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What airline?
They said nap, not sleep. Dying from a 20 minute nap is pretty unlikely.
They didn't need Find My Friends, all they needed was a dead-simple way to send a description of the phone's current location as a text message or iMessage. Then you can just ask somebody his or her location, and if that person wants to respond it's possible with one tap of a finger.
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Very creative & usefull extension
and it hops around randomly..
It was passed, then repealed, and may now be passed again. I haven't checked lately. Obviously something I would investigate before going there.
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If At 16 I found myself thinking seriously about killing myself. I spent more than one night at my sink with a kitchen knife at my wrist wondering if I should go ahead and make the cut or not. applies to you, you need to tell someone, if you haven't already.
we all need money. now i'm all for anyone helping to solve that.
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It sounds hopelessly stupid, but it saved me. I'm one of the few percentage of the population that can frisson to certain works of music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson

When I was sitting there, knife to my wrist, the thought of all of the music that I would miss, that I wouldn't discover or be able to frisson to (I didn't know what it was called at the time and only learned what it was decades later, but I knew it was very real for me) was the one thing I couldn't accept.

I've never regretted that decision.

What I've found is that outside of academia, the real world problems are so messy, and so complicated, that it takes all of my intelligence to work on those problems and deal with other messy soft issues, like selling my ideas to higher ups, or balancing financials against employees, are so intellectually stimulating that it literally "gets better" if you have the drive and will to find a line of work where you get to work on interesting problems.

(I've always thought the wonderful "it gets better" ads do a disservice to other disaffected members of society by not talking specifically to us, even if the message it true for more than the community they target)

As a matter of fact, it doesn't just get better, it gets awesome. I've gotten a job I never get bored of, I got the girl, I get a pretty nice paycheck, live a nice life, travel as much as I want to wherever I feel like (see the world!), and always work to write a novel of my life that I'd find interesting.

Just remember, if you are as smart as they say you are, you can figure out how to solve your own problems. Not popular at school? That's a solvable problem. No girlfriend? Solvable. Bad grades? You can solve it. Your mind is your most powerful and flexible asset, you can use it to do anything you really put your mind to, even things that don't come naturally once you solve the problem of learning how to grind on boring stuff.
I find that 90% of flight attendants could care less as long as you're not showing the phone in plain sight. Turning it off briefly (event with it still in your hands) or cupping it with your hands and turning sideways so they can't see the screen is enough for them to check the boxes.
I really hadn't studied the newer pseudo-classes in css3. It seems like you can get away with a lot less class attributes in HTML which might have been added by a server side language or JS. The :nth-child for selecting even/odd rows of tables comes to mind.

That being said, CSS has always been kind of a black art to me. Floating, em vs percents vs pixels, rules regarding inline vs block elements, the box model with borders, padding and margin... These are all things I had to read up on and experiment with to figure out how they worked. I've spent quite a while trying to read up on all of these things to figure it all out. Contrast this with learning layouts in Java Swing, QT, GTK+ in about 1 days time each. I realize I am comparing a GUI toolkit with the web but... something seems broken here. I'm not sure if it is lack of clear documentation and tutorials, inconstant implementations in older browsers or a failing of the language itself. Maybe its a combination of all of those.
> There's a reason why these apps make it to the top; it's what people really want.

I think Apple as a monopolist intermediary (assuming we are talking about the iPhone market) has more of a role here than this invisible-hand argument implies.

It's Apple's choice to promote a top-N listing, which means that the already most popular apps get even more downloads. Fair enough, you might think, but it's Apple's choice how they count the top N. If they count number of purchases, then throwaway $1 apps will be favored over more substantial, more expensive apps; whereas if they count highest grossing, the more expensive apps will fare better.
The worst thing about working yourself to death at Zynga would be knowing you were toiling to produce shoddy little pseudo-games. At least when, say, jwz was putting in insane hours at Netscape he was building Netscape Navigator.

Also those Farmville character cutouts in the photo are possibly the creepiest thing in the universe.
I here this kind of banter from Southwest FAs rather frequently. Despite this, I would estimate the compliance rate at less than 33%.
There are three cases that I know of, they were in an NTSB report which is not online sadly. They all involved interference with the ADF [1] and frequencies used in ILS [2]. Basically the local transmitters around airports are relatively low power so as to not interfere and they only need to 'talk' to planes that are landing, the ILS frequencies are in the 108 - 115Mhz range (just above the FM band). For a fairly long time the memory speed on PC based laptops was about 133Mhz and that was synthetically generated by clock chip running at 50 - 60Mhz on the motherboard. Sidebands from these machines, as weak as they were, were closer to the plane's reciever and so the ILS system would be unable to 'lock in' (the ILS receiver uses a phase locked loop to maintain tracking on the signal).

Anywhoo, different airports, different frequencies, and differernt ways they might interfere. Since that time laptops have gotten better (and faster, they are all generally over a gigahertz on their various busses), and radios have gotten better too.

A AT&T friend actually mentioned that AT&T had asked the airlines to ban cellphone use (back in the 900Mhz analog days) because the towers couldn't deal with a cell phone that went by a 500 MPH. However I've never been able to confirm that with any public record so I consider it hearsay at best.

[1] http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/adf.htm

[2] http://www.ntia.doc.gov/legacy/osmhome/redbook/4d.pdf Redbook see pages 4-172 thru 4-174
Add this to the fact that they steal others' ideas, and it's a tough company to like.
Company culture can sometimes be stressful. Zynga is no different. What worries me though is that compensation packages are being rescinded. This is generally a bad sign. I am constantly reminded of the spirit and the letter. The spirit of these packages is that early employees took a risk and should be rewarded. Even though the packages can watered down and taken away doesn't make it right.
this article should do wonders for its IPO /sarc
Why do good people build bad applications? (RE: $200,000 OSHA app)
Social networking (where I make the generalization within Google Plus, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook) is saturated. I don't want to invite my friend to not-another-social-network. What is needed is refinements.

Apple being bad at social is okay with me.
> opiates - yes opiates as in opium - such as endorphins get released

Small correction: endorphines are opioids, not opiates. Opioids are chemicals that bind to opioid receptors, whereas opiates are opioids derived from the opium poppy.
Absolutely. No matter how bad it seems right now. It gets better. Don't ever give up, no matter how trapped you feel.

Feel like the entire Ocean is over your head and drowning? Just wait a bit. Even the tides fall to the moon.

Talk to someone. But just as important, don't give up. There's very few things you can get yourself into that you can't work your way out of.

I'm thinking of particularly recent cases like poor Ilya Zhitomirskiy.

Don't give up, don't give in, you are stronger and bigger than the emptiness you feel inside of your heart right now.
I'll buy freedom. I buy an arudino and android, and a thing-o-matic though I couldn't afford a thing-o-matic on my earning right now.

When push come to shove, I'll probably stays on android even if the world around me all use iphone just like I use archlinux everyday. Granted, I am in the minority.
You´re going to have to say more than that to convince me to even put my email there.
The day I got it, my Nexus One was noticeably faster than my original iPhone, and that was pre-JIT. It's not as polished and smooth as iOS, but claims that it's "unusable" are dishonest at best.
Although the content is good, scanning it do not made me want to read right way.

This is the exact feeling I have and were it not for the HN comments, I would have closed it without actually reading the content.
This was written in response to Gun.io's post, which was recently on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3266455
Full text: http://pastebin.com/AAB0fkzm
I turn off my cell phone simply to save the battery power. You don't get any signal above a few thousand feet, so why not save on battery for the next few hours? Heck, sometimes I even use my laptop's USB to charge the phone in-flight so it's full when I land.

I think the dumbest thing is having to turn off a Kindle. Is that even possible? Pushing the power button just goes to screensaver which uses exactly as much power as when you're actually using it.
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Which 'entire Android experience' were you referring to, because I've yet to see 'REAL' Android tablet that's worth paying money for.
I think the point is that he could not have afforded to buy a lounge if he hadn't first worked hard enough to succeed in a startup.
I will most likely be making slides (on SlideShare) for the next one and it will probably be on Wordpress instead of blogger.
I think the way out of this problem is to skip Wifi, Zigbee, RFID, NFC, and all the other fancy protocols. The chips are expensive, layout and shielding is a bitch, and you don't need a 54-mbit link to send the current temperature once a minute.

Maybe the way to go is to create the simplest low power RF-transmitting circuit possible that can be driven by an Arduino or other simple microcontroller and make a simple protocol that tries hard to avoid collisions.
That's all we're saying for now. More to come very soon, though. :)
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I'm soooo tired of this discussion.
Could please the whole gadget industry sue itself to hell.
It's stupid. The arrangement of some buttons is not "innovation". Development of new wireless technologies (like UMTS, etc.) is innovation!

One thing i am really sick of: Go to the next walmart or what have you... Look at ALL the electronic devices. ALL!
Now what do you see when you compare televisions, dishwashers, washingmachines, DECT telephones, receivers, every fking device looks the same, and for decades no sh*t has been given.

Really, i hope that Apple, HTC, Samsung, all of them sue each other into non-operation, let them not sell a device at all. Because somehow all of them copy from eachother (look at iOS5 notifications, as a counter example).
It's a rather trivial design decision, not some livechanging invention!

Why is it that with all those new gadgets everyones first reaction is "oh fuck, i've seen this on device X before, it's copied, that's bad!"?! For about every of those design decisions prior art has been found anyway, it's NOT like Apple reinvented the whole electronic world with some "perfectly" aligned buttons.
Chunky, do you have a role model? A mentor? Whether a PG-type or someone successful in some other dimension, I'd encourage, nay, exhort you, to find and talk with a mentor who can tell you about the world that awaits your beyond your "beach of dreams" and current educational straight-jacket. Please, please don't assume that your smarts are all you need to see your future from your current vantage point.

Many have walked through your dilemma. There are a ton of people here who would help you out. Even me.
No, I think it's EXACTLY the point. Events leading up to the "situation" are likely to grab attention no matter WHAT device you are or are not using. Engines falling off planes and such are VERY hard to miss.

And devices really don't affect people blocking exit rows, etc.
Petroleum products are more of a necessity to people than Facebook, Google, and all their Macs and iDevices put together. The oil industry may be crooked and they may corrupt world politics, but they are anything but obsolete.
Dojo has had a very good deferred pattern for quite a while now and was one of the first toolkits to implement it. There a quite of few people that use the word promise for the same construct as well. So if you see an article talking about JavaScript promises it is a similar pattern.
I don't think you can run a 3000 person ~1B/y company like a startup. It's one thing if there are make or break projects at a bigger company that people sign up for explicitly, but it's not scalable. Not everybody can work at that pace and people who can't or won't are just as valuable (perhaps even more so) over the long haul. You have to pace yourself for the long term and put in a reward structure to match that goal. Look at Apple vs a place like Zynga and think about who is more likely to be around in 5 years...

Also, I've seen that 4-5 years is about how much time engineers are willing to put into a startup company before they want some kind of a cash out : liquidity : burn your options in a barrel at burning man situation. If you think about the expected half-life of a silicon valley engineering career, you can probably do 2 or 3 of those before you are burned out entirely or prefer to work at a non insane company. Founders are probably not as aware of this because they naturally are 100% invested, but you have to surround yourself with quality employees who won't put up with your bullshit forever.
This is what I've found too. I just spent my evening enjoyably using my Kindle Fire when I could have just as easily picked up my iPad. The size is actually refreshing to me and the interface has some really nice features.

All these reviews seem really off the mark to me. The PR about this product is about what you can do with it. You can watch movies, read books, and play games. The product page makes very little mention of Android. They aren't selling it as an Android tablet. It's an Amazon Kindle tablet, and in spite of all the reviews, I think it's going to be a big hit.

I can only imagine how popular the Kindle Fire 2 will be once they have time to refine everything.
But that's only asuming JS is enabled.
s/price/prize/
What would be his alternatives for getting donations this time? Bitcoin? Flattr? Anything else that doesn't imply cash by mail?
Have you tried using Pulse as an RSS reader? I'm really enjoying Pulse, which I think comes preinstalled on the device.
I don't understand how planes are seizing productivity when the nearest competitor -- an illegally driven car -- is about 5 times slower. Yes they have quite a bit of overhead during take off, landing, baggage claim, driving to the airport, security screening, etc. But what else can reduce a trip's time from days to hours? The amount of time wasted in that overhead compared to the time gained is minuscule.
That's right because no one pays for their google ranking. oh wait...
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"You're leaving out risk and experience:"

Don't confuse the 'why' some folks are more handsomely rewarded at a liquidity event, with 'what it does to them.'

Here is the situation, person A in a four person cube is a multi-millioniare on paper, person B, C, and D are still unable to come up with a down payment on a house.

Person B, "Hey A, what are you doing this weekend?"
Person A, "We're flying up to Oregon to go helicopter skiing on Mt Hood, its wicked cool, I got a new set of bump skis and that Rossingol gortex super suit, can't wait to try it out. How about you?"
Person B, "Uh, a BBQ on the balcony of C's apartment. I guess you're busy."

Now person A might be a douchbag here but they might simply be honestly answering the question. And in the answering, its awkward because its hard to imagine them not going helicopter skiing so that could could come over and have tri-tip at your place and play Wii or watch the game.

But at work they all work on the same part of the system, they all have similar roles and similar levels of responsibility.

Person A, if they have any empathy at all, will quickly recognize that it makes non-rich people uncomfortable to talk about stuff like this, and they stop (and then appear 'withdrawn' to people B, C, and D.) and they start hanging out with the other low number folks who are doing their own crazy things and so feel neither threatened nor jealous nor uncomfortable with discussions that involve spending 15 - 20 thousand dollars for a weekend outing.

Sometimes people B, C, and D will respond affirmatively and supportively, sometimes they will attempt to make person A feel like a douchebag (even if they aren't) to salve some inner wound. How folks respond to that varies by person, I don't know if you can know apriori how you personally will respond until you are in that position.
As a former student of physics, this does appear quite interesting. The article feels concise and well-structured, and the math seems very elegant.

For physics and math students I recommend starting at page 9. The 8 pages of rationale seem a little unnecessary, with the math mostly speaking for itself.

I'm looking forward to giving this a more detailed read later.
How was this use case not tested?
Despite briefly working in the software field, I got no sympathy because of the way he communicates. Yes, I know how tough software development is. Yes, free software commoditize and runs people out of business. However, they enable the company I used to work for, develops solution that help their client. (I got laid off a few weeks ago)

No, I don't care much about software devs not making enough money in the banks. No, I am not rich, though I have more saving than most people my age. In fact, they're probably in debt.

I don't feel particularly bad for writing open source software for free or scratching my itch for free, even though I am a horrible competitor. They probably can beat me in sales technique and make more money than I ever will.

I recognize being in the software field is an honor, a blessing. It's not something that we have a right to be in. We die or live by solving people's problem and then making money off of them.

I don't recognize piracy as a moral issue, but simply a business model problem, no matter how big of a problem it is.
Apple sucks at providing online services in general. Their strength is in making physical products and writing software for those products (at the OS level, and sometimes apps).

MobileMe was an utter fiasco, and IMO iCloud is one of the shakiest rollouts Apple has done to date. The iTunes Store does ok, but not great, either.
Indeed there is, but even when I do talk to that person, it's seems to just highlight the fact that I'm stuck in a place I don't want to be, and though I want to get out of it, there's no conceivable way to do so.
There' so little time to do anything, and this year's going to decide my future.
It's really hard to not think of it like a noose around your neck, and whenever I do think about it, I keep wondering whether I shouldn't have tightened it long ago.
Lets say we use an average of 15 minutes for a person to go to the toilet. This includes getting to and from the toilet etc.

For ease of calculation we say that each person goes to the toilet twice during a workday.

And there are roughly 7 billion people on the planet.

That gives us 0.5 hour per person per day * 7 billion people = 3.5 billion wasted hours.

At a conservative estimate of $10 per hours, that's $35 billion per year. This does not include money wasted on water for flushing and washing hands!

It's clear from this that we have to stop people from going to the toilet during work hours...

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>Why did I do so poorly in school despite the tests? It was probably the tests. I was told I was so smart so many times that the effect mentioned in this article seems particularly germane. I didn't work hard, so I didn't do well, but I tested high, so I thought the system was broken, not me. I was already smart, so I didn't need that fact positively reinforced, but I did need instances of hard work reinforced. I had no work ethic coming out of high school, I simply did things that interested me and dropped things that didn't.

That I think is the most essential point you've made, how did you get around that?
If I know that then I certainly wouldn't be this depressed.
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Maybe we just set the bar too low. By doing so, not only do we hurt the bright kids by boring them to tears, but we presume based on test scores(?) that certain children could through sheer effort never exceed what level we presume they are capable of reaching- we lower our expectations of them. We deny the "bright" kids a reasonably stimulating education and the other kids the chance to prove what they can do.

Standardised testing does not test for ability to improve.

It's one thing if a kid fails because he didn't try hard enough. That can be explained to him. And it's a good lesson. But it's another thing to give him a standardised test and decide a priori what's he capable of. That just creates a strange value system where all kids, bright or not, may be denied an opportunity to show what they can do and they learn to think of ability as fixed. And it creates a lot of fascination with "innate" ability.

Is it true there's growing evidence that ability is perhaps not as "fixed" as we think?
A sample of e-mails from VCs explicitly stating that regulations were a primary factor in their refusal is available as an appendix to the white paper I wrote about the laws, here:

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/whitepapers/heldhosta...

In addition to those references, several more investors told me verbally that the laws were the primary issue. Beyond that, I'm not sure what skills you would be referring to that you are absolutely certain I (but not other entrepreneurs) lack, in order to deal with regulations.

Furthermore, the two possibilities you listed are not the only two, and I'm not clear as to why you are so insistent on refusing to acknowledge the possibility that regulations might be a hindrance in my case. Specifically, it's also possible that:

3. I was talking to the right VCs, but I was more honest in my assessment of the regulatory situation than the few other competitors I know of that recently did raise money;

4. I was talking to the right VCs, but both my competitors and their investors were genuinely unaware as to the situation regarding a brand new law.

If you'd like to continue the discussion you are welcome to e-mail me.