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A lot of newer devices that use microUSB supports MHL, which allows for HD video signalling over the microUSB interface, so video / audio is not a good excuse for an incompatible port.
Ask YC startups: Better means to negotiate with investors?
Have YC-funded startups that raised further funding needed better means to negotiate with investors?
"This is a big win."

Really? Really? You think that's okay to post on this forum? You are seriously that one-sided that you can't even be happy with dual licensing?

This is why we can't have nice things.

edit:

WTF? Do you people even know what dual licensing means? It means it's a choice! Choose MIT! Choose GPL! You choose the end license when you use it as a library.
As someone who has recently learned of a ketosis diet and a low carb approach to this problem, it was pretty interesting when during this talk, http://youtu.be/FSeSTq-N4U4?t=32m10s, when he mentions the diabetes booklet given out by a pharmaceutical company which recommends low sugar foods. While this seems like a good approach, the doctor in the video explains how this is counter intuitive to combat diabetes, as a as little sugar/starch as possible diet is the correct approach. This booklet told people to have fruits and starches but in moderation, when most of those foods they said was fine, should be avoided entirely if possible.
It does some ranking for all the related songs of the songs played, and pick best match from the related videos.
Can someone explain what diplomacy actually is, particularly in the context of Eve? I don't understand what he did in the game.
Thanks, sorry, my mistake. I was working on memory, been some time since I read up on this. I appreciate the explanation.

It's certainly possible that the additional pins are for reversibility only, that's something I hadn't considered. I guess we'll have to wait until the first tear-downs and pin-out diagrams surface.
Very interesting to see myself code: see the frequency of typos, see the order I write things, etc...
Wow, is there anything google doesn't offer as a benefit? Something strikes me as odd about a Corp that has it's tentacles involved in so many aspects of daily life. Why not just offer higher salaries? Seems like all the perks are designed to make you feel dependent on google, make it inconvenient to leave, and live a lifestyle that benefits google. That's probably just my tinfoil hat speaking though. Just seems a bit creepy to be dependent on your employer for so many everyday things.
You've got some problems with padding/margin there: http://i.navarro.at/skitched-20120913-140957.jpg

Other than that, the project looks good!
That list is actually supposed to show the people they're looking for as far as I can tell (since you can expand the photos for more info and ways to contact the police). If you have a list of most wanted and 90% of them are minorities, what do you do? Do you propose a politically correct list where you can only list an equal number of people of each ethnicity and each gender?
Which educational technologies are worth betting on?
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Stereo8 or "8track" in the vernacular of the time allowed for the selection between four stereo programs, not eight (there were two tracks per program).

One problem from a content standpoint was aligning songs within the fixed time provided by the loop. It was not uncommon for a song to span programs creating a break in the piece and a mechanical thunking sound. Compact cassette allowed more graceful handling of differences in the length of its programs (though not as graceful a handling as the LP format).

On the other hand, Stereo8 had an excellent functional interface. Loading and playing a tape was simpler than the LP which preceded it and the cassettes which followed.
ARM Math Quirks on Raspberry Pi
Harsh and cynical comments in this thread.

I'm waiting to hear how much you've committed to give away once you've made your first million (never mind billion).
That is awesome. It would be great if you would use #! urls so I can share a video/playlist easily with others.
Great idea ..
But that doesn't explain why they need that. I'm more interested inthat.
Only by accident. It has terrible semantics for a target assembly.
apple can suck it
Gecko will have an awesome performance. I went to Telefónica offices in Madrid a few weeks ago. They showed us a prototype (ZTE phone) running one of the lastest builds of Firefox OS (not the nightly, though). We touched it and it had pretty good perfomance. It was somewhat snappy on scrolling items, but overall a similar performance that you get on a medium-cost Android phone.

Then we asked about that device. It was a crappy ZTE with 600 MHz CPU and with the poorest Qualcomm chipset. This blew out my mind: a non-optimised system was running with acceptable performance on the lowest of smartphones. I can't imagine how will this perform when it's fully optimised on a high-end smartphone. They're doing a great work.
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This looks a lot like http://www.tubalr.com/
> (50 USD is not low-end if minimum wage in Brazil is 322 USD /mth)

That's not true.

First of all, low-end refers to the range of the product. A 50-USD cell phone is low-end because there aren't many models that cost less than that (modulo subsidies etc) just like a U$15k new car is low-end, notwithstanding the fact that relatively few people can afford one in Brazil.

Besides, the bulk of households in Brazil earn more than the minimum wage. C class in the graph below corresponds to people in households earning around 2~4x minimum wage. While in developed countries these people would be definitely considered "poor", in Brazil they're basically "lower-middle class". And yes, many of them can afford low-end cell phones.

http://www.asiacomentada.com.br/2011/03/melhoria-da-distribu...
> They require CLA, so that they can put the code under MIT. It's legal silliness, but how is it at all bad?

Why would a CLA help with that? Since all existing code is already licensed under MIT, and for future code they can just refuse to merge anything not under MIT. The only use a CLA has is if anyone thought the MIT restrictions were too harsh, but I cannot see when that would be the case. You can do almost anything with MIT licensed code.
Its first item on my todo list, to save session so that it can be shared.
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Nice. I think your homepage could do with a screenshot, or a video or something.

I get into the demo but it's not obvious how this relates to mobile, specifically.

Also, am not sure about your pricing ... $50 / month feels like a lot for 100 responses.
Not an answer to the question I asked. You've conflated 'connector sturdiness' with function. A micro-usb plug could be made rugged. Thanks anyway.
Not that surprising. Apple's pretty much locked into 640px width. An increase there would enrage app devs and designers. And cause a heap of compatibility issues.
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Thanks for pointing it out. I haven't tested it out on multiple browsers yet.
Hm, yeah - my point is that FPS isn't as important as the longest frame. You can have 100 FPS when 99 of them are really fast while the last one is stuck for nearly a second :-) Or said otherwise - for a game measuring average over a second is already a too long time-frame. It's nice as a simple feedback number for users, but it's not sufficient for smooth gameplay.
Western Digital showcases its 2.5-inch 5mm hard drives during the IDF 2012
> What a sensationalist title. They dropped GPL, leaving MIT. This is a big win. MIT is significantly more free than GPL

Define your terms. "significantly more free" is a nonsense statement. At least the FSF has a strong definition of "free". I haven't seen anything nearly as compelling from any other Free software communities.

Given that jQuery was distributed under a dual MIT/GPL license this has basically no effect on anything anyway.
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Its more of a endless music player, with some recommendation system built out of related videos.
Terrific stuff.

I still think there is a use case for a static C like language (with explicit memory management) for some kernels.

The same way that WebGL has HLSL, it would be nice if there was a WebCPU API with C as the 'shader' language.

(Alternative is LLJS approach - but that has other issues).
Coming from a Blackberry Storm, my fiance tried an iPhone 4S and said "This is so complicated. Why is there only one button? What's it do?"

Ended up with a Droid Incredible 2. She loves it.
Shaving mm would be a good enough excuse. But they're not. Lightning and microusb are about the same size, a third as thick as the phone body. They could easily put in both ports but it wouldn't be Apple enough.
How is Qubes OS different from...
a few points that come to mind. 1. 10% pay raise could probably be negotiated in your current job so that shouldn't be a big factor. 2. is there a longer term upside to the new position? that should be a bigger deciding factor than initial pay bump 3. by leaving doesn't mean you can't return to the original place. I've made the jump a few times, and almost always ended up working again with people i left behind. I stil seem to have a open invitation to come back to some of the places. 4. i like that i've developed new friends in each place, and do best i can to keep the relationships i've developed over the years. Some good people to be found in every place!

in the end, you're taking a risk by leaving a good thing.. I have overstayed my welcome in one place once because of this reason as well :)
Good riddance, Amazon
Good riddance, Amazon

Amazon recently closed my seller account.I found out that I cannot even log on to my seller's account to reply email or respond to the A-to-Z claims on July 27, 2012. I am being robbed. Amazon completely shut me down. I’ve read numerous horror stories about what happens when AMAZON.COM blindly follow their draconian rules without applying common sense; When people ask me what exactly I have against AMAZON, I say the same thing every single time:
Amazon have all the power of a bank and yet none of the responsibility.

If AMAZON.COM want to hold your money, they can, and they will. A freeze on your account means you absolutely cannot get at your own money. Can a bank do this to you? No, they can’t. So why should AMAZON?

Most importantly, it means that I can finally leave Amazon behind. Sadly, I expect I’ll have to battle to withdraw the $11552.78 dollar or so that’s still sitting in my seller account
Amazon have been sued before for withholding sellers’ money and I’ll take them to court if I have to.

From my experience and that of others who’ve suffered the same, it’s clear that Amazon are interested in buyers, not sellers. Amazon hold money amounting to thousands — literally thousands and thousands and thousands — from sellers without any valid reason, when not even your bank is legally allowed do that? (I’ve expanded on this point in this comment.)
AMAZON, you are the scourge of the internet.
Have you made any actual power measurements using say powertop etc?

webOS can be left on for days and days IF you turn all the radios off, underclock, undervolt...

Given that most smartphones last for at most a day with actual usage (not sitting there in sleep mode), I would like to see more quantification as to what the usage pattern is that enables you to leave it for days and days.
I live in a small Pennsylvania borough with an operating budget of about $1 mil/year (this includes all services for the entire borough of 3-4 precincts).

Our police department is 8 full-time officers and 3 part-time officers with I believe 2 full-time admin/support staff in the office. We have 5 cruisers, 4 SUVs and at the last borough council meeting the council approved the purchase of a 6th brand new cruiser and a new fleet of AR-15 style rifles for the officers.

Because America.
How do ads work with these embedded videos? Also, aren't some videos from some companies unembeddable (such as VEVO)? Props on the execution. :)
Thanks a lot. Yes, we have a plan of pushing it locally first (because otherwise it was like we are trying to swallow a watermelon). We will hopefully start with it in October :-)
So you say what they just unlocked all the users of previous iPhones and iPods, because the connector is no longer the same.
It is not so much how Americans see their police. It is more a case of how America's local police forces see themselves. The militarization of local law enforcement is a long term trend which began in the 1970's. At the time it was portrayed in a popular TV drama, Los Angeles's Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team arose as a tool for a massive metropolitan area.

Today, even small towns have trained snipers.

The website is simply branding itself to potential recruits and marketing itself to those who fund it. A picture of an officer talking to an elderly lady isn't going to attract young adults nor support a training budget for automatic weapons marksmanship.
sweet! bookmarked this. i always waste time on youtube or wireshark adding songs etc this is nice because i can get a radio type of youtube with a baseline as my favorite song, thanks.
Don't forget the Nokia E7 and N8

Doesn't iPhone 4 looks like N78 ?
Google adding Python 3.x to GAE?  Seems that way.
they just closed comments on the feature request, so that's usually a very good sign of something soon to follow!

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=909
webOS also suffered from execution issues (as a company). They were forever rewriting things under the hood as a fair number of things were duct-taped together.

For example, they moved from a Java based solution to JS using v8 from webOS 1.x to 2.x.

Hopefully, Firefox OS will not suffer from the same issues. And I would certainly like to hear more about the under-the-hood architecture. It's pretty eye candy but things like power management quickly jump to the forefront when you actually try to use the device as a phone on a regular basis.

As far as the webOS performance issues go, it was less the hardware and more the fact that most of the software were not optimized and shipped with an ENORMOUS amount logging turned on. Put simply, Palm essentially did a "make debug_build" and shipped it.

Not trying to be harsh, just what I have observed from poking around webOS.
It's really kind of laughable that commonsensical, self-evident entrepreneurship, in the form of sustainable, organic development and focus on dependable profitability, is a "movement", as if it were something new, or that 37 Signals has managed to appoint itself the spiritual steward of this "innovation."

Fundamentals-based small business is how business has been done since the beginning of commerce. It's been around for thousands of years. It's rather telling about our world that advocating a return to that in the web economy brands one with a distinct ethos and allows one to earn speaking fees going around talking about it as if it were some radical gospel.
If you are making enough, and you are happy, then why did you look in the first place? Often times just the act of dipping your toes in the water will send you swimming.

Evaluate why you are even looking. If you are happy and the new thing is about pay, tell your current employer. Chances are they will fight to keep you.

People move around in jobs a lot. What makes it fun right now might change.
I'm confused by your statement about "the daunting prospect of dealing with Objective C, Java and C# simultaneously. This is a ludicrous prospect for a lone developer."

Perhaps that's true for a hobbyist. But any professional software developer should already be familiar with at least one (if not all) of those languages, and should be able to pick up the others with very little work.

Once you know C#, for instance, you'll quickly see that Java is essentially a subset of it these days. Sure, there are differences, but they're quite minor. The same goes for Objective-C, to some extent. The syntax is a bit different, but most of the concepts are similar enough. Even the most commonly-used libraries for each don't actually differ that much in practice.

In fact, many developers with experience in industry will have already had to use multiple languages at the same time throughout their careers. They'll already know how to work on several projects simultaneously, using several languages, and many more libraries.

In fact, I'd suspect that most of these professionals would feel very handicapped if they were forced to use JavaScript for all development. JavaScript has proven time and time again to not be a good language for anything but short scripts. Languages like C++, Java, C#, and Objective-C have core features that make large-scale, distributed software development possible. JavaScript lacks these, and anyone working on a large JavaScript code base will know the pains that arise.

It won't be good for Firefox OS if only the most inept developers are attracted to it. That's not the kind of ecosystem that produces useful applications.
You can use C# for all three with monotouch. But honestly it doesn't matter much. Objective C is very similar to C# which is very similar to Java. It is really just slightly different syntax.

And you can always just embed a webview and use html + js if you really want, though that is much harder to work with and less versatile imo.

That is the reason I am not cheering for firefox OS. Why on earth would I want to be limited by html and javascript. Show me a high end game that is written in html 5, or really even a mid tier one. This does not include webgl.
In case it wasn't clear, Greek=Fraternity
Interesting - Mine is preinstalled too, have you had a look around the App bundle to determine where the majority of the space lies? For me, ./Contents/Frameworks/ & ./Contents/Resources/ are equally about ~330 MB (about half of the total bundle size)
I seem to remember that there are many, many keyboard shortcuts unique to org mode.

I distinctly recall shortcuts unique to org mode for moving a subtree up and down relative to a list of subtrees all at the same nesting level -- an operation done by dragging with the mouse in many or most other outliners. I know the dragging interface is harder to implement, but I find it more ergonomic.
> At least the FSF has a strong definition of "free".

The FSF's own Free Software Definition includes the MIT license. The MIT license also provides additional freedoms not required by the FSD.
Looks nice. We'll probably use this.

What's your revenue model?
I agree that censorship is not the answer. I feel it would do more harm than good.

And I agree that one more cookie-cutter porn site won't make much difference (but it would be part of the problem). The problem is really the porn available in aggregate.

What can we do to fix this?

* Make people aware that this is a problem, and that if they find their sex+relationship lives are suffering that they don't have to continue watching porn. (I'm not convinced this would be an effective tactic --- look how many people still smoke. Then again, fewer people smoke now than a generation ago, at least in the West.)

* Well, this is a business site, can we make money by getting people to not watch toxic porn? Perhaps by getting them to watch non-toxic porn instead? There was a story posted here earlier this week about somebody trying to do that. (But can this ever be more than a niche in the porn market? And does the person behind that site know how to make non-toxic porn, or is it just a hunch?)

So no, I don't have any answers really.
Everything this person said is the truth.
Type coercion and asi are probably the least troublesome odd parts of js I encounter day to day.

I find the weird scoping rules around 'this' and the verbosity of anonymous functions far worse. [1]

(Sincerely and non-rhetorically) Do you really find the former more annoying than the latter? I see a lot of people using those examples to call out JS inappropriateness for development, but it seems like they're focusing on the wrong things to me.

[1] I know they can be fixed by using a language that compiles down to JS. So can the parent's criticisms.
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I'm scared to try it, but follow the idea here: http://blog.asmartbear.com/personal-checklist.html
Please. Knee-jerk reactions like this don't help anybody. I didn't mention censorship, let alone advocate it (and I think censoring porn would do more harm than good).
"Smartphones live and die by their app ecosystem"

Have you got a source on this? I am just curious. I love my smartphone, but I basically use whatsapp and the internetm, mp3, video, and fbreader 99.5% of the time.
First off, B2G started well over a year ago, when there were no signs of WebOS becoming open source (it was more likely that it would be sold). So what you're suggesting is that they either have waited or that they should have stopped working when Open WebOS was announced (even though it was just released a few weeks ago).

Secondly, the existence of 2 OSes that support the same apps is not a negative; it is an overwhelming positive. Just as having multiple browsers in Windows is positive. The SysApps working group was created to standardize the (currently incompatible) APIs that exist between Firefox OS, Tizen, Chrome OS, and others. http://www.w3.org/2012/05/sysapps-wg-charter.html
Thanks! Would love to do a video... my skills in that department are nil. Will have to learn.

Pricing is hard, really hard. I couldn't decide what to charge, so in the interest of shipping, I just went for 2x what I thought was reasonable. It will be one of the first things I a/b test.

Edit: Pricing updated!
Agreed, he should turn it into a newsletter.
The 'Try a Demo' question link doesn't seem to do anything on latest Chrome on OSX.
Iphone 5 not the thinnest smartphone in the world
"A lot of people won't admit this, but they feel the same way about therapy and mood-regulating medications that they do about doping in sports. They're indignant that "the weak" aren't dropping off as quick as they'd like, and that normal people have to compete harder as a result "

See for example mfceo's response on the Depression Lies thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510255

"Now there is one more pilled up dude out there that i will have to compete with. Although i do try to live my life the healthiest way i can afford and cut all other bs aside, i do find it sometimes difficult to compete agains all these people on meds as they don't have to deal with as much humane feelings anymore but can act out, in the worst case, their over the top happy personalities and don't feel like normal humans do"
What, side-by-side?