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Hmmm what is that old saying, a good workman does not blame his tools! Mobiles today have more processing power than the old C64, Amiga and atari ST, STe, TT. probably combined.

If they are having issues with memory and that appears to be the crux then they need to redesign how there doing things. Just becasue you can chuck a blob of content at a desktop webbrowser and chew memory like it is going out of fasion does not mean you can be as lazy with your design when it comes to thinner clients like mobiles.

The best optimisations come from a good design and whilst there desktop model of doing things may work for them it does not mean the same approach can be taken with thinner clients that will notice you chucking a ton of content initialy.

The other thing is that all that Facebook are trying to do has been done in one form or another by others and to read about facebook in effect complaining how a entire platform is broken is not only wrong but concerning as there are people who will take what facebook say as gospil and it is far from it that this could end up being distorted if the tabloid news level types get hold of it.

No platform is perfect and there will always be area's you want to change but in this case it is facebook's approach that needs to change. I also have to question if it is facebook beyond some forum email post as it is not on there main site (not that I'd ever know).

Out of interest G+ works fine on my low memory android device, though the previous version was better IMHO for my device as the new version does cater for larger screens nd tablet factors more so I feel, but it still works fine.

I'll also confess to not ever touching a facebook application so when I read this I do wonder how bad they are and wonder how they compare in usage performance wise and would love to see a article comparing network usage and phone resource usage for typical actions like uploading a picture for a post or replying to a post with a picture in it, those type of things.
Hum. UI code has to be different, anyway, in order to respect the hosting platform conventions and avoid behavioral oddities. The non-UI code can, to some extent, be shared. At least its design. Isn't it?
Dynamic power is quadratic with voltage and is work-load dependent, i.e P = c * AC capacitance * Freq * V^2. Static (i.e. leakage) power has an exponential component (P = AVe^(k*V)), although k is typically pretty small. I'm not sure about the static vs. dynamic power breakdown of Apple's designs.
I feel like i wrote this article! i stopped watching news/ propaganda/pr for a year and a half and i can't believe i wasted my time back then!
You're presenting a false dichotomy: Joel never said "switch to social sites"; in fact, he suggested we all go out and do things.

If you feel like you need to "quench your thirst" for current news, maybe traditional outlets work better for you than social media. Personally, I agree with Joel; most of us in the modern world are gluttons for information, and consume more than we even want, let alone what we need.

Yes, I realize the irony of posting this to a social news site.
Can someone sum up how it does the conversion?
Customer acquisition is a significant portion of starting a business. You have to make a new market and/or get customers from your competitor. If your competitor is charging more money for their product, they can afford to spend more on advertising to let people know they exist.
Sounds great. The big bad record companies can't treat music like a bag of crisps. Neither can independent artists. Neither can Notch, because a game is no more like a bag of crisps than a CD track.
First of all allow me to apologize for earlier summarily dismissing your argument (quick mind). Which I did because I thought you did not have an airtight proof. I still you do not but now see that it is a very good argument which I dismissed as out of hand while misconstruing your meaning of enumeration. Sorry.

Now let me see if I get you right. You are saying there exists a [mapping] program that a human could construct and observe its output but that this AI program could not because it would be giving something other than an output from a possible program. Which is a contradiction. Makes sense.

Furthermore you are saying that given this same program, a human could know the output and give another response not in the list.

The guarantee that it is not an output from possible programs part is an assumption.

Since it is also an assumption to take for granted that even though the possible programs is countable it is a practically enumerable infinity.

It is also an assumption that there is no 1:1 mapping from the list of programs to something that could perfectly emulate a human.

It is also an assumption to believe that a human could not just construct such a program but construct one that gave an output*

It is also does not follow that just because the AI could theoretically be stymied by this conundrum, the set of its computations would not include those that utterly outperformed humanity in all their cognitive useful tasks.

*There is also the problem that not all those programs will halt. So if a human can always give an output then it is an exotic entity at least equal to a hypercomputer. I rank that with time travel in terms of possibility.
This essay complements "Why nonprofits are more like businesses than you realize:" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4468824 .
Yep, the Exynos.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exynos
This is just a bunch of rumors and the author patting himself on the back for being well connected and talking to the right people. Well it may be true, but this article does not really prove it. This is one of the things that, if true, would come from official apple channels rather than un-sourced rumors.
People tend to have fewer friends and become less able as they get older, and even incidental interaction is still vastly better than none. If we had a way to make sure disabled people always have company and no one is left behind, I might agree to the idea of taking them off the busses and giving the (semi)private rides. But we shouldn't assume they all have friends to go see just because you always had such friends.

And then, spatial mobility is also very important. For example, I felt absolutely trapped by my relatively benign broken foot problem.
It isn't clear to me that Samsung has publicly enhanced the ARM architecture in the Exynos [1] series but they certainly could and exploit that in their own products. Like Apple they are full licensees to the ARM architecture (which means they can make derivative works of the ARM cpu) and of course if they did they would be able to exploit that in their version of Android if they so chose to. There were a few companies that did that with the 6502 'core' back in the day adding some custom instructions in the space that was reserved or undefined by MOS Semiconductor.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exynos
The people who say that copyright laws are evil are generally the same people who say the laws that make DDOS attacks a felony are criminalizing "the digital equivalent of a sit-in"... but only when the DDOS is being carried out by people they agree with.
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Good news come from being close to the source while having means of integrating the knowledge. For programming topics I found irc channels and conferences are hard to beat. Unless you work in interesting companies.
from the vague-enough-for-ya? dept

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They might be very different. But given that only 11% of workers are unionised, I fail to see how they can hold a lot of blame for the collapse of the US economy, which seems largely driven by a horrendous Total Debt/GDP ratio, massive regulatory capture across pretty much all sectors and blatantly fraudulent accounting in the financial sector.
They employ (via contractors) "search quality raters":
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I love cygwin even though, as another guy points out, is has many little deficiencies that may or may not give you trouble.

Recently I wanted to hitch three Windows machines in my house together to make a Hadoop cluster, and I first tried to do it with Cygwin. I ran into a lot of trouble so I just used Virtualbox to run Linux on the machines; I take a performance hit, but it works pretty well.
Samsung is making them, but they don't design their own.. well, they design the chips but not the arm cores themselves-- AFAIK only qualcomm (and now apple) have done this in the smartphone space.
There is such a thing as FOSS. That stands for Free and Open Source Software. There is software that is "Free" and software that is Open Source and, as I'm sure you are aware, the software that belongs to both groups is the (vast?) majority of each respective group.

It is called Free _and_ Open Source Software, it is the intersection of the two groups, and it is a pretty useful group to think about when you want to be inclusive and avoid word definition collisions with the word "free".
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Um, "leaked" like pg "not marked top secret" email? Lots of reasons to "leak" all kinds of data. Leaked simply means distributed prior to official release. This is likely a "trial baloon" or sum such. then, they change it after the criticism to avoid further embarrassmnet, nor not. either way.
Learning ObjC is a one-time cost I've already paid. The problem is being continually confronted with all the compromises it made against safety and readability just to rush out semi-usable implementations thirty years ago. It's no longer necessary to regress to C and risk crashes and random misbehavior from unchecked pointer arithmetic and integer overflow and uninitialized memory, and debugging that (while sometimes fascinating) has long been a poor use of hackers' time.
The exynos is the SOC which integrates ARM cores (A8, A9, A15). The actual ARM cores within are straight from ARM.
I somehow fail to understand what does device-UI specific concerns like "pull to refresh" and "momentum scrolling" (both of which are meaningful only for touch-centric UI) have to do with mobile Web as a platform (and specifically standardized HTML5/JS/whatever APIs).
Ubuntu has most of the drivers included in the kernel, while windows installs new drivers as needed. For normal computer use, this is an icon in the taskbar saying 'installing device drivers', but when you are on a fresh install, you need to install them yourself.

I recently reinstalled my Dell Inspiron 1420 (after having deleted the recovery partition). They did provide a drivers cd, but I had to click through them 1 at a time.

Obviously, this isn't Microsofts fault, as they do not have the rights to most of the drivers, but in Linux, the norm is to GPL drivers, and put them in mainline kernel, where they will be enabled on all general purpose distributions.
Not necessarily, it could very well be a PR trick. Going solar is trendy so they may have done it to get some press.
It pays off but maybe in extra iPhone sales /brand building
I'm not sure what this means. Techdirt here claims the EO has been "leaked" (because that will drive pageviews). Reporters at real publications have already read the entire order. It wasn't "leaked". Techdirt is just making things up like they normally do.

Techdirt is horrible and people should feel bad for posting their stories here.
So I would run this myself? Does anyone on HN use this?
A company selling devices and profiting from Android would probably not escape attention if they put Google apps on the devices, unlike Cyanogen. So yes, there would be no Play store or Google apps - and some say the Google Maps navigation is Android's killer feature.
> This is one of the things that, if true, would come from official apple channels

I don't think Apple have ever commented on their chip architecture, at least at this sort of level. It's going to be verified by somebody throwing the chip under an electron microscope, rather than Apple releasing documentation.
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> What happens if you don't go to work anymore?

I freak out and have to urgently find another thing to work on. Like, URGENTLY.

> What happens if you wake up and say, "You know what, I would like to spend the next month with my wife traveling around [insert area of the world here]?"

Work doesn't disallow that - I can simply work and travel at the same time, as I've done for a couple of years already (with my wife - and dog)

ps.: I'm not a workaholic by a very, very far distance. I just LIKE what I do and think it adds a lot of meaning to my existence (plus money of course) - I'd say it's a "necessary good" ;-)
Dismissing Anand Lal Shimpi as one would dismiss a blogger is not right. He carries a lot of reputation and experience.

>This is one of the things that, if true, would come from official apple channels rather than un-sourced rumors

Err, Apple has a policy of not officially talking about even the amount of RAM, so we need to rely on third parties for this info.
Absolutely. I really admire the human spirit and how it's gotten us so far, so fast. People will absolutely be willing to sacrifice their lives for Mars, and some people will go to Mars not expecting to die, but will anyway.

However, I think these people should know that they might actually be dying in vain, because only a smattering of people will actually end up living on Mars, IMHO. Mars has a reputation as being a real planet but really it's a barren rock that's not practically habitable. Not excited about living on the Moon? Than likely you won't be excited about living on Mars.

There is a good argument to be made that humans should live on Mars if only as insurance against some apocalypse on Earth. IMHO, we'd be better off investing in spinning colonies in space (a.k.a. Ringworld) where it's easier to construct something that provides artificial gravity, sunlight, and radiation shielding via artificial iron cores, perhaps mined from asteroids.
What's even worse is that they overcharge on the same properties they gouge taxpayers on, that the taxpayer supposedly owns. Crossing the GW bridge? $12. Going up the turnpike from DE to NY? $13. Going from Jersey to Philly? $5.
What does that even mean? Graham sent an email blast to hundreds of people with negotiation advice in it. The problem isn't that the mail got out --- of course the mail got out. He sent it to a giant mailing list.

The problem is that publications like Venturebeat and Techdirt went to town on the email spinning it into something it wasn't. And the problem is people who promote that cynically packaged excreta on sites like HN.
"I'm not sure what this comment has to do with the question at the root of this thread."

It was a response to a particular point raised in the previous comment, specifically, about the position that PE companies are taking in the marketplace. I rambled a bit after addressing the point, and I editorialized a bit. I won't deny that much.

"You're obviously not a believer in PE."

Not generally, no. But I'm a believer in a (relatively) free market, and as such, PE is one of those "I don't agree with a word you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it" topics. I think PE has its place, but as most common practiced, it's most often counterproductive in the long run.

"the issue is, are PE-dominated markets ripe for disruption?"

I believe I answered that question in the affirmative. Admittedly, in a discursive way. But yes. I think the presence of a lot of PE players in a market is a pretty good signal that the market can be disrupted.
It is my general view that it's crazy to spend 2-3x as much as normal on a kid who will never achieve anything beyond bagger at Walmart. How clever, you caught me.

If you want to apply the ad-hominem fallacy on this basis to dismiss an unrelated point, be my guest.
The community for Ask&Yeah will actually not be hackers :D. My goal is a repository of questions and answers that can be used freely in education. For example, teachers can find questions about a specific person in specific place (@JFK in !Berlin), ask their students collect the answers. Ask&Yeah is still mainly a side project for me to learn about jQuery Mobile, responsive design and backend development.

If you have any better use cases for Ask&Yeah, please let me know. Thanks
Oops--actually I was agreeing with you :) Restricting font resizing is the obnoxious act!
Sorry for the "quality" of the rant. :-)

You've mentioned a few other issues seen at trade-shows. And, as you say, yes, all of it is true. Union thugs will destroy --DESTROY-- your exhibit if you don't play by union rules. They will run stuff over with forklifts. Drop boxes with electronics and cause damage. They'll cut-off your power. And the list goes on. So, you have to learn to work within the system and enjoy the shafting.

For those claiming that "socialist Europe" is fine and they are highly unionized. Well, I've done trade-shows in Europe as well. Night and day when compared to the US., particularly if you compare to union-heavy towns like NYC and Chicago. Exhibiting in London, Munich or Amsterdam (all of which I have personally done) is a dream compared to what you can go through in NYC. For lack of a better description, there's a sense of having a common mission: having a successful show for all involved. In addition to that, I found exhibit hall workers in Europe to be far more polite, willing and able to help than their American counterparts. And, above all, I have never, EVER, seen exhibit hall workers sleeping on the job in Europe whereas I have seen that many times in the US (quite literally dropping to the floor in the middle of a booth to take a nap).

It's interesting how people voice all kinds of opinions until they actually experience reality. As you say, now that you are an entrepreneur and you've seen, first-hand, how fucked-up things are your opinion of trade-shows has changed.

I tend to agree with you with regards to ROI. I have personally spent upwards of $150,000 per exhibit about twice a year for a few years. In certain industries it's an arms-race of sorts. This was certainly true before consumers learned that the Internet could provide a very good buying experience. For a while, if you did not exhibit at key shows you didn't exist or potential customers would question the quality, size or viability of your business. Little did they know that the money burned at trade-shows would be far better utilized in product development. The ROI on these shows sometimes takes years to produce. I had one particularly interesting case with an Italian customer. I'd must have seen him at six trade-shows over three years before he bought anything from me. When he finally became a customer I asked him why it took so long to choose our products. He simple said that he needed to make sure we'd be around before making a commitment. How do you calculate the ROI on that.

But, I agree, today, trade-shows can be hard to justify. I have not done one in three or four years and love it. I have product that sells over the Internet with zero dollars dedicated to marketing through any medium (other than simply having a good website).
Transactions don't scale. They really need to use NoSQL.
And there you fall into one of the traps. Contracts that are long because they explicitly protect against every way that the agency has been screwed in the past.

It would be much more effective to have the response to being screwed be, "We have the option of saying you are not allowed to submit bids on public projects in the future." Then you don't have to legislate every last detail of when that happens.

This is what happens in the private sector. I do not have to do business with you if I don't want to, and I don't want to do business with you if you've screwed me in the past. If you're not planning on screwing me, this is not a problem. If you are, it is only a problem for me..once. And a problem for you going forward.
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Click the arrow that is to the left of the commenter's name. It seems you are one of today's lucky 10,000: http://xkcd.com/1053/

I made a bad assumption because your account is almost one year old. I'm sorry. Now I see that information is not given anywhere in this site. I think this vote method was taken from Reddit.
...blatantly fraudulent accounting in the financial sector.

Could you explain this claim, possibly providing some citations?

I'm unaware of fraud playing any significant role in the recently ended recession. Regulatory capture, maybe - the regulators certainly gave frannie/realtors/construction/homeowners whatever they wanted. A speculative bubble also played a major role. But fraud? Could you explain this claim?
And yet he was dead wrong about the new iPhone having Cortex A15 in the other post, that made everyone on the Internet think that Apple uses Cortex A15. So much for his reputation. I wonder what will remain of it if this proves wrong, too.
I think there are still bigger than /24s where /24 announcements aren't allowed. People filtered for a while (at least around 2000-2002) in those ranges, so you couldn't just take a random swamp /16 and turn it into a bunch of /24s and expect them to be visible to everyone, although it did work to most. I haven't paid much attention to routing politics for the past 5 years or so though.
Apple have touted it. Twice as fast as 4S, longer battery life. That is all that matters to the consumer and those are the benefits brought by the CPU.
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Hey, I had no idea that Apple discontinued armv6 support from the latest SDK... learned something new.
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In all fairness, on this particular issue his track record isn't too good :-) Within the last a week he has been strongly of the opinion that it's going to be an upclocked A9, then that it's an A15 mysteriously launching months ahead of schedule, and now that it's a previously unheard of Apple design.

At this rate we're going to hear in two days that actually Apple licensed Krait from Qualcomm, and in a week that what really happened was a switch to Medfield.
I strongly agree with that sentiment. Strangely perhaps, I expect many of the original X advocates probably would as well. X was created at a time when computers had 1/50,000th the power they do today by inverse Moore's law reasoning 2^(25/1.5). From a graphics performance perspective its probably closer to one five-millionth the equivalent power by the reasoning that a full frame (1920 x 1080) specularly lit frame can be rendered in 16 mS today vs 86400000 mS 25 years ago. So you had a choice, you could either render a UI, or you could do computation, but not both.

On top of that the only way to control a complex remote application was something like X because having 15 80x25 terminals wasn't cutting it.

The web browser and markup, combined with the advancement in local processing/rendering ability completely destroyed one of the fundamental problems X was trying to solve. That it didn't kill X right then and there was, in my opinion, an artifact of the implementation as a glorified telnet session for the HTTP server.
interesting. but odd they cannot run the generators continuously. what do they do when used in boats? i can't imagine boats turning off their engines for 6 hours each day.