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I don't think anyone else is reading and doubt that we will change each other's minds. But I'll give you one more response.

1) No. Sort of but I'm not sure they have achieved a monopoly. When have they banned competitive technologies? An alternative perspective is that they felt their technology and design were ripped off improperly and responded with the legal remedies open to them. Even so that show that their codec decisions were about control of anyone else. Vorbis is old but newer (at least the integer version) than AAC which matches it for quality. VO8 is newer and not much better than AVC. Opus is just too new. Apple doesn't use closed codecs, I won't concede the language to you.

2) W3C requires royalty free open standards which is great but does not make that the definition of open standards (although it is within the definition).

3) Yes and Apple support that too. It is old and poor by modern standards but I'm not sure of the relevance to this debate.

5) That is nice. I have the feeling that many of them may drop it in subsequent models if it was inconvenient. Again I'm not sure of the relevance of this to our disagreements.
I think the article is asking the wrong question. A better question is: why does Apple (OSX/iOS) have such awesome battery life? After all, it wasn't always this good, or rather, it's been improving by leaps and bounds, both with new hardware and with new OS versions.

I think the answer is that Apple really, really cares and has been extremely focused on power/performance for a number of years. It has the focus, the institutional awareness and know-how that's been built up since around Tiger, and last not least the people on their performance teams.

That's how you get great battery life.
Is your father still working? What's his height and weight?

If he has high intelligence, then don't bother prescribing him what to do. You only need to pitch and convince him that hitting a certain BMI is a necessary business outcome. Some men are hunters, not farmers. They need something to chase, not just hang around and tending gardens.

Exercise has been not shown to contribute much to weight loss. On the other hand, lack of sleep has been associated with weight gain.

Ask your father to consider replacing soda with water. It's magic for most people. The first few days, water will taste terrible. If he can't stand it, make a spritz by adding fresh lemons. Buy a set of scales because he will definitely see the results of this one small change. Also, drink more water. It helps cut down the appetite.
> I enjoy the ideas that are thrown around in the article, and it seems to oscillate between pro and anti subculture.

I started this essay back in 2009; 4 years later, I still have no idea whether I am pro or anti.
It depends what you tell them. If you said, "I'm hiring you" and you expected to fire 5, that's a horrible move. But if you told them, "We have a contract for you now, and might have more work later." Now the fact that you're intending to give 10 of them full time jobs is a very nice move!

The difference is not just semantics either. If they have other work already, the odds that they accept your first contract will depend on what you told them at the start.
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Or you could have played something like sports with other kids, and both spent time with them and had something to talk about.
IR35 :-)

For non UK folk IR35 is a rule brought in to penalize self employed IT people of course self employed lawyers and accountants don't have this problem.
> Well if it's DIY then it's taking all the time to get the ingredients and put it in a blender.

It's practical to do certain stuff with Soylent that's a little more difficult with traditional food. With the appropriate containers, I can, for example, very easily "package" a week's worth of breakfast and lunch. The only operation involved is measuring dry powders and cleanup is very minimal in comparison to traditional cooking. I can do the same thing with ordinary cooked meals, containers, and a freezer, but that's quite a bit more involved.
Ask the community for feedback.
I think adding a "don't reverse" checkbox while against the whole point could make people host their gifs there, even if they don't want it reverted.
Yeah that's absolutely correct. Google has more initiatives than they can produce internally and so a lot of work is contracted to external vendors/agencies, which can have security concerns. The withgoogle.com domain allows Google to host externally-created sites that do not have any access whatsoever to internal user data.
Is it legal using this method to ship to other places as mentioned above?
Best thing is to not let things sit around after you stop using them. The chances that someone else can use them just keeps dropping.

And you can't use the space it takes up, which is probably the most expensive thing about old stuff. If you pay $2000 a month for 1000 square feet, every square foot costs you $24 bucks a year. An old PC taking up 3 square feet for 5 years costs you $360.

And, sure, it probably was going to be empty space. But we do need empty space, just as we need white space. All the clutter has a psychic cost.
Or: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/
Edits are seen as long as you resubmit after editing. There's even a warning on the application page if you have non-submited edits.
Ok, I found 4 more by doing a text search for "Urbanski." 2 of them I'd read myself, incidentally.

Why did you ditch mcu? Did you forget the password? I can reset it for you if you like.
If I had to guess why they were rejected I'd say that it's because they're typically:

#1: Consumer focused

#2: Unsexy/unknown markets

Were they wrong to reject them? Probably not. Traditional gaming isn't a market that many take seriously.

I'm still implementing many of the ideas that have been submitted to YC. I'll release the apps and write retrospectives as we push out features in the future.
What's "using a computer" though? The trouble with hacking laws as they stand currently is that they are written so broadly that innocuous uses are technically illegal, but where no one prosecutes.

I for one don't want to live in a world where everything is illegal - this hands power to the executive and has been a major source of abuse both past and present.

Say I tell you "DanBC, you're a jerk, you can't access my website anymore". What happens if you visit my website? Are you "using a computer without permission", assuming I own the server?

What is the level of interaction necessary in order for a user to graduate from legally clear to "throw the book at the hacker"?
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Pretty awesome iWatch mockup (animated)
I agree, but to rephrase:

You want your company to be the expert in what makes your products and services great. If your differentiators are all created by consultants, once the consultants move on, you lose that expertise.

By all means, hire consultants to set up version control servers, build board support packages, improve the UX of your webapp, or even take care of HR paperwork. But the thing that makes you money (the search engine, the historical database, the business logic) needs to yours.

Anything less can work, but you'll be dangerously close to creating a commodity product. What's to stop someone else from hiring similar (or the same) consultants to clone your product?

Of course, all this assumes the value of your product is your differentiator, not inside knowledge of how to get contracts from a particular bureaucracy.
And the source: http://dribbble.com/shots/1280333-iWatch-Mock-Up
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Of course you have to have a mechanism. Running an online business of any kind, but most especially with user-generated content, requires an unending investment in forensics. It's no different for Wikipedia than it is for eBay or even Hacker News.

Most of these companies would cease and desist after one politely worded but firm letter.

If they were the victim in the case, they would probably provide money and/or resources to track down a rogue PR firm, an unethical competitor, disgruntled ex-employee, or miscellaneous vigilante whack-jobber.

I don't think we need to get hysterical like some responders and assume that every corporation is out to do black bag jobs on each other. If they can spend a few bucks and get some easy astro-turfing, they will. If the penalties are such that it's not worth the bother, they won't.
Over his life, Jobs has had a greater impact. But at the time Apple was formed, Wozniak singlehandedly designed and engineered a machine that was simply peerless. The Apple ][ made every other system on the market look like a toy for years while costing less to build. Jobs' contribution at the beginning was modest in comparison. (BTW Woz was never much of a programmer, just a killer electrical engineer.)
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> But some of them are sleazy and not truthy.

As the word is used on The Colbert Report, "truthy" is somewhat sleazy. It means something that sounds like it's true, but which isn't necessarily based on facts.
Nice tutorial, but old story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3806841
Ask HN: How can I avoid the HN Slap?
Help! Today marks the 5th+ post we've made that has received the HN Slap, meaning it has been downvoted by a bot or mod from a front page position to a #50 or lower slot, say, #12 to #50, in two seconds.

I really appreciate any advice you have to solving this mystery! Hacker News is near and dear to me; most of our early customers came through HN! I'm well aware of automated voting ring detection and flame-war detection, but I'm still left perplexed about our recent posts, which involved neither. In fact I've had to warn teammates and friends NOT to vote for pieces, for fear of setting off the mysterious algorithm.

In a broader view, I'm concerned that the community might be missing out on some good content. The sporadic nature of the slaps leaves me to wild speculation -- do all non-YC company posts get the slap? Is one of our competitors a mod?

If any of the mods have a minute, I'd really appreciate it if you can help detect any pattern to these flaggings! Are they being done by bots or humans? Why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6445904 17 CTOs Share Their Greatest Fears
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6528923 What CTOs Fear Most
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6087380 Our First Outage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6587906 How Keen IO Uses Storm

"17 CTOs share their greatest fears" and "What CTOs fear most" were very well received. However, both received the slap once they hit the HN front page. The second post was popular enough it made it BACK to the front page, only to be slapped down AGAIN! In the case of the first CTOs post, I sent an email letting the CTOs and their companies know it was live and on HN. I suspected this may have triggered voting ring detection due to getting too many votes at the same time. I've been very careful NOT to repeat my mistakes on that one, but the second post still got the slap when it came out a few weeks ago!

Another post to get the slap was a detailed technical post by our CTO called "Our First Outage". Front page one minute, gone down into the depths the next.

Today's post, "How Keen IO Uses Storm" was also well-received, but it got the slap from #30 to #75 just about as soon as it hit the front page this morning.

We've posted these pieces from different HN accounts but the end result always seem to be the same -- if it's related to Keen IO it gets the slap!

Once exception was my post on Friday about blogging, "How to Write Good Blog Posts", which, ironically, is probably the least technically relevant to the community of them all. It got to stay front page for a couple of hours and didn't get the slap! That disproved my hypothesis that my account or our domain was in some way marked for destruction, but also added validity to my hypothesis there may be a mod who doesn't like us who happened to be out on Friday. Now I just sound like a crazy person!

I've obviously already spent too much time speculating on this mystery -- please put me out of my misery!! :)
Developer evangelist. You travel to developer conferences, hackathons and other events.
None for dot product.

The regular matrix and vector multiplication as * operator makes things a lot more readable.

Dot and cross product are less common for 3D rendering (one or none per line of code) so having that as a function doesn't hurt readibility.
I wonder why nobody ever counts the cost of the electricity/gas they used when they talk about how cheap they were able to cook a meal.
Pour it over some ice?
Unfortunately the CEO seems to be doing rather well in his current career. I despair at this. You would think that nobody would use these apps, but I guess some people get desperate. It's a sad world.

Their website contains some clues as to the kinds of marketing discussions they have, e.g. one FAQ -was- titled "The Bribed person did not go on an agreed date!" but was changed to "The Attractive person did not...!".
Someday we'll have robots that can keep track of it all and how much its currently worth online. Imagine being able to find things with a simple query.

And if most people did this and shared their data, you might be able to find something a hundred feet away much more quickly.
Wow. As an European I just can't wrap my head around this. I'm currently working in London, and our firm has a policy that for up to 7 days of sick leave you don't even need to prove that you were sick, anything over that you need a letter from your GP.

America, fuck yeah?

ps: he didn't say it is the norm, he said it's a good idea to do it.
Funnily enough, I was just reading a retrospective on Ronald Coase, who asked the simple question which underlies this discussion: why do firms exist?

It turns out that they exist because sometimes the cost of a transaction in the marketplace is higher than the cost of losses due to internal inefficiencies.

Employing someone and engaging a contractor lie on different points in that spectrum. It will simply vary from place to place, from situation to situation. There is no universal answer, true for all time, valid for all cases. Just as there is no one universal design for trousers (but many cuts and sizes), on single identical car used for everything from racing to commuting to shipping furniture.

Different cases demand different mixes. Each firm will have to decide for itself the mix of internal costs and external costs.
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You keep setting off the voting ring detector.
We've noticed this as well - even after being super strict about not encouraging friends to upvote.
Thanks to benguild for the blog article. I had seen used books in Amazon price lists as shipped by Amazon and qualifying for free supersaver shipping, but I'd never gotten around to finding out how this "fulfillment by Amazon" worked.

I looked at the info on Amazon's website and I still have a couple questions.

(1) Amazon charges a fee of something like $0.42 per pound when shipping. Is this just for supersaver shipments? Or does it also apply when Amazon collects from the customer for standard or expedited shipping?

(2) I see Amazon charges fees for storage and shipping, but I don't see where they take any percentage of the sale. Am I missing something?
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Make it a Gripe site and tell them to fuck off

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gripe_site
And ruin a perfectly good ad hominem? ;-)
Freemium? Imgur is evidence users will pay for extra features and support you.
I really wish that Ts'o had accepted the Fortuna approach. It's a good, clean design which is constructed from well-regarded parts and is pretty fast.
A job being at-will doesn't affect whether you can offer a job in bad faith. "At will" says you have the right to fire me for any reason. "Bad faith" means you shouldn't offer me the job in the first place unless you mean it. They affect two different actions.

Let's make an extreme example: I interview Anderson, Beth, and Charlee. I like Anderson and Beth, but Beth is a better fit for the team. Charlee is terrible.

Meanwhile, All three are interviewing with my competition. So... I give jobs to Anderson and Beth. I offer Anderson a very good salary just to make sure he doesn't go to the competition. They hire Charlee, and that's a win for me. Now I fire Anderson.

I suggest that if this was my plan all along, I wronged Anderson when I offered him a job in bad faith. I may not have wronged him when I used the "at will" provision to fire him, but I wronged him when I fraudulently offered him a job that I had zero intention of letting him earn the right to keep.
Employees work forty hours a week. Come on. You probably don't; why would you expect everyone else to? Here's a realistic breakdown of the average programmer's workday:

Well, startups & early employees typically work much more than 40 hours a week.
Besides the many points already mentioned:

* consultants come and go, you can't guarantee that the guy who wrote the code will be back for the next feature. This has a non-irrelevant cost of transitioning.

* consultants are not necessarily honest about estimates and the status of your code base, nor they have any economic incentive to be. Employees have no incentive to cheat you on this - they would have no advantage in doing useless work. How can you make sure that you are not being cheated?

* productivity of employees and consultants is similar, in coding basically no one can get more than 4-6hrs of actual work done on a regular basis. The number of hours actually worked is irrelevant.

* In London an average senior developer makes maybe 55k£ (http://www.totaljobs.com/salary-checker/average-senior-devel...) for an average of 220 work days (44 weeks). An average consultant of similar skill will make around 475£/day (http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/london/senior%20devel...). Quick calculation: 55k$ of consultant time are 115 days (23 weeks). How can anyone say that a consultant is cheaper? Even considering perks, etc, it's still basically twice as expensive.
The rule of thumb I was taught was 2.5 to 3 times the base salary cost for normal jobs this covers tax social security and infrastructure costs (network computers buildings etc)

For world class rnd I have seen it go way over 5x but you are buying much much more expensive and Gucci kit for example a single piece of HP test gear cost us the same as a small house at BHRA say 1/4 million in today's money
What I think with absolutely no deep research into this is that if the ingredients are all foods or powders that are already on the market in other foods, it probably won't do short term damage to the body, as a lot of fast-food eating people probably would get the same amount of nutrition at the very least.

I would imagine long term damage would come from the mere fact that you're eating the same combination of foods/powders day in and day out. I'm pretty sure there are periods throughout history of people eating only one food and surviving (ie Irish in 1800s with potatoes, 3rd world countries with rice/beans) but it's not ideal or good long term.
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I switched back from iPhone to Nokia Symbian
According to one of the articles on the topic I found when I decided to look this up[1]: "Granted, the rare monthly win for Yahoo does not include search and mobile results."

Huh? Sure, Yahoo tops Google if you exclude Google's biggest property and the entire mobile market (which Google controls nearly 80% of).

That's like if you saw a headline that said "Apple controls more of the desktop market than Microsoft (granted, the win doesn't include business customers or machines running Windows 7 and older)."

1: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/08/22/yahoo-tops-goo...
Looking at the analytics, most of the users are redditors which by default use imgur to host any images including gifs. With that said we do have a feature to unreverse gifs so while viewing a reversegif, you can simply click on it to revert back to the original.
Our online photographs are part of a giant, simulated multiverse.
> Just don't count on them to provide privacy as well.

On the bright side, Google won't go thermonuclear on you if you choose a Google-free mod. The Cyanogenmod guys conveniently provide instructions to install "google packs" if you choose to do so. I will not do business with companies that are into thermonuclear war.

The first and last Apple product I used was an iPod, years ago. Having to convert my music and videos to specific formats made the iPod lose its luster.
CM 10.2 introduced something called Privacy Guard. https://plus.google.com/+CyanogenMod/posts/gk7X3HjNvnH
Well, I've been rejected 4-5 times now (various projects). I'll still keep applying but I'm certainly not relying on it by any means. My last project is still progressing and is an actual business. I can feel myself getting far better with each attempt. I've explored a lot of what not to do. At some point I'll either look good enough for YC or I'll succeed on my own. I'll keep applying so that the YC door is open, at least from my side.

Also, I have become better at dealing with professional rejection as a result of YC. It was one of the few things I've ever "applied" for, really wanted, and not gotten. So that alone was a powerful and useful learning experience.

Keep learning. Keep trying. Keep applying.
It does not use system-level facilities that aren't open to normal applications. People love to hate on Google; if they ever embed features into the OS only they are allowed to use you will hear about it very quickly.

There is a class called WifiManager[1] which lets you ask the user to allow background scans. It also lets you see the results of the last scan.

It is unfortunate that the Geofencing APIs are not part of the android platform, but I suppose it's possible they use Google services.

1: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/Wifi...
Consultants usually provide advice/strategy, whereas contractors, which may be freelancers, do the work. Often these roles may exist under the same umbrella with a firm recommending a direction and assisting with hiring or staffing to execute the plan.
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I agree with you! But read the original poll choice:

Scandinavia (incl. Finland and Iceland)
Mostly joking, so someone else will need to try it out. :) My guess is that if it worked well enough for people to start abusing it, they'd close the loophole. As another poster points out, you still need to pay their transaction fee, so the shipping savings has to more than offset that in order for the trick to even be worthwhile.
Is ice really readily available?
Soylent is the first... to specifically target the market segment that is fawning over it. Ensure and the like are not seen as products for young active SV desk jockeys; instead it is that shit that old or ill people drink.

It doesn't hurt that Soylent has a distinct "anti-authoritarian" vibe going on with it, that tickles the "techies can solve any problem, everyone else isn't as clever as we are"-bone.
This sounds like a potentially very useful service. The one downside is that objects with a value below a certain threshold will not be worth their time, and would likely just be moved to a landfill.

Out of personal interest (as a potential user): can you name some of these businesses?