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Layers upon layers of broken systems built upon broken systems.

You only have a few channels you like, and should be able to simply switch between them with a D-pad. But the cable industry's broken business model requires you to subscribe to an order of magnitude more than you want. Clunky set-top box UIs have you constantly paging up and down massive lists. A "favorites" system is nestled deep within some unintuitive menu, and never displays anyway when you go to the channel guide, always requiring more button presses followed by high-latency screen redraws. And thus, you're stuck dialing in a numeric code like it's 1968.

I'm sure you'd be ecstatic to be stuck with an Apple remote, if only the entire rest of the TV experience were up to speed with it.
So the fungi essentially absorbing some of the radiation and transforming it.

Does this mean that this is positively affecting the radioactive halife of the area because the fungi are essentially living off the excesses radiation present and will help contribute to reduce the radiation levels over time?
It's _that_ old.

As I know, 1.2.x actually is obsoleted since May 2013, and there is no more support or bugfixes after this date.
Getting lucky with bitcoin
It's a stretch, but I think the implication is that even if your wifi router is out of power, two powered on phones will be able to communicate, even with "wifi" disabled as long as the wifi or bluetooth radio can get power.

Transfers even without power, as in wireless network routers/towers don't have power, but phones still do.
Obnoxious is more like it.
OK, but I think you mean B was close to zero then?
Any one who gets upset during salary negotiation is either trying to scam you or not emotionally mature enough to run a business. Either way, walk away.
I started keeping a development journal when I found myself getting interrupted quite a bit more than usual. It turned out to be very helpful but somewhat tedious to maintain at the level I would have liked.

I had some ideas about how to write software to automate some of the tedium and how great it would be if there were a large scale system that many developers used for tracking their work. If this system existed it could compare and contrast techniques and approaches used by more productive developers and help guide less productive developers down the path to improved productivity.

It seems like it would also provide a pretty good automatic Stack Overflow like experience in terms of being able to search for error messages and find the steps others had taken to solve the same problems.
Hey Tony - nice to see that you've bounced back after GraphMuse! I was the PM for Bingo and GraphMuse really did help with the #'s, and Facebook really did shut the whole thing down with no notice.

The lesson with FB is more nuanced though - if you want a startup then dependance is bad, but you can have a very successful lifestyle-type business on them and do well though.
Zenefits is a licensed insurance broker it's free for users, they collect a referral fee from insurance companies. Since it's online they're sustainable from broker fees alone and don't charge users. I think some travel startups also work on a commission model for hotels + flights. Hipmunk etc...

Though referral/affiliate models are uncommon they challenge the statement about "Two kinds of companies".
I think I've deployed only one java web app (puppet-db) that doesn't have huge memory leak issues. With the lack of process recycling in tomcat to mitigate "bad code", I cringe every time I have to deploy another one.
Let's talk again a year after Roslyn (finally) gets released.
Government develops software differently
Sharespost. SecondMarket.
This is like copy-pasting commands from the Gentoo wiki so you "learn Linux". You don't learn shit, you just insert tab A into slot B, then play Minecraft.

Look at the list of things you can "build". You don't actually make any of those things:

>Build...

>A computer, powered by Raspberry Pi

Meaning: "stick it in a pre-made case"

> Games like Pong, Snake

Either you're playing the installed games, or writing your own... like you could do with any other computer out there. No kit required.

> Music and sounds

Translation: we have a speaker!

> HD video

Well, you're not going to be rendering any video on that little ARM processor, but I guess you can play HD video just like every other Pi.

> A speaker

Comes with a 1/8" connector just like fucking headphones

> Towers of dynamite (...in Minecraft)

Give me a break.

> A wireless server

Closest you'll get to building anything, although what might you serve? Well, you can serve anything with a package in Raspbian, no kit required.

>A custom case, with stickers, decals, or any printed design

You're not building this, it's built for you. Do they remember what this list was titled? It was titled "Build..." not "Included in the package:"

> Most Debian Linux packages

When I think of "building" a package, I think of compilation. At this point, though, their original concept of a list of things you can build has broken down until it's just a feature list.

Every single thing on this list, except for that bullshit about stickers, is just software that you run on a Pi. Pathetic.
I would guess root socket is a misnomer for raw socket, but it still doesn't make any sense.
Yes, I was simply saying it'd be nice to use this stylus on Windows with Photoshop because of its physical/aesthetic characteristics. It doesn't add much technically over the Wacom stylus, might even be slightly inferior, but it will feel different in the hand.
Wait, so this is a thing?

It's not some sort of tongue-in-cheek joke about our reliance on technology?

Geez, Poe's law even applies to marketing...
This is a story of a family's financial decisions and hardships- there isn't room in a few hundred words to also include all of the compassion and love that they hold for each other.

It wasn't foreseeable that demand for writers would be halved within the next two years and he would be completely unemployable. He left a strong job market with a very successful resume and returned to a to a job market with very little demand. Had he not left his job two years earlier, he may have ended up in this situation anyway.

His family didn't abandon him. They made by, looked for jobs, kept the house as long as they could. They moved into an apartment and continued doing what they could to keep going.

But once you can no longer pay for housing for your children nothing else matters. If you cannot solve that problem, the state will for you if you are lucky, or they will end up on the streets.

It would have been impossible for him and his wife to have lived together at this point. There is simply no family or friend who is able to take in 2 adults and 8 children at once. They had very few options at this point, and housing is a much easier problem to solve for smaller groups of people.

His wife didn't immediately abandon him for someone else. She stayed by his side for six years of no income, and then took responsibility for the younger children while he took responsibility for the older children. She moved around the world to provide for their younger children as best she could.

As far as his children are concerned, it simply isn't age-appropriate to expect high school students to financially provide for their parents. Even if they could have, it isn't what the author would have wanted. He made it very clear in the article that at this point in time, the goal was for his older children to graduate from the same high school with good grades and go to a good college. At best, his older children could have worked minimum wage jobs part time. This would not have fixed the father's long term unemployment, and would place a high risk on his children's grades (and future educational opportunities), along with a huge amount of financial stress and responsibility on his kids.

This article is a fairly accurate portrayal of how an upper-middle class family in the United States would handle poverty. The first priority is health (fortunately none of his children had major health issues), and after that maintaining education for the kids. Housing decisions are often made as a result of what is needed for education. The last thing you want is for the kids to drop out of school, leading them to work minimum wage jobs into adulthood. At that point short-term poverty can become generational.

The fact that he and his wife provided good education paths for all 8 of their children throughout this story is an incredible accomplishment for him and his wife. While their marriage may not have ended in death, I would not consider it a failure.
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How many unrelated people were executed or imprisoned during and right after 1917 and 1905? How many of the revolutionaries were 'removed' by their own for sticking out?

During the civil war and afterwards, how much the fate and life of common people depended on the whim and 'perception of loyalty to X' ? In order to prosper (or even survive) your allegiance would have to be flexible enough to adapt quickly, or you'd get eliminated. As the saying goes, 'the tall poppies get cut first' - no matter if you were for or against the revolution.

1917 was a result of picking a fight with authority, but the aftermath of 1917 was to eliminate anyone else who'd pick a fight with authority - both outside and within the revolution.

This is what I mean by 'keep your head down'. There's a curse "may you live in interesting times". Living in such times teaches you and the whole society to be mindful about what you say, careful if your beliefs are perceived as proper, and not to pick a fight with authority.
Yeah but the real question is how much Sony pitches in for development costs. From what I've heard, I hear that the dev company actually pays for all of that, but I'm not 100% sure since I can't find many sources. But if that is the case, then it has everything to do with disc costs.
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>If you have a species in a high-radiation environment, is it not possible that it evolves to have fewer reproductive mutations in general - and therefore lower chance of cancer?

IIRC there were studies of Chernobyl cows which showed that in such conditions genotype evolves such way that random mutations have less effects on phenotype, at cost of loss of specialisation.
Monty Python Troupe to Reunite for Live Shows
Are there any (decent) similar per-hour priced providers based in the EU? Any experiences or suggestions?
What would be the first few avenues you should consider?
Has anyone written an app to transfer data through the headphone jack for P2P data sharing?

Along the lines of "I don't have network and I want to share with someone else on a different platform and don't (or can't) use bluetooth/wifi".

Narrow population, but it would be a fun project to learn about sending data over an audio medium.

Get it working well and you might even be able to send data over a set of headphones/mic, although your data throughput would likely be slow as molasses.
If you actually think there is any possibility that my unsupported assertion that people committed to therapies like homeopathy or reiki are generally a bit less enthused with medical testing and conventional medicine than the general population is incorrect, please feel free to make that argument...
Android is Out-Innovating (and Out-Designing) Apple
HN sure does manage to set the bar lower every day I read it.

"Hay guise, look at us, we just came out with the same payment processing idea 300 other people did, but ours is more better"

"Hay guise, omg u cud totali maek a musics and do minecrafts wen u bild our 'computar based on raspberry pi'"

"Hay guise, read my story about how much of an entrapanoor I is"

I wonder if this one will be followed up by a "I pitched my shitty idea to the world and failed, so here's another shitty idea" post?
Heh. Well "offline" probably means you don't see the little WiFi bars on the status bar. You can put a Wifi chip in what is effectively promiscuous mode and have it talk to an ad-hoc network (which appears to be what they are doing) that or a bluetooth PAN connection.
"(only Google can, if TFA is correct)"

The article and/or its interpretation is wrong about that because the algo is unknown.

Even worse, human beings both currently and formerly employed by GOOG know the secret-ish algo, and those humans are not necessarily still employed there, nor are they incapable of communication. So its very unclear who knows how that algo works other than GOOG as an absolute minimum.

A correct statement would be, at the minimum at least GOOG knows how to make those hashes, and at this instant who knows how many other people or orgs who may or may not be in support or opposition to you.
I think you either meant the "moat" is a lot deeper .. ;) You'd be in an extreme (and incorrect) minority with that view anyway. Clearly it's much cheaper and easier to start on online bookstore today than 5-10 years ago.
Considering new short release cycles do what you would do with smartphones and tablets - just skip a cycle. 2013 feels like fat SP rather than a new release: no new WPF/etc., just some Azure and Win 8 crap. And MVC 5 is now a separate release.
Bitcoin & Tea
> so it runs on any platform arguably even more easily than Python

I think that would be a very difficult argument to make.
When will the price stabilize? Serious question, I can't figure it out. What conditions would need to be present for the bitcoin economy to be stable so that prices of goods/services are consistent over extended periods of time? Do you mean that deflation will actually end or that the rate of deflation will be reduced from its current excessive rate (from a currency standpoint, as a commodity/investment it's great)?
...and an additional Mac machine on the network. It's not like they are free.
There are already pressure sensitive pens that are supported in multiple apps, not just Paper, like the Pogo Connect. Seems actually bad for the ecosystem to have another separate pen with yet another SDK. Some apps will support one, some others.
Microsoft opens store on eBay
Excited, thanks!
Bidirectional video QR would awesome. 320x480 x 4 gray levels x 10 fps = 768Kps. You could at least transfer pictures in only a few seconds.
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Kind of reminds me of something discussed on HN a long time ago "Why The Vasa Sank" : http://faculty.up.edu/lulay/failure/vasacasestudy.pdf

There was a good discussion on HN about it at the time, particularly about the book "Challenger Launch Decision": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3413706

Really interesting to watch a software project of this magnitude fail for the same reasons as documented in these historical disasters.
She copied other people's work and made money. Shocker.
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I have my solution to the problem: Haxe. I write my server and client in the same language as I write my games and other desktop software.

Also, guess what? It's all native code.

Seriously, why don't more people use Haxe? It's amazing.
Hey Idoh! I'm happy you saw our post, and thank you for the kind words.

You're definitely right about the lesson with FB. I'm just bitter about it :)
You have to send your passport to MtGox?! I thought the whole point was anonymity
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The first two are covered under the word "legally". If your government doesn't allow something it's illegal. It might sound great to frame that as applying to things we all love like "speech" and "self-defense" but it applies equally to all things illegal like "laundering money" , "hiring an assassin", "buying heroin" or "acquiring a stockpile of illegal explosives to blow up an old folks home".

The last of your lines is just conspiracy theory catnip for monatery cranks. The mathematics of a given e-currency can be favorable or unfavorable for a global economy. As it turns out, the mathematics of Bitcoin are absolutely terrible for the way the world's economy is run.
That doesn't make sense to me. I have a Sony I bought in 2010 that has Netflix on it. Never-going-to-get updated, slow interface Netflix, but it's there.
A lot of the comments here seem to fall into the line of "Why would anyone use this Dropbox ? - you can just use rsync".

There's a huge gap between a Raspberry Pi which gathers dust in the corner and having a product that parents can buy their kids for xmas which they can use to teach themselves the basics of programming.

Yes, parents could source the components individually, install linux, setup up scratch, download some tutorials for their kids, etc. But realistically only very tech savy parents are going to be capable of doing that and even fewer of them actually will.
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I won't use DO for everything, but I won't use Linode for everything either, and that's ok. I also use dedicated servers with VMs and they all have their place and purpose quite nicely.

With tools like docker, it's less about where you're hosting and more about being able to deploy to any infrastructure, as the only guarantee you'll have for the rest of your life is you'll be redeploying somewhere, be it with the same host or another one.

I think for what you pay, what you get, and the level of flexibility, DO is a great value and service in that it's not a random, small, no name vps provider that may disappear due to not managing their resources between the fine line of over or under subscribing.

Where I wouldn't get a Linode and recommend someone to get shared hosting, I can start them on DO and let them grow there, so I quite like the segment they've let me introduce dedicated VPS resources to.
Jailhouse: A Linux-based Partitioning Hypervisor
It's not a flash of brilliance for thinking about it, it's a flash of guts for building a product around it.
Apple remote is great for the target audience, but unusable for a mass market product.

For many consumers, any feature not accessible with a single button won't exist. It will be a major pain point. Having it be accessible as a sequence of actions or through a menu won't work.

Try doing usability testing with a few grumpy 65 year olds or people who have trouble operating a microwave. They are a larger market than you think.
I almost upvoted because I thought this was a joke and it seemed funny. Thankfully I scrolled to the part where they mention USB inside the "Pencil".
The fungus is (apparently) absorbing the radiation and using it as an energy source. But it is not making the radioactive atoms decay faster. So the time we have to wait until the area is safe and has a low radioactivity level doesn’t change.
Man that's expensive. You could probably build something similar on a quadrocopter base for a tenth of that. Not a lot to the thing when you look at it.
I found that article, it's in Russian:

http://www.hij.ru/read/issues/2010/may/957/

I read it on elementy.ru:

http://elementy.ru/lib/431228
> “We’ve gone right down to the hardware level and rewritten the transport layer, so we’re talking directly to the hardware chips on the device,” said Luke Malpass, Fasetto’s lead (and currently only) developer. “And then we’ve built a whole new layer on top of that that is standardized in our software — so an iPhone and a Windows Phone are going to know how to discover each other and communicate, because they’re using our standardized layer, as opposed to the incompatible standards that are out there today.”

At first it sounds like he's claiming that they created their own drivers for the wireless chips of seemingly every phone. Which is pretty much impossible (for them).

What's probably happening is they're enabling ad-hoc mode on the wifi chips, and enable bluetooth transport between any two devices nearby each other. Then their app deals with the addressing and routing of messages using some proprietary tunneling, with probably some kind of virtual network interface that talks to their app so they can communicate on multiple networks at once.

It's a neat idea that makes it easier to do networking between devices. But the title ("They said this hack was impossible") is incorrect. Ad-hoc wifi networks and bluetooth network transport works just fine with existing devices and no other software.

As usual, the idea with this piece and their website is to exaggerate as much as possible to drum up funding. If people figured out how boring this really is they might not get enough press.
You, Sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. I'm a believer and I'll be using the CLIFMO and RDD acronyms from now on!
It's very much not so. Bitcoin is the least anonymous way of value transactions ever, there's a public ledger of every single transaction.
Yea that's a good point...though one could argue that they're still selling a product, the insurance. But yea this model may require a different approach.
Where are you finding paid gigs for it? I'm a freelance rails dev right now doing meteor stuff on the side and wouldn't mind doing some real work with it.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one that noticed the terrible typography.
Fast & Furious 6 was 2013.
How will updating the old model's software help them sell you the new/upgraded one?
> When the Internet bubble burst, the company underwent rocky times. By 2000, [the founder] was gone from the company, as were four other members of his founding team.

> For the next decade, Bloodhound recovered and slowly grew, raising seven more rounds of financing. In April 2011, the company was sold for $82.5 million.

11 years is a long time. How much do they think they deserved?
It actually has three :)

But it's ram1024 and he is hellbanned:

ram1024 1656 days ago | link [dead] | fold

i'm having trouble wrapping my head around the logistics of this...
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"Some business models are "get as many users as possible, get acquired, and live as a loss leader for a larger organization" and that's perfectly fine."

I agree, and address that in the article.
Hardware abstraction is like the Holy Grail in the test and measurement world. Things like the IVI have been implemented but have not gained traction. Once you have a feature that is slightly different than other instruments what do you do? Least common denominator in feature set has been the solution so far. Not saying a way for OS-level abstractions isn't bad, but there are niche areas in computing that have tried and failed at solving this problem.
Good points. How about "IDEs can encourage lazy programming habits, but that's more an indictment of the programmer rather than his or her toolset."

I've personally moved to Vim because I found that I like it, but I still have all the plugins that turn it right back into an IDE of sorts. I try to resist looking down on IDE users... I used IDEs for a long time and suffered no ill effects (that I know of).
the best thing I have found so far is vssh it is worth checking out and should fill you needs nicely.
"Furthermore, it's delayed and potential gratification."

Agreed with your post entirely, though potential is a very optimistic word to use there... "unlikely" might be better.

"Second, your company may be valued at $400M, but my options are worthless until you get acquired, sell, or IPO."

Assuming we are talking about common stock options they might even be worthless after any of those 3 things happens, depending upon factors outside of your control like dilution.
The obvious choice is procreate! I was a studiopaint die hard, now I only draw in my freetime (which is much better), and settled on mypaint a few years ago.

I don't own a tablet yet. But procreate, Paper, and the various stylus available are now very tempting.

I am just as happy now to watch the ipad market undertake the design market, as OS9 and NT did against IRIX. Watch us do more with more accessible consumer tech.
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