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> I don't know where you live but in Toronto with the exception of university tuition, all those things are provided for children that can't afford them regardless of their background. The concept of not letting a child go on a field trip or go hungry at lunch because they couldn't afford it is just insane to my ears.

As insane as it may sound for a Torontonian, I grew up in Scarborough where many people didn't go on field trips simply because of the cost. Some kids had small lunches. And I grew up in a time where, because of cut backs in education costs, students were required to pay a "course fee" of about $50 at the beginning of the term in high school to pay for additional learning supplies for classes. Which usually amounted to the fee required to print workbooks, provide extra writing materials, or even art supplies.
yes, the submarine screws will generate waves on a lull day
Nice looking app, but why are those "Learn More"-links made out of fuzzy, poorly compressed jpegs? Doesn't exactly communicate attention to detail.
Agreed, wouldn't have bought it if I had known that, I also like to change my status when busy.
Very nice looking app. Although a feature I really think a lot of people need is a nice icon in the status bar. How else are we meant to know we have a message whilst glancing at our screens?
Argh, it still has this:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686747

Edit: I would fix this myself, but don't even know where to look...
Well, by your own metaphor on _average_ society would come out the same, by definition.

No, if you make things worse for 90% of the population, and make it better for 10% of the population, the total is worse and therefore the average (mean) is worse.

Edit: an example. Let's say the first 9 people rate society at 10 points, and the last one rates it a 4. Total 94, mean 9.4, median 10. Now change things around so everyone is equal and ranks things a 9. Total 90, mean 9.0, median 9. Even though the majority is almost as happy as before, and the minority is much happier, most measures come out worse.
Will.i.am ? Creativity ?
I'm sure he has no idea what creativity is after this: http://www.dancingastronaut.com/2013/04/will-i-am-rips-off-a...
Why not stick with Angular if you already know it?
I've used Uber over a dozen times in Atlanta. I've used each of the three tiers of service as well, and in varying traffic conditions. I used Uber, and UberX whenever it was available, morning and night going to Dragon*Con in downtown Atlanta (read: bad traffic) and every time they were punctual and the trip was quick. I typically wait no more than 10 minutes for a driver of any tier.

We're both just a data point, but I'm surprised you've had such a bad experience where I now refuse taxi service in favor of Uber. The quality difference is night and day.
What's with the OpenDyslexic font? Is that supposed to be easier to read?
Nicholas Cage has a shockingly even range...
The other problem is I still have to keep Messages open (which does a lot of what this app does) because it can send iMessages to iPhones.
If a demo was available one could determine it for themselves. This trend of demoless AppStore delivery is getting annoying.
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> The 15" is slightly less DPI.

The DELL has a 15.6" screen, the MBP has a 15.4" screen. The screens both have the same resolution and aspect ratio. That means the MBP’s screen has a slightly higher DPI (221 versus 218).
This is a great analysis, I've observed some of the same trends. When there was less demand for the black cars, they could still operate like limos. Now it seems like they've just turned into glorified taxis.

A theory of mine is that disruptive startups always evolve to look more like the incumbents as they scale, and I think this might be another case in support of that.
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Installed it and while it looks very nice it's been beachballing almost constantly with only 2 accounts connected (facebook and hangout)

Search is very slow and causes ~500ms input lag.

Needs a lot of polish still.
Yeah given that the new Hangouts is a proprietary closed protocol (as far as I know) I don't think it's possible for third party to fully integrate. Their site has the Hangout logo and says Hangout on the feature list which gave me a bit of hope. But if you scroll down it actually says it supports Google Talk instead of Hangout.
"Flamingo does not support group chats in Facebook or Hangouts/Gtalk, and MUC (Multi User Chat) for XMPP is not supported."
Unfortunately that'd be my main use case. I was looking forward to replacing the ugly Hangouts Chrome Plugin.
That's what originally struck me as well.

It's easy to get carried away with falsely believing we're interested in something from a macro perspective when in reality the only thing(s) we really care about are micro or otherwise specific.
For me, the convenience of Uber was always in the predictability of when the car would arrive. Flywheel (http://www.flywheel.com/) has finally effectively solved that problem for regular cabs, after half a dozen apps tried. Anecdotal conversations with taxi drivers indicate that they are pretty happy with the Flywheel service as well - it is definitely the best received app by drivers.

Using an app that seems to treat driver's more fairly is worth something to me, YMMV.
A nationalized service industry does not benefit from the same economies of scale as a factory. Also, health care isn't primarily delivered as standardized mass-produced widgets.

If what you say about the ease of running an efficient nationwide federal program were true, Medicare and the DoD would be known for their cost-controls. Instead, they're known for the opposite.
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Watch the video, it pretty much explains what it is and how it works.
To me it seems the author is expressing his own inability to code in the language, why discuss someone's opinion?
Does it fully integrate with Hangout? If you get a message and read it in the app, does your Hangout mobile app's notification badge disappear?
Right. My company uses GTalk - we all work remotely - and it’s customary for us to use Busy with things like “On The Phone” or “Meeting” or whatever.
That's not the distinction drawn by the article.

The problem with this article, which isn't completely the fault of the authors, is that it's unsatisfying. They're saying, "Hey, we have a strong case here that it wasn't anything like a million people," but then they don't go lay it on the line and make a firm case for it having panicked X people. And that's probably the best they can do, given the lack of historical data, but it's not enough to deliver the kind of hard-hitting, conclusive punchline that's frequently necessary to kill off widespread myths. (Assuming, of course, that they really are myths. Some historical facts derided as myths have come back to haunt their doubters.)
Opera mostly, jazz standards or Progressive rock
BTW - here's my most excellent Prog Rock Spotify list: http://open.spotify.com/user/randgalt/playlist/3plvNgEo53WDz...
Confidentiality sounds like one of the more reasonable explanations, but it looks like the Coast Guard has its own set of approvals http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg521/
American Pop music would be more effective than waterboarding, IMO.
Vybe will vibrate once for a message, and it will vibrate in 1 second intervals the whole time your phone is ringing.

For $8/band, that's not bad. I think my mother would find this useful because she tends to not hear her phone through her purse.
If you don't want to be disrupted, why don't you just close the app?
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In fact, all of the images on the page are jpegs, even the logo and icons.
What are your feelings about this? What would your 30 year old self have thought?
If this is the smartest bracelet I'll ever wear, I weep for the future of the smart-bracelet industry. Or is there more to the product than the web site lets on?
Precisely. It never ceases to amaze me how splintered the socioeconomic classes become via interest groups. Men vs. women, Black vs White vs Hispanic, Christian vs Muslim vs Jew vs atheist, Democrat vs Republican, gay vs straight vs trans, etc etc.

Socioeconomic status is the only real differentiator, and these factions only serve to divide the people whose interests are in reality, quite aligned. Unsurprisingly, this tends to greatly assist those at the top of the socioeconomic ladder in maintaining political deadlock on issues which greatly assist the majority at the expense of the tiny minority. Issues such as the social safety net, healthcare, education, infrastructure, and democratic process.

A cursory review of history shows that this is not a novel strategy.
Yep, it is a closed API. A bit annoying, but I much prefer desktop clients over web applications or browser plugins, that's just personal preference though.
Whoa, I never knew imdb put their file as a dump. I've always tried to go through freebase
I am right there with you. The video does describe the product well, however the rest of the site fails at this mission. Even clicking on the Features tab it took me longer than it should have to figure out what the product _might_ do.
At the SEO agency I work at we've been playing classical music on Pandora for the past few days and everyone is liking it. It's a pleasant change of pace from the alternative pop/rock we usually play.
But you can also just use a data: URI with the entire document inlined—gross, but no moreso than srcdoc. Why is srcdoc any better?
Yeah, exactly. I'm deeply sympathetic towards lefty activists and activism, but I just cannot get over how much privilege "politics" [sic] sounds like original sin.

1. Being racist is bad
2. All white people are racist (by virtue of being born into a racist culture)

Ergo... all white people are bad. And I've seen several facebook posts by people of color that say things like "I'M DONE WITH WHITE PEOPLE." And I'm even somewhat sympathetic to that: All the evidence I've seen indicates I get treated better for being a tolerably handsome white dude. That must be kind of infuriating.

But at the end of the day, it's this culture that is often hostile to white dudes on principal, and just... okay? I guess I won't talk to you at parties if you don't want me to?
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What it actually does:

* vibrate when you wander too far from your phone
* vibrate when you receive calls or texts

So it's for active people who don't want to carry their phone all the time, but still want to stay connected to it.

The product messaging needs to be tweaked. Before I care if I look good wearing it, I want to know why I should wear it. You should not have to scroll and search to figure it out.
There's also often a difference between what we think we're interested in and what we're actually interested in.

I once read a quote that said something along the lines of "the movies at the bottom of your Netflix queue are who you want to be (Documentaries), but the ones at the top are who you really are (Action Films)".
If I said the welfare of animals was a minute problem, you'd have a point. But it's kittens being pet by people that's a minute problem. Shelters bring them around to a variety of places, like the Palo Alto farmers market, already. This is just an extension of that advertising mechanism. And it is an infinitesimally small problem.
Agreed. This is one of the main reasons why I will never switch to Hangouts from Talk.
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I wonder if with the Nokia purchase MS will transfer Surface hardware design over to Nokia.

I think it would make more sense than to trust MS's current software/hardware integration team, whose efforts on the Surface 2 have resulted in horrific battery life.
Agreed. Getting very sick of products only being explained in a video. Sometimes I can't/don't want to view a video, just tell me, in simple copy, what I'm looking at!
I'm cheerfully assuming that you're using distilled documentation and not the literal spec. If there is, say, conflicting documentation from Mozilla and Google, then we certainly have a bigger problem.
I have to ask. What the heck is that gif from?
Paid for is to replace messages because I hate how messages separates friends and message window.

But I feel like I've been cheated out of 10$ because it says its compatible with Messages, but after I bought it I find out I can't add my Apple account and talk with all my friends who have ios devices, so exactly how he can claim its compatible with Messages is beyond me.
The point is, instead of watching video I've closed the tab, annoyed and angry at this company for wasting my time and frustrating me. Which pretty much means not gonna give them any money and unlikely to give them any more time / second chance.
> As for tabs in Chrome... I never have more than eight open at a time.

When you study a subject, do you compare sources of information to determine which sources are the best (e.g., authoritative, detailed, etc.) and should be referenced in your notes? If so, how do you compare multiple sources while never having more than eight tabs open?

When I study a deep subject, I almost always end up with hundreds of tabs, including articles, papers, reports, policy statements, discussions, etc. I use the wonderful Tree Style Tab and Session Manager extensions for Firefox to organize tabs and manage sessions. After I finish my research, I process the hundreds of open tabs and add references to the best sources in my personal wiki, which is powered by Org mode.
Oh my god. That's sounds like the worst idea ever. We are constantly interrupted already. Don't need another device designed so you can not escape even more interruptions.
'One of the most interesting things I've noticed, though, is the reaction others have when I tell them I go to parties or bars by myself (or even to dinner or to movies alone). They're taken aback, and they almost try to marginalize you as some sort of loner.'

I've actually had the opposite experience. Sometimes I'll go to bars by myself just to hit on girls. When your friends aren't around to watch, it reduces the downside and fear of rejection.

Usually, if it's going well, I'll tell her I'm there by myself, and they tend to be impressed I had the confidence to go out by myself and approach them.
Snoozing notifications sets you as invisible in Hangouts, FYI.

I'd much rather have notifications and invisibility settings separate, but at least invisibility is still possible.
Late edit: There are talks of reviving the nacl port (not pnacl), something changed in nacl land?
How do you account for old age in your current plan? Sock away some money to pay for hospice care at ~$4000/mo./ea. and hope you time your death accordingly?

Or, create an environment that will support your family indefinitely. Give your children space that they own. (I'd be ecstatic if my teenager wanted to build their own house on the property.) It is, of course, possible that they'll all move away, too.

Thinking about my parents, it's very likely that they end up on my property, living in their own space, with family close-by to care for them. I'm not going to abandon them to caretakers, but I do realize that it's unrealistic to expect that lifestyle to work in a suburban tract home setting; everybody needs their space.

You're welcome to keep waiting for that one big gig that sets you free financially. I've got my own hopes for that, too, but I'm not about to let it stagnate my life.
I really loved the design. Can you please send me the promo code so i can try it ?
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I didn't get to keep mine - and now what I'm stuck with I pay more per paycheck for and I don't have any real coverage until I pass $8K in medical bills - I pay basically full price for medicine and at the doctors office.

So, I pay much more and get much less.

And hey, surprise - the price is going up even more next year, with no cost of living increase in the past two years - yay!
$8 just gets you the band (the colored part). Looks like it's $39 for a whole unit (the vibrating part + band)
It might make more sense if compared to the size of the Exploratorium rather than something like a showroom, and the visible, water location could be important if people are otherwise likely to ignore a large warehouse showcasing a technology which they think is a waste of time to even think about.
You have to manually compile the go tool though, as it doesn't come with gccgo.
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$8 is for a band only. To get the little bluetooth vibrating delay you'd need to drop $39.
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It is worth noting, you'll need to log back in after installing the update. Doing an iCloud restore of your iPhone has also triggered a logout in the past. Basically, never have push notification as your only notification method. Also a reason to consider sticking to manual app updating.

The app is much faster, and much better looking, but I can't help but think functionality has taken a backseat. While before it would tell me not only that I was on call, but what on call schedule I was currently on call for on the same screen. Many people use multiple schedules to set up a primary and secondary on call for a service. Now, it just tells me that I'm on call.. it takes a lot of digging in the app to see which on call schedule.
If you're doing any work at all with .NET, Visual Studio is the greatest IDE in the world. Believe it or not, people can be productive without a command line--especially if you can use VS to automatically generate thousands of lines of code.
Ask HN: Any recommendations for getting a logo done?
Tried searching for but couldnt come up a good thread for recommendations on how to and where to get a good logo done?
Came across thread that had some conversation about how to not get it done on oDesk.

Where did you get your logo done? Did you design it yourself or any one/place you would recommend? And how much it might cost to get a simple decent logo, just trying to figure out a ballpark average to budget for.
This appears to be exactly the same product, all the way down to the details. I'm not sure why they need a crowdtilt to fund their first production run when someone is obviously already producing it...?

http://dx.com/p/bluetooth-v2-0-incoming-call-vibrate-alert-a...
Do you really want to test out a new release of a web browser on a VM without an Internet connection? It seems like you would be missing out on a lot...
Throw a couple more sensors (pedometer comes to mind) on here for a tad bit more $ and you might have something... but my phone already has a vibrate function.
And a button where I can choose to ignore without looking at it (power button)...
I can see one or two advantages, but overall seems like the marketing outweighs the product...

Good luck, though!
There's a difference between cutting a feature due to resource constraints, and actively saying that the feature is a bad idea. Unless you're pulling an Apple/Microsoft and telling people they're wrong, while you hurry to do the right thing.
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> MySQL provides ACID transactions on a single machine

That made me chortle. If you can't roll back an `ALTER TABLE` command (e.g., to back out of a failed schema migration), you don't really have good ACID semantics. Here's a list of other fun MySQL commands that sidestep transactions: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/implicit-commit.html
> RavenDB uses a weak form of isolation called "snapshot isolation". ... Index updates are not Atomic.

If MVCC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_contro...) is "weak", then are they claiming read/write locks are better?

Also, to nitpick, RavenDB's reads/writes in the document storage engine are entirely atomic. A lucene index is maintained in a secondary store which is eventually consistent. But as a document store supports ACID transactions.
A theory of mine is that disruptive startups always evolve to look more like the incumbents as they scale

Good insight. And that's another reason (not just thinking of Uber here) why startups shouldn't be exempt from the rules and regulations that incumbents need to follow. They're in the same business. Alternatively, if the rules are bad, scrap them for everyone.
That's a pretty good post; I'd add a small comment to:

"As a precaution: the last category involves some _very dangerous jobs._ -- Improper installation of brakes will at best render your vehicle immobile, at worst it will endanger the safety of yourself and others on the road."

You have to evaluate yourself and your ability to follow directions closely. Can you bake a cake and it is edible? Can you do basic sysadmin / programming stuff from instructions? Can you build ikea type furniture without damaging yourself or the tools or the furniture? If not, the odds of a successful brake job are pretty low. If you can, it'll probably be OK.

What I enjoy about working on my brakes, is because I'm doing it myself I can go as slow and methodical and detailed as possible; no boss standing over me complaining that book labor is 2 hrs and I'm at 1.75 hrs and we're both losing money in 15 minutes so slap it together and hope for the best. Its my life on the line and I've got all the time in the world; I'll triple check, just because I can.

And the money saved I can put into brand new top of the line parts, not re manufactured or merely as good as stock. Zero labor cost means I can buy the most expensive ridiculous "racing" "pro" level stuff and still come out ahead of taking it into a shop. Just like a synthetic oil change at home is cheaper than the used french fry grease or whatever it is the quickie lube place claims is motor oil.

The biggest problem I've found is you're not doing "real" suspension work until you crack an impact socket (been there, done that) or bend a one meter cheater bar by putting a ten foot pipe on it. Also you have to be pretty hard core to own a brake cylinder hone or spring compressor, some specialized stuff is pretty expensive.
Their times are off a lot lately. Book a "4 minutes away" and it turns into 13. And nobody ever knows how to get anywhere in Twin Peaks (although cab drivers don't know it either).
hahah damn, YWHW is insane.
Ask HN: Which typing software do you recommend?
I am already a fast writer but I recently watched Andrew Gerrand's talks and he types goddamn fast. I want to be somewhere close to that, so I gotta improve my speed in typing and coding.

I am not an English speaker so it'll also make me faster writing in English I suppose. Any recommendations?

Bonus: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirtiest-little-secret.html
Or you could have claimed you are a Hispanic white.
$40 for a bracelet that (a) buzzes when my phone rings or gets a text and (b) buzzes a lot when I get too far away from the phone.

And probably buzzes if I get more than a couple feet away from the phone, if I've stuffed it into the wrong kind of bag. Or at least that's my experience with another Bluetooth proximity detection product.

It is not enough to have a phone on my person; I need to be able to respond to any and all attempts for people to demand my attention. Instantly. Jogging along a beautiful beach trail letting my mind wander around the edges of a big problem is something that should be interrupted by a wrong number on the off chance that it's the Important Call the video depicts.

I really can't see how this product would make my life better in any way. I think I'll pass.
You may want to check out the sample code on our Github, https://github.com/Wukix, which wasn't available at launch. Working on adding more. Appreciate the feedback!