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> Do you use your tablet while walking around outside?

Yes, absolutely.

I get that I'm an outlier, but I used to have a phone, and my experience has improved on net since I moved up a size category.

I might just be weird, but it's improved in ways that I would imagine would hold universal appeal: longer battery life, easier HCI (easier to type and swipe, easier to see nav, more readable text, better video).

The downsides are that it doesn't play nice with some phone plans, and it's kind of awkward in one hand. Not completely awkward, but probably unreasonable for a lot of smaller handed people (teens?), killing wider adoption. That's why I think six inch phablets might hit the sweet spot.
I think for Apple they like to view their hardware as part of a experience

That's exactly it. And today that experience spans what I carry in my pocket, what I use in transport, what I work with at my desk, and what I use in my living room.

The retail experience is another world apart from the competition. I have little doubt that experience will soon span what I wear and how I feel.
Since you've asked me not to share contents of private emails, I won't. But your insistence on assuming bad faith on my part and rudely rejecting any conflict resolution from my end is deplorable, and you should be ashamed of how baselessly aggressive you have been towards me. You consistently spin everything I say and respond to my attempts to be constructive by encouraging groupthink against what I'm trying to say using irrational fodder.

You've ignored all my attempts to make discussion with you constructive. You are nothing but a great big bully and you should feel shame for your behaviour.

Every time I comment about anything on HN, and every time I am personally mentioned or my work is mentioned, you dutifully pop up to do your work. It's disgusting. You have a problem with me and anyone who cares to look into this can deduce the same.

I am not threatened by technical criticism, but you simply go so above and beyond reasonable discourse thanks to your irrational, mentally unfounded conviction that everything I ever do or write is necessarily either the result of incompetence or bad faith. Between me and you, it seems you never find the room for nuance and human respect!

That's my final say regarding you. Your technical knowledge is amazing and I've learned a lot from you. But you make HN a terrible place with your personality.
I'm not prepared to defend DDG in depth, as I'm not a representative. Nor is my research area inferring PII.

But I want to point out that doing a standard ddg search gives me `https://duckduckgo.com/?q=seattle` , which is a GET command, visible across the entire network as it percolates through, unencrypted.
I don't think you want to see per capita, you want to see per driver-mile.
It is deemed unprofessional to give your notice over email. As Uhhrrr said, do it over the phone (since meeting your boss is not possible) as a matter of courtesy.

Also, you seem pretty sure about wanting to quit. In case you are not sure, a simple discussion/negotiation with your boss might be better than to just give your notice.
I want enough bandwidth to stream three HD 1080p movies at the same time (there are three people in my house) with enough left over for VOIP Phone and normal internet. I currently pay $80/month for that. ($50 for internet, 28+change for VOIP). I am willing to pay $120/month (that's frankly $4/day, not enough to really matter) for that. Can I buy it? No. Because no competition.

Why? Because utility monopoly. Why? Because lawyers and lobbyists and clueless and corrupt politicians.

Any question?
Could be a bullshit stat, however, bikes with suspension lose energy because the rider's pedaling energy is absorbed somewhat by bouncing the bike up and down on its shocks. Because a wheelchair's operator makes it go by cranking directly on the wheel, a similar loss of energy wouldn't happen. A free-rolling vehicle is going to lose energy on a bouncy surface because some of its potential energy is expended bouncing up and down, so I'd say that smoothing out the ride will help.
The problem is that, unlike Google, Facebook is screwing its users to get advertisers. When the users leave the advertisers will follow.
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There's also the issue of being laughed out of the room if they said the same thing about software.

To me the biggest threat to iOS is the web, not Android, as long as everyone continues to push Apps on their website there's not going to be any real threat.
Totally agree with the parent. I'd also love it if it took advantage of more than 25% of the width of my 30" desktop display.

And: thanks for listening to your users!
> Oh, by the way, Apple has been on and off as the top PC vendor in the world for the past 3 years...

Sure, Apple makes more desktop/laptops than any other manufacturer; but far less than the entire Windows market; they are a great hardware manufacturer and remarkably durable there, but they have a history of establishing a market and then receding in relevance as a platform even if they remain the biggest single hardware manufacturer. Microsoft's OS did that to them in the PC market, and Google's may well do it to them in the mobile space.
They can't replace Bulldozer fast enough.
What you get from disassembling a NES ROM (or, really, software for any 8-bit computer) is not much different from what went in originally, except (maybe) there were some comments.

It's very unlikely that the original assembly source exists anymore, or even that it was kept much later than the game's release. It's not until very, very recently that game companies started to think that the original source and assets for a game would have enough value to be worth the cost of archiving. Even games from the PlayStation 2 era routinely have to be rewritten from scratch with new assets when re-released on later consoles.

In my experience, most of the game source code that survived from the early years of personal computing is for games written in BASIC, which would have been distributed as source. There's a few exceptions like for Jordan Mechner's games, but that just goes hand-in-hand with his famously detailed records of his development process.
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Some are suggesting here that we ignore Fred Wilson because he sold his Apple stock in 2009. Does this mean your opinion is invalid if you've ever been wrong? I have a word for people who are never wrong - lucky.
Keep in mind that the app ecosystem from apple provided payments is on par with greek yogurt in terms of total sales.

No not yogurt, just greek yogurt.
It would be useful to see side by side benchmarking and comparisons of typical Javascript vs React.js. I've just finished reading High Performance Browser Networking, and it appears to me that most client side code is slowed down much more by the network than the language. Am I missing something here? Is Javascript really that bad on its own?
I switched to Apple products completely, because the UI and experience is _much_ better. In my opinion Google is the company whose UI really sucks. For example try Google Maps today. It is a great product but when you click on any point of interest, you will get a large popup on the left, that covers 1/3rd of the screen. You won't be able to see the map anymore. The same kind of dysfunctional UI philosophy is spread everywhere in Google products (see how the dial pad on Android vanilla UI is made smaller, and hard to use, for sake of writing more details to confuse the user). See how google contacts on an Android phone contain all contacts thrice, and mostly irrelevant because they are imported from gmail.

I know it sounds a bit one-dimensional to discuss who will be the "top tech company" with UI or user experience differences, but that is ultimately what made me pick one product line instead of the other.
That may be true where you live, it certainly isn't elsewhere. Or at very least, it isn't the only factor at play.

As a non-white, who is usually dressed smartly and frequently in a suit, in my experience, that seldom helps. I'm still stopped at almost every airport, border, or other "random" check. Whilst I won't assert that there's necessarily bigotry at work, there's certainly a selection bias. To use your example, a non-white guy dressed as a "hoodrat", amongst a majority white "hoodrat" population, will experience this.

It's inevitable, the poster above who called it a majority privilege is right on the mark.
Re Apple, I get his point about their cloud offering sucking and hence they are losing out on the biggest trend. But Apple is also hyper-focused on user-experience and design, which is a huge strength.

What I really don't get is his claim that Facebook will be one of the top 2 tech companies? Really?! Why? Because they are riding the cloud wave?!! FB, the social network itself is so ready for disruption that I believe it'll be dethroned just as easily as MySpace was. It's just a matter of someone figuring Social Network 3.0.
I think the theory is that the middle lane is only used for overtaking slower-moving cars. Perhaps the Swedes, like the Germans, practice good lane discipline and stick to the right until they need to overtake.

I think this 2+1 wouldn't work in the US because (in my experience) very few people use the lanes correctly and they just distribute themselves evenly across all lanes, regardless of speed. That strategy does, indeed, lead to bottlenecks when the number of lanes reduces.
Oh, for sure. They're doomed! Everybody knows that.
Funny you mention USB. When the iMac came out, it was roundly criticized for offering USB (then rather new) as the only connectivity, and eschewing the then-ubiquitous floppy drive. Such backwards thinking!

Heck, some of Apple's "proprietary connectors" even become the standard, such as Mini DisplayPort.
> No matter how noble the strategy, poor returns are poor returns, and your returns are your record of investing skill.

No, skill is how well you achieve your objectives. If your objectives are not limited to financial returns, then financial returns alone are not a reliable proxy for skill.
Ok. To be clear, there were video game magazines before Nintendo Power (C&VG, for eg. Also, more obscure, but Nintendo's own predecessor the Nintendo Fun Club newsletter) and they played a significant role in spreading this info. The kid with the magazine sub was king of the playground, basically.

I was just stating my experience there.
tl;dr

Sweden has 3 road deaths per 100,000 capita while Eurozone has 5.5 and USA 11. This is because Sweden build their roads with safety first (Lower speed limits, better physical seperation of pedestrians and care).

But ... Deaths per capita is a broad statistic. What about broken down by urban and non urban areas? Pedestrian v cycle v motorised deaths. In the end what is the null value for deaths per capita comparisons? Is 3/100,000 and 5.5 actually statistically significant?

As for the comments on thread that say "yet another swedes do it all better than us article" - well In my view scandanavian and Dutch politics all have a much less emotional more "strict mother" approach to many political debates - road safety is just one such. And we know better decisions about hard subjects are made with emotion safely caged.
Wish this had support for Amazon Payments and Paypal in addition to Stripe.
Great link. For those on Linux interested in a practical solution for the development and management of high-granularity behavioral whitelists against custom daemons, I would recommend seriously considering https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grsecurity instead of NSA SEL.
The private emails you're referring to include:

* Requesting the crypto challenges and receiving some of them.

* Repeatedly asking me to talk to you privately, which, as you've acknowledged here in the least charitable way possible, I refuse to do. I respond to these requests simply and directly, without insult or explanation.

That's the extent of our correspondence.

As any reader of this thread can see, you and your work weren't "mentioned" on this thread. You're the manager of a project that competes with Whisper, and you chimed in on a thread about Whisper to ding them for something. I believed that ding was unfair and explained why. You then proceeded to --- if I may be permitted an uncharitable interpretation myself --- freak the hell out.

You should have just conceded the point (it turned out later in the thread that you were wrong to have brought it up). Instead, you relentlessly personalized it. Now you're unhappy with how that went for you. Maybe this can be a learning experience.

I was fine with the meta tangent we went off on earlier today, even though it didn't have that much to do with Whisper, because it did have something to do with forward secrecy, transcript consistency, and the relationship between protocols and their implementations. This, however has nothing to do with anything. The thread shows how this meta-tangent started: with me asking a technical question about your offering, and you giving a little speech about how bad a person I am.

We should probably wrap this up now.
I could see it both ways. If you believe the federal government is violently corrupt, you wouldn't want them to have any information on anything you said to disparage them.

If you see locals as corrupt and the federales as simply lacking ways to investigate and prosecute drug kingpins, then you might want much longer periods of data retention.

Of course, if you're plagued by violence, you might not really care about telecommunications regulation, you might have more important things to worry about, like whether or not the Knights Templar are going to accidentally kill your local preacher's kidnapped daughter before the community can rally to collect the ransom:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YKL8jFB... [cache because the original story seems to be broken on WSJ]
I had the same thought living near a city. Then I remembered growing up in a rural area, and the amount of traffic the road is made for is key. Many many roads don't have enough traffic to matter, but could significantly benefit from the ability to pass slower traffic
Agreed. For example, search for 'anaconda python'. In google, the second result is very obviously the download page for anaconda. In DDG? Good luck discovering that. Just one example that popped immediately to mind.
The very first time I drove alone after getting my license, I was backing out of my parents' driveway and managed to put huge scrapes in three cars because I didn't have a strong enough understanding of how the world worked in reverse.

Because all three cars were ours, and it occurred on our property, there were no tickets, no police activity, no DMV penalties, nothing -- if my parents hadn't been strict (and thank GOD they were), I could've just kept driving.

I also cringe at the thought of that happening, because I, like a lot of 16 year olds, was really stupid.
And then they wonder why there is no official support for permission blocking... Everything breaks when you play with this.
Realistically, we're talking about customers who are paying for 10+ Mbps and were getting less than 2 Mbps.
Also interesting is Theo's follow up email on the same thread: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=139930973824927&w=2
Considering most of the world use a left to right latin script, I don't see how arabic would spread more effectively than English.
> by 2020, the biggest tech company in the world — Apple — will cease to be the most important, and won’t even be in the top three....he predicted that the top three tech companies, instead, will be Google, Facebook “and one that we’ve never heard of.

Okay, a couple of questions here:

1. Is Apple the top three most important company even right now? Don't mistaken me, I love Apple.

2. Like many doubters here, I wonder if Facebook can even be relevant in 2020. Google succeed because it does not limit itself to its original service (searching) and created tons of other cool services that a lot of people want. The question is whether Facebook can pull that off? Not yet at least.

3. If there is some company beating Google I am thinking of a company in AI with some tech breakthrough. But then the question is, would Google have enough smart people to "copy" it and make it better? I am somewhat awed at what Google can achieve at this moment. Next Google please comes up.
I'm not sure if it's actually a lane reduction, they might have also just added 1 lane to the previously existing 2 lanes.

The big benefit I see is that you're never entering the opposing traffic lane, so head-on collisions are much less likely.
The iPhone5s and iPad Air came out more than six months ago and still trounce all Android competitors in performance. How can you call that unimpressive?
I disagree, the new redesign is beautiful!!
It seems like the entire planet is headed inexorably toward a locked-down, oppressed future, both online and off.
The makefile in this example wouldn't work on Windows. lessc should be lessc.cmd
Seems like the first big company to wave cash in their face... Sold! -- what a pathetic sellout.

I, for one, will not have any device in my life which is associated with Facebook. If another big company had bought Oculus, I would feel different. I mean... Facebook has nothing to do with VR, gaming, etc. They obviously bought it in hopes of mining data one day.
One thing that would be nice to fix in the new interface:

If I use the DDG TOR hidden service, 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion, do a search and click on a search result the link goes via a DDG redirect from r.duckduckgo.com. This should be using the hidden service domain, not the duckduckgo.com domain. As it is the redirect goes over a tor exit node rather than directly via the hidden service.
Yes but most Makefiles, including the one in this article, use commands that do not work on Windows.
Thank you Seth Godin. In 2009 you inspired us to create a company.
Bee v1.7 is out (Native issue tracker for GitHub, JIRA, FogBugz)
I thought it was an early April Fool's joke.

Cisco bought Flip for $590 million in 2009. By 2011 it was toast. While visionary for a moment, it wasn't perceptive enough to the impact of the smartphone.

There is a case to be made that Oculus needs large amounts of capital to procure the manufacture of a huge volumes of headsets. Unless explicit guarantees were part of the sale, Facebook could allocate the capital to something else. They are a public company and the bottom line is their companies performance, not the success or failure of Oculus.
Deaths per road mile would be a more interesting statistic.
Elixir is not homoiconic. They used to claim that based on a very unusual definition of homoiconicity, but they have removed those claims from their materials.
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This is normal in the US for roads in mountains (going uphill) and it generally works great.
There is a wikipedia entry here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2+1_road
[1] I'm leaving highschool in june. I've heard it's much harder to make friends after high school.
Well done! Congratulations.

Funny enough, I'm nearing the end of Scott Berkun's "The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work"[1]. It is a great read. Highly recommended for a behind-the-scene view of WordPress and their company culture.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118660633?ie=UTF8&camp=178...
Start with untyped lambda calculus, augmented with numbers, and addition. That's what I did. Such a language is dead simple: you only have four kinds of expressions: numbers, additions, functions, and function calls.

Write a parser and a printer (a pretty printer would be best, but you don't have to). Use one to test the other. Then write an interpreter, who takes an expression as input, evaluates it, and spits out a number.

The whole thing should fit in a couple hundred lines, tops. The only real difficulty is to evaluate function calls. The rest is only a matter of catching runtime errors (like trying to add a number and a function). To properly implement your language, you may have to learn about closures and lexical scoping, though there are tricks to sidestep the issue.

To test your language, check out the Y and Z combinators here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinator and use the Z combinator to implement the factorial function.

The next step is to flesh out your language a bit. I suggest you augment it with "let" bindings first: it's just syntax sugar over lambdas: you change your parser, but you don't have to touch the interpreter.
I also didn't mean that as an attack, disregard was probably the wrong word to use.

I meant that since it is indeed a non-trivial piece of work and the performance characteristics in question are very complex and depend quite strongly on the Clojure state model then it's reasonable to assume your conclusions are wrong because of the mistake made at the start of your chain of reasoning.

For example: "And it is hard to imagine convenient two-way data binding being built on top of immutable data structures." makes perfect sense if you are working in javascript, but is a normal and elegant way of doing things in clojurescript (and the cursor implementation in Om makes them incredibly convenient).
As I mention in a previous comment, if you are using the TOR hidden service (3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/) the redirect goes over a TOR exit node without https. Ideally it should use the hidden service so no exit node is involved, or at the least use HTTPS.
Not so inexplicable. They don't want to deal with end-user support. Same reason WePay canned all their end-user features.
And yet telcos weren't happy with the regulated profit that unbundled DSL provided them. Either they're just lying (which I consider entirely credible) or it's not that simple. For example, if the regulated profit is less than in an unregulated scenario, "shareholder value" thinking will argue for deregulation. Also, there's no profit if the regulated cost-plus price is so high that nobody buys it (what if the cost of FTTH is over $100/month?).
That's a secure URL. HTTP requests and responses are encrypted, and nobody other than you and the server know what they contain. Nobody between you on the network can tell what URLs you're accessing over SSL.