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Do you agree with the statement "Food is at least as expensive in America in 2014 as it was in 1974"?

No; that wasn't the point I was making. The point I was making was that, as a responder to you noted, food has not fallen in price the way other things like electronics have. Granted, there isn't a Moore's Law for food the way there is for computers, as someone noted downthread; but still, it doesn't seem like food has fallen in price as much as it should have given the increases in productivity that have taken place. I think a key reason for this is that the government messes with food prices in ways that it does not mess with prices in other sectors of the economy.

But another point that could be made is that, if food has fallen significantly in price (which, as several posters now have quoted numbers to show, it has), why do we still hear so much about people having trouble making ends meet at the low end of the income scale? In other words, is the problem Altman is talking about a real problem, or just a perceived problem?
Yes any genre. The game is very different. A reason why is because then every game is going to argue that their game is a different style. You're opening a can of worms.
The part that casually drops "PHP as a config language" is where this jumped the shark for me. I guess this isn't the worst practice I've seen in PHP, but it's definitely a notable one.
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My friends tell me they earn anywhere between $1-$25 depending on many factors. Ignore the techies. Normal people search on internet to find the cheapest laptop they want. People spend hours and days to save $15 on a laptop. They do not understand the difference between Computer with bloatware and Computer without bloatware.

I have met many people who talk about "Ask Menu" on internet explorer and come to think that it is a part of IE.
Gravity wave detectors get phase accuracy by comparing a photon to itself using an interferometer. SNR is improved by brightening the laser and averaging over more photons. The laser frequency is less important.

It turns out there are some ultraviolet nuclear transitions. The line widths promise to be obscenely narrow. If they can get it working in a clock, they will be able to directly measure gravitational time dilation of small masses.
Seems like Twitter could easily verify the story based on their own logs and then restore access to his N account. He doesn't mention pursuing that, though.
1.22% of your users is probably like 1 person lol. Gj gaming hacker news to reach the many nurses that visit here.
Assuming they've already compromised the crypto bits of the chip there's nothing to gain in avoiding them since the non-crypto bits could just as well have the same compromises. Might as well just take the time/energy savings.

Tampering with the RNG probably provides the best value for an attacker, and is harder to detect.
Dual 10 GbE built-in? Sweet. Wonder what the price will be; a dual 10 GbE Intel card goes for $500 alone.

More importantly – will they provide zero-copy I/O like you can get with Intel network cards via their DPDK [1] or PF_RING/DNA [2]?

[1] http://dpdk.org/
[2] http://www.ntop.org/products/pf_ring/dna/
I remember thinking my 966MHz Coppermine was blazing fast.

Then, a few years later I tried to install Gentoo on it. With X. And OpenOffice.

It chugged for days.
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The level of self-hatred in your post is astounding.

You seem to identify the problem as a lack of empathy on the part of "we, techies". You should speak for yourself on that one, as I (and probably most others here) feel no sense of belonging to your "we, techies". For many here, technology is the means by which we express our empathy: what is a startup if not a recognition of and solution to a human problem.

1. I don't see anyone here claiming to be a Randian hero or that we live in a simple society, quite the opposite. It seems to be you claiming that "youth unemployment" and other "social issues" are (simply) our fault and things that we can fix on our own.

2. For all the hate that AirBnB is getting (both in the article and this comment thread), it has provided income, housing and friendships to countless unemployed youth, many of whom lack the credit to sign a lease. Countless more have been able to keep their homes because of AirBnB. In response to Hurricane Sandy, AirBnB did this: https://www.airbnb.com/sandy (wow, corporate profits and social good going hand in hand, who'd have thought).

Perhaps they should pay the hotel tax in some jurisdictions, perhaps they would do better to comply with some regulations (most of which were intended for commercial properties, not a guy renting out his extra room to make rent). But lets not overlook the overwhelming good that AirBnB has done for so many, including myself.

3. One constant in this community (hacker news) has been the promotion of a free internet where users are in charge. The techcrunch article you say "we" deny implicitly suggests limits on the freedom of the internet: it's anti-bitcoin, anti-sharing economy etc. These are things made possible only by a free internet, which is threatened (mostly) not by our industry but by telecoms, hollywood & by extension the government.

4. Technology is not some trifling thing that is "created" by recent public or private financing. It's the legacy of over a million years of cultural evolution from before we were even a species. If anything, we owe it to our ancestors to continue the great human experiment, to keep learning about our environment (science) and how to control it (technology) to create better lives for ourselves and those who follow us (social development).

5. Yes, many of us (including myself), believe the free market is a important tool to achieve this* . Other ways we contribute are furthering Science, Art and Sport. Yet another tool is voluntary charity. And yes, another is political action through the government.

* It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest - Adam Smith
I'm not a huge fan of Rich Dad Poor Dad and the cult of Kiyosaki, but that was the first place I heard about the adage "pay yourself first".

I think a lot about that, not just in financial terms, but emotional as well. If you can't take care of yourself, you won't be able to sustain taking care of other things, no matter whether those other things are businesses, employees, personal bills, or loved ones.
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I didn't say that JS frameworks are a humanitarian effort. I'm just saying that non-noble things can be valuable too. Not everything has to be a cure for cancer. Just because people have bad lives in 3rd world countries doesn't mean positive experiences by more fortunate people are trivial.

All I said was that inspiring someone to enjoy life and to give them the tools to live a good life is something valuable, and is something worth doing. You're the smug one, by choosing to misinterpret what I said so that you can feel righteous about being the only person who acknowledges their trivial life.
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This is similar to what we're using at FastMail for our web interface, but simplified and made a bit more generic based on our experiences over the past year.

Our plan is to port our web interface across to this spec and implement both a direct backed in Cyrus IMAPd and a standalone implementation which can proxy for existing IMAP servers.
The games at launch are always notoriously not representative of the full capabilities of the console. Compare any game from the launch of the previous generation to games that are being released now. There is a huge difference.

Also, I'd like to see your source for the statement that they are making money. I'm sure they aren't as huge loss leaders as they were in the past, but I'd be surprised to know if they are making money on them. If Microsoft could cut the MSRP, they would have.
An epic comment from patio11, Well done.

I happen to know that in America there are collections agencies which peak at bulk debt purchases then contact the debtor trying to illegally collect a debt they don't own.

Eventually the bulk debt package gets sold and a rightful collections agency calls them up trying to legally collect a debt.

Overall it is a very sleazy business.
Coursera is now blocking visitors from Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria
I reckon this is pretty much the case with every single taboo subject one may take an interest in for whatever reason. There are no options for people to get help without destroying their reputations and themselves. The fact that society offers no options to seek help early is just as destructive (if not more so) as the crimes he perpetuated in his consumption of child porn. Society could probably do more to "help the children" by having the maturity and willingness to accept people struggling with their vices and help them overcome their vices by giving them the support they need to do so. This goes for drug and alcohol abuse as well.
If the author is reading, did you end up getting back your @n username? If so, did you simply go to Twitter and explain to them the whole story?
Yes they have.

I work on one of those (I'm the webmaster), they didn't wanted to get me firefox or chrome, because of 'security issues'...
I don't feel any console can really compare to a custom built gaming PC...for a while I was hosting my website and ffmpeg compression server on my gaming rig.

In regards to the latest consoles, I have a ps4...and while most "anticipated," games are still on preorder, I don't think it's fair yet to call the hardware a joke, I don't feel the studios have taken full advantage of the hardware.....now the games offerings right now....yeah I agree, but I think the studios really compiled their games (at least the ones I play :: COD: Ghosts, and Battlefield 4) for previous gen consoles.

I am interested to see how the new halo plays though...just can't get past the fact that the xbox one requires kinect to be...ummm, connected to play.
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Wow, this is both interesting and terrifying. I have a two character Twitter handle that I use actively and it makes me worry that one day I might be targeted too using a similar method, although so far I've had no problems.
They earned that right, in part, by imagining they couldn't work for someone else either.
"I am from government and we are here to help" - that sentence is mostly false and creates more problems than any help.

Bloatware is not the only way companies make phones cheaper. A company like Google can sell Nexus at cheaper rate than say Samsung Galaxy because the whole Android OS is like a Google Adware. For every search that you make on Google Nexus every day Google is probably making $10-$100 per thousand search queries. Google probably can afford to give away Nexus for free. Samsung however has no other way to monetize the phone after they have already sold it.

"I am also sure if you could give a customer the choice between a bloatware loaded phone and a clean phone."

I am all for it. Give consumer the choice. Do not ask government to interfere with it. Market is already sensitive to this. Microsoft has come up with MS signature brands. Sooner or later phone companies will have to follow.
>>> Of course it would be nice if everything were HTTPS...

>> Nice try, Certificate Authorities!

> Nice try, NSA.

Nice try, HN.
I'd say the best thing you can do is learn the lesson that you should have had a contingency plan for this situation. Particularly since failure is the most likely outcome of any startup. I know though, that only happens to the 'other' guys.
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Screenshot of the warning message:

http://www.wamda.com/2014/01/coursera-blocks-syria-and-iran-...
Completely agree. Apple just introduced a controller API for iOS. Smart. A console experience != mobile experience.
You mean Sight? https://vimeo.com/46304267

(I have no doubt that one day the real product will be named exactly that.)
Considering AMD64 took down the Itanium and basically defined the industry, it has a ways to go and Intel's response to AMD64 might be instructive.
I don't think you realize how unresponsive and poor Twitter's support is. I was once locked out of my Twitter account via anything but Tweetdeck (due to two-factor authentication suddenly breaking and not sending SMS') for four weeks before I wound up accidentally finding a PC that I hadn't signed out of previously and was able to disable. I logged a ticket on the first day it happened and never even received a response.
Aren't unsafe neighborhoods so because of, first and foremost, their inhabitants?

Because of some inhabitants, yes. But there have always been a small percentage of people that are going to try to prey on others. Whether or not they succeed depends on how the rest of society deals with such activities--not just the people living in the same neighborhood, but society as a whole.
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My biggest issue with the competition (Medium) is that it does not allow you to use your own domain.
Apple is in a league of their own.
How can you possibly say that resistance may be limited without further clinical tests, but have a project literally stating you can cure HIV - and distribute it for free?
The newer browsers actually come with a lot of feature-induced security problems too. Microsoft continues to release security updates for IE7 so it might be better to use than a newer version of IE that could have HTML5 exploits.
From what I understand, there's a reasonably large market for temporary nurses, for times when a hospital is understaffed. I suspect it's acceptable to look for a new gig before your current one ends.

Edit: It also looks like hospitals, not nurses, are the actual customers.
The best form of communication is action. Do what your users request (assuming it's sensible of course) and they'll notice and appreciate it.
This timeline is not realistic. No discussion of a control system at all for guidance and (more difficult) stability.
Working in infrastructure, this is much less of a worry for your users. We ran the metrics on it.
Your observation is true for techies but not the general population. Understand that if there was no benefit to putting bloatware no company would have spent their resources on it. For me the benefit of saving $20 is small but not for many people out there. I know many people who think Macbooks are just white colored laptops.
OP here. It wasn't.
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HTTP itself has an overhead, I'm skeptical changing a persistent IMAP connection into a request/response model with a different serialization format is going to be more efficient, especially given compression (like COMPRESS=DEFLATE)

IMAP4rev1 is one thing, but there are many extensions supported in modern imap servers to speed up syncing and mailing, like CATENATE/BURL/CONDSTORE/MULTIAPPEND/MOVE/etc

Granted, the IMAP protocol is pretty hairy and difficult to work with. On the other hand, there's a huge ginormous deployment of it on the client and server, and the IETF WG behind it. I doubt JMAP will replace it anytime soon unless the WG itself takes up the issue. And given the neckbeards there ;-), some of whom have been working in IMAP for decades, you face the same opposition to change as those trying to legalize drugs or gay marriage. ;-)

We're still trying to get IPv6 deployed!
And at the $50,000 tier, we'll put a 10" wrench with your name on it into the same orbit as your favorite NRO satellite.
and Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Opera.
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The funny thing is, batteries still suck. Motors, on the other hand, have gotten awesome: http://teslamotors.com/
You think they only have 82 users?
and Network Solutions.
$1.50 in 1785 (when US dollars were issued) http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%241.50+1785+today
I get the query "$1.50 1945 today" with no answer. What am I supposed to see?
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That statement is true for every industry not just laptops. Generally, government intervention to give "choice" is far better than something that bans a product outright.

With this kind of regulation people will now get into the technicalities of what constitutes a "bloatware" and will spend countless hours in legal battles.
Apparently I have already viewed my 10 free articles this month. Seems most of the links on HackerNews require you to pay in order to read the article. Is this the new ivory tower? Have you guys forgotten how the Internet is supposed to work? Not only to I not worship the right got or vote for the right candidates, but I'm just not rich enough to belong here?
This doesn't seem right to me. Transportation costs are negligible for all sorts of products. It costs more in gasoline for you to drive to your local Best Buy and bring home a DVD player than it does to ship that DVD player from the factory in East Asia somewhere halfway across the planet to the store. Huge economies of scale have been realized in transportation.

If, on the other hand, we include under "transportation costs" the costs of dealing with corrupt governments in many countries who enrich themselves at the expense of their people, then yes, there are significant transportation costs in getting food to poor people in many countries.
I don't think it's possible to buy a certificate with a dot at the end, so I don't see how this is Google's problem.

It seems to be either a problem with Firefox or with the domain name system in general.

It looks like the problem should be fixed in 2016 because then all non-FQDN certificates will have expired. Then browsers can go ahead and assume that google.com. in a url is the same as google.com in a certificate.
As a complete aside, what is the language used under the section "getMessageList"?
What amazing time the brink of the XX century might have been to inventors. Not only one of the first automobiles, but sporting an electric engine, a technology invented some 30 years before.
Someone's parents are going to be really mad about this report card:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=developer.aka...

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=a248.e.akamai...

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=network.akama...

The thing is, the worst part is knowing a child is capable of A's:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=control.akama...
You're not making the same investment at the outset: you're doubling down after the business has already demonstrated "I'm failing quickly, unlike the median funded startup, which is failing marginally less quickly." [+] In return for assuming that extra risk, you get no marginal gain in equity.

If you absolutely must shoot your own foot, clean the wound after doing so, because gangrene sucks even more than gunshots (though that is not an argument for gunshots). Continue taking a salary. Loan your take home pay back to the company. Get a written IOU. In the unlikely event that the company goes on to thrive, the company can repay that IOU like it repays any other debt.

This is a really stupid lending decision by any objective measure. You're loaning money at a ridiculously below-market interest rate to a company which you know to be failing and where you know that you have zero ability to meaningfully collect from the principals (because moving money from your left pocket to your right pocket doesn't help you). You are not getting additional equity for this loan, like e.g. a convertible note would entitle you to. ("Why not make it a convertible note?" Because your existing investors will go apeshit if you self-deal. Founder equity only ever goes down, never up. That's as close to an iron law as the Valley has.) But it's less stupid than simply forgoing your salary for a while, because there's less downside with the taxman (whether the company succeeds or fails) and the possibility of you being made whole again if the company succeeds.

[+] Not making fun of anybody here. You care about your burn rate and cash on hand for a reason. Cash on hand divided by burn rate equals how many months you have until the business fails, absent an injection of extra capital.
Access to static, public resources (images, js, css) should not be run through any dynamic language. Let the web server do what they do well: serve files. Or better yet, push that junk to a CDN.
What? This thread started when someone thought that people need stop using this term "incorrectly." I just pointed out that we should take it easy because the term is kind of overloaded in common usage.
I found it interesting how open the attacker was about how they did it.
http://www.teslamotors.com
Well, Intel vaguely sells a 4-core Xeon at 1.8/2.8 GHz with 25 W TDP [1], then between the hyperthreading and higher IPC you've mostly made up for the fewer cores relative to this ARM part.

[1] http://ark.intel.com/products/75053/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-...
That support ends on April 8 of this year: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/endofsuppo...
I totally agree...this time around Sony and Microsoft really were under inventory constraints to launch for the holiday season....

If Microsoft could have, I think they would've offered their subsidized consoles (like they did the 360), and launch with Halo as their premiere title....

(this will probably get a lot of hate) then again Playstation actually decided to play video games this time and xbox one is trying to be a super Roku.
I wrote http://mystartuphas30daystolive.tumblr.com

Like you, I raised money, went through a top accelerator and had a wild ride that doomed in failure.

It's ok to be terrified. It's ok to hurt. Fear paralyzes. You will pull your socks up and do what you need to do. It'll hurt more than you know. You'll quickly separate your real friends from the rest. And then something amazing will happen, your life will go on.

The first thing you'll notice is how much of life you've missed while riding the startup "high life". Big things like love, family, reality will suddenly become clearer and no longer dimmed by the tinnitus of whatever TechStars derivative you've been through.

The next is that you're a hell of a lot wiser. You'll find a job and you'll start performing. You'll look like a legend because the pace and agility you learned to work at during your startup days will make you a rockstar anywhere you decide to put your talents to use.

Your performance will bring more money, and power (to a degree) than you've ever made before. You'll make up for lost time.

And then, like all of us, you'll hear the siren song of entrepreneurship beckon you out into the world again. You'll pick up the pieces and start anew.

Ride the wave, brother/sister. Godspeed.
I can't read this without thinking that the author isn't paying attention to the rest of the PHP community. Every point on the checklist is what composer was built to solve and it can be used without any framework. Even in terms of package creation, PSR-4 allows the author of a package to define their own directory structure and inform the autoloader what that structure is.

It's great to revisit assumptions, like using one index.php file for a whole project, but I think that's an area where talking to lots of people leads to the best solution.
I don't know. When I was in university we had similar projects going on (scratch-fabricated hybrid rocket motors, not aerospikes though) and I know there were non-citizen students participating. Didn't seem to be a problem.
Related: Kogan (an electronics vendor here in AU) has an IE7 tax on all of their products to pay for the upkeep required to develop supporting IE7. This follows the succesful implementation of an IE6 tax some years ago.

http://www.kogan.com/au/blog/new-internet-explorer-7-tax/