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To be fair, the fact that the bridge collapsed, while it is news, it's no news for HN.

The technological aspect of google maps being able to so quickly update it is in fact, new for HN.

Another thing that I agree would be interesting is a detailed technical explanation of why the bridge collapse, that I'd assume would be HN material as well.
Dean Hall Discusses DayZ's Development Process
Wow, funny, that's actually how hybrids do work!

"Hybrid automobiles replace the separate alternator and starter motor with one or more combined motor/generator(s) (M/Gs) that start the internal combustion engine, provide some or all of the mechanical power to the wheels, and charge a large storage battery. When more than one M/G is present, as in the Hybrid Synergy Drive used in the Toyota Prius and others, one may operate as a generator and feed the other as a motor, providing an electromechanical path for some of the engine power to flow to the wheels. These motor/generators have considerably more powerful electronic devices for their control than the automotive alternator described above."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternator
After being elevated several levels AT&T esentially flat out told me that it was an adminsistrative fee and that was the end of it; they've claimed someone even higher up will call me back within 24 hours — we'll see.
Yes, the latter is an ODBC option, which gives you arbitrary connectivity.
The Retro Game Music Bundle Makes History
> It's quite telling that you're ignoring the billions/trillions we've wasted on useless projects since 1964.

Because it's not relevant to the discussion.
If you have something to say, why not write it up clearly in a blog post, rather than making vague and confusing off-topic comments like this in any HN thread that mentions Google?

If what you say is true, I would think HN would vote it to the top of the front page, and that could lead to reporters calling you and giving you the opportunity to make your case in front of a much wider audience.
Agreed. You can have a small glimpse of that with this app I linked in my other (surprisingly quickly shot down) comment: http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/04/feeling-nostalgic-about-t...
This article starts with the wrong question:

Who will earn wealth?

This goes back to PG's Wealth essay[1] -- his daddy view of wealth, where wealth is something finite, and we as a society must share it. This is incorrect, for wealth isn't a thing, it's a large amount of something else.

Wealth is what we create when we build and improve things. Your house is a wealth of shelter, and the improvements you've made to it (such as fresh paint, landscaping, and heat), relative to other houses, show your wealth relative to other houseowners.

Money is just an exchanger of wealth -- something we trade with others to facilitate the transfer of wealth from others to ourselves. We earn money by transferring some of our wealth to others, and usually we draw from our wealth of time.

Humans don't need money to survive, so long as they grow their own food and build their own shelters, or have robots do this for them. And humans don't need to buy robots if we can 3d print them. And have solar or other personal power generation facilities on our own land.

Who will create wealth?

Those are the big winners who strike gold on Kickstarter and Youtube. They didn't win because they were "luckier" than us, they won because they were literally better than the rest of us at what they do.

We'll download and print new clothes each day. Who will design them? Who will design new buildings for the robots to build? Who gives robots purpose? For now, humans.

I'm more concerned about the Butlerian Jihad[2] than I am concerned with farming companies hoarding food away from us, which is essentially what the concern here is about -- if we don't have money, how will we buy food?

[1]http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
I think you're spot on. Also, refer to last year's WWDC app. Everyone thought there would be a more silver like UIKit coming, but that didn't happen.

I would guess that there was already pressure to remove some skeuomorphism at that point.
Free information is mentioned by title all over, but he describes only the most constrained examples. There is no mention of p2p networks that could provide alternatives to the behemoths of today.
Defensive much? All I was saying is that I don't find the "uses the same language" argument dispositive.
A BASIC descendant (VBScript) very nearly did become the scripting language of the Web. If it had gone that way, I'd like to think that I would tolerate it and write useful apps with it, as long as it didn't mean that Microsoft would have lasting control over the spread and evolution of the Web platform.
I wanted to post this because some of the features are things i'd like to see in some of the new rss readers that are being built. I still use it and have enhanced it since then, but not as much as I'd have liked. It's become what I like to call my reference project for learning new languages and such. I first built it back in 2007 in asp and sql server, then moved to asp.net. The version in the video is built under LAMP with a python rss importer. It's also a single page web app getting all data via calls to an api. I started rebuilding it in ruby a while back but never found the time to complete it. also if your interested I chronicled the work I did on a blog, http://www.tubejumper.com/
AT the moment, not really, but the communities of rare diseases often have put together a nonprofit foundation for fundraising, etc. The grants are really not big and don't really fund serious research in that they are a fraction of a typical NIH R01, R23 or K grant, and typically do not cover indirect funding (i.e. the slice of the pie the university or hospital takes for "overhead").
Cool. A little scarey. Easy to imagine abuse.

Like the internet, it becomes harder to contain wild ideas in a large, impersonal society. For better AND for worse.
I agree that it was nice to hear the breakdown of Tesla's financial relationship with US governments (federal and state), but the author's tone was remarkably one-sided, in a way that could in fact be described as "wicked", though I think that's taking it a bit far.

To me, those numbers were a cause for celebration: wow, our government is actually effectively encouraging a terrific technology and company.
In Defense Of Working Out Of An Office
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Oh yeah. A classmate at my high school had FOP. I never thought the disease would garner this much attention from the masses.
I use my laptop for building apps and games (2d games, no fancy smancy 3d stuff); gcc + xcode + eclipse (or intellij for that matter) are burning a hole in my i7 (2010 mbp with 8gb and i7). Often (I live in the mountains) I have no or bad internet, so that whole 'cloud compiling' thing won't work for me. That's why performance matters for me and all performing laptops have almost no battery life :) My mbp, during ios debugging sessions, cries for power in less than 2 hours. That's horrible. My core 2 duo 2008 with new battery makes 3.5 hours, but is too slow for a lot of work and to be honest; 3.5 hours is way too little for any serious programming session.

I'm trying to get my consumption pattern down while programming by using more scripting languages (like Lua) so I don't have to compile, can do repl/live coding which seems to be nicer for battery than compiling the whole shebang.

If any devs have ideas how to make this more efficient. If I would be able to work more efficiently (which I now have been using Lua), I can buy an ARM laptop / hybrid like the Transformer prime and do most of my work on that, only going to a higher performance machine for asset (sound/gfx) creation.

I wrote a game solely on the openpandora using lua; it was actually quite a nice experience despite the tiny screen. And that thing actually does over 10 hours with one charge.
But it still uses a receiver on the icon for making a phone call? http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheFloppyDiskMeansSaveAnd14Oth...
I think there is a scientific "kickstarter"-like startup that made the rounds here on HN a while back, though - maybe that could fit the bill? the name escapes me at the moment though.
Would be nice to know why I'm being down voted for having an opinion on an article I'm not used to reading that I deem as being quite emotionally upsetting.

Are other people devoid of emotion and enjoying reading it?
That's just too smart of a point, I'm afraid I'm all smitten. Though a construction next door or a demolition few blocks down the road would've been a simpler explanation.
I prefer to think of it as web COBOL.
Lanier would like to make a living as a musician the old-fashioned way, by selling albums through the music industry.

Since the copyright-exploitation industry has been under threat he has cobbled together all kinds of far fetched "visionary" theories as to why we should go back to the way things were, or else there will be doom.

Never at any point has he come up with a solution, or even a direction in which to look for a solution. Or at least anything that can be taken seriously:

"But what if you were owed money for the use of information that exists because you exist? This is what accountants and lawyers are for."

That's the logic of an 8-year old. Basically his entire vision comes down to "we are doomed, and the only way to save us is to artificially re-create scarcity, but fuck if I know how".

The robotic surgery example (which has fuck all to do with free and open information) shows how sickeningly selfish that is. We may be able to live without musicians, but people are fucking dying because of shortage of surgeons. But Mr. Lanier prefers a world in which surgeons are, like himself of course, part of a well-paid and taken care of middle class, and fuck everyone else.
We do not know if they will go for a completely flat design. The last rumour I read about before this one said that they were going for a balance, as in the middle-ground you seek. Not quite as flat as Windows Phone but much more so than current iOS. Let us wait a few more weeks instead of criticizing a design we haven't seen.
I have worked on what I would call non-trivial Javascript applications, but only front-end javascript (no server-side js, apart from a few MongoDB map-reduce queries).

My feelings towards js are are informed by that experience, and my (happier) experiences with other languages - which are primarily Python, Java and Objective-C, if you're interested.
Xbox One Used Games: Kickbacks for Microsoft and Publisher
You can ask for money, but "demand more" is not the right way to do it. I suggest you keep a copy of the posting, and others like it, to demonstrate what the market wage is for someone with your skills. Then, after you've done something good for the company (had a successful project for example), ask for a raise using your research to support a salary proposal.

You sound a little angry in your post (understandable), but being angry when you ask for a raise is bad strategy. The company did not do anything wrong by giving you what you asked for. You bargained fairly and should have done the research before accepting the job, but don't beat yourself up over it. Live and learn.

If your work is worth what you're asking for, they will pay you that.
I was involved, but on the BBC Worldwide side. I had numerous meetings with the core BBC public service team working on this, over a period of about two years.

Each one of these meetings simply felt like going over the same ground, and any feedback we'd given regarding what would work for BBCW was either forgotten or ignored. In the end we just forged ahead with our own digital projects as the business required.

I must admit I'm not surprised this project has been shut down.
You're also based on Michigan a little south of Detroit, so I'm sure you can get away with a lower base rate based on the cost of living there.
Washington Post isn't liberal or conservative. It's beltway. If one party says that the sky is yellow, and the other party says it's red, the Washington Post will be there in all their wisdom to inform you that it's actually a shade of orange, and they're the mature adults who can rise above partisanship and see the truth.
I don't think there will be dramatic changes in UI in iOS 7. Otherwise, all the apps would need to be updated (at least, recompiled) to make it doesn't look like alien.
More Game of Thrones-related points to note.

HAVE A PLAN - it's no good setting out on a major undertaking if you don't know where you're going. Will your loyal followers continue to stick with you, if after a while it feels like you're just going round in circles?

UP OR OUT - growth and development is part of the cycle of life. Today's fresh blood will be tomorrow's experienced hand. Will their assigned role still be suitable?
Corinthian leather and green felt are one thing, but I worry that Apple may swing too far on the pendulum. I don't want an entire OS that looks like Letterpress, and if I did, I'd buy a Windows Phone.

I think there's a place for textures and visual concordances that doesn't get into skeu territory. See also: the definition of skeuomorphic design (i.e., ≠ textures).
In the long run, an API like navigator.cores is not what we actually want. How do you count cores in a world of SMT, shared caches, shared memory, and unrelated processes? Ideally, we want a higher-level API which allows the underlying system to dynamically adjust the level of parallelism.
A Startup’s Guide to Maximizing Last Mover Advantage
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Layer Trees vs. Flat Drawing: Graphics Performance Across iOS Device Generations
Like chiph I look at this as more of a civil liberties issue. There's always been a strong civil liberties contingent on HN, so while most political stories aren't fit for HN, I can see why this one has caught some peoples' attention here.
It's more accurately mapped in OpenStreetMap http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.4451&lon=-122.34063...
6 Principles of Persuasion – Reciprocity - Part One
You seem to be ignoring that Musk and Tesla have already laid out their general "bootstrapping" plans, which are aimed at developing just the infrastructure you are calling out, and in the decade-scale timeframe that you mentioned. They have deliberately started in that niche, to keep initial production volumes / expectations low while they work on the scaling and infrastructure.

Given those stated goals, how does your impression change?
> wrong to target bona fide journalists for criminal prosecution

I'm curious to know how you feel about Wikileaks. Part of the problem, I think, is that much of the media (including Fox) more or less cheered the administration on in its pursuit of Wikileaks. Journalism is an act and has a broad scope. Just as bloggers are journalists (finally recognized in recent years), people who accept documents and disseminate the information contained within those documents are, must be, journalists. As long as the media continue to try to draw a weirdly-shaped line between themselves and groups like Wikileaks, there will be no clear protection for journalists.
It's not going to fix every other app on the App Store that's mimicking Apple's current glossy look.
Apple loves giving developers reasons to refresh their apps.
Another useful phrases are "FIXME" and sometimes also "xxx".
If someone doesn't like the submission, why don't they just say that? Why bash me personally? I didn't submit the piece to HN. I wrote it on my blog. I didn't force anyone to read it.
Fixed. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.4451&lon=-122.34063...
He's got a book. Not it all makes sense, the weird things he's writing. I couldn't understand it before, because none of it made any sense on its own.
Am I the only one kind of loving that retro look?
Impossible Programs: uncomputability explained with Ruby
Since you seem to be new around here: Please don't start a post with I didn't read the article. Some people on this site put a decent amount of work into their comments. So please spend at least the 5 minutes skimming through the article before making a statement.
My suggestion would be (considering you have been here for only 2 weeks), spend another month and a half and find out whether you are valuable to them and they are too valuable to you (as an opportunity) then and only then go to them and say that 2 months can be seen as internship period where you were actually being paid less and the relationship seems to be working both ways, hence a more deserving salary will help me keep my heart here for a long time.
The Next Big Thing Is Not Innovative
5 Excel Skills Every Marketer Should Know
I don't think you can get any laptop with <20W CPU and decent sized battery (~60Wh). And no, ULV chips do not suck, quite the contrary they are awesome. They combine "good enough" performance (something that ARM or Atoms can not claim) with that yummy low power consumption. But the problem is that OEMs are stuffing all those nice chips to "crappy" ultrabook bodies. I'd be mostly happy with an ultrabook with just another layer of batteries ducktaped on the bottom.
From a Post-Production point of view, we deliver very, very few programmes as files. It's all generally still on tape, and at the moment HDCamSR or HDCam in the main.

The Digital Production Partnership[1] looks to be changing that. All the major UK broadcasters working together to a common set of specifications, who'd have thought?

In Channel 5's delivery specifications they state that after July 1st, 2013 they will no longer accept tapes. We'll see.....

[1]http://www.digitalproductionpartnership.co.uk
I don't think that something has to be strictly "technical" to be on HN. I would like to see the the story on how the bridge came to be in the state it is in on HN - not just the technical explanation for what happened, but why did we choose to allocate our resources in such a way that the failure occurred.
Rubber Duck UX Debugging
And interesting question, what would be the shortest not crashing C program?

main(){}

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Without asserting criminality, the Benghazi affair was entirely deserving of serious inquiry and investigation but regrettably we such have such immature and partisan Government that the opposition party chose to make it a completely farcical political spectacle.

So much that, it is easier for reasonable people to assume there's nothing to any of it other than political attacks when in fact there clearly was some kind of bureaucratic ineptitude and they were officially blaming a YouTube video for weeks.
That link is the first gen? Because when I search the US Amazon for the 5 550 it says 'up to 6 hours'; that must then be the 2nd gen?
It's even worse than this. I have a left of center friend that has had a WSJ subscription for many years. After Murdoch bought the WSJ, he constantly complains of the major shift to the right in the content. It's to the point now, where I won't ever follow a link to the WSJ. It is a tainted property for me.
"A windows license for a server machine with > 32 GB of RAM cost an arm and a leg, so server farms got very expensive very quickly. (Oddly, the price of the license depended on the RAM of the machine involved.)"

FWIW, you now have these options in Windows Azure:

- Memory Intensive VM (4 x 1.6GHz CPU, 28GB RAM, 1,000GB Storage) : $0.90/hr

- Memory Intensive VM (8 x 1.6GHz CPU, 56GB RAM, 2,040GB Storage : $1.80/hr

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenar...
Project management is too detached from reality and promises things comparable to transporting 40,000 horses across the ocean? I know, let's fix it with advice from an entirely fictional world!
That made a lot of sense up until your last sentence...!
Often times, there is enough reason to start over. With computer architectures, this has the risk of making every single existing operating system obsolete on your architecture. If you are planning on hitting a sales volume equivalent to amd64 sales, you can't just start over.

Javascript is a different beast. By building Dart into your webrowser, you don't break the web browser. And while starting over will be an uphill battle, you can address much of the sillyness that holds javascript back and complicates it.

Perhaps we have hit the limit of practical additions to javascript. The post yesterday showed that asm.js isn't actually faster unless your browser actually supports the optimizations, which makes popularizing optimized asm.js almost as difficult as popularizing Dart.

I don't want to be using technology in 40 years that is built upon technology from 40 years ago. At some point we should reset, even the difficult technologies like amd64. How often is not a question I'm qualified to answer but it should happen.
I'd argue that many applications have plenty of concerns for which sharing code between the server and client is clearly pragmatic: http://nerds.airbnb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/shared-js...
INvolved Media Announces Video StoryEngine
Bosses like that are as valuable as they are unbearable.
> It works just fine, there simply isn't an icon for it.

No, "it" (as I specifically was referring to the integration of outbound calling into the Gmail UI) doesn't work at all.

> Use the Google Voice extension.

Yes, there is another way to make browser-based outgoing GVoice calls which can be used since the Gmail UI integration is broken with Hangouts, but that doesn't make the Gmail UI integration any less broken.

> (I have very bold predictions about why they took away the call button temporarily, but I'm keeping that to myself for now)

I'm not shy about it; I figure that, given their stated intention of fully integrating Voice into Hangouts its for exactly that purpose -- as Apple does with iMessage and SMS, the plan it to integrate some kind of availability-based preferred channel determination (possibly retaining an option to manually select the communication mechanism, given that the options with Hangouts are more involved than just which channel to send text over) and are working out the UI for that.
This is reminiscent of Gnu's "Right to read".

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

What is the solution if a person uses a printer to print devices that are used for what most people consider criminal behavior? For example, someone printing high performing secret remote detonating bomb materials for political enemy rallies. After they serve the prison sentence. Do you let them own an open source printer again and let them use it without restriction?

With the power to print "anything" at low cost comes a tremendous power to kill thousands, even millions of people easily. How do you find the balance between freedom to let people print anything their hearts desire, and restrictions to stop the evil people from using that tremendous power for great evil?
> As soon as 3d printers will be able to replicate themselves, every regulation will be moot.

I don't get this. In theory, if it were illegal to print "Item #325" having 200 printers doesn't make it any less illegal to print "Item #325".

> Information always finds a way to propagate.

Doesn't this presuppose that no secret has ever been kept?
Sure, it's opinionated, but it's only wicked if you think that viewpoints which disagree with your own are evil. And that is an extremely dangerous idea.

By the way, I agree with you; subsidies should be used to promote products with positive externalities.
I debated with myself whether I should read the books first, but:

On the other hand, I have read that some bookreaders recommend to first watching the TV series as while it does "dumb down" a couple of things, it really helps keeping an overall thread. Plus watching the series second might leave you more disappointed ("why didn't they include my favorite quote X!?") than the other way around ("I love reading more about this character that I already liked!").
Xbox One: developers have their say on specs, self-publishing and TV TV TV