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Ask HN: YC startups in competition?
What are the chances that yc to accept a startup which is in competition with a startup already accepted in a previous yc cycle? I mean, this could be a black ball, isnt'it?
That problem seems like Step 2, where Step 1 is getting to the point where that's a problem.
They have mentioned only youtube on home page. If they do not have integration with vimeo, I won't call it good because Vimeo is being used lot more for commercial purposes. May be for their easier terms and conditions. .........That's where analysis will be more required. Youtube and Dailymotion already have good analyitics information. http://syncfin.com/youtube-vimeo-dailymotion/
I am just not smart enough to understand the argument you're making here.
My mistake! It is probably 3.5G.
From the front it looks like an F-35. From the side, an F-22. A very interesting design...
Are you happy with your product?
I think if I was still using a Galaxy Nexus, I wouldn't feel a pressing need to upgrade but I'm not so sure about the Nexus S.

What version of Android do you have running on your device and if it is the latest (Jelly Bean), how is the performance ?
Why stop buying laptops with webcams when applying a $0,01 piece of tape over it is all that is required if you're worried about it?
Maybe it's part of Google's master plan to get people off 2 year contracts on to prepaid accounts.
Did you come to my Hacker News meetup last month? Chris Lewicki from Planetary Resources spoke, which was pretty awesome.
The perfect phone for me would probably have a 480x800 screen using the regular S3's 306ppi glass.
Don't forget that Elon Musk was born in South Africa and became an American citizen. You would definitely have to move to the US and plan to stay, but Musk won't hate immigrants.
The Nexus 4 is too big, doesn't have LTE and the headphone jack is on the top (it seems like a minor nuisance, but being able to slide your phone into you pocket while listening to music is actually much easier with the headphone connected to the bottom of the device). Go with the iPhone 5.
"It is pretty much the same as using goto to structure your programs."

I don't see how a self contained block of code can be equated to goto where the flow can bounce around all over the place.

The example callback "hell" code doesn't look any more complicated than the solution Elm code to me. Maybe the improvement is going over my head and I need to read it again. I just don't see it. Then again, I feel the same way about Coffeescript. These javascript helper languages just seem like an unnecessary added level of complication and cognitive load.
I'm still on the original grandfathered unlimited iPhone data plan from AT&T. I've upgraded the phone a couple of times (3G -> 4 -> 4S) with no issues but looking into an Android device next.

Does anyone have any experience with switching to a non iPhone? Any issues from AT&T and do they let you keep the legacy plan?
I'm in the same camp. I caved and got a 4.3" Sony phone -- the smallest one I could find that still did 720p --, because it was fairly affordable. Sure, I like the increased space on the screen, but it feels very clumsy compared to my previous 3.7" device. And I've had it long enough now that it's not getting much better through experience. My focus on a high screen resolution may have been misguided.
Is this really practical for the average front end developer. Appart from the dev tool upgrades (which are awesome, I'll admit) I only forsee spending extra time fixing features that may exist in canary, but aren't supported by other browsers. Rendering differences between different versions of chrome and general browser degradation problems.
While I agree the state can provide financing it is the private sector that is going to innovate. When you look at the astonishing transportation and exploration break-throughs of humanity it was mostly the private individual (Columbus, Howard Hughs, Lockheed) with the exception of space. Why is that so? Risk. Astronauts from NASA have been saying for years that the cost to launch increased so much because of the aversion of risk.

That is now changing. Space is becoming an endeavor of the private sector and its even on pace of becoming profitable (see Planetary Resources). While NASA has definitely proven humanity can still explore I believe it will be the private sector that will truly set the pace for human break-throughs.
Some people will be unhappy because it doesn't have LTE, or a removable battery or a micro-SD expansion slot. However, there are probably other phones which do have the right mix of features and form factor. That's the nice thing about Android, consumers have a lot of choice.
Yeah, that's what articles say but I don't know enough of the science behind it, but eh, whatever. As I mention elsewhere I don't get high-speed anything where I live so I don't actually have to care. ;)
See elsewhere on this discussion where I debunked your theory.
"open-source lets companies do more, not less."

My argument isn't about what a company can do with open source (it's clearly more, for less). My argument is that as a result, they will need less developers and the developers they do need can be paid less.

"This sounds like the "pirating software costs us TRILLIONS" false argument."

Piracy nearly put my last company out of business. Say what you want about it, but I saw the direct effects. When I stopped the cracks on the torrent sites (which was a cat/mouse game), my sales jumped up as much as 30%.

The direct result of piracy is Software-as-a-service. Now you get to pay a monthly fee for software you normally would have only paid once.
I am a big fan of adding digit separators where ever possible. I'm tired of staring at ls listings of terabyte filesystems and trying to figure out what order of magnitude the numbers are. And yes, I know about ls -lh.

I would like to see a universal format agreed on by everyone, so that numbers with separators (call them punctuated numbers) output by one program could be used as input for another, as is often done in Unix pipelines.

The languages that I know of that have punctuated numbers all use underscores. However, having thought about it a lot, I don't think this is a good choice. First, the underscore is often used, as in C, as an additional character in identifiers, but the semantics are different. An underscore in an identifier is significant, in a number it is not:

1_234_567 == 1234567, but

my_long_identifier != mylongidentifier

Also, the underscore is too "big". In a fixed width font, this is irrelevant, but in a variable width font, I think it makes numbers look ugly. The separator should be narrow. In some locales, the apostrophe is used:

1'234'567

I like the thinner character. I have at least one calculator that uses this convention in the display. Alas, this is probably unworkable in computers, since the apostrophe is used commonly for quoting. One option that might work is the back quote:

1`234`567

The back quote isn't used as much as the apostrophe, but it still might cause problems. On US keyboards, it's conveniently located right next to the 1.

Finally, I'd like to see both period and comma accepted as the decimal separator

1`234`567.89 == 1`234`567,89

but there are some obvious problems with that.

My bottom line is that, before C++, or any other language, adds underscores as thousands separators because that's what everyone else did, we should think more deeply about what's needed in a universal format for punctuated numbers.
Lockitron Teams Up with Pebble and IFTTT
What is a DNSBL and why every email marketer wannabe should care about it?
If that's literally making you insane, I'd say you have worse problems..

BTW, Many carriers offer 2 sim's with the same number.
Possible this is what gave way so Google would have complete software control. Remember that carriers get paid on preloads; and it's clear Google doesn't have the same sway Apple does.
Not sure it's even your mistake. AT&T and probably others have been pushing the idea that HSDPA+ is "4G" for a while. My iPhone 4S, which doesn't do LTE, shows a little "4G" indicator.
Apple isn't even going after the "enterprise" market. The Mac works very well in a Windows server based network, with Exchange. So in other words, it's perfectly fine having Server 2012 (or 2008) with Exchange, SQL Server, Sharepoint (and all the rest), with PC's and Mac as clients.

And frankly, I don't think MS is even going after the PC anymore. It already owns it. It wants what it doesn't own: mobile. IOS and Android are kings in mobile. MS isn't even on the field.

That's what Windows 8 is all about. It's about leveraging Windows 8 (on the PC) into users buying Windows based phones and tablets.

And that leveraging is a big risk. and I don't know. I mean, it's clear to me Metro is not aimed at enterprise. Time will tell if it's a good bet or not. I hope so. Cause if not MS will become irrelevant - sort of like what CA or Novell are right now.
That may have been true for it's original goals, but as a UNIX developer who's primary language is Perl, I can assure you that the modern day implementation (read Perl 5.8+) is anything but pseudo-English.
Does anybody else find it strange that in a glowing review of this phone, the reviewer included nothing about actually, you know, making phone calls?
> Mainly because I don't agree with the premise that ideas are worthless - something that is echoed around all the time.

I don't know the genesis of this, but the first time I heard it was in an interview with John Doerr a number of years ago. And from a VC's perspective, that makes sense. They don't want to invest in an idea; they want to invest in something that has traction.

From a startup's perspective, though, ideas definitely have value. Startups just need to be cognizant of the tightrope between guarding the idea and getting early feedback and buzz.

Edit: I should add that I've had to sign NDA's that I thought were ridiculous, so the blog post isn't without merit. I just get tired of the ideas are worthless meme because I think it's over-applied.
I apologise if I'm misinterpreting but did you just insinuate that I'm holding back racist comments?
Currently running Android 4.2 - my UK network supplier is pretty good about piping updates to the phone.

The early 4.1 kept eating the battery but 4.2 is OK as long as I switch of wifi when out and about.
Interesting post. Also would like to add a quote.........

"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it." --Mahatma Gandhi

I was so impressed with it that I added it in 1 of the 4 top picked quotes on Slider at homepage of http://syncfin.com
Those people probably don't understand how much of a disadvantage minorities face even in this day and age.

I used to be against affirmative action until I realized how many more opportunities were offered to me simply because of my culture and the expectations of my culture for me.
Video game company 38 Studios leaves the RI on the hook for $100 million
The posted link is behind a paywall. Try: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044374920457805...
I friggin hate Twilio, and I kick myself for ever getting suckered into using it. I'm down to a single account and a single line in, but I need to port it off, and Google doesn't care to port Twilio numbers off to GV. If Twilio could do something other than drop calls to PSTN (I mean here, make a fuggin VoIP call), I'd be singing a totally different song, but it's a one-trick pony.
Here's a video that explains how and why we handle robots.txt that way: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/robots-txt-remove-url/
Not at all sure that 4G/LTE is fit for purpose yet (UK anyway) - but maybe within the lifetime of the phone (2 years?)
Hello,

So I have a slightly different take on this. (Disclaimer: I'm the community manager for 2600hz).

I've always thought Twilio was trying to get acquired (their deals with AT&T and Microsoft seemed to imply a conversation was happening in this regard at the very least) but for a valuation north of $1B. My personal feeling is that you can't get a $1B valuation without Mobile and Twilio doesn't really do mobile in the same way 2600hz doesn't really do mobile (at least not yet).

The walled Garden that is Carrier-land prevents native dialing (dialing through the handset dialer instead of a native app/web app/plugin). Becoming an MVNO is super risky, but I was really encouraged by Twilio's announcement with AT&T and even more so by Voxeo's announcement with Deutsche.

This is a big world and the clear winner of the voice API war will be crowned in the mid 20-teen's not now. If your argument is that Twilio will burn out before their acquired, my reply is: Maybe. That's the risk they took, and it's similar to the risk Square took (see this leaked chart: http://i.imgur.com/b1Sm9.png).

I admire Twilio because they're the best developer evangelism team I've ever seen. Yes they spend a ton on marketing and they might be the Groupon of Voice APIs, but the fact is that they're doing it, and if they get acquired all of the Voice API companies will benefit from their success.

In short, Twilio doing well actually benefits Voxeo and so I don't understand the worst girlfriend analogy. I'm by no means in love with Twilio, but you have to admire them for what they do: they're hands-down the best evangelists for any platform out there. Their developer engagement is nothing short of awesome.

Cheers,

Joshua
In many cases, you don't need to assemble any pieces. There are entire open source apps out there that are 99% of what you need. You just need to make a few changes here and there.
I agree, and would add that it's also important to be able to comfortably hold a device in one hand for extended periods.

Interesting article you linked to. Add a comprehensive range of productivity applications and improved voice recognition, and we could also replace laptops as well (at least for most use cases, and with a docking station perhaps for all use cases). I can't wait!
Or people are different enough that there's a market for pretty much any size.
That helps only if remote workers are able to motivate themselves sufficiently without supervision. Some people fail to work remotely because without the boss to keep them in line they fail to motivate themselves.
The S3 mini is more S1/S2 than S3 though. May as well get one of those.
agree with you on this, the article was awful, seemed like the author could conclude based on survey results less than a month from the release of the new operating system whether companies would switch to it, well guess what I work at a large bank where hundreds of thousands of computers still use windows xp and it just works, saying they will upgrade next to alternative OS is just ridiculous, yes some mainstream non corporate users might look at something like Mac OS but to say that the change is windows 8's cardinal sin is rubbish, also comparing it to netflix's pricing debacle, I don't see how that is same as microsoft releasing new version of windows.Is the author suggesting that Microsoft should have just upgraded windows 7 and kept the ui alike ? the same author I bet would have gone on to write another article with the same title outlining how not changing has given users the choice to switch.. seems like Microsoft can never win !
Amusingly the GS3 Mini has exactly the same screen specs as the original Galaxy S did. I'm wondering if they still had a warehouse full of these they needed to ship...
Entangle Schrödinger's cat to up its quantum weirdness
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this what the browser cache is for?
They indicate doing a search. If I say do a search for [flowers] then someone should type the actual word flowers into Google. We use the brackets to make it clear what the literal text of a search query is.
I am of the opposite opinion, I have had the Note one for almost a year and idk if i can downgrade in size! If it was not for that and a little the lack of expandable storage, i would be all over this phone. Looks truly amazing.
Linqaday
Isn't anyone else bothered that it only has 16GB space?
I use around 13GB for music (Spotify) and 2GB for photos.

I don't see why they couldn't make a 32GB version.
Honestly, yes. :3 I remember drawing habitations as a kid. But morally I feel this would have to be a two-way street: Mars cannot be a prison for either the first settlers or the native generations.
I am very excited about the new Nexus, and because of this I want to take additional care and try not to be too much biased: my opinion is that not having LTE cannot be considered a feature; I still don't care, as I live outside the USA and LTE is absurdly expensive here, but LTE is still a technology that offers better speeds.

I understand the reasons for the choice, and I endorse them completely, but there's not pride in ignoring your own shortcomings, while pointing them out on others. Simply put, the Nexus 4 is an exceptional phone for HSPA+ networks, and considering the price, it is even more so. People complaining about missing LTE can just pick another phone that meets their specifications.

Photospheres, as well, are nothing revolutionary, they've been doing them for years on WPs and iPhones using photosynth. Nevertheless they are neat, and I enjoy a lot the fact that I can now use them, share them, contribute to street view, etc.
"Yeah you Android fanbois are jealous about that sweet AirPower technology, huh?"
"Android has had it for two years now!"
"Yeah... you're jealous."
Shouldn't your phrase it as invention instead of patents?
Which network is that? I'm stuck on 2.2 on my (cheap) year-old phone.
If this can run my GPS app NDrive nicely (you can't use Google Navigation when you're in the middle of the Brazilian jungle or wherever) I think you've found the current winner.

Though CNet review sounded gloomy, as if it were "here's what would have been a really nice phone in 2008" but if that's what I have to give up for a small phone that can run a few important apps I'm happy.

Looks like it's already available but maybe it's just not worth the price for what you get and I should get a bigger purse, and get really good at holding a phone with one hand while pointing with the other. http://www.mobilekiwi.co.nz/android/item/1694-samsung-galaxy...

He quotes from another source: ""Apple has proven quite conclusively that tens of millions of people are happy to have a device they can wrap their hands around. It doesn't mean they don't want powerful processors or high megapixel cameras."
Why is it easier to slide the phone into your pocket upside down than it is right side up? I've had phones with both styles, and I didn't notice a difference once I adjusted to the change.

I actually prefer the headphone jack on the top, because it's easier to use that way when the phone is plugged in.

As for size, once you get used to a larger screen everything else seems too small.
For what it's worth, Apple just flipped the location of the jack and I adapted quickly after n years of habit - I'm sure you could too!
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The GPLv3 is why. The current C compiler in FreeBSD is GCC 4.2, which is what, seven years old? They can't use a more modern one because they're all licensed GPLv3 which is incompatible with FreeBSD's base system. Clang has a more liberal license. As I recall, this is also why Apple switched to Clang (though there were many side benefits for Xcode).
Simply: Buoyancy is the result of a difference in weight when one less dense material displaces another.

What is the displacement of the aerographite samples? The article doesn't say, but the samples are small enough that I'd guess the forces of moving air (breathing near the sample) is more problematic than forces of buoyancy.
"Mashable does not condone altering images to sensationalize news stories."

Which is why in opposite world they don't start every article with a giant picture they found somewhere on Flickr that is usually barely related, like this one.

"If you already own and are comfortable using Photoshop, you have no use for Snapheal, which is in no way a replacement for professional editing software."

An odd way to end an article that claims it is exactly that.

It's hard to take Mashable seriously.
The author has little to no idea how many trade secret cases are brought each year in the U.S., and the conviction rate stemming from thos cases. The staggering number is simply too overwhelming to simply write such an igonrant article.

The fact is that ideas are stolen at a rate more common than anyone's guess. Most companies have a NDA/non-compete agreement for a reason. While the know-hows might not be readily apparent, reverse engineering is not far from outcry. While a good idea requires flawless execution to make a successful business, the majority of the population fails to understand that the idea, or the conception, is all that is needed to take that freedom of operation from you...just ask any patent attorney.
Remember remember, the fifth of November...
The nice thing about T-mobile is that they will actually give you a monthly discount if you don't take a subsidy. So you can just pass on the weak subsidy, and save ~$10/mo with the no contract plan.
Ha ha ... Too good as an example.
I also agree that it better be safe than sorry.
"Men wanted for a hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success."

More than 5000 applications followed. Not everybody is made for adventure though.
I would recommend that they move from a one-time-payment model to a monthly-recurring-revenue model. Its a small market, $169 isn't that much money but is a barrier to entry, and $9 a month is more likely to get people using it.
"Dee Cubed"
Sittercity vs Care.com: Websites' rivalry provides lesson about sharing strategy