skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
micro USB is actually a very poor choice for a charger connection: it is max rated at 2.5W (way too low for an iPhone), it is keyed (you can only plug it in one way) and it is expensive (a whole bunch of pins you don't need). On top of that many people confuse it with mini USB, like you just did.
I still use Paypal, but I also transfer any money to my bank account immediately. Never have more money in your pp account than you are willing to lose.
Offices often have caching proxies, right?
The retina display makes a big difference.
I don't mind sharing my bandwidth for this (I don't have mine capped "literally speaking", but I'm sure there's some invisible limit), but I hope it asks for permission first.

I didn't see anything about that in the FAQ (I'm still browsing). Or maybe it's up to the sites where it's implemented? If so, that may be giving them too much leeway.
>> And what is more efficient than working directly with the CEO on the brand identity? A dream setup. Also, it’s cheap. A weekend for a logo, instead of paying a branding agency millions and waiting months for something that can be done in a couple of days? That’s smart business!

>> Is it?

Yes. People will bitch about your logo whether you paid $100mn for it or hacked it over the weekend. Logos, like names, don't actually matter much. It is the change that is important, not the design.
German universities aren't very good at attracting foreign students and they tend to underperform in international rankings (in large part due to the previous point). I don't think German universoties are an example anyone wants to follow.
The universe cares little for your beliefs, and even less for your laws
> Currently only a select few in each country who are paying a large licensing fee are allowed to set up the different types of networks

Just like in pretty much every country in the world. Spectrum is a public resource, and not an infinite one. Every allocation given to a private company deprives society of other potential uses of that spectrum.

The EU communications market is already vastly more competitive than e.g. the US market in many areas, _thanks_ to extensive regulation to force unbundling of a lot of network and consumer services. This is about fixing some of the remaining problems, yes.

If anything, the regulation of the communications market in the EU is both one of the biggest successes in recent years, and one of the areas where EU decisions are most popular with EU citizens.
HTTP Proxies do this.
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My comment was a bit hard to read. Layered encryption is not guaranteed to be only as weak as its strongest layer. It's possible for layering to enable side-channel attacks.

Encryption is hard :(
Irrelevant, since people are in window washing services despite the low pay.

Reasons for huge commissions:

1. Restricted field: you need a license, and in general these kinds of licenses are difficult enough to get to create artificial scarcity.

-> seek employment in such a field, if you think you can get in.

2. High stakes: A lot of money is moved around so it doesn't hurt so bad to give an important service provider a large chunk.

-> seek work where the money is.
-> when dealing with Realtors etc., try and negotiate over the price anyway, just out of principle.

3. There is probably more to this profession than is visible from the outside. I don't know what, but usually people underestimate the complexities of professions they don't know much about.

-> ...? Maybe talk to Realtors and find out what it is like.
Yes, I noticed that, when I was visiting Crete a week ago. Back home in Germany a text message costs me 0.14€, during vacation I was paying 0.09€.
Regulations create funny pricing structures sometimes. :)
How I perceived this article: I'm a thoughtful designer and pissed off that an "amateur" CEO is dipping her toes in my sandbox. Also, if I can bill a client for months of logo design and they see a Fortune 500 CEO doing it themselves they may question if I'm worth it.

(I know nothing about the author, so this is just my perception.)

Yes, there's some validity to calling out the bullshit in Mayer's fluffy post. But equally mixed in are just as many nonsense bits...
It's strange that a developer would think that the audience that will buy a lower-priced Apple device will be the same kind of user as those that bought the higher end devices, and yet different from those who buy an Android at the same price point. Seems like a very basic mistake.
>Not a all. Vodafone, Telefonica and Orange completely agree with you.

Of course they do, they already have near continental wireless coverage. The small carriers don't.

This would obviously lead to no more roaming at all, which run the small carriers out of business and creates a huge barrier for entry to new carriers (as the would need a huge network before even launching your service).
Not to mention this could potentially make them more money if all of the sudden people can just talk to their relatives in other EU countries without having to pay "special fees".
I'm not sure that's true. If Company A builds out a bunch of infrastructure but it's mostly used by Company B's customers, then Company A isn't getting the earnings it needs to pay back the infrastructure investment. Either Company B's customers need to send some revenue to Company A, or Company A is going to go out of business, possibly taking the infrastructure with it. Roaming fees, whether paid by the customers, the companies, or both, are necessary to support building and maintaining the infrastructure.

Now, when Company A and Company B are actually two divisions of the same parent company (which is apparently often the case for Vodaphone) then you're right; the roaming fees are double-dipping.
Neat. What happens when the client leaves in the middle of the transfer?
And superstars can still fuck up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6327544
> To top it all off, the team then printed the part in titanium using a 3D laser metal printer.

If such a beast does exist I'd be even more amazed than the leapmotion controller. But I have a nagging feeling the author doesn't know what they are talking about.

milling =/= printing

Edit: Well then, I stand corrected. I wasn't even aware there were 3D metal printers available.
I think the logo looks awful. It looked awful in the first place anyway but it's well recognized and branded so I guess it doesn't matter much.
Did anyone actually notice the logo changed?

I didn't, and frankly, it seems like such a little change, I doubt many even noticed.

Changing your logo to change your brand identity is the business equivalent of buying new running shoes to start shaping up. It doesn't quite work, does it?

So I'm glad they didn't spend thousands and ten thousands of dollars on a new logo, because if the logo change is just ego stroking for the CEO, there isn't much use of spending months and awe-inspiring sums on it (like that matters).
Yes, what we know is that the NSA has compromised many vendors, including it seems some of the CA vendors. So it's possible that a CA could issue the NSA a certificate that could fool you into thinking an NSA surveillance node was a valid site, or that a bit of software was written by a legitimate vendor and is safe to run. The devil is in the details, of course...if the goal is to have a valid, signed Microsoft key, you really need the Microsoft CA to sign it, but 1) the vast majority of people don't check so close is often good enough, and 2) I personally think Microsoft would cave faster than Verisign, so...

And you are correct: if a CA has disclosed their root signing certificate, then the NSA could issue seeming legitimate certificates for pretty much anything.
Hopefully it will stay that way. I think global corporations have started increasing their lobbying in EU rapidly. It may be why the EU Comission usually seems to make the worse decisions, and the opposite of what the EU Parliament wants. If the lobbying extends from the EU Comission to the EU Parliament, that could change.
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>Good for the World that not everybody is working on another app.

Couldn't agree more with that.

I'm just explaining the reason you are seeing this is primarily for PR purposes -- which is a huge part of his job. HN should be able to tell the difference between good PR and good tech.
Ah, I see. That doesn't matter in big-O notation, though, because log_32(n) = log_2(n) / log_2(32), that is the difference between two bases is a constant factor.

I was a bit confused because O(log_32(n)) = O(log(n)) = log(32)+log(n) = O(log(32n)), so no matter how I parsed it I would just get O(log(n)) :)
I've always wondered about the implicit economics of some of these angel groups. They seem to spend an awful lot of time getting to the point where they can write a small check. If the expected value of the rate of return of venture investments is ~20%, then it would seem they're barely making minimum wage.

On the other hand, contra the article, I've made angel investments after a pitch. Angels write small-ish checks, so making the founder do a song-and-dance over the course of many meetings would be uneconomic for him. It's a bit different if you're a partner at Greylock writing multi-million dollar checks.
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But that's not true and that's easy to prove: back in the day, not every employee of GS was a partner! Just like not every employee of a law firm or an accountancy is a partner.

There are plenty of other industries too where owning something needs a massive amount of capital, and risks large amounts of capital - factories, airlines, even farms - and yet people get jobs all the time.
To me it's like Apple. They doesn't invent any ground-breaking technology. They just combine them; use them at the right time.
> they just went ahead and made it

Upon such things, many successes are based :)
True, which reminded me of one such superstar, Paul Rand, who designed the NeXT logo for Steve Jobs. http://stocklogos.com/topic/famous-logo-designs-and-how-much...
Laser sintering: http://www.eos.info/en

It is an additive 3d printing process based on atomic diffusion.

I believe I saw an advertisement (possibly for an eos model) where they 3d printed titanium parts for surgical replacement.
Tariffs/regulation can and do incentive investment in new technology. Incentives in wireless technology should be no different. Don't confuse that with the lifespan of an asset.
https://github.com/PeerKit/peerkit
I totally disagree. And yes, it is just a logo. Google logo is still looking like it was made by a 10 years old. Sounds like the author is trying to justify his daily rate. Come on. And when big companies pay millions for a logo, it's not just for the logo itself, it's for all the identity of the company. Yahoo! changed its logo but the majority of the people won't even notice.
They say the traffic is encrypted but how anonymous are its user?
Will I be announcing to every peer that I just visited a porn site?
ENOUGH with adding more fodder to the HN circlejerk of trashing Yahoo!.
One of the most disruptive ideas the EU is working on (among alternatives) is detaching the network from the operators.

We did that in the UK with our train network. It isn't working out so well.
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Essentially, roaming charges are of benefit to nobody but a small number of large telecoms. They hurt the consumer and they hurt business. Removing them will not cripple the telcos.

> If there were monopolistic / market manipulating behaviour going on.

In practice, with few exceptions, before the regulation started (remember, the EU already sets roaming price caps), there was a form of cartel system, at least informally; prices were pretty much standard and extremely high.
Science you say? Yahoo changed it's logo daily last month. Let's have a look at how the search queries went down with every bad logo proposal (some really looked horrible).

I'd be interested in some blind study: Give some top notch designers a logo of a real, say, investment bank, from a foreign country, and an alternative proposal from a design student, and let them explain which is the real one and why. Has anyone ever seen such a study?
Current regulations already cap wholesale (telco to telco) roaming pricing, and new regulation should improve this.
Twitter for its first logo paid 15$
If this is is what the lawsuit says: “unlawfully opens up, reads, and acquires the content of people’s private email messages”

There is no difference between opening for spam filtering from opening for ad serving
It seems odd that the writer first bashes MM for just getting in a room with some designers over a weekend, criticizing the concept of doing something so important in such a slapdash fashion, and then bashes her for polling the company about what they'd like to see in the logo, because it's "Design by polling". But - doesn't that show they did a lot of work upfront, that it wasn't just a slapdash effort?

The whole article reads like a bitter rant from the company that didn't get hired to do the work, instead of a thoughtful discussion of the logo itself (I'm not saying that iA was in the running to do the work, just that the tone is oddly hostile).
Glass projection has been around a long time and typically uses a foil fixed to the glass and a rear projection projector. If you want to experiment it is an off the shelf component from suppliers like prodisplay.com or glimmscreensinternational.com and used probably most widely for shop and theater designers.
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You can't just allow anyone to setup a mobile phone network. There needs to be some central organisation and control of spectrum allocation because otherwise it is all too easy to tread on peoples toes and interfere with other transmissions either accidentally or intentionally.
Sue them? Is this not a criminal law?

So they'd be able to accuse them of rape (which they could do before anyway) but otherwise they'd need to ask a judge to charge (both of them?) with consensual sex with someone under 16 and then the Judge would decide whether it's legal or not based on his understanding of how mentally/physically mature they were in respect to each other.

It's never good to have fuzzy laws but I'm assuming the Spanish legal profession has the common sense to apply this correctly in most cases.

I wonder if you can pre-apply to have your teenage sex cleared by a Judge beforehand?
A phone can discriminate towards low signal strength cells of network A vs high strength cells of network B. Of course, the key word is 'can'; due to a lack of standardisation this will often fail to work properly for particular models.
Well of course all that is done before all of the developing of the app. The idea is to reduce the amount of uncertainty by not creating a full blown app that has had a lot of time and money put into it, when some of the features aren't helping in terms of getting new customers, keeping old customers and bringing any value to the product/service.
It sounds great on the base of it, but for a technology that hasn't completely matured it might be counterproductive. When deploying the next gen network, you'll have one big slow entity having to do it.

But for home internet connections that could be a good move.
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I also respect Elon, but call me when he has something like "Jarvis"[1] :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQSLWQxzjiw
We all know who Elon Musk is talking to. It's not us. It's the other billion people on youtube who will watch this and go, "this is the coolest thing I have ever seen".
Whenever I hear someone say "not being professional", I replace "being professional" with "conforming to my overly narrow world view." While professionalism is an important concept, it has never been the case that I have seen it referenced properly. Instead, it's usually just some SJ who can't sleep at night unless everyone fits into a little box.
I think DSLs, heavy use of operators, and Unicode characters as identifiers isn't abuse. It's unfamiliar. In Haskell, for instance, syntax is taken much more seriously than in other languages, which tend to just copy previous languages in the name of familiarity. And it takes a while to become use to the basic syntax of Haskell, let alone the various libraries that extend on its ideas. But the syntax choices are not arbitrary.

But even Clojure is syntactically heavy compared to Racket or CL. But with good reason.

A powerful and expressive language takes effort, possibly even years, to become expert in. I'm not sure that making trivial things trivial is part of the plan. There are more appropriate languages for that.
I've been around adverting for a long time. I've been in agencies, I've freelanced, I've been the client. I've worked with individuals that charge $70/hr and teams that charge $20,000 per day.

The author is completely right on one point: "...the saying in design: 'if it looks right, it is right.'”

Here's the dirty secret: All logos are designed in a momentary collision of experience and accident. All logos are, in a sense, designed in a weekend. That doesn't mean it isn't done thoughtfully. But that huge research spend? It sometimes guides the design a little, but it's mostly there to reverse-justify the final result (and of course expense) with the client.

He's also asking us to assume the only thought Yahoo ever put into their logo and apparently, their brand, was that one 36-hour period. And the implication of course is that a large spend with an agency would result in a design that's both more calculated and less contrived.

As the author says, bullshit.
Which is why Line could really make it that big. Line competed and won against Whatsapp, Facebook messenger, Skype, etc for iOS and Android in many Asian countries (not just Japan and Korea).

* It's a good product -- people like using it, and they keep using it.

* They know mobile marketing very well -- it's common to see Line and affiliated apps dominating the charts in the appstore.

* They know how to be international -- they've successfully marketed across multiple cultures.

* They are very innovative -- they constantly try out new business models and release multiple features.

It's no wonder that so many companies are copying them -- Facebook, Path, Wechat. It's a company that's worth paying attention to.

(edited for format)
BTW, the gendered passive "lean in" rhetoric is definitely a problem, here I agree with the author, and previously misunderstood.
It's not unusual to find while roaming that MMS is cheaper than SMS. As in it would be cheaper for me to write out my message by hand, take a photo of it and sent that, than just to send a text message.
If everyone used Tor they wouldn't stand out individually, and I think it's fair to assume Schneier offered his suggestions in that sense.
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Hi all,

for a course I'm taking Maastricht University I need to read then biography of an entrepreneur. Has the HN community got any suggestions. We can't use Steve Jobs'. Cheers.

Course: http://code.unimaas.nl/Code/Display?intCalendarID=20&intBAMA=1&SearchString=EBC2146
Microsoft needs a CEO; people love candy. You do the math
> one such superstar, Paul Rand, who designed the NeXT logo for Steve Jobs

... and rather more famously, he designed the IBM logo, which is arguably one of the most famous and well-respected logos in history.
I have tried a similar work around but it turns a bit messy if you are in the paper publication business (which I am). Camera ready copies (final publication) sucks the remaining "work around motivation" out of you.
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Moreover Google has paid millions to security researchers for finding flaws in Chrome.
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Not really. You are referring to a privatisation, where most of its problems came from a lack of legal and regulatory framework. Germany, France and Spain have the train operator detached from the infrastructure/network, and they have the most developed rail networks in the world. But again, this is not the case. The telecom case is a rollup of assets into a NetworkCo, making all telecoms MVOs.
By using the Leap Motion SDK and something like Unity (a 3D Engine) this is really easy todo, well the zooming and rotating stuff atleast. Same goes for Oculus Rift integration.

However, seeing it all combined like this using a 3D printer in the end is really inspiring, it just sparks so many ideas in my head immediatly :)
This looks super cool!

Ideal would be if an online multiplayer community evolves around this game. Does the game feature the ability to track multiplayer win/losses and keep some kind of ELO rating or similar on a server? Is it reasonably safe against cheating in multiplayer? Does it allow setting a handicap for less good players?

Thanks :)
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A completely free market is a market where you'll get collusion, monopolies, price fixing, corruption and a hundred other vices which are considered universally bad. Roaming charges are another good example that a completely free market is not an efficient market.

In fact, a completely free market is an anarchy. So not only will you get monopolies and price fixing, you'll also get armed gangs that run around and steal your stuff.
They won't be the same quality as a CS degree, but the thing is, it will be enough. See, it was the same with the industrial revolution.

For example, in the times before we had factories for making things, everything was done by hand and you had to become an apprentice and go through years of training before becoming a true craftsman. But after much of the process was automated, factories could afford to hire lower-skilled workers for lower pay and operate with greater efficiency.

I'm seeing the same pattern in the world of programming. There was a time when the task of programming required more skill from the programmer, but the programming languages, tools and development environments have evolved since then, and now a lot of things can be accomplished by people with little amount of training.
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Although twitter has been getting more and more closed it'll take them a long time before they're as closed as Line. The word that best sums up Line and the company behind them is 'opaque'.
My kids both had Line installed on their phones. When we got a Nexus 7 tablet they naturally wanted to do Line there as well. Bad idea. Line doesn't allow the same account on two devices. Line's solution? Instant deletion of the account. They lost a year of accumulated stickers and chats. The positive thing from my point of view is that they were completely discouraged and they no longer waste time on it.
I am not sure if they are doing an "incremental" process. From what I understand, they have a real time preview which compiles the document in the background.
If Yahoo! really wanted to signal their change towards modernity and freshness, they were already sitting on their perfect logo: http://i.imgur.com/VpAwbwS.png
Says the guy with a 'strategic design' firm... Bullshit player lobbing bullshit claims at bullshit.

Maybe he's A/B-ing some secondary bullshit article to see what can get better rank on HN. What's the best link bait for placating boredom and wasting attention on derivative industries suckling at the teat.
"Slow" is an assumption, any private company with the right regulatory structure should be no different (if not better) than individual telcos.
This is definitely not geared toward techies. The closeup of the mouse and keyboard in the first few seconds is meant to make average people think "Oooh, this is high tech."
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