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> Shouldn't all jocks be Einsteins?

If they were, how would you know? Almost by definition, their interests do not incline towards physics and they spend little time on it (compared to whatever makes them a 'jock'). Even if they change their minds, it's a bit late - hard to become a top-notch physicist when you don't learn anything about it until you're 25 or 30 or something.
What you say is very true, however when you say that SSL prevents MITM attacks, you are assuming that “their browser” always lives entirely within the device.

If their browser has code operating on the device and in the cloud, then their browser won't generate certificate warnings because there isn’t a man-in-the-middle between their browser and the site, there’s a man-in-the-middle between the device in your hands and the site.

It would be insecure against Amazon snooping or modifying the communication, but still generate the appropriate warnings about bad certificates.

I think the answer is, run “off-cloud” when you want privacy from Amazon.
This is a bit off-topic, but only because some of the comments made here are making me wonder about Unity3D.

A while ago, I kept hearing a lot about Unity3D while talking with teams around the DC-NY area. So I looked into it, and made a small game mayself, just research - non-commercial, to see if it was as useful as everyone claimed. Everything they said was true, I was able to get a simple game done in a weekend. BUT, that was without leaderboards, or even scoring, or social tie-ins or ANYTHING other than the simple mechanic and even simpler graphics.

Haven't touched it since...

I would be curious to know, from anyone who uses Unity to make real games, how long does it take you to put out a game with Unity? And once you are using it...isn't it a little difficult to switch to something else if you want to produce a larger project? Or does it work fine for larger projects as well?

Basically just wondering what are people's impressions of using Unity?
hmmm, spend 500$ on the elegant jacket, or buy this new gadgets that just came out. I cant decide.

Kidding aside (or maybe not, its a dilemma sometimes, first world problems).

As a sysadmin by trade, that actually attends not a small number of social events, I often dress in a suit. I feel great wearing them and get complimented often. But i cant imagine myself sitting in my office, in front of my screens wearing the latest fashion, it just doesn't work, I will feel overdressed and uncomfortable.

Oh and i love my t-shirts, I go to some lengths to find cool ones, silly and geeky. I know.
I would love to see how this compares with PostgreSQL's ltree module, which indexes graphs using a generalization of the R-tree data structure.

We have started using ltree for a project which has a graph-shaped data model where we want to join multiple graphs using relational joins, and graphs against other non-graph tables.

So far, ltree seems to perform extremely well.
Great, so if this thing becomes popular, the Government will be able to verify all that data and passwords at will, with just one phone call, like it happened with Wikileaks.
They would be allocated on the heap, so mapping a greenlet onto an OS thread is a fairly expensive operation. However, the greenlets are cooperatively rather than pre-emptively mapped, so this doesn't happen as frequently as you may imagine.
Answer, for most ideas relevant on HN: approximately the same thing as if you have great ideas and dress in jeans and a t-shirt.
Vlad's not bad. There's a similar project called Fezzik that I use extensively for non-Rails projects. Neither is as good as Capistrano if you're deploying a Rails project.
Recently there was a video of indie game developpers that were living from their own games.
You can see the video here : http://casualconnect.org/lectures/indie/diy-indie-game-dev-f...

I think there are more and more one/three people company making indie games and living off it partly from Steam and iPhone development. I hope you will be successful in your projects!
I actually read PDFs pretty frequently on my Kindle. I usually set it to landscape mode.

I used briss to convert some big pdf books (On Lisp and I think a free version of SICP) so they would be a little more readable. briss does some clipping of the margins.

I love tech books in print form, but I prefer a tech book I can drop on the kindle now. The raw convenience of the kindle wins out for me.

If the DX gets cheap, I may be forced to grab one. I won't be upgrading to the new color device.
I disagree with you and I think the grandparent is right. Even though the handle based architecture of the wind32 system is not object oriented, it was meant to have some object oriented features. If you think about this system as one in which a window handle is a window object and a message to that window represents a function call, then the WM_CLOSE is a public method that anyone can call. WM_DESTROY, on the other hand, would be a protected method that can only be evoked by the window system. Even though they decided that the overhead of a full OO system was too much, they still could have made the intention more clear by doing something like this:

WM_PUBLIC_CREATE and
WM_PROTECTED_DESTROY

Then there would be no confusion about who was supposed to send the messages and how they were meant to be interpreted. Of course they don't have to use this exact terminology, but you get the idea.
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I find this sentiment mildly offensive, for reasons I'm sure you can predict. I'm wearing a t-shirt covered in paint stains today and ripped up jeans, and I do not agree that I am expressing disrespect for you.

I find not agreeing with someone else's sensibilities (in fashion, in art, in cooking, in coding, or what- have- you) to be passive and innocuous.

I find "taking disrespect" from someone else's choices to be something other than those things.

(It's the sentiment I'm remarking on, not you; I do not find you to be offensive.)
Agreed, at first I just chalked it up to this be a "rogue" blog by some members of the team, but this page is the only "official" page I can find on the product. The favicon is even Wordpress...

Edit: this is a more branded description: [Amazon Help](http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html//ref=amb...). No video though.
Well I was dressed well for YCNYC. But that's because I'm a girl and I enjoy dressing well. So I wore a nice dress and a short sleeved jacket.

I felt really confident about what I was wearing until someone told me I looked like I didn't belong there. Now I'm left wondering if this suit stigma applies to females.
Why do you think they knew that much better what the event was about? These things are usually what you make of them. Who are they to tell you why you're there? Isn't that more your decision?
Second that code is awful (it wraps funny, even in landscape mode). But . . . I hate buying dead tree books that expire in two versions. Admittedly not a huge concern, but still.
And therefore the sweat a developer has put into creating this feature is not valued.

If the feature doesn't actually add value, you just have to be an adult and move on. I've developed lots of things that haven't seen the light of day. That's part of life.
Style is a celebration of the self. It's another language to learn and master.

Dismissing it as nonfunctional or damaging to your well being is the same as ignoring the utility of a new programming language because your old ones get the job done or because using traditional languages is "hardcore."
Steam's market is quite good. To be in Steam's marketplace is probably a very good thing. But, the barriers to entry are likely a lot higher than the Xbox 360 market. Just judging from what and who I've seen on Steam's store, I wouldn't aim to be there right out of the gate.
Yeah, a lot of people think they know this market and what people "would" buy, and all of them except the guys selling iPads have been wrong so far. Batting average of everyone else: .000.

"Easy-to-use", which is far from a given on a non-iOS device, doesn't mean anything if there is not an attractive application base.
It isn't better.

It is better to just do:

<h1><img src="" alt="" width="" height="" /></h1>

Negative text-indent can cause accessibility problems. Scenario "CSS on-images off" will see no content at all.

You can solve that by using a <span> overlay, with the image set as a background:

<h1>Heading<span class="overlay"></span></h1>

Then with the scenario "CSS on-Images off" people can read the underlying text.

But you are still hiding stuff for search engines, and they might not all like that.

Source for "don't go hiding stuff with CSS like -9999 pixels on the left, if you can just use an image alt, that is what it is for" this Matt Cutts video from 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBLvn_WkDJ4#t=0m13s

BTW: The OP is confusing. Like Paul Irish said: There is a "display: none" and a "visibility: hidden". A "display: hidden" isn't valid CSS.
Not really. Automattic does a great job with Wordpress and keeping services online, no judgment of them.

For a company as large and successful as Amazon to launch a product on a default blog template under their domain? That's like launching a product on Blogspot, with that 'circles and dots' theme or whatever: it looks unprofessional.
I think Paul is missing the point. It doesn't have to be one or the other (e-Ink vs color LCD).

You can't watch videos on e-Ink.

While the market for e-books is large, the market for e-books + videos + color magazines + other content is of course, far larger.
You basically need a DX for PDF's. The smaller screen requires more zooming and navigating, which is a pain due to the performance lag.

Of course, this can be avoided if they are not PDF out of neccesity. If the book is all text, not heavily formatted, and you just have it in PDF for convienience, look into getting an eBook copy.

Note: I use a 2nd gen Kindle. The newer models might be a little snappier.
Apple wasn't tracking anything, the logfile was stored locally on your phone. This information is stored centrally.
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A binary DOM would be much more efficient than HTML, by an order of magnitude or more. When I was working on the BlackBerry browser we did the same thing and had gains at least as big. The problem comes when you have document.write calls in scripts, and start getting dynamic content inserted during parsing. That gets really tricky to handle in a server-side environment if it depends on client-side properties or user input.
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I love that instead of trying to be everything to everyone (a la android/ipad) Amazon is aiming to be really good at a few things, and thus drive price down.

I'm not so interested in movies or ebooks, does anyone know of a tablet that just does email and web? and is cheaper because of it?

BTW, Silk browser seems like a bundle of awesome ideas
Seriously just be yourself - what else is there really...
Not sure why, but the site is blocked at my work. Can I get a pastebin of the content or something similar please?
In Seattle we have Amazon Fresh, which is home grocery delivery. I can generally get next-day delivery, so I can order groceries and anything else they have in the local warehouse (books, movies, whatever) and have it sitting on my doorstep by 6am the next day.

I can't imagine living my life without it. Seriously.
I have a Kindle 3. It's fantastic for fiction/nonfiction/Instapaper. Technical papers are my one major gripe. It's essentially hit or miss, but mostly miss.

I've found that most technical PDF papers are non-trivial to convert to Kindle. It would be one thing if they were scaled down to a format that only required vertical scrolling, but as it stands unless the author/publisher makes an effort, most technical PDFs require horizontal and vertical scrolling. Certainly possible, but hardly convenient.
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No kidding! Even if I granted that a new brand-space might make sense, if you want a dedicated e-reader, then buy one. I love the e-ink, and I would not buy an iPad/Android/Kindle with a backlight as an e-reader device, but mostly people don't understand and say "wait, I can't read it in the dark?".

I feel the author missed the point almost entirely. Android has been hurting because Google repeatedly fails to deliver on an integrated media experience. Amazon can bring streaming video, TV partnerships, books, music and apps, today. All by themselves, in their own ecosystem on their own devices. This is the closest thing to an iTunes (and iTunes' library) competitor.
Higher than the Xbox360 indie market, maybe. Definitely not the main XBLA store though.

From what I've read it's pretty easy to get up on Steam. Terraria and Magicka are good examples of games from unknown teams making it big. I think Terraria was put together in something like 4 months, made a couple million dollars too.
Why is the assumption that a T-shirt and a hoodie "worse dressed?" There are fricking $500 designer hoodies out there if you want one.

Anyway, the entire article is silly. Grownups know that some people will judge them based on how they dress. Sometimes we care, sometimes we don't, and so we dress accordingly. I'm not going to give a presentation to our Senior Business Team dressed in a Linux User Group t-shirt and ragged jeans, but don't expect me in a suit at any other time if I don't have to be.
As a Kindle DX owner, it's all about the form factor and readability.

Back lit screens cause eyestrain for those of us who read quite a bit. With my DX I can read for hours on end in any environment I could read a dead tree version in. And with the battery life measured in page turns, even when reading at a crazy clip I can go more than a week without charging.

Form factor was the other huge sell. If I want the ability to read my collection of technical PDFs without a microscope (or awkward panning) the large size is needed. Even with non-PDFs I like the hardback size font and character count on lines.

The DX is the only game in town to get both of those right.
Definitely happy to see the Emotiv headset on the site! I am currently using one to run a study on brain wave activity on athletes.

Definitely going to keep an eye on your site.
I have a pair of Novacas shoes that are pretty dressy. I haven't worn them heavily, so I don't know how well they will hold up over the long run, but they're comfortable. All their stuff is vegan.

http://www.novacas.com/
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So basically, we aren't far from turning Flickr and Facebook photos into a surveillance system? Someone could be found that way without even having an account.
Amen, you should dress in a way that makes you and the people you meet feel comfortable.

One of the worst fashion sins are cheap ill-fitting 99$ suits. Man...

My recommendation guys, buy some nice shoes and a coat.
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Opera Mini does the same thing. I would err on the side of it being useful.
Agreed. The most interesting part of the announcement is the mention of dynamically selecting which components of the browser run on the server and which run on the client. I wanted to get more details on that but can't find much. I'm interested in how they carved up WebKit and the interfaces between the different modules that might get serialized over the air.
The "my nephew can make websites" comment is not necessarily what people seem to think it is.

After all, this is someone who has gone to the trouble of getting in touch with a professional and asking questions. They aren't asking their nephew to do it.

They know it's going to be more expensive, but they didn't realize HOW MUCH more expensive, and that comment is simply part of how they learn why that's the case.

They generally honestly don't understand why it's so expensive -- because they don't yet understand what they're buying (it's non-obvious!) -- so the best route is to keep the tone pleasant ("ha! yup, I get that question a lot") and educate them in a friendly way.

The end result may be that they decide they won't want a professional website -- that's fine. Part of the discussion should be how likely it is that the site will earn them back more than they're paying for it. I have a neighbor that wanted to hire me to build a website for her small-scale manufacturing business, and through our discussions we basically figured out that it wasn't going to be a good investment for her right now. That was a win-win situation, in my book.
Because of the following reason:

http://toblender.com/engineer-ranking-system/
Modifying content in-flight would raise all sorts of nice legal issues. Copyright infringement would be the most obvious one.
Yes, I hadn't considered that possibility. The picture in my mind was some sort of hybrid operation where some of the work was offloaded, in which case you would still have to properly support device-to-site SSL links.

So I guess the issue of privacy still remains up in the air. I was hoping to be an early adopter of this, but I think I'll wait to see how the SSL via Silk situation pans out before putting down cash.
Just buy both? They are different products with different goals. "Kindle" doesn't mean they are both reading devices, "Kindle" means they are both media devices.
Kelly, I hope you read this.

There is, historically, a significant divide between hackers and suits. A classic example is the Jargon File's entry on "suit": http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/suit.html . Whether or not you subscribe to the hacker philosophy, it would be good to understand that many of the people odious to hackers, such as marketroids and PHBs, wear suits regularly, and hacker dislike of their clothing is ingrained.

"You’ve got nothing to lose, save for some 'geek cred.'" For some of us, this amounts to a betrayal of culture. It's not about looking nice -- I own a tuxedo and wear it when appropriate (opera, weddings, etc.) but I would not wear a suit to work. I am not a suit. I'm a hacker. I write code. I eat crappy pseudo-Chinese with all the spice, get 44Oz drinks at the Circle K because they run out of 64Oz cups, grok more programming languages than spoken languages, and I am not a suit.

I'm not offended, but I just want to impress on you that this idea is far older than either of us and, as such, deserves at least some recognition on par with the idea that hackers should dress in more professional or formal clothing on a regular basis.
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I was just hoping for Amazon to bring something new to the table:

"I was talking about the rumored Kindle Fire tablet with my cofounder the other day. My point was that for it to really work, Amazon would have to deliver on both the tablet/media aspect while simultaneously maintaining the solid reading experience — most likely through a hybrid screen that can easily switch to e-Ink when you are outside or wish to read in a glare-free, black and white mode. Such displays have been in the works since 2009 (search for Pixel Qi e-Ink / LCD hybrid), and it would be great to see Amazon pull a home-run with such tech in their latest device."
Seriously. Good pairs of slacks are about as comfortable as you can get in any situation. Part of the genius is the variety in materials that go in. You have everything from lightweight, super breathable pants perfect for the summer (when jeans and even khakis become miserable in any humidity) to thicker wool trousers that will feel comfortable even in the middle of a blizzard.

That said, the peak of summer comfort is seersucker, but I won't even don that often because it does make you look like an anachronistic dandy.
Really? I find being able to go through the results using the arrows very useful. When I'm doing a Google search, I want to get to a web site, optimally without using the mouse. Having this feature routinely saves me from having to use the mouse, which is particularly nice on a laptop.

Having the arrow keys go directly to search results is very useful especially because it takes three or four times less presses to navigate that way than using tab. Besides, if I want to scroll, I can always use the space bar--it's faster anyhow.
Why do I have to sign in? It's a one-night hack and it gives random numbers!
AWS blog is on Typepad, so I'd say this is a step up for their publishing efforts

http://aws.typepad.com/
Was there ever and doubt that it did? How could we excuse hiding/showing "tabs", for example, if it didn't?
Yes, it's selling, but...

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/31/samsung-galaxy-tab-sa...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392422,00.asp

And that's not even considering the patent mess that has killed the product in Europe.
I think dressing up is fun. I love fashion, but I hate this sentiment:

"Unless you’re going to the gym twice per week, you probably won’t look good in a T-shirt."

Fuck that. We live in a society that is constantly telling us we look bad, unless we are skinny, unless we have "good" hair, unless we have clear, light-colored skin...

Fuck that. People are fucking beautiful. All kinds of people are fucking beautiful, even if they're wearing a t-shirt.

It's one thing to encourage people to take pride in their clothes. It's another to call them ugly, and feed into our culture's (literally) deadly skinny-worshipping obsession.
I'm sure it goes without saying, but google looks very badly on people who try to trick it.

If this became a common method of hiding text from users, but giving it to google, them I'm sure two things would happen:

1) Google would update their engine to detect hidden divs.

2) Google would penalise websites which abuse hidden divs.
Definitely consider Minecraft an exception although don't lose hope or anything, just be aware. Also, aiming for a AAA title requires a lot of manpower and time, games like these works similarly to big budget movies. A buddy of mine has connections in Sand Hill Road that actually funded some of his game projects and because XBL isn't that great, I hate to say a pretty good indie game didn't do so well. Really, it all depends on what you're shooting for but if you'd like advice on where to go, go mobile or go casual web (Facebook, you'd be surprised what people pay for these). There are tons of people that have been living off of social and mobile games during their peaks. With good marketing and a little lucky your game may end up well! Good luck!
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It is probably not a good idea to eat lots of crappy pseudo-Chinese and drink 44oz Circle K drinks just to signal your nerdiness. T-shirts and ripped jeans aren't slowly killing you.
It's actually a truncation of the term "empty suit." In other words: all style, no substance; all looks, no accomplishments; all money, no ideas; etc.
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The connectivity between the server and client side of Fire seems to be quite custom so it is unlikely a simple port. Amazon also mentioned that this is exclusive to Fire and made no mentioning of plan to expand Fire. If they do plan to expand Fire to other platforms in the future, I'd bet they mention it somewhere.
I don't get it. Are random numbers really so special that curation improves their value?

All I see when I open the page (whether a correct impression or not) is someone who is harvesting emails and offers no value in exchange.
Honestly, my instinctive first impression of overdressed developers is that they're trying to suck up or cover for a lack of ability. That's not fair, and I try to compensate for it, but it's no more unfair than assuming that dressing comfortably means you're a slob who doesn't care about your work.

but the truth is that when you dress up, you take yourself more seriously

It just makes me want to get home as soon as possible.