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For me, the single biggest feature of the 4S is that you've now got a world-version of the iPhone 4G that is twice as fast as the iPhone 4.

The potential for a 100% speed boost is reason enough for any HTML5 application developer to rejoice. Everything else is just icing on a stepping stone release.
Yes, exactly right, especially considering the broad range that 'private' sharing can take on G+. I.e., I use a circle called "Following" to use G+ more like twitter, which includes a lot of people. So when I share with all my circles, it's technically 'private', but not really private.
Key - that will be John Key (NZ) does seem to be smitten by the US. Please come back Helen (she knew what side the bread was buttered on). [edit - dropped the s's - thanx]
YC's application process is genuinely about the factors that lead to success, with that in mind, why not just teach people to be successful and cut out the application bs?
The author is wrong..there is a Google+ sandbox and I am told that Google management is in fact using Google+ through that from Google insiders..
How can I get a Verizon CDMA 4s which is gsm unlocked for international travel?
My concern is that even Apple doesn't think this phone is innovating enough to be a real successor to the iPhone 4.

I've been waiting to buy an iPhone for half a year, because I assumed that getting the iPhone 5 would be worth the wait. Oh, well...
And yet, to me at least, the Metro UI itself doesn't feel at all like the sort of result you would expect from a product designed by focus groups. As with the ribbon (which I'm also a fan of), it feels like they worked with focus groups to identify pain points, used genuine inspiration to come up with a design solution, then used more user testing to refine that solution.

Honestly, it feels like Apple has been playing it too safe with their UI work the last few years, while Microsoft is doing real innovation. (Hardware, of course, is an entirely different matter.)
> Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg really does use Facebook all day. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo tweeted at least 30 times just yesterday.

And, likewise, I'm sure Google's management uses Google Search on a regular basis.
> arguments both for an against the existence of God.

Arguments are one thing, evidence is something else.

> believe there is no God

That isn't what atheism is, or at least that isn't what most English-speaking people who describe themselves as atheist mean by it. Western atheists think the existence of any deities is unproven; it is not supported by the evidence.
Didn't a similar event occurred a few years back (in HN as well)? Like around 2006-2007 with Ruby on Rails and the framework war? Big waves, big disagreements, flame-wars.

Good prediction though Zed, I'm seeing ghetto Ruby (Rails related code) lately.

Then it becomes the language wars between newer dynamic/functional languages.

Now it becomes Node.js vs the rest of the world. Are we going to see crappy JavaScript code soon?

PS: At the very least, Rails brings real productivity value to the table (cause all other frameworks sucks back then).
This post from Glenn Vanderburg a few years back is incredibly relevant:

http://www.vanderburg.org/blog/Software/Development/sharp_an...

Especially this excerpt:

"Weak developers will move heaven and earth to do the wrong thing. You can’t limit the damage they do by locking up the sharp tools. They’ll just swing the blunt tools harder."
I honestly think that would be a bigger story, an author of an open-source library telling a potential contributer to take a hike (well, words to that effect) without reviewing their potential contribution.

My personal interpretation is that the author was saying there is no 'user' way of doing it.
Spock attends his last 'Star Trek' convention
$5,000 for signed transcripts of the trial... $100,000 for the courtroom sketch?
This is good, but I've been using a $12 moleskin reporter style notepad with a back pocket.

Tear out half the sheets, and the notebook holds the tablet perfectly, plus you still have a note-pad you can use. The elastic at the bottom keeps it closed. The pocket tore at the bottom, but a bit of duct tape solved that.

Classier looking than an envelope, but super cheap and functional.
Because it's a reminder of the presence of a government that has, at least in theory, the ability to make life suck harder for a long time through sheer stupidity.

Those of us in the U.S. have the privilege of knowing that nothing will actually ever pass (and if it does, the chance of effective enforcement is comically slim). Folks in other countries aren't so lucky. :-)
For years, Microsoft jammed the Start Menu where it didn't belong (Windows CE), now they're stuffing a tablet interface where it doesn't belong.

I'm extremely suspicious of their interpretation of usage statistics. As a "power user" I habitually decline any offer to track my behavior. Also, as discussed in the previous article about Explorer changes, do the statistics speak to the number of people who choose other methods, or to the lack of UI discoverability? Clutter up the desktop of your freshly-bought PC with enough partner icons, and the Start Menu gets lost in a sea of visual information.

The new interface reminds me of the old app-launchers/menus in the pre-Windows days.
Technically the above is a dynamic programming algorithm, in that you are avoiding the recomputation of fib(1..n-1) in each step. That is equivalent to recursion+memoization, which would perform roughly similar to the above. So it is not that "recursion" is so dramatically slower than "iteration" in general, it's just that for these kinds of computations, recursion should be memoized.
would like to get a confirmation whether this is valid or not?
Instagram Photos in Realtime (Weekend Hack)
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I can't wait to score 8 points by conducting a PBR in my home - I'm sure that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs will enjoy hearing both the pitch for my start-up and about the opportunities to earn a free cruise by joining the Numis MLM.
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why not just teach people to be successful and cut out the application bs?

I think you'll have a hard time coaching someone to be successful. I think a service like this would take people who already have the qualities of successful startup founders, but maybe lack the ability to express that through an application, video, interview, and demo. More "makeup on a model" than "lipstick on a pig"
Exactly -- for a fair comparision, V8 (which has a JIT) should be compared against Rubinius (for Ruby) and PyPy (for Python), which will both be nearly as fast as V8.

Of course, it is true that V8 is ubiquitous, whereas Rubinius and PyPy are not -- that is the one majore advantage of javascript.
crappy JavaScript code soon

Is there any language in which a larger quantity of crappy code has already been written?
thinking there should in fact be some middle ground - in fact protests can be quite effective and something aimed directly at wall street banks is key. The recent actions in Iceland are an excellent example for people getting together and causing real change against very powerful govt / banking institutions.

while airbnb is pretty - it main (non founder) shareholders are in fact the 1%.
because of the situation that day by day is gettin worse for all the italian people... I don't know what people of other states of the world really thinks about our country, I think that to understand all the reasons of what is going on in Italy could be really difficult for people that doesn't lives here...

it's like there is no way to escape from this situation, a very big part of the people in italy are old people that gain informations only from the television, and you know that in italy 3 of the most important channel tv are Berlusconi's proprieties... so the 60%of the popolation konw what he want them to know, and notting else...
for example probably tomorrow on the news they doesn't gave importance to wikipedia's advice.

I'm so sorry for my english, I hope you could understand what i'm trying to explain to you.. :(
i can see whats in it for the US... and korea and japan prominently consume indigenous media, so it's not going to be such a big deal for them... but aus and nz are massive importers of american media, wtf is in this for us antipodeans? do we get access to US agricultural markets in return or anything of any value whatsoever?
Where are the solid web and phone app development firms?
My company is seeking a firm to build us an enterprise level website, database, and mobile phone apps. There are so many firms that do this but we don't know who's really good and reasonably priced. Has anyone got a firm they would recommend for us. Thank you..
Well, the basis for my opinion of Japanese doctors comes from talking to Japanese people, and from some books about Japanese expats.

I'm not even going to get into the stories I've heard from two Japanese women about being effectively molested by their family doctors around the age of 16.
exactly srl!
In fact, this was one of the main use-cases G+ hammered on when it launched.

That said, I believe G+ has public-facing benefit. It would be nice to see honchos above Vic Gundotra using it publicly.
This is inaccurate (and hyperbolic). My copy of Siri is working just fine, on my iPhone 4.
As far as I know, there hasn't been any definite information on the difference between the Kindle stack and the Android 2.1 stack. I would be very surprised if Amazon hasn't done some downstream merging or porting of the features you mentioned, or been working on similar speed and performance improvements on their own. At this point, Amazon knows that they need a fast, performant tablet in order to do well in the market. Historically speaking, they know that moving first (into the non-premium tablet market) will not guarantee success. Quality does.

In regards to the tablet market, I'm not sure about 1-2 billion tablet customers. That's 1-2 out of every seven people owning a tablet, which is probably not realistic. I can see an easy 500 million customer in 5 years, which is a very conservative estimate. Whether the trend will continue past 1 billion, though, isn't really predictable right now. If tablet do end up becoming the computers for non-techies, though, then your prediction will probably hold, though it may be more like 15 years.
The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation has endorsed the program in an effort to reduce dangerous driving. Residents are asked to take photographs and videos of dangerous drivers which will then be posted to the Cheyef7alak website or Facebook page, where it will be available for public viewing.

I hope they aren't suggesting people pull out camera phones while driving.
I'm not sure this is fair. Google is a large company with a lot of products. You simply can't expect top management to be an active user of all of them. I'm sure Apple doesn't require its top execs to own an iPhone, iPod, iPod nano, iPod touch, iMac, MacBook Air.... you get the idea. The comparison with Twitter is even worse. Twitter really only has one product.

The way this data is organized, I don't see any top executives not using Google+ that "should" be using it.
Yes, since PyPy (and Rubinius) have JITs (like V8), that is the fairer comparison. Nevertheless this highlights just how helpful JITs can be for cpu-bound code -- makes me wish PyPy was more ubiquitous (and gets py3k support sooner rather than later).
I thought Australia had already agreed to follow America's mistakes on copyright and patents, ten years ago, under the pretence of free trade. Has anything changed?
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As someone who had Kaiser Permanente coverage as a young adult, I don't agree with you. The doctors were incompetent, incapable of diagnosing why I was falling ill with the same symptoms every month. They gave outright bad advice on the subject of an ankle injury, which scared me off from doctors for years. In my experience, the difference between a good doctor and a bad doctor is enormous.
You could have your Canadian government selling you out to a foreign country's corporations instead of your own corporations? :(
Appeals Court Reinstates $675,000 File Sharing Verdict
Is there any reason why this hasn't been done? It is certainly a strange business method of acquiring intellectual property for the sole purpose of locating and suing unknowing infringers.

Perhaps you can only patent the method that you use to find the infringers? Maybe you can patent a seemingly-specific way of searching the web for potential infringers?

I have a poor understanding of what can and cannot be patented. It seems like everything can be patented, but then it needs to be defended in court if it's challenged.
Two ways to take this. Is the purpose of school to educate students at maximal effectiveness? Or is it to train them for the real world (i.e. corporate jobs, many of which require people to do work below their level of intellectual ability)?

If it's the first, then yes, absolutely, because differences in learning speed are substantial and kids are going to get bored in classes catered toward the slowest learners.

If it's the second, then no, not really. Why? Because most "real world" jobs involve a slow track where one doesn't get to do the interesting stuff until one has put in time and paid dues. Saying, "I shouldn't have to pay dues because I'm smart and already know how to do more interesting work", in the first 6 months of a job is not a way to succeed.

If we want to train obedient, dues-paying workers, we should be putting them in classes that bore them, setting the track speed according to the slower learners in the class, and making them do mountains of repetitive, uninspiring busywork.

I would prefer the tracked, "elitist" system from an educational perspective, but the reality is that 95% of "real world" life is conforming to rules and expectations designed according to the least skilled and most untalented people. If the role of school is to make people successful in the workplace, tracking could be argued (though I would disagree with such an argument, on the basis that education has long-term subtle payoffs that mere training does not) to be a disservice to students.
What does iPhone 4S (and iOS 5) mean for app developers?
Slinging fries takes way more energy than it looks, and pays next to nothing. I took a cleaning job in college with similar thoughts and it gave me a lot of respect for people who work those jobs, and happiness that I have the option not to.

Even in the socialist paradise of California where you'll get a whopping $8/hr that's about $50 after tax for a full day of mind-numbing, spirit crushing drudgery.

You won't get home and find your creative instinct has been kept safe the entire day and it's time to unleash it for 8 hours of coding - you'll be aching, burned and numb. It'll be time to put on the TV to watch something that's not too taxing and crack open a few cold ones.

tl;dr - service industry is grueling work, will sap your soul
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I think you're referring to John Key.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Key
There's a difference between "quitting" and "putting your energy elsewhere". The second is a good thing, the first is just giving up.
Apparently they took one look at how Google would be using their information and said "fuck that".
This seems very excessive. It works out at $22, 500 per song. How do they justify such extreme amounts?
Anonymous Threatens to 'Erase NYSE from the Internet'
I did some benchmarks a few years ago playing around with different techniques in C#.

If you spin up a thread for each connection, and the connections are short lived, the time spent spinning up a thread will dominate the time spent communicating on the socket. Event loops perform much better than one-thread-per-connection in simple web services because they don't have the extra thread overhead. Its no accident the hello world app on nodejs.org is this sort of service.

But by far the fastest technique I found was to use a thread pool and an event loop together. When there was any work to do (new connection or new data), I scheduled the next available thread from a thread pool to do the work. This technique requires that you deal with both callback hell and thread synchronization. But, its blazing fast. Way faster than you can get with a single nodejs process.

The code is also many times more complicated, so it really depends on what you're doing. Despite knowing how to make a super high performance server, I do most of my work in nodejs. - It performs fine in most applications.
Hey everyone, I'm the tech guy who built MailSlayer. If anyone has any questions about the platform, I would love to answer them!
You get to continue playing US deputy sheriff in the middle of nowhere? =)
If you are on Firefox, then install Firebug and the next time you see a well-designed site with a font you like, pop Firebug open and checked font-family under Computed Style for the text in question.

Chrome/Webkit has a built-in "Inspect element" functionality that gives a similar access to the computed font-family value.
Poll: Who's working on the next Task/Project management app?
I was wondering who is working on the next To-Do, Task, Project management app, collaboration tool... or did work on one in the past.
I did my own app, it's live!
I worked one, but it's long gone...
I currently work on it.
I'm planning to do one in the near future.
I always wanted to do one, but never got to it.
Naaaah..., it's not for me.
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To be fair, it could be said the analogy falls a little flat if Pascal's Wager is almost invariably considered only as an ad hoc rationalisation for things people genuinely believe to be true.
Regarding the hamburger thing--you might be getting enough calories, but you'll be missing out on a lot of important vitamins and minerals that are only available in fruits and vegetables, which tend to be expensive. Vitamin supplements have not been shown to increase health, which is probably because 1. Nutrition is so complicated, we do not 100% know yet what people need to be eating to be healthy, and 2. just because you're eating a vitamin, doesn't mean it's being presented to your body in a way that it can be biochemically processed. A simple example is calcium--if you're deficient in vitamin D, your body won't store it in your bones and you'll just piss it out instead. Eating properly is a difficult skill that even many highly-educated people haven't mastered.

And if you're eating like shit, which poor people are forced to do, it'll be that much harder to make intelligent decisions about your budget, let alone learn how to code. Your brain will not be operating at full capacity when you're feeding it shit.

Regarding your point about the bus--public transit is often quite bad in the United States. There might not even be any public transit available. Okay, fine, so you think someone poor should just move? What makes you think they have enough money saved up to move?

As for organizing with the other "poor"...here's a fun answer about one hacker's encounter while living in a neighborhood full of those "poor" people: http://www.quora.com/Crime/What-should-you-do-if-someone-put...

Also, as for the people living off of $2 a day...come on, their standard of living is much lower. If you're a subsistence farmer, you're also growing your own food and you don't need the intermediary of McDonald's. You are your own boss. Poor people in more developed countries don't have the option of growing their own healthy food.

And considering how even the middle class can fall through no fault of their own, your continued insistence that anyone can make it out of poverty just through personal grit and determination sounds woefully, overly optimistic: http://articles.cnn.com/2009-06-05/health/bankruptcy.medical...

My biggest problem with your answer is that you think "poor" people know better. I'm convinced that if I ever became poor I would work my way out of it, as my father did, but I had some damn good role models growing up who taught me the importance of financial responsibility and independence. I know what to do.

Many people not only do NOT know what to do, they don't even know they're ignorant. I think they could use a little help.
That's like saying it is a terrible idea to stop playing baseball to start a startup. And maybe it is, exercise is important, but when the desire to build your business is burning within you, you're not going to miss those games.

College is a nice passtime, but you shouldn't let it get in the way of your dreams. If you need to start a startup, do it. There is no correct path. You are just as likely to fail no matter what route you take, so take the one that feels like the best opportunity for you.
No motivation to study Computer Science
I love programming. I am self-taught, started programming at 15 years old and now I already earn money from that (Web Developer), but I just can't find motivation to study other subjects like computer architecture, computer engineering and so on. Basically, I enjoy just JAVA course (where programming is). I am first year student. I am 19 years old.

Maybe I should just drop out? I hope not, maybe you will help me to find motivation? Maybe I really need that all stuff for my profession? Thank you.

P.S. University is quite well-rated in UK.
Non-US domains have been re-appropriated by the US with the rationale that a .com domain comes under US jurisdiction, and the agency behind it has gone on record explaining as much (apologies for shit reference, this is from memory)[1].

Whether or not that rationale stands or if it's even right, that same logic could be applied to websites holding a .it domain. And since some other countries require some level of incorporation within their own economy before being able to use their TLD, (don't know if that applies to Italy), there's a reasonable assumption to be made that penalties against the business running the site could be applicable.

As a purely political manoeuvre, however, I suppose that's their collective decision to protest the legislation. From the sound of it I'd find it difficult to disagree.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/03/us-anti-pir...
Apple Releasing iPhone 4S On October 14th
Almost everyone I know who does Windows dev work used to do Unix work. All you do in college is Unix. And most university recruiting is for Unix positions. Those .NET enterprise jobs don't recruit at colleges, but no college student knows C# or .NET or ASP.NET.

My experience is these people typically transition over later in their careers.
whysosiri.us is taken already :(
In reality none of this stuff is even remotely useful, because I can't even begin to guess whether or not a given command will be interpreted properly. Natural language is hard, and reminders need to be 100% reliable.
I think the culture argument is bullshit. I assure you, there are a lot of dumb and lazy Asians out there. The US has been good at importing the grad students, the hardworking creme de la creme, that's all.
Heck, some of his comments to the device are vague enough that a typical human wouldn't be 100% sure what the desired information is.