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We haven't even hit the tip of the mobile iceberg. The evolution of mobile is like the evolution of the micro-computer. At first it was way behind the capabilities and sophistication of mini-computers. But it caught up, rapidly, and then passed by mini-computers, rapidly. The same thing is happening with mobile. The end-to-end user experience on mobile is generally superior to that of a PC, largely because mobile incorporates the lessons of decades of work in the PC/server space (one-click app installation/uninstallation, for example). Additionally, a big factor in the success of the micro-computer was cost and complexity of systems. Mini-computers took up racks of specialized equipment, micro-computers were based on a handful of mass produced components the most important of which was a CPU on a single chip. Mobile takes that even further, as such devices are generally just a screen, battery, and handful of chips on a single board, all mass produced.

Eventually mobile devices will be inexpensive, and this will help usher in the next wave of mobile adoption. Mobile devices will start making inroads in the workplace as they start to replace laptops and desktops (docking stations and keyboard "laptop" adapters will become more widespread). Mobile OSes will see forks which cater to corporate IT needs, etc. More importantly, mobile will be how most of the developing world gets online. Battery powered, wireless self-contained computing devices are almost a perfect fit for places without developed world infrastructure. Smartphones and tablets don't require constant internet connections to be useful. Imagine how valuable a tablet that can help teach people to read, indeed to learn almost anything, help people stay in touch with others, and connect people to the 21st century global economy can be for anyone. Computers are going to have a profound impact on the development of the world in the 21st century and mobile is going to be a huge part of it.
Hey, you have an interesting product. Curious why you priced it per vehicle. I am a potential user, but the per vehicle pricing makes it incredibly expensive for us to even consider it. What kind of customers do you have right now?
Did you actually read any of the linked messages in which Linus makes a strong case for why this oft repeated claim about x86 turned out not to be a real problem in practice? If you're going to disagree with what Linus is saying can you explain why you think he's wrong?
Agreed. Except I think proper styluses/digitizers, like what I gather one gets with the Surface Pro, and I enjoy on my Samsung Note 3 hold much better potential than multi-touch (there's a reason why artists and designers have been using digitizers for a long time).

Keyboard for text entry coding, digitizers for design/art/photo-work and possibly (multi)touch for richer, Smalltalk-like UIs. I've always thought three-button mouse weren't such a great idea (ergonomically) -- but a lot of the same things that work well with them (Smalltalk, ACME), should work fine with multi-touch -- as long as we evolve the GUIs a bit to take proper advantage.
Note that it’s in the ftp client.
Applying to YC is a straightforward decision every time:

1. YC would definitely be helpful and worth the equity.

2. The application process is a helpful reality check for the status of my startup regardless of outcome.

3. I still believe we have crazy amounts of untapped potential.

I focus just fine on my startup the rest of the time.
This reminds me of that time that Microsoft caught up to a competitor years too late to have any impact.
I made a SoundCloud plugin for you folks a few years back. In return you sent me a t-shirt and a ton of stickers.

It was my first time contributing to an open source project and I haven't been able to stop since. Keep being awesome, and thanks for inspiring me :)
I don't know why people are talking as if deflation is a real thing when there's a worldwide property bubble going on and property price is a a very real aspect of the cost of day-to-day living. One must question the CPI metrics used.
Mozilla Stumbler 1.0
Do people want to meet people on their flight?
One-up OS X!
An entirely different RCE in wget today:

https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/...
It says it uses the same package format at Chocolatey and you can even add their repos. I don't know if there's any caveats to this, but it's a very, very good sign. I am excited about this.
> we saw the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the world take place between 2007-2010

We did? That might be something you believe, but I don't think it's something proven by evidence.
I think the article would be better off phrased as "don't just stop here, continue the fight", though.
Closed cycle has another advantage over open cycle for kerosene - namely, the vibrations in the chamber are more manageable. Which paradoxically can make the engine more reliable.

A suspicion is that the engines didn't quite survive the long storage... indeed they weren't quite designed for that. But we'll wait for results of analysis of the explosion.
If Windows Server or Exchange weren't a massive continued success you might have a point. As it is you just sound pathetic.

http://www.tannerhelland.com/4993/microsoft-money-updated-20...
Ted.com, and a youtube recording of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors.

That's what I linked you to.

Your criticism would be better directed at the various websites you have apparently frequented.

> Evidence please - surely you have something better than a 7 year old talk about a proposal and a conspiracy-mongering chemtrails website. I looked at the Documents section there and it's a joke - one white paper from 1966, one guy's investigation of his single diseased rhododendron plant, one unpassed bill introduced by Dennis Kucinich and written by a couple of UFO researchers, and a slide deck on possible geoengineering methods.

> http://contrailscience.com/kucinich-chemtrails-and-hr-2977/

> Sorry, this is kooksville. A reasonable argument would start with a review of meteorological classification and then assert novel observations before introducing theories about possible causes. Instead we have some guy who drones into his camcorder about how sheeple can't remember what real clouds look like.

What made this poster go to the lengths he did? Dennis Kucinich? UFOs? Did he even read what I posted?
The typical case is when you call malloc. There's a ton of C code that looks like:

sometype *ptr = malloc(...);

A C++ compiler will reject that.
This isn't aimed at consumers. This is aimed squarely at businesses. Cortana won't excite them as much as further automation which decreases workload and by extension costs.
Interestingly, Windows' ftp.exe is BSD-derived also:

http://everything2.com/title/BSD+Code+in+Windows
Processor time is increasingly fast enough to allow us the once-upon-a-time luxury of considering the programmer's time.

Interpreters make the inner loop of the programmer's life faster, making program development faster.

Once the program works, a profiler can be applied, and only the very slowest things recoded in lower-level language.

For many projects, optimization is not necessary at all.

Even in Donald Knuth's time, "Premature optimization is the root of all evil," was a common caution. Modern hardware makes this even more true today.

Not to say that you should go out of your way to code clumsily, but that shaving a cycle here and there anywhere but the innermost of loops is likely to be a waste of the only time that is really precious any more... your own time writing the code.

Given the amount of time code spends in maintenance, taking the time to write clear code will save the maintainer (possibly you!) time, so readability should be prized over raw execution speed in almost all cases. In six months, you won't remember how that tricky one-liner really works, and will waste reading time in minutes to hours that saved microseconds in execution.
The post I was responding to was talking about Linus' behavior in general, not anything specific to this article.
A Student Perspective on Why Technical Interviews Suck
I got rejected. My company, One Society, is a network of socially conscious people focused on living and giving the most they can every day. Think of One Society as the Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter of philanthropy.

http://www.one-society.com

http://www.one-society.com/demo

Any feedback would be most appreciated. :)
And as we can see, definite integration is more of a local operation, while indefinite integration is a global operation.

I think this was borrowed from here: http://math.stackexchange.com/a/20636 ? Either way, it'd be cool to link to this question in that "why integrals are hard" section as it has a bunch of great responses.
Oh goodness no, not lower consumption! In 2014 of course we should all be working full time just to have roofs over our heads, assuaging our stress by buying toys that we can't even appreciate before they're obsolete or broken.

The myth that inflation is good is one of the greatest lies used to pervert a seemingly free society into yet another treadmill of sustenance-based slavery.

In a functioning free market economy, most prices should be always decreasing - that is precisely what competition is based on!

But when we fix the CPI, what we get instead is basic necessities still being optimized ever-lower, while the currency is inflated to make energy costs (the only true monetary measure) rise to compensate. Collateralizable assets shoot through the roof as they're used to facilitate the monetary inflation (those who control access to the proverbial printing press taking a hearty cut), and we get to our current point where things that used to be owned are now just rented from banks.

Ask yourself how many people have avoided owning a computer, knowing that prices are always dropping? How many people have gone hungry, figuring that food will be cheaper next week?
Hi all!

We cut a 1.0 release of the Mozilla Stumbler finally.

Have at it. File the bugs. Complain about battery life.

Help us make this thing not suck and build out a proper open location service.
> Anyone who's tried the Oculus and who has even an ounce of entrepreneurial imagination would agree.

People have been saying exactly the same thing since the first VR came about. For some reason, VR really excited some people. Even though there is no way it is replacing a computer or a smartphone, since they have different uses.

Unless you are suggesting VR will improve writing emails or entering data into a spreadsheet?
Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork' Wi-Fi Hotspot Grounds Plane
I received an interview for Quill.org. The third time was the charm.

The only thing that really matters is your users. Other people, such as the judges who assess your app, the influential people whom you'd like to get their support - these are not necessarily your users, and they won't necessarily understand the problems you're solving.

Stay true to your users, and if they love what you are doing everything else will follow.
Maybe not constantly being egged on to consume might have good effects, for, say, the environment.
You mean the one we pay for each month in our mobile bill?
Are the v0.11 docs available anywhere other than the Github markdown files?
Sexism and racism is currently a hot topic and it looks like YC has made effort to change this.

Not sure about ageism .. if your over 40 should you even bother?
It's not about ads, it's about healthcare insurance premiums, and heuristicly predicting who should pay more or be uninsured.

And they'll call it "fair", because that word does not mean what it used to, at all. Fair use. Fair treatment.

Fair division of the equity of your being between the vultures.
The author presents the following options:

1. participate in the industrial economy = lose

2. living more simply = lose

3. stop the industrial economy = win

How about a fourth option, which includes: massive geo and atmospheric engineering, nuclear/fusion research/dissemination, desalination and water pipelines, and large-scale laboratory meat production from real animal tissue.

My understanding is that the damage we've done will take thousands of years to reverse if done naturally. If that's true, the only viable solution, and one that may even let us maintain our standard of living, is the massive all-in application of science and engineering we used to decades ago dream about and assume would naturally come.

Are we that spooked as a species that we forgot to think big, or is it simply delusional to think we can engineer the planet?
Likewise in europe it's Kik and Viber.
Privacy and no ads. The "free" alternatives are not "free".
Because health care is a huge business.
Yeah, my email usage at age 12-15 was also almost nil and that was in the 90s. Doubt stats at 12-15 correlate well to whether those kids will use email when they hit college.
We were accepted for an interview (Not accepted to the class yet). I'm 41 and my co-founder (who doesn't looks quite as young as I am) is 47. To be honest, I fully expected a rejection for this very reason so I'm pleasantly surprised which is actually pretty consistent with the YC brand.

To make a fair assessment you also need to look at the distribution of applicants. If 15% of applicants are female, then your null hypothesis is that 15% of founders will be female.
honest question because I hear this line from YC partners, then at that point why as founders would we need YC at all?
Paul -- see my comment above. I thought we would be rejected for sure.
Ask HN: Graduating at 24 – failing this term. Not sure what to do
Hey Hacker News. Long time lurker here (~2 years). I'm about to finish a semester at a uni for computer science. A little back story, I switched majors from psychology+econ to computing science and it worked out decently well. I finished an internship with a big company 6 months ago, cofounded a company (that didn't do so well) 4 months ago, and now in my final year at Uni and just received another internship at my dream company. This is all going awesome! I didn't plan on working at these types of companies but I felt ecstatic when I got an offer to work with them.

I'm in trouble with school. I came back and tried to divide my time up between running a company, going to hackathons, job applications, and taking a 5 course load - this was way too much for me in hindsight. I'm certain to fail one course (professor promised me this), with the possibility of failing another 2... so 3/5 courses failed. I'm in a lot of student loan debt and 22 years old, so already behind the curve of most engineers, but this setback will push my graduation back to 24 years old. I feel lost and alone, especially ever since cofounding the company and losing many friends/ social circles. Coupled with failing this semester, and scared of the ageist connotation our field has, I'm really lost, and well, scared.
Don't disagree with the market numbers, but there's a problem with mobile. It is best illustrated by the fact that I csnnot develop a mobile app on a mobile device.

There won't be any "convergence" until mobile OSes are uncrippled.

I personally see a three device ecosystem. Mobile will cut into PC on the low end, but it's really growing into a space not served by PC or server. Computing in general is expanding.
White House Computers Hacked
Improve TCP bandwidth utilization for applications like rSync, FTP and Dropbox
Congrats. What's your start up about?
> I wonder if the Russians would consider it a good or a bad thing for them, if the West decides to stop using those Russian-built engines?

Definitely bad. Of course, that depends on whom you ask :) and which Russian we're talking about.

NK-33 is used on a recently created Soyuz-2.1v rocket (one engine on first stage). There is no production of NK-33 today in Samara - but the ability to sell engines to the West would oh so much improve economic situation for Samara's industrial space cluster. Among other things, NK-33 is a matter of pride in Samara. It's the only engine maker for first stages in Russia (if you don't count Voronezh'es LH2 engines, used on the second stage of Energiya) other than Energomash, its arch-rival. Since recently works are underway to restart the production of NK-33... and Orbital going away from using them, for whatever reason, is sad news.

Still NK-33 is a great piece of technology, in some aspects still unsurpassed. It's too early to consider it's over for NK-33.

As for politics and sanctions against Russia - this is quite different subject, almost completely unrelated. Leaders come and go... and people stop wars at some point, yet the aspiration of going to the stars remains.
Thanks for that, but I think it somewhat misses the point. The demand-side of "everyone wants meat" problem is more of a long-term global-trends sustainability thing.

The California issue is that the cost of locally-used water is not being reflected in locally-produced meat.

People don't necessarily have to eat less meat in general, as long as less of the production comes specifically from California.
Interesting! That does make it harder to forge. Still brittle when it happens.
It hurts everyone as the economy shrinks and there's less cash to go around.

That's who.
Might be useful to differentiate asset deflation from other forms. Asset deflation is neccessary to spread wealth more evenly around the world. Such a policy is he most "progressive" policy given the current skew of asset distributions. Its possible to de-link asset vol from job creattion. Look no further than the recent inflation of asset values and the lack of net-job adds. So, as it is on the way up...so it is on the way down. The beauty of variance and volatility is that they are naturally "neutral" terms.

The argument that there needs to be inflationary bias to create jobs is weak on many levels. This is just one.
I think technically engines were manufactured in early '70s - like, in 1974? Definitely weren't stored in Siberia - Russia has quite sizable European part, no need to go to Siberia if you want to hide about 70 engines from nemesis Glushko's eye...
you did too - you just weren't paying attention:
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/2008-financial-c...
Steve Jobs had a good quote on this:

"I'm trying to think of a good analogy. When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks. But as people moved more towards urban centers, people started to get into cars. I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this transformation is going to make some people uneasy... because the PC has taken us a long way. They were amazing. But it changes. Vested interests are going to change. And, I think we've embarked on that change. Is it the iPad? Who knows? Will it be next year or five years? ... We like to talk about the post-PC era, but when it really starts to happen, it's uncomfortable."
Team has changed, name has changed, product has changed, vision has been refined.

10/30 marks my 4 year anniversary for coming up with the core ideas behind Tinj. We're building dramatically better ways for people to share information starting with video ratings.

More than anything, I've grown enormously as an entrepreneur, as a developer and as a person.
Fire TV Stick: Amazon Announces Chromecast Competitor
Interesting. Potentially problematic, but it should be something we can deal with. Requiring acceptance of a signature for it to be posted seems like it does the job.
I hope they get there soon. ARM SoCs have a bad habit of running only heavily hacked, out-of-tree, unmaintained kernels abandoned so long ago (or inexplicably they launch with an already 2-year-old kernel) that they'll never boot systemd. Yet even the weakest/slowest of Intel's Bay Trail lineup still uses at least 80% more power than the ideal candidate ARM solution I'm evaluating.
AngularJs 2.0
It doesn't erase it, no, but certainly negates it. At least in terms of quantity and diversity. As for quality, I don't think I'd personally miss any content that would cease to exist without the monetary incentive. Though others may differ.
Have you tried textsecure?
All of these things are designers trying for one user-centric goal and having it backfire in ways that were not predicted.

None of these things say "evil" to me even remotely.
I think the theory is not so much that people go hungry because food will be cheaper tomorrow, but that there is a perverse incentive to spend a little less because you'll be able to get a little more with it later. I'm not sure I buy this theory but I think it's more about the macro effects of a small tweak in incentives.
No problem, just do this instead:

render: function() {
// Assign propsObj here

return <Component {...propsObj}/>;
}
>Even though there is no way it is replacing a computer or a smartphone, since they have different uses.

Of course VR won't replace a smartphone or a computer. It's a completely different tool solving a completely different problem.

>Unless you are suggesting VR will improve writing emails or entering data into a spreadsheet?

Reminds me of the comments people first made about the iPhone when it came out; like "how are you supposed to type without a physical keyboard?" It's an inability to think creatively. VR isn't going to improve writing emails or entering data into a spreadsheet, those activities are already well served by laptops. Use your imagination. VR will help you buy your next car because you can actually sit and test drive hundreds before you try the real thing. VR will let you visit other countries before you plan an expensive vacation. VR will let you connect with your friends across the world in ways you simply cannot do today. VR will let you walk around in your custom built home before a single nail is driven.

> People have been saying exactly the same thing since the first VR came about.

So the value is obvious, then. It's just that the technology hasn't been there to make it viable. People were talking up handheld devices for years as well, but it wasn't until it became technologically feasible to create a user friendly experience that it finally exploded in popularity.
And of course it's ridiculous that engines like NK-33 are considered bad just because they sit in a hangar for some 40+ years :) . It's not milk, they aren't that easily spoiled. Elon just used this time reference to make the decision look good - for somebody who doesn't know better.

So factually he's right - but also misses the point. Here I should admit that Elon says more than he does - but he does quite a bit too, so kudos to his successes - Merlin-1D is a great engine.
Project mockingbird, therefore the NSA established Google as a front company for spying on the population?
We make mistakes
>I'm misread your post because I'm tired

Ok, it's officially past my bedtime.
You can use ES6 classes today:

class Button {
render() {
return <button>{this.props.label}</button>;
}
}

Button = React.createClass(Button.prototype);

Of course, it would have been nice to be able to skip that last line, and extend/mix in some React base class instead.
Is this like Quirky for everything (not just products)?
> incentive to spend a little less because you'll be able to get a little more with it later

Yes, I completely agree with this. I just don't think that it's bad. At a certain point, the utility of having the good today surpasses any additional utility that could be achieved by delaying the purchase.

The balance shifts back towards consumption as people build wealth, since the utility of saving decreases. Rather than being encouraged to quickly spend income on goods, saving wealth to spend at any time allows one to plan their purchases and better negotiate for the value of their time.