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The problem is that for a lot of people there is only one smartphone. So if a phone has a large screen it is an iPhone, makes it kind of hard to design a smartphone that doesn't look like... a smartphone.

Just as for many an "iphone compatible car" is the same as "it has a 3.5mm socket".

For those that honestly are confused I guess they should be really happy about LCD TVs, otherwise they might have ended up with a microwave oven in their living room (yes, it is that ridiculous).

(wait a minute, glass surface, four corners, Electrolux should be afraid)
Here's the link to the intro article, all in Python3.

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/07/fundamental-concepts...
It depends on my wife's schedule. I'm responsible for children, and so generally can't commit to anything in the evening. (As a medical resident, her life is crazy.)
Why the downvote with no explanation? I thought HN would be better than this.
Thanks for submitting this. Personally I am sad to know of this. He had been a personal hero since I have read his book "It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life" which really helped me go on, one point of my life The world needs heroes they can look upto and this kind of thing can shatter the believes. Lance should have continued the fight if not for himself than for his fans...
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Good point - I consider a closed beta a product that hasn't launched yet. It is meant to test features and experience, but not to measure actual real-world traction. In this case I would suggest to raise before opening it to the public, since there is no going back once you do.
It's a hack in the true sense of the word; I found it entirely appropriate.
I can't tell whether I find this crushingly sad or not. On the one hand, I cried like a baby at the end of the Notebook. On the other hand, this basically reminds me of what it's like dealing with my 2 year old daughter.

Is it necessarily a tragedy that someone's mind dies before their body does? It's undoubtedly painful for those waching - but for what reason?

I guess "potential" isn't tragic (ie. my daughter will eventually become a completely coherent adult) where as this kind of mental decline is like some sort of extreme nostalgia that basically picks out every sense of loss we've ever felt and makes it resonate like a tuning fork.
It doesn't say that beautiful things are automatically bad. Just that they are not automatically good.
Wow, thanks for making this!

I just shared this on Facebook but the FB auto summary thing didn't pull up an image as it usually does for links. You should look into fixing that because having a powerful image (as you do on the homepage) will definitely increase visibility and click-through rates.
It would be cool if it was a smartphone that looked exactly like an iPhone. Destroy those lawsuits with a bang.
It appears that most of the directories that appear between the domain name and the final file name are optional. The following URL points to the same page:

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I was asking whether it's safe to depend on a service like Parse
If apple had spent 60 billions of dollars in R&D to come up with the exact same iPhone, and everything else were the same, do they still deserve a monopoly on iPhone-like devices to recoup their losses? How about 2 trillion?

You can always try to spend more money to get a product created sooner, marketed better... but that doesn't imply that the innovator deserves a sanctioned monopoly, even if temporary.

Ladies and gentlemen, what we have here, is the need for a better framework for determining who deserves what. If such a framework is not found, our next best alternative is a non-framework (e.g. no patent system), because history shows us that the abuse of legislated restrictions on innovations lead to great stagnation of innovation, and abuse is rampant.
All information that gets sent to Apple goes over SSL v3, not v2 (just checked). This is the cause however with Microsoft (v2). V3 is a lot more secure than v2. However, I still agree, it should be asked if the information can be sent to Apple in the first place.
RSS feed of profiles should be high on your priority list. Easy to implement, and bound to be very effective.
DragonFly has been a favorite of mine for a while now. It is easily the most ambitious of the BSDs, without being so far ahead of the pack as Plan 9 (i.e. it's still usable).

However, this article is from 2010 and DragonFly recently released v3.0.2. They've also added significantly more features in the direction of a clustering OS. You could probably get more (and more up to date) information just from reading their "Features" page: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/
I have the best job I've ever had in my life because a website I built on a whim a year and a half ago happened to end up at the top of Hacker News for an entire day in April 2011.

By the same token, learning Rails, building the website, and making it interesting were all under my control, but there's absolutely no chance I'd be where I'm at right now had it not been for the existence of this message board.

> pro-actively

Sometimes you don't know what's out there, or what you really want until it's handed to you on a silver platter.
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Social networks strive to unite and connect us, but they pay no attention to the fact that we are different. The newly made services like Medium.com (from the founders of Twitter) and Branch.com try to resolve this issue, but their future is obscure yet.
The most popular topics we share with each other refer to the entertainment sphere (and we have already developed a need for them). It refers to the personal experience of a trip abroad, of a book read, of a film you watched and music you listened to.

Internet, with its readiness to provide advice, is a bad assistant. Firstly, it is too abundant (and it is going to be even more abundant), secondly, it cannot determine what is good and bad for a concrete user. Ratings and toplists are compiled by the people we don’t know, and all points of view weigh equally. Of course, you can write your friends or call them and ask what you can watch or read, but this is not always equally efficient, and often hard to accomplish.

It would have been convenient to store valuable reviews, received at various times, in one place. You feel like looking at bookshelves with films of your friends or people whose opinion is important for you. The same refers to trips: it is easier to go where your friends have been. It is easier to choose your route, and it gives you an opportunity to learn about tricky things (like visa issue procedures, transport in this country, etc).

Describing his or her personal experience, the user can look at himself or herself, at his development from the outside, to see an adequate projection of a real Myself on the net, to reach beyond the cycles of the virtual world (generated by the infinite exchange of reposts and “likes”).

This helps the user develop a healthy awareness of oneself in respect to the virtual world when Internet is just an information exchange channel, and not life proper.

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I didn't downvote you, but I suspect its because of too much bias from you in favor of Apple. Patent wars aren't good for anyone regardless of who started it and like sbuk says this has to stop.
From what I can tell, and based on my completely anecdotal analysis of the situation, "raising based on a couple of mockups" is almost guaranteed to result in an acquihire.

Look at when SEOMoz and Github raised money: they were already multi-million dollar businesses. Raising money was entirely justified.

If you're a B2B product with a revenue model, you don't need funding, you need patience.
start: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4423673
I'm a little disappointed; I wouldn't have thought this community to be so cynical and partisan. Can't we all just get along?
That's the douchiest diff I've seen yet. I've seen diffs where a shitty and misconfigured IDE had reformatted half the code and the guy hadn't reviewed his diff, but "incidentally spaces to tab" is the biggest "fuck you reviewer" I can think of.
I read the title as fake-bus stops...
Except that in most countries EULAs are actually void.
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The good thing about this post is that it reminded me to be better at expressing my gratitude when finding solutions to my problems in pull requests. This makes the person who made the pull request understand that the work was appreciated even if it wasn't pulled and I would imagine that a request with many "thank you" comments would be more likely to be pulled.
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continue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4426685
Can anyone explain to a Non-American what the fuss is about? Did he play a very well game on LSD? Or a very bad game? Is it so inconceivable to play a good game while tripping that it warrants a long fawnish article? What is it about?
I agree to a point - you don't need funding, as we've found out the hard way, reaching break even point without it. Funding can provide a strong springboard that accelerates your growth at the critical first steps. Not to mention, that best kind of investors give your startup a network of connections and exposure that is very hard to duplicate on your own (see YC startups for example).
>>You can't prove innocence, you can only prove guilt. 100 tests that fail to prove guilt do not prove innocence.

Sorry you can. A person is either innocent or guilty. Never both. So as long you don't prove him guilty he continues to remain innocent.

>>They say they will bring forth evidence that proves guilt. Their case rests on 10+ witnesses and blood tests.

'They' should! Seriously. What are they waiting for, from the past 3-4 years?

>>He's stopping the process, which prevents them from submitting the evidence.

No body is stopping anything. All they have to do is give out their proof in open which can be validated.

>>His current behaviour is not consistent with his previous behaviour. He's never given up without a fight before.

That basically happens when you torture and trouble a person for years without proof, the person realizes that the other side has gamed the system to beat him hence playing more only means legitimizing their staged game.
yeah, i got the same, the school went on and on about my handwriting and spent far too long trying to improve it, wasting my time and theres.

Not exactly an issue as I sit here and type this is it?

Mind you, the one thing i did do when i got a chance, was to do a typing course meant for secretarys as I knew i'd have to type.
Reminds me of http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/28589961638/pixel-art-and-the-a...
If you have a company that has good margins, decent numbers, and is not particularly viral, it sounds like your company is a candidate for a business loan, not an equity investment.

At the risk of over generalizing, early stage VC are interested in portfolio investing in high risk / high return companies.

Well-run, non-viral, near-profitable businesses that could use an influx of cash might be better off with a loan that won't dilute the owners' equity in the company.
I'm surprised that none of them use Heroku. It seemed to be the darling of the startup community for some time.
I knew a left-handed math prof who had had that treatment growing up in Holland. But he'd developed a party trick.

One day he told us about this. And said that the result was that he could write with both hands. Different things. He demonstrated. Wrote with both hands at once, different things, on 2 neighboring boards. Kept on writing. Got to the bottom of the boards. Then turned around, began lecturing from the first board, reached the bottom, and continued the lecture from the second. He had laid out the boards perfectly to do this.

It was a very impressive party trick.
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but no matter in what 'state' your product is in (beta/alpha/omega), wouldn't the investor still ask, "how many users (and traction) you have at the moment?"

it's not like you can say, "whoops, we don't install analytics in beta, but we received good feedbacks from people in HN, so give us the money."
Biggest downside for Kansas and Missouri is that both states enforce non compete clauses. Working at a company, and think you can can build a better product, tough luck you can't for the duration of specified in the clause.

Also forces salaries lower, competitors can't hire you away. If you are skilled, you're better off in a state like California. Paid more money, and you aren't handcuffed to your job. Look what facebook did to Google's talent pool or Zynga did to EA's.
Because: (a) Developers don't make policy decisions ; (b) In enterprise environments it takes a lot of effort to get an open source project approved ; (c) We should be actively encouraging more openness and transparency in government.

So I don't know what your argument is. But I assure you I do have 100x more respect for someone who does SOMETHING in the right direction as opposed to do someone who just whinges.
The big difference here is that you can sideload other apps if you want. So you have the convenience of a centralized app source without the insane restriction that you need the consent of some corporate third party to install software on your (mobile) computer.
>Less competition is bad for consumers

Competition is only valid if some fair play is involved. If my team "competes" with your team and faults half your players it doesn't make a very good sport.

>Apple v. Samsung is not the problem in itself, but it’s a symptom of a broken system.

Agree, but while the system still is as it is, asking for companies to just avoid this aspect of it is naive.
>Go look at devices before & after the iPhone was announced.

Check out 'LG Prada' my friend, it was iPhone minus the heavy marketing, which your friends at Apple had 'inspired' from. I still think it wasn't revolutionary. But I doubt if I suddenly become a moron, because some random uncivilized guy calls me so, just because I don't agree with him.
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Investment means much more than money, if you get the right investor. Connections, exposure and social proof that can help you expand your company in many more ways than with just money.

I can think of many similar companies that weren't really viral but used an investment as springboard to get huge by developing strong customer acquisition channels (for example, Mint).
The thing is people attach too much artistic value to hand writing.

Think of it more like painting and drawing.

What makes it worse is the visual appeal and they way it can be preserved over the years.
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Some believable optimism? I thought it had already happened. Apparently not.
Com'on guys. Give these guys (the WH dev's who released the code) a break. If the tech community starts throwing mud around, we'll never ever see another project open sourced from the administration again.

Give them the benefit of the doubt that maybe, just maybe, they have good intentions; clone the repo and and say, "Thank you".
Came here to comment on the age of the article. Thanks for beating me to it.

Since you're a BSD user, can I ask you a few questions? I'm a Linux user with limited BSD experience (mostly running NetBSD on old and/or embedded hardware).

I mostly work on desktop/laptop systems in a workstation setting. Do you think BSD is a good choice for such platforms, or is it strictly a server thing?
>> When someone makes a performance claim about the contents of a book ...

> Money-back guarantees virtually invariably raise sales ...

It would be nice if we both were discussing the same topic. A performance claim is not a money-back guarantee.
Not to sound rude ... but your typing isn't that great either.

theres instead of theirs, secretarys instead of secretaries and none of your I's are uppercase as they're supposed to be.
I couldn't agree more, my grandad has Alzheimer's and he often forgets that my grandma is dead and says he wants to see her, we have given up trying to explain to him what's happened as it always causes heart ache for everyone so now people lie to him, which I hate to do.

I wish that we had thought of something this simple to distract him, some people may say it's unfair, but isn't 5 minutes of trickery worth sparing them the heart ache that their life has vanished behind them and they have the decrepit body of an 80 or 90 year old person?
"Bad handwriting is a sign of imperfect education." - Gandhi

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I'm looking for feedback THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE WEBSITE. It's just hosted on a free host, save/share and other buttons don't work.

Here is a sceenshot in case you break the (free) hosting: http://i.imgur.com/vpIeG.png

The basic idea is that you have automatic scrolling of images and you can select a speed 1-5.
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If you're left-handed, handwriting proceeds best by mirroring what the right hand would do (ie. write 'backwards'). It's far more natural. Alright, so others will need a mirror to read it - but that ought to be society's problem, not yours! ("Equal rights for the Sinisterous!")

In a gradual shift toward ambidexterity, I've found that questioning society's insistence on 'right-ness' can be enlightening...
I'm looking for feedback THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE WEBSITE.
It's just hosted on a free host, save/share and other button don't work.

Here is a sceenshot in case you break the (free) hosting:

http://i.imgur.com/vpIeG.png

The basic idea is that you have automatic scrolling of images and you can select a speed 1-5.
It's a Todo list, there should probably be something on every page that explains this and some kind of help.
haha! I was just about to say how this reminded me of BlindType! When do you think Google will integrate BT into Android?
Actually real Romans did multiplication on an abacus. Reading from Roman numerals to/from an abacus is an incredibly natural operation.

In Europe the disappearance of abacuses was directly tied to the rise of Arabic notation.
Pretty sure the laws in the UK don't apply retroactively, but just state that new builds have to be accessible, which is hard to argue against.

> if a law helps no-one and harms plenty, it's a bad law

True, but you're picking a single example unfairly. You could make this claim about any building and accessibility - "if we have to make it accessible or get rid of it, we'll get rid of it, then no one is helped". You're missing that the law provides an overwhelming incentive for buildings to be accessible (after all, not everyone is going to pick the "fine we won't build it then" option). Without this law, far fewer buildings would be accessible, which definitely would harm wheelchair users.
I was kind of surprised too since Eli is seems pretty smart. Perhaps I'm missing something?
I just totally disagree that funding in the "critical first steps" is what a business that has a revenue model requires.

Basically, I have come to be of the opinion that the types of businesses that need funding for critical first steps are B2C businesses with no revenue model other than advertising which need a huge critical mass with a lot of infrastructure investment before it can become profitable.

If you have revenue, you don't need a springboard. You just need to wait. There isn't one dry cleaner in New York. I love Chris Savage's post on this topic where he's talking about the idea creation process before Wistia and saying basically that although there are a bunch of companies that already do what you're doing, it's really hard to get people to pay attention online and saturation takes a really long time.

If there's only two of you, break even point is really low, and that's all you need.

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> you're overstating it with so much hyperbole that you come across as a crank.

Tell that to Dr. Insel, sitting director of the NIMH, who I quoted to make my point.
eh, if people are really interested, and in santa clara on the municipal fiber loop, you can setup your apartment for really not all that much more than the cost of moving; getting from the street to the building is on the order of ten kilobucks, and it wouldn't take very many apartment complexes to amortize out the monthly costs to almost nothing. (we're talking $100-$200 per fiber mile per month) - then once you get into a data center, bandwidth, especially download bandwidth (datacenters use mostly upload) is dang cheap.

(of course, then you have inside wiring costs, and I dono how much that is going to set you back)

http://svpfiber.com

If someone is seriously interested, let me know, I've done a bunch of research and have the map they give you under NDA around here somewhere.

If you really can't pay more than a hundred bucks a month, you also want to check out surewest in sacramento.
Yup. You toss it off as a short comment, but the stability and performance aspects of IE4 and Netscape 4 shouldn't be ignored. Netscape was super-crashy, and bloated, and slow, and development pace had slowed to a crawl. This was the age of Netscape Communicator suite version 4.2b preview release candidate 3 Gold (you think I'm kidding but this is hardly an embellishment of the reality). IE4 was solid, less bloated, and faster. And better maintained.

Microsoft abused its monopolies in various ways, that's for sure, but it won the browser war by hitting Netscape when stumbled right where it hurt the most, with a higher quality competing product.
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The iPhone was revolutionary in execution, not concept. Every individual component (touchscreen, installable apps, browser etc etc.) of the iPhone was already on the market when the iPhone launched, just not gathered together in the same device and executed anywhere near as well as what Apple did.
Yes, I think there may have been a small tongue-in-cheek element...
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I really hope you are joking. You really want to maintain this money was diverted from being spent on tackling malnutrition? The US spending on Iraq must really tick you off.
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I agree. When the iPhone was released, my immediate reaction was yawn, nothing new here. If anything it was a blatant copy of contemporary smartphones like the BlackBerry Pearl Flip, or the Palm Treo with Windows Mobile 5.