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OK, I'm a long time emacs guy and not the target market, but I'm genuinely curious about the IntelliSense claim. Really? Are there any screencasts or whatnot I can look at to see an expert developer demonstrating that they're "immensely more productive" than just typing the symbol names?

Honestly my experience is exactly the opposite: I watch windows people try to edit code and wince. Their hands are bouncing to the mouse and arrow keys constantly. They mash keys and wait for key repeat instead of deleting marked regions. They pop dialog boxes up to search for things and have to move them around the screen to see.

And yeah: sometimes they press some kind of button and get a big list of symbol names that they end up staring at for a while before picking one.

It all just seems like a mess to me, but I'm willing to be educated.
The irony with Hindi/Urdu is that both nations(or people of the nations) made it an issue of National pride.

India Sanskrit-ized it, Pakistan Persian-ized and Arab-ized it. Otherwise both were basically the same languages with different scripts.
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My Apple TV is one of my absolute favorite gadgets. I seriously love this little box. My TV is merely turned on, the HDMI input is selected, and between the neat remote and my iPhone I'm set for all my content.

I wish the YouTube interface was better though, but with the new AirPlay stuff, it's becoming less and less of an issue. Very neat, if you have all the bits for the full "ecosystem" (up until I did, it was a lot more painful and got less use).
Sure; there's a reason I specified chargebacks and identity theft.

These are two areas that are largely solved with a push payment system rather than a pull payment system.

I'm looking forward to seeing how other types of fraud are addressed in the future, but it's fairly predictable we'll see further scams and fraud along the way.
Assuming that "most of them would fail" has little to do with this investment strategy being good or bad. Venture capitalists also assume that most of the companies they fund would fail.

What the hedge funds you are talking about assume is that investors in biotech companies value them more than they are worth. It may sound similar to what you said, but really is a very different assumption.
People who exhibit the behavior described in the first couple grafs of this blog post drive me nuts.
>I think your complaints are pretty well addressed in first few paragraphs of Elon's blog post.

Not really. I take everything that Musk says with a grain of salt.

Tesla's goal of making a mass-market car is all well and good, but they are a long way from that. They can't seem to make money on high-margin luxury vehicles, so obtaining the scale to build a lower-margin vehicle isn't exactly a cake-walk. I'd like to see them do it, but how does it happen, financially? I'm not sure.

Again, my point is that this is always framed as Tesla v. the Auto Industry, when in fact the auto industry is also trying to accomplish the same things that Tesla is. And, at least in my opinion, they have a better chance of actually doing it; they have the scale and profits. Yet places like HN (see some other comments) can't imagine these large companies pulling it off. It's absurd.

>I'd like to point out that the conventional auto industries and oil industries have received more than their fair share of subsidies as well over the years.

I don't necessarily agree with those subsidies either. But if you think those subsidies and bailouts are equivalent to giving extremely wealthy people a discount on a luxury vehicle, then I guess we have different ideas about what's "fair".
Can someone explain how the idea that every single transaction has to be stored in the ledger is scalable? Won't wider adoption mean that the ledger grows even quicker, to the point where it makes using btc harder and harder?
This should be way more common: "What I want is personal freedom to do what I want to do.

I live on on a $20,000/year salary because I can choose when and where I work. I can take the morning off and work late. I can work in the morning and take the evening off. I can travel for months at a time while working on my startup—like I did on a three month trip through Europe a few years ago, and planning to again this fall."
Liberating approach Daniel!

I'm still in the naive do-it-well phase, but seeing the downvotes, it may be time to join the hipsters. Or at least shut up ;)
I know this is an unpopular opinion among the tech elite, but I absolutely consider the aesthetics of a device to be as important as what you're supposed to do with it. I'm glad that the electronics / software industry is moving away from the "functional is ugly" paradigm of pre-2000 to a more balanced approach of form balanced with function.
lol he mentioned "al Qaeda", why didn't he just yell "I'm going to blow this train up"
Europeans are too rational to cope with border patrol/tsa.
Sakurai is a strange man. He needs to lighten up on himself and his team. Brawl showed many signs of strain -- it had an insane amount of features but at the same time felt rushed and unpolished.

> “Some people made a modification of Brawl and now think that they’re better than me. I dare them to say that to my face. I’ll have a real brawl with them and show them that their little mod means nothing in the grand scheme of things. All they can do is make one of my games more like one of my other games. And when my new game comes out, everyone will stop playing their little project and play with a real game.”

Wow, take some humble pie. Isn't it enough that Nintendo's draconian DRM restraints mean that the thousands of kids who enjoy modifying your legally purchased game are all breaking the law? Just to play with their toys in a way that they can be creative designers rather than just content consumers?

There are several popular projects that changed the game mechanics to make the game more fun for some players: http://www.ssbwiki.com/Brawl%2B http://www.ssbwiki.com/Brawl- http://www.ssbwiki.com/Project_M http://www.ssbwiki.com/Balanced_Brawl are the main ones. Sakurai seems to take this as a personal attack. I think it's fantastic. Not to mention all the hundreds of character and level mods, and other game fixes people enjoy.
class action lawsuit?
You can value it at $8 billion, but that doesn't rule out that someone just overpaid for it.
They did get a great deal on advertising
I bought the samsung with upgrade ability via evolution kit.

http://www.samsung.com/us/2013-smart-evolution/
> "artisanal" is used for everything now. It's become more of a marketing term.

I don't think these 2 concepts are unrelated, nor do I believe one excuses the other.

> It may not be right, but don't blame 53 for this.

I disagree. I don't care if a million other companies are doing it, if it's incorrect then it is still incorrect, whether they were the first or the thousandth.
> How exactly do you explain how Google/Apple/MS/etc became Google/Apple/MS/etc?

The moat is much higher than it was 5-10 years ago. Do you have billions of dollars that you're sitting on that you could use to compete against Google/Apple/MS?
Most of this isn't useful to me, but I really like your "Snap Webpage Preview" feature. Sometimes I just want a clean copy of the site, and this is a fast easy way to get it.

I also like the Snaps from the Past, so far, fast to load, and clean. Good defaults for sorting.

One thing I think would be nice, would be once you have a floating snap, if I mouse over it I'd love to see where it was taken. I realize that information is available in the Snaps from the Past window, but a quick transparent window with clear text across the bottom of the snap (not sure what you'd do if the snap was too small) would be wonderful.

Thank you for the opportunity to try this app. When you put your price back up, I've a number of clients I'll be recommending it to.
Dangerous. Fifty-three employees will use them 6 hours/day, only a fraction of Paper customers will ever try one once. Anti-dogfooding.
I thought that the whole HN userbase was going along with the joke.
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So true: "The more options we have, the less satisfied we are with what we ultimately pick."
The music also gave me that feeling. Apple-style advert to the Nth degree. You'd think we were watching a time lapse of a baby gestating or the universe expanding.
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Solar system ecliptic is not aligned with the galaxy [0], and even if it were, the closest stars lie all around us and not only on a plane.

[0]:http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=9666

http://earthsky.org/space/where-is-the-ecliptic-in-relation-...

If i remember correctly Kepler finished it's primary mission with plenty of data, and is currently on extended time.
That's like saying populations or startup stocks are broken. Do you think Facebook had a very smooth, progressive, and always upward growth? The stabilization comes at the end of the S curve.

And Bitcoin isn't just a currency, it's a lot of things. One of them is a store of wealth, like gold, and it's doing wonders in that role.
The only real explanation that I trust...
While making GFlops/watt cheaper for all number crunching applications, no?
On the topic of top notch commercials out of India, here's a memorable series from Vodafone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtDYZHGzGLE
The thing is, gold is a physical commodity that requires great expense to mine, process, and produce in a form that's useful. This limits the amount of gold that can be produced. That's why, historically speaking, it was used as a backing for currency, or as currency itself in some circles.

Worst case scenario, no matter what the price of gold is, you still have the gold itself, and it can be made into things. If Bitcoin collapses you have nothing, the currency is intrinsically worthless.

You can easily validate that someone owns a certain amount of gold, and you can be reasonably assured that, if you've put a gold brick in your safe, that barring someone physically breaking into your safe, that it'll still be there when you need it later.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, is digital, and comes with it all the risks of digital data. It can be stolen silently, invisibly, or your wallet can become corrupted, or you can lose your password, which renders it utterly worthless.

I'm not saying we should return to gold, but that gold is a commodity with more stability than Bitcoin.

Bitcoin could utterly collapse tomorrow and the impact on the markets wouldn't even register. If gold collapsed tomorrow the markets would crumble.
> this may or may not be because the compiler itself is written in Rust

Well, due to the nature of self-hosting compilers, it's certainly greatly exacerbated by being written in Rust. :)

To wit, a self-hosting compiler must actually compile itself no less than three times to ensure that the generated artifacts "converge" upon a single point. This is as true for Rust as it is for GCC.
Raga Shivranjani - hariprasad chaurasia [0]

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-AQHfy6uMg
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Keep at it. She made 10 posts a day, religiously. These things have a way of snowballing if you give it love and effort.

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Sounds like what the Solaris folks were saying to the Linux people years ago.
"This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan"

Probably not all across India. I am from the south and neither me nor my ancestors have any personal experiences from the partition. Don't get me wrong.. this is a great ad and I understand the emotion behind it. but this is only as moving as a similar story on the Israel-Palestine border(ok maybe a little more because of my high school history books and representation in popular culture).
Culturally, South India is more seperated from the North compared with North India (Punjab, Delhi, Kashmir) and Western regions of Pakistan.

To me this is a well produced ad which highlights the troubles of a particularly cruel time in India's history. Nothing personal about it.
Do you have any numbers to suggest that Dropbox usage is higher than Google or Microsoft or iCloud?
They aren't taking the type of product that has existed with Wacom type tablets and bringing it to the portable capacitive world. This is going to be terrible in comparison.

Its impossible to make a capacitive stylus that isn't like drawing with a giant, cumbersome crayon.
It Just Works. Good enough for me, especially if it was something they needed to throw up in a day vs. waiting months of decision-making from managers and authorizing IT resources to build a public site.
>>If it were a Microsoft car catching fire, or over stating benefits and what not, I suspect the reaction would be very, very different.

Well, yes. Microsoft is one of the largest companies in the world, whereas Tesla is a startup.
The only reason I got hired for my current position is because I released 2 tiny libs of javascript.. 20 lines each.. but clever code.
Rust has GC that is part of the standard runtime / library with special language syntax to go with it. C++ has no such thing.
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You could easily bring in more revenue. Adsense and BSA are just the beginning to monetizing a site. She has no idea how much a site like this could make with that amount of traffic and probably didn't even look further. $1000 a month is nothing.
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Not if it's just because we're building bitcoin-specific ASICs. It might help push technology, but it'll also pull brain-power that would otherwise have been focused elsewhere. It's hard to know what the counterfactual would actually look like.
Ask HN: How would a stock-market crash affect the bitcoin exchange rate?
In the 2008 crash, the S&P 500 dropped >50% of its value over roughly a year[1]. If that were to happen again today, how would the price of bitcoin in USD be affected?

[1] http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1384894800000&chddm=983756&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=INDEXSP:.INX&ntsp=0&ei=45mLUtD2MeSpsge-0gE
Since you're on OSX I would recommend using Privoxy with Little Snitch (which is quite easy to toggle and tweak quickly).
This is fascinating. If you ever have the time, would you be willing to post this along with some of your code to the mailing list (https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev)? We love getting informative feedback like this. And if you have any suggestions for improvement, we entertain those as well. :)
To my mind, the Snapchat business plan is as follows:

1. Collect lots of ephemeral photos from lots of people
2. ??
3. Profit!!

So you have all of these users and all of these ephemeral photos flowing your severs. Thus far, all you have made the case for is an incredibly high hosting/AWS bill. The 2000 crash proved that eyeballs do not automatically translate to dollars. This article seems to simply hand wave away that lesson. I agree that should be a way to find profits from such a mass of data and large user base. However, I have yet see anyone publicly articulate a concrete business model which yields revenues let alone profits.
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How much money would you have made if you'd bought $1000 worth of bitcoin on that day?
I've also tried to create the kind of site you are hoping for. The key thing here is the ability to follow interests as well as people, but I think you are still getting bogged down in static categories. Look at how Medium has done it: Anyone can create a collection, and you can follow the collections (instead of following people). This way you empower people to curate and be rewarded for good curation, as well as allowing the followers to filter out the unwanted content. The classic example I like to use is I follow @gruber for his Apple commentary, but I don't care about Baseball, so a few times a year I wish I could filter that stuff out.

On the other hand, you want creators to be able to share seamlessly, and making them categorize their content isn't a good way to do it. Looking at the popular social services out there, making people choose a category is too much work, and is too limiting. And when you try to create a service that supports all of these needs, you end up with a really complicated tool that people don't use how you envisioned (see G+ - it has "pages" to support personas, it has private sharing via circles, it has communities, but you can't just throw all of this stuff at users all at once and expect a community to show up out of nowhere... you have to build your community)
Except Democrats would benefit much more from relaxing immigration restrictions and allowing illegals to become legal. Then they could vote.
And we drive ourselves crazy before even making a decision... even one as small as what to order off a menu or what kind of cheese to buy. It's just magnified with bigger decisions.
>If Servo (written in Rust) isn't faster than Gecko (written in C++), then Mozilla won't continue funding Rust. Rust needs to be fast in a very existential way.

Ouch, I didn't know the project had a deadline. By when does it need to be faster?
Just from my own personal experience, you've just indicted code from three well-known SV companies, at least two more non-SV fortune-500s, a mess of B2B vendors, the Apache foundation, and a few minor, independent open-source projects. I've heard stories from friends in a few other companies about both internal and third-party code.

At some point you reach the conclusion that the problem with an ecosystem is more fundamental than a few lazy developers. But even if not, your statement isn't actionable. If all the code in a certain set happens to be really shitty, the only rational choice is to not use that code. Any other argument ends up being one only of semantics.
You most probably hold a British passport which is a very valuable document. Let me tell you as a holder of a not as valuable passport, who needed a visa to get anywhere, how I have seen the world.

I now live in the US. Before coming to US I visited many European countries. At the border of all those European countries I was treated as a criminal. I waited very long hours while people in front of me holding same kind of passports as me and then myself were interrogated like in a police interrogation. I missed connections because of those interrogations. In one case when I did make the connection, I heard the pilot of the plane speaking to passengers about how the delay was caused because of waiting for people of my nationality. Even people associated with people of my nationality were considered suspicious. A friend of mine was married to a Canadian man who had the same name as a famous American actor. When they tried to go together to one European country, that man was also interrogated for 2 hours by the border police because they thought his passport was fake. I was once traveling via train from European country A to European country B. I happened to be in a cabin with a man from country B. The border police of country B (this was before Schengen) took him outside the train and interrogated him for 30 minutes because they thought his passport was fake. He had a pocketful of documents, bank cards, credit cards, phone numbers of his family members etc. and the border police still were suspicious. I was so used to the long lines and humiliation that I thought they were normal for any border crossing.

Then I traveled to US. Imagine my surprise when I got off the plane, walked a long corridor, passed by a drug detection dog, got into a huge room with many passport control booths, in 5 minutes found myself in one of them, the immigration officer asked me where I was going and what was the goal of my trip then stamped my passport and I-94 and I was done. Even if I didn't go anywhere from there, the trip was already a success. It made me feel like a human. In the time since then I have seen the checks in many European countries improve and in the meantime US has added the annoying process of fingerprinting, but in my view US border control still offers better human experience compared to European countries. I was once crossing the border from Canada to US and there was this old woman trying to get into US with an expired (like 30 years old) British passport. The border agents still found a way to let her in. Since Schengen she probably would be let into other European countries but I am sure before Schengen she wouldn't be able to go anywhere.

I know that there are people who have negative experiences while trying to get into US as there are negative experiences for people trying to go anywhere, but I think most of the noise associated with them is unjustified and if US border control need improvements other countries need them even more.
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That's the entire point for (most? all?) the people involved in creating bitcoin. It's the central point for many of the people involved in bitcoin today. But there's a large number of people who just want a cheap and easy means of electronic payment.
I've had decent results with the PHP Tools extension: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8292e47d-8ed2-....

There is also the VS.Php extension, but it's not free, and seems a little less polished.
IMHO to be a good product developer, you not only have to learn how to code. But how to design, how to handle people, how to grow, how to sell. And if you also want to be the CEO you'll have to learn a lot more.

It's one of the most demanding jobs you could ever have. You have to think about the product as a whole, in the present and the future. And if you don't know what's happening under the hoods, if you don't know how to speak to programmers, or don't know what's possible within the current state of technology, you'll never be a complete product developer.

At least that's what I want for my career.
You don't even need an Azure account, just a Live account. It's very slick, I use it on my MBP frequently.
(also not a fan of IDEs but..) the main benefit of Intellisense is that you can learn about an API while coding.
I think its possible the immigration quotas are skewed by how many people are in the country that didn't come through the system today. Prior to the current wave of southern border immigration, almost everyone had to go through the system via a port of entry and they could keep the quotas in check. My family all came via boat, plane etc at a time when the immigration office probably wasn't accounting for undocumented entries.

So whats happened is that immigration now has to account for higher numbers they can't control. The people who actually come through the system are at a disadvantage because their numbers can actually be regulated whereas undocumented migrants can't.
>>They can't seem to make money on high-margin luxury vehicles

You, sir, are grossly misinformed.
Not a fan of CAP but that is something everyone should see. Way to similar to the peak of 1928.
How many jobs did he apply for which he was well qualified? The "economy" failed this guy, not the other way around. And under no circumstances should people end up homeless. There are too many empty homes. I will go so far as to say that no one should have to take charity from family or community in order to have some type of home, regardless of their income.

This is a very sick and outdated Social Darwinistic society we have.

The structure is the problem.
high frequency trading (e.g.) Why not just throttle the markets so that trades are resolved discretely, at a human interval, say at 5 second increments?
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