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Xamarin Studio isn't maintained by Google either...

Also it'd be nice if the IDE supported the platform languages (Java and ObjC).
What kind of information is available? It sounds really cool btw.
If you embed them you save on external requests and you blow up the host file's size instead, and hinder cacheability.
Does this interact with door locks and car alarms at all? Is that even possible? At least once a week I find myself walking back to my car to make sure I hit the car alarm. I would definitely pay to solve that problem. Getting an iPhone app for my home security system has already saved me a lot of grief.
> unlock/lock from his phone

Liability hell.
> But how, for example, is SoftLayer better than AWS?

Where do I begin... The latency to our dedicated DB servers is always 1-2 milliseconds. Never 5. Never 50. I do not understand how people tolerate 50ms response time from memcached servers on AWS.

We pay much less "per request". Way less. We never have to worry about servers disappearing. We don't need proprietary APIs for server images because the Chef script makes me a DB or a DNS box out of any Linux box.

We do not waste any time "architecting for failure": our databases run on RAID arrays with hot standbys, no need for chaos monkeys. Everything is very, very simple. We never used SoftLayer documentation because nothing of what we use needs to be documented.

And most importantly, we had less than an hour of downtime in 3 years. And none of that was Softlayer's fault.

It becomes much harder to reason about performance, uptime and responsiveness of your system when the underlying infrastructure does not provide guarantees on basic building blocks like I/O latency. Everything on AWS is always in flux and you have to over-allocate resources and/or over-engineer around those faulty building blocks. It may make you feel like a hero to survive in this jungle, but doesn't it look like a "forced premature optimization"?

99% of every graduating YC class could be running on a single pair of dedicated low-end servers and saving themselves a TON of time.
The last company I worked at had a least a half dozen different dev teams working on more or less unrelated projects, all doing their own thing. While each team all used the same tools internally, the different teams used different tools and each team handled its own vcs hosting. I can imagine a company like that might want to get everybody on the same page, without forcing one team to give up their favorite tool.
I wish I could upvote you more. You're exactly right in that I'm trying to make a "reductio ad absurdum" argument: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

I really don't expect companies to start forcing Adderall on people, but if productivity is all that matters then it's a viable strategy. Therefore, if you agree that giving Adderall to your employees is absurd, then you're forced to agree that productivity is not all that matters. (Or at least, that's the hope.)
I don't know why someone downvoted you, that's an excellent point. I think that in some subset of people currently requiring medication, some may be able to replace it with exercise to successfully treat it. I don't know about other people, but though I need both medication and exercise, the latter makes me feel discernibly much better. The medication just gets me out of bed and into my running shoes.
Kiln Harmony won't save as much money and angst as a DVCS that automatically converts tabs to spaces and back, based on personal settings, or one that changes bracket code formatting, but it's a start.
According to my laptop's cooling fan color palette is the least of the issues here. I'm pretty sure that roasting your users' CPUs to render a background texture is considered poor form.
Wow, I wouldn't necessarily call it a "clone". That skeuomorphism would make Scott Forstall cry. And what's with using Copperplate for logo? It makes the app look like something a child designed in Microsoft Word.
I have OnStar for similar reasons -- primarily as a safety device -- however it retains three rather large benefits-

1) OnStar is a hardened part of the vehicle, built specifically to endure a high speed collision. Someone's smartphone in the center console would likely be ejected or demolished by the same.

2) The two way voice phase before initiating emergency services gives comfort that there aren't false emergency calls that can get you in legal or financial troubles.

3) Via the antenna on the car (raised, on the outside of the vehicle, large), I can confidently say that OnStar has given me connectivity in many cases where my smartphone has none.

I'm not trying to be an ad for OnStar, but based upon those facts I can't make the economic decision that this is a replacement for that. For someone who doesn't have OnStar as an option this would likely be fine, but just thought it was worth mentioning that.
This article seems to take SRS as a legitimate subreddit. I always thought SRS was a satire, an over-the-top parody of extremist feminist/minority groups.

Have I fallen victim to Poe's law or has the panelist? Is SRS mostly 'real' or mostly satire?
I'll be publishing a series of articles that dive into the nitty-gritty of how Harmony works in the coming days, so I don't want to answer every single "How do you?..." question in this thread, but since you're the first one:

Git octopus merges of N parents are exploded into N-1 commits, each of which has some Harmony-specific metadata in its changeset extras field. We then use this data both to reassemble the octopus merge, and to prevent you pushing a changeset that has one of the "fake" octopus merges as a parent.
http://i.imgur.com/5ov1qdf.png

This is an interesting result. Even more interesting is the extra 2000 results that Google throws in my direction.
Just buy Swype! :-)
While it is understandable that the author is upset about his dealings with O'Reilly, I would have preferred if he left people's names out of the article. Naming the acquisitions’ editor does not affect the article, but makes the author sound (a bit) whiny. No need to get personal, especially since the issue is with the entire company.

I have been purchasing O'Reilly books since the mid '90s. They used to be my goto publisher. Looking back the past few years, the only book I have purchased from them was the Programming Collective Intelligence book, which was published in 2007. Manning has replaced them as my new goto book series. O'Reilly has been publishing many small books. Instead of one good MongoDB cookbook, they choose to publish 5-6 smaller ones, whose prices are almost comparable to a book of "normal" length.

And let's not discuss their conference pricing. What happened to Hadoop World after they took over? I hope that smaller conferences will not be bought out by O'Reilly.
The biggest change is air resistance.

Some day when you are on a freeway without many other cars around, shift into neutral. Depending on your car model, you will lose 1-2 mph every second until you get to around 50 mph, when you will lose speed much more slowly. On a flat road it might take you a whole minute to drop the next 10 mph.

(Make sure you are in the right hand land before doing stuff like this. Also be aware that driving too slow can be as dangerous as driving too fast.)
It's intentional, see here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5360191
"To balance things out, Farhad invited Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, but he dropped out, so it was just the three of us."

False. On 8/13/12, I got a Google News Alert showing my name listed on a panel on the SXSW Panel Picker that I had never even heard of, let alone agreed to.

The way SXSW works, people submit panel concepts (presumably with the knowledge of everyone involved) in order to get 'votes' that help the SXSW team decide which panels to approve. I have no idea how long that post was getting 'votes' with my name falsely associated with it.

I immediately emailed Farhad, who was listed as the organizer:

> my email to Farhad

I wasn't even planning on being at Sxsw interactive this year.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt but this appears to be remarkably unprofessional.

Please have my name removed from this immediately:
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/3709

Let me know when it's done.

Thanks
Alexis

> Farhad's reply (Jason, reddit's PR, CCed)

Hey Alexis,

I'm sorry, I guess there's been a misunderstanding. I asked Jason Bellinger at Reddit PR -- CCd here -- a couple months ago if you would do it; he said that either you or Erik Martin likely would be able to.

I thought that we were submitting a generic "Reddit representative" for the event, but apparently we put in your name. (This entry was being coordinated by Slate's PR company -- I didn't create it.) I'll contact them to get your name removed ASAP.

Jason, do you know if Erik will be able to take part -- should we switch his name in there?

> Jason (reddit PR)

Hey Farhad -

I had said that I'd get back to you if they were interested, and as they aren't going this year, I didn't confirm it with you. I'm sorry if there was a misunderstanding here.

> Farhad

Ah, it's my mistake, then; I understood that to be either/or. I do apologize and will get it taken care of.

---

I do believe there's a discussion to be had about promoting civility (and curbing bigotry, assholish behavior, etc) on social media -- these ills exist on wordpress, on youtube, on twitter, and yes, on reddit -- but when one can't even honestly invite participants, let alone frame the debate, we all miss an opportunity.

I've had & heard frank & thorough discussions on the subject with friends like Latoya Peterson (www.racialicious.com) and Christina Xu (www.awesomefoundation.org) so I know it's possible, but my concern is that there are people engaged who'd prefer pageviews over progress.
That is completely stupid given the existence of other secure digital cash systems that support offline payments. Go implement Chaum's work if you do not trust banks to facilitate transactions, and you'll get a more secure and more robust currency at a lower energy cost than Bitcoin.
Don't they already do this? I don't know much about marketing, but I was under the impression that pretty much any large company would have guidelines about what overall message they want to convey in any public communications.
More: What is my gas mileage? How long can I go without refilling (can I make it to my destination)? How has my (friend/significant other/child) been driving when they're in my car? What can I do to be improving my driving habits or fuel economy? How far did I drive and what did it cost me (anyone who travels for work)?
That's a good number for IOD (ignition off draw). Radios, excluding screen aim to be sub-mA range.

Most other electronic components are sub-100uA
Nothing is more disheartening to me than to see companies with formerly good intentions turn to nothing but a burned out husk of their former selves the second the founder takes a less than dominating role in day-to-day operations. It just reaffirms my cynical view that companies are out for profit at any cost.
I'm really torn on this. Part of me says "hey, I never [expressly] said you could look at that" and another part is saying "that's really neat".
My point is that tens of millions of people think you should be able to manage files on your smartphone, but Apple makes that impossible without jailbreaking and Apple apologists routinely argue by implication that because they don't feel they need it, it's not necessary.
They lost me by making on the iPhone first......

Android should have been the first device they released it for.
I wonder if this has much/anything to do with Valve's Linux push?

I know that it is possible to do Kinect stuff on Linux, but if they can make it easier on Windows then perhaps they can get people building Kinect games that target Windows rather than aiming for cross platform?
Clojure: All grown up
To play devil's advocate, let's consider that it might actually be important to push new icons into the public icon lexicon.

Right now I'm typing this comment in a browser window that has three icons at the top right: a little line like this _, two layered squares []], and an X. What do those do? Obviously, they minimize, 'restore', and close the window. Why 'obviously'? These symbols are not intrinsically 'obvious'. They have become a standard since roughly the days of Windows 3.1. We expect them to be there, and I prefer the icons to a little status bar that says "Minimize, Restore, Close."

Then there are three icons below that, a left-facing arrow (<-), a right-facing arrow (->) and an arrow that loops back on itself in a circle. Again, the meanings are 'obvious', insofar as they are not obvious but are part of the public icon lexicon. It can be said this is "common knowledge" that these represent the 'navigate back', 'navigate forward', and 'reload' functionalities of my browser.

How did these icons become standard? Through initial experimentation, then widespread acceptance and propagation.

The good ideas caught on, and bad ones were lost to the sands of time. There are some crappy icons out there that didn't make it.

Consider a recent example - the share icon[1]. A decade ago this thing didn't exist. Now it's everywhere. It's beginning to become commonplace. These days, many applications have a basic 'share' functionality, and few use an icon that looks different from this. So is it a standard at this point? Maybe.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=share+icon
I like the concept, but I have two objections to it. One, as pointed out by others, I'm highly skeptical of some of those edge cases. They mention a few of them at the end of that article, but they largely gloss them over saying they're dealt with automatically. My other objection is with Kiln itself. Not open source, not cross-platform, and even on Windows it seems to have strange requirements (like you can't run it on the domain controller). Sorry, any service that requires Windows is a automatic fail so far as I'm concerned.
False; diacritics commonly used in the real-world such as "´¨`" fit inside the same space as the characters, this successive chain of diacritics is never used in real-world texts except for very few obscure cases. Plus the implementation of UTF8 should include the line-height required for the correct displaying of the character if they really believe the displaying of obscure characters is more important than usability.
Rocks insulate fairly well, so the interior would probably be unscathed after reentry. Fresh meteorites tend to be extremely cold, because only the outer layers heated up in reentry, and the inside is still cold from being in space for a couple billion years.
Violentacrez is like the gift that keeps on giving for Adrian's and this women's career.

She asked some interesting questions, It would be nice if she took the same amount of time that she took in shaming Redditors to answer her own questions.
Then what about the author's other points where you can increase your productivity if you avoid all alcohol and get good rest. If productivity is what is most important, then maybe your employer should be allowed to limit your alcohol consumption during your off-hours.

If you're employing someone putting together sprockets on an assembly line, then yes, productivity may be the most important thing to you. If you are employing managers, designers, programmers, advertising folks... then maybe productivity is not your primary goal. Maybe getting the smartest work from them is more important than getting the greatest amount of output.

Personally, I'd rather have one brilliant, game-changing program/algorithm/policy/advertisement than one hundred mediocre pieces of output.
That would almost exactly pay for the cost of the device after taking it in to read the code once.
I wonder if it's possible to set a different emergency number instead of 911? Emergency services use 112 in Europe.
That's how I thought it'd work, just curious. Looking forward to reading up how it works - I hope it's not too fragile.
Do you have a source for that? Because from experience (being an EU driver) most cars I've dealt with have the port in a different location.

Some as wonderful as being literally right in the centre console, to being as horrible as under a mat in the passenger side.
Show HN: Algolia – in-app search as it should be, typo-friendly and realtime
This is a great start to what I hope will be an awesome product. One of the other commenters mentioned fleet/enterprise customers -- let me raise my hand (as one of those customers) and say how SORELY needed this sort of approach to tech is in the fleet space.

I actually predict (hope?) this will take off more on the business side than the consumer side. Here's the problem:

Fleet managers (that is, people who are responsible for keeping track of/maintaining large numbers of vehicles used by a company) need a simple way of doing three things:

1. Locating their vehicles.

2. Getting data about their vehicles

3. Changing settings on their vehicles (i.e. lock/unlock, etc.)

That's really basically it. And you would be surprised how totally awful the existing solutions are for doing even two of them (most focus on #1). 3 is a bit more difficult as not everything can be done through the OBD port, but many things can.

There are, literally, a hundred different companies that sell products that do the first - usually in the form of a hidden box that has a GPS antenna and a (really crappy and expensive) cellular modem that pings a really expensive service via GPRS or some similar out-of-date tech and costs $30/month/device for service + $500 / device. It's absurd.

What every fleet manager actually wants: The Automatic device w/ mobile data transmission ability (i.e. not tethered to an iPhone). Let me a) see where my car(s) are, b) get telemetry from the OBD port, and c) interact with the car in whatever fashion is possible via the OBD port.

I know that's a 2nd gen product that I'm proposing - and I think these guys are smart to start with something that tethers to a consumer phone for data. But produce this product for a reasonable price and there are literally hundreds of thousands (millions?) of fleet vehicles on the road that will scoop 'em up.

And I think the use case is stronger for an enterprise product. I hear fleet managers (and myself) asking for this product every day. I don't hear consumers saying "damn, I wish I knew how efficient my braking was."

Anyway, the tl;dr is: Awesome. Eager. Good Luck!
Unique digital photo installation of user based Instagram photos.
Apologies for the following rant, but these topics annoy the absolute hell out of me.

That list isn't a list "...as to why Android is REALLY better than the iPhone." at all. It's a list of why you think it is better. I have iPhone and a Nexus S. I despise Android device. It's a Nexus S running Jelly Bean, and I find it to be clunky as hell. I found it to be clunky as hell with Gingerbread too. Why the hell should I have to simply to have a satisfactorily functioning device? Reading into it, there is no guarantee that installing Cyanogenmod will improve things for me either. Of course, these are my opinions and they are worth little to anyone other than me, much like your list of 'facts'. What happened to live and let live? What happened to use the tool that works for you? Why do we have to endure the endless and meaningless pissing contests?
Yes but to make money they need to persuide others to cooperate with them. They're certainly no monopoly and don't posess the knowlegde and skills to create their products themselves.
Github's workflow, features and terminology are focused on open source projects and those projects tend to work in a specific way. Kiln is focused on providing features that fit better inside a business environment. For example, the idea of a pull request is a bit foreign in a business environment. Internally, almost all the code written eventually gets shipped, so the social interaction around pull requests doesn't fit exactly right.

Joel explains it better than I can: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/03/11.html
What I want from my driving assistant: Notify me (perhaps with a beep) if I go N mph above speed-limit for a road. Let me specify what that N should be, and let me override the speed limits for a specific road (this will hopefully allow the service to crowd-source the speed limits data)
It's time to remember PBEM (Play by e-mail games) where all players made their turns at the same time, I think these concepts can be used in concurrent turn based strategy games.
Jeff Bezos and Operating Leverage
It was mandated that all cars built and sold in the US starting in 1996 have it..
... technically... shouldn't it be god?... just saying...
It can work on it's own, true, but it is more effective if used in combination with medication. [1]

Though CBT doesn't seem to be more effective compared to other types of therapy for treating depression. It is still better than no therapy. [2]

[1] Chan EK-H. Efficacy of cognitive-behavioral, pharmacological, and combined treatments of depression: A meta-analysis.

[2]Hoffman et al. The Efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Review of Meta-analyses.
A minor note: the landing page, on smaller viewports, has some unfortunate overlap issues:

http://imgur.com/Imb7EJE

Should be a relatively easy fix with some background-fu applied to the footer.
Doh, you're right. For some reason I had it in my head that the block itself wrapped onto multiple lines but I must have been thinking of something else.

It seems like there isn't really any CSS only solution for this without wrapping every character in its own element like jQueryIsAwesome suggested.
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But it's not just Earth-like life, it's known species. That's a totally different thing.

Imagine if a car was found in a meteorite. It looks sort of like Earth cars. One explanation is that it actually came from Earth. Another explanation would be that it really is from space, but it looks like Earth cars either due to convergent design, or a sharing of ideas in the past.

Now imagine if another car was found in a meteorite. But not just a car that looks like an Earth car. It is, in fact, a 2009 Toyota Prius. This obviously did not come from space. No amount of convergent design or sharing of ideas can explain that.
In addition to other people's recommendations, your car may have a way of spitting out the code to you. Go look on the internet for 'read OBD codes <car model>'.

It might be as easy as turning the car on/off/on/off/on in less than 10 seconds and reading the digital odometer, or as complicated as a 10-step process that spits out the codes to you as a number of flashes of the dashboard display.

That said, having an OBD reader could make you everyone's new best friend.
It kind of sounded to me like the author was pointing out that, though O'Reilly sucks, the editors (including the acquisitions editor) were good. The author didn't seem to get personal in a bad way.
Are you talking about the Kiln servers, or issues with client software? The servers are hosted, so you don't need to worry about any requirements or cross platform issues.