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Wasn't there a blanket like this in the (in-)famous bedroom scene of A Clockwork Orange?

edit:

http://www.pixelarq.com/cwo/cwo-night.jpg

Sorta like it, at least.
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I know a family member who had an iPad and used it all the time. For his next tablet he got an Android tablet and he doesn't use it at all.

In my household we have two Nexus 7s and an iPad. The iPad is absolutely loaded with apps.

My children argue over who has to take the iPad, as they all prefer the Nexus 7s. The games are identical to their iPad counterparts, YouTube is, apparently, a superior experience (not surprising given Google), Netflix is largely the same, and it has search and a web browser. That encompasses all of their computing world.

Oh and it has a couple of gaming system emulators. Those aren't even possible on iOS.

It isn't just children. To many adults, a tablet is a web, email and media device. I read the news on news websites, not by using apps for each provider. I use the web browser. etc.

The long tail isn't as big of a difference as it is so often held out to be. Paper is a neat app....but I haven't touched it in probably a year. The same for Garageband -- a week of lots of use, then forgotten. I've never made a movie on a tablet. Those all faded away.

Personally I still prefer the iPad when I grab something for browsing, and given that it has the TMNGo app that isn't available for Android yet, but it just isn't that huge of a chasm.
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Zend is, indeed, infamously a mess. HipHop is supposed to be better.

https://github.com/facebook/hhvm
What does the use of 'ore' imply and what makes it rude? Is it a snobby way of referring to yourself?
Any idea how this compares to Hoffman-Kunze? I liked Hoffman-Kunze because, despite being dense, its no-nonsense and very rigorous.
Niche doesn't mean only for enthusiasts. Windows shipped a movie maker for years that no one used, I'm sure iMovie is the same.
I feel as though my head is about to explode.

What is wrong with stored procedures?
I'm sure you can do all that with bluetooth on the iPhone too.

The point here is the touchscreen appears to be an extension of the phone.
Anecdotally I can tell you that I'm not worrying about that because I haven't experienced these bugs you speak of. Maybe I'm not doing something?
Your GPS already knows where you want to go, what the road ahead looks like and often even the current traffic situation. I imagine writing some semi-smart software that hooks up that info to the automatic gearbox to give it hints about what to do wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility and no doubt a lot easier than self-driving.
I would expect to see x number of items logged for y price.

I would like to see something along this line but also being flexible.
Because they are cheaper and there more OEMs pushing them out. However, Android tablet ecosystem sucks. Simple as that.

I've had two Android tablets (Asus Transofrmer TF101 and then a Nexus 7) ... Nexus admittedly a much better experience but I use my iPad mini so much more than both of those tablets put together. Higher quality apps and better accessory/device ecosystem provide for a superior overall experience.
Is it just me, or is $250 pretty expensive for a blanket?
I'm pretty sure that's the point though - the UK has not yet begun to treat Bitcoin as a currency, but as a voucher (for which VAT would be due.)
They might very well have a "verified" column in their DB, and the scans archived or discarded.
How do you handle travelling between devices though? I find it virtually impossible to function on IRC with the gaps in between from when I'm offline, but still haven't found a workable way to keep a persistent session going across devices (work, home, mobile.)
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A bad habit of mine.
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The problem I see while this is great for consumers is IOS isn't a real-time OS. So it won't be able to manage car sensor data.

This means it'll be a hard sell to auto-makers in the US since most want only 1 computer in the car (to do infotainment AND sensor control). This is the holy grail currently in infotainment systems.

The only automaker moving in this direction currently is Ford by using blackberry's platform which is Realtime. The problem then being your downgrading from a 600MHz PPC chip to a dual core ARM. Your heat generation decreases significantly, but so does your computational muscle.

Honestly I'll be surprised if this catches on with US automakers.

Source: Close friends who could possibly lose their jobs if I give names. Or suppliers, some of the outfits who know about this are small.
Not _most_ of the money, a tiny fraction more on average, and they give no confidence intervals or measure of variability so I'd bet it's just noise (if you pick ten random numbers, one of them has to be the highest).
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Marketshare measures devices sold. So while Android has overtaken iPad in sales, there are still more total iPads in the world. Browser usage is always going to lag behind sales for years. Go look at browser marketshare charts and notice Safari on the slow decline.
Submissions like these are a nice reprieve from the usual start-up crap. I like the sprinkling of the various cultural things that spark discussion.
Everyone has their own niche though. This is what Apple suffered from in the 90s - the long tail. Whatever you wanted to do, there was a Windows application that did it.
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My stepfather is a pilot.

| but why do you think planes and other complex machinery have stuck with physical controls

They haven't. Most new planes and retrofits are moving to touchscreens. It allows the pilot to display only the important information on screen at a given time. Like the airport map, for example.
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A side note: how do you feel when you've lost your motivation? Is it common to barely be able to keep your eyes open? Or is that just me!
I realize it's hip to bash on Kickstarter, but in my experience it works out well all the time. I've backed 28 funded projects: of those only one is currently past their delivery date (the Almond+) and they've been very good about updates. Other projects have also been late, sometimes by six months, but they all get delivered.

I tend to think of Kickstarter schedules like I think of software developer schedules: double it and add 3. Planning is hard, and for a lot of the creators it there first attempt at a large project.
Are you kidding? The only reason is "cheap" Android tablets. This was always going to happen.
We're using exfoliation with no complaints. Although very few people actually interact with Nagios and they're used to enduring far worse interfaces.
EDIT:
Oops, there page actually lists $859M as the amount successfully funded!
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Your answer is in your question - disclosure of criminal acts certainly is an exception.

If the acts involved were immoral, but not criminal, then you'd have a quandary, but in this case, you may even find that not reporting their actions (depending on what they are/were) could come back to bite you.
Interesting to see how little things have changed around me (Blackheath/Greenwich) and that the sunken areas were actually gravel pits back in the day.
Wow! A point release! Can we just save "Go x.x.x is released" for major releases?
PHP...

What a farce.
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The three cars I've owned in my lifetime all had 90% physical controls, with a small little digital screen that would display something like the radio station you're on, the temp, the strength of air, treble/bass, etc, etc.

There was absolutely zero tactile feedback on all of them, as their were dedicated buttons that had to be cycled through to reach a state....and the only way you could know if you were getting to what you wanted was if you looked at the tiny little digital display.

Want preset radio station #x? Jam the preset button a few times.

Want to warm the passenger side a bit? Jam a button to select that side, then select heat, the turn it up.

That's on a Honda, a Cadillac & a Toyota spanning a decade in years....so I'm guessing you must be referring to pre-1990 vehicles that literally had dial tuners and manual button to control valves...and 5x less options for stuff that could even be adjusted?? Or did you speak too soon?
What's the advantage? I only see that it might "break" earlier because of many additional stitches, right?
My guess is any passport scans would just be any recent web uploads made by users trying to verify their accounts and thus copied off the web server filesystem, not their customer database. Once verified these documents would be moved somewhere else, one would hope.

In any case, regardless of what was found or how, it's completely inexcusable that such sensitive data isn't encrypted asymmetrically the moment they receive it.
Yup, it was F#.
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I think HN itself is meant more for people interested in technology.

I would go out on a limb and say that there are likely more workers here than founders.

Also, somewhat ironically, very few "Who is hiring" posts are from startups themselves, unless you broaden the definition of startup and consider profitable young firms in there too.
In line with the thinking in "Antifragile" by Taleb - failures of individuals in a population makes the the population as a whole stronger. The forrest fire example is also in the book - artificially "stabilizing" a system only sets it up for a bigger disruption later. Great book, with lots of interesting ideas.
That's at least the third programming language named Q:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from_K...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(equational_programming_lang...
Wow, amazing article! Thanks!
Lead is a poison; that's not news.

The issue is whether solar panels containing lead are going to be the same as solder containing lead. I'm going to go with "no, not exactly" as solder is an OTC consumable that gets thrown around during DIY, fragments dropped on the floor where pets and toddlers can chew on them, it gets heated and inhaled, etc.

Solar panels are not quite the same. No doubt lead inside the sealed unit will cause implications for safe disposal; but then lots of things have special disposal, e.g. batteries.
Or just buy a Nissan Versa today: http://www.edmunds.com/fuel-economy/five-myths-about-stick-s...

Manuals have better fuel usage then automatics is a myth for recent cars, no fancy self driving needed.
This does appear to count Samsung 5" "Tablets" but not the iPod Touch looking at the numbers.

I'd love to see this confirmed or disproved.
I got excited at first - I thought they were referring to the Q language from KDB. This reminds me quite a bit of Google's protocol buffers.
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No mention of Lua? I guess the author hasn't tried it yet, either. (I haven't, but I was curious about his opinion on the language.)
Looks like it is cashmere, so no, not really as far as I've experienced.
(Disclaimer: I don’t know anything about Japanese.)

Complicated grammar in general generally comes from historical traces: there often is a literature associated to it, nuances that express best the ambiguities of life and what you might want to hide from. Case in point: relationship statuses, and the many way to say ‘mmh friend’.

When associated to people via honorifics, these are things people care deeply about, both because they came at what seem a cost (PhDs are hard, promotions longed for, and Noblesse Oblige) and, after being repeated every time one was addressed to, became a core part of your identity. The fact that they are flattering makes it even more crucial. Think of parents who insist on being called ‘Mum’ and ‘Dad’: of course you know what their first names are, but using them can be seen as a lack of love, or respect for their authority, or consideration for the spectacular sacrifice they made. It remains hard to explain why on the spot: it just hurts, and comes off as defiant.

There is finally (and that is certainly true in Japanese high society) an attachement to class & country, a way to protect what was once precious and unique and unpregnable. That actually takes the form of genuine and sincere preference for the formal and appropriate: I would be offended if someone told ‘I love opera, it's so-o fricking cool!’ Yes, it is, and I consider the Opera to be a very buoyant and accessible art form, like Hollywood; but it still comes with a decorum that became part of my enjoyment of it.

Japanese, especially business people, are confronted to foreigners enough to understand that doesn't come naturally. Kerpeles however does more than ignore that: even in French (probably the second most culture riddled with grammatical antique quirks -- and I'd know, I am French and love those) he comes off as defiant, irrespectful, and likely to have willingly commited what some accuse him off. That’s not ignorance from his part, but open lack of respect for institutions. Those could be modernised and improve, but they still serve a purpose. Like anyone who's worked at university, I don’t call ‘doctor’ anyone with a PhD, but I still think it’s the most compelling experience someone can go through and I’d understand if, like in Italy and Germany, that remains part of everyday interactions.
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By generalist, do you mean somebody who has interests beyond a computer as well? For example, maybe you like doing carpentry work too, or you paint or play musical instruments?

I'm beginning to think that a generalist is an ideal entrepreneur. Somebody that can pick things up quickly but pick up "just enough" to make use of the skill without turning into a master.

Prioritizing is probably a good way to get things done. However, I am still trying to figure it out myself as well.
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You can make the same arguments against integers, but you'd need to be willfully blind to the context of the discussion. There are no monetary quantities that can't be represented as integers. Using a scheme that can't represent 1/3 to record numbers for which 1/3 is an illegal value doesn't present any practical or theoretical problems.
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I have a feeling being able to determine immediate near term road conditions is a 1.0 feature for self-driving vehicles?

Waze-style technology + GIS + networking with other vehicles + weather data (if you look, there is already tons of small weather monitoring stations all over major).
thoroughfares).

I mean many vehicles within the last handful of years have automatic traction control that can react faster to a real time change in road conditions than any human could ever hope too. A lot of the stuff I mentioned above is just extending that foresight out further so as to not be so jarring.
There's no way it includes 5" devices. Those are considered phones. Where are you seeing that?
http://ipocars.com/imgs/a/b/n/u/s/citroen__citron_citron_ber...

Here's an example of a car from ca. 2005 that has simple, manual controls for climate control. If the passenger is too warm, there's a separate button for opening the window :)

Some newer cars also have separate dials for heat on each side: http://static.autoexpress.co.uk/sites/autoexpressuk/files/st...
..but of course they still have pushbuttons for fan speed.
There is a larger discussion in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7293741
Just bought a 2013 Ford Taurus. My car does all of this and more. I can ask Siri any question, she will respond and its quite nice. I can command phone calls, sports scores, directions, etc. Yes the overall system is a little buggy, but I get it done.

This is really just a makeover for a problem thats already been solved. I can't help to think that some of the decisions Apple has been making lately (different colored backs on the iphones) were concepts that Jobs was totally against, and then now that he is gone those that were for it are in charge. Apple is going rotten in my opinion.
No Groovy? If you want to address which is the best JVM language, you've got to at least mention Groovy. Its advantages include being trivial to learn for the vast hordes of Java developers, while making programming a lot more fun in a Ruby-like way.

When to use it? When you want the JVM, and productivity is a bigger concern than performance.
Depends on whether I can make sense of the *nix joke on the banker’s t-shirt, or if I can tell how many months of salary his tie is worth.
Dude I up voted your comment, but seriously with the white man racecard?
Be aware that they also have a different attack surface, and are likely more notorious/interesting than you as a single person. While I agree that keeping control over your own security is a good thing, the comparison you're making is dangerously biased.
What does one use the charms bar for? I've been using win8 as my main OS for over a year and I literally don't think I've used it once. The only obvious things the charms bar does I find easier and quicker to do with keyboard shortcuts.

For the record, I despise all the Metro stuff and would cut it out if it were easy to do so.
A "data language", in this context, is a language for representing and validating data. I'm not clear on why it's called "Q", or why it calls marshalling/unmarshalling undressing/dressing. The language itself looks alright, it's dependently typed. It doesn't say anything about the speed of the existing JS/Ruby implementations.
That's like saying cheap Windows PC's didn't really compete with $2000 Macs. Cheap PCs is what helped Microsoft gain its monopoly power, and what put Apple in a niche position.

This is a strength of Android - that it can be on inexpensive devices for the billions of potential users out there.
It happens when you open up code written by others. That's when I usually see it.

In that case you would have to set your editor to display 8 spaces per tab, or 4 or whatever the code editor where the code was written was using. I don't see that being any less of a kludge than changing it to do spaces when a tab is pressed.

I have given you a reason why I prefer spaces over tabs. Your reasoning seems to be "because I can". Then start harping back to the 70's despite that part of your comment being irrelevant.

Is there an actual reason you prefer tabs over spaces, given that you can't visually tell the difference most of the time?
If J. K. Rowling had only copied other books and stories, then yes, that would have been a good description.
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It's only 'going away' in regards to new car models. There's many millions of second hand cars on the roads all over the world that could facitate an aftermarket double-DIN unit.
When you name a product, you should always say it out loud to several people so that you realize it when it sounds like "nuisance."
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But the yoke, pedals, etc are not touch screen.
I really like this. In general, a well-supported non-crappy schema language for modern data exchange formats is long overdue (e.g. JSON Schema is horribly un-human-friendly). The fact that they aim higher and allow for a much more detailed set of validations is great, IMO.

I hope that this becomes a success and gets implementations in many programming languages.
>> "Windows shipped a movie maker for years that no one used"

Because it was terrible. Also there was no easy way to share videos. Look at how many videos are uploaded to YouTube everyday. A lot of people will get value form iMovie.
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I'm from Nebraska originally, and I see a bigger market for self-driving cars in flyover country than in an area like SF Bay.

Lots of long, straight drives with far less vehicles on the road probably even make it more realistic to accomplish bc it's a less dynamic environment. I know 20+ who drive an hour both ways to work...and on the morning drive you can do it and only see a handful of cars if it's early.
I know nothing about C#, but I keep hearing announements of Groovy-like features in C#, and to me, Groovy is what Java should be (but with better performance). If C# is really like Groovy with better performance, then it should be a very nice language indeed.
Sage advice from Mr. Gates in his book "The Road Ahead":

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."

There are myriad examples of the amazing leaps our civilization makes in a decade, particularly in technology.

I really don't think my prior post is unduly optimistic, given the pace of the last decade in the auto industry, the continual convergence of the various problem spaces, and the incentives to be the first-to-market with the remaining building blocks.
The typical argument against stored procedures is they are opaque, distant from the rest of the code, and difficult to manage under source control.

I'm sure there are good refutations to each, but these are commonly cited.
Mid-2000's saw a lot of models transitioning to digital controls and standardizing of those interfaces. Since I have no specific knowledge of Toyota 4Runners, this is the best I've got. http://obdii.com/connector.html
This is kinda like comparing coke with "carbonated orange drinks". The fact that the latter outsell the former seems obvious but unimpressive, as a fairer comparison (Coke vs. Fanta / product line vs. product line rather than OS) reveals its continued market dominance.
I'm looking forward to ToiletPlay or iToilet. That beautiful day where multimedia and a beautfully simple solution for wipping my rear end, intertwine as one.
That's one of the big reasons why javascript is so horrible. It is a really nice and innovative language, but it had to be dressed up to resemble C (or Java really).
I don't know who this Jesus Apple guy is, but I don't own an iPod, iPhone, or iPad.