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First of all, this is an awesome idea, and I can tell you from personal experience that payroll automation is still gaining momentum in the California small business community.

I noticed you chose ZenPayroll's pricing model, without having all the features of ZenPayroll. The most important ZP features are automating tax filings, both quarterly and yearly. Also, contractor payments and integration to FreshBooks. These are all the essential ingredients of a payroll solution- the bitcoin aspect is cool but I don't really care much about it.
Fortunately the Moto X 2 looks like basically a Nexus.
Thanks so much for this point. I think the key here is conclusion (3) about semantic errors.

I remember endless discussions about the Liskov Substitution Principle and how it relates to subtyping/subclassing. I think what people easily forget that static types do almost nothing for semantics and the notion of "behavioral subtyping" is a lot more interesting but also a lot more elusive.

And I say all this as a lifelong static typer, by the way, and not even of the fancy Haskell variety. I know what not to expect from static type checking so I'm a lot happier with what it does provide me.
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Can you elaborate on the flashing/calibration? Is that to get better than 30Hz at native 4K resolutions?

For coding / web browsing, how good is the screen (i.e. can you notice lag for those use cases). I have heard mixed things about the Seki 39" but it looks like it could be a great development monitor
> Take Instagram for example, talented people post beautiful pictures which add value to Instagram. And yet they only are rewarded with likes/comments. Tsu tries to fix this.

They get rewarded with feedback, and if they produce good art they can license it through other means. Supposedly the latter should bring much more substantial money than earning a percentage on ads displayed behind a sign-up wall (why not do like YouTube and serve both content and ads to everyone?).

On the other hand, there do exist people who produce good art but choose to not monetize it. I can understand the attitude: unless I'm sure my art is great and will be widely appreciated, any resources I spend on monetization attempts will likely go to waste, only lowering morale. How do I tell my art is great? Well, fame.

On yet another hand, there's the YouTube crowd that makes money on their art without spending any resources on monetization or waiting to validate whether their art is good first. (Maybe this is due to specifics of video production? It's more engaging to consume and the barrier to entry is a little higher than with photography or text content.)

All in all, Tsu sure seems like an interesting initiative, it gives some food for thought and it'll be interesting to see what comes out of it.
Lockheed says makes breakthrough on fusion energy project
That's what it currently does.
It's a typo. If you click the blue <> button next to the specs you get more details, including the corrected version of this.
Nexus 9 as well.
I'd say that even in NYC, you're probably around (illegal, in that case) concealed weapons more often than you would suspect. In most of the country, you will frequently be around many (legally) concealed weapons though.

The trick is concealed. The general public, even in cities in red-states, typically only sees guns when a policeman is carrying it. Open carry protesters provide exceptions to this, but most people are not particularly interested in open carry.
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Shaming male hetrosexuality is Feminism 101. Yes, I am attracted to young, maternal, intelligent women who like to smile.
> It's fear mongering because it hasn't happened and is incredibly unlikely to happen.

Because, why? Again I see no refutement. Just empty words.

Two concealed carry owners shoot each other[0]. Concealed carry almost shoots a police officer[1]. Concealed carry shoots the VICTIM in a robbery[2] during a cross-fire with the robbers.

[0] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/19/1239955/-Two-concea...
[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-crestwood-concealed-ca...
[2] http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012/05/man-arrested-in-fami...
The only guide to Gamergate you will ever need to read
They're releasing a big expensive tablet in 2014 and the top-end storage size is 32GB? Really?
Yes, and the interesting thing is to me this exactly demonstrates the problem that is being pointed out by Kell (for the community in general) and by me (for Snively in particular).

What I feel this blog post demonstrates is that if you are somewhat critical of something Snively says, you are met with a barrage of arguments that counters everything you said in all the ways he could possibly find to disagree with them. That motivation will always lead to some ridiculous and only remotely relevant disagreements, which are now being pointed out here and over on Reddit.

This blog post feels like it was written in anger: the enemy must not just be refuted on some points: he must be destroyed. His credibility must be tarnished by showing he didn't get anything right.

I think I understand this, because I used to do this. I stopped because I wondered why I was so often getting into ridiculous, irrelevant, arguments about things that I didn't even care about but that just came up in a discussion. Proving the other wrong in any way became more important than finding an answer to the question before us.
> front-facing speakers

Great! This is why I bought an HTC One M8 instead of a Nexus 5. Great for speakerphone or if you do watch a video on that high resolution display.

It amazes me how the essentials get sacrificed really easily and that consumers often don't demand better when they are purchasing. I would buy a Mac, but I do have to demand a matte screen instead of just getting accustomed to glare.
Android 5.0, Lollipop
I've tried throw-away email based passwords twice in the last five years. Every time I try it I run into the same problem: guaranteed speed and guaranteed delivery of email (both in general and that it'll always arrive in the inbox).

Average users get annoyed very quickly when they have to wait even minutes for an email to show up.

I still run into this problem even when using quality services such as Mailgun.

For this approach to work, it requires at least three things

1) Much greater security for email

2) Guaranteed speed of delivery for every email, such that the throw-away password arrives in seconds at a 99.x% rate

3) Guaranteed delivery, such that throw-away passwords arrive in the inbox at an extremely high rate of success (at least 99.9%)

Email will never be able to deliver on these requirements. As such this system will never be effective for deployment on a service that average users use.
It is in today's culture. In another country, maybe it's hugely valuable to know the correct officials to bribe. That doesn't mean it would be valuable in a meritocratic culture.

The question is whether or not SV is meritocratic; your argument appears to be along the lines of "these things are valuable in SV, so they are part of meritocracy", which is circular.
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The "side" of this "debate" that is receiving death threats is very deserving of attention (to the extent they want it) and sympathy, and has no lack of credibility.
That would require a massive cultural change. It works in the UK, because the UK doesn't have a history of gun ownership the way the US does.

The Wild West of the UK is what, Wales? Scotland? Not a lot of guns to be found there, historically speaking.

The US invented selling guns to civilians.
Kotlin M9 is out
"Start here, finish there" is one of the good features. However is not really new, I can do the same with Amazon Prime ( w/ App from Smart Tv and App on Tablet ).
You're going to be hard pressed to get a real citation for the safety thing. The issue is just so complex you can't have a 1 to 1 relationship between concealed carry and crime rates. Some states release CCP numbers though and they're plenty of people doing it.
The Motorola blog post says "starting at $649" http://motorola-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/nexus-6-from-goo...

This was the most disappointing thing for me. While it might be a fantastic device, and I might still choose it, at that price I'll be more carefully considering the alternatives. The Nexus 5, with its specifications and price point, was a no-brainer. This one doesn't make that decision quite to simple.
I think you could make the argument that fusion is more or less feasible if someone would just get around to building it too...
I'm thinking the real deal-breaker for me will be the camera, which seems to be the same as the mediocre Moto X camera. Otherwise, it looks like a nice device. Nothing particularly amazing, except for stock Lollipop.
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A death threat doesn't become less real by not being followed through it, otherwise it'd be called murder, not death threat.
maybe that is a mistake made on purpose to get more people talking about it...
I don't understand the appeal of having dual front speakers, whats the point?. This is a feature a very small group of people will find useful, but adds to the price.
Too bad the Nexus 5 can't be upgraded to replace the battery with the rapid-charge battery technology they are touting for the Nexus 6.

>>Get up to 6 hours of use from only 15 minutes of charging.
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I've seen no evidence that 490 DPI has any advantage over ~300 DPI; it sounds like spec wanking. And there are rumors of a 5K retina iMac tomorrow (4K tends to be a downgrade from 2560x1600).
The nexus font is too big on the back of the phone.
Google readies Android Lollipop release
Yes Warhol was running a cronyism ring. The entire point of his work was success based on celebrity, in contrast to the ponderous quality judgements of the previous generation of abstract expressionists.
> No, that is not all she did. She traded sexual favors for favorable game reviews for with multiple people.

Nope. Get your facts straight. A disgrunted ex is the only source of those accusations. The guy who (very much allegedly) had sex with her did not cover her game.
The trend of correlating device number (i.e. Nexus 'X') with screen size is going in the wrong direction. 6 is already too big (and heavy) for some. Next year, there'll be no distinction between phones & tablets.

Edit: Disappointed with the pricing too: $649. Google had set a good trend with Nexus series - Awesome devices at exception price. All that's gone. Kind of against the Android One initiative.
According to http://motorola-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/nexus-6-from-goo..., yes - starting at $649. I wonder how that'll translate to GBP...
The Nexus 6 has smaller bezel on the top and bottom than the iPhone 6+ which has to make space for the TouchID/Home button. Android uses on-screen soft buttons.
I keep seeing her getting criticized for this and I don't get it. She didn't ask for that much, it just happened.
Haskell and Clojure are both functional languages with Haskell being purer. That being said, I fairly regularly see posts about how fast Haskell is (Bryan O'Sullivan has a great blog[1]) and I rarely if ever see posts about how fast Clojure is.

What is/are the reason(s) for this? Is it the fault of the JVM, or the bytecode the Clojure compiler emits?

[1] http://www.serpentine.com/blog/
"The problem is that any nutjob can carry a gun...."

If you mean legally, that turns out not to be the case. Or at least most states have prior restraint licencing requirements, which have done a great job of weeding out "nutjobs". Even those that don't, like Vermont (forever, never got into 19th and early 20th century anti-black/immigrant gun grabbing), Alaska, Wyoming, and populated Arizona, where you can carry concealed if you're not a criminal or an adjudicated "nutcase", have had no problems of this sort (if they had, you and I would have heard about them).

Per the GAO and scholar Clayton Cramer, as of the summer of 2013 there were 8 million licensed concealed carriers. If this is a problem, where's the blood on the streets?

Or is the problem rank bigotry by people who know nothing about these sorts of people?
Good story, sadly won't get crazily upvoted since Zoho keeps a low and stable profile.

Thanks
Yes open instances are free and unlimited. This is the cornerstone of our approach: we want developers to work together and share their training data. Natural Language is very hard and we need to join forces to crack it.

Thanks for the feedback, we'll try to make this easier to understand on the pricing page (yeah, natural language generation is hard for humans, too!)
I think it's less about the size in square feet than the size in dollars (including installation, maintenance, and waste disposal). The pool of people willing to buy a $100M device is small. The pool of people willing to buy a $10M device - even if it's less efficient - is much larger. That makes it a potential revenue source, instead of an eternal revenue sink. Much as fusion doesn't become technically useful until energy output exceeds energy input, it doesn't become economically useful until revenue (for its maker) exceeds cost.
Sorry for trying to help?! I did not realise that offering advice from personal experience of receiving online death threats (and what I thought was common professional advice from police and law enforcement) was sexist. No more sympathy from me.
There is so little innovation going on in the apple tv-esque space. All of these devices look and act exactly the same (Fire, AppleTV, this thing, Roku, etc)
It's a Qualcomm 805, so competitive with the iPhone 6's chip, but certainly not massively faster than it (and in practice somewhat slower in many scenarios). As we should remember from the Pentium 4 age, megahertz are not everything.
I think this would be far more useful if it were based on other forms of domain knowledge. As the landing page shows, StackOverflow, etc. already exist. There's tons of online help for software development already.

What is lacking is one-on-one assistance/short term consulting for software developers/entrepreneurs in other knowledge areas related to business development. Take the StackExchange concept to a new level with individualized assistance.

Have an idea for a web app based on snow removal? Hook up with an expert in the field for a 30 minute tutorial on if your idea has legs, what you need to know and where to start.
Want to explore adding operator interfaces to your Lean Manufacturing software but don't know how to design/manufacture hardware on a small scale? Find an expert who can give you an overview of what you need to know to get started and perhaps contacts that can take you further.

I'm throwing ideas out there based on actual needs I've seen people on various software forums having, and I think there is a real need for a service like this. And it's probably a lot more profitable than Founder Dating :-)
Needs a screenshot and a lot more explanation of what it is, and who it is for, and what problem it solves exactly.
Though this would validate her "professional victim hood" as some would describe her and a lot of so-called "feminists" online.

I'm not saying that she /did/ call it in herself, but it wouldn't be out of character with her (and her peers) stereotype.
>Is this the fourth or fifth try of Mozilla to replace passwords?

No.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8459114
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Shame they didn't release a new Nexus 7.
I would love to hear your feedback!

I know the design is not top notch for now, I'm planning to give it some more thought. Any suggestions?
Success as a free-lancer often depends on having a wide network of potential clients. Having one potential client is not enough, if their project gets delayed, they decide against outsourcing work, or they just find someone cheaper, there's no work for you.

Some companies will outsource to former employees others don't. You can get a sense for your current employer based on if they are currently doing it.

There are good reasons not to outsource. Chief among them is just the PITA of coordination, and the loss of flexibility...your boss can tell you as an employee to climb up on top of the dumpster and jump up and down to compress the rotten chicken parts if that's the business priority. A contractor across the country is going to negotiate a rate first.

So if you're serious about free-lancing:

1. Identify a big pool of potential clients.

2. Nobody is a client until they have written you a check.

3. Have a contract.

4. Require a retainer.

Good luck.
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Wow, it's like McCarthy commission over again. Game companies and publications are labelled "anti-GameGate" or pro-GameGate. Boycotts are organized. You can get a Chrome Extension that will block anti-GameGate sites (who maintains the block list? apparently nobody knows; a user asks why some web comic is block and what anti-gamergate acts the user has done).

Bizarrely this means all links to anti-GameGate sites (like Kotaku) have to be posted via an archiving proxy, archive.me, as everyone on the subreddit apparently has the blocking chrome extension installed.
NYPD gang members also purposely ride horses into pedestrians. Should we thus infer that private equestrians cause greater mayhem?
Your non-obnoxiousness is purely subjective to your perception.
First warning sign: smiley faces and hashtags in Robocoin's initial email responses. I would expect nothing but professionalism from someone who just sold me a $20,000 product.
No Wireless charging?
I mean I very doubt they are real, she has been shown time and again to be a liar.
Even if they aren't real at all, how is that an appropriate response?
At least in my state, they beat it into you in concealed carry class that you must attempt to leave the situation, not doing so and opening fire puts you in hot water. Drawing your weapon should only happen when A. you can't escape (gunman blocking the exit and there is no alternate route), or B. You can't escape and you have been or are going to be directly harmed.

In the end, I'm not worried about concealed carry people, it's the people who don't care to be registered that are the issue. And as it's been said before, if someone is bent on causing an incident, a sign that says "gun-free zone" isn't going to stop them, it'll just make for a target rich environment.
American scientists unearth lost 1960s polar satellite images worth billions
Not really anymore. This was the case with many of the much older OS/2 based machines but the days of dedicated lines are drawing to a close. Most ATMs I serviced were either directly plugged into a bank's network via ethernet cable or they had a wireless router hidden in the external enclosure and did transactions over a non-dedicated wireless network. These were all XP-based machines.

Updates are issued but they are typically on CD-ROMs from the software vendor, and unless the tech servicing company is going out on a monthly basis the machines are not patched or current. It was not uncommon to tack on 6 different upgrade disks to a maintenance call because that machine hadn't been patched since last year.
You're joking, right? KiA is an echo chamber repeating things that have already been debunked by the time they post them. Like the supposed ISIS bot thing that's currently trending there.
In windows (I play a lot of games on windows), switching between keyboard layouts is extremely painful because its per application and not global.

That is, if I want to change the keyboard layout for GameX, I must start GameX, minimize it, change keyboard layout (and hope that it applied it to GameX - often it does not), maximize GameX.

Alternatively, I have to remove Colemak as a keyboard layout and set qwerty as the only layout. This is even more effort.

Basically, in windows, changing keyboard layout to play games is not a viable solution. Believe me, I've tried. I don't play those games anymore...
"The team acknowledges that the project is in its earliest stages, and many key challenges remain before a viable prototype can be built."

No doubt that Skunkworks is world class... but claiming a "breakthrough in fusion energy" before a prototype has even been built is pretty bold of them.
I use one for development and love it. There is lag and it is noticeable - it's most noticeable for moving the mouse cursor, and it is somewhat annoying because it makes any mouse operation feel slower and less precise. The lag doesn't really affect anything else I do.

Still worth it for the price IMO, the screen real estate makes a huge difference in my productivity.
6 hours of battery life for 15 minutes of charging? Wow.
> 6 is already too big for some.

Are the actual dimensions of the phone known?

This matters a lot because screen size is only an approximate indicator of device size. For instance, the iPhone 6 Plus has a 5.5" screen and yet is very noticeably larger than the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, which has a larger 5.7" screen.
Did anyone else not see Amazon in that list of apps?
From the beginning it has been an astroturfing op "orchestrated" by some geniuses at 4chan. An irc channel central to the movement is named after a sexist catchphrase from the rant of the bitter ex-boyfriend of their first target. Logs from that channel have been publicly posted. There's no doubts about this.
I see an important question looming on the 5-year horizon: how are people going to be carrying these large devices? Clearly carrying large phones in pockets is impossible for many, increasingly impractical for many more, and simply undesirable to the curious.

Will handbags or hip bags become common for all? Will the average size of phones rebound and approach some smaller-screen equilibrium size near 5"?

Everything depends on the adoption of these devices by younger people -- whatever becomes "cool".

My prediction is that phones will become strapped to arms or shirts somehow. I see some sort of arm-hoslter or dedicated shirt pocket that comfortably, securely houses a mini-tablet.
my thoughts exactly. My UX:

first thought - looks nice, ok so, I clicked on "I can help", which is just signup, ok well I want to know what I'm signing up for, do I earn money helping others, is it a time donation thing? so then I clicked on "about" which tells me nothing, then I just went away.

I think the idea is interesting and with some more details I would have probably signed up. Also the "You believe in best practices." was kind of odd to me. I dunno if anyone else thinks this way though, but I don't believe in best practices, I do believe you should know the best practices for your field and understand them, so you know when to apply them and when not to.
>Get your apps on Google Play, or rent a movie if your app doesn’t have what you’re looking for

What? Are they exclusively targeting movie content with this? It doesn't make much sense to rent a movie if store apps don't have a feature I am looking for.
I wonder how much money they are making selling their content to foreign networks vs. the amount they could make opening their online service up globally.

I am assuming that if they did open it up globally, they would not be able to sell the shows for as much money to other networks.
Pricing and more info here: http://motorola-blog.blogspot.de/2014/10/nexus-6-from-google...
I'd say the real problem is the fact that the affordable ones
you mention, tend to have terrible specs apart from resolution (and latency). Low contrast, bleeding, terrible colour representation. At least that was my experience.
It's all kind of absurd. I skipped the Nexus 5, but was surprised when they didn't release L Preview for the Nexus 4. If that trend holds, then whatever OS update they pre-release at Google I/O 2015 will only be available on the Nexus 6. Does that mean I have to buy a Nexus 6 as an Android developer even though I don't like the size?
Feel more like marketing data collecting, to see how size the phone relates the sales... I'm interested to know the result. Personally, it's definitely too big.
Was the Nexus 5 refreshed at all? I can't tell by the website.