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Is it a surprise to anyone there is nothing awesome or especially compelling about the Win7 phone?
I've seen this many times, and I still think that it's the most powerful piece of advertising that I've ever seen.

It combines everything that we take for granted about Google -- the spelling correction, ability to search through multiple datasets intelligently (flight schedules, for example), location-dependent search.

But none of it is presented this way; it's all just seen through the lens of a man navigating life and love. The technology is unseen, and not even mentioned, but the power is very, very real.
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Did you just describe Ning? I think I created a login once -- and i'm pretty sure that's exactly what it did.
Sometimes it might be better to wait and see if a problem arises rather than preemptively legislating it in a way that might do far more harm than the anticipated problem.
is there a way to add DNS entries via API yet? I don't see where to get the code except for swift-1.0.0, and I'm not sure what that does.
One could make an argument for both of those, but I have no idea how it came to be that _florists_ have to be licensed in Florida.

Death to lobbyists.
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Is it really necessary for the government to regulates?

Why not have voluntary associations that people can join but have rules on business? If the organization have honest inspectors, their reputation will show. Businesses will pay for that kind of exclusive brands. Risk-averse customers will flock to it.

If you have an organization that everyone must join by law to practice certain field, then it could be a breeding ground for corruptions. The government is now intertwined with a professional organization, and then create an illusion of safety which none shouldn't exists.

Associations that has been around for years will have more trusts than new associations that pop up. The new associations will then prove that they're not kooks that been rejected by incumbent associations.
I don't know- the Polar monitor sounds pretty unintuitive to me. It could work well if the non-button actions (such as moving the watch close to the strap) are communicated effectively and are implemented perfectly, but if not, I can see a lot of confusion.

I find one button interfaces that trade buttons for time to be confusing and unintuitive. The only way to operate them is by staring at them until they show the desired action. You can't adjust it without looking at it at all (which may or may not be desired depending on the use case). If you happen to miss the target action, you have to wait until the full cycle goes through again. Sometimes they make it so you have to hold down the button to cycle and then release when you see the thing you want--if you miss it, you can't just release and start over, because releasing is going to select the wrong action. This may not be the definition of unintuitive but it is the definition of annoying and inconvenient.

I had a pager back in the 90s that was billed as being easy to use because it only had one button. But it took forever, considering the actual complexity of pagers, to cycle through all the actions--and pagers only have like three actions on them anyway.
It's interesting what people get out of this.

Some see the tests where the other cell phones are shown to have a problem if you wrap your entire hand around it and point out that it's nothing like the little spot you just have to touch to make an iPhone die if you're less than 20-something dB above the minimum signal.

Others see the apology you quoted and don't understand the media witch hunt, where the press even supports those who traffic in stolen phones.

(I realize that I'm oversimplifying both of those stories a bit, but they're not my main point.)

Seems like there's no middle ground any more. If you post something in support of them, you'll be derided by someone as a fanboy. If you post something against them, you'll be derided as a hater. Whichever one you pick, you'll likely stay there, because both sides feel free to act like jerks toward the other. And why would you want to switch and side with those jerks who were mean to you?

I try to remain neutral, but it's hard. I see some people giving them a free pass, and I dislike it. But other people do give them flack when it's unfair. I don't want to do either. I want to be fair.

In short, maybe what we really need here is more civility?
Absolutely! Hence my strong agreement on taxis and my rambling uncertainty about cosmetologists.
Because bribing politicians to make the zones in your favor is a great business to be in.

Never assume the politicians ever do anything for you, except when it benefit themselfs.
I thought you felt that way, but I wanted to make it explicit for the readers because there was some ambiguity. :)
For some reason your distinction of OpenStack vs Open Stack reminds me of the attempted trademarking of a smiley face by describing it as two dots and a half circle contained by a larger circle.
Key takeaways:

- ARM is a little-endian, 32-bit RISC architecture widely used by mobile devices.

- The original iPhone's core processor is ARM1176JZF-S (aka ARM11) which implements an instruction set called ARMv6.

- iPhone 3GS and later models use the Cortex A8 processor core that implements ARMv7, a newer instruction set.

- The so-called A4 processor is in fact a bundle of the Cortex A8 core and several other systems-on-a-chip components including the graphics accelerator and audio/video codecs.

- To take advantage of ARMv7 features while supporting ARMv6, your code must be compiled for both targets and put into a fat binary.

- When you debug optimized ARM code, remember that most ARM instructions can be conditionally executed -- the processor may go through a code block without actually running it.

- Thumb is a compressed subset of ARM instructions. 16-bit thumb code is generally smaller but can not be freely mixed with 32-bit uncompressed ARM code.

- Thumb for ARMv6 has a run-time overhead that makes it undesirable for high-performance apps; however, Thumb for ARMv7 has no such drawbacks and should be turned on by default.

- iOS supports unaligned memory access, but it's slooooow. Don't use it.

- Integer division on ARM is not natively supported. Surprise, surprise!

- GCC sucks at optimizing ARM code, particularly weak at 64-bit integer arithmetic.
when you are a few layers deep i'm thinking you would be pretty lost. nice if you could zoom out.

but its not that bad reminds me of sony's PS nav.
Ask HN: Unsupportive spouse/partner/SO?
I read a lot of stories here about the entrepreneur that quits a job, and begins the startup of their dreams with the full support of their partner - thats great for them.

I am curious to know if anyone else out there is facing resistance or lack of support from their partner in going out on a limb with their startup. I am aware of those who might say "life's too short, leave them" or "if they don't support your dreams then they don't deserve you" etc but I would prefer to discuss the methods HN'ers have used to get their partner on board or otherwise convince them of the value of their endeavour rather than issuing ultimatums or walking out on a family etc. BTW I am in this position now so its a practical question - thanks.
> Haha, Debian take package security seriously?

Despite a mistake or two over the years, yes, they do, and they do a lot of work on it.
The "Stop" button, used when testing, needs to be more... conservative.

Until I click "Set Alarm" I have no idea what those icons at the bottom do. Title them so that I can also click them. It will save users a bunch of time.

I know I shouldn't, but if I type www.sleep.fm/[special_char] I get a 503 page. Make that fancy or forward it with htaccess.

I really like the voice, as well as, it telling me my flight, weather ect. All of that is awesome.
The reason why we should use HTTP authentication is similar to why we can have custom stylesheets, or why everyone should just use nntp instead of web forums, or a MUA instead of web mail.

"Content" shouldn't provide its own "style" - the user should be free to choose whatever matter of presentation they desire.

Furthermore, using HTTP authentication everywhere (at least as an omnipresent alternative) would make sites much more programmable, and thus accessible.
I would pay really good money for a service that made me look very good yet middle-of-the-road (i.e. not flamboyant or overly stylish). I freely admit that I want to be a follower when it comes to style/fashion and just simply conform to the latest trend in a manner that suits my face/body.
How is it a fallacy to say that moderate levels of people complaining about something is weak evidence for there being a real problem?
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When you're in the flow, you're addicted and everything else becomes second. It's just that lots of grunt work is the prerequisite for getting into a good flow.

So the answer is that you can't get addicted to programming even if you wanted to but occasionally you will even if you didn't want to.
And yet is continued by the current administration: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21obama.text.h...

And Obama authorized the assassination of a US citizen; something even Bush never did:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/middleeast/07yemen.h...
Sure.

The UI doesn't follow a conventional way how people use UI in any form of mobile devices. There are differences in IOS, Android, Blackberry and PalmOS but those differences aren't huge. If you use either of those devices/OS who should be able to pickup any of the other devices relatively easily. At least this has been my personal experience with Android, IOS and WebOS. What Windows Mobile 7 is doing is a fundamentally different way of how you use a mobile device. You could argue that when IOS was first introduced it was also a different way of how people uses mobile phones. But it was different in the sense that it was not confusing, it was very intuitive.

In contrast Widows7 mobile UI is a confusing mess and very bland to be honest. There no "Wow" factor. Who thought big blocks of animated tiles taking up huge screen real-state to be a good idea? I think this is also a good example of different design philosophy with MSFT and Apple. IOS with its new update introduced folder with the goal of giving you more screen real-state so that if you have a lot of apps you don't have to keep sliding and MSFT adds huge block of tiles (and animated!) that will require you to slide around to find what you need.

It would have made an interesting showcase for concept design that car manufacturers always make, but I don't see this being much practical at all.
I have always understood what he is pitching.

Then I must have misunderstood what you meant when you said he was pitching a new technology.

I advise you think a little longer before responding to any more posts. Its alright, it happens to the best of them.

Thanks, if we're exchanging advice, mine would be 'please don't be a condescending prat'.
You raise a valid point. I suspect that professional associations are neither superior nor inferior to government regulation. Perhaps it's best when both exist to the most useful extent necessary, and no more. (I guess that's a trivially true statement; sorry.)

Government is susceptible to lobbying by interested parties (thinking about hoteliers vs Airbnb). Professional organizations are susceptible to antitrust (thinking about Wilk vs AMA) and perhaps to perpetuating the problem they are designed to solve.
What put me off leiningen a while a go is the mention of Maven. I'm not going to touch anything related to Maven because at some point something will go wrong and I will be thrown into Maven hell. Maven is evil. It's the EJB of build management.

Also, I think that build management and generally dependency/package management is done completely wrong. The principle seems to be to manage large numbers of fine-grained, versioned, recursive dependencies. I don't think this will ever work well. The inherent complexity of that idea is always going to leak. We need to question the idea that modularity is always good.
Cheers; thank you for nudging me to express myself more clearly!
No, I interpreted madair's comment as a complaint the article was unscientific and agreed with the article. Except for the choice of title.
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They are still working on it though.

On March 27 they've published a working draft for the CLI specifications (ECMA 335) ... http://mono-project.com/ECMA-335-CLI-Public-Draft

I don't know what went in, since .NET 3.5/4.0 haven't suffered major CLR changes.

Also, ECMA 334 which covers the C# language hasn't been updated since June 2006, so it doesn't cover C# 3.5 or 4.0.
I told HP's Andrew Bolwell that what I really wanted were magazines priced like iPhone apps. Give me really good $2 magazines and I'll buy them all day long. A $10 magazine on the iPad? Probably not.

It's very hard for me to understand this. If you enjoy the magazine, if it's "really good" why wouldn't you pay more than $2? At what point does the cannibalization of content stop? If it's convenient to use an iPad or a Kindle to get your magazine, shouldn't that be enough at the normal price point? Why is further incentive necessary? I can understand a slight discount due to publishing savings, but from $10 to $2? Come on.
Exactly the rant I intended to write. Seeing that attitude presented as anything other than pure self-interest makes me sick.
can't we do this without facial recognition?
how about the application passively check-in the user(using gps) based on amount of time he has spent at a particular location(like > 10 mins?)
Hey Bret, I hear what you are saying. Yes, the infrastructure and application communities are separate. Yes OpenStack != "Open Stack".

But the wider communities; the customer communities and the developer communities are going to be in that overlap between both infrastructure and application.

And we both know that once your brand goes through 'the wash' of the media it's going to be munged into "Open Stack" as much as "OpenStack".

Sure everything has some kind of name collision but that's just indicates why more deeper investigation is required to ensure such collisions occur between two very different usages. It is disappointing in this instance that didn't occur.

(I'm guessing/assuming you are a RS employee...) you also haven't touched on the concern that RS is asserting a TradeMark on "OpenStack" which brings some concern into the existing publicity for the Open Stack concept.
Our credit info is online, our home addresses, our banking info, our friends and family photos, what we buy, what we search for, where we go, where we are. What's so risky? :D
Hm, OK, so what is the point of the tilted screenshots?
This is a good point, but honestly I doubt this particular provision will be enforced by the courts.

If Thesis is to be held to this provision, it actually requires a contract formation, which means that the Thesis owners must have been aware of this GPL provision and must have intended to enter into a contractual relationship and all the other conditions of contract formations must have existed. This is really questionable. The Thesis owners could say that they were never aware of this provision and they never intended to be bound by it.

Of course if they say that, they will not qualify under the GPL, which may mean they are guilty of copyright infringement (if they do use GPLed code). But it is still possible that they can hold this position and accept their copyright liability (or perhaps try to use other arguments to deny their liability under copyright law). And if they do hold this position and if you have copied the Thesis code, then you are yourself guilty of copyright infringement and have no excuse.

So, I would not rely on section 5 of the GPL in this case.

This is all academic discussion, none of this is legal advice, and if you are actually considering using the Thesis software, please consult your own attorney.
What a great description of what has lead Microsoft astray, in some of their projects. Zune, Bing, Xbox (although that may yet pay off) expose their hatred to Apple, Google and Sony.
This isn't a spoof - it's an actual Taiwanese news recreation of Antennagate. Slightly ridiculous yes, but actually used in a news broadcast.
Interesting - I wonder why the difference exists; Engadget seems to like Win7 (though they are not ecstatic), whereas other sources seem to despise it. I wonder where the difference lies.

I do hope MS the best - the more competition we have in this sphere the better, and if the responsiveness/performance of the OS is as good as Engadget says, there will finally be some hard competition for the iPhone (Android is great, but I've yet to use one where the UI isn't sluggish, and it really detracts from the experience).
I'll put my workplace out there: Akaza Research http://www.akazaresearch.com/ http://www.openclinica.org/

We create open-source solutions for the clinical research field.

Also of note: http://opower.com/ - tracks energy efficiency with solar power + software. Something like that.
I suspect the guy who said it is an Aussie :) The tall poppy syndrome is a very strong cultural tradition in Australia: http://www.convictcreations.com/culture/poppy.htm

Keeps us from getting too big for our boots ;)
Thanks :) I covered bln.kr last week: http://venturepimp.com/post/802527796/bln-kr
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Thanks for all your suggestions, folks — this has been a great turn out. I'll check each and very one of them out.
This is already being discussed on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1527572

(I thought HN was able to tell that http://www.openstack.org == http://openstack.org - which hasn't occured here which is why we have two entries on the front page)
Got it already :) http://venturepimp.com/post/526176519/notifo
>In contrast Widows7 mobile UI is a confusing mess and very bland to be honest. There no "Wow" factor.

Is this just your personal preference speaking? I actually was impressed when I first saw the UI, and the article describes it as useful and functional.
You don't pay $10 for (most) paper magazines, why would you pay $10 for an app that shows you the same magazine?

Doesn't it cost them less to produce online version?
Ask HN: What tools do you use to give automated tours of your product?
We want to create an easy step-by-step guided tour of how to use our product. We've considered making a basic video, but also want to dive a little bit deeper for other folks that need more hand holding.

Has anyone used this tool to help them:
http://touration.com/

What other tools are out there that you have used? Thanks!
If possible, it's generally better to link to someplace other than the You Must Be A Registered Member Times. A signup form is not very informative.
Very cool, but can we get metric units? Google does a good job of facilitating this: http://img.skitch.com/20100719-t7nebfpieb75hrsbhu9w29361k.jp...
I compete with http://favstar.fm

I think Tim is a pretty nice guy. I'd buy him a beer.
My point stands, though: the intent of Perl 6 was never to create a language or runtime or compiler which would gradually succumb to a Perl 7 which would gradually succumb to a Perl 8 and so on. Since the RFC process the intent of Perl 6 has to been to create a Perl which solves the limitations and flaws of Perl 5 and can thrive for the next twenty or more years.

The intent was to completely set aside iterative development in favor of a big design up front which is supposed to last decades without change, like some Egyptian pyramid or the Great Wall of China? And this intent came about because of a desire to fix all of Perl 5's flaws and limitations all at once?

That is one of the classical blunders! The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well-known is the Second System Effect!
This is a great idea. A while ago, I had brainstormed something like oDesk + Etherpad for writers that would be based on reputation/ratings, and it looks like you're well on the way to something similar. Best of luck. :)
Although it didn't get much discussion, this was posted two days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520923
Because the hope is that openstack will do for cloud hosting what Apache did for single-server hosting. And now you can install it locally on your own laptop or on a cluster of your own or pay someone else to host it.
Of course its my personal opinion. I don't claim to speak for everyone nor did I run any public poll. Everything I said in my comment is my own opinion from my own experience (with other mobile OS), unless otherwise stated.
I thought this was Saul Griffith's startup, but I see no mention of him on the about page. At his Long Now talk last year, I recall him talking about Makani as being his new effort.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Griffith

Saul seems totally awesome; his Long Now talk "Climate Change Revisited" was a fantastic survey of alternative energy solutions, and how no one was the answer, but that a cocktail of solutions is. His ability to put big numbers in context was stunning, especially his equating of industrial output in the US pre-WWII to the effort required to build wind turbines to cover half the usage of the current US electricity grid.

Here's the video of the talk:
http://fora.tv/2009/01/16/Saul_Griffith_Climate_Change_Recal...
Government often regulates when an industry doesn't regulate themselves. Sometimes you need the government to step in because the social cost isn't being borne by the industry.
I'm a developer on swift (OpenStack storage == Rackspace Cloud Files). We've been pretty excited about opening this, and I'd love to answer any questions you have.

Swift documentation is at http://swift.openstack.org. Check out the "SAIO - Swift All In One" page to see how to set up a VM to run it. With some very small tweaks, you can also run it on a single slice (mount a loopback device rather than another virtual drive).

Although I don't know as much about it, the compute docs are at http://nova.openstack.org
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To clarify, you are arguing that the problems are just because we want the Space Shuttle to look complex and sound dangerous so that it seems like we are on the cutting edge. That NASA, even after the tragedies, feels a cutting edge appearance is more important than preventing the negative PR from the accidents.

Do I understand you right?

Do you have any sources? I am not an aerospace engineer, and I hate to pull that card after your long and thoughtful comment, but that seems like a pretty sensationalist claim, it'd be nice to have a little supporting evidence. Among other things, you'd figure if a spacecraft could be made as simple as a plane, it'd already have been done.

Also, does an airplane really have no single point of failure? I could swear everything does have at least one. I can't imagine how you could solve all of the single points of failure even on something as simple as a bicycle or a motorcycle. And with the problem with the O-ring failing- wasn't that the failsafe O-ring? I seem to remember hearing something about how there were two seals, and the first one was never supposed to go, but there was a second seal just in case. The first seal did go, but the operators just said 'hey, it's ok, we have a second seal'.
Well, as for those 'indictments' published in 1944 and 1962, the children of that era have caused the recession of today.
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