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He doesn’t like it, so he tries to get the server fired. It’s a total
(expletive) move.

And that's why they're called glassholes.
I don't have any of these problems with 4chan because I block most of their JS and I don't accept 3rd party cookies, and I definitely don't let any Google APIs run on my local machine. Google's APIs are for Google's hardware, which my hardware is not a subset of.
The biggest problem the smartphone solved was boredom. That's the reason for it's popularity.

At it's core ,boredom might be manipulated neurologically, so maybe you won't feel bored and just feel content with whatever. If we're going to aggressive means as neural implants ,this seems a more interesting option.

Another options(without opening skuls) is something that offers far better experiences.

Maybe more immersive (up to a point we can't differentiate from real life).maybe something that enriches our daily interactions without interfering with them. Maybe something that help us manage emotions and brain states optimally. Maybe something that augments fluidly our cognitive capabilities without interfering with what we do.
Funny, this was actually really helpful for me as I'm building a dynamic list (or "table" in iOS parlance) for HTML5 in Ionic Framework. Gave me a few ideas on how we could structure the API to handle tons of items efficiently. Great write up!
Assume I type 80 wpm

A word is standardized as 5 keystrokes

80 wpm is therefore 400 keystrokes per minute.

Divide by 60 to get about 6.6 keystrokes per second, or about 0.15 seconds per keystroke.

Therefore it would take about 0.6 seconds to type the four extra characters, giving a net savings to use du+grep instead.

And 80 wpm is probably a rather fast estimate; I'd guess that I type slower when I'm writing commands than when I'm entering English text.
It heavily depends on how they implement IP bans. Often they are done at a much lower level, making verifying the user is logged in impossible. Doing them at a high level usually makes the ban not effective as they still waste a bunch of overhead.

The alternative is to have two views of the site that hit different servers, one that requires login and another that does not, but that introduces a whole slew of other problems. It would probably be the way to go if you wanted to do this however.
I think its impressive, nonetheless. I do wonder what prices they were able to get components when they sold a "mere" 25,000 though.
This statement should concern Salesforce more than any hackathon results:
'Anyone developing Salesforce apps will not raise a stink as it will hurt their relationship with that company'

I've worked with Salesforce for 4+ years now (as customer and partner), and sadly I agree with you. This should be the message that someone at salesforce reads. Want to be invited to their pilots? Want to have access to their PMs? You had better not say anything bad, I even had my AE pull me aside when I was out there for an EBC to tell me to not bring up their recent service outage during the meeting. If you don't have anything nice to say about salesforce, they don't want to hear your voice.
What's more, Wikipedia gets better the more contentious the topic. For example, the Evolution article is well-cited, due to constant bickering, and constantly policed, because it would otherwise be taken over by religious people who are utterly convinced that T. rex fossils were planted by God to test the faith of the masses.

(The Talk pages are a hoot and a half if you're in the mood for that sort of thing; some people get really annoyed when NPOV means "We put the scientific consensus front and center, because that's what the reliable sources state.")
If you visit SF, there are hipsters on fixies all over downtown.
Wow. This hits the nail right on the head.
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Well they do have that "Special Projects" division.. I'm sure they'll be cooking up something nice for 2014.. at least I hope so
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I honestly have no idea. My response was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but whoever downvoted me seems to have missed my subtle sense of humor.
Why I don't trade stocks and (probably) neither should you.
Hooray For the first time in months HN Home Page has no Bitcoin links.
Calculated Risk is a huge blog in the financial space. It would definitely behoove Google to avoid its erasure.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Loved that blog post, and certainly enjoyed looking at R. Nystrom's implementation too: https://github.com/rnystrom/RNTableView.

UITableView is one of those components that we all spend so much time with that everyone has little tweaks they want to make. Implementations like these at least give us options to extend/tweak low level behavior should we need to. I also love it when they write thorough blog posts like these explaining explicitly their rationale and structure of the component.
I would really really really not want my HN polluted with this. Especially when there are dedicated Twitter feeds to exactly stuff like this I can check.
The reviews I'm talking about aren't the reviews on the Amazon book listing but reviews that address the investigative quality of the book and its sourcing. Critical reviews, not reviews by the average Joe.
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It's referring to human nature.

If you tell people there is a million dollar prize at stake (and to add to the financial stakes, charge hundreds per contestant), and details of the problem they will be solving, 100% of your contestants will try to solve as much of the problem as they can in advance (while, most likely, declaring it a crime that anyone else did so).

Anyone who claims otherwise is the sort of person you should protect your wallet around.

It is impossible to guard against this.
The DNS lookup only has to be done once and is then cached on the users local machine, at least for the overall request (if not longer).

Thus the cost is only 160 bytes for the page, which isn't all that much.

Additionally assuming their cache timeouts are non-trivial there are several caches to reduce the delay incurred by this.
I'm not a fan of alt-tabbing either. I use 4 20" displays currently because I like the convenience of maximizing something on one display. Don't you miss that with one big desktop?
I'd say that downloading software on my original iPhone was probably the 2nd most OMG moment of owning the device (the first being the capacitive IPS display that made the icons seem painted-on). Seeing an app download over a 2G cell connection and be usable in 2 minutes - that was amazing. No clickwrap installer, no license keys, no entering payment details. It foretold the doom of non-AppStore software sales in a wonderful zen moment.
I literally just made a post about a bitcoin dota2 website :[
IMHO, bingo.
Indeed. Acorn's RiscOS had resolution independence in the 80s with scalable fonts and icons being shipped as vector graphics; it's a pity everyone else is 30 years behind.
I don't find pointing out the obvious "amazing". Anyone who looked at a CRT in 1995 knew they didn't want to read a book on it.
I use it to know traffic and weather, as well as keep track of shipments, but I do not use Web Search History.
Or you may shorten your command

ps -C someScript.sh -o pid= | xargs -I % /bin/kill -TERM -- -%

avoiding two pipes is also 1 femtosecond faster, and as an added bonus HN doesn't trigger the dreaded code scrollbars too!
Doesn't that depend on the browser? Chromium definitely does cache DNS records (chrome://net-internals/#dns). I remember Firefox relying on a system configured DNS cache (dnsmasq or pdnsd on Linux).
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If you have the money/competence/manpower, there's more upside in selling phones in the current market. And if you're making phones, the carriers would really rather you not dip your toes in data-first devices that might accelerate their dumb-pipe destiny.

Which leaves the devices we see as sadly inevitable.

Minus someone with the power/resources of, say, Amazon or Microsoft, doing it carriers-be-damned.

Though I'm still not sure why Apple is so slow to this party. A $300 "iPod Touch With SIM slot" sounds like a great product for an awful lot of overseas markets. (Where a considerable amount of their sales and growth are.) Though maybe that's where the 5C experiment is going.
First paragraph snark aside, I agree.

To say that any tech market is completely closed to new entrants seems slightly ridiculous. Sure, the barriers to entry have increased - if you're chasing mass-market appeal, a strong app platform is as important as excellent hardware. However there will always be some niche to serve or an opportunity to tackle bloated or less open, established competitors.

I think Josh's option is very biased and colored by operating in a certain type of environment. Not that it's any less valuable or valid than any other, but I disagree with him.
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This should be called "Why You Can't Build a Smartphone Ecosystem"

Building the phone itself is easier, license the software from google, develop some cool hardware, build and sell it.

Admittedly, selling it is probably the hardest part, hard to innovate on features, you can innovate in packaging, price, assembly place, any number of other things.

If you have a big enough bucket of money, you could build a new ecosystem, it wont be easy though. Even without the bucket of money you could build a new ecosystem - but you might only capture 2-5% of the market.
UIQ3 was amazing, and my M600i had the greatest keyboard on any phone ever. Thanks for making the OS for one of my favourite smartphones :)4
Looking at only two options almost inevitably presents a false dichotomy. Ryanair is slightly more profitable, but EasyJet is bigger, offers similarly cheap prices, and while it's no all-inclusive luxury flight, they certainly don't attempt to screw you at every step.
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However, I get effective 2-day delivery from Newegg (ground in CA). When it comes to buying random tech accessories I don't buy from Amazon primarily anymore.

Amazon is the king of shipping speed, but some aren't too far behind.
The term 'drone' long precedes the Pentagonese moniker 'UAV'.

I think it originates with the de Havilland Queen Bee of the late 1930s, a radio-controlled conversion of the Tiger Moth trainer. With metalwork replaced by wooden components on account of their expected short lifespans, as they were used for gunnery training.
Pig Chase for iPad is a game where humans collaborate with actual pigs
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Here's to demystifying the internals of UITableView! Your tone seemed fine to me. Glad you geared it towards newer folks to iOS. I remember when I was first starting with iOS, one of the biggest questions I had on these things was "Why?". Luckily posts like this, and the treasure trove of Mike Ash's blog provide a clear understanding of both how the components in Cocoa work, and why they work that way.
I'm the original author. You can probably guess this from the blog, but smartphones don't interest me anymore. I loved my time at Palm, but I'm working on new things now. Stuff that needs good innovation right now:

* Internet of Things, esp. on the usability side.

* 3D printing. making it more useful and accessible.

* Changing how we teach math and science. I can't stress this enough.

* Improving programming. We still do it like it's the 1970s.
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I don't think this is a question of politics, this is a question of science, quite possibly the most important question of science for the predominant demographic on HN. The question of whether or not climate change will lead to the catastrophic effects that some are predicting is much more important than the question of, e.g. whether the Higgs boson exists. If climate change is real, and if the worst-case scenarios come to pass, those who are 20-30 today will feel most of the pain.

> Thanks for the extraordinarily reasonable response to my snippy comment.

No worries. Thanks for your informative posts on computer security. That matters too.
cough Ubuntu cough

In all seriousness, if he means smartphone from a hardware perspective, I might actually agree. The startup costs there are crazy high.

But, if he means software, no. Ubuntu is doing it and doing it very, very well. I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it. All Android using hardware manufacturers are crazy to continue with Android now that Google owns Motorola. Look at the Moto X. Nothing can compete with it and no one will be able to in the future.

Samsung and the rest should very actively be looking to remove Android from their handsets as quickly as possible. Ubuntu is by far the best choice.
Are you sure that was the design of this hackathon? I was more under the impression it was to incentive their entire developer base, not simply to encourage new adoption.
It might be an incredibly useful tool for learning new information, but that still doesn't mean it's something I would rely on when publishing a non-fiction document.
I began reading his article hoping to have him talk a little bit more about smartphones in emerging markets, but he barely touched on it. Africa has arguably the fastest growing middle class in the world right now. They're also poised to make a cultural leap far greater than that of China's in the 90s. I read that 60% of Africans will have smartphones in 2019. The continent is already using smart technology in innovative/cost saving ways (i.e. sending funds via sms).

It seems to me that if I am looking to join the smartphone industry, I make myself indispensable to Africa. I think Africans are less likely to care for features like Siri or luxury components. My thought is that developers for devices in that part of the world will have the freedom to think outside the box--what will a smart phone look like on a continent with minimal financial resources, but avid interest in quick data and communication? What do people want from their phone when they don't have necessarily have a computer or strong infrastructure?
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Southwest - the developer who charges you $5 for a game, in full.

Ryanair - the developer who gives you the game for free/for $1, and makes you pay through the nose with in-game purchases.
That's what I get for trying to play with a new site after Thanks Giving weekend! You already have a solid tool, that will make it even better ;)
There were actually tests of Ryan Firebees firing Maverick missiles and HOBOS guided glide-bombs in 1971.

Nothing new under the Sun!

The precise variant was BGM-34 and was intended for attacking enemy air defences ( 'Wild Weasel' missions in the parlance of the day, now 'Lethal SEAD' ).

Edit: found a picture. '34A foreground, '34B rear.

https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi%3AAMhZZiuS8ZwZo7fS9315...
JS has some OK solutions these days (yours was probably very early), but print and other formats can be a hassle.

For example, I spent some time looking at TeX solutions for timelines a few years back and found there were none with support for decent multi-page rendering, etc.

I spent a few hours over the last few days finally improving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Buddhist_traditions_t... too.

Conclusion: everyone loves a good timeline. Spatial reasoning is a great way to simplify huge collections of dates and times to filter for visual trends. Unfortunately, there's really few good tools. There probably needs to be a standard markup language in this space.
> The fact that Erik Meijer says that imperative programming is the way to go for the "real world" is deserving of attention, but it doesn't empirically mean "all 'real world' software is better created with the imperative paradigm".

Nor is that even, I think, what I think Meijer favors. Meijir's position, from what I've seen from him in various contexts, seems to be that there are cases in real world software where the most clear expression of intent uses imperative constructs, and its better to use them -- but understand and contain their dangers -- in those cases rather than trying to avoid out of devotion to purity.

> From the sound of it this is his first job in the "real world"?

Well, if you don't count the 13 or so years at Microsoft as being "real world".I don't think he ever was a fundamentalist anything.

> I believe this is the reason to keep an ear open for authority figures, but not to take everything they say empirically

"Empirically"? Are you meaning something like "uncritically"? Because "empirically" doesn't have any meaning that makes sense in this sentence.
I think the point of carrier relevance is importance. Somehow Apple still seems to capture much of the volume.

I have to believe there is still room for disruption at the bottom of the market. Someone could devise a very cheap way to just deliver texts. Or a safe simple network for kids, that they would somehow stick with.

Just when firms seem most invincible, they are also most at risk.
All these articles do. It's annoying.
Ubuntu is doing it well? How many phones have they sold? What is their installed base? What % of marketshare?
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Thanks! Very glad to hear that!

I suspected most of the concepts could be pretty easily applied to other languages, so I'm especially glad to hear this feedback.
I did an iOS app that does something similar http://albumsyncer.jyothepro.com/
but not enough users :(
Another far-out option is building a solution not dependent on the carriers, which have already captured the IP space. There is no more internet, it's all just "telecom" now. That's the first mistake people make when starting an "internet" business. Business is reliant on communication and your communication is reliant on telecom. It's pretty much the same landscape as before the internet existed.
"Current interfaces are not well suited to high-DPI large form-factor displays."

Actually, a simple, tiling window manager (ion3, ratpoison, OSX with SizeUP) does just fine.

I am running triple u3011 monitors with OSX Leopard, running Sizeup, and its basically like having 10 small, no-bezel displays in front of me (left and right screens are split into a quad, and middle screen is split down the middle).

Lose the gratuitous candy-UI elements and it all works just fine :)
Even if you use the recommended support channels such as Groups, your request goes nowhere.

I've run into this reporting issues for Google Now and Picasa Web. Moderators continually move or delete reports of issues. When you explain the situation and why X is more appropriate than Y you get radio silence.

Has anyone actually gotten real support from Google for paid applications? Is it limited to the Groups?
Given the amazing array of ways to slice and dice audio signals, that would be a very dangerous security measure to depend on. Better to just clip wires on the microphones and speakers.
> Wall mart [sic] typically only exists in rural poor areas

This is just absolutely, unequivocally not true, unless your definition of "rural" and "poor" includes urban centers of cities with tens of thousands of citizens with median incomes ranging from impoverished to affluent, especially in the south.

Walmart comes in and destroys the mom&pop operations who are less pricey than "whole foods or a boutique coffee shop that charge $5/cup" but can't compete with the cheap, shabby crap made by wage-slaves in third-world sweatshops that Walmart brings in.

Your post is very San Francisco-centric. I don't think you understand or have seen what it's like to live elsewhere. "Hipsters" aren't a "problem" anywhere else I've been, anyway.
>>they're stuck either selling a crappier device for the same price or a good device at a higher price.

Or they just need to accept a lower gross margin than the ~50% Apple gets.
You might have been correct originally, but the number of patent cases has changed the focus.
On one computer I owned, it was entirely in the audio driver -- so when I switched to Linux, I was surprised to see that the headphones and speaker had independently controls for volume levels. (The latter was labelled "Mono Out", and the behaviour where plugging in headphones cut off speakers didn't happen on that Linux install.)
Is this a driver problem of a QA issue?

I've been using 3 very cheap Korean IPS's for over a year now. Play rough with them and they break. Annoying, but acceptable knowing that I was saving a lot of money, getting the best image I'd ever had, and I'd be replacing them in 24 months anyways.
Another reason you can't make new smartphones is lawsuits. I imagine Ubuntu OS will be sued out of existence by patent trolls should Samsung adopt it. They don't have an army of lawyers like Android/Google.
Hello cellphone in a stick. Every single thinkpad I owned (grand total of 2) has a sim card slot. I guess macs don't?
@kaeluka awesome. For a small timeline this is perfect! I also like vertical timeline. It's too spare for horizontal.
No, on my current mac there is a delay of one or two seconds between when the plug is fully inserted and the speakers/headphones start working. Thus, i presume it is some silicon or software.
It's still a pretty neat trick, if you want malware designed to penetrate an airgapped network to phone home.