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They don't -- not in this economy and this point in the hiring cycle.
> work each day trying to make their city a little nicer, or pay teachers a bit more, or cut down on crime, etc.

These are examples of very local politicians, except maybe the last one. Interesting.
And the tiny amount of RAM and extremely limited storage? SD expansion, if you don't mind slow transfer rates.

Also, I understood that you can't actually use the Surface Pro as a laptop; it has to be with the kickstand at just that angle. That seems to indicate the keyboard/laptop mode is fairly limited.
Well the most interesting part of the Matrix trilogy was when Neo used his powers in the 'real' world; specifically stopping the drones and being able to see despite losing his eyesight.
Wordpress custom posts and custom fields vs. separate tables
Wordpress Custom post's and custom fields in the post_meta tables seem like it would slow down the system if many entries and fields were entered. Likewise it would require custom data exports if you moved off WP. Why not use a custom table and link it to the post with a custom plugin? How much more work are you saving by using custom posts/meta data now, vs coding it in separate tables (plus the time later)? My gut is not much, but I don't have quantified numbers. Anyone care to weigh in?
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Hi.

Thanks a lot for linking the website.

You are right, I am 5% of the way.

I think I'll try to find a guy/girl very good with marketing and sales who can help to find the right market for it and target it effectively.

Dan
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Thanks! Glad to help. Definitely exciting to see some new competition in this space (or in this case, old competition getting refreshed).

(I'm a founder at AppThwack)
Sadly the way things appear to work nowadays unless you politely ask enough law makers with enough large checks attached to your polite requests, little happens.
From running virtual machines to running virtual universes. Same job, more work.
Is there anything more than a LaunchRock page yet?
Why not just turn on the emoji keyboard and use unicode symbols instead of regular characters the standard keyboard.

An emoji password like happyface heart pizza devil hospital trafficlight cow moon is probably going to be more secure than any word/number combination that could be dictionary attacked.

This obviously assumes the site properly encodes Unicode, but also somewhat limits use for most people to devices with the keyboard.
Yes. The model they have is ideal IMHO - viewing the site doesn't require a login, and then when you do sign up, it is an extremely low friction process.
Where are they? They aren't 'there.'

The obvious point is, we may very well be the first, or 10th. And that's precisely why 'they' aren't anywhere.

And it's plausible that we're vastly underestimating how difficult it actually is to spread machines throughout the galaxy.

I don't happen to agree with the notion that we'd have to see evidence by now if there has been other life.

It's entirely plausible that a hundred other unique humanoids have existed on this planet, a billion or two years before we did, and that they all failed with minimum trace. We know for a fact that several variations have failed, so why not another 100? And if it's so difficult, then why not apply those odds to other planets?

In five billion years our planet, which is very hospitable to life, has managed to produce one currently existing 'intelligent' life form (that can barely fly to the moon). That means it's extraordinarily rare even on our planet. By most measures, humans barely managed to survive, and we got lucky to so far avoid a wipeout event.

The odds of life being generated in any given billion year time frame, on a planet that can possibly support it, and assuming the right conditions for intelligent life (eg that the planet doesn't get destroyed or altered by an asteroid etc), and on the reduction goes.

I think spacefaring life is exceptionally rare, and it only gets X amount of time to potentially exist before the solar system or galaxy or universe crushes it.

In short, I don't think there's enough time for intelligent life to span even a galaxy before being wiped out by nature. And why don't we see probes floating around? For the same reason Voyager will eventually be obliterated by rocks in space or gravity (and in the time scale of the milky way, it won't be a very long before that happens).
So they have to simulate an array of 13 dimensions instead of 4. Technically it's equivalent though.
Any data to show whose tablet business is very profitable except Apple? or more generally, is there any evidence showing that the "tablet market" is not equivalent to the "iPad market" anymore?
Chartboost got rejected from YC in S11. These days we're at $21M in funding led by Sequoia for Series B and ~55 employees. :)

It's not the end of the world.
A soft reboot? Maybe there was a hung up kernel.
Well of course conlangs are an exception >,>
currently building it. have got basic functionality going but need to work on UI.
> Do you hold them to a higher level of moral responsibility during their off time because of what they do for a living?

Only if they get "professional courtesy" every time they get pulled over, unlike the rest of us that get traffic tickets.
The alternative explanation is that the universe just is, and we humans are the ones who seek reason in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
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Divide by zero exceptions run in a try {} catch {} block. It's called a black hole.
Not due to their gender we don't. So you are comfortable being sexist because "perspective". Okay.
Which has nothing to do with instances of the browser.
A few errors in your numbers, it was $6.02 billion, and this was gross revenue not profit - profit was $1.9 billion (still 91% growth in 24 months).

However, Qualcomm is more than ARM chips, so really those numbers are only semi-relevant. If Apple started making their own chips, you wouldn't attribute Apple's financial success to that alone.

Based on the fact that Qualcomm's profit is ~31.7% of it's revenue (in FY12Q4) you could estimate that the profit from chip sales was closer to $1b/quarter (based on annual chip sales revenue of $12.976 billion in 2012) and then the question is how much of this is from ARM sales, which I don't have an answer to.

As to their valuation passing Intel - again, this is based on more than chip sales, and Intel's market share is still almost four times that of Qualcomm currently (though this is likely to keep dropping, for sure).

Personally I'm still far more keen on ARM than the manufacturers. Having factories that create chips from ARM's licenses is very different to turning commodity products into goods like perfume - in the latter it is in part about creativity and marketing (and probably patents, etc. etc.) in the former it is much more about economy of scale, efficiency, etc.

What would it take to beat Qualcomm when it comes to producing ARM chips, and can it be done - get the price lower, and yes it probably could be by someone like Texas Instruments, Samsung, event Intel if they wanted to, potentially AMD (who do want to but I think probably are too small to). How about beating ARM themselves - all of a sudden you're not just trying to out-price the same products, you have to come up with better architecture and get the world to switch over. Whole different ball game.

All that said, Qualcomm are definitely in a great position, and are doing really well. But from a spectator point of view I think ARM are much more exciting, from an investor point of view I think that ARM's long-term future has more potential, and short-term they are paying out dividends per share greater than Qualcomm's total earning per share.

edit: Oh, and remember that even after the decline in profit, Intel's quarterly net profit is still higher than Qualcomm's. For now.

Number sources:

Qualcomm FY12 Q4 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/089f7c6e-6b23-11e2-8017-00144feab4...

ARM FY12 Q4 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020474090457719...

2012 chip sales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Top_20_Semiconductor...
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The theory that we are living in a computer simulation has always intrigued me, but if we were truly running inside of a simulation wouldn't said simulation have safe-guard protocols in place preventing us from determining whether or not we are within a simulation?

Very curious to see if we are all really living within Simcity or The Matrix.
I think it's a solid step forward. It's a more serious typeface for a more serious company.
Hi.

Thanks a lot for linking the website, signing up and provide such detailed feedback!

Your points make all sense - one of them is actually even a bug.

The only think I don't understand is "The search/filter box is a mess.". It looks pretty good on my screen. Can you please be more specific? Do you mean the flow and layout are confusing?

Thanks also for your encouraging words. Yes, there is still a lot to be done.
Being screamed at isn't so bad. Lets say you are working on the moon landing in 1968, it's a year to go and the management are screaming at you to fix the floating point processor so they can actually hit the right spot on the surface. Would you just go work for TI on a new calculator or just get on with it?

Personally, I'm not bothered by things like passionate management. I'm happy enough when they understand what I'm doing well enough to care about screaming.
Isn't that an arrestable offense? How can you work from inside jail?
I've tried to learn category theory off and on for many years and have gotten pretty much nowhere. From my perspective it's the worst area of mathematics as far as effort in vs benefit/understanding out. Have other people encountered this or am I just a bonehead?
Right. There are a lot of improvements to be made, but I'm just trying to make a quick estimate to compare to.
This sounds good, thank you!
Business Insider does not practice journalism. It is more like People Magazine for business.
ISteve
Jesus christ. Calm down. They didn't say forever, and said it would likely change.

They obviously don't want ad-ridden software in the alpha period to give the product a bad name.
I'm not reinventing any wheels - I'm choosing not to use a square wheel, and instead just write the code. Tip: It works for us and many other developers of high-ranking iOS apps.
One of my startup's products (http://cookiewords.com/en/) won us a hackathon in Korea that was hosted by Evernote, who flew us to Evernote HQ in Silicon Valley this past February.

We weren't part of an accelerator per se, but during our week-long stay we got to meet with anyone we wanted, including CEO Phil Libin and COO Ken Gullicksen, their developers, designers, etc.

In fact, they were the ones who originally encouraged us to apply to YC's Summer 2013 class, and we were able to get recommendations from COO Ken Gullicksen and former-CNET-journalist-turned-evangelist Rafe Needleman (author of the blog post above). Unfortunately we got a rejection email this morning, but we got more help from Evernote than we could have ever expected.

The fact that they don't take any equity in their new accelerator program shows just how awesome a company Evernote is, and I'd highly recommend anyone in the "memory/productivity enhancement" space to give it a shot.
I'm apparently missing something. How is speed of light and the maximum horizontal speed of a helicopter relevant to the capabilities a single cop traveling in a single highway capable vehicle in pursuit of another highway capable vehicle?

I think I'm perfectly aware of the existence of radio waves and the breakthrough in communications their discovery unlocked, but I wasn't talking about that. I was talking about two different objects traveling at two different speeds in the same direction being physically incapable of meeting at another point unless the faster object slows down or stops, or in this instance the slower object breaks the speed limit and speeds up.
And absolutely nothing will change.

Like Congress voting back insider-trading.

Zero penalty for speeding off-duty cops and they will still kill people and get away with it.
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We got rejected with http://pathgather.com. First time rejection from YC. Oh well...back to work on our beta release :)
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It seems like many Ultrabook shoppers are unaware that there is a 13" Retina MacBook Pro. It's obviously not everybody's cup of tea, but surely worth considering.

Typed on an IBM ThinkPad. :)
Totally. I expected the simulation within a simulation, turtles all the way down, plot twist.

My favorite theory was that all the humans were passengers on a generational seed ship traveling to the next star, kept in near stasis to keep them alive and mostly sane during the millennial transit.

That would have played nicely with The Architect's explanation that in the perfect simulated world, humans went insane. So The Architect devised worlds with struggles. But the iteration we observed got out of hand, due to The Oracle's meddling.

Such a wasted opportunity.
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Yes, comparing it with the IBM's Guerillas game is like comparing apples to oranges.
Perhaps you know how things are going on under the hood, but I have worked with many iOS developers, and the ones who love InterFace Builder have been clueless. They don't understand the actual view hierarchy, autoresizing masks, and god forbid you need an IB-guy to dabble in CoreGraphics drawing.
The lower-case "g" looked too much like Google's:

http://designmoo.com/3466/github-icons/
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Regardless of the fact that the master password can be brute forced on a machine running a couple of powerful graphics cards, it's refreshing to see 1Password address the situation so openly without making excuses or denying anything. They've always had great customer support and I have no doubt they'll make this a priority to fix as they've so openly said. This doesn't make me feel any less safe, while the chance is there that an attacker could brute force my data, I find it highly unlikely it'll happen between now and when they implement the new cipher. Bravo to Atom for discovering this and coming up with an exploit that can guess 3 million times per second using a graphics card processing unit.
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I don't think this is true. Are we assuming that every universe has an infinite number of civilizations? It's impossible to have uniform probability across an infinite set of discrete probabilities, because every outcome would have a probability of 0.

So with no other knowledge, it's slightly more likely that we are the first civilization than the 5 millionth.

Of course it's tricky to talk about the "first" civilization in the face of relativistic time, but I'm assuming that there is some way to have an ordering of all civilizations.
It's frustrating. I bought a MacBook Pro to replace my aging but much loved Thinkpad X200, but it just doesn't measure up. The Thinkpad has a better keyboard, is more easily expandable (at least memory/hd), and most importantly for me, is built like a tank. The MBP already has a dented corner after an unfortunate tumble, the Thinkpad has endured much, much worse.

All I want is a newer version of the X200, but Lenovo has moved off in a different direction...
I've always felt there's something deeply fallacious -- or hopelessly wrapped up in human psychology -- about taking a representation of a virtual world that we might create and treating it as on par with the actual universe.

It's almost like saying "we're probably characters in a novel," since for every universe there are many novels. Or like that old proof that God exists because he has every desirable quality, including existence -- as if a hypothetical entity could be forced into being by sheer burden of how it is described.

When we talk and reason, we call something a universe to invoke all the general properties our universe has -- except existence, of course, because it would be silly if we could only talk about things that exist. Various things like books and simulations are physical representations of universes that don't exist. By virtue of our interpretation, they are universes nonetheless. When reading a book, we fill in assumptions and details from real life if the author gives us no reason to think otherwise. Tautologically, the world of the book is different from the real world in some limited and structured way, but not in any way that keeps it from being a world at all.

Physics seeks to explain the world exhaustively and reductionistically in terms of mechanisms, models, and mathematics -- basically, to boil it all down to the consequences that emerge from laws and equations that we can completely conceptualize. If the universe consisted just of electromagnetism, for example, then Maxwell's equations would be a "complete" description of the universe, and any simulation of them could be considered a universe. Everything about the universe, every general description that's true of it without reference to specific places, times, and things, would be reflected in the simulated universe as well, because science allows us to subsume it all into the more fundamental description given by the equations.

The problem is that a model of the universe is stil a model. Humans invented the notion that a thing and a description of a thing are equivalent.
our only real hope at this point is that the panopticon will go both ways.
No economist, not even a mathematical finance major thinks about a cost-benefit analysis when considering something more complicated and more chaotic (e.g. everything else in life) than purchasing options or other such cases.

This really does nothing to talk about Economists, as [brianchu] points out, it should be more along the lines of "Dangers of Thinking Like a Politician."
The mbp also heats up like crazy
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. You can lead a corporate horse to water but you'll have to give it hundreds of thousands of dollars to make it drink. Everyone has been wanting the PTO to change the patent system, but it's most likely not going to happen (if it ever does) for a very long time.
I'm no big fan of die-hard economic thinking. (I don't think many have been since the Great Irish Famine.) But the arguments in this article are weak and do disservice to actual criticism.

> Is there some level of carbon tax at which we would forego every lake on earth rather than apply it?

Of course. If the neo-nazi party had an infallible way to preserve all lakes on Earth for a mere 99% of our income, I think we'll all pass up the opportunity. (Don't tell me it's not a carbon tax. You do breathe out CO₂.)

>If there is a 1% chance the world will end unless we do x, we shouldn’t do a cost-benefit analysis. Instead, assuming x is feasible, we should simply do it.

Unless paying x leaves us unable to deal with a 2% threat. Really, by this logic we should just follow the fantasies of whoever comes up with the most catastrophic scenario - no matter the likelihood. Cthulhu rising from the deep, anyone?
Wow. Just wow. Amazing.
Not QBasic, but this was my first PC programming "experience" [1]. I got tired of typing these in, so I would con my Dad's secretary to type these in because she could type (I didn't really understand at the time that a secretary typing wasn't the same as a programmer typing :P).

Some worked, some didn't and I think I wasn't really old enough at the time to understand why they wouldn't, but I have a lot of fond memories and pride at getting these to work.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/BASIC-Computer-Games-Microcomputer-Edi...
Most of the Google tablets seem to have Tegra's in them. Apple does their own chips of course. I'm not sure anyone is very profitable with tablets yet beyond Apple, but Asus might do OK.
I wonder what _why has planned? Is there a return to the Ruby community in his sights? Has he written another book on Ruby or is it all a lot of build-up for nothing? Stay tuned.
Indeed, this is one of the more interesting systems evolutions of our time. Its inspiration was the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE), a cold war-era air threat assessment computer with real distributed qualities and light gun interfaces! By way of IBM, SAGE begat the Semi-automated Business Research Environment (SABRE, as it was then). It was the first GDS, and has operated in one form or another for 60+ years. Very impressive stuff, and humbling from the perspective of a mere software engineer. Working with such systems, with services interacting sometimes directly with green screens, is a far cry from Facebook and Twitter APIs, or ITA for that matter. This stuff is solid and vital, and the fear (not to mention cost) to manipulate it is astounding.
I wouldn't mind if Business Insider links were blocked from HN.
Did the pure math researcher beg you to stay away from pure, applied or both types of math?
Yeah, you sound like you're still bitter about not getting in.

It's been pretty clear that their early adopter program is not designed for the mass market by definition. Given how few people will have devices, you'd never make enough money to cover development time. It's not about money-making apps. Yet.
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There's a video on the home page :)
> Personally, I'm not bothered by things like passionate management.

I've had "passionate management" before. For me, I've realized that that translates to "I'm not going to be comfortable pointing out that you're demonstrably wrong when you're all passionate in my face." It's not a leadership style I like at all.

I very much realize that this may be on me, which is why I qualified my translation.
It's even worse for national security agencies. Questioning whether they are doing a good or necessary job means you're a threat to national security.
Oh, it's not all bad. Some bits, you can even take pride in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slartibartfast
> by this logic we should just follow the fantasies of whoever comes up with the most catastrophic scenario - no matter the likelihood.

This is called "Pascal's Mugging." http://lesswrong.com/lw/kd/pascals_mugging_tiny_probabilitie...