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Ah, I still remember when the 1st Android phone came out (G1). A lot of people were dismissing it because the IPhone had a 2-year head start. Interface was ugly, phone is thick like a brick, only on 1 carrier, the smallest of the Big 4 at that.

Well, how did that turn out? Android is selling more than the IPhone.

A proper tablet OS didn't arrive until last month and people are already saying it's almost too late for Android to catch up with the IPad.

Alright, people will say that it's not the same. But I believe the barriers to entry to the table market is lower than that of phones since manufacturers do not really need carrier approval. Once Google refines the Android tablet OS, I can't wait to see what manufacturers can come up with.
You're concerned, but don't add the link: http://www.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fitness...

As for me, I prefer the version on one page, with no ads. Clicking "cancel" is not too high a price to pay (for me).
...and if you read /r/fitness with any remote regularity then most of this article isn't very surprising at all.
> So lack of apps is not really a burning problem.

The converse of above statement is a richer ecosystem is not really an advantage or incentive for developers!
iPad's post-pc experience: holding your computer get's old fast, touch is frustratingly imprecise, copy/paste and the web suck. SJ talks about how it's not a computer and then points out how great it is for creating content and for business. He is P.T. Barnum and the suckers are lapping it up.
A beautiful demo beats a working prototype, at least as far as management is concerned.

I've actually seen this at work, where I managed to hack together a working (but ugly) system only to experience a lot of push-back. Once I polished the output, the same idea was welcomed.

Oddly enough, I learned this lesson back in college. In one engineering design class, I got an A on an assignment that looked really cool, but didn't actually work. I didn't hide the brokenness at all: I clearly documented the fact that it produced utterly nonsensical results in my report and discussed how I would have fixed the problem.

In retrospect, I've decided that they were teaching me an important lesson, but I'm still not quite sure if it was intentional or not.
You'd be almost guaranteed to fail the lift. Smith machines let you use higher weight because you don't have to spend energy stabilizing the barbell. With safety bars failing isn't a huge deal, it's just pointless.
I can watch it just fine on Ubuntu :P
But that's irrelevant because people aren't using pixel doubled apps on the iPad. They are using specially designed apps.

Are you seriously claiming that apps developed for android phones are as good as the dedicated iPad apps?
If we coded the way the government governs, we'd never be able to remove bad code, we'd have to continually add more and more complicated code to fix the existing bugs

Wow, that sounds a lot like some places I've worked. Nothing was ever removed out of fear that something somewhere might break. Refactoring, hence, is forbidden. Just add more code and special cases.
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I don't substantially disagree with you, but I would be very displeased if folks took to replicating your tone on HN. Can we change the dial back to "Robust but civil disagreement", please?
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In the US. The Galaxy Tab took like 6 months to appear in France.
Replace "Xoom" with "G1"/"Android" and "IPad"/"IPad 2" with "IPhone". Pretty much exactly what people said more than 2 years ago.
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2011/03/architect...

There are parallels. Sometimes.
I had to power cycle my iMac when I opened this is Chrome.
Not selling more in Europe where Apple dominates. The only Android device cracking around here is the Galaxy Spica, not quite the same league as the iPhone.
I worked at TechCrunch for a year focusing mainly on CrunchBase data analysis.

There are a number of problems with your analysis:

I suspect you are using founding year. Unfortunately there is a tremendous lag between when a company is founded and when it is entered into CrunchBase. The same is true of funding data in particular where we saw only around 20% of fundings within a quarter of happening and only about 70% a year out. That is due to CrunchBase's continued growth (it's much better known now) as well as a natural reporting lag.

Second, CrunchBase is a very new product and as it turns out data is only reliable as far back as 2007 and even that took a lot of work. Some time has been spent pushing to get more accurate data further back but it is scattershot at best.

(Possibly, can't tell) CrunchBase investments are stored in a number of currencies, did you make sure to recalculate them? Yen can really cause problems :)

Lastly, your NASDAQ chart is from 94 - 2005 which never overlaps with reliable CrunchBase data even by your own admission. I suspect that graph will be a bit more telling and worrisome potentially: http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1....

I do not necessarily think we are in a bubble and I am happy to see people diving in on data I just wanted to point these things out as it would be irresponsible not to.
Yeah, don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen. Remember the iPhone parodies from 3 years ago ("it's a shaver, it's a cheese grater", "introducing iRack", etc)? None of those managed to hurt Apple's brand or the sales of Apple products. In fact they probably had the opposite effect - they made people, who would otherwise not have known of the existence of an Apple phone, aware of the iPhone.
Huffington Post likes to post headlines and blog posts praising all things green energy, Obama, and NBC. The bias is pretty obvious. The original point of the site was to be a left-wing alternative to Drudge Report--even the name is a play off of it. Ariana Huffington herself has spoken at several Democrat events over the years and is considered politically left-of-center.
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Oh, he's talking about raw numbers. I guess in retrospect, that's obvious, but when I replied I thought he was saying he doesn't push himself as hard with free weights.
I understand what you are saying...isometrics are awesome...I actually do them almost everyday and I swear by them. I also swear by dynamic tension flexing, which brings great results.

But don't confuse those results with the results from classic big lifts. Like I said, I do isometrics all the time, but squats, deadlifts, benchpress and pullups are going to develop your musculature in ways isometrics never could.

What I'm doing now is a class lift style of back squats, deadlifts and benchpress 5x5 program for strength. Progress 5 pounds each session (make sure you start very low so you can build up) and end the each session with a circuit of your choosing x 3 (I normally do something like BW to failure of pullups, pushups, dips, plank, bridge/mule kick, ...then break and do it all again). Total workout including warmup takes 45 minutes max (I warm up for about 20 minutes).

This will build tons of muscle and you will gain strength very quickly. Though, make sure you eat right (Paleo) and cut out the crappy foods like grains/glutens/sugars and you will see fantastic results (if you still eat grains and the like, you'll gain weight, but you likely won't lose any fat .... some people call this "shitty weight" akin to drinking 2 gallons of milk a day).
Sorry but this was an old joke in 1995, the joke went:

In Hollywood you can walk up to anyone and ask "How's your screenplay coming?" and they will look at you shocked and ask "How did you know I was working on a screenplay?" In Silicon Valley you can walk up to anyone and say "How's your business plan coming?" and they will look at you shocked and ask "How did you know I was working on a business plan?"
Wow, that's interesting :)
Sorry if this answer isn't useful being something of a 'you're asking the wrong question' approach but here goes...

If you've got capital do you need a cofounder or could you look instead for an employee. If they turn out to be as good as you might hope they can then take more responsibility as the company grows and earn (additional) shares at that point. If they don't work out you've got a far simpler problem to deal with. More likely perhaps is they work out but aren't neccesarily interested/capable of growing into the person they need to be as the company grows. If expectations are set now you can still grow the company above them.

Best of luck with whatever you do.
Regardless of whether you feel Gruber is a fan boy or not, you gotta admit he's a great writer. Always look forward to his pieces.
I have read on various weight lifting forums that at least some prisoners smuggle in steroids, protein powders/bars and also steal extra food when they can. This would certainly lead them to getting into great shape if all they do is workout and get the needed supplements.

Also, I don't know about you, but I don't personally know anyone in jail, so other than perception that guys in jail are huge, I'm not really sure its true.
Hi Dan,
I think you gave Olark before we had solved some of the issues for larger sites. When your in the 150 visitor range it doesn't make as much sense to let you monitor all your visitors in your buddy list -- so we now let you turn that off and only have slots for chatting visitors. As well as a few more options we've implemented for some of our other larger customers.

I'd be happy to offer you a deal to try us out again, and definitely appreciate your feedback for helping us improve.
i think mrleinad is recommending a google search. :)

docstoc.com has some fantastic resources. a quick search for "software development contract" under my account on their site pulls up 14 docs avail.
I have lifted weights for 15 years. But now I ditched the gym all together. Got bored with neon lights, the smell of sweat and watching fat people run on a treadmill ;)

Now I only sport outdoors and for muscle strength I use kettle-bells: http://www.amazon.com/Kettlebell-Strength-Secret-Soviet-Supe...

Just read http://www.amazon.com/Kettlebell-Strength-Secret-Soviet-Supe... and you know enough. No expensive equipment needed and it takes only 3 times 30 to 40 minutes a week to gain considerable strength and cardio!
I'm pretty sure I don't believe Apple's policies require an app to charge for something that was formerly free. Seems like a red herring.
Don't forget that Apple has officially taken a liking to him, and that he is getting unusual access for a "regular guy". Pre-release hardware to review, invitations to private Apple media events, etc.

It would be in his best interest to not anger Apple or they instantly cut off his access. See: Walt Mossberg.
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Did you actually say "worship"? I suppose you are right. It is more religious than evidence based.
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The problems in Angola aren't cross-cultural, they're just cultural. Like a lot of Africa, there is no concept of good governance there. Starting up a business with locals would be a nightmare.

If you were trying to remotely build a business in Angola, how would you avoid having it stripped bare by staff corruption? The politicians would use bullying to push the 'wrong' people away from applying for jobs there, and look for opportunities to make payoffs to get their people hired into the structure. Their people have grown and been fed by corruption, and would perpetuate the practice.
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Without the printer pop: http://www.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fitness...
tptacek has made some good comments on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010226 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1946307

In short, Customs covers counterfeit, which extends to IP rights. Not saying I agree with it, but that seems to be the justification.
The eye ends up taking in a lot of information from every point you look at though, whereas the ear is always listening in every direction at once. Because of the kind of processing in the eye and brain, our three types of cone cells actually end up capturing most of the information encoded in the different reflectance spectra of the kinds of objects that naturally occur in the world (most of the variation occurring in typical objects in the wavelength range we can detect): today with synthetic materials and various lighting sources metamerism is noticeable in special edge cases, but just wandering around it usually doesn’t matter too much. After all, a decent percentage of males get along just fine as dichromats, and many don’t even realize they’re missing anything until adulthood (because even with two sensor types there is a lot of variation to pick up).

I think it’s pretty silly to argue that hearing can pick up more detailed information about the world than vision can: from vision, we can figure out shape, orientation, distance, texture, gloss, material, lighting, direction and speed of extremely tiny motion, etc., and we can do it for fine details of everything we look at, thereby constructing a tremendously detailed model of our environment without needing to directly touch every part of every thing. Anyway, both hearing and vision are extremely sophisticated. The two gather quite dramatically different kinds of information. Neither should be underestimated.
I agree. I've been following him for a long time (before he quit his day job!), and he is absolutely a great writer. Daringfireball, along with HN, are truly my only daily reads.

However, while I think he's generally spot on with his Apple analysis, I can see how his detractors are turned off by the smidgeon of smugness in some of his articles.
The definition given earlier was: "A person is guilty of theft, if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it"
True, but with the phones there were lots of people who couldn't buy an iPhone to use on their carrier or wanted something cheap.

Android phones had a captive market.

iPads are more useful, cheaper and not limited by carrier. Why would a non-enthusiast buy an Android tablet based on the idea they they might get better over time, when iPads are good now?
And insurance costs more than not having it, but the poorer you are, the more you need it.

So yeah, it is maybe more expensive but I can totally see why you would want that.
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Not 12MP, but more than 0,3MP. A popular Logitech webcam has 2MP, and I have heard that it DOES make a difference for video chats compared to lower quality cameras.
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Ask HN: Anyone else unable to purchase the iOS developer program.
The link from the enrollment process is dead and it has been since the start of the week. Apple know of the problem, but nothing has been done about it since the beginning of the week.
1) Host in I2P/Freenet/etc only

2) Use anonymous or throwaway email addresses only; never connect from your real IP (see i2pmail, hushmail, and good proxying + generic email service)

3) Run your own ad networks, accept payment only in Bitcoins.

4) Encrypt everything vaguely related; all mail to and from your disposable email address should be encrypted, write a script that downloads and empties its contents nightly storing encrypted archives on your machine only. All code and source control and everything else that can be encrypted should be encrypted. See ecryptfs.

5) Profit!
I think your comment is just horrible. You seem to be implying that African culture is simply more corrupt and somehow inferior, which is really not nice of you to say.

"Starting up a business with locals would be a nightmare."

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but many companies from many countries are successfully creating businesses in Africa. And they are getting rich at it. But people like you undermine the entire growth process of africa - because you just lump everything together into a single bundle, and then condemn it to be a place nobody should ever invest in. That's just horrible.

The problems ARE cross-cultural. You know why? European & American companies trying to set up shop in Africa do indeed face the problems you are describing above (probably because they come in with your mindset), but south african companies are making billions selling goods to consumers. Things like satellite TVs, Mobile Phones, etc are making billions in profits, without it being 'stripped bare by staff corruption'.

Why's that? It's because they understand the cultural issues and don't expect western style personal responsibility.

Just like in china things have to be done the chinese way, in africa, things have to be done the african way. Those who know how to do it that way are making money in the continent with the highest growing GDP.

People like you, however, who make these blanket statements about how it can never be improved and should never be invested in, should indeed stay out - but best of all would be if you don't discourage others from investing.
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My two cents on fitness:

1. Do something you like. This way you stick to it.
2. Don't overthink it, if you are just doing fitness for your health. There is not such thing like a perfect fat burning workout, etc.
3. My ideas don't count if you are an athlete who wants to improve on performance.

No go out and do something, dont read this crappy article
I guess marital arts do burn a lot of energy.
Fermi Questions are pretty useful if you need to gain an understanding of a candidates ability to process their own thoughts in an uncomfortable situation.

http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum96/interdisc/classicfermi....

It depends on how you define 'best'. Do you mean the most humorous, most obscure or are you referring to non-tech questions that reveal a lot about your candidate?
Why do you need a term aside from for use in ad hominem attacks?
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ummm, No!

From anecdotal experience - the training plan he describes is something I did when I started out mountainbiking and ran straight into a probably best coach in vicinity.

My training program was a lot like the one described in the article - It was longer, but I was too lazy to do all of it - so I landed right where he suggests 3-4 times lifting weights a week. And boy did I get strong. But then I started fiddling out with trendy programs and fuxxored it all. :)

I guess that not using machines wont make such a difference, its more the training regime (reps, measuring your maximum, doing the pyramid). It's just that they are unnecessary.

So there are 3 things I have learned about fitness:

1. Your basic training / off season training should be exactly as described in this article.

2. Most people work out waaay too much.

3. If you are serious about your sport: do interval training twice a week (max).

That's it - that's all are there is. Everything else you can do your sport or whatever.
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Had to laugh at the line "when the Internet launched more than a decade ago". From Wired? Seriously? Is there no one there from more than a decade ago?
>> I don't really see the relevance of the number of applications to the the UI experience.

This is silly, without apps what value does it offer?
This is pretty serious, so everyone can pretend to be copyright rights holder, and they will shut down a page without proof. And for the person being shut down, there is no recourse. They are told to settle it with the third party, which doesn't even exist. Ouch...
I have one bit of specialized weight training advice. We all spend entirely too much time in front of our computers, typically hunched or slouched back, deep in thought.

Ten years of doing this professionally led to shoulder/neck problems, culminating in a pinched nerve between my C6 and C7 vertebrae. It improved with physical therapy, but was never truly fixed, and has bothered me off and on for two years now, despite my adherence to the therapist's rubber band and stretching routine.

I heard through a relative about "Upper Cross Syndrome". Whether that's specifically what I have or not, I don't know, but the symptoms match quite well. Read about it, and you'll probably see that it perfectly describes so many tech people:

http://www.active.com/fitness/Articles/Avoid_upper_cross_syn...

Exercise 6, "External rotation top to bottom" has literally changed my life, and it did so within the first week. For the first time in as long as I can remember, I maintain proper posture at the keyboard (and while walking around). I still get nerve issues if I spend too many days in a row at the computer, but I can't describe to you how much better I feel now than I did after physical therapy!
Unicorn pre-forks workers upfront. New processes are not created per request.

posix-spawn is also only useful for fork+exec, where the new process starts executing a new binary. This is not the case in unicorn or resque, where the child processes actually need to be copies of the parent.

We're currently using posix-spawn in albino and grit, which execute external commands like `pygmentize` and `git`
> write a script that downloads and empties its contents
> nightly storing encrypted archives on your machine only

For bonus points, have the script automatically mount your hidden partition (just stick the password in .netrc) thereby alerting 'them' to the fact that you have one.</sarcasm>

The automated script itself can't be encrypted, so you've alerted 'them' to the fact that you're connected to that email account, and pointed them to where the encrypted files are stored (even if they can't access the files themselves).
Of course, this is completely true. But note that I did not talk about the amount of information but the precision of information. Also note that every cone cell is equivalent to one hearing cell in the cochlea, of which there are plenty, too. (Only in the eye, they are distributed spatially while in the cochlea, they are distributed by frequency)

But all this is really not as important as the signal processing that makes sense of it. There are interesting connections between hearing and seeing. If you watch TV and someone at your side turns his head to you in order to speak, you will notice and shift your attention to him. You will think that you saw his head movement in the corner of your eye. But truth is, many people wearing hearing aids will not notice the same situation, for the simple reason that you actually did not see his head movement, you heard it.

There are many more examples where things like this happen. What you perceive is different from what your senses detect. All these intricate combinations of sensual information are the really interesting part.

Another fun thing about hearing: The human ear can detect very low sound pressure levels. Actually, it will detect a displacement of the eardrum of about the diameter of an air molecule. In a way, this is saying that the ear can detect the impact of individual air molecules on the ear drum (not really true, but in the ballpark). That is freaking amazing.
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