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The lack of adoption of stylus-based input is very disappointing. I'm always floating in random scraps of paper with notes, derivations, etc. I've always found note-taking, especially when math is involved, much more natural with a pen than with a keyboard. The article does a good job of outlining why that is. I'm not alone; just think of the likely penetration rate of Moleskines among HN readers.

On the other hand, it's ridiculous that the only way to digitize these notes is by scanning, or typing them in, or using linux-unfriendly Livescribe pens that require special paper. For centuries we've interacted with documents using styluses. For doing math, for marking up papers, for scribbling notes in the margins, and for countless other activities it is simply _the_ right tool for the job. People like Steve Jobs declared unilateral war on styluses because they were being used to design suboptimal interfaces. Jobs had a point, but in rejecting the stylus outright, he threw the baby out with the bathwater.
http://developers.face.com/ has already started doing this (Though just for faces)
Even after you move to SV you'll still be on a H1B and so cant really start your own company till you get a GC. that will take you 5 years if everything goes well. (There are ways to start a company on a H1 but none in a way that allow you to have optimal control of the company.)

I'm from India and I just recently quit to start on my own. I'm 33 - I got my GC 1 year ago.

My sincere advice: Stay in India.

India is going to hit the point where everyone starts doing things on the internet. Its very nearly there. But when it explodes, there will be tons of of money to be made. You will be sitting on huge numbers of people just learning to use the internet for their daily lives.

And I would definitely advise you to join the startup. You will learn nothing but tech from Amazon. I would even take a paycut if you can ask for some non-tech responsibility in the startup, ie on the business side. You need to understand how the deals are made - even more so because your dealing in India.

Stay in India and learn how to start your own business - catch the upcoming internet wave. You are positioned perfectly to ride this out and make millions. I'm serious about this.
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How long will Ubuntu have this user base if they keep pissing people off? Is it that hard to give the users who want the old shell in its usable form what they want?

Benevolent Dictator is what Bill Gates somewhat pretended to be for years.
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Interestingly enough, these bozos were also backing Groupon as well. We've got the trifecta - Groupon, Skype, & Zynga.

With the shortage of talent, we have no need to work at company backed by these guys. Do so at your own risk!
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"If you're going through hell, keep going."

First of all, congrats on getting this far. As you know, your consulting biz is a straight services play and will only grow in relation to how many employees you have. Increasing price to match demand will only get you so far (unless you're a superstar). You do have a lot of options to grow depending on what kind of work you want to do.

- Build a network and do a rev share with other freelancers with different specialities. This will allow you to offload tasks you are mediocre at and focus on what you do well. This should increase network productivity and deal flow IF you find the right people.

- Expand on the cheap. Outsource specific tasks offshore. Do not outsource entire projects. To outsource for cost, you must break down everything into small manageable pieces.

- Move into account management and client services. Find firms/other freelancers who compete on cost and distribute your work over them. Quality and profit per project will drop but you should be able to increase your project flow significantly.

IMHO the best way is to build products and move out of services.

(I've done this a few times and currently have a small network of other freelancers while I work at a bootstrapped company.)
(I hope I get the tone right on this. I don't mean to insult any person or institution)

The interesting thing here is how military service is respected to such a high degree, bordering on worship, in the United States.

Other countries have voluntary armies too,and yes soldiers get some respect as people who do a necessary and dangerous job, but you don't see the "start your conversation with "Thank You for your service" " style everyday deference outside the United States. This is a little baffling to a non American,especially since America's wars post WW2 are mostly invasions of random third world countries against underequipped,and mostly untrained enemies, and even then the victory/defeat ratio is very mixed.

Genuine question, why does a soldier deserve so much more respect than a doctor or teacher or fireman or policeman or engineer?

Specifically wrt the article under discussion,(to a non American) this article is a generic feel good article which doesn't say very much at all. (I am sure Dan is a great person. Just saying there wasn't (imo) much meat to the article).
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I'm intrigued by your description of your project on behalf of my girlfriend (a Professor at UW, amusingly enough). I'm curious to see what this turns out to be. Good luck!
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The lack of ideas for now.
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> Aurora loads (warm, not cold) at about 2.1 seconds for me, from run to display. In context, that's about half a second faster than Firefox opening (again, warm) on the same computer, as Firefox opens in about 2.6 seconds.

I really suggest getting a SSD if you can afford it. The amount of time it will save you everytime you boot your computer and/or start programs really adds up in the long run.

Once you go SSD, you can't go back.
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It's generally hard enough persuading someone that you can measure something from a picture - also telling them that they can't use 'normal' computer software is even harder.

Of course back in the day, when it had to be a Sparc station crammed full of custom i860 boards it as even harder!
Even cooler: "planets overhead"
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Unless you need to compute integrals, enumerate Bessel functions, use fundamental constants, check units, quickly plot an arbitrary function, etc. In other words, it's an excellent technical calculator, or a more accessible and digestible version of Mathematica.
Well, yes, quite obviously: it has been visibly broken since the first software patent was granted.
Yeah, I hadn't even thought of that before, but right after I read that I started thinking of countless opportunities to put that to use.
It's much more likely that there will be almost no pens or styluses.
To put this in perspective, the original iPhone had Sega Dreamcast level graphics processing.
For every point he makes, there will be people who like the new way more.

And then there's the vast majority of people who don't care one way or the other.

For the people who really hate it there's always POP3 and IMAP access.
Now if only I could type in "cars speeding by my house." Then I might be able to find out who's speeding in my neightborhood at 2:00AM.
Usually it is a variable margin that wasn't tested on a screen the width of a normal human's.
The pencil icon, obviously. Or maybe the square with a rectangle on top.
This is an article about nothing. Some guy I've never heard of it has a secret idea. Just wonderful. There's millions of tech-savvy people with secret ideas in various fields, and yet there is nothing reportable about it.
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I really don't get what is the big deal about not liking unity, this sound strange on "hacker news" site where people are using keyboards rather than mice most of their time.

From my opinion, the alt+tab functionality is an improvement, the app/docs search works great and the overall look and feel is smooth and fine.

I do not pay too much attention whether my active apps are represented as rectangles in a bottom bar or as lighting dots on a left bar.

In general, when preaching about the ability to choose it is also include the ability to choose not to use gnome and use something new.

Ubuntu/Canonical/Shuttleworth owes me nothing, seriously, they have been providing me the entire Ubuntu distro platform and infrastructure for free, and in the last year alone, I have installed Ubuntu on about 500 network appliances I provided to my customer.

I, and perhaps every Ubuntu other users, owe to "Ubuntu" more than Ubuntu owe to us, so all this rant and complaining gets to my ears as a spoiled child complaining to his mama.

Bottom line, my vim is the same vim, my chrome is the same chrome and my Konsole is the same, oh, sorry, it is a bit different and better now, because I set "Ubuntu Mono 11pt." as the default font.
Well they get a special amount of respect for two reasons. The obvious one is that they offer to give up their life in the service of their country. The second reason is, in the past it's been viewed as a far less lucrative career. So while we might all be making a ton of money in Silicon Valley- these guys are in Afghanistan risking their lives (irrespective of your support of a particular war, the sacrifice is still being made). Also, there is still a lingering guilt over how servicemen were treated returning home from Vietnam. That still informs how the military is viewed as being owed a bit more respect than say an investment banker.
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It'll be interesting when the 'old web' is distinguished by it's use of Flash, so with modern devices you can't see content of ancient sites or web games.
It's probably an updated Ekranoplane
- http://blog.collins.net.pr/2007/07/ekranoplanes.html
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Just as the opponents of off-shoring predicted: once other nations know how to make the underlying hardware, then the next step will be figuring out how to program it well. Silicon Valley started out with Shockley and Fairchild making transistors; software took off later.
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I understand why it wasn't popular with the public, they don't care about key customization and expect a TV replacement not just a gateway to the internet. But as a programmable, cheap and pretty interface to the web, I have only good things to say about this box. Love the ability to customize any key, love the $99 price tag and the UI is only getting better. This is a box for us, not the hoi polloi.
So did you find something interesting?
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My consolation with my GoogleTV is that I didn't pay for it, and its transparent enough in terms of day to day use of the TV where I don't usually see it, and I'm too lazy to disconnect it.

Our one and only use of it has been to rent content on Amazon VOD.
There are a bunch of statups popping up in eHealth. Two new incubators have popped up as well http://rockhealth.com and http://www.blueprinthealth.org. Stanford graduate school of business are doing some interesting things in bringing new technology into medicine from an startup perspective. http://recoveryrecord.com came out of Stanford GSB - from an Aussie female phycologist who learnt to code.
"The obvious one is that they offer to give up their life in the service of their country."

Sure, but how is this particularly unique? Every country has people who do exactly that and they don't get this degree of deference on HN. Just as an example,this is true for the Afghani insurgent who tries to blow up Americans, or a member of the Viet Cong. I am sure they see the(ir respective) wars as a fight for independence against evil rapacious invaders. The Redcoat who served in the American War of Independence (the English Army, not the Hessians etc) was risking his life for King and Country.

Do we (or should we) unequivocally respect anyone who risks their lives for a "higher" cause and low pay? As a thought experiment, if an Afghani hacker who joined the Taliban were to write a "What I learned from ten years of Jihad" article, would that be on the front page of HN? (hmm that might be an interesting article. I probably wouldn't agree with it, but it would be interesting )

Your other points are very helpful, specifically the one about the Vietnam backlash. I think I understand better now.Thank You.
I think you're right -- it doesn't match FlightAware's FAA data at at all (at least when comparing in downtown Chicago). FlightAware had many more flights, including non-commercial and cargo.
The app looks okay. I think this kind of technology is great for kid safety stuff too.

However, the founder's reactions to a mediocre tech crunch story in the comments are incredible. He kind of disintegrates in there.
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Ask HN: Civil Engineering Grad Wants to Land a Job in Tech
Hey all. Long-time lurker, first-time caller.

I've been interested in tech all my life, from sticking nickels and pennies in my parent's Apple ][e disk drive to installing Mandrake Linux on my dad's old desktop which I bought for $300. I've learned HTML/CSS and worked as a university lab manager for a research program where I learned Fortran, C++, and Perl.

Despite this interest in tech--or, rather, because of it--I decided to go in a different direction in college and learn something else. I majored in civil engineering when jobs were plenty and when I thought I might want to become a university professor. After several research projects and two undergraduate publications, I decided against academia, and now that I've finished my degree, the civil engineering job market sucks.

So, I have some skills in engineering project and process management, know a lot about general tech stuff, have some experience in Linux server administration, and some experience with programming languages. I think one of my unique skills is an ability to mediate between business/non-technical people and engineers to communicate both business and technical requirements, but I really have no idea how to communicate that on a resume, nevermind my lack of direct experience in the field.

So how do I land a job in tech? I think I have a lot to offer, and I'm definitely willing to learn more for an entry-level position, but I don't know how to present myself. I have no idea what positions I should be applying to, or what companies would be willing to take a chance on me. (I just don't know the job market.) I generally do well in interviews when I get them, but with how competitive every job opportunity is these days, I need all the help I can get, especially getting past the first "resume read" cut.
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Considering I had almost exactly the same idea as "NextDoor", and that the name almost suggests itself, I don't think there's any merit to the lawsuit.

To me anyway it was an obvious thing to try, though I haven't tried it out to see if they "stole" all of my ideas, or only the basic "connect with your neighbors" part. :)
>> That being said, my takeaway was that they had thrown around equity so liberally that they’ve exhausted their employee options pool and it’s going to interfere with their ability to recruit going forward.

They can issue more stock to incentivize new employees, which is fair in that it dilutes everyone equally (preferred and common together).

What is unfair is to assume that the preferred stock allocation must be a constant, and that you have to claw back existing stock options in order to pass on stock in the existing options pool to new employees.
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Right, but here's what that one looks like for my account: http://i.imgur.com/QiV1E.png
If Koomey's Law holds then 5 years from now the batteries should last even longer because of efficiency gains.

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I don't get it, am I supposed to real that novel of a blog post to find that it has NO information about what you're doing?

Being a fellow founder of a company that's been in "quiet mode" for way too long I have this little bit of information to give you. If you don't have anything of actual value to give people, then wait until you do. Balance is of course important, but what you posted is effectively this: http://itsthisforthat.com/ without the entertainment factor.
>> the damage done not just to Zynga but the whole startup world could be big.

They have already added a new verb to startup vocabulary - to get Zynga'ed.
Apple have had small success in coercing content providers to engage a la carte digital distribution, often by leveraging Job's close ties with Disney (he was the largest share holder, and sold them Pixar.) With Disney on board the other networks would have to provide content or potentially face giving Disney a head start in online.

The commercial failure of this device was predictable: The largest issue is that consumers will reject the devices if they don't have a wide and reliable range of content, this is something which google has less experience in, and it's why Apple secured some serious content before launching. (Again those Disney ties.)

The challenge Google face is that the video media industries are determined to keep their existing business models and are fearful of what happened to the music industry. (Where Apple/other digital distributors are now able to dictate better terms for consumers.)
For example the movie industry still wants the consumer to go to the cinema, watch it in 3d, then later rent it, then sell it to a TV network for viewing, sell it again to you on it's own as a dvd, then later as a bluray disc, and then possibly 3D as well, finally again as special editions/1&2&3 bundle pack/ or extended edition. A single digital distribution takes away this ability to resell the exact same content again and again, and this is why they're fighting these kinds of distribution methods, they don't want a googleTV product which could become ubiquitous, forcing out all of the other ways they can resell content to you.
One day that'll be a Google result.
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As far as I know a good company who would like to hire a Hacker (a good or very good programmer) will consider you (Take look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic). However, you may have to prove to them that you know the stuff that you have written in your resume.

Best way forward would be to work on your skills. Although its a long shot but follow some of the advice for novice programmer. You can look for Steve Yegge's post on interviews and Joel on Software. These will guide you through this landscape.

If you want to learn programming from ground up. Here is my list:

1. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

2. http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Second-Thomas-...

3. A Data structure book

4. Some basic book on the programming language of your choice.

The list may go on but you need to go through them in full steam.

Best of luck.
And? The PS3 design is what, seven years old at this point? I would be shocked if some clever dick couldn't jam that many vector units onto a middling processor and call it good, at this point.

The reason that, say, Uncharted 3 looks so great has very little to do with any commonality with this ARM design and much more with sophisticated tooling that is now available.

IOW: BFD.
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Depends on what kind of work you're doing.

I'm a grad student in math. If I'm taking notes for a class, I prefer to have my laptop and LaTeX the notes on the fly.

If I'm working on my research, I find working with pen and paper is a psychological help: it's a good interface for working on math. The only problem is that pen and paper is a bad system generally, for a couple of reasons:

1) most of the notes ends up being crap/scratch work, it'd be really nice to be able to copy and paste the good stuff out easily.

2) Paper is heavy, I always have to decide which of my notes to carry around.

3) It's easy to loose your notes.

I'd love to have a tablet with a stylus good enough to write mathematics with.