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FYI, as of this morning it's available at a couple Frys Electronics locations (including Sunnyvale) http://www.frys.com/product/8069024
Instee – startup
Hello all,
Me, my brother, and our friend launched a startup today name Instee. Instee is built to "start making friends on Instagram". All feedback, comments, and questions are appreciated.

http://insteeapp.com/

Some tech details:
Elastic search and Ruby on Rails are used for the API/backend.
Objective-C for the iOS app (obviously).
Digital Ocean for the hosting.
For another take on live coding in the browser:
http://gibber.mat.ucsb.edu/

Check out http://algorave.com for more info on the live coding music scene, which has really taken off in the last year.

I can't wait for someone to combine live coding with Swift Playground/Bret Victor 'revealing the system' style interfaces.
Believing in reptilian illuminati or the AH1N1 pandemia, both are delusions... one invented by internet freakos and the other invented by big pharma and mass media.
You can almost always recover data from broken HDD, you will never be able to recover from SSD failure (one exception is fried fuse).
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Well I live in New Zealand - "mana" is a Maori word that's sometimes used when referring to people - it doesn't really have a "supernatural" meaning, more one of "well earned importance and respect" - someone with great mana has the respect of their peers/community/tribe and deserve respect by others for this reason
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Did you know there are over 150 varieties of Finches? Each slightly different, maybe color difference or a larger beak or bigger wingspan. They came about by iterating on the Finches that came before.

In fact, that's how most advancements come about in nature, poetry, art, and yes, even technology. We take what came before an iterate on it.

I'm trying to think of a giant leap that came out of nowhere, but I can't.

Photos and videos are important to me. Really important. It's how I see my family 1000's of miles away or my daughter 5 miles away when I'm at work.

And just like in nature, either this iteration will thrive or die out eventually.
The NBA also has a salary cap for players:

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

A salary cap for CEOs would be an interesting experiment.
Currently all I'm seeing is a Java Basics. No other info about the other programming. Let me know when you get more content up.
What, no "Magic Carpet"? Pfftt ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Carpet_(video_game)

I was very amused when this game was released and there was 'mana everywhere', but as an Australian I guess I kind of already knew what mana was by then .. what fascinates me about this article is that it seems that we're finally looking beyond the prejudice and realizing - contemporaneously - that we lost a lot of value in life because our forefathers were racist, intolerant assholes.
So Slingshot expects you to respond to something before you can find out what you're responding to?
I agree with their comments on the Dell U2713HM, I've had one for about a year now and it's very good.
Don't forget that an iPhone has sensors other than the CCD, so it knows when the camera is being twisted / translated around. You would need some depth perception to recover the image, but lucky you, that's exactly what you get if the camera is moving.
I'm curious if you (or the grandparent poster) grew up in more outdoorsy areas during your childhood?

I grew up on a farm - 3,000 acres - we had crops (normal crops - peanuts, corn, etc. and not normal - loblolly trees). Camping and hiking were just what we did to get to the backside of the place to check on fire lanes, crops, do some hunting, etc.

Most people I know that had a more urban upbringing love the idea of being "near" nature. But having spent 20 years of my life in it, other than the occasional weekend hike, I don't want to live any where near it :)
The conflict-of-interest and self-dealing problems at the c-suite and board level are absolutely pervasive at this point.

I don't think much will change until investors finally throw in the towel on the capital gains lottery and start demanding dividends at the point of pitchforks.
I guess I'm just not convinced that an app like this, which is a late clone of an insanely popular app within the target audience, will give them enough valuable data to where they can sell ads at a higher price.

Monetizing in-app with the equivalent of stickers is a possibility, but since you can already draw on the pictures I doubt that would be very effective.
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I'm just learning about CRDTs because of this thread.

Which CRDT things did you find, did you experiment with any, which are you using and why?
Thanks for the feedback! Sounds like we need to work on our messaging a little bit so we don't come across as just another to-do or task management app.
Wow. There was actually a nice, sweet comedy about this exact scenario, called The Guru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEIEb5jPhhA
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This doesn't seem to weight the "prefer to live in urban areas" item very highly. It placed me in a town of 207.
Chlorophyll? more like borophyll...
Ah, that may explain it. I'm pretty sure no one at Facebook is testing on a 4-series these days, if performance of the main app is anything to go by.
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Well, it's inflammatory because it depicts opponents as monsters who prefer to see children suffer. That's plainly one meaning of such language, regardless of whether there's also an abstract factual interpretation. It's not as bad as if you had accused someone personally, but it's still bad. It provokes a downward spiral in the discourse. HN threads are sensitive to this.

There are places where inflammatory, provocative language does well: in the rough and tumble of political debate, for example, or battles of literary wit. The trouble is that if we have much of it here, it rides roughshod over everything else. It's a tradeoff. The values of HN are intellectual substance and personal civility, and those are fragile in a public anonymous forum, so we all should consciously protect them. This still leaves lots of room to make one's point (albeit at the cost of a certain blandness), so it shouldn't be a problem.
Good find. The background on how we got to this point is really interesting. I think it's fascinating how use cases and the functionality evolve over time.

Really puts a stake in the heart of the idea of the magical unicorn visionary product manager who automatically knows the right answer at all times. It's more trial and error than people admit.
Perhaps. But we'll never know until we try.
I imagine they make out pretty good given that everything has an Amazon referral link.
> This is solely about _me_

That's what I figured, and that's fine. I'm just a little sensitive because usually when these topics come up it comes off as "NYC is the height of great living."
The monetization strategy is to pump ads in to it.
The time argument makes zero sense. Going out to eat takes much more time than stocking and eating various zero prep foods. You don't have to cook to get complete nutrition. I often go days eating just bread, cheese/milk, OJ, and softboiled eggs, and maybe a carrot.
I've had the same experience building http://fitsmeapp.com with Om/Clojure -- great to see real, production apps being built in CLJS!
Well for one, you wouldn't know what his pic was. And two, that's going to be very very normal in this app.

I like it because it's a pic conversation app (which i enjoy, with close friends) that forces interaction. For those of us already using similar things, this sort of structures our interaction into a conversation, rather than one person simply sending pics to the other.

With that said, i can't help but feel i am the minority of users. Not just here on HN (lets be honest, most things are received poorly on HN), but all around. People have the sense of needing to send something meaningful in a picture, but i like simply idle chat, in picture form. It's neat
I believe your understanding of the contemporary definition of mana is through a Christian lens. What the Maori thought it means, and what Christian missionaries allowed contemporary culture to understand it to be, are two different things. It wouldn't have served the Christian purpose to allow for a kind of spirituality to prosper that was more willing to pander to the supernatural in life - this is supposed to be Christs' job, after all. I think the definition as you have stated it is far from what the originators of the language intended .. but who knows? Maybe we're both wrong, and its indeed a harvestable spiritual substance that can be used to make yourself more powerful in the physical world.
but what about Indian food! j/k. well, not really.
Ask HN: How did you get your app featured by Apple?
Obviously a quality app is the bare minimum but what else?

I'm curious to hear the stories of what tends to get on Apple's radar.

I've heard of a number of people unexpectedly getting featured but I'm also curious to hear any specific actions people have done that they think lead to them being featured.
If the ISP can't pipe the advertised bandwidth that's not the user's fault. The torrenter's absolutely should be allowed to fill up the pipes. As for torrenting, there's also a uTP which is supposed to help mitigate some issues at the ISP level.

That all said, if you don't agree that QoS should not be allowed at the ISP level than you don't agree with NN. It's really not complicated.
Allderdice is one of the consistently better high schools in the city, assuming your kids get into the advanced program. Personally, I'm a product of Central Catholic, but many of my friends (who went on to Ivies) came out of Allderdice.
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Probably!

Also perhaps, Winner's Curse: those who've paid the most in a competitive process are most often those who overestimated the value received.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner%27s_curse

And Tournament Theory: compensation is often based not on proportionate productivity, but rank order, which may be easier to measure, and serves as probabilistic-motivation for other workers competing for the top spot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_theory
> The emacs distribution comes with everything under the sun, plus the kitchen sink already. And I mean it literally.

No it doesn't. There is no php-mode which is nothing other than a leadership failure given that PHP it is a decade(s)-old, top-5 language.
Tim here - Thanks brokentone! Glad you like it.
We built a lot of it ourselves with some great tools. The player is video.js and we use popcorn.js to sync the transcripts, outline and player timecode. The video is transcribed and timecoded with Zencaptions and the transcoding is done via Zencoder. Let me know if you've got any other questions. Happy to help. Or better yet, shoot me an email: tim[at]heavybit.com.

Right now we're working out some kinks with V1, but we're hard at work for the next version. Suggestions welcome. :)
IANAL, and this depends on jurisdiction, but it generally requires planning plus an overt act towards the plan.

If I plan to kill my boss, saw him into pieces with a chainsaw, and put the pieces in triple-mylar garbage bags, when I go to the store to buy garbage bags I've crossed the legal threshold.

In many states, if the prosecutor can prove to the jury 1) I planned to kill my boss, saw him into pieces with a chainsaw, and put the pieces into garbage bags, and 2) bought garbage bags, I'm toast and will go away for several years. NB there is nothing wrong with just buying the garbage bags.
We really ought to insist on using more correct terms like UHD (Ultra High Definition = 3840×2160 pixels) and only referring to "true" 4K cinema (4096 × 2160 pixels) content/equipment as 4K.
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Related: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/business/media/buffeted-by...
Max now have gen[1] so you can write audio/sample rate code.

[1]: http://cycling74.com/products/gen/
I'm wondering the same. Coming from the UK, home delivery for groceries is old news. Is it the geographical size of the US that's making this a harder problem over here (US)?
WTF? It's none of the ISPs business what I use their network for. If they don't like me using all the bandwidth up, they should either charge more or instill data caps.
In this case it seems to be a brand equity issue. I gather that starting with Wilson, the label Progressive---that I'll note not exactly Leftist Teddy Roosevelt self-identified as---accumulated damage, and by the time I was politically aware, circa 1970, it had for quite some time been replaced by Liberal.

By 1988 George H. W. Bush was successfully using the word to attack Michael S. Dukakis (although Bush was rather liberal, as the word was used then, e.g. anti-gun, but Dukakis was outright radical, so it worked), and now it's back to Progressive. Or is it Forward! to it ^_^?
"I got an offer the other day for 120k in SF. I did the math, and said no. I'd be better off taking a job for 85k in Austin."

I'm a developer in St. Louis who thinks about this sort of thing all the time. Look, I like San Francisco. I'm there a few times a year and it's great. But is it $60k/year more in cost-of-living better than Kansas City or Austin or Pittsburgh? What if the difference in salary is only half that? I don't know, but I don't think it's obvious.
Interesting article about message threading:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html
So don't work for Facebook. Build something that matters, or work for someone who is. Simple as that.
I eagerly await a comment from someone who builds one of these, and discovers that their house has much more radon than is safe.
That sounds like a fundamental disagreement about how much video-wrapped audio streaming is worth (with Google saying enough people will pay to avoid the extra overhead/complexity and the labels thinking that people will walk many miles to save a few bucks). That sounds like a plausible place for negotiations to break down.

I suspect Google is right today (at least for the many people who care about mobile music, since the data and/or storage costs would be prohibitive now), but I can also see how a label might not want to set too generous a precedent for tomorrow (on the assumption that bandwidth and storage might become abundant enough sooner than they're comfortable with).
But whereas the NBA can enforce a salary cap for its players, who would enforce the salary cap for CEOs?
The question is how could that movement be a result of impending M&A activity without insider information?
I like it! It is cool to see not just the demo projects, but people actually making something with it :)
2160p just doesn't roll off the tongue! People will get used to it - they've managed to deal with the nebulous ideas of "SD" and "HD" and "Full HD," which I would guess are fairly well used if not the dominant terms.

I'm more worried that there's going to be a 4K/"full 4K" thing because of the aspect ratios!

But mainly I'm just pumped to have a 4K monitor. As soon as they're as good as the mid-range Dell Ultrasharps in terms of color and options I'll be making the switch.
No, Chrome, Debian testing.
Is the problem with Chrome or the OS and font selection? I think everything renders on my Win 7 + FX 30 setup I'm using now. Generally, I have the best success with Win 8 + IE 11.
Making music with code seems pretty neat, perhaps I'll learn to play an instrument after all some day (that being the instrument of code)!
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It's $2,200/month total + utilities (internet + electric). They looked a lot before finding it. It's a fourth floor walkup with no laundry in the building.
Also, defensive gun use rates are extremely sensitive to the rate of concealed carry permits, which are largely independent of the rate of criminal acts. Comparing the DGU/crime numbers is apples and oranges. In fact one can argue that at some larger rate of gun carrying, criminal acts would dramatically be reduced by DGU.
It's located in SF.
I notice that you have to sign up with your phone number. Could this be a clever way to link phones with Facebook accounts that do not have a phone number ?
That sounds like speculation. Again, I wonder if any actual measurements were done by anybody, ever.
...though you’d be foolish to buy a 24-inch 4K display, we can
only hope that Intel and Samsung’s ambitions can push down
prices on larger displays.

Unless you're a Mac user, in which case you'd be foolish to buy anything else.

Reposting from my comment last year:

At 28", a 3840 x 2160 panel has a PPI of 157, which sits right between Retina and non-Retina densities. This means that on a Mac, you’ll have to use it one of two ways: Either at 1x, where the higher PPI means everything will be much smaller than it is on a normal monitor, or at 2x, where the lower PPI means everything will be much bigger than normal.

...

The best 4K monitor for Macs will be a 24”, which will have a PPI of 184, just about right for something sitting a bit further back from the viewer than a 220 PPI Retina Macbook Pro display.
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I can't give an unqualified yes, but Switchboard is similar to zeromq in that it fans out events [new emails] to subscribed processes [workers].

We actually thought about using zeromq, but went with a simpler solution for now, i.e. using websockets.
With g-sync and similar we will probably see smooth gameplay at lower refresh rates, meaning 4k gaming can be a little closer than it would be if we wanted 4k @ 60Hz.

The real elephant in the room is the poor scaling of applications, on my 4k laptop screen on windows 8.1 I tried making it work for a few weeks using windows' scaling settings, but caved and just set it to 1/4 resolution and haven't looked back. On a small screen the benefit of more pixels just doesn't outweigh the downside of many apps being unusable.
Yeah I think that change is going to be another fun one to implement.
The standard format for a scientific paper includes a discussion section, where you're supposed to draw such conclusions and interpret the results and their significance.
Thanks, that makes some sense. Would be interesting to get the full story.
If you're going to spend the extra money for an SSD, your valuable fast-changing data is exactly what you should put on the SSD. Buying an SSD and then not taking advantage of it is totally irrational.
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The DMCA makes different provisions for content that the hosting party knows is unlicensed. Since they are working on some sort of contract with them, they know what content is licensed and are therefore responsible for it.
As a hacker who enjoy fitness and lifting weights, the message "'meat head' free" tainted my impression of this site, as if my way of working out was bad. I happen to be someone who doesn't want "muscles on muscles on muscles" but I am also someone who works at a desk 8 hours a day and wants to stay healthy, and trust me, even lifting heavy weights 3 times a week does not turn you into some freak of nature.

That said, I'm really not even sure what the value add is here for bodyweight videos: they've been done so many times over, and with the recent popularity of the 7 minute workout[1] I just don't see what you're trying to bring to the table that is specifically "for hackers" other than the marketing appeal.

My suggestion would be to offer something that appeals uniquely to your hacker audience that isn't found elsewhere. Off of the top of my head, hackers are "lazy" (in that we aim to optimize and remove redundancy) and are convinced by science, so if you can prove that your videos are shown to be efficient, effortless (meaning everything but the workout is taken care of for you), and that it delivers marketable results, then I think you might have something.

[1] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-mi...
Also called the "toothbrush rule". Larry wouldn't allow a product that you didn't use twice a day to be developed at Google.
In Java, to clean up the brackets (exposed via APIs) I'll do something like:

class NodeList extends List<Node> { ... }
Sure, I see there vague alarmist statements of what COULD be. With honest appraisals of the risks like "the full extent and consequences is hard to quantify" and "In theory, ingested POPs could remain on the surface of ingested microplastics and could be egested" but no numbers or attempt at measurement.

I just mean to suggest that the alarm is premature.
I already live in the zip code it said I should ideally reside in. And #3 was my previous zip code. Hm.
you can do that all at home too
What, are you two years old? I understood him perfectly. Why even make a comment like that anyway?
That's how SMART attributes work. 100 means AOK and 0 means failed. The normalized number is reported by the drive, calculated by a formula based off the raw values and MTBF data determined by the manufacturer.
I think you haven't worked on games. 99% of the fields in game objects are the defaults, with some minor customization (e.g. position).
I don't mind playing games in a lower resolution and letting it scale up to the monitor's res - I consider the stretching to 4K a form of "natural" (if sloppy) anti-aliasing.
It's at least unethical and probably forbidden. Furthermore I believe it is a breach of fiduciary duty. Maybe these friends tell their friends and this leads to the deal being canceled.
I want the next "Will It Blend?" to actually answer the stated question — "can this iPhone be used to make a smoothie?" — rather than "can it be blendED?".

Seems like strapping an iPhone to an angle grinder is getting close to answering the stated question...
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I hope this is satire. "It might royally fuck up the environment, but I've been so manipulated by marketing, that if I don't rub microscopic plastic on my body, I just feel so... unclean... guys, guys? Where are you going?"

The 'sterilized' sand bit at the end was a nice touch too, alluding to the dominant scorched earth policy we have in regards to shaping the environment in ways we (mistakenly, deludedly) think will be most conducive to our well-being.
I meant to suggest that plastic particles in the environment fill a similar niche to sand particles, as far as being indigestible and already being dealt with by marine life.
The point is that it will never happen that all codepoints are available everywhere (every font, evers OS, every device), and i certainly don't want a gazillion of pictures loaded on my smartphones little memory, just because some people think it necessary to have a symbol for poop in fonts which is never used anyway. I even consider it a total waste in my laptops 16GB of memory, to be honest. It's not a waste when it serves the real purpose of a language. A chinese word for poop? Sure. A picture of actual poop? No.
And where does it stop? Can i have some dog poop and cat poop codepoints please? I'm sure elephant poop looks very different to cat poop, i want a code point for that too.

I say it again: If you want pictures and cliparts, use .png. If you want to write actual text, use fonts. It's as simple as that.
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I highly doubt that's true. They'd be missing 50% of the iPhone market if so.
Well observations of public information that are not widely disseminated or are hard to interpret. For example

1) Change in behavior of insiders because of regulations which leaks information, e.g. sudden silence on a certain subject

2) Observed activity of key persons, e.g. the CEO of a company being spotted with other CEO's

Mosaic theory[1] allows such things under the right circumstances and this would influence price.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_theory_%28investments%29