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Update: Just looked 'em up. They're trying to go from "fun" to "useful" by hooking up with Groupon, I guess that would make them the social Google Maps for Groupon. IMO that's using peer influence (teens) for group purchases (teens don't have CCs usually). Unless, unless they use social influence to bring new coupon purchasers for groupon (affiliate sales or reseller?) or are able to tip groupons that have been historically harder to tip by getting friends to get involved in activities together.
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Doesn't this already exist? Google has the information from toolbar data.

... and if instead, Google built reporting of visited sites and all their contents, cookies, and your personal information into Chrome?
I used the cache links purely because it hilighted my search terms, just me?
I have decided to try Diigo for the time being. Google doesn't seem serious about bookmarks and I like the suggested tags that Diigo throws up.
> Though I think they should have a special color sticker,

> for MBA's without programming/design skills, Managing

> Consultants and general Harvard douche-bags who think they

> are the smartest person in room.

Seems to be a common problem over there. It is on the west coast too, but... it seems maybe not as pervasive and I think it's easier for them to realize here that their skillset isn't the most important one in the room.
No, I think the iPad is like a veranda, and the Kindle is like a block of cheese. No, wait, the iPad is like a BMW, and the Kindle is 40,000 frequent flyer points. No, that not right, the iPad is like a Ming vase, while the Kindle is like a big screen tv. yeah, that the way.

You analogy is only slightly less awful than mine.
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The statement may be true as far as things stand now, but you are correct, in the future there's no reason the Fire couldn't be replacing laptops the same way the iPad may.

In it's current iteration, the Fire seems to be focused on selling Amazon content and products. It doesn't even include an email app, although one can apparently be downloaded from their app store.

The iPad, however, appears to be moving beyond simply the consumption of content pretty soon. There are productivity tools available for the iPad, but the input methods are limited. With solid speech recognition, however, this could change, and this is what the next generation iOS appears to offer. I don't have an iPad, but I already use my iPhone to scan pages using JotNot and then send them to my dropbox. I also sign off documents using EasySign. If I had an iPad I would create or modify my documents using it, but that's a pain with their keyboard - however solid speech recognition would work well for me. I'm a physician and we dictate all the time. At that point I could consider it to replace my laptop.

But there is no reason Amazon couldn't offer any of this in the longer run.
Which is a quality that's important in founders. You should be bringing your own leadership to the room, not expecting a potential investor to lead you.
You mention researchers and logicians using the iPad. Can you give any examples?

I tried using the iPad, but the lack of support for LaTeX or papers in svn, git or mercurial repositories made it completely unusable for anything resembling work.
This has been my experience too. I have one fairly successful app, with good reviews and a long stint on the featured page in its category. It's still not even close to paying for the time it took to develop it. I would have been much better off financially if I'd spent that time consulting.

Writing apps is appealing because it's so much easier than bootstrapping a software business from scratch outside the store but I'm not convinced it's a good bet for the average developer.
Losing out on customers to who? Or just missing out on selling to customers who wanted a cheaper option? Those are two very different things.

I don't think they release the shuffle because their higher-priced products were suffering in comparison to budget competitors. They released the shuffle because there was demand at the $100 price point that they could profitably address without undercutting their more expensive products.
The interesting thing is that this will be probably the first successful Android tablet but Google will have absolutely zero benefits from its success. Actually, it might even hurt Google position in mobile/tablet market.

Two random examples:

The word Android was barely mentioned on Amazon site.

On device itself, the web and content to be consumed is showed Amazon.com but not thru Google search.

EDIT: Why is this comment downvoted? I'm kinda new on this hacker news and I'm under impression if I express opinion with a couple of examples supporting it that is not trolling... What kind of comment should be made to point out that it seems like Google will have zero benefits and even hurt it from this Android tablet?
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And, if you look at the games that are really doing well in the store, write gimmicky, addictive games and make a fortune selling virtual coins/tokens/badges/clothes to people psychologically locked in to your scheme.

Freemium is king in the app store now.
Right, I mean that we'll come up with new social norms to avoid these newly-possible creepy behaviors.
"tablet. To succeed in the long run, users must see the device as My One Tablet"

I do not think that is the only solution. Windows 8 aims for "a device that, on my request, can behave as if it is mine". That aims at a future where tablets/laptops/phones/ebook readers are plentiful, and, oftentimes, the only thing users carry around (if even that) is the key that makes those devices 'theirs' on demand (see also: Star Trek. Ever seen anybody there who said: hey, that's mine!?)
Pretend that they are going to sue you, and you have to get every document/email/agenda that is even slightly relevant into evidence within an exceedingly short timeframe. Because when you sue them, that's one of the first things you'll be requesting from the court, and in turn it is one of the first things they will do in response. This process is known as 'discovery' and if the stakes are high enough it can get quite abusive, ie ridiculously wide-ranging requests that are designed to make the litigation process as expensive as possible. If the other company is much larger than you, they will try to spend you into submission. Likewise, they will want to bring you into their offices for lengthy and unpleasant depositions, and your lawyers will try to do the same to them, which they will fight.

I presume you're waiting for your lawyers to call you back, because this is why you have lawyers in the first place. You might as well sit down with your accountants and start trying to quantify the gap between your best and worst-case scenarios in order to get a handle on your economic loss and establish what the efficient settlement price is. I'm only a law student so I can't give you any real guidance, other than to avoid becoming emotionally invested in who's right or wrong.

PS: they might sue you anyway, if the economics makes sense. It's not unheard of.
Frozen Synapse is not a run and shoot game. Instead it is a turn based tactics game.
Silk has an option to turn off the cloud proxy browsing mode.
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I think the feedback is helpful and there are always improvements that could be made. I think what really annoyed me was the underlying assumption was an entitlement to some sort of definition of an event that was perhaps too new to be fully defined. Good people jump in and help define the event.

I would not be critiquing a blog post full of specific, useful advice on how the event could have been made better. There is advice like that in this entry, but you have to reach through piles of raw "someone should have told me more about something" thoughts before you can get there. I would have been much more interested in a blog post that read something along the lines of: "I attended this event and I thought it was a bit unfocused. Here's what I would have wanted this to be and here's what I think it should look like."

I hope YC listens to the feedback anyway. It's valuable, but count me personally disappointed.
Epio cofounder here - we're not worried by this, and we've known it was coming for ages now.

The hosting market is plenty big enough for more than one player - we're expanding to multiple languages, much like Heroku expanded from Ruby, which provides an ample feeding ground of old-style hosts to slowly steal business from - and there's also still a lot of room for innovation.

Heroku, as much as I like their product - and I do, which is why we started this a year ago - still has its flaws and idiosyncracies, some of which are those low-level-design type of choices where if you go the other route, a different set of people complain. You can't be all things to all people, and I don't think anyone will end up being that.
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Here's an argument:

Newegg offers 127 netbooks.

Newegg offers 2 netbooks with a screen under 9 inches, 1 with a screen under 8 inches.
Opera inserts ads via this proxy. They bought AdMarvel last year. I'd say that's a good reason to check out your data.

http://www.admarvel.com/OMAE.html
I'm very happy with DDG. Their ! commands are really nice, the red-boxed "this is probably what you want" at the top of the results page is nice, and their habit of identifying sites as "official" is nice.

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=hacker+news
You've accidentally linked to your own profile page. You probably meant to link to http://www.oriongrassroots.org/
Funny that you complain about page turning... for hundreds of years, it has required an extended physical movement to turn the page.

Amazing the times we live in, that page turning has become an effort that becomes annoying. Combined with our tendency to be less physical active, we are heading to a (physically) stationary future...
It's repost of a tumblr blog. Lots of discussion on the source article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3048550
If people put up a better email client on Amazon store for decent price it would be even better.

k9 mail (free, open source) is already available on amazon's android appstore, and it's a much better client than the stock android email app.
1) Because programming in a suit is uncomfortable.

2) Because companies that have dress codes tend to produce bad software. This correlation turned into "I am not dressed well, therefore I write good software."

Sayth PG: "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.""

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Mostly because geeks in general have no dress sense.

I've made numerous attempts at dressing better, but the result is always "dressed to the appropriate level, but everything clashes or is just plain wrong". Maybe one day when I can afford to go to a mens store and say "Dress me and make me look good. I don't care how much it costs", I'll take another stab at it.
Did you even read the article? He's very complimentary of everything Amazon's doing here.

Leave it to HN to zero in on the one critical thing he says and blow it up as HUGE BIAS TYPICAL GRUBER FANBOY.
I think touch is useful, if you browse a lot. Using keyboard to navigate links is hard.
Jesse Thorn from Put This On Helps The Men of Kickstarter Dress Like Grown-Ups.
As a kind of side point, I find it kind of interesting that Amazon is putting the EC2 brand front and center in this. You'd have to think it would be kind of surprising if they have really built it on exactly the same cloud that they are renting to 3rd parties - but that's certainly the way they are portraying it. It seems like they are almost trying to advertise EC2 to geeks as much as they are the Silk browser.
Interesting. Seems like dressing up is the "right" way and those who dress as they please(without making anyone uncomfortable) are not in the wrong per say, but maybe under achieving. I suppose those in power choose(implicitly) what the right dress is. If developers held all the power would this author be writing wondering why people didn't dress in t-shirts and hoodies to fit in?
I think people should wear what makes them feel comfortable. Ties work for Jesse, but there are some jobs where a tie is required, and that doesn't work for the wearer. This could explain why people have an aversion to "dressing up." I'm a jeans and t-shirt person when I'm at work because that's what I feel most at ease in.
There are Swype, SlideIT and ShapeWriter sliding inputs available for Android devices that you can't get for iOS devices. I use the (unfortunately discontinued) ShapeWriter on my Desire phone, and it's awesome. The keyboard for the iPad is a chore to use.
The one major advantage of the keyboard on the old models (and why I'm glad they are still being sold) is for students using ebooks in class. For my literature discussions we often have to reference specific sections so the keyboard, while crap, allows you to quickly search out a key phrase in the section under discussion. Page number mappings are still not all that available and often time off of weird editions that aren't even close to standard real paperback editions.
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You are building the future, so dress like it.

So, jeans, then? A person in a suit isn't dressing like they're building anything. They're dressing like they want to tell other people to build something.
Ive got some ideas, none of them are very fancy, since I have no plan on being funded, all my ideas are little micro-business bootstrap stuff...

and I'm not starting them up because I don't have enough discipline yet to go spend enough time working(Im a remote coder) to have free time later to work on my own stuff...
I always end up spending my whole day between work and procrastinating, then I work more to compensate my procrastination, sleep late, wake up late...etc

:(
If you buy only the Kindle, it's actually over 100%.
App Engine announced they will release a Python 2.7 runtime in several months. It's currently in their trusted tester program.
And Amazon could also do filter out any malware distributing websites.

Would it be wrong to call the Fire some sort of thin client? (just for the browser)
Would be nice, if I knew how to tell the difference between "nice" and "ugly". It all looks the same to me.

I'm still mystified as to how people decide that one piece of clothing "goes" with another, or looks bad with such-and-such.
So what? Didn't Apple lose look-and-feel back in the 90s?
Short term, this raises the learning curve (if I was a newb, my eyes would bleed at having 5+ ways to attach events), but long-term, this is a major win for code cleanliness.
it does matter to all the developers that will be submitting apps to their appstore. amazon has probably changed the interface a bit and made their own apps look nice, but if they want to remain compatible with all of the apps currently in their appstore, they will not have changed any of the underlying android api and what version they based it on is important for app developers.
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While I think the idea is brilliant - do as much precomputation and rendering and content consolidation in the cloud as you can - the strange thing to me is that all this stuff is really mainly a problem for browsing over cell networks while the Fire itself only supports Wifi. It kind of hints to me that there is a 3G Fire coming, they just aren't able to release it yet ...
Famous Steve story I saw last month when he retired about how people at Apple wanted to attack all the mp3 markets from the start but he forced them to focus focus focus on the one big model to get it perfect. Two years later they opened it up, something I take it we'll see with the low end phone and eventually with ipads too.
Gotta wonder what the defn of 'knowledge' is here - just mentions of the keyword? Does that indicate knowledge?
Kindle is a book device.
Fire is a movies/pictures/web device.
Neither really compare directly to an iPad.
I was nodding along until I started reading Put This On. Roughly 80% of the clothing pictured suggests "uncomfortable", "impractical" or "I'm a tool". I'll keep my sneakers. :-/
That they've been operating for a long time gives me that impression.
I couldn't agree with this article more. We need people like Andy Rooney to remind us that technology is supposed to serve us, not the other way around.

For some reason, this article reminded me of one of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes:

"Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet."
It's not that we don't know how to dress or don't care how to dress ourselves, it's just that we don't care what you think about what we're wearing. Why would I wear something I feel uncomfortable in? The only time I'll wear a suit or a tie is if I'm going to a wedding or a funeral. What someone wears shouldn't define how "professional" they are.

> You are building the future, so dress like it.

Exactly. I'm trying to build a future where wardrobe isn't a predictor for success.
Not available outside of the US (except for the crippled non-touch version).

Poor, poor strategy.

That's essentially gifting the market to iOS/Android.

I sure as hell won't wait until Amazon deigns to offer one outside.
I always just went down to the lobby to do phone calls; how many kinds of calls can you reasonably do from a coffee shop?

Maybe all the coffee shops I like are just way smaller than the ones you all use.

Mostly: I had great success working from libraries, and I know that many coffee shops do not like people working from them all day.
Yet another prime example of "Never assume that other people think the same way you do".

You may believe that dressing "poorly" implies disrespect for others, but you're in the minority. Being offended over other peoples mode of dress is pretty lame.
> I'd strongly suggest, they should stop making statements like this:

I think that statement is more about positioning the Kindle Fire into a different market segment than trying to frame it as a competitor to the iPad. Bezos needs people to see this as something different, something you might potentially own as well as an iPad. For that to happen he needs to be able to say that it's not just cheaper, but radically cheaper. Personally I think it needs to get down to $149, but we'll see.
Zuck is a horrible example of a guy that doesn't need to impress anyone. He doesn't wear suits for us, he wears suits for the investment bankers.

I don't dress better for a lot of reasons but mostly because it doesn't matter. Charitably, I consider fashion to be little more than an expensive hobby.

Not so charitably, the places I have worked, fashion was always inversely correlated with having a clue. "To some, it’s a secret handshake. It’s a 'my talent supersedes my necessity to follow the guidelines of society.'" This is partly true. Most fashion rules are not guidelines of society, but guidelines of a select few who are so useless and boring they sit around all day worrying about what to wear. The rest of us go for the bare minimum required to keep their mouths shut so we can actually get some work/play done. In that way, ignoring the guidelines is a signal that we're not vapid nincompoops.
Not weak at all. There's a bias on the Android platform to the top games (or apps). It's probably not surprising at all that a top app would do well there. But overall the platform is less lucrative for the majority of developers.

There's several reasons why there's less developers focusing on Android. One of the biggest is the way the Android Marketplace updates their most popular app lists. The list changes much less frequently than iOS. With an overall bias of all users towards checking out apps on the top list, it's just more difficult to get seen on Android. Beyond that, there's less demand for apps outside the top 10 list on Android. Big app companies will continue to support the platform. Indie developers will continue to make it less of a priority since they don't make as much money there.

It's obvious you're an Android supporter. There's nothing wrong with that. There's a lot to like about the platform. If someone's criteria for a tablet is access to lots of high quality apps, Android is not the platform for them. There's a reason Disney chose to support iOS for their new Cars interactive app. That's where the majority of the money is for developers, and where most developers will focus, for at least the near term.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/238375/android_users_only_hav...
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True, but the reality is that clothing as a technology has evolved over a long history, and some types of clothing are more likely to provide the "right fit" than others, particular for folks non-ideal body forms.

If you're in good shape, you can find t-shirts and jeans that look pretty good, but even that isn't easy. If you're out of shape, it's nearly impossible. Conversely, oxford shirts, sports jackets and trousers have about 100 years of evolution in providing a good fit for all kinds of men's body shapes, and they're also far more amenable to alteration by a tailor (does anyone actually tailor their t-shirt?)
> "was more of the Python way."

That you tailor each environment to the language/framework around it is a great touch.
Not content with just submitting this once, huh?
Hey, I looked up your profile and you mention doing some compiler research. HN has no way to 'ping' a user, but I'd be curious what that research entailed...
In fairness, "productive" is highly domain-specific. If your version of that is something like reading legal briefs, or drawing free-hand sketches, or collecting survey results from passersby, an iPad could be very productive indeed.
> haha Doctors need to enter lots of information and prefer a laptop / proper keyboard

You are just making that up, right?

Health care is the one area where tablets did very well even before the iPad, and iPads have proven to be popular among doctors.
Sad to see that Australia didn't make the cut :(

It looks like they're fetching a static image from Google Maps and using a jQuery library to do the heatmap (which uses canvas). Not sure why they made it that way. Would have been a perfect fit if they fetched a rectangular map and got moved that text on the right.
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I have an idea for a start-up, and I think it's good. I shared with a couple other people interested in starting a business, just to see if they thought it was viable. They certainly thought so.

Now I'm paranoid. To what extent is this justified? I'm aware that the idea alone isn't worth much, but there's really only one or two ways to implement it.
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Does this remind anyone else of Wave? Except that here federation apparently actually works. I love this kind of thing; I hope it does better than Wave did.
He could simply be honest that he's expending a lot more effort on v2 to make it as awesome as he wants it to be. Charge the full price, but offer a refund or full price rebate if you show that you bought v1.
If that resource wants to be taken seriously it could start by getting a web design that doesn't scream "quack".
What does the height of the traffic line mean? It's not very clear.