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I think Gruber's argument that this is Apple's first move into the mainstream, non-tech product scene is correct. The Mark Newson news was a huge indicator. They need two world-class designers to design electronics when Jony has already been killing it for years?

An interesting thought for the future:

Having two devices on a human gives you much richer spatial information, including accurate bearing and rotation speed plus measuring the difference in movement on the top and lower half of the body. Short term, this is great for fitness. Long term, this works well in a house with multiple other Apple products acting as sensors inside a home.
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My understanding is that the motor pulls the card in using random speeds which vary as the card is getting sucked in (start sucking, slow, fast, slow, fast, etc, fully sucked in). The machine knows how to account for the variance, but the skimmer doesn't (in general skimmer's assume a constant swipe speed). You can kind of see it cause the machine does the same thing when spitting out your card. It would be more convenient to spit your card out fast like a transport ticket, but then your card could be skimmed on the way out.
Can't you achieve the same effect by buying a case with a built-in battery? Admittedly you would have to remove the case in order to use the lightning port for syncing, but I suspect most people do that rarely, if at all, anyway.
>> Personally, I'd rather have "the new iPhone 6: exactly as thick as the last one, but now it lasts 2 days on a charge"

can't believe this wasn't how it turned out.
The rules we have now are not common-sense. They really amount to a refusal to consider the idea at all. It seems like they are saying "you can't fly until we decide" and then they refuse to address the issue.

Drones have the potential for large abuses by bad actors in areas like privacy and safety so there should probably be some rules governing them. An autonomous, GPS guided, flying his-res camera is a new thing for human society. Its got lots of positive and negative potential. We need to manage the negatives so we can get the benefits of the positives.
That's extremely exaggerated. What phone did you need to find a "manufacturer-specific toolset"? I'm not even sure what you are referring to. In fact starting on Android is significantly easier than iOS. Enable debugging, plug phone in and you can start debugging your apps on the phone.
Don't even get me started on sharing apps to testers. iOS is just a nightmare without using something like TestFlight.

You can't even get started on iOS without having a Mac, a $99/year subscription and worrying about creating app ids, profiles and other strange things through the developer portal.
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If you really don't care about size there are plenty of options, especially for phones like the Note3 with replaceable backs[1].Even for the iPhone you can buy a wrap around case that embeds a battery.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Hyperion-Extended-Compatible-Internati...
I think the answer to this is that Apple bought half a billion dollars of saphire for the high-end Watch models, and never intended it to go towards the iPhone. That's why it didn't end up in the phones.

It might also be a partial explanation for not launching the watch yet, they're simply waiting for enough yield to manufacture launch inventory.
Mmmm, BeOS. That was fun. Shame it didn't live on for longer.
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In my experience keys and change don’t matter. The metal is too soft to scratch phone screens. (Besides being soft, keys and change also tends to not have much in the way of really sharp edges. Maybe new keys do, but don’t they get quite smooth over time? The aluminium case is potentially a different story.)

What matters is sand. (For what it’s worth my iPhone has three, four scratches after a year. I’m pretty certain they are all from when I slid my phone around on some surface with a grain of sand between surface and phone – which I usually try to avoid, but oh well. That’s it.)
BTW, where can I learn the Android programming language?
As an off-topic comment, when did time.com switch to such an obnoxious layout? Taking two inches off the side and an inch off the top is absolutely ridiculous.
Sounds... Actually doesn't sound as bad as SAP, Europe's largest software package/manufacturer for... IDK, business software. IIRC, every implementation requires you to hire half a dozen SAP engineers for a decent hourly rate just to set up the system, then keep them on to train and maintain the system.
Yeah absolutely, but I wish it was just part of the phone model.

A Note 3 with the pack you linked to could easily do 2 full days of medium to heavy usage.
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The Note 3 has a replaceable battery, so there is nothing stopping you from replacing it with a thicker, higher capacity battery. There are lots of options available, like this one: http://www.mugenpoweronline.com/zaspx/product_details.aspx?f...
It is also free in the play store
shouldn't such things be contested in international court of justice first?Isn't it considered breach of sovereignty for other nations?
Software doesn't stop working when people stop developing for it. Sublime Text 2 as it currently stands is a decent tool.
> many small countries have never seen a single big tech-startup success happen within their borders

That sounds more like a difference caused by economic and cultural circumstances than whether you've met a rockstar in person.

If Country X is unable to produce viable startups, it's probably because it doesn't have the economic and cultural infrastructure to support startups yet, not because Peter Thiel has never graced that country with a royal visit.

> every successful person they've ever known hasn't followed what they call the "American" startup way.

Of course they haven't. The "American startup way" is optimized for the specific economic and cultural circumstances that are only found in certain parts of the United States. Some aspects of it may be generalizable, but most of it isn't. Following it to the letter in any other country will probably earn you nothing but ridicule and bankruptcy.
Well, the idea is that students would buy the materials needed for the classes at the RS they're in. A bit like Wine stores and Home Depot do. But those are huge facilities and spending a little money on a classroom isn't a big deal percentagewise.

So your general points stand.
Jesse James Garrett gave the closing plenary at IA Summit 2009, and he asked a question of the audience, name some great designers.

And the audience shouted out names.

Then he asked, name the works of design they are considered great for.

And the audience was silent.

...

Don't look for names. Look for works, and then find out who made them.

If you don't know what's considered good work, don't ask like you asked this question. "Good" is subjective, and design is not art; design has a purpose, is backed by research, has metrics, supports a business model. Rather, you want to study work that solves the problem the designer intended. Maybe they intended to make it easy to book an airline ticket, or maybe they intended to appease ten different executive vice presidents. Pick any work, and learn why it was made that way, and determine if it's great or not (or, more likely, if there are aspects which are great for a particular use case). You could do in-depth interviews, you could do contextual inquiry, you could ask the designer, you could usability test it, you could go through heuristics, you could do GOMS, there are any number of methods.

But don't look for names first.
Kash (YC S14) is hiring engineers to kill the credit card giants
Kash (YC S14) is hiring engineers to kill the evil credit card giants

Our Mission:

Credit cards are an invention of the 1950s. Every payment ‘innovation’ since then has been built on top of a pre-mobile architecture while taxing both consumers and businesses alike. Forcing credit card debt on families, charging massive fees, and hurting local retailers. It is frequently the case that credit card industry makes way more money from a retail store than the store’s owners themselves do.

At Kash, we are on a mission to end the credit card monopoly and to replace it with an ethical payment option - one that helps retailers and one that consumers love.

Come chat with us if this sounds like a worthy cause. Show us what you’ve built in the past and what you’re passionate about.

Kash is a YCombinator company.

What We’re Working On:

- Store owners use our iOS app to charge customers
- People use our iOS & Android app to pay
- Server backend (we use node.js and PostgreSQL)
- Cryptographic Security and Cloud Infrastructure (Unix)
- Frontend development for use by retailers (We’ve used Angular.js in the past, but could be anything)

What We’re Looking For:

- We want people who believe in our mission. You do not take down a giant by doing things half-heartedly.
- We believe the most important skill is your ability to learn
- You should have either built an Android app or iOS app before even if it’s a simple one
- Ability to take ownership of things, learn what’s necessary and get things done
- Ability to communicate well, ask clarifying questions, ask for help early and not get stuck

Bonus Points:

- Understands a store’s pain having worked in retail or have known someone that worked in retail
- Shipped quality mobile apps before
- Experience utilizing tests to help you speed up development and its quality
- Experience with multithreaded programming and memory management
- Previous startup experience

Why You Should Join Us:

- Opportunity to be one of the first employees of a fast growing and promising startup
Work on something that will really change the world
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
- Flat org chart
- Solve difficult yet interesting problems
- State of the art equipment for your work station

Location:

Kash is headquartered in San Francisco with an office in Waterloo, Canada. This position is in San Francisco.
> Also, the battery was increased beyond the power needed for the extra display.

Yes but that makes sense. Horizontal phone size 5S->6+ increased by ~69%, screen size increased by say 65%. Overall phone volume increased by ~58%. If battery was 50% of the 5S volume and volume of electronics hasn't changed in 6+, the battery volume has increased by 116%. Some of these assumptions are likely off and the volumes slightly inaccurate but the point should stand.
My experience has been that finding mobile developers in general is extremely difficult, primarily because there are so many opportunities for mobile developers to make a ton of money freelancing that they don't necessarily feel the desire to commit to working for a company. Recruiting is hard in general, but looking for a skill set that's so in demand makes it much harder.
I was thinking that the Emacs operating system already had a kernel! ;-)
So you could easily scan it, go in early, get free access to the ticket, and the purchaser is going to blame the guy he bought it off, not you.
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Java, here's a starting point:

http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/java-basics-for-android-develo...
How about right on their site, to start?

http://developer.android.com/training/index.html

Edit to add that applications are usually developed in the Java programming language using the Android Software Development Kit, but other development tools are available.
Currently we're saving every block we see. And if we find an orphan's parent which is on the main chain we try to connect them both. We aren't doing anything to explicitly avoid them.

If you're referring to side chain blocks (which some people refer to as orphan blocks) we'll extend them to be the main chain should they win or leave them forever marked as side chain blocks. We aren't doing anything to explicitly avoid these either.
> HTML isn't code, you can't execute it.

That's exactly a point I wanted to make. See https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/login/2011-12/ope... and http://langsec.org/papers/langsec-tr.pdf
Again, you are conflating minix and minix3. Minix3 was never in a lab to outgrow it. It is a new system, developed quite quickly and quite recently. And yes, it is significantly better than linux. Why do you think the device IO calls shouldn't be there? Messaging primitives are present, those calls use them. They are just wrapped in a library for you, like it says right on that page. The "kernel interface" is exposing a unix like API. If you want to send arbitrary messages then you use the low level messaging API.

L4 is not a kernel, it is a family of kernels. You can't run L4 any more than you can run BSD. You have to pick an actual specific implementation. Some L4 kernels are "battle tested" and some are learning projects made by single individuals and never used for anything else.
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The blog post goes into details, but the main advantage pants has over other build systems we could have used is that it is designed from the ground up for a large codebase that is broken up sensibly into modules, libraries, or projects. It is smart about what it builds (or more importantly: what it doesn't build) and operates from the conception that most of the code you work with is available to be changed in any given commit. This is very much not the style that other build systems support, where trying to work in this way either results in a huge, undifferentiated pile of code or forces you to completely break things up entirely (ie work on stable dependencies). Once you have a significant number of engineers, this becomes inefficient whichever way you go -- either by giving you long build times or by making it unnatural to work outside your project.
Well for me it's complicated. I use mainly Twitter, G+ or Facebook for news. I find them to suit my needs almost perfectly. Twitter while at work pause to quick check news, G+/Facebook later at home. The downsides is that i got distracted or sometimes i see posts from friends which i don't have a mood/will to see. Besides this Feedly, but Digg is also cool.
>Sure, minimal amount needed for safety should be in the kernel

Which is exactly how it is. So the question remains, what's the problem?
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This is the sort of casual prejudice about eastern europe that I despise. Sure you can probably say something like "well I just picked Eastern Europe at random" but I think we all know that's not the case, and that's a little sad.
>The microkernel idea is pretty much dead outside the ivory tower, as in practice it didn't work,

That would certainly explain the billions of microkernels running in production as we speak. Better tell amazon to shut down their whole webhosting business since microkernels don't work. I'm sure they'll be dissapointed to learn about this.
This is satire, or sarcasm. Much like when he makes a quip about Jobs' health. (He was rumoured to have eschewed proper medical treatment.)
Isn't it pretty straightforward for the police to get a warrant to get information from the phone company in a case like this?
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Why is it worth correcting? That viewpoint is correct.
ZWEI (and ZMAIL) isn't Common Lisp, Kent Pitman worked on creating a set of diffs to it to make it compile in CL but I don't think they are freely available.
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Feedly, daily.
I've just checked and I can confirm it works.

I wouldn't normally keep this, but AgileBits screwed me over last year on 1Password for iPad. I had paid ~€15 for the app so I could have my passwords synced using Dropbox. All was working fine, then they told users that because Dropbox were changing their API, they were 'forced' to build a brand new app that had the new Dropbox API support and SUNSETTING the old app. Dirty and underhand in my opinion so I'm going to take advantage of this with a clear conscience.
Remembering a pattern seems easier than remembering the actual order. Maybe it's because of years of using pattern unlock on my phone.

Very cool. Is there any theoretical basis to it? Some research? Does the ability to solve this test correlate with other qualities?
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js codes are running in the browser. It's much earlier to implement than those running in the backend. But I agree that it's awesome if it's done for C ! Maybe we can begin from asm.js
And who is going to enforce this court?
Ask away. I don't keep that much. I have food, water, some limited medicine and a bunch of household stuff like candles & matches. Some hygiene things like soaps and planning to add some bulk fishing equipment (lines and hooks) as I live close to a place this would be a food option. Also I'm looking at some wind up radio/torch/usb charger combos to buy. Between that and my gardening/camping equipment I think I'm reasonably placed to have a buffer against supply issues.

I haven't planned anything for defending my property. If something did happen I would likely try and round up local family/friends for safety in numbers. And hopefully try to help people vs hoard.
Very interesting. They seem to have gained some traction. I'm curious how they solved their chicken and egg problem (not enough buyers versus not enough sellers).
The fact that people disagree on the definition of "startup" isn't a sign of confusion. Rather, it reflects the fact that there are genuine differences between people in our industry about how to develop new business models, and how to define success. Graham has articulated one side of that debate with his essay, but calling it an explanation is disingenuous.
Nexus 5 is hardly a flagship phone and it probably has one of the worst cameras in its price range.
Because C isn't web-scale.
Have you found this to increase your working memory in other contexts as well?
We tried to recruit an android developer in London, UK.

Absolutely no problem finding candidates but finding one that had done more than 'Android Programming for dummies' type stuff is painful. The majority of people have written a TODO list app and nothing else, not even any other programming of any sort and expect £60-70k. It does make me worry that comp sci education will end up being pushed down this route as it fulfills the UK government's sudden focus on 'programming'.

Also, having done a bit of Android programming, around the TODO type app level, it's a horrible tool chain. Even people we already have don't want to be paid to take training to do it.

Consequentially we contracted our Android front end out to an Indian company in the end who did a decent job for the money. No complaints.

Next iteration is Xamarin.
I doubt it's accidental then.
Do you think like a robot?
Unfortunately, no :-/
'Plug in an Android device, and you might need to search around to find a manufacturer-specific toolset, and/or navigate secret menus to enable debugging (like "click this menu item that doesn't look like a button seven times"'

Sorry I need to call BS on that. Developing on your android device is approximately a thousand times easier than the entire Apple developer/certificate/code-signing dance. Running the app under debugger is also a single button click experience. To top it all, all of this is free and runs on multiple desktop platforms (Linux, windows or OSX). The relative shortage of Android developers in SF and NYC is much better explained by the original article than any sort of difference in ease of starting out in either platform.
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Why would companies switch to delivering Android apps first if their paying customers are mostly on iOS? This is a business decision and not a religious/"I like X platform and you should follow" decision.
Got some high scores initially from drawing the pattern with my mouse and letting the pattern "burn in" to my brain.
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> Remind me again how the GPL preserves my freedom.

Very well.

The governments and states of the world has agreed that any written or creative works shall have owners, called “copyright holders”, who can decide who, if any, other persons shall have the right to make further copies and/or make modifications of those works. This legal arrangement is made with a few specific business models in mind, but those business models originate from the age of printing presses, and this legal arrangement is not conducive to free collaboration and improvements of the works in question, as is the expected norm in, for example, science. Some people who are, for this reason, opposed to this arrangement, noted that this arrangement is, incidentally but necessarily, giving the authors quite a lot of power, and so they constructed the GPL. The GPL is a specific use to which authors can, if they wish, put these powers they have been granted. The GPL is meant to enable the above-mentioned collaborations and improvements without having any other deleterious effects, like making the authors feel like they are being (or could be) exploited. It is quite ingenious, since if you deny the right of authors to apply the GPL, you deny the rights given them by the legal arrangement of copyright.

The specific way in which the GPL preserves your freedom depends on the work in question and your role in the situation. As a recipient of a work to which the author(s) have given you a license to use the freedoms granted by the GPL, you are permitted to do many things which would otherwise have been forbidden by copyright law. An an author, the GPL does not make you any more free (since copyright law already gives you absolute power), but the GPL is a tool which you can use to ensure that all users of your works are permitted to collaborate on and improve the work further, which might give you the incentive to produce and release more works.
I've created my own https://github.com/johndel/freeze but this one isn't the last version (too lazy to push it as far as I am the only one using it. I have a private repo also). I feel more comfortable to host my own solution and add custom feature that I want.
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This. LaTeX isn't even particularly easy to merge so its a pain in offline VCS systems even. Real time; no idea how that would work.
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AFAICS, Minix's model will win in the end because security will be the most important OS feature in the future. It's a matter of time before our life savings (crypto-currencies), all personal info, and even our lives (self driving cars, medical equipment) inevitably becomes dependent on the security of our computer(s).