skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A $99 unlocked phone would be both, IMO. Just like the TouchPad went ionospheric at that price, the sub $100 phone with that kind of power would likely do the same."

It might, but I do not think it is a given. By the time it is economically feasible to sell such a phone for that price, the bar may have been raised to 'require' more power. Phones cost a couple of hundred dollar not only because of technical limitations, but also because that is what 'we' want to pay. Just like what happened with PCs, the prices may (and probably will) come down eventually, but I think that may be a few years in the future yet. For example, I would prefer a 3D or even holographic screen over a cheaper phone. I also think there will be applications of realtime image processing that will make 'us' prefer a faster phone at the same price over the current one at a lower price.
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I've read some very mixed reviews about using sites like this. It's really hard to apply the garbage filter.

There are definitely some investors that seem solid though. Thanks again.
Ha. I'm talking portable as in airplane portable.
Did he just mix a Star Trek idiom with one from Stranger In A Strange Land?

Why yes, Virginia, I think he did!
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Right but people are still dying in those countries, though not due to journalists.
That's because Tilemill is a Node.js app. Node.js 0.5 with Windows support is in the kitchen, however.
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I wonder if there is any increase or decrease on memory efficiency when using tab groups. Anyone with some technical specs or analysis on this who would like share. I think it would be great to know.
I suspect you're right in that the $25 is probably just a BOM cost (and an optimistic one at that). Once you actually try to get it built and delivered into someones hands, especially in small batches, I'm sure that $25 could ballon 2-5x easily.
You shouldn't be getting joint problems standing around all day. If you are getting something like that, these issues might be arising from fatiguing of the muscles from having to support yourself standing all day. When your muscles are fatigued, you end up supporting yourself less with the muscle and more with the joint, so you get weird "wear" patterns, things misaligned slightly. For example, the front of the thigh pulls more on the thigh bone than the rear of the thigh. That can cause kneecap soreness (patellofemoral tracking gets all whack). Muscles in your core can fatigue, and they are also essential to maintaining correct posture.

The fix in that situation would be to work on basic leg and core strength. A set of ankle weights, straight leg raises, side leg raises, calf raises, some basic "good all around" core exercises (forget the crunches, think plank) can really help you avoid joint-related issues from standing all day.
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HTC Wildfire is about $80 cheaper than this. Ships with Froyo.
A bit off focus, but I always find it odd when people declare they would prefer to code in x because it is more beautiful, more y, or more z.

Languages are tools, we should select the right one for the job and use it as such.
When you install for Python you need to make the keyboard shortcut yourself, but I don't see an app to invoke. Is there something installed (in /usr/local/bin ?) that I can execute?
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I can appreciate that, I'm just not sure I understand how that will happen. I don't have a direct trust relationship with the vast majority of the internet, so I need to put my trust in somebody else I have a closer relationship with.

Right now, I trust the browser/OS vendors with the ability to black-list individual CAs (or white-list, as the case may be). In the "trust agility" model, I just have to choose somebody else I trust, right?

Maybe as a technical person who spends time in the security world, I can figure out who that should be, but isn't the average person going to find themselves in the same situation (trusting the browser/OS provider)?

Perhaps the better way to phrase this question is thus: How does this prevent 1/4th of the SSL Internet from going down when Comodo gets hacked?
Ask HN: Any advice on setting up phone support for a startup?
For businesses that it is important to have phone support, such as a high-end e-commerce site, how do you recommend getting started with customer service? At first, there probably won't be enough traffic to require a full-time customer service person but it would be great if there was a get customer service people on an on-demand basis. Thanks for your suggestions.
Although IDE-as-a-service is probably eventually going to be commonplace, it's going to be a tough sell today. Developing web apps, especially apps that back a mobile application, is hard enough as it is.
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Slightly off topic but anyone knows how Opera has been handling this? I've searched around a bit and looked at Opera's cert settings and can't figure out if Opera has fixed this or not.
I always like music industry posts showing up on HN as it's my view that the startup industry is in some ways like the music industry of years past.

Competition is fierce. Most start out working on their (startup or music) product part-time until the product becomes popular enough that it is a "hit". At that point the entrepreneur may be lucky to end up funded ("signed") which will help their ability to pursue their product full time and spend the marketing dollars to reach a larger audience.

Thankfully it's unlikely the VC/entrepreneur relationship will become as twisted and exploitative as the major music industry's relationship with artists as being funded does not suddenly unlock access to an entire set of verticals inaccessible to unsigned artists. Or does it?
Bizarre.

The constant e isn't arbitrary, the use of radians (and hence pi) isn't arbitrary, and it certainly doesn't make sense to use degrees and write 180 as 1+1+1+...+1+1.

That's just perverse.

Observing that -1 is 1 rotated by 180 degrees is simplistic and already begging the question, and then observing that cosh(ix)=cos(x) based on the power series is using huge amounts of machinery that again, begs the question.

I can't tell if it's misguided, deliberately provocative, or what. It certainly has the feel of someone being self-consciously clever.
Ask HN: Salary Expectations for Senior Software Developer in Silicon Valley
Im in the job market after a brief(2 years) stint at being a part of a small(less than 10 people) self-funded startup in the location data space(dont want to go much further in the detail).

Originally a java engineer with 10 years of experience in large enterprise environment, this experienced allowed me to transition into modern mobile and web development arena driven by Objective C and Rails(emphasis on the latter).

Im trying to figure out if I want to go for an established big company(Your Googles), a late stage start up(your Groupons), or early stage(but funded) startups.

Naturally the more interesting the environment and the product, the more risk I would be willing to take, but Id like to be compensated for the risk and cannot for the life of me find any information on what salary range is to be expected in these 3 categories of companies that are in dire need of developers nowadays.

On one hand i have a friend who works at Google and after all company bonuses and department bonuses and 15% raise he is making nearly 200k, on other hand I read reports here with startups paying 80K to Rails developers. Any pointers to recent salary info would be appreciated
> It's simply damn hard to fund startups, as any VC will tell you.

This is the crux of it right here. VCs have the opportunity to directly earn themselves millions of dollars by making good funding decisions. Some of them are good at it, but there's no formula to apply; it requires intelligence, savvy, drive and a good dose of luck.

Now if you think about how government works, even the most upstanding public servants with the best of intentions simply do not have what it takes to make the right cut-throat funding decisions that are necessary. Hell it might even be illegal in some jurisdictions to show the kind of aggressive preference that is required.

All the cynicism about bureaucrats wanting to look good might be true, but even if it's not, they're still fucked if they try to do it themselves. The best a government can hope to do is to not get in the way of people who are capable of doing it.
I’m Not Liking Google Much These Days
If the band members are also the authors/composers of their recorded material, they will receive slightly more than what is suggested here, since they will also be due mechanical and/or performance royalties from various services.

That being said, it's the best/worst time to be a musical artist - you can distribute yourself online (the biggest music marketplace) and receive a MUCH larger chunk of the revenue than ever before. At the same time, you are only going to sell 24 albums, because it takes a label or label-like organization to sell records, and because of the former point, you are now participating in a marketplace with a selection of products an order of magnitude greater than a decade ago.
If they can reroute traffic, why can't the exchange the certificates in downloaded versions of Firefox?
If they give him 10% out of an options pool of 20%, he just cut the options pool in half for future employees. This will make it harder to attract future staff, who will be needed to grow the company enough to make the equity worthwhile. Isn't taking too much post-financing risky too?
This. I first did programming when I was 11, using BASIC on our first computer; it was not an encouraged hobby. I only programmed regularly when I got a TI-83. But this is just to emphasize your point about technology access as children and parental encouragement.

But just because this is so much of an ego stroking thread, I'm going to characterize the latter as "early entry into mobile".
How could you even read the text on this website? What a horrid design.
I am one of the owners of one of the companies that Ed interned at. He is amazing - proving that opportunity is there if you just go and grab it. Here's what he produced: http://www.distilled.net/linkbait-guide/
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Do we need and did we ask for so much choice?
I was considering getting a Milk table (http://www.milk.dk/). I know the guy who designed it and it's awesome but I decided against it because of the column in the middle. I need to stretch my legs. So I bought an X12 instead (http://www.holmris.com/htm/..%5Chtm%5Csortiment%5Cx12%5Cx12....).

Both of these are from Denmark and for the past 14 years of working as a software developer there, I have always had adjustable desks. They are simply everywhere and it was only recently that I realized that this is not the situation world wide (I currently live in Spain and I had to order mine from Denmark!).

This makes me wonder if there is an untapped market in, say, the US for these? I could never go back and I think most people who have tried wouldn't. It's not only the matter of standing up -- just making small adjustments during the day when you change position a bit feels really good and I am sure is good for the back etc.
I'd love to see this pic and maybe a small write up for people that'd use this desk at the 100$ price point. Can we get this link fixed?
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Depends on how you look at it. Writing HTML is more like using Word in a formatting mode where you can see the code that's normally behind the scenes. The method you are referring to is similar to using a WYSIWYG editor. Plus it depends on how you define what "code" means.
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Put your memory on separate continents. Yes, it introduces latency, even more latency than a disk seek, but not that much.
1.5% - 3.0% is fair for a first employee if you are also earning a decent salary, it's comparable to the deals I've seen around the Valley.

If you weren't making a salary, you should have a conversation about being a cofounder instead. It would be reasonable for you to ask for a lower salary and more equity, or no salary and a cofounder title.

You would probably be making $20,000 - $30,000 more at a non-startup job but getting no equity (and have a more boring job). The tradeoff is probably worth it depending on your risk preferences.

You should make sure that your stock is the same kind as the founders stock. If not, you should understand the difference. As long as everybody gets diluted equally in case of stock issuance and the guys aren't super shady, you are probably safe. Also, make sure that your stock grant has an acceleration clause and that it all vests in case of an exit. Otherwise you are definitely a chump.
I'm meaning more the annoying banner ads. Most Flash designers do not create entire websites in Flash anymore, that's a special case situation these days.
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Back in my day, the BBC Micro ecosystem meant that your parents had very little to do with it -- you had access to a good programmable computer at school. I was lucky enough to have a ZX Spectrum at home, which my (decidedly not middle/upper-class) parents bought to keep me occupied with games, and which I figured out how to program; but there was no mentoring, guidance or stacked decks of computer science PhD parents in my history, and neither in many of the histories of similar inquisitive kids who had a manual and a basic home computer.

I'm actively thinking about ways the technology of today can be used to bring back this golden age of opportunity, thoughts are welcome.
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no i haven't, but i should say that despite my experience, it is pretty hard to go wrong at Stanford
Sounds like that is built into the RdRand instruction. From the article:

"We really like to sleep well at night, so we've built in additional circuitry that tests to make sure that the concentrating machinery is always working with bit streams that aren't too biased. If it detects a biased output, we tag it as unhealthy and refine it to meet our standards. This way, only healthy pairs of bit streams are combined."
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Did you just "I know what you are, but what am I?" me?

No.

What I said: serve up content based upon IQ and personality. Your response, regarding garbage men, was classist. Further, you seem to have assumed that I am advocating some sort of segregation based upon intelligence.

Or does hanging out with the jocks mean you're stupid by association?

Please show where I have indicated any of the projections contained in that ranting paragraph.

You don't have to defend your statement to the death. You can just say "Geeze, I didn't think about it and IQ isn't really a good indicator for what a user may want to see as content."

Your maligning of my statements is offensive. Additionally, you have done nothing whatsoever to show that intelligence and personality quizzes won't lead to better personalized content. Instead, you have merely been highly judgmental and attacked me based upon your own (apparent) prejudices.
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At lest not as cheap as $80: http://singularityhub.com/2011/08/16/80-android-phone-sells-...
> It's faster than any other smartphone

Higher clockspeed != faster. One thing I've noticed about a few products from China and even on Android device variants, that this number does not definitively make it faster. Niether does the addition of a "fast" GPU and loads of ram.

Maybe its because China tends to write poor drivers and on Android, manufacturers and carriers love to add their own custom UI or applications that take a toll on the speed and experience.
The signatures themselves are hosted on kernel.org...
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my history with startup options:

1st company: acquired
2nd: ipo
3rd: bankrupt
4th: acquired

Net value of all option shares : 0

Meaning, in toto, my strike price x shares is almost exactly what they ended up being worth. The net present value of an option is the strike price. Even the private options market is pretty efficient. Whereas a lottery ticket might have a net present value of only 60%, so these are pretty good lottery tickets. But that is essentially all they are.
Why governments don't get startups
See how http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal_number_theorem strikes you ;-)

At the bottom there's a bit of Python code for the partition numbers, incidentally.
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In all honesty, I only ever mention that I've been programming since the age of 6 when I'm trying to impress someone -- someone non-technical, at that, and very rarely. Technical people are not likely to be impressed, as they know exactly what that really means. Although sometimes it's a useful weapon in the breaking-gender-stereotype wars, too. "She was how old?"
The Trekstor Smartphone is about 80€ unlocked, but is worse than the Blade.
I was having this exact conversation the other day with a friend. The similarities between the two are striking. I've been working on a blog post about how my entrepreneurial idol is not Steve Jobs or Zuckerberg, but Anthony Keidis. If you've read his bio, Scar Tissue, you'll know this guy has had more ups & downs and "pivots" than most people could stomach.
On the Apple store an unlocked iphone 4 is $650.

Android phones outsell iPhones for several reasons, chiefly supply and price.