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i've had mine for 24 hours now and my review is pretty much the same. too many software quirks make it annoying to use, and the lack of physical hardware buttons may be a fatal flaw. i do like the size of it, and it's easy to hold in one hand. i think the asymmetrical size of the screen bezel is so that it can be held in one hand without having your fingers/palm on the screen, and maybe that is also why there are no backlit-buttons under there like on many android phones.

i have a kindle 3 and bought the kindle fire as a general-use tablet (so no book reading on it) and my first tests were with the netflix and plex apps (plex had to be side-loaded since it is not in amazon's store). amazon's native video app has on-screen volume control, so adjusting it is pretty simple. any other app, however, expects there to be hardware volume buttons so changing the volume in an app like netflix or plex means:

- tapping once to take the video out of nearly-full-screen (every non-amazon app doesn't go full-screen, there is still a small bar at the bottom to bring up the soft back/home buttons)

- tapping again at the top to bring down the quick control panel, which makes netflix and plex pause (probably because they interpret it as another app getting focus)

- changing the volume is done by sliding the control in large steps (there are only like 8 steps for a control that goes across the entire width of the screen), which then plays the system default beep at that volume

- tapping again to focus the netflix app

- then tapping the app's play button to resume playing. since the video was paused, you won't know if the new volume setting is ok until you do all that and resume playing.

the power button being at the bottom makes me think i'm going to accidentally press it when the device is resting on something. the headphone jack there seems to be a poor choice as well. also, the charge led is very bright, so when it's charging on my nightstand, there is a bright orange glow pointing at things.
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Really would need more information to pick between these two.

And then there's all the CS classes to pick from too. Decisions decisions.
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Interesting. I've had good luck with ezPDF on my (mid-2010 single core) phone except for the obvious size limitations. It's definitely the go-to PDF reader on Android.

Maybe the ACM papers are just more complicated to display than the PDFs I've been reading? Because I can't imagine how the Fire could be slower than my phone.
Heh, I got there, looked my password up in Gmail and was all ready to sign the petition and then... turns out I signed it a while ago and forgot. I love it when I act consistently without realizing it.

I also love seeing this on HN--improving awareness of this issue is of utmost importance.
Language as a distinguishing trait is overrated.

Pick a project that you want to spend time on, then learn the tools that make it easiest to accomplish your design goals.
I have to admit, I'm actually enjoying my fire a lot more than I thought I would - I work for Amazon and got a chance to try a pre-release version of it and was less than excited. The interface still isn't quite as smooth as I'd have hoped (hoping they fix this or at least improve on it in a future update), but tolerable.

I used it on a cross country flight to read a book and watch a couple of videos, and it really did grow on me over that time. The size and clarity of the screen was great for watching a video, and the form grew on me in time for reading (it's still a back lit device, so it's not as nice as e-ink, but I didn't have any problems reading on my flight) - page turning needs work, but that's a software issue that (again) hopefully can get worked out.

It's not the iPad - but as someone who was already a prime customer - it does feel like a good device to me, maybe a little rushed.
Does this break the non-determinism that makes quantum computing so efficient?
I remember the article about lying to federal investigators several months ago that said something along the lines of "you are not qualified to know if you are breaking federal law. Get a lawyer." This is why.

Remember, of course, that without line-item or amendatory veto powers, the legislature can simply stuff unrelated things into unremarkable bills and get away with it. It's a great reason for your 15-page rule, and also a great reason why it will never happen.
Upvoted that.
If it works, it works.

Plus the look is not what they are selling, Vidyard's value is in their analytics and thats why they are topping the news pipeline and thats why I doubt they (or their customers) care about being so close to Vimeo.

But I do have to question what the article's author meant by 'beautiful'. Maybe that Vidyard's videos (and hence their player) supports way higher resolution than any of these other free sites. That makes sense to me, look at their sample video - its one of the best demo videos I've ever seen.
Pet peeve: Are these really "job offers"? (I've seen similar terminology used when companies contact people due to their open source projects and that bugs me, too.) I think a more proper way of describing this is that companies are offering interview opportunities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response_bias
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Backify escalates the conflict with LiveDrive
I have just received this email from Backify, which seems to be a direct answer to LiveDrive's advisory against Backify... It seems they didn't like being viewed as frauds and their users being told by LiveDrive not to give them credit card information!

Dear [Full Name],

We are writing to you in regards to the recent action taken by LiveDrive to close your backup/briefcase account.

Backify used to be a reseller for LiveDrive.com's services. Recently we were having some issues with their serive and they were literally unable to provide a solution to our problems. More information about these issues can be read on our homepage at www.backify.com. Tired of the service provided by LiveDrive, we asked them to close our reseller account. It may be noted that at no point did we ask them to close the accounts of our customers. But they went ahead and shut down the accounts of every Backify customer.

For every customer's account, we have paid in advance a full year's fee. So, the step taken by LiveDrive to close our customers' accounts without refunding us is totally illegal, and we are considering our legal options at this time. Since your account was already paid fully for one year in advance, we request you to get in touch with LiveDrive and ask them to restore your service. Their customer support email address is support@livedrivesupport.com

Additionally, we understand that you may have spent considerable time/effort/bandwidth to upload your files to LiveDrive's servers and by deleting your files/data without any notice they may have violated several laws. We also advice you to get legal help in case you suffered losses due to this sudden termination of service by LiveDrive.

Thanks,
Backify Team
I'm pretty sure they've got the "series of tubes" part down.
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clever idea, but it sort of sounds like a way to find bad apples who any company would be glad to have poached.

One idea: Offer a "honey pot" service to companies to see if their employees are trying to be poached.
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So why haven't you cured AIDS? What in your argument (or the OP's) changes when the difficulty of the problem is raised to absurdity?

Some problems are easy. Some are hard. Some are too hard to be worth solving. Some are essentially unsolvable. When someone argues problems are in category 2 by ignoring categories 3 and 4, they lose credibility.

As for trusting the OP's intelligence, he appears to be a marketer ranting at engineers. Even if he's extremely intelligent, he doesn't have the knowledge to judge if what he wants is possible or not.
Unless they happen to read your resume and see that your experience directly lines up with what your company/team is working on?
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nice stunt. maybe a statement against this a month ago would have been appropriate, but waiting till after its dead?
No it isn't.

And even good programmers do "copy" certain elements (programming style, idioms, design patterns) from good code they see. It's like reading code is such a great way to be a good programmer.
So we're left with what, GPS errors? I've gone through their experimental setup and the timing looks foolproof. The only options left in my mind are

1) The distance between the labs is smaller than they think

2) Tachyonic neutrinos (not likely)
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Corporations' only moral code is greed. And I'm not talking abstractly, I've been part of discussions at companies where people adamantly say it is wrong to leave money on the table no matter what. The only time it is OK not to grab all money you can is if it might prevent the company from grabbing even more money in the future.
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A bit of a sensational headline. According to Carmack himself, "the workaround added four lines of code and changed two." The validity of that or any software patent notwithstanding, he's not exactly rewriting the engine.

Source: https://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1371892125197926...
Actually, in recruiting you pay nothing until one lump sump when you hire someone. Here, you pay EACH TIME, and it adds up (even if it adds up to less than 20% recruiting fee, it still feels like constantly paying)
:( Keep on fighting the good fight, aaronsw.
Wonder where in the enumeration would the first consumer/technology/B2BProduct companies would lie.
Not an unfair review, but seems like he missed the killer feature: price tag.

Which should also color your expectations of the device. I don't think there are many people wouldn't rather have an iPad, or maybe even a Honeycomb tablet, but $200 with Christmas around the corner?

edit: Also, the complaints about interface seem very similar to ones about Android in general. Not to say that he's biased or wrong, just that those are things you can get used to, as many Android users will tell you. It's also something that a lot of full-time iOS users can't get past, which is understandable.
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this is not a new thing, that's what you are missing here, this isnt some radical position shift for the BSA where the companies that are members have had no time to react to this extreme position they have chosen to take.

The BSA actively states it speaks for all that list of companies, if the companies both remain a member and do not state otherwise thats _exactly_ what they do.

I mean you are falling for their trick if you chose not to blame the member corporations of their BSA for the actions/statements of the BSA, that is exactly its purpose, to take positions that are unpopular/anti consumer, and shield their members from criticism.

It works for the RIAA/MPAA, it works for the BSA too...
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So, you think you can talk to the digits of pi, for example?

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14...

Spirits puppet people, by definition.

10 i = i + 15

20 PRINT "Bible, Line:", i

30 IF i > 99999 THEN i = 0: GOTO 10

40 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 10

50 PRINT "Bible, Line:", i

http://www.losethos.com/text/BIBLE.TXT

Line: 32685

a leper.

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Here's another one in 178 lines of Go: https://gist.github.com/1371135
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Those new charges being: "...Breaking and Entering with Intent to Commit a Felony, Larceny over $250, and Unauthorized Access to a Computer Network..."

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1655830732/Reddit...

The earlier charges being: Wire Fraud, Computer Fraud, Unlawfully Obtaining Information from a Protected Computer, and Recklessly Damaging a Protected Computer.

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/217117-united-states-...
Their CMS is actually built entirely in-house. They even have version numbers posted somewhere.
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"The fact that no one in academia has spoke up on this case is damming to say the least."

I'm an academic and I think it's a load of rubbish. Where are you getting your facts?
Have we all not yet come to the conclusion that the white house petition board is a rarely-checked suggestion box with the minute chance an intern might post a formulaic and meaningless response?
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Not clear what legal issues surround the release of patented (and licensed) source code. The whole idea behind a patent is to reveal the details of a technique to the public.
A lot of this seems like nitpicking. A lot is more android than Fire. Still more is completely unrelated since he talks about 3rd party apps not functioning well on the fire.

I do have to agree about the hardware buttons however. I'm not a fan of any device with no hardware buttons much less the lack of even volume controls.
The Fire doesn't seem anything like an iPad competitor, nor was it meant to be. It's a Kindle for media that aren't books; or a re-take on the iPod for "the cloud", if you'd rather. IMHO, it fills that role very well.
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To start with, let me tell you its an ingenious idea.
but,

How do I know if this site is active or not?
This site looks to me like a proof of concept. I mean the creators are testing out if it would work based on the number of registrations. May be they would be working on the actual promise now. This could be a classic launch first and iterate example.
It seems they put <a> inside of <button>, when it should be the other way (<button> inside <a>)
I actually like mine quite a bit. I had't previously made use of the Amazon Prime free streaming content, but it's great on the Fire. Marco compared it negatively to Netflix, but Prime is $6.50 a month and the streaming stuff is just a small part (it was actually added on after--Prime was a good deal before any streaming content). Complaining about free streaming content is not a great way to start a review. How's the streaming content that Apple provides?

The size and weight are great, the iPad feels bulky after using the Fire. It's great for reading while holding in one hand, something I don't do much with the iPad because of it's size and weight.

I'm not sure why hardware volume buttons would help much, the software controls are always one tap away. I'm not a fan of the only physical button (power)--it's small and on the bottom, but I'm probably just used to the one on the upper right of iOS devices.

It's two days old, there isn't a lot of software written for it yet. That's not surprising since most developers just got theirs two days ago. The app experience on iPad wasn't great at first either, remember all the double sized iPhone apps? The focus of the Fire isn't apps, it's Amazon's content. Remember when it was announced and people were guessing whether or not Apps would even be allowed?

It's easy to use, arrives configured (and personalized--the Fire knowing who I am when I opened it was a lot better than the "plug into iTunes" message my iPad(s) came with) and seamlessly hooks into the Amazon ecosystem. It's exactly what I expected.

Update: I just tried the PDF reader, by emailing a document (again, try that on an iPad). It worked great. I added the email address to my address book and now can send docs to my Kindle without having to think. Lovely.
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Perhaps its only true for merchants - I live in Singapore and I could use Checkout to pay for Cadence and Slang.
There are lots of bad $200 Android tablets out there. The Kindle Fire was supposed to be a good tablet, sold at low cost because it was tied closely to Amazon's digital products. Instead, the reviews are suggesting that it's just another bad $200 Android tablet, albeit one that aggressively pushes Amazon's products at you.
It's usually best to leave off the "look guys, I broke physics" until human error has been well and thoroughly ruled out.
Yelp is 1 of 3 apps on my Android that I actually use. They have the best mobile experiences for reviews about a restaurant before you eat there. They have built a strong brand and I hope they do more with it. I for one, am really excited about their IPO.
FWIW, in my experience, PDF seems to be a lost cause in general on any device w/ less than a 10" screen.
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Just posted: Republican Darrell Issa says "it has no chance of passage".

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/17/idUS40280193622011...
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I've played with another $200 Android tablet. It wasn't bad. It was terrible. Awful. I wouldn't take it for free. If the Kindle Fire is as bad as that, then this review wasn't nearly bad enough.
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> The whole idea behind a patent is to reveal the details of a technique to the public.

No it's not. That may have once been the ideal but has never been the case.
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If I need to wander into the wilderness I will, but there is a gray area. We can fight for freedom, without sacrificing material comforts at the moment. In general I prefer evolution to revolution, so the less extreme action is the first one I will try.
"some issues with their serive"

"totally illegal"

I wonder what issues they were having.
"He has apparently settled with JSTOR but not with U.S. prosecutors who indicted Swartz on charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, and unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer."

Everyone theoretically "harmed" by his downloading of the material (all of which was available for free through the MIT Guest wireless network, just at lower speed) has put the incident behind them, but the feds believe their mandate is to nail his ass to the wall.

That's not the Academy's fault, and every free person should be pissed about it.
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While a bad price can ruin a good item, I don't think it follows that a good price can salvage a bad item.

I'm not inclined to forgive a crashy, recalcitrant device just because I'm only out $200 for it.
More detail at Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/17/idUS40280193622011...
> Bejar acknowledged that Facebook could learn where specific members go on the Web when they are logged off by matching the unique PC and browser characteristics logged by both the session cookie and the browser cookie.

> He emphasized that Facebook makes it a point not to do this. " We've said that we don't do it, and we couldn't do it without some form of consent and disclosure," Bejar says.

A better title would be "Facebook /could/ track users via the Like widgets, but doesn't do it yet"
how is this helping finding jobs that I'd want ? Wouldn't I just apply to the companies I'm interested, that are posting on job boards ?
Unless that's an "aggregate data only" service (you have 3 people trying to get poached), it undermines the entire premise of the site. Even then, for small companies, it can be easy to spot the guy who doesn't want to be there anymore, if you know that someone is trying to leave.
For better and for worse, we are not representative of the population at large. My wife... has never heard of Yelp, so I suppose that's not the most positive sign for them either... but she certainly doesn't hate them.
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Even if SOPA doesn't pass, what really worries me is that the perpetrators have bottomless pockets and lots of time. They'll doubtlessly keep ramming similar bills into congress until either the politicians decide they've received enough campaign contributions, or the public's minuscule attention span drifts elsewhere.

The state of our political and social climate plus the fact that this bill has gotten as far as it has makes me think that censorship will be inevitable. The only way we can get around this is to build a truly distributed internet, one without a backbone or single point of control. Can we do it?
Are you talking about from personal experience with the phone, or are you just comparing the screen size and ignoring all the reviews? I think having an irrational love for any device is plain stupid, and you seem to be exhibiting it for this phone.
A useful review doesn't need to address too many positives. I generally expect the gadget to work, it's the things that don't work that are surprising. Reviews that tediously confirm each working feature are boring.
I'm really disappointed with Marco's review because, quite frankly, it feels like he came into the purchase expecting to be disappointed, and colored his review as such.

Yes, it's not an iPad, we all get that. Stop reviewing every device as if it were.

I have an iPad, and love it to death. However, I bought the Fire because I'm a developer and I wanted to use my experience with it as a test to determine whether or not I should develop for it. My conclusion? Yes I should.

It's not perfect. Some of the hardware buttons seem like an odd choice. The back button does indeed fail sometimes, but that's it.

I think the touch works better than on any Android device I've used in the past, and I thought the mail app was just fine. Media is decent, and the Amazon Music/Video integration is awesome.

The screen size is a strange one, but I got used to it. The only thing I have really gotten used to is the weight, but I suppose that I will in time.

In short, it's not an iPad, but I didn't expect it to be.
Think of it as a 9.7, rounded up.
Tested our app on mine; unsurprisingly it identified it's model as "blaze".
I mistyped my e-mail address, so, presumably, the confirmation will bounce. There's no mechanism I can see to change it, even though I can still get to the Settings page.
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Software patents are monopolies on ideas, which is a stupid idea.
Who is representing him? Lessig?
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Common failing of tech writers/bloggers/enthusiasts. A few hundred dollars is of little concern to us. For the average person $300 is a huge difference. They might be scared away of a no-name brand but with Amazon's logo on the thing they will buy it. Apple's going to have to justify why the iPad costs $300 more in a way normal people can understand.
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