skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be great to do something like this for an election. A heatmap for people who voted #red or #blue. Seems like a lot of neat uses for this.
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Moving PhoneGap to the Apache Software Foundation
"The only thing the ipad has going for it is the larger display."

There are a few other key, and important differences other than screen size.

o IOS 4 (and soon 5) - Lots of pre-existing premium apps.
o 8 Gigabytes Flash vs 16 Gigabytes. (I was surprised to see no SD card capability on the Fire. That sucks. I have a 64 GB iPad, and the extra flash makes a difference on long trips when you are watching videos)
o Video/Camera capability on iPad
o 10 Hours Battery on iPad vs 8 Hours on Fire

For a media consumption device that will be used on airplanes, the 20% less battery life (or 25% more on the iPad), and the limited 8 Gigabytes of memory is unfortunate. It's a nice first attempt, but for anyone with the extra money, I think the iPad still offers the better value play - and clearly is the higher quality offering.

See: http://gizmodo.com/5844648/how-does-the-amazon-kindle-fire-t...
Composing contracts: an adventure in financial engineering [haskell]
Just wait for 55.2.
Indeed PE is a better approach, it's also important to mention that CSS is capable of doing full dropdown/tabs functionality without any javascript (taking advantage of the :hover selector), but I may just be nitpicking your examples more than your intentions.
This reason, wanting my search terms respected, is the reason I switched to duckduckgo. The way google completely changes or ignores my search is maddening.
Yes, that is correct. I could however just look at it as paying $10/month for a service that I know will only be around for the short term, or around in the short term in a format that I like to consume but will change dramatically and without notice in the near future due to the magical* whims of some product lead over at the Parent Company (Fb).

* I'd like to know what sort of of process a product person goes through whence writing stories or making suggestions for a product. Do they eval their own ignorance, stupidity, pettiness and laziness, choose two for average and proceed to operate forward using only those two qualities backed up by a mid-ranked college's beer-stained diploma?

tl;dr: even Angry Birds didn't sell out sooner.
Hmm, interesting. A foldable tablet with a keyboard!

I think they might be onto something there.
No,

In my somewhat brief testing, current Google is simply inconsistent. Sometimes it allows searches for fully quoted terms, sometimes is fails and warns you, sometimes it fails but not warning you...

Try: "society of spectacles"
While I don't buy into Tim Ferriss whole hog, the effect he's had is undeniable. I've seen friends get interested in their health and be much better for it, partially thanks to his book.
It's called leadership.
The article notes this, but the fact that Amazon is losing money on the hardware is irrelevant - it's so well connected to the rest of Amazon's service offerings that any loss on manufacturing the tablet will most likely be meaningless in the long run.

This is a gamble worth taking for Amazon - they have a ton to gain by undercutting the price of the Nook Color (not to mention the iPad and countless Android imitators).
Well, either people are doing Scrum right, and it isn't working, or they are trying to do Scrum but failing. Which is it?

Is it the case that no matter what situation is presented, a Scrum zealot can always find a reason to say "Ah, you're not doing it right". That is to say that Scrum is so wishy-washy that there's always a get-out clause.

Or is it that in nearly all cases presented, there are key things which Scrum says to do that are not being done? That is to say, Scrum is pretty concrete about what needs to happen, and yet most cases presented are not doing these basic things.

The article presented in this discussion starts out by immediately saying that his ignores one of the basic rules of scrum (that a sprint's stories cannot be changed once started). The author appears to have decided that "this is Ok" because he then goes on to criticize Scrum.

So, in the example presented, I feel absolutely happy saying "You're doing it wrong".

Would you return a car because it doesn't start, even though you fail to exercise step 1 in the manual stating "Insert Key"?

What is really fucking tiring is that for some reason, a whole ream of programmers feel that they can decide for themselves that putting the key in the ignition is a waste of fucking time, and then loudly blame the car for not working, and further, anyone who has the temerity to say "put the fucking key in the ignition" is just some fucking whiner making excuses and saying "You're doing it wrong".

Yes, you are fucking doing it wrong. Feel free to not do it right. Just don't fucking complain that the car isn't getting you to where you need to be.
> I switch a lot between editors, while secretly regretting that I can't just stick to emacs…

Why can't you just stick to emacs?
Dressed UP isn't always the same as dressed NICELY. Programmers like efficient, but that doesn't mean that it can't look good too.

I've recently taken an interest in upgrading my wardrobe after a very long time of not caring. Frankly, without the internet I'd be totally lost. I dislike browse-shopping, and still have limited understanding of what makes things look better than others. I've found that the worst things are generally just ill-fitting, and I can't rely on size information (as any woman would tell you). A medium tshirt from one place might fit me perfectly, and look like a giant sack from another place. Same for pants, 30x30 jeans can be loose or too tight depending on the maker, the factory, etc.. Even men's clothing is getting vanity-sized which is frustrating, and makes me want to go back to "Whatever, I'd rather be doing something important!"
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One thing I'm surprised about here is how much Amazon is bothering to mention the tech behind everything in all the promo copy I've seen so far. This is something Apple never does and I think its a misstep for Amazon here. Claiming that silk uses the "raw computational horsepower of Amazon EC2" on the homepage of Amazon.com is a completely useless detail for 99% of people who will buy this device. Why not use the audience attention better and focus on what matters with this. Full color touch. Amazon content. Apps. Half the price of an iPad.
I don't get it: I bought a kindle from amazon US and they shipped to europe in two days.
No, I'm saying that there's a scale. If you're a rock star, more is tolerated of you.

If you're just average, you can't insist on rock star treatment.
More like "The Entrepreneur's Guide to a Blank Page in Chrome"
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"Another that I don't think has even been explored yet is what I would probably call "textual fingerprinting" meaning that the more you write in one post the more likely you can extract some identifiable style, choice of words and so on and that can be linked to other things you've written."

Forensic textual analysis predates the internet, actually, and I can say with near certainty that someone out there is working on this right now. (Probably the CIA, and/or another agency involved in analyzing communications between persons of interest).

Back in undergrad, I was involved in a project that used textual analysis to surmise authorship of "anonymous" works of fiction from Shakespeare's day. Additionally, the authorship of a lot of works attributed to Shakespeare is often called into question, and so we tried to map for consistency or inconsistency in his works. (Spoiler alert: he turned up pretty clean; he -- or at least someone using his name -- is most likely the author of his works).

Now, obviously, this project was a bit high-touch and involved a lot of attention lavished on a single body of work by a handful of presumed authors. But that was a long time ago, and I'm sure that the technology has grown more scalable and sophisticated by now.
I call it the "Star Trek" economy, but I think something more like "The Matrix" is coming. Most people will have cookie-cutter lives where basic needs are supplied for them. Others will rebel against that life and do something they think has meaning (the red pill poppers). I'm willing to listen to alternatives, because my prediction depresses me. I just can't see us shifting back to a less automated world where skilled labor and basic labor is more valued than they are now.
I haven't started a videogame company, but I did look into it seriously at one point. What stopped me was the financials: it looked like I would have needed a fairly sizable hit (by the standards of the time: before the iPhone and AppStore) in order to cover my costs. The picture has changed quite a bit since then but my advice would still be to have a good think about the money before you take any irrevocable decisions.

In particular, figure out how many sales you'd need to cover your costs; then do some market size estimates to figure out whether it's realistic to hope for that many sales. Don't forget about cash-flow either because it may take a while for your game to start selling, sales may tail off quicker than you anticipate, etc. Use that info to help decide whether it's a risk you should take.

Good luck!
For those interested in this kind of story, and manipulation of markets in general, one of the best books I've read on the subject, published in 1923: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

http://www.amazon.com/Reminiscences-Stock-Operator-Edwin-Lef...
I was just thinking of using GVoice for sending/receiving SMS messages. The Kindle 3 has a webkit browser that is supposedly better than previous versions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzIlYEp_kDo
Current technological trends suggest that most current limitations will keep fading over time"

That may be so, but history and theory both tell us that the remaining issues (after eliminating "most current limitations") are going to be hard-ass bugs that prevent the technology from actually working, and that isn't even accounting for the Red Queen Syndrome.

A long way to go, but a short path to grants.
I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a summer intern who could turn that out in a few days.
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a hybrid screen that can easily switch to e-Ink when you are outside

I'm just not buying the utility of this. e-Ink-based Kindles are now at the $80 price point, which for someone who can afford Kindle books is darned close to the "afterthought" level. They don't weigh a lot -- under six ounces! -- because they have an enormous battery life, so they don't need a big battery. So why not just buy an e-Ink Kindle and an iPad?

Just toss them both in the bag. When the sun is out, pull out the one; when it's time for Angry Birds, pull out the other. When it's time to read a book while playing Angry Birds, use one in each hand. Or, when all I want to do is read, I get to save weight and theft risk and damage risk and distraction risk by just carrying the cheapo Kindle around.

Are we going to save money with the e-Ink/LCD hybrid screen? I doubt it: Even if it is ready for prime time, I bet it would tend to add more than $80 to the final price of a Kindle Fire. It's odd, it's new, it's more complicated, and (ahem) it's got twice the IP licensing costs, at least, because e-Ink is still patented, is it not? And, worse, it would introduce a big layer of complication into the development of Kindle Fire apps. Isn't Android fragmented enough? Do you really want to force Android developers who want to target the Kindle Fire to have to decide which layer of the screen their graphics should address? All for no greater purpose than pleasing the five users who desperately want a tablet, and who desperately want an e-Ink Kindle, but who can't bear to own both at the same time, one for each hand?
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I and my partner started Naught Dog, Inc. from scratch (some various articles I've written on this here http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/). We went from 2 (us) to well over 100 employees. Building from bigger and bigger game one at a time. But we started in a much easier era (the 80s).
when? it was being shipped to only usa last january.
Can someone explain to me the fascination with working from coffee shops anyway?

You put up without power/internet guarantees and an expectation to spend money for what? The comfort of working hunched over a laptop at a strange table and the convenience of commuting to work even though you don't have an office you have to go to?

Is it a thing where you have better self control at a computer if you're not at home?
Scrum is designed to empower the business, not the developer

What do you mean by "empower the business"? I assume you don't believe that a non sentient legal entity can be empowered. In which case can I assume you are talking about empowering the humans within the business?

And what I deduce from this statement is that you feel that in your business, there are programmers, and there is everyone else, and further that Scrum empowers only everyone else. From your other posts, I deduce that They are not qualified, in your opinion, to determine what should be worked on to deliver value to the customer.

Scrum isn't going to magically fix this situation. This is a people problem. This is an organizational problem.
Cisco bought some remnant "technology" for a pittance. It failed about as completely as possible.
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It doesn't matter! Business-wise, the key metric is if profits are up for the artists. Imagine two customer scenarios:

1. Pirate 100 albums in a year, buy 5 albums, yielding $7.50ish collectively for the 5 albums.

2. Listen to everything on Spotify, play 2000 tracks, each paying 0.2 cents per play. $4 is spread amongst everyone.

A fall in "piracy" doesn't necessarily cause (or even correlate with) overall earnings to go up.
Love this "wrong project" concept. Have any blog posts or articles about this?

Most of us can see when other entrepreneurs are working on a project that doesn't reflect their core strengths. It's much more difficult to identify when we're the ones going down the wrong path.
Can this be used for Android application development? Can I install .apk files through the android sdk?
the kindle3 browser is quite good in and of itself, but it's severely limited by the kindle's slow processor speed and d-pad navigation.
You're all for dark humor? Forgive me, but if you don't even like wordplay on a "dark" topic, what kind of dark humor is it that you find acceptable?
Further reading:

Techniques for approximating the visual layout of a web
page and determining the portion of the page containing
the significant content

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Se...

Automatic Visual Segmentation Of Webpages

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...

Techniques for approximating the visual layout of a web
page and determining the portion of the page containing
the significant content

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Se....

VIPS: a Vision-based Page Segmentation Algorithm

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=7002...

Classifying functions of web blocks based on linguistic features

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...

How a Search Engine Might Identify the Functions of
Blocks in Web Pages to Improve Search Results

http://www.seobythesea.com/2011/02/how-a-search-engine-might...
Wow! Very cool. Excited to take a look at this
Well a good chunk of it doubt is all in the Network layer which is outside of "WebKit". Image compression, dns, fetching, pre-fetching, streaming, etc. You can no doubt get tons of win just by having a proxy server that gzip's everything that can be that isn't already. But that is just the tip, they mentioned image re-compressions, but what other trivial things like stripping javascript and html to reduce size.

But you could also do things like pre-compile the javascript and only send the bytecode down to the browser (starting to get in the relm of cool).

And we still haven't touched the dom. Of course the more you touch the harder it is to keep up to date with webkit.org. The real meat of this entire discussion has to be what gives the best bang for the buck? For WiFi devices all of this (guessing) is a waste of resource as my guess is that it doesn't improve the speed by much. I would expect the performance jumps on a cell network to be much better. So when is that device coming out?
I disagree, Scrum's whole design and methodology (simple though it may be) contains serious flaws. Things like iterations (are we releasing iterations or features here?), as well as the poorly defined responsibilities of positions like the product owner and scrum master. Also it fails to adequately define how teams should confront the problems found in retrospective. Overall it often leads to a stuck process for the many, many teams that struggle with Scrum, and blaming everyone else for "doing it wrong" seems like a defensive cop out.

Scrum is to the product management process as management games like "colors" are to office team building and group psychology. Overly simplistic to the point of being nearly meaningless. By itself I find it provides very little real-world guidance for how teams should improve themselves and their process at all.

Thoughtful Edit: Don't get me wrong, I think Scrum has an initial value, but it is "meatless" for want of a better term. Anyone who really wants to improve a process for a dysfunctional team dynamic is going to need more than just some iterations and stories. Scrum is a starting point, but more often than not I think it is little more than that. Blame the team if you want, but I'll put at least some of the blame with the methodology not providing enough long term guidance.
What is Marco misunderstanding? He doesn't know how the site operates, or that they were 'trying things out'. I really don't buy the long-winded explanation. The pages are still available, and easily findable. It's not like he went out of his way to locate them.
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I didn't consciously realize it, but I suppose this is a lot of what PG talks about in "Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas"
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It's not illegal... it's just not available.
It was an interesting experience, but several things could have been done better:

1. Introduce the people.
Before PG came to the stage, some very energetic guy gave the introduction. ...wait, that guy started what? REDDIT??? I just found out while reading a blog a few minutes ago! I didn't know who any of the people on the expert panel were.

2. Make it easy to find people.
I would have been interested in people who are working in the financial industry (startups, experts, whatever). There is simply NO way I could have known who did what. They should have had booths or at least a quick "stand up if you are interested in this" type thing.

3. Setup round tables, like weddings, rather than a thousand chairs facing the stage.
For introverts like my self, it was too comforting to eat my slices of pizza and stare straight until the speakers started speaking :) A table where we are forced to look at each other, conversations are more likely to start.

That's all I can think of.
Nonsense. 10 is a whole number and is exact. For integer n, 10^n is also a whole number and exact. All that is needed is to multiply each equation by an appropriate factor of 10 to make all the given data in that equation a whole number.

Of course, the implicit assumption here is that the given data is in base 10. For a base other than 10, multiply by a power of that base. Then, no matter what the base, the multiplication is just some digit editing without actual multplication.

There is nothing naive, staggering or otherwise.

Where do you get off being so nasty while being so WILDLY misinformed? Your credibility is now in the toilet.

There are some worries remaining, but not from being naive or staggering. Likely the biggest worry is, if the matrix really is badly conditioned, then maybe we should not be too impressed even with the numerically exact results I showed how to find. So, instead, maybe we should have a range or distribution of results based on what additional digits in the given data might have been truncated or rounded off. For this we could consider interval arithmetic or some Monte Carlo.

Whatever, being able to solve systems of linear equations numerically exactly with just single precision arithmetic is a NICE tool to have.

Keep calling my description wrong, and I will drop on you, in front of everyone on HN, some rock solid, overwhelmingly strong support for JUST what I wrote, and you will look like a TOTAL FOOL.
Makes sense, build a house nobody buys and wealth is destroyed once you demolish the house or it falls into disrepair.
What a confusing name. Why do they have "Kindle" in it. For a second I thought it was a coloured E Ink display.
Hi HN! HN'ers rguzman, peng, and I built iDoneThis in January and we got our start by launching it on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2064038).

We got some fantastic feedback and enthusiasm for the product. We kept iterating on it for fun on the weekends, before it started to take off and Rodrigo and I moved over full time.

Now we're taking a weekend project and turning it into a real business.
OK, thanks for that, I was thinking that it was the usual small markets pay more thing. Osbourne effect: I've actually been putting off a kindle purchase until the pad was launched as I knew there would be a cheaper electronic ink reader after the pad.
If the past is any indicator, increases in CPU and bandwidth will be followed by increases in CPU and bandwidth usage.
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A better way to look at it is that 1 hard set gets one most of the benefit that is possible from the exercise. An athlete would definitely want to do 2 or 3 sets (or more depending on level of competition, etc.), but an average person just trying to get into shape or maintain shape doesn't. I went from pencil-neck to bench pressing 215 lbs using the one-hard-set method.
I got it in spring I believe. Sorry, I read the previous comment's "counts" as a statement about current kindle shipping policies.
Thanks for that link, just had something break, and this is exactly what I needed.
I have done a lot of research on projects like this. I found a couple projects on Github and Sourceforge but non of them are really build to be pluggable.

The whole idea behind this project is that you can add wp-cli commands from within your plugins.
SEOmoz have been seeing extreme volatility in EC2 spot pricing - could this have been related to pre-release testing of Silk?

http://devblog.seomoz.org/2011/09/amazon-ec2-spot-request-vo...
The most interesting thing to me is that the Fire doesn't seem to have pretensions about replacing computing, though it theoretically could just as much an iPad or Android tablet. There's an app store, but they seem to be only pushing games on it, and the main thrust seems to sit squarely on consumption.

Especially at this price point, it's not a replacement for a computer, it's squarely a supplement.

I think I prefer this vision to Apple's. It feels more democratic in that I think the iPad wants to replace computing, but privilege consumption at the expense of production.

Amazon's vision is still one of centralized distribution of content, but it strikes me as one that's comfortable coexisting with the Web model of distributed, democratic content production.

Some earlier discussion on the topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955516

[Edit: Here's another take by Nilay Patel of This Is My Next on a similar point: http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/28/editorial-kindle-fire-ipa... ]
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