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Ever used a Thermos vacuum bottle?[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_flask
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ASK PG: Just to be clear, is this a thread where we're supposed to be supportive?

Or will you kill this thread too because it is about a YC company?

If you have showdead set to off, this is in reference to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7179063

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178341

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178004
well come on. How much is Facebook worth vs. how much is "53 Paper" worth?
Why We Exploded Hardware and Put it on Our Walls
Congrats on the launch guys, best of luck!
This year, I bought a box of chicken wings for 10$ so I made his argument true
In case you didn’t hear, starting with version 5 (released June 2011) Firefox changed to a different, must faster release schedule. They release a new major version every six weeks or so, but there are fewer changes in each major version than there were in early versions. They changed the schedule to get new features out to users faster. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Rapid_relea...
I like the approach, simple, creative, everyone participates, quick results.
Wow, that really surprises me. Now I'm thinking Americans must be driving in the dark in foggy situations, or are you required to stop your vehicles when sight is limited? I mean, I realize that fog lights can give you a false sense of security, not everything is illuminated, but I found them very useful. I'm thinking extreme situations, like ten meters visibility on the Autobahn.
nice topic. Just like child proofing, there must be anticurious proofing
AngularDart – Superheroic MVW Framework for Dart
You can check the examples in the repository:
https://github.com/jacomyal/sigma.js/wiki#wiki-getting-start...
> In order for a radiator to do its job, it has to be immersed in some sort of working medium ... You can sort of make a "radiative transfer" radiator, but they don't work quite the same.

You should re-read Pinckney's essay on the assumption that it specifically concerns the latter type of radiator. Consider that "efficiency is as the fourth power of temperature" is a reference to the Stefan–Boltzmann law for black-body radiative heat transfer.

Consider too that the linked-to essay, in the part about radiative cooling and with worked-out details about Stefan-Boltzmann, refers to a working temperature of 2200 K, where the T-to-the-fourth really kicks in.
"D-Wave's Dream Machine" is a good article I submitted recently that never made the front page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7128382
> No, but insisting that you want startups faster, when you've been explained the technical reasons why they are slow, doesn't make them faster either.

Oh please. "We've explained the technical reasons to you" excuse. As a customer the response to that is "ok, good luck with that, I am not using your product".

> "This ball shouldn't fall to earth" / "It fell because of gravity" / "Explaining the reason it fell, doesn't make it go upwards".

No the answer to that is, screw this planet, I'll go fly into space and find another planet. Which is the response people have with software they don't like.

It is more like:

"Oh your database is slow" and getting the response of "Well of course it is,the locks at level 3 in our API have not been optimized because John is on vacation still. Geez how dare you not accept that as a valid answer?"

See you've equated software features hard laws of physics. So escaping from it is "ridiculous".

To be more serious, having an interpreter JIT a module only if you use, on-demand, or save the trace of it, across execution maybe he hard but doesn't require changing the fine structure constant.
You have to take a couple things into account.

1. FF is a product, meaning if Chrome or Opera or Safari have some shiny features that a lot of developers enjoy to have, FF will very likely implement that feature.

2. Some new features are to replace the old one. For example, the original Firefox sync was pain in the ass and so there will be a new thing called Firefox Account. That's a new feature to user but it's easier to use and makes more sense to users.

3. Some new shiny features are there because of requests. People requested them and developers thought they were useful for users to have. That's inevitable. Unlike Windows, unless you cry to TechCrunch, MS won't care about your email because it's one of the 1000000 emails they receive every day.

In reality, software can't stay in the way the old OS works. Granted, we take Android fun as they roll out new features. But we can't upgrade easily because the phone manufacture and/or the service provider does not provide the stock upgrade (at least this is how my shitty phone works).

I know there are compatibility breakage and some UI decisions are really really bad. For instance, the latest nightly rolls out a different color scheme for web console which I find a huge problem for people with poor eye sight (me) or work long hours. The UI is changing to australis soon (maybe 29, maybe 30, don't remember, they haven't have a final decision yet).

It is actually quite frustrating to work in the browser side. A line of change can impact millions of websites. Often time you have to make a complex patch to make simple adjustment.

Regarding security vulnerability, I personally think they are minor compare to other more common, cheap threats. They are exploitable (and yes some are critical and severe) but when was the last time you find yourself exploited because of browser? It was probably you downloading an infected file. I know this is kind of unethical to say, but I think it is fair to say browser is quite secure these days and attackers are more likely to do things like clickjacking.

I don't remember if Firefox rolls out update (not upgrade) that includes vulnerability fixes or not. Someone correct me on this.
> But a massive screen lets you make input so much bigger than they ever could be in hardware.

Which does not actually matter. The problem is not the size of the control, it's 1. finding it, 2. distinguishing it from its brethren and 3. only activating it once 1 and 2 are unambiguously fulfilled.

The core properties of a touchscreen, its usual advantages of being flexible and ever-changing, become drawbacks.

And I think that's OK, use the right tool for the right job you know? There are situations where a touchscreen is not the right tool.
No, just one (legal) person, the corporation called "Microsoft".

He's not saying anything about any of the natural persons involved acting outside their roles in Microsoft.

Corporate "goodwill" exists in negative forms as well, and Microsoft has acquired quite a bit over the years.
I love that phrase! I hope it becomes standard parenting jargon :).

Edit: on further reflection, non-parenting jargon too... that is an excellent phrase for anyone IMO.
Y Combinator nonprofit launches the first global P2P lending platform
Put simply: people side with the little guy.
Awesome post!

I like his comments about building human capital, reputational capital, and social capital. This is forgotten by many folks. It's not just the cash.

I also like the importance of working on things you can show and share, and that people can see.
Apptimize Q&A
What does the following header do?

add_header Alternate-Protocol 443:npn-spdy/3;

Also, what exactly does deferred do on the listen directive?
The first 3D eye cells printed
That's not very nice. They won't remain crimeless for long.
The federal government is incredibly good at finding reasons to charge people. It makes me wonder exactly why it is that the government wants to keep this secret. I'm sure they have a good (ostensible) reason to do so. But at the same time, it is also likely that the tactic is a means of trumping up charges against people.
The biggest surprise for me in starting this business was how expensive drones are. I used them in the Army and I love them, but when we did the math about using them in the business they do not come close to an old Cessna with a pilot looking for hours.
I've been a user of the French version (La Ruche qui dit oui) for the past 6 months.
Now they launch their international (European) website.

The concept: a platform to connect local farmers and consumers. All orders and payments are managed by the platform.

Here is the charter, translated to English, to give you a better view of how it's working: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
No, but if they work at it, some day they might be.
Yet hormonal contraceptives decrease your risks of ovarian and endometrial cancer. Wonder if some of the risks can cancel each other out.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/oral-contr...
Office 365 seems to be doing very well. In that case, it's the SaaS companies that should be deeply afraid of Microsoft. As a total offering (consisting of cloud components and PC-based components) it's pretty hard to beat.

Running O365 on Azure has probably substantially improved the platform.

I can't see why Microsoft would take the slightest interest in the mobile software world of 100,000 different $1 crapware products. There's no money in it.

Rovio is one of the most successful mobile developers there is, with annual income of $150 million, across pretty much every mobile platform. They're great at it.

$150 million isn't even visible next to Microsoft's $60 billion yearly income.
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OBS is currently being rewritten to be cross platform and because the old codebase was pretty bad, so I guess you could contribute

https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio
Awesome Technical Documentation Solutions?
Looking at puppet labs documentation site, http://docs.puppetlabs.com/, or xamarin's documentation site http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/ are really great technical documentation sites.

What tools (paid or free) exists to build these types of technical documentation sites?
They need to if they're going to be serious about keeping the name "Paper" with no mention of 53. To me it seems an absurd goal because it will be very expensive and has no substantive benefit for the product, But if having a single word generic mark on their application is desired they need to get out there and defend it. They will probably need to pursue "Papers
By mekentosj.com" and other similarly named products to be successful.
Their influence on desktop is slowly eroding, though, and the new battlefield is the internet.
I agree that It does not answer why in general, but that quote in particular seems reasonable -- Deutsch is referring to the whys which result from more fundamental interactions (more fundamental models); although eventually, you reach the basic laws of science and then there's really no point in further asking why.
"Our industry does not respect tradition — it only respects innovation." ... "Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world."

Catching up to the current state of things does not sound like innovation.
Is this true? Will you really be arrested for filing a complaint at a police station?
I now also get that paged after having deleted one of the photos that appeared in the video.
I wonder if they will regenerate it.
40 engineers is a "skeleton crew"? 40 engineers? There are tons of websites/products out there doing a lot more with a lot less.

And I love pandora, but this product management technique isn't exactly revolutionary. It is just a pretty standard top down system, albeit only planning one quarter at a time. This isn't pushing the boundaries like Valve or Yammer.
It wouldn't be worth getting exposure to that level of radiation on a daily basis from the security process
I am Indian and I am heavily suspicious towards the very tow-the-line and do not argue attitude many have. Not saying I agree with the comment I responded to, but to say that some general level statements cannot be said is ridiculous.
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Microsoft already provides "something like" coreutils, free compilers, and a console subsystem. While these things could use considerable improvement — particularly the console subsystem — I'm not sure that the best approach for either Microsoft or the market is to encourage a POSIX/GNU monoculture. I'd rather see Microsoft incorporate good ideas from the competition into future products, and vice versa.
I'm creating an account specifically to reply to this comment. Sheriff Urquhart has only been in office for a year, and this is the third cop he's fired for similar behavior. Details here: http://www.king5.com/news/local/King-Co-Sheriff-fires-deputy...
Hmm, might that be due to Chrome pre-fetching the page?
tl;dr: magenta = blue + red

Long version: brains interprets green+orange as yellow because they are close enough and it save one kind of photoreceptor ; blue + red is not interpred as another color are they are far enough, hence magenta (not a simple color ray)
I think this is the post:
http://brandontreb.com/learned-first-year-ios-consulting
There are alternatives - e.g. instead of band albums buy overpriced T-Shirts on their official web site.
There are three things that only God knows: the beginning of things, the cause of things (WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY???) and the end of things. - an old Welsh proverb
As you know, I didn't kill those posts because they're about a YC company. I killed them because HN is a news site, not a support forum for YC companies. And the reason we don't want that sort of post is not to conceal problems with YC cos, but because (as we saw) this sort of indignation-inducing fluff is so easy to upvote that it will take over a site if you allow it.

It is a super lame move to try to hijack a thread about a newly launched startup to get attention for some unrelated grievance. You wouldn't like if it someone did that to you.
Inspired by a conversation over at Product Hunt: http://www.producthunt.co/posts/1105
If you install via a package manager on Linux then generally you can only update the browser through the package manager. On my Gentoo box that's how I have to upgrade chromium and firefox.
take a look at http://www.dabeaz.com/coroutines/Coroutines.pdf
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late reply:

>> Given that an application only has few seconds to impress, conveying anything is a challenge.

Your next paragraph took me a few seconds to read, and impresses a helluva lot. I would not worry about the form of the application process.
"that we grant this idea of corporate personhood, bestowing to companies the rights of people, but not the responsibility."

Technically, what the law says is that a person doesn't give up his or her rights when forming a corporation. Corporations are formed to give a liability shield of a limited extent. The extent of the shield is much, much less than a government official gets[1].

1) ask anyone who has dealt with a criminally corrupt prosecutor
You'll notice the lack of "And then I was bitten by a radioactive spider and anointed the designated iOS consultant by Steve Jobs."

I only mention this because so many geeks think consultants are a special breed apart, and in the main, they're geeks just like you who a) got good at something and b) started charging appropriate amounts of money for it.
That capability is built into SQLite already -- it comes with an import utility. textql seems to just be a wrapper around this.
I'm more talking about a system where a (frequent) repeat offender is no longer defensible as a candidate for being reinstated in this sort of job. I'm not talking about a trial in a criminal sense, I more mean the union pushing back to get someone rehired, when that person seems to continue to disregard the rules applied to their occupation.

For instance if you have approximately 120 allegations against him and 21 cases of sustained misconduct Should you get a 121st (or 142nd/22nd however you count) chance? I wouldn't say this is so much the guild exercising a choice, to defend or not, as them giving up on a 'habitual line stepper'. A whistle blower usually only gets 1 chance to blow the whistle (rather than 20-30) so I'd imagine that's a totally different situation for a number of reasons.

Idealistic sidenote: Being that the Guild is for Police Officers, who's main purpose is to protect the public and stop crime (Ok yes the supreme court said that police are not there to 'protect and serve' but to 'enforce') shouldn't the fact that one of their members seems to be continually in trouble with the public at large concern them rather than be something they blindly have to dispute? /idealism
You'll get sweat too, but there'll be soap from the sink in there. Unless you have some very unique genes, that didn't come from your hands!

The soap got in through the edge of the glove, not through the glove. Your test won't demonstrate anything other than that latex can hold water, which is not what I was trying to show.

I wasn't kidding when I said to try it. :)
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2014 is going to be crazy, we've launched in time to help California farmers manage through the drought.
You can't sell a car without rear fog lights in most of Europe: it's mandated by UN Regulation 48 "Installation of Lighting and Lighting-Signalling Equipment" (formerly UNECE 48).
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Wanted to share some fun news...
We in Dallas spoofed the Go Daddy Super Bowl commercial.

http://youtu.be/Ldy4lvHdfqY

Enjoy!
I agree. I would just add that there are lots of Busy Bobs, all of whom just want to consume your service, and don't want to have to bother with creating their own JSON/XML/EDN/etc marshaling/unmarshaling code, translating HTTP error codes to whatever idiomatic error-handling construct is used for the language at hand, etc.

When I build an app that needs to consume some REST API, if the REST API provider doesn't already provide an SDK, I'll create my own in each programming language that is useful to me (Objective-C to build an iOS app; Java to build an Android app; etc). To me its the logical thing to do, especially if I intend to create more than 1 app that consumes the REST API in the same language (iOS POC app 1, iOS POC app2, ...).
I as well see it, like a faint hazy halo around the black light, and it really messes with my vision. I cannot go into a club anymore, nor go to haunted houses, as the black lights are really disorienting.

I have had both my lenses removed and have implants now. Since I was young when they were removed, I thought everyone saw this until a couple years ago.

This brings me to a question I've always had: What if the colors we see are specific to us? I.e., what if what I perceive as blue and you perceive as blue don't look the same to us, but because we've always been taught that that color we see is blue, our differing perceptions lead us to that conclusion?

I know I'm not explaining this correctly, I've been trying to wrap my head around it for a while.
Spark: gorgeous Campfire experience for Windows 8
Unfortunately most videos available via torrent typically aren't designed to be streamed. Bitrate and seeking are the two big problems.

Enabling seeking requires logic on the client side to retrieve seek tables as well as encoding that facilitates seeking when streaming.
I believe the fact that salaries in STEM fields aren't insanely high is a symptom that we generally have enough STEM educated people to fill the jobs.
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7018341
It took me a moment to see what you did there, but I must confessed I lol'd
It is so non-intuitive as to be totally unusable !
Anyone who has read Grapes of Wrath knows that the correct statement is, "Companies would rather not pay ANY professionals high salaries..."

Call it a conflict of interest or call it the market. One way or the other, the conclusion is improve your skills, increase your value, and in the name of friendly competition, skin the company alive for as much as you can get for the skill the company demands. They are playing the same game with you.
I have a Chromecast (plugged into the HDMI input on my Xbox One, actually). I don't see that being a credible threat to Xbox among consumers who can afford an Xbox. Possibly something used in tandem when there's not a native app (the Xbox apps for YouTube and Netflix are a much better experience than Chromecasting from a laptop or phone for me).

What do you mean by cloud gaming? Something like the Ouya or Steam's new device?

VR will be interesting. I'm not familiar enough with the hardware requirements to comment intelligently about that. I haven't done much with VR since the late 90s. Is the PS4/XB1's hardware not powerful enough to drive the kind of things that we're seeing the beginning of with Oculus Rift?
When we had these things in other languages like Python, node's approach was better. Now that node has adopted them, node is even better still, I guess.
> Is it really impossible for the cone response to a compound color to match that of any single wavelength?

Yes.

Look for a "chromaticity diagram" to see the colors we can perceive. It is a convex shape, like a truncated parabola, and the pure colors are on the edge of the parabola curve. Any time you mix two pure colors, you end up inside the parabola instead of on the edge. Conversely, any color on the inside of the parabola cannot be a pure wavelength and must be a compound color.

There are a lot of colors we call "yellow". Some are pure colors and some are compound colors. The ones that your monitor display are compound colors that cannot be found on the spectrum.

A decent monitor will represent brilliant yellow colors fairly well. This is due to the low curvature of the edge of the chromaticity diagram in the green-red range, which in turn can be ascribed to the similarity of the response curve for the L and M cones in the eye, compared to the S cones. However, brilliant turquoise and aqua colors won't show up on your monitor.
"spdy_headers_comp 7;" looks like huge overkill. It provides about 10% better compression ratio than setting 1, but two times slower.
I once came across a very scientific-looking paper, with lots of tables and graphs and technical prose, arguing that aluminum containers are less energy-intensive to produce than glass because the amount of energy required to produce the container from the virgin material is smaller. Yes, I imagine that once you have a sheet of pure aluminum, it takes less energy to form it into cans than it does to melt glass. But of course this completely overlooks the massively greater amount of energy it takes to produce virgin aluminum from raw bauxite! Much more than it takes to produce glass from sand.

The paper was a total piece of shit, and yet it looked completely legitimate.

> The weight of people -- supposedly credible scientists -- that they were able to bring to bear to speak against him calls into question effectively every controversial scientific finding.

Yep.
I really wish I could have thought of some specifics to make my point better. Most professional photographers do know basics of exposure really well, but may not know things like the inverse-square law when applying to flash photography (especially with the newer flash systems out there). Instead of using a light meter to take careful measurements, they fall back on abstractions, trial and error, and rules of thumb--like sunny 16 rule, their experience, and looking at the back of the LCD.

The only example I can think of is that I've heard Paul McCartney can't read or write sheet music.

Some people (like myself), feel the need to understand the underlying technologies in order to become competent. I don't feel like that's the only way to competency.