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But they are competitors. They're both competing for home buyers.

If a home buyer goes to Redfin and not Zillow, Zillow loses because they monetize on their ability to sell leads to agents.

I don't know if I'd call the brokerage + portal thing unfortunate. Zillow/Trulia only control one portion of the home buying process (search/discovery), which isn't necessarily ideal. Most "normal" brokerages have trouble sourcing leads because they have poor websites, so the only way to get leads is with cold calling and networking. Doing a company where lots of leads can be sourced and worked internally by agents that all have lots of great tools and training at their disposal is a different concept, but it's not unfortunate.
No it clearly says that if donates blood he "has to allow anyone" to use it. Which is clearly backed up with the next line stating: He must rely on other Rh_null donors if he needs blood.
I'm sure Lewisham has two different accounts. Google employees have had access to Inbox for both work and personal use for a while now.
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What's not mentioned: some of the YA stuff is superbly written and some of it is pulp. Believe it or not, kids know the difference.
Mods routinely remove arbitrary numbers from titles, because HN's guidelines exclude them as a bait device. This rule has served the site well over the years. Yes, there are borderline cases, but surprisingly few.
"...installing and managing a wide range of SDKs can be cumbersome and complex"

This is true not just within the Twitter ecosystem, but the entire API/SDK economy. Nice to see Twitter recognize this issue and do something about it.
I have met many younger people (especially outside the US) that do not have email. They see email as a tool for old people to communicate.

A good comparison would be "So when I'm logging into some website, I'm not going to have access to myspace?"
I hope this causes a major and publicly visible malfunction in some important device/installation/machinery, of course with no harm done to any persons

I actually hope that this does cause an event drastic enough so that FTDI will have blood on its hands that ends in jail time for management and engineers. I don't want to see anyone hurt, especially not innocent third parties, but fuck FTDI, fuck the management who ordered this, and fuck the engineer(s) who didn't quit in protest. I'm not easily offended, but as a programmer who has been responsible for code that would result in loss of life if I made it defective by design, I have no sympathy for this sort of thing. One other thing that I could hope for is that this teaches everyone the true cost of closed source, especially drivers. Don't put up with it.
That's a massive shame.

Weird that Mailbox/Dropbox manages to do it with Gmail, but Google doesn't.
Show HN: Atwood's Law
Atwood's Law: Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.
Because the USA incorporated 'America' into its name before anyone else did? Because the US Naval Academy has already claimed USNA? Because custom tends to outweigh pedantry?
I wondered the same thing and dug in a little.

It's some libraries to help you collect analytics, onboard users, and handle advertising.
Correct. To use the non-MSFT signed approach, the driver has to add the cert to the registry beforehand somehow (eg. using certutil -addstore -f TrustedPublisher), which obviously rules out a straight install using Windows Update.
I had posted a discussion to Reddit[0] about a year ago that touched on a similar idea. Its a model for AI using a community of simple IA that as a whole becomes the AI. It injects social behaviours into the IA to govern how they interact with the community and to allow bias to develop among groups, and domain proficiencies to develop within individual IA. Because I envision the model being distributed, the proposed implementation includes a blockchain-like ledger of points of confirmed knowledge. I'm really not all that knowledgeable on the subject of AI but given the relevance and knowledge of HN I figured I'd toss it here to see if anyone wants to read a wall of text and give feedback. I have a backlog of books on AI I want to read, so if there's anything you'd like to add to my reading list after skimming through the idea I'd appreciate any suggestions :)

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1t5525/community...
Agreed. In middle school, my English teacher had a box of compic book (!!) adaptations of classic literature -- Murders in the Rue Morgue, etc. I had already read or heard of many of the authors, but this was a quick introduction / plot-overview of many of the rest of them. It was like finding a secret stash of new jelly bean flavors: Not the best thing, but damn if they weren't enjoyable to devour.

Best of all, they gave me enough plot-summary of some of them (Fall of the House of Usher) that one can recognize references to them in OTHER works (such as Bradbury's works) which I might not previously have understood.

I've re-read several of those classics later, but I still have fond memories of that box of comic books.
Please avoid posting comments that lower the signal-noise ratio in HN threads.
For those without an interactive fiction client you can read attack of the yetti robot zombies[1] via http. This text stuff is really versatile; no wonder it rose again.

[1] http://www.allthingsjacq.com/intfic_clubfloyd_20080703.html
I have a problem with articles like this. The arguments against the "just so long as they're reading" position strike me as ridiculous. I feel like I ought to be saying, "Both sides make good points," but I don't see it that way.

For example, FTA:

> [Tim Parks] enlisted the example of his own children’s reading habits, and those of his young students, to argue that there is little evidence to suggest that readers will make progress “upward from pulp to Proust.”

Well, maybe not. Most people don't read Proust, after all. But does he think his kids will chose to read Proust if they are denied anything fun to read?

But ... perhaps these arguments are just badly stated. Would anyone care to give me a good argument that the "just do long as they're reading" position is a poor one?

--------

EDIT. After some thought, I guess I don't take the "just so long as they're reading" position to the extreme. There are some things I would never give my kids to read; as a parent, I have limits. Perhaps these people that sound ridiculous to me just put their limits in different places.

Still, my request for a well stated argument stands.
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Why are empty circles even necessary for the read status of a message? If the colors and names are known at the top, then you only need to show which ones have read the message as filled circles and those who haven't will be known as the difference.
> I was successful as a CEO not because of my own brilliance, but because I built a team of people far smarter than me who were willing to buffer my shortcomings.

This attitude defines a good CEO.
A Crowdsourced Map Project That Is Helping Contain the Ebola Epidemic
Well he did say "fictional".
Your 'bugs and glitches' strawman is humorous because FTDI intentionally introduced bugs and glitches with the counterfeit devices, so they're certainly not trying to protect their reputation, just their profits.

FTDI's responsibility for supporting counterfeit devices ends a long way before tampering with them.

I think the moral high road to take in this situation would be to ignore the clones, but failing that, the approach which Prolific have taken (make the driver refuse to start on a known counterfeit device) seems a lot better than intentionally introducing bugs and not completely ludicrous like damaging the hardware.
SMS deliverability is only ~98% in the US. It drops down near 50% in some countries.

https://www.twilio.com/sms/deliverability
Ask HN: The SICP book readers?
Everyone is saying that it's one of the best books for CS, and you can learn a lot from it, but I feel they're just bluffing because no one explains WHAT they have learnt exactly.
I'm actually in the same boat, I was in HS back in the 80's. But after raising 2 kids that seemed to need a new calculator for school each year (either due to a new model, or they lost the one from last year) I kind of figured making it a pocket computer that hooks up to their TV would make them "stick around" and be worth the price more.

I wasn't thinking so much as turning the actual Rasp Pi into a calculator, but instead the foundation making a decent calculator that can also fill the function of the Pi (HDMI/USB/SD ports, runs Linux). Figured they would have enough visibility to make the PiCalc the next standard (or work with someone like Ti to make a PiCalc).

It just seems a waste to spend so much money on what I consider junk (single-purpose calculators, and for kids who aren't into math they are useless outside of the classroom). Although as calculators, the Ti's aren't really that bad, but my preference leans to the older HPs.
I watched it without sound. Definitely enough to put me off forever.
This is a good example of a spectacularly bad comment: it is both filled with jargon and it totally misses the point. "Strike price", "grant" etc. is unnecessary.

At the point of a sale, your shares worth (v) is a function entirely of the price paid for the company (p), the number of shares you have (n), and the total number of shares (N), like this: v = n/N * p. You can't even begin to speculate on the value of n for a given p without knowing N.
I wish Google had used a less generic name. Searching for "mail isn't showing up in my inbox" is either going to show you generic mail problems or Google Inbox problems. Apple's "Messages" app is a terrible name in the same way.
There's an app for iOS, Android, and a web app for desktop (and I think mobile web, though I've never used it).
You don't probably do torrent or just ignoring the fact that the vast majority of internet traffic globally is peer to peer traffic between dynamic IP addresses, so clearly torrent.

It's more true in case of Hungary where the minimum wage is around 250 EUR and people have a relatively luxury broadband speed, need (and addict) for car and historically good in pirating content since the world invented the VCR.
It reminds me a bit of the great 'bad electrolytic capacitor' debacle that cost companies millions.
Inside San Francisco's housing crisis
the thinking was that an empty circle shows the message has been delivered. once it is filled, it is read.
In fact, did ANYBODY else use 'America' in their name?

Really, the USA is not so much a name as a description. Its maybe the only country on two continents that fits that description. So its a really good name.
Thanks for the "OS" rant. You should use the proper term, Free Software, next time: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Thanks! Yeah, we've definitely seen a number of attempts at this over the years.
As for data accrued on the app, every link you “point” is private between just you and any friends added to that chat. What you share isn’t broadcasted to a feed or anything. There is currently no delete option though, so the data—like that URL and the messages around it—remains stored in our database so that you can revisit the conversation any time. We also don't track your browsing history/habits outside of Point.
5 Types of Partnerships to Avoid as Startups
I donate blood to Red Cross in California (most recently about a month ago) and have also never gotten a postcard, but they do have a pretty cool app now (called "Blood Donor") which tracks your donated blood through the various stages of their system (processing->testing->storage->distribution).

I'd assume any postcards sent out probably happen at the distribution stage, when the blood is shipped out to a hospital as that is a close enough approximation for the time when it will be used.
Microsoft does not 'Love Linux'. They love getting money; and they did not want to turn away 20% of their business.

But it's cute how marketing works isn't it? We're accepting linux VM's so we must love linux.
Released an android app ZPulse for location Task and Track
Looking for feedback on this app. This is a SMS based location tracker.. and a tasker too. this responds to "where are you" messages with ease and can be used as SMS based trackers for vehicles. We did some analysis on Motorola alert as well as the TK series devices to track vehicles/pets etc and blend them together to come up with the idea of "where are you" as the command, check it out and share some feedback that would help us making it better for free. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zoogaru.android.zpulse
Really wish they hadn't used phpBB to host this :/
And Fabric the night club: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabric_(club)
So nice to read about all this exciting network technology that won't matter at all because CenturyLink and Verizon et al are still going to artificially throttle the services I would use them for.

Thank you to the engineers for still trying, though.
I'm sure you realize that the counterfeiters operate in such a fashion and in regions of the world that make sueing them impossible. Which suck because it means FTDI really has no options to enforce their IP rights that don't hurt consumers.
Page doesn't scroll on Chrome when content is longer than screen. I can't see the bottom of the form.
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8-day Hacker Retreat in San Francisco
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8471580
I'm one of the organizers. Please let us know if you have any questions!
I live across the street from the main AT&T office in my town and I can't get > 1.5mb
(*) If you're within 50m of the fiber.
It depends how the project ownership and copyright is structures. We have used GPL projects successfully when they are dual licensed. It never hurts to ask anyway.
Why Does UPS Know Everything About Me?
That's almost certainly what this means. Proprietary datasets are VERY hot in real estate right now because otherwise, everyone is working with the same listings data.
Can not find the Invite option..
All-in-one Printers Can be Used to Jump Air Gaps
Both Telerik and Infragistics have their main development offices in Sofia, Bulgaria. From what I've heard most of Infragististics developers/testers/managers have worked for Telerik in the past and there is a considerable current in the other direction as well. I wouldn't expect a massive difference in the quality.
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Sounds interesting! What's needed from the user in order to use this feature? Will it be possible to use from high level languages like java or do you have to use assembly?
Can think of quite a lot of applications that would benefit A LOT from this.
I think FTDI might be shooting themselves in the foot here.

Plugging in a USB is messy, and you will sometimes get an "Unrecognized Device" error, which you simply fix by unplugging and replugging.

I could see a similar hiccup causing their driver to sometimes "brick" a legitimate device.

Then this false positive ripples back to a manufacturer who bought 50,000 of those chips on the last run, and thinks they might all be fake...

It turns everything into a huge mess.

Very poor management decision, and shame on the engineers for implementing it.
>What do you tell the Mac user? What do you tell the Linux user? Boot a VM whenever you want to work on a document?

Yes.

With the horsepower the machines are putting out nowadays and the ease of which a VM can be initialized, that is neither a hindrance or a burden when compared to the luxury of using your native OS.
We briefly evaluated Telerik Reporting, but when a support technician during a technical conversation referred to 16,000 rows as "a large data set" that pretty much turned us off to it.
You just need to be more agile.
This mattress company's profits are nothing to snooze at
I'm guessing that "Whores vs Hordes" and "Bimbos versus Zimboes" would only make it worse.

Have you considered that the name is not the bulk of the problem?

Just change the art assets a little. Turn one side into nurses, and the other into infected patients, and call it "Ebola Nation". You're welcome.
What is the benefit of using KendoUI over any of the free JS options available? Edge cases again?
Multiple hour long meetings with all of the internal authorities were involved. They all refused to allow new packages to be installed. Additionally, they were not even providing the proper update packages from RHEL due to system misconfiguration. EPEL was additionally forbidden. Regardless, the powers that be essentially said "You are not allowed to use the software that your project specification states that it needs."

It was either use other components or circumvent IT. The head of the department got fed up with the red tape and told us to circumvent. All proper discussion was done before that, and as a result nothing I did was a "dick move". The system was additionally not in production yet, so no changes in production were being done.

Shame on you for making too many assumptions.
I think it's important to recognize that the human mind is quite good at maintaining multiple contradictory beliefs. It's certainly possible to "like someone as a person", see them as a means to an end, and still be willing to murder them, even at the same time.

Although this kind of compartmentalization might seem illogical -- well, it is illogical -- it's also a powerful coping mechanism.
Sign up page not working in Chrome on OS X - Yosemite. Works in Safari/FF.
It was bootstrapped, from what I know the original 4 founders used to own 80% of the company a year or so ago.
Ha, nice! I mean, "onomastics" really should win simply for already being the established term. But if one were picking the name from scratch then I'd say "nominology" has probably...

* greater evocativity (at least for us philistines)
* nearly equal brevity (same number of chars, one more syllable)
* equal greppability and googlability
* greater spellability, maybe (again, at least for us philistines)
* equal pronouncability
* equal verbability (nominologize/onomasticize, nominological/onomastic, nominologist/onomastician)

Of course "nominology" mixes Greek and Latin roots so that's presumably fingernails on a blackboard for more educated folk than me. Cf http://messymatters.com/nominology/#comment-530036107
"Don't buy generic electrical goods from East Asia" is pretty good advice in general, given that some people have been literally electrocuted by faulty low-cost equipment sourced from the region.
It's pretty cool. Congrats on your effort. On suggestion, you can make it more less memory intensive. On my MBP/Chrome, my fan started blowing at full speed while I was using Point. I compared the webpage's memory footprint with and without the extension and the difference is huge. 109MB vs 60MB for my personal webpage. It's even more on the verge example.
Are App Bundles Living Up to the Hype?
The authorization process for RHEL package approval is questionable. Additionally in house verification process of compatibility of software is questionable.

It is hard to argue that using PostgreSQL 9.x is dangerous compared to using PostgreSQL 8.x.
Honest question: Can I use the "last seen" time as a rough proxy for "they have read your message"? I've been wondering this for a while.

At least on Android, my 'last seen' counter doesn't update until WhatApp is brought to the foreground on my chat partner's phone, which is normally a good sign that they have read my message. If they just see the notification but don't open the app my 'last seen' counter does not update
3 Ways to make sense of your errors and logs
You can buy a prepaid card in most local grocery stores in Canada, no personal info required - though you can't buy a prepaid card with a prepaid card.
But that's not being locked out of Java. On the contrary, it's the exact opposite and business as usual for Microsoft: take a perfectly good cross-platform, open standard, and mess with it until it locks out everyone else, so your customers are stuck with using your inferior products.
This paper is a HUGE DEAL in the bitcoin community. Sidechains in theory could address lots of the scalability issues of Bitcoin and could accelerate the roll out of new features.

However, there are many strong opinions on both sides as to whether sidechains are desirable and/or technically possible.
HN has become very negative in the recent years. Only stuff build by Apple and Google gets mostly positive comments.
But they aren't competing...

Zillow is an advertising company, selling ads to brokers-- as is Trulia. Neither sells homes, they sell ad space and leads.

Redfin is a regional brokerage. It directly lists and sells houses using its brokers.

I'm not saying that there isn't merit to the Redfin approach, I quite like it.

I just think for the public it's unfortunate as a lot of people assume when they use Redfin its more of a portal than a brokerage. If they want to make their purpose and intent more clear, I think that'd be great.
... thus they have moral right and obligation to damage the hardware belonging to other people because some other people don't recognize their "IP rights"?

What's you point here?
I'm reading SICP at the moment and have to say it's been a real eye opener.

I'm finding that seeing concepts I take for granted when I'm programming being built up from first principles changes the way I think about the languages I use.

I'm not sure it's made me a better programmer, but it has given me a better understanding of why programming languages are the way they are.
Nobody would fault FTDI for releasing new drivers that don't work with counterfeit parts.

That alone would cause enough inconvenience to manufacturers to make sure they use legitimate parts.

It's the (unethical) bricking of the parts that has everybody up in arms.
This.

I received an invite and installed it. The plugin is Crashlytics + Twitter and MoPub integration.
the thing is that building a work alike chip - one that speaks the same protocols, has the same pinout, (but a different USBID/part number)is perfectly OK - price competition is good right?

The vendors would have to write their own drivers but compared with the cost of spinning a chip that shouldn't be a big deal, if they'd come out and sold their chips on the open market as a clone they'd probably get a lot of business.

Of course one of the weird things about ft232s is that they're non-standard USB devices (don't meet the ACM spec). If the cloners made ACM compatible chips they wouldn't need to write drivers since all OSs have them built in these days.

Disclaimer: I build and sell open source USB boards, including serial devices (ACM, not ft232 compatible)
I thought this was going to be more like Parse or Angular/Ionic but it's not even close. I can't envision a single usage scenario even remotely similar to the high level description.
When a software bug occurs in space
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Yes; months of development time were wasted fighting with IT instead of being able to do our jobs. We weren't even allowed to use Git for several months, because it wasn't yet "approved." Even supposing we continued to use SVN, they were using an older version of SVN that was much slower and more inefficient.

The software requisition process was also terrible. It took 4 months from when I started the job just to get basic software that that is typical for software development. Before that I was directed by my coworkers and superiors to use portable versions of the software I needed secretly.
I've been looking at Factorie for a while but haven't actually done anything heavy with it.

I planned to replace the optimizer in CMU's POS tagger with the one implemented in OpenNLP to make the tagger fully Apache. Unfortunately, so busy right now. Currently, I'm running the tagger on AWS, so the GPL doesn't hurt me much.

BTW, besides the POS tagger, CMU's TweeboParser depends on Turbo Parser which again is licensed under GPL.
Why don't you just have your emails forwarded from one account to another?