skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is strange, Hacker News HD works fine for me and never crashed during my tests. I found Hacker News! (the app with the blue icon) to be very unstable.
Ars Technica has a liveblog : http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/09/liveblog-amazons...
I don't think Apple has ever promoted its products as "luxurious". Jobs introduced the iPad as "a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price".

I think that Bezos quote is actually very Apple-like, what with "people are going to love these" and so on.
Cable industry's a la carte proposal is a bait and switch
While you were talking, a new update for ST2 has arrived :)
Introducing Amazon Silk
Main Amazon pages don't seem to be updated, but this URL is: http://www.kindle.com

Interesting stuff:

* Will still sell current Kindle as "Kindle Keyboard" for same price.

* New non-touch Kindle is 2 ounces lighter than old Kindle, but has half the battery life.

* The new touch Kindle is 1 ounce lighter than old Kindle, with same battery life.

* Kindle Fire is 6-7 ounces lighter than an iPad 2.

* All the prices that were quoted are "with special offers" and the non-ad ones cost more.
No, freedom is a requirement for capitalism.
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I tend to grab the paper title and search for it as a literal string, and in the majority of cases, the only full version available is behind a journal paywall.

Sometimes, especially in CS, you get lucky and find a citeseer or personal-page copy, but anything IEE(E) is pretty rare IME.
How does Google bookmarks work with Chrome ? Is there an extension for adding labels to links ?
I've been burned enough. Doctor, it hurts when I buy products from manufacturers that muck around with android....
I've always thought it was retarded to include a hardware keyboard on a device that will be used ~95% of the time for reading stuff. It's a really smart move to remove it.
Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi
> I hope programmers are so sanguine when their work is "correctly" priced into oblivion.

On the whole, I think they are. I haven't heard anyone here (or anywhere else) complain that hardly anyone bought their iPhone app that they put a lot of effort into.
So when Ubuntu releases their own app store combined with a new UI, it won't be "Linux" anymore? Just software built on top of the "Linux codebase"?
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Choicr revolutionizes the way the world sees decision-making
HP TouchPad Go details galore [exclusive]
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Create and curate your own online magazine
Amazon announces Silk, a "split browser" that caches page renders on the Cloud.
Yeah, these single "cause-action" relationships are always questionable.
This is pretty unrelated, but since you bring up rep ranges, I figured what the hell.

As I've gotten older (I'm only 22 now, but I started lifting weights when I was 12 so it semi-counts) I've found that I get way more benefit from a bodybuilder style workout. Specifically, rather than work my way up from 5's to triples to singles, I'll do 2-4 sets of 8-15 reps per exercise. I've found that it allows me to target the muscle and avoid strain on my joints.

The reason I bring that up is because I wonder how that compares neurologically to low volume high intensity workouts such as the ones you're doing.
> ridiculous .mobi format

What's ridiculous about it, apart from the competing DRM schemes and Amazon vs. all others aspect? Both formats are essentially zipped XHTML ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats#Mo... ), and are offered by many free ebook sites (feedbooks.com, manybooks.net, gutenberg.org etc.)

The BN Nooks were not available outside the U.S. (and Canada?) last time I looked.
Finally, someone other than Apple gets that it isn't about what it is (i.e., specs), it's about what it does (i.e., content).
Lots of people would be happy to use lisp instead of Perl or other scripting languages.

For instance, the CPAN module Devel::Declare is a sad excuse for real lisp macros but, afaik, it is still better than most anything else.

(Lisp dialects are sadly seldom possible to use for lack needed libraries like good Unicode support, etc.)

(Btw, Mark Jason Dominus wrote "Higher-Order Perl" http://hop.perl.plover.com/)
Suicide and mental deceases that cause it aren't very rational. Plus he might have had many personal/personality problems and the whole loss thing was just something that was the last drop.
The product listing is up: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2
Looks like they will still be selling the previous version as "Kindle Keyboard" for the same price as it is now.
YES! I think with this, Android finally becomes appealing to me. I just wasn't going to spend money on crappy Dell, Samsung or Acer tablets. I've been happy with my e-ink Kindle, now for $199 I'll happily buy Fire.
It will be interesting if Amazon decides to port this browser/services combo to other devices, similar to Kindle software being on lots of platforms.
Here are the specs on Amazon's site:

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Color-Multi-touch-Display-Wi-Fi...
everyone lost money in 2009 =(
For those who are interested in exercise but haven't enjoyed it in the past (running, swimming, lifting weights can be boring), I'd recommend rock-climbing.

Four months ago I joined a rock-climbing gym and I've really enjoyed it. Its a good workout, but its also a mental challenge. Each route up the wall can be completed in different ways, so it takes a bit of problem solving to determine the best way to finish a route.
> The correct price pays back the production cost (including paying for the time and creativity of the artist in making up the song) and adds some profit.

So if I wrote a program, say an iPhone app, using lots of time and creativity, but no-one wanted to buy it, do you think I should get paid for it anyway? If so, where would the money come from?
It seems to me that PDF is not a format suitable for much more than printing on paper.

A very important feature of Kindle is to allow choosing font size. It make it an ideal tool for elders. But PDF documents have a fixed layout that won't allow resizing font conveniently, or you have to break it in pieces.
Instant preview had "Bing fear" written all over it. Probably the biggest feature on Google Search that I found the least use for. I don't understand why Google feels the need to play catch up to Bing.
You'd have to translate k's entire data model first. It's based on data-parallel, implicit looping over vectors -- like multiplying an entire vector by a constant in linear algebra.

For an open-source implementation of a k-like language, check out Kona (https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona). (Full disclosure, I'm a contributor.) It's still a work in progress, but it's pretty far along.
Interested to see what type of web browser they ship on these new devices.
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Doing this is more-or-less like calling a signal handler directly in a UNIX program: you're not likely to get the result you want.
Irrespective of the article and its crux, the analogy is plain weird. Maybe he had a particular aspect of a prank call in mind, but it's tough to relate to.
Amazon Silk
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This is an interesting case where you can improve your negotiating leverage by giving up freedom. Consider a researcher who wants their research to be open access. They can attempt to negotiate this every time they send a paper to a journal, but most researchers are not in a very strong negotiating position relative to the journal. Or they can accept a postdoc position at Princeton, which now means that every time they submit a paper, they must inform the journal that unfortunately they cannot assign copyright.

There are many journals who would be willing to decline to publish the papers of an individual intransigent researcher. There are not many journals who would be willing to ban papers from Princeton entirely.

As an example, Dan Bernstein, who is certainly a well-respected researcher in his field, has individually adopted a policy of dedicating his papers to the public domain so that, like researchers employed by the US Government, he cannot assign copyright in them. The IEEE has consequently decided to reject his papers even when its referees accept them, even though they accept papers from US Government researchers: http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html

This kind of phenomenon, where giving up freedom improves your negotiating position, was extensively studied by Schelling in his theory of negotiation.

It's also very relevant to the debate over Treacherous (or "Trusted") Computing, signed bootloaders, and the like. You might prefer not to have the option of cryptographically certifying to Warner Music that your machine is running an approved operating system on approved hardware. That's because if you have that option, they might not sell you music unless you exercise it, probably giving up many of the rights you have under copyright law; while if you don't have that option, they are faced with a less tempting choice of only selling you a CD.

Advocates of these systems sometimes design systems where you have full freedom to run either signed or unsigned software, claiming that this makes their systems safe from abuse. This overlooks this phenomenon, where having a freedom makes you subject to pressure to exercise it.
I love how Bloomberg released an article describing the press conference in the past tense half an hour before it started; Amazon hasn't caught up with Apple's secrecy yet.

Amazon is doing the right thing, which wouldn't be that surprising except that every other Android vendor has done the wrong thing. Amazon is presenting a unified, controlled environment to users (which most of them want), provides both content and app delivery services, and is selling tablets cheap enough to as not to compete directly with Apple. It will do well.
Since there's nobody to challenge them on this market, they will get the volumes to drive the BOM prices down, too.

Barnes & Noble is in this space too, and they have hundreds of stores that will serve as points-of-sale for the Nook. Don't forget them.

EDIT: apologies to the European HNers. Still, those B&M stores in America are incredibly popular, making it easier for Barnes & Noble to find new Nook users.
Look at this video[1], 1:09:40. Apparently their code is too functional (heh…) for F# (or, well, the CLR). Not sure whether that has changed with recent versions of both F# and the .NET platform, although I think some problems are really, really hard to solve if you want to stay compatible with .NET libraries.

[1]: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2336889538700185341
The new kindle is only $79
Otherwise how does a user know that the URL they went to is unknown or expired?

I agree 404 etc pages /should/ be better designed to inform the user then give them links/options to carry on their journey.

Here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/404.shtml - we tried to explain a little about the problem, to a young audience and then offer them two ways of continuing their journey - go to homepage or use search.

We also made other URLs fail gracefully. If a user was at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/thingstodo/by/type/printgames and then 'hacked' the URL to get http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/thingstodo/by/type - we still offered them a page that correctly renders and has the information they were looking for - though we'd never link to this page ourselves (the correct root here would be http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/thingstodo )
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You're assuming that statement is false in specific cases; the OP assumes it is true in all cases - that sounds like a contradiction to me.
Please sure got up in arms when they found out Apple was doing this exact same thing earlier this year.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/apple-tracks-location-iphon...
Amazon introduces Silk: a cloud-based browser
Duplicate. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3047682
ShareNice - "ethical social sharing widget" URL Sharing
The code is here: https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki
How to set up a software hacking lab - part 1 - targets
This seems very similar to Opera Turbo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Turbo#Opera_Turbo) - no?
Somethimes this is very useful, a client once ask me to make a website with image headers for every page, with the title in the image. So i added a hidden h1, containing the title, for better indexing.
For a moment there, I thought you said "Ferdinand Porsche"!
With their heavy reliance on memcache, you're probably not wrong.
Because that would lead to the dreaded no results, which google doesn't like to show a user.
The cost is that if Podunk University in Podunk, Texas adopts Princeton's policy, Elsevier and Wiley can simply decline to publish anything written by the three Ph.D.s on their faculty. That will make it difficult for Podunk to attract a fourth Ph.D., and even the three it has may choose to give up tenure there in search of someplace they can publish.

However, if a few big universities follow Princeton's lead here, that cost will disappear.
Thanks for the feedback, I have a snake proof of concept on my github profule which was built with cocos2d, but I'll add more
Last time I looked through the iPhone clients, they seemed to all be overpriced, and half were abandoned and had one-star reviews saying they didn't work anymore.

My experience on android has been similar. I haven't found a good one, and have given up looking. The ones I've tried are either broken, buggy and feel abandoned, or have an uncomfortable UI.
They show a lot the device in kid's hands : because 7" is too small for grown up?

I have played with a RIM Playbook once and the size factor was the same concern. Seems like under 9-10" it can't be a replacement for my laptop in any situation and it feels more like a toy.

(Disclaimer : I own an iPad)
I think this is really cool. Nice work and I really like the site design. Clean and simple.
I think as far as models of the brain goes, this one is somewhat useful and popular, but basically wrong. This book outlines a model that I think is a lot more accurate (as reviewed on Less Wrong): http://lesswrong.com/lw/6yh/consistently_inconsistent/
Why Amazon's Tablet Matters: It's Not a Computer, It's a Store
The textbook way of running Scrum is to have a retrospective at the end of every sprint where you find faults with the process and tunes it for your specific environment. If you skip over that part or worse, refuse to adjust the Scrum process because it breaks some rules, then You're Doing It Wrong.
(The poster doesn't mention it but I'm sure he's talking about the Hacker News pagination links- if you dig a page or two deep and get caught up in an article for a few minutes and then try to click to the next page again, you get an ugly, worthless error message about the link being expired.)

or better yet, just make it so that HN's pagination links don't expire.
Won't a lot of content in hidden divs be noted as "spammy"?
That is a great addon. But ever since yesterday, delicious addon can't do full sync for me, which left me in a no bookmarks state.

If you try it, make a backup of your FF configs, as if it doesn't work, it will also leave you without local bookmarks.

If I can't get the sync back, making it work on FF 7 will be least of my worries... (Yes, I reported it to Avos team).
JavaScript for Browser Specific CSS and How It Works
Thanks for that link and summary. I'm glad there's still an option to buy the non-ad supported models; I was afraid they'd phase them out. Maybe they'll even go crazy and let me use my own screensaver images without jailbreaking!
I was there and really appreciated the talk. The message was clear, NYC is good enough to found a startup in, and nobody will promise that it will be an equally strong startup hub as SV.
This has been annoying me a lot too. I remember originally switching to Google mainly because it meant I didn't have to keep pressing + all the time. For the past couple of weeks I've been having flashbacks to 2001.
One-Third of Sun-Like Stars Have Earth-Like Planets In Habitable Zone
Then WM_DESTROY should have been called NM_DESTROY, since it is clearly a notification message not a command. The user is not wholly innocent here, but the Windows API team should be blamed for the misleading naming as well.
I use the full plugin. Posting things to delicious, searching, and so on.
Google Bookmarks doesn't sync with Chrome Bookmarks. That doesn't leave it as an option then.
"This rectangle represents the calculation of sales x price, and the biggest rectangle represents the biggest profit."

Err, no. The biggest rectangle represents the biggest revenue. Profit != revenue, unless you have zero costs.
Grammar Errors that make you look dumb
My old research group at UVa worked on (almost) exactly that problem. See:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~weimer/p/p109-weimer.pdf
Thank you for sharing this. I had been feeling similarly for awhile but couldn't really boil down why. His blog went from must-read to unreadable. I wish I could remember which post threw it over the top for me but I had a visceral reaction at one point best summed up as Really?

On the Gruber thing, he has written saying that Gruber is his ideal reader, so yo aren't far off the mark.

I think that as his traffic, profile and software sales have grown, he has lost his humility, which is a bad thing for writing.
If Amazon want to not make comparisons with the iPad, something I'd strongly suggest, they should stop making statements like this:

> The Kindle Fire will have a 7-inch display and sell for $199, compared with $499 for Apple’s cheapest iPad, Amazon executives said in interviews with Bloomberg Businessweek.

Also, it's disingenuous. Of course a 7" "tablet" is cheaper than Apple's 10" tablet. Film at 11.

That being said, I'm very pleased to see this. I didn't think e-ink readers would be abandoned by Amazon but I didn't see them being a high priority either yet here we are with updated models (and me having just bought a Kindle like 2-3 months ago, grrr).

I'll have to look into it and see if the new ones are faster refresh (really the only thing I care about). If so I'll probably buy (another) one. What the hell. Although I'm not entirely convinced of the touch interface on an e-ink device. I guess we'll see.

Come to think of it, I might just buy one of the $199 tablets too. It's almost impulse territory too.

I do think Amazon could do really well with this. I imagine these will be popular holiday items. And like everyone has said, they are going to promote the hell out of these.

That all being said, I'm not giving up my iPad just yet. :)
I too think pg should do it...
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I'm not convinced by this and it might put me off the Kindle Fire altogether.

Distributing the processing just seems like it's ripe for introducing problems. One of the best things about modern mobile devices is that their web browsers behave just like standard browsers. Is this reverting back to the Opera Mini model?
The Nook STP runs Android, and it's pretty trivial to get Android-native PDF readers up-and-running on it. None are yet optimized for the e-ink screen, of course, but some have an option to turn off animation which helps somewhat.

Something like mupdf (which has already been ported) combined with some button/touch bindings and perhaps a touch-friendly zoom feature seems to me like it would do the job perfectly... and be an easy weekend hack for much of this site's target audience?*

I think you'd have to look long and hard for an e-ink reader with truly decent out-of-box PDF support and no serious failings in other areas — my search so far has been unfruitful, but please do tell if you've come across anything which fits the bill.

*edit: If someone actually does/has done this/something similar, please post about it here!
I was checking out the specs on the Fire at Amazon's product page and got to the bottom, where they talk about Amazon Silk -- the 'split browser' used on the Fire.

It appears to offload intensive processing to Amazon EC2 instances.

Very cool stuff and, to me, more newsworthy than the launch of a tablet. I'd like to hear more details on Silk.

More info (and video from Silk developers): http://amazonsilk.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/introducing-amazo...
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The iPod Touch is no where near as good an iPod as the classic, since it lacks the physical UI (the key differentiator for the iPod, not sound quality which has been variable) but makes up for it by adding extra features. So Apple pretty much did exactly what you suggest.
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I meant that the syntax of OCaml is more verbose.
In F# (now that the #light directive is a default) you need less comparing to OCaml. Do not need to add ;; to terminate an expression (except for in REPL). Do not need to have "done" to close every loop declaration. Do not need to have "in" for "let" declarations.
"Silk browser software resides both on Kindle Fire and on the massive server fleet that comprises the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). With each page request, Silk dynamically determines a division of labor between the mobile hardware and Amazon EC2 (i.e. which browser sub-components run where) that takes into consideration factors like network conditions, page complexity and the location of any cached content." (from http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Color-Multi-touch-Display-Wi-Fi...)

This sounds conceptually similar to how Opera delivers pages with one of its mobile browsers, which is to say that Javascript and rich web apps will be severely crippled. Is it indeed possible for the server and client to collaboratively decide what parts of my code to run client-side and which ones proxy-side and still have anything approximating good performance/identical functionality?
Well the loans are contracts to pay back with interest backed by collateral (probably even including the house equity), so it's guaranteed profit for Google. Since the savings are placed so forward in time and are not guaranteed at all, by the time the problem becomes a concern the money will already have been made. Let's say a homeowner starts a blog showing that they are paying much more for power with their new system than from the grid and questions it. Google then points out that the savings will come in 2030 at the end of the loan. If a journalist looking into this is persistent and good they will get a commitment to show exact numbers, which can then be directly discussed as to likelihood. But more likely the graphs will continue to have unmarked y axes, and those doing an analysis of how much the systems cost and what it means to charge 11% interest for 20 years will be discounted as not having the right facts, but no details as to what facts are incorrect and what the correct facts are will be forthcoming. Then, in 2030 the articles will either say how forward thinking the purchasers were to have bought in before electricity skyrocketed, or there will be a retrospective on how they got ripped off. In both cases, Google will have made their money back on their investment in collateral backed AAA rated debt securities.
Google Brings State-of-the-Art Dynamic Layouts to Blogger
And it has a browser that renders on the cloud. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u7F_56WhHk&feature=playe...