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WHERE IS THE SDK? Why will nobody answer this question?

I received my Pebble 10 days ago. I was an early back of a black Pebble. So far I have really loved my Pebble, but it is begging for apps. The Pebble team said during the Kickstarter for their 2m stretch goal that they would release the SDK before the watch. Still no SDK, and not even so much as a mention since they started shipping. Obviously, as with almost all Kickstarter projects (including Pebble), there are delays. That is fine.

But why will nobody from the Pebble team comment on the release or what is going on? I have sent emails, posted on the forums, signed up for mailing lists, posted kickstarter comments, and lurked in IRC (and now commented on HN) to try to figure out what the deal with the SDK is. NOBODY KNOWS or nobody will talk about it.

There are rumblings that some people, possibly "hacker special" backers, have already been given access to an SDK. I'm not sure if this is true, but it shouldn't prevent the Pebble team from making an announcement about what is going on with the SDK.

I'm not trying to put Pebble down or trying to degrade what Pebble is in any way. I own an inPulse and I backed Pebble the second I found out about it. I hope for nothing but success for Pebble and think they could do amazing things. I think they could do even more amazing things if they let developers start making Pebble even better.

PEBBLE TEAM, if you are reading this...PLEASSSEEEE just tell us what/when to expect!
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Meditation is "the third way". The Fourth Way is superior in many respects.

http://gurdjieff.tribe.net/thread/158f144d-6630-46e6-ad5d-f2...

DMT is the epitome of the fourth way. It is transformative in a way that nothing else can really approach, not LSD or mushrooms or any amount of meditation, or what have you.
Ah, I didn't click that. You are correct.

Opening questions from their feed brings up obscured answers.
Opera Moves to Webkit
We are running a smaller app on JRuby using Puma with thread safe on. It has a significantly smaller footprint, as we are only booting one server.

Overall really solid, though more useful if you can use something other than MRI.
Collie - high performance javascript library
God no. I think by "best book" he means most entertaining and most accessible treatment of the concepts of the book.
> the terrorists have won

This is exactly the feeling I have seeing what has happened to the US after 9/11.
Conferences generally start out small, without compensating any of the speakers and without providing travel assistance.

But, then that really depends on your starting budget, and not providing travel assistance will keep you from getting some speakers.

It also matters if you're trying to make money off the conference, are are just doing it for fun. Obviously, you have to convince people you are going to provide $500 worth of value if you charge $500. If you're charging that much, however, the keynotes probably expect to at least get some travel assistance, if not a cut.

I think cold calling a few potential keynotes isn't a bad thing, especially if you're willing to provide travel assistance. If your not, and depending on who you are contacting, cold calling a completely random "semi-famous" person might not go over well.
I worked for the TSA for about 6 months a few years ago. They convince employees that catching a knife from some traveler who forgot to put it in their checked baggage is a huge win and that somehow we saved the day yet again. Happened on a daily basis.

Our biggest catch while I was there: one day we caught a guy with a sword. The guy obviously didn't know what he was doing, apologetic, and confused. Of course, our managers talked it up as a big win for TSA security. Can you imagine a terrorist trying to take over a plane with a sword?
Precheck is free.

https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/airport/tsap...

I'd wager most of the people in the program aren't rich, they just have jobs that require them to travel a lot. We're talking Accenture consultants, not bank execs.
If smart watches take off, it will be when Apple releases theirs.
Something that gets explored more in the sequels is what being a soldier does to him- Ender becomes a dedicated pacifist, effectively founds a religion, and devotes the rest of his life to undoing xenocide.

And it's cool that those are actual tactics- plus the timeline makes it look like Ender's Game was actually on the cutting edge of military thought.
James B. Glattfelder: Who controls the world?
your tech journolism and opinions are what's wrong. In those trades, it is 5 - 3 = 1, when 1 = other browser is the one you do not like or is an easy pick. you are green, grasshopper
Looks like a well built product. Nice to see this from Singapore!
I used to like Quora a lot but always hoped it would grow out of its Silicon Valley cliqueyness... I think a lot of these recent changes ensure that it's going to continue only serving that niche.
They should hire you. I mean that as a compliment.
Another sci-fi book (or series) that would be relevant in the context of tactics and strategy, is Jerry Pournelle's books/compilation on Falkenberg's Legion:

http://www.baenebooks.com/p-322-the-prince.aspx
Do you ever think about how much time you're losing thinking about how much time you're losing eating?
I would just consider it an outlier and don't fret too much about it if went down to the usual level the next day.
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Awesome blog. Looking forward to reading more!
I really liked Ender's Game and can not wait for the movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/
It's a good lesson on how not to make poor business decisions, but the number of times the writer repeated the 'protect kids' phrase turned this into a really tough read. This wasn't a noble mission thwarted by evil VCs - simply a cautionary tale of how not to make startup decisions.
For the e-mail:
Google Wallet / Google Checkout has a checkbox that lets you hide your email address (instead using some intermediary one from Google) at checkout. They also have one that let's you tell the merchant that you don't want to receive promotional emails from them (if that is an option with the normal purchase via other means). Both options have been there since Google Checkout came into existence (I've been using this service since it came out in 2006).
Another point which backs up something I read once ... Google is run by engineers, Apple is run by designers, Microsoft is run by MBAs.
hell, many years ago, I gave people "first month free" VPSs.

Good god, that was a bad idea. I got lots of users, ended up buying a bunch of hardware, and worse, signing contracts on more datacenter space. I got a whole lot of abuse complaints, and had to get a larger bandwidth commit, too. (my provider at the time had the very common business model of having very high overage charges, but you could get out of the overage charges by signing a long-term contract at the new 95th percentile.)

Of course, many left when they got the first bill, leaving me about where I started revenue-wise, and with much larger monthly bills.

several years later, vastly increasing the resources I gave per dollar, /then/ getting featured in a blog[1] many months later, brought me up to a reasonable scale. I do think that the lower prices were necessary (but not sufficient) to start that growth.

I suppose that might be more like the transistor situation than anything else; Yeah, the company was "Profitable" but only because my time was free. I was selling at a huge loss if you counted market-rate for my time.

[1]http://uggedal.com/journal/vps-comparison-between-slicehost-...

(I owe that one post so much; revenue more than tripled in just a few months, and I was able to go full-time. I should probably do something for that guy.)
Yes. Life is good; death is bad. Sure, if you were born a few centuries ago, it would have been best to come to some sort of "acceptance" of death, because there was no hope of avoiding it. But today, we're on the edge of being able to prevent the destruction of billions of sentient beings, and that acceptance is counterproductive.
The book is available from amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670023329/ It's been on my list since I saw his interview on CNN.
This was provided to a museum for historical purposes. It could also be useful for other research or educational purposes potentially. And one day the copyright will expire.
This is Oren Teich, I run Heroku.

I've read through the OP, and all of the comments here. Our job at Heroku is to make you successful and we want every single customer to feel that Heroku is transparent and responsive. Getting to the bottom of this situation and giving you a clear understanding of what we’re going to do to make it right is our top priority. I am committing to the community to provide more information as soon as possible, including a blog post on http://blog.heroku.com.
Exactly. Twenty years ago, the idea that someone from whom you purchased a product might (gasp) know who you are would have been obvious. Even once the web arrived we all dutifully typed our credit card and contact info into every online purchase, and no one cared. Now all of a sudden it's "revealed" that Android app vendors have the same info (broadly -- they don't get credit card numbers) and it's a "privacy" concern?

That said... maybe there's something to this. Apple has shown that a different model can work, that isolates the buyer from the seller. Is that a good or bad thing? I think there's an interesting discussion to be had here, but this "privacy" nonsense has to stop.
I recently picked this book up after hearing great things about it for so long. I'm not surprised that much of the information is relevant from a strategic sense. The book is really written in a thoughtful and careful manner.

Side note: I really hope the movie coming out later this year does the book justice.
Fix the title -- it's a "high performance javascript animation library"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_DAngelo
Ah, yes. Did my run in trading. Pay (and experience) is great if you have the stomach for it. I found it soul-sucking and ultimately left. You are correct though, trading is extremely lucrative, not even getting into the other benefits.
My father was a holocaust survivor, and he was the exact same way. In fact, all of his surviving relatives were the same also. It seemed completely contradictory to me when I was younger (especially being raised as an atheist jew), but as I grew older I slowly understood. I think being persecuted like that made them hold onto their 'jewish identity' to an insane degree, despite the fact that all of them lost their religion.
Would you say it was worth it though? If I was going to go native, I might as well go full on obj.c otherwise I'd do phonegap.

I love ruby, but is that the only business case for rubymotion?
Reading the functional spec, I'm having a really hard time figuring out how this could be built for $3mm, even with mostly offshore resources. Unpacking just a few of those line items is a huge amount of work, and there are >100 of these:

"1.4.5 The system shall have the capability to allow, in certain circumstances, Veterans to schedule appointments via remote access mechanisms such as phone, internet, email and other mobile devices."

"3.5.2 The system shall apply configurable business rules to the management of a long-term appointment request list."

"3.8.2 The system shall have the ability to merge, purge, or distribute scheduled appointments from one resource to another when emergency scheduling changes occur."

"4.1.6 The system shall have the capability to configure and enforce business rules at the clinical service level, clinic level, provider, and appointment type level (e.g., females in Obstetrics/Gynecology clinic)."

At least they've been kind enough to write a web services API for VistA for you to use...
I used to like this book. Then I realized it's basically Twilight for teenaged boys and started to think about it more critically.

Ender is an impossible creature and creates an archetype that cannot be lived up to. People make mistakes, it's what makes them learn, advance, succeed, become stronger. Ender is some kind of perverted ideal.

The way this essay describes military strategies makes it seems like those running today's theaters are absolute idiots that simply smash one group of soldiers to another just like the British did in the 1800s. This is not the case. "Attrition theory" is not what's employed in individual battles, pawn-for-pawn style exchanges. The US Army, as an example, takes extremely low numbers of casualties with staggeringly high numbers of casualties inflicted.

Most of these bold claims about Card's novel seem like fluff on closer examination. They're plot drivers for a novel and in that sense they bear a similarity to real-life examples. Nothing more.
The difference is that if you go to, say, Best Buy, and buy a Samsung TV, a Sony Blu Ray player, and a game for your Wii, your personal information doesn't go to Samsung, Sony, and the Wii game maker. The store, Best Buy, gets your info, not the makers of the products sold in the store.

This is what people generally expect from stores that sell a variety of items from many different manufacturers.
Simultaneous wifi and 3G on Android or Iphone
As is clear from examples such as tethering, Android allows one to read/transmit packets through the WIFI port even though the 3/4g port has been "designated" for Internet access and apps are actually using it that way.

But what about the converse? Assume apps are using the wifi port for Internet access.
a) Is it possible, under this condition, to read/xmit internet packets through the 3/4g port at the same time?

b) More specifically, is it possible to forward packets arriving at the 3/4g port out through the ethernet port?

c) are the two forgoing setups possible with an Iphone?
WebKit is not a "browser engine".
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Thanks! I had been waiting for a decent GTalk client on my Win8 PC. Will download it today once I reach home. Do you have support for video chats?
Judaism is a religion - it is the name of the religion of the jewish people. But you can be jewish without adhering to judaism. And I suppose you can follow the traditions and rituals of Judaism without believing in the existence of God.
I'd give it away as an incentive.

Imagine you went a restaurant where as you ate, the valet not only parked your car, but filled it with ... for free. A 15 gallon fill-up would only cost 90¢, plus valet time. Bring on the carne mechada.

That, or something to do with cheap explosions.
I also noticed they force you to login on the desktop version in order to read answers. Maybe this works, but the friction was seriously annoying and as a really active social media they probably missed out on a Facebook post or tweet I would have made about what I found.

I feel like it is a bait-and-switch, because as an early user I LOVED LOVED LOVED Quora and contributed a ton. Now I'm just annoyed by them all the time.
It looks promising. Is the password stored locally? And if not will you be supporting OAuth?
Managing load with thin workers isn't very hard...haproxy [http://haproxy.1wt.eu/] makes it pretty easy to setup rather complex load distributions (certainly more complex than random!).
This is a useful, and thoughtful, qualification.
New Lithium Ion Batteries 3x Capacity and Fully Charges in 10 Minutes
Interesting. No I didn't read it because the page crashes my mobile browser everytime reliably.
The tutorial on the website is pretty cool, any other ones I can check out? Good luck with Firebase it's off to a great start!
http://www.torquenews.com/1075/washington-state-electric-car...
Some of his comments are great, but many just repeat the same talking points. You can't be saying that as long as someone says something insightful they can copy/paste it into as many HN threads as they like, so long as it is on topic.
I think the article confuses physical 'movement', with maneuvering, which in the context of maneuver warfare is more about adapting your strategy to both hit the enemy's critical vulnerabilities (again not just physical, we're talking media, moral, supply chains, sight, ability to discriminate between civilian an enemy, timely communication of orders, ability to concentrate force, etc), while covering your own.

Movement and physical speed is just the most basic of the possible maneuvers in this context.

The rest of it does seem pretty good/interesting though
I know directly of one case in which one of the terms of the acquisition was that in case of the founder's death within the retention plan, his family wouldn't get the remaining part of the money (which would be given at the end of the retention plan only if he was still alive). This founder, rightly so, thought that it was an awful concept, since his kids needed to be protected exactly in the case of his death. The purchaser said they would have not changed the contract since that was a standard clause and that it was unconceivable to consider changing it.
The startup called everything off the day before the deal (even after it was announced), because of this.

The clause that was impossible to make disappear suddenly disappeared overnight.

P.S.
Congrats for Matasano, I am a fan of your company.
Limor Fried joins President Obama on Google+ Thursday
What was your interview like? How many parts did the interview have? what sorts of questions were you asked?
98% of Mindfulness in Plain English is great. Just ignore the parts where they talk about psychic powers. The description of vipassana technique is very well done.

I'd suggest starting with the book Unlearning Meditation instead of any particular traditional technique, but that's just me.
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Life is difficult. For me, the point is to let yourself grow stronger to meet those challenges rather than giving up.

I like to think that God is actually deliberately making things harder for me on/with purpose. Keeps me fighting.
>On a very short time scale.

By "over what time scale?" I think Osmium meant "yes, more people would die in the short term, but would more people die in the long term?" It's a valid and important question. For how many decades should the rest of the world allow a regime to torture and kill innocent children before we decide that it's worth the (heavy) short-term losses to put a stop to it?
There are two sides of the argument and both have valid arguments. An ORM abstracts a lot of complexity when it comes to mapping tables, joins and sub-queries so if you don't understand the underlying SQL queries your ORM is performing and something breaks, you're at the mercy of the ORM to provide you with adequate error messages and means for debugging. The way of looking at an ORM is it is a framework for your database much like jQuery is a framework for Javascript and Rails is a framework for Ruby. You can get by using the framework but run the risk of not understanding the underlying structure and you're screwed if the framework you're using (or ORM) is no longer updated or works with your particular version of MySQL or whatever.

Having said that, if you're using an established ORM like Doctrine then the possibility of ever needing to understand the underlying database structure and complexities is almost null. The time saving benefits, pooling, support for transactions, security best practices for your queries and caching features alone make an ORM worthwhile in the end. I think ORM's are great if you dig deeper and explore how the ORM works, it doesn't mean you have to write straight-up queries, but it pays in-case you are ever in a situation where an ORM isn't allowed by a manager or senior developer and you're asked to write a native query.
I find it sad that after being basically treated like garbage by North Korean society, "defectors" (I hesitate to use that term due to the negative connotation, but can't think of anything else) like Shin wind up isolated within South Korean society. It reaches the point where more than 1/3rd want to leave SK.[1]

That one cannot escape an accident of birth is a huge blemish on humanity.

[1] http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20130207000854
How was 5 ms added? Multiple sleep states per request?

I imagine the long tail disappears in a similar way that a traffic jam is prevented by lowering the speed limit.
Yes! Surgeons and other doctors get a text-only report from radiologists, but it's very helpful for them to actually see what we're talking about. That's one of the reasons we created ClariPACS.
If they got Haley Joel Osment to play the lead back in the day, it would have had a shot. I can't think of anyone young enough that can actually act these days.
In High-Tech Japan, the Fax Machines Roll On
If youre comparing Interface Builder to Visual Basic, you just dont get it.
I am surprised to hear you refer to this as "privacy nonsense"; things like a name and address are obviously identity related information. As such, any identity related information has to have privacy concerns.

In some ways, I see this as a breach of trust; I can trust Google with some of my data but I dont think every app developer is worthy of even a certain percentage of that trust.
How Y Combinator Solves The ‘Credentials Trap’ Problem
What I like about coding is that you learn every day and starting a new language is always inspiring and broadens you views. I just don't get those who like to approach everything with just one language.

Rubymotion won't hide the Objective-C API anyway, so people have still to learn and understand all of the Objective-C libs. There's no single reason to use Rubymotion. This paired with the all the typical fanboyism around Ruby, Rails, 37Signals is kind of annoying. Sorry to be harsh, but I don't care how a client for an aged app (Basecamp) is built with a cumbersome layer of abstraction.
Danielle Morrill: Reflecting On My Career At The 10 Year Mark
Happy Valentine’s Day And Celebrating George Ferris’s Birthday
Valentine’s day also know as Saint Valentine’s day or the Feast of St Valentines is a day of showing your love and romance it is celebrated in many different ways worldwide.
The user-contributed content is the central issue. They rely on the kindness of Internet people to create the content, but then they do various tricks to hide that content from Internet visitors. It really is just plain evil.
Inside the offices of LA gaming startup Scopely
Notlisted uh... right.
>Quora has now spent several years training me to be bummed out every time I click on a link to their site.

"Bummed". Yeah that really describes it perfectly. Especially with how immaculately their digest emails are constructed, to be hit with that asinine wall is a straight-up bummer, and stops me dead in my tracks.
I think we could cut the budget significantly by dismantling our surveillance state and cutting useless law enforcement (TSA, drug warriors, etc.). But people seem to feel better cutting something like social security and medicare which we pay into.
Stormin Norman's initial war plan for Iraq 1 was indeed attrition based. We were to land in Kuwait and beat the Iraqis back via blunt force. Cheney,secdef at the time, realized how bloody this would be, and pulled Boyd in from retirement to rewrite the war plan. The marines succeeded brilliantly with their part. The army did not, and concern for their flanks allowed the Iraqi army to escape.
Would writing a DSL that compiled down to MUMPS be out of the question?
He got lucky that he was able to bounce back.