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Today's featurephones have GPS, navigation, mail, IM, sometimes even installable apps. In 2006, we would have considered them smartphones.

If you read my original post, you will notice that I focus on the mobile broadband connection as the distinguishing feature of a smartphone. It is this feature that kept people locked into cellular contracts, raised the barriers to entry in the wireless world, ended Verizon's FiOS deployment, and ushered in the always-connected smartphone world that we live in today.

Technological realities are often more path-dependent than we like to pretend. Pay TV could be dominated by wired cable television (US), or broadcast satellite (Europe and Asia). We could've ended up in a Minitel world or an Internet world. A lot depends on business decisions and other non-tech dynamics.

In our case, it was the iPhone/AT&T combination that determined our path. That is why I used the definition that AT&T uses in exploring what it meant to live in a world without "smartphones." AT&T refuses to activate smartphones on its postpaid network without a data plan. Any phone that doesn't require a data plan is considered a featurephone.
Which is your favorite Final Fantasy game?
hmm. Good point, I didn't consider that. I'll add it to the list. :P
To me you seem to be describing some sort of ideal world.

Your vision fails to describe why information is withheld from engineers that would help them do their job. We wont even talk about why doublespeak and so often what seem to be outright lies are told to trusted members of the team.

The world you describe is some rational honest place where people are trying to build a system they understand. In an engineering project when we're doing that, you don't withhold information or surprise people, because that causes all sorts of conflicts and false starts, and robs people of the power to contribute.

That deliberate lack of communication, which steals perspective and the ability to think about your situation, is the hallmark of the division between management and workers in a growing company. And the only explanation for it is a paternalistic disrespect for the underlings who 'can't handle the truth'.
Yes of course, but it's a next step to actually use that ability. Very cool that you do :) It takes some tough developer discipline to deprive yourself from the power or the IO monad.
Well, that sucks! I've discovered so many awesome bands and great songs over the years from Last.fm's streaming service, including a lot of underground stuff I wouldn't expect a site like that to have. I always wondered how they managed to keep the doors open without a paid service. Guess they cant =/.
Most people spend quite a lot of time having "fake experiences". TV, movies, and video games are wildly popular, and consume quite a lot of people's time. As they become more immersive through VR, and provide an even better escape from reality, it's natural to expect them to become more popular, not less.
> When starting out, forgo writing directives. You need a deep knowledge of AngularJS' internals to debug directives when they misbehave. Instead, start by writing a small controller and view. You can refactor these into a directive later when it feels right.

No. Controllers should not be used for DOM manipulation. Angular directives take some learning, but they're great. It basically turns DOM node selection into a matter of Dependency Injection. I think it's an exaggeration to say that directives require "deep knowledge of AngularJS' (sic) internals".
The term "open source" was created by Eric Raymond (ESR)[1] on 8 February 1998 when Mozilla was in the process of making its source code public. This has been described in detail in the book 'Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution'[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond#Open_source

[2] http://www.catb.org/esr/open-source.html

[3] http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/raymond2.html
Regex Fractals
* The MBA entitlement is pretty easy to spot and always toxic.*

You can remove the MBA, and it generalizes just fine.

It's better to compromise on technical details (Clojure vs. Python, Git vs. Hg) than on quality of people.

I would posit that the general tenor of a technical community, the quality of people attracted to it, and the efficiency with which it accrues value and gains the right kind of mindshare is really the crux of the matter. The technology is just a fortunate byproduct of technologist lives well lived. This applies equally to companies and programming language communities.

If you have the above and bad tech, you will still get by. If you have the above and good tech, you will prosper. If you have bad people/culture and excellent tech, you will fail anyways.
Nvidia  unveils next generation Super GPUs: Faster, Smaller and More efficent
no,. the sharks do that bit.
In all of those cases, those are the private beliefs, and as long as the leadership is sound why does it matter?

The problem here is with the line "acting on his opinions". He didn't go into a church and bust-up a marriage ceremony. He didn't go drag a guy behind his truck. He didn't go and give weapons to his local skinheads to go make trouble.

He went and gave money, as is acceptable in place of a letter of support and considered an idiomatic way of voicing an opinion, to an organization doing something that many disagree with.

You are trying to make an argument for censuring people based on their participation in local government.

Much as we all hope that in a few years everyone will look back on LGBT discrimination as silly and outmoded, I hope we too will look back at this time of civic indifference and inactivity and say "Well, we now know that we get the kind of governance we work towards".
Did Facebook buy Oculus to counter Google Glass?
Consumer services never live on w/o revenue.
Here Are the Real Reasons You Should Build an App
Maybe the only thing common between Instagram and Oculus is the investor (Andreessen) and the acquirer (FB)..oh and that Mark Andreessen was a board member during both the acquisitions!
One suggestion. I would make the description on the landing page more informative about the service you offer rather than how exceptional you are. It took me a while to understand what your product was.

For instance, on the Y Combinator home page PG isn't mentioned. Instead the concept of Y Combinator is outlined.
Idris, one of the candidates to be "the next Haskell", is strict by default. It's not a mature language (+ecosystem) yet, but certainly usable and interesting. If you like exploring new cool concepts, you should have a look at it! (Plus it's very easy to learn when you know Haskell already.)

http://www.idris-lang.org/
Another breuer here. The conversations about new products are of the highest quality I have seen for a long time.

We'll have to see if Breue becomes a victim of its own success.... but for the moment it's a fantastic resource for finding new products and learning from the intelligent and constructive community.
Do you know Pandora? If you can't access the site, you could use a browser extension called "MediaHint". There's also http://rd.io/.
Simple.css – Increasing the display clarity of web content.
For what it's worth, I get bored/disappointed/disinterested with anything I do after 2 years.

Jobs, universities, projects, residence, friends, women... You name it. I can trace that pattern to basically anything I've ever done in my life, to the point that I now count on it.

And that's fine.
I'm not even a front end guy but I'm pretty sure the field they are adding the user message to should handle the style, not the user message.
Try grooveshark, they also "similar artists". It's less precise - it shows artists which are quite different (but I can imagine people listening to them both) but that may be an advantage you get a wider set of bands
I find it's very easy to imagine how the landscape could change for FB to be broke in five years; Anyone can build a better way to "social network", and anyone will. Guaranteed. The only real question is... what happens if Facebook can't buy them?

I admire what Facebook has achieved, but it's clear to me that they don't understand what their actual role is, or what people "want" from Facebook as a company if it is to survive. There is an air of mild desperations to the whole enterprise that hints at the acknowledgement of an imminent demise. This acquisition reeks of that desperation.
Little overview of WebKit’s CSS JIT Compiler
Outtakes from the AmEx Informercumentary and The Andreessen Bitcoin Circus
From the article's first paragraph:

Mitt Romney famously called Tesla Motors a “loser” company during
his run for president. He lost, of course, and Tesla is by any
measure winning. And so we see would-be presidential candidates
lining up behind the Silicon Valley carmaker as its fight against
auto dealers becomes a potential breakout issue in the 2016 election.

I would say this sums up Wired's expertise on politics. I doubt there was more than a handful of people outside the valley who cared about this statement. This statement had a net zero on the election.
Now I feel silly for having glossed over the control characters since I was a kid. Those characters are decidedly useful on a machine level, though the benefit of CSV/TSV is that it's human friendly.
"If you have a risk of arbitrary changes in APIs happening in any minor update"

Upper bounds typically restrict major version, not minor version numbers which would represent non-breaking changes.
Cool demo video, seems simplistic but useful for people that want to draft over and over. However, I would plan for a takedown notice from WoTC. I've thought a bit about Magic programs, and it seems to me you might need to have a Generic Card Game Program where someone can load datasets, and not host or provide any datasets for copyrighted games yourself. This would add some friction to the ease of use, but I'm not sure there's a better approach.
I wonder if it's better to just wait until the discovery is announced before submitting and upvoting? The speculation's fun, but, y'know. The announcement is in just a few hours.
RethinkDB 1.12: simplified map/reduce, ARM port, new caching infrastructure
And spotify, etc, etc, etc
It sounds perfectly normal to me.

Management have to be true believers in whatever management decide. If you disagree with the fundamentals of their decisions, then everything they say will sound like bullshit.

For example, I work at a company that recently decided to change to a 100% in-app-purchase business model. The first try failed, so they decided to do it even more. It seems like cowardly, copycat decision-making to me, so everything the president of the company says sounds like utter bullshit to me. It's like pointlessly rallying troops (and trying to shake out defectors!) for a battle everyone knows we're going to lose.

Also, a lot of managers are just plain bad managers. It isn't quite like hard jobs, say software development, where you could be fired for not having a clue what to do with a compiler.
Minecraft for Oculus Rift cancelled in wake of Facebook deal
I am more disappointed by the comments than the announcement itself. The first few comments seem to be blaming last.fm for 'giving up' without actually trying to understand why they made those (extremely) difficult choices.

The music publishing and licensing industry (vastly different from the actual creators, mind you) isn't as straightforward as people believe it to be. Music licenses are extremely tricky and (often) subject to the whims of the publishing labels.

There is no standard rate for a licensing specific tracks (or set of tracks) and the licenses that are available in the market are either too broad and expensive or too narrow and useless.

The entertainment industry in general is a mess - nobody knows how to handle the internet as a viable platform and nobody is willing to risk their profits to attempt and make mistakes either. They are trying to force an outdated method built for a one-way channel (needle-hour plays) on a platform that primarily believes in two-way interactivity.

In other words, they are trying to license content by syndication in a world where RSS, APIs and interactive conversations are the norm - not only is it a ridiculously laughable concept, but it goes against the very grain of the entire thing.

The whole entertainment publishing and licensing industry is in dire need of an overhaul. Unfortunately, the question everyone is too busy asking, is the question everyone should be trying to answer together: "Who will bell the cat?"
Find a company that:

1. Isn't a "startup" anymore (by Steven Blank's definition of the term).

2. That's been founded by engineers (you might a better cultural fit).

3. That still has a fairly small workforce (so that your contributions still feel significant enough for you).

4. That's profitable, and self-funded (no pressure from investors who don't understand what the business is trying to do, only understand that they need to see +10x returns)

How carefully have you been choosing your jobs? I don't think you're being too demanding. However, you are being unrealistic if you're not vetting the startups that you're applying to.

That's just two cents from a dev who's been working at startups for the past 10+ years.
Totally agree. That's the right way to do it.

MogoChat is right now a one-man project, so supporting websockets and then polling seemed tedious, especially with something like Faye or SocketIO missing in Elixir. Phoenix Framework will soon have a high level abstraction over websockets (with Faye-like features). Once that's in, I'll be able to use it.
I like way of finding breaking news. I live in Washington and have been using this to find articles related to the recent and tragic mudslide that happened here. Much easier than Google news.

I will say the dark theme isn't doing it for me though. A light, clean look would be better. Hope that feed back helps.
It would be cool to include a poison-factor in these lists, where the domain available is checked against Google or other spam-tracking sites to gauge its health.
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Have you looked into legal implications for this project? There was once a website that had a simple draft for newer sets (pre-releases), but it got DMCA noticed and shut down soon after.

EDIT: This website: http://www.magicdraftsim.com/
Have you tried getting something custom from whoever makes the padded armor? Seems likely they would be making most stuff by hand anyway (but I don't know anything about it).
America and France: united by failed military payroll system implementation
Right. If the page is public, then security isn't needed. If it's gated content then a new approach is inevitable.
Probably not, as they currently offer no OSX-backed instances.

Even if they did, Apple restricts OSX to Apple hardware. There are a few companies out there that offer this, but typically you'll pay $25-40 for a fairly anemic setup (say 1-1.5 GB). This is likely a direct product of the hardware cost, as opposed to the ability to use commodity hardware for Windows/Linux.
Why the "(sic)"? Is "AngularJS" not the preferred stylization?
I've been scrobbling for many years, and marking tracks as "loved", but never used the radio itself. I used the recommendations for new music and events, and now I use Spotify for listening music, and the last.fm app inside Spotify to discover new music. It works pretty well for me.
too bad. last.fm is a great service, and their radio was often better than the equivalent service on pandora/spotify.

guess its time to go back to grooveshark. i've heard it is fantastic lately.
Well, we are hiring! ;-)

https://zapier.com/blog/help-automate-business-zapier-jobs-a...
His example didn't even yield X.
"Romney opposed Tesla, but that was because the President supported it."

No, Romney opposed government subsidies for clean energy companies. He didn't like the government's due diligence and didn't feel it was an appropriate use of tax payer money. He said this in various speeches.

"If Obama hadn't supported Tesla, Romney would have."

Nope, say what you will about the man, but he came by his opinion from his own beliefs.
A digital (and therefore shareable) floorplan is plainly more useful in a variety of ways than one that exists only on paper
Mg (editor)
Good point! Thanks for the suggestion. I think we should work on the landing page a bit to make it more descriptive for first-time visitors.
Ha, brings me back to my Fraction Munchers days.
Basically politics and lobbying parties. (Auto Dealer Associations)
Can a brother get a redirect up in here??
anyway we can get a target="_blank" on the links for HackerNews?

Love the site and browse it daily but using it with a tablet can be a real pain without a mouse...

Just a thought.
So why exactly would I want to load up a web browser taking up hundreds of megabytes of my RAM, run the message board JS scripts, analytics, flash ads that suck up my CPU, let some advertising company track me just to view a message? I can run a responsive native gui/console app to read it like I do with my email and the experience is infinitely better.
Watching TV over WebRTC
No. Not at all. I really wish people understood what "free market" means. Just like "free software" is used by people to mean open source, free as in libre not gratis, "free market" does not mean anarchy.

A free market is one which is free from government price intervention - subsidies, price floors, price ceilings but also free of monopolies and cartels. In practice, a government may need to step in to break up a monopoly or stop an anti-competitive cartel to maintain a free market.
"I'm self-employed, and my boss is still an asshole."
Forge – mobile 3-D capture [video]
Social-Attribute Networks(SANs) Superior to PageRank?
Nice and useful list if a little simple.

However, why the heck does clicking in the index scroll the page using javascript instead of using anchor tags?
It might take some developer discipline to set things up that way initially, but the great thing about Haskell is that once you have it set up, it does not require any developer discipline. If your system runs in the Foo monad, you can only do operations that have been made available to you. This is the big problem that other languages have...you simply cannot enforce some of these guarantees.
You can actually use RDP for Linux. Most of what I do is server stuff, so this really hasn't been a concern of mine, but recently I was playing with the custom cryptocurrency mining distro, BAMT. You connect to it via RDP client (in this case, I used Microsoft's OSX client). I can't say anything about performance relative to VNC/NX, however.
Also very impressive -- just posted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7474680
Estimize launches Mergerize.com to crowdsource startup acquisitions
Thank you for this stirring description of the view from way up there, where you are.
That sounds really really pretentious. Even if I agree on the idea of a community of builders, all the description is really pretentious:

"Breuers are exceptional designers, coders, product managers, researchers, investors. We work at amazing startups and companies including Google, Apple, Adobe, Intel, Twitter, SRI. We are alumni of institutions including MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Y Combinator"

"brilliant minds", "The current acceptance rate is 8.9%", ...
I applied with an idea very similar to the OP, except I'm interested in capturing GIS coordinates and video to automatically capture engineering drawings for central offices, head ends and data centers that include racked equipment.

I haven't seen even an e-mail confirming they received my application, so I don't know whether I was rejected or never entered.
I just bought a Comodo PositiveSSL Wildcard cert from them last week. It was a little confusing, but they were quite responsive when I pointed out some bugs in the registration service. I would definitely recommend them.
so a dumb little thing that fixes that a lot:

--max-backjumps 10000

Also the latest HEAD of cabal has the freeze command which is remniscient of pip freeze.
The footer ...
MAMP Pro 3.0 Released
> the company's policy on its own was not illegal.

This logic would not fly in any other industry. I don't see why SV thinks it is exempt. You never see a "policy" like this being defended in banking or whiteshoe law firms.

Also stop calling it a policy. Policies are written down, recorded, and published. One manager having an informal meeting about an unofficial policy doesn't make it policy. The reason this lawsuit is making waves now is because the policy was never put to ink. It was never put to ink because these companies wanted as little evidence as possible. Does that sound like a good policy?
Read up on the Hill sphere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere

How much mass you need to retain rings isn't an absolute quantity. It depends on distance and size of other masses. A 250km body in Earth orbit couldn't retain its own rings because Earth's gravity would dominate the system. But a 250km body in deep space with no competition could.

Neptune can actually maintain satellites at a greater distance than Jupiter can, despite Jupiter having over 10x the mass. This is because Jupiter has closer competition from the Sun and Saturn, while Neptune has enormous amounts of space to itself.
And here's the hackpad with all the bookmarks: https://hackpad.com/Design-Resources-for-Noobs-N6b2MJ6325w
They've had a paid service for quite a while, but apparently $3/month + ads just isn't enough.
Shit, that's why I became a founder! It's a lot easier to be consistently passionate about something that's yours over time. That's especially true in jobs that don't reward you for going above and beyond, which your own startup might very well do.
How to Get Animations Out of Your Head
Sounds completely normal. You're joining ambitious companies who want to be the next billion dollar hit. But that kind of success isn't formulaic, it's extremely rare and 9/10 attempts will end up flailing around until they either make it by chance or ultimately die. The management each so dearly want the company they're part of to be a big success for their own sakes, they'll try anything and everything to make it happen when things are starting to look south. It isn't pretty.

This isn't unique to technology companies, it's human nature whenever there are high stakes in play. Don't worry about it, just get better at predicting it, and jump ship when necessary.
not sure if it's what he meant, but the correct possessive should be AngularJS's
Only in this version, the corporation behind the evil "Sixers" buys the OASIS before it ever launches corrupting the VR world to their corporate ends.

Or at least, that's what a lot of the commenters on HN, Reddit, etc. appear to believe.
Did you ever manage to get it to be accurate, though? I tried something similar but the accelerometer and gyro were nowhere near accurate enough.
When it comes right down to it, the community wants stuff like this. So I really hope they decide to let this tool stay up. We will see.
Dutch hospital gives patient new plastic skull, made by 3D printer
It doesn't solve the problem, although it does make it far less likely to run into it.

For a trivial example, try building an ASCII table using this format, with columns for numeric code, description, and actual character. You'll once again run into the whole escaping problem when you try to write out the row for character 31.
Good advice. Find a place where you work with the team rather than for a manager. They do exist.
I have had faith in Last.fm when they started, thinking they gonna change the music industry quite a bit. It seems they could not achieve that, but there is a great progress, there are so many music producers preferring the social music sites to distribute their work that sooner or later the music industry we know is going to be dead.
Not to mention that it saves a whopping 4 lines here. There aren't any CoffeeScript specific features used here, so why use it at all?
My guess is that TSV/CSV won out simply because anyone can easily type those characters from any standard keyboard on any platform.