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Ask HN: I'm going to SF, what should I visit/do?
Hi everyone,

I'm a web developer (frontend & backend) from Argentina, and I am planning a trip to San Francisco, Silicon Valley and New York. I have 17 years, I was saving you and waiting a long time to realize this dream.

I would like you to recommend me things to do/visit in San Francisco/Silicon Valley. I'll be about 10 days in SF and 5 in NY.

My english is so-so I need to practice (speaking) more. I write better than I speak :P.

Thank you in advance for your comments/suggestions/tips!
Can you point to a 5x markup on our site? Not a challenge, just a question because we try to stay at least remotely competitive to other online pricing. I'd be shocked to find product for 1/5 the price somewhere.
I'm a big Tesla fan, but I disagree. The only way electric cars can possibly make sense is if the batteries are swappable. The electric cars being built now are evolutionary dead ends, IMHO.
Considering Elon Musk is both CEO of Tesla and Chairman of Solar City, maybe he has.
I am continually amused at how much emphasis people like you put on spec lists. Most people in the world don't care about specs. They care about the actual experience of using the device.
I really hated getting these calls. They're insidious! It's even more disturbing to note that there is something called "Cardholder Services" on your credit card bill as a number to call.
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At first we thought they would be worthless too but they aren't. If you are diligent and specific on who you try and connect to, then you get quality followers as a result. We have gotten sales signups and made several business connections through this campaign.
No, it makes entirely different arguments.
I prefer tactile response as well, however I'd guess that good voice activated controls will be introduced soon enough.
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I like this idea too, I feel there are a lot of typical tasks that most web applications all need to do. Nice work!
I think they've done the right thing; you need a way to balance supply and demand. This is just one way.

You can still hail a cab the old way, right?
So your local politicians raise their right hand and swear to uphold Wikipedia? I can see some room for abuse there.
PHP is such crap, how does anyone still code in this?
As far as cheap, sensationalist headlines designed by trolls to grab traffic, this one isn't even very good.

The five reasons given are all pretty flimsy.

Do you seriously think that's it for Apple, that the iPad was their swan song?

This is like declaring Pixar "peaked" after Toy Story 2.
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Nope. They stopped selling them in August 2011 when their supply of Lotus Elise gliders ran out.
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It seems the confusion comes from this part of the article:

> "Google started providing real-time analytics to page managers last September."

This makes it sound like Google has real-time facebook page analytics tools, but that isn't the case. Google started providing real-time analytics for websites using its analytics platform. Not Facebook analytics.
Well if you have signups then I stand corrected, apologies for assuming you didn't.
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> Maybe it will really beat the keyboard for writing in Chinese or Japanese

It seems very unlikely, at least with Japanese. In my experience, a typical Japanese native speaker (who is accustomed to the computer) can enter text with a keyboard an order of magnitude faster than they can write it. The difference becomes a bit less stark with tiny keyboards on phones or whatever, but even there, most people these days are a bit shaky when it comes to writing complicated kanji anyway... ><

Writing has other benefits of course, e.g. that you can easily enter a character which that you don't know the pronunciation of (which is why it's commonly supported for dictionaries), so it's a useful feature to have even if it's not the primary input method.
Maybe this will help fix the battery issues. My iphone 5 battery life is horrid, even with LTE disabled and all mail data being set to fetch instead of pull. Is there some known issue about this? I can't be the only one.
> The challenge is that we...

I think that this sentence echoes with the OP's last statement. That is, many people absolutely cannot distinguish, but the "we" you mention doesn't describe accurately, well, we. Otherwise, why are we wasting our time with Dart and ClojureScript?

> understand when we're picking things for pragmatic

I don't know you personally (to my great sadness), but I'm willing to bet that we do. :-)
The idea is more to be an IFTTT/Zapier for developers but without limited inputs and outputs by Graphical User Interface.

With the expressiviy of an all language as Javascript and a console interface to explore API and check easilty data response, developers may not be limited when combining APIs and make exactly what they wanted to do.

But Webscript.io is nice too, some similarities but not the same usefulness, not the same paradigm and not the same language : Javascript ;)
Emphasis can be a powerful thing. If you see an array of amazing things (as I'm sure Jobs & Co did at PARC), and then you select a key item to emphasize and popularize, then you have, in fact, contributed value. One could say that this was Steve Jobs' first act of 'technology curation' - an act which has (successfully) been commoditized and monetized via the App Store.
Sure beats the atavistic system -
General Fixes:

• Fixes a bug that prevents iPhone 5 from installing software updates wirelessly over the air

• Fixes a bug where horizontal lines may be displayed across the keyboard

• Fixes an issue that could cause camera flash to not go off
• Improves reliability of iPhone 5 and iPod touch (5th generation) when connected to encrypted WPA2 Wi-Fi networks

• Resolves an issue that prevents iPhone from using the cellular network in some instances

• Consolidated the Use Cellular Data switch for iTunes Match

• Fixes a Passcode Lock bug which sometimes allowed access to Passbook pass details from lock screen

• Fixes a bug affecting Exchange meetings

Security Issues Fixed:

• Maliciously crafted or compromised iOS applications may be able to determine addresses in the kernel

• A person with physical access to the device may be able to access Passbook passes without entering a passcode

• Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
OpenBSD finally got multi-core threading for userspace programs, huh? Welcome to 2003[0]. (And people say BSD is still alive.)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_POSIX_Thread_Library
The battery on Model S IS swappable, in fact quick-swappable, at least per Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/18/idUS24518959652011...)
Tesla's strategy for retail is designed by George Blankenship, who created Apple's retail strategy. As a result, you should expect a similar approach: Stores built out near major population centers first until you have 80-90% of the country within a 100-50 mile range of a Tesla location.
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Our stack is a fairly typical “big data” system: beneath a powerful interface (jQuery, D3, Backbone) we have a data faucet and processing pipeline that does a ton of writes (Cassandra, Hadoop, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Python, C/C++), a backend that does a ton of reads (Python).

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Thanks!
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What's one thing that pisses you off about a product you use everyday?
ugh. i have noscript on, so didn't notice. considering this is an article about visualizations, I agree with your point.
In a disaster situation if there is no elasticity between price and supply then price gouging laws (social or legal) make a lot of sense. For example, if there's a fixed amount of water around regardless of price people shouldn't be able to raise prices.

But in this case there IS elasticity between price and supply, right? Uber is claiming that they'll deliver better service by increasing prices, because supply will increase proportionally. Thus, a functioning economy.

AND Uber is waiving 100% of their fees! Price gouging? Really?

(Side note: NYC would have more capacity for handing this emergency had they not given an artificial monopoly to cab companies over the last century, vis-a-vis medallions. I realize we can't change the past. Let's just be aware of it so we can learn how to improve.)
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We launched in August and were seeded behind a vision of making it easier for busy people to make responsible choices. Highlights below:

* Customer Problem: We want to buy (and not run out of) sustainable products, but busy people take the path of least resistance on their household consumables

* Customer Value Proposition: 5 min registration = A) never run out of TP, B) never overpay, C) always get products good for people & the earth

* Customer Archetype: ~35 y/o female, kids, busy; “green,” but SUV; Whole Foods, but 365 (private label); iPhone, but not techy; Gilt often, but Gucci rarely

* What We Do: “Dollar Shave Club” for name-brand, “green” household consumables ($24+bn TAM), with an emphasis on flexibility and customer service

* Competition: Selling a niche product better than Amazon has a surprising track record. e.g. Alice, Dollar Shave Club, Manpacks, Quidsi, Zappos

* Our Challenge: Create the most convenient platform in the world for a set of household products with unique purchasing patterns (not a shopping cart site…)

* Full Time Team: Stu (Biz/PM): Advisor & raised >$2m @ 4 start-ups, >$100m invested in tech, employee #2 twice; Jordan (Mktg): Goodby, Doritos, TD Ameritrade

* Seeders : The entrepreneurs behind companies like Hotwire, CitySearch, Friendster, Cater2.me, Everfi, Vincraft, Augusta Columbia, and Toro IP

* Stage: Funded. Compulsively user testing prototypes. Conversations with suppliers on track. Alpha customers by November 15

* Founding Engineer: A fully empowered co-founder with strong opinions, understanding of lean & MVP tradeoffs, full stack ownership, and a long term vision

* What You Get: Competitive cash, generous equity, full benefits, flexible/fun environment, passionate team, leave the world better than you found it

I would love to grab a coffee/beer and brainstorm about the challenges and opportunities ahead.
I'm having a similar problem - but only when LTE is enabled... and I have spotty LTE coverage. When I'm in "the city" - LTE coverage is great and I get amazing battery life. As soon as my phone starts switching between 4G and LTE... my battery drains super-fast.
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One of your requirements is "Not an a-hole". seriously ? what does that even mean ?
Considering both Sergey Brin and Larry Page are investors in Tesla, I would think that's a distinct possibility.
... if prices don't go up, what's the incentive for gasoline delivery companies to make the extra effort to bring resources to a disaster-torn city?
Wow, I hate that top navigation bar following me everywhere. I'm trying to read your article not navigate your site! If I want to change pages, I know where to go, back to the top.
Are you at all concerned about possible aggressive future ToS changes? Seems like this project provides a way for people to enjoy one of the benefits of these social network services without paying the "price" of creating an account full of juicy demographic data that contributes to their advertising value proposition.

I love the idea though. I'd love for there to be a way to enjoy the ease of sharing that social network services provide without the horrible privacy problems. And I'm convinced that email has been the solution all along. Social networking websites wouldn't even exist if the email UI paradigm had evolved with user needs instead of stagnating around subject lines, rich text and so on. One day Google+ and GMail will be the same thing, I swear.
The blades of the turbine, shaped like the helical strands of a DNA molecule, turn as the underwater current passes through them.

Has anyone proposed using these instead of hydroelectric dams? How much will it affect wildlife? Can fish swim among the turbines?

Edit: video shows these are arranged like lawnmower blades, so the fish would probably be chewed up. I wonder, if they were turned sideways, so the water flowed through the center -- would they turn at all?
Woah, woah, you're saying edit and continue, which everyone's flipping out about in Light Table, isn't that much of an improvement?

I think the problem is more that most people don't know it exists and it's almost impossible to get Edit and Continue working properly in Visual Studio. I think I've only ever managed once for console programs, but then it completely breaks debugging for ASP.net.

There's a load of things I wish worked properly in Visual Studio that don't that I know would make a massive difference in my productivity. It's almost impossible to drop into .Net library code, load external symbols, etc. When you get a gnarly problem where it's due to some 'helpful' utterly insane choice that the ASP.Net framework guys made the time I would save just dropping into the code from the IDE is massive, rather than popping open ILSpy, figuring out the flow and trying to figure out the path the program is taking.

My workflow is code, read through the code, test the code, fix the code, test the code, fix the code. Annoyingly during testing I can't edit the damn code to fix the simple mistakes I've missed. Edit and continue would be great if it actually worked.
Tesla is still a niche luxury car, and I still think they will not remain in business in their current form. Several top-name brands are hot on their heels which will put a lot of pressure in their customer acquisition prospects.

As for the Automobile endorsement, I don't like how they are misleading consumers with their data. The test vs. M5 was designed to take account Tesla's sweet spot of performance, "...drag race to 100 mph with a 560-hp BMW M5". At 0-60 M5 will beat Tesla, and Telsa hits the top speed 130 mph and M5 is limited at 155. So it's really around 100-120 mph where Tesla has the edge. This doesn't even include racing them on a track to include handling aspect of a car. I would have preferred the article stating something like:

in one aspect, Tesla is even faster than the BMW M5, the drag race to 100 mph.

In general I'm seeing a downtrend among publications when it comes to educating consumers, especially educating them on how to think about data. This will have a long-term consequence on how consumers can be duped by faulty advertising, especially with political ads.
Odd. I just launched it on my device under iOS 6.0.1 and it ran just fine.

(Using an iPhone 5, maybe that's why?)
If the world moves to touch computing, what's going to happen to PC gaming? Traditionally, PC gaming has been popular because PCs get used for many other things besides gaming. If most people switch to touch devices for their primary computers, will there still be enough people building gaming rigs for developers to care about that market? I'm sure the big console manufacturers would love nothing more than to move everyone over to consoles, but this would signal the downfall of indie games, certain kinds of first-person shooters, real-time strategy games, simulators, and many other genres. I would be devastated to see this happen.
Very much so.

Similar story - last year, Olympia WA had a large snowstorm, upwards of 3-4' in 12-24 hours (which would be bad enough in most places, let alone a city without the infrastructure), and a state of emergency was declared (I'm a firefighter - had to go in and ended up working for several days straight).

My girlfriend is a nanny for two attorneys who work for the state. Their offices were closed due to the storm, and to quote the recorded message, "due to the extremely hazardous road conditions, we are closing so employees do not have to attempt the drive to work, and indeed we urge them to stay off the road".

My girlfriend's employers? "So, we'll be working from home - we were told it was too dangerous to go in due to the state of emergency, so we'll need you to be here (a 5 mile drive through mostly non-thoroughfare streets) an hour earlier to keep the (two) kids out of our hair."

Talk about a cognitive disconnect.

It's amazing the attitude even people who would swear blind, and believe, that they don't, have towards those they see as "the help".
>Can you elaborate? Does he want to remove the anti-"gouging" laws?

Quite the opposite, he's a somewhat populist moderate Republican. He plans to prosecute people guilty of increasing their prices more than 10% during the crisis to full extent of the law.
good advice, and congrats on 500 startups! one small mistake: in the last paragraph, "excepted" should be "accepted".
I assume it means that anyone caught price gouging during this emergency can't count on the law to look the other way.

There will probably be a ton of political pressure and publicity ('bad publicity' from the perspective of a business caught gouging) in an effort to make an example of those retailers that attempt to take advantage.
Whoa - whoa. None of those things!

It falls in the same bucket as russianbrides.com. I just don't think there's a reasonable explanation for browsing such a thing at work.

I can pass off HN as keeping tabs on current software and industry trends.
I actually didn't know that. Interesting, will read some more.
The war will be for enforcement and fining:

http://nj.gov/governor/news/news/552012/approved/20121027c.h...
As a supporter of price gouging laws, the idea isn't that there should be no cars. No one expects UberCar to look at the situation, say "We're losing $X million per day. Oh well." and keep sending cars out on the street. The plan for price gouging laws is for Uber to say "We're losing $X million per day and our Hurricane insurance will pay out $Y million. This will leave us $Z million ahead." The problem is that, for Uber, Y = 0.

Under the price gouging model, every company would be charging extra on a daily basis outside of emergencies to either buy insurance or build a safety fund to use during disasters. Instead of gouging some guy $100 after a hurricane, Uber is expected to gouge everyone 25¢ year round. This slows the economy during the good times, but keeps things running smoothly in the bad.

Whether or not this is a good model is freely debately, but that's how it was intended to work.
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Hey I think it's a great idea. I'm a developer evangelist at TokBox and I love playing around with APIs so I think I'll be using this tool quite often. Personally, I think you can create alot more value by opening up a platform so that API companies can write their own interactions into WebShell. This way it's more scalable and we'll be able to do cool mashups with other APIs.
Unless you're willing to concede that programming is something that takes zero skill, art, or craft, the argument is idiotic. A pop culture is something anyone can be part of. There is no barrier to entry like there is with programming. No loss, no reward. Why not just concede that programming is something that's never existed before, which can have it's own idiums and rules? Trying to shoe horn it into the pop-culture mold is as bad as calling it a trade.
Could you expand on what your bad contracting experience was? And did you end up funding this project with contracting income over the last (almost) 2 years?

Congrats on keeping it going!
Thank you! Here's the correct link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/08/east-london-20-hott...
There are 2 factors that would keep you from switching styles: inertia, and symmetry. The benefit from keeping the code looking good usually outweighs the gratification of "going on your own". And frankly if you 're changing coding style in your contribution you look like a prick. The OP's point is valid: it's not popularity that leads to standardization it's because of the initial standardization that it is later adopted.

Case in point: i don't know any major project that does not follow the style conventions of the framework it's built upon.
Nice idea. Simple and and well executed.

Remind me of the "life poster" that everyone was doing not too long ago. I had to buy a mac software to make one for one of my friend.
You risk confusing and annoying other people who read your code if you do follow convention also. I hate camelCase just as much in languages where it is customary as I do any other time. It is just a question of how many people you expect to annoy, which is precisely choosing it by popularity.
iPhone 5 here too. The app started to work after crashing many times in a row. Just weird.
Is this a failure of capitalism

No, not at all. All of the gas is in the hands of people who bought it. The supple constraints are not problems of incentives, they are problems of physics. Roads are down, plant is not working, traffic, security, etc.

The reason anti-gouging laws exist is because jacking up prices has no benefit. It just keeps the poor people from having access to resources. 10 gallons of gas to a rich guy is not making the country or the economy better off, than if the gas is given to a poor/normal person, the day after a hurricane/earthquake, etc.

The Feds are going to be on the Hook for $6-7B to fix NY and that's going to be paid by everyone in the country. Most people aren't going to benefit from that, except for the local people in NYC. But we do that as a country to make sure all of the right incentives are in place over the long run, not just opportunistically in the short run.
On second thought, that's wrong. I have one that fits. Programming is a knighthood. Think about it.
Nginx now overtakes the default Apache 1 as the new httpd on OpenBSD. In the process of integrating it, OpenBSD already gave back patches for more security (like chroot support). I am very excited about that decision.
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