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This is why I'm so infatuated with the concept of the Chromebook.

A lot of the "techie" stuff like backups and restoring that Marco describes here is solved with a Chromebook. And it uses familiar user interface paradigms that people recognise from their experience using Windows (especially now that they added the windows management system that looks a lot like Windows 7), whereas the iPad has completely new paradigms that people transitioning from a computer will find strange and foreign.

Many people I've introduced to iPads and Android devices have ended up not really using them because they're much more familiar with the point and click windows-based desktop system of Windows than "apps".

Not that the Chromebook fixes everything. But Google has done a great job identifying some important problems with the way our technology works today and is trying to get rid of those problems or make them irrelevant by providing you with a device where you really don't have to worry about hooking it up to your PC to "sync", update the system OS version, figure out the settings for something techie and confusing, or use iTunes (my God, iTunes) to do anything.

Can you imagine what a Chromebook-iPad hybrid device could be like, with the automatic updating of Chrome, syncing system of Chrome, familiarity of Chrome, but the polished user experience and app ecosystem of an iPad?
I wasn't aware of Bret Victor before this post hit HN. I feel like I've found a hidden goldmine of interface design thinking. For example, his Magic Ink article about avoiding user interaction for information software is a contrarian gem:
http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/
As a user, that's roughly the timespan during which eBay went from the marketplace to being more or less irrelevant. When Craigslist beats you based on user interface, you know you have issues.
And Jack Thompson and his supports consider violent video games malicious because they say they are the trigger of school shootings and other killings. Should we start calling GTA "malware"?

I'm sorry, but there's more to the definition of malware than "someone considers it malicious".
> If manufacturers are releasing product with substantially different contents than the label, then they are guilty of defrauding their customers. This is a crime which should be expensive for the guilty company.

I think it should result in prison terms for the principles, but massive fines and punitive damages are a start, at least.

> But giving the FDA control over what supplements are allowed in the market is a travesty waiting to happen.

How? What can be worse than pills being sold with the wrong things in them, with unknown trash in them, and pills being made in conditions that would get a McDonald's shut down? It's like going back to the pre-FDA era of snake oil.

> The FDA works dramatically slower than decentralized market action, and works under incentives favoring control over free choice.

Free choice only works if everyone knows what's on offer. That means people would somehow have to know what manufacturers are trustworthy. We've seen from the evidence at hand, both in this century, the previous one, and the ones prior to that, that this does not work in reality. It is utopian. It is a fantasy.

You cannot expect people to out-FDA the FDA. Theory must give way to evidence, and we have evidence in this matter.
A mobile accessible interface is a big deal for many.
A simple SSH / SFTP / etc connection for file management will suffice, rather than having some proprietary client model restricted to a couple of operating systems.

Just my $0.02
The Butterfly Bug
IOS Maps meeting covered by the West Wing
How old was the webcam?
What the heck is a svbtle brand? A silicon valley corruption of subtle?
This is incredible. I can only wonder in awe if something like this was implemented in online courses provided by say Udacity or Coursera. That would be a revolution in online education.
Interesting article...mostly because it is written, throughout, with the assumption that it would be wonderful if the FDA could prevent people from selling harmless food items. This is masked, but consider these quotes:

"the FDA can’t do anything about a harmful supplement until after it has been on the market and caused harm" and "...legislators [...] pounce, doing their best to kill or water down any legislation that strengthens the FDA’s hand in removing potentially dangerous supplements."

In other words, the FDA needs to do something about dangerous supplements before it has caused any harm. But not just actually dangerous supplements, but potentially dangerous supplements too. Well, anything new is potentially dangerous. How would you prove something isn't actually dangerous? A clinic trial, one supposes, at a cost of hundreds millions of dollars? This would effectively outlaw the sale dietary supplements, none of which are profitable enough to make such a trial worthwhile.

So, the author wants to shift dietary supplements from "food" to "drugs", thereby destroying the industry. But why? What's so bad about the status quo, anyhow? The author gives a few examples, but almost without exception they are issues which are already solved. That scary story about the NJ factory? Yeah, that's actually ALREADY ILLEGAL. The owners WENT TO JAIL. After being discovered by FDA inspectors, who ALREADY have the power to inspect factories.

So, uh...we have an example of something admittedly bad, which is already a crime, and which is already being monitored by the relevant government department, and the owners already went to jail over it, and this is a reason why we need a law change...why?

Next example, same deal. An incorrectly made product poisoned hundreds of people. If that's a reason to effectively destroy the industry, then god only knows what we should do poultry farmers after the various salmonella outbreaks over the years. Shoot them, I guess?

And finally, to cap the entire piece...the author complains about the FDA not doing a good job of enforcing existing regulations. Which is...an argument for giving them more regulations to enforce. Uh....what?

It's like a politician running for election with the slogan "hey, our team may have completely screwed up the economy, but that just means we know more about to fix it!" Where I come from, serious failure on someone's part is not a good argument for increasing their role and responsibilities.
Heres the problem with marketing: Say, I am a really big software company and release an app for my biggest video hosting platform anyone knows: "youtube". Everyone knows the exact name of the application, goes to the store, enters "youtube". And guess whats first? Not "Youtube", but "Video Downloader Super Lite".

What use is good marketing if it is so hard to find things by _exact name_ on the store where you market it for? That basically means that any competitor can beat you by just including terms for your product in his description. The card interface makes this even worse, because with the old interface, "Youtube" would at least be on the front page, but now it is not.
Hi,

I Hardware is not something which you can just decide to learn one thing after another. It is an intuitive and hands-on session requiring Labs in most case.

I can try to tell you how you can do it, but you need a lot more than a computer and just few components.

Also when you mean hardware, it covers a lot of subjects. So I think you want to understand difference between Hardware and Electronics (no, its not same)

I will start with Electronics. You need to start with electronics more or less in the following sequence
1. Basics of Electronics - Fundamentals like Voltage, Current, Power, Frequency
2. Electronics Components - Active and Passive components
3. Analog and Digital electronics
4. Electronic Circuit Analysis & Design - Transistors, MOSFET's etc)
5. Analog Circuits
6. Digital Design and Logic Circuits
7. Motors - Now this is tricky, as there are so many types of motors. But if you are interested only in digital, focud on DC , Servo and Stepper motors
8. Sensors - Types, working, usage etc
9. Microprocessors and Microcontroller
10. Computer Architecture and Organization

I can go on, but I think it will be a few years for you to get to these.

The above mentioned track will get you started in Digital Electronics, for analog electronics you need to dive deeper into Power Electronics, AC Machines, etc.

I have also left out signal processing and communication topics. Digital Signal Communication is something you might want to get familiarize with for wireless technology like ZigBee, Bluetooth, WiFi etc

With Digital circuits, you may or may not need a lab environment, but for any AC related stuff, Lab is a must. Do not even try it at home without guidance.

For skills you need to acquire:
1. Component Identification
2. Breadboarding
3. Electronic tools and devices - Wire cutting tools, stripping, soldering iron, de-soldering, heat gun, hotplate soldering.
4. Electronic Measurement devices - Oscilloscope, Multimeter, Logic Analyzer etc.
5. ELECTRICAL SAFETY TECHNIQUES. - A bad code won't kill you, but a bad circuit can
Because you or I or someone like us tells them they should for a new feature. Or they're fastidious. Or they feel like they'll screw something up if they don't. Or they do so in hopes of improving a poor experience. Or they pay attention to and trust their vendor's marketing. Or they take it in for service and its done for them. But for the most part it really doesn't mean anything to the common customer.
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Self is certainly one.
http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/programming-...

But why do you think liveness requires visual programming? I see them as pretty much orthogonal.

Separately, when I see "visual programming language" I see "unusual programming language". When language features become normal (like 2D syntax in Python/haskell), then we stop calling them visual. A great deal of visual features are just alternative ways of structuring text, ways of constraining syntax, or ways of constructing high dimensional (and therefore non-visual) graphs. To a large extent, all programming languages are visual.
The first link you cite gives what I might call a complete picture:

>Higher habitual coffee consumption was associated with higher insulin sensitivity (1) and a lower risk for type 2 diabetes (2–6) in diverse populations. In contrast, short-term metabolic studies showed that caffeine intake can acutely lower insulin sensitivity (7–9) and increase glucose concentrations (10–15). Randomized intervention studies are needed to examine whether tolerance to these acute effects develops after longer-term consumption (16). We therefore examined the effects of coffee and caffeine on fasting blood concentrations of glucose and insulin over 2–4 weeks in two crossover studies in healthy volunteers.

So caffeine causes a problem, but something in coffee, possibly not caffeine itself ( http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/84/4/682.short ), has a long-term protective effect. Weight control doesn't seem to explain everything: coffee has a protective effect even when consumption is associated with higher BMI ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673602... ). In the latter study: "Higher coffee consumption was associated with male sex, a low educational level, a higher body-mass index, cigarette smoking, alcohol use, less leisure time physical activity, and a generally less favourable diet" -- these are not things I would expect to be good for diabetes prevention! Yet the coffee consumers got less diabetes.

Chlorogenic acid, rather than caffeine, seems a likely culprit. Other antioxidants in coffee may play a role.
> Can you sue AirBnB if your property is destroyed?

https://www.airbnb.com/guarantee
Disrupt Battlefield Finalist Zumper Reveals It Raised $1M Seed Round
You mean passengerless cars. I will still a ride in a safety cage, thank you.
Essay: "The Thermonuclear Apocalypse and the Protocols of Freedom"
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As learned in CLRS ... when you're stuck, randomize. That turned out to be a great solution in way more problems than I had anticipated.
You can trademark standard music notation for a music service?
Also see http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2012/09/iphone-5-dis... that shows the boost in saturation even more clearly.

Though, I'm not sure if it's such a good thing (might be a little too saturated for all I know, but probably isn't).

(via daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/25/iphone-5-vs-4s-display)
JB actually kicks ass. It's faster/smoother and has outstanding voice recognition. There's a number of small upgrades as well.
50 Years of the Jetsons: Why The Show Still Matters
There's no evidence to prove that they're working on their own Linux powered gaming console and even if they were, it's still a Linux powered console at the end of the day and people will find a way to reverse engineer anything Linux based that Valve put out. So I would argue regardless of whether or not they develop a Linux console, that would still be a massive benefit to the Linux community.

If Valve a company that EA tried acquiring at a valuation of something in the vicinity of one billion dollars sometime ago isn't a major player, then you must have very high standards. Valve have produced so many cult classics and well-known titles that even years after being created are still played, modded and purchased — Counter Strike and Half Life anyone?
There are boats listed on airbnb. I've rented one.
Android and the Galaxy Nexus (sold direct by Google) is the obvious counterexample to this claim.
Agreed. E-Mail is still my favorite tool for communicating and I don't see this ever changing. Long live email.
There are only a finite number of people in the world. So even if all of them knew how to program, a task requiring 10 billion programmers would have a supply shortage. Therefore, the statement "there cannot be a shortage of programmers" is false. Therefore, the market for programmers cannot be a free market.

BTW, I still agree with you that it's "pretty free." And I definitely agree with you that it's generally possible to find qualified programmers. I've never tried to hire and not found at least one qualified candidate that wanted to do the job, mainly by being honest about how our offer stacks up against the others. If we can't pay enough to hire an expert, we hire a potential expert that would take the wage and train them. The lower the wage, the longer we are going to have to train them.

But there's still a difference between "a pretty darn free market" and "the living avatar of the ideal free market," which is what it sounded like you were trying to assert. :)
What I'd like to see is this exact analysis done to the S III, even just to have some no bullshit data when the 'my phone is better than your phone' comes up again.
Surely "Pyrite"?
Tracking growth: the iTunes app store vs Google Play
If you like blooms filters, you may like many variations of it, and some of its applications:

A Garden Variety of Bloom Filters[1]

[1] http://matthias.vallentin.net/blog/2011/06/a-garden-variety-...
Amazon seems to have two different Kindle editions of this, with different prices:

1. For $19.54 you get this: http://www.amazon.com/The-Signal-Noise-Predictions-ebook/dp/... (The Penguin Press)

2. And for $13.79, you get this: http://www.amazon.com/The-Signal-Noise-Prediction-ebook/dp/B... (Allen Lane)

I have no idea if there is any difference in the editions besides the price. Page numbers differs but that means nothing

EDIT: grammar.
Unproven health claims are not only confined to dietary supplements. Dannon (Danone) has a track record of trying to sneak cure-all yogurt claims into their marketeering: http://www.weightymatters.ca/2009/10/european-union-doesnt-b...
A lot of stubborn poorly run corporate giants cannot move on from IE 6 or 7 because of massive internal red-tape and costs! ( testing, upgrading windows and admin access to pc's for staff, so on ) To be fair Microsoft have ended support for IE7 and are aware its full of security holes. Microsoft recommend you keep up with the world of technology.
Very interesting! Any recommendations out there for how to avoid nitrates in one's food?
Hurray! This is my year of Linux on the desktop.
I think you're very off in your analysis.

I have never used craigslist nor other classifieds sites, and neither have any of my family members, nor my work mates, nor the friends I meet on a weekly basis.

Yet me, my brother, a colleague and two friends have booked nights on airbnb. The growth will end when all of my colleagues, and all of my family and all of my friend use it, and they'll know about it because every time they ask me "so where did you sleep" I'll answer "found this cheap place on AirBnB".
That's just Wordpress. It is just doing a closest match on the slug.
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I didn't expect that, I am almost surprised! Though, I was more after using Rust or Go for general purpose GPU computing via OpenCL for example. There seems to be some form of project for binding, but I certainly would not put my money on some random person doing the bindings. Very experimental and unreliable stuff.
Agreed with your post whole-heartedly.

However, I do wish HN had a more robust and effective method of forming relationships. That's where profiles and messages to users, etc. come in brilliantly.

If I don't hit HN at least 5x a day I feel depressed. It's an amazing place and reminds me in a weird of way of IRC back in the day.

Long live HN and hopefully we can make more relationships, collaborate and build cool shit.

The biggest problem I have, as a developer, engineer, entrepreneur is simply the LACK of quality talent. Here in Los Angeles, 90% of people are clueless and live in oblivion (and live on FB and Instagram), the tech scene is non-existent. You have a small group of "silicon beach" characters, who are more interested in just saying they're entrepreneurs in the tech business because it "sounds cool" while lacking any skill. I'd say here we have <1% of actual true developers, engineers, hackers; people passionate about technology and building companies.

I can't even begin to describe how many dinners, meetings and calls I have on a weekly basis with people pitching me "social startups", some kind of "diners club startup" or a "subscription model clothing company." It just makes me sick (and sad at the same time).

Relationships with people genuinely talented and passionate about technology - that's what I'm after with this concept.
The 700 friends who aren't really friends. So true.
I arrived in Melbourne, Australia not to long ago and at the time was carrying around a Nokia Lumia 800. Being new to the city, I was heavily dependent on Bing Maps and it let me down in so so many ways.

In particular, the complete lack of public transit data (which I used heavily) and poor turn-by-turn where big factors in driving me to get an Android device with Google Maps.
This is a fairly large and very long play. Right now, two years after launching, OS X accounts for 4.36% of Steam users [1]. In another two years time I can't imagine Linux users accounting for even 1/1000th of that.

Valve doesn't make business decisions out of kindness. They make them when it makes fiscal sense. Preparing Steam for Linux is a huge endeavor costing millions of dollars in salaries and an even larger opportunity cost.

This isn't just to make a few extra bucks from a handful of current Linux users. And don't be mistaken, the only extra money they'd see is from current Linux users who refuse to buy non-Linux games. If by some chance this converts large swaths of Windows users to Linux they wouldn't be new customers, just the same customers on a different platform.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
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I try to stay out of these "learn to code" conversations due to being crucified for believing that it takes years to become a programmer who can create anything of value or significant complexity.

I've helped TA for CS classes and aided new CS students in college. The intro classes start with Python, second level classes move on to Java and OOP.

Students really struggle and bust their behinds to pass these classes and become good coders.

When websites try to sell an equivalent education in a matter of weeks, I always have trouble believing them.

On the other hand, I've had some good experiences with LCTHW by Zed Shaw (I used it for refreshing myself in C and regex). But I think it was helpful mostly because I already had the coding mindset.

I'd like to see a "Learn to code" website really focus on "warping" the average mind into a coder's mind. Attention to detail, thinking holistically, and iterative problem solving should be the teaching goals for any resource that wants to teach beginning coding.
No thank you, I want the OMAP to be more successful than anything AMD have done to date.
I tried to use my parents' cordless home phone the other day, and felt like the tables were turned. I couldn't even figure out how to hang up.
You're exactly right of course. It's amazing how many people have bought into the myth that prior restraint leads to better overall outcomes.
This is hardly the thread for this concerned comment. The OP itself is dragging discourse down the level of petty sarcasm.
Thanks, maybe I will play with it for a while before I decide whether or not to do the upgrade.
Prusty comes closes to "Prusti" which is the bulgarian word for "fingers", and "prust" meaning "finger", but also "soil"
Is there any falsifiable evidence in this article? All I read was a big advertisement for a recuiter named Jon Marcus, with a bunch of assertions about how companies could recruit better if they only lowered their standards. Of course you can increase your yield if you accept lower quality. That's as true in manufacturing as it is in human resources.

"He’s interviewed Ivy Leaguers and dropouts; and as a result, he has helped shape countless “A teams” and every other kind of team, then watched those teams suceed or fail."

Really? I've never seen a recruiter follow up with any candidate whatsoever, and I've interviewed hundreds of candidates from the employer side. So I have serious doubts about his ability to shape or understand how a candidate can affect an organization. The feedback loop just doesn't exist - companies don't provide outside entities (recruiters) feedback about their hired employees. The legal risk alone is too high.

Case in point:
"[Y]ou don’t need the whole staff to be engineering geniuses. You need a couple really bright people who know what they’re doing, and then, just don’t turn down people who can do the job."

really, I only need a couple of people who know what they're doing? What exactly are the rest of the engineers doing? They don't know what they're doing, but can follow instructions from those who do? I'd rather just not hire those people to begin with. According to Jon Marcus then, I'm part of the problem. Except, he has a real financial incentive to place marginal people, since he gets 20-25% of the first year salary. What do you think that does to his opinion of hirability?
Apple is a company that doesn't make very many acquisitions. I think that the team at Chomp pretty much took over the App Store or at least have a very big say.

All the changes are worse for indie developers.

The changes also favor raw app download count. This means that free or freemium apps rank higher. This isn't good for quality apps which are paid purchases but have fewer downloads compared to a mediocre quality but free app.

I want things back the way they were or at the very least, give apps with high star ratings with x amount of ratings a bigger influence in search results.

Hopefully Apple will see the app download statistics and see that that they are top heavy. The long tail is gone which hurts the ecosystem. Then they will question what went wrong and make some positive adjustments. That's what I'm hoping.