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I think a comparison with other region-specific forks would be more accurate, like 360 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_Secure_Browser).

I really doubt Yandex is interested in competing against Chrome outside of their target market of Russia (and Russian neighbours, expats), so they don't need a faster or universally "better" browser. Just a better experience for their target users, or at least a comparable experience with better distribution (e.g. it's likely they'll partner with local device retailers to bundle it as default browser).
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Monetate is a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (e.g. A/B - MVT testing, recommendation engines etc). We turn data in action on our clients' sites by doing real-time DOM modification to put the right experience in front of their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great coworkers.

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I got hired via HN about two years ago and we do have a good number of engineers in the team who found Monetate through one of these threads.

Feel free to email tjanofsky <at> monetate com with any questions or to apply.
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> I need gcc, vim and a shell and a nice big screen with the ability to type easily, that's why I use old-fashioned PCs.

You can get all that apart from the screen pretty much any Android tablet or phone these days, and the screen too on a large number of devices with either HDMI or MHL.

> I also don't like how all the pads and mobile devices are locked-down and more focused on tracking user activity than being a computing device.

Not nearly all are. My tablet came pre-rooted, and is known to be fairly easy to get plain Linux booting on.
It is always recommended to use a dedicated GPS logger in a long-distance trip. You won't experience these issues if you have one.
Great book, it's a shame it doesn't have sequels...

P.D. Yes, it has sequels, written by a different author with a focus that seems the opposite than the one on the first book. Not recommended.
I think the situation in the UK is only superficially different. Does anything prevent the government from increasing taxes on private pensions?
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I'll take boring over hours of debugging to shift a few pixels.
Indie game offers payment through bitcoins and labour
Android has a traditional file system, iOS does if you jailbreak it.
What type of advice would you like?
Step 1: Stop browsing HackerNews.
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Contact details and portfolio in profile.
Well, given I'm a filmmaker, no, not really :)

My understanding is that there are some routes that are less expensive to get to consoles these days, but yes - the console dev situation of 5 years or so ago is pretty close to what I'm worried about.
I can move the pictures to Amazon S3. What's the rationale behind that?
Larry Ellison reveals shared Oracle database
I wish it was new, but the UA has been abused pretty much since we have the web. See http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
Chill out, it wasn't an attack, it was just the logical extrapolation of the study you mentioned to your company. For the record I know nothing about your company other than you based its name off a study about something that not only doesn't work but has the opposite intended effect.
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Apple does not provide any API for getting the state of the modifier keys on iOS. I really think this is something they need to loosen up about if they want people to go into the post-PC. We get the point Apple, you want users to be able to do everything an app offers without accessories. But that's orthogonal to replacing your PC with an iPad.

(Especially since the private APIs are already there, they just need to allow them)
Hey thanks! I assumed adblock would remove the whole element, but it just removes the timer js. The author of the article is right in my case; I'm happier to be in control of my experience.
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Python, Django, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Android. Jamshedpur, India.
Developed http://www.datumdroid.com/ and http://www.quizzardous.com and worked with several OSS projects including OpenIntents, VLC, etc. Email on profile.
That's a fair point - and thanks for bringing the optimism!

Given gaming, I can't see 3D chips getting more expensive either. Boards may, a bit, but provided a general-purpose PC doesn't become an extreme luxury item, I think we'll be OK.
Saying "we should have patents for X and Y industries" seems... a bit static. The ideal thing would be to have a system for observing and keeping track of things. For the sake of argument, say developing a drug gets as easy as putting up a web site. At that point, patent protection no longer makes sense. Or perhaps some new industry springs up - how much patent protection should be given? There should be some kind of reasonably objective way of deciding.
Personally, i'm glad to see they are using Webkit. As long as it doesn't mean crazy incompatibilities - the more browsers the better!
That WOW server is pretty cool. Was it labeled that elaborately in production, or is that for display purposes?
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Ask HN: Need help monetizing our site - suggestions (pivot or otherwise) welcome
Dingadeal.com lets groups get hotel deals. Groups (> 8 people) enter their accommodation requirements, and let hotels bid for their custom. Hotels are notified and have 24 hours to reply via the website with their best offer.

The group views & chooses the best hotel deal. They can accept the offer on the website, at which point the hotel is notified & supplied with the group's contact details. The hotel contacts the group to finalize the arrangements.

Our revenue model is commission-based. We don't accept payments on the site, so we invoice the hotel for a certain % after the group has stayed. Two main problems we're facing:

1. Invoicing hotels after the group has stayed. Due to the nature of group bookings, requirements can change between when they book on the site and when they stay in the hotel. For example, the number of people in the group can fluctuate. We rely on the group for feedback on how many ended up staying, what was the final price etc. It's messy to work out the commission we should charge the hotel.

2. Conversions rates on the site are extremely low. Conversion rates for a big online group booking competitor are around the 1% mark. That gives you an idea of where we're at. It's easy for the group to look at all the offers and then continue with their booking offline. There is no major incentive to complete the booking via our website. We do offer features such as group invoicing, but group organisers are rarely getting that far in the booking process.

So, based on those two issues, we're looking for alternative means of generating revenue. Some things in our favour:

- We generate a decent amount of targeted traffic via our blog, so we can get the right people to our site

- Group bookings is a lucrative area for hotels, so they do tend to make offers, even when the conversion rates are so low

Any suggestions are welcome, thanks.
You can't manufacture crazy
No, the article is just sensationalist. Many form of serious content creation can never have enough cores, bandwidth or RAM or GPU, and certainly never enough screen real-estate. Sure, each individual niche might be a one-percenter, but they all add up and they're usually worth a lot of money (eg. CAD)

As an example it's still slightly tricky to do low-latency (<10ms) AUDIO reliably on a huge desktop system and we're only talking about kbits/s here. Try it on an Android (iPads are a lot better here) and you'll find that the platform is fundamentally broken for this particular niche - no Guitar Rig for Android owners :(
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Mobile and Web UI/UX Designer and Front-end Developer with 8 years of experience building awesome things.

Contact info in my profile.
Excellent! I remember Stephen Fry proposing this about 5 years ago in an impassioned plea about the tiresomeness of typing ".co" repeatedly. (I think he wanted rid of "www." at the start of URLs too)

At the time I thought "that'd be a good idea". And I still think it is!
Which tablet is that? I've got an iPad, a Macbook Air and a custom-built PC. I think the next logical step is a tablet running Linux.
Not exactly, scheduling.
> But carrying a keyboard along with your tablet is more expensive than carrying around a light notebook

My tablet was <$130. My keyboard with carrying case was <$10.

But your comparison with a Macbook Air also misses a substantial other distinction: I can, and often do, leave the keyboard at home. The keyboard lives in my bag. The tablet is small enough to fit in my coat pocket, and so I often take it with me in cases where I don't want to drag more stuff with me, but still want something bigger than my phone. It is significantly more mobile.

> is software installation from third-party sources easy?
> The ramifications by answering Yes to this will be: (1) piracy is easy + (2) mallware is possible + (3) Firefox is available for that device + (4) yes, that's a PC.

By your argument, any Android device is a PC. Fair enough. But it's quite clear that is not the context of the article being discussed.
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I'm also an all around nice guy

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It's a form of "You treat us as if we were suckers? We'll call ourselves that to show the world we are being exploited!"
http://voila-le-travail.data-projet.com/budget2012 in proportion, I think the budget is fine, more than 1/4th goes to education (if you include universities)
Sorry but bollocks. And I'm fed up with this utter crap being spewed at every available moment.

The day the local pc repair shops shut, the day the local electronics store shuts and the day that people pry my universal computing device out of my hands and the 3-4 billion other people let it go, I'll believe it.

Until then, this is a fad.
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I have found that kids are particularly attracted to it, and a new generation of kids matures every year - most of them have access to funds, so it is often purchased on special occasions (i.e. birthdays). It is kind of the new Legos for kids. They had drawing from kids up on the wall in my local supermarket - roughly 10 of the 50 drawings had Minecraft characters in them.
When XBox came out, someone declared that gaming on PC is/will be dead. Fast forward today we have 2 ecosystems that are thriving. Now someone declares PC is dead. My prediction is that in reality these two will coexist. We don't have the tools yet (want application for web, desktop, mobile? you better learn programming language x,y,z, framework x,y,z etc), but future hopefully will be brighter.
It's an online 'doers' community for bootstrapping developers, in its early stages.
> From what I see, much more efforts are put into helping poor people become middle class, than helping middle class become rich.

I really don't see the problem with that.
The Best Marketers are Humble
Excluding people from Free Software projects
Have you ever tried to estimate how much it cost to maintain up-to-date browser, in terms of rapidly incorporating new standards, keeping high-quality, low-resource consumption and major-bug-free code, along with keeping it fairly secure?)

I think they grossly over-estimate their abilities to compete with completely different structures, like Mozilla, leave alone Google.)

Thinking that they are "Russian Google" is a self-delusion. Google is built out of talent, that they are collecting for a decade, and then by money and top-tier world-wide brand.

Yandex is mere a "company". Just compare the assets - data-centers, cables, commercial real estate, etc. Then take a look at amount of research Google's people do. This should be enough.

This browser, I guess, is something like Opera mini or Amazon Fire - the way to divert, scan and monetize user's traffic. Plain, banal scam.
Is this the article you mean? http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/dec/01/timbernersl...
I don't think the benefits are worth the cost of the need to duplicate .co.uk/org.uk/me.uk/ac.uk domains in the .uk space plus the disputes over who should get it.

Suspect its a Nominet money grab having seen the recent TLD process.
(R)evolution
I think there is a substantial difference in the political tactics required, mostly founded in the awareness of those affected. It's easy to promise that the lowering of pensions is temporary until the crisis passes, while once you've taxed somebody's savings (rather than properly borrowing them, which is very common - pension funds are enormous holders of public debt), there's no cover to pretend you'll give it back.

EDIT: Also, public pension schemes can be allowed to become progressively underfunded to the point where it's impossible to fix and the responsible officials have long since retired. No so with private savings.
If welfare includes things like having somewhere to live and being able to get around I wouldn't exactly choose Sweden as the poster boy. If I were to start a more SV style startup I would move to Berlin like Soundcloud, Readmill, Researchgate, Twago, Wooga etc.
This reads like a nice revenue grab by Nominet.

You'll still need to own your .co.uk if you're a business, or else you'll have a squatter on it before you can blink, but now you'll be paying Nominet's fee of around £20 a year for a .uk, and £3.50 for your .co.uk
Display purposes, they auctioned them off for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital after they were decommissioned. I think they raised about $300k.
Yet another article about this? The PC is not going to die. Maybe it's the wet dream of the vocal minority who lives in the apple-bubble. But for me and many others, they are devices that serve distinct, non-overlapping purposes.

When I'm at home, I pretty much forget about my tablet/smartphone, because a desktop PC is much more comfortable to use than a mobile device.
Yes, but you get "Unknown or expired link." at step 9.
s/will/should/;

Fixed that for you.
Actually that was my point. Until further developments, most Android devices are PCs and any distinction being made to the contrary are arbitrary and short-term.
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I did't downvote, but maybe you can explain what you mean by Ubuntu for Android? They are both OS's, I'd think that Ubuntu would replace Android if you're using Ubuntu, is that what you meant?
It seems to me that iOS is not focused on tracking user activity. Some apps are but no-one forces you to use them (or enable their tracking). I'd be much more concerned about vanilla Android installations. On the other hand, Android devices (e.g. I own a Nexus 7) are not locked down at all (sometimes in a bad way -- I suspect something equivalent to the Bad Old Days of Windows malware is in the Android near future).

Quite a few gcc/vim/shell-centric developers use iPads as terminals and they work very well for this (with or without a keyboard).

That said, I'm typing this response on a Macbook Pro.
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Employer: OneSpot Inc.

Job title: Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

Reporting to: Chief Technology Officer

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== Company overview

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== Essential requirements

Deep understanding of Ruby on Rails 3.2, and related tools (Active Record, etc)
Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Familiarity with Linux (bash etc) and MySQL
Familiarity with version control systems
Excellent communication and people skills
Fluent in English
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Java
Git
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I just found it and posted it, it's not mine, they may not even be aware they've been HN'd.
I've tweeted and mailed a link to them, perhaps they'll come play.
Let me guess: You sleep with your iPad, don't you?
The meta description says:

Download the new
browser from Yandex. It's quick and secure, while the
Smartbox will find anything you you need and Tableau
take you straight to your favorite sites.
> America has no single government and is a huge mixture of cultures, from Canadians to Argentinians. I hate the fact that the USA has no proper demonym in English.

Hi, I am an Argentinian. While in Spanish the word "americano" means that you were born somewhere in The Americas, in the English language the word "american" means that you were born in the USA (AKA: America).

It happens a lot that words which are quite similar mean different things in different languages. Let's just embrace and understand these differences.

Cheers!
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Also let's not forget about milions of hardcore gamers. I don't think AMD and Nvidia would keep releasing more and more powerful graphic cards for desktops if PCs were dying.
Boston, MA

Silicon Labs is hiring in downtown Boston for our low power wireless networking team. Silicon Labs acquired Ember in July of 2012, which is where this team came from.

We do it all (we design the chips, hardware, firmware, and software), and we have a lot of fun doing it. I've been at Silicon Labs / Ember for more than 3 years and I love it. It's most socially healthy place I've ever worked.

We've got a number of positions open, including:

* Embedded Software Engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...

* Networking Engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...

* Tools Engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...

* QA Engineer: https://www1.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/silabs/PublicJobs/...

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And using .com as the domain for your actual website.
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