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Considering that cable can offer 100 and maybe even 300 Mbps, I actually don't think there's demand for fiber per se. By offering gigabit or nothing and low prices, Google is creating what you might call false demand for fiber. We don't know how many fiber customers would have chosen cheaper 100 Mbps cable instead.
Google is a second class citizen on iOS
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No music. It slows down my speed.
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Craigslist Updates UI Slightly with "List View" "Pic View" and "Map View"
God, I'm so glad people are pointing out that this is weird. You really shouldn't do this at parties, dude.

You don't know how protective someone is of their drink. Just because you might not mind if someone stole your straw does NOT mean that most people feel the same way. For many people, there is something very private about the drink they are holding.

Not only that, but the connotations of people who surreptitiously put their hand anywhere close to a drink at a party are NOT good connotations. I don't think these connotations need to be explained.

I don't mean to offend you, man. I rarely even comment on Hacker News. I'm just trying to help you understand why many people (I would say the majority) are extremely off put by this behavior. That said, I don't know what context you do this in. Friends are unlikely to hold a negative perception of this, but people you just met in a bar or party situation could hold dangerously negative perceptions of it.

p.s. I notice that you are French. I have no idea how my advice applies to French culture, so this may be a cultural difference. But in American culture, at least that of college age and older, I think most people will agree with this comment.
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No, it was Metro-X from MetroLink.
I wish I had enough karma to down vote this.
This was before the document had been sent to anyone. It was still being edited, only my friend and I were working on it. Also, the documents were not public.
I thought this was interesting because Craigslist is known for sticking to its classic (some would say dated? ugly?) user interface. This is the first change that I've really noticed in Craigslist's UI (the update adds purple buttons for viewing results by "list" "pic" or "map".
FYI, it's not that easy to find a quality iOS developer even if you have five figures to offer (let alone nothing). Finding qualified people, vetting them, making sure they can communicate and follow-through, and all that is associated with developing something is no simple task.

Only caveat is if you know someone personally who is in love with your site/app and is willing to take a big risk that they MIGHT get options later.
Why don't you put a couple of apps up on the app store?I don't see how anyone can hand you $1000 up front when there is no proof that you can actually do the job.
pretty cool idea and the site looks sharp. I think you should make the video easier to find. The only reason I found it is because I looked extra hard for it before commenting and saying: make a video or something so I can see how it works without signing in.
The article referred to sexism in tech. Cue downvotes.
Me too. I think the one by Dane Cook (a comedian) was very clearly meant to be a joke.
This is really interesting. We're making products for helping people be more mindful, including some with biosensor integration (brainwaves via EEG, heartrate via optical sensors.) We're programmers ourselves and would love people's insights into what they'd pay for in terms of a tool to help them "be more mindful" while at work or at play. You can email me directly at rohan (at) brainbot.me to get in touch! Thank you.
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I'm pretty tech savvy, I work with very tech savvy people. Many of them write firmware, network routing systems, and spend hours a day JTAGing various spins of our NICs.

I don't know how to jailbreak my phone, nor have my dozen or so google searches yielded anything useful, nor do any of my colleagues have jailbroken phones - despite being precisely the type of people who want to.

Jail breaking used to be straightforward a couple years ago, but for anyone with a recent phone (I have an iPhone 5, colleagues have iPhone 4S's) - it's become pretty difficult.

Any links or pointers appreciated though....
One thing that bugs me is people who can't take a compliment. I wish they would just say 'thanks' or 'glad you liked' when someone commends their efforts, but instead they dismiss the praise. Real humility can be annoying, too.
No, they already have a black budget for that. Or the CIA drug companies to funnel money through, for that matter.

The idea that we overspend on Hammers and Toilet seats is poorly thought out and repeatedly debunked. There is no need to jump through such silly hoops to pay for projects that are super-duper secret.
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Team Treehouse is an excellent service that teaches web design through videos. I signed up as I am a non-technical entrepreneur who have been meaning to learn how to code, or to even develop more understanding at the least. Life has been very busy as my luxury vehicle export company is wrapping up for the year and I haven't had much of a chance to really go in depth with the videos and I noticed my subscription had automatically renewed. I wrote a simple email asking if I could put my account on hold and request a refund. This is the response I received --

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We can't really pick "random real numbers" in any practical sense, so this is pretty much a theoretical distinction. It's essentially a matter of definition. The rational numbers have probability zero of being drawn, but they still lie in the sample space.

One way to see it is this: The probability of picking any particular point in the interval is 0. But that doesn't mean that picking that point is impossible. _Some_ point has to show up when you pick one at random.
Finally, a reasonable programming blog post.

I'm so tired of the inane myths coming out of the programming community like the recent 'liberal/conservative' thing and the 501 manifesto. It seems like every 2 months I have to stop visiting hacker news and proggit while another one of these seemingly intuitive but unsupported link-bait blog posts comes around followed by a deluge of links saying NUH-UH.

Here's the thing, if there is no research supporting your intuition, it's just bullshit. Bullshit is all fine and good until it gets repeated as fact, after that it hurts our professional integrity and enforces biases and discrimination. Fucking stop it.
Modules And The Doesn't Care Test
I missed it at first as well, but the author clarifies at the end that he was wrong about his friend, and advocates a "tolerance devoid of condescension" towards people who behave in such a manner.
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Probably more like top 0.1% - technical people sometimes are truly unaware how niche their talent/knowledge/peer group is.
at least brazil wasn't overrated again.
For me this doesn't so much highlight the headline that Google is a second class citizen but rather the inflexibility of iOS compared to Android.

Apple really should take a leaf from android's book and see how integration can be made better on iOS. It strikes me as something they have thought about with the new share dialogue using large icons.
Interesting. Honest question: when were you poor, Paul?

According to Wikipedia, you graduated from Cornell in 1986. You defended your PhD in 1990 and had sold Viaweb by 1995. Grad school life is certainly not luxurious, but I certainly would not refer to myself as being poor right now. Are you referring to the few years (91-94) before Viaweb was acquired? Or did you grow up poor at some point?

Also, have you noticed any correlation-- positive or negative-- between founders who come from more humble beginnings?
There was another article recently about the awful DUNS # process for the App Store. You can find some good tips in the comments, including applying via the federal site and applying via Apple's form. Readers suggest both of these methods are faster.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4977889

I also posted my own experience getting the free DUNS #:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4978516
thanks, and I agree with you. We are going to put a better/shorter video in place of the picture on the home page. We also wanted a more in depth (still short) video to come up after registration
Id be happy enough if you could just keep Netflix running more often.
Basically, the only use of business guy is because of necessary evil BS that one needs to wade through in order to deal with paper work. The same use for a lawyer. It's not actually part of the product.

Necessary evil.
Sins of a Modern Objective C Developer Community
This article is an example of everything I don't like about Hacker News. The author decries everyone's supposedly "black and white" world, but commits a far greater sin by replacing it with a one-color world, where everything is grey, all shades of grey are equal, and distinguishing between them makes you a bad person.

The worldview of many here denies the fruits of virtue. Some, like this author, deny even the possibility of virtue. This is the epitome of foolishness - virtue contains the seeds of its own rewards, and always will. As an an example, I read an article on here about a champion competitor in an algorithms challenge. The comments section on here wasn't focused on how he solved the problems, nor on how he prepared for the competitions, nor on how to improve our own skills in this area. The vast majority of the comments were along the lines of "these are meaningless and arbitrary challenges, and his skills are useless. why doesn't he spend that time building something useful? i wouldn't prefer him over another potential hire who was otherwise equally qualified, but didn't win global coding competitions" Meanwhile, a company that was not afraid of righteous judgement is profiting from an excellent problem-solver with great insight into difficult problems.

The endless equivocation, nihilistic relativism, and snarky hit-and-run comments, like the author's jab at sexists, provide no insight into anything. Most comments here lay down a thick smog of words that obfuscate whatever insight their authors may be capable of.
Clumsy is a great explanation. I hope people can tell the difference between someone insecure enough to name and fact drop, vs someone genuinely trying to share an experience they found strange, for whatever reason.

Another thing I've heard about is not being able to accept a compliment and it being taken as wanting people to heap on more praise.

Instead, the person might just be wanting to maintain that they're not special and just worked hard, or applied themselves like anyone could, and anyone could learn to do what they did.
It's possible, sure... but only if the people who find that they can't launch on-demand instances don't think to try spot instances instead.
> why should a developer (who could pull in 100-200/hr or get salary + significant equity at any number of startups, based on the qualifications you're looking for) put in his or her time for nothing

Because programming is still fun for some people?
You're totally right!

The second sentence is both more useful and more funny: it contains a warning for people buying $900 Prada... They should consider buying shorter shoelaces.

It's also funnier because you'd expect $900 Prada to have well-thought-of shoelaces that you can't trip on ; )
It's not arrogant. His point is that other people has been using his code since he was very young an therefore he's helped a lot of people. Being a doctor or lawyer takes a long time and at his age he would still be in school.

It's not that doctors or lawyers don't contribute to society. They start contributing at a later point in their lives because they were in school.
Lots of research gets started because of intuition. If there is no research supporting your intuition it may simply be that nobody got around to doing any, not that your intuition is 100% certain bullshit.

So when you find your intuition is not supported by research go do some research. Don't automatically assume it is bullshit or otherwise lots of research will never get done.

And then share the outcome of that research (positive and negative) along with your intuition.
Wow, these types of 'learn programming / learn web' sites are popping up everywhere!
He's still claiming that his friend was "trying to combat their own perceived weakness" by asserting his worth in this manner.

And maybe he was, I don't know the guy, but when my friends tell me stories about their successes I don't take it as an assertion of worth, I take it as them sharing a part of their life with me.
random idea - consider making some examples/sections from the book also available as an IPython notebook. IPython+matplotlib+numpy+scipy is a perfect quartet for getting some ideas across in an interactive, intuitive way. best of all the reader doesnt have to setup anything. just include some URLs in your book.

see: http://ipython.org
I am really bad at taking a compliment. It has nothing to do with humility. It has to do with having been consistently and badly burned over it. Lots of people do not give sincere compliments. Instead, any nice things they say are just a manipulative ploy of some sort. And even if it is sincere, if done publically, someone else is highly likely to kick the shit out of me if I try to say "thanks" instead of ignoring it or downplaying it.

YMMV, but I am terrible at this and I don't feel it is merely neurotic.
I started learning Haskell for the same reason that Peaker described.
From what I understand so far, Haskell is a very high level language which lets you do more with less.

One of the examples that come often is quicksort which you can write in like 3 lines:

quicksort (p:xs) = (quicksort lesser) ++ [p] ++ (quicksort greater)
where
lesser = filter (< p) xs
greater = filter (>= p) xs

But the thing is you still have to understand a lot of stuff before being able to use it correctly.
I think one of the most difficult (and interesting) topic would be monads, there are tons of tutorials online if you're interested on reading on it.
If you spend $900 on shoes then the 'klutz' bit clearly doesn't refer to tripping over the laces but on your ability to spend your money wisely.
It's a shame that a really good topic (humblebragging drives me nuts AND infects my own writing) is ruined by a terribly-written article.
Arrogant? I think you missed the most important part of that statement.

"... couldn’t for another five or so years given that I (likely) wouldn’t even be in law or med school yet."

You can become a "programmer" at 18 for example. You can't become a "doctor" at the same age though - Doogie Howser excepted. He never said that doctors aren't important or that he believes that programmers contribute more to society than doctors do. He said that the path he chose enabled him to give back earlier and in a grander scale than compared to the traditional paths to become part of the doctors and lawyers of the world... And he is correct in making said statement.

How about if next time you call someone arrogant, you make sure you didn't leave reading comprehension out the door?
The author advocates "tolerance devoid of condescension"!?

What a magnanymous person ; )
Excellent - I'd be willing to spend around $20 - PDF is my preferred format (iPad and Desktop PC), but agree with notdrunkatall, why not offer all three.
It's possible to care and do your best and still turn out worse code than someone who doesn't care. I've seen it.
A lot of content on HN are poorly-disguised humblebrags. I would post some examples, but I am simply too busy building my million-dollar product.
There are several red flags for me in this post. For example:

I could never say anything bad about her. (How could I? There's nothing bad to say.)

I'm sure she's a nice person, but no one is perfect. My concern when I hear someone say something like this is that they're in denial about the things they don't like about their partner; and those things will pile up, since they're not getting dealt with, and one day the dam will burst and all those things will spew forth.

I am not saying he shouldn't stay with her, but as others here have commented, it would be a very good idea for him to be in therapy. This is going to be a bumpy ride at times, and he is going to have to understand himself better so he can be there for Sally.
Thanks for pointing to Gelfand. I'd never heard of him. Intriguing that University of Chicago assigns these texts. (Heads up— there's no contact info in your profile).
Love it!

Writer, if you want some contribution, I've got some ideas and drafts down as I was writing some of this for my own blog.
Thank you. PDF all the way for all books. GoodReader on Retina iPad.
Generally people wearing $900 Prada shoes have handlers or, in a pinch, some paparazzi to catch them or break their fall, so better-engineered laces is pretty low-down on their list of things to address.
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In the PDF deck I linked to about my work, I describe storytelling like this:

Storytelling is sensemaking and placemaking of the: past (genealogy), present (diaries and journals) and future (personal [digital] archives).

At PDA2012, there had to have been half a dozen personal storytelling startups, most with a genealogy hook.

You have all the time in the world to scan photos, to write in your diary, but you're running out of time to ask your grandmother how she got that scar, or your grandfather why his hair turned white in the war.

Perhaps you've never been curious about your forebears, but to discount the possibility entirely out of fear that your children's children will enjoy pop-pop's stories so much they'll forget to live their own lives seems churlish to me.
TL;DR:

Newb geek - you have an equal chance as anybody at becoming a good business person. But it's hard and your life is easy. Don't do it.

Experienced geek - you have ZERO chance at becoming a good business person because you are too used to your cushy life. Don't do it.
You just picked two of the more difficult apps to emulate or ahead-of-time translate as your examples of "normal" apps that should be "not so hard!"

Archivers generally have highly optimized compression/decompression routines, which generally means more esoteric instructions and in some edge cases means abusing properties of the microarchitecture to make things faster.

Media players have the same optimized-code issue that archivers do (via codecs), but on top of that demand very accurate audio/video synchronization and support a wide variety of output formats and hardware, which means that media players often add difficult-to-translate display and audio output pipeline hacks on top of difficult-to-translate optimization.

Starcraft I ran on x86 CPUs without MMX or SSE, and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't use x87 floating point either although I'm venturing into speculation territory there. Plus, Starcaft I used DirectDraw and what amounts to a framebuffer - the easiest possible output device to emulate.
So true. You have to learn that programming is politics from day one. Unfortunately, unlike the sciences where there is a framework for determining who is good and who is bad, in programming it is left up to sometimes immature people to make their case. The best way to silence them is with working software.
This blawg has much potential. Love the post about marginal expected value.
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I think he meant helping people out as a function or extension of your profession. You can help people regardless of what your career choices are/will be, but you cannot (legally at least) perform brain surgery at 15. You can however create bulletin board software at the same age and distribute it to a large audience.

(Hypothetical)
"Dude I can help you get up if you fall, but I can't help you survive cancer as I'm not a doctor yet, but I can make some software to schedule your medicine intake and therapy sessions though..."
This can be said for nearly every white collar job besides maybe trading or something similarly measurable.
One thing I've learned from trying to learn drawing is that there's value in creating rough sketches in order to capture a certain form or gesture. It feels like coding small-scoped side projects is the coding equivalent of this.
From the Google Play Store: "The data is encrypted using 256 AES keys and can be password protected."

Are you sure that you don't mean that it is encrypted using a 256 bit AES Key?

And I imagine that the private key is stored on the device?
i'm an engineer turned ceo. and i know quite a few others.

unfortunately, i think his points are spot on. being a ceo is harder than being an engineer. period.

but if we didn't have engineers turning into ceo's, how many companies can you think of that would never have happened? HP? Tesla, SpaceX, PayPal? Google?

so even though he's right - being a ceo is fucking hard - don't let that stop you, engineer. you CAN be a ceo if you're willing to put in the work.
Also it would be smart to run malware check on these urls if they don't already doing it.