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They spent the whole day (12+ hours) viciously debating the move from svn to git, but in the end it was all a joke. That's dedication.

There was no vote, and it's not going to happen.
8 years ago, I lived in San Diego. Now, I live in South Dakota. I was doubly confused when I read this.
Aside from it being available via Amazon Instant, note that HBO Go is listed as a partner, announced as "coming soon". It is an act of remarkable honesty that Amazon put HBO Go with no checkbox, as most vendors would have put a checkbox with a superscript indicating that it was coming soon.
I am slowly becoming convinced that the next killer app is the personal assistant app. My life is sharded between contact books and voip apps and IM and email that hardly if ever talk to each other or make my life easier.

Its a huge market, but space for a lot of niches.
But not in Canada. Not surprising given that Amazon would have to negotiate redistribution rights with an almost completely different set of distributors, but annoying none the less.
That's not specifically true, especially on a team level. Some of your team members might not have to program but you do have to get the robot to do stuff well in order to advance.
That has not stopped them from making it available on the iPad... It works just fine, you just have to use the browser to buy new things.
It's Inevitable: Designers Will Rule the Web
I wouldn't knock it until you tried it. The graphics for games like Bard's Tale and many others are pretty damn good on mobile devices. We all have great mobile gaming experiences, wouldn't it be awesome if you could share that with anyone you had over on a big screen?

You may expect a "crazy immersive experience" but I would venture a guess that you are not the casual mobile gamer.
Unlike "every other election in recent history" 2012 had a candidate that openly stated that he did not care about roughly half the country. A rational voting base would not be expected to throw a lot of support behind someone taking that position, but they did.

So what I am suggesting is that throwing a shit-ton of money promoting a horrible person worked, it brought a person who said "veterans, disabled people, seniors, you know what guys, fuck you" on even standing with someone who didn't. It just didn't convince enough people.
Doesn't it go insane in the game though?

Careful, people. If the aliens invade make sure you're using your iPhone that day.
And a lot of Supreme Court decisions don't even make the news, because they are deciding small bits of law that don't affect many people. Like the other case decided today was about whether an airline could terminate someone's membership in a frequent flyer program. The law was unclear, so the SCOTUS ruled on it, but it's not something that means anything to most people.
Right. While I would be honored to be an IPython person, all I meant was that I changed the url to be the better one suggested by shoyer. Clerical staff at your service.
Amazon in theory is looking for more than just crappy games. They grabbed Double Helix and I have to assume that was part of this initiative, and they've recently released several well regarded games in Killer Instinct and Strider.
Cool. Thanks for that. Yeah that's a good thing about golang. No exceptions (levity alert)! So it's always a message you get back unless somebody hit the panic button.
I hope you spent some extra power points on that, because PR 19 is not enough here. So confused.
Ouya's other problem was the selection of games. Most of the games on the play store have controller support. You're talking candy crush, I'm thinking emulators and titles like GTA, Modern Combat, Minecraft, and many other rpg and fps titles.
> In the process I also found `git check-attr` that goes 90% of the way of the `git crypt check` idea. Eg: `git check-attr -a -- path/to/file` will output git-crypt if the file is encrypted. A `git crypt ls` that lists all the encrypted files could be useful too to give more visibility.

That's extremely useful - thanks for passing on that info!
Meet Cortana (but only in the US)
I found Chromecast OK when I was using it by myself, but sharing it is a problem. It's difficult to have two or more people crowded around a smartphone screen deciding what to watch. The big screen interface works much, much better.

Even that aside, my girlfriend doesn't want to use my phone to navigate, so she has to install Netflix on her phone too. And set up the user account there. Multiply that by every service we have (and Amazon Instant isn't on Android)... it's just clunky. Fine, but clunky. Having it all centralised on one box works better, as far as I'm concerned.
I imagine this service had a low adoption rate and is costing Canonical money at a time when Mark is putting all his eggs in the phone/pc convergence basket.
For what it's worth, OUYA's strategy was literally "let indie game developers write games for the big screen", and they successfully launched that product more than half a year ago.

OUYA has lots and lots of their own problems, but they are the most polished version of the "get indie developers on TV" idea.

Or at least, they were, until today's FireTV launch.
In a recent book (Visual C# Step-by-Step) the author keeps making a distinction about Windows 7/8 and Windows 8.1. I suppose it's because it's relevant but I have not really researched what the differences are from 8 to 8.1.

MS probably feels they are significant enough to keep calling it "Windows 8.1" as the product name. At the same time, Update 1 might be insignificant enough that it's not worth calling it "Windows 8.2".
Windows Phone 8.1 is the most massive update ever on any platforms to date
+1, our new york team is always looking for great developers at any level. bonus points if you're into FP √√√
Well, some people throw themselves off bridges, but I wouldn't criticize those who don't.
This comes with experience. As we acquire more life experience, our ability to separate the wheat from the chaff becomes more refined. For example, when I was young, I ranked articles about physics and psychology the same. Now I know the difference.

The above is an obvious example, but it's just meant to show how experience tunes our filters and makes us more efficient at separating the jewels from the trash.
> Hey, thanks for being so friendly! :)

Your sarcasm is ineffective here.

> I'm a serious dev and I'm willing to bet I've released more open source code than most people on HN and I can almost guarantee it's more widely used.

That's good to see. I bet that modesty isn't one of your stronger qualities though.

> The reason recruiters are despised so much is that there's such a low barrier to entry to our field that...

You shouldn't take this the wrong way, it is your industry that is the problem, not you...

As my post said: "fucking recruiters". This specifically targeted the industry and not you. If you feel offended though, I apologize (note, no sarcasm here).
Simple elegance of experts at work
This is the understanding I got as well.

Another concern of mine is that now you're running all calls to an API through yet another service, increasing latency on potentially frequently-called methods.

It's certainly not for all API calls.
But it doesn't even run Java 5 for Win98...
"Microsoft realizes mobile moves faster than the traditional desktop world it is used to, and asking the industry to wait for Windows 9 and Windows Phone 9 is simply not an option."

Other than being a bigger number, what radically different changes is the author expecting for Windows Phone 9? It seems like all the fundamentals are there. The changes to the OS at this point are rather incremental
Canonical provided an answer here: http://askubuntu.com/a/15295. I think the answer is interesting, and this could apply equally well to any other vendor.
> The current US Supreme Court is doing quite a lot to move the US to a "one-dollar-one-vote" business model.

Can you name one federal government body in the US that takes its job more seriously, or understands its limits and bounds more thoroughly, than the SCOTUS?

Go ahead and try to find one. The SCOTUS is not perfect, it's made mistakes in the past, but please understand that you have a nation of people looking to them to make reasonable applications of law in extremely intricate situations.

Read the SCOTUS transcripts sometime of a polarizing issue and pay particular attention to the questions that the justices who oppose your own viewpoint will raise. They're deliberate, and precise, and unyielding to sensationalism. I think you'll be surprised to find much less judicial agenda than you seem to think SCOTUS is guilty of.
Low credit limit? Credit's not that great? Incremental hardware upgrades? (60/month for a year is $720 and I can upgrade to the latest and greatest machine for the same price)
It sounds like you're misinterpreting. The way I'm reading it, by "thousands of places" they mean "thousands of machines". Which may be an exaggeration, but it should be trivially obvious that data is sharded and must be collated for display.
The Mozilla Crisis
Old photos might go unused for years at a time, until someone is getting married and needs material for a wedding slideshow video.
Well nothing in this world is guaranteed.

Anecdotal still, but both of my sisters turned down the gymnastics scholarships. They trained 36 hours a week from age 6-18 and then quit completely. One is now a nurse and the other is in vet school. Seems wasting their childhood on something they loved wasn't terribly detrimental after all.

I think that there are "intangible" benefits to athletics (not just team sports) that you're missing here.
Why the downvote? Is there anything technically wrong in my answer?

Kids these days.
Mean.io has fullstack module support
mean.io has brand new fullstack module support built in and the mean-tokens module enables lightweight content/string management for mean based apps.
Ember 1.5.0 and 1.6 Beta Released
well if this works as advertised it seems the end of cable could very near.
I'm going to be contrarian and take the other side of the argument. I love PCs.

I love that you can buy a bunch of parts and cobble something together which has a ridiculous amount of processing power. I love that you can buy a GPU which can render a mind numbing amount of quadrilaterals on the screen simultaneously. I love that there is a plethora of tools which you can quickly write programs which can do interesting and useful things.

I actually think we take PCs too much for granted. They're absolutely amazing devices.

EDIT: spelling
Let me create a form. I don't think I'll get much of an audience here, so I'll try in other noob areas.

I will link back here though.
Now I'm really confused. The title of this post was originally "So You Think You're Smarter Than A CIA Agent ", which is consistent with the title of the article. Now it's been changed to editorialize the content? Isn't that the opposite of HN policies?
I use Emacs at home and ST2 at work, and there are two things that ST2 does much, much better, both related to browsing large projects. One is scrolling - Emacs always wants to jump too many lines at a time, so it's very difficult to get lines of code exactly where you want them. The other is tree navigation - speedbar is more powerful, but you can't see multiple directories at once, which makes it hard to get a feel for the structure of the project as a whole.
Same thing I was going to ask. They say the contest rules will be published when the competition starts if I'm not mistaken.
If someone has been hell banned could users with showdead on upvote them back to life. It would cut down on the silly Hey so and so you are dead go make a new account posts.
Despite all the startup hype, majority of developers still scraping by.
Heh. If you ever really stop to think about it, Halo is a love story between a cyborg and an AI, with the backdrop being a war for survival of the species. It probably didn't start out that way, but it surely turned into that.
Yeah I just noticed. Thank goodness!
Why post this on HN ? We are mostly programmers , techies or in tech business and s/w is not difficult for us. Why not advertize/post this on Business magazines or trade publications for Dentists , Doctors , Plumbers and such ?
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How cool would a partially-intelligent virtual secretary be?

We could all focus more on the work and let VS handle the scheduling and minutiae according to our priorities.
Would there be any tax benefits though?
Update: Amazon could not confirm that HBO Go is coming to the Fire TV, only saying "we're working to get more content."
Ask HN: Why can't I delete my HN account?
I'm kind of fed up with the 16 year olds that dominate HN these days, and I'd like to delete my good advice from its pages. However, HN doesn't allow for account deactivations or deletions.

What gives?
Apple TV lets you watch all three (iTunes, Netflix, and Amazon Prime).

Airplay is a thing.
Why Node.js is the best choice for the next generation
> this finally opens the doors for indie game developers to write games for the big screen

Sony has had extensive and widely-used support for indie game development for the PlayStation platforms for quite some time.[1]

Microsoft has has had so-so support for indie developers (choice between them essentially acting as your publisher or fending for yourself in the Xbox Live Indie Games wasteland), but they're trying to fix that with ID@Xbox.[2]

Then, of course, there's Ouya, if you're in to that sort of thing.[3] It's an Android platform too.

[1]: http://us.playstation.com/develop/

[2]: http://www.xbox.com/en-us/Developers/id

[3]: https://www.ouya.tv
Amazon announces the holy grail of TV: FireTV (More powerful than your phone)
What kinds of things would you use it for?
Perhaps they would have been better served by spending their time getting HBO-Go, Starz/Encore and Spotify all hooked into their little box

Give it time. These are usually 3rd party apps not built by the provider of the platform (as a note, my company just finished building Starz/Encore/Movieplex Play for Xbox 360). The important thing is that Amazon provides an Ecosystem,it just needs some time for all the other offerings to get on there.

The SDK just opened up to all third parties today as well https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/Tx1K5ORNN...
I'm guessing threshold which would be huge if the rumors are true. It would combine a lot of the OS cores for desktop, phone, and xbox to allow developers to write once and run across Microsoft devices. http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/windows-9-features-ne...
Please don't post snarky putdowns of Hacker News on HN itself. They get low-quality upvotes, but they're profoundly uninteresting. If you have a genuine concern about Hacker News, it's not hard to express it appropriately.

Normally we recuse ourselves from intervening when people are being critical of HN or YC, but here I think the community interest is clear: Snarky comments aren't welcome here. The only difference with HN itself as a topic is the strange fascination of meta.
> Benefit for the user, yes.

I would agree with that if everyone (companies) actually did that, but they don't. Often they pick the popular platforms, or choose frameworks that allow for a single codebase and output a often subpar UX App, or just don't make the app to begin with.

Making it harder for a company to give the end user the product, even if an arguably better product, is not always a win for the user.
I was not. Thanks!

Drones, a la Facebook, might also be a solution under severely damaged infrastructure, it occurs to me now.
"This is just Apple TV for the Amazon eco-system"

Which is not an insignificant demographic. There's a whole lot of folks who actually arent invested in the Apple ecosystem, this addresses a huge market segment, regardless of whether games are included.
Here's the question I always ask when the idea vs. execution debate comes up: Can you give me one single example of someone having sold an idea for a sizeable amount of money?

I haven't heard any good answers yet.
OK damn. I totally fell for this yesterday. Mentioned it to a few colleagues... The thing is, it makes such good sense! :-)
Nope, this is not limited geographically.
ownCloud is pretty awesome. It's like a self-hosted version of Dropbox.

All open source, too. https://github.com/owncloud/
> Opposing gay marriage cannot be justified through non-religious means.

Yes it can. Someone against gay marriage may make a point that marriage is a framework for raising children and that children have the right to parents of both genders, for example. You may feel that it shouldn't be justified that way, but that doesn't mean that it cannot be justified that way by others.

> You can do whatever your religion dictates you to do, so long as it doesn't require /other/people/ to follow those dictates, or prevent other people from following their (lack of) religious dictates. This seems a reasonable compromise. I certainly can't think of a better way of peacefully resolving the conflict. Apparently neither could the writers of the US constitution.

Morality is enforced on others all the time, frequently in the US. Sometimes it's more religiously informed, other times less so. Most people are religious, and hence most people's morality is informed by their religion.

> The particular issue of the legality of gay marriage is a black and white issue, just like womens and minority suffrage were.

Gay marriage may be black and white in 2050, but it isn't now for most people - that's why they voted against it. Women's suffrage is a black and white issue now, but it certainly wasn't at the time.

They are significant changes with how we, as a society, live, and while you may not struggle with it, other people may - especially older people, that doesn't mean they should be punished.

Eich has convictions that are typical of his age and religious viewpoints. I don't agree, but I do understand and he is allowed to have those viewpoints.

Note: since this post has the HN 'controversial' flag set, I can't reply readily - this post took a few hours to be able to send, so this will be my last post in the thread.

Thanks for being pleasant, even if we disagree.
It would be a gateway console for little kids who want to play Angry Birds (which is basically all my 6 year old wants to do).
> But moreover, I can't help but be reminded of the movie Her. Where the lines between our physical reality and our digital reality start to blur

That's because it's a fallacy from the start. What happens on-line, what's digital, is as real as anything else. It's a mental dead end to think there are two separate things.
The UK has this too, in a slightly different form: If someone says "Alright?"* to you, the correct response is "Alright." Linguistically it could be either a reciprocation of the question, or an affirmative answer, it isn't well defined. It could be translated as "'sup?", which I believe in US english is responded to with a corresponding "sup." "Alright mate" is basically "Yo!" or just "Hello."

If you respond with "fine, thanks" then that would not seem out of place either. You can mumble back pretty much anything and people will be happy with it. British english is very loosely defined like that.

* it should probably be spelled "Allright" but that looks totally wrong to me, it isn't pronounced as two words at all.
"If the web is to reach its full potential, we have to empower many more people, with fewer technical boundaries. The needs and capabilities of the internet will grow faster than society can train up new computer programmers, so we have no choice but to transcend past programming to interact with this beautiful new medium."

I couldn't make my job go away if I wanted it to. You don't just say, oh, this problem is too hard, so we're going to transcend it.

I wanted to do frontend/design-ish work the last two job searches. What did I do instead? Well, I managed to actually get some in on 20% projects, and spent the remainder on image processing, field algebras, and... lots of stuff in between. Like administering an Oracle DB, hacking postgres plugins, munging data with clojure and python, fighting with SBT and the scala type system. Before you can start playing with design, you have to write the code to make it happen. And before you can even do that, you have to get the customers' data out of their database, munge it, get it replicated across your own datacenters, etc.
Do these convex/rounded remotes that this and the Roku have bother anyone else? They seem to slide off the couch easier and if I set it down on a flat surface, it rocks back and forth for several seconds.
However, unlike money, time is limited. No one person can contribute more than 24 hours in a single day.
How hackable will the android on this thing be? Will you be able to connect bluetooth-based gamepads to it?
Yeah, that's much more interesting. The wired article just repeats the overview and loses the interesting technical details. I'm not sure why it was posted instead of the original content.
Professional programmers get paid to solve problems. It just happens that many problems can be solved through google.

There's nothing to be ashamed of if you need to do a bunch of searches to get your job done. What we all should be wary of though, is to have a job so that all of our problems are solved through googling.

Where we really earn our money is when we create something that wasn't there before, solving original problems.
How is the simple inclusion of the feature the "worst aspect"? You don't have to play games on the device, of course. They didn't force the controller with the base purchase. Given that it's Android powered, I suspect they didn't have to spend much engineering effort on making it capable of playing games.

Also, don't sell mobile gaming short. There are current generation mobile chipsets capable of PS3 level graphics (especially given that many smartphones now have a resolution greater than that big television), and in this case they don't even have to live within the power bounds of a battery power deviced, opening up the high end (they claim it's a "dedicated" GPU, which is an odd phrasing in the era of SoCs).

PS3 level graphics are beyond satisfactory for a huge range of gaming genres (especially given that many of the PS3s limitations were courtesy of the 256MB/256MB memory limit).
The belt drive, intestine inner tubes, and bamboo frame are excellent ideas.

That's a good point about the bronze. I think there's still a basically unlimited amount of small deposits of rich iron ore out there (e.g. magnetite sands) and, of course, aluminum, but that's a lot harder to smelt.

I had the impression that Babbitt bearings were too inefficient to make bicycles practical, which is why the bicycle boom didn't happen until the invention of the ball bearing. But I could be mistaken about that. Certainly you could do Babbitt bearings without particularly great metallurgy. (But you need a wider variety of metals.)

I know some people here with bamboo bikes, except for the joints, of course.

Spokes could possibly be made of glass or bamboo, but I'm not sure how you'd pull them tight without being able to thread them. Maybe you could lace the wheel like a circular shoe instead.

I don't think cloth tires will wear for long enough to be useful. You'll probably need at least buna reinforced with carbon black or fumed silica.

As for the working off existing tools: maybe you could make it an iterative process, starting with Dave Gingery tools and materials and working your way down with successive bikes?

Do you think you could do a lathe with a non-metal bit? Corundum, carborundum, diamond, or maybe topaz? I've never turned anything on a lathe, so this might be a stupid question.

I think you can grind some things to precise dimensions rather than filing them, and that might require less materials technology. Knife sharpeners use a particular kind of flint for some of their work.

I definitely, definitely want to know if you end up doing some of this!