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The most important part of this piece is the very last sentence:

>>> when it becomes apparent [those key values] are no longer serving the company, [the Old Guard] must be willing to let those values evolve.

I would go even further: if your values aren't evolving with scale, something is wrong. As you scale, you get different priorities and as you get different priorities, the optimal values for your company will change.

For example, generalists are far more useful early in a company's life. The first few people need to create a UX, set up a data store, create a deployment mechanism, talk to users, make more features, etc. If something becomes a priority, it's great to be able to shift everyone up and down the stack as needed. A generalist culture tends to shun documentation because things change so quickly and enjoys less structure because moving fast is the priority. Near-sightedness - doing what is good in the short term - is optimal.

However, as a company ages, generalism become rarer by necessity. As each aspect of the stack becomes more complex, you need specialists in each area to make progress. Each group depends on other groups to provide something stable and predictable. You require more documentation, more tests and planning in advance to state what each internal service within the company needs to provide. Far-sightedness becomes optimal.

Typically, you end up getting a bunch of distinct groups within your organization, each responsible for a different service AND a structure on top of those groups to handle the cross group communication and planning.

So yes - Old Guard needs to make sure this transformation is culturally kosher but they also need to be on the constant lookout for what old processes are beginning to fail.
The complicated lineup is probably more related to a maturing market
If the Nexus devices were available for pre-order today, I would be inclined to agree with you. However, since they aren't available for pre-order until the 17th, the day after the Apple announcement, then I doubt Apple is worried. Apple knows full well that they will dominate the new tomorrow.
I don't game on my phone... and have been using a Nexus 4 since release... the only time I notice any performance issue, is when I'm using Chromecast... I was really hoping to see the base price closer to the just under $400 I payed for my n4 (with shipping)... now, I'm not sure. May go for a Moto X once Android 5 is on it.
HBO is launching a stand-alone streaming service in 2015
It's only an issue for where source code is put, not binaries or shared libs. All Go programs are statically linked, so end-users of a program don't care at all about dependancies. The only people that will care about it are those that want to build the binary themselves.

Also, if you are unaware, Go has great cross-platform building. I can generate the executables for all platforms/architectures Go supports from my single dev machine.
I'd love to know how they're planning on disposing of heat in the magnets themselves - most of the available high-current superconductors prefer to stay close to liquid helium temperatures, which is a challenge when you've set them next to a ten megakelvin plasma that's emitting a 100MW neutron flux...
Is there publicly available data about ebola survivors? What would it take to anonymize and publish this data?
Generally those time-measurements are based around assumptions about typical use. If you're constantly using your radio and your screen and making it do processing, you cannot hope to come anything close to typical usage.
This is really great news for me (I "cut the cable" a couple of years ago). I was thrilled when HBO released a lot of content on Amazon Prime. I've been buying content they haven't released on Prime through Amazon streaming (Silicon Valley, Game of Thrones). I have been anxiously awaiting the day where I could buy a "season pass" for current run HBO content.

I've concluded there were a few benefits HBO got from their close relationship with cable companies:
1) The huge customer base that cable companies have
2) The advertising that cable companies provide
3) The distribution of content that cable companies provide

I always felt the release of content to Amazon Prime was an experiment and judging by this news, I think that experiment was deemed a success. I suspect that HBO concluded that Amazon is more than capable of distributing the content and that there are plenty of customers willing to pay for it when it's delivered by a means other than the cable company.

I still suspect that Amazon will play a role in hosting and distributing content for whatever "HBO Go" becomes one year from now.
I do wish AppleTV had federated search. Well, maybe it will tomorrow.
Are you sure you're not mixing up neutrons and protons? Here are some typical depth dose curves from google images(http://www.nap.edu/books/11976/xhtml/images/p20014b2bg205001...). Neutrons, being neutral particles, don't exhibit the Bragg Peak (large increase in energy deposition at the end of the particle's track) that you get for heavy charged particles.
The site apparently only accepts RC4 as the cipher, I get: Error code: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap
Patronising? I find it interesting when people take offense to things so easily. How is sharing my personal experience patronising? I didn't say it wasn't hard - or "really, really, bloody hard," but given that there are people mining for coal, risking life and limb in the armed forces, and children digging through trash heaps for a living, I'd venture to say it's not THAT hard.

The first three years of my daughter's life I was also caregiving for a dying parent and working full time. Life is hard. But parents are just as capable - if not more driven and willing to sacrifice - than anyone else and I don't think we should marvel at that (or as in recent news, imply women should freeze their eggs to pursue their careers). People have been having kids and working from the beginning of time. I know women from previous generations who have had ten or more kids and worked full time. Very common in the American South during the 20th century.
4:3 aspect ratio on an andriod tablet! This should be interesting.
[MacRumors](http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/macbook-air/) says new airs MAYBE 'near the end of the year' but looking at the [buyer's guide](http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#MacBook_Air) it's not even as old as the Air model that was replaced the earliest in its lifespan; I wouldn't plan for anything before spring 2015.
"Given that ( > 5 inches ) outnumbers smaller by 9:5 I'd say the consensus is that big phones are fine."

You're mixing things up, the reality is that there's a difference between what people actually want and what gets produced.

I have a feeling I won't be able to convince you on screen size (despite many of the comments on this post being about the screen being too large), so let's choose battery life as a talking point. Everyone who has owned a smartphone knows how critical battery life is to the user experience, yet time and time again we see companies skimping on battery life. Instead they make their phones slimmer, or with super high pixel counts, or just cut costs on factors that don't influence the appearance. Why do you think they do this? Do you really think they are paying attention to what matters in a phone?
I think it is more a matter of tolerances than of size what makes ITER take so long. Also, it is experimental. That means that it is not just a matter of ordering stuff and putting it together.
There was a point where the market had a choice, much like when phones still came with physical keyboard. There was a long period where you could buy a phone with a keyboard and a phone without. People bought the phones without keyboard. There was a time when you could buy the phones with 3" screens, and people bought the 4". Then when 5" screens came along, people bought those. Then the 5"+ screens.

The people who want physical keyboards, SD cards, smaller screens, and removable batteries are not numerous enough to sell $600-$700 phones to, not with competitive specs. I live in the US and I would love a mid-size diesel truck-based SUV. Toyota even makes the 4Runner that meets those exact requirements, sold overseas. But I am massively in the minority in the US, so I Toyota won't sell me one.

It sucks, it does. But much like we don't say we have a "big screen" or "flat panel" TV anymore (now it's just a TV), a phone the same size as the iPhone, the Galaxy, the Moto X, the One M8, etc isn't really a big phone anymore. It's just a phone.
What about Canada? I'd subscribe in a second as we too, are cord cutters up here.
Very cool! This bears quite a resemblance to the way React.js constructs a virtual DOM so that it can optimize drawing. Do you guys have a way you're benchmarking performance improvements? Are you just looking at time spent on the main thread?
> hiccups during keynote

Pretty sure Jobs had a few hiccups of his own: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzDDO3Xb_QU
laptop is a matured market and the lineup under Jobs was very straight forward (Macbook, macbook pro, macbook air).

EDIT: Since all the reply to my comment seem to complety miss my point, here it is:

Apple's laptop lineup is very straight forward compared to their competitor in regards to LAPTOP. Have a look at HP, Dell, Acer, Lenovo's[1] offering. They have like 30 different laptops.

[1] http://shop.lenovo.com/ca/en/laptops
Feds step up encryption export enforcement with $750K fine against Intel
Nice to see some more people in the payroll space.

Very interested to hear how you are handling fraud/risk with bitcoin and with split payments (what happens when you need to clawback a payment half of which was made through USD/ACH and half through BTC?).
Considering things from different angles is a useful thing to do, and may well be what Hacker News is about. Considering things from useless angles that have no bearing on the discussion doesn't contribute to anything and only serves to confuse the issue at hand. What is the benefit of discussing an arbitrary hypothetical that's so radical and unsupportable that even the individual who proposes it immediately backs off of the position instead of putting an ounce of effort into providing evidence?

Maybe the whole thing is manufactured by Putin. Maybe the entire chain of events is related to the Kennedy assassination. Maybe Anita Sarkeesian is actually the Lindburgh Baby. Maybe Zoe Quinn's ex-boyfriend is the son of the gunsmith who made the Magic Bullet. There are millions of hypotheticals out there, and no benefit to discussing all of them.

You're a literal conspiracy theorist; do you understand that you're equivalent to somebody posting that picture of the UFO and saying, "I believe!"?
What's up with keyboards that lack a right side ctrl key? Is it bad form to type using right-ctrl or something? Can someone shed some light on this? :\
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When Intel releases their next gen processors (2015).
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> more options, more complicated lineup (iPhone 5C/5S, 6, 6+, iPad too)

You forgot the watch. :p
I know and it's silly. The 3rd generation was marketed as "The new iPad", and got the retina screen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad_(3rd_generation)

The 4th generation is marked as "iPad with Retina display" even though it was not the first with the retina display.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad_(4th_generation)

I suppose the original comment was about the crazy marketing, not the features.
Well I'm not letting one anywhere near me until someone runs the Voight-Kampff test on them.
POODLE is a protocol design issue, yes. In short, the padding is not covered by the MAC.
The company is called ArtsPool (http://artspool.co). I use the term startup rather loosely, though. We have modeled ourselves on startups because we admire how startups operate and want to inspire nonprofits to learn from some of the efficiencies in other sectors, but our goal is not to make a profit. We are organized as a member-owned LLC where any surpluses from cost savings return to the members, so essentially we are a more like a co-op designed to separate certain administrative concerns from mission-related activities.
I'm thinking of getting one too but it's still too expensive compared to the price of last year's Nexus 5.
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/ has some pretty performant Haskell, though it uses some real dirty tricks.

It's generally more straight-forward to optimize CPU-bound Haskell because there are less external moving parts to wrestle with (i.e. OS's graphics / networking stack).

Any code that doesn't allocate ought to be as fast as C with clang as it's pretty much up to LLVM to optimize those inner-loops. GHC's deforestation is the big killer feature to make number-crunching code more elegant.

Once one goes the way of fancy tree structures and all that, well one is writing very different code than they would in C, so expect different performance tradeoffs. GHC should still do a very good job, however, and Haskells various synchronization primitives are quite good too, if your domain requires that.
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It seems like too big of a coincidence that this purported "leak" happened on the same day as the new Nexus line announcements.
If I'm comparing side-by-side or even trying to decide if I should get rid of the player I have an get this new one, being exactly the same price does make a difference. I got my first streaming player, the Roku HD, because I was in the market for an Apple TV but didn't want to pay $99 for the Apple TV.
KDE Plasma 5.1.0 arrives with many new (and old) features
With the exception of Win32 all MS "choices" are half-baked and will be abandoned after a while without an upgrade path.
I have a chromecast too, its not even plugged in, I hate having to "cast" to it from another device. I use a raspberry-pi with xbmc running on it, but this could be great.... could be.
IMHO the best thing is how they pitch this as a power source for carriers and military ships, that are mostly used to fight wars for oil. Well played, Lockheed.
Very cool! THANKS!

ETA? :)
http://www.thomasnet.com/products/neutron-shielding-74851395...
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They've already released 8.1 beta 2 to developers. Apple's been waiting to release it publicly after Yosemite is released.
It is a linux tool primarily, but I'm one of the comaintainers of the saltstack salt config management tool. It supports windows pretty well and we have plenty of users who use it on windows for their enterprise server deployments.

It can be used to replace deployment tools like capistrano and fabric on Linux. No reason it can't do the same on Windows if you grok it enough to use it.

http://www.saltstack.com/community/
> The aggregate of all these fees (plus Netflix, Amazon, etc) will likely approach or exceed the cost of a typical cable subscription.

The single-service cost of any one of the most popular services will likely approach or exceed the cost of a typical cable subscription while providing far less (but more focussed) content.
Re: battery, I have a Note 3 with approximately the same size battery and have no issues with battery life. It easily lasts a full day unless I'm using it very heavily.

I have Google Now notifications enabled and I also use Google's stock home screen/launcher with the Google Now integration.
How do I find them? Like I said, I have a Nexus 4 and a controller, and I found the experience lacking. How do I find the games that can be controlled exclusively with a controller?
I assure you that was not what they were saying. I have been trying to find the AMA some VP of HBO did on Reddit (basically as a response to this http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones ) where they "explained" why they just simple cannot put their content online and the Redditors lapped it up.
> And quite frankly, the only person responsible for that death is the armed robber.

You don't think the person that actually shot the teller is the least bit responsible? Most armed robberies result in no deaths. This one resulted in one, and likely resulted in that one BECAUSE some idiot with a hero complex started shooting.

It is very likely had that person not been there the robbers would have got away with the money but everyone would be alive to talk about it.

Concealed carriers are dangerous. They're almost as dangerous as the "bad things" they seek to stop. More guns are more guns. Once a shot is ringing through the air it doesn't care who the good guys or bad guys are, so I'd prefer to be in a situation with less shots in the air regardless of motivations.

Concealed carriers are well intentioned fools. They turn a dangerous situation even more dangerous. Like throwing a match into a gas leak.
Yes, I started with QEMU user emulation. It was so lame (lots of bugs in QEMU; both related to unsupported instructions and other miscellany that affected Go) that I just wrote my own arm64 emulator eventually (didn't take long, it's a variant of Plan 9's [5kqv]i user space emulators, I forgot to mention that all this work started on Plan 9). Now I have hardware but my emulator still gets its use, it's a great debugger too.
Let us reclaim the timeline from Apple and stop caring about their leaks. The cloak and dagger routine seems laughably archaic to me, and they've only been doing it for a few years now.
Sorry, this is not publicly available yet (soon!), but if you have a bitbucket account I can give you access.
Great gesture, however not a solution to the systemic problem. It is only when the government mandates a much higher minimum wage and universal healthcare in the US, irrespective of what the market demands or thinks, will the lives of ordinary citizens improve.
Although this is related to artificial intelligence, http://intelligence.org/files/PredictingAI.pdf is an interesting study on expert predictions of future technology.
Can you elaborate on who you consider "nutjobs"?

As far as I can tell, the biggest factor at play in these shootings is an inability on the part of the American public to understand mental health.
Ouya was an almost great implementation of that idea... honestly, I think the controllers were pretty bad. The fact that you have to put the Ouya on its' side to get decent controller reception is close to unforgivable. It just wasn't quite fast enough for a full screen interface. Also, the media options were an also ran. It's okay as an emulator box, but the gimped controllers ruin the experience... I have two ps3 controllers that I haven't tried with it as of yet, but plan to.
Ah good advice, I will check it out.
I feel like it's almost never a coincidence with 'leaks' from tech firms.
It is fair to say that the YC experience adds value to the companies that participate - even if only by virtue of screening and vetting companies for investors - although that is clearly not the only benefit. For a company that comes in as an idea, and has no revenue / implicit value, the equity (in exchange for funding and value add) makes sense. Companies are not obliged to apply if they don't see value.
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After California decriminalized pot, teen arrest, overdose, dropout rates fell
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One of the founders is named Laurent Landowski. Could this be a Polish name? Polish also looks to be in beta for them, which is one of only a handful of languages they support.
So it's announced, and the price is a surprising $649, nearly double the price of the Nexus 5 ($349). I suspect the Nexus 5 will continue to fill the "budget development" niche.

In fact, now that I've seen the official N6 specs, I'm going to go ahead and order an N5 to replace my Galaxy Nexus because I need a device that does BLE. In a couple of years, perhaps it will be time to upgrade to a refurb N6 or maybe a less expensive N6.5, if they decide to go back to the loss-leader pricing of the older Nexus models.

I'm disappointed that the N6 doesn't come with memory expansion. A MicroSD slot might have tipped the scales for me.
Actually, it's just called the Watch.

(Case and point)
Do you mean 5S? Because I also got an iPhone 6 and returned it in a day to get a 5S instead. But a 4S would be a bit much...
"There no "documenting" feature in our roadmap"

how is this better then SO?

at least http://www.airpair.com/ puts up their videos for free (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6ZQp3RdEU_9kFNrRB-rIQ) for all to see. You might want to consider that
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Great article! I only wish I had more articles like it.
I don't think any prospective customer will watch a 1:30 video about a browser extension. (Especially since it takes 30 seconds to show the product itself. Users have limited attention span and the product is not "cool" enough to justify it.)
I don't know much about her videos but her description of Hitman left with a bad impression of her work.

It's objectively wrong. Wouldn't it be great if she just corrected it so as to not give her detractors more things to work with?
f.lux saves money and you look less goofy IMO. They both do the same thing by blocking the blue from screens. Sounds like companies are just trying to make and extra buck selling glasses.
I still think 2) is one hell of a false equivalency, ymmv.
And it's always a safe bet the top response to that comment will be somebody criticizing it without any solid facts or reason but with fuzzy "you just need to believe harder!" kind of nonsense.
I'm not sure that I agree that they have too many products or the names have gotten confusing. You can still fit all their products on a single desk. A company of that size, with that kind of revenue, and so few product offerings is nuts.

Also, this "leak", how is it different from other leaks in the past? There were leaks all around the iPhone 4. I don't think leaks matter too much to the average consumer. When Apple does a product announcement, I tell my folks about it. 9 times out of 10 they had no idea.

Hiccups happened in Jobs' keynotes all the time. More options isn't a bad thing. The mobile market is maturing. No big deal.
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That was broadly speaking my point, yeah.
Good point about the C code. OTOH, 2147483562 is 1 less than a prime, which is unlikely to be an accident.
Another problem was a license that gave a single developer the power to take the project down.

It gave a developer the power to take down a project violating the GPL. That's probably a quite good power for them to have. I don't see how that's a problem for anyone except if you currently are or wish you could violate the terms of the GPL.
For me, slightly more pleasant text reading is not worth battery life. Reading text on 720p is absolutely fine.
That's exciting to hear. My gut reaction is that this is far too large. However, the idea of always carrying with me something that is nearly as big as my Nexus 7 is enticing. I love reading on my N7, but I never seem to have it on me when I want it.

The smartwatch + phablet combo is not something I had thought about. Which watch are you using?
"The songs, photos, apps, and even recent searches from one of your Android devices can be immediately enjoyed across all of your Android devices."

Catching up to Apple but I'd love to see this across laptops as an app or through Chrome.
True, but the Sony magnetic chargers are actually pretty great. I got a dock that essentially does exactly what my wireless pad did.
John Gossman from Microsoft here. I'm an architect on the Azure team and have been working with Nick and others from Docker. Happy to answer questions.
Laptops are more modular than the newer phones. So most laptop manufacturers give you options to 'customize' the specs. It is probably not profitable to have fully customizable phones, yet. So you have 'more models'. In my opinion, people make this a bigger deal than it actually is. The equivalent of 15" Macbook Pro is perhaps the iPhone Plus, which people criticize as 'more models', etc.