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Writing Apple Watch apps is inspiring developers to write better iPhone apps
Ask HN: What new Microsoft technologies should I keep an eye on?
Microsoft seems to be releasing new technologies for devs at a breakneck pace. I have a hard time keeping up due to a strict schedule. What seems interesting enough to be useful or should be watched?
In physics, chemistry, materials science, etc. quantitative is orders of magnitude better than qualitative. In the social sciences the two may be the same quality but that's largely because they've had such little success with quantitative methods.
In a discussion about policy, you should never use terms like "generally accepted" and "should be considered" to refer to the reality that is already under question. It's extremely confusing.

The fact that your data isn't protected can't be used as an argument that it shouldn't be. Just because something is legal doesn't make it right, either.
coca cola will contact them, but that won't necessaruily result in a chage. As pointed out, drones are a distinct market from sugary drinks, sot he likelihood of consumer confusion is low. It's true that Coke's legal department will write a grumpy letter anyway, in order to create a legal record of actively defending their existing mark, which can be raised in court if they are ever confronted with a genuine infringer.

I assume/hope the Spirte team have budgeted a few $ for the legal expenses in replying to such a letter, but agree with the poster below that the cost might well be covered by the value of free publicity over a trademark dispute. I hope that's not a deliberate strategy, as it's the sort of thing that could turn into an abusive practice.
That would be nice, huh? I've worked for plenty of places where the dev manager was a glorified scrum master and PM
>> Also, remember that most of "silicon valley" isn't involved in technology any more. It's become mostly a media/advertising center. There are still technology companies around, but the focus has definitely shifted.

Can you please elaborate?
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Does that mean we can expect the WooThemes store to be integrated into Wordpress(.org)? What other integrations can we expect?
As is Burrito Driven Development!
Does the context apply? Lets say you saw a really cool operating system from Bell Labs called UNIX but they were all pissy about trademarks and licensing fees so you made your own that, to the user is similar enough that you don't have to learn a bunch of new syntax or command options, but to avoid AT&T's lawyers from being confused that maybe you ripped off their code you call yours Linux.

Cheerios from P&G, Honey-Os from Trader Joes? Dr Pepper from the Dr Pepper/Snapple folks or Dr Skipper from the kind folks at Safeway?

And really who is the "good guy" and who is the "bad guy" here? In all of the product "rip offs" in the US and in China they are significantly cheaper than the 'branded' version. So consumers have a choice, the widget made to the 'brand's level of quality or one made as cheap as possible. And a lot of consumers go for the cheap ones. That is why I see a bunch of Comkia Ipad chargers rather than Apple ones.

The fact that a lot of this originates in China has, in my opinion, more to do with the fact that things are manufactured there, rather than the fact that they are Chinese. Even before the great American manufacturing diaspora there were US manufacturers making "cheap knock offs" of various kinds of things. Here in the land of Right and Legitimacy. Basically, there are a lot of American consumers that go for 'cheap'. And there appears to be a lot of Chinese consumers who want the "look" of an expensive brand but they don't want to pay a premium for it. So they get it from the shop owned by an uncle or something.

Now I am the first guy to cry "Foul!" when someone steals the plans to a system that took a long time to develop and then sets up manufacturing without having to pay any development costs. But if factory B goes out and buys a widget that Factory A made, takes it apart and figures they can make it cheaper and they will be sure that people know it isn't a Factory A widget its a Factory B widget? That is just regular competition.
If you invest in 9 companies that use Meteor then investing in Meteor means you've invested in those 9 companies.

Until they stop using Meteor.
Technically it would have been a good assumption up until recently. Now parents need to consider whether they would like to fly with a child. I recommend they use readily available data to determine if the risk is elevated due to the city they are flying into or out of.
"In either case we would need a gambling license. Within the strict rules of that regulation, we would not be able even to test a game with real money until we had a license in place."

Off topic, but I wonder if that stopped them from testing a "real money" version before they had the license to do so. You can still test it with a few people in your network, right? The risk can't be that high.. right?
Motors from vacuum cleaners can generate uncontrolled broadband noises that can cause harmful interferences. Radio station, in other hand, as long as it is set up correctly, wouldn't cause the same type of interference.

Perhaps in the case of the radio station, though, to reduce possible inteference, they use a combination of band-pass filters as well as antenna design that reduces radiations to the direction of the facility.
So money isn't owed because they created value, but because they had a contract, right?
The WooCommerce eco-system relies on our third-party developers and we will continue working with them. We don't have any immediate changes that would affect developers and agencies. We do plan to introduce a new developer program (a re-imagined Affiliated Woo Workers) to help agencies and developers in the coming months but is unrelated to the acquisition and has been in the works for the last few months.
Thank you for sharing the source, I will be taking a lot more care from now on.
And people wonder why I am less exercised about government snooping than most, when it arguably has much less impact on most people's lives. (This is not the same as saying that it's OK; I just don't think it's the #1 tech-social problem).
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Ask HN: Have you ever reference checked a potential employer?
And if so, what did you check?

To add to the discussion; There seems to be a consensus that it's OK and normal for an employer to reference check potential employees but not the other way around. I guess this is a supply and demand thing? I understand, employers want to make sure they make a good hire but as an employee you also want to make sure you don't end up working with a bunch of a-holes (I'm sure there are plenty of stories here). So why, as a potential employee, isn't it normal to reference check an employer?

Further more, how valuable are references anyway? These days checking references seems very informal (at least where I live, Australia). A potential employer hops on the phone with someone you've nominated as a reference, usually a good friend or work colleague. It's in this context that a reference is unlikely to be negative. So what's the value?
Ask HN: Launching an open-source project
I'm thinking about launching an opensource shopping cart/booking system for restaurants and hotels and I have some doubts.

Background: I had the idea when, as usual, ordered a pizza from a local place. Since I'm lazy, I wanted to order it from bed using my phone, online. The thing is in Romania they don't use a service for ordering, so I visited their website. Bad news, their website wasn't responsive, even worse, the phone number was in an image.

The thing is I'm afraid that nobody will use it and I will just waste time for something useless.

As I said, I'm from Romania(and never lived elsewhere); I'm curious are small businesses like restaurants, pizzerias focusing on their own website or just use an external service?
>> you lift the burden from your loved ones having to make unknown "it's what he would have wanted" guesses.

To each his own, but consider that maybe that's not the right question. My paternal grandmother recently died, and my dad sat shiva for her (Jewish mourning ritual). It almost certainly would not have been what she wanted, she was a fierce atheist. But it was what my dad wanted, what comforted him, and he was the one around and mourning, not my grandmother.

Just something to consider.
> The culture in "silicon valley" is toxic. People are obnoxious and narcissistic; many are pathological liars and self-promoters.

I grew in Silicon Valley and work here now as a dev at one of the major tech companies and have no idea what you're talking about. The people I work with seem totally normal.

Well I mean, they're all relatively enthusiastic about technology, and generally affluent, but aside from that I don't see anything particularly unusual.
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Poor little snitch - 'Firefox is trying to connect to _.__.__.__ over port ____.'

Nightmare for connection monitoring - just like bittorrent.
Hard to take the message seriously when his show, This American Life, is so incredibly bland. In my appraisal, it does nothing but pander to its "middlebrow" audience, never daring to tell them anything they don't already know. Maybe he's just not aware of it.
There are no immediate plans to do this but you can expect that we'll be discussing the possibility of different ways we can integrate better.
NPR did a great article on it as well: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/10/08/218976...
> You are assuming that a Privacy Policy is legally binding, it's generally accepted as not being.

I'm not claiming privacy policies are legally binding, just that they can be an indicator of trustworthiness and integrity. That's what I really meant when I said "[Option #1] would breach customer expectations because they are outright lying."

The way I read mc32's "I think there's a difference" is moral difference, because I share the same sentiment as him or her ("I hope the FTC wins its case...") which would turn that moral difference into a legally binding one.
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I'm looking at moving somewhere more interesting (I live in DFW which mostly sucks for programming) but SV seemed to expensive and overworked. What about Austin or some other non-snow area? Or is the Northwest the place to go? I lived in SV 20 years ago and it was reasonable but that was eons ago.
Yes. Also, people tend to forget that out world is actually a pretty old place. The history of the economic scene of the last 2000 years teaches us that there is plenty of space for changes.

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Every night I try to be in bed for 10:30pm, sometimes this drifts to and beyond 11 (but not often). Hardly ever past midnight.

My alarm goes off at 6am but I am usually awake from say 5am - when it is light, the alarm is just for reference really, not to wake me. My breakfast porridge cooks on a timer to be ready at 6am which encourages me to get up but it will keep warm so I don't rush, I take an hour for breakfast.

I don't sleep through, I usually go to the toilet about 3:30am, sometimes 1am.

Is that enough detail :)

I used to work until 4am and sleep half the day but I chose to shift to this circadian rhythm based pattern and not a stressful rush and I feel much better for it.
Do you have any links about this FCC ruling and school districts? I'm intrigued.
Regeneration and regrowth should be in situ where possible. Stem cell treatments are clearly beneficial, but will most likely give way to other methods of directly altering the behavior of native cells. Delivering signal molecules into the environment, or small molecules capable of otherwise adjusting cell epigenetic state.

In the final analysis if you can repair other forms of damage, many of the issues with regeneration should go away, as lost healing capacity is a result of age-related stem cell decline that it is in turn largely a reaction to a damaged environment. This of course needs to be proved. The best way to prove it is to implement the damage repair biotechnologies, see what happens.

Currently the major research focus in the mainstream is not to repair damage at all. It is rather to identify changes in signals and reverse them, and thus wake up stem cells and put them back to work on tissue maintenance, even damaged as they are and damaged as the tissue environment is. This is actually producing far better results with far less cancer as a result than you might think it would, which is always a bonus, but it isn't what I would consider the best path ahead.

Replacement of stem cell populations in the old are probably a necessary treatment. Clear out all damaged cells and generate a set of replacement cells from the patient's own tissues. Do that and then the organs should sort themselves out, except for gross damage that might need more treatment to rescue, such as deformation of the cardiovascular system as a result of hypertension that probably won't reverse itself.
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> where I can work with and learn from smart people

People always say this, but in every startup I've joined, I've ended up being the most experienced tech person on the team. Never really ended up learning anything (in my field) that I didn't just teach myself on my off-hours.

Now, I've learned quite a bit about business from working for startups—with just as many "don'ts" as "do"s—but that hasn't helped me become better in the ways I was looking to become better. If I wanted to start a company, I'd be much more ready—but if I just want to code something, I'm no more ready than if I had just spent the last five years working on my own hobby projects.
I think it's more likely Woo will end up in Wordress.com and other commercial Automattic enterprises.
See also:

http://3.design-milk.com/images/2010/11/modern-art-craig-dam...

Just because you understand something semi-esoteric doesn't mean someone else's understanding of it is worth less.
>Providers have their seat in USA

We have evidence of Putin using Kaspersky to find the identity of political dissidents and other awful things. Meanwhile, you have conspiracy theories that get you upvotes on reddit and other kiddie sites, but zero proof SSL has been infiltrated. Personally, if these companies weren't US or EU I would be worried. I don't think Russia or China are the freedom and human rights utopias you think they are. 57 and 91 on the Human Rights Development Index impresses no one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Deve...
Never enough, last night I went to sleep around 1AM and was back up at 7AM; that is a good average for me. I am worthless until about 11AM but I have kids so I don't really have a choice if I want to get anything done.
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So you need roughly 100 grams of payload + probably another 100 or so grams of mounting gear (gimbals, etc.) + directional propellers + battery packs which likely total out at around a kilogram. So that's roughly a 1.2 meter diameter balloon or 950 liters. That's fairly large, I agree.

Do you know if a hybrid has been done where you have a multi-rotor assisted by TLA ballast?
I'd grant literature and the arts, but philosophy is something that (to me) seems to be important to learn early on. Both in the sense of knowledge of different schools of philosophy, but also in the sort of thinking required to develop and understand philosophical thoughts in general.

I'll put that in the same camp as history and political science. The importance, in my view, is on understanding the world at large and (direct/indirect democracy-centric) being able to vote based on actual thought out reasoning instead of the sort of fear based and reactionary voting we often see.

Even studying specific schools of philosophy or periods of history in detail can likely be postponed. But a lack of even basic familiarity leaves people sufficiently uninformed and misguided that you end up with folks like my coworker who'd gladly hand all encryption keys to the US gov't in exchange for a (possibly) more secure future.
In startups, your passions might stay the same, but the work can change radically. Have you ever joined a software startup and had it turn into a social-lending nonprofit two months later?
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I would hesitate to call that an agreement then...
The Foundation doesn't oversee core. The Foundation is a legal and financial entity that owns the trademark. WordCamps are run under the Foundation umbrella to protect organizers from lawsuits, audits, etc., but there aren't any employees for the Foundation and there aren't Foundation projects that are specific to core. Core leadership is made up of people from a bunch of different companies (including independent consultancies).
Self contained packages are not a new idea. For example, PC-BSD has been doing this for years, via their PBI package format. See the description of PBI here: http://www.pcbsd.org/en/package-management

I think PBI does de-duplication at the package manager level by manipulating hard-links to common files, rather than installing multiple copies.
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It's easer to brute force than you might think as there are only two possible 'valid' answers for each digit. In other words in base six 0,1,1,1 -> 1,0,0,0 not 0,1,1,2. So, even a vary dumb brute force aprach grows at 2^(k) not 6^(k) base 6 digits.

Add to that you can swap back and forth between bases.

EX: check 1,0,0,0,0,0 in base six (7,776 b10) = 2,2,2,1,0,1 in base 5. Clearly the next lowest possible number in base five is now 1,0,0,0,0,0,0 (15,625 b10).
I guess, but that's some monumental hackery to overcome something that works perfectly fine in an RDBMS :-)
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I moved from the midwest to San Francisco. In my experience:

-> the culture here is more optimistic and open-minded; people are more willing to take risks and try hard things
-> the weather is more moderate
-> the scenery is more interesting and varied
-> there are vastly more (good) job opportunities for software engineers.
-> Bay Area/NYC software engineers get paid more than engineers elsewhere *on average*. But they are also much more skilled on average. If you're skilled enough to be hired in the bay area, then you probably will be paid less than what you could demand where your skill is rare.
-> cost of living is totally unreasonable in the bay area, and the stats understate this because many people here have massive effective subsidies from rent control and fixed property taxes.
I wonder where all of the dislike for Meteor originated. It's a cool product built buy some really smart people. They have the best cli tool I've used in a dev environment, and they're making a ton of progress. They're constantly publishing materials on integrating with third-party components including react, rethinkdb, famo.us.

I hear you about the potential implosion by acquisition. It's definitely a risk. It's not much different than other burgeoning technologies in that regard.

Meteor is advancing a new paradigm of building consumer applications, much like Django and Rails did for REST. It lowers the barrier to entry, and it really has the potential to expose a new generation of programmers to modern techniques.

I also think they've been pretty clear about when Meteor is unsuitable, despite the hype. It's not going to magically scale. It's not a bad place to start, though.
Did you also have the "ticket racket"? This is when the CTO sets up some kind of ticketing system, and uses the increasing number of breakdowns (and useless "fixes" that break again with the next build) as a KPI to justify increasing budget. "We fixed 150 tickets today! My team is working overtime on this, they are really dedicated and mission-driven, their spirit and commitment is amazing." The CEO nods, suitably impressed - he really has a crack tech organization. He's getting a great return on investment on his highest budget department!

Bonus points for inserting a thick PM layer in between to "manage" the rapid expansion of tickets.
I don't know that the energy density of solar cells work for their weight. Electric motors require a pretty high current. Even if you are supplementing another power source, I think you'll still be losing more than you are gaining for that application. You are probably fine with fixed wing, but multicopter designs will draw significantly more power.
Mostly we're just expressing a difference of opinion, but one thing that I'd like to contest is that the goal of the Zen of Python is to produce developer happiness. In particular, I'll state that my cherry picking from that screed is not aimed at developer happiness.

I personally think developer happiness is a very poor place to put your stock. I believe much more that the goal should be one of craft and if the mechanism is painful and difficult then this is merely the cost to play.

I think there's a lot of room for places where developers are made to be happy. Education is a HUGE target here and I'm happy to note that a lot of Ruby's early successes, I believe, were centered there. I believe happiness, convenience, and a little bit of absurdity are fine traits.

But when I want to get work done, when I want to make things to share and to last and to communicate my goals and intentions, then I want to suffer whatever is necessary to do that well. So, in my opinion, developer happiness be damned.

Then, again, it's also my perspective that developer happiness can perhaps be maximized in this way as well. But if you take it as your solitary goal then I don't think you're well equipped to make the whole journey.
You don't say where you are, but one thing you may want to consider is that your area is probably good at something that people in Silicon Valley, on average, know nothing about, and live nowhere near. I live in the Detroit area, and for all the drama, the automotive industry is still quite strong here, for instance, and we have at least a bit of a medical research community. Whatever you have in your area, you have an opportunity to get your foot in, ram home your advantage of being local, and bootstrap that way.

It is likely that while you won't grow a billion-dollar social media site that way that you can find yourself an underserved niche, or a niche dominated by somebody still peddling software from the 80s, or something like that. This turns the "problem" of not being in SV into a foundation of your career, which, if that is what you are looking for, can be a good deal.
Reiterating: http://contrastrebellion.com/
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Excellent! Just as a tip, when writing curses it's best to run everything in a curses wrapper, so wrap your main function in curses.wrapper(main) basically. If you don't do so, crashing messes up the terminal.