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"Apple has never produced a new product category."

"You are blind if you think that what Apple does is real innovation in the sense of what the actual producers of the cellphone did. "

Please cite where I claimed they did? Straw man much?

I'm just pointing out the difference between Samsung and Apple to you. They aren't the same. Apple clearly differentiates their products. Samsung aims for as little differentiation from the market leading designs as possible. It's true with refrigerators, washers, tablets, phones, etc. That's why the comment you were originally responding to disparaged Samsung.

You drew a false equivalence between completely copying a product and making a smartphone that's very different from other smartphones but apparently is just as bad because it wasn't the very first smartphone Moses brought back down the mountain. Laughable.
I think this is a really smart idea. With working all day and living alone it's hard to get the motivation to cook well for just myself, but a program like this takes all the hassle out of it!
I put it on a relatives Toshiba Satellite. 99% of laptop models are going to be fine with Linux, unless they start implementing secure boot. Drivers wise, the embedded cameras and microphones they put in laptops almost always are from a maker that already has some form of Linux driver.
Directly, I have a little bit of a problem with MS collecting money when they're not adding anything to the situation. That said, I have less of a problem than if it was my money, and still less of a problem given that I don't exactly have a lot of love for the organizations whose money it is.

Indirectly, I have a somewhat larger problem because it leads to things like fewer cheap Linux laptops available.
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Because if it is more secure and offers more functionality than CentOS then why wouldn't I consider it ?
Cloud9 is a very large application. We have many developers working around the clock in different time zones constantly.

The main thing that helps us work together is clearly defining the interfaces between different modules or pieces of the system and keeping things encapsulated.

For example, I work on the VFS interface that other parts of the system use to access workspaces. If I follow semver, then I can push bugfixes without breaking other's code. If I have to change my interface, then I bump the minor version.

Granted, normal npm modules already provide a lot of this. They have semantic versions and the module name is the name to the API interface. We use vanilla npm modules as well. Architect is a layer on top of this.

The real strength of architect over just plain npm dependencies is the config file. You build your architect application as a JSON (or JS) config file that tells the system what plugins to load and what parameters to provide to each. Since the plugins are decoupled and never touch eachother except through defined architect services, it's easy to see if a dependency is missing. You can replace a dependency with some other module that implements the same interface. This makes manual and automated testing much easier. If I want to test my new feature in isolation, I configure a minimal version of the app and add in my plugin. Then I can add more and more plugins as I test to make sure it integrates with everything. I can switch between config profiles with a single flag.

Also having opposing timezones makes it impossible to make real progress on tightly coupled systems. San Francisco is drinking morning coffee when Amsterdam is going home, I'm in between in Red Lick, Texas.

Architect is just a tool that helps in some cases. The important rule is to decouple modules using some tool (vanilla npm, architect, or something else) and then take interfaces seriously. This makes testing sane, distributed development efficient, and large programs possible.
> Browser not currently supported

Firefox that is.
So your argument is that Samsung is imitating an imitator. Excuse me while I don't care.
Can you explain what you're doing to help disadvantaged people learn to code that is better than this?

Because if the answer is nothing, then I don't think you have much standing to talk. Shouting "U R DOIN IT RONG" while standing on the sidelines just reduces the the speed at which the world gets better, so I don't have a lot of time for it.

Anyhow, I gave 'em a hundred bucks. I give money to other people, too.
I think the main thing is that at that altitude there are few particles to rain radiation upon you. On the ground there is dust, debris, ash etc. which will carry the radiation and land on everything.
How long before Oracle realizes they're giving something away for free and then tries to monetize their Linux software?
Works fine in Waterfox too on Windows.
Thanks for linking the disingenuous comparisons between the two phones.

Oh btw, Apple "rips off" just as much as anyone -- they just have better PR.
'--reverse' is on my wishlist as well, and I want to see it implemented, if nothing else because it makes the whole situation less scary-looking.
Wow, that's gotta be one of the most pumped things I've ever read.
Thanks for the report. Chrome for Android isn't a 1st tier target platform and we do have a number of known issues with it. If you want, you can head over to our Jira and file a bug with the version numbers of the relevant pieces. Of course, you're welcome to submit some pull requests, too!
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I wonder how far launch costs will have to drop before "Google Mars" (and/or someone else and/or other celestial bodies) is plausible...
Why lie, man? Just to "prove" some point? The iPhone was first demoed by Steve Jobs in January of 2007, the LG Prada was demoed in December of 2006.
AFAIK the use of cover glass instead of a raised plastic bezel was actually innovative.
That should not be patentable. Now it's patent infringement to make a battery of that shape.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventive_step_and_non-obviousn...
For some reason, I imagined you were sending daily, although I guess the website says nothing of the sort. Sometimes I make things up in my head! :)

I like the special diets idea.

Even better with hacking is that you can have a community-voted hack of the week (where you can't vote for yourself) and people upload their photos. Even better, you can offer those winners one of next week's recipes for free, in exchange for rights to their photos. So that you can uploads those photos in time for next week, and also get some valuable feedback.

Argh, even thinking about this is getting me excited.
With Games, Leave Your Nostalgia at the Door
Here’s the thing. The majority of old games aren’t “better”. Countless words are devoted to praise older games, but when you revisit them the bad mechanics of them shine through like nothing else. Any great game you remember from childhood retains its value because of the passing of time and the childlike awe you had for them upon their initial release.
This image needs to become one of the standard meme images.
Assuming you mean some general life advice sort of thing, and not something like "The Giants beat the Patriots in the SuperBowl, bet on the G-men" or something, then I'd say:

"Don't overvalue the whole 'good things come to people who wait' thing. Be really f%!#ng aggressive in going after what you want, life is short, don't wait around."

or something to that effect.
Never happened under Obama. Sorry if I wasn't being clear. It happened in the US under the same law - the Espionage Act - that Obama has used more than every other US President combined in his war on whistleblowers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/02/27/is_the_obama_...
What’s so great about Pinterest? 
With over 8 million active users, it’s no wonder marketing firms are scrambling to create a strategy targeting Pinterest’s devoted community. While a majority of the site’s members are female, it’s becoming more of an online haven for both genders. While I knew the site was quickly gaining appeal, I lacked a desire to sign up. Perhaps it was because I already found what I was looking for in sites like Foodgawker, 9GAG, and Fab, or maybe I considered it just an online version of hoarding. Or possibly because I’m not the most crafty person around.
Well...

Not really.

To be COMPLETELY fair, we would need to concede that in this particular demographic...

That is... poor, black children...

NO ONE has a real opportunity to code, male or female. So I think a PoorPeopleCode would have made more sense here.

Having mentioned that, I believe firmly in the principle of people being able to contribute charitably to whatever cause they please. It's just that, quite naturally, there will develop in any culture... well ... let's call them 'preferences'. In India, the government just started an investigation of private schools which forced Dalits to wear different uniforms, stand in the back of classrooms etc. In Indonesia... it's not good to be a Chinese Christian. And... in the US ... I'm not letting anyone in on any secrets when I tell you that you don't want to be a black boy in our school system for instance.

These 'preferences' usually manifest themselves in charitable giving and... VOILA. This doesn't make the charity 'bad', just puts it in line with most of the other charitable giving in the US. Not so much 'bad', as just... 'unexceptional'.

Sorry to be so longwinded. Was just trying to be fair to both sides.
Tell HN: MIT/Startup Hacker in SF seeking short-term opportunity
So here's the story: I came to SF this weekend for a conference and to touch base with some friends. Instead of flying home, I've decided to move my plane ticket to the middle of August. In the next few weeks I'd like to make some new friends and earn some money.

I'm looking for a short term opportunity. I'm really open to anything, but I imagine something like a proof of concept, or something auxiliary to your core app, would be ideal. If you have an app with a long list of bugs you'd like shortened, I can do that as well.

Most of my experience is in Javascript (jQuery), Rails, and PHP. This is where I can work the quickest, but I'm also happy to learn new things. I'm very product minded, so if you don't quite have everything defined it shouldn't be a problem.

About Me:
Self-taught programmer with some cool personal projects under my belt, as well as lots of freelancing and 1.5 years experience at funded startups in NYC.

Some notable personal projects:
KangaCruise.com - My current side project, right now it's only really notable because it's live. I built just about everything there. Bootstrap/jQuery/Rails/Heroku.

Sidaza (2011) - Same SMS experience as GroupMe, but also supported true MMS. I made this work by routing messages through 10 Android phones sitting on my living room floor. It sounds ridiculous, but to my knowledge there is still no better way.

iFoneArcade (2007) - The first real-time games for iOS. They were Chess, Battleship, and similar turn-based games. There was no App Store yet, so this was AJAX polling in mobile Safari, and we didn't have fancy stuff like jQuery.

Shoot me an email if you'd like to talk: colin(at)colinsidoti(dotcom) (sorry my personal site is outdated)
Well that's my point.

Not only was it unoriginal, but it was discontinued.
Wow, what a turn off.
Not really:
http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-protot...
None of those things (with the arguable exception of eyeglasses) have practical benefits from being as small and light as possible while doing their job, so it isn't the same.
Perhaps it would be better to say that Apple is competing and suing instead of only competing.
And the problem with your problem to my analogy is that if the court actually felt that way (that the tablets are fair game for copying because they are so generic) they would have simply invalidated with prejudice Apple's design patent(s) in the UK telling Apple to pay Samsung's court costs and legal fees and writing an opinion to that effect. Samsung could then take that (and the money they got back) and pursue similar sorts of decisions in other venues.
And iPhone was in the works for 2.5 years before being revealed in public. Or maybe they just did everything betwwen Sep 2006 and January 2007?
Google 'keto'.
Yes. Studies of nuclear explosion impact effects distinguish between "ground burst" and "air burst" detonations. Ground bursts typically have a smaller overall radius of damage, but do more intense damage at or near ground zero. Air bursts spread their effects across a wider radius, but damage is relatively more evenly distributed. Ground bursts also produce more fallout, since they dig up and irradiate earth and scatter it to the winds.
Okay you're making an editorial/legal objection, you'd like me to find a way to merge the note in with the first part. Consider it done.

We need a new acronym to go with IANAL, something like TIJABP -- This Is Just A Blog Post.

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/07/18/tijabp.html
To a dutch person (and probably to a danish person too) this is as strange as saying that people walking on sidewalks and crossing the street should wear yellow jackets and helmets. Cycling, like walking, is not a dangerous activity.
The initial radiation and heat wave is likely more intense because there's no ground to shield between you and the blast but, as someone else said, most radioactivity is from induced activity in ground material sucked up in the blast, so from that perspective air bursts are much less "dirty" as the fission products rise into the stratosphere and are dispersed in the winds. Definitely it would be better than being 3.5mi downwind of a ground blast, but probably not compared to being upwind.

The shock wave is probably also less damaging because it comes from straight above so it won't pick up objects and throw them at you.
HTTPie also supports proxies and HTTP auth (see --proxy and -a/--auth).
I agree wholeheartedly with your point, and as I said before most of the ideas presented here, either for or against this initiative, make sense! It's a difficult subject and one that should be discussed.

It just seems to me that we all have lots of ideas about stuff most of us have never been through, and it might be nice to hear from people who've actually been through them.
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Plenty of people give a crap about race and gender. In a way that works against black women.

I got into programming because my dad did it, not because of some rational calculus of my abilities and society's needs. Role models are like that.

At least until the point black women are vastly overrepresented in positions of power in the tech industry, I don't see anything wrong with a black woman programmer acting as a role model for young black women.

If you would also like to set up PoorPeopleCode, nobody is stopping you.
How many Java developers are there in the world?
I've been wondering why humorous comments are so rare on HN, and this one just got downvoted. Is there a rule that comments should be serious?

Anyway this was at least half serious so not a good example I suppose.
this is awesome! hope it becomes big!
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Who Are The 5 People You Spend Time With?
As far as I can tell, it looks like they were granted a patent on:
Scrolling

That is ridiculous.
Now we know why no one is afraid of the North Korean nuclear program.
Be weirder.
Besides the stuff mentioned by chaud, Google does a lot better for German terms as well.
Yeah, I figured it would be slim, but I'm guilty of letting my imagination run away from me. Btw, what's an MER - Mars Exploration Rover? Agreed, if yes: I wish I was more into Astronomy when Opportunity and Spirit landed, but thankfully, they lasted long enough for me to appreciate the feat, while in progress.
The upside would not keep increasing linearly. When leveraging, the current debt burden of the company would be used to determine the level of risk and thus the interest rate.

The level is risk is associated with the level of assets of the company (thus the ability to recover in case of default).

I would agree that a bailout creates a floor to loss, but then again a natural floor exists anyways (the net assets of the company).
Err, why the downvotes? I remember an old story that I can't find a link to about him having these implants forcibly removed at an airport and being unable to fly.

They don't have a great record with medical implants.
I'm not sure that proves anything; the CrunchPad appears to be derivative of the iPhone which had been out for a year at that point. I consider scaling up the iPhone design to a larger size to be obvious. For clarity:

2004: Apple files patent on iPad-like design

2007: iPhone released

2008: CrunchPad development started
Show HN: Plasmyd, a platform for scientists to discuss papers
We're trying to create a space for scientific discussion about papers online, we'd love some feedback.

http://plasmyd.com/
Welcome to sf- good luck finding a project for the summers. Keep us updated on what you're doing here on hn.
I don't see it as a war against anybody but whenever you discriminate based on race you are encouraging others to do the same. I don't like to see race brought up in every facet of life. If it wasn't such a commonly used differentiator then everybody would feel comfortable in any group because race would be insignificant.

Taken to the extreme, it becomes downright immature and pathetic. Do we really need a group specifically for blacks, and one for asians, and one for mixed black asians, and one for mexicans, and one for indians... etc? Give me a break. I wish we could all just collectively grow up.

Actually that's not quite right. Young children don't tend to segregate like that. They have us beat in that area. It's only once they learn our ways that they start to do it. Again, because it is continually reinforced as a part of society.
Or on an even broader scale: delivering timely content, news in particular, to those without computers, via SMS.
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This kind of "logic" really bothers me.

Just because a chunk of a certain demographic is comparatively "privileged", we should gloss over all those who struggle to make a living simply because they were born a white male? If anything, being born poor and white can be more difficult because people bitch about your "privilege" each time you ask for the slightest degree of help.

If you're poor and white, you're pretty much screwed when it comes to being able to afford colleges. Most scholarships serve people that belong to a certain (non-white) race, religious, or military background. You don't get access to any tutoring and you're usually working after school to help support your family, so it's borderline impossible to get a 4.0 GPA and even begin qualifying for non-racial scholarships.

Outside of racial profiling within America's law enforcement (which is a huge, huge, huge problem that desperately needs to be fixed), there's really no "white privilege" in America. It's "high-income privilege." Anybody born of a wealthy family has a chance, and anybody who isn't suffers. The problem is that we're still looking at race when determining how much support to offer instead of looking at how much a person needs it.
I spend much of the year in China and I find the laptops overpriced or underpowered for the price they are offered for.

Sure, comparing retail price in China to the west usually has China being lower. However, most savvy buyers in the west buy their laptops from deals or outlet and with endless coupons. I haven't found either Dell's or Lenovo's outlet in China yet. Do they exist in China?
Hubspot's Inbound Marketing Webinar, Notes and Takeaways
Hubspot's Inbound Marketing Webinar was last week and I was happy on the line jotting down as many notes as I could, I wrote out the key points and their key uses and put them in this blog post. Enjoii
"There is absolutely no reason not to wear protective gear when riding a bike"

There are plenty of reasons. Not looking like a complete twerp is just one of them.
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Scientists are some of the world's greatest comedians.
First oddity that jumped on my face is: why 25? 24 seems to be a much better number.
Wow! To me, that's additional 9.75% of the price! (I live in LA County in California)
Russian Legislators Approve Greater Government Control Over Internet, Nonprofits
So you think the LG Prada was designed and produced in a weekend?
Windows 8 will be available on October 26th, 2012
It's amazing how these men have went on to live such long lives.

As someone who has only cursory knowledge of atomic explosions and radiation damage, I was always under the impression that standing under an explosion such as this would almost guarantee a death during or shortly after.

I suppose it's a lot like HIV. Unprotected sex with an HIV positive person doesn't * guarantee* disease contraction, which is the impression I was always get. Not worth the risk, by any means, but still different than I had always been taught.
Seems fine for me in Chrome 22 on Win7.
since when do all colors exclude white?
From the comments page: "A tribute to the best fucking series in the world." Amen to that. Best.Show.Ever.Bitch.
Ask HN: Anyone used YouTube ads?
Launching a business soon and would like to get a lot of viral traction. It seems like YouTube ads could be targeted and – if done correctly – fairly profitable.

I have no experience with them though... would love to hear from anyone who's used them. Did they convert? How are they compared to regular Google Adwords? Would you use them again? Do you recommend YouTube ads for a viral campaign?

Would appreciate any tips. Thanks!
I've worked with Colin in the past, and I absolutely recommend his services. He efficiently and consistently writes awesome code. And mostly importantly he's fun to work with. Good luck finding something!
Nice. Needs more snapping. I hate pixel-perfect aligning stuff by hand.
Hi! White male here.

I am absolutely less qualified to comment on racism. Because I very rarely experience it, and often don't notice it when it happens.

Similarly, I also believe that one should be suspicious of non-technical managers who have opinions on how to code.

Experience matters.
I don't understand how anyone can root for anyone. We lose either way. Think about it before you go ahead with your down vote.
I bought a generic run of the mill but powerful Sager NP8662 3 years ago. It's a Clevo, and other than the fingerprint reader, I don't need any other custom drivers on Ubuntu. Even the bloody webcam and card reader work out of the box on 12.04, which I'm extremely surprised since I have to install manually drivers on Windows 7.

I'd say, if you have the money to spend buy an OEM laptop.
Ok, trigger.io using Parse for push notifications is pretty awesome, but jQuery Mobile is just terrible. Seriously. Save yourself a lot of headache and use something like Kendo Mobile instead. It costs money, but saves a lot of time and headache working around jQuery Mobile's MANY, MANY problems.

Also, has anyone had any luck using Parse.com push notifications on PhoneGap/Cordova?