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For some reason new emails aren't shown in the Notification center, nor any other indicator of a new email (iOS6).

Emails are shown cut off (if too wide, like this PhpFog announcement that they are killing off that brand in favor of AppFog)

Multiple account support (finally!) without a unified inbox?

And finally, I miss (Android style) swiping left-right to see other emails.
It looks like you don't make money by reselling access, you just get extra data for yourself to use.
After swiping right for hours, I have found that this is sadly only available in the US.

What I really liked about Sparrow was the "hold to mark as read/unread", tap title to see all emails in convo, swipe up/down for next/prev, and the unified inbox. If it has all those, I would consider it.
I agree that the vast majority of PHP code is terrible and that the language itself is full of annoying flaws but take a look at Symfony 2 if you care to. It's a well architectured framework which uses best practices borrowed from other languages/frameworks and ends up as something coherent, well designed, reliable and a pleasure to work with.
I'm sorry this is only for women and their guests. The Boston software scene needs more gatherings like this in general. I see meetups and talks in other cities all the time, and very few in Boston.
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Right, which is why they should only allow non-professional/low-volume sellers to make this restriction, that way new users can still buy from pro sellers to get some reputation, or people selling in odd-ball domains where such a restriction overly harm the seller.

If you sell, say, more than 500 items a year, you turn into a professional seller and you can't be as restrictive, but you are doing enough business for the occasional scammer to not make a large impact.

Of course, I think eBay is harmed relatively little by scammers like the one in the OP; so I can see why they haven't done much to prevent it at risk of loosing real business.
Fingerprint-proof flexible plastic could soon replace Gorilla Glass
I don't know, but either way it's much snappier.
Twemproxy, a Redis/memcached proxy from Twitter with auto-sharding
How do you get to the 2.0 version? I'm not finding it via searching the app store. (I do however, find dozens of various gmail related crapware.)

Edit: tried the link above and still get the same error (and I've never installed it before, so this should be a fresh install).
Thanks Tim, that's great to hear!

We have a separate service for resizing and cropping which isn't featured there. Feel free to say hello, we'll be happy to learn about your usecase and if possible offer some free help and pointers.
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From experience if you want your kid to develop an interest in something you'll want to expose them to it and not just keep it to yourself. My daughters love Legos and Duplos. They play with them constantly.

My 5 year old is getting the Jabba's Palace set for Christmas this year. It's all she really wants.
These will be available in places where there's no existing wifi which seems much cooler to me.
For many CS undergrad programs you don't HAVE to know any programming languages to graduate. You would just be at a serious disadvantage for many likely future positions if you don't.

Maybe you can finish your PhD without publishing but it seems unlikely that you could spend that much time doing GOOD original research and not have your name on something. Also it will be very hard to get an academic or even industry research position without GOOD publications.
I'm on the list, too, and I could understand downvotes (if people don't like the links), but vicious comments... I don't get why people do that.

I think most people don't realize how much work goes into making any of these "junk" or "side project" projects.
HP affirms commitment to Autonomy, stresses that HP remains 'quite profitable'
Thiel has some hits and misses. I actually agree with him in this one. Most people in the corporate world end up split between several tasks (coming from several different managers, who may or may not be different people) and put forth a mediocre performance on all of them. That may be fine in a big company, but it's fatal in a startup.

The main problem with a single-priority system is the question of who sets the priority. If the employee is autonomous and trusted (e.g. open allocation) it can work. In a traditional managed environment, you already start out with 2 priority sets: the manager's goals, and the employee's career interests.
Looks native to me, sort of similar to the Google+ app.

No unified inbox though. And push notifications still don't work for me (what am I doing wrong?)
I agree that it's mostly a concrete jungle, but there are some new buildings going up. The new Quantum Nano Centre just opened a few months ago, and it looks pretty spiffy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAZXcVLMMG0
I don't that will happen any time soon. If they do produce an app, they would cut revenues coming from advertising so I don't think it is in their interest. On mobile, the situation is different as mobile users expect to have features such as notifications, and offline browsing (I know the latter can be done using HTML 5 but users' mind is not yet at opening a browser when they know they are offline).
That's not mutation. Mutation is altering the value of a bound identifier.
Yes, but you need money to hire those people. Where will you get the money? You won't get any investor money until you get a team, you won't get a team until you get money. Those other people are going to have to be co-founders.
>Since you cannot call Rust -or Go code from a scripting engine

This is wrong for Rust. It already allows for that, specifically calling Rust from C (and vice versa):

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/1732

Not that is a compelling argument even if it was right. There are lots of ways to make bridges to compiled code, besides using the C ABI.
I got it at a T-Mobile store (even though it says online/Walmart only). Maybe you just need a different CSR?
I finally reinstalled now that they support multiple accounts - but really? No unified inbox? Sparrow still has a leg-up, in my opinion, despite being out of the dev cycle for a few months now.
Patent =/= trademark.
Doubtful. Most games are GPU bound not CPU bound so CPU threading really isn't the issue.
Now, if this were paid by bitcoin, or the karma was signed by the bitcoin contracts (http://codinginmysleep.com/exotic-transaction-types-with-bit...), then we might even avoid lock-in ...
What I was trying to say is that I don't try and answer those two questions by "pivoting", in the Lean Startup sense.

I do answer those questions, but I do it in an optimistic, deterministic way, which is to create a narrative for our company, its product, sales, service, pricing, etc. and then step back and evaluate the narrative. I run the narrative by people I know (not strangers), and see how they respond. This allows me to identify problems with the vision (aka narrative), and adjust.

I iterate like crazy, and I'm constantly tweaking things (as anyone who knows me will tell you). But I do it from the worldview, if you will, that I can risk many years and capital and release a product or service into the world, iPhone-like, and get the result I anticipated in my narrative.

I'm confident that's true because I'm constantly developing narratives on a smaller scale, and testing them. I'm not always right, but I'm right about enough things, enough of the time, that I feel confident basing my company's vision on that.
Successful people have certainly failed, but spectacular failure isn't a particularly good sign of future success. You should only embrace failure if you are learning things. Successful people treat failures as the price of learning.

I admire this guy's persistence, but not his incredible arrogance ("swaggadocio", "sound my huge balls made as I sauntered"), his poor risk/reward assessment, or his lack of lateral thinking skills.

His behavior only makes sense if having name "zap" is the riskiest thing in his current business plan. If everything hinges on him having a specific fancy domain name, then I doubt he'll be delivering sufficient customer value to his users to build a real business. And if that wasn't the riskiest thing, then he's just wasted a lot of time and money in a poorly planned exercise to get something that was a shiny distraction.

That sort of behavior is a great example of why solo founders are dangerous. Startups are endlessly distracting, and a good partner can keep you from taking off like a missile at something that, in the end, isn't core to what you're up to.
When did it become sexy not to make money?
When I get in the flow, writing software, I get a day of work done per hour. When I do 5 hours of focused work, I do about 2 weeks worth of work. The slightest distraction throws me off, though, because the context-switching becomes enormous. My favorite (yikes) distraction: having a tool I know and use not be available because of outdated company policy. This throws off everything and loads Anger and Frustration 3.7 in the brain processing center.
Most annoying: Changing the batteries of smoke detector/alarms. This usually includes using a high chair/stool to try and reach the ceiling (being tall helps), then fiddling with the smoke detector case, open it, take the dead battery out, put the new battery in, the alarm might go off for test etc etc. Very annoying to me. Imagine when u have to change more than 1 at different floors of the house.
No kidding. The buildings are getting nicer but there is almost no green space left on campus.
Not just Europe– I had a test unit from way back for when they were entering the US, though they never got really big (I do see them occasionally). In Japan I see them everywhere.
I call bullshit. Researchers have been trying to make auto-parallelizing compilers for decades without anything substantive making it to industry.

Even in functional languages, auto-parallelization hasn't worked well because of the coarseness issue: it's difficult for compilers to figure out what to run in multiple threads and what to run single-threaded because of tradeoffs with inter-thread communication.
> I am frustrated that you pretend there is a symmetric equivalence between macro hedge fund investing and the world of private placements.

I never did any such thing:).

I happen to think that both men are worthy of praise.

I do feel the same as you that Elon's accomplishments are more impressive.

Back to your original plea

> let's see more Elon Musk worship, less Peter Thiel worship.

We can have both. Both men have done some pretty impressive things:)
People in congested cities don't not ride bikes because they are too expensive. You can get a second hand one on craigslist for not much more than $20.

It's because:

1) They're lazy and don't like pedalling up hills

2) They're worried they'll get killed by a car

3) They're worried they'll get a puncture and be late or have their pants ripped on the chainring.

4) They have stuff to carry around and don't want to mess with a trailer.
It takes money to make money. The investors knew this. Don't feel bad about it.
Right below the Buy Subscription button.
You're blaming the victim for the fraud. It's not his fault. He followed PayPal's guidelines.
The best way of handling this in my opinion is to publish an annotated version of the slides afterwards. Here's a good example: https://speakerdeck.com/zachinglis/notes
I wouldn't be so down on Lego Friends. My oldest daughter is a huge fan of Lego and has different sets that are Friends and some that are Star Wars. She combines them and plays with them together. Han Solo has a dog and a cat. One of the girls flies the X-wing. It's pretty cute.

Girls love role-playing and Friends provides another outlet for them. My oldest daughter loves building and then she plays with what she created quite extensively.
Also, China tends to be a fast copier, not a leader.

You could have said the same thing about the US in the first half of the 19th century, and look how innovative we ended up being by the start of the 20th. Or about Japan later on. Societies that are able to copy innovations quickly seldom have trouble generating innovations when they run out of things to copy.
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Bing slams Google again, claims Google blurs the line between rankings and ads
I like the idea of self documentation but please don't do this with a text/html header. Oftentimes I want to see in the browser what the GET response is. Probably it's better to explicitly use a .html extension instead.
I really wish it had a "Mark all as read" button. Until then, I'll stick with Sparrow.
> evil and perverse and all that is wrong with the world

That is never the implication of that standard comment.
I never even had the original... Getting this message.

edit: 2 minutes later, can't even find the app on the app store.
Additionally, his premise that CPUs will continue to get more and more cores is probably also flawed. The diminishing returns of the extra cores due to Amdahl's law will make them less and less economically viable.
Australia: Google found guilty of libel for refusal to remove search results
I went to the direct link without deleting the old app, and it worked for me.
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Firstly great story and very entertaining :-) Certainly i would have used it on the application as it makes you stand out and gives the interviewers something interesting to ask about, thats what application forms are for after all.

When it comes to jumping on a plane to try and blag the domain name I think its actually a pretty smart move, on the open market that name would have gone for 6 or 7 figures certainly far more than you could have afforded on seed funding, in which case its worth dropping a grand or so as a gamble that you might get it for much less, I'm guessing you were hoping they'd say they weren't using it and just sign it over to you?

Hey you took a chance and gambled 1000 bucks in the hope of it paying off many times over, it didn't but thats life.

Best of luck man :-)
I found the colors (light text on dark background) to be somewhat of a strain but I couldn't stop reading.
Don't they just give up and say that you can't build strong enough beams using Lego so they use a non lego structure?
You do it, and if someone complains, you say you had to get this done in order to continue work. If it's something "out of your area" you treat it as a bug and you make a workaround. Remember: businesses only reward achievement.
I couldn't find it in the app store but I did find it by click ing on one of the apps made by Google, then scrolled at the bottom and clicked on > Developer info and it was down the list.

It might be because it's not yet available to all in the App Store yet.

It happens to me some times when I submit an update of an app to the App Store. I get the update a few moments after receiving the "Ready for Sale" status from iTunes Connect but then my partner only got the update in the App Store a few hours later.
How rationalisation ignores facts
You picked an interesting hypothetical!

I recently finished a full, end-to-end business plan on a product/service that, at its core, relies on my own company's in-house Google Spanner-like technology, so your example hit pretty close to home. I will say that globally-consistent distributed transactions is a game changer, IMO.

We have, indeed, spent many years on the technology, and as I said, we did it because we had an in-house need, not with an intent to sell. But now we're extracting it (and other, complementary tech, which separately took years) and making the bundle available as an integrated product/service to third parties in 2013.

We didn't end up with any of the business plans you mentioned, but I think the one we did devise is novel enough that I can imagine it being used as a case study in business school in the future (hopefully on the "success" side).

I've developed literally hundreds of business plans over the years, virtually all in the $100 million+ startup category, and this one was by far the most fun I've had designing one, and I also think has the best chance of succeeding.

(I'm not at liberty to discuss the actual approach we're taking until we launch the product/service.)
Show HN: Find and Join activities nearby. Be truly social
Pretty sure it's native, app size is too large to just be a viewer.
Sounds good but no use to me :-) My sister used to frequent a Bay Area theater where the ads comprised the owners of the theater chatting (honestly) about upcoming features and the food they were serving (and this was considered a hugely positive component of the experience).

It's interesting to me that no major movie chain has tried to differentiate itself along the lines of "going to movies at our theaters is actually pleasant" but I guess the fact that they're able to sell soda and popcorn at a 1.0E+5% markup dwarfs any business model trying to sell some kind of decent experience at a plausible price.
I wonder what the usage figures are on a unified inbox by Gmail users. I have multiple accounts, which I suspect puts me in a minority, and don't even want to use unified inbox.
I am wondering whether Facebook ONLY connection is part of the business model. Do it allow Karma to share your internet usage data more easily with Facebook? And monetize those data (like the list of website you browse)?

I didn't find anything related in the "Terms of Service".

Anyway, a private vpn could do the trick I guess. But then such set-up would prohibits me from dropping my ISP at home and rely only on karma...
My first question was: what happens if you bump a curb at speed? How does the cardboard handle the impact?
We were working on tellStreet for few months. Out IOS app is ready and is waiting for Apple's blessing.

TellStreet shows you all the activities happening right now or in the past/future at any location. You are looking for that extra player to join your game in the park now? for a buddy to play video games at home? You found an awesome deal in a local store and want to tell others about it? You want to quickly pull python experts around to hack a weekend project? What ever be the case, tell others what you are doing and and join interesting activities around you.

Finding activities is very snappy and creating is fun too. For now, we are pulling data from meetup to get you started. Checkout and Please leave your feedback.
cant seem to update or re-download it!
I really like the fact that jQuery's AJAX methods were converted to support this.
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The big problem with "one thing" is the extremely political matter of who gets to set a person's "one thing". Is it the employee? (Open allocation.) Or is it the manager? (Then it's dictatorial, and you'll have to offer 30-50% annual raises to keep people.)

I do agree that corporate multitasking often creates mediocrity-- that's painfully obvious-- but you can't actually get singular focus from people unless you give them autonomy. Otherwise, they're already serving 2 masters (their boss's assignments, and their long-term career interests which include getting out from under that boss's thumb) from the gate. So, "one thing only" really only works in an open-allocation environment, in which case you are by definition giving people the authority to decide for themselves if they prefer to take a one-thing-only laser-focus or a more multi-pronged approach. Which makes a hell of a lot of sense, actually, because everyone's different.

The problem with corporate multitasking is that it comes out of a lack of autonomy-- from requirements that come in from all sides and quickly leave the worker overwhelmed not necessarily with the amount of work (although that can be a problem, too) but with the total lack of coherence.
Do people need less than that?

Do people need exactly five?

I don't think there's anything they could do to make anyone happy. People who want more than five will complain. People who have one wonder why they need up to five.
I loved Last.fm back in the day when all of our music was stored on the hard drive. Scrobbled an insane amount of data via foobar2000.

Recently discovered Rdio connects to last.fm so that data can flow from there too.
Has the pendulum swung back? I'm pretty sure GPUs overtook CPUs in the past 5 years, and before the i7 was released CPUs were the bottleneck.
Why aren’t major discussions available in English?

It is not the universal feeling within the Japanese ruby community that your inability to read technical Japanese morally obligates them to spend their time translating technical Japanese into English for you. It is not the universal feeling within the Japanese ruby community that this question deserves an answer phrased that politely, either. (cough "Technical documentation written only in a foreign language? That must be tough." cough)
Similar energies exist between people as well..
They don't even have that for their web or Android clients - I doubt you'll see the iPhone client ever surpass those.
Kudos to Lego. I think the majority of us agree their product is full of awesome, and to see them providing this level of customer service is awe-inspiring.

That said, I think we're missing the crux of the story here. These parents let their child save every penny for two years. There's something to be said for teaching your children to save money for something they want, but to let it go on for two years seems overly cruel. As a parent, you need to make sure they get enough money in birthday cards, allowance, etc. to cover the total in a reasonable amount of time.
Energy used for recycling paper: roughly 1000 kWh/short ton (Wikipedia). Savings of about 60%.

Energy used for recycling aluminum: 700 kWh/short ton. (Various websites.) Savings of about 95%!

I knew aluminum recycling was crazy efficient compared to refining it in the first place, but I'm surprised it's the same or even cheaper per ton as paper.
"My single objective this year is to work together with a-priori to proactively synergize a sustainable seamless profit focused massively parallel best practice for demonstrating how two HN users can work together while only having one single objective"
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These are good tips.

On the subject of practising: doing a test run in front of real human beings is definitely ideal, but it's not always possible (especially if you've left preparation a little late...) - in the absence of that, it's really, really important that you practice the talk out loud. Even if it's to an empty room, doing it out loud will help ensure your pacing is right and that what you are saying makes sense.

I find that a talk only begins to really take shape the first time I rehearse it out loud, so the earlier in the process I do that the better - leaving plenty of time to adjust the talk to flow better or cover important missing pieces of information.
I completely agree with you. For any service that has continuing costs, you need to find a way to have continuing revenue. A single purchase for a game that has continuing server costs is a very poorly thought out model.

What I mean by "repurchasing" IAPs: Every app I've interacted with forces you to go through the motions of purchasing IAPs when you get a new device. You aren't actually charged, since Apple knows you already bought the item.

I also fully recognize that my familiarity with these APIs is cursory at best.
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It's much nicer than the previous version. But still, why would you use it? The standard mail client along with Google Sync (Exchange) does the job quite good. I don't like having two apps for mailing and I'm sure many of you have a second mail account that is not Gmail (for Google Apps).
It isn't really an either/or. Yes The Daily's operating expenses were way too high but being limited to the ipad and a couple other devices didn't help things.