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> The x86 may live for a good while, but within a couple years there will be far more "computers" running ARM processors than x86.

x86 isn't Intel's highest volume ISA by a couple of orders of magnitude - 8051 is.

I suspect that x86 is behind several other microcontrollers.
Personally, I think your widget thing will go over really well with teens and some early 20's.

I found it fun - good luck.

As far as feedback goes - maybe ask people for there myspace/facebook profile as well - and think about creating a facebook/myspace app that recommends people
(after a threshold of votes) to other people that are single.
i especially like the idea of RSS feeds or even a search that will notify you when the item you're looking for is listed (i think ebay may have something similar?)
Yes, I think it's important not to get dragged into a semantic debate over exactly how the word monopoly fails to describe this situation. Google's position may well be unique in human history, so it's not surprising that our existing laws and metaphors are inadequate to describe it precisely.
The Kindle needs that. Its top, ignored feature is its ability to download books from anywhere from the Amazon store. For that it needs a navigator, a keyboard, and wireless Internet access. And from my uses of the device, that's what puts it in a league of its own.
that's a great point -- start specific then branch out. i agree it would be helpful to know more about the sellers.
What if you go on vacation? I brought my Kindle on a week's vacation and read five books. It saved me a lot of weight when I was traveling.

I don't know why you'd want full-text search. Any particular reason you mention it? In any event, the Kindle doesn't offer it.
The Value of ‘Other People’s Money’
this is great feedback! you're right we probably need to cut down on graphics and whitespace to provide more data
they often default to this one when they don't want "layoff" headlines.

Interesting. So I guess you think it is plausible that Google would be mass-PIPping rather than announce layoffs.
Use member history & rec's to drive action -- Amazon’s missing opps to market the Kindle 2
Hardcore apple fans. There like: oh no, cheap macs! Im like: cool, cheap macs!

p.s. Downmod me to if you want to(this is a rather trollish comment, so as a good HN member, i encourage you to do so, i have enough karma to burn, but do so because i deserve it, not because i hate apple).
> A good boss gives you fair warning so you don't have to implement/sign the PIP.
Having been a manager before, I agree with that 100%. As a manager, you have a big impact on people's lives. This is particularly true in a recession, when they cannot get another job so easily. You owe them frank, constructive feedback on their performance. By the time you get to a PIP, it is too late. Of course, some people still won't change, even if they are made aware of the issue. More frequently, their personality/interests are just not a good fit for the job. It sounds like most people discussed in the OP were "ambushed".
Reminds me of algorithm for giving a clear science talk:

while have next slide {

tell the audience what you're about to say

go to next slide

say it

tell the audience what you just said

}
Micropayments, Reimagined
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I would think adding wifi will be good enough for most international users.
Is there any way that this little company will ever be more than just a pain in Apple's side? They can't deliver an experience like Apple. Maybe they'll open some notApple Stores.
someone should write a greasemonkey script that looks at each HN user name, checks if there's a delicious account with the same name, and if there is, puts a link next to their name.

I'd use it since you guys always seem to be up to interesting things and often it's the things you don't think worth mentioning (e.g., your bookmarks) are more interesting than the things you actually blog about or post to HN. At least IMHO.
I picked up a Kindle, and have pre-ordered the K2. I've read about 30 books, most of them $25+ versions for $10, so I consider my initial investment almost recouped.

Amazon does DRM the right way - instead of taking away value with their DRM, they _add_ value. Unlike Apple, which lets me download my content _once_, (and if my hard drive on one of the half dozen devices that I've downloaded content and have still to sync back up to my NAS crashed, results in me losing it forever), Amazon has this concept of content that I _own_ - and may or may not be on the device in my hand. A situation which can be rectified in a few minutes with whispernet (their EVDO solution) by copying (as many times as I want) from Amazon onto my current device (presumably now my K2 as well as my K1).

You cannot borrow books from a friend - the content is tied to you, which is why can save close to $15/book.

I love the fact that I walk around with my entire library. I like to travel light, both when moving at home and when on vacation, and not having to deal with a bookshelf of light fiction, and taking books to the library when done, (or going through hassle of selling them on Amazon for 1/3 price) has been a HUGE win for me. (That's one problem that kindle solves). Not having to worry about losing my content, and having Amazon track it for me is another problem. And the book is amazingly easy on the eyes, _particularly_ in very bright light, I find it much easier than paper. (Third problem solved - no glare from paper).

I find it funny when people suggest that the iPhone might be used for reading books - it's as unlikely an idea as people buying a Kindle to listen to music. Wrong Form Factor. Battery life alone would kill you. Not to mention screen size.

With all that said - The kindle sucks as a replacement for technical books. I purchased a couple and was frustrated to no end. Page turning is too slow. The Kindle doesn't have a good metaphor for flipping between random pages. Resolution was poor for technical diagrams. Screen was too small. Rumor has it that Amazon is going to come out with a larger version for textbooks - we'll see. Until then, I continue to buy my technical books on paper. But for fiction which basically is linear page flipping of text - it's great.
PDF really isn't that "compatible" with eBooks. Text needs to be able to reflow, arbitrarily break for pages, and not rely much on specific presentation. PDF is designed to look the same on screen as it will when you print out it, so it's at odds with the desirable eBook features.
PDF conversion is pretty easy to achieve if you have Windows. If you have a Mac, it's a bit more painful, but it's still absolutely achievable.
Rob, thanks for the great feedback! you're right about google checkout...if there is a way to integrate i think it would make selling at a distance much easier.

your other thoughts are excellent as well. we should discuss more offline
FWIW, the increase in high earners marrying other high earners instead of high earners marrying low earners is one of the big drivers in increasing income inequality.
I agree with most of your analysis, except for your premise that if two opposing views cannot be proven wrong, then all opinions are "valid" (I hope I paraphrased that correctly). It is my view that in matters such as religion, it is true it cannot be proven wrong; however, if no evidence exists for one side, and much evidence is presented which points to another view, then the latter view is more closer to a "valid" one than the former.
It will play music, but it's not worth the battery life. I prefer my 3 weeks of "pick up and read without having to charge". :)
I'm sure there are Indian or Chinese bankers who would be happy to take over the reins at these companies for $400K or even $250K. Viva globalization!
The Internet != the WWW
What’s New With The Kindle 2
i agree with you here..the sign in /register is a pain in the ass.

thanks for pointing out the issue with the search. we knew it was primitive but not broken.
And there isn't even a company close to Google in search quality. Nor one with even a plan yet alone the budget.
We plan to port to linux using mono, i guess mono projects also work on OS X :)
i agree you should be able to contact a seller without signing up. we'll take a look at that! thanks for the feedback!
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

I wonder what he thinks of Tennyson.
It is tho' a system in which everyone knows at all times where they stand. There's no need for backhanded techniques like "performance plans" that are only really about stripping the employee of what legal protection they do have.
I appreciate the candid feedback. Your suggestions are excellent!
We really would know when they announce pricing. In any case, Windows Starter is crap.
i haven't played all of them, but there are some sharp designs in there. i particularly like terraqua, despite the somewhat strange choice of silverlight over flash: http://globalgamejam.org/games/terraqua
Thanks for the feedback! We're hoping we can improve our chances of success by listening closely to what our users are asking for.

I agree (as do others) that the search needs to be improved. We'll work on that. And you're right we need to lower the barriers to entry (ie. login/register).

Thanks for the feedback!
I've switched jobs (voluntarily) when the recession just hit (September '08). I still get requests from headhunters, without looking. Part of it has to do with having Yahoo! on my resume -- and I'd imagine having Google would somewhat more impressive.

It's just a job someone will find now may not be a job on their terms.
you're right -- you should be able to view more than one neighborhood at the same time
great suggestion for overcoming the javascript issue! thanks!
thanks for the specific illustrations! this is a big help!
you're probably right -- i was hoping the phrase would attract some readers. not sure if it helped or not :)
After reading this, I think this comment was in poor thinking: the PIP would carry a stigma -- usually companies let of under performers as a part of a bigger lay off (no stigma attached, as positions have been eliminated -- not the individuals); here it seems to be they're doing the opposite (they're firing people as to avoid publicizing a general lay off). Of course I don't know the true situation, so this is mere speculation.
it's a nonsensical word actually derived from one of the founders' last name -- coleman. switching syllables it's man-cole which become "menkle" over time
I would agree that this is another reason, but given that I'm a libertarian for more than one or two reasons, I would suggest that there a great many reasons why people are libertarian (some of which apply to both economic and personal libertarianism, and some of which, like my statement above, only apply to one or the other). There are even some libertarians who don't believe in natural rights or natural law at all. One of the things that makes me fairly confident in my libertarianism is the observation that you can derive it from a number of arguments which don't depend on each other.
"Ada was created for the D.O.D according to their needs."

Fixed that for you.
So at the very least, we should try to build consensus in the layman debate against price controls and for free trade. Angry letters to congressmen supporting "Buy American" clauses and all that, with the strength of the Ron Paul groundswell.
They can't win...

All Apple computer ship with a TPM chip and I'm pretty sure they could verify hardware with it...
He makes one good point, and that's that they lived lives they could afford. When you waste money on frivolous things like replacing a car because it's 'old', even though not a single warranty has run out on the vehicle, is going to place you in a very bad position. I'm sure lots of people have lost cars because they missed a few payments and then all of the money they had put into it is gone too.

Personally, I aim to never 'finance' something, aside from the house I buy. I aim to never have credit card debt, that my cards are completely clean before the end of the month.

Another thing, I want to live a life where I can afford 100% of my life, that I don't have to rely on my wife to work so that on the chance one of us loses our job we don't have 50% of our expenses to cut, we only have 10-20%.
that's a really good idea! who would we talk to about providing that kind of service to HN?
> It reads as if the scientist is completely and entirely committed to the rational, while cleverly mentioning that those identifying with religion clearly toss the evidence out of the window.

I believe the scientific community is defined by complete commitment to the rational. Sure, there are people who claim to be scientists, but the scientific method is an exercise in pure rationality.

As well, generally speaking, ultra-religious people tend to discount evidence that contradicts their faith.

In contrast, ultra-scientific people accept new evidence that contradicts their previously-held beliefs. They update the model and move on.

I'm sure there are examples to the contrary and I do see a "No true Scotsman" fallacy looming on the horizon of this line of argument.
American companies have tons of options when it comes to laying off staff, many more than in the rest of the world.
that's a good point -- we'll try to improve there!
Totally agree, and already on the bandwagon with the Nitrogen Web Framework for Erlang (http://nitrogenproject.com).

It's not a Rails clone, in fact it owes more to ASP.NET than anything else.

Created this because I wanted to use the most appropriate language for the problem I was trying to solve.
Oh give me $100K and I would build a whole business out of India. $100K is enough gas for at least 2 years for most startups out of here and hopefully start making profit by then.

edit: people as much as it applies to businesses need to learn to live lean, at least when necessary.
TED: A different way to think about creative genius, Elizabeth Gilbert
What about a 30-second introductory video instead of a picture? I would trust those results much more.
It's not even the results for some people, but Google itself.

I've seen studies where the researchers show Yahoo results on Google's template, and vice-versa, and people still thought that Google had better results.

Google is a brand nowadays (and a verb ;). The tech will become secondary in a near future. It's like Coke vs. Pepsi, they taste 99% alike and blind tests show costumers have no preference on one over another.

I am not saying they don't have an edge on quality these days, but in the future, just relevant links on the page that appears after you type your search terms will not be enough.
But then it would stop being a superficial generation-piece, you see.
You are pretty clearly a tech guy, not a design guy. So outsource the design! Gamers are swayed by convenience, sure, but more than that, by fancy, flashy websites that appeal to them on a level of "Well THIS is cool, so if I USE it, I'LL be cool."

I'm in no way connected with this fellow, other than that I use and love his templates: http://andreasviklund.com/templates/commercial/ Check it out, there's PLENTY of good gaming-related templates there, and they're all rather inexpensive.
Leaked NYT memo on paper's future on the web (hint: it won't be free)
I love dating sites!

In general: Very nice UI! You bill this as a "dating site," but it seems more like Hot-or-Not. If you want it to be a dating site, you'll need to add location, and try to match closer people first. I also think that you should add things like age and only match people similarly.

+ I'm not sure whether your business model will work well ($2.99 for unlimited chatting with someone). I've tried a number of sites, and the chances of a particular person working out is not good -- plus, a lot of people just won't reply after I contact them. More importantly, I'll need to know if someone is CLOSE to me to determine if I'll pay you. Also, your site falls into one of those that I'm distasteful of -- I sign up for the site, and then LATER, I find out there are hidden fees when they aren't initially mentioned.

+ I also feel like there's nothing to "do" on your site. You should have a page where I can see how many people have seen my picture, how many voted yes/no, maybe even to whom they voted yes/no on -- that would be interesting yet not too invasive.

+ Make it clear that the more I vote, the more my picture will be seen -- in other words, if I rate x people, I need to see a noticable increase in the number of people seeing MY picture. This works very well for Facebook apps like Compare People.

+ You may want to approve pictures before they're published. I already saw one in the queue that is non-human, and you could also get pornographic ones.

+ This would be a cool facebook app. Although apps are less prominent nowadays, here's how some current successful ones work -- periodically send me an email about x people voting me as a match or not. Provide a link to your facebook app page in the email that immediately asks me to rate people (more ratings, more views), and a side link to see my stats. This works on me at least!

+ When I first open the page, the larger upper box looked to me like a popup flash ad, and i totally didn't realize that the items on the right were clickable until i accidentally ran my cursor over them.

+ When entering my profile, if I sporadically decide to change my pic midway through, the form forgets everything I entered so far. And maybe the tab order should be both things I like, then things I dislike.

+ I'm not sure what "Loading...please vote to enable this user's queue" means. You should provide a countdown if it matters whether I vote.

+ I also agree with other posters -- "yumbunny" doesn't sound like a dating site haha
Some of the math on potential earnings is wonky, but on the whole I think they're right.

Bottom line is that there just isn't enough money in online ads to support the Times' journalism.
I gotta agree. This is going to be convenient right now. The alternative to losing a book is rebuying it anyway, so if anything, it seems to carry things on just as they were.
Scheme to java bytecode compiler - jeme
You are both right. When it comes to the Money Supply economists talk about M0 which is actual currency issued by the federal reserve (or your countries equivalent).

Then there are M1 to M3 which are count increasingly less hard money and those do consists of money created when banks lend money in the fractional reserve system. Banks can only lend money when people deposit so in this way you are both right.

For more see the wikipedia Money Supply page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
I'm not saying there is anything wrong with it. I think it would be good for apple in fact. They are missing a huge market segment.
Is Water the Next Carbon?
The Future of Heavy Vehicles?
What incentive do I have, as a user, to vote on matches? You'd better have some sort of system set up where I cannot view my matches until I rank 10 other matches "accurately," where accurately means I've voted on the most common answer. This is to prevent hitting "Yes!" on 10 really quick so I can continue with what I was doing.

It's a great idea that you crowd source the matchmaking... but I just don't see the users actively making matches unless there is some incentive... probably even points would do.
Slightly off-topic, but:

"It's like Coke vs. Pepsi, they taste 99% alike and blind tests show costumers have no preference on one over another."

Sorry, but that's completely wrong. Pepsi is far sweeter. It wins on taste tests, whilst Coke wins in some tests where people drink an entire can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_wars
Here's the tag cloud: http://delicious.com/tags/hn_links?view=all&;
Yelp user faces lawsuit over negative review
delicious changed their 'funny' name to delicious.com, the old one is simply a redirect now.

It may have helped them in the beginning but it seems that there must have been some detrimental side effects in the long term or I'm sure they would not have switched.
I say best of luck to Psystar, I hope they win, I may never buy an Apple or Psystar Apple computer (can they call it an Apple computer? ...OS X PC?) I still think a company that builds a system with the real OS X operating system, not a pirated copy, is certainly doing nothing wrong.

If Microsoft made/controlled distribution of all the computer hardware in a PC and prevented anyone else from making a PC people would be mad as hell!
I don't want the people in the discount computer market walking into the Apple store to get service on their machines. I pay a premium for my Apple products and I expect stellar service - right now, that's exactly what I get. My service experience would be diminished if AppleCare and the Genius Bar is bogged down with Joe Blows trying to get their interwebs working on their $300 Apple computer.
A minor note: we didn't lose 40% of the world's wealth in this recession.

In the years leading up to the recession, we wrongly believed the world's wealth to be 40% greater than it actually was. Figuring out that the true value is lower didn't destroy wealth, it just looks that way in many timeseries.
Yeah, an Oracle guy once told me that PL/SQL was inspired by Ada. And, having written my share of complex PL/SQL, it inspired me to never learn Ada.
There's an obvious bias to his writing, inasmuch as he just takes this as a given and moves on, but that doesn't mean he's totally wrong.

Solid gold, thank you. Putting Jeff aside, I prefer blogs that have a healthy amount of bias. Writing that tries to be judicious, dispassionate and balanced often ends up being dry and comes off with a pseudo-academic tone.

A little bias adds passion and fire. As long as they aren't totally wrong, that's a good thing. A while back all the big companies were "diversifying" so that their stock would become immune to the vagaries of any one market or business unit.

This was almost always a failure, because professional managers want to achieve diversification through their portfolio selection, where they can pursue their own mix and make changes by trading in the market, not through having business managers engage in lengthy and expensive M&A activity.

Blogs are a little like that: If I want a balanced read I'd rather read several different posts about the same subject than try to find one person who tries to present the centrist view.
AskTog: Kindle vs. iPhone/iPod Touch: Human/Machine Interaction & User Experience
Useful Ruby 1.9 Links and Resources
If you're after saving money (and pursuing the same general strategy), even a better idea is attend a reputable community college (in SF Bay Area, the best by far are De Anza and Foothill) and then transfer (again, to a top-tier public school such as Penn State, U Michigan or UC Berkeley/UCLA).

A further shortcut is also doing a combined BS/MS program: some very reputable public/many private universities do this (UCLA does, UC Berkeley does not) -- in this way, you only spend an extra year on your masters and carry over a great deal of undergraduate credit. If you aren't looking for a Ph.D right away, this may be a better course (and having a Masters thesis written, recommendations from graduate course professors as well as a few years of work experience (after the Masters) give a significant admissions boost).