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indeed the 'showers' separate handle beside the toilet, or the cheaper seat based options are very popular among Muslims in general as using water for cleaning after bathroom is seen as a religious requirement.

ex from amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=muslim+shower&...
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Ask HN: What do you look for in a tech partner?
I have an iPhone app I developed with an independent contractor. The contractor has since moved on and I really need to look for a partner to help me move forward. I only know enough about programming to get by here and there. What are some of the things I should look for in a business partner focused on the app development?
I’m curious to know: what problems do you perceive with templates that make you loath to use them?
I believe this is directly related to phone data usage overages as well. Having used an iPhone 4 on ATT for 2 years, I could almost guess my data usage perfectly each month.

By the 2nd day of using my new Verizon iP5, I was receiving warning texts from Verizon that I was about to exceed my data limits.

Thinking it was me, I increased my plan. That only stopped the bleeding for another few days.

Oh, and I installed the "fix" that was sent out to supposedly repair the known issue. (I was always on Wi-Fi networks but still being charged for data.)

I recently called Verizon to dispute the data. They quickly erased all of my data overages. Snap, like that. The man I spoke with called a technician on my behalf.

The people who can erase overages do not officially have this issue in their database as something to be aware of. But the technician he spoke with said there was absolutely a problem, and both Verizon and Apple knew about it and were working on it.

Then, I was given a "diamond ticket" to absolve me of any future overages until a fix is found.
Neither types nor tests, will solve your data coverage problem
I have the cheaper, no-electricity model ($35 on Amazon) pictured in the article:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001KKRCFA

It gets the job done just fine — I’ve never felt the need for heated water or a blow drier. The head is spring-loaded and retracts when water pressure isn’t being applied. Happy to answer questions if, er, anyone’s curious.

Interestingly enough, they offered to ship me a second one if I wrote a review, any review, on Amazon (I did). I’m guessing they’re trying to raise awareness of these things.
As cool as this is, if you have an iPad check out Star Walk. It's really really cool, and if you hold your iPad up to the sky it'd show you what the sky would look like if there isn't any pollutions.
Hand dryers are very efficient! They don't seem to do anything for the first ~20 seconds, but in the last 5 seconds you feel all the water evaporating. That's because only the water surface evaporates, until your skin is exposed dry. You are probably like most people who I see use them in public bathroom, using them only for <10 seconds.
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People in science and commerce know data issues and have been dealing with the practice, analysis and theory for years.

O'Reilly's just pimpin' the term "Big Data" to sell books. They did the same with "Web 2.0", Java and the initial internet boom.
"And it’s inevitable that online courses will in one way or another replace schools."

The thing is that education is mostly about motivation, not curriculum. The real world is incredibly engaging, and I don't see the web displacing it anytime soon.

Shameless plug: I believe in this so hard, I started a brick-and-mortar school for programmers. http://catalystclass.com
Hey "brah"

There are indeed industries that are more ripe for disruption than others.

Count the amount of years it's been since there was true innovation in an industry. If it's over 10, it's ripe. If it's less than 10, it's not.

In other words, if the barrier to entry is extremely high due to constant innovation, it will be very difficult to disrupt, hence not "ripe" for disruption.

Additionally, you need to consider the capital investment required to enter a market.

Starting a car company: incredibly expensive, thus, the auto industry is not ripe for disruption.

Starting a higher ed tech company: small competitive landscape, potentially cheap entry into the market. Ripe for disruption.

P.S. Not sure if you noticed, but your hat's crooked.
Oh man, being number 13 makes me really want to get another 300 points to be in the top 10... This is pretty cool, I want some more!
Unqualified statements of "X is unfair" are quite popular with unions in the northeast, to protest the hiring of any non-union labor. I guess one can't accuse them of libel or slander for accusations of "unfairness."
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Richer people all have 3g iphones and ipads. ;-)
Why reward you if you're trying hard but doing terrible work?

You should be rewarding good service.
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It's somewhat reminiscent of RosettaCode or Project Euler, too.
No, they definitely don't replace toilet paper. But they can make it so you don't have to use nearly as much.
>These toilets, known as “washlets”, have many amazing features - the most notable of which is they render toilet paper obsolete.

Uh, no they don't. And if the author is using them that way, that's fucking gross. If they rendered toilet paper obsolete then Japanese bathrooms wouldn't have toilet paper, or Japanese wouldn't use it anyway, but neither statement is true. The 'feature' of Japanese toilets is that your asshole will be clean, regardless of how dire the shit you just took is. And believe me, it's a wonderful thing, but it doesn't render the paper obsolete.

Pardon the pun, but this author is talking out of his ass.
Also, there is a video of it being early pre-release demoed at the Unite 2012 conference: http://unity3d.com/unite/archive/2012
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Hobbes: a small file watcher utility for OSX written in Haskell
Although not an ideal solution, I just use Airdroid when on OSX.

http://airdroid.com/
A lot of big, established tech corporations don't give their employees equity. If you can offer pay and benefits equivalent to ${BIG CORP} I would expect you to do alright.
> Starting a car company: incredibly expensive, thus, the auto industry is not ripe for disruption.

You can't simply label something "not ripe for disruption" just because it's expensive to do so. Why would an opportunity have to be cheap in order to be "ripe"?
"off-screen sounds" as they're called in entertainment, meaning sounds that have no visual cue to explain their existence, ignite a fleet startle response from ear to brain. The science behind the funny and the awkwardness of farting or belching. When expressed loudly, might not even be that far from the roar of a large carnivore.
Same here, but I doubt we'll ever be able to do that without some serious genetic enhacements to the point where we might not be recognizable as humans, or an even better solution, transferring our minds to machines, and then being able to live thousands of years or more and make it more possible for us to travel there.

But it seems a lot more likely that we'll just send some strong AI robots to send us back the data until then.

EDIT: I suggest checking out Space Engine. It seems to cover more than one galaxy and being able to change the viewing/moving speed feels like being in a Star Trek starship. Going through space like that feels a bit unsettling:

http://en.spaceengine.org
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> Linus's role has changed dramatically.

Not really... Not from what I already perceived it.

> I don't see him suggesting anything

Um, I am not suggesting that he is?

What are you trying to get at here? Do you think I am lying when I say I felt deceived? I don't doubt you when you say you didn't feel deceived.. both are legitimate experiences.
Gamification quite rightfully takes a lot of flak. Earning meaningless shiny coins in order to compete for some position in the leaderboards makes the process feel somewhat shallow, even silly. Successful games don't have this problem.

However, I don't believe that the emotional rewards of playing a well-crafted game that was at least tangentially based on some otherwise boring real-world activity are meaningless.

Some people might say that the folks who made DragonBox have essentially 'gamified' the learning of basic algebra - but I'd say they did a pretty solid job. I don't get the sense of conceptual shallowness from it that is usually present in such games.

Some things can be turned into games with an almost 1:1 map between game mechanics and the equivalent real world activity. Some games (like one I'm currently making, which involves somewhat more advanced mathematics) wouldn't work with such a map, but instead benefit from a more oblique approach. Consider how games like Sid Meier's Civilizations or Age of Empires teach history, or how the codex entries and galaxy map in Mass Effect might at least open some people's minds to concepts in frontier physics or planetary science, respectively. This is still quite unexplored territory.

I believe similar things can be achieved for more precise and even advanced concepts, although by imparting a more refined understanding to the player. The key is to carefully choose small sections of a subject that are amenable to being mapped obliquely (not 1:1) to game mechanics, while being careful to make the 'game' part feel 100% genuine.

The term 'gamification,' however, seems to imply that you can take a boring/repetitive/unpleasant thing in the real world, throw a half-decent game designer at it and some programmers, and you end up with a game that turns all aspects of that activity into something that not only produces the same real-world benefit, but is also fun. I don't think this is possible in general - only in very specific cases.

The point is that the information cost of turning something into a game is not zero, and is measured by the degree of simplification and loss of rigour or real-world value. As long as the gamifiers are willing to make subjective calculations like these, I'm all for it, but not if they claim that the gamified thing is functionally equivalent to the real thing.
Really cool idea! Love the header background-image ;).
I think some HTC phones can do that; I don't think it was very popular, though.

It should be possible to do without rooting your phone; I think Koush was discussing a similar proposition (tethering a phone to a tablet) using Android's support for usermode VPN applications.

I've no use case for it, though, so you're on your own there :-) It would also not be quite so "plug it in and it works" to set up, since you'd at least manually need to set up NAT.
As far as I know, the applications are scored as they are seen, the scores are averaged, and the top n% are invited. So you shouldn't read into the number of views you get.
The only definition of big data I've thought was remotely insightful is "too large to process with one machine."

Note (as the example in the Wired article indicates) that the converse isn't true: just because you are using multiple machines to process data doesn't mean it's big.
Why would Starbucks buy Blue Bottle?

SBUX is already a luxury brand. Just because their coffee is not particularly good compared to Blue Bottle's, don't forget that SBUX is still charging $3-$4 for a typical cup.

SBUX can't scale Blue Bottle across their distribution channel, which is enormous. So anything they did to introduce the Blue Bottle brand would dilute their own brand.

Meanwhile, a cup of coffee at Blue Bottle might not even be perceptibly more expensive than a cup at SBUX.

Finally, Blue Bottle has minimal brand penetration across the US. You know about them if you live in Williamsburg in NYC, but lots of people in our Manhattan office had never been to Blue Bottle last time I was in town. They're obviously nowhere in Chicago. Are they even in Los Angeles? They're not in Seattle, or Austin, or Atlanta, or Mpls.

An SBUX acquisition of Blue Bottle seems like a mostly-downside, lose-lose proposition.

(I'm only arguing because it's an interesting question, not because I'm sure I'm right).

(Interestingly, Intelligentsia in Chicago has higher revenues and apparently higher year-over-year growth than Blue Bottle, the same number of locations, and no external funding. Maybe SBUX will buy them! Intelligentsia also ran Clover machines before Starbucks' ill-fated takeover).

(Finally: Ritual, in the Mission, is really good; I think better than Blue Bottle.)
Use -g3 instead of -g to get macro expansion support.

GCC 4.8 adds an -Og to have debugging compatible optimizations activated as a trade-off between debugability and runtime performance.

And do yourself a favour and use a front end for gdb. It's much easier to keep an overview. Emacs' gdb support is really great. If you like a GUI then try KDbg (not to be confused with kgdb) or Nemiver. For terminals there are curses base frontends such as gdb -tui and cgdb.
Some of the behavior of the site varies based on whether or not you're on a touch device - we're keenly aware of there being different usability concerns between desktop and mobile devices. But your point is well-taken. If there are specific areas where we're preserving a particular desktop-esque or mobile-esque paradigm at the expense of UX, it's probably something we need to address.
Well, most important at this stage isn't just the CTR by itself; it's more along the lines of "What were the keywords that actually triggered my ad, and of those keywords, what percentage actually clicked my ad?" My guess is you're wildly off the mark in terms of your keyword selection/filter4545454545454545454545454545454545454545454545454545454545
1 (cat attack!).

Adwords expands broad match keywords to the point of unprofitability IME. You have to find out what people are actually searching for that trigger your ad.
Strong cut-to-the-chase possibilities: increasing customer turnover (important for retail hospitality businesses), minimizing overhead.
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"Is part of the problem that his max bid per click too high?"

That's not my guess. My thinking is that he's using broad match keywords and they are getting auto-expanded by google into search terms that he doesn't realize he's bidding on.

Let's say, for example, that you bid $5 per click on "condos new york" as a broad match. Google might show your ad for "apartments manhattan" because they are, in Google's algorithm, "close enough". That will lead to two things:

1) A super low CTR (of course people who are searching for apartments in Manhattan aren't clicking ads for New York Condos)

2) The yahoos that do actually click the ad are just more of the "Hmmm... let me tire kick" variety.
In practice these behave exactly like a taxi service. I don't think it matters much who owns the cars. No one would argue that a cab company from, say, LA, should be able to just bring a portion of its fleet to SF and start picking up passengers without complying with the laws that govern taxis here. If these start-ups affect the market in essentially the same way, we and they all know they are trying to enter a market with rules in a way that does not abide by them
Is there anything that suggests that it is not real?
Right, but not on $50 worth of hardware. I guess what I'm picturing is companies like Google selling super cheap keyboard+screen combos along with a "cloud" plan, where you get access to so many terabytes of memory and so many cores 24/7 with perhaps leeway to use more cores as desired (but you pay for what you get).
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Hearing mixed messages about this.

Does IE10 allow itself to software update?

If we could just have a proper implementation of that, it might mean avoiding a rerun of IE6 lingering for several years?
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Those are hardly 'facts' as much as they are anecdata. From the working class families I grew up in and around, I could assert with just as much first hand data how baseless your assertions are.
We are in process of continuous education reform since at least 1917. Latest rumored stage is aggregation of universities to make artificially big ratings. Everybody understand that this is stupid but Putin is unstoppable megalomaniac.
That's a good thing for today's hackers and activists to review. It shows the long-term agenda of the government in wanting to have ubiquitous surveillance powers. And it shows you can win some of these battles.

Can you imagine a web without SSL? Today people openly call for all sites to do https all the time, but in the 90s, a web server (or even a web browser) that could do https in a non-broken fashion was officially a dangerous munition. To do this basic thing you had to cobble some open source software together, kind of like how people do it with ffmpeg and implementations of closed-source codecs today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_U...
You know, sometimes there just needs to be a match to light the fire. Supposedly (but indeterminately) Clark Gable wearing no undershirt drove undershirt sales down 75%[0]

I reckon an episode Modern Family or Community where this type of toilet/bidet is a positive driver of the comedy would bring in a lot of sales for bidets.

[0] http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/gable1.asp
It show a popup in a new windows? im using chrome and it look normal
In that case, I must not really exist.
It's extremely rare that a security loses all of its value in a short period of time. In the last twenty years I can think of only a few occasions where it's happened that quickly, and it's almost always front-page news.

Options, on the other hand, are constantly declining to zero value. It's how they work. If you end up out of the money at the end of the day, you bust out on that bet.
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The article says that bidet attachments are 100 dollars on Amazon. I have good news everyone! Amazon has dropped those prices to 30 dollars! I bought one!
Beautiful, this is John Galt speaking...
One thing I would keep in mind is the terminology you used "business partner". It can be quite easy for a programmer (I'm one too and have been guilty of this) to get focused on the product and code without focusing on the business. You don't want to have to regularly steer a programmer into considering the business implications of decisions, it is best if they already have that mindset.

You didn't mention what skills you have and what you do bring to the table. So it is difficult to make recommendations on coders.

Top of the list also has to be somebody who ships. You'll maybe want to focus on those who have shipped without being prodded/paid. Do they participate in open source projects, or have they launched a project of their own? This shows that they'll take th initiative as a business partner.
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This is an excellent example of circular reasoning, as I see it.

"More mannered people are more mannered because they do not do things I consider ill-mannered."

A fart is a fart. Go to southeast Asia, it's still just a fart that people laugh at. Go to Europe and fart and now leave a bad impressions due to culture? I see which is the optimal setup for practicality and sanity.
How the hell are you going to shoot the dog quietly?
Yeah, there's no doubt it sucks but so can working for smaller organisations. It's all about the people your working with. The bigger the company, the more deadwood you likely have to work with.
Agreed.

I'm a web designer by trade, and I almost always start on paper. Often, after starting on paper and moving to Photoshop, I come back to paper to iterate on the design before going back to Photoshop again.

I find it the quickest and easiest way to get my ideas out. I also find it a good way to weed out the bad ideas before developing them too far.

Sketching for ideation was drilled into me at Uni (Industrial Design, I think we had a class dedicated to it actually) so I assume that plays a part, but I work with and am close friends with a number of other designers of varying academic history, and their creative processes vary wildly.

You're definitely not "doing it wrong" if you don't start on paper, but it's probably worth giving it a shot as it's a reasonably low overhead to integrate into your process.
I think what it comes down to is that the show was crafted for Bravo's target audience which is not anyone that reads Hacker News. The general silliness of it is a by product of inputting the start-up Silicon Valley theme into there show generator it outputs a flaky drama. The flaky drama core of the show is what makes it a Bravo show. All there other shows have that same core. I changed the channel after 5 minutes.

What would a better start-up show look like?
I live in Japan and Sony has a showroom in Tokyo where they showcase all their products in a single building. There is always some products I have never seen when I go there. Not sure I can call them innovative, though... a few years ago they had this egg-like music player that rolled on itself when playing music. Utterly useless and I have no idea how this kind of thing even made it to market. I am guessing there is some truth when this article mentions the power of engineers when I see such things come to life.

But let's not forget that Sony's marketing is equally terrible. Even when they have OK products they have no clear idea on how to sell them and how to differentiate versus competition. In Japan they still benefit from the complete absence of korean competitors (LG and Samsung are nowhere to be seen and that's hardly free market at work here) so I guess they can keep selling their overpriced TVs and Vaios for a while, but they are certainly taking a beating in other markets.

Yeah, I have not seen anything fantastic from Sony for a very, very long time. Net: we do not need Sony anymore. And if the information about the PS4 flowing around is correct. their next console will be as powerful as middle-range PC when it comes out in 2013(probably). Nothing to show off.
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In California most toilets are newer- water shortages compelled upgrades.
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We'll see. I do agree we're entering on a phase where people want to curate the over-information they're exposed to. I don't know if this will be the way to go, though. It's just a matter of time.
Help me here. With the plethora of similar ill-gotten gains being posted to pastebin, why is it still alive -- and more importantly -- why is there an Adobe ad on their home page?
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Yeah, exactly. That's called Brand Dilution. Or Brand Flushing, in this particular case.
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