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Doesn't this article forget Samsung, who themselves manufacture a lot of the major components that make up a modern phone (display, flash memory, camera, etc).
Does it matter really? For all we know different people could have been posting stuff during the 50 days all under the same banner.
It depends which country you're from. In North America we tend to refer to companies as singular, but this is not so common in the UK for example, where they're usually referred to as plural.
Not everyone can afford the short term hit of paying 3-4X what they're paying now for their health insurance. If your monthly group policy is $1200/month for your family, but the employer's paying $800 of that, and you're only paying $400, you'll get quite a shock when the COBRA bill comes.
"Applying water desalinisation technology to agriculture is generally cost-ineffective" - http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/009/j4238e.htm
Not to be grammar police, but either this guy is allergic to his "s" key or he thinks Apple is plural. The tile of the post, "But Apple make fewer acquisitions", "Apple over-invest in their supply chain", Apple pay a significant portion" makes me think that he thinks the plural for Apple is Apple.
Pick the startup you want to work for.

Then go over the top in capturing their attention and proving to them you are an invaluable asset they MUST hire.

If your a designer, shred their current UI to pieces, then build a new one that just kills it.

If your a developer, build some kick-ass integration into something they should be integrating, but aren't.

Use a creative way to get your work in front of them.

You'll be able to name your price and terms if you go this route. And it will be way more fun!

Applying for job openings is so boring! :)
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The bias baggage that power users carry
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Startup Quote: Joel Spolsky, Co-founder, Stack Exchange
I completely agree that students themselves should be responsible for their learning, even in high school. The sad truth is that most high school and even university students don't take responsibility for their learning. In that aspect I believe they're still children (as I was in uni), seeking and requiring pedagogical environments rather than andragogical. (why this is, is another troubling matter).

So let's assume for a moment that students, as they should, take that responsibility. What then is the role of the professor?

Even here, my belief is that it's still the professors duty to seek to create the ideal learning environment for each student (or the majority). This includes trying to maximize learning outcomes by making the course as interesting as they can. Wherever possible, this includes learning about each student, learning where they are mentally in their journey (through personal time, tests, projects), and wherever it benefits the student, be open to that change wherever it makes sense.

At research universities I agree professors have a dual duty. However, I disagree that these duties are and should be separate, and rather often (again, not always) should and can be reciprocal and build off of one another.

> The situation changes even more at university. The professor's main job isn't teacher.
> He's there to impart his knowledge and experience.

Studies show over and over again that knowledge isn't "imparted". You can have a professor stand at the front of the class and talk for 50 minutes about what he knows. Is that "teaching", even if 0/100 of the students are listening, or if 0/100 can comprehend what the teacher is saying? Why is the focus on lecturing, or "imparting knowledge", rather than on enabling learning? I believe this shift in mindset would change nearly everything. Anyway, I sat through numerous classes like described above, and the amount I learned from the lectures ranged from nothing to very little. I agree I would've learned more if I would have taken responsibility for my learning, however I fear I would've faster quit or changed schools/courses than go to another one of their classes because of the incredible inefficiency of it. Teaching/lecturing can be worth while, even for an autodidact, however not unless the teacher deeply cares about learning outcomes in addition to lecturing.

One last point: Students/parents pay ridiculous sums and go into ridiculous debt for a university education. You have to understand that saying that the professors (the core of the university experience) main job isn't teaching is something very hard to grasp for both students and parents. Perhaps for a good reason?
How do you read the tech books? I've purchased two books, one on Stripes and the other JavaScript: The Good Parts. I haven't started the JavaScript book on my Kobo, but the Stripes book fails all the time. It freezes the reader. But even when it doesn't, I find it hard to reference the material. I want to jump to a certain page, but find the jump to feature slow and tedious, especially when I don't know the exact page.
This is great news. It amazes me that he has been able to push the nginx project so far, mostly by himself. Congratulations to him. My only hope is that at the end he comes out with a good compensation for all his hard work.
The windows nginx code runs fine, compiling it on the other hand doesn't look easy. Unfortunately that's the only way to get modules into nginx. Committed a client project to using it as an cross platform application server, without realising that... oops.
The day before the journey started.
Perfect, I wouldn't have guessed to do that stuff. Thank you!
Postman - a JavaScript message bus
Postman is a JavaScript library & npm package which allows for cross-component messaging like traditional pub/ sub libraries but without the reqiurement on a message to be published after all the listeners are attached.
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Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don’t pay any attention to the competition. They’re not relevant to you.

- Joel Spolsky (@spolsky)

http://startupquote.com/post/7788469413
More propaganda. If they are so much smarter and so far ahead why are they running scared suing their competition?
I do a lot of my development in GWT. Ironically whilst JS heavy app run much better in Chrome, in GWT devmode Firefox is still king and Firebug the dev weapon of choice.
I buy about 20-30 books per year and probably 100 rolls of toilet paper. If you haven't stopped using toilet paper, I wouldn't worry about your library. Not buying books for environmental reasons is for the overwhelming majority of lifestyles optimizing in the wrong place.

It's rare for a person to read more than a couple thousand books in a lifetime. That's under 2 cubic meters of space total. That's massively dwarfed by the amount of waste that we generate in a lifetime. I'd need about 3 years worth of books to fill up a trash bag.
Microsoft shows off Avatar Kinect shortly before expected release
mattyb submitted it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2742718
Check out http://pummelvision.com/ for something similar.
Despite the title feeling weird when I read it, it is actually pretty common to refer to companies as "they" in the US (see other comments in this very thread!) Which is really crazy; you end up with sentences like "Apple is smart; they are getting a huge competitive edge by doing this" where you refer to the company as singular and plural in the same sentence.
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"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There is much more interesting (and useful) to hackers than pure startup and tech news.
Interesting to note, thanks. Out of curiosity, when I read the BBC I see Apple written as singular -- any thoughts on why? (Ex: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8435767.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4625262.stm)
"Anybody" who has the password to the Lulzsec Twitter account. Or who, very unlikely, hacked Twitter.
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Taking Apple as an example, a quick search of British sites yielded the following:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/inside-t...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14196153

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14181329

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/18/apple-htc-a...

...all of which use Apple as singular. In fact, I didn't come across any article that used Apple as plural.
Do you feel the 'group' method of sharing conversations (as presented in this app) is a better way of sharing information across a team than the Google Circles method? I would worry that in a workplace setting, people wouldn't be sufficiently motivated to set-up and use circles effectively.
>The sentence is up to the judge, within the limits set by the legislature.

That's not necessarily true, or rather the legislature often sets minimum sentences. If you're brought up on enough charges you can end up in jail for life with no discretion on the part of the judge.
"They" can be singular or plural. It can easily refer to a single entity that is gender ambiguous (like a company, team, etc)
This is a classic False Dichotomy fallacy. There is a massive difference between "working for free" and "got a payrise that didn't quite meet inflation". This tenured professor isn't complaining that he no longer draws a salary.

Yes, most people won't work for free (note that there are heaps of charity workers, though, more than .01%) but it's not about "working for free"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Watch this video - it makes the point that money is indeed a prime motivator... until you have enough to keep you fed and housed. Then it changes - and not only is your 99.99% number meaningless, but straight out monetary rewards can reduce performance.
Oh, <i>yeah</i>.

Totally.

When are you opening?
Very true. I do the exact same thing. Language is a beautiful thing.
Pretty much every company is perpetually suing every other company. If a company didn't exert all the legal advantages they can get, the other companies still will and you will end up at a disadvantage when you otherwise wouldn't be.

Apple is considered to be the most valuable company in the entire world right now. Not exactly a company that is an underdog.

Source: http://www.cnbc.com/id/41473211/Apple_Is_Most_Valuable_Compa...
I try to humble myself often that I'm not invincible and that I shouldn't take tomorrow for granted but eventually I completely forget about it and I'm back to mundane life. I wish there was an easy way to be reminded without being rudely awakened to the fact that I'm constantly distracting myself from what's important in life.
In countries other than the US, it is standard to treat corporation names as plural.
That seems to be the way it's written everywhere in the british news. Using a company's name as plural doesn't appear to be too common even over there; I didn't come across any cases on three different sites.
Sabu was the leader/only person worth a damn of the bunch. The other kids he "teamed-up" with to make LulzSec have long since fled the group, but Sabu remains.
I used http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ . It's an amazing project that I try to use as often as possible, especially whenever a client requires pdfs.
Thank you very much for the thoughts. Personally I don't really care about down votes, but unfortunately they often discourage people or make them feel unwelcome; people who might have a lot to contribute.
I use the Nook iPad app and I have an original Nook as well.

Originally, I bought a Nook over the Kindle because there was a rather large number of free public domain books that I wanted to read and the Nook supported open formats. I pulled down hundreds of books from Project Gutenberg.

Barnes and Noble pushes them in all their stores and believe it or not, Amazon doesn't have every customer in the world. Physical stores can still push a product better than an ad can.
Historically, that wasn't always the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(framework)#Licensing

The LGPL option was only added in 2009. Prior to that, various licencing mechanisms were used to extract revenue on various platforms.

(Eg, at one point the *nix version was GPL'ed but the Windows one wasn't, so you needed to pay to ship it on Windows)
>Curious if the person who captured these images had a browsing history for watches, or if that's what everyone witnessed?

Alas, no. I used a webkit to jpeg generator that should, in theory, be pretty void of any browsing history. I'd be surprised if they've started tracking those by ip!
a little too disorienting for my taste. also, a video effect skipping frames could accomplish the video posted above I believe.
I think the word you are looking for is 'purposeful'
Hallucinations here are not "really" hallucinations in a sense you rarely actually see things that are not there (for that, google deliriants). It's more like, everyone is acting out a certain role or a set of role in lives, and have been doing it for so long that they have forgotten they are just acting.

LSD and such smash the fourth wall of human theater, allowing actors to realize they are actors. Once they have realized this they have several options:

1) Continue playing the role they were playing after coming down, if they like it.

2) Change the role -- hence why a lot of people change their lives after dropping psychedelics.

3) Leave the play for a while -- this is possibly why some people commit suicide after psychedelics.

It's like, imagine you're coding.. and you're just so in flow that you forget you can do anything but code: you don't go to the bathroom, forget about food, in the zone. Now somebody snaps the chair out of you, and you realize you can do more things than just code. Now imagine you've been coding for 10-20 years straight.

Well, acid is like that guy who snaps the chair out of you.

Society considers it dangerous because it has spend so much time making you exactly what it wants, training you, brainwashing you with random shit that it doesn't want you to actually gain control of who you want to be.

You wouldn't want a dog you trained for years to bring sticks and shit on the toilet to realize all of a sudden it doesn't have to follow your commands all the time.

I suppose, and I just realized this now, that psychedelics are a way of chemically disabling social conditioning for a while. Perhaps marijuana is associated with lack of motivation not because it makes you unable to do things, but because it makes you realize some things are not worth giving a fuck about.
I don't know anyone who is going to download this.
I'm really impressed by Selenium's breadth of language and platform support. The GUI editor and code generator was useful for getting started.
These are weekly homework assignments. 5 hours on average. It's not too bad.
How to edit the received Email in Outlook 2010?
my poor internet can't stream it fast enough, so I just end up with a few pics and a short bit of music, long pause, repeat. There seems to be no way to allow it to buffer or restart. I have no idea what it's supposed to be - a slideshow for people with severe adhd?
Georgia is trying something similar with people on probation [1] so far the results aren't good, "most fruits and vegetables require surprisingly skilled handling" [2]

1: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2011-06-25-pro...
2: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/07/illegal-...
Interesting stuff.

However, I disagree completely with the statement that Apple's software is superior. Superior to what? Everything? No.

The user experience is excellent in the same manner that McDonald's is. McDonald's at one time provided an "innovative" customer experience, and so did Apple in 2007 with iOS. The McDonald's "UI" is not truly innovative or necessarily superior anymore, but it's always consistent. Same with iOS. Consistent, but not necessarily superior given all the choices.
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I like this quote by Isaac Newton

"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Sums up the futility and the selfish enjoyment of a life of intellectual pursuit for me.
They will have retina display iPads and computer monitors 2-3 years before any competitors can do it at similar scale or cost by paying the upfront capital for an ODM to build the factory.

And it's basically a proxy for having their own factory, which they directly control (classic Apple), but without their name tied to the negative aspects of it.
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It's definitely a difficult transition time for Mozilla/Firefox, and I think they're struggling to find their footing. I'm not sure if all the decisions they are making are correct, but as time goes on I think their plans are coming together more.
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Plugin incompatibility is a problem at the moment, but they have systems in place to help mitigate it. If they can manage to keep it temporary, I think they can survive.

I don't have much experience with the new extension SDK, so I can't comment on it authoritatively. The old system is not without problems, and I'm actually glad that they are moving over to something closer to Chrome in terms of certain things...
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The thing that gets me, though is that the language used is so general. It says things like 'input device', 'output device'. My desktop has an 'input device': the keyboard and an 'output device': the monitor.

Also it talks about detecting structures in a grammar. That has been done before. So putting that on a server and accessing it with input and output devices makes it new and original? Surely an old-style unix terminal running awk on a PL/1 could fit in this broad terminology.
Oh quite true, but then you can view it is salary. e.g. you aren't quitting a $80,000 a year job to do a startup; you are quitting a $100,000 a year job to do so.

(I find it hard to accept that a lack of free health insurance is keeping that many would-be entrepreneurs at their day jobs any more than a lack of free housing is. If you have some form of disease that keeps you from getting insurance, I completely sympathize (and I believe the health care law will solve that issue), but for most people it is just another cost to consider before leaving - like housing, transportation, etc.)
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Jobs has had full supply line / vertical integration in mind for decades.

NeXT reflects his vision, down to raising a stunning amount of cash to build a factory for the hardware with NeXTs building NeXTs (circa 1986) - beautiful vid of that process http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhfUKEu7sJ0

There's a remarkable MacWorld keynote that I just wasted 15 mins trying to find where he lays out, blow-by-blow, his vision for returning to total vertical integration (posted years back) - anybody have that handy?
> If there are many job openings, but little actual hiring, then there is no real demand.

Or there is demand but inadequate supply. I've heard several people on HN talk about their companies having openings, getting 10 times the resumes that they did in 2007, but seeing significantly fewer qualified applicants overall.
IMO Animoto.com does a better job.
Which is really intriguing in light of the Citizen's United court case and our general promotion of the concept of corporate personhood. That a corporation is its own entity rather than a representation of the interests and rights of the people who run it.
Google isn't suing any competitors. Apple can see the writing on the wall, Android is beating them fair and square, no matter how much they supposedly overinvest in their supply chains (the touchscreen supply thing happened a couple years ago but for some reason people keep bringing it up) they are losing in the marketplace so they're bringing the courts into it. And of course their hype machine is in full drive.
The problem isn't that he's supporting cuts for someone in a different bracket, it's that his own reasoning has him in the bracket which he's not in. He's opposing tax laws that don't directly affect him based on the misunderstanding that they do directly affect him.
I posted the same link two days ago but with the original title "Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion—Not a Holy War" but it passed completely unnoticed.

Hobbits really are amazing creatures
If Samsung doesn't catch wind of the new component or can't study it until it's released to the public then Apple is still ahead until Samsung can duplicate the manufacturing process. They are good at copying but some things just take time, how long I'm not sure (but am curious if anyone here does know).
The django docs arn't as good as they're made out to be, at least not any more. The major problem is they're lagging behind at this point, in both using the new core features such as class based views, and in best practices, such as the tutorial teaching reusable apps.

the core devs have said this themselves though on stage at cons, so i'm sure it'll get fixed at some point.
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People keep saying that the Supreme Court ruled, in the Citizens United case, that corporations are people. No one has ever actually produced a quote from the court's opinion suggesting so.

In fact, the ruling was precisely that corporations are representations of the rights of their owners, and therefore conduits for their owners' exercise of free speech.
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Genetic algorithms are a pretty simple to replicate demonstration that mutation and selection together constitute a sufficient condition for descent with modification.

Evolution doesn't claim to explain all changes, just the "force" which causes populations to grow to resemble the units of the population which are best selected for in later generations. It, for instance, doesn't explain eye color either; there isn't sufficient reproductive pressure to affect those aleles. Eye color requires understanding of DNA and the structure of our genetics to begin to make sense of.

Microevolution and macroevolution are the same thing at different (orthogonally arbitrary) scales. The appearance of a significant difference occurs under strong selective pressure or differential selective pressure leading to punctuated equilibria or genetic splitting, but really it's just a matter of sharp changes of a smooth parameter instead of actual categorical differences.

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Because there were presumably first few seconds of the universe. The cosmic microwave background radiation is a picture of these first few seconds when everything was closer together and thus interacted strongly! The resolution to this conundrum turns out to not be tied to the finiteness of the universe but instead the astounding fact that if you fix two objects in space the distance between them will still grow (very slowly) with time.

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I'm not a physicist either, so I avoid seriously proposing strange theories of cosmology. It's gotta be pretty equivalent to having a manager ask for some new feature assuming it'll be trivial to build.