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This is a really hard think when starting a company. The team is of course one of the core parts of a startup.
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Money. Many Android tablets are full of pirate apps (you just need an APK file). Plus, IOS users are, on average, more willing to pay. It's why some apps are $0.99 on IOS and free with ads on Android.
Think about them being allowed in private areas (theme parks) or certain districts (Vegas or a city's CBD, etc). That will ease things in against those stonewalling it all.
Based on the code snippet, I'm not surprised he thinks C# is "verbose" with "lots of boilerplate" and "resembles Java", because the snippet is written as if it WAS Java, or at least written 10 years ago. Compare his GetFrequencies implementation with idiomatic, LINQ version: http://pastie.org/8834650
Go needs optional arguments for goroutines and have global defaults because recompiling is ludicrous.

Erlang is an ok language with a great runtime. Elixir is much higher level language and hence more productive for teams that already know Erlang but want to write less code and build faster. Also with Erlang, static type checking not used much in Erlang and big loss unless you use dialyzer. Advantage go for compiling and running test cases laser-blindingly fast. There is a native QuickCheck framework for Erlang, and I'm sure someone wrote a go one.
I have an iPad, and my gf has a Google Nexus 7. We live in Uruguay, and at least for us, it makes way more sense to have an Android tablet than an Apple tablet, moastly because a lot more things are paid on the iPad, and most developers target Android first in my country because it has 90% market share. So YMMV. We also have Android phones. I think the user experience is good enough on both OS, and I'll probably buy Android for my next tablet (I got really frustrated by the iPad's limitations). Apple does have the everything-integrated experience if you buy only Apple (iMac, iPhone and iPad), but only affluent people can afford that, and I wouldn't want it even if I could afford it (which I can't).
I know you point out it's unfinished, but I hope you've got a good team of editors, because there are a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes. The content looks awesome though - look forward to the full thing.
We use JSP but don't much like it. The templating language of choice these days seems to be Thymeleaf.
Or just countries in which kickstarter is popular or even just available.
Come on people. This provides a way to provide an animation effect. There are many cases where animation can be used to provide feedback to help reinforce the result of an action. This could be used to provide such feedback .. there is far too much negativity on this page.
Some nice angles in the article, but now I feel obliged to defend C++ (and actually C# and F# too, but I'll let that to others as I'm sure it will turn up in the HN comments) since the author seems to make no real points to support his view of it as a monster.

First of all, it's not because x [1] and y and a bunch of others say that "a == true", you can safely use it as a fact or a way to support your view (those logical fallacies are called Bandwagon Fallacy/Appeal to Authority).

Second: I don't know where those code samples come from, but that is not exactly how you write good C++, as it is called in the paragraph. And a paragraph lower there is mention of the dreaded C/C++ - a thing that does not exist, never has, and never will. Some might say that adds to the author's points (as in, it's so hard he doesn't know how to write it properly), but you might as well say: sorry, but if you don't know how to write it properly then you do not really have the bagage needed to start criticizing it let alone calling it a monster.

[1] esecially when x is called Linus and he's in one of his rage moments where every single being that does not think alike is violently insulted and reduced to the dirt of the earth, with or without arguments making sense :]
To me it seems like floats are being converted to int and then code is working with it. I don't think this will create an issue unless the int is overflowing. Any failing testcase?
Here in Uruguay, I don't see people pirating much. I do see a lot of free apps on Android though :) , and nobody is able to pay for an app... mostly because Apple doesn't understand or care that nobody has an international credit card.
If I want to send an email to a political party I don't like, they may want me to sacrifice money to show I'm not a spammer. I don't want to send them money, so we agree to burn some instead.
Sounds like Apple is really good for some niches, but I don't see any killer apps out there (which is why Android is thriving I guess :) ).
I don't know how Matrix computations wasn't mentioned. When it comes to practical implementations of linear algebra concepts this book is your best friend.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Computations-Hopkins-Studies-Mathemati...
I remember when the papers gleefully seized on the fact that Cameron, apparently, doesn't like cats and refused to have another in 10 Downing Street. What sort of world leader hates cats after all.

Also relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tama_(cat)
Interesting. Definitely important when I get around to finishing a mosquitto (mqtt) client/server framework. For anyone that isn't familiar, mqtt is used on a massive scale for telemetry data and log shipping. This makes it great for IM (Facebook msgr uses it IIRC).
> some numbers aren't representable by floats

an infinite number of them in fact
If you permit the scripts with NoScript. It is broken when JS is disabled.

On topic, basically agree with the post and npm that requesting a new name is reasonable. Not sure there is much worth discussing.
> Sadly Apple seems to want to unify everything into iOS down the road

I'm not sure why people continue to believe this; they've shown no real signs of doing so in the past seven years.
The GPS get it wrong very often too. There is an enormous amount of magic going on behind the scene to put a car on an actual road on the map.

When I'm driving on the highway with spotty coverage, I very often hear "Turn Left in 50 m" when the magic fails and the GPS (mobile phone running TomTom in this case) now thinks I teleported on a side road.

Similarly, you could get yourself lost for hours if you follow your GPS blindly in a small European city. Actually, you would probably get into a traffic accident before that.

When I see people comment on GPS, I can only imagine that in 20 years, you will see headline like "Family had to be rescued after their autonomous car failed to exit Walmart Parking lot for 5 hours and ran out of gas. Google made no comment."
If you're a musician Garageband and Amplitube are both killer and there is now comparison on Android (one of the main things preventing me from switching to Android). It's a niche but a pretty large one. iMovie is something that isn't niche - a lot of people are going to find that very useful for putting together quick videos and photo montages to email to friends.
Nope, it's 名無し nanashi, the standard way of saying "Mr/Ms Anonymous" on Japanese forums like 2ch.
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Sorry, I should've been more clear. They are well defined and useful in a huge domain of applications, especially in those areas where an approximation is perfectly fine. For representing money, however, you need to be very, very careful and be aware of the many subtle bugs that can be introduced when using floats.

Also, that something is "well-defined" does not imply that is it not a mess. There are quite a few well-defined standards out there that clearly are a mess.
How much minimum overhead (kernel and userland) per socket is there with a single process watching as many sockets as reliable via select/epoll/kqueue? Say a setup in C for simplicity's sake. Would be an interesting experiment.
Very nice. FWIW, the table of contents links did not work for me. (Firefox's .pdf viewer under Ubuntu, if that helps.)
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How can you measure it, what value do the measurements have, what opportunities are out there?

Can you suggest me one or more good & up-to-date overviews (links, blogposts, recently published books...) that are not completely interspersed from pr lobbyists?
> i am very excited for the next 20 years since i predict we will see the end of human policing and instead have robotic law enforcement.

http://jeremiahlambert.deviantart.com/art/ED-209-June-12-Dai...
Wait, so this works with the iPhone 5, yet you have to plug in your phone to make it work? What is this, 2003? I get in my car, the radio syncs up to my WP8 phone via Bluetooth, and if I get a text message I can have the car read it to me. I can dictate the response, or choose to ignore it, or call back the person, all with my voice. It can play music from my phone, including internet radio. I can call up an address search, and the Maps app will give me voice guided turn by turn directions.

All of this on a Windows Phone device that stays in my pocket, connected to a single-DIN aftermarket stereo without a fancy LCD, in a 2000 model Toyota. Recent cars with advanced navigation head units can do much, much more than mine. I think Apple is a bit behind the curve here.
Khan does linear algebra: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra
This. I am as anti-Microsoft as the next guy, but C# is one of the few "insanely great" things they have.

edit: I'm not just blowing hot air, I've actually wrote C# code that went into production.
Android is gaining market share because of extremely low-end devices that are inexpensive. So far that hasn't been enough to convince developers to stop being iOS first, and especially not for tablets.
That's a good point as well.
This is what they met Musk about? What a let down.
If you know that there is a risk of harm -- STD or an unwanted pregnancy -- and fail to take reasonable steps to reduce that risk, I suppose that counts as "bad".

Example of unprotected sex that is probably OK: (both partners are STD-free) && (they are using a different method of birth control || they actually want a baby || it is impossible for a pregnancy to occur because they're same-sex or one of them is sterile)
They;re defending it because it makes business sense. Google wants to index everything - they don't want to be held liable for it all and have to handle thens of thousands of take down orders.
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It is quite clear by now that none of the actors ever knew what they were signing up for.

That is quite rude on the producers part however the reality is producers are bound to fuck you over if you act for long enough.

Really not cool on his part but that's a different issue.

The person didn't exert her rights because she didn't agree with the movie she did it because she got death threats.

Motivation is important.
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Yes, this guy and keerthiko are right. Good advice.
I'm trying to understand who would upvote this. It's not a "good article" or a "good blog post" - it's just a comparison of product names along with some probably-unknown-to-you person giving you advice. I can find that all day, every day on any number of crap sites. Why does this has so much as a single upvote?
"Millions of dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Hundreds of millions of dollars."

Awful paraphrasing but the upside potential of them stealing their customers' coins should not be dismissed so easily.
The article (or rather, elevator pitch) is somewhat lacking. Does it only claim "newer = better", or did I miss something?
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Good job on ignoring the main point of this pitch - that it integrates the phone with in car controls, obviating the need to use the touchscreen when on the move.
a.k.a why I love the BBC.
"They repeatedly refer to evolution's goals, but evolution has no goals."

They're speaking metaphorically.

"The above flatly contradicts your sources, who argue that their version of evolution is progressive."

Like where? Where do they specifically say that?

"While trying to engage in scientific debate, avoid this common logical error:"

I wasn't arguing from authority. I did not say "they are authorities, believe what they say". I said that, since they are respected professors, you might want to give them the benefit of the doubt. Do you really believe that there is no chance that you are wrong and that you are misunderstanding them, and if the fact that they are both respected professors has zero relevance on whether you should at least try to see whether you might have misjudged them?

"But that's wrong -- we cannot possibly know what nature has in store for us in the future"

I'm just pointing out that you are now yourself talking as if "nature" had goals and purposes, exactly the behaviour you found troubling in their writings.

As for the rest of your post, I can't say I disagree with the facts, only with your opinions. Yes, we are discussing here things like changing people's genes, and yes, that means it is eugenics. No, I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.

More importantly to Bostrom's point, it doesn't matter what we think - people will start doing things like this in the (near?) future, we'd better be prepared for it.
You ignore the fact that this is meant to be controlled by Siri and, yes, tactile knobs and switches in your car. It says it right there on the linked page. Little to no distraction needed.
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> Sometimes I wish data privacy laws were stricter

I think the laws and awareness are good enough atm, but no laws and probably no amount of knowledge or auditing will stop a data leak from indadvertedly occurring.
The author is missed the point I think. The worry most readers might have is regarding to how things have been handled by Isaac. Does it represent a shift in behavior now that npm is privately owned ?

Isaac could have handled the situation more gracefully by giving the author appropriate time to rename the project and maybe discuss with him if npm-client or another descriptive name for the project was possible.
If by "F" the author means F#, he has no idea of what he's talking about. The language is open source with an Apache license.
There is not a phone on the market that will project an interface over Bluetooth to a display in the car. What curve are they behind exactly?
Even a simple color-coding scheme would have helped.

At first, I thought the blue color represented countries with at least one backer. "Huh, North Korea? Really?" Turns out every country is blue. Was disappointed.
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I agree that certain dashboard functionality are better handled by knobs, switches, and sliders. However if you look into the webpage above, CarPlay only supports Phone, Music, Maps, and Messages, the kind of features that are better handled by touchscreen. As for Messages, it can read the text messages for you.
There's a difference between (not) being grateful and being overly disparaging.
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>The benefits on human society at large here are so significant that there is no room for caring about the feelings of greedy old white men.

So insurance, oil and car companies are filled with stodgy, greedy, old men who we are not to care about, but I guess SV is filled with cool, hip, innovative people?

Get your head out of the sand. I'll take the innovation of Ford and Toyota over Facebook and WhatsApp anyday of the week.
What kind of pricing model would you expect to see?

What pricing model would you like to see?
> MP3 players were already pretty mainstream when the iPod came around and it didn't really add much.

That's like saying that cell phones with color screens were already pretty mainstream when the iPhone came around and it didn't really add much.

I think you have forgotten just how different the iPod was.

Let's add the Mac to this party. Do you think that the Mac was just reinventing earlier standards on the market?
Progress is when languages move from the unreasonable list to the reasonable list. I was happy to see Haskell there. I don't think it would've been 5 years ago.
These stats can actually be quite useful if you ever decide to create a project on Kickstarter. For example, most of the money is granted on Wednesdays and between 10 and 15th of the month, so you can plan your funding cycle accordingly and increase marketing efforts during this period.
In europe, we don't have long freeways. I can drive from one end of my country to the other in a day, and most people don't ever do such long drives.
Good point. I agree. I recall something being proposed in the state of Oregon: students don't pay tuition up front. Instead, a fixed percentage of a student's income for a designated time period after graduation is paid to the institution. I think this would have some amusingly rapid effects on ALL colleges. You wouldn't see schools like the University of Florida which recently axed their CS program in favor of expanding their English and History programs. My university is a decent one, but efforts to help graduating students get jobs were minimal and token: job fairs? I've attended your school for year, paying tons of money, and your best effort at job placement is a fucking job fair? And let's not forget the out of touch, tenured professors teaching out-dated skills. I'm looking at you, Virginia Tech, for continuing to teach your Introduction to Computer Science class with C++, while MIT and Harvard use Python. Students leave THEIR classes having learned to build things. They leave your shit C++ class having learned to build nothing other than homework solutions that have zero applicability in the real world.
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This price differential will arbitrage itself away pretty fast if the "new and improved: now with non-disappearing deposits" MtGox is actually capable of transferring Bitcoins to a wallet outside of the exchange.
Absolutely, and people shouldn't be overly negative towards another persons work.

Decent manners towards other human beings aside, my main point is that a lot of the negative criticism we see towards released code and tools on communities like HN and Reddit would disappear if authors would explicitly state the intended use case for their work.
There are nuclear engineers, doctors, highly trained technicians, government agencies and regulatory bodies who handle cleaning up nuclear accidents. Untrained elderly people would not help at all.

Remember the tsunami killed 20,000 people that day and Fukushima never killed anyone. Might be some cancers years down the road but the idea of sacrificing the elderly to save the world from some nuclear disaster belongs in a comic book, not reality.
Then read the three links pointing above?
>>(the views in this post are a bit on the extreme side- but that's how interesting conversations get started :-)

They are. I know this is an extremely unpopular opinion on HN, but I would like to drive my own car, thank you very much. I don't mind automatic mode on long journeys on the motorway, but other than that, I want to drive myself - and I hope that automatic driving will not be forced upon us during my lifetime.
Could make all the same arguments against integers:
- Limited precision,
- Some numbers aren't representable,
- Go try adding 1 to itself over and over again.

That said, yes, floats are a bad idea for financial arithmetic.
Or, they can continue making their head units an upsell and offer a tightly integrated experience to people who want it, while also making a little extra money on the sale. They've been doing it witn nav upgrades for years.
As an example in Ruby (2.1.1):

x = 0.1 #=> 0.1
10.times { x+=0.1 } #=> 10
x #=> 1.0999999999999999
No, everything that worked before, still does (on 64-bit). A stack segment uses 8kB of virtual address space. It will only use a page (4kB) of physical memory if you don't need that much stack. The operating system will map the second page only when it faults.

If you need more stack, the point is moot because you used more physical memory before as well, it was just split into more stack segments.
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Thank god. Perhaps someone will be able to understand how to legally use Bitcoins in the UK soon (and then they can explain it to me).
I've sold some Bitcoins in the past but stopped as I have no idea how tax etc works on them (and can't find out).
>> Without being able to determine future road conditions then automatics can't guarantee being in the "right" gear for the up coming section of road. Be that due to traffic, grading, weather, banking, sharpness of corner etc.

Latest Rolls-Royce Wraith does exactly that - it uses the GPS map data to change gears in advance as it is approaching a turn in the road. I am sure that this technology will be available in ordinary cars soon enough.
Congratulations, Kickstarter.

In my opinion, Kickstarter is one of the most important tech startups of the last few years for democratising the process of project funding so significantly. It's started to change the way people do business and create things in such a fundamental way.

One of my favourite examples to give is the way in which games can now be funded. The truth of the matter is that games can cost a lot more than they used to, but for the last 15 years Publishers have had such a strong influence over which games do or do not make it to market and they know that a mass market game is going to be less risky than something like Double Fine's Broken Age. So they probably won't fund it, and I can kind of see why.

Now thanks to Kickstarter et al., a developer just has to be able to say to potential fans, "is this a game you want?!" and if they say yes, they essentially pay in advance for their game. It's so direct, it's so wonderful.

Yes, there's still an element of having to sell the idea, but at least the idea is being sold to a bunch of regular folks, who have a little bit of money as opposed to somebody in charge of a large business. The decisions are much easier to make, and the risk is much lower for the investors.

I hope crowdfunding in this way isn't just a flash in the pan. I hope we continue to see projects funded in this way for a long, long time to come. Here's to another billion, Kickstarter!
Do you really think it's mirroring the phone's display onto the car's screen? That would be pointless, as you don't want dozens of irrelevant app icons cluttering your car's display. You want the basic controls that are useful in a car, with large targets that can be hit with a glance and later with muscle memory.

If you really think they are just mirroring the display, then you didn't even look at the linked Apple page.
Your anecdote doesn't really change the statistics that Apple consistently presents at their events.
> immigrants are more likely to have a less risk-averse DNA
> less risk-averse DNA
> risk-averse DNA

You're stupid