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My wife and I got our Fire yesterday...and it's going back to Amazon. My two biggest disappointments:

1. No Gmail app (very obviously) and the built-in email client doesn't seem to support Google's 2-factor auth. It doesn't accept your account password nor will it accept an app-specific password. The web interface works fine, but the icon you get with a www bookmark is generic and boring. I know that sounds like a nitpick, but a favorites tray full of generic-looking icons does not a good experience make.

2. Scrolling sucks. It sucks in every sense of the word. At no time does scrolling through a web page, an app, or even the UI begin immediately and smoothly. And if that weren't bad enough, turning pages in Kindle books is equally frustrating. This is supposed to be the primary purpose for which the device is designed, and pages turn slowly and jerky, never glued to your fingertip. It makes the entire experience seem to lag behind your every move, and constantly waiting for the device to catch up to where you were a second ago gets annoying very fast.

Beyond that, every little thing seemed disappointing in some way.

My wife was hopeful that this would be an affordable alternative to a Galaxy Tab. I didn't expect it to be perfect at all, but I definitely expected more. My wife inherited my Kindle 3, so I'll be trading in the Fire for a Kindle Touch and saving my pennies for a real tablet...someday.
My general impression is that whenever someone uses a title like "ninja" is that the company is either a super large, largely clueless enterprise which is unwilling to pay market rates or a super small, largely clueless start-up which is unable to pay market rates.

I'm a professional. I don't need silly job titles, or gold stars on my report card. I need my employer to pay market rate, trust my judgement and allow me to do what I do better than they do (which is what they are paying me for).
So, basically, it would be ideal for building a zeppelin. Put a bunch of it into a container, and evacuate it to go up. Fill the container with air again to go down. Nothing flammable to explode.

Awesome.
anything is OK with low enough standards, surely?
Adrian I'm sorry you down voted my comment. I am not confused with the "who" but how the post is written and expressed. It starts saying "we generated", "we've been heard", later it quotes Representative D. Issa who they've "heard" where/how? Did she also call via Mobile Commons? It finally finishes the post saying "connect callers with their Representatives." So no longer mentioning the "we". This post is tough to understand, i.e. a confusing post. Just trying to express my feeling, I'm glad you understood it, but you don't need to be patronising
I think all dictionaries work in this way, not just English ones
They even have a mass-settlement-extraction campaign, though it gets less press because it's not targeted at average home users; they're smart enough not to send threatening letters to grandmothers whose grandkids might've installed a pirated copy of Windows on their machine. If they suspect a company is using unlicensed software from a member, they'll demand the company undergo a "BSA audit", which will work to correct the problem and reach a settlement. Of course, they aren't a law-enforcement organization, but they try to pressure companies to agree to a BSA audit through a mixture of claims that the company agreed to such an audit via their licensing terms, and through threats of lawsuits if they don't agree. There's a whole "BSA audit defense/compliance" specialist-lawyer industry around that.

To be fair, many of the companies targeted are not exactly innocent, but many businessmen who do have valid licenses are also worried about the expense/disruption of the process. Disorganized shops who don't have their licenses nicely indexed can end up in trouble, too, if they can't manage to rummage through enough cabinets to locate copies of their licenses (one reason some have resorted to physically attaching the Windows license to each machine, so it moves with it). It's sort of like being audited by the IRS; sucks even if you weren't cheating on your taxes, except it's weird that it can happen from someone who isn't even the government!

There were also some allegations (I believe settled out of court) in the 1990s that the BSA was using its enforcement threats to coerce companies into buying site licenses of its members, because having a site license would exempt you from the possibility of an audit.
http://www.theverge.com/version-history
Oh, solid state physics is plenty complicated. But in the regime where computers operate, you can successfully model the chip as a bunch of discrete signals and NAND gates and shit (ignorance showing through here).

And, yes, I swept computational physics under the rug. Ironic, really, because that's my niche.
I too expected the syntax list comprehensions to chained.

Turns out that nesting is a feature:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0202/

- The form [... for x... for y...] nests, with the last index varying fastest, just like nested for loops.
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Oh please, you're not a bad troll?!

Here you did sweeping personal attacks on Perl programmers, based on some down votes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3159881

As I suggested, why don't you go to a discussion on Python, or something, and start writing personal attacks there. Then you'll see down votes...

You wrote more than 10% of all comments in that Perl discussion too... Get a life or start writing code for a hobby.
How is this different from writing each block's own address to it, and reading them back? That's the test I use to detect errors in block addressing.
I wish all nasty legislation had this...
Not the same, the loop you suggest doesn't work when s is not initialized before:

>>> state
[0, 1, 2]
>>> states
[[11, 12], [21, 22], [31, 32]]
>>> s=None
>>> [ st for st in states[ s ] for s in state ]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: list indices must be integers, not NoneType
>>> s
>>> [ st for s in state for st in states[ s ] ]
[11, 12, 21, 22, 31, 32]
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Story of my life. Literally:

http://lookingbackaretrospective.posterous.com

He has a lot of good points
Two words for you: Overton Window.

SOPA was designed to fail. It was designed, however, to help pass a less evil version of it in the future, by leaving the impression we have to defend content creators, but not this much.

Wanna bet?
The thing is, I'm so jaded by the piracy supporters' rhetoric at this point, mainly their failure to admit that hundred of millions of people use filesharing/streaming technology to blatantly rip off content-producers, that I haven't even looked into what this latest bill is. They've cried wolf too many times.
I kinda get ta thinkin'...

...that the state of our industry right now is very much like the 50s and 60s was for music. So there are going to be pioneers who write things that don't always make it, until someone else does it just a little bit better.

Back in the 80s I would spend many a night writing songs with my other half (we were a Duo not married) not completing anything really, and then finding much of what we wrote appearing sometimes years later. It got so bad that at one point we thought our bedroom had been bugged by the major labels ha ha.

I think it's the nature of the creative beast, you have to be in-tune to see what will work and what will not. There are clearly others who are as in-tune as you, the generation gap is not the barrier you might imagine it to be, and anyone who simply gets it also will have the same ideas.

Does any of that make sense or am I just an old hippy?
That first graph is terrible. Making hate and love similar shades of purple.

I'm not even gonna pain my head to understand what the colored bands mean.
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If you just went by those 2 rules, 6 kg in 3 months seems like a lot to me. Also, your loaf of bread seems pretty healthy to me. Is it really that unhealthy? And does it really make such a difference, to you know, just downsize the number of slices per day?

Other than that, kudos for your discipline!
The key, I believe, is customer service and attention to your users. Follow up every single email on a personal basis. Big companies can never compete on customer service and people love feeling that they are being listened to - encourage direct feedback and engage your customers.
While I think of it, I'm a big Apple Fanboy and have a BlackBerry 9900 which annoys me every time I use it, but one of the things I can't fault it on is responsiveness.

Browser scrolling, app switching, main menu switching, all fast, there's no keyboard lag, no email inbox scrolling lag - that part of the otherwise-annoying-UI is all great.
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Or better yet: If you paste that funny clip you saw on MTV on your Facebook, MTV can press criminal charges and send you to jail.
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I love the analogy, it makes total sense. You can always bet at some point someone else will have the same idea as you, it's just your job to make sure if you believe in it you create it and do it justice. Unless I'm a hippy too..
Before I start my rant, let me say well done! I enjoyed the game and liked the deomonstration of fullscreen 3D browser games.

The game itself is pretty cool and demonstrates nicely the possibilities of browser-based gaming, though I get the impression that Javascript and WebGL aren't really going to displace native games anytime soon.

It runs at a very acceptable framerate of ~35 fps on my computer. This sounds good until you realise that I can run Skyrim on medium-to-high settings and get a similar (and sometimes higher) framerate. This game only uses 30 to 40% of my gpu, but the graphics are very simple. Skyrim uses 20 to 100% depending on the scene complexity, but even its simplest (20% cpu usage) scenes are more complex than this one. I've also tried lots of other WebGL demos and the common theme was usually low framerate but with low GPU usage, so my conclusion is that its not WebGL thats at fault , but Javascript - that is, the GPU renders what its given blazingly fast, and its the JS game logic and physics that caps the performance. I imagine most internet users won't have an expensive gaming graphics card like I do too, so my performance is probably even at the higher end of the spectrum, rather than representative...

I've played witht the ImpactJS game engine (not webgl, but 2d canvas drawing) and the performance analysis tool shows that rendering is always a tiny tiny portion of the frame time. Logic isn't all that much more (but I never had anything terribly complex either) and "system overhead" (stuff like garbage collection) was where most of the frames processing time was spent. I imagine that JS is also forced to give up cpu time more often than a native game would be - to keep the browser responsive.

tl;dr - cool game, but I don't believe Javascript performance is even close to really taking on native games. Yes, its improving, but it will be a few more years at best before its really good enough to make a difference.
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in this case, the whole congressman's website could be "put offline"

But, judging from past DOJ actions, it won't just be lamarsmith.house.gov that's taken offline. It'll be the whole house.gov domain!
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Hi all,

Please tell me how can i install MAC- os under my windows XP. I have AMD processor is there any issue with processors or Intell processors are mandatory or MAc please help me out..
This is what I was wondering about: how does a particle ‘know’ it is being observed? Something has to interact with it physically, and once affected its physical properties change. Is that right?

I’m a total layman here but so fascinated with all this. Trying to get a better understanding.
What happens if you say no to an audit? Do they ban you from buying software?
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Ask HN: Buying a wireless N Router with USB and with Print Server?
I'm looking to gift a new router for my Startup family with my little savings. I'm low on budget.

I need a very customizable router i.e supporting Tomato/dd-wrt and Wireless N Surfing, has Qos Bandwidth Management, and has USB ports - for Centrally sharing Portable HDD's and USB ports for a Print Server. Will save lots of our productive time.

I can only think of Asus N16 router, which has all this options available.
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Do you prefer for any other routers? Cheaper and more versatile?
All help highly appreciated.
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I imagine about 200 years after scientists finally stop getting it wrong, so almost surely never.
Click-able Link for Asus N16 router -

http://www.amazon.com/RT-N16-Wireless-N-Maximum-Performance-...
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It seems that Greece doesn't owe the biggest sum of money, why then does it causes such big problems?
Now it makes sense :) thanks!
There's a "Click to skip" in the upper right hand corner.
My background is with LINQ, which means I find it more natural to group it as:

st {for s in state} {for st in states[(s,letter)]}

But I agree, reading it as English your grouping makes more sense.
wfm, I'm using Chrome and Adblock Plus.
Not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse or if you really don't see the point.

Compare:

Problems involved in curing AIDS: Needs a biotechnology background, a medical background, a chemistry background, an understanding of disease processes and treatment processes, FDA approval trials, pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Problems mentioned in the article: two people disagreeing on how Amazon S3 should be setup because they aren't happy which account to use or who should pay. Asking the leader to make "stupid nitpicky decisions" which they could make, but don't. Not deciding which email/newsletter program to buy. Not proceeding with what they agreed and instead generating ideas for other kinds of possible business model.

I haven't cured AIDS because I literally can't. They haven't registered an Amazon S3 account because ... what?.

As for trusting the OP's intelligence, he appears to be a marketer ranting at engineers.

And if he was saying "I asked you to have this facebook killer done by last week. Lee, where's that scalable S3 backed website I ordered you to write? Sam, your friend with the content industry connection, I need a film licensing agreement for streaming, come on, I expected better of you. Jon, I told you to sign up some people, Google Plus had millions of users in its first weeks, how many have you cold-called?

Then I'd be right behind you calling him a clueless PHB and a pox on all right-thinking people.

But he isn't doing that. These people agreed a project on a rushed timescale that they voluntarily comitted to - presumably they were all confident it was a solvable problem.
You can replace your Windows computers now if you really want to.
Pelosi will never fail to get re-elected. But as House Minority Leader she has other things to worry about, in particular getting all the other Democrats re-elected. And that means trying not to piss off any big donor group. Big Content is a big donor group for the Democrats, which is why she'd be naturally inclined to support something like this. On the other hand, overwhelming opposition from Big Internet (particuarly Google, etc) is a bit of a dealbreaker even if Silicon Valley isn't nearly as conscientious about paying its protection money (err, political donations) as Hollywood.

So, like she says, "we need to find another way". They'll come up with a new bill that is either less objectionable or one that hides the objectionable parts more clearly... and then they'll pass it when nobody's paying attention.
> Just who are these people who make websites? What are their titles? What kind of education have they had? What skills do they possess and what skills do their employers imagine they possess? How do they stay current? How happy are they? How well are they paid? How mobile are they, creatively and economically?

I reccomend everyone reading Hacker News that _happens_ to be involved in the web industry should fill this out, to create a broader picture.
How is a mac not a "general computing device"?
Did they use tropo?
AFAIK the special relativity says than traveling faster than light will make you go back in time, but if a particle goes back in time it does not mean it goes faster than light.
Sure, but this raises enormous questions of where, exactly, the spread of personal standards is distributed for the various demographics in one's target audience.
No it isn't, it's an explicit way of saying that the number of real parameters needed to specify a quantum state is exponential in the number of systems.
I think two landing pages would be useful due to the discussion of price on the homepage. When I first quickly skimmed it I was wondering why they were charging job-seekers so much.

People scan sites for unfamiliar services very quickly. Having the pricing so close to the free service is likely to confuse some subset of readers.
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I have no use for this but I want it so bad it hurts. This is a truly an amazing gadget.
Why are you writing in sms-speak?
Really? How could someone be so stupid as not to check something like that if it was that important to them?
I imagine in part is has to do with copyright/licensing agreements with the actual content providers. Still, it's annoying.
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"The team behind the finding in September that neutrinos may travel faster than light has carried out an improved version of their experiment - and found the same result."

There goes physics as we know it!
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Too much trust (when trust harms teams)
Connection error, but this is the same thing I believe
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/17/fxis-cotton-candy-could-t...
Interesting, but note that the writer didn't get a chance to actually use it, just saw it boot up the Android environment in a window on the laptop. So, it could be great, or it could be unusable. Also the company aren't selling direct, they're hoping for someone else to pick it up and turn it in to a real product we could buy.

So, interesting, quite advanced concept, but I'd be more interested when I can buy one than it's current state.
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Has the Android emulator gotten any better? If not, this may be a must have for some Android devs
Indeed, as stated by the internal communication note:

This test confirms the accuracy of OPERA's timing measurement, ruling out one potential source of systematic error. The new measurements do not change the initial conclusion. Nevertheless, the observed anomaly in the neutrinos' time of flight from CERN to Gran Sasso still needs further scrutiny and independent measurement before it can be refuted or confirmed.
We do something similar in Australia too: http://results.aec.gov.au/12246/fad.htm
definitely interesting stuff
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I wonder how much of the poor performance experience of Android is up to Java (and possibly too much abstraction layers), don't know enough about the Android architecture to form a good idea about this issue.
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Really fucked up (from a engineers point of view) that it only supports linked in and not Github to begin with.
You're correct. The immediate fix was to just upload the font but the long-term fix was as you pointed out.

At first we would only treat urls with certain file types (jpg, png, mp4, etc) as files when found on the server, the rest as pages and we switched from a whitelist of file types to anything that had an asset directory path in the url. Our original htaccess rules were definitely deficient. The idea was that we wanted tracking pixels and the like to be able to run code.
Buying tools or software isn't going to make you a better web designer. What you need to do is practice and practice some more. If your goal is to be a good web designer, then that's the only way.

Now, the question I think you're asking is how do I make my websites not look like crap. Revorad answers that question and it basically is don't reinvent the wheel.
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Depends on the cost. If it's much more than $350 then it's probably cheaper to find a phone or tablet on ebay.
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Curious, I've got none of those problems visiting the site when running Firefox on a windows 7 PC.

I wonder if it's some kind of plugin issue, Firebug is a monster consumer of resources for example.
What happens if there servers and legal entity is in another country?
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Which does not contradict an assertion that 90% of employed programmers can program.
If I were involved in this project, I'd be sitting around saying "please don't let it be my fault, please don't let it be my fault".

Somewhere, somebody screwed up... and if the problem is in my code then I want to find it and correct it myself, rather than have it found and corrected by some random stranger who emailed me, and will then post the bug all over the internet so the world can point and laugh at the exact line of my source code that sent the world on a wild goose chase for FTL neutrinos.

So I don't blame this guy for not sending you his source code.
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It looks really sweet. Here's the company website:

http://www.fxitech.com/products/
Cialdini's book on influence mentions this. An effective persuasion tactic is to request something absurd, then request something less extreme, and people are more likely to comply.

No doubt the SOPA writers know this.
Was he Six Sigma certified? A Black-Belt? These things are important you know!
Do you have some secret ability to know who clicked the downvote button that the rest of us lack?
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Because it's the country that can't pay its debts. Liquidity is more important than total value. A country with massive debts that can pay the interest is fine. A country with small debts that can't pay them is in real trouble.
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What possible reason is there for not doing so? The code and the ideas within have no direct commercial value, surely?

Laziness, lack of time, and the fact that most scientific code is not suitable for public consumption. For instance, my code includes error messages such as "What the fuck????" and "This never happens" which I'd need to take out in order to prepare it for publication.

In addition, there's the assumption that source code is a pretty trivial implementation detail; we publish the algorithm but not the details of the implementation, just as the experimentalist tells us what he built but doesn't tell us what brand of screwdriver he used to build it.