skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they work behind the scenes with the carriers? Absolutely, but the consumer doesn't see it. They see that their iPhone works. Consistently and without any branding or experience difference accross cariers. AT&T doesn't get to customize or pre-install anything and Verizon can't lock out features. (Teathering is perhaps a small exception in this, but the point is largely true). The point is that as you model a product/service experience, don't confuse what happens behind the line of visibility -- it doesn't matter to the consumer -- and Apple has done a great job of shifting that line of visibility to abstract away the carrier experience as much as it can.

As others have mentioned, don't for a second think the consumer isn't paying the full cost of the phone. They are and more -- but that subsidy doesn't differentiate any carrier from another. They all do it. So, once again, the consumer fails to see any differentiation based on carrier. As I discuss at length above, consumers are primarily buying the Apple experience and platform -- and the carrier is secondary.
Fascinating article, but seems better suited for Longreads than Hacker News.
So you're saying this software is found less useful and worthwhile than cocaine since people aren't willing to prostitute themselves for another shot?
IPhone as standalone business would be bigger than Microsoft
Planes above Los Angeles.
"Good morning, thank you for calling Initech --- JUST a moment!" Yep.
Berlin was "dirt cheap" ten years ago. Rents have been skyrocketing in recent years. On the other hand, salaries haven't.
A Spoon for People With Parkinson's Reduces Shaking by 70%
$0. I was stupid, but through sheer dumb luck I made it.
Up to $10 payment for posting fake online reviews
Charles Nutter (of JRuby) has said that many of his main complaints on refinements have been resolved. His original rant can be found here: http://blog.headius.com/2012/11/refining-ruby.html
This (german) source says that the free of charge unlock by a Samsung service partner will make the device accept any SIM-Card. So it is not locked to the new region:
http://allaboutsamsung.de/2013/09/samsung-gibt-statement-gal...

But why Samsung? Why?
Team is critical in gaming startups w/ some examples of what can go wrong.
Building customer segments using Principle Component Analysis (PCA)
I'm amused that photo-sharing companies are more valuable than CC payment processing companies that actually generate revenue.
I have a friend who was acqui-hired for his successful open source project. In the general sense it was positive because he was able to focus on the project and not in the money.

I think the case of 100% open source projects without services attached is much different of companies who want an exit or growing. I can't imagine a dystopian future where a company like Google is being acquired by Yahoo.
I just put in Italian Vodafone SIM into unlocked iPhone 4S with iOS 7 and got Vodafone bookmark in Safari, which is indeed deletable. Haven't noticed new contacts so far.
I just gave it a try and submitted a program. I scored 64% accuracy. Currently in 4th place, but I'm sure that won't last for long. http://www.kaggle.com/c/dogs-vs-cats/leaderboard
They may not have had a first female engineer, but in their first 21 employees, 6 of which were females.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-first-20-employees-wh...
Maybe... but I flat-out refuse to work in an office without natural light. It's just too soul-crushing to spend 5/7 of my daytime hours away from the sun, under fluorescent glare. (I'm sure that for many people, this doesn't bother them.)

Open plan offices certainly can have their problems, but I'll take natural light over a private room any day.
No, no, "the cheapest Nokia I could find" should be taken literally, I have a Nokia 1280 :-).
Try it on NYTimes or Wapo. Makes the news a lot more interesting/potentially NSFW.
My general philosophy has been moderately upgrade your life style every 3 bumps in earnings- this has led me to live pretty bare bone in a lot of aspects. In my case I was very lucky with my overall earning increasing about 10-15% a year, yet I lived in the same apartment, drove the same car and pretty much only spent money on travel and food (my vices). This also allows you to cut down a lot easier in the case of a pinch.

I don't own but rent - economically in the long run buying would be more advantageous but being able to move in a heartbeat or quit my job to start my own business took priority over that. I am religious about saving cash. Every month before my paycheck (used) to drop in my account I would put a decent percentage into savings - this was after 401k contributions (which I did about ~10%). If i received a bonus at work 90% would go directly to savings either in the form of my personal investment account or cash reserves (with 10% always going to 401k). The remaining 10% was for the family slush fund.

From a financial planning perspective 10% might be low for 401k but I believe I can make my money work harder outside of it. My household cost is similar to yours (~45k), I add 10k to keep sanity (vacations with wife, anniversary presents, etc).

Disclaimer: This is working for a established tech firm paying towards the high end of industry average and working there for 5 years. If you are in a startup your salary is lower and lopsided towards equity so achieving this cushion I imagine is a lot harder.
C: It's obviously just a piece of malware on one or two of their computers doing automated scans.
As I understand it, those sort of relationships rely on the reasonableness of human-defined taxonomy.

For instance, if we referred to eels as "snakes" then they would have less in common with other snakes than they would with fish (I believe they are closely related to fish anyway, I might be wrong there).

Also, there are also some relationships that many might find surprising. For instance, most people know that birds and reptiles are fairly closely related, but the fact that crocodilians (alligators, crocodiles, etc) specifically are the closest living relatives to birds might be surprising. Personally I would have guessed some sort of more nimble reptile, lizards perhaps.
In hindsight, the standard PC keyboard is covered in absurd anachronisms. Never-used commands get to own their own keys, while frequently-used actions can require complicated chords. I mean, I can't even tell what Scroll Lock does, and Caps Lock is the source of constant rage... but if I want to switch to the previous tab in any tabbed interface? Why that's just CTRL+SHIFT+TAB. How simple!

Leaving soft-reboot on a complicated mess like CTRL+ALT+DELETE makes perfect sense. Using that combo to log on or access a perfectly useful menu is hopelessly moronic.
Plenty of off-grid power options, like solar, wind, and water.
Also, this type of ranking can be somewhat misleading. Ad Nauseum doesn't appear anywhere on the list, however all of the cards that support it do (Infernal Tutor, Lion's Eye Diamond, Lotus Petal).

This is because any deck playing the card typically only plays one copy, because it is bad to play in multiples.
It's written by economists? it teaches quantitative tools and methods and models used by economists?

seems like pretty good stuff... but hey we can grep it and nitpick the title if we have nothing better to do.
AFAIK, this is also how Hacker School NY works. I'm not a recruiter, nor want to be one :). I've never been recruited either. It sounds like a lot of money to me too, but it's the industry standard. On top of consuming all my free time the last 2-3 months, flying/hosting residents, paying for office space, etc is a significant cost. We hope that after the first batch, people are so appreciative that they will find it criminally bad if there's no next edition of the retreat. Making some money will give us the freedom to fly the best people, and provide the best experience possible. This is not a non-profit, but it's not run with the only intention of making money.
$95K. It wasn't enough. My time building my product was cut short by unexpected health problems, which not only accelerated my cash burn, but also made it more difficult than usual to find my next job when I needed it. I landed hard, on my ass, though I eventually got to my feet again.
I wonder why this happens. I mean, making chip is thousand times harder than writing driver. Why screw that last stage up?
my balance was negative 2k. i had to pay a monthly payment to cover that loan and i still quit my industry job because i realised that time was money too. the pressure helped me find ways to survive and i did.
"That what is happening is a matter of individual greed and not some systemic mind control."

No. The fact that the local populace doesn't care at all and encourages it, means that it is a HUGELY systemic problem.
Considering Amazon.com doesn't bother with an EV cert, I'd guess they don't affect conversions in any sort of positive manner.
So a funny story which relates. The actual "feature" of resetting the system (sending it the appropriate non-maskable interrupt) was handled in early PC's by the keyboard controller, which was a chip on the motherboard. I was at a company and we were building our own "lights out" server system, no keyboard, so the hardware engineer deleted the keyboard controller from the schematic. The issue was that the BIOS we got from AWARD couldn't deal with the fact that there was no controller, it would enable the interrupt anyway and I guess the pin was simply not connected on the interrupt controller so we'd get random interrupts. Back and forth half in English and half in Chinese to get the BIOS fixed, every time an update came it would be broken again. It became such an issue that the HW engineer built a small board that had the controller on it that could be 'blue wired' into the circuit so that we could continue to debug/build stuff while the BIOS guys were in a 'broken' cycle. In later versions we switched to AMI and had a much better time of it but sheesh it was a pain.
Agreed. We support s3cmd:

ssh user@rsync.net s3cmd get s3://rsynctest/mscdex.exe

... and have for some time ... but we'd be happy to have some diversity there. One thing that sticks out immediately, of course, is that s3cmd is written in python and s3sync is a ruby gem. This makes things difficult since we insist on having no interpreters in our customer chroot...[1]

[1] We "freeze" things like s3cmd and rdiff-backup into binary executables so they don't require python in the environment
Gnip Introduces Search API for Twitter: Instant/Complete Access to Recent Data
Isn't the Ctrl-Alt-Delete to login supposed to be in order to prevent a malicious fullscreen app from faking the login screen and tricking the user into entering their login credentials? (Since Ctrl-Alt-Delete is a keystroke that is routed directly to an OS handler at a fairly low level, a mere application can't intercept it.)

There's actually a sound reason, I can't really think of another way to prevent this attack vector.
What triggered the bankruptcy is pretty irrelevant. Commodore had been losing money for the entire time the Amiga was on sale and circling the drain.

As someone who was both an ardent Amiga and Mac user, yes AmigaDOS was awful. Yes, it was a multi-tasking DOS -- awesome. The utility of the multi-tasking in AmigaDOS (given the way applications split screen real estate -- i.e. into horizontal bands) was in practice far inferior to what Apple kludged with desk accessories, switcher, and eventually multifinder. AmigaDOS also used weird and inconsistent command-line conventions (that ARP made both better and more consistent).

In any event, there's no point having multitasking if there are no decent applications. Amiga had, basically, DeluxePaint, games, and lots of cool software for facilitating piracy. (The Mac ports of DeluxePaint -- Studio/32 and Studio/8 -- were among my favorite all time applications.)

> BTW, the flickering issue in hires for people who needed it

Yes, having a third party hardware solution so you can display halfway decent office software is great. When I needed this, it wasn't available.
I think the overall point here is that the ability for a message addressed to one person to end up on someone else's screen carries some rather unfortunate implications for the internals of the service. Compare with IRC private messages, email, heck even XMPP.
How expensive it is to run a startup in these 8 major cities
Error messages. If the assertion framework knows what you're checking, it can provide a better message.

E.g., "assert(a == 3)": "Assertion failed."

vs.

"assertEquals(a, 3)": "Expected 3 but was X."

The fancy "spec" style ("a.should.be.equal.to(3)") is overkill, though, I'd agree. It adds complexity for dubious benefit.
And following suit, Jace the Mind Sculptor.
There's also gitlab, which is a github style app you can run locally. It used to use gitolite internally for access control, but it is now using its own access control system.
Yes yes, our youth is rotten to the core. Even more than the previous one and the one before.

I think, understanding a new technology does not stop with technical details.

We have to understand want this technology means to other people.
The author talks about "real connections with the people around us", but how is a message I send to someone on the other end of the world unreal?

If children send 3000 to 4000 messages a day, if true, you could describe this as a deep investment in communication and connections, but just not according to his definitions.
I was making a little joke - I thought it was widely known that Marissa Mayer was Google's first female engineer.

Source: her wikipedia page, numerous articles.
congrats to the team. building payments is hard (braintree has been at it since 2007) and it's great to see a successful exit for a solid team & company
It's possible, at least after I see the concepts this way, that git has the simple design Hoare was talking about when he said:

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”
― C.A.R. Hoare
> Extremely annoyed by seeing this minimum applied only to the EU countries!

I would take a 100€ minimum over a 320% increase in transaction fees (2.9% vs. 0.9%) and a 130% increase in fixed per-transaction fees (0.10€ vs. $0.30 at current exchange rate) any day of the week.
The problem with Yahoo
I'm reminded of this, my favorite TED talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/willie_smits_restores_a_rainforest....

He talks about turning a de-forested area back into a rain forest. It's like an algorithm for sustainable living.
We're the same way. Big open floor plan with conference rooms (although not enough). We have ~35 people in our big room and it's relatively quiet all day. People take phone calls in the conf rooms and everyone in the big room is usually working on heads down work (mix of programmers, project managers and data analysts).

Conversations pop up throughout the day and there are little pockets of noise but everyone is pretty happy. In fact I just hired a developer who said one of the things he liked was the large open floor plan.
Wouldn't that just open up the family to be 'distracted' by something else? If the family wants social time, yes, there should be a social time set up for games or mutual activity, but otherwise it will just open up for kids to be distracted with books. I've heard very social parents complain that their kids rather read than go play with other kids (and been complaint since books/learning has been around). I knit to keep my hands busy when watching anything or in church listening.
> It just seems so simple - design a workplace with both collaborative and private work areas. Let people take their laptops and sit wherever the %(#*@ they want on a minute-to-minute basis. That's really so difficult?

Option 3: It's 2013, the internet exists, let people work wherever in the world they feel most productive. Judge them on their output, not their butt being in a seat for 8 hours.
I don't know... there's something about Ctrl+Alt+Del that was so uniquely satisfying -- maybe because it required two hands? Because it was so arcane and unintuitive? And the awesome power to restart your computer via simple key presses, no matter how locked-up it was?

It's bizarre to say, but I almost miss having something like it on my Mac. A single, obvious power button just isn't as much "fun".
I'm currently working in a support position for a relatively large building, both floors of which are almost exclusively cubes except manager's single desk offices.

My area is a total of three cubes of space, all of which is open to the walkway. Interruptions are de facto day-to-day existence. On the other hand, I don't often do much that's truly put-on-blinders-and-earmuffs, so it doesn't seem as draining.

I would still like to have an enclosed space with a door that the desk can face, instead of having people walk up behind me all day.
I'm on the same plan. No contract.
$20k in the bank

$500/mo recurring

negotiating a $15k consulting project

several other potential projects in early talks

Remember that runway = cash/burn_rate. Lowering burn rate was a key enabler: I was able to find a rent-free living situation for a few months and that put me over the edge to quit. I also have a nice safety valve in that at the end of the runway, I don't crash and burn, I walk right back into an industry job.

Because my burn rate is much lower than my former 6.5k/mo industry pay rate, I expect this to go much further than the 3 months pay I have in savings. That said, I'm being conservative and would only commit myself to 3mo terms at the longest for office/rent.

I don't claim to know anything about the sufficiency here, it was just my best guess. Comments welcome :-)

* There are no guarantees, but I received 3 offers @80k+ in 1mo of searching, so I like my odds. On a related note, always prefer data like this to a gut feel of your employability.

(throwaway -- don't need prospective clients seeing my financials)
Reminds me of working at Worksmart Labs/Noom. They had a noisy open plan office, but still felt they should max out the stars on the Joel test in their hiring ads for giving programmers a quiet working environment. If you are going to have an open plan office, it is a cost cutting measure. That's it. Being honest about a lack or fault is better than lying about it. Good to see a startup doing things right in this article!
Will fee shifting make it too risky for small companies to protect their IP?
"And it’s not all about the money. “I worked on one acquisition where we had to fight over a startup bringing its pool table with them,” Brown recounts. “It was a big piece of their culture — all of their engineers would talk through their toughest problems over pool, apparently.” The corporate development team balked, and it ended up threatening the deal."

corporate development can be tight ass sometimes. Can someone chime in on which acquisition this was?
I too am getting it. Proceeded anyway.
Update: It's been 3 days since I started doing 2 sets, so 14 minutes total. I think I'm seeing some improvements. I'll put up some pictures about a week from now.
This is not about the nominal wage difference between America and Europe but about them taking 1/3 of that 35 to 40k.
Declassified NSA files show agency spied on Muhammad Ali and MLK
What is the Quantified Self? This and more at Social Media Week: London
That's because the cards that support it are the actually powerful cards! Without them, you can't pull it off. Without Ad Nauseum, there is doubtless a slightly less powerful alternative to be found.

For example, brain geyser was an easy finisher in a deck built around generating stupid amounts of mana, and it also had secondary utility. But there are many cards that can do the same job almost as well.

You'll notice the trend if you peruse lists of restricted cards. It's always the catalyst that is restricted.
Your bias is showing through quite heavily, that may contribute as much to your lack of winning on "religious turf" as your arguments do. Yes, there are plenty of the believers that draw a hard line, but by stereotyping you potentially alienate other believers that would otherwise gladly contribute to the discussion.

There are many Christians that believe in evolution. There are many that believe in creation and many that believe in a hybrid of the two.

I consider myself a "True Christian", and yet I am not a die-hard fundamentalists. I believe that Someone got this whole party started, but I don't believe there are enough facts to establish exactly how much they interacted with this thing we call earth, life, and the universe.

If there is a God, then he would have to know all the science, even the science we don't know, sort of like the ultimate hacker. So he sets up his lab (the universe) aligns all the conditions and drops his sample into the petri dish (earth). I believe that much. The question is, how much did he have to interact with the petri dish after that? Did he have to add food? or zap things with lasers? Did he have to move the dish to a different light source at some point? If creation was setting up the lab and getting things started did he not still create this world?

Note: I don't think we're all just one big science experiment. But if God is all knowing (which is fairly universally accepted among the religious) then he would know science. But at the same time, are our scientists not working towards artificial life? Cold fusion? The physics behind orbits and the like? If we had all the resources and technology we needed would we not have scientists that would want to "move a planet" and try to start life?

Either way, now you have two people, one non religious, and one believer who have a common scientific understanding to start from: The theory of evolution is completely possible and we can work together to test, re-test, prove and improve the theory until it becomes fact or is disproved.

TLDR; Your stereo types and blanket dismissive statements can do as much to hinder the science you're trying to promote as the firm line that many of your opponents draw on this topic. You'll meet more success looking for and arguing to a common ground and then building from there.
Exactly. If the sea levels rise ten meters overnight, that would be an enormous catastrophe with unfathomable loss of life.

If the sea levels rise ten meters over a couple decades, people will get the heck out when the water's at their ankles, instead of patiently waiting a few years until it's over their heads.

Or figure out a local civil engineering solution like diverting the water with levees and dams, that's at worst a local disaster if it doesn't work out.
Distracted from what? If we're distracted from socialization, its probably that whoever we're socializing isn't that interesting. No longer thinking/pondering? I use those mindless games to 'ponder'- They are simple enough it doesn't take much mental process to play, but leaves enough for me to think about what needs to be thought out (problems, the day, world problems, etc). The same arguments he's made have been made about books for centuries.
So where do the sponsors come in play?
High frequency trading right on the ethernet switch
Samsung Germany issued a statement on the issue. Apparently, more flagships will be regionally locked, but users will get to unlock the phones at Samsung’s service centers.

http://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-note-3-region-lock-s...
My interpreter saved my life. Now the US is stalling on his visa.
Senators to introduce comprehensive NSA reform bill