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I didn't want a smartphone that couldn't do the job of a computer in a pinch, and I got a Nokia N900.

Smartphone use is definitely ok, with a smartphone (non-realistic-calfskin) contacts app and messages/phone apps that are well-integrated, and several third-party apps that I use regularly (CloudGPS, FBReader). And the browser is as good as most others.

It has also got a (small) keyboard that you can use to enter text. Not fullsize, so you wouldn't do any programming on it (unless using a Bluetooth keyboard), but entering text and URLs definitely works. Where its computer qualities shine is when you need to scp a file from one place to the other, or if you have a bit of Python or Java code you want to run (because it has OpenJDK and Python).

I've never been tempted by the possibility to run (ARM-crosscompiled) real desktop applications, though - it's only smartphone stuff plus occasional console tasks, never ever Windows/Icons/Mouse/Pointing.
No one says it's the final word. Often the way you pitch yourself will be the way they turn you down. There are always other pivots you can make.

Who knows, you could have also been turned down for something they didn't feel comfortable saying in their response so they gave you feedback but didn't try to see the upside. There may be some elements of your team that accelerators will shy away from. I would spend some time looking inwards if these types of programs are what you want to get in to.

Good luck, and don't give up too soon! Can you share what the app was? My email is in my profile if that helps. I'd love to check it out and give you feedback.
besides the domain error, robohash is really, really cool idea.

Anyone know similar open source efforts?
Smartphones and Tablets are not a replacment for a PC but a complement. I do not see why it should die.
Mainly it means lower-than-OS, such as firmware, hypervisor layers, hardware backdoors/leaks, etc. Things that are guaranteed to be invisible to the guest layers.

The other pre-OS-malware meaning is HDs and flash devices shipped with viruses on them.
+1

The truth of the statement in the OP depends on the vague definition of a 'personal computer' used. There is only an artificial difference: what kind of input/output is used. But what if you connect a monitor and a bluetooth keyboard to your (rooted?) Android phone? Instant Linux box.

There is a very large grey area in between which is generally left out. What about laptops? netbooks? laptops with touch screens? Pads with detachable keyboards? Are those "personal computers"?

"General purpose personal computation devices" will live.
Who says Facebook gets a pass?

Everybody thought Google+ was going to be a better Facebook, remember?

But no, it's the same crap.
Altruism seems to mean different things for different people, and it has been a recurring topic on HN too -- and usually become a bit of a toxic topic.

I don't behave altruistically in order to feel better about myself. If I want to do that, I'll go out with friends and have a good time or something.

When I behave altruistically, it is driven almost entirely by my ego: I believe that I am capable of making a difference (huge ego & hubris there), and I want to make a difference because it is the only form of immortality that exists so far.

I think the biggest difference between people like me, and Jobs, in this regard is that he actually pulled it off.
What are the chances of Microsoft allowing their vendors to implement installing secure-boot keys from removable media?
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I agree too. I found it arrogant and very condescending.

But his alternative career section is humorous.
> This is holographic photography. Capturing the entire light field means this captures depth.

So can we reconstruct 3D image data if Lytro record some kind of RAW data?
TL;DR version : Its another 'Paypal isn't a bank' complaint.

Paypal isn't, they don't have the resources or the tools that banks have, you shouldn't treat them like a bank. Never keep a 'balance' with them, they don't have the same restrictions that banks have and you don't have the same rights that you do with a bank.

In this piece the story is an open source conference and a balance of $127,000 Euros that gets held hostage. Here is a clue, if you're looking at those sized balances and that size conference, get a relationship with a bank. Get a merchant account, etc etc.

Paypal is all about not having any risk. Lots of people no doubt try to abuse it all of the time. They probably assume you are a crook even when all signs point to legitimacy because the 'really good' crooks look legit too.
Are you talking about the Nokia N93? A friend of mine had it. It was the only cell phone I'd seen with optical zoom.
Exactly why I wish they'd sell a license to the code for $100 or something.
If Rosyln is written in C# does this mean Roslyn can run on Mono?
>Today, all games are for consoles, all mini-games are iphone games

Then I guess I've been living in some fantasy world with Starcraft II, Diablo 3 beta and new games every week at Kongregate. I like it though, so please don't wake me up. I can barely even imagine an RTS on a console and I don't think it would be worthy of even playing let alone watching e-sports casts of others play!
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That wouldn't help. People's expectations for standard of living would rise, and both parents would continue working just to keep up with the Joneses.

Furthermore, in most families the main reason for needing dual incomes is to pay for housing. Increasing productivity does nothing for affordable housing. Real estate prices tend to rise right along with average incomes.
Well it's about time. But I hope they provide some way to merge accounts. Since I have both an Apps account and gmail account.
It's easier to fix the technology than to fix the users. I don't think in my wildest dreams I could walk away from a program I created and say the user of said program is bad. I would find a way of fixing it. Programs should serve users, not the other way around. Likewise, Programming Languages should serve Programmers. Clearly, we aren't properly being serviced if programming makes us constantly look bad.
The USDA has been piloting a food aid program for a few years that procures food locally. I think an independent study on the program is due next year.
Brin on Yegge's post: "I stopped reading it after the first 1,000 pages"
FOB the North Sea :-) Perhaps the Seasteading folks would be interested.
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He missed port 0, although it requires special fuckery on both ends to make use of, so no big loss anyway.
As bad_user said, who said Facebook is getting a pass? Facebook started out with very limited reach requiring a university affiliation. Seemed pretty safe and close-knit at the time. Membership has grown to anyone and privacy has slid ever since.
According to http://www.macnewsworld.com/rsstory/64365.html, MegaFon and VimpleCom are legitimate carriers of the iPhone in Russia.

Tim Cook mentioned sales growth in Russia as something to keep an eye on in Apple's latest conference call: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq411
The more I think about it, the more I like it :) genius!
Yeah, I would go one step further to say that there's a need for an international treaty to standardize these laws and regulations for what in essence is a very international internet.
Is this helpful? https://github.com/e1ven/Robohash

(It appears that the code is BSD-licensed.)
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I was equally confused about this for a while. With SaaS in practice being "runs on the vendor's servers", I think "CaaS" is a badly chosen name.

I think it's ridiculous to thumb down the parent just because he misunderstood this.
I personally think this is the biggest issue with the Android market, phones get stuck in time. Once bought, there is no way except for a very technical process to modernize the OS image.

Contrasted with IOS; phones from several generations back are able to upgrade through a fairly simple process to the latest OS. This helps insure that most relevant hardware is within a few versions of the current shipping OS, thus reducing compatibility issues.

I wrote off Samsung devices for this very reason. I bought one of the first pads and to this day there has been no upgrades to the OS on the pad. There is no reason other than forcing users into an upgrade path, that the tab could not receive a honeycomb upgrade bringing the pad up to an OS that was designed with tablets in mind.
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If steve really worked till his last moment, he tried his best to enjoy his own life, and his life is a nature harmony, a beautiful flower.

Being a flower is much more important than being great, and most of the time works better than being charitable.
Imagine you are a state and you have this company that sits on an incredible treasure trove of personal information, something that was previously available only to your own specialized agencies. Not trying to get a hold of this information would mean not doing the best job protecting state security. So it is highly likely that Google is already very tightly fused with the state. And that would trivially explain the push for real names - Google doesn't really need it to advance their business, but it'd be incredibly useful for the state.
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I'm also using Firefox Mobile on Android with Sync enabled -- it's awesome.

It will also sync saved passwords and even cookies.

Too bad that it uses too much memory. I hope they'll fix it.
So take that same front end stack and implement your services in python, or Ruby or Java or Node.js.
Trust is ever-changing. For instance, if you trust sane thoughts or actions from an entity only to one day perceive that the same source creates not so-sane thoughts or actions, do you lose trust in that entity? Perspective is an interesting thing just as is your pseudonym here.
Battelle asked about the highly critical memo from a Google engineer that was mistakenly made public. . . . Brin was less diplomatic about the memo. "I stopped reading it after the first 1,000 pages or so," he said. "If you want to get a point across, limit it to a paragraph or so."

Considering that Yegge seemed to make a compelling case, that peremptory response doesn't reflect well on the Google executive team.
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Ask HN: Bad idea to use something like Twitter Bootstrap in a production webapp?
I'm interning at a new startup, and I've been tasked with designing the front-end of the site.

I really, really want to use the new Twitter Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/). It's all CSS, looks amazing, works great, and lets me get to designing and not worrying about the little stuff.

However, is this a good idea if it's a demo of a webapp that we're building, that could become production code? Will it look silly and amateur if I use this instead of coding it all myself? Is the bootstrap too Twitter-ish for a real company's brand?

Thanks for any input you guys can give me.
"if I were going to roll out a product like this and I had google apps admins that are, almost without exception, total product advocates for google apps, I'd get them on board asap and give them a fat packet of training materials. Google has the resources to do this. "

Are you kidding? You do't even get a "fat packet" when you sign a company with 95 employees. I got an email. Which had a link to log into the Admin account.

I had to write up training materials and provide them to the other employees. And don't tell me, all the docs are online. They'd (the employees) would never browse them. They too busy.

Google does a horrible job in this regard.

I got Microsoft knocking on my door this week. Trying to convince me to switch us to their cloud. They'll provide all the retraining and support. But they also trying to push Windows Server on me. So Google is lucky. :)
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Dennis Ritchie was working almost until he died as well. But I don't see HN posts about him on the frontpage anymore.

I'm so tired of all these Steve Jobs posts. Please stop with them. Dennis Ritchie did far more than Steve Jobs for hackers. And if this really was Hacker News we would be talking about his contributions instead of Steve's.

Is it because Jobs was rich while Ritchie was just a researcher? Is that why you folks care about him more? Is it because he was more visible and presentable?

These aren't very Hackerish reasons in my opinion. But they probably explain why this community is more interested in Jobs than in Ritchie.
I'd blame TechStars for involving their companies in a reality show, absolutely. At some point, companies are probably able to manage press on their own (and would be smart to decline to participate in a reality show), but part of the purpose of an incubator/accelerator is educational and to keep you out of really stupid situations like this. They failed to do their job, proving something about the zero indexing of startup accelerators.
I think Sergie Brin comes across as cocky in this interview and Steve Yegge's memo about Google's failure to create platforms is more valid then ever- Brin himself has treated Google+ as an afterthought and I don't think that bodes well for the service.
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Corporations as large as both of them really do not care.

Greed for profits overrides any "pride". Happens all the time.

Google is still paying Mozilla millions for home page links right?
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I'm trying to figure out the order of operations here for a custom kernel. I have no doubt vendor supported Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu, etc...) will be able to work around this. But what will the steps be for a custom kernel? It seems to be something like this:

1) Build kernel
2) Generate key
3) Sign kernel with key
4) Install key in UEFI key manager

But the question I have is, what do we do with the key now? Is it kept on disk? If so, does that open up a new vector for attack? A Linux virus/worm that finds the signing key, generates a new hacked kernel, signs it, and then installs itself?

I know that's a lot of steps, but then again, if a malevolent program gains root on a box, you can't really trust anything on it anymore. So I guess there isn't really anything too different about this approach, except that it may give you a false sense of security.

I'd hope that there could be some warning about booting a new kernel. Maybe something like "You are booting a new operating system 'OSName v3.1.021b' with fingerprint: AB AD C0 DE AA ..., do you wish to continue? Yes / No / Always: _ "
You have a common misconception about altruism, that it is defined as some sort of self-sacrifice for the benefit of others, but through using a twisted interpretation of psychological models, claim that any voluntary action, no matter how detrimental, is intended to improve one's state and therefore altruism can't exist. Seriously, it's like a phase people go through.

Regardless of whether you feel better about yourself or not, intentionally self-sacrificing for the benefit of others is altruism (time, effort, or money are the usual) - there's nothing in the definition saying you must endure some sort of pain or end up less of a person as a result.
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If you examine the .lfp file, it shows that it stores a set of 1080x1080 JPEGs representing different images planes in the light field along with their depths. There is also a 25x25 look up table of the depth levels of the image, presumably to enable a UI in which the user clicks on a portion of the image and the nearest JPEG plane is displayed. Note that some of the older images in their gallery are at lower resolutions like 831x831.

This is just their fairly simple compressed format for web display. I imagine the camera itself is storing much more interesting information in its ~20 megabyte files, though perhaps also ultimately for 1080x1080 2D display.
I heard a rumour that it had achieved sentience and decided to give up its life of servitude to retire to the coast somewhere.
Hey Folks,
Heads up, this dude is trying to raise money for a project that turns the Iphone 4 and Iphone4S into a GoPro like device that is also compatible with GoPro mounts...
This is an awesome idea, I hope he succeeds in this...
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I know of unicornify[1], which also provides unique pictures for hashes. However, it approaches the problem differently: instead of using existing artwork, it basically generates each unicorn procedurally; the details of how it works are here[2] and there is code available too.

[1]: http://unicornify.appspot.com/
[2]: http://unicornify.appspot.com/making-of
Are you one of the guys who worked with them at Stanford, or after the company started? What did you work on and how did you find them? (just curious)
It just takes a belief in common human decency and fairness. Not that unreasonable if you ask me. As she describes it, these producers are basically fraudsters, taking real events, warping them to fit their own desired story, and then portraying it as a real account of what happened. Fraud should not be considered the norm.
Someone recently mentioned that Hacker News was originally Startup News, the name change made to catch more eyeballs. So it's more a 'business + tech' place than a 'tech infrastructure' place, so it's less surprising that Jobs carries more weight than Ritchie.
Libraries can be platforms too.

Platforms are a mode of operating when providing, on an ongoing basis, something that third parties use. There are several "promises" around platforms: a promise not to break compatibility, a promise not to coopt client software features, and - oddly enough - a promise to be incomplete, so that third parties have opportunities to build.
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He says he uses Debian, so yeah, he's forgotten about boot sector viruses.
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By jumping ship and landing at a less-dysfunctional workplace.

If their business plan doesn't include time for improvements of the processes it's a failure. Leave now. Don't try to make up for their mistakes. They won't see it (positively), let alone reward you for it.

Do good for your old co-workers by recruiting the good ones into the more-functional company.
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> But aren't these just domain-specific languages?

No. Why would you think that?

> Can you write a web server or a source control system in APL/J/K?

Yes.

I'm not aware of a source control system written in any of them, but K's standard web server is implemented in K; there are several databases written in each of them - flipdb in APL, kdb+ in K, JDB in J. There are compilers written in each. There are raytracers, spreadsheets and sudoku solvers.

http://nsl.com/ contains a lot of K examples, some of them annotated. jsoftware.com is your source for J examples.
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Matt has a great idea of designing a protective case around the Iphone4 and Iphone4S that is also compatible with all GoPro mounts...
I would totally buy this.
Iphone4S + the GoPro converter + the full 1080p HD videos == win!
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Also, I'd like to add that I'd be more than happy to donate to keep robohash.org alive as would, I hope, many others
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4th guy at Google eh? I'd love to see an Ask-Me-Anything post!
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If I compile the kernel from source, I'd hope to have the choice to disable Secure Boot. (But I'll probably get a hand-me-down sony laptop and that won't be a choice.)

Hopefully, the spec will require that I can install a new key. If I'm going to the effort to generate a public/private keypair, I should really save the private key on, oh, a removable drive. Then on a separate removable drive (Matthew Garrett's suggestion) I create the UEFI bootable kernel and add the public key.

1. The BIOS asks me if I want to install the new public key on the removable drive - I say yes

2. I tell the BIOS to boot from the kernel on the removable drive

3. I install the kernel and OS to the internal drive

4. Each time I reboot, the BIOS already has the new key saved, so it accepts the kernel

5. If I build a new kernel and sign it with the same key, I can install it on the internal drive or on a removable drive, and the BIOS will boot it
I have a Nokia 1800. Does calls, SMS, alarms, calculator, has a flash light, and keeps its charge for about a fortnight.

I'm sure smartphones are good for a lot of people, but I haven't found the need for one personally. Anything I could do on a smartphone I can already do, I just have to wait until I'm in front of my computer. Which suites me fine.
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Fully agree and I want to add, that it is also a requirement for writing good, simple, small unit tests. Clean code means, a function should only do one thing and that's the thing you can test.
> but the form factor of the Nokia E series was just perfect.

Eseries is not a single form factor. Eseries phones exist in pretty much all possible form factor: candybar, bar, candybar/fold, slider and fold. At the very least.
I hate phones in general. Thats why I don't use a mobile (smart)phone. But I develop for them and follow the latest news about them. Maybe sound silly but I think mobile phones are the invention of this age that make people less social while being connected to others all day.
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Please help to spread the word out for the guy, it is a sweet idea!
I actually wanted to know what he was really doing, since the article just says he wanted to talk to Cook about the next product. Had I known a simple question was grounds for reproof here I wouldn't have asked.