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Eh, at least in most of the places I've seen the 9.99 price used, it was for fiction not non-fiction. Many forms of non-fiction have always gone for more, even when Amazon set the price prior to the whole agency model. I know tech books I expect to pay a good chunk more even on sale, as well as my other hobbies (writing books have eaten up so much of my money...)
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Thanks! I haven't but let me know if works.
You are assuming that investments don't bring spending. But that is wrong. If the maid does not get the 25, a company, a bank, a fund, will get it (as savings=investments). This means the 25 will flow in the economy in both cases.
It will more likely be Amazon.
Etsy has always had remote working coders and they've always been aggressive about hiring talent. Their CEO is a genius at doing this, which is a great trait for a tech leader.
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Definitely agree with you.

I've had an older Kindle for a while now. It's an uncanny relationship. With most of my electronic devices, I can tell you the exact specs, when I got it, and how antiquated it is. My Kindle is different; it feels like a book to me, not a complex device.

Brilliant work on Amazon's part.
Yes but if your English (and/or Dutch) wasn't as good as it is, it wouldn't have been quite as easy...
The last seventy or so books that I read on my iPad, from novels to textbooks, weren't too bad.
Hmmm. The killer app, when it comes, will probably be for parallelism. Since FP languages are better able to control state, they can neatly sidestep many of the contention issues that plague imperative programming in multi-core scenarios. Problems that require heroic programming in imperative realms become much simpler in certain FP languages. And given that clock speed is settling down while core numbers are ramping up, I think this alone will make FP more compelling.

It's more about appropriateness, though, than anything else. I still think OOP is great for things like GUIs, modeling complex domains.

As always, the trick is to pick either the right language for your problem, or pick a multi-paradigm language, and choose the right approach for your problem.
The higher level product design problems you're talking about are super important, and we'll write articles about that soon. We're really into interaction design.

We're not figuring these problems out now. Our user research started over a year ago, and we've iterated with many different versions of the product ever since. Our engagement numbers are fantastic.

However, being smart about product design and optimizing engagement does not preclude the attention to detail we demonstrate in this post on type.

The role of type in a content focused design is just a worthy topic to post on, and there's no more to read into it than that.
What you see as "an annoying little problem", I see as a sign that the system is consistent and robust. It's a good thing that the system doesn't distinguish between a hundred one-share orders and a single hundred-share order; such a distinction would be totally arbitrary. (By contrast, ranking orders by time is not arbitrary. All else being equal, it's better for things to get resolved faster; the only question is whether we're giving too much of a reward for too little of an improvement.)

Elsewhere in this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3856015) I argue against treating orders differently based on the "entity" that placed them.

In general, we want traders to spend their time thinking about asset prices and risk, not market structure and game theory. The price-time priority system is a very simple one that rewards traders for deciding what they want and then announcing it right away. All the modifications that have been proposed in this thread encourage traders to play games, second-guess one another, or otherwise work around the system.

There are definitely tradeoffs, but personally I think it's better to use the cleaner system and accept the latency arms race than to add a layer of artificial incentives -- and for what it's worth, it appears that nearly every major electronic market has come to the same conclusion.

Finally, thanks for the link to the Talmud article: it was a very cool application of game theory to history. (Of course, I don't see any indication in the article that the Talmudic system would be an improvement over pro rata.)
Security. You can parse a reader literal without evaluating the resulting data structure. If you're just reading and evaluating, you might find someone injecting some malicious code in there. By using reader literals, you can include custom types like dates or UUIDs or whatever, without needing to trust the entity sending you the data.
In my case that is 100% correct. I've got the Sony PRS-650. It isn't wireless, doesn't have a built in light, simple functions (read a book). But there is no reason for me to upgrade to anything that has more features.

I plug it in when I want to put a bunch of books on it, I have a light in the case, I only want to read books. No reason for me to upgrade.

I'll upgrade when it breaks or another family member wants one.
Could you use Eucalyptus for this?
Ah, thanks. I was looking at the wrong column. If the $1.5 billion figure is also inflation-adjusted, then it's feasible.
Barely any sellers are profitable on etsy. They're all housewives or hipsters that sell at amazingly low profit margins. It's a steal if you want to buy handmade stuff though.
Good point. Why would there be so much churn for a few bells and whistles bezeled around an e-ink display.

That said, that new Nook Simple Touch with the "backlight" could be a gamechanger, at least for me.
Is this guy the Richard Branson of XXI century? Barely in his 40s and:
Paypal
Tesla
SpaceX
You've got to be in owe...
I think the point of the manifesto is reject the continuous raising of the bar that enthusiastic programmers bring to the community. An accountant doesn't need to compete with someone who is passionate about accountanting on the side. Neither does a welder, a shopkeep, or a factory. These people just want to put in 8 and forget about it. They don't want to put in effort to update their skills, they don't want to learn a new framework, they want to do the least outside of work they they can and still collect a paycheque.

On one hand I worked at a place where no one had learned how to use Java generics since they had been on 1.4 until recently, and they never saw the need to learn (this was a couple of months ago). On the other hand if I was only an accountant since it offered the best prospects for my family I'd probably want to be reminded of it as little as possible.
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Go Ann Arbor! Ironic, considering that was the former headquarters of Borders.
>Of course, older versions of the software still 'live on' under the GPL, the author is implicitly making a fork.

That's what I'm talking about, though. You can't say "Everybody that has previously used or is currently using this software under the terms of the GPL now owes me a crapload of money -- and by the way, the GPL is revoked and you must abide by the Microsoft EULA".

But that seems, to my untrained eye, to be exactly what this Twitter patent promotes. It's basically saying "We won't sue you now, but we reserve the right to do so at any time in the future. So keep your grubby mitts off our IP." Really, it's no different than the status quo.
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>Kindles and Nooks aren’t really competing against each other so much as both of them are holding on for dear life versus the iPad

...except that Kindles and Nooks aren't trying to compete with the iPad, being completely different types of devices for completely different primary purposes.
I'm not using a package from CPAN. IPC::Cmd is one of Perl's core modules, just like subprocess is one of Python's standard libraries.

You can find a list of all of the modules distributed with Perl at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlmodlib.html#THE-PERL-MODULE-LIBR...

You can find links to their documentation beginning at http://perldoc.perl.org/index-modules-A.html
Swift is very powerful piece of technology, but it is also more involved to setup. Curious to try RiakCS as well and see how it compares to Swift for running production level S3 object storage.
OK, I guess we should just completely ignore them because you don't like reading on lit screens. Makes sense.
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Because the money under the mattress doesn't produce a good or service. The maid does.

If prices drop and she works for the marginal purchaser, she produces the exact same service: a clean house.

If you want to claim fewer goods/services are produced, you need to postulate another mechanism.

See this article defending Scrooge: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/holidays/2004/12/what_i_l...
I can't help but wonder if the prevalence of Kindles in a particular city relates to the number of brick and mortar bookstores in that city. I am imagining that the more "cosmopolitan" cities probably have more physical bookstores.
The last 2 books I've read (the hunger games ones) were all bought and read on my 2 android devices (Galaxy Nexus and SIMless HTC Nexus). Cross-sync is awesome. I read on planes and before sleeping (you can invert the colors to have black background) The worst part is that I have an actual Kindle (albeit old)... somewhere. I don't miss it. At all. I love reading the kindle app on the phone anywhere, even buying the next one on the spot.
I thought this was going to be about lParam and wParam.
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There's also a NOOK app for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, and Mac.
Thanks for the disclosure! It looks like you guys have put in a lot of effort too with the 60+ minigames. What I'm wondering is whether the same effort on iOS might not have fetched greater returns given the same marketing budget.

Anyway, congratulations!
"a global collective of highly skilled hackers "

"Anonymous" as a whole isn't that skilled. They are mostly a collection of script kiddies that use pre-build programs to attack websites.

This takes almost no skill.
Opa was actually there way before node.js. Let's mirror that comment to node, then.

Also 'real time' as mentioned in the context of socket.io, or more generally node.js, is not real time at all. It's just live. Real time has a precise meaning already.
Regarding Udacity's business plan:
In June Thrun "took the next step: cofounding KnowLabs... He pulled in David Stavens... as CEO… Thrun decides that KnowLabs will build something called Udacity… Stavens is thinking about potential business models. Though Thrun cringes at the notion of charging students, people might eventually pay for add-ons—say, TA services, study aids, or offline materials. He also considers other revenue streams. Near the end of the term, he emails his top 1,000 students, the ones with perfect or near-perfect scores on homework and tests. The subject: Job Placement Program. Thrun solicits résumés and promises to get the best ones into the right hands at tech companies, including Google. A recruiter who places a hire typically earns 10 to 30 percent of an engineer’s first-year salary, which might be $100,000. Stavens figures he could charge much less. After all, KnowLabs discovers talent in the course of doing business."[1]

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/ff_aiclass/
I think an integrated, cohesive language/framework is very tempting. The biggest thing holding back this language is the AGPL.
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Looks like I need to post my blog post about how to set up Swift really easily!
Nope... Born in South Africa...
I have 2 Kindles, an iPhone and an iPad (latest generation) and I use the kindle app on them all. There's no issue with the iPhone and iPad - indeed there are times when I prefer them. The Kindle is also much better (at times) than using the iPad
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It's not just "make sound investments," VC's need to make investments that will pay off big enough to meet their promised rate of return over the promised time horizon. (They are investing other people's money.) It's certainly possible for VC's to think that an idea has merit, but is not right for VC-type investment.

Kickstarter allows time horizons and rates of return of arbitrary size. These guys now already have everything a business needs: capital and customers. Unless they commit outright theft there is no reason they can't succeed with this project. But there is also no requirement that they keep it going after their last investor gets his or her watch. They can just do it to the size needed to hit the natural demand, and then call it quits. You can't do that with VC money.
I don't follow. Would you say that tumblr has very little original content? That's basically similar to what this service is, only it also automatically tweets a link to your rich tweet for you.
I guess i don't have an example. apparently JP Morgan used to like to lock people in his library till he got his way - but this specific case is other bank owners, not his board http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907

Andrew Carnegie negotiated deals between companies he controlled, collecting commission on both sides of the deals. I vaguely remember that being pretty contentious.

False imprisonment and collusion are exiting, must have overshadowed the exact circumstances in my memory.
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Sorry I didn't see this earlier, but thanks for the review! I also have the same problem where I'd leave my phone on a desk at home and won't notice if I get any messages when I'm in the other room, so this makes the Pebble more tempting.
I had a Kindle once. Lost it in a breakup. I still read more books in the Kindle app than dead tree books, and I don't miss not having a Kindle. Thanks to the Kindle app on my iPhone, reading serves as the mortar of my life, filling up all the cracks. I only used my actual Kindle at home for sit-down reading.
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Agreed, the best variable name is the shortest one that's still specific within its scope. A variable name of CustomerWhoHasPlacedTheMostOrdersOnThisDay is quite bad inside a three-line function, just as "public static customer" is terrible in a five thousand lines factory class that has no obvious relation with a specific customer.
So, this is basically replicated in train construction in Europe and Japan, but the US has a... unique regulatory environment for trains.

http://www.ebbc.org/rail/fra.html

Also, when you develop near a train station you can't build parking lots next to it, which tends to make people with cars upset, and they usually have more political influence than people who just use trains:

http://www.darientimes.com/news/darien-features/local-news/5...
Google was in China until their internal network was (supposedly) compromised by the the Chinese Government. This is a fact.

Google was not the #1 search engine in China. This is also a fact.

Whether they 'got their ass handed to them' is another story, which could be supported by numbers, though it's somewhat subjective.
The specific analogy isn't particularly apt, but the general point of the article stands. When you have crushing unemployment and an income crisis, the solution is not to make further deep cuts in the misguided pursuit of austerity. You should be promoting growth, first and foremost.

I know HN has a libertarian, small-government bent, but there's a reason public spending is included in GDP: it's expansionary. The government pays people to do things, then those people buy things. This spurs growth. As with many things, it's a spectrum and going too far in either direction (austerity v. public ownership of economy) is a bad thing.

What is clear is that, when you have a quarter of your country out of work and fully half your future workforce untrained and non-contributing, you don't further reduce the consumptive power of your population. Unpopular an idea though it may be in these parts, Keynesian economics works in regards to recovering from recessions and depressions; disciples of the Austrian School have yet to show any ability to do so and their policies look set to spell the end of the Euro.

The private sector is fundamentally better and healthier in the long run for a nation's economy than its public counterpart, but when the private sector is depressed and getting worse through negative feedback loops, the public sector has to step in. It's the growth driver of last resort.
Agreed; FB could try to re-implement, but there is no guarantee they'd come even close to what Instagram had accomplished.

In cases like this, it makes more sense to purchase someone with momentum rather than try and build it yourself.
I'm sorry, but I don't think you could be more wrong in this case.

Calling the attention to detail in design "trivial" is not just insulting to the designer and the company, it overlooks a very important fact—Prismatic is about the user's reading experience.

Two points:

First, just because they are able to explain the design rationale and historical context of their typographic decisions doesn't mean they necessarily agonized over them for months. A good designer knows these things from experience. I'm very happy that they took the time to explain them, and I don't think a blog post can be considered a frivolous use of a company's time.

Second, you seem to assume that there isn't anyone else in the company thinking about what you deem the "more important problems," or that they haven't already been through an earlier MVP stage where they focused primarily on technical issues.

Developers feel insulted and misunderstood when MBAs dismiss their efforts as fungible or underestimate their value, or the time required. It doesn't help when the equally vital role of designers is relegated to "triviality."
Maybe some Kindles and Nooks, but the Kindle Fire is certainly not a completely different type of device.
Stay in UNI, and do freelance at the same time. That way, by the time you finish, you'll have a decent client base from which to do freelancing full-time.
It's fascinating how healthy teams find the right balance in unpredictable ways. The principal thing is that they be allowed to do it. Managers who operate on the assumption that they're supposed to decide matters so often intervene to wreck them. It seems strange, but it's simple cognitive dissonance. It's psychologically difficult for middle managers who add no value not to interfere, because that would mean admitting that they add no value. So in order to prove they deserve their authority, they interfere and cause harm. That's not true of everybody in such positions, of course. The smarter ones understand that mostly what they need to do is nothing, just let people work - sort of like the new-age Buddhist saying, "Don't just do something, stand there!" But it's true enough in bulk that that whole organizational form is irrational. It is gradually being replaced.

In any case, you've provided a nice example of how issues like working hours are subsumed by team dynamics. That's where action is.
Ah, I did not know that.

But anyway, just to clarify, I mention that these apps exist because it could completely throw off the numbers as to how many "Kindles" (or "Nooks") there are in a given city. What if SF has tons of people reading Kindle books on their iPads? These devices can't be considered pure competitors to the Kindle (or the Nook), and their numbers are way, way too big to simply disgregard.
I'd be very interested in pursuing this. I have some of this functionality already via numerous vim plugins, but not all of it. If I get a free moment in the next couple weeks I'll start writing something up about what already exists and what is missing.

Want to mention I think Light Table looks fantastic, but now that I have internalized vim's key bindings I am very hesitant to switch. That said, I still pledged on kickstarter.
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I think we agree and I have to admit I under use Snap. It just doesn't come intuitive to me yet.

I primarily dislike the keyboard navigation in the 'Open File...'-dialogs. Tab is not as effective anymore since it takes more hits to change focus from the folder view to the sidebar. Furthermore, and this is nitpicking, the number of tabs needed also seems to be context depended and the number of items in the sidebar has grown.

I personally prefer StumpWM with KDE tools. I've never had a more effective keyboard experience.
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Really at the end of the day, we can only choose the devices that work best for us, personally. As an ex-iPhone user, I take issue with most of your list, but that's just me. iPhones are great for a huge number of people.

It's good to have options!
$data is fine for the name of the data variable of a generic container.

Again, using $data2 to represent the square of $data is fine too.

I understand your point, but there are definitely exceptions.
For the first time in more than three decades, America last year began taking back international market-share in commercial satellite launch. This remarkable turn-around was sparked by a small investment NASA made in SpaceX in 2006 as part of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. A unique public-private partnership, COTS has proven that under the right conditions, a properly incentivized contractor — even an all-American one — can develop extremely complex systems on rapid timelines and a fixed-price basis, significantly beating historical industry-standard costs.
You can definitely see why this deal got done. Instagram was maybe 3 or 4 years away from any chance of their own IPO, and probably a year away from a serious $2B aquisition.

Even if the sale price of the company was really $2B, they were able to take Facebook stock that is on the verge of an IPO for 75% of what it will IPO at. If Facebook hits a market cap of $150B in the next 12 months, that would put the value of the Instagram stake at $1.4B a year from now, plus the $300mm in cash that Facebook chipped in.

Looking at the deal that way, it made a lot of sense to do it now if Instagram was shooting for a $2B exit.
Let's also keep in mind that if true, this is personalization done poorly (for the consumer). Presumably, was no correction in Yahoo's model to consider whether the user liked the content after reading it. The first question here is whether or not the author clicked on more articles leading to more ad views as a result. If so, then it "worked" and made business sense. The second question is whether or not it improved the user's experience, which in this case it obviously did not.
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I would up-vote this one thousand times over if I could.

Blazing ignorance of the most basic verisimilitudes of the human condition is one of the more annoying characteristics of hacker culture.
Won't there at some point be a fiduciary duty to involve the shareholders of an acquisition of this magnitude?
I hope you don't really view the world in a black & white narrative pitting the evil bloated government against sprightly nimble innovative companies. Bureaucracy, bloat, waste & failure exists in both the public & private sector. Heck a lot of people are driven to startups because of the dysfunction they've found in other private sector jobs. It's also silly to think this way when you realize that most large government programs involve private contractors doing some, most or all of the actual work.

As far as delivering more value, a lot of economies of scale are thanks to technological advances. A lot of technological advances can be credited to expensive governmental programs that were springboards the private sector was later able to launch off of.