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I think Trimmit originally received investment from a hong Kong vc. Then seeked out sri to improve the product at which point they got deeply involved.

I don't think sri seeked out trimmit.
usually helps to put a phone number if you're expecting a call.
> You need an external

No you don't, there are backup options that are not external drives. You do however have to carry around extra hardware if your data has to be on it because you picked a smaller, more expensive internal. The performance improvements to a SSD are just not needed by everyone.
Ask HN: Good SFBA tech meetups 
I'm looking for maker-heavy San Francisco bay area tech meetups where the focus is more on showing/talking about hardware/software than socializing or steam-punk fire jugglers.

- Dorkbot SF sounds like it fits my criteria but I don't see anything on the calendar for 2013.

- sfnewtech advertises that it is the "place to see and be seen" which sounds like it is more about networking, also they have lots of photos of beautifully dressed people and I'm looking for groups with lots of photos of beautifully appointed robots

- 2600 lists something in the embarcadero area but has little to no info

- http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ lists some hackerspaces that have meet-ups. I'll be going to some of these.

What are your recommended bay area tech meetups? Do you have any comments on your experiences with these?
I live in Houston and my first year compensation out of college was about $83k. That was really good considering that my peers who stayed in Houston got around $60k it seems. Anyway, even I could not afford to get a house with a yard in the city center ("within biking distance"). At least, not any sort of decent home that one would want to live in. A nice 1br apartment in the city center (nice = safe, clean, updated appliances, washer/dryer in the unit, etc.) is also going to cost $1k/month minimum--anything less and you'll be giving up safety, comfort, or proximity. Of course, that's a far cry from SV, but it's still far from ridiculously cheap as well.

As for a house out in a suburb? Absolutely. Minus the downpayment, I could have afforded a decent one right out of college. But those houses come with a minimum of a 30 minute commute, one way, by car.

I was always under the impression that Houston was actually cheaper than Austin, but perhaps I'm wrong.
Indeed. And there is the possibility that they just won't move on anything until FY 2014 or later. Though commandar brings up the point that even if they didn't have the capital themselves to deploy fiber, we _did_ give them the capital once and they squandered it.
No, the real value in bitcoin is the blockchain. It shows us a method to use to create and mutate an agreed-upon public state history using a p2p network. Namecoin shows that this can be used for other purposes than merely currency.

Blockchain based coordination and provision of public goods is the future.
Oh, many people don't understand DMCA at all. They think it's a shortcut to take down content they don't like. It's not only the big companies that are doing it.

The DMCA is way too easy to misuse
The irony is that robots.txt doesn't even prevent things from being indexed. The files can still be indexed if there's a link to them on the Internet; that's what <meta noindex> is for. (Which, ironically, requires that the page not be robotted, because if it is it can't be crawled, which means the meta tag can't be discovered.)
Fascinating read albeit in a butt ugly environment.

Android makes Google no money and worse empowers companies like Samsung who could soon shut them out. Google has ChromeOS which has none of the baggage Android. Release a ChromeOS phone and see what happens?
Yes, but teaching java before graduation is different than teaching it first. You can get all the benefits you mentioned of learning Java even if it's the second or third language while using something nicer for the first one (python? Scheme? SML?).
CS teaches the fundamental theories that form the mathematical basis of programming. It is true, to be a mediocre programmer you only need a few intro lessons or just a couple weekend hackathons, but to master it you need that theoretical CS background which covers it much more in depth.
Has anyone ever sponsored or been sponsored for Dev Bootcamp, or the like?
I'm curious to hear the experiences of companies that have sponsored, or people who have been sponsored for Dev Bootcamp, The Starter League or the like.<p>Do you think it was worth it? Was it a success? Do you think it would've been a better experience if you were not sponsored?
I've a Galaxy Nexus and the cellular operator's 3G usage pop-ups in screen make my life hell. It just keeps on receiving them. Whenever there's a background transaction of data, even a kilobyte. That means if my phone is kept for 30 minutes and I get a call, I need to click through those 10-20 accumulated pop-up windows on my Android screen to receive the call or do anything on my phone. On mornings when there's no Wi-Fi I usually get some 70-100 such pop-ups. I counted. Sometimes I better switch off and then switch on the phone to avoid clicking through those pop-ups.

The cellular operator (Airtel India) says it's a feature and argues that every operator has it and that iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows (etc) users don't have this problem. True.

Samsung support says - this is Google feature and then is quick to add - but we never sold Galaxy Nexus in India. No support there. Sorry, bye-bye.

I go to raise a Google-code issue just like this. Well, there's one already logged - years old.
Of course without a fix or response from Google!

I'm an Android developer(day job) with a laaarge OEM but I doubt an Android is going to be my next phone. I am not comfortable with paying for anything very expansive then being on my own.

This is how Google provides support. They don't.
Didn't we have a situation a few weeks ago where the major iaaue was the use of public shaming? Did the professor com incubate with the student privately? I assume the student released the email in an attempt to public ally shame the professor. Student -2, professor -1. Now can we all grow up now and try to minimally maintain scores of 0?
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Unfortunately if the 2880x1800 resolution is important to you, at this stage the MBP is the only option.

I agree though, you can't purchase a MacBook under the assumption that it'll be upgradable. I didn't buy one and I am quite happy with my 1080p 13" laptop until high resolution Windows laptops are available.
So, I just tried this out. I think it would be a lot more user friendly if you could see what "spells" are available when making a new spell (i.e. have auto completion in the text editor). It's a pain to have to look at the spell book, and limits experimentation.
As a note, latch is also used in the hardware world[1]. It's used to implement memory and is often connected to a clock.

It also was part of the conceptual idea of the very cool demo language ANIC[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latch_%28electronics%29

[2] http://code.google.com/p/anic/wiki/Tutorial
Same with Intel, when they hired their first CEO who didn't rise through the ranks as a process engineer.
Oh, gehar, you're always being so sarcastic! ;)
Uhh, have you been watching their stock at all for the past 6 months?
Thanks for clarifying! It makes sense to use a different word in the DB community if Lock has some other previous meaning. It's easy to forget that RDBMS terminology has been along longer than most areas of CS.

The terminology clash in this case is unfortunate, because I'd wager that 90% of the people active in the field of concurrent data structures will use 'lock' rather than 'latch'.
Maybe this was edited in later (I missed it the first time), but...

>Though Summly's own Web site once said: "SRI International, with the help of the Summly team, built the summarization technology behind Summly," we are told that D'Aloisio "invented" the product's original technology.

>In a statement provided to us by a Yahoo spokesperson, an SRI spokesperson says: "Basically, Nick developed the original code for Summly."

>"After the original product was built, SRI supported development of the technology and provided artificial intelligence expertise in machine learning and natural language processing."

I don't know about you, but I need a pretty large grain of salt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y11ps1H6Aq4 is a youtube demo of his first app, trimit, 9 months and $300,000 in VC before summly. It seems 2 comprez ur mezages like this. Maybe that's the original code.
Android basically dominates I/O now. There's no way Google walks away in the near term, especially now that they have a UX team that understands how to build a compelling device. (Pre-FroYo Android was terrible, but from ICS on, it's developed a pretty solid interface.)
> This is how Google provides support. They don't.

This is a completely unrelated issue caused by your carrier. Why are you posting it here?
That's my gist as well, but for an article with such a bold title, it doesn't really say much.
That was the primary reason I was confused; "WTF does it mean for software to not use latches?" :)
So yes, while you're startup may choose Python or Ruby or the latest language of the day, Java is a great system to teach a lot of fundamental computer science topics with.

Are you implying that Python (1991) and Ruby (1995) are some sort of flavor of the day compared to Java (1995)? :-)

import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

public class Pets {
private List<String> pets;

public Pets() {
this.pets = new LinkedList<String>();
this.pets.add("cat");
this.pets.add("dog");
this.pets.add("bird");
}
}

or whatever may be great for transitioning people to C++ later on (not exactly where all the jobs are...), but

pets = ["cat", "dog", "bird"]

is probably a gentler introduction for elementary school students.
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I don't understand how bug reports can sit around for months with dozens (if not hundreds) of comments on them without a single response from somebody with an @google.com username. I feel like I've seen this happen for all kinds of Google products, not just Android. Or am I missing something here?
By the way there's also MPEx www.mpex.co which was established on August 2011 and "has neved been hacked".
Incidentally USB Host is also crippled on Nexus 4 [1]. Surprising to discover another big feature broken on a flagship Android device.

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/device/lge/mako/+show/f608d...
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No initial product is likely to contribute to solving those problems, because most initial products don't lead to anything.

Conversely, a startup that grows sufficiently big can contribute to the solution of almost any problem, including those you mention.
With the price soaring to new heights, how do you pay for things in bitcoins when a single bitcoin is worth so much? Can you pay in fractions of a bitcoin?
Is this is anyway related to MarkPad for Windows?

http://code52.org/DownmarkerWPF/
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Apple needs to fix this process or they WILL lose developers.

I have no problem with simple humans making a decision to list an app in the App Store according to subjective guidelines. It helps get through a lot of submissions fast.

But delisting an app should involve a serious review process involving several levels of people on both sides.

And the depth of the review process should directly correlate to the number of installs and the time the app has been in the store.

This means that something like AppGratis has at least an assurance that their 45 staff wont be out of a job simply because they got someone in a bad mood.

The whole "no sympathy" bullshit is talk from people with nothing better to do that shit upon a fellow HN reader.

Imagine if Apple decided to pull Zynga's apps because they use notifications to promote themselves. There goes a public company up in smoke. The FTC will surely have something to say about that.
Why would I want to view the Standard Template Library?
Ask HN: Investor wants to invest but doesn't want to lead a round. What now?
Long story short:
Running a project/start up with a friend for about a year, we looked for funding right away while we were building a mvp (not sure if that was a good idea, but w/e) but then cooled off and focused more on product stuff. Because of that we haven't really been focusing on raising about 6 months.

We could probably keep going on like this indefinitely with out raising and keep trying to grow.

Should we suck it up and start looking for more people to join in a possible round? Or just keep focusing on what we're doing now?

Were in nyc, and we're still trying to figure out how to work the area so trying to go back and do what didn't work last time doesn't seem that appealing (even though we have one person who wants to fund us in a round with others).
For a lot of reasons. First, if I'm spending time creating an app, it would be nice to know with 100% certainty that it will be accepted in the app store. Second, it's unfair if competitors don't have to run by the same set of rules. Third, because it's extremely confusing and could turn developers off from creating on their platform.
Not so. Learning on an interpreted language is akin to learning how to fly a plane by simply riding in one. There is a lot to learn in a CS program, and it really requires a single language from start to finish. Python doesn't have some of the advanced capabilities and adoption of an enterprise-class language like Java. Believe me, I love Python - I've created a ton of apps with it, but I also have a CS degree and have seen the practicality of using a single language from start to finish.

How are you going to reinforce the notion of how a compiler works with an interpreted language? How would you teach and force the use of static types on a dynamically typed language? How would you teach true concurrency and thread safety with a language that is limited by a global interpreter lock (GIL)? These are introductory things a CS student would take in their first year.
It's in my profile. :-)
Work for a tyrant and you will eventually get screwed over - a good lesson for developers who target Apple products.

Stallman remains very right on Apple - it is the antithesis of openness and hacker culture, and the fact that good programmers choose to be Apple serfs is very disappointing.

For those who say developers have no choice but to target Apple products or lose a big chunk of revenue - if developers had refused to develop apps for Apple from the outset, and only targeted open platforms, they wouldn't be in a dominant position in the first place.
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I suspect there is far more of a flavour of elitism in ones use of a text editor than any true benefit in real world productivity.

I tried ST2 to see what all the fuss was about. I still use it occasionally (mainly for its layout view on the right hand side), but Notepad++ is my main editor as ST2 has a particular problem that you can't toggle the reloading of a changed file.

I use Vim for huge files.

In any case, when I am programming I spend more time thinking than typing and unless I am doing heavy re-factoring of code, more powerful text editors are just a non issue for me.
That doesn't make much sense - as far as I understand, so far as the US, you cannot patent or hold a license over an algorithm, only an implementation thereof.
Gentler for a weekend hacker, but not for a student. Java is verbose for a reason - safety and reliability. Things enterprises value.

Students need to learn what is most pervasive in the field they plan to enter. That being Java. Starting them out on a "lite" version of a programming language simply because it is easier is just setting them up for failure.
How Enterprise.

No background compiles? Stable interfaces between classes?
Yes, just like you can pay in fractions of a dollar or Euro.
I don't believe that "high quality, free educational materials" is something that is easily attainable. I will say that the "free" part will exist but "high quality" may not be there. I don't think we can equate educational materials as the same level and quality of open-source software.

If you look at Khan Academy, really the forefront in this area, you quickly realize that someone is absorbing the cost. In this case, Bill Gate's foundation and others. As a result, you have someone with the calibre of John Resig working for the organization and they are putting out job postings.

I really like Coursera. I like the open-course offerings from MIT, Harvard, etc. Someone is definitely paying for these as it is not cheap. In this case, the universities are paying (and implicitly the students).

So, I definitely agree with your sentiments but I do believe we will get high-quality when there is a profit motive. I am not saying free and high-quality cannot co-exist with educational materials but I don't believe its very common.

In addition, my hope is that there is enough traction that the subscription plans stay low for these learning companies. One of the benefits in this area is that it has become very competitive and hence costs are coming down. Just take a look at what Pluralsight was charging five years versus now (or even Tekpub). There is a definate downwards pressure on how much these companies can charge.
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Thanks - should have checked wikipedia first - "In trade, one bitcoin is subdivided into 100 million smaller units called satoshis, defined by eight decimal places."
I wonder how hard it would be to get both AT&T gigabit and google gigabit in the same place.
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regarding 10,000 hours ... from Moonwalking with Einstein

"What separates experts from the rest of us is that they tend to engage in a very directed, highly focused routine, which Ericsson has labeled “deliberate practice.” Having studied the best of the best in many different fields, he has found that top achievers tend to follow the same general pattern of development. They develop strategies for consciously keeping out of the autonomous stage while they practice by doing three things: focusing on their technique, staying goal-oriented, and getting constant and immediate feedback on their performance. In other words, they force themselves to stay in the “cognitive phase.”...

The best ice skaters spend more of their practice time trying jumps that they land less often, while lesser skaters work more on jumps they’ve already mastered. Deliberate practice, by its nature, must be hard....

Amateur musicians, for example, are more likely to spend their practice time playing music, whereas pros are more likely to work through tedious exercises or focus on specific, difficult parts of pieces...

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend. In fact, in every domain of expertise that’s been rigorously examined, from chess to violin to basketball, studies have found that the number of years one has been doing something correlates only weakly with level of performance."

tl;dr

10,000 hours may not make you expert. Constantly increasing the level of difficulty of what you practice/work on might be more important.
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You've got the right idea, but I think your numbers are off. If you shorted 25 BTC at $200.00 would you not be credited with $5,000?

So when the price rises to $400 you would have to buy back the equivalent amount with $5,000 of your own dollars and $5000 from the original short.
Ask HN: Did anyone in nyc lose iMessage today?
I used automatic summarization to try to reduce the article to a pithy tweet and ended up with:

"Fuck, I don't know. And what's with Bezos investing in BusinessInsider? And what is Amazon's business plan anyway? And why does Apple's stock keep dropping whenever it gains market share?"
Real link: http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=277
humm, is it still a safe harbor if there are contractual obligations like this in place?
Time to pivot, go web mobile, retain user base, launch from there maybe, - but overall you should of seen this coming, any time you get "tooo" close to app core apps, especially the app store models no matter how much you "fix" their problem, you will get pinched.

And the paying 20k for app promotion, or taking rev share on apps sold, that was just plain stupid given that you provide apple more ammo.

Real question is, how long does Kindertown have?
They're going to have a certain amount of fixed overhead per instance, mostly in the form of support, so it may not be worthwhile to them to drop below $20 for any size.
If they're really planning on the "Nexus 5" having 256gb of internal storage at $299... I'm definitely waiting!
Thanks for the advice
I have a Nexus 10. It crashes about once a week restarting the gui (adb restore backup does so too). Playing audio via Bluetooth is choppy if the device hasn't been rebooted for a few days. It feels like several years ago when I had a Blackberry (no data service though) and a poll question was "which app do you use to daily reboot your phone?" I'm on the verge of writing one for Android.
I bought a Nexus One and the only problems I never had the any unexpected problems with it. (The extremely limited memory for app storage seriously hampered its usefulness, but that was a design limitation that I knew going in.)
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Ask HN: If you could automate one thing in your home, what would it be?
Suppose a genie showed up and offer to take one thing in your home and automate it. What would you choose?

Examples:

1) Dishwasher automatically starts once its full.
2) Lights turn on and off when you enter or leave a room.
3) Carpets are vacuumed by a tiny little robot without you having to lift a finger.
It still blows my mind that you can't pay $X,000-$XX,000 a year to get into a different line at Apple and get some damn feedback. Companies are investing hundreds of thousands of dollars a month building iOS apps, and they get the same treatment as a guy making an alarm clock app one Saturday morning. And I say that as a former alarm clock app sideproject maker and now professional app developer.
I'm very sure both the replies to you here are incorrect. These are not 0 confirmation transactions but are instead going through a company called Bitpay.