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> But going back to my iPhone with iOS 6 made me realize how dated that OS looks and feels.

Isn't this simply emotion - based upon you already knowing that iOS 7 is newer?

If you showed iOS 6 and 7 to someone who had never seen an iPhone before, how would they figure out which was the newer design?
Do you think by using Opal or RedScript is possible to avoid learning JavaScript?

Because CoffeeScript is all well and good but I really don't see how it is useful, except from maybe speeding up your development a little, since you need to know JavaScript in order to use it properly.
The real problem here is that most Americans, especially most red-state Americans, believe that Gitmo detainees are dangerous monsters...

You must live on a coast, if not actually inside the Beltway. I live in a Red State, and no one here gives a shit about terrorism or any other militarist bugaboo anymore (this includes my Fox-News-on-ten-hours-a-day grandparents). There was a poll about bombing Syria; you might have seen it? All the "outrage" we see when completely closing Guantanamo is discussed is fake anyway: shills who have a commercial interest in increasing fear in a USA that is not only safer than it's ever been, but is in the running for the safest nation in recorded history. They need to update the script, though. The defense industry has gone to that same well too many times: nobody believes the bullshit anymore. Perhaps for their purposes it's enough if politicians believe that voters believe the bullshit.
Maybe your brother 'lost' himself into world of warcraft for a reason. I am not saying that the apparent consequence of his gaming habits haven't lead him to be lacking socially accepted success in life, I am merely suggesting that your brother might have been in a completely different mental place than you and your family.

That being said, I do agree that moderation is probably key to balance in life.
As against Boeing, Lockheed, etc. NASA has always used commercial companies to build it's rockets. The short version is that SpaceX is the first company to do so on properly commercial terms, as against cushy cost-plus contracts with the development costs all underwritten by the government up front.
I definitely think they should add one for ROS(RobotOS) and Gazebo(simulation framework). They are starting to build communities in industry and academia with some of the smartest people you can find.
They use their mobile OS to sell... their mobile OS. I'm sure there are a lot of OEMs that would love a cheap, precompiled Android to ship with their new devices. Less work for them, and Cyanogen gets to deal with updates and porting.
I agree T-Mobile has stellar customer service, I contacted them about poor coverage in a new area I moved to. Got a $40 credit on my line, and within a month a network technician had fixed the issue and brought my coverage up.

It's amazing the difference though, I'd call Verizon and would get a generic "We'll send someone to check on it" months later nothing would change. It's nice to be with a company that will actually do something about your problems.
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Apparently your internet browsing data is not enough, Google also wants your medical records and DNA.

Seriously though, I wouldn't trust any company connected with Google for 'health and well being'. Their total disregard for privacy would imply they are not working in my best interest for health either.
In case you don't know, Strategy Analytics are the ones who define "units sold" as "units shipped". I'd imagine they are capable of taking similar shortcuts with profit share estimates.
The difference between courage and stupidity is mostly in the outcome.
How many diseases have we cured in the past 20 years? The past 40 years? Medical advances are really, really slow. As for the "self-interest" question (that's why you created a throw away account?), I'm sure as you get a little older, and you notice people dying who are close to your age, you might be wish that people took an interest in being self-serving a couple decades earlier.

Steve Jobs, for example, had billions of dollars, had his genome sequenced, and probably tried very hard not to die so young. I bet if he had known 10 years earlier that he was going to die from pancreatic cancer, some of that money would have gone into searching for a cure.

Larry Page might live a perfectly healthy life, die in his sleep at 101, out living most of us. However, if you've got that kind of money and influence, why not buy some real insurance.
What's with the fake, trollish headline on HN?

It should say "Google vs. Death".
Even if it's more like Thalmic Labs or 23andMe, I'm worried about whether fundamental infrastructure (or a leap-frogging equivalent, like cell phones) will be widespread enough for this sort of research/work to be useful to the people who need it most.

Like, there are feel-good stories like Dean Kamen's Slingshot (IIRC, he partnered with Coca-Cola to distribute the things) but I have absolutely no idea how well such things work in the field and the papers written about things like the Roundabout PlayPump are pretty damning.
Interesting. My memory is a bit hazy, but I assume their all-day pass either wasn't available, easy to find, or that price. I only say that because I've purchased an all-day pass for a multi-leg flight in the past, so there must have been good reason for me not to use it this time. Or it could be as simple as grogginess from catching a 7am flight.
Although the prices are a bit over the top, I can respect GoGo's customer support. A while back I reported to them how I was able to gain access to Facebook and Youtube almost effortlessly and they gave me two free coupons for unlimited in-flight WiFi as a token of appreciation. I would have informed them directly of this and awaited a response. They appeared to be pretty good at responding to my inquiries.
>a partnership deal with a hardware manufacturer, which the company plans to announce in the next week or so.

probably with deals like this or the same way firefox makes money
pretty cool. A good job description is always helpful for both the client and the contractor. It saves time, less confusion and faster turn around.
I for one fear a future where anyone can become immortal. This would result in unimaginable struggles for our ecosystem.

I always feel modern medicine should focus on raising life quality for as long as we are alive, rather than extending life itself. But of course this view is painted by the large number of old people living in inhuman conditions we currently have.
Two points on why stickers are a sneaky-good feature IMO

1) Trello is used by some as a digital Kanban board. A bit thing is Kanban is the idea of a "blocker" - on physical boards this is usually a big, in-your-face, bright red sticky note. The point is that it jumps out at you and gets the team to swarm in and address the issue. Trello didn't really have this before (yes, you could use labels but it wasn't obvious). Now you can slap a big WARNING sticker on the thing and people will notice.

2) Trello has been trying to move away from being strictly a tool for software developers. Look at the marketing home page - the example board is for an Art Project, not a software app. With people using Trello to plan weddings [1] or to help their kids with homework [2], they are aiming for a different market than techies. Ever have a chore list when you were a kid? And what did mom put on it when you did your chores and earned a reward? Yup, a sticker. Brilliant move if you ask me.

[1]: http://www.22ideastreet.com/blog/2013/09/12/the-tech-behind-...

[2]: http://heartofwisdom.com/blog/get-organized-with-trello-list...
Can you explain a bit about how this would work here (i.e. for Gogo)?
Apple Releases iOS7 with UI Redesign
Is this comparable?

If I get the post code wrong but the rest of the address right, the letter will get through. If I make a typo in the name or address, the letter will get through.

If I make even the tiniest of typos in the email address, it'll fail.
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Interesting post about the new iOS architecture.
custom apps. access to beta's. with 50 mill users, just charging $1/mon for beta access alone would be plenty of revenue. Beyond that, there could be plenty of cyanogen official apps that provide valuable services that users would pay for.

the biggest challenge will be divergence from google. Presumable google apps will not longer be supported (then again, they are available on cyanogen today but you can flash that on). Question is, how many android users will move to cyanogen as opposed to finding another developer who can someone clean up and build android for devices.
Yes. Ref: http://www.sfmta.com/services/permits-citations/booting-towi.... Although this says $472, they tacked on an extra $50 as a "service fee."
Did anyone read the article? This seems to be a biomedical company focused on engineering solutions to aging/illness. It's seemingly not Google Health 2.0.
I'd rather see a high quality of life for everyone on earth for 80 years than 150+ year life spans for the first world. Which will just further increase the footprint of the rich and divert resources from the poor.

Not to mention, it's a more attainable goal. It doesn't help much to keep the body going for 50 more years if you can't also keep the brain going. I believe these are very different problems. If you can somehow solve both, it doesn't help if you can't feed and house all these people.
It looks like this basically gives you the ability to customize the look for yourself. And add some custom things (stickers and emoji) will be visible by others, but not usable. Thankfully, it looks like a basic sticker set is available for free. While maybe tacky, I can see stickers being used to indicate things that labels are used for now, but they will be more obvious. Labels are a small color bar on the front of the card. Remembering what they mean can sometimes be difficult. Getting attention via a sticker is probably more obvious. But can we filter by stickers? Probably not.
> It's important to ask yourself what you would do if you could AirDrop from your iOS device to an OS X device

Quickly send photos I just took to put in email, IMs or on web forums. I used to do that constantly before I had an iPhone using Bluetooth, it was super-handy. Now I have to take a pointless long-cut through the internet with something like Dropbox. Royal pain when you're somewhere with spotty upstream internet.
Like the CODE keyboard which got a lot of attention but is really just another keyboard sold by WASDKeyboards.com.
Trello, if you want a life-long subscriber, please bring Trello to BlackBerry x10 users.

Love this "gold" feature btw!
I was wondering because I've been having battery issues on the 4S using the beta but when I switched to the GM seed I noticed a change. Might have just been my mind playing tricks on me, it's really tough to measure.
A mafia organization is a certain kind of acquaintances that formed a "social group" and did not necessarily work for a single employer (or small set of employers), thus the paper trail did not exist. The FBI had to do a lot of careful investigation to document "business" relationships that were ongoing.

A law firm pursuing patent claims has to leave a paper trail. The more convoluted, the more likely jurors will be inclined to see fraud.
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I enjoy the irony of getting his wisdom at a site called Fool.com.

From http://www.fool.com/legal/the-motley-fool-disclaimer.aspx

Our name derives from Elizabethan drama, where only the court jester (the "Fool") could tell the King the truth without getting his head lopped off. We're dedicated to educating, amusing, and enriching individuals in search of the truth.
There's reasoned discussion of possible philosophical implications of the recent findings and then there's your post.
Pay attention to copyright when you accept a GitHub pull request
Apple + Nikola Tesla inspired tech may change everything.
IOS7, now available for the public
This sounds like a blown cell in your battery. I'd get it serviced.
You're looking for this:

https://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/

Frustratingly, it has been dead in the water for years. It strikes me as a crucial piece of technology.
You can upgrade to iOS7 though Settings => General => Software Update
"So I’m tremendously excited about the innovative new way we’re funding this project"

What does that refer to?
The problem is the regressive nature of the fee. It's really not something that a normal person can afford to pay, which is scary considering how much people rely on their cars and how life-changing a one-time parking mistake can be to most people.
Have you ever tried explicitly defining democracy as part of your conversation? I find it usually helps. Or at least makes them very quiet as they realize they have no idea what they're talking about beyond parroting something they heard once that sounded good as a teenager.
Board backgrounds could be useful if you have a lot of boards. Otherwise, it shouldn't be awkward at all, unless you want to give them money and are disappointed they didn't give you a reason to.
Where's the defense? "Experts Exchange were dicks to users, but it was to make money!" isn't a defense.
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A valid point but I think the ability to determine criminality becomes harder because the business wraps itself in current legalities, being run by lawyers themselves.
No, disclosure timelines only make sense if the public is at risk. There is nothing like that here. The outcome is gogo not getting paid. This is just grandstanding a fairly unsophisticated bug in their service. The end result is that gogo will end up with more money.
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> The phones are a minor update, as to be expected like every S release.

There have been two S releases prior to the 5S/5C release. The 3G->3GS was a bigger change to the phone than the iPhone->3G update. And the 4->4S update was a bigger change to the phone internals than the 3GS->4 update, though the display stayed the same.

Really, all the S releases have been major phone updates, and of the non-S releases only the 4S->5 update was.
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Stars do have more rating than the other metrics, which evens things out. Yes, larger libraries like jQuery are rating higher because of the ranking system, but thats actually accurate if you are looking at 'popularity'; furthermore, there are only a few projects that are on this scale.

Try 'trending' if you want to see libraries that are growing quickly.
Agreed. I love that mainstream companies with lots of money are getting involved though. It's nice to be ahead of the curve but it's even better when the curve catches up.
Nice article, with must see advice for anyone hiring a developer.
I found some great advice on this at the Rejection Therapy site. In particular:

No Confidence? Borrow Some: http://rejectiontherapy.com/no-confidence-borrow-some/

Fear Hacks of World Class High Divers: http://rejectiontherapy.com/fear-hacks-of-world-class-high-d...
On online surveillance and psychohistory
> move from a state of higher energy to lower energy

And what's the difference between this and saying they experience a force?
I've written a totally wrong post code and city name before and still gotten a successful delivery. (Totally wrong as in, post code for my previous house in a different region, and the name of a neighbouring city instead of my city.) When I saw that I was really impressed with the postal service, and not quite as impressed by me. :)
IOS 7 now available
Cyanogen Mod raises $7MM in Series A
I believe these are very different problems.

Aubrey de Grey believes they are not different.

If he's right, the only way you could keep people perfectly healthy up to age 80 without them living much longer would be to execute on his plan (or a similar one), and then kill people once they got old enough.
FWIW, they've changed the menu - there's still a "Flight Pass" that's within a dollar or two of what it's always been, but you have to do some more hunting to find it. It's annoying, because every flight now I spend a few minutes paranoid that they removed the option that I'm looking for.
Default search engine? Start a competition between google, bing, ddg etc.
That answers why they move along geodesics. It doesn't answer why they move.
I was recently disappointed by the huge price hike of gogo in flight

Agreed. If I recall correctly, the all-day pass was close to $30 when purchased while on the plane. By going to their website ahead of time (i.e. while not using gogo's network), their all-day pass is $14.
That's your own blog, I feel you should disclose that because the tone of your post makes it appear as if you're just a reader.

And reading that blog doesn't equal 1.25 million miles. I'd like to know what strategies you used.
Make sure you're on wifi. This one racks up at 752MB.
Being "dicks to users" is based on what, exactly? My point is that for EE to not be "dicks to users" in the eyes of the tech community would mean to stop charging for their content.

I linked a video of Google's Matt Cutts explaining that EE wasn't violating their guidelines. So their infraction was hiding content below the fold. Hardly an evil infraction, and not worthy of an attempt to sink them as a company.

EE added real value, and their longevity is evidence that some people are willing to pay for that value.
Sort of adding on to that, an unpaid opportunity doesn't have to be an unpaid internship. An unpaid opportunity could be a CS student in college working on the website for an on-campus club, for example, or a public relations student serving on the executive board as the PR chair of an on-campus organization.
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Building Lob's API
This might seem like a childish query: would anyone know where to find that flying horse gif?
I think I cracked a rib laughing.
You either believe in capitalism, or you don't.

Google believes in capitalism. They will offer goods and services to people who can afford them, and they will also work to make their products more accessible to those with limited resources.

I personally believe Android will have enormous long-lasting positive impacts on the rest of the world. A $25 smartphone ... A $10 smartphone... A $5 smartphone... Giving access to instant communication, and huge amounts of information, will in the long run dramatically improve human lives. My personal opinion.
Ever since coming across Aubrey De Grey I've been waiting for a more mainstream adoption of his ideas. I can only hope you're right and that this announcement will incite real change in the public's opinion on age.
Wow. This was a summary judgement with no trial.
While your thinking here makes sense, it is better to honor truly Free as in freedom / Libre / Open Source software instead of funding proprietary software. FLOSS is also made by hard-working people and given away mostly and used by people who make money. But if you support FLOSS, your support goes to help everyone in the world, whereas if you fund proprietary software, you help advance something still under exclusive control by the company and not respecting everyone's freedoms.
I'm sure it's possible, I've travelled through parts of the US with my business mostly on autopilot. The higher cost of living can make it trickier though, part of being a digital nomad is income arbitrage (ie earning a US salary but spending it in a country where your US Dollars are worth a fortune).

It won't be the same as travelling overseas & experiencing different cultures though... part of the fun is returning to your home country after months overseas and seeing your home culture with fresh eyes. But it could be a good start.

I think you're overestimating the difficulty of finding WiFi & internet, though. I've often found better internet connections while traveling through Europe than in the US. But if you're a US citizen, travelling just through the US will simplify visa concerns, which helps a bit.
As a satisfied user of the latest CyanogenMod nightlies on a 2 year old Galaxy S2, this is great news! CM has breathed new life into my outdated hardware.

However, I have to echo the concerns in the post's comments about Gapps[1] (Gmail, Maps, Play Store). I wouldn't say the dependency is as strong as something like Zynga/Facebook, but if Google ever chose to lock Gapps down, I don't know that I'd stick with CM.

[1] http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Gapps
The grand unified theory of Pixar
People are fooled into paying for many things. That doesn't prove anything.
My guess is it's referring to the "something you have", "something you are" and "something you know" [1]

Current two-factor authentication on the web combines something you know (password) with something you have (mobile phone with an app that generates tokens).

The parent is suggesting this could change to something you know (password) and something you are (fingerprint). It could easily be extended to include something you have by combining the fingerprint with a token generator on your iPhone.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication
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"Their total disregard for privacy"

To the contrary, they have utter regard for your privacy. They advocate for governments to have more respect for your privacy, as well.

Alfred knows everything about Bruce Wayne. Google is Alfred, except he doesn't even take a salary - he wants to show you advertising that you would think is high quality, and he promises to never sell your personal information to the advertisers. Pretty damned good deal, if you ask me.
LoopBack is open source. It's way too easy (IMNSHO) to outgrow what Parse has to offer, and I'm never a fan of these black-box, hosted solutions.

I can make changes as I need, and I own the whole server application from the bottom up.
Sure, but if their plans involve bringing said solutions to the masses - this skepticism applies. Just imagine the millions of hipsters lining up for the Google, er, Calico vaccination.
Unfortunately it's really hard to get any reasoned discussion about Experts-Exchange on Hacker News. Ideologies are difficult to discuss. I'm reminded of this: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

It's part of the (on average) Hacker News identity to hate Experts-Exchange and any resource that exposes itself in search results but requires sign-up to access.

Anyone who tries to discuss something that is opposed to the HN identity is quickly downvoted, they learn from the feedback and damaged karma not to bother and you are left with only comments/commenters that say things they know will get positive feedback/karma.

edit: I'm actually surprised that I got downvoted just for mentioning this, it only serves to reinforce the reality of this ideological position.
> disclosure timelines only make sense if the public is at risk

The post says that fraudulent charges can be made without a password or credit card number by using this exploit.

I would bet that you can access account info as well which means there is some PII leaking. I would consider PII + fraudulent transactions to be a step above gogo losing oney.