skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only ten years of evidence? I still remember the Performa lines costing twice as much as a comparable PC. I wouldn't go so far as to call Apple products Veblen goods, but they're pretty close, and I don't see iPad's $500 pricing harming it in any way.
I have a pretty simple solution for you:

If they are a college grad, they are probably trying to get their foot in the door anywhere. Tell them they can intern for a 2-4 weeks, and if they do well they will be hired full time.

Alternatively, you can hire them on blind faith. If they are obviously lying about their qualifications, you can blacklist them in a blog entry (trust me, no one wants to have their name come up with bad results in google). Of course, warn them first that if they are lying about their qualifications, you will make this public knowledge. Either they will be confident enough to continue or you will have filtered out one unwanted candidate.

The last way is just to hire them, no questions asked. 99 percent of the time, they will make great employees, even if they struggle for the first month. I was hired with no knowledge of Flash out of college to work on a Flash-exclusive project that already had 10s of thousands of lines of code. In the end, I turned out to be a valuable employee, despite being severely unqualified.
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5. Generic advice is generally useless.
There is some good background info about the story here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110922/02372216046/craigs...
"Amazon won't steal Apple's customers"

- Absolutely correct. But all the other android tablet makers pricing their tablet anything over $300 will all get screwed by this for sure. [I cannot see what else they can do to justify double the price of the Fire without some brilliant ideas and innovations.]. They all refuse to do anything to the software. They also cannot match Apple's (and probably soon Amazon's) scale and huge volumes to get a good price on bulk-hardware. Nor do they have the "content" and "user base with credit cards" to match that of Apple and Amazon.

Good news is that we can expect more HP-touchpad like fire sales. Bad news is very few are going to want those even at those prices.

Amazon brilliantly played to their strengths. Kudos to Jeff Bezos and team!
I'm currently developing django app on a ec2 instance. What's the advantage of heroku over just plain ec2?
Actually, people do in fact choose tablets and laptops based on size. I'm not suggesting that either size is superior. They are clearly different.

Anecdotally, I find that the iPad size is great for a table/lap, but less great for holding, while I love the size/shape/weight of the Kindle2 for reading. I don't think any particular size will win out.
Hello, I doubt you will get many programmers interested in buying domains, at least until they are launching a project or something. Most of us think domainers are hacks. $250 is very inexpensive but we don't want to support the industry.
1) It's just been my experience, when designing and discussing user interfaces, to include "how discoverable" an application is as a factor to how "usable" they are.

A LOT OF FEATURES that experts can use does not necessarily make something usable.

If this falls outside of the purview of what you consider to be satisfactory, that's fine by me.

2) Not really. You'd have a few context menus, and maybe an inspector window might be necessary. Obviously you're not going to represent all of the keyshortcuts but there is no good reason why I can't right click on a split and reorganize it relative to my other buffers. Or select text and hide it using whatever feature "zf" is called. Etc, etc.

Maybe I have an extremely dim of the full, non plugin augmented, vim featureset but… I think it would be possible.

3) Now you're the one splitting hairs. A blog post covering a specific vim key combo… is documentation of a technical sort. C'mon now. Few people are reading that to relax after work.

>The rest of vim's feature set is large enough that it will require some type of research to uncover

I disagree with this. I mean, if you want to compete at vimgolf, of course you need to know the internals inside and out. But there ought to be no reason why I need to memorize five commands off the bat just to split a window. Or set a macro. Or blah blah blah blah.
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Most people here and in the press (Amazon's PR unit included) consider this a company v company debate - "Apple vs Amazon" debate. Barnes & Noble seems to be such an afterthought that the Nook Color gets little attention though it is the directly competing product in terms of product specs and price (though the NC price will have to come down from $249 to $199 or below to compete).

The NC curently has what I think is a large advantage in that its easy to root via the microSD slot so it becomes a fully functioning Android tablet, including Android Market. The KF can provide Amazon media - for users, does this outweigh access to the Android market and native access to Google products? The NC still got nowhere near the appreciation from the public in its history that the Kindle Fire got in one day.

I'm curious as to what strategy Barnes & Noble takes with regards to NC in resposne to KF. A reliable source tells me that the NC is 85% owned by women and the targeted primary audience for its apps are 30+ women. There are few free apps because BN doesn't want to create an expectation of "everything should be free" (i.e. get users used to paying for value). The targeted audience also is one less opposed to paying for something nor have time to find free hacks (unlike young males). I don't think this market will be sufficient to keep the Kindle Fire from dominating at the $200 price point. Everyone, including not-yet-purchased-a-tablet 30+ women, will soon likely hear of the Kindle Fire and BN will lose much of its small core audience.

Given the $200 price point, I think that there may be an oppotunity for BN to make a large mainstream splash if it allows greater flexibility in the NC (including fully integrating Android Market). Otherwise, I don't see how it competes with Amazon because of "coolness" perceptions of the two companies. In that respect, Amazon competes with Apple; while BN competes with Borders (RIP).
I have made a living as a musician, as a 3d animator, and as a software dev. My parents are both teachers. I did a lot of research in my University days.

In all of these areas, I can see the potential for multitouch-based applications that go far, far beyond what we're currently seeing, or have ever seen on a traditional mouse/keyboard computer. In fact, in my current line of work as a developer, I'm pursuing these very things.

If you're in a line of work where you're attempting to push the boundaries of what's possible with a computer, I find it hard to believe that you aren't fully aware of the realized and unrealized potential of multitouch devices.

Just because the iPad feels like a toy right now, doesn't mean it's limited to that sort of usage for all people, from now on. I just don't see Amazon playing any role in pushing user-facing technology forward. Silk is brilliant, but the Fire doesn't really enable anything that wasn't previously possible, and I don't see that changing. The iPad did.
For a list of (most of) the times this story has been submitted, see here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3048693
I built http://happy21stbirthday.com and received small income from advertisements/affiliate revenues. Basically it's a site catered to gifts/promotions/ideas about 21st birthdays (college kids especially) I haven't maintained it much lately as I should.

If anyone is interested in purchasing it

or

If anyone has suggestions on how to revamp it I would love to hear feedback.
Being a practicing mathematician means generating and publishing results. I am interested to see your iPad app for diagonalization results or computability proofs.
How many domain registrars and hosting providers are there? As long as a lot of people are using Django, there is plenty of room for competition.
>Part of actually owning up to your mistakes is accepting the consequences gracefully.

The consequence is going bankrupt or not going bankrupt.

>His fuckup, he's the one that has to deal with the consequences.

I honestly don't understand how this gets people so riled up. Sure, you have the right to your own opinion.

I'd get it if it cost $600. If you're a professional developer in North America though, $60 is a damn pittance.
There's also this addon for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag...
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I'm pretty sure by "feels like" you mean "is".

Maybe multitouch will make all kinds of exciting differences. Maybe it won't. As long as you agree that you can't point to any of these exciting results yet, we're on the same page.
Remember when people said the iPod was doomed because of cheaper competition? That didn't work out so hot, I hear.
Not sure how the Kindle Touch or Fire work, but iBooks and the Kindle app on iPad both have tap once to flip to the previous/next page (swiping is not required).
I would also be mildly skeptical about that claim; I think there have been some fairly successful uses of custom UIs in medicine.
The Kindle app on Android/iOS already solve this problem, you tap the side of the page and it switches to the next page in the book. I've been reading REAMDE on my Samsung Galaxy S and on my iPhone and it works fantastically. Exactly as you'd hope it would work.

Quick easy to switch from one page to the next, all the whole still holding it in your hand.

I am assuming that the same concept will be brought over to the new touch Kindles.
I think the Kindle light is a great idea. I just scooped one myself. I rarely used the keyboard on my original Kindle, plus this one is much slimmer and compact -- awesome. Can't wait for the light to come in.

Personally I think a touchpad Kindle with eink is overkill. The touchpad is nice, but I don't see why I would ever need it if I'm just casually reading. That plus I'm a sucker for slimness and the added dimensions killed it for me :)
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I meant that the Neo4j API offers methods for graph traversal out-of-the-box which are likely the same ones that most people will use.
MySQL doesn't have a default data structure for graphs (that I know of) or default algorithms.

So while the methods used to traverse the Neo4j graph are fairly representative, the data structure and algorithms used for the MySQL traversal are not.

Of course, I agree with you that the data structure itself is optimized. In general I'm not doubting Neo4j's ability to excel in most benchmarks. I just think the approach is very basic.
Python 2.7? They’re years ahead of Google App Engine!

Addendum: The previous statement is slightly tongue-in-cheek, but: (1) GAE is running a version of Python (2.5) so old, that it’s hard to get fully patched binaries of it anymore (depending on your platform); and (2) By “years ahead,” I don’t mean it will take Google years to catch up, but merely that their Python version is years old. Puzzling, given that Guido works for Google and has for years.

Second Addendum: Linked: an issue opened in 2008 pleading Google to add 2.6 support. Three whole years ago. (Ironically, perhaps, the issue was closed as a duplicate of a 2010 issue asking for 2.7 support.) http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=75...
Yes. But the situation is not analogous, so the answer is irrelevant.
My apologies. I thought about asking it over there first to be honest but then I thought "but that's a programming site, this is a startup site".
I believe Opera is not generating any uproar simply because they are acting as a "dumb pipe" in the truest sense - they're not trying to mess with the stream of data that they're entrusted (even though they're in a best possible position to do so), and so we trust them with the stream of data.

I think it would be different if they were intruding on the stream, and I imagine the backlash against Amazon if they do will be major.
I don't know. The bundle with Machinarium and Auditorium - that was truly awesome with original games that were one of a kind. but this one... it is a bundle of, essentially, the same run-and-shoot game. Maybe it's me getting old, but this is just not interesting.
Ease of use — especially for prototyping ideas. It's easy to push a git repo to heroku and have it fire up your site — but if you've already got a fabric script to do the same thing with EC2, then that might be the better approach for you.
I think Apple's pricing in relationship to other brands is changing. They have historically been seen as a premium brand and were priced accordingly. These days though, they tend to be much more on price-parity or even winning on price. Take a look at how the iMac compares to other premium all-in-one machines? Fairly close. Then the iPad - when the Android competitors were coming out we kept saying how they'd have to be so much cheaper to compete and they weren't. Finally, the Air's $1000 price point is half of what Intel was positioning the Ultrabooks which has caused the other manufacturers to scramble cut their prices.
I currently carry around an MBP and a kindle. I could see (in some hypothetical, far-flung future where touchscreen keyboards weren't utter crap) dropping the laptop for a tablet, but I could never see dropping eInk for anything suitable for a general-purpose tablet. Barring some eInk-led hybrid, I simply can't see using a general-purpose tablet as a reading device. The kindle is simply far too good. I've been reading ebooks on my laptop for years, and I've read more books in the six months since I've gotten my kindle than I had in the 6 years prior. It's just that good.

The kindle isn't a tablet. It's your library in your pocket. Don't confuse form with function.
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I've been running multi file apps since before 0.7. If you read the documentation or searched mailing lists or looked at example applications you can see how. Blueprints made it even better.

2. In the documentation you will find that you can list out routes just like django. http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/api/#flask.Flask.add_url_rule
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The potentially interesting question is whether the iPad is actually good for non-consumption tasks. All the faculty in my research group purchase Apple products, and most of them are wandering about with iPads. They're all quite happy to use them for reading papers, reading email, etc. However, none of them, despite having been using the devices for some time (close to year for some) even feel comfortable using them for technical email, let alone writing lectures, presentations, or papers.

Again, I don't know whether the software to make those tasks workable _could_ exist; I simply have experiential evidence that it does not yet.
The http server in Go supports SPDY.

http://golang.org/pkg/http/spdy/
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Absolutely. Even if you only know what people are doing/buying in aggregate, that's still very valuable. And you can still correlate between various anonymized streams of data if you know how they correlate -- i.e. 32-year-old male manga fans are more likely to buy Pokemon and Pocky than average.

Amazon already gets (and uses, vigorously) a lot of this kind of data from Amazon.com, but I'll bet they're salivating at the idea of getting to cross-compare against all the non-Amazon.com data on the same topics. If they're not, they should be.
What is it that makes the iPad a possible laptop replacement, but the Fire not?

I don't think the iPad is that much more a real laptop replacement than the Fire. I think people bill it as one to themselves to help justify paying for an iPad.
What I do is run VirtualBox all the time. All my code and other things live on the VM, and I mount a bunch of network drives via Samba. I get the ability to use both windows and linux tools, with minimal overhead.
Have you ever seen a whiteboard? I do anything remotely logic based on one.
The median revenue per developer per month is an indicator of profitability and probably a better metric to decide the right team size.

So if you look at figure 7b, the sweet spot seems to be a team size of 6 to 9 people (where the median revenue per developer per month is $550 to $820. In contrast, the median revenue per developer per month for 10 to 19 person teams is $320 - $620).

If you can hire 19 people, you should probably split them to run two projects of 6-9 people each. :-]
As a single indie dev, I couldn't agree more. It can be a long road! Games (as opposed to say, utilities) are challenging because of the additional art/sound/creative requirements, IMO. And I think one important reason for why > 1 is better is that two founders can push each other along when times are uncertain (and they often are!)

That said, keeping momentum, coding away, and most of all greatly enjoying the process of creating something will really help you.
My problem is that I ultimately find an e-ink Kindle too limited as a reading device. I have a substantial number of ebooks in PDF format, and only a minority of them are effectively readable on my 2nd gen Kindle. (There are other use cases like comics and cookbooks where e-ink falls down on the job as well.)

Honestly, my Android phone with ezPDF is a better reader.

So something like this looks just about perfect.
A minute later and I'm still looking at a white screen.
A guy who said he worked at Facebook posted a comment on HN a couple days ago claiming that data is actually deleted from disk when you delete your account (after the ~14 day waiting period for account deletion), and I think it seemed like he was implying that this may have been the ONLY time data is actually deleted rather than simply being marked deleted. Maybe someone has a link to the actual comment/context...
To me the e-ink Kindle is life-changing ... it's what I wanted since 10 years ago, an affordable e-ink reader and access to the biggest library of books on earth, just one click away.
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Just using '10 years' as weak shorthand for the last time I could remember anyone was right about Apple cutting prices. Certainly they did in the clone era (-1997) and you can argue the original iMac as well (thru 2002 when the sunflower debuted).
Marketing, screen size and apps. Amazon for now, as far as I can tell, is positioning it as a "Amazon content consumption device" instead of a "lifestyle companion".

Mind you, I don't disagree. I think you'd have to be a little ridiculous to own both a Fire and an iPad, and a 10inch Fire is likely inevitable in a couple of years. On the other hand, I'm about to buy the old Kindle and am aiming to maybe purchase an iPad3 down the road.

I love this because it gives Apple competition. Finally, a viable tablet competitor.
I agree, clothing is a symbol. Make sure the symbol you want to project is the one the people you are dealing with will take away is the same. A guy is a nicely tailored suit might be assumed to be just another hustler in a long line of hustlers to some people.
And yet apple still released the shuffle... Weird huh?
That makes no sense. I think $199 is a great deal for a 7" tablet, and they will sell like hotcakes. But anyone selling a $400+ tablet is offering a 10.1" screen. This is a completely different user experience, and very likely a different market. Persoanlly, I don't even understand the attraction of a 7" tablet. I'm quite OK with paying 2x the price for something that's about the same size as a sheet of paper or a textbook, however.
Well, the iPad has many more apps (at least for the moment) and a bigger screen, both of which make it more suitable for light-to-medium work stuff.

For example, I can perfectly imagine (and there are many cases of this) a college student passing up on buying a laptop for class and opt for an iPad with a bluetooth keyboard instead. In this scenario, this setup can effectively replace a computer for most students most of the time.

However, I don't see how a kindle fire can fit into that context.
I think most of that syntax isn't so much "advanced" as simply not used in practice--it's too hard too read. Additionally, it uses basic operators which you should know (except maybe for "^" which is bitwise xor).

The best thing to do would be go through the basics of JavaScript and learn exactly how everything behaves. You should be able to answer questions like "is 24&&4 === true?" pretty easily.

If you have a bit of time on your hands, reading the standard will teach you all you need to know.

Of course, from a purely professional stand point, this is probably not the best use of your time (although knowing the language inside-out is important); using code like this in production code is a bad idea--it makes maintenance much more difficult.
I actually got it from a thread in HN:
"Amazon's Silk Web browser adds new twist to old idea"
http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=3049216.
My whiteboard even has a fantastic multi-user interaction system!
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There's a good breakdown of how LCD monitors work with polarization here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiejNAUwcQ8

(I'm amazed that a series of videos by "the Engineer Guy" have done so well on YouTube. He makes surprisingly accessible videos.)
It's not so much a real laptop replacement as it is a "computing device while on the go". Whereas four years ago you'd get a netbook, now… you kind of need a good reason not to get an iPad/Fire.

It's a subset of computing. I have my main work laptop, which I'm not going to take camping or up to the cottage. In this space, a tablet is perfect but we used to settle for a "meh laptop".
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"someone who doesn't have the decency to wear a belt"

I see a lot of fairly well dressed farmers wearing suspenders. Must be an region thing.
Thats just it. It's not for someone else to decide what information you project about yourself.

Types of information that are of little consequence for one person (eg. religion, sexuality, political-affiliation) could have devastating real world consequences for another if made accessible.
Also, an iPad has a camera and mic - which makes it a viable option for keeping in touch with people. Video calling is something you expect to do from your computer today.
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But the thing is that Opera now sits on a trove of highly valuable information, and I can't imagine them not doing anything about it. As benign and non-evil as they are, they must feel pressure - be it internal, external or both - to capitalize on this "asset". Do you trust them enough to keep resisting this pressure, which is only guaranteed to rise?
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I know it's subjective but I think they blew it on the size.
But collective bargaining is giving up freedom to get more negotiating power. The union prevents its members from, e.g., working more than a certain number of hours; without that restriction, the members find themselves compelled to do so. Of course, the restriction couldn't exist without the union -- that you have a lot of people acting in concert here is important (since otherwise the restriction couldn't be enforced, and more imporantly for these purposes, would be seen as unenforceable). So in that sense it's not like the case where you deliberately break a machine you own to prevent yourself from having to use it. But both cases make use of this principle.
I think they're still the consumer electronics premium brand par excellence, but they've dominated their supply chains so thoroughly that they've found savings other companies just can't compete with.

You can still buy a laptop for a lot less than $999, though, and that's where other people will come out of the woodwork to show you loud, clumsy looking Acer and HP machines.