a cool idea -- they simply stock a revolving selection of their best rated books from every genre.
I disagree. It is a good step for browsers everywhere, and hopefully will do more to push other browsers to use split processing, but the Fire will capture a new market of price-minded consumers who would never pay over twice as much for an iPad. Like Bezos said, it's all about bringing that level of product to a lower level price range.
Thanks a bunch for the followup, that's extremely interesting.
I think the answer to this is to be very selective and unfortunately for them, turn down many many people. I think this would only increase the value of the meetup for those who are selected.
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Of course it makes more sense to model real life computers as LBAs. Still, it does not change the fact that given a computer, it has bounded, and not linearly bounded amount of memory, and that makes them no stronger than regular expressions. Of course that there's no practical difference for programmers. Of course the problem space is usually small enough. But it only proves my point: applying abstract terminology to real-life stuff does not necessarily make sense all the time.

It makes more sense to take. say, C or Python programming environment, instead of x86, as a computing model. It's enough to assume that malloc never fails to have genuinely Turing complete device.
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Maybe 50% of the replies to my OP involve the importance of algorithmic fluency; the rest of the posts in this sub-thread are all delightful suggestions about which books to read and how to fit algorithms into one's learning habits even if they weren't already there.

And what is wrong with one sub-thread dipping into an utterly related topic? Are you suggesting that no discussion should ever shift from one aspect of a topic to another? Or are you suggesting that every programmer, anywhere, ever, should obviously learn algorithms until they are completely fluent? Both of those are baffling to me, as the former would be a completely unstated expectation in the entirety of internet discussion forums, and the latter is what we are discussing in this sub-thread!

This is one of the most interesting threads I have ever read on Hacker News. It contains a fantastic breadth of perspectives and has remained admirably civil and candid. I've had 2 people e-mail me just based on this thread, and I've purchased two books just based on this thread. I take umbrage that you would call it a waste.
IIRC it was forked from 2.1, but you'll have to look around to confirm that.
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The iPod Touch is a killer 'gameboy' (as Nintendo is finding out ;-)
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It sounds like Amazon is a effectively a man-in-the-middle.

Hopefully the device-to-Amazon connection is secured by Amazon, but I can not find any details.

The privacy implications of all SSL traffic being decrypted on AWS are a bit scary.

I am guessing the end user will never see broken SSL certificate warnings (as you would expect in a regular browser), since Amazon can add a "Amazon MITM" root CA certificate to the browser.
I have a friend with an XNA community game in the store. He's so disgusted with the garbage that goes on to get games to rank in the store that I think he's pretty much given up. I don't see that as a viable option to make money unless you do a lot of promotion work outside the store. It could still be a nice showcase of your work though.

I met someone this weekend that works for a small game studio that's exiting the Wii market. He said it's just becoming impossible unless you're one of the big guys. They've already exited XBox and PS3 so Wii was the last console left for them. They're now mostly targeting PC and Mac.

Steam certainly makes it easier to sell an indie game right now. Notch (of Minecraft fame) has a breakdown on why they don't use it though: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/9550850116/why-no-steam-notch

Mobile seems easy to break into but it's a crowded market. You've got big budget games crushing you from above and a flood of crappy clones on the low end. I'm still awefully tempted and I'm trying to pull together a couple mobile game concepts myself.
From my understanding working in research (I don't touch grants, though), universities are not supposed to take any administrative fees for small expenditures (I believe my PI said it was $5k here, but it was a while ago that I heard this).
The biggest hurdle is awareness. You need to market the shit out of your product or else no amount of spit & polish will save you from obscurity and dismal sales.

Most devs and artists hate marketing, but it's actually THE most important part of your business. If people don't know about you, they can't buy from you.
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Unlike the other Kindles, the Fire is not available outside the U.S. I had decided to one, but sadly it looks like that won't happen (at least not as soon as I hoped).
I agree with the author, but a convenient workaround is to use a bookmarklet: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/07/useful-google-bookm...
I think it's a little bit misleading. You can interpret those statements as an attempt to steal iPad's customers or you can interpret those statements as an attempt to attract a new market of consumers that would never buy an iPad because of the price. I like to think it's the latter more than the former.
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Did Bezos & Co. give a "live" demo? How noticeably speedy is this on different wireless connections?

The video they put out does a good job explaining but not "showing."
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But my particular career path isn't really going anywhere anymore...

A good therapist would probably talk you through all of this, but look at your own self-talk first...

Your core belief is that you don't think your career path is going anywhere. If that is a rational conclusion you've reached then of course you'll have little motivation! In fact that's pretty damn normal, who else do you know will continue to enjoy a task they genuinely believe to be worthless / dead-end?

My big worry is that I don't figure anything out...

You will figure things out. Take it a single day at a time. You can only move the mountain one stone at a time. In fact I would say take a good 2 weeks off to just say "I don't care" to the current job and go do some _relaxing_ travel. See what 2 weeks gives you, 1 week isn't enough to totally disconnect. When work sucks, start squeezing the joy out of other areas of life.

Depending on your situation, you may just be in for some life changes. I had a period of time about a year ago similar to what you described and I'm about your age... It was a large mix of things, but my own bullets may stimulate your thinking...

- I gave up the whole mega-startup goal, I like doing smaller projects now with no care about huge exits

- I reconnected with friends and now focus more on relationships

- Stopped going on the computer once I got home from work and just doing more work. Going on the comp at home is now when I have nothing better to do, which is plenty.

- Temporarily changed lifting routine to light cardio for stress relief

- Got outside more.

- Rode the motorcycle more.

- Found a new hobby -> started learning piano. Tech used to be my hobby before it became my job. To me, a hobby is something you do for pure fun with no expectations.

- Developed a new spiritual attitude about certain life situations.

- Learned about life balance -- straight out of college up til that point I was a workaholic.

The key though to know is you will figure it out. Everyone else in this world either has been or is in the same boat as you man, so you'll be OK. You'll come out of this 6 months later with a much better and whole new perspective on life. By the way, there's nothing wrong with choosing to quit or change directions, just make sure you make it a consciously-thought-out decision so you can rest solidly on that choice years later in the future.
I'm a video game producer that has published on basically every modern platform. The best advice I can give is to laser-focus on your core mechanic, always asking yourself "Does this add to the fun?" Everything else follows from that.

Different platforms have different customers, demand different games, and have different challenges. For a small project, I highly suggest using a sophisticated and cheap multiplatform middleware engine like Unity3D. It allows you to quickly and easily iterate without worrying about coding new technology.

If you are looking for funding on a small project, I suggest something like Kickstarter. Heads up, unless your project has a sophisticated online component the biggest money sink is going to be your art. If you can a) get users to generate the assets, b) generate the assets programmatically, or c) use an aesthetic that revels in its own lo-fi chic you will have cut your costs dramatically.

The biggest hurdle will be your own enthusiasm. For a small project, keep the scope small. Check out flOw and World Of Goo to get an idea of what I mean by "small."

The best way to find something that is both new and fun is to experiment. Come up with wacky ideas for mechanics and build really ugly prototypes. When you have an ugly piece of unstable software that manages to enthrall its players despite itself THAT'S when you move forward.
Why is this technique better?
Darn, the Kindle DX is still $379. Everything else got a nice price drop. I've been waiting for a hardware/software update to the Kindle DX and a possible price drop for quite a while now, but I'm not sure I'll ever get it at this point.
The fact that you now have a sub-$80 e-reader seems to be getting overlooked in today's news... in some ways I think that's really the innovative part here, and what will drive a lot of high margin ebook sales for Amazon in the next few years.
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Great tip. Does that work in general (switching a device to landscape)? If so, this is something that should be more widely known.
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If browsing (and thus all web-apps) are much faster than on the iPad, it will push the state of the art... security (https) be damned.
I'm currently creating an HTML5 Canvas games site in my spare time. So "not yet", but someday, depending on your definition of success!
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Amazon Silk and Kindle Fire Pre-order
FYI, this is not quite right: "Will still sell current Kindle as "Kindle Keyboard" for same price."

They actually dropped it from $114 to $99.
Linux is a kernel, not an OS or a UI.

But whatever. Amazon isn't just putting their own UI over Android like Samsung and HTC are doing. They're forking it.
Really? This complaining about facebook is getting ridiculous. This site merely has a facebook tag among other services to help advertise it.
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Telephone communication has been very important for many decades and still it is of very much importance for voice communication although many new types of communication media have been introduced.
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What exactly is the problem with the approach?
> Everyone else failed at the "lesser price" part.

Apple's operational mastery and their cornering of the NAND flash market in particular is a big part of this.
The Kindle Fire is wifi-only, and Silk is only on the Kindle Fire. They are probably optimizing battery and latency. Bandwidth is important but not as important as if they had to deal with 3g.
Price of this Kindle in the UK: £89 = $139. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kindle-Wi-Fi-6-Ink-Display/dp/B0051Q...)
You know, this is probably a really ridiculous gripe, but that silvery plastic look makes the new Kindles look cheap. It reminds me of the cheap silver plastic they use for "As seen on TV" products. I much preferred the slate gray and white colors of the Kindle Keyboard.
Great. Double the compatibility testing.
They used to, but then the publishers forced them to accept the agency model of e-book pricing.
I wonder how many people who would have jumped at a $199 tablet already got in on the $99 HP TouchPad blowout and pass on the Fire.
I'm not sure. I was told that it has to do with the polarization inside the IPS display, so this tip may work the same for other devices with an IPS display. Supposedly, it's polarized in landscape orientation, but not landscape.

That said, I don't know if this explanation is factual as I don't understand modern display technologies to a deep level.
I wonder, in terms of having many connections, could the same thing be done by a HTTP -> SPDY gateway? It saves having a multitude of connections for a single request, and also is more compressed.
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Can Americans get copies or their full files as well? Downloading your profile data does not have the depth of detail this does. I would love to have it all. For myself, though, not to share with everyone (like timeline).
In my experience, displays are usually polarized diagonally, so portrait and landscape both works. My current (Galaxy S2) and previous (Desire) both do this. I'm surprised the iPad doesn't.
The maturation of this technology has additional implications even in the absence of an open social graph. Imagine sophisticated FRT used to track individual customer activity at retail locations. Timestamps could be used to map customers to their precise purchasing behaviors with infinite granularity. It's not far out to imagine a world where average profitability per visit is calculated upon arrival, now imagine an employee with a bug in her ear, marking you down as the guy with a 3 year history of strolling into Best Buy to browse TVs with the saleswomen, but never actually buying anything.
This isn't exactly news, is it? Isn't this the same tactic that ExpertsExchange used to show up in search results while trying to hide the content behind a paywall?
No that really isn't plausible. Read their original SSN prediction paper [1] and you will see that the highest they got their SSN prediction (with < 1000 attempts, which is quite a few) was 8.5% for SSN's assigned after 1988. For 1979-1988 that number was 0.8%. Only in the smallest states with issuance after 1996 do they get their best numbers of +60% matches.

That's only the SSN portion. When you add in the facial recognition, the requirement of a facebook account with pictures and a correlation to place of birth, you're going to see those numbers plummet.

At best this is a clever hack that highlights the risks inherent with publicizing your life on places like facebook.

[1] - http://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10975.full.pdf
Hmmm ... if they can reformat a 3MB JPEG to a 50KB JPEG on-the-fly, then they can also replace the ad that might have been placed on a site by the owner with one of their choosing. It would be interesting to see if there's a difference in click-through rates between Silk's user-agent and a traditional web browser.
Spotify also started out with a lot of unlicensed content before they came clean in early 2009: http://www.spotify.com/uk/blog/archives/2009/01/28/some-impo...
I find the Kindle Fire kind of an odd duck. I realize e-ink is not the most responsive screen, but having a fully android based tablet that used e-ink would have been fantastic. I would have gladly bought it. But a Kindle that lacks e-ink feels strange to me. I guess they are riding on Kindle's success, but this really isn't a Kindle.

I own both a Kindle and an iPad and I flat out can not read books on the iPad. After about 30 minutes my eyes are strained and a headache is emerging. To me e-ink is not optional, but the killer feature.
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Googlebot and some other search engine crawlers also crawl css stylesheet files, I have seen evidence in my server log files.

There are several patents describing how a search engine might analyse the visual appearance and structure of a website, with a special view to give some parts of the page content (the main content) a higher weight or priority then the rest (like footer text and navigation). I would expect that the algorithms used by Google will give a good impression about the page rendering. What conclusions are drawn from this and how it affects the ranking of individual pages for certain search queries, who knows, ... pretty much about this is kept secret and there is a lot of speculation.

Many search engine patents are explored and explained by Bill Slawski on his blog "SEO by the sea":

http://www.seobythesea.com/

That there are these patents does of course not tell us, that search engines are working exactly in this or another way, but I think it often gives a good impression about what might be going on behind the scenes.
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It's an awesome video. Thank you for posting it. I wish I could upvote you more than once
Silently ignoring errors that are require user interaction and serving the user something that is a valid response to a different action is terrible for ux.

Say I take too long entering a comment, I get distracted at work, then hit submit. I'm taken to the homepage. Did the comment go though nor not? How an I supposed to know what the hell happened?
>And therefore the sweat a developer has put into creating this feature is not valued. Scrum pretty much ensures that developers will at some point create stuff that will never see the light of day. Hardly empowering.

That's software development, period. Miscommunication and incorrect assumptions are a major contributor to it happening. Aggressive deadlines are another cause, because there often isn't enough time to complete everything the dev wants to do on the project, so they need to settle for what they can do. There's also the possibility that the feature just isn't needed, or won't ever work well.

Agile isn't unique in this, too. Every SE pattern in existence has issues with these. It's simply what happens when you are developing a new product.
I hope everyone enjoys listening to this discussion as much I enjoyed having it with Eric. We went deep on a lot of issues, particularly refreshing given the media hype around lean startup right now.

We even talked about the type of dialog that happens about lean startup on Hacker News. ;-)
Agreed. The 'normal' Kindle is a fantastic little device, the battery life being one of the many reasons why I don't feel the new Fire supercedes it in any way.
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I'd be happy to PAY for new screensavers or any other way to have custom screensavers without going through the pain of jailbreaking -- i have one of the recent versions which are difficult to root.
It may not work consistently in landscape, but in general, if you look at an LCD with polarized glasses and can't see anything, try rotating the display (or your head) 90 degrees. Or just take the glasses off.

This works because of the way LCDs function. An LCD actually uses polarization to turn pixels on and off, so introducing polarized optics at an angle perpendicular to the orientation of the LCD polarization means you see nothing.

(Warning, lots of ads in this link)

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/lcd2.htm
I want to read the news story written five years in the future about how the rapid growth of e-readers/tablets affects literacy and reading rates across multiple socioeconomic scales. I have no clue what it would say, but am pretty sure it will be written.
I don't think that's strongly geography-related. I see the same thing from California with a very fast connection.

If you search for some things (try "stack overflow" or "red bull"), you seem to get a near-instant results for the thing judged most likely/relevant in a red box at the top of the page, then the "ordinary" results are loaded separately, I think in a separate javascript call.

They seem to have a some split architecture that keeps a few bits spooled up for quick retrieval, and say to heck with the rest. My first instinct would be that they're RAM-poor, and also wonder if, not being able to cache sufficiently in RAM, they're also being hamstrung by I/O performance on EC2.
Unfortunately as I'm still coming up in the language myself I don't have knowledge of what would be useful there. If someone who does can point to somewhere, I can try and fit it in.
Notch created minecraft...although that's probably an exception to the rule.

maybe try getting your game into the next humble bundle to get more exposure
Well it is a 7in. screen so that could possibly reduce the file size needed.

And they're using the Kindle WhisperSync for use with compatible TVs, PCs, etc. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...)
(personal opinion, not opinion of my employeer rim)

The old Blackberry Java browser was split and had tons of logic in the cloud to compensate for the fact that networks were beyond slow and devices had no extra cpu and very little ram and it did make a huge difference. It feels like RIM bet big that networks were always going to be slow and cpu's wouldn't be that fast and then came along the iphone. These days networks are much faster and there are cell phone with dual core cpu's and GB's of ram. Just imagine what we will have next year! So it is all a trade off. Is putting resources into developing this hybrid browser worth more than developing something else and just waiting 12 months for faster network/devices?

Also while they don't say it on that page for the curious Amazon silk is using WebKit (from the jobs page).
This is way more interesting than a rebranded Android tablet.
Having those conversations with the folks with the business pains is golden.

I want to switch my current development job, among other things, because I don't get to interact with the customers having the business problems, and I want to solve them (not to mention it's where the money is, but I honestly like solving business problems too).

Being empowered to solve them should be gratifying too.

Thanks for sharing.
Amazon Silk: Bridging the gap between desktop and mobile web browsers
I especially like the part where you go into innovation accounting and investors. I think this concept (as simple as it might sound) will have a huge impact on the way investors and startups think about what they are doing.