maxklein

How can you even have 1000 people designing a chip? A micro-processor is not THAT complicated. Perhaps you can have people doing research on particular aspects, but research teams are typically small (maybe 5-15 people). It seems to me difficult to believe that it's even possible to have that number of people designing a single and insular hardware product, of which the manufacturing is being outsourced (so they don't have to build the making-machines).

Tesla is not luxury. It's an expensive car that does not look good and needs many hours to recharge. It's not faster or better than other cars, it's just needs longer to recharge.

If you are paying $80k for a car, you don't care about fuel taxes.

Read the article linked: http://kotaku.com/5846111/mojang-v-bethesda-or-i-hate-it-whe...

Notch is trying to own the word "scrolls" in all media. This has implications not just for that single company, but every gaming company that ever wants to use the word "scrolls".

To me, that's scummy behaviour. People should not be able to trademark single words across all forms of media. It does not matter if they made minecraft or not, they do not deserve to own the word 'scrolls'. It's an english word, it belongs to all of us.

Tesla is going to be one of the first indicators the bubble burst. The tesla cars are overpriced, inconvenient, and they do not look particularly nicer than other cars in their segment.

Tesla is just a game for financial speculators to make a lot of money of the tech bubble.

America is still a deeply segregated society. And the segregation is built in such a way that it tends to keep people where they always where.

There are very many such stories, but most of the people are not very fond of writing (the examples above are people with a lot of written output).

If you get to know some of the people personally you will find a lot of successes.

Let's compare it to the iPod, for example. Before the iPod, I played music. After the iPod, I played music - but in a more convenient way.

After this app, I can search my statements in a convenient way. The problem is that right now I am not searching my statements at all. They seem to be solving a problem that I have not had so far.

I don't get it. I don't get the point of it. Searching through a list of things? How is that making my banking simpler?

It seems to have turned into a credit card statement search & visualisation engine.

I wish it allowed you add an external HD to sync with.

So what am I going to use for my HN replies notifications and my retweet notifications now?

I always liked notifo, and this is a sad day for software.

Do you have proof for that statement?

Hipmunk is good for finding the best flight, but the actual booking is much better on the carrier website.

An agressive competitor (say, a hotel chain) could do things like this every month, and kill airbnb as a business.

Then why is European DNA lower than far Asian?

How did it happen then? It appears you have no idea

Yes, but don't you get it? AFTER the exodus from Africa, the two populations were living in the same region (europe), but did not inter-mix at all anymore. Otherwise there would be more DNA in the europeans.

Why mix when in the middle east and then refuse to mix when in Europe?

Okay, then explain this: There is no fossil evidence of neanderthals in east asia or australia. There is a lot of fossil evidence of neanderthals in europe. If humans mated with neanderthals, then why is there no stronger presence of neanderthal DNA is europeans (compared to asians) in either this study or the previous one?

Seems to have very little traffic, when viewed in alex though.

I never tried anything else, but my next project will be with Bottle.

Let me tell you the truth, though this will not be popular: Django is not a good framework. It's clumsy, inflexible and restrictive. The community is pretty much dead.

If you want to work in ruby, go for ror. If you want to work in python, go for a micro framework like Bottle.

I made the mistake of investing a lot of my time in Django. It was not worth it in the end. All my Django projects ended up being a big mess, and I had to undjango my way out of the various restrictions it placed on me.

And the community in general seems to agree - there is not much different in the django ecosystem, comparing 2 years ago to now.

My advice, go for Ruby On Rails or Bottle. Leave Django alone.

The problem with hate mail is that it's a lot more affecting than positive mail. The best way to deal with it is simply to smile and delete. Everyone is entitled to their opinion - but they are not entitled to change _your_ life.

Medicine is a game of probability. If you have malaria symptoms in a malaria area, the chance of you having malaria are around 99%. Every other disease with similar symptoms (e.g Typhoid) is pretty rare.

When it comes to peoples lives, people very quickly reach the optimal solution. It's what humans do best. This android solution is a theoretical solution from people who have never experienced malaria and don't even live in an area where malaria exists.

Yes, I have practical experience with malaria. I also have practical experience with android phones. I am actually qualified to make experience-based judgments on the feasibility of that tool, and quoting theoretical papers may win you arguments on the internet, but it will have little practical usage.

When there is a disease in an area that has existed for so long that people have built genetic resistance to it, at the cost of having occasionally sickly children, then trust me, modern methods that work will quickly be selected.

Modern methods that don't work (bed mosquito nets), will be selected away.

Armchair solutions for problems you only partially understand are pointless.

The report is completely disconnected from reality. Malaria patients often have very clear symptoms, and at the point where a diagnosis is necessary, a blood test WILL have to be done. Malaria is a very common disease, and there are very clear and available treatments, and the symptoms are very well known. The blood tests are also very available.

This android device is solving a solved problem.

The people who need to diagnose it are in a hospital, where they can just use one of many methods. They don't need to to peer through an android lens. Laymen rarely need to diagnose malaria because the symptoms are very very clear.

If the scan can be expanded to other blood-borne diseases, it could potentially be useful. But it's pointless for malaria.

Malaria is a bit unique among diseases in that it's a parasite and not a virus or bacteria. I'm not sure this method extends to non-parasitic diseases.

You still don't get it. It's not neccessary to diagnose for malaria via blood. Malaria patients know they have malaria in almost all cases, because they are familiar with the disease. As soon as the symptoms show, they take the tablets. If the problem is not fixed, then it was not malaria. But if you live in a malaria area and you have the typical malaria fever, 99.9% of the time it will be malaria.

Blood diagnosis is unnecessary and expensive. Just take the pills.

The sad part is: This app is basically useless. Malaria has very distinct symptoms. Malaria also has a 3-day pre-roll period where you know you are about to get malaria, but you are not yet in bed. Also, Malaria is the #1 drug every chemist stocks in malaria-infested areas. Furthermore, taking a malaria pill even if you don't have malaria has no side effect.

What this means is that if all the criteria of bad luck come together:

1. Person does not know the symptoms for malaria

2. There is no chemist around who stocks malaria pills

3. The illness for some reason instantly hits the person without the pre-roll period

...then the person for whom all these criteria comes into question is about 99.99% not likely to have an Android phone around. And 100% not likely to have a lifelens attached to the phone.

The real problem is what happens if Kik is not installed on either end. The hassle that the user would go through to get it working is something that probably 95% of users will not bother with, unless what they were sharing were extremely critical.

All I need Google+ to do is allow me customize by default stream to only include circles I want to see there. That's ALL.

To me, what the post sounds like is "act now before it's all gone!". And he's the guy selling the product.

I think the VCs realise that an end is coming. And they are trying to get their %s into as many of the important founders companies as possible, so they can continue to harvest even when their industry is no longer relevant.

Think about it: The VC industry itself is going to be a casualty of the internet. These few guys controlling huge funds to decide at their discretion which companies to invest in is the exact kind of industry that is ripe for disruption by more direct investment methods...that would be offered by the internet.

Additionally, as more and more people get rich on the internet, it will be increasingly easy for new companies to raise money from individuals and then relying on profits to grow instead of venture capital.

The post here, intentional or not, sounds like these guys realise that their age of power is coming to an end, and they want to do one final milking.