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I hear this sentiment every single update, and I always have to shake my head. The amount of time I've had to wait for Apple to put in features that are widely available on Cydia (like LockInfo, or Facetime over 3g, or letting me take photos with the volume button, or wireless syncing) makes me worry I'll always be behind on the cutting edge. Then there are all the things they still won't let me do, like wirelessly sshfs into my phone so I can drag and drop mp3s/videos from linux (i.e. completely evading iTunes), or being able to use banned apps like the amazing Grooveshark app, or having to pay extra money for tethering even though my data is capped at 2gb either way. I can't imagine Apple ever adding enough features for me to be satisfied with a vanilla phone.

I guess not everybody wants all that stuff, but I do. :)
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...And particularly when the resulting modern "composite" products (the processor, the battery, the software, the pricing; the whole package) are competitive with the then-current products in the market.

There have been many Intel-based tablets available over the years, and there have been issues with these products.

It's just a little odd to realize that a firm that is so supremely adept with designing and creating massive integrated circuits is so very poor at system and product-custom integration; at the next higher level of product integration.
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Usually it is that the sellers are actually different, like one is Amazon itself, and the other is a third-party.

So you have a product that is priced like:
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3rd Party: $12.99 with $3 shipping.

Amazon will show Prime members the first one, and non-Prime members the 2nd one.
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We currently use two hand built servers that are clones of each other behind a firewall. We've replaced them recently with much faster machines, sticking our databases and indexes on SSD's etc, and we take the retired servers and give them directly to the developers so they can build and test whatever they want in the exact same environment.
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Ask HN: Aggregator intended for a certain market niche?
Reddit, digg, ... all focus on several interests (f.e. technology, fun, news, music, video, ...). Would it be wise to build an aggregator that is solely intended for a certain market niche (f.e. technology)?
Kinda interesting how being 'arrested' is now a form of punishment or reprimand in itself. It goes on record and it may be used as an excuse to hurt you physically.

Also it seems that people can be arrested (held or detained) without being 'arrested'.
I'm highly upset at this comment. I didn't realise hn had become downertown.

Many people enjoy this website and just because someone tried to add wind into someone else's sails don't mean it's your job to tell them to stop inventing and dreaming because they're not somewhere glorious.

I hope gizmo is the first person to land on Mars and I hope just to spite you they start after they're 30...
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While they must be included for accuracy, I found that well over half of the 1-star reviews were written by people who knew that they wouldn't like the Kindle Fire, yet ordered one anyways. There were an awful lot of people who complained that it wasn't as nice as the iPad 2 that they explicitly stated they also own. What logical person buys a low-end tablet when they already have what is arguably the best tablet ever made?
Sounds like this setup would be ideal for our purposes after we establish ourselves. I like having a non-shared physical server, however the downfall currently is that I don't have power backups or fail-safe backups should hardware begin to fail, that would all have to be done by myself which could become chaos if the product is successful, but I guess the hope is that if you receive that level of success you'll be able to fund raise to build out infrastructure and the team to maintain everything and build out further.

What are the specs on your servers and what kind of load can you handle? I'm curious because I just have a single server, the specs are ok, it's a quad core 2.4ghz processor, 2GB RAM (forgot the rating, but I think it's DDR2 and it's dual channel I believe) with a 1TB hard drive, runs Ubuntu Server (latest release), so it doesn't have a GUI sucking up any RAM, but I'm not sure what kind of load (# of users it can handle simultaneously) and would very much appreciate some insight if you have any stats available. I currently have apache configured for 600 Max Clients, but the web application itself uses a decent amount of memory because it utilizes website scraping...With 600 Max Clients and 450 started it shows that I have 700MB ram free, I have a feeling I'll need some more RAM before a wide launch, but I think what I have should be sufficient for a beta launch of several hundred users
The idea that software should be built out of building blocks (if not bricks) is actually a good engineering approach .The problem is

1) These blocks are not of the same size or complexity

2) The relationships between these blocks also varies .All bricks in a wall are surrounded by a fix number of other bricks, whereas some modules may have a few dependencies and some modules may have hundreds.

3) It is often more complex than what can be pictured as a two or three dimensional analogy.A better idea is not to think about a spatial representation at all.

4) Although this is my opinion,I think if there are more than three people on a project they should NEVER work on a common block.Each should have a fixed number of independent blocks that they create and write tests for.Anyone not competent enough to create his blocks from scratch,write tests and maintain them does not have the minimum level of competency to participate in the project.Highly skilled engineers of course not only create and maintain their own blocks but also understand and learn from other's blocks.

These ideas are actually very derivative of the ideas in the book "The mythical man month".
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To quote mst: The language is called CPAN, perl is just the VM to run it on.

Also, as for your anecdote: That's fairly understandable. Plack, Moose, etc. are relatively new developments and despite naysayer's claims that Perl is stagnating, a ridiculous amount of deep-reaching changehas occured in the past 6 years. If they started 10 years ago, it's understandable that they aren't using any of these things.

They could however still benefit greatly from them by identifying part of the infrastructure of their product they could easily swap out for third-party components.

As well, in another 10 years, it's likely everyone will be using modules now considered modern, and completely different modules will be considered en vogue then.
In programming languages, generally:

* Stack: "control stack" -- a structure that tracks the context of an evaluation "step" in the program

* Heap: an environment that maps symbols to values (i.e a data structure that tracks the bindings of names to computations and results).
Dumb money vs smart money.

Sometimes dumb money will kill a startup.
Actually, this means that there should be an untethered iOS 5 jailbreak for Apple TV in the near future. This is really needed.
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly - I highly recommend reading this book. The title describes what the book is about ~ as a hacker it might just make you rethink everything you do.
I jailbreak all of my devices. Not only does jailbreaking allow you to customize your device in many awesome ways which Apple does not allow, but there are also some things jailbreaking provides you with the option to do, which make you more productive while on your device. It is also just plain fun having all the options jailbreaking gives you.

For me, the must have things you can get from jailbreaking, are SBSettings, Winterboard, Five Icon Springboard/dock, Mobile Terminal, and Lock Info.
These are all things I think are needed on every Apple device, jailbroken, and nonjailbroken.
In no particular order:

* Boomerang by Michael Lewis

* Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

* The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

* The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
And of course on a beta launch (it's a closed beta) not everyone will be on the app registering at the same time, so it would be probably at most 5 simultaneous users at any one given time
Usually when people say "the heap" (especially in the context of garbage collection) they mean the memory where new (non-stack) data/objects are allocated from. Usually this is the bulk of memory an application uses.

There are other meanings of the word "heap" in the realm of data structures, but I haven't personally seen "heap" the data structure talked about (or used) much in the wild.
The term you're looking for is "survivor bias."

We remember the startups that were mocked but became breakout successes. We don't remember the 1000 startups that were mocked because they were terrible ideas, and failed because of it.
That's true on Linux, but is it also true about other OSes?

Also, this will map the file privately (MAP_PRIVATE), meaning every process gets its own copy in its address space, and any coordination will have to go through the IO subsystem to reach the other processes.

Sharing with MAP_SHARED will save space by sharing the memory between processes. It's also possible to share memory not backed by a file, which is even more efficient.
Just one since I was busy with my senior design project for the first half of the year in order to finish college.

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Earphones falling out of my ears is definitely a problem, but this is a high tech (probably one of the best) solution for a simple problem.
It is a hard sell if my ear phones cost less than the adapter.
As far as your website is concerned, try showing some more pictures of these custom fits vs the regular ones.
As I understand the home "kits" help you get the impression of my ears and using that you will build my custom fits. Shouldn't the home "fit" by free or included in my adapter's price?
Just my thoughts and feedback. I would buy one of these if they were more affordable. :)
A 50W solar panel isn't all that costly (150-200$). This model is just a way to 'loan' these devices for consumers who can't afford even those. You will be surprised by how much utility these small capacity solar panels might provide even for those Indian consumers connected to grid (if they provide 2 lamps/ 1 fan as mentioned). This is because in rural areas, power cuts of around 8 hours/per day are very common.
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I love how the article ends, 'Although the above is interesting, as the House is the place where lawmakers are currently trying to push though SOPA, this revelation might actually help their cause. If even people at the House are “stealing” content, we really need SOPA to counter it, they may say

The question is though, whether SOPA will be able to break the habits of millions of Americans, as there will always be alternatives available. And even if it manages to put a dent in the current piracy rates, is that really worth it considering the potential damage SOPA can do to the open Internet and legal businesses?'

Their article is link bait with one arguably substantive paragraph at the end.
Interesting, will have to look into this

I've always wondered though, is it as easy as copying the disk image on my current physical server and uploading it to Amazon? I would need the same configurations and packages in place and I'm just trying to understand if I would have to remember every configuration I ever made to get me to this point, or if it's as easy as a simple copy & paste
I'll just point out that Taubes is a charlatan, and most of his scientific claims have been debunked. See here, for one example:

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/carbohydrate-h...
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The problem with PDFs I have tried is that you have to zoom it for each page. I think a good option would be to have to pdf on something like Scribd and they would convert it to an html5 friendly content, then you just view it on the browser. I haven't tried this yet, though.
Our current drug policy is already a large tax burden. The budget for the DEA alone is $2 billion. I imagine the imprisonment, local law enforcement, and court costs associated with our drug policy dwarf that number. If you are interested in less government control and less taxes, reexamining our drug policy is a place to look.

We all agree that drug abuse can have a detrimental effect on individuals and society. The question is whether our current policy is the most cost effective.

The DEA as is a government organization. And like all other organizations, it acts to grow its influence and power. If you are looking to limit government, all government organizations should be looked at not just those that give away your tax money to others.
Ask HN: What is Rob Pike's function pointer advice in practice?
After reading Rob Pike's notes on function pointers

"I argue that clear use of function pointers is the heart of object-oriented programming.
Given a set of operations you want to perform on data, and a set of data types you want
to respond to those operations, the easiest way to put the program together is with a
group of function pointers for each type. This, in a nutshell, defines class and
method." From http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/pikestyle

I wanted to understand what he meant.

Take an contact-card system. You have a struct contact_card { char* name, char* postcode, int telelphone } and an array of these making up your contacts. Then you have functions such as get_contacts_by_name(contact_card[], char* name) etc return an array of the contact_cards.

Using his advice, how would function pointers help here? All I can think of is a function such as contact_card_system((void*)get_contacts_by_name, contact_cards_array, "Rob Pike") that applies the arguments to the passed function pointer. And other functions such as get_contacts_by_postcode could be also passed in.

But I'm not sure that's really it. Any thoughts?
Elon Musk is pretty badass. It's awesome that he takes such a big role in the technical design and development at Tesla and SpaceX rather than just "running the company" like most CEOs.
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Direct link to set up a SOPA/PIPA robocall:

http://www.reverserobocall.com/products/sopa-and-pipa-propon...
I have kindda lost little respect for Wordpress due to Jetpack. 
Jetpack is cool. But why do they want to shove into our throats? - It's pretty much unlike an Open Source community. I recently ran into to an issue due to Jetpack, and disabling it solved the issue. Like many of the users, I had only installed it to use the 'Wp-Stats' plugin which always been a standalone and used by almost everyone. And this is the only reason for 90% of users to install 'Jetpack' While I do appreciate Jetpack, But I don't like them shoving it up my throat. Come on Matt, If you need money, be brave and ask for it. I would love to pay $50 or perhaps $100 as one-time license fee to use Wordpress.

Issue thread on Wordpress.org forums: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-plugin-and-broken-page-navigation?replies=9 (Again this might be solved, but I still don't want them to shove it up my arse)
ObjectAL - iOS audio library that makes audio easy: https://github.com/kstenerud/ObjectAL-for-iPhone

IOS Universal Framework - Xcode template that adds iOS static framework support: https://github.com/kstenerud/iOS-Universal-Framework

KSJSON - World's fastest JSON library for iOS: https://github.com/kstenerud/KSJSON

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With the caveat that I don't have a lot of experience with the iPad's pdf support I'd say the Fire's support is solid. I recently read an entire e-book in pdf format on it. The main limitation is that there isn't a lot of screen real estate so if you want to read it on a full page scale you need to tolerate a very small font (this was not a problem for me). A cool upside is that when you get a Fire, Amazon creates an email address that you can send emails with attached pdfs and documents which will then automatically be downloaded onto your Kindle.

Overall nothing mind blowing but if you like e-readers I think you'll be satisfied with the pdf support.
So should Apple be punished more punitively so that they actually follow the law?
Depends on your definition of successful, I suppose.

My mother doesn't know shinola about Dropbox, yet I'd say they're successful.
Sure. Ray Camden wrote an aggregator called ColdFusionBloggers.org as an exercise and it's been the go to site for ColdFusion programmers for years. He created jquerybloggers.com recently using the same code base, but it's not nearly as popular (yet?).

Of course, you have to let people know the site exists, you can't rely on SEO alone. But they can also be a good way to pick up some ad revenue.
Most people these days don't want an MP3 player, they want a tablet. Many people also look at the iPad and think "I could buy a damn good laptop that suits my purposes for $500, why would I pay $500 for an iPad?" At the same time, these people still wanted a tablet, they just refuse to pay so much money for one.

Basically, the market demands a cheaper tablets. Unfortunately for consumers the average $500 tablet contains about $300 worth of parts and labor. This means that in order to meet the demand, sacrifices must be made.

Because most people would rather have a $200 tablet than no tablet at all, the Kindle Fire was born. Like it or not, the Kindle Fire represents the most advanced hardware you can get at that price. While it has its shortcomings, the device is well built and reasonably powerful.

The software, on the other hand, is a completely different issue. I think that Amazon shouldn't have tried to reinvent the wheel. Grid style interfaces are pretty much perfect so I don't understand why they thought they could do better. While I don't agree that the software experience is terrible, I do hope that they fix the responsiveness issues.
> She's gotten really frustrated and would probably return it if it hadn't been free from her company.

Is this actually a problem with the Fire though, or would she react the same way to an iPad?
Manage your priorities like you're going to die at 30.

Take care of your health despite the cost and inconvenience. You may be able to get away with a lot of self-neglect at 20, but it's much harder to repair later.
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I got this for Christmas and have eagerly consumed the first few chapters. Who'd have thought that the history of information encoding would be so intriguing?
"when the customer is wronged, then they can be as frank as they want."

There's a difference between being frank and being abusive. If a customer talks to me that way, I immediately terminate the relationship. No one has the right to treat another person like garbage.

And let me reiterate: I feel that all three parties acted juvenile and tacky, lacking any common decency. The supplier should've communicated a realistic ship date, and when he found out that the products wouldn't arrive before Xmas, he should've apologized and offered a refund. The blogger should've stayed out of it and should not have posted a private conversation.
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I'd be curious to hear more about what happened with 99designs.
Philosophy.

I find certain books required a deep thought before you can get anything out of it. These books aren't something that you can read in a plane on the way to New York from LA.
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Break through the blocks and win your inner creative battles.

Many books mentioned here are good, this is the only I haven't seen referenced. But this one book really helped me deal with resistance and get stuff done. Seth Godin is a big fan and references it a lot in his material.

Steven Pressfield also wrote 'The Legend of Bagger Vance' and Gates of Fire (Spartan 300 kind of book but way deeper).
What do they hear?
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These stupid things are also incredibly brave and necessary. If you have no other way of fighting what you know is wrong, you have to provoke a response.
Personally for me The Bible is and has always been. I'm not a religious fanatics but The Bible has taught me how to live life no matter how hard life is so that's good enough for me.

Lately I've been reading old books as well from Og Mandino. Ditto with technical books: books from the 70's, 80's, 90's are quite good. The rest are... "OK".
I can't imagine this having much positive effect– if I were a politician, I'd just hang up as soon as I realized it was a robocall.

If anything, it'll probably make it more difficult for actual people trying to talk to their representatives to be heard.
The point of the application is to delete all your tweets, it explains that it's not undo-able, and it requires confirmation before it does it. Relax.
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Steve Jobs may be a great entrepreneur and innovator (or tweaker, whatever, people can debate this for decade) but not all people care much about his life. Especially when most of it have been exposed for years.

I borrowed the book from library and only read a few pages here and there. Returned the book within a week because I have other priorities or other books to read.

I think it's good that the "herd" mentality is missing on this book. In fact, I hope the herd/blogger mentality decreases as well in any other books (like Gladwell's, Ferris's, etc).
It sounds like a real sound that happens outside me. For me, it sounds like a loud "whack" as if someone hit a baseball in my bedroom. It only happens as I'm falling asleep and it usually wakes me up. It takes a little while to figure out that it wasn't real, especially the first few times it happened.
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