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The big ones have people with psychology major or minors on staff to help research into recurrent behavior of user interactions, and many of the smaller ones probably just copy patterns from the big ones.

Just having 100 users playing your game and watching what makes them open the app again can easily be considered a psychological experiment, though in the tech business they are probably more often referred to as just "user testing".
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It seems most people here are against this because of Facebook's (or other service providers') gain from it, but no one is arguing against Mark's actual point: "some access is better than none at all", which I think is more important.

Internet.org may not succeed at the end, because of the conflict of interests in many parties (corporate and political) involved in its running. But the idea of providing limited access for free is IMO very good and important, and arguing details before anything being done is at best unproductive.

All the people here already have internet access, and most without any limit or censorship. But can you try to think of this from POV of the users of internet.org? Not to think for the children in poor regions, but think AS those children.

Let me explain from my experience, where limit of access mostly comes from heavy censorship.

I was born in China at the end of the Culture Revolution. Fortunately, my family still had got TV when I was in elementary school, and we had internet when I was in high school. All the information, programs, news, cartoons, whatever contents from TV or internet were heavily censored. They were censored so heavily that I, as a kid, could not realize that they were censored at all. But I still enjoyed a lot of information, entertainment, knowledge from TV and internet as a kid. As an adult now, I hate and want to fight those censorship with all I have. But without TV or internet, I'd very unlikely to be able to code, or to write English, or anything I enjoy doing today.

To me, the limit of access that's forced by government doesn't differ much from the ones by corporates. But having some limited access to information is absolutely critical, when the ONLY other option is no access.
Woah, that's really cool! Thanks
Actually, five voted against, so you may want to revise that number of assholes :)
should be fixed now.
I forgot who said it, but it went like this: "If people recognise the banality of war, there will be no more wars."

Of course its not that simple, but we, I suppose especially us techie boys (us because I am one), think that an M1 Abrams tank, a F-15 airplane or a Sig Sauer rifle are, well, cool. We also think uniforms look good. And we dream of being heroes, especially when we are young.

It is, of course, nonsense. All these machines, while technologically interesting, are basically just ugly tools to end lives of other humans. I suppose the glamour and pride only work as long as you believe it does. And so forth.

Of course we need some weapons to defend ourselves, (one might argue our nuclear weapons are more than enough already), because who knows may come and attack, sure. But, yea, I think I just want to say, stop glorifying all this stuff.

It gives me hope that one of the most popular computer games ever, Minecraft, is not a war game. :)
I wonder if after Mozilla writes Servo in Rust 1.x and Google sees how fast Servo is, even compared to its own JS engine, it will also consider writing a new JS engine in Rust 2.x (I assume, by then), as I doubt they'd use Go for that. Same for the whole browsers. Due to the safety features of Rust over C++ we might see both Firefox and Chrome be rewritten in Rust over the next 5 years.
Ok, we'll use that instead of http://www.madfeed.co/video/jiro-ono-and-rene-redzepi-have-a.... Thanks.
Navy develops them, and -- a lot of commenters on here are overlooking -- others then copy them, and Navy rules, whatever those may be, do not apply to those other people.

Just a public service reminder not to make unfounded assumptions. Let's not assume that rules will keep these in check.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9378449 previous discussions.
The Rolling Robot from the Star Wars Trailer Actually Exists and It’s Awesome
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8486324 about similar schools in the UK in the 1970s. I believe the only one left in the UK is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School (founded in 1921).
Ask HN: When do you know your startup has failed?
I'm currently going through a mini depression. We've gone without salary for the last 4 months, abandoned our business model to do pay for hire work in the hopes of trying to raise money to keep the lights on.

Honestly I feel like I'm going to be evicted from the house. My rent is already up, and as of now I have < $1 :).

My partner is fine actually, he has rich parents and doesn't really depend on the startup for income. Which actually gives my friends and family the illusion that we're both killing it.

We have almost 0 chance of raising more money, it's much harder to get money it seems if you're in a poor country.

So, if you've had a failed startup, how did you know? Did you run out of money and call it quits? If you succeeded, did you have a patch so rough that you were evicted?

I'm 25, I feel like I'm losing at life already. It was okay to be broke earlier, because it's expected. It's not anymore, when almost none of your peers are. Also, I'm not in a developed country, where being broke means living on ~$1k a month. I've been living on ~$200 a month.

Anyway, I just want any input from you guys. Like anything, I just wanted to get this off my chest. Not even sure I've really expressed what I wanted to express (English isn't my first language).
Hi! I'm sure you get asked this a lot, but it wasn't found in a quick skim of the FAQs, so:

How long do you (the Rust community) expect Rust to remain backwards-compatible? That is, once 1.0 ships, on what sort of approximate timescale would significant effort be made to ensure code that worked with the initial release (assuming no experimental features / libraries in use) would keep working? On the order of months, years, decades?

I'm interested in writing some random things in Rust, but very much not interested in _re_writing Rust code in newer Rust. This probably means it's still too early for me, if the standard library is expected to expand soon after 1.0. But given e.g. the prevalence of Python 2 versus Python 3, it seems like there's quite a lot of people who think similarly.

Background: I used to write Firefox extensions and things like that. Stopped being active around Firefox 4, when they declared that they are fine with breaking backwards API compatibility (and, IIRC around that time or soon after, put in arbitrary checks to force recompilation). This was just before the short releases started.
Re: International text input:

I only use keyboards with the english international layout although I'm from Austria and the german layout would be the natural one. Therefore the keyboard layout in the OS is also set to english international. I do this because I program.

And still I'm very happy about the easy access for special characters, because in literally every email I have to use one of ß, ä, ö or ü.
Notifications of documents? Integration with a variety of services is new.
It is frightening to see some people on this thread saying how they feel an urge to go to war because they "want to best other men" or "want to win".

One way to counteract that could be actively practicing nullifying one's ego. Everyday, do one thing you really dislike, and stop doing one thing you really like and can do. People need to get over this ridiculous idea that all their desires must be sated.
Google’s Future: Neural Networks, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Yeah, that's the regrettable name the real estate developers came up with. I suspect BQE Heights didn't have the same melodious ring.
Updating my iMac to Yosemite fried the graphics card. It seems Apple is putting form way ahead of function, and as a result stuffing too hot components into too small space (the same iMac has previously fried the screen and the HDD to death).
I already do this exactly, in the case where it's one woman it would be humorous to use that statement and would lighten the mood.

If someone is looking to be offended then they will find a reason no matter what is said or how it's said.

Intent is the thing that should be judged, anything else is a foolish way to live and you will constantly find yourself offended.
As a counterpoint let's use a simple analogy. Me calling the police if I see someone breaking into my neighbours house takes effort as well. In this situation no one would expect that I should have my neighbour to pay me a retainer first.
Reading facebooks values, it makes me extremely sad to see what they're doing. No one wants to stand in the way of providing access of the internet to the poor. But it has to be done right. Saying that telecom providers recommend these services without any bias is untruthful. Furthermore internet.org is an initiative to empower people with tools. Not providing them unused/ rarely used services. I get that one of the values is move fast and break things but at what cost?
It's impossible to build a community of users if you publish on the App Store? That's nonsense. All 3 of those games are by known developers with a pre-existing fan base and all 3 have user communities that are distinct from their retail channels. There is no reason to believe that the retail channel must provide a user community in order for a user community to exist.
Innocent people are unquestionably being killed, but the US shocked and awed plenty of civilians back in the day. And its actions did cause a major civil war. So it all depends on what you think of the deeper reasons behind wars, and of how much civilian leaders have considered the consequences of their actions. The problem is that wars are rarely waged to protect innocents, they are an answer to strategic considerations.
Luckily in most other developed western countries it carries no prestige to be part of the army outside of certain low income / right wing / uneducated circles. To the point where the majority of university students would never consider dating someone who went to the army. While there was still conscription, if you didn't chose to do alternative civil service, you were in the minority and considered suspect.
Okay, so it's an image of uber cars and some text.
Indian Unicorns – Billion Dollar Startups from India
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9391148
For the non-NYC people: "DUMBO Heights" is a cluster of buildings just South of DUMBO, Brooklyn on the other side of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway (BQE) which were owned by the Watchtower / Jehovah's Witnesses until I believe 2012.

See http://dumboheights.com/ (warning: real estate developer site).

* edited: directions in DUMBO are easy to confuse. What you think is north-south is east-west and vice/versa.
I think it's great to see museum thinking more about long term storage of digital art - this is a topic that I believe will become more important in the 10 years to come, as more artist create digital or online works of art - there might even be interesting opportunities for services that preserve digital art for collectors
English has lots of loan words using accents including common words like café and résumé and more uncommon ones like crème brûlée. It has native although uncommon accents, e.g. in coöperation. Personally, I also commonly type in Swedish which has the extra letters å, ä and ö in its alphabet, sometimes type in German (ö, ü and ß) and occasionally use an IME for 日本語 (Japanese). IME aside, losing direct access to the above accents, all of which are muscle memory by now, is one of the major reasons I probably wouldn’t consider a Windows laptop.

(I didn’t mention metakey access to typing typographically correct characters: –, “, ”, ‘, ’, … etc)
Apple could attract more developers (and thus more iPad users and more corporate revenue -- reversing declining iPad growth) if developer success was more closely aligned with Apple success.
I don't think it is really possible to 'give Powershell a try'. PS is extremely powerful, but there's a lot to learn. It is not a drop-in replacement for bash at all because it's so different.
Ok so this is basically the Summerhill school model. If I could chip in with a data point and my own point of view for the doubters... I visited Summerhill and spent a day there and attended one of their famous Meetings. I experienced it as an incredibly special place.

The children I observed at Summerhill seemed to possess a remarkable clear and calm confidence way beyond their years. It was not a subtle thing. It affected how they moved and sat as well as how they expressed themselves verbally. I came to the conclusion that this was the result of feeling in control of their lives, having their own voice valued and being able to make their own mistakes in a safe environment.

With self confidence anything is achievable. Self motivated learning is many times more potent than that imposed upon you.

So the kids there that want to be rocket scientists study what they need to become rocket scientists. The ones that want to be carpenters study what they need to become carpenters. No more and no less study than necessary to persue their self determined destiny.

I found that highly disconcerting at first. As someone who identified with high academic achievement, the idea that you would voluntarily not want to achieve A grades in all subjects seemed crazy. It was an unsettling moment when I walked away realising that I was the crazy one and had been suckered into the needlessly competitive system of academic achievement that succeeds by satisfying its own internal logic and dismissing other approaches.

Left to their own devices and free of rules imposed on them, as opposed to those self determined, these humans decide that their own time should be mostly filled with... play and just enough study to fulfil what they feel drawn to as a purpose in life.

Being given the time and space and quiet to be able to see what your purpose in life is is the greatest gift that any school can bestow on a child. Because when you have purpose, everything else falls into line behind it.

A further note. These Meetings are not just pupils councils guided by adults - they are raw democracy. It's also where a lot of the learning happens I believe, which is probably why they form such a central part of the school. They teach rhetoric in the most hands on way imaginable. They teach morals. They teach you how to relate socially. And things like public speaking naturally fall out of the meeting process too.

When it's easier to self teach than ever before I feel we need more schools like Summerhill and the poster's. Schools that allow us to read the 'what it is to be human' manual rather than the increasingly painfully outmoded systems we inherited from Victorians.
The social aspects of modern technology are getting more people regularly writing to express themselves than anything else in history.

Of all the visions of the future, the one that almost nobody predicted was that the children of the 21st century would use writing as a dominant form of informal social communication.

Also, what is wrong with spending hours looking at photos?
> The JIT can optimize this out in many cases.

It can optimize some of the cases. Problem persists and is now even less predictable.

> No it doesn't. You can still specialize as appropriate when you know the types at compile time, see e.g. miniboxing for Scala.

Yes it does. The subject here is generics in Java, not scala kludges to compensate for the poor generics design.

> This was added by the Java language designers for convenience.

Strawman. You can point to any language feature and call it convenience, basically anything above a Turing Machine is convenience. The fact is that they realized that the type erased generics would appear severely hampered if they could not be used for the most used types at all. Hence, they swept the problem under the rug, by allowing implicit (automatic) conversions. The problem is still there, there's a big bulge on the rug and the linked FAQ is essentially a map to guide you around it so that you do not trip.

> The last bit is an appeal to authority. There are many people, esp. in the Scala community, who argue convincingly against reification

I'd be interested in hearing those arguments, specifically those that do not invoke interoperability with Java. Have source?

My source: http://gafter.blogspot.dk/2004/09/puzzling-through-erasure-a...
LoL is capped at lvl 30. With boost, it will take you 1 week instead of 2 to reach lvl30. It does have any in game effect. Furthermore, they are not an item that you are trained to use as a currency.

The South Park episode about freemium game is very good at explaining how the freemium market model is based on addiction.
We'll see. MS claims I won't (http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/windows-technical-preview...). However, now in 2015 I can set up a Windows box in an hour or so thanks to Chocolatey (and to the coming OneGet).

(I have actually upgraded to 8.1 CTP I think, then continued all the way to 10)
How Do People Get New Ideas? (1959) [http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531911/isaac-asimov-ask...]

Its hard to believe, someone was able to think something so relevant today, more than five decades back.
I was at that talk.

In a sense, what you need there is not "unsafe", but "atomic", declaring that the contained operation is atomic. That's less general than "unsafe", and atomicity of code is checkable.
The history of databases and data processing [video]
Murder yes that's sort of the point. Torture and rape are not required.
> no way for developers to build meaningful relationships with their customers

Isn't that just a nice way of saying 'forcing a meaningful relationship' onto the customer? Obviously users can seek out more information from the developer's website / twitter / etc if they want to. Everyone else probably doesn't want to be nagged by SPAM e-mails and other forms of self-promotion. I feel like trial software falls into the same gimmicky category. Inevitably users wait to purchase until the trial ends and end up feeling annoyed for being forced to pay for something they were using for free. Even more so now that so many users are used to IAP feature upgrades.
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> "some access is better than none at all"

Not really.

Mark said that governments and telcos decide which services go on internet.org

Do you really want the government (or even your telco) deciding which news source that the poor (who are easily influenced) read?

Leaving aside the preservation of competition, government deciding what news services to provide to the poor has huge political ramifications, especially when every media outlet has a bias towards one end of the political spectrum or other.

In this case, no access is far better than some access. Just because it didn't play out as bad as it could have in China, doesn't mean that the same will happen in India. See North Korea for example.
> 2. Changes in iOS 8.3 completely broke the engine we have been using for the last several years.

This. Apple has been a specialist at breaking compatibility. Microsoft has been much better at that. Backward compatibility is so important, not having it is pretty risky if you want to keep mac developers.

XCode is a good example of that. At every new XCode versions, things have to be reconfigured.
I really liked the first two paragraphs - they put it well.
> I'm simply proposing that we see people in these countries as people.

Of course. Nobody is saying we shouldn't. If you're debating this premise, you're debating a premise nobody else raised, one which only exists in your head.

> Your response shows that very well, which basically parrots everything our media ever says about North Korea.

I'm not parroting, and saying I am just convinces me you're not interested in a discussion, but in being right, and insulting people who disagree.

My conclusions are based on evidence, mostly from people who went there as tourists, shepherded by the government itself, and still saw horrible things. That, plus the refugees and the stories they tell, paint a consistently terrible picture of what life is like in North Korea.

It's possible they're all lying, all the photos are doctored, and North Korea has just as many lights as South Korea when night falls. However, that's so far from being the least hypothesis that claiming it without a lot of new evidence is absurd.
> The frustrating thing about rings of protection is that there have been machines which had the right hardware, but no OS used it. [...] C and UNIX/Linux want a big flat address space and a vanilla CPU.

C per se does not want flat address space: it is, for example, UB to subtract pointers that do not point within a same object. IOW, "far pointers" from the DOS era and segmented 286-style pointers would absolutely be within the bounds of the C standard, if they hadn't used special syntax.

With 386 segment-level protection you could define one segment per object, with byte-level granularity limit checks for segments smaller than 1MB. Each string could have had its own segment with precise length. No more buffer overruns.

I think we ended where we are now because of several factors:

1. early hardware -- 286 -- was too limiting. Each segment could be at most 64k long, and

2. programmers (naturally) needed arrays larger than 64k even back then,

3. OS-es, UNIX and Win32, but not VMS, targeted the lowest common HW denominator, which is flat address space with only U/S page protections,

4. rather bad tooling.

Situation is changing slowly though. Intel's MPX extension offers much of the old segment-level protection, but is opt-in for software and needs tooling support (compiler, linker, loader, etc). This is being worked on, e.g., in gcc: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Intel%20MPX%20support%20in%20the%20G...
Could you elaborate and compare to a US Inc., rather than a LLC?

There are several reasons to prefer a Inc vs a LLC. Without entering into a battle, I refer to Sam Altman lecture [1].

From http://www.srlfacile.org (translated):

> In the UK, the cost of a "Ltd" (Limited) varies from 25 pounds for a basic package, 250 pounds 'all inclusive'. In the United States, create a "LLC" (Limited Liability Company), it costs 50 to $500 depending on the state in question, and you can do everything through the site in many cases.

My fear, in some sense, is that we go towards something which is better than the current Italian Srl, but with the drawbacks of a LLC vs Inc. I'm not criticizing, just asking for clarifications.

[1] http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec18/
My school as a kid was Montessori, not Sudbury, but a lot of the ideas are the same. Yes, I think you're old school for thinking that. Kids learned fine for tens of thousands of years by following adults around, watching what they did, and doing whatever they found interesting at the moment.

The industrial-era "place the children in a big concrete box until they are ready to go to either a factory or jail" model is a dinosaur, and I really hope some kind of asteroid strikes it soon.
What surprises me is the sheer amount of professionals that buy a MacBook Pro, and install Windows on it.
> Also, dat touchpad, nothing competes...

Trackpoint. Makes it very hard for me to switch from Thinkpads.

Also, I'm growing quite fond of having a touch screen and a pen for my laptop.
I'm having a bit of trouble buying the growth story. 750k users on a messaging service is small. And the service has been going for at least 20 months and the company much longer.