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I love reading design guides, but even more so the style guides that various newspapers use. For example, here's the Guardian's style guide for words that begin with the letter H:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide/h
Exactly – non-us folk (me) feel like you just don't care about their existence when you just ask for a zip code, or US phone number etc.

Bigger companies have pulled this off so many times, restricting their customers to the US for seemingly no reason, that we get irked by it now.

If there was a message saying how it's super complicated to send seeds abroad, then we'd understand and all would be well.
I couldn't disagree more. I see your viewpoint, but I think think that's extrapolating based on our current perspective -- initiatives like LinkedData, which don't work.

If you give people a tool that can do it clearly, flexibly and easily, they will blow your mind.
Yes, but email wasn't universal. Today I can be sitting here in Budapest and do bussiness with people halfway across the globe, all per email. I couldn't do that in 1975.

Of course I wouldn't need to. I'd just buy Microsoft stock and live off that in my penthouse suite. Well, that is until Marty McFly shows up... =)
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Sadly, "trow away instead of fix" is becoming the norm for any electronic device. Working with SMDs by hand is doeable, but whoever can do it should go to med school and become a brain surgeon.
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it still blows my mind that they haven't implemented a more user friendly editor.
I use woopra.com and can't recommend their service enough. I've recently just upgraded from their free package to bronze. They're releasing an iPhone app soon.
Did you use any seed money to start this? ;)

Best of luck, it's a great idea with lots of potential.
Reddit-like submissions don't bother me as much as Reddit-like comments. I used to love reading the comments on HN. In the past I was also much more likely to take part in the discussion. These days though I just skim them, and I hardly comment. In the past, there weren't nearly as many "me too"-type comments (etc), and those that were posted got instantly down-voted. The turning point came when people started upvoting complaints that noone was interested in superficial anecdotal opinions that added little value. That was the signal to me that HN's "mindset" was beginning to shift to a Reddit-like state. Not that there's anything wrong with Reddit, but the Web doesn't need two of them.

The dip in quality doesn't surprise me though. A year or two ago I said the same thing about Reddit in comparison to Digg.
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1. http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=AAPL
2. Android.
How so?

Afaict it just produces a url and hands it off to a browser of your choice.

For example, the piratebay example which Bjoern posted (which requires a separate 'dlynx' script, btw):

surfraw -browser="dlynx" piratebay 2012 | whatever...

can be rewritten as:

lynx -dump http://thepiratebay.org/search/2012 | whatever...
Yea, some of my other startup fwenz and I have planned out playing games about 3 years after they come out so that we can get them on the cheap. And we figured this out before the xkcd comic of the same topic. xD
The thing to remember about subsidies is that it's the consumer that pays them, not the carrier. Its just diluted into the monthly plan, Verizon would do the same. Switching carriers takes more effort than switching phones for many if not most people. I think the biggest concern for android is if the iphone crosses that bridge it becomes a head-on comparison of the two. At this stage My opininon is that the iphone would squeeze them out due to momentum.
Good one. I don't know the exact implications of nofollow, but I think it might be that if google considers the destination to be legit that it will add the url to its crawl queue without giving it any 'pagerank juice'.

Only a googler could tell you for sure though.

I've seen google ferret out results that were never linked through the toolbar or some other mechanism outside of the regular crawl process. (in that one case the toolbar was my only possible explanation, or it was through analytics).
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I was attempting to be snarky - and not being very good at it - this whole idea of having rules for happiness sounds very cargo cult to me and of course the whole definition of happiness is extremely nebulous.
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Also maybe add a note that it is US only? Or have an option for us folks in Canada? Otherwise, idea is great, I would sign-up for sure!
> In particular, the iPhone has trained peoople to buy apps at $0.99.

is that so ?

> Crappy price, but at least they're buying.

I thought the vast majority of the downloads was free, but I definitely could be wrong.
What is the incentive for people to do it? It is work, so they should get something in return.

Maybe SEO for Google, ie if Google said "we'll improve your rank dramatically if you included semantic data". But even then - it would be an enormous amount of work to update all (or the majority of web sites).
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In the announcement say they've tried to make things easier for the users, but most of the entries listed there are actually for editors.

The FAQ entry linked ( http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/What%27s_new,_questions_... ) has a lot more info than the announcement, the primary entry there is:

Why are you making these changes?

Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation are written and edited by volunteers. When knowledgeable people cannot participate in editing Wikipedia because they find it too confusing or difficult to edit articles, it is a serious problem that undermines the potential quality, breadth and depth of the content that we can offer to you. In other words, even if you don't contribute content, the easier we can make it for knowledgeable people to join our projects, the more useful our resources become to you.

So it seems they're really focusing on making the editor user friendly.

They also say that this is only the beginning of a series of changes.
Yea, I think many of us didn't understand why the Japanese never send most of their wares overseas until we started being entrepreneurs ourselves.
any more like this?
The consumer pays the subsidy in the end, but the carrier decides which device gets the subsidy and how large it is. For example, you can't buy a Samsung Android phone full-price, then bring it to AT&T asking them to give you a $300 discount because you'll be using this device on their network for the next two years. That's essentially how subsidies work in other countries.

This gives the American carriers tremendous negotiation power over device manufacturers, who have no choice but to abide because there's no alternative avenue for selling their products.

(Nokia has tried for years to market unlocked phones in the US, with a resounding lack of success.)
One thing that could be done would be to go back to a -8 points limit for down votes which may reinforce better what are really bad comments. At the moment a comment with an unpopular stance that is decently written can go -4 along with plain stupid comments that would normally get down voted a lot more.
I thought it was pretty impressive. It is a freakin mobile phone.

As for battery usage, is there a reason to assume that Flash sucks more battery than other applications? Why would it (except being interpreted)? I guess 3d apps in general would draw more power than "flat" business apps.
Ask HN: Could you run your startup from China?
Every time China blocks another website I get a little uneasy about the prospect of moving to China and running a software business from there. I love being in that country & sure, a VPN helps out, but the political/business implications make me uncomfortable.

I've been making this little mental list of 'minimum requirements' of products/services in order to run a business. Currently the google/twitter/facebook triad from that list has been blocked. I used to fear the day that more essential services would be blocked. That day came yesterday (Dropbox).

So, which are the products/services your startup can't live without? Which websites, when blocked, would hurt your business?
Is your business agile?
This could be big (seriously). There are 80 million farmville players, and I think the game requires you to log in at odd times.
Did you try this on the London Tube,ideally at rush hour :-)
FYI when I clicked the "Sign Up" button on the plans page, Chrome gave me the "invalid secure certificate" warning.

I love the idea though. Any chance you'll include Ireland?
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I don't know, I'm pretty ok with the way the editor is now. Maybe I've just grown accustomed to it.
What a really really neat and extremely useful concept. I've put a link up on the homepage of ww to send you some traffic.

It reads "SproutRobot, helps you plant your garden! Go check it out if you are in the US.", hope that describes it well enough, if you want a different text let me know.

I don't do prayers but I'll keep my fingers and toes crossed for you all day long ;)
Interesting... try to find a differentiating factor though (compared to similar interviews online).
It's even easier now. You can use the !g shortcut, and there are shortcuts for most google services, e.g. !gf !gn etc.
What kind of bullshit is this? The spec does not forbid you to use any codec you want. Or do you want it to ban H.264 so inferior codecs could have a chance? Way to go.
Please tell me this was a joke :) However it reminded me of this parody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odBDAcOEKuI
It only works in the US today, but how is that different from movies or ipads or any other product to be rolled out in the largest target market first?

It's non-trivial to scale this to 'planet wide' so until the home market is established and the concept tested there is no really good reason to scale it beyond the US, there are substantial costs associated with doing that.

Just the shipping alone for a biological product would drive you nuts.
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Thx, this is why I haven't done it to date. The link colors were actually brighter, but people kept complaining about them being too bright, which is how they got to where they are now. But I'll give that another look.

Wrt to spacing, there is actually quite a bit and I get a lot of complaints about there not being enough spacing, though I made a setting for that. I'll also revisit.
So in other words, Google are the bad guys for depreciating/axing a feature which they no longer use, and which was probably never intended to be used in the way which Scroogle are using it?

That's right, it's all about Scroogle. I appreciate that Scroogle are upset that their service (which relies on hacks) will no longer work, however, it's ridiculous that even developers are acting irrational these days.

Why Scroogle thinks that Google should pay developers to maintain an interface to support their service which strips the ads from results, is beyond me. I'd say this change shows scroogle's true colors...
I agree, Flash is running pretty well on the Nexus One. This is only one of it's great features. I think I've fallen in love a bit with the Android 2.1 platform. It didn't crush once, in about 3 months.
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Well, China just got even more amazing. I don't think the Chinese people were very affected by Google leaving. But DropBox is a very useful tool. I'm not sure it has any remarcable competititors that can relevantly fill the gap.
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I still don't know, nor can be bothered working out various different unnecessary markup languages, and I program. God forbid anyone whose talents lie elsewhere tries to contribute.
> In the announcement say they've tried to make things easier for the users, but most of the entries listed there are actually for editors.

Yes, they consider users to be potential contributors.
I just shared the video on Twitter and LinkedIn. Great, informative video, if you ask me. It depicts both points of view.

However, I do agree that the word "semantic" has become too much of a buzzword and most people aren't really aware of it's true meaning.
Could have run Doom, or Quake with a strict asset diet and slightly lower geometry complexity. Of course, that assumes hi color output and some audio.
Sure, that's the whole idea behind wikipedia, but the reality is that the majority of the users are not contributing.
You are overestimating how mainstream cares for new models. iPhone is (or at least was) status symbol and personal toy, people don't care much for technical specification or hardware generations.

For example, see how well 3G was selling after 3GS was introduced.
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I've been using the beta now for about 5 months, and in my experience it's cosmetic. Those cosmetics definitely are an improvement in usability and looks.

IMHO, it's a small step, but in the right direction for sure.
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It actually looks really great, but i have many fears as animations such as this this grow more popular. Are we gearing up for geocities 2.0?
This is precisely the scary factor of FB's open graph. While Facebook may be able to keep my data mostly secure (read: aside for their bugs of late), how can I know for sure their partners will?

When money is the primary driver behind who gets these partnerships (like yelps special one, anybody can use open graph) you have a fundamental and telling issue, privacy tends to go out the window when monetization of data starts to happen.
Yep, that's the problem they're hoping to fix by making it easier.
It wasn't actually me originally, and that downvote wasn't me either!

paranoia
but, still as end-user and web-developer and designer, i would love to be able run CS natively on ubuntu. and, i bet there are a lot more.
well, if the market for ubuntu expands, wouldn't adobe want to develop products for linux too? and, why will it port it for free. ubuntu it free, doesn't mean all applications on it have to be.

+1 on "people who can't buy a Mac run Linux. People who can't install Linux run Windows. People who know what they're doing - ride anything the way they want.".
I think the HN homepage pagerank is diluted too much to make much of a difference, first of all there are 30 other outgoing links, and besides that they change all the time.

Google 'juice' is most likely best collected by having links on authoritative pages that will keep the link visible on the same page for a long time, and that have relatively few outgoing links.
Except if in fact it's an artifact of their SMS interface, which somehow got exposed, or was forgotten and not removed when needed. In which case I'd consider it a bug, not an bad but intentional decision.
Ask HN: Could you review this idea for Smarter Online Sales System?
I've created a Landing Page with the idea description (Landing Page is part of the application - that is why I would like you to go there). http://ourown.smartupz.com/

Thank you very much in advance!
I wouldn't have thought that counts.
this is very good idea, but the design of the page make me want to close the window - it hurt my eyes.
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The test is running only for 12s. It should at least run for a couple of minutes and several times with a clear control of what is going on on the server at the same time.

You do not even know the memory load, what was running at the same time on the server, etc. It is like throwing one blue dice and one yellow. You get a six on the first and a three on the second and consider through your not terribly scientific benchmark that you get more with blue dices.

Recommended reading for the author:
http://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Guide-Statistics-Larry-Gonick/...

Not a joke, this is a really good book about the test side of the stats.
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The thing of it, to me, is that policemen carry an array of weapons. Mace, a taser, a tonfa (a nightstick), and a gun. A person that heavily armed is a force to be reckoned with. Intimidating, deserving of fear.

If you're the man with the gun, you must go out of your way to be respectable and approachable, or you will not be - you'll just be a man with a gun.
Can you actually point to Apple arguing that about the charter scope? I recall them arguing that Theora was not efficient enough, that it didn't have sufficient hardware support, that it had patent issues and probably a few other arguments. I don't remember them ever making that specific point about the HTML5 charter.
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In the UK the iPhone is now selling on at least three of the big four carriers. (I think the missing one is T-Mobile.)

You can even get an iPhone on Tesco Mobile, which is a bit like seeing a WalMart branded one! (Tesco is an MVNO for one of the big networks.)

For the US market I suspect that the reason they don't sell on other networks is because Apple doesn't want to make a non-GSM version and no other GSM carrier is big enough to be worth losing AT&Ts full marketing support.
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It's okay, most likely some overzealous editor will simply delete whatever that person contributes anyway. Contributing to Wikipedia as a non-editor is a massive waste of time since even minor submissions get killed quickly and quickly turn into massive fights over notoriety and content.
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Hey all,

In the past week I've made http://www.youtubetopten.com together with my team. It's a small Facebook app that lets you and your friends vote on your favorite YouTube videos and it builds a top 10 each week. (For now, we want to go to daily top tens as soon as possible, but we need some traction for that).

We launched it exactly at the wrong time. A week before we started Facebook launched the graph api with pretty bad documentation, so we had to test a lot and build our own interface. We will be open sourcing our Django-facebook-graph-api app next week ;) Then there's the recent privacy issues as well... Anyway, we're just going to do our best to make this a success :)

Please tell me what you think, and how we can improve this. We sell a 'featured video' on the page, if you're interested contact me. HNers get a special price ;)

Cheers,
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They specifically made a feature that allows you to respond to follow requests by tweeting "accept username". The bug is not checking that the person has actually requested to follow you when processing that response.
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I'm floored by what is happening on this front, to be frank.

The amount of computing power we're carrying in our pockets is simply stunning, we're getting to the point where we might be able to put good speech recognition on a device this size. It's not quite here yet (people claim it is, but in practice if you don't get very close to 100% accuracy typing or pushing buttons is quite fast) but who knows, it might be. And I think when that happens coupled with enough NLP to make a good user interface the days of the touch screen will be over. In fact, we might see 'screenless' computers that you can still interact with.
I don't follow this issue closely but it strikes me as ridiculous. Descent against China's human rights is not exactly something that many people think about all the time unless it affects them directly.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8607769.stm

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/chinese-dissident-...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/24/nobelpeaceprize....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_dissidents#Chin...

Chinese dissidents seem to be in the news quite a lot to me, in fact it would seem part of the west's objections is due to the voices of some immigrant Chinese.
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I don't think facebook needs any further help from Yelp to put 'user data at risk'.

The last couple of weeks have been pivotal in the history of social media, I've never seen so many main stream media articles about the security and privacy issues associated with a single company.
Why China gov doing like this?
You should also throw in iPod shuffles and the Mighty Mouse if you are going to just be making up arbitrary, non-competitive market space, thresholds.
I'm amazed that they have been able to run this service for 5 years - the fact that Google hasn't stopped them in that time says more about Google that it does about Scroogle.
It is amazing, yes. But it hasn't just turned up last week.

From calculators, to ediaries, to original Palm with its 25Mhz Dragonball Processor, iPaq with its 200mhz processor, the iPhone with 600mhz processor, and now 1Ghz in this android phone.
No. That doesn't seem like a reasonable environment to start a conversation. There's is an art to it...

Basically, if you want to start a conversation with a stranger then I'd recommend doing it in a place where they can 'escape' from you. If you corner them, say on the tube, then they have no means of leaving and hence they will feel as if your approach is hostile. And that's especially true if you are both sitting or face to face.

I recommend reading Strauss' book because it's fascinating, but the bottom line is approach people from an angle (not head on and not from behind). Make sure they've got the physical space to leave if they want to, maintain enough distance that you are not in their personal space, and if you do get chatting it can be helpful to indicate in some way that you are only temporarily there talking to them.