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Surely the idea of a one-off crowd sourced mini incubator is at least a little interesting to someone who writes|plans|sells software.

Immediate reactions from me include "Should my company get on board with something like this?", "I wonder what the equity split is like", "Could there be a platform for voting up ideas to work on based on customer validation?", "Should I build that platform to bubble up ideas with a verifiable userbase?"
I think the most significant part of this announcement is how they are dogfooding, Office for 'metro' and for the windows phone are using this Universal targeting.
Check out iD Tech Camps. They're all over California, including at UC San Diego.

http://www.idtech.com/locations/california-summer-camps/la-j...
Thank you, jamilv! I will definitely get in touch when I visit Thailand :).
I'm not arguing that we should get rid of code altogether, that is an impossible task. I'm saying that we shouldn't require code for things that can be automated, and there sure are tons of parts of web development that can be.
Unless it is shoehorned into their appstore ... have they said anything about that?
"iTunes is only on Apple devices"

No; iTunes runs on Windows.

Also, you can use Apple TV with non-iTunes bought stuff[1] although it does support iTunes sourced media of course, and fewer channels than Roku et.al. I usually just use it for Netflix, streaming radio stations and podcasts, and YouTube.

[1] http://www.apple.com/appletv/whats-on/
We were talking initially about US ISP's, then you mentioned North America so I figured I'd throw in my experiences with Telus and Rogers. That wasn't an ad hominem attack. I was pointing out that you have no direct experience dealing with large US ISP's and their blocklists.

How am I supposed to substantiate my claims? What do you want as evidence? Do you want me to post email threads or something? No way.

Do you know how a looking glass works? It's pretty easy to find blocked IP's using Comcast's.
If AppleTV let me watch Amazon Prime video it would be perfect. I use Amazon Prime and Hulu+ for TV, and right now the only device I have that lets me watch both is my PS3, and its UI sucks (plus it's constantly requiring me to download updates).
Well, it hadn't really occurred to me that it could be used for localization exactly, just for building an adhoc communication channel. :)

The one problem is that batteries still haven't caught up. We need easily deployable, emergency wireless charging stations. :) And solar-based ones for those who aren't stuck under rubble.
Google Now is already pluggable through the in-app searches. Custom cards are not available though, hopefully they are coming soon.
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A cheap marketing stunt would have been to redirect Firefox users to Christian Singles.

I won't presume to second-guess OKC's motives, and I'm glad they took some sort of stand for the LGBT community, but I think they ultimately alienated their users.
>If it were just luck, the “supers” would regress to the mean: yesterday’s champs would be today’s chumps.

huh?
Sure, the hardware is faster, but for what purpose and at what cost? We're well into the a time where the capabilities of a device have much more to do with its software than its raw hardware specs.

When you root a proprietary environment, the best you can do is gain a leg-up within the ecosystem of the initial manufacturer. You're always swimming against an overall current of what the manufacturer implements, and paying a usability tax every time you use the device and things that should be easy are either a little harder, or have to be coped with on other devices.
Love Salk institute! very spiritual architecture too. I am not 12 year old but do you think i can get the tour ? :)
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I'm a bit disappointed this is getting so little response here. It's clearly trying to improve the state of the art of web app dev, and in a powerful language, to boot.

Do you really think we're going to be writing raw JS the whole time? The trajectory of computing has always been to build higher levels of abstraction, especially when the implementation technology is kludgy.
You can use Google Now in Chrome now.
As a developer, the economics of game development have got to be pretty good, actually.

Most game development companies have a multi-platform approach. Either they accomplish this with cross-platform development tools, or target iOS, Android, and XBox/Consoles separately.

Amazon has already gone through motions to making getting your Android app onto their Kindle Fire devices smoother, so I imagine getting it onto the FireTV wouldn't be much different.

So the story goes, you have a successful game that is gainin traction on multiple platforms and you want to expand your user base. Add game controller support to your android version, and now you're in every Prime customer's living room? edit: This is of course if people purchase the device, so that's the starter.
You know what stuck with me? The Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise.

See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqCoUvz_nwI
I've repurposed a Trello Board into a knowledge base where I put all the interesting info Ive found

I also have another Trello board of to-dos
This way, whenever I'm doing something where information on anything in the knowledgebase could apply, I link the card from the knowledgebase to the card for my to do.

Centralization & Context in one nice little package :).
Can anyone give me some explication of where this situation is coming from?
"good, good, yourself?"

Unless its a relative or friend and they are actually asking because of some event. Everyone else is just being polite and checking if it is an ok time to talk.
> it'll be interesting to see if they can compete with Steam Machine

Of course not. Different market - Steam Machine will be an expensive flagship hardcore gamer device, while this is firmly casual.

The better question is whether gaming on this device can compete with a VitaStation or an Ouya... or even a Wii-U.
Wine works better. For example, it has better 3D support since it can leverage the host stack. Some non-3D apps like Java run better under Wine too.
I absolutely agree with you in regards to grades. They are completely pointless; How does someone get an 'A' when they've missed over 10% of the questions on an exam? We should demand absolutely mastery in every subject, and thankfully we're starting to get the tools (in online courses) which allow us to do that.

There is one point though which I think you're not giving enough; schools like MIT and Standford are all about connections and networking. You go to an MIT or a Stanford to have a pedigree, and it opens doors and opportunities which wouldn't be there if you hadn't gone there.
I doubt the issue is simply the use of web technologies...the fact is the more powerful our computers become the more demand is placed on them.

It's probably not simply the use of web technologies, but I'm quite sure it makes a difference. There's a lot of buzz about how slow Github's Atom is compared to Sublime Text, for instance. And BBEdit -- an old Mac text editor which often gets ignored these days as an unfashionable relic -- just loaded up a 24M, 181,000-line MySQL dump and is having no perceptible speed issues either scrolling the file or letting me insert new text on its first screen, even with syntax coloring enabled. The same was also true of Vim and Emacs (despite Emacs kvetching about the file's size when it loaded it).

It's my suspicion that the age of these warhorses may help them here rather than hurt them: serious editors twenty years ago required serious optimization work. While I do most of my programming in Sublime Text, there are certain times BBEdit is just the fastest tool for the job. If I was starting a new text editor, which I wouldn't, I'd be much more concerned about editing speed than it appears the developers of the current batch are.
This is a killer feature for parents. It's why I bought my daughter a Kindle tablet instead of an iPad. Having the same sort of controls available for the TV is why I'll buy this and ditch my Google TV (which, actually, I really like).

I'm hoping that controls will span both devices, so settings that are made on the tablet will also take effect on the TV.
and apparently voiced by the same actress.
Your argument would have been very powerful if I would have said that the system is identical. Of course it changed, but is similar in structure, upward mobility, morality etc. Of course it had other ways for rewarding dissidents: by not caring about them.

Many of whom where not really integrated in the economic reality, and this time would fight a harsher world, at least in communism they had the support of those who hated communism. Many withered away in poverty, anonymity and alcohol. They tried to avert us that many of those holding power where from the same circles as the previous regime but to no avail.
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Google Now is already doing some of those, and keeps expanding. It's also available on iOS.
You forgot Amazon Prime Video, which isn't available on Chromecast, etc.
You get a lot more integration than you probably think with Google Now. It reads my e-mail to keep track of my upcoming flights and packages being delivered. It checks out my calendar and will conveniently provide directions to events on my schedule. There's not a great level of integration for the google chat and voice features yet, but it's coming I'm sure.
Thanks to the fair-minded users of Hacker News for downvoting this bullshit. When I encounter a comment like this, it's a relief to discover that the community immune system already rejected it.

When you see a comment that is truly toxic for HN, flag it by clicking "link" to go to the item page and then "flag" at the top.

Edit: Since I know some people have concerns about unpopular opinions being suppressed, perhaps I should add that it's not an unpopular opinion which is the problem here. It's the trollish content and vicious tone.
This is a really interesting idea. I work a lot with desktop tools and am thinking of making a little timer which does something similar and makes tracks which I am doing which could "Yell" at me if I am doing thing on a "ban" list. I like the simplicity of the browser page.
This thread is perfect. I'm compiling a first-world-problems encyclopedia and needed material.
BTW, every ISP in Canada uses CleanFeed.

https://www.cybertip.ca/app/en/projects-cleanfeed

Technically that's censorship. Censorship I can live with, but it is censorship on a national scale. Every other Canadian ISP maintains a block list, but hey you won't believe me unless I produce a sworn affadvit from the security personnel of each ISP.
Stitch Fix, San Francisco - CA
Keywords: H1B, Intern and Full-time doing Machine Learning and Python

Looking for some one who can help me build and scale a machine learning framework in Python. We use pandas, scipy, scikit-learn, ipython, R in our Data Science Engineering Team.

Our product has machine learning algorithms at its core, Stitch Fix is an algorithmic approach to e-commerce, a brilliant business idea that is doing very well commercially. 100% of products sold are based on ML (machine learning) recommendations.

Looking for great python hackers and ML enthusiasts. This team is also a place to be if you are an engineer and want a stepping stone into the more mathematical side of Machine Learning. We build and train models and run them, scale them, A/B test all in day's work.
shoot me an email at bhaskar@stitchfix.com (I am one of the ML engineers in this team) if this post makes you curious to learn more.

We are a young team so for this first hire remote is not possible.
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I love these article titles especially since I love getting my tech news from forbes the way I love my mechanic's baked goods. Apps have their place and the browser is not going away. If anything "The browser is dead...long live the mobile OS". I would cite reasons why I think this but I'll claim the same opinion piece rights media seems to enjoy lately.
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I wonder how practice/training would impact those results.
Sounds like it's better than I thought.

> I'm not sure I understand your argument here. Hack was designed to be seamlessly used in a mixed PHP/Hack codebase.

My argument is that if another person/organization implemented a Hack runtime it'd most likely be Hack-only, not Hack + PHP. As you can see, I don't mean in HHVM itself but in potential 3rd party implementations. So software written to run in a mixed Hack mode now, may not be supported in the future with other interpreters.

I'm still interested in trying Hack, in spite of that opinion.
Does the casual mobile gamer want their casual mobile game on a giant screen? Isn't part of the allure of mobile games that they are private, games that you play in your hand? Why would someone want these broadcast to a giant screen? Does that add any enjoyment?

To me, the Wii U was a failure in this regard. They tried to marry the "fun game in my hand" with the "fun game on the big screen" and the result was a messy, confusing experience.
Being able to get 4chan to vote on something is probably more correlated with meme creation skill than validation of a market for any product. This type of contest often measures the size of participants' networks and their ability to leverage it, not the things being voted on. Lots of them run by large brands end up being won by people like teachers who can convince their boss to ask all the students in the district to vote for their teacher because they know him/her, regardless of the idea submitted.
The gaming part won't do anything, in France each internet provider give a box exactly like this one, with TV and games. Guess what, nobody play the games. The people that play games in front of their TV are gamers that want AAA experience.
If I just got really freaking lucky with my predictions yesterday, then there's no reason to imagine I would get really freaking lucky again. Over time, my average accuracy would become the mean of the distribution.

On the other hand, if I actually _am_ good at making predictions, then I will continue to make good predictions.
Is Hack-strict, apart from type annotations, a proper subset of PHP?
I hope that as developers we're able to take advantage of this conversational style. At the moment, WP apps can hook into the rather limited "Tell Me" system that lets the user open various endpoints of an app via voice commands, and only using pre-defined parameters.

It would be awesome if the user could pass in any arbitrary data via voice commands (devs could make custom scheduler/todo list/note-taking apps that can receive data from Cortana), and even more so if voice commands could launch background tasks instead of just the entire third-party application (you could check into Foursquare without actually opening the Foursquare app and disrupting whatever you're doing).
The truth is that programmers have been trying to automate themselves since the beginning of the trade. Garbage collection, higher order functions, automated deployment tools, wordpress, they are all related. We are lazy, we don't like doing meaningless repetitive stuff that somehow nonetheless requires programming experience. As far as I can tell, lowering the cost of implementing software hasn't put a dent in the demand for programmers.
If this comes to be remotely true, it would only drive the salaries for web developers even lower.
To me the big questions is whether Amazon will release a first-party gaming peripheral for this device. If they make that kind of commitment to gaming, they'll have my attention. Even if it's a re-branded MadCatz PS3 controller, it would be an important move.

There are tons of dongles and sticks with gaming added as an afterthought. I'm interested in seeing somebody truly tackle the space Ouya promised to deliver - the low-cost Android gaming device.
It's a thread discussing an on-demand video streaming box that costs a hundred dollars and is designed to solve a first world problem.

What exactly were you expecting to read in here?
I was worried that MS would drop support for WinJS and double down on XAML. Allowing fully native builds for Windows Phone from Javascript instead of just native wrappers is great, now if only iOS and Android would follow suit.
Amazon Prime is not on Apple TV. That's why I have a Roku sitting next to my Apple TV.
OT: When I scroll down on that page in the latest Safari the title scrolls over the text [1]

[1] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/600458/Screen%20Shot%202...
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> Chromecast requires you having another device to use with it.

So does the Fire TV. The remote control is still a device you have to have in hand. And, personally, I'd take using my phone or tablet instead anyday.

It's gotten to the point that I think any device that uses its own proprietary remote control with physical buttons is a failure in UI design.
Not a bad idea, but also not in the spirit of our company or this competition. Anyone can view the ideas that are submitted, not Coshx alone. Certainly this well keep some people from submitting, but it will not keep us from helping someone launch their idea.
You're right, iTunes is on Windows as a legacy feature for the days when plugging your iPod into the computer was something you needed to do.

But let's not pretend like this means that it will becoming to Roku, Android, or the dozens of other places that you're likely to want to watch media content. Places where Amazon already is, and is expanding to more.
Windows 98 is not NT.
Agree with both of you and also wanted to add, who cares about how much memory the Chromecast has vs. the other devices?
Do you have something like a daily routine of reviewing what you bookmarked that day and how much time would you spend on that?

I tried it but spent far too much time on it...
> Who wants to casual game with an underpowered box on a giant TV screen?

Over 100 million Nintendo Wii consoles were sold. Now, we can bicker about how many of those buyers were into casual games or not, but regardless:

The market exists.
Ask HN: Freelancers – are you using a CRM/any other SaaS?
What SaaS apps do you pay for that make life as a freelancer easier?
As an additional point of clarification in the hope it helps the OP, and based on lack of clarity on this in some of the responses, "NDA" stands for "non-disclosure agreement". A "standard NDA" -- to the extent there are some generally common practices around NDA's -- specifies simply that you are receiving confidential information and that you may not disclose it to other parties.

NDA's generally also specify that you can't use any information disclosed if specified as confidential, and that promise is usually restricted to things you a) didn't already know or develop on your own [and there are various standards as to how much burden of proof there is on this] and b) are not already in the public domain in various ways.

So in a certain way, NDA's can be used to claim ownership over ideas like the one you're working, (e.g. by labelling it as confidential material covered by the NDA and thereby covering "my idea and everything related to it, which I own and you are now agreeing I own").

This would not, however, cover your work, your code, or anything you did without additionally specifying ownership and transfer of rights from you to her in those things.

If the "NDA" specifies that you are an unpaid intern, as yours seems to, this is an employment agreement or work-for-hire contract (to be clear: not a "standard NDA"). If it specifies that you are to turn over code or assign your work, or otherwise tries to retroactively include your work as her confidential material, in exchange for compensation or otherwise, it is an assignment of intellectual property or technology. If it in any way specifies equity or ownership of the company, it's something else altogether.

There are various legal principles and state laws that also could come into play here, depending where you are. (For example, if she's acting as her own lawyer, she might have created a contract that's unenforceable or voidable in various ways.)

It sounds like you're in a strong position and I stand by my earlier answer with respect to how I think you should approach it, but for god's sake don't sign any such thing without having a lawyer take a look, and all of you, please learn what these things are called and what they do.

IANAL, YMMV, etc.
Not being broke makes me pretty fucking happy. "Do what makes you happy and don't worry about money" is a platitude for the privileged and not actually life advice. "Do what you enjoy well enough to spend 40 hours a week on if someone is paying you for it" is a better goal.
A wallet with a dozen virtual currencies sounds rather hard to make a budget with.
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i like apple tv because of airplay, to me its a system killer
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This is the kind of knee jerk panic comment I expect to find in the comments section of NYT, not voted up on HN.

Why is this "really, really bad?" You talk about how bad this is with a bunch of FUD language about how this is a threat to democracy and there are a bunch of problems with this decision but you never actually explain why.

I don't necessarily approach this as the worst thing that has ever happened, and not everyone here does either, so it might help to explain something you seem to assume everyone knows.
Packaged apps can be stored on your device for offline use. They actually represent all that is good about both realms.
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Thank you! going to see it it has a handly client i can install and it takes care of syncing...
Like this: http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-53-000894-Fire-Game-Controller/...
This seems similar to Google's tablet/phone strategy taken to it's natural extreme. This makes me wonder if google will soon do something similar with the (currently separate) Chrome/Android ecosystem.
I suppose I misspoke- I wouldn't say it's discouraged, but as another comment said; it's painfully bureaucratic- it's almost too difficult for an 'average joe' developer to hop in and help patch/test their own software.

I'll share my story:
I help maintain a 3,000+ node Puppet config for a school district, running Ubuntu 12.04 on various laptops/desktops. Part of our config used XFCE's weather widget on a panel.
A few months back, the widget stopped working, as the API's url had changed. I had tracked down the issue independently, and even found that newer versions were released for 13.10+, but alas- no backport for 12.04.
I tried to investigate how to test and sponsor the package to get it backported for the LTS, but after nearly a day's worth of digging, I gave up.

Conversely, on my Arch tech station, the XFCE widget was updated many times in between, with many bugfixes and other updates.

> The reason is the risk of regression.

I can appreciate it. It makes sense that one would want the software to be as tested and stable as possible.

However, it seems a bit disingenuous to me that the developers of the various software packages are not the 'final say' in the development.
Sure, the patches might only affect a specific version of Ubuntu, but as a Developer- I would prefer to fix the issues myself.

I hope that makes sense- I'm not trying to paint Ubuntu's update method in a poor light, I just can't quite grasp the full scope of why it's done that way.