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On My nexus 7 it's really slow. Staring any application takes ages compared to times that ParanoidAndroid does it. Start-up time with Foxfood is noticeably longer than PA, actually I got bored waiting. 8 minutes and counting... It's not possible to stop it and go back to android launcher.

There is an updater built-in. UI looks better than my Android, there is no theme changer, so it's a no-go for me.

It provides access to applications from Android, but icons are HUGE. On N7 I have 3 icons per row (you can change it to 4, but it's still ugly), so they're really ugly and pixelated. Settings are pretty nice, it looks like something between iOS and standalone Android 5.

It didn't fully replace my android UI, as the bottom bar with back, menu, recent is still visible, but pressing back doesn't do anything, instead back button is placed in top left. Not every application has the button, contact settings doesn't have, so I had to restart FirefoxOS to go back to main menu. Also I still see Android heads-up notifications from VPN reconnecting. Doubled.

There are a few unnecessary UI-fireworks, which I would like to disable, but can't see any settings about UI.

I think battery consumption is big as well, in several minutes of testing I lost 11%, which normally I use 6%-10% in 1.5h.

It's good, needs a lot of polishing, and it's getting somewhere.

I listed only disadvantages here, but it looks nice, their own UI is clear and consistent, better than android, everything what comes from FxOS runs very smoothly. It's 7/10 for a developer preview package.

When those things improve in the future, I will be happy to replace Launcher3 with Foxfood.
It's rather the upvoting of threads as well as their subthreads. Active threads move to the top.
Because in a car, you are protected by airbags, crumple zones, seatbelts, and many other safety features that aren't available on a bike.
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I believe you are mistaken. In fact having more content on twitter and users consuming more content on twitter would allow them to actually get value of the interest graph which they don't have now.

It would completely change because suddenly you are consuming your content on twitter not someone elses page and so twitter would have much better ability to do advertising.
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Not really because they stare at the feed only to find something that then lives somewhere else.

It's like being that guy the girls hang out with because you are good friends with the handsome guy in school. You might get to hang out with them but in the end they go home with your friend.
They should have made fake ads about getting a free iphone with calling this number, that would be much more effective.

It would be interesting to see the resulting numbers - how many people are already afraid to call that number? Are YOU afraid of calling that number?

That is a nice real life demonstration of where that ill-minded techno-dictatorship will lead us.

Unfortunately there is no way back, as the USA ANGST to fight these nazis is too strong, especially in Silicon Valley, where too many chicken-hearted apple shiners (nice word!) are hiding instead of standing up. It is shocking to see how established that culture of ANGST is already established in the USA.

So be prepared for a long war and many death friends - this is always the only long-lasting result when you let paranoid and aggressive Neandertalers lead your society. Look at Germany after WW II to see the future of USA if you do not stand up now against that bigbrotherism.

Yes, it is up to you to change it. Follow the few brave we have seen and change your government to obey the people, not the other way around. Do it now and the world will be very thankful and start to love USA again! Amen :)
The reason some are sceptical, is the extra weight and leverage of the helmet is supposed to increase the chance of you breaking your neck in in accident.

I have no idea if its true or not.
There seems to be an algorithm which demotes some posters (at least one) voicing opinions unfavorable to YC.

EDIT: just got downvoted without any comment. I wonder if I am on the kill list as well.
> Evolved people eat cooked food, or so the saying goes.

However, they don't cook their vegetables too much.
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It's not a question of desert. If rich people can't defend themselves with all their money and resources, how can poor people without money or resources possibly hope to stand a chance?
What was with these "barrier" things? What was actually turned on and off? Which filesystem exactly?
I've never met a WhatsApp user in Japan. Everything here is about Line.
Then why don't you wear a helmet when you're walking on ice as well?

I'm not saying helmets don't work, I'm saying it's not very likely to hit your head at high velocity on the ground if you were going 10 km/h. And if that means you're not gonna ride a bike at all because you forgot your helmet you're probably having a higher risk of cardiovascular disease further down the line than you have of breaking your head now.
> my helmet was cracked by this fall (hit the side of my head on the cement)

I'm not sure whether helmets really work, and just to be on the safe side I almost always wear one, but I seem to remember one European biking site -- possibly mentioned here in HN... I forget -- where the author argued that helmets are designed to crack so that it seems they work. But, he argued, whether they crack or not bears no relation to protecting from head injuries; the crack simply leaves you satisfied that the helmet "saved" your life.

The article seemed convincing. Sadly I cannot remember where I read it.
> your a writer?

Amusing.
What do you mean by a multiplier? Why not just cash out at the valuation established in the funding round?
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Here are some of the hints. I will appreciate if you post some more topics in the comments of my blog.

* DO NOT clutter your slides with tons of text and information. Sorry, I just get overwhelmed with different fonts and pics and all the things YOU consider important. You will spot if your slides are too informative if people start asking questions to which you have stated the answers earlier.

* DO NOT identify huge market and reserve a cut of it while not establishing a link to why this market might belong to you one day.

* DO NOT miss out what you will do with investors money and how much you need.

and more.
I don't think there are a huge number of Steam games running on .NET, but the number might be increasing due to the rise of Unity.

Many, many games are written in C++ and require reasonable porting efforts to get to Linux support. Someone like Ryan C Gordon (icculus) is much better qualified to comment on that, though.

I doubt Microsoft would ever port DirectX to Linux, but then again I doubted they'd do that with .NET, and look where we are.

The DirectX->Wine code works pretty well, but it's always going to be behind the state of the art.
From what I recall, the result of the PACE trail was a bit of a farce. There were 3 categories of outcome for the patient: no change, better, or worse. Each of these categories contains roughly a third of the subjects. Despite such a glaring failure to produce a useful treatment, the PR spin focused on the third that got better, rather than the third of patients who got worse after the PACE treatment.

Surely this kind of breaks the medical tradition of "first, do no harm". The anger generated by ME patients in the UK was caused by the fact that it was proposed they would lose their benefits if they did not participate on a PACE treatment, a treatment that caused no improvement or made ME patients worse in 66% of the trail subjects.

A more open mind must be taken by researchers when approaching ME as a illness. They must remember they are dealing with subjects that have frequently dismissed as lazy, over-sensitive, and in many cases lying about their symptoms.

Disclaimer: I had ME for 2.5 years about 25 years ago, so I have been subject to family, doctors, friends and even strangers dismissing my muscle pain, blinding headaches, insomnia, continuous cramps and inability to regulate my body temperature as "all in the mind".

I wish anyone reading this who is suffering from ME all my best wishes - I remember clearly how ME feels.

I am now a healthy 45 year old man, who can now play tennis for 4-5 hours continuously without ill effect. There can be a future after ME for all of us if medical researchers continue to search for a solution, rather than classifying it as "all in the mind" as the PACE trail was seemingly intended.
>>" It's content that's king. That's good news for Hacker News because it indicates that what matters there is content and not game playing". <<

If that were the case I should have much more Karma. The fact is many times I posted a submission, only to see it slip off the headline in 0.2ms. Then a few days later, someone else (with more Karma) posts the same thing and it stays on for 2 days ... I'm not complaining, simply stating that it is not as cut and dry as the author mentions.
This particular policy is aimed at people accused of bank fraud, insider trading and other high-finance crimes.

There is indeed an entire group of self-proclaimed professionals that uses asset-shifting tactics to

(1) avoid detection by systems that seek to detect fraud
(2) operate a number of legally "separate" but owned by the same group of people / businesses operating in the same sphere

Small transactions among these entities might not raise a flag on their own, but given the sum of them all, it can definitely help point an arrow to larger schemes for market manipulation.

Freezing the liquidity of these complex legal structures for a temporary period of time ... tracing the still-liquid "drip" (because the analogy is too good to not use) back to the source does seem to be a logical way to suss out the scum.

If you've ever invested in a growth company for "long", only to have your investment diluted and eventually delisted by one of these private enterprises, this reform should make you very happy.

[Edit] For example .... http://sirf-online.org/2013/03/11/paper-world-of-brookfield-...
No this is not a logical argument. Banning biking alltogether would even save more lives, so by your logic we should ban biking. This an other studies show, that there is no especial reason to wear a helmet during normal reasonable biking. The risks for your head are not significantly worse than when walking or driving a car. You are free to wear a helmet of your choice at any of those activities, but they are not required by law for any of those.
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In English, there are only three dedicated smell words—stinky, fragrant, and musty

I think "acrid" also applies. It's technically applicable to taste as well, but it's never used in that context. For that matter, something can taste fragrant (eg rose lemonade).
I look at the console world and feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

The massive reduction in cost of hardware has enabled every device to get smart. And, surprise surprise, the first things to get smart were the things with screens - phones and TVs.

Video game consoles (and all set-top boxes) hearken back to an era where the average house only had one TV, and it was dumb.

These days, there's a dozen screens in the home, and all of them have computing power many times greater than even the original XBox - more than enough juice to power a huge catalogue of existing games.

So why do big game companies (Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and now Valve) still feel they need to make hardware?

And I'm not suggesting that these companies give up their 1st party platform advantage - just that their platform doesn't need to be hardware anymore. A cross-platform Nintendo App that runs the Nintendo VM and stores all of your games in the cloud makes a lot more sense than building a second rate piece of hardware and managing the supply chain to get it to the living room.

The only area where you can argue hardware is still necessary is the controller - afterall, our hands haven't changed that much and immersive gaming experiences haven't adapted well to touch screens. But surely it'd be easier to manage a supply chain for bluetooth controllers than it would a console.

If you add cloud graphics processing to the mix to overcome the horsepower issues of lesser hardware, something NVidia and Sony have both demonstrated at this point, then there's absolutely no reason to continue to push hardware other than inertia.
Take a trip to any large city with a bike sharing program (say Paris or NYC) and you'll thousands of people renting a bike for a short ride, maybe just because they've missed the bus. As far as I know bicycle fatalities in Paris have gone down since the program was introduced even if the number of bikes on the road has increased by an order of magnitude.

Also you might not buy it, but the data is out there…

30% fewer cyclists in NZ and Australia

http://www.fubicy.org/spip.php?article191
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Aye, there's the rub. I would not call myself a bicyclist, and certainly not a dedicated one.

I just ride bikes when it's convenient: there's a pretty good public transport network around my city, you can walk short distances, and car traffic is also reasonable; biking supplements these three options very nicely, esp. now that there's a bike-sharing thing in the city (unlock a bike via an app, ride it wherever, lock it via the app again, minimal fuss). Lugging a helmet around, just in case I should decide to use a bike, is rather inconvenient (I tried). If there were a mandatory helmet law, it would certainly increase the gap between "casual rider" and "dedicated bicyclist," driving out people like me.

(OTOH, if I'm on a bike trip, I do have my helmet, as I usually go beyond paved streets, longer distances and probably higher speeds. Different tools for different purposes.)

TL;DR: assuming "bicycling requires dedication" reduces ridership by definition.
I think you are wrong to dismiss that point so harshly, when all empirical data shows it to be true. Engineering, Hosting, Marketing, Monetisation, all those things are massively cheaper when done by one big player. There is a reason publishers outsource advertisement to those shitty networks: They would be overwhelmed by the cost to operate, let alone create those beasts. And even when this problem would magically go away, they still lack the access to the petabytes of data the big platforms enjoy. Without this data, the advertisement will necessarily be crude and lacking focus.
Newborns of wild animals raised in captivity cannot be released back to the wild, because they lack the survival skills they could otherwise have learnt from their parents. It is true with many species - a species' accumulated and inherited knowledge, passed down generation to generation, about how to survive and thrive in the environment, is part of that species' evolution history. This apply to humans as well as to almost all other animals. It is misguided to think human evolution is "not in the hands of nature", because the accumulated inherited knowledge we have about the world, the capital we build that is passed down to our children, and technology we implement, are part and parcel of nature itself. Are our bodies nature? Are our gut bacteria nature? Do our neurons work apart from nature? Is the tendency to want to be "better than the joneses" to attract a better mate ourselves, or help our children to do so, part of nature, or an artificial phenomenon? What about our desires to live in shelter of our construction, impulse to educate our children, to pass them what we have and improve their ability to thrive? I think all of these behaviours are nature in and of itself, and because all things we do spring from nature, those things are nature too, even down to our computers and any AI we may build in the future - because products of nature is nature itself.

Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe [1] If humans are separate from the universe, then where does the universe end, and we begin?

However, besides this nitpick, I agree with all your points. In the future, nature will select some genes based on their fitness as predicted by nature, as well as actual fitness at the current moment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature
"It only really makes sense if you view writing as a fungible commodity"

I have no sympathy for writers here. You view us readers as fungible commodity. I use Reddit, HN, Facebook and twitter to weed out the worst bullshit. There are lots of articles around just to keep me comfy long enough to show me adds. One of the worst these days is New Yorker, beautifully written articles about stuff people don't really care about. (Or atleast I don't care about.) Currently it survives on elitism. Web platforms are problematic. But lot better than ordering magazines at random, or paying for New Yorker monthly for that yearly gem.

“Go where the readers are”

It's more important to write what the readers want to read. I click stupid shit. I read mediocre pieces. I'm willing to pay for good stuff.

I think there should be ordering/crowd funding service solely for written media. So that authors don't just babble nice sentences inside their comfort zone, but actually tackles things people are interested in.

The real problem is that author doesn't know if s/he gets paid before the article is written, but also the reader doesn't know if the article is worth anything before reading it.

I think the author of this piece has many good points, he just needs to dig deeper. This bleak context free future the author is painting is probably not true. People like context. Any social meeting is often first superficial introductions, then shallow gossip and only later dvelves into deep stuff. Internet is probably going to mirror that, but with more inertia.
Even the cheapest digital voltmeters have 1MOhm input impedance

The one the parent mentioned has 10kOhm/Volt sensitivity, so for 10V range it gives 100kOhms

http://support.radioshack.com/support_meters/doc73/73794.pdf
Direct3D and DirectX have nothing to do with .Net. The port of the CLR will only allow to run .Net(core) applications on OSX or Linux . And even there DirectX seems to be a blocking factor e.g. XAML/WPF which uses DirectX for drawing won't be ported/opensourced ,IMO for this very reason.
Whatsapp dominated Brazil.

I work at a big government organization. Every department has its whatts group.

I know a guy at my state government cabinet. He has several whatts groups (even one with the governor himself).

I know a gentleman which is a judge. He has a group with his partner judges and one with his staff.

My point is: if whatsapp usage is so pervasive at other countries as it is at Brazil, it will soon, by (physical) social network effect, dominate USA.

The alternatives:

* Facebook Messenger: too slow. Only one friend of mine uses it.

* Telegram: looks and feels like a whatts clone. Some people here seem passionate about inviting friends, but most people I talk about fail to see any advantage in using it. Some people hate it. As a plus, it will SPAM all your contacts when you sign up.

* Google Hangout: even I can't figure out what this is. Is this SMS or a messenger application. Now my phone has another application called Messenger (from Google). Confuse. No one I know use it.

* SMS: too expensive.

* Apple Message: only Apple users can use it. People prefer whatts because everyone is there.

* Zoiper: got traction, but whatts voice messages killed it.
A conjecture related to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lander,_Parkin,_and_Selfridge_...
The capacitor doesn't itself significantly increase the price but there are more differences than just a capacitor in the datacenter drives. Look at the power consumption for the start, DC ones use much more power on idle. Also look at the technology behind: DC variants have to be more conservative with the stress to the cells (less bits per cell, potentially less cells per area, potentially more spare cells to replace died ones etc).

And the market segmentation is the natural way to go. The different needs and different sensitivity to price determine the price.
Do you have contact information for any of the people using your product? Admittedly I am at a university, not a regular business, but I don't think I could get a donation past the procurement office. If you offer to sell a support package you might do much better. A support contract is something that could get past most purchasing departments.
In theory, that shouldn't happen. HN should detect duplicates and just add an upvote to the existing submission when it is resubmitted.
Wait, doing research for the purpose of helping others attack and/or imprison targets while getting paid for it is white hat now?
What kind of riders are you thinking of?

In Copenhagen, where everyone rides bikes (young, old, hipster, business guy, dad, child - not only "dedicated riders"), there are plenty who would bike less by simply dropping some bike rides if they choice was between bike+helmet and eg. walking, bussing or cardriving.
If you need timesheets or timeoffs I recommend CronForce. They also do budget planning and tracking. Startups can use for free.
I live in the Netherlands, never ever did I see anyone with a helmet up until recently (all of a sudden people put them on their kids). I learned to ride a bike at 4, never with a helmet. I have never seen anyone with head injury. Perhaps it is because we don't go that fast, a typical bike looks like this: [0], no gears, relaxed posture. For Mountain biking I do wear a helmet, as does my 3yr old son, but not for normal biking.

"It only takes a very minor fall and some bad luck to end up with brain swelling, cracked skull, or a corpse."
I really don't believe that, you are just spreading fud, I have seen people fall but you must be pretty slow to react or go really pretty fast if you can't just put your arms in front of your head or step of a falling bike.

It's easy, never force people to wear a helmet, allow them to arrive at work with hair intact and without hassle, if you value a healthy population that enjoys bicycling (yes yes our views on that are probably the same).

[0] https://www.google.nl/search?q=typical+dutch+bike&source=lnm...
It already exists, there are plenty of companies specialized in such porting action.

However, the question is the ROI in supporting the platform vs sales, even if the code doesn't need any major change.
I'll hold my hands up and say I did have a knee-jerk reaction to the criticism but then I remembered when I started learning Lisp.

I did often wonder where the arrays, hashmaps and other data structures were. I remember I had my own practice problems that involved random access so a vector would have been more efficient than a list.

In fairness, I think you either will be far enough on your travels with other languages to intuit that Lisp implementations do have these primitives ("surely not? Ah, lo and behold, racket has a nice vector interface. Not sure about CL's hashmap interface..." and so on) or you will be so far on your travels with lisp to understand why you need this that you already know.

I don't think I would direct a complete beginner to programmer to this page.