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The DX was launched before the iPad got a grip on the market. They probably keep selling the DX because, even at the price, there are doubtless some people willing to pay, and it probably doesn't cost them much to keep selling it.

There are legitimate reasons to chose the DX over the iPad and other Kindles, too. PDF's is a big reason to chose it over smaller Kindles; the reading experience of e-Ink, battery life and light weight are reasons to chose it over the iPad.
Well, everyone's definition of "cheaper" may vary, but the Chromebook seems okay to me: http://amzn.to/q2FqQ9
It doesn't help that "/opt, package-manager installed files." is wrong.
Based on their jobs page (http://aws.amazon.com/amazonsilk-jobs/) it looks like they're using SPDY.
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Nope! I do sequential reading on my Kindle books. My use case for the Kindle is "Books I want to read, but not good enough for hardcover, and not referency enough to be put on the PC for searching"
You can approach this in one of two ways. One is to ask why and the other is to gather the data yourself and then just draw your own conclusions. From what I've seen and know about Sam Altman the praise he gets is justified but you might disagree. What you'll get from asking is interpreted responses from the data but if you find out for yourself then you can judge pg's response appropriately. This seems like a weird way to get background on someone when there's google.com available.
I have a Kindle 2 with cellular access. I used it for GMail communication while bicycling down the Pacific Coast last year. Rendering glitches aside, it's tolerable for reading email, though writing takes a ridiculously long time due to screen redraws. Also, it absolutely sucks battery life down if you do much writing. I can't imagine using it for chatting, and I don't know how GVoice could be used at all.

Unless the Kindle 3 is radically different, I can't see how it would be a significantly different experience.
A question: What's the point of the Makefile? Why not use ocamlbuild directly?
yeah, i can't agree with the author's assessment that this isn't a UI improvement. part of a good UI is to only present the elements that a user needs. they have moved an obscure feature to an obscure location. it amuses me that there are so many people in the comments here complaining both that google has become less minimal, and that they've removed stuff - minimalism is less stuff.
You're right! I should have said was accused of tracking. Too late to edit my comment now.
This is true. I got a tailored suit and shirts for my wedding. It turns out that dress clothes can be quite comfortable if they fit you. When they're uncomfortable, it's largely because off the rack clothing is designed to be as generic as possible.
Just the other day there was a discussion on HN about how the biggest uses of time on the iPad are email and web browsing. This doesn't have email and it remains to be seen how well the "cloud web browser" thing works in practice.
It's true Loopt has been something of a failure in the market. That doesn't mean Sam Altman won't become the world-changing entrepreneur PG sees in him.

It's quite possible he's working on the "wrong" project. Many people have had this experience: Traf-O-Data (Bill Gates), Atari games (Steve Jobs), Tribe.net (Mark Pincus), and the list goes on endlessly.

If you had seen Bill Gates working on Traf-O-Data you might have said "that guy is going places" even though Traf-O-Data was ultimately not an important part of where he was going.
i figured a while ago that any notion of online privacy was silly. i said 'fuck it' and decided to just be totally open about who i am and what i think online. i talk openly about having bipolar disorder and experiencing psychosis, about beliefs i have that are considered unusual or downright insane, and about whatever i'm feeling at the moment.

it seems to work out pretty well for me. i was even thinking of publishing everything i buy for the world to see, both as an exercise to control my spending and for fun.
who doesn't have the decency to wear a belt

Are you fucking KIDDING me?

I'm sitting here wearing a polo shirt, a pretty nice pair of slacks and leather shoes. And yes, a belt. I couldn't imagine being upset because someone showed a bit of belly or lower back because they didn't have a belt on. That's just the height of ... something I can't find a word for!

I value elegant dress as an indication that someone wants to look elegant, nothing more, nothing less.
I'm not comfortable with that conclusion.

To make progress, you need to stimulate muscles deeply. One set typically cannot recruit all fibers in the muscle. That's why you do more sets, to fatigue some of them, then recruit the rest in subsequent sets.

To gain strength, you need to lift around 70% ... 90% of your 1RM (one-rep-max - the maximum load that allows the complete execution of exactly one repetition). On the lower end of that spectrum, that means 8 rep sets. On the higher end, that means 3 rep sets.

I'd be fine with doing one set of 8 reps at 70% 1RM. But it just doesn't sound right to only do one set of 3 reps, even if it's 90% 1RM. There's no way you're stimulating the whole muscle. Lots of fibers will remain unrecruited, and will not be pushed to improve.

Perhaps you're stimulating the same muscle with several different exercises during the same session, but then you're not really doing "one set".

All this boils down to: you need around 24 ... 25 reps per exercise to really dig into all fibers. Shorter sets = more sets = higher load. Longer sets = fewer sets = lower load.

For whole body training, this strategy leads to 40 ... 60 minutes required per session to stimulate all major muscles. Given 3 sessions per week, that means 2 ... 3 hours per week of weight lifting. That's not excessive by any means.

Basically, I consider all of the above as the gold standard of whole-body strength training for amateurs. Using these principles (and others) I transformed myself from a pencil-neck into the guy who bench presses 100 kg (220 lb).
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While I don't disagree that Eric Schmidt's quote was taken out of context, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" is bullshit.

There are plenty of things you and I don't want anyone to know. I don't want the world to know when I'm on vacation. I don't want my neighbors to know I left my balcony door open and I just have the screen door closed so I conserve energy. I don't want every girl I meet to know that I collect comic books. The idea that I shouldn't be doing any of those things is completely absurd.

In the same fashion, would you like everyone to know what parking spot your teenage daughter parked in, in the back of a mall parking lot Friday night? Or where your kids go to daycare? (hypothetical, I don't have kids but you bet I'd be concerned about them using foursquare) Could we change Eric Schmidt's quote to, "If your kids are doing something you don't want everyone to know, may be they shouldn't be doing it in the first place?" I don't think so. Your kids aren't that much different than your 60 year old mother or 70 year old dad. That is a lot of people.

It was hardly 10 years ago that the message was - never meet anyone you first met online. What happened to that? Now the message is, share all your personal private information with the entire world, you have nothing to worry about. We are Facebook/Google and these features are amazing. That is a lie.

Perhaps the parallel increase in information access by law enforcement has made us feel safer. The same technology criminals use to exploit us is used to track them. When something bad happens to someone we know more about what happened, quicker. While this may be an acceptable trade off in a first world country I do not believe the same applies in one such as Mexico.

Yeah online privacy is nearly non existent. Especially so when you are reckless and use connected identity systems. That doesn't mean the message should be "give up." That is the message Google and Facebook's PR machines are sending because they can make a lot more money from advertising when they do it.

As soon as hacker news switches to facebook's commenting system or any other public id, I'll never make another post here again. I have left communities I've been active in because of this. The message to our friends and family, and if we own businesses, the world, should be stop sharing all of this information publicly. There is no reason to. Its not safe for you and its not safe for your family.
That clip is disturbing. I understand that not everyone can replicate Jobs' reality distortion field. But, why is Bezos not excited about his own product? There should be a natural enthusiasm that is missing onstage there. And, it's not that Bezos can't do it when he tries! I've seen interviews where he was clearly invigorated about little stuff like shipping infrastructure and AWS details. So this should have been a no-brainer.

Maybe he's gotten a sneak preview of what Apple has in store for October and it's now too late to change course.
Interesting that you can use Webkit to build your browser but still call it "all-new".
I was going with things which are a part of my life. I don't eat these things because hackers eat these things, I eat these things because I like them. Incidentally, lots of hackers eat these things too. :3

I could have mentioned things like my beard, glasses, and hair longer than any female coworker, but I felt that that might be antagonistic or countering the point I was trying to make about fashion.

Incidentally, I hate jeans. I wear lots of cargo pants and keep them carefully patched up, mostly because my mom's a seamstress and I get obsessive-compulsive about things.
I always advise to show all tabs for users without javascript support.

<div style="display: none">
Hidden tab content
</div>

Else noscript users would have to disable CSS to watch the above hidden tabs, pretty inexcusable. The "correct" progressive enhancement way to do this, is to show all the tabs, and use javascript to hide tabs from view from those that support javascript.

Basically it has always been a bad idea to "hardcode" visibility for tabs/divs.

For example visit: http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?hl=nl&... without javascript support. The content is hidden for everyone and pressing expand won't do anything.

Compare with: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en... . Even without javascript support you can still see the examples, because those are only hidden if you have javascript support.
I like jeans and t-shirts are pretty cool (although I like button-downs sans tie better), but I also run 3+ miles daily, eat a lot of salads, and drink tap water and milk almost exclusively. I'm not sure why being unhealthy is an appealing part of "hacker culture".
I don't have a textbook in front of me, but I doubt textbook Scrum says "be inflexible"
Am I the only one who noticed this:

"How Porsche hacked the financial system and MADE A KILLING"

"Betting the wrong way, Adolf Merckle TOOK HIS LIFE."

I'm all for dark humor, but isn't it a little sketchy to joke about suicide in your headline? (I'm guessing the headline was intentional, but who knows).
Sleeker, too. As someone with a 2nd gen Kindle, let me tell you the smaller, slimmer 3rd gen Kindles have haunted me for some time. When they are already this small, shaving off an inch is a big difference.
Exactly. I once worded at a document imaging "VAR" (except that we added serious value) where my programming was behind half our sales and enabled another large fraction.

But I also had an informal role in sales. Our VP of sales, very much a "suit" (but by no means technically illiterate) was also our "closer", i.e. he was very good at getting sales closed, whoever was the lead salesman. Every once in a while he'd take me to a meeting at a customer's site, me wearing my normal Oxford shirt, black jeans (not ratty) and gray New Balance 90x running shoes.

And I would talk with all the people the customer brought to the meeting, suits and geeks, and convince them that, yes, we can do this. Now, I'm pretty sure what I said was the most important part of that ^_^, but we were very cognizant that by not wearing a suit or even a tie I was signaling "geek cred" or whatever you want to call it. And it worked beautifully.

(Well, being an introvert I wasn't good for anything the next day, but that's a small price to pay for a mid to high six figure sale.)

Come to think of it, I can see another non-dress signal that this sent. In talking to the customer, I would take ownership of some or all of what we were selling to them (the stuff I'd program or sometimes build (I like to build computers occasionally)) and I'll tell them who had ownership of the other stuff and implicitly that they could do it. I also signaled that I was pledging to deliver to them the whole thing, whomever did what.

This also had a good backend/after the sale function: our salesmen never sold something we "geeks" didn't think we could deliver (and we were experienced enough not to get into trouble unless some third party software we hadn't had experience with yet failed on us).
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> There is a lot of money to be made for someone who perfects a machine learning technology to detect shoplifters

This whole line looks like having been taken out of a Philip K. Dick novel. You're right, of course, which makes it even more creepy.
This is fantastic. It would be nice to combine this with some of Bret Victor's work on mathematical interfaces, see his essays Scrubbing Calculator [1] and Magic Ink [2].

[1] http://worrydream.com/ScrubbingCalculator/

[2] http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/
I agree. It works fine enough in landscape mode.
why is such a bad tutorial on the frontpage?
Resistance training (colloquially "weight lifting") is the most efficient tool for body transformation, regardless of gender, age and goals. Whether you want to gain muscle or lose fat, it gets you there in the shortest amount of time (both time in the gym, and calendar time).

Once you reach your goals, feel free to switch to a more diverse regimen for maintenance.

EDIT: 15-rep sets is not "bodybuilder's workout". It's a waste of time. Either lift heavy, or go outside and do cardio. That in-between never-never land should be avoided.

EDIT2: Let me restate this. Above a certain set length, weight lifting ceases to train strength - which is its main external goal. The opinions differ, but in general the limit is estimated around 10 ... 12: if your set is that long, the weight you're using is too easy. Use heavier loads, so that you cannot do such long sets. In practice, the longest sets that are profitable are 8 reps.

If you're worried about strain and injuries, do warm-ups with 67% the working load - a short set of a few reps at 67%, maybe repeated once if things are really sketchy with your joints, should be enough. Then lift with a powerful, but fluid and controlled motion. Never jerk the weight.
I wouldn't recommend trying web browsing on E-ink, unless it's through some Readability filter or similar. The screen updates are too slow for it, and the DX browser didn't render perfectly. I suspect the CPUs don't have the oomph for the modern web.

Note that my experience is on a 2010 vintage DX with no WiFi - it is limited to 3G on Amazon's dime. In Europe that's only Wikipedia and the Amazon store.
You should do this a lot more often. I am sure lots of us enjoyed your writings/comments.
Neat, but on just about every topic there's a huge bias towards California, North East Coast, and England (because those are tech hubs?).
How can the support for Textmate, expressing my will to pay - be worth a downvote.

I understand the urge to keep this place noise free, but people committing in public to pay for a new version - and I've also bought Textmate a long time ago - is probably of more information value for many people here - with their own projects - then many other upvoted comments.
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Except, of course, for those few SSNs and addresses that Paul the grad student sold so he could play with a botnet. Oh, and we gave the database and algorithms over to the DoD who sponsored our work. I'm sure they won't harm any SSNs or faces either.
It's useful to try to put yourself in the place of the customer. They're trying to negotiate the purchase of something they don't understand, that apparently can be accomplished by 14-year-olds, and that somehow costs $8K -- what!? That's close to what I paid for my car, a complex piece of machinery with computers inside it and thousands of engineered parts that actually move!

Do you see how this feels? They're pretty reasonably scared of being ripped off. After all, if you went off for 2 weeks and on the last day just copied some other site's design and changed the names... how would they know?
I was looking at it is a technical issue, not a tribal identification game. Any third-party that embeds stuff on any of the web sites that you visit has a capability of tracking you in some capacity.

That's a simple fact that sometimes gets lost when people are discussing Facebook. Lots of third-parties do this sort of thing and most of the time, nobody notices or cares. It feels odd to hold Facebook to a different standard.
capitalism and freedom both arise from an egalitarian cultural mindset.

when people believe in the notion of a hierarchy, that some people are better, more deserving, more noble, or more worthy than others, neither capitalism nor freedom can exist for long.

when people believe that all men are equals, that we all have hopes and fears, needs and wants, strengths and weaknesses, authoritarian institutions of all forms will crumble.
If it can't access the Android app store (which I'd guess the Kindle Fire can't), then the customer won't be aware of that fact.
I'm sure many people view bringing in a bunch of friends to seem busier than you really are positively. But I'm not so sure that I like it.

Is this not a deliberate and material misrepresentation of your company? If this were a financial contract being sold, wouldn't this be fraudulent?
".. allows web pages generally to go directly .."

I wonder why "generally?" Is there some part that will always have to go through EC2?
I was being a bit conservative with my estimate, partially due to the environment I currently work in. I work in a pretty large IT shop where a shocking number of (older) adults don't play videogames at all and have never been interested in them. COBOL isn't dead here, if you can believe that.
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Croatian is still fairly closely related to English, however, so that gives you an advantage over someone who speaks Chinese natively, which isn't related at all.

But you are right that within the Indo-European language family English does not seem to be one of the more complicated languages. Which might have something to do with its origins as a pidgin of French, Anglo-Saxon, Frisian and Danish.
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What you have written above doesn't interpreted as honest. Yeah I would he is shrewd and have the business mind approach , but genuine and honest will be wrong words to user here.
> Poorly run meetings consume too much time without accomplishing anything.

Agreed that more often than not this is the case - however I am seeing a clear awareness now a days at my workplace - people are at least a bit conflicted about wasting time. I personally always try to politely steer the meeting to get something meaningful agreed to or done - even if I am not the organizer. My experience is that depending on how cleverly I am able to converse it either goes well or people don't respond and I have to retry.

Things like saying "Hmm. So looks like at this point without having person X in the room and without having data Y we can't really sort this out in <em> this </em> meeting." - it works well if you insert them infrequently with right tone and timing.
Money absolutely disappears due to malinvestment.

If you spend all your time building something no one wants, the world overall is poorer than if you build something amazing and people pay high prices for it.
I think you've completely missed the point.

Pick any girl you like and show her some pictures of well dressed men wearing ties and then ask her if she thought about the level of blood flowing to their brains. She might think about other things, but that won't be one of them.

Clothes, by nature, are superficial. Trying to signal the deeper aspects of your character by your clothing is like trying to signal your literary tastes by the type of car you buy. That is not how it works.

The problem is that a lot of introverted and geeky types automatically associate the word "superficial" with (and only with) negatives. nhashem's post about the "clueless douchebag" is a good example. But the Venn diagram of people who wear suits and people who are superficial douchebags does not have nearly as much overlap as a lot of technically-minded people think it does.

Clothing simply doesn't tell you a lot about a person's character. However, a well dressed man or woman does signal that they are at least (1) able to afford nice clothing, (2) aware enough of their social environment to know that wearing such clothing leaves a positive impression on most people, (3) actually care about the impression they give others (which is not vain, but practical--the extreme opposite of this, not caring at all what others think about you--is not far from hubris) and (4) capable of taking care of themselves (getting rid of neckbeards doesn't hurt either).

For better or worse, people HAVE to judge you by what they first see: the superficial. You can't signal depth of personality by wearing or choosing not to wear a tie. It's really not that difficult to dress well for special occasions or professional events.

By dressing well you de-obligate others (fellow casual-dressing geeks excepted) to not immediately judge you when they see you. That gives you the opportunity to show them your personality and character when you actually get to speak to them. Words convey thoughts better than clothes. Clothing is just a daily-revised resume: it helps you get to that point.
people commit suicide in order to protect themselves from the pain they go through on a daily basis.

that seems perfectly rational to me.
Is that bandwidth figure representative of most Americans or worldwide? We have 25 people at our company in NYC, for example, and only one of them has a connection faster than your typical Time Warner cable line.
I agree. I feel that the Kindle Fire is Amazon's physical manifestation of it's online services. Whereas Google provides Android as a foundation for other hardware manufacturers to use this is a distinct offering from any other tablet in the market. You have Amazon building a targeted consumption device for apps, games, books, and video.

This is indeed a compelling offering. It's a one-stop shop. Rather than content providers fighting with Apple. Amazon as the content provider is not doing that and making it easier for Average Joe's like me to consume content. Much like Apple did with music and iTunes years ago.
Girls like guys who convey high social status. Depending on the context, that may be the guy in a suit, or it may be the guy who commands enough respect to dress however he wants. Consider musicians.
Actually it does have built in email.
Nope, just make SMS an optional field, along side with your email marketing. SMS is all about the ROI, with a 97% open rate, it's hard NOT to do it.

If you're a spammer, yes you'll destroy a relationship. If you're an ethical marketer and find the correct opportunities to use SMS, you'll blow up.

Keep believing that and you'll be in trouble in the next 6 months to 3 years.