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> While there are many users, gamers in particular, who shy away from Apple's buttonless offerings

Many? I have yet to come across a single person who likes any of the Mighty Mouse models that Apple produced. They are all reviled and considered some of the worst mice that were ever created by a hardware company.

Steve Jobs was no genius, he got a few things very right and quite a few others very, very wrong.
If you have access to a 3d printer (to make the cases) you won't save much by going through massdrop. It is convenient though (says someone who has bought one from two different drops).

Another ergodoxer ordered his own parts and they weren't much more than massdrop
Seriously. At my day job we're investigating better ways to handle single sign on and authentication and every road leads back to Kerberos.
Yeah, but saying X/month is cheaper GB/month so it's a better deal is like saying buying in bulk is a better deal.

It's true... if you use it. Personally, I'm not tempted by 3 donuts for the price of 2 when I just want one.
Nothing, I just recognize "foo != bar" as a conditional better than "foo isnt bar".
I.. wow.
True but has nothing to do with what was claimed.
I have always felt one of the saddest things about our society is that we accept these very preventable deaths.

When I was a teacher, about once a year a student would die in an accident. It just seemed so unnecessary, a 17 year healthy kid dead because we can't make cars safe.

I can't imagine cars without seat belts, but most Americans didn't bother with them before Nader came along.

It's definitely a black eye on our whole society when we can't be bothered to keep a basic right of transportation safe.

Maybe driverless cars are the answer, I don't know.
I've had the opposite experience. I've started to get things faster with the new 7 days a week delivery partnership with USPS. The one downside is that USPS's tracking is terrible compared to UPS's.
Google is really good at generating buzz, and instead of rolling out a plan which would have Google installing fiber in, say, every city over a certain size or everywhere east of the Mississippi, they're saying "we'll do this city, then this one, then this one..."

If the local politicians don't play ball, then there's no Google fiber. That's where the buzz comes in - "Why is Google installing everywhere else but not here?"

It's smart politics on Google's part, particularly since they're probably not willing to sink in enough capital to do more than a few markets a year anyway.
You haven't explained why you think the decay is somehow worse in America. Only that if it was worse it would be influential.
NSA says “indiscriminate” Facebook hacking allegations “are simply false”
Our loan is a 30 year term, cause ya know when you're 35 you don't expect to die in 2 years. Getting it re-financed isn't really an available option at this point.

If you feel that your money is better spent donating to a cancer research center, then please do. But your jealousy is seriously mis-placed and you are seriously confused with regards to my motives. I'm not any more worthy of this than the next guy. That's the simple truth. And asking for help of any kind is the last thing I want to do. But I also can't just die and leave my family to suffer and fight for themselves. My human nature tells me that I should do everything I can to take care of them and to take care of those around me. I can't count the number of times I've done something for a complete stranger, like paying for their meal, just because I felt that I had been blessed that day and there was a need to pass it on.

Even as I sit here and look at what happened with this today I am torn between actually using the donations to pay off our housing and transportation debts along with my final resting place or just giving the money to someone else who needs it more than I do. It is not easy being in the position where I know what my family needs and knowing that there are others who deserve so much more.

I'm sorry that no one was there when your girlfriend died. That is truly sad and shouldn't happen to anyone. I can only hope that you find it in your heart to give something to someone and realize that when you need it most someone will be there for you.
You're kind of missing what was said. We're talking about the automobile being necessary to function in the majority of the US and Canada. If you don't have a car (whether you can't afford one, can't drive, or choose not to own one), you're going to struggle to get to work, get to the grocery store, visit people, etc. Even in densely populated areas where cycling is a better option, the infrastructure is heavily oriented towards cars, and cycling can be quite dangerous.

Yeah, it's great if you have a car. What's not great is that you need to have a car. And yet it doesn't have to be that way, as other countries have shown us.
Large cars are also safer in single-vehicle collisions, which account for 65% of traffic deaths. There is some adverse effect on occupants of other vehicles, but this is much smaller than the advantage in safety from the large vehicle.

It is definitely not true that it "just steals it from others".
>> 'Not in science. Peer review and the imprimatur of a "reputable researcher" cannot grant extra authority to a study, because there is no authority in science -- to the degree that a reliance on authority is a logical error.'

> So wait... first, peer review is not a part of science?

It's part of how science is practiced, but it is not part of science's fundamentals -- the latter honors only direct evidence -- see below.

> Second, a paper having passed peer review tells us nothing about whether it's flawed?

Well, since I never said that, I don't need to defend it. Instead, I will refer you to the motto of the Royal Society, science's oldest professional society:

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

Quote: "Nullius in verba (Latin for "on the word of no one" or "Take nobody's word for it") is the motto of the Royal Society. John Evelyn and other Royal Society fellows chose the motto soon after the founding of the Society.[1] The current Royal Society website explains the motto thus:
'It is an expression of the determination of Fellows to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment.'[2]"
> 2 days shipping is often 4 days (maybe 30% of the time or more)

I see a lot of other people making this complaint. For me, Amazon displays a guaranteed arrival date, not a guaranteed shipping duration. What's going on here?
It didn't? What were they calling a shame, then?
Just canceled auto renew and got my brother to do the same. Too many items weren't eligible for two day anyway.
The important thing here is not that you gave to someone else, but that you gave and when you need it most, I can only hope that someone will be there for you because you gave to someone else.
It's actually getting good. I'm 50/50 on that and Netflix. Netflix is more like hbo... go for the exclusives.
I work for a company that was cobbled together from a bunch of smaller companies. It's a huge pain in the ass. Different technologies, different billing systems, different corporate cultures... you'd have to get an absolute fire sale price to make that worthwhile.
This sort of malware spreading often hides itself from (a) logged in users and be (b) browser strgins that aren't Google. This can ultimately hurt your Googlerank if for no other reason than serving a different page to Googlebot than you would to outsiders. And yes, Google checks. This is why they used to have a campaign to register your mobile site with them if you were sniffing for mobile useragents.
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Are you suggesting a genius would not make mistakes?
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I for one I'm grateful I came across a speed reading book while in high school. I was reading about 150 wpm by then, after a month going through the exercises I had increased it to around 450 wpm.

Comprehension is the biggest question from skeptics and it is understandable: we are taught to read out loud so our reading speed and comprehension becomes limited to the speed of speech.

Re-learning read (and comprehend) without vocalizing the words in your mind is the hardest part. Once you get that, the sky is the limit.
> And those of us trying to make decisions in the real world must care how our decisions are likely to turn out.

Yes -- unless you're a scientist. If you're a scientist and you expect to make a contribution to the store of human knowledge, you cannot care one way or another how your experiments turn out, only that they're conducted with the maximum amount of dispassion and objectivity.

> The hypothetical people you're criticizing - who read this article and go out to find a man - aren't trying to "do science", they're trying to successfully wager ...

Yes, which is why we see so many articles like the one this thread discusses -- articles that cynically harvest human stupidity to some unworthy purpose.
We use computers all the time. For the average consumer, that mouse is pretty nice. I don't mind using mine when I'm surfing or just doing email. Editing text and doing Photoshop with the Mighty Mouse is hideous. I use a Logitech Anywhere MX - the thing will track on glass.
>"What changed his mind was that he felt that users were finally ready to embrace an interface that had contextual menus and multiple buttons that did different things," Farag explained.

That was always the thing with Jobs. You would never see a feature until he felt that you were ready for it.
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Ask HN: What have you learned in 2014 so far?
Anything at all.

Mine: You rarely need to under-estimate the time it'll take to do something. Over-estimate and deliver early, you'll earn a lot of credit from people by doing so.
Not sure if this counts. I have created a simple landing page open source project: http://rails-landing-page.herokuapp.com/

I get a lot of consulting (development + design) business when clients learn about us via this application.

I also use it set up landing pages for any Startups/SMEs are developing their MVP/Beta application with me.
I don't see it. The 2^n games are free of money and adds.
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It is fairly recent that Apple made the acceleration curves usable by default: classically Apple's cursors did not do this, and some people would seriously install Microsoft mouse drivers on their Macs specifically to get this acceleration behavior. It is highly likely that this person is talking about the situation from the last time he cared to evaluate Apple products, maybe five years ago (which frankly, I think is entirely fair for this thread's context).
> We are witnessing (again [0]) a complete lack of attempted narrative on the part of the US/UK mainstream press. There isn't the slightest reason to not give this story ample coverage -- it is anti-Putin/Russia (which, we can all agree is the current fetish in the media), and it is absolutely newsworthy -- even by their standards (they covered when the Russia Today anchors quit and spoke-out). SO WHAT GIVES? This is the dereliction of duty in "journalism." Shame. And it is greatly affecting the movement for an Uncensored and Open Internet.

It's obvious. People will start drawing parallels between Russia's actions and that of the Western governments and their press. They'd rather not have folks figure out we're just as bad as the rest of 'em.
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> Public education is administered at the county level

Admitting that as being partially true, and/or not wanting to quibble over where it isn't, it's worth pointing out that will be a fallacy should Common Core become widely adopted.

It's also worth noting that public schools have been used for indoctrination for a very long time now. You'd have been hard-pressed to find a college grad in the early thirties who believed that the government had the Constitutional authority to implement Obamacare, while you'd be hard-pressed to find one now that believed it didn't.

While much of that is attributable to the actual practice of legislation, and the past 80 years of precedent, education, particularly history, is continually being "updated" to reflect modern sentiment, and applies that to the distant past.
Hell yes.

I've been writing API code for a bunch of bitcoin-related exchanges lately, and on reflection, it seems quaint that my bank doesn't offer an API, if only to do read-only queries of transaction history and balances.

For instance, if I'm selling bitcoins on localbitcoins, and someone marks a payment sent, it'd be really nice if I could automatically verify at the bank-side, and then automatically release bitcoins to the buyer. The closest I could get to that, is if they (the bank) offered email notifications upon deposits, and I then parsed those to see if they were localbitcoins related.

So yes, I'd probably use an API, but I wouldn't expect more than read-only access for average consumer accounts.
Go, hometown! As someone who grew up in what used to be an incredibly lame and mostly uneducated city, this makes me so happy. San Antonio has come so far. A huge driver behind this is the success of Rackspace and the leadership of it's chairman and co-founder, Graham Weston.

I hope that founders of startups will consider forming their companies in SA. San Antonio has so much going for it: the hometown of one of the world's largest cloud hosting companies, fast Google Fiber coming soon, the booming Pearl district, Geekdom, low cost of living, great weather, awesome food, and so much more. I believe strongly that the future of the tech economy will happen outside of the SFBA and I feel that Google Fiber's bets point strongly to that.
Allow me to clarify my value system for you then. You'll note that the graveyard plot is the 3rd item on the list. If we are unable to fund it, I am prepared for cremation options. This is a 'bucket list', it is more like a wish list than anything else and this is why items are listed in 'priority' order. This is about providing for the financial needs of my wife and kids. Giving them a home and transportation are the most import aspects of making the process of my death easier. There are so many conversations that have to take place between two people who love each other and most of those will always remain private. Telling my wife where I want to be buried and discussing what we need to do before we even begin planning for this was just another of many difficult conversations I've had to have over the last 2 months. I have to make difficult decisions that will impact everyone around me. When you find yourself facing death, I hope that your commitment and resolution to cremation remains as it is today.
If you control both the OAuth client and server (that is, the client is always trusted and doesn't need manual authorization), you can dispense with request tokens and just issue access tokens directly, and forget about the whole authorization flow.
Sorry, I stopped reading at Oculus Rift. Have you used one? They're pretty intense on the eyes. I'm not sure if this will improve or not though. Also you'd need to look away every 20 mins or whatever is recommended so you wouldn't go crazy shortsighted. Same as screens I guess.
> Or some sort of browse mode where you just tell it when you want to make a turn.

I'm sorry, but this has got to be the most ridiculous UI idea I've ever heard suggested as an improvement.

Yes, one day soon we'll have self-driving cars. But until then, the steering wheel is damn good UI. You turn right, you go right. You turn left you go left. You turn more left you go more left. It just works.

I agree the other parts of a car UI suck as of yet. Bit the steering wheel, brake and gas pedal are examples of good design, they do whT they are supposed to and get out of the way.
Agree with this on many levels, however:

* Right now (as with many startups) we don't have the bandwidth to take out a 30 minute gap to speak with an interested customer - even if we wanted to! We just physically don't have enough people and can't hire fast enough already

* The cost of senior developers doesn't work for support or sales calls. And we don't want to have junior developers on the team this early because of the management overhead

* Talking on the phone effectively and efficiently requires a whole different skillset to technical, and it comes with experience and training

* The temptation is to outsource call handling in the early days, but from first hand experience, I know how easily these sub-par 'virtual assistants' can kill your brand as an educated customer will quickly see through the veil of BS that these sort of people put up. This one is a total no-no for tech startups. If there was a virtual assistant who specifically worked with tech startups, and had great product knowledge across the industry and could speak the language, now THAT I would pay for

* The prices and margins we're talking about don't always make sense for a sales call. How can I justify a 1 hour sales call on a $9 /mo subscription service? Forgetting all customer acquisition costs, hosting costs etc. I'd have to keep that user for 10 months just to break even on that very first phone call

I personally think the different business model of SaaS means traditional sales methods like phone calls where the customer decides the time of the call just don't work. One-to-many methods like webinars and screencasts, and pre-scheduled Skype calls for BIG leads, are the only things that make sense.

For support via phone, that's something which we CAN accommodate but as an upsell incentive. For example, on our $299+ plan, yeah sure you get a private support number, because I can justify the $90 per hour it costs for that engineer to speak with you.

Sorry to disagree on as many points as I'd agree on. However, I'd STRONGLY suggest looking into the "Tech Startup Friendly Call Answering" service with your Beta users as a possible pivot. An end-to-end solution, rather than a sexy PBX solution, would catapult the relevance of this to startups in my opinion and puts you as a market leader rather than in a market with 10+ strong competitiors
This is true. There is a belorussian website charter97.org and it lived through offline and online closures, attacks, and all sorts of filtering by using numerous techniques. They should do online training.
> * $5 hosting. RAX is a minimum of $16/mo now, for the same VM strength.

You should start with this. How are they even comparable if one is more than thrice the price of the other?
There is a bit of debate who is more likely to shut down below. I can't answer than myself but if Google did shutdown Drive it would likely be because they want out of the market and would give a long warning. If Dropbox left the market it would probably be because they can't afford to keep the doors open and may close in a hurry if this did happen.

Either way I like the competition and whichever one has better security would be my preference. But in terms of shutting down I think it's important to consider how they would shut down if they did, as much as 'if they would'.
Yes, you are right about MQSeries.
Woah! This would be so cool. So here's my tl;dr of this:

A post would include:

- Premise (a set of aximotic claims, or previous conclusions from other posts)

- A list of arguments.

The reply to this, would:

- point out which premise you disagree with

- Add new premises (which may invalidate previous arguments)

- Add new arguments based on your premises

We can also perhaps maintain a global pool of premises for that debate so when a new comer comes in, he can look at all the points raised by everyone, and taking them into account, post his or her own argument. Perhaps premises maybe remove-able from this pool if a consensus is reached that it is invalid (or perhaps when the original poster is convinced, and he or she chooses to retract it).

Did i get it right?
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It's not balanced, it is more anti-Putin than any of the "western" sources. CNN looks like a puppet comparing to Echo of Moscow hate.
Speed enforcement is a political issue these days, not a cost issue, it is quite cheap to put speed cameras everywhere and many countries do. We could eliminate speeding if we wanted to, Americans just don't want to. So what if a few more people die every year...freedom!
The same place it's always been. I can't count the number of times that I've wished I could just stay home with my kids and enjoy being with them. But I had to choose between providing for them or being with them. There was no other option.

Given my current condition, I can't return to work. I don't know what tomorrow holds. I could wake up and need to be hospitalized yet again or I could be pain free and enjoying every moment I have with my children or I could be dead. It's no longer a choice as to what I do with my life because it is no longer mine. I am living on borrowed time and for every second I can borrow I will be spending it with my children trying to prepare them for my death to make that process easier. No child should have to lose their parent at such a young age and no spouse should find themselves a widow with young children either. Anyone who thinks this is just another sob story should try living it for just the first week and tell me how it feels. Trust me, your tune will quickly change, mine did.
Denmark's defense budget is really small 3.2 % of government spending vs 18.2% for the United States. Therefore, Denmark has much more cash to spend and is a richer nation relying on US for defense.
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No.

We need more people who cannot stop thinking about their work, because of how much they love it.
Is anybody trying for score run, avoiding to make 2048? 29436 is my best so far.

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> In contrast, traffic fatalities in countries like the United Kingdom, where drivers are uniformly viewed as the greatest danger on streets, are about a third of U.S. rates.

Britain here.

This is absolutely false. We uniformly view cyclists as the greatest danger on the streets. No joke, ask around.

I would suggest the reason for our better stats is down to a) a bloody difficult driving test; b) the thing inside a lot of us that makes the nervous/apologetic stereotype actually be true also makes a lot of us quite risk averse and cautious; c) drink driving is a big no-no with very practical consequences near 100% of the time; d) education of how to cross a road starts at a very young age, the result being no jaywalking laws required and watching people cross busy, fast moving roads in cities looks like doing the same in some developing country except we're proper pro at it; e) the speedbump pandemic, an enormous pain in the arse to have them every 3 ft in residential areas but probably highly effective; f) many, many (most?) pedestrian-accessible roads predate almost all vehicles and are twisty, narrow, and generally difficult to navigate; f) motorways/dual carriageways (70mph) were designed in such a way that they are not at all accessible on foot; g) B-roads (60mph usually, narrow) join 2 interesting places through vast expanses of farmland, there's rarely a reason to be on foot near them.

Lots of reasons, none are fear.