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There are two main differences: syncing of code, and philosophy.

The main tangible difference is that we enable you to push out incremental updates to your app, immediately. And to do so in a way that your app feels completely native. PhoneGap does not offer this. The only way to do it with PhoneGap is to actually point their UIWebView instance at a URL on the live internet, which makes your app slow. That, or you'll have to build a lot of complicated syncing and caching and updating stuff, which is what we've built.

The second difference is more philosophical. That is, for most apps, we don't believe that you should attempt to write a whole app inside a web view. It just leads to apps that don't feel native. So our approach, and the one that Clutch has been tuned for, is where you build most of your app using native tools. Then, you use Clutch to build out certain display areas using web tech.

I hope that answers your question.
By raising the bed a few feet off the ground you get a fair amount of storage space which is often in short supply in space constrained apartments. A friend uses 4 ropes on each side and motor / pulley system in his attic to raise the bead to the sealing which has the advantage of not requiring you to do anything to the sheets, but takes a little extra work. He even had someone paint the underside so it looks interesting up there.

And, I find people using inflatable mattresses for spillover guest bed's which take up vary little room.
I just wrote up a few thoughts about this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3800522
This was previously submitted and subsequently killed, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3800116
The GDP numbers are not segregated by the source of taxes paid. Those GDP tax numbers include corporate taxes. Even after all of the tax breaks, the U.S. does have the highest corporate tax rate in the Western world at 35%, and most corporations are not able to avoid taxes like GE. [EDIT: inserted not]

Furthermore, though the top 1% pays a quarter of all taxes paid by individuals, the next 9% (salaries down to roughly $110k) pay 50% of taxes. In other words, 10% of the country pays 70% of the taxes! For this 10%, taxes may trump healthcare. http://www.ntu.org/tax-basics/who-pays-income-taxes.html http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/top10-percent-income... http://www.american.com/archive/2007/november-december-magaz...

For everyone else, healthcare costs will defintely trump taxes.
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The use of all the hipster tropes in their vid is enough to make me change my mind about never punching people with glasses.
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The interesting part is that I still haven't seen one traditional "virus" — even is thing appears to still be just social engineering users to install it, by pretending to be Flash Player. I can't imagine it's that much more difficult to actually find an OS X vulnerability to propagate with, but I still haven't seen any.

Edit: It appears this uses a Java vulnerability, rather than the fake-Flash Player-installer that it was originally reported using (possibly an older variation of the same malware). So that's no longer accurate!
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(let me take my Privly hat off and put on my Machine Learning Researcher hat) Facebook needs users far more than access to users' private communications. Their "like" button and the demographic data they collect is more valuable than crawling messages between users. Privly could slightly impact the efficiency of advertising, but it won't shut down advertising as a business model. AdBlock poses a bigger risk for that.

(Privly hat back on) Our biggest challenge to legitimacy is interfacing with the web in a way that is private and allows sites like Facebook to "news feed" something only if the user reading the news feed can read the content. This is why we need to work towards a standard where both Facebook et al and Privacy can coexist. There are many options in this area, with differing amounts of privacy, but it is ultimately up to the posting user to post and the host site to decide what to do with it.
there still needs to be a lot of research done in zero-knowledge password proofs and shared public key systems

You might be setting the bar a bit high. You could also do logins by having a server you trust (e.g. because you own it) that vouches for you via OpenID or BrowserID.
This both saddens and delights me, as it proves that Macs are now at a large enough market share that malware writers are willing to target that platform ...
Why my company doesn't send automated email from a 'noreply' address
I will pay a couple of bucks for ad-block for my spectacles.
Well this had to happen at some point. Though it has a small marketshare and is based on unix, given the kind of demographic that uses a mac, (richer, more connected, etc) it is very lucrative for trojans to infect a mac and steal personal information, identity. It's unfortunate that people have this misunderstanding that macs don't get viruses and are actually not careful when using a mac.
Cute & fun, but not engineered very well. In order to have the sunken bed:

- he's raised the floor (effectively lowering the ceiling)
- cut his floor space dramatically
- made the center of the room unusable (stairs)
- introduced a dependency between electricity & sleep
(though there's probably a manual override)
- made it harder to change his sheets
- annoyed the neighbors (power drill to open the bed)
- made moving day a royal PITA

I think a bunk bed w/o a lower bed would be a better, cheaper, and less problematic solution.
At Bigco, you can't start opening doors until you give them your estimate and get it approved. There's no way to know how many more doors in how many more rooms there will be until you've been in all the rooms and opened all of the doors.

Its fractal. That "last" door could lead to 100 more. Oh and its almost always a horror flick with axe wielding maniacs(1) and booby traps(2) in each room intent on your destruction.

(1) The boss's boss's nephew who's a "computer whiz".

(2) $300,000 "developer tools" you have to use by fiat policy because, dammit, we spent a lot of money on them.
We're a small company of really great people that is aggressively hiring. http://triggit.com/careers
Didn't Apple used to claim that Macs didn't get viruses? I can't remember. (This would be at least several years ago, when Mac malware was still fully theoretical.) It's possible they never stated it directly, and the phrase was spread by fans.

To be fair, their slogan is currently "Macs don't get PC viruses" [1]. Which is true. Although, devilishly close enough to blur the two in somebody's mind.

[1] http://www.apple.com/why-mac/better-os/
Anything that takes away some of the ridiculous powers that credit card providers have is a plus (as long as it's not mandatory), though your right, this isn't even in the same ballpark as BitCoin.
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Nope that's it! I think it's a different barbie though : Teen Talk Barbie.
I saved every penny I had for 2 years working as a Software Engineer. During the trip I freelanced a little, managed a hostel for 5 months, and wound up with the balance on my credit card.

I've just finished paying off my Credit Card, so have started saving for the next one. I work full time and am just about to start my 2nd and 3rd concurrent jobs.

The whole price breakdown can be seen at http://theroadchoseme.com/the-price-of-adventure
Encrypted email has been around and built into email clients by default forever and nobody uses it. Even just signing emails gets quizzical responses every now from people I send to (why do all your emails have a weird attachment?). The mere need give decryption keys to your contacts by a back channel has been sadly enough to push it over the edge of usability. People prefer total lack of security to even the most minor inconvenience.

It's sobering and worth deep contemplation by anyone thinking about solving this issue.
The entire photo-taking thing is a bit funny - with the price of storage the way it is, there probably isn't much harm in leaving the camera recording by default and have the user turn it off temporarily if they wish. There's no telling how many amazing photos you could take in a single day with technology like that.

I guess the flip side of that coin is the massive surveillance potential if these glasses are controlled by a third party like mobile phones are; they're even worse than mobile phones because they spend most of the day on your head rather than in your pocket.
I've always tried to say "sue doo" to be etymologically correct, but it always seems to come out rhyming with pseudo. :)
Is thermochemical production much more efficient that say simple electrolysis of water using electricity (which could be produced by photovoltaic solar panels) without the extreme temperatures.
People act differently around unusually attractive and unattractive people. Some of these folks have issues that seem odd at first glance, like a tall, exceptionally attractive woman who cannot find a date.

It happens to guys too. At the end of the day, humans are really bizarre creatures.
There's always going to be a lot of people who prefer a paper book to an e-book; even with the death of paper books I could absolutely see "one-off" book printing companies licensing printing rights from the publishers and making a niche for themselves.
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I was going to post the exact same thing, but spent the last five minutes searching site:apple.com virus for a direct quote. Seems they've changed their lingo as I definitely remember (around the time of the whole mac vs pc campaign) a definite statement about not getting viruses at all.
Whoa, no kidding. The majority of people are not going to stop on those two letters and consciously differentiate "virus" from "PC virus."
While I agree that few people use Google+ - certainly nobody I know - I think it's a much better site than facebook is.
But if something like Privly was "done right", wouldn't everything — friends, profiles, likes, etc. — be encrypted? I think anything that really provides privacy would be too parasitic to Facebook; that's why I prefer a "clean break" approach like Diaspora/Appleseed/OneSocialWeb. Time will tell, I guess.
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Like I said, there's an innumerable quantity of attractive women abound, why is it necessary for a man to obsess over the one in closest proximity?

Most men don't find it necessary to "make a move" on every attractive woman they pass on the sidewalk, why then should they be in a constant state of anguish because the attractive woman is present in the room and not passing by on the street?
I've seen multiple apartments in old SF buildings that have a unique style of Murphy bed.

Two units next to each other will each have one room (bathroom or kitchen usually) that is elevated a few steps up.

That extra space allows for your neighbor to have a large drawer at ground level that contains his or her bed during the day. In effect, you're storing your bed under your neighbor's apartment. Unlike a vertical Murphy bed, you can use a heavy mattress and you don't have to make your bed to put it away.

It's pretty smart, but the person I knew who had one never used it because the building was old and he was convinced his bed would be full of spiders. :)
Very good subreddit but, I meant physically assembling a DCPU :) If not physically, with verilog or vhdl at least
It may be a knee-jerk reaction, but it was also the best decision. The iPhone represented a gigantic leap in usability on phones, and if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. If Google didn't come out with Android, Apple would own even more of the market than they do today.
Perhaps we'll officially acknowledge the existence of the Aurora :-).

There has been great progress in the open literature about developing super-sonic craft which mitigate and possibly eliminate the 'boom' effects. The MIT paper [1] was worth a read as well.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/supersonic-biplane-0319.h...
Hey gang - Andrew here, author of the article. Yes, apparently this news.yc post has brought our little site down. Working to get it restored. Who knew people would get so jazzed about a modified bed?
UTF-8 still has all the characters UTF-16 does it just uses more bytes to encode them. UTF-8 makes more sense if most of your characters can be represented in 8 bits.
> God, what I wouldn't give to be apart of this.

No idea what the odds are, but you should try to contact google (whatever that means). Seems like they would be all about having their magic glasses helping autistic folks.
heck, I think that a huge portion of the population would like that. I need to meet a person twice to remember their name, Having a thing that blips up "This is Eric, You met him 3 weeks ago at a workshop" would be worth early adopting.
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> It's very likely you could have gotten additional savings for paying cash up-front.

Payment method doesn't change your all-in cost significantly. The dealership has a minimum margin, and you'll pay it either on the front end (higher cash price) or on the back end (loan interest).

Generally speaking, car dealerships are in the business of selling loans -- not cars. If you want to pay cash they'll sell you a car, obviously, but the cost benefit of writing a check is way overblown.

Source: I sold cars in another life.
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Doesn't it use a Java exploit?

From the article:

>..the most recent variant from earlier this week targeted an unpatched Java vulnerability within Mac OS X. That is, it was unpatched (at the time) by Apple—Oracle had released a fix for the vulnerability in February of this year, but Apple didn't send out a fix until earlier this week, after news began to spread about the latest Flashback variant.

>..the malware installs itself after you visit a compromised or malicious webpage, so if you're on the Internet, you're potentially at risk.

Where is the social engineering part?
> There is absolutely no hope for a company that follows that strategy.

Well said. It may work or even be optimal in mature areas where there is little or no change. But in a technology company failing to adventure into new areas aggressively is death. Consider that once Yahoo was the 800lb gorilla and Google was the tiny startup. Where was Yahoo's Android? Where is their Google docs, etc? They've made lots and lots of small bets but they never made the big bets, at least, not successfully. Now they are too weak to make big bets, but they should make them anyway, possibly under a different brand.
This cost Netflix my business today.

-I have ZERO desire to know what my friends are watching.

-I unsubscribed from receiving promotional emails.

-I received said promotional email.

-I clicked the link to unsubscribe.

-Said link was broken.

-I sent a response to the address that emailed me.

-They sent back an automated response.

-I cancelled my service.

While I enjoy Netflix, they're shoddy email policy was more than I felt like dealing with today. Another company that is on the verge of losing my business is Porter airlines up here in Canada.

All of this to say; thank you for forwarding responses to your support email.

EDIT: In addition to the fact that they manage to NOT send me emails regarding billing me. Is that too much to ask? Yet they pester me if for some reason the transaction doesn't go through. So long Netflix!
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Which they did. Nevada now has laws governing autonomously piloted cars, and California is working on it, last I checked.

If they can get such vehicles legal and available to the general public in California, it will be legal everywhere else within a year or two at most. California sets or has had the ability to set a lot of standards for the country, from vehicle emissions, textbooks, to now, apparently, driverless cars.
A small bit of javascript tends to help with that.
How are they forcing anything?
"It may not be inherently at odds, no, but I haven't seen any evidence or studies that social mobility is in any way increasing - and it does seem counter-intuitive that social mobility could increase at the same time as income inequality."

The Internet has given many more people opportunities..if they choose to take it. There is so much free information out there..there's no reason why more people aren't able to pick up a new skill and bring themselves out of poverty.

If you don't have the Internet, pretty much every city in the US has free access at a library.
Maybe this ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQb_Q8WRL_g ) (MAC v. PC advertisement on viruses) is what you were thinking of?
Some European countries tried out different systems in the past, for example the "Quick" system in Austria over a decade ago. As far as I know all of them failed.

Quick was a small chip on a smart card that allowed you to store a monetary amount and to pay with this chip at certain terminals. This worked essentially like real money: You had to regularly top-up your chip and if you lost it your money was gone.

This is all nice from theoretical aspects, but in practice it didn't provide any advantages to users. Why use your "Quick" card, when you can use your plain old debit card instead? With the debit card you earn interest, get a new card if you lose it, don't have to regularly top it up.

The same is true for this Canadian Mint thing: (As a regular user) why should I be interested? I can use my credit card to pay online and offline. I can use my online banking account to transfer money to friends. Where's the advantage?
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On the other hand, if there is no protected memory.... code wars abound!
Someone should make something analogous to the GertBoard for the Raspberrypi[0], except virtually, to solve that problem
[0]http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/411
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32-bit types are only common in LLVM because typically the target architecture is 32/64-bit. LLVM will handle 16-bit (and even 8-bit or 13-bit) targets just fine.

That said, a LLVM backend is overkill for this and I'm sure the simple interpreter Notch has rigged up will be just fine for its purpose.
The comparison to sexism is pretty offensive to me (even though you try to minimize it early in the article, yet bring it up again via a link at the end). You're privileged to have the option to just not go to the party after the conference - women don't get to just "not be women".
"I don't think blaming it all on good choices/bad choices is any more reasonable than blaming it entirely on "The System". They both play a role in where someone will end up"

I suppose. However, the system will never make you rich. Your good choices will. People tend to put too much blame on "The system" and nobody wants to take personal responsibility.
Neat idea. Pricing: The more end user seats you buy, the more expensive they are? Doesn't seem right.
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900TB/day

I'd be really curious what kind of CDN deal they're getting.

At regular CDN rates you're looking at ballpark $150k/month for that kind of traffic (rather optimistic extrapolation from my own rates...).

Also the figures remain mind-boggling regardless how you slice them. 900T/day breaks down to a healthy ~80 GBit/s average. That's more than most mid-sized datacenter uplinks (plus conveniently ignoring any bell curves they may have).
Woot. I'm pretty sure this will finally push many of the other Affiliate Tax laws off the books as well.

/dancesajig
This apartments reminds me of other clever one room apartments:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juWaO5TJS00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4yJGTPUR_0
I'll also bet there's no privacy whatsoever with these coins.
It was comically out of place, more than anything else.
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but unfortunately for you, lots of people drink. It's not just a programmer thing. It's one of the most prominent ways people socialize. Not programmers, people.

I'm sorry that you feel uncomfortable going to conferences because of the drinking, but unfortunately, it's something you should probably learn to accept. You can move cities, change careers, do whatever you want, but unfortunately, you're going to find that people socialize via drinking just about everywhere.
And almost no Windows "malware" in the last decade has been a traditional "virus" either. Trojans, social engineering, all so much easier.
Got any sources for that? I'm interested in reading that research.

Nothing specific off hand, I used to work for a firm that did aviation noise analysis and this was something I heard a lot from colleagues at the firm and other firms. A starting point might be a couple of presentations from that firm that don't discuss the appropriatness of 65 Ldn directly, but discuss how that criterion is not always adequate:

http://www.hmmh.com/cmsdocuments/UCD_Mar07_Eagan.pdf

http://www.hmmh.com/cmsdocuments/DNL_History_Eagan_FAA_NER20...

http://www.hmmh.com/cmsdocuments/Eagan_Beyond_DNL65.pdf

I work in a semi rural neighborhood that's 2km from a regional airport (a bit off to the side of the approach path).

Approaches generally speaking tend to be much quieter than departures. What airport? Depending on a bunch of factors (noise abatement procedures, prevailing winds, approach tracks, fleet mix, etc) it's entirely possible it might not be loud where you are, vs another location. It's also possible that you're less sensitive to the noise because that you are working rather than trying to sleep (and also due to possible sound insulation measures as indicated).

Second anecdote, there was an airport downtown on the water [..] So on the launch day, before the sun rose,

Key word being "water"and "before the sun rose" - depending on temperature gradients (which tend to occur near sunrise and sunset) and wind direction sound propagation over water can have very unusual effects. In particular, if air temperatures high up in the atmosphere are cooler than air temperatures just above the water, sound waves can "bend" upwards to that folks on the ground will experience lower SPL's compared to what they might hear when the air temperature is more homogeneous.
A lot of people would argue that a CEO's job is to innovate and that profit is just a means. Starting a company (and making yourself CEO) doesn't mean you have to change your priorities from improving the world to increasing your annual return. Lots of world-changing technology has financial gains that aren't realized for years. As long as you have enough money in the short term, which Google does, you can afford such R&D. I can't imagine the inventions at Bell Labs were profitable in the short term, but we wouldn't be typing posts on HN if they didn't exist. Do you think expensive technological innovation should be relegated to the government? Who do you trust to get us to Mars first, NASA or companies like SpaceX?