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Only if Google can’t find anything – which makes a lot of sense.

For me it doesn't, and it violates the Law of Demeter. If there are no results, tell me. Don't make me waste time wondering if any of the results have what I'm looking for, since there is no indication that the results I'm receiving are ancillary. Treating your users like they're idiots is evil.
Aha! That's awesome. Apart from that, it seems like it's normal optimisation techniques (compressing/resizing images, etc).
Looking back I believe it was Ken Kutaragi that said it, so in hindsight maybe it wasn't entirely true since he was known for saying pretty wild things.
It looks like the author of Karmurl is a HN'er: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lancashire

but the Show HN post didn't gain any traction.
Yeah, they mentioned that in the video where the engineer-y guys were talking (it's about 3/4 the way into the video if I remember correctly).
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that ideally this kind of thing should be done by website owners rather than amazon?
In my experience, the polarization angle varies a great deal. Some devices are polarized vertically, some horizontally, and some at about a 45-degree angle. So, there's no set angle that works for everything, but what will work for everything is rotating until you find the right spot.

At that point you may end up with your head at a weird angle and decide it's not worth the trouble, of course.
Yes it was, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u7F_56WhHk&t=3m55s
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Sir Galahad, the purest in heart and mind, familiarizes himself with this new virtue-compelling appliance. While doing so, he puts a slug through the Holy Grail and makes a Swiss cheese of Queen Guinevere.”
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This is much more like collective bargaining than giving up freedom. If a researcher individually says I will never assign copyright, then they will never get published. If a group of researchers (let's call it a union) bands together, then they get a lot more negotiating power.
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Price of this Kindle in DE : 99 EUR (134 USD)
I like boat shoes and desert boots personally. Both are extremely versatile and go as well with jeans as they go with khakis or slacks. As an added bonus, they mostly come in browns, which provides additional discouragement to wear the developer black t-shirt.
I'll wait for the Facebook laptop.
I wouldn't think so, any more than Apple mentions how fast their iOS processors are clocked or how much RAM they have. It's an implementation detail and their target audience doesn't care.
Why wouldn't they mention the RAM it has?

Why wouldn't they mention what wireless chipset it has?

Why wouldn't they mention the amount of internal storage?

I can answer all these questions, as well as the hundred other ones that geeks will ask:

Because none of this matters to the millions of people who will buy them.

To understand the difference between a company that "gets it" and your average geek who wonders why they don't publish these detailed specs, just have a look at the bullet points Amazon chose to lead with on the Kindle Fire page:

* 18 million movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, and books

* Amazon Appstore - thousands of popular apps and games

* Ultra-fast web browsing - Amazon Silk

* Free cloud storage for all your Amazon content

* Vibrant color touchscreen with extra-wide viewing angle

* Fast, powerful dual-core processor

* Amazon Prime members enjoy unlimited, instant streaming of over 10,000 popular movies and TV shows

Notice what makes the top of the list: content. Notice what makes-up the bottom (with the exception of the last one): Specs.

* Customers don't want a tablet, they want to watch/read their favorite TV show, movie, magazine, or book. (18 million content items)

* Customers don't want an Android tablet, they want to to play that cool game they saw in a commercial (curated Amazon Appstore)

* Customers don't want a Javascript rendering engine, they want access to their favorite websites, and fast. (ultra-fast Amazon Silk)

* Customers don't want to worry about how much space they have left on their device, they want easy access to everything they've purchased. (Cloud storage)

* Customers want to feel secure that the device they're purchasing will look good to their eye. (Vibrant display; iPad is referenced later in the copy, so they can identify with something they know)

* Customers want to feel confident that the device will be responsive. (apt use of the "dual-core" buzzword)

This is how you take on the iPad.
>If as a developer you're opposed to the company and its direction, why are you even working there?

It's so true, and I feel it works both ways. You can be a developer who's surrounded by complete idiocy, and tries to infuse change with little success. You can also be the problem, and be causing everyone else more headache with your unrealistic expectations.

If choices are being made to drive customer value which impact your enjoyment of the job (work sucks, they threw out stuff you did before, your suggestion was ignored, etc), then it's time to make a decision about if you belong on that team or at that company. Do you believe in what your company is trying to accomplish? If not, it can severe impact your desire to go to work in the morning.

Just please don't check out, quit instead! Having someone on a team who's just phoning it in hurts everyone.(this is not targeted at anyone, more a blanket statement)
If you think you are being screwed, take a look at how it is for Brazil.

Items (2):	$118.99

Shipping & Handling:	$28.97

Total Before Tax:	$147.96

Estimated Tax To Be Collected:	$0.00

Import Fees Deposit	$140.74

---------

Order Total: $288.70

Obviously not Amazon's fault. We have absurd taxes here.
If a methodology is so simple that it only requires you to do a few things and you're not doing those, than "you're doing it wrong" is not an excuse, it's an objective fact.

Besides that, given that Scrum is such a lightweight methodology, it's pretty hard to fail for competent programmers to fail using Scrum. Worst that can happen is that they find Scrum isn't an improvement over whatever they were doing before, which is cool. There's no one size fits all.

But failure is usually caused by other factors. The standard excuse for failing projects is of course blaming the methodology... Ever notice that in places where Scrum "fails" that is usually not exactly the first failure?
That has been happening for years. If you click through to the cached version of the result, which is marked up to highlight your search terms, Google provides an excuse: "These terms were found only in links pointing to this page:".

I've always had my doubts as to whether they really were found in links.
Who makes more college professors or coaches? (surprising answer)
Actually, I am surprisingly enamoured by the photos of the 7" in an adult's hands. It is pleasingly small-but-not-tiny.

There's also all kinds of reasons to promote the Fire in hands of children. Unlike regular geeky gadgets, Amazon is targeting women just as much as men, and you can market to mothers via their children. Plus, if you can get your products into the hands of children, you are establishing an entire generation of future customers. That's why Microsoft et al cut students and Universities such massive discounts on software and hardware.

Full-color children's books is also a distinguishing selling point for upgrading over the black-and-white Kindle.
Even if they disable the MITM attack against SSL, or the conventional proxy, or the caching, the fact that browser internals can be shifted to their servers means they can get anything they want from your browsing session, including cookies and keystrokes.
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I'm surprised by the "30 or younger" criterion. When I started programming in the '80s I found writing games a much more accessible, profitable and rockstarish idea than I do now (although I never actually wrote anything marketable). Maybe that's about me rather than the market though.
Widescreen is the modus operandi for color screens any more. Video is widescreen now, and 4:3 screens are harder to come by. I doubt the Fire will ever be 4:3.
Remember that this is done using clear full-frontal pictures, FRT drop significantly in accuracy with even the smallest change in angle. Not to mention sunglasses, (facial) hair obscuring parts of the face and different lighting conditions.

Current techniques that try to deal with such variation need several (clear) pictures from different angles to build a model of a face to be able to recognize a face.

I'd go with decades rather than years before the limitations mentioned are resolved.
Nothing surprising here. The money is in the data and the more data Facebook generates about its users, the better targeting options advertisers have.
How do they measure satisfaction? Is it that people are assumed to have been satisfied with their results if they don't come back?
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Indeed. As long as there is a niche for the product, it can usually get away with not being in the same niche as other products in the same brand.
He's his grandson.
First hand experience (not very recent, but I doubt it changed a lot). For example, Oracle is very customer focused in many teams. I heard many times: "The only person responsible your salary is customer". That really keeps things moving smooth.

I understand problem with Google: all these products and projects are free, so it is really hard to put $$ sign on them. Politics emerges because it is hard to decide when a paying customer is not your main objective.
I'm a bit unsettled when I see the US Army is funding this, given that they're also working on autonomous "terminator" drones.
Anybody try controlled trial of vinpocetine or GPC-choline?

In meantime, play piano, meditate, bright lights

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/216086-Mental-muscle-six-w...
Awareness is also a big factor.

My mom (she's a minister) just got an iPad, when all she needed was a handheld device with which she can scroll the text of a eulogy, when she's at a grave doing a funeral. The lowliest of tablets can handle this task, but "iPad" is all people talk about. If Amazon can generate buzz -- and I think they can -- then it would certainly erode sales such as my mom's.
Ha! I love it. The Internet TV enthusiast's revenge. Cable companies seeing their hold on viewers/subscribers falling to Roku and Hula. Of course, they are so hidebound in their profitory mindset that they won't let the a la carte method go cheap. They'll make it ridiculously expensive per channel, and thus lose the customer to the Internet anyway. If they were really smart, they'd figure out how to adapt and adopt the Netflix method. You can have that DVD forever for a modest price (remember late fees at the video store)? But you won't get the next one until you return the one you have. Maybe cable could go American Chinese a la Netflix: 2 from column A and 1 from column B, but you can't watch any other channels until you are finished with those in a 24-hr period. Well, just a thought.
Cool, this would have helped me a lot when I was getting started. An idea: You might want to start the README with 'Skeleton is X'. I had to scan around for a while to figure out what your project actually does.
We're in the middle of launching another product (IgnitionDeck), so I haven't had time to write a blog post or talk about this app, but we built it because we wanted a way to capture daily photos of our children, in a way that took advantage of photos already taken.

We're still iterating on design (long way to go), and working on the server side functions, such as user accounts, custom photo pages (ala Instagram, Camera+), and iCloud backup, but it's getting there.

I'm eager to get feedback from people that find this sort of thing useful. We're not formally "launching," but trying to keep working the MVP until we feel it's ready to announce to the world. So I guess you could call this a soft launch.
Honestly, of all of the sites I frequent, Hacker News has the worst user experience. This is how I use the site:

1. Go to page 1

2. Read a couple of articles on page 1

3. Hit next page and receive error.

4. Go back to page 1

5. Go to page 2

6. Read a couple of articles from page 2

7. Go to next page and receive error.

8. Go to page 1

9. Go to next page

10. Go to next page

11. Read article from page 3

...

I would be curious to know what percentage of requests to HN return "Unknown or expired link". If I were in control of this website, I would consider this behavior to be unacceptable.
Rusty has done an amazing job, and he's a great guy.
No, it is dynamic. In the video these sliders are actually moving. (And not static, as your image would suggest)

The article explains it like this:

All of the browser subsystems are present on your Kindle Fire as well
as on the AWS cloud computing platform. Each time you load a web page,
Silk makes a dynamic decision about which of these subsystems will
run locally and which will execute remotely.
You pay money. A lot of it. And/or declare bankruptcy.

The "person" you borrowed the stock from may well lose out, but we're talking about huge institutional investors that lend stock thousands or millions of times a year, or even day, and the fees more than make up for the few losses they incur.

This is not fundamentally different than any other loan.
Actually, I believe it was Apple who promoted the agency model on the iPad which forced Amazon to convert to the agency model as well.
Questions about Amazon's Silk and Kindle Fire
I think you're missing the fundamental limitation of this: the SSN identification.

Even if I give you the ability to go from picture to real name (which to many is still fairly jarring) given only "open" databases at 100% accuracy you still can't come near your 50% mark. The leap from real name and place of birth to SSN is the limiting factor, and the reason for this is the randomness inherent in the assignment of the last 4 digits of one's social security number. Given the ability to guess > 10% of that range (they have access to all SSNs who are deceased as well), the researchers could still get only 8% nationwide accuracy on recent SSNs.

You would need a fundamental change in that algorithm to get close to the numbers you want. This isn't a technological limitation, it's a algorithmic limitation, and you can't really put time frames on these kinds of breakthroughs.
I try hard not to buy clothes made from animal products. Any suggestions? I have some saucony vegan shoes but they fell apart pretty quickly and aren't very classy.
Yes, there are many opportunities for you as indie developer. first is app store ofcource, but please read first stories from iphonedevsdk.com/forum business section about 6 months development and more then $5000 spending and $100 profit at end. Second is flash games market, you can get up to $20k per game from sponsors if you are experienced game developer or about $500 if you are unknown. Third is android market, same as ios market but less money(successful game apps more ads oriented then apps in apple marketplace)
Same, working out every morning caused my body to fall into very predictable patterns around eating, sleeping, etc... I think most of all I appreciated leveling off my body. Using a mouse and keyboard all day would put certain stresses on certain muscles, but after 2 months of lifting weights the localized soreness went away.
Find a high-quailty carrot and give customers no other option than to participate via SMS? Thanks for the groundbreaking insight, but if the cost of getting a SMS is really that high, maybe the takeaway should be "quit trying to destroy your customer relationships with sms marking".
Both sentences in that FAQ answer are in direct opposition to each other and require clarification. But that hardly matters if Amazon has access to the browser's internals, anyway.
I have personally found eccos (http://www.eccousa.com/) to be incredibly comfortable with lots of looks to choose from. In terms of geek cred, I buy one expensive but incredibly comfortable pair once every couple years and wear them out completely.

Since I've started using a standing desk really comfortable shoes like eccos are a must.
I'm glad to see someone else musing on something that I have always wondered about.

You don't have a wear a 3-piece suit to be taken seriously. But when you wear faded/ratty jeans and a t-shirt it's hard to be taken seriously. Look at the pictures of the Great Depression: every man on the street waiting in line wore a suit. Not just business shirts, a suit. And these were guys like dock workers, laborers, &c.

I think it's because of a counter-cultural movement of preferring ratty, grungy, grimey-looking things. And, lets face it, people do judge you by what they see.

I don't want to look like a 20-something guy in ratty pants and a t-shirt with some obscene rockstar; I want to be taken seriously, just like I try to take others (even a weirdo in a t-shirt) seriously.
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Yeah consoles are rough, high cost of development, and high chance to get overlooked.
Q. Were the tests IRB approved?

Yes, they were approved. As in our previous studies, no SSNs (or faces) were harmed during the writing of this paper.
Sounds good, long as we are making developer requests.

Hey Marco, I want to pay for a really good kindle sync of instapaper, stop being so iOS focused.
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I once had lunch with PG after having come back from a VC meeting. I had just moved to California then and was wearing business attire. PG stopped mid-sentence to ask me if I had on french cuffs and then told me how investors like startup guys to be scrappy haha.

And from a PG essay http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html

"And what would be wrong would be that how one presented oneself counted more than the quality of one's ideas. That's the problem with formality. Dressing up is not so much bad in itself. The problem is the receptor it binds to: dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."
I couldn't pass your comment without saying my opinion. Recently, I read a book about Steve Jobs. The book said that before Apple, Steve had "no money", and that was his main motive to start a company. What I am trying to say is, Steve had a place to live, and money so he can eat and drink, and money for transport and all those basic expenses. Here in my country, no money means really having no money. Recently I passed thru terrible times, without having money to even buy myself some food. It has gotten to the extend that I had to borrow shoes from friends for job interviews , and I had to walk from one edge of the city to another by foot just to get to those interviews. What I am trying to say, "no money" has different meaning to everyone. Even if Merckle could afford life thousand times better than mine or yours, it probably was very hard for him to face that failure of his. Btw, I will be having a job interview in one of construction companies this week, and one interview at US embassy. Hope this will work out for me :)
<br> I tried several web startups here, and it didn't work out well, since internet is highly regulated here, and most people think that internet=IM. My parents haven't even seen a homepage of google. My mom thinks that internet is some company that magically gives you information about anything. For now, starting a web startup is mission impossible here. You can check out www.verihasap.com, or www.tolkunfm.com to see what kind of startups I'am talking about.
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Maybe I'm just not used to it, but I honestly find it harder to write code when I'm well dressed. I really don't know why this is the case. Perhaps my subconscious thinks I'm performing physical labor when I code, and thus being well dressed causes discomfort.
Yes, Googlebot also parses Javascript. All part of the SEO arms race.
Presumably screen readers won't read text under a display: none; but they will read text that just happens to be indented oddly.
It was in the second page of the invite request form, I believe the qualifying question was in regard to your interest to applying for a job at YC startup. Second page requested your resume, at least for me.
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I've worked for a few video game 'startups' that tanked or are in the process of tanking. Here are some pitfalls to avoid:

* Make sure you focus on the company aspect of things. Why are you making games? If the answer isn't 'to make money' you're doing it wrong - make them as a hobby instead. Starting a video game company because you have great game ideas, or because making games is something you love to do is a bad, bad idea. The reason for this is that at the end of the day, if you don't focus on the financial aspect of things, your company.will.fail. Most game companies fail because they're living month to month off of publisher's paychecks without trying to establish revenue streams of their own (other than royalties).

* Speaking of royalties. If you're getting funding through a video game publisher, make sure you understand how the payout will happen, how your advance is being payed off, etc. You probably won't have much negotiating power here, and this isn't really a route I'd recommend unless you _really_ need the funding.

* Start small, don't try to make a game engine right out of the gate. Put something simple together and iterate on it. If it turns out you're making a lot of the same type of game over and over, then think about abstracting an engine out of it.

* Reconcile the awesome game that's in your head, with the awesome game you can make given the time and resources available. Don't overcommit, you'll just end up implicitly cutting features instead of explicitly cutting them, and the game will suffer.

* Don't forget about the importance of marketing and timing. Great games fail _all the time_ because they weren't marketed well, or because they released and then got buried by the latest AAA or hyped up title.
Storing your data is only scratching the surface of what these guys are up to.

See, for example: http://sensenetworks.com/macrosense.php

Disclaimer: I previously worked for a large carrier.
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And their mastery of PR is a big part of why the transition from Jobs to Cook has gone so smoothly ...
The "dress for success" mentality is an anachronism, at least in North America.

Casual workdays used to be an employer granted privilege, but in this day and age, casual everyday is an entitlement in a lot of companies. The definition of "workplace casual" has become more lax in the past 20 years too.

Being middle aged myself, I'm not a fan of the shift towards casual dress every day, but times change, and that's just how it is.
Bezos Portrays Kindle Fire as Service, Not Tablet
It was still the publishers, Apple just made themselves into a poker chip the publishers could use to play against Amazon.
Introducing Amazon Silk, Cloud Browser that renders pages on the cloud
Amazon introduced Silk, an all-new web browser powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and available exclusively on the just announced Kindle Fire.
Audio is the core feature of the original iPod.

Audio quality was not. iPods never supported Ogg Vorbis or FLAC, for example.

Ultimately, some ppl like reading white-on-black text on LCDs at night instead of e-ink. LCDs aren't better or worse, they're just different. Matter of preference.