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It was a room full of Stanford students, many of which had zero context of who he was or what his reputation was. They were there to learn from successful VCs/Founders/etc and every student I spoke with generally agreed he was smug, off putting and dismissive not only to the students but also the other panel members.

Given it's consistent with the public's perception of how Snapchat operates, I'm simply reinforcing the parent comments sentiment.
go to this link https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/Getting-Started-with-A...

scroll down.

It says clearly: Apple does not charge users, merchants or developers to use Apple Pay for payments. Your credit and debit transactions will continue to be handled by the payment networks.
If it's so great, why does it live on Sourceforge? Every time I see a link there I die a little inside.
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We downvote the continuation of the German family.
Oddly, the "official" messaging system baked into WinPHone 7 was actually Facebook messages. It didn't switch-over between FB and SMS messages silently, but it did intertwingle the messaging thread between the two platforms and there was a toggle to select which you were using to contact them.

Dunno what they do in WP8.
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I've spoken to several reps and they say yes.

This is mainly because they get inundated with email. Letters and snail mail? Not so much. You actually have a captive audience to a degree when you send a letter.
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This is a good strategy. However, it does seem to raise a new question - why is this more common in IT than other fields (which may beg the question, is it in fact more common in IT than other fields)?

Lawyers and Physicians, Dentists, Nurses, and Dental Hygienists, they all do have to stay current - in fact, I believe that they are legally required to stay current. Now, HN is a tech board, so we don't hear from nearly as many Dental Hygienists here, but I'm going to operate on the assumption that DH's, at age 41, don't encounter the same issues of obsolescence as software developers do.

I think that a big part of this may be something Michael O Church described as "dimensionality" (in an essay on the relative scarcity of women in programming).

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/dimensionalit...

The dimensionality may be a factor here… just as the path to becoming a programmer is much more vague and subjective than in many other fields, so is the path to remaining relevant as a programmer. It's not that it's strictly harder, it's that it's much more ambiguous.
The app store has free apps too, it could be said the paid apps are subsidizing the free ones.
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> “If you look closely at the numbers, what you see is the higher the gender equality, the higher the birthrate,”

I think that's exactly backwards. Afghanistan has the highest birthrate. The less gender equality, the higher the birthrate. You get astronomical birthrates in the Hasidim and Islamic parts of Africa where women hold a subservient place to their husbands and have a constrained gender role. The Nazis had some success raising the birthrate by promoting and elevating stay-at-home motherhood, not by promoting equality.

I think there's a strong case to be made that banning women from colleges and professions would dramatically raise the birthrate. I'm not advocating this, I'm just saying it's what the data suggests. The more professional status is available to women the less they reproduce. This is very clear all over the world across cultures.
What's a Ferengi?

Edit: Nevermind. I Googled it. Star Trek alien.
I don't need some specialized headphones or anything, just plain old headphones that are nice and loud, and let me hear music...

Then a pair of $25 Sennheiser HD 200 series headphones. Cheap, great sound, fairly decent at isolating noise. Why spend $200 if you don't have to?

Alternatively, look at noise cancelling headphones like the Bose series, but try before you buy, some people cannot stand the "pressurized" head feeling of noise cancellation.
On OSX, Chrome incognito mode is way more obvious since the top of the window is a dark shade of blue/grey.
Smartwatches are unpopular because they suck. Nobody wants to carry and charge an extra device, that adds very little to their life. The Apple Watch will live or die based upon its perceived utility, not based upon its design.
I knew Ruby pretty well before trying Erlang and used Erlang before trying Elixir -- I still find Erlang easier to write in that Elixir.

Elixir is more visually similar to Ruby, sure, buts its substantively not very similar, so the visual similarity is, if anything, a detriment, IMO.
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Yeah. Go is good for multi-core, but does not provide anything in terms of multi-node distribution. Even Rob Pike admitted (at GopherCon this year) the language would need some fundamental changes to support that.
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Yeah, and for those of us that are grandfathered into unlimited data, we'd lose our unlimited contract while upgrading. I'll stick with my 4S so I don't get squeezed per gig.
I got hooked on the "HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread." and totally missed the e-mail signups at the bottom. (even though I'm not trying to get e-mail signups...just trying to figure out if something on e-mail signups is broken or not since I can't replicate.
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> But Linux itself doesn't need udev.

Would it really work? I think you'd have to rewrite some parts of the kernel, but I may be wrong now, in the past or the future.

Anyways, we're arguing semantics here, it'd be better for all to separate udev from systemd. It's like Windows installers usually bundling the program with some crap, and I know most people don't appreciate that.
Pencil erasers do a great job to clean these type of contacts :)
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Fair point. I'll add that carriers also selectively drop speeds for certain mobile users based on arbitrary data caps and, in some circumstances, type of phone. Ex: My Blackberry inexplicably loses speed after the first week of the billing cycle.
Not in the UK as per usual. Thanks Google.
Erlang knowledge is not a requirement to start learning Elixir. You will end up learning about Erlang programming model anyway because Elixir builds on top of it.

By "programming model" I mean things like immutability, concurrency, fault-tolerance, and the way you design systems with OTP.
It's the best choice of the colors available in text mode. You can't use the 8 high-intensity colors, that would be nuts. Black wouldn't work, neither would gray. Brown? Red would be obtuse. Green would be odd. Cyan would work as well, I guess. VMware uses purple.

It might also be worth noting that the same color blue was used for the MS-DOS and Windows installers, edit.com, and others.
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I agree that we shouldn't be so eager to turn our kids over. My wife stays home with our children and I can't imagine turning that responsibility to someone else. Sure it's a sacrifice financially, but the social benefits are huge, especially while the kids are small.

I worry that the reason East Germany was so "progressive" in this regard is that they were trying to flatten the social structure to simply the individual and the State. With no communities, families or churches, there's no framework on which to challenge the propaganda of the State.
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I think Putin's little war with the West is going to have massive gains for the US spaceflight. Whatever doubts we had about doing business with his regime have now been solidified. I don't think NASA will ever put itself in a position where it requires another nation's permission to get into space. This can only mean good things for the continued funding of the SLS.

Also, other boneheaded moves like ULA standardizing on a Russian made engine will be strongly discouraged. Being self-sufficient is the only sane move as petty autocrats like Putin will take their ball and run home if they feel their ego isn't being stroked enough.
You can read all the sordid details here:

http://www.businessinsider.com/reggie-brown-sues-snapchat-in...
He has lots of carrots and a big net.
Are you taking into account the recent efforts in the Go ecosystem to fix the pkg management issue [1]

I may be short sighted, but I seeing the ecosystem around Go to be much more ... accelerated than Erlang.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7956078
Various companies have been selling modules with these chips and all the appropriate RAM, Flash, power regulators, etc - for example, the VoCore, the Carambola, the HLK-RM04 (officially a WiFi-to-serial module but is supported by OpenWRT and breaks out most of the pins), etc.
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As you noted, the biggest thing is practice. But here are a few specific tips that I believe significantly improved my programming ability:

1) Try to get the implementation 100% correct on the first try. I don't mean that you should implement the whole system in one go, but the part you implement should do exactly what you want it to do (i.e. no typos, mixed up variable names, etc.). At first I thought this was a bit harsh, but it was amazing how much debugging you can avoid with a little more focus in the beginning. Also, it forces you to adopt good coding practices and make sure your algorithms are fully specified.

2) Don't tolerate tedious work. If there's any part of your workflow that's tedious, spend a lot of effort trying to minimize it. Some examples of things you might do: write a script, refactor your code, use a better editor, use a different programming language. You won't learn much from changing 100 variable names to camel-case, other than how painful it is. You will learn something from writing a tool to help you do that.

3) Think about how various libraries and frameworks you use are implemented, especially if they have features that seem like "magic". Try to reverse-engineer their design, or take a look at their source code (if available). This is a natural way to gain exposure to new ideas.

Regarding more "theoretical" subjects like algorithms and data structures that you might need to know for interviews, you could practice on programming contest websites (e.g. www.codeforces.com) or read some textbooks. However, in my opinion, those are not nearly as important for a software developer as the three things mentioned above.
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It is helpful if they (non-technical) are willing to learn and you (technical) need to be willing to devote the time to help them understand.

Its important to make sure that is in your estimate. It can eat up a fair bit of time but it makes the relationship stronger.
Coming from the US, the idea that kindergarten is not required seems odd to me. I was going to say that kindergarten is required here in the US, but I thought I should double check that just to be sure. I was pretty surprised by the results. Only 16 of the 50 states require kindergarten as part of the mandatory (compulsory) education [1]. The state where I went to school doesn't require kindergarten, but my very very poor family still sent me to school at age 5.

So yeah, I guess we don't require kindergarten, but I've never encountered anyone in the US who did not attend kindergarten. So it still sounds odd that Germany doesn't have universal kindergarten zumal das Wort ist Deutsch.

[1] http://nces.ed.gov/programs/statereform/tab5_3.asp
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I have friends and family who work in primary education and they all say it's immediately obvious which children have two working parents. The kids without a full time homemaker have far more developmental problems.
Worse, to receive calls via Hangouts (web browser) you have to join Google+ which is complete b.s. If there's anything worse than Hangouts it's Google+. At least Hangouts is slowly getting better.
your provided links do not convince me more than my own experience of ownership of all of the materials on the market.

also, it's not good hn form to downvote someone you disagree with. i don't mind though, i have the points to spare.
Most creative editors (from Photoshop to Apple's audio workstation Logic) have huge numbers of modes in terms of the number of cursors available - and it's very disconcerting to use an eraser when you mean to use an intensity-editing tool! Whereas most programs allow you to select a cursor with a keystroke or button click, and that cursor mode stays until you explicitly change it, Logic actually takes a unique approach to this, allowing you to easily assign cursors to modifier keys and right-clicks - that way, the default mode remains the selection cursor, and you explicitly need to "push" a global state every time you want to change the mode. Much more intuitive than sticky modes.
It's incomprehensible that it still works this way in a modern economy. The eventual financial benefit of the child goes to society, not the parents, therefore it follows that society should bear the initial financial cost.
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What is the practical difference if it's open-source or not? It'll still be OSX-native code, and every OSX user has access to it for free anyway.

Or would that enable a Linux port?
> "... FCC proposal that would not disallow Internet providers from providing an optional fee-based service to companies for higher quality/speed access to the companies' content online."

In the context of government regulation "allow" and "not disallow" mean the same thing. But "allow" implies letting monopoly ISPs get away with doing something wrong while "not disallow" implies avoiding unwarranted government interference. You can hardly fault them for their language choice there.

And there is very little practical difference between "access" and the lack of "higher quality/speed" necessary for the service to be used. Netflix at four frames per second is hardly "access to Netflix."

> From reading the FCC proposal, I think that an ISP would not be allowed to slow down or make "inaccessible" content from companies that have not paid a fee. Rather, the fee would be to improve speed/quality of access to a company's content.

Again, these things are equivalent. There is no difference between "slow down" and "not speed up" in practice. It has the identical result, you're just using different words.
I don't see how the pricing of Apple Watch varies from Apple's standard pricing strategy. The author writes as if Apple is doing something different. I don't see it
Google trained a NN on unlabeled Youtube stills. It was able to detect/group/cluster pics of cats without ever seeing a label. This still needs supervision to teach the NN that whatever name it created for this cluster, us humans call this "cats".

If the error rate gets low enough, a NN could start labeling pics.

Finally, recent work has shown that running a dictionary through an image search engine can yield high quality labeled images automatically.

Aside: Thank you for contributing to sklearn. Really feel like I am standing on the shoulders of giants when I use that library.
Do you think people choose to have kids out of obligation to "Society?"
Google Voice has not made VOIP calls from your phone. This is a new feature. Before, it made calls with your google voice number but using your phone's minutes
I don't understand this argument. Verizon can take away unlimited data at any moment (and most likely will at some point).
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I can confirm, my ATI driver continuously crashes and the Win 8.1 blue screen tells me it's ati.sys.
IIRC Kindergarten isn't as narrowly defined in Germany as in the US; in Germany it also covers pre-school years.
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>> Money. Greed. It destroys more friendships (and marriages) than anything else.

This a thousand time.

My first hard earned rule of thumb? Don't do business with your friends. Lost relationships, bitterness, and great financial loss is never worth it. I got burned really bad and spent the better part of four years trying to get my money back.

Since then, it's just something I live by.
Norway has an excellent subsidized preschool program. It is called it kindergarten here, but is for children age 1-5. Children start public school at age 6 and most parents have paid leave for one parent or the other for a child aged 0-1.

The kindergarten prices are based on a sliding scale (with a maximum fee), so even a single mother with a relatively low paying job can afford it and rich people don't pay absurd amounts either. The result is that almost all parents work, it is frowned upon to be a "stay at home mom," and single mothers do not struggle so terribly, like in the US where there is very little childcare support.

The other result is that Norway is one of the few countries in Europe with a positive growth rate (not even counting immigration). One could argue that the other factors like paid maternity/paternity leave help, but the affordable child care seems much more important to most parents I know here.
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> Lawyers and Physicians, Dentists, Nurses, and Dental Hygienists, they all do have to stay current - in fact, I believe that they are legally required to stay current. Now, HN is a tech board, so we don't hear from nearly as many Dental Hygienists here, but I'm going to operate on the assumption that DH's, at age 41, don't encounter the same issues of obsolescence as software developers do.

Because they are required as a condition of professional licensing to stay current (and have a documentary trail of staying current that matches and profession-wide accepted definition of what "staying current" means), which means that while there is some risk of being in a specialization for which demand is reduced, it is virtually impossible to not stay current in the manner expected in the industry without voluntarily choosing to abandon the profession. Consequently, its harder to have covert age discrimination with "not being current" as an excuse.

> The dimensionality may be a factor here… just as the path to becoming a programmer is much more vague and subjective than in many other fields, so is the path to remaining relevant as a programmer. It's not that it's strictly harder, it's that it's much more ambiguous.

Sure, but I don't think that is anything inherent in the subject matter ofprogramming that is less clear cut than, e.g., law, in those terms. Its just a difference in the social and regulatory context.
It would enable porting to other platforms, and it's also just useful to be able to look at how things implemented. I've benefitted a lot from being able to look at the Objective-C runtime source code, for example, because I can see how things work or where things go wrong.
"This is huge in the deaf community, for example."

Yeah, I've seen that. My other son is legally deaf and blind. It turns out this is a fairly rare combination (only several hundred such children in my state of ~8 million). Fortunately he is not fully blind (though definitely profoundly affected), and recently we got word that he can stop wearing the hearing aids. But regardless, we've seen that in the relevant communities. We have enough time in the general special-needs community and the ones specific to what our children have that we don't tread into those. (What my deaf&blind son has, there is nobody pretending that it isn't a problem. It's.... emotionally draining enough to be on those support lists.)
Neat. What's the use case for this code vs. Easel?
Seems like a cool idea, but I'm not sure if it would motivate me. If I don't spend on something now usually I'll just end up spending that money later. It would be great if the money moved to another account when I say that I'm "keeping" the money
excellent and useful post, thanks
The best way to win an argument is to avoid one.

I've learned that this works with women as well.
I was really hoping the Google Voice app for iOS would get another update, but that seems even more unlikely now.

Sadly, I cannot use my main gmail account with hangouts, as I don't want to create a google+ account for it. Oh well.
After the 3rd mention of Apple before the story intro was completed, in an article that (by all appearances) isn't actually about Apple at all, I decided that this just isn't a news source worth reading.
Most don't, obviously. He's still right, though: kids financially benefit the wider society, but most of the initial costs are borne by the individual parents. And since statistically speaking, having kids doesn't make you any happier (and at least temporarily makes you less happy), having kids does seem rather irrational on its face.
Absolutely not. Microsoft ports OneNote to OS X, iOS and Android. Same for Office that is available on OS X. On the other hand, Google, for instance does everything it can to make smallish platforms like Windows Phone die.
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Anyone remember that there was a URL you could go to on Windows 95 that would trigger the blue screen of death? It was a great way to piss off your friends. I think it involved trying to access C:\con\con, and some websites took advantage of that through img src.
I'll second this, but I think there is possibly a huge market for the watch/healthkit integration. As a runner, I'm really excited about the possibilities of a customizable tracker that I don't have to carry in my hand while I run. Particularly pacing my runs. I'd love to have the adaptive touch let me know when I'm falling out of a set pace.
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