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Apple just lost an iPhone customer (or 4)..
A week or two ago, the power button popped off my iPhone, and yesterday the volume button (on the side of the phone) disappeared. I'm guessing some form of iLeprosy hit my phone...

Like many, I decided that when parts started falling off my iPhone 3gs, I would get a new phone. My wife and daughter have the iPhone 4, and it sure is a fine looking piece of equipment. So nice that I figured it's what I would get.

That is, until I laid my hands on an HTC One X for the first time.

Oh. My. Freaking. God.

More info here: http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/

Review here: http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/02/htc-one-x-review/

Monstrous 4.7" screen, Beats Audio, Android 4.0 ICS... Dual core 1.5Ghz processors (Quad core in some versions), 4G speed that is TRULY unreal, 5-device wifi hotspot, tethering via USB (although with the hotspot, why would I need that?), dual cameras, continuous auto-focus... and on and on..

Maybe it's just me, but when I put the iPhone 4 next to the HTC One X, the iPhone looks like a sad little piece of Soviet cold-war hardware from the 1950's.

I just can't see buying another Apple phone when HTC and others are so very far ahead of the game. Android 4.0 is incredible, and the depth of apps for it is obscene compared to the iPhone, almost to the point of annoyance.

I will admit, there was some comfort in only having one or two different apps to choose from on the iPhone versus the 127 different mileage tracking apps on Android, but it's a hardship I think I can cope with.

So this is it. So long Apple. You've annoyed this developer with your stupid app censorship (err, I mean "approval" process) and over-priced, under-powered hardware for the last time.

When my family's iPhone contracts expire, I assure you they will be getting some form of Android phone. Perhaps even an improved version of the One X, if improvement is even possible..

I urge all you other Apple fan-persons to check out the HTC One X at Best Buy, AT&T store, Target, or any other outlet before everyone realizes how incredible this thing is and the supply dries up.

:)
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Think of all the joy they'd have, less friction and money saved if they got rid of their manager. ;-)
I would have attached the wires under the box and used a stiff paper to hold up the box a tiny amount, then when the button is pressed, so is the box, the stiff paper collapses and connects the wires, then the phone can do its thing. No need for capacitors, resistors or soldering.
I initially donated to make sure light table becomes a reality, but I will not withdraw my donation because I think this is a very worthwhile project and I still feel proud to support it. In other words: SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!
Please show me the budgets they passed.
original source: http://blog.newrelic.com/2012/05/18/infographic-top-performi...

and direct link to the infographic:
http://blog.newrelic.com/wp-content/uploads/PaymentGateway-I...
On the contrary, almost all of the horror stories about PayPal I've heard are regarding shipping physical products - largely on Ebay. Or is that not what you meant?
Sure, but I am not aware of a paper that claims that the more water you drink the longer you live.
Context clues.

If I was in a sportsbar and heard someone dissing the NFL, I wouldn't think "What do they have against the National Forensics League?"

On HN, if you see an acronym where it doesn't make sense to you, great! Most likely you're being presented the opportunity to learn about some cool technology.
US “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Delayed
Great comment! I gotta agree with you. Just live below your means and you will do fine. And you absolutely right about getting your foot in the door. I did it with some linux skills that I picked up and just kept learning on the job. I am still amazed at a friend of mine who does well with just data integration, stuff that I showed him, but he made a business out of. And yeah kids don't need designer clothes to be happy. My wife says she is going to get our kid 1 toy and he better be happy with it. We'll see.
Excellent stuff :-) I'd finally got my head politically around paying the licence fee and then they take it a step too far.. ;-)
You bet there are. Unless you have funding for a big team, you'll need to wear a lot of hats to keep startup costs manageable.

Personally, I like that. And if someone needs a "heads down" whatever, one thing day in and day out, that's not a gig I'd enjoy anyway. I like to have several hats, and like to learn new things all the time to keep my brain active.

So, it's all really about you, what you enjoy, and how you market yourself.

Best of luck!
Is there any info about discrete memristors, will there ever be such things, or will all products be only integrated solutions? By discrete memristor I mean part comparable to an individual resistor or transistor. Something elementary, which the electronics-geek in me could play with.
Thanks! I believe I read a reference to this book once on HN, then could not find it. Unless there is another book that focuses on the misuses of the incompleteness theorem, this is the one I'm looking for.
Avoiding Depression While Not Running a $1B Company
docracy is pretty sweet. I use this every week for client work. This thing is going to be around for the long run.
I too would like to see the issue addressed on the client. A user should be able to configure their tracking settings in the browser, which should be respected by sites. Legislation would require sites to adhere to these settings. DNT is one such standard to achieve this.

Also, global legislation is not necessary to effect change. Laws affecting one region can effect changes in all. For example; EU based companies are required to comply with EU law. They in-turn require their product suppliers to comply, wherever they are based, or risk losing their business.

If nothing else, the 'cookie law' has demonstrated this. Google, Yahoo & Disqus (among others) have changed their products in response to the law.
Cool. Now this definitely happens, likely sooner with more out of the box support, and I still get a T-shirt (assuming everyone on Kickstarter doesn't drop their pledges now). So, it's basically a win-win-win situation.
Great. Thanks for the transparency.
sorry but I am not. this is click on FB photo inside my FB wall.
At that point it's not really a chat, is it? It's an email.
Please add double-lines to your comment so it's readable, thanks! :)
Looking forward to a day when I can give Nginx another try when its feature set has matured in more directions. Its unfortunate lack of fine-grained versatility in some areas of configuration forced us to stick with Apache's httpd after trying to replace an old Apache setup with Nginx - everything looked much better in terms of resource efficiency, until we hit the problem of simply not being able to translate a few specific configuration scenarios from Apache to Nginx, forcing us to deem Nginx as a definite no-go for our case.
So are we rooting for the fall of Google, too?
Actually just found out about this recently. Quite a handy tool!
I'd be interested to know if they controlled for employment. I imagine employed people are more likely to drink coffee, less likely to have disabilities, and more likely to have health insurance and better health care in general.
I've been chatting on HN and posting links for a year or two now, but I still haven't figured out what I gain by a higher karma. Sure, it's a tiny treat to see your link get popular or your number get a bit higher. But am I missing something?
I've had a better time learning German than other languages just because my grandparents were German speakers. So as a small child I heard sounds which help my accent today. So just another of the many things to consider when making this choice. If you want to _speak_ as opposed to just read then you might look to a language others spoke around you when you were little. Even if they just had an accent.
just a note, irb always supported something like pry's "cd", through pushws/popws.
This does not make pry less awesome.
As a quick (not particularly educated) guess, they might be doing that because they don't know what the pixel configuration is on the external display. On their own monitors, they know exactly how the subpixels are arranged.

Randomly, I happen to have a picture of the subpixels on a Macbook Pro display. http://cl.ly/1D034736323N2f29191c/o
Reminds me of Anti Grain Geometry.

There is a nice article on text rendering at http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.h...
Wiping Out $90,000 in Student Loans in 7 Months
Given the incredible popularity of the GS2 among the Android community, I'd say it's not unreasonable to think the GS3 will sell well.
I was 29, quite a while ago. I was working in what clearly enough was s dead-end job, in business that hardly exists. During my 20s, I had only one brief spell without a W-2 job, but I wasn't making much money or doing any very interesting work. I regarded the roots of this as my own not figuring out what to do.
Crazy But True: A $4,000 Facebook Limit Order
etrade seems to be down.
Not a 509, but a Deny rule in the firewall config. Works miracles.
No, it isn't. Facebook doesn't have a "Photo of the day", and if you hadn't hidden the URL on that screenshot you'd see "apps.facebook.com/..." in it.

Facebook's photo interface looks like http://cl.ly/1w2M180k0C402q1Y0Y31.

You clicked a wall post from an application.
Follow up to “Your Startup’s Top 3 Priorities”
interesting, I've been digging on peoples workflow habits for the last few weeks and pulling around some ideas
I love this method and have almost the exact setup. I do the same for JS too.

In the footer of every page:

$(document).ready(function() {
if (V.Views.orders_index) { V.Views.orders_index(); }
}

Where "V.Views.orders_index" is basically "${controller}_${index}". Thus you just need to actually define that function in an included JS and voila, thats your calling hook and your JS is invoked.
Facebook IPO - NASDAQ Opening Ceremony - http://www.livestream.com/nasdaq/video?clipId=pla_80cca9bb-4...
I believe contentment goes the other way around. The easiest way to find contentment is to help others. It has been shown that volunteering is a very reliable long-term happiness boost, for example.

It seems to me that most people want contentment and happiness in the same way most people want wealth, which is passively. I think that many of those who decide to be happier can take all proactive action to come closer to the state of mind they desire.
To be fair, it is pretty difficult to imagine his situation. It is such an outlier example that it is needs more information to fully understand; information which is lacking from the article.

At 29, he's had 15 solid working years behind him. Not a single job in that time? (less a couple of short contracts - which are still jobs, so the headline is a bit of a misnomer) The economy hasn't been bad for that long, and arguably still isn't that bad, at least in Canada.

I get the impression that he decided to spend the first 20-some-odd years of his life focusing on himself, which is fine, I respect that if done without any illusions, but now he's scrambling to catch up thinking he should be at the same level as his peers who have spent years focusing on their careers. The world doesn't work that way.

If that is not his situation, it wasn't clear from the article.
No, I would not pay to use a social network.
And if the FB IPO ends up being perceived as primarily a massive transfer of wealth from enthusiastic well-meaning small investors to the brokers and investment bankers?
Did you apply to YC, or were you invited to YC?

(I am curious how the process works for startups that already have significant traction before joining YC. Humble Bundle comes to mind.)
Did I hit a nerve of some zealous Nginx user when mentioning the fact that Nginx isn't a silver bullet? :) I'm sure you can downvote this comment, too! Knock yourself out!
Let's see... the last time you said goodbye to Apple, forever, was.... 129 days ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3446114
+1 for the hack, but the other solution was to tell your lacky, ...err...I mean personal assistant, to push a button on Mark's phone at the same time as Mark rang the bell. We live in a age where we can execute all amazing technical solutions to non-problems. Now was that truly epic? Waiting for the pop to see...
Oh wow, Facebook is so cool! These are real hackers. A button that posts to your Facebook timeline? I thought this technology was at least a decade out.
Yes, session cookies are excepted under Reg 6(4)(b). Most other cookies are capable of implicit consent.
well, I dont remember but even IF -- why would any application on the site blew up such a huge ad? isnt that affecting FB image?
Does livestreaming a financial transaction strike anyone else as strange?
Linux Chrome attempts to follow your system settings for subpixel vs not, which means the behavior in this area is system-dependent.

(I write "attempts" because the rules are complicated: http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/fonts/ )
Indeed, I'm very curious about this one as well.

Going for YC is clearly a great starting point for building a scalable business, so I wonder what the business logic will look like. As in genuinely, positively interested to know. :-)
As a San Francisco resident, there is definitely a streak of egalitarianism here. Your comment about waiters makes me think of the local institution Zeitgeist:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/zeitgeist-san-francisco

From the reviews you can see the split in reaction: Some people think the staff are incredibly rude. Others, like me, love the place. As somebody who thinks of the staff as hardworking people trying to get a difficult job done, I've never had a problem with them. But they definitely aren't servile, and they won't take an ounce of crap from anybody.

If I had to sum up the culture, I'd say that nobody minds that you have money, and nobody minds if you enjoy yourself. But showy consumption is frowned upon, and acting like you're better than others because you have money is a definite faux pas.
(In reference to screen size) I'm not an iPhone owner yet, but the only thing that is keeping me from buying one is the screen size. If iPhone 5 doesn't grow larger, i'm guessing a lot more people will switch to Android devices.

But then again, I can't imagine iPhone 5 not having a larger screen, since the New iPad has a really large retina display. 4.5-5 inches should be simple.
We had actually applied previously with a totally different idea, but then Light Table blew up and we resubmitted late.
They are late and they did not achieve their "higher than 30% (or was it 50?) of initial offering".
Et toi! Laissez les bon temps rouler!
I think it should start trading at 1:37 in the afternoon.
Wouldn't it be possible that it is 90-100 Taiwan dollar instead of US dollar. than the license cost is 3.4 US dollar. It seems to me that it would be suicide of MS to command such a high price for its tablet OS. It would make the tablet as expensive as its desktop OS. Not a great strategy to conquer the "iPad market". A pricing akin to windows mobile would seem to be more logical.
I've run into the same issues. Apache and it's modules simply do more out of the box.
CNBC is reporting that there are communication issues preventing the IPO from trading. 11:29AM EST.
I call bullshit on the headline. "PayPal handles 60% of web transactions" is not seen anywhere in the original source (which is about payment performance), and it is probably wrong.

NewRelic did collect data of their customers (and that is what they have said), but their customers do not include Amazon. You can not just take their data and claim they are 100% of web transactions (and NewRelic has not done that). I bet Amazon does make up a big percentage of all web transactions (though smaller than PayPal).
Show HN: Continuum Timeline Visualisation Tool
Is there something special about Roman times that left us with enough data to build these models or are other eras next?
Launchwriter
How Facebook Saved Us from Suburbia
Related: An analysis of how long do items survive on the "New" page

HN link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022547

Source: http://www.solipsys.co.uk/Writings/HackerNewsItemLifetime.ht...
Brilliantly said, Sir Gormo.

For anyone who really has no idea what Gormo is expressing opposition to here but is truly open to at least understanding "the other side" -- might I suggest borrowing a copy of Ameritopia[1] by Mark Levin from the library? Mr. Levin attempts to go through some of the philosophical history of the debate between those advocating top-down "Utopian" solutions vs those advocating bottom-up "Individualistic" solutions.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Ameritopia-Unmaking-Mark-R-Levin/dp/14...

It can be a little dry and the author never apologizes or backs away from which side of the debate he believes is right; but he does make a solid attempt to get at the root of this whole contention.

All this talk of taxing the rich and the various wars on women, college loan recipients, etc... is really just a distraction or at best a side-effect of the real issue of the Individual vs the State.
Wow, this guy wrote a number of books! They look very interesting, thanks a lot!
I've not used it yet, but I would still like to add GoCardless to this list.

https://gocardless.com/
HUSL: human-friendly HSL alternative*
Facebook's Opening Trade Has Been Delayed By NASDAQ
First trade at 11:30:09 CST

2000 Shares at $42.05 (SELL)
In Chrome 19 on Windows I don't see any apparent difference. Display is 96dpi at 1920x1200.

I checked on my iPhone 4S and when I zoom in I can see a difference (that I might be missing on my desktop). It is incredibly subtle.
That is ridiculous. This is like saying that no one can ever say "I've worked in a workplace where I felt discriminated against", using their own name and tell how they felt, as whoa, suddenly someone could jump to the conclusion that they now know which employer the person is saying has a discriminatory atmosphere and that the person might as well have named them! Without any chance for the employer to clear their own name! This is so ridiculous it hurts.

To me, this is like me saying "I've met some pretty awful people..." and you saying "How dare you talk about my sister like that!"
It's not about karma. It's about making sure things I think are worth seeing are seen.
This is so true. Everyone wants to say we're not trying hard enough but we really are the guys with the awesome grades, extra-curriculars, part time jobs, and involved in sports plus finding time to be social.

The silver lining is that if you're in the right industry it can be easier. Last week I sent out 10 resumes and got 4 interviews for web development positions. My chances are good at every company I interviewed with but only time will tell if I'm not being too optimistic. Your location has a lot to do with it too im sure. I live in Chicago so it was relatively easy to land those interviews but if you're not in a major metro area (New York, Chicago, LA, etc.) then surely it's a lot tougher to break in. The solution is probably to move. Half the people at the companies I interviewed at told me they moved from places like Kentucky, Mississippi, Michigan to where the jobs were.

It's tough though no matter where you are and what you're trying to break into.
You can actually stop worrying if you want, and you'll probably do better by it. Go read Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness" for the details.
300x250 is a completely standard advertising size. You'll see similarly sized ones on virtually every site with ads on the web.

Are you new to the web and Facebook or something?
The YC backing actually made me pledge. I held back initially figuring that I would easily be able to buy a license further down the road without taking the risk of seeing you guys give up (no offense intended!) However, getting into YC makes me appreciate how very serious you are and so I treated myself to an early beta.

Good luck, I'm REALLY looking forward to trying Light Table out :)
The worst of everything tends to get my attention - doesn't it get yours?

There are three kinds of blacks in America today - feral, traditional, assimilated. Traditional black people are the nicest people in the world and have the coolest churches. Unfortunately they're all over 50 and have high blood pressure. Assimilated black people are just like white people except for the little box they check when they want to get into Harvard. (Samuel R. Delany's memoir, The Motion of Light in Water, is among other things a wonderful evocation of the old "Jack and Jill" black upper class.) Feral black people need to be rounded up, flex-cuffed, laser de-tattooed, sent to boot camp for three months, and placed in the unconditional custody of traditional black people, who will know exactly what to do with them.

Is that enough stereotypes for you? A stereotype is a pattern you don't want to recognize. I think you'll find you recognize these patterns just fine, however.
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Appears to have opened at 42.05 at 11:30AM EST.
Yep, that's true, and I haven't developed on my Mac since then. I've been using LinuxMint 12, an Ubuntu-centric distribution.

Good eye, Turing. Good eye!
:)
I especially agree with the part about going for walks. I work from home a lot, and I walk to CVS to buy something almost every day, just so I can get out of the house. Amazing what 15 minutes without a screen in your face can do for your mental clarity.
Hey all,

Was digging through some old code libraries and found a prototype i built about 5 years ago for timeline visualisation (the demo uses classical music data) during my time at the university of southampton (UK).

Its was for a paper that i co-wrote i think for the UIST conference in Rhode Islande (2007)... http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1294229

Anyway, thought it may be interesting for some people.. it still works pretty well, although was never actually finished, and was quite advanced at the time as it is entirely rendered using the CANVAS tag..
This is not the first time that this has been attempted, the SPIA [1] algorithm from 2008 is similarly inspired. It appears these authors were not aware of that paper though, as they don't cite or compare to it.

[1] http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/1/75
Works for me now - may have gone down under the load.
Your complaint is "completely useless" - say specifically what you think is wrong and point to examples.

If you think you could write better programs then write better programs and contribute them.
Google seems to have a pretty good track record of being a well run, profitable company.

In my opinion anyway, FB still seems to be in the "do something big, figure out how to profit from it later" stage. That's all well and good, but I don't know that it's $130+ per active user good.

How many ad banners are these people going to click? To put this in perspective, the initial valuation of $104B is over 2/3 the entire amount of money spent on all advertising in the US last year ($141B).