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> I can't think of many reasons to work out a coffee shop instead of a public library.

Well, the most obvious reason would be for the coffee.

Seriously though, I think this varies by city. In Seattle, it's very much culturally accepted to work from coffee shops; it's practically what they're there for.
I want to have endless passion like this man...
Show HN: Seattle Traffic Congestion Map, in 3d
This is the normal traffic map that most folks use: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/seattle/

And this map adds a third dimension: http://seattletraffic3d.herokuapp.com/

:)
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Wonder what type of startups will come out of North Africa?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/world/middleeast/all-aboard-google-bus-seeks-start-up-ideas.html?_r=1&hpw
You need to fix your links! Nearly every time I click on the next page or something, it says: 'unknown or expired page'. If it needs refreshing, why don't you automatically send a refreshed page when a link is clicked?
Loopt is more successful than HN users would realize. Some of what it does isn't consumer facing, and its users are (like e.g. Stumbleupon's) mostly not HN users.

In any case, you can't measure someone by one company. The formula for the success of a startup includes a random multiplier of roughly zero to a thousand. You can see this from how common it is for successful founders' second startups to fail.

I'm actually more impressed with Sam than when I wrote that. Since then I've talked to him a lot more because he is one of the alumni working part time as YC partners. He has extraordinary energy combined with the judgment of someone twice his age.
If you wanna run Linux inside a VM then you should definitely consider Arch Linux.

It's got all the basic Unix tools you've mentioned plus an extremely simple package management system. Most of the system configuration lives in a single file (/etc/rc.conf). If you need help, there are lots of very high quality articles on the Arch wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org), and the folks at #archlinux on irc.freenode.net are super helpful.
You are confused, the price has nothing to do with it. (although it is of course absurd for a text editor).
The iPad is not a laptop killer for people who want to be productive on it. Period.

If they want to make the iPad a laptop killer, they first need to make it more like Asus's Transformer, with a keyboard dock, and second, they need to get more apps on iOS that can replace people's need for Windows apps.
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The screen size is important. If you've tried to use the web on a nook its lucky to be an average experience, generally its actually pretty horrible as its so small. The iPad as a slightly better experience due to size alone, but even still I don't like using safari.

Anecdotally most people I know with iPads have stopped using laptops outright. Disclaimer here that the majority of owners are older.

The interesting thing to see is how the Silk browser addresses the issue of terrible web experience on small screens.
ISPs have been doing this for ages, maybe not as fine grained as what Amazon plans, but all traffic in general is data-mined and sold.
For those who don't like the hustle and bustle of coffee shops, may I suggest university libraries?

They're quiet, generally unattended by the local undergrads, and the wifi is generally very consistently available (even if there is a registration process to make sure your machine fits school security standards). Plenty of power, too.

On the downside, there's no cheap coffee nearby and sometimes it isn't allowed at all. The same may go for parking.

Still, if uninterrupted peace and quiet is what you need for productivity, they may be a solid option.
I like to think of my diet as "early-Neolithic". I am from one of the populations groups with adult lactose tolerance. So, I modeled it on the foods that might be available to what used to be called a "gentleman farmer".

I also recognize that scientific research has made real progress on determining what to eat in the past few years; so, I've also tried to incorporate some of those findings as well.
Oh right, that's why I live and work on Capitol Hill... Neat! :)
Ask HN: Acquisition failed, company has our IP / knowledge
We recently went through a tough acquisition process, in which we laid bare most of our technology to a rival business. It didn't close (which surprised us but we're moving on), but they are going to build a competing product. Anyone been in this situation and got any advice? We had an NDA with them of course and have documented everything we think they've seen. We have some tricks up our sleeve we never told them about (waiting until close) so we're not concerned but we do think they'll be closer to market because of what they've seen from us.
30000 is some minor construction work. Yeah, I would call that fairly trivial.
Mostly it boils down to getting really good coffee and just a change of scenery. I get restless staying at home all week long. I never work a full day out though; either AM or PM is enough. 3G on my phone gets me through spotty wifi, and staying for only a half-day means I won't run out of battery.

Occasionally I'll use it as a place to meet up with friends in similar work-from-anywhere jobs. In fact, I need to start doing that more often.
1) No longer want to develop on it but don't want it to go to obscurity.

2) Free hosting and willing Apache developers audience.
What you say would be very astute, if the iPad price range was not $500-800, compared to the $380 I paid for a relatively high-end dual-core netbook with discrete graphics not 6 months ago, or the $300 I paid for a middle-of-the-road dual-core netbook for my parents.

I also really needed a keyboard, but that's not even the main issue.
I love the Kindle, and I've already pre-ordered the Fire, but I can't see how it's a decent laptop replacement compared to the iPad. First off, there's no 3G, which is one of the major reasons people like using the iPad as a portable computing device. Also, while it does have a browser and email clients, I'm guessing it won't have nearly the level of support from Exchange and other corporate email systems that the iPad does. Beyond that, I doubt it's going to have any of the "Office" type functions (besides maybe working with Google Apps) that the iPad has via the iWork suite.

Amazon's not position the Fire as a computer replacement, and they're not really providing the components necessary to use it that way. Apple clearly views the iPad as a a laptop alternative for either ultra mobile, or casual, users.
I hear programmers constantly lamenting outsourcing, undercutting by cheap contractors on Elance, cheap & shoddy work done by consulting companies etc. Your iPhone analogy is poor because what Spotify is doing is displacing an existing, profitable product with an unprofitable (for the artist) product. Maybe it's inevitable but it's churlish to so smugly call it "correct".

I remain skeptical that programmers will be so happy to see their livelihood "disrupted" when and if it happens to the extent it's happened to artists.
Well, an anti-reference: The (admittedly few) doctors I know enter simple keywords into some predetermined fields - perfect for an iPad. For anything longer they record a message that someone else transcribes.
It's certainly possible for it to be a laptop replacement but I don't think it's ideal with a 7" screen and aspect ratio. The shape of this device lends itself to be used more towards consumption of content.
<i>It feels like RIM bet big that networks were always going to be slow and cpu's wouldn't be that fast and then came along the iphone.</i>

Amazon is betting that slow hardware will stay cheaper than fast hardware. It's a good bet. If they could ship a $30 Kindle, they absolutely would. And eventually, they might.
But users are, on average, demonstrably ... not as savvy as search engineers as to the optimal way to operate their search engines.
I want to make games. I want to get really good at making games. It's not even specifically games - I find the intersection of technology and human behaviour fascinating, and games are merely the most fertile patch. I love working on problems that involve such an amazingly wide variety of aspects. Maybe that's because I love novelty, and learning.

Some day, I would quite like to strike out on my own and sustain myself off the games I make. Live the "indie dream". But right now I have a job with a large degree of creative freedom, where I get to practice my craft. I don't have to stress about the financial aspects, I don't have the immediate pressure of "ship-or-starve" and I don't have to worry about the things I make when I'm not working making any money. If they do, fantastic! But if they are only interesting, then I have still won.
Ditto. There've already been multiple posts saying "don't get the base model instead of the touch" that I don't understand.

Their "touch" screen uses infrared instead of a capacitive or resistive panel, and I anticipate lots of accidental and frustrating page turns. It looks like the touch model has no side buttons from the press photos, so tapping on the screen is necessary instead of applying slightly more pressure to the bezel you're already holding. This may just be me, but I find that to work just fine.

The battery life of the base model is half that of the touch model, sure, but it's still a month. Is that really a problem for anyone? They can't use an outlet or USB port four hours a month?

Trimming space by getting rid of the keyboard and speeding up page turn "flashes" are great upgrades to an already great device.
I agree, the HP Touchpad firesale, and the Kindle will have serious long term impact on the public's perception of what a tablet (any tablet) should cost.

According to some surveys[1], most people view the $500 price for a tablet as premium anyway, and it's about the maximum price they would pay, which might mean even though Apple sells most tablets right now, they're probably selling them only to that niche market that think a tablet is worth $500.

The $200 pricing range hasn't been explored properly yet, and I think when it will be, a lot more people will become interested in tablets. We'll probably see an avalanche of "good enough" $200 tablets next year.

[1] - http://gigaom.com/mobile/heres-how-much-consumers-will-pay-f...
University libraries usually require accounts to use the wireless internet.
How does one type on a seven-inch tablet? Typing on the iPad is bad enough, but at least its long dimension is about the right size.

Presumably typing on a seven-inch tablet is reminiscent of typing on the iPad in portrait mode. Which is annoying. To the point where I'd rather type on the iPhone, where at least I can reach everything with thumbs alone.
Did they release it because they were losing money to competitors, or because they were leaving money on the table with their existing price points? I suspect the latter.
Not when it costs you your independence as a company.
Why do you need a car which goes at 300 KM/hr when you drive at 50 KM/hr all the time, and don't have any issue with speed?

When it comes to web browsing most of us have very good speed for browsing, then why do we need to speed up the browsing?
I wouldn't worry. Startups are rarely killed by competitors. And people who copy you don't get as much benefit from it as you might expect. They know what you're doing but not why.

Worry about making users happy. Competitors are a second order problem.
Unless you want to see the product disappear from the market, the "correct" price must also compensate the production costs and provide for a little profit for the author. Thanks to digital piracy the price many customers are willing to pay falls far short of that mark. If stealing physical goods was as easy as stealing digital goods you'd see the "correct" price of a car far fall below what it costs to make it too.
Unfortunately, not everyone is fortunate enough to have access to a good library. I happen to have a good branch nearby and a beautiful main branch that isn't too far that I also use once a week when my local branch is closed. Oh, that's another issue. Libraries have very limited hours, even worse than a coffee shop. My library opens at 10, closes at 6 or 5 and is closed on Friday.
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They were losing out on customers so they released an el-cheapo piece of crap. This is my point.
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>they first need to make it more like Asus's Transformer, with a keyboard dock

These already exist from Zagg and Logitech.

>they need to get more apps on iOS that can replace people's need for Windows apps

This takes time. Hardware and software will progress to allow this.
Why would the Fire beat the iPad for "people who care more about content and entertainment"?

Aren't these the people who want the bigger screens, better graphics, cameras, longer battery life? I guess there's price but that didn't seem to be the argument you were making.

I agree with your larger sentiment, the Fire should be a laptop replacement for some people. Heck I think the smartphone is a laptop replacement for some (smaller amount of) people. I guess Gruber is arguing that fire-laptop group to be a rounding error. I don't have any confidence either way.
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And it isn't to say that both are good biz models.

Expensive (high margin) fast hardware that can do more things
Cheap (low margin) slow hardware that can do some things

The one thing we do know is that WebKit is winning. Now the big question is which JavaScript engine did they use? My gut says V8 due to the optimizations I know they could do with the cloud setup they have.

(disclaimer work for the webkit team at rim and this is all my own personal opinion)
A few months ago, my old college roommate's dad got cancer. That situation inspired me to start reading medical research on how to avoid cancer, or at least drastically reduce my risk for it.

I've learned a lot since then and have kept notes.

Now, I'm curious about whether there is interest for a report about what I've learned. If there is, I'll organize my notes and offer it for sale for a few bucks, just because I would have to take time away from my family to compose it.

If you would like me to create this report, please enter your email at the link above.

(This has also given me a chance to try out unbounce.com, which seems pretty cool so far!)
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This is what I like to do on daringfireball posts: http://i.minus.com/iXy1JUUd4GGMz.jpg - and that's pretty much my opinion about them.
Person's post in Reddit about this: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ku5ss/i_was_sued_for_o...
"Apache Mobile" sounds like a mobile web server, IMO.
As much as I am a believer in markets and competition, if they did enter into the acquisition in bad faith then it sounds like you need to talk to an IP lawyer. It is a little late for should haves, but I would have had a rider in the NDA that failure to acquire carried a monetary fee 10% of acquisition sounds about right. It may scare off truly interested parties, but it will surly weed out anyone acting in bad faith to acquire market segment knowledge. A non-completion rider is not as unusual as one would expect.
On and Off is going to be great for future development. Especially when you can't guarantee how a dom element had events assigned to it.
Some loose remarks:

Interesting to see Ward 'discover' a new wiki variant (listen how often he states that the software he is writing 'wants to be X')

I am not really familiar with it, but I think this could be called 'pragmatic Xanadu' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu). It will be interesting of this will be successful, or whether it will eventually run into the deep problems that project Xanadu thought it had to solve to be successful.
All we know is that they've resisted it so far, right? I know the bar for ethics here is pretty low, but give credit where due.
Kinda cool, but it bottoms out at 0 degrees of inclination for all Y coordinates in the bottom half of the window, which is a really useless perspective. How about bounding the range of angles, between something like 30 and 90 degrees?
Nonsense! The e-ink does video.

http://gigaom.com/2011/07/08/how-do-you-get-video-on-kindle-...

It just has a very low frame rate. And no sound ;)
Theoretically, Amazon could "replay" the 1000 hits back to the NYT in the background while the users are getting served the cached page. In addition, it appears that JavaScript still runs on the client (though compiled down to bytecode before reaching the device), so any JS-based analytics would still get fired off.
And World of Goo (and VVVVVV). But after watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jJrUY27O0Y i really think this is also a very cool and interesting game.
For every job? Doubt it. There are always demand/supply imbalances somewhere in the caleidoscope of "all possible jobs" at any given moment and place. In a demand/supply imbalance you may not be the "perfect choice" but the second-best and totally-acceptable if you demonstrate that "I'll learn on the job and I have the basic core soft skills of enthusiasm sane-humility big-picture-view hands-on-brain" in your interview.

Well you just tell them "pay me 80-90% instead of 100% of your usual salaries for 1-2 months, then decide whether to keep me for another year or not. I always learn on the job and I always get good at it, fast."

Only if it's the truth of course.

(Of course, that's for "simpleton" jobs, not for programming. You better had been building stuff privately or at uni for at least a year, obviously.)

Can-do or can't? "It's your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude!" ;))
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<I also really needed a keyboard, but that's not even the main issue

Well, considering the iPad lacks a keyboard, I'd say that's a pretty big issue at least.

>for my parents.

PERSONALLY, I would happily pay the premium if it means I never have to field a support call ever again.

Tradeoffs! Also your parents might not appreciate playing games or watching movies on the couch as much as other people might, yadda yadda.
The problem with touch interfaces is that they're low-resolution. Most "professional" software allows manipulation of a large number of parameters. With a keyboard and mouse you can do this fairly efficiently but you just can't pack that many widgets onto a touch screen unless you make it much larger than 10". Compound gestures may be more expressive than mouse clicks but they're also more error-prone and much less discoverable.
As i suspected you are totally ignorant on what you are talking about and just spreading confusion.

The backward error remains and those powers of 10 depend on that error critically.

As the condition number gets larger it's trivial to prove that the integers involved will grow asymptotically (at least) exponentially so in no time your exact approach becomes intractable in practical terms.

This solves nothing of what you mentioned and you are a fool for thinking otherwise.

You lack even basic understanding of what's at stake.
That's what I thought too. I've always been interested in Frozen Synapse because of the strategy part (Which reminds me of the old Rainbow Six games) so this is a chance for me to get it cheaper than normal.
You don't understand because it's bullshit from a notoriously biased source. The iPad is high end, Fire is low end. But if the iPad "replaces laptops" so will the Fire. There's no argument.
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How is this faster if Amazon is acting like a proxy and acting another layer of redirection?
Yeah, its a weird (and stupid) system. Libraries are toeing a fine line between getting sued vs not. They only got agreement for 'lending' ebooks if they set up a system like real books where if its out, you can't borrow it. This from the head librarian at the Sunnyvale Library at least.
Hoax? Since when do Android versions show up as codenames in Android phones? ("IceCreamSandwich")
What is it? It's raw, unfiltered bias of course.

There's very little reason why the Kindle Fire won't be a strong iPad competitor. Tablets are primarily used for browsing, reading, and casual gaming. It seems like Kindle Fire will succeed in hitting each one of those bullet points.
I currently have a MBP and an iPad but I really dislike reading on the iPad and I think it's quite likely my next round of devices will be a MB Air and e-ink Kindle. Ironically the new MB Air is so light and portable it undercuts most of the value of the iPad for me but I'd still like a comfortable reading device, preferably one I wouldn't be devastated to lose at the beach.
Also, to get something up quick and dirty with a vps or shared host, is fairly easy, I'll agree with you. However, as you need to get more power, it becomes more problematic. With Heroku, the "quick and dirty" way is actually quite robust and can scale well.

But I'm with you that I find it a bit too costly as I know (and actually like) configuring my stuff.
Take-home lesson:

To be successful,

(1) Practice.
(2) Network.
To a point; for the vast majority of users, the increase in hardware requirements for modern desktop tasks plateaued quite some time ago. The exception to this is video games; they've continued to drive hardware advancement on the desktop.

Mobile devices are nearly on par with where that plateau began, and there are plenty of reasons to increase the CPU/GPU performance for the purpose of games. In this context, it certainly appears to me that Amazon is wasting their resources on what amounts to a massively complex privacy snafu.
just like your doing with virtualbox. thats fine

next do this

* make sure you're using bridget network adapter (in the vm settings inside the virtualbox gui)<br \>

boot your linux image in virtualbox. login root , set up a ssh server.

> if deb apt-cache search sshd , if rhel/centos yum search sshd, then go ahead install...

obtain the IP: (type ifconfig) and then you may go ahead , minimize the virtualbox (like hidden),

* crank up a putty terminal via ssh and login baby!
A year ago I would have agreed with you, but Heroku has been on a roll lately introducing features at a very fast pace. The party may end eventually, but I've been really pleasantly surprised by their post-acquisition actions so far.
Actually I was going to say the first shot was iCloud from Apple, they just didn't extend it to browsing.
On a side note, the Fire will not be able to download from the Google Android app store.
One example: http://www.blogher.com/ipad-nearmiracle-my-son-autism

..and all the stories about grandparents getting iPads.
These are all anectodes of course, and we'll have to wait for the peer-reviewed papers to come in some years from now.

You can call the iPad a toy all you want. I'm sure some Delta and United pilots will disagree (hopefully they don't allow games on the iPads they have).

Lots of people called the first Mac a toy with its silly mouse and GUI when it was released, yet here we are.
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That's an awesome story, you should definitely post it on YakYak. :)

Oh, and check out some of their new stuff I mentioned. Especially the iOS stuff as it's modeled after many games from the C64-era (you'll like them I bet): http://minotaurproject.co.uk/Minotaur/minotaurprj.php
Android Apache's license allows just that. Google was aware that was going to happen. There have already been android phones released that were locked on Bing as the search engine and many other devices with no android market. So nothing unexpected here for google.
Opera Mini is likely not causing any uproar because they're a 2nd or 3rd tier browser. They're not a 1st tier browser, and they're certainly not the default browser on a 1st tier platform.

Amazon, however, is making a play to be a 1st tier Apple-style comprehensive platform for mobile devices, media, and applications, and they're shipping "Silk" as the default browser.