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As a model in which you define dependencies among different changing variables, and any change in the value of a variable – which can happen at any time, even concurrently with other variable updates – triggers the re-computation of all dependent values.
> Judging by the general Internet reaction to Titanfall, some of you readers are no doubt crying at the injustice of the second scenario described. Many see innovations like that smart pistol as just another example of the "dumbing-down" of the hardcore shooter experience, removing the need for the kind of aiming dexterity genre fans have been grooming since the days of Wolfenstein 3D in the name of "accessibility." First-person shooters should be about twitch-reflexes, split-second timing, and the ability to line up and fire a headshot in a single smooth motion, the argument goes. This new homing pistol ruins that in favor of skill-free, aim-free kills.

There used to be some FPS releases, like a later "Medal of Honor" release, on the PS2 that did not have controller options for left handers, which pretty much flies in the face of the above quote.
FWIW, the NAR and some publications put out these Most Affordable Cities lists:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/morganbrennan/2012/04/05/america...
I remember reading about his apparent escapades a month or so ago. Guess there was some truth to the stories after all.
i posted this in another thread, but just as it slipped off front page.

http://feministing.com/2014/02/20/toward-a-nuanced-feminist-...

it's a good description of what's happening (i know this is HN, and anything with "feminist" causes a shitstorm, but really it's just a very careful first person account that tries to explain all sides, so please skip the title).

but that was written before whatever happened today/last night.
I can't fund much about the 2013 election, but Jimmy Carter had this to say about 2012:
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"As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we've monitored, I would say the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world," Mr. Carter said, noting the center's extensive work monitoring elections around the globe.
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I think you mean, consciously directed intent and will. Intent and will are not necessarily the same as thought. Perhaps you are using the wrong tools, and making it more difficult than it needs to be.
Build your own WhatsApp with this killer Messages view controller for iOS
Its an Atom processor? Does that mean it can run any x86 OS?
Please name a company which thrives without a government or government regulations.
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Having tried to do some Debian packaging, it still feels horribly arcane and hard to get right. I think part of the explanation lies in "If you need to override a step, simply define...". How do I know what steps there are, and what each one is doing when I don't override it?

The system saves on boilerplate, but it doesn't provide new abstractions for the packaging process. So you still have to know what is actually going on, and that's harder to discover when it's being done magically behind the scenes than when it's done by boilerplate in the rules file. So it's easier for experts now, but hard for novices to get beyond the most trivial cases.

Of course, the impression that it's difficult is reinforced by Debian's extremely strict standards for accepting packages.
I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that. Where did you say was better? Where did you want to go?

Your lack of an identifiable destination makes it exceedingly difficult to mock your comment.
I played with this phone days ago and it's amazing, really fast. Android and FirefoxOS works smoothly.
I would even say it surpasses the Nexus 4 performance!
I've uploaded an Arduino Uno here:

https://circuithub.com/projects/gbuchholz/arduino_uno

...it's telling me to check back later for the pricing.
And then you post that person's identity in your public blog and repeatedly link to it on here? That's stalker behavior. Maybe you should get help on developing your in-person social skills; in the meantime you should definitely get a friend to explain to you why this is not a cool thing to do.
But it is in your interest to allow people to cross borders. In many ways.

Here's one: What if you wanted to move to another country? Don't assume that everything will always be going super great in your current country. Other countries will be more likely to accept you if your current country accepts citizen of the other country. Free trade!
So the worst case penalty for fraud is possibly having to give back what you stole? Given a non zero chance of not getting caught, that makes fraud a positive expected value course of action.
Nice visual snapshot or what's out there, good selection with all you need in simple site and wiki links as well, lovely.
It's true that tests are very helpful for this. However there are a lot of bugs in the wild that are difficult to reproduce, especially ones that will only crop up under rare conditions of state. It's as Linus said- "There really are only two acceptable models of development: think and analyze or years and years of testing on thousands of machines". Years and years of testing on thousands of machines happens to be the best predictor of code that runs correctly.
For all intents and purposes, they do though. Using as an input that was originally an output sent to an address is practically the same thing as coming from the address itself. It only really breaks down for more complicated transactions.
Not to mention that when such an accurate simulation becomes possible, special relativity gets violated - you can know whats happening anywhere before a signal can travel from there to you.
It's not a dollar amount, but any NSNumber value. We'll provide support for localization down the line.
You can "follow the money" electronically, but unlike bank transfers there's no physical connection. Going from imaginary point 1 to imaginary point 2 doesn't really tell you anything.
Maybe from overseas (mainly developing countries?). I don't know for sure, but I know some pilots from here (Brazil), including my cousin, who went off to fly for chinese and mid-eastern airlines, because the demand was high over there. Maybe the US won't be so far off?
I second that. For mobile the key is to focus on responsiveness not glitz. People open your app for a reason, and hopefully the reason isn't your CSS animations.
May I ask why you are trying to sell an App to someone who--according to the description you gave--probably doesn't need it?

If he's your first client...the thing is people might want to contact him as a reference point...and if he feels misled and disappointed, you probably wouldn't want to use him as a reference...
OralB brush/app looks just like startup BeamBrush
Brilliant Blunders
The reference: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/03/why-us-...
Good gosh, no. For example, I am with Einstein: make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. ie, There is a right amount of everything. I guess I am also with Goldilocks, then. I said, "More comfortable", but Americans have nicely demonstrated how in excess that leads to obesity and diabetes. So now we have learned that true comfort comes from a bit more exercise and a lot less garbage food, and now we have come full circle: life is not futile. People ridiculed in the 60s for espousing healthier diet finally got heard and made the world a better place. Did you see the recent news about Coke/Pepsi in decline? Kaching.
But some transactions are ultimately linked to the physical world, and that gives a window through which more can be pinned down over time. Operating from just the blockchain doesn't tell you very much, but combined with other things it's a lot more informative than cash movements. You're never leaking less than you think.
You will need to provide proof for this other than "I said so". The electoral system in Venezuela has been audited numerous times by international organizations and deemed to be fair. PLEASE try to understand that the Venezuela you see on the news is not close to the majority of the country. Most of the country is still quite poor, but - they have voting power!

- A Venezuelan expat
WhatsApp and Facebook's Try-Before-You-Buy M&A Strategy
Pilots on todays big airline planes are pretty much babysitters to the autopilot. Still, it will be a long time untill the notion of flying a plane with no pilot is accepted by the public. Even though it will probably be safer, as you're taking a chunk of human errors out of the equation.
OP here.

I did a post comparing Gargl to Kimono actually: http://jodoglevy.com/jobloglevy/?p=146
Venezuela fallen in Civil War?
Stuck in the House, but related:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_Visa

http://www.paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html

Canada has one right now:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/startup

Also: http://www.paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html
Normally, I find Sam's articles maybe interesting, but not that insightful.

However, this one is really awesome, it pins down the dynamics happening in fundraising exactly. It actually feels a bit Paul Graham like, very good article.

Especially liked the part about not being arrogant. I'm always trying to be very assertive while actually sounding really nice and likeable, it's a very important art to master.
In theory, yes. In practice developers may have to do minor changes. About drivers there is nothing published.

Geeksphone hasn't said officially anything, but unofficially, it is working in make the device compatible with Ubuntu Touch and Windows Phone 8.
This doesn't sound like it's just fraud, but full on mental delusional stuff. In that case throwing him in jail is probably not going to help matters by itself, and he needs doctors. Ideally some mix of the two.

I've known people like this, luckily that didn't get backed, and it can get incredibly messy. Things like maxing credit cards, identity changes, disappearing to foreign countries. It's better for everyone in the long run that this gets sorted properly as he'll just emerge from prison desperate to get back and will do something worse.
> I am a long time Dogecoin booster.

This is like when recruiters want someone with 10+ years of experience in a technology that was invented 2 years ago. Dogecoin has been out of a little over 2 months now!
> Ah the old, "there's a conspiracy to suppress what my side thinks in the news".

The article doesn't say that at all. The article complains about the apathy, it doesn't imply any conspiracy.
From the original TechCrunch report (1):

Mills was a first-time entrepreneur, but he had received backing from high-profile investors like Mark Cuban, and according to the Motionloft website, the company had secured clients like CVS, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Cushman & Wakefield.

Several former friends say Mills was also fun to be around and generous about inviting them to party with him at various music festivals and in places like Las Vegas.

All of which is why, when Mills started asking friends if they wanted to invest in his company, a few of them jumped at the opportunity.

They say Mills cashed checks that altogether were worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, promising them a small percentage of the company. Later, when he told them an acquisition was imminent, they felt confident they had made the right decision.

Mills is no longer part of Motionloft (Joyce Rietman is the CEO, effective December 1), and the validity of the investments his friends made while he was there is being called into question by earlier investors. As a result, after months of waiting, those friends now believe that not only was there no acquisition, but that it is possible they won’t get any of their money back. ...

... Sources say the private performance by Miguel, which cost $100,000, was never paid for. That was also true of the private jet charters, which included three separate flights into Vegas and four flights out, and cost nearly $100,000 altogether.

Justin Sullivan is the CEO of Private FLITE, the private jet service Mills used to charter the flights in November. He told me that Mills promised several days in a row he would pay for those flights by wire and later told Sullivan he would FedEx a check. Neither came.

After multiple attempts to reach Mills on the phone, Sullivan confronted Mills at his house to demand payment. Mills then wrote two checks for a total of nearly $294,000, but both bounced, Sullivan told me.

1. http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/30/motionloft-jon-mills/
That range is just the distance you can fly without stopping to refuel. Multi-stop trips can certainly be longer than that, if you have the time.

A faster plane will get you there quicker, of course, but they are also much more expensive and harder to fly.

That price is for a rather old used plane; newer planes cost much more. Some flying clubs have a variety of planes to rent, though you need to reserve them and more importantly learn to fly them.
Maybe somewhere in between. The imperfections are so small that even a modest effort would never get undertaken. Something folks need to realize is that Lisp truly is a metalanguage: I think both Graham and Norvig knocked off quick and dirty OOP hacks when that (decent) fad came along. So it is hard to imagine what innovation might come along that would force us to get the Lisp hood up.
Crowdtilt co-founder here. Crowdhoster started right here on HN as an open source project, and this launch to the public is due to the feedback and support it's gotten all along the way from the HN community. Thank you for that! Happy to stick around and help answer any questions or hear further feedback!
> since the Venezuelan government seems to do the impossible -- running an oil country into the ground.

Most oil countries are badly run; and whatever you think of Hugo Chavez and his party, Venezuela was already at least halfway into the ground before they came along, tbqfh.
First of all, you can buy a perfectly safe and airworthy Cessna 150 for around $15k, and you could fly it from TX to CA - it would just take quite a long time, and probably be quite bumpy. You might also get stranded for a few days half-way while waiting for weather.

To fly long cross-country trips in comfort you really need something like a Cessna 182, or even better a Cirrus or a light twin. You'll end up spending at least $100k for well equipped IFR plane (and you'll need an instrument rating). Ideally you'd want oxygen, turbos and deicing so you can fly above/through the weather.

So, in summary, it's not really feasible to buy a plane for personal transportation across large distances unless you want to spend a lot of money. You just can't beat the airlines in terms of value for money, safety and reliability, even if it is a miserable experience.
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In the prior TechCrunch write-up, it was indicated in private correspondence that Cuban preferred to not go to the police to deal with the situation. So there went that straw man.
As a place for innovation, Silicon Valley is dead. It's now a cross between Hollywood for ugly people and Wall Street for people who can't hack winter.

Acquisitions aren't the problem. If the alternative is hard-stop failure, meaning the work and acquired knowledge is effectively thrown away, I think M&A is far better. What is a step down is the replacement of R&D by M&A, but that's the fault of shortsighted executive fuckheads all over the country-- not limited to the Valley.

If you see the Valley as another Wall Street-- with a similar corporate ladder (engineer -> VP/Eng -> CTO -> founder -> investor)-- it will piss you off less. But you will also realize that it's a much crappier Wall Street-- worse pay and bonus structure, less prestige outside of the Bay Area echo chamber, more project-management bullshit (e.g. "iterations" and extreme closed allocation and "story points"), less autonomy, and more age discrimination-- and wonder why the fuck anyone would go into the startup game (unless born into VC connections).

The danger of startups (by the way) is that if you play that game for too long, you end up stuck in it because the "job hopper" stigma makes it hard to move back to hedge funds. This might have been OK when engineering roles at startups had real upside, but now that engineer equity allotments are in the pathetic 0.01-0.1% range, it's a shameful and wasteful trap.
Shouldn't it be "OpenCrowdtilt"?
Your mileage may vary, but anecdotally I've lived in all three and NYC wins by a really wide margin.

That said, Seattle is a lot more economical - salaries are a tad lower than SF or NYC but more than made up for by lower cost of living (though this is changing).
I pretty much stopped reading when they were going through the possible applications. Find my way around a super-store, shit I'd rather just stay out if at all possible.

In the meantime, I'm sure this will revolutionize something. It always does. I'm just in your same position ... a neo-luddite.

Also, I would much rather have a space elevator than a 3D mapping phone.
The trouble here was sourcing of the ATMEGA16U2-MU part. If you check back now you'll see we suggested the ATmega32U2 as a substitute.

Now that we've learnt the substitute it will happen automatically for all other projects in future.
Combined with something like Tactus [1] and the environment can be represented in a tactile 3d map [2].

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/10/new-tactus-case-concept-bri...
[2] http://www.solidterrainmodeling.com/
So? All technologies have been used for evil, going right back to the first homo habilis who picked up a rock. They're also used for good.

Of course we should encourage the good and discourage the evil, but that's a moral pursuit, not a technological one.
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Marc Andreessen kind of touches on this in Why Software is Eating The World: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405311190348090...

The barriers to entry for startups have gone down, and thus there's higher quality startups competing for the same funding. As development becomes cheaper, easier, quicker we are just going to see the bar go up for early stage investment because investors will have more and better options.
I just bought one and I'm excited. As a developer it is wonderful to have one device 2 operating systems for test my apps.
About dual boot there is nothing clear. Any idea?
Isn't this the kind of thing the NSA should be spending their time and our money on?
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Seems like this is much more likely Google's goal. Couching their arguments in ways the consumer will benefit left me feeling woefully unimpressed with the possibilities.

But clearly PK Dick's self-aware advertising will not be possible until such ads can distinguish a human from a column of marble or a dog.
The second highest comment here (when I'm writing this anyway) contains this sentence: "Innovation is a vehicle for the creation of wealth."

So it's not an uncommon meaning. Delusional, but not uncommon.
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"More interestingly, society decided that slavery was wrong after it became unprofitable."

Someone should really inform the human traffickers.
You realize you just called this guy delusional, and simultaneously you're saying you're qualified to decide who deserves another chance and who doesn't.
I second the upvote. This is exactly the awesome part of HN.
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(1) sea levels aren't going to rise noticeably in just a day or a year or a decade. If they rise a lot over a century or more, we'll just gradually tend to move inland over time. As old buildings need to be replaced anyway on that timescale we'll build new ones further inland.

(2) Even the IPCC says the next 1-3 degrees of warming will improve agricultural productivity. So if feeding the world is the priority we don't want to stop warming now even if we could - we should wait for at least another degree or two. In a warmer world you get longer growing seasons in the places that are most productive today for food crops, and in a more CO2-rich world timber forestry becomes much more productive near the equator due to CO2 fertilization. So for at least the next 50-100 years, warming is a boon. A good thing.

That gives us at least 50-100 years to check our predictions and figure out what, if anything, we need to do next. (Which is long enough that it's ridiculous to assume current trends will continue, but it can't hurt much to think about it.)
Name changes are tricky, but with Crowdtilt.com and the Crowdtilt API, CrowdtiltOpen seemed to keep the brand consistency between the three products.
Some amount of innovation seems inevitable for any successful startup. Most of us could build a site in a weekend that does image sharing, but it would take some serious innovation to scale the site up to a billion users without blowing the bank on infrastructure. Doing the same thing people have been doing, but at 1/10 the cost is clearly innovative.

Whether its scale, raw idea, business model, speed, quality, or whatever; there has to be something new to get any significant traction. Are all types of innovation equal? Of course not, but all types provide some sort of value. Throw open source into the mix and you start to see the network effect in play where even "useless idea" startups provide value (although the creators may not get much return on it) in the form of assisting more useful ideas come to fruition.
I wonder if they'll ship the US. I've wanted an Atom SoC phone for a while
Business people that don't add value tend to focus on appearances than substance because it's an easier business theather to bikeshed than to show progress and interest. The upside is that anyone that's built a business before is unlikely to be fooled by clever packaging or a well-defended presentation.
If they have a DNS v1 and v2 system, why can't my records be on both? What's the point of having NS1 and NS2 point to the same network?
More "revolutionary" phones. Wow.
Stuff like this happens in Africa all the time without Western media picking it up. Westerners by and large aren't even aware of the deadliest war since World War 2, despite it finishing around a decade ago in Africa (Second Congo War). It's business as usual, not a new descent into corporate ownership.
Everything about the situation is sad in my opinion.

It's sad that gullible people invested blindly/stupidly. It's sad that this guy clearly has(at the very least) sociopathic tendencies that weren't discovered by his peers until the damage was done. And in a way it's sad that he probably won't receive the help that would best facilitate his rehabilitation.

Do I feel worse for the people who lost their money than the guy who lied/stole/cheated them out of it? Of course. Fuck him. But I still think his situation is a sad one in the same way I would think a heroin dealers situation was.
"International Media Is Asleep At the Switch", only this guy somehow manages to see the truth. Yeah, right.

Interesting so many people on hn seem to be jumping on this.

So I went back to his oldest blog entries to see what his general stance is and if his judgements merit consideration or are slanted, which can be better be judged with years of hindsight, judge for yourself:

"To my mind Chávez’ hold on reality is so tenuous that he really does think that six million people poured onto the streets on April 13th to demand his return. And with a narcissist leader who’s that cut-off from reality, political miscalculation is the order of the day."

He was hugely popular then, and stayed that way until his death, if polls, which actually have received praise from international observers, are an indication. Chavez not only had the absolute majority behind him, they actually supported him.

Just compare Venezuela's voter turnout with that in your own country. Wikipedia says about Venezuela's 2012 election:

"The elections showed a historically high turnout, above 80% of the electorate, in a country where voting is not mandatory"