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"The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there." -- Gordon Bell

Just to clarify. I think what he means by that statement is that, we assume that components not yet built would be cheaper, faster and more reliable than they would be in reality. Which is almost always true.

[EDIT: Just realized, it's true the other way around too, if you eliminate the need for a component, it becomes the cheapest, fastest and most reliable component.]
I couldn't see it on the App Store, but when going to the direct link, I got a message saying it requires iOS 5.1 - I'm on 5.0.1. Maybe it's because your device isn't up to date.
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I like the radio dial, seems like a nice way to browse the different categories.

But this Podcasts app is missing 1 crucial feature it looks like - no ability to let you know the podcasts you are subscribed to have new episodes. I'm hoping that is expanded upon in iOS 6. Otherwise you still have to rely on syncing with iTunes.
Dropbox is taking a moral stand. They are taking a stand against piracy. They choose not to be part of the problem.

Sure, Boxopus could be used for legal purposes, just as bittorrent could be used for legal purposes. But everyone on HN knows that the vast majority of bittorrent use is not for legal purposes. Visit any major torrent site. Look at the first 1000 torrents. Count the number of legal torrents. Checking the PirateBay, KickAssTorrents, and Demonoid, I count about 16 legitimate uses of bittorrent. The remaining 984 torents are ebooks, movies, software or games.
Regarding what others have said about this being branded a "terrorist surveillance tool" (highly likely in current climate) - would be amazing if the the code behind this could be released open-source on GitHub, so that it's preserved for a happy day when art isn't censored for 'security'...

Would that be possible?
On 25 June 2012, Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution Is True website recommended a LONG video of a lecture by Sam Harris, a meditation practitioner, from April’s Global Atheist Conference in Melbourne. The video lecture is on the subject of the atheist attitude toward death, and Harris leads his audience through a mindfulness meditation exercise as part of the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITTxTCz4Ums

I watched the whole video, and participated in the mindfulness meditation exercise.

I have to say that after listening to the whole lecture, I have the same misgivings Sam Harris has about being removed from any thoughts or judgments about the external world. There is genuine suffering in the world that it is important to do something about. There is a tension between getting in touch with the present moment and using a meaningful part of each day to solve problems and help our fellow human beings. Having lived in a predominantly Buddhist society during two different three-year stays as that society transformed from Third World colonialized poverty to First World free and democratic modernity, I'm not at all sure that most people would be more happy if most people were doing more mindfulness meditation.
I don't think it's as heavy-handed as you suggest. Most of the app's navigation is handled by tableviews and collection views. The dial that you reference is really a sideways scrollview (albeit with a material skin)--this controls a non-skeuomorphic list in an intuitive way that isn't confined to the limitations of a physical radio's interface.

I'll grant that the tape deck is outdated, but it's a largely hidden little visual treat that suggests a hidden mechanism underneath AND provides visual feedback on playback speed.

Skeuomorphism is bad when it restricts the UI to the properties of physical objects, but in this case Apple hasn't done that.
What I do in such a situation is cmd+shift+f and do a project wide search (I leave that as the default in the "Where" field. You can tweak case sensitivity, whole word, or even just use a regex.

It opens a new tab with your search results, and you can double click on a result to be taken to that place in that file.

It's admittedly not as slick as what you're asking, but it serves me well enough in exploring a codebase.
If ever there was something that needed a technical manual, Dwarf Fortress is it.
> I learned something new today.

Same here. I've always wondered at the certainty of the proclamations of fire investigations. I assumed that the disconnect between what I thought could be determined after everything was burned to a crisp -- and what they claimed to know about how a fire started and progressed was a result of my ignorance... go figure.
He doesn't have to be corrupt; he simply has to believe that ACTA is good for Europe. If he's trying to circumvent various obstacles in his way, it's because he thinks they're wrong.
Some of these have cell radios in them.
I founded it on the home page of the App Store (iOS 6 version) under featured. Direct link didn't work for me.
That was the main reason why I purchased it. I love having a reliable editor on all OS.
>And what's different is that MemSQL translates you SQL query into extremely efficient C++ code. Code that is compiled and executed natively. Whereas MySQL, SQL Server, Postgress, Oracle - all of these products evaluate queries by interpreting their respective tree representations of your SQL queries.

This sounds like absurd cargo culting. I've never designed a database but parsing the SQL can not have ever been the bottleneck; the fact that you rarely write to disk is where any speed improvements can be found.
0.002% is an exaggeration, but I understand your point completely. Wasn't intending to come off as crass. Just pointing-out a trade-off. (And I do believe there are more non-JSers out there than we realize, many of them not by choice.) Kicksend doesn't even attempt to let me know I'm not supported, and just presents me with a broken page.

I guess in this day and age pointing that out just makes me sound like I'm boo-hooing.
I thought the same thing but then I scrolled up and saw the search bar with the list view. Using the list view you get exactly what you want, a list of podcasts with tags for new episodes and a chronologically sorted list view of all unplayed episodes.
When I searched for "podcasts apple" it was the very last result. I guess that's noble? At the very least they weren't using their status as the owner of the store to promote their own app, I'll give them that.
Then they should be checking volume, not the monitor size.
Sam, congrats on the raise. Can you elaborate on the pricing for online sales? Would this include subscription services as well or just (one time) virtual good/digital sales?
Pigments can sometimes be stubborn things. But I find that folks tend agree that darker greens are 'greener' than lighter greens. So for best results I'd use a dark green with a glossy finish. It should produce the greener hue that you are looking for.
Scotty - thank so much for the shout out man, this is Jonathan, I am the founder of Apptopia. To help add some value to the convo:

We actually partner with AppBusinessBrokers - good guys. They handle the $200,000+ spectrum while we really specialize in the $1,000-$150,000 range. SellMyApplication is unfortunately more of a marketing site and lack the real data/stats and the ability to help with the actual transfer.

We are happy to help however we can, and actually thought you might find this informational post about iOS transfers specifically really valuable: http://blog.apptopia.com/iosappstransfer/
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This was also discussed when it was a draft a few months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3539663
Please add an option for showing original submission titles.

When titles are changed by mods, it frequently neuters them. From "Today my company came out of stealth mode" becomes "Ex-Facebooker closes $1.4M financing round." Clearly not a change for the better. Please keep a copy of the original title and add an account-wide toggle to switch between moderated and original versions.
Have you switched the "Subscription" toggle on for any of the podcasts you have? (Note this also reveals an "Auto-Download" toggle.) From the Episodes view, tap on the podcast itself at the top.

I haven't had any podcasts update in the last few minutes, I don't think, so I haven't been able to test it.
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This is really useful, thanks for sharing.

Have you actually manually mapped the similar characters for the entire unicode set? It would be cool to have some offline image processing done that identifies related characters to augment what you already have.
How does it do with large datasets, say 5k rows+?

There are lots of table alternatives out there, but most croak when you start working with 1000's of rows.
Here's another weakness in all this analysis: The (presumed) value of the data and analysis.

For years -- decades -- the medical professions have told us that "salt is bad". Now, we're finally learning that, specific and limited medical conditions or extreme diets aside, this is not so much the case. In fact, to little salt -- even when not "extremely" little -- may present significant problems.

Imagine insurers having had purchase/dietary information available during this "salt is bad" phase. How much harm might their resulting "persuasion" have caused? (As a simplistic argument/point.)

Taken to extreme, such controls are like "best practices". They can trend towards mono-cultures, which nature shows us tend to be fragile things.

Humans need to understand that our population has diversity, that this is a good thing, and that, wedged together in our cities, towns, countries, and onto this blue marble, to some extent we are "all in it together". Like it or not.

TL;DR: Some of these data analysis practices should spend more time worrying about their own garden.

P.S. I'm not against analysis, in general in life. I am against biased analysis warped by self-serving motivations.
* Cell phones flying by overhead while landing or taking off overload cellular base stations.*

[citation needed]

I've heard this, as one of many theories, discussed about the rationale for this rule.

A plane typically has about 150 passengers and there is a narrow window of time during takeoff and landing when you can actually get cell coverage. I find it hard to believe that with the popularity of cell phones today that the towers would be overloaded by 150 phones (or, let's extrapolate to 1000 phones accounting for the takeoff/landing windows) moving rapidly across a couple of towers.
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> When the number of "moving parts" created by your abstractions outnumbers the actual bits its abstracting, then you know your design took the wrong turn somewhere.

This is an interesting point which I agree with and is usually where I end up. In the past I've started from the opposite end, creating multiple modules, class hierarchies, etc. This future proofing has made things harder for me to follow/understand when reading at a later date. It has become tiresome and now I consciously start at the other end, making the simplest thing that could work. Layers of abstraction then come naturally as needed.
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Missing re-flow/re-wrap makes for a sad mobile web experience. No love for iOS nor Windows Phone for this reason. Long live Android!
Yeah, when they say enlightenment is like a lightning strike, they tend to fail to mention that the lightning hits again. And again. And again. And again. :P
A few months ago there was a link to a W3 discussion about this.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3561950
I think that the public has moved beyond being comforted by security theater. Now, two other forces are propping up the absurdities: (1) bureaucratic self-preservation, and (2) leadership irrationality along the lines of "man, will I look bad if I support revoking [stupid TSA rule #1039237] and a terrorist then uses the opening in an attack."
these guys are crushing it. i've tried a demo and it's super impressive...
Tablets will hopefully open the system to bottom-up innovations in personalized education. then content will come, and pressure and support for teachers to use those innovations will come.
Click and hold the center mouse button (scroll wheel). Notice the four arrows that pop up. While still holding the center button down, move the mouse up/down, and you'll scroll smoothly. I use this whenever I'm away from my mac.
Why would you have to change your password on "a ton of forums" if you yourself have been using password best practices? Envato was responsible in their disclosure- you think those "tons" of forums are all going to do the same? For all you know your password has been in the wild for years.

You should use this as an opportunity to get a password manager (Lastpass, for instance) and use unique passwords for each site.
Absolutely wonderful. I have been looking for something like this for a long time.

You may want to consider contacting some of the London / tube bloggers for advice or assistance if you haven't already:

http://london-underground.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/3d-tube-map...

http://london-underground.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/3d-london-u...

http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/

I suspect they'd be delighted to assist.

Also good to know we have a TFL rep on HN (@mcdowall). Promise I'll go easy ;-)
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I wouldnt really lump SC2 in with this. SC2 for all intents and purposes is a exceptionally well done game and has enormous replay value. It might not be your cup of tea, but its certainly not lumpted in with D3.
No one has attained Enlightenment through Zen nor meditation in human history. Buddha himself never claimed he was enlightened through meditation. That's a fabrication of Buddhist monks whose level of consciousness is quite a bit lower than that of Gautama. Nowadays, the misunderstanding has been passed down for thousands of years, so what I'm saying now seems unacceptable in modern society.

If you accept that meditation is a way to get Enlightenment then it opens the possibility that anyone can be Enlightened. But in human history, only one or two men had the evidence that they could perceive everything in the world and could tell the Truth. Instead, Buddhists will tell you that you have to experience things to understand and prove them. But that is not the case of a scientist, philosopher, and Enlightened Beings - all of which can immediately show evidence when they point out something in truth.

The term of Enlightenment means "opening eyes to what is in the reality". It's used similarly in Eastern languages to mean "to realize".

So a truly enlightened being can point out things in reality exactly as they are and can tell the law of how the world works.

So when you learn about happiness from an Enlightened Being, he doesn't teach you about sitting in meditation until you can train yourself not to care about happiness anymore. That's a way to lose yourself in the end.

Instead he can teach you exactly what the conditions are for happiness which must be fulfilled in order for you to be happy.

If someone claims he's Enlightened and teaches about happiness then they must be able to point out that where happiness is, what it is, what is the way to happiness, and what is the cause to lead you to the goal of happiness.

The reason why attachment is a problem is that attachment is one of the sources to make karma, and you can't be happy forever without conquering your karma (before it conquers oneself).

Things in the world operate by a very simple principle - and this principle lies at the essence of what is taught by all Enlightened Beings when they teach about "what is" in the world. But because the monks and Zen masters didn't learn this principle, I can realize that they don't know anything about true Buddha's teaching.

I'm telling you this because I'm worried that people will fall into danger practicing Zen and other forms of Buddhism. The truth in Buddha's teaching has degraded to the point that no one can know Buddha's teaching through the existent Buddhism - which although superior because of Buddha's teachings, nowadays has a similar quality to Christianity and other religions. I've seen people deceived so many times by monks and it's getting worse as time goes on.
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I think that we are entirely different types of developers (and that is fine, this is in no way meant as as being negative on the way you work), but I couldn't care less about the first 3 points you mention. They don't add anything to my productivity.

I do wonder though, if visual attraction is such an issue to you, why in the first place do you use Vim?
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This reminds me of some early MongoDB benchmarks. Claims of extremely high write throughput when really it's writing to memory and relying on mmap to eventually sync the data to disk.

Making write speed claims when you're not touching the disk is like bragging about how fast you can cat a file to /dev/null.
I don't feel entitled to a working non-js version of the site. Far from it. (As I stated, it's probably not worth it.) Kicksend should do what works best for them.

That said, it would be nice if they at least told me they require JS instead of giving me an empty and broken page, but I guess I'm in such a minority that I should be used to this kind of thing by now.
It's not specifically related to the original article discussed here, but skiplists don't need to be unidirectional. For instance Redis implements all the sorted sets operations using doubly-linked skiplists, so once you identify a node you can traverse other nodes in both directions.
The app makes avatar integration so seamless. Wonderful job guys. Love it. I've always been using Gravatar which is great too. But having access to all the avatars from various social networks is a huge plus. +10
Can we say they're deceiving us with this "MemSQL is 30 times faster than MySQL"?
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These are the videos from the TechXploration meetup on June 21st (http://www.meetup.com/TechXploration/events/65087252/)
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Breaking the podcast functionality out into its own app is interesting, but the 50MB limit for cellular downloads means that it's still completely useless for me.
Apple has been in love with skeuomorphism since the Apple Lisa, its first system that used an office metaphor. Apple's desktop OS uses 'files', 'folders', a 'trash bin', 'labels', 'tabs', and so forth.

I do agree that those don't belong in a next gen OS like iOS. They successfully got rid of the file cabinet, they have an opportunity to get rid of the other old world metaphors as well, alas they seem to prefer skeuomorphism for eye candy sake.
No one's saying it's easy, but enough IDEs have done it that some of us have come to expect it.
Seeing as the vast majority of travelers only turn off the screens of their devices, I somehow doubt this is the issue.
Wonderfully designed. Thanks for sharing.
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Good point- ours are currently unidirectional because they have to be lock free. We have some ideas on how to keep them lock free and make them bidirectional, but that's not part of the current release.
I found the Music app painful to use for my podcasts. Not sure how much better this will make it. On the other hand I purchased Instacast and it is one of the most used apps on my phone.
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Why would I want to move from using Gravatar... to using Gravatar through Avatars.io. If I have to manually support all of these URLs, there's not a ton of benefit from just using the site specific URLs as it is, and I now have a dependency (And thus risk) on avatars.io. Maybe I'm missing something that this enables? (I mean, the URLs are certainly pretty, clean and consistent!)
I am sorry that you are getting lumped in with a caricature of all the objections to this "pick better clients" message that exists mostly in my head. That's not fair.

But my points stand:

* It does not matter what you think is "OK" or "Not OK". Taking a month to pay an invoice is standard practice. Even if you negotiate Net-15 payment, it's standard practice: nobody pays on time. Complaining about a receivable when it has taken single-digit days to pay out is unprofessional.

* By working without a written contract, and in particular without any agreement as to how invoices will be paid, the freelancer has taken some of the responsibility for the payment drama.

* Choosing better clients, or (if it makes you feel better to say it this way) different kinds of projects to work on for clients, will produce better results for freelancers. If only because high-value projects almost never execute this carelessly.

* $780 is a trivial amount of money. Even for this person. By their own admission, we're talking about 12 billable hours. If you're a day and a half from bankruptcy, you're not ready to be working for yourself. Real clients will drag 9 months on invoices whether you think that's OK or "ethical". You can complain to them about it, or to the public, but you'll get paid on the same schedule either way, and you'll poison your reputation in the process.
"I don't understand the Orbitz debacle.

First, they're not charging Mac users more than Windows users for the same hotels / services. All users, regardless of OS, have access to the same set of options at the same prices. This is ad targeting, not price manipulation; they're (essentially) showing Mac users different advertisements -- for higher-priced options. You're free to not click on the ad; if Orbitz chose wrong, they're losing money (by wasting ad space on their page)."

Rest here: https://www.facebook.com/tudorb/posts/10100307597913113
I am actually happy that this app is not what I want because I hope that this is the same sentiment for others. This will allow apps like Downcast and Instacast to further survive.

My other gripe is the navigation is too stylized for my taste. I am not looking for my podcasting app to be an experience, just function as a tool.
Thanks! We think Gravatar is a great service, but as more and more apps use social networks and more, having more options is great.
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Because carefully and individually checking the volume of each and every MacBook Air that comes through makes a lot more sense than realizing once and upfront that there are two major versions of the MBA, and the 11" one is below and the 13" is above.
Always amazes me when I read an article online that's 100% about a website and there's no link to said website found in the article.
Alas, that's purely our fault, parents.