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I have two of these with AT&Suck. Skype on my phone works great over WiFi, but I drop a ton of calls using my femtocells (when they even works)...I'm just saying, it's not my Internet connections.

The biggest problem with these units is the server/system they connect to is crap. You buy them for $150 from the AT&Suck store then go home and find out they're not holding up their end of the bargain.

While I understand it's really hard to get new cell towers put up, there's no excuse for rolling out this system to consumers then not backing it up with enough horse power to handle to load.

/Rant...sorry, I guess I was angry about that.
At any point in your career, it is important to think about the future. It is crucial to know where you want to be in the future and how to get there, whether it is your career, family or both. Whether you leave a job by choice or not by choice, your career is long and there are usually several paths to get to where you want to be.

I have worked in investment banking and private equity for a number of years and decided to make a switch to corporate development for a company (ie - doing acquisitions for them), so that I could spend a bit more time creating side projects such as http://drivingtests101.com/, a free driving test prep website for 11 countries, with apps in 4 countries and rapidly expanding. I was very fortunate for my driving test app in Canada to be #2 ranked education, #19 in Australia and rapidly catching up in the US and UK.

Life is short. Do what you want to do as soon as you can so you can enjoy what you do. It's that simple.
How do I sign up to get crowdfunded?
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I think you misunderstood. He's suggesting that instead of releasing v2.0 on the App Store, you release an in-app purchase option in the original app that upgrades it to v2.0. A similar idea would be to release new features a la carte as in-app purchases instead of releasing new numbered versions. I'm not sure if the marketing hit would be worth it, but it is one way to a consistent revenue stream.
So, Alex writes something, but you, Sam Stave, you can tell he's not telling the whole truth. He speaks warmly of everyone he worked with there... but to you, it "sounds like there were relationship issues". He writes that he's stepping down as CTO, but you can tell: he's "cut and run". He HAD TO BE either "under performing" or "frustrated with the others'".

And you can tell all of this because of your superior insight and the feel you've gained from participating in places like HN for how engineering teams really work.
Created is a very strong word to toss around especially in this context. Perhaps you were only referring to the trademark WebKit which Apple did register (but they did offered to have the community manage it at the start if I recall). WebKit literally wouldn't exists without the KHTML developers who were in discussions with Apple and the result of which was the WebKit project. Here on HN where code is first class and many others have incorrectly stated that Apple coded/created/built all of WebKit and they knew nothing of KHTML it is really no surprise that someone would try to correct you when you stated the "Apple created WebKit". Creating something isn't the guy that happen to register the trademark, it is the guys that wrote the code in this context.
Where do you get your translations done, if you don't mind me asking?
Google redesigns the TV with Fiber TV
To clarify--80% of people who did not order pixel perfect displays received displays with no dead pixels.

"Pixel perfect" displays are ~$50 more.
> How are you planning on drowning in the Yangtze River without first entering China? Or were you just planning on doing it within your first day?

I'm not planning to drown in the Yangtze. Read my comment again. I wrote it from the "if I were to magically become a Chinese citizen" perspective. Any speaker of English should be able to understand the difference.
Google redesigns the TV with Fiber TV: a new DVR, mobile apps, and voice search
So true. You have a massive advantage to learn quickly because you have complete freedom to iterate as you please without waiting on anyone.
I could, but I want to make sure the resulting quality is good (I need to have high resolution images, make B&W images, etc.). Unfortunately it takes weeks until they send you the printed review and I don't feel comfortable selling something without seeing it first.
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I agree with you on infrastructure spending except for one nuance. Usually telecom companies laying down infrastructure are given rights of way and easements that make their jobs much, much, less expensive. That is to say, if we lived in a private property, capitalist utopia, laying down thousands of miles of fiber would be orders of magnitude more expensive and possibly completely intractable. Government plays a role here by suspending private property rights in lieu of the added value to the public where infrastructure is concerned. If you were to figure in the money saved to infrastructure builders by government, then the spending numbers would like quite a bit different.
The $120/mo plan is incredible for what you get, considering 1TB on Google Drive is normally $50/mo. So jealous ...
The problem with complexity is that it ends up being rigid. What happens when you get boots that the robot can't pick up?

I scan alot of stuff at home and tag it with PDF tags. It's totally awesome, because Spotlight can index them, and the metadata is associated with the file vs. the file system. So I can use it in Linux or Windows as well.

The problem? I can't do that for all filetypes. My TaxCut files for my personal and business taxes have no meaningful metadata that Spotlight can use. I could use Spotlight Comments, but that metadata isn't portable. The portable facility for this sort of file that I have is directory structure.

On iOS, I'm just fucked. Unless the file in question is a picture, I'm stuck emailing things around, storing them within apps and whatever nonsensical filing system they have, or storing them in iCloud and only using Apple apps.

Apple wants my Mac experience to be like my iOS experience. Which is why I need a portable way to organize my junk.
Holy shit.

That's a lot of porn.
I'm so sad that I can't get this where I live... :(
No, I implied causation between working for a Murdoch owned media outlet and writing a column furthering a specific political agenda.

The lying part is incidental really.
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As someone with a marketing degree, here's the kind of stuff I focus on these days: SEO, Traffic Analytics, A/B Testing, User flow optimization (ie, webforms, sales funnels), PPC Advertising, Social Media, Viral, Word of Mouth, Customer Service, PR (ie. blogs, articles).
The product is described as "a mobile web app that is realtime, cloud-based, social and local". According to their intro video, Vooza is still in beta, and has been for about four years, so they haven't worked out what the company does yet, but it will "probably be like Pinterest, Instagram for weddings or sandwiches of something". Vooza uses all of your favourite technologies such as "crowdsourcing, geotagging, and wiki stuff" -- the latter being illustrated by a picture of Julian Assange.

lol.
Twitter is down... badly
> the author claims that C limits what can be accomplished.

No he doesn't! What he claims is that benchmarks are almost always chosen to be relatively easy to implement in C. What's easy and what is possible are two very different things.
I understand this is lisp version of SICP but heard the course is now taught with python. I searched and couldn't find this python version online though. Someone have some hindsight?
That is true, but what appfog (and the other PaaS providers) do not give is the ability to tweak service[1] configs even to a limited degree. Not needing to worry about Mongo or MySql setup is great, but for all of my non trivial use cases, I have had to adjust configs at least a little.

[1] Cloud Foundry(and by implication AppFog) differentiate apps from services, where services are backend infra like databases.
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The idea to have new features exist as unlockable extras actually is an advantage to users: if they don't need it, they still get updates for the feature set they bought.

So all that's missing is a way to give customers of "date X or later" unlockable features as part of the baseline sale.
It just happened to me as well.
I'm confused by this point: "Real-time visual feedback of your current pace and distance. This feature is based on GPS location services, thus available on iPhones only."

I'm pretty sure my HTC One X has GPS location services, else the free Nike+ Running app wouldn't be able to map my route so accurately. Or was that point intended to convey that the feature was not available on other iOS platforms, such as iPod Touch, or iPad. (Why anyone would carry a tablet while they're running is beyond me, but I've learned that the moment you dismiss an option as too silly to happen, it happens.)
"Chomsky was probably the foremost advocate of the overthrow of behaviourist theory in linguistics, and now no-one takes extreme behaviourism a la BF Skinner serious (as an explanation of linguistic behaviour), but this rejection is not currently labelled as 'Chomskian'. It's just linguistics."

My impression was that Chomsky had effectively replaced extreme behaviorism with extreme "Chomskianism", which had then assumed the name of linguistics. Extreme behaviorism is pretty goofy, but less extreme versions have some good points.
Nice app. Pretty and looks useful. As a late-blooming runner, I would have loved to have this in my former futile attempts at getting started.

Could use some help with the site copy, though. It's in English, but it's obviously either written by a non-native English speaker or someone who didn't proofread the copy at all.
Popular sites sometimes go down. Who cares.
I find the Republican perspective more convincing:

* Roads, police, schools, and other critical things that businesses need to thrive are mostly provided by state and local governments.

* Those critical things actually cost a pretty small fraction of total government spending.

* The exception to the above point would be the DoD, which could be seen as critical to the success of business, and DARPA which funds a lot of good research that businesses use. But is the lesson here that we need more defense spending? Or more DARPA spending? Or more basic research outside of the DoD?

* If the lesson is that we should have more funding for DARPA or basic research outside the DoD, then great. I'm 100% in agreement. It's a very small fraction of the budget now (I see DARPA is about 3.2B), so increasing it won't make a dent.

None of this seems relevant in the context of the very high federal spending right now. Very few of those dollars apply to the things businesses need to thrive.

And as for any moral argument, the people already paid for these things once, so it's not like something is owed any more than I still owe the grocery store for the food I bought. Yes, I will buy there again; and similarly, we shouldn't cut the government functions that are necessary for business to thrive.

But no, the Democrats at the federal level can't take credit for the police my city hired or the roads they built. And they can't use the success of DARPA to justify a bunch of things that don't resemble DARPA and cost much more money.

(For those wondering, I live in a Democrat-controlled city; and I have, when I felt it was appropriate, voted for city tax increases because I think they do a great job, notwithstanding an apparent monorail project[1]. So I'm not a "government is bad" kind of person.)

[1] That's a reference to a Simpson's episode, not meant literally.
Best quote from Schwartz:
"We revoked that patent. I don't think it passed the red-face test. Patent litigation is not how I want to make a living. It's not the legacy I want to pass on to my children."

On "your name is on a patent [application] for charging per-person, per-year subscription payments for software. Are you going to go after Google now that they charge $50 per person per year for Google Apps? That could be a nice revenue stream for you."
yeah. the outages.org mailing list is also whining about it. Google talk is also having problems.

I suspect, though, that instead of getting 'censored' here, that hacker news readers are flagging it as not very interesting.

Come back with a story once they have a 'lessons learned' type document; something telling us what happened.
Platform agnostic tools have hardly done anything on the desktop or mobile. If you're writing a mac app without Cocoa or a Windows app without .NET (or other various Microsoft technologies) you're going to have a bad time.

Python and Ruby might be first class languages on the web, but they're never going to be on the desktop/mobile. (Yes I know about things like RubyMotion)

No devs under 30 work on Microsoft stuff? Even if you take that to mean "No dev under 30 wants to work on Microsoft stuff", that is ridiculous.
Stephen Ridley is a friend and a former teammate. He "moved on" from Matasano as well, to BankSimple. He "moved on" from Simple to full-time security research. Because he's a security researcher. Since he left Simple, he's been doing research and teaching classes on ARM exploitation. Because that's what he likes doing. How much opportunity do you think there was for developing ARM exploitation classes at Simple?

This happens all the time with very senior security roles at startups. People take them because they fit a career arc, but then realize that the day-to-day of those very senior roles just isn't as fun as research work. Since security research work pays like f'ing crazy right now, people bounce out of demanding corp roles pretty quickly: even in a very strong outcome at a startup, you might not give up too much money opting for "funemployment".

(Alex and Stephen are also good friends, from long before Simple).
Nexus 7 as the remote. This could really be a game changer for tablets, and for google.
There is nothing new under the sun, but people are forgetful.
Comcast in my area has been hurting due to the local power company offering fast fiber speeds. This is going to be much worse for those local companies. I'm not saying it's bad, that's what happens when you spend 10 years without innovating.
I think you're talking about conversion optimization rather than pure marketing.

Tracking numbers for a mobile app is fruitless if you don't have a way to get tons of people to use it in the first place. A/B testing design, colors etc of a mobile app is only useful once you users.

Similarly, for an e-commerce site, it doesn't make sense to A/B test different things like price if you got a measly number of visitors.

Now, how is one supposed to get all those visitors/customers/users in the first place, so we can then tinker/test the various variables? That is marketing, and a lot of it isn't "hacker" oriented. It's actually messy, and geared more towards people who are sales oriented, even some of SEO. SEO is actually one of the few remaining hacker-friendly methods of marketing.
How would they get this into SF or NYC? Verizon currently testing a 300mps I am sure they will scale that a bit in next 1-2 years.
Twitter... Better than the fail whale...
I keep getting this screen, http://cl.ly/image/0M2832260F32

Anyone else experiencing the same thing?
Mere co-incidence that both GTalk and Twitter went down on the same day? What is the reason Google gave for the outage?
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Yet another twitter outage does not qualify as "gratifying one's intellectual curiosity". Besides, links can get killed if too many people flag them, it's not necessarily moderation.

Anyway, such complaints should not hijack other threads, post a new thread instead.
I'm interested in this platform, so I signed up and clicked through to the point where you are prompted to pay.

I didn't see cap tables or information about the round being funded, beyond the amount to be raised.

I assume most people would want to (at least) know more about the current round before investing. For example, how can I determine how much of the company I would (indirectly) own?
I knew him personally for last few years as his colleague. It was very saddening to know about his demise and shocking to know he took his life. He was always very jovial and cracking jokes all around. My heart goes out to his four children, who were aged between 5 to 14. While I knew he had some personal issues, but never thought these could lead him to suicide. I wish I knew more and did more. RIP Andre!
The cable channel lineup looks limited (no ESPN? can you add HBO?), so I wonder if they will get much adoption there.

Internet pricing looks fantastic.
Looks interesting, might have to take a look, don't have a great tool for this. I'd give you $20 if it could remux mkv to mp4 and transcode audio. Just saying..
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If you have a benchmark comparing C with a functional language then it is almost certainly an extremely simple program. Arguably so simple that it is of little practical relevance today.

A lot of simple tasks are highly relevant. For example, in numerical simulation, you probably want a fast matrix-vector multiply. Conceptually this is extremely simple, and it's easy to benchmark. Examples of practical relevance: climate modeling, simulating combustion in engines, and optimizing control surfaces on airplanes.

"Sort" is simple. Does that make it irrelevant?

How about finding the standard deviation of a bunch of numbers?
Adding on state tax gets you there. California, for example, has a top rate of 10.3%.
Tell HN: Please stop submitting 'Twitter is down' stories
The 'new' page is filled with them. We know. Let's leave room for interesting news. The only thing that's really interesting about things like Twitter being down is the post-mortem and I doubt we'll get more than a vague 'cascading failure' or similar response from them.
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One of the most widely replicated UX results is that over half of people don't "get" the concept of a nested directory structure. Not even when you try to explain it to them.
Not dumb people either. College graduates. It seems to be a mental block.

I have never heard of this ("most widely replicated UX result"), nor have I ever seen it to be the case on any kind of consistent basis.

In an effort to perform a minimum of due diligence, I ran a couple web searches and no relevant articles were returned.

What I do believe, is that users have difficulty understanding directories / folders as they can be represented on newer OS's as another commenter very eloquently pointed out.

However, I am highly skeptical of the claim that the population at large is simply unable to grasp the basic concept of hierarchical directories.
I agree its obvious. But the reality is a shocking number of people (990 of 1000?) never leave the building.
iPhones as opposed to iPods Touch. iPod Touch does not have GPS, so the app won't work on it.

It won't work on your Android because it's an iOS app, not an Android app.
I'm from Australia, and (based on the job ads I see - I just did a quick search on job site seek.com.au - "ruby" returned nearly 300 results, "asp.net" returned > 700, and having worked here for 10 years) Microsoft is the dominant development paradigm, so I don't think the condescending notion of the parent "this is a GLOBAL thing you yanks wouldn't understand" works either.
It's not so simple. Any language (that is actually implemented) is always designed with regular specific consideration for implementation strategies. In fact I would go so far as to say the implementation is the design in practice.

For example choice of boxing or unboxing values is an integral part of language design and has profound impact on the implementation's performance both for speed and memory usage.
Was so excited then saw it was just limited to Kansas City, what a tease, but glad to see they're 'shaking' things up.
Is it just me, or is the only thing that the API currently supports banning?
Or use imagemagick filters and upload your photos anywhere?
Getting this into big cities with established players is going to be an utter nightmare. Although I live in a pretty central area of Brooklyn and still don't have FIOS, so anything that will allow me to get rid of Time Warner Cable will be very, very welcome.

That said- TWC has awful customer service, but Google doesn't have the best reputation either. That might be their biggest test in all of this.
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It's still limited to just Kansas City? Hm.
I'm hoping that this becomes available in the bay area in the coming years. $70/month for gigabit connection is an absolute no brainer.
You don't need a license to own a car or to drive it on your own property or to transport it (without driving it) from point A to point B. A 10-year-old can legally own a car and can legally drive it on private land. It's only driving on public roads that requires a license. So if we regulated magnets (or, heck, guns) the way we regulate cars, anybody could buy as many as they wanted of the regulated product and use it pretty freely.
This reminds me of an old story: a user backup all his documents by burning them into a CD, only to get his IT department discovered he only backup desktop shortcuts instead of the real file.

This is the main difference between hard links and shortcuts. The above scenario won't likely to happen with hard links (because they're actual files). As with jcromartie, I have a really hard time explaining that hardlinks are not shortcuts even to programmers.

I can't imagine my dad (hell, even my brother) will ever going to understand hardlinks. He don't even understand how shortcuts works (only how to use it).
"Flock is not just a brand new app; we see it as a brand new kind of app. While most apps today jockey for our ever-dwindling time and attention, attempting to become one of the apps that we think about the most, Flock is different. We designed Flock so you don't have to think about it at all."

Great quote that really stands out after downloading the app. Fiancee and I are going to give it a try this weekend with some friends. I'm assuming, now that I've used it for a few hours, that it combines location AND time to make a best guess on what an event was. Very cool.

One thing that would be nice is to block out a certain location. For instance, we both take a ton of pictures at our house on a daily basis. For me, it's pictures of delicious things I'm pulling off the Big Green Egg. For her, it's pictures of our dog and her freshly-painted nails.

However, the instant combination of our travel photos earned a phone call from said fiancee. She loves it. Big props.
Love it! I was just thinking last night (while trying Zombies, Run! - which I'm not a fan of, to be honest) why no one has made a Couch to 5k app yet. This is gorgeous.

EDIT: My apologies. Looks like this isn't such a unique idea after all.
Meet the guy with 3 million miles on his '66 Volvo
A module pattern in JavaScript.
Very cool -- thanks for sharing.
No. He got that from thin air. Unfortunately for HN, most of the time, when people leave companies after 2 years, it's for boring reasons. So just making shit up helps enliven things.
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Neato!
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`porn.xml` scared me until I noticed it was pom.
I wonder how much money Google can make from a single household that is using Google products on the internet? As long as Google makes more money over time than the internet connection costs them, then it could be a very profitable for Google to increase the number of people using Google products and gain great product PR and brand loyalty from these people who get free internet.