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A note for reference: I learned that the best way to create a 'sexy animated demo' is to forget the Flash idea and simply create it in Xcode and Inteface Builder.

For example, create a new Xcode project, ignore all business logic and data access programming, and simply code / build an working interface that can visualize a basic user case study example.

Then run the Iphone Simulator, take a screen capture video (using Snapz Pro or Camtasia) and run your makeshift CheckOut build. Save it and voila - you have an animated demo video that looks like the real thing.

In addition, I'd recommend SimFinger to beef up the Iphone Simulator with the iPhone4 shell. It also adds a 'finger' and some other tricks to make the demo video look better:

http://github.com/atebits/SimFinger
Wow, this is genius!

I don't understand why people are comparing it to Swype- just because both involving swiping instead of taps? In spite of this superficial similarity, don't you see they're solving radically different problems?

This system eliminates inaccuracy and allows true no look typing! Think about what that means for a moment.

Apple execs, if you're reading this, please license this technology and iphone it.
I signed up for the beta and made it my home page. I tried hard to adopt. I exchanged emails w/ one of the guys there (he was super nice and replied quickly) when I had to revert to Google searches to find what I was looking for (80% of the time), but then gave up. If the basic search results quality/ranking was close to that of Google, I would have stuck with it.

The slashtags are pretty cool. But like the article says, search isn't broken, and putting a cool extra on top of so-so core functionality won't work. And if slashtags did take off, it would be super easy for Google to add that in. (Unless I'm missing some kind of patent stuff.)
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> The human race has a problem or two to solve before it can lay claim to "immortality.

This is not how technology advances. Advancements happen, problems are solved (and created) and we deal with them after the fact. We don't coordinate our efforts into an orderly march towards the future.

As much convenient as it would be otherwise.
This is actually exactly what I meant by a lack of focus. That may be the focus of the underlying codebase (and that may be where the innovation is), but the UI was just really a glorified chat room. It wasn't particularly suited to actually doing real-time editing.
Really? Under what circumstances? I'm shocked, actually (not a Prē user).
I immediately went for the personal computer articles. October 1977 "New home computers can change you lifestyle."

May 1977 has an article on assembling you own computer (IMSAI)
Elite ain't that cheap. 0 day goes for 50K on the black market.
For some people who don't want an expensive cell contract, or for some reason need to carry a different phone, the iPod Touch is a great way to get in on a modern mobile OS. Those have to count big to developers, since iPod Touch owners are just as likely to use and buy apps (if not maybe more so since they're likely offline more, so the browser and webapps are less useful).

What's really amazing is that there's no <$200 Android powered iPod Touch competitor. There's a market gap there in my opinion ... I think every smartphone OS should have a non-cellular device as well.
Compare relatively low error rates to zero error rate.

And no matter how good you get, no one (very few people?) can use Swype accurately without looking.

And intuitively speaking, it seems to me that if they've truly got some science behind the placement of the letters, it could be very, very easy for motor memory to catch on to this.
> But if her telomeres are shortening

It means she is aging. She is not developing.
Did you downvote my comment?

Did you bother reading the article? Andrew did not put them in touch. John, of DomainNoob, was already a fan of Sal Khan. He somehow ended up watching Sal's interview on Mixergy where it was brought up that .com domain was not available. After watching that interview, John decided to look into the matter and actually went through the whole ordeal to get the domain for khanacademy. Sure, Andrew publicized the issue but all the leg work was done by John.
How many plum livers (PL's) to replace the one that I am now planning to drink to death? And what's the max # of drinks I can have per day to make sure my current one lasts until enough PL's are available to stick in my abdomen and take its place?
Sounds interesting, and I sent you a message. I am also curious about the type of help you're looking for right now - full/part-time work? Volunteer?
Is it safe to assume you won't be using your posting history on HN as a form of character reference? :)
We have a huge amount of our sellers using Google Checkout over PayPal as well. I prefer Google over PayPal as well as it's just a whole lot simpler.
> being old does.

Actually, being old does not suffice. You need a combination of short telomeres and cell damage.
a key factor quickly becomes the reliability of any system that you wire into normal use

I had a friend in high school whose dad had set up an elaborate home automation system with simple 2-3 word voice controls for things like "turn on AC" or "turn on sprinklers". Anyway, this system was flawless until my friend's pet parrot Larry learned a few of these commands. One of the funnier situations was when the bird turned on the sprinklers during a dinner party!
If most of your customers use a CC/DC, then support both.

The things that PayPal can do, but GC cannot are: payment from an existing balance, eCheck funded payments, micropayments.

The only advantage to using one or the other, is it would focus your payments towards getting up to the next tier in reducing your merchant fee percentage.
Can I ask you three questions?

1) What are the names of the courses you're taking this year?
2) What books are you reading for your studies?
3) Who would you most want to work with, in your field?
I'll be surprised if there are still meat-based humans in zoos by the time I get to a 100... This one is to be a very interesting century, if we don't ruin it completely.
Not just a bit, but a lot, IMO! Some people are comparing this to the dvorak vs. qwerty keyboard layouts.

A more apt comparison is to a keyboard laid out in alphabetical order vs. a qwerty keyboard. The adoption of qwerty keypads on touch screens is 100% based on familiarity and no ergonomic consideration in letter positions at all.

We're talking potentially major improvements in speed, assuming they have the science of letter positioning correct.

(Please let them have it correct, or we'll have the same dvorak vs qwerty nonsense all over again. Learn from history, people ;))
I didn't downvote your comment.

> Did you bother reading the article?

I did. From the article:

> I was able to contact Sal through Andrew Warner and Sal was happy to have me bid on his behalf.
It doesn't really offer advantages on a computer that it does on a small device. Full size keyboards already allow no-look, potentially 100% accuracy typing, with multiple fingers at once. That spanks this system even worse than this system spanks mobile phone keypads.
Death supposedly helps evolution by removing previous iterations of the genome from the gene pool, leaving newer, allegedly better adapted, "models" with less competition. It works cross-species - if your species does not provide better adapted generations for some time, it will be outcompeted into extinction.
I'm not a user of THC, but it doesn't help the debate when opponents spread huge amounts of misinformation and propaganda on the opposing side of the topic either, often citing debunked toxicity studies, and claiming false links to mental illness, none of which have been shown to be causative. Many of the dangers claimed are observations made from animal necroscopies after LD50 doses or doses non-representative of recreational or medical usage. Not joking, the LD50 of cannabis leaf for humans is roughly 3/4 of a ton, or something like 17lbs of pure THC.

I'm just curious, your opposition seems largely centered on people being high and not the medical effects, are you a prohibitionist too? What about self-induced altered states of mind, hypnosis, etc? Neurochemically active foods (chocolate->dopamine link)? What's the reasoning?
This has been happening over the centuries with games like chess: after enough people spent time on them, openings began to develop. Now we've got iPhone apps to teach use SC2 openings: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/build-calculator-for-starcraf...

How long before there's an app to develop them in real-time, by optimizing for certain constraints?
i tend to agree. my major gripe is the cost. something i've been considering creating for a while is a manpacks alternative.
Ask HN: Safe ways to recieve small amounts of money in India (no paypal)?
This may be a stupid questions, but I have already accepted in my most famous blog post that I have made asking stupid questions a habit.

I received a small gig after I posted a comment on HN (I just love you all). The payments will be small, around 12-15$/ payment (menial work I suppose) . The problem is I have never done an international transaction before. I have a bank account which does support internet banking, but a cousin of mine has informed me that there can be some problems if I receive payments in Dollars (or any other bank currency) directly to my bank account. I don't want to you paypal because a) I do not have my PAN card ready yet, and b) I have heard too many horror stories about it.

So my question is, is there a safe way (tax department safe, if you know what I mean) to get such small payments in India?
I enjoy machine learning, pure and applied maths. Where do I start? Any books, any summaries of the state of the art for the computationally inclined? I ignorantly guess that graph theory, statistics and perhaps even group theory may provide useful perspectives? I know dynamical systems theory has been applied and hear you can code new simple organisms or something? Am I talking nonsense? heh This has always been an end goal of mine but I don't know where to begin. I figure start now and in 5 - 10 years I'll be ready to join you :)
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World War II was really boring if you lived in South America at the time.
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We will be looking for a good LAMP developer (PHP) in the next few months to do new development on an existing e-commerce site.

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The RFQ could easily have excluded Google in other ways, for example "Business productivity software shall be from a company with a minimum of ten years experience in providing business productivity software to government agencies."

"A minimum seven years" would also have excluded Google.

As would "five."

Google's track record with business productivity apps for large organizations just isn't very long...
It's hard for me to say intuitively regarding speed and the Swype, but I can see that Swype would probably increase accuracy by some statistically significant amount.

This device, based on my intuition, would probably offer significant increases in wpm, and definitely increase accuracy significantly.

It's not a question of being genuinely happy or not- if something better comes along, than obviously it should be adopted.
They have to. I've never negotiated w/ amazon, but their list bandwidth prices were 3 - 4 times more expensive than what i got negotiating with CDNs and carriers directly.

That's to say nothing about cogent, who will sell you bandwidth at $4/mbps, AWS's cheapest pricing (at 150tb/mo) still comes out to $28/mbps, which is a joke.
Socket.IO has really impressed me in the past month. That said, some of the documentation is tricky (IMHO) with things like gotchas in the absolute/relative paths, special cases for working within Node.js, etc. If anyone else here is using this new Socket with Node, I'd be interested in comparing notes-- PM me.
I would very much like to see an example of a human using the input. No matter how skilled they are - in fact, the more they practiced, the better. I have trouble seeing this as as-quick as a semi-intelligent QWERTY pad that can correct most errors by proximity.

Sure, loops are fast, but are they as fast as a move and tap? And how about ergonomics - is it more tiring, given that the distance travelled is huge compared to many others?

Totally-blind typing: awesome. Huge advantage there where accuracy is important (Graffiti ain't bad, but small errors can magnify as you may cause a command gesture if you aren't watching). I'd call it a definitive "win" there. But how about other uses?
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After about 2 weeks (seriously!) in the job the new employee just got up and left, never to be seen again. On the day he quit we were actually in a team meeting and once it was over, the employee collected his things, called a taxi and got a train back home to his parent’s house. The only reason Greg and I were told as to why he decided to quit was apparently because “he’d rather play video games than work”. No lie.

Excuse my ignorance, but just how exactly do these types of people get hired? Nepotism?
I don't understand how it could be more tiring than tapping with the thumb? Unless your touchpad is rough or requires too much force.

Many of us make similar motions all day long on game thumb-joysticks.
If you don't have a good enough reason to demand the ornament, you will still have to explain why you needed it in court.

Here in Brazil I have seen a couple RFPs shot down because they were tailored to a certain supplier (things like "nine internal bays for mass-storage devices" or "PowerPC 401-based on-board RAID subsystem"). In one instance, the guys with 10-bays and i960 CPUs on RAID cards were not happy and the poor sap who was ordered to write the spec had the distinguished annoyance of both explaining it to a judge and having to redo it, adding a year to the project.

I can't imagine you getting away with that.
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>I am more passionate about the work that Facebook is doing

Well, there's your answer. You're not going to be constrained by working at a company with ~2500 employees.
Aside from the horrible name, it was a huge invasion of privacy. Immediately people who I haven't talked to in years were able to find out all the detailed contact information on everyone I associated with and my clients for the brief time until google disabled the "everyone can see all of your email contacts" feature. It really show you what google thinks of your privacy. Even now I don't know for sure if I have it disabled, and there is really no way to know. For a while google made it so that if you accidentally clicked on "Buzz" it re-enabled the "everyone can see all of your contacts". Maybe they fixed that, who knows.
I just ordered my android phone today and cant wait to try this. I am really looking forward to trying this.
Conceivably you could use the new Magic Trackpad on the desktops (Mac Pro, mini and iMac). What I think would be needed, is better visual feedback that relates to where your multitouch actions as positioned. A single cursor is fine for a mouse, but it seems limiting for touch gestures.
How does taking a genetic sample turn someone into a lab rat? Once you have samples they get frozen at -80 indefinitely.

There are not too many people on this earth yet either. My guess is that your analysis is coming from the wrong places. If there were too much human biomass, everything would be working to offset that equilibria. Granted our environmental impact is presently suboptimal, but that is changing as we see diminishing returns in existing methodologies.

Who says immortality will even look like you picture it? Try thinking about what the world will look like in ten years--how accurate do you think you'll be? Science wouldn't be science if we could figure it out ahead of time.

I am pursuing this line of research precisely to rebel againt this kind of attitude (no offense, of course).

Every one of us--our perspectives, acquired knowledge and experience--is invaluable. On the same order of importance as genetic diversity. Our planet likely only gets one shot at reaching the stars (evolution got rather lucky to find the intelligence gradient). One day we will (hopefully) all agree on this, perhaps that being when Hollywood stops being so misanthropic and people start to appreciate the human capacity.
Many places get exemptions. If you look, you may be able to spot public signs that cite the exemption and under what law they have them. I don't know about everywhere but I remember seeing such signs in Cedar Point (an amusement park in Ohio) about a decade ago. (They've since lost their exemption for whatever reason, so don't go looking now.)
> there is no alternative which is qualitatively equivalent to MS exchange

You say that as it was a bad thing. I would be very happy if I hadn't to accommodate most of my professional communications around the idiosyncrasies of Exchange and the combination of Outlook, Entourage, Mail/iCal and Evolution clients.
I believe (through entirely indirect sources) that Buzz is successful inside Google in a way Wave was not. Unlike Wave they have at least managed to create something that is successful even when it's not successful -- I can happily read Twitter and some blogs through Buzz without feeling left out, while enjoying some of the advantages of Buzz when they are available. Wave didn't feel like that to me... it was potentially super-cool while being practically entirely uncool. I don't think it was going anywhere... and that indeed may have been because Google as an organization wasn't capable of doing what it takes to make a novel interface (at least in terms of Lars' inferred critique).

That's the criticism of Buzz that is most obvious and resolvable from this article as well -- Buzz looks blandly Googlish, no more or less. When integrated into Gmail, sure... but why should my Google Profile (which is also the container for deep links to my Buzz posts) be so incredibly boring?

The good parts of Buzz? Honestly it's just the balance of interaction and community. Facebook has a solid (and useful!) basis as an interpersonal communication tool. I use it with family and friends and it provides genuine social value. Twitter fills the professional side... and Twitter is great for pithy comments, but I've had enough with pithy comments and the celebrity stance -- Twitter succeeds in popularity because of its constraints, but for those same reasons it dodges any thoughtful discourse. It's just not for me any more, and while I'm not wedded to Buzz there needs to be a not-Twitter... and I kind of suspect Twitter can never be that, because maybe there needs to be 3 things (even though it only feels like there needs to be 2 things).
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This is measurable- the minimum diameter of a circle passing through the four quadrants is the maximum distance the thumb can ever have to travel. Allowing for some safe radius from the central dot, you would end up with a shorter travelled distance for many letters, even in the worst case. Add to that the fact that qwerty is not optimized at all for the positioning of the thumb- so G is a farther distance away than Q for example- and we're talking major benefits.
Where is the value add?

Not having to think about it, click any buttons, do anything, remember anything, etc. Buying socks and underwear is one of those tasks that's very, very easy to perpetually put off until tomorrow.
During our hunter/gatherer phase it seems to me that men who could feel pain more easily had an advantage in combat against animals. Knowing you're seriously hurt gives you a strong signal to retreat. Being able to withstand pain in the heat of battling an animal might lead to more recklessness and therefore a shorter lifespan.
Hmm. It's almost impossible to get money in India without Govt. knowing about it - RBI is way to smart for you.

Try Western Union? It's for personal payments thought - so make sure they have no problem sending it that way.

Call up your bank and ask if there is a problem in you receiving money in dollars, I don't think there should be any.

$12-15 are just 500-600 bucks. Don't bother much, if there is too much hassle, just skip the money.
Not only that, but you can make Red Hat, Novell and Canonical compete against each other for the best solution.

As much schizophrenic as Microsoft's various divisions are, you can't make the Xbox division compete with the Office division on which one wins a contract for adding a feature to the Windows 8 kernel.
This page claims it goes live tomorrow. I'm looking forward to trying it out on my X.

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Whenever a website doesn't allow me to delete my account, I just change my username to a random sequence of fingerjammed letters and then change my email address to another random sequence. Seems to do the trick for me. But are you also looking to delete any comments or submissions you've made as well?
I checked out the site, seems really nice. I think the payer would have to register yes? Another question, I do have a PNB account (their trusted local partner) but do not have netbanking activated for it. Do they allow transfer to other banks say SBI. Also have you personally used this?
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As it happens, I am looking for a core OOo/Libre Office developer. I am the Ubuntu Desktop Manager and I have a position open for someone looking to work on OOo/Libre. If you know someone who fits the bill, pass my info along to them!
Couldn't the baggage x-ray and metal detectors that we've been walking through for ages in airports be considered an invasion of privacy also? I think people are getting too upset over this.
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I too am planning to do this one just for karma (the real one, not the HN one :) ) if it becomes too much a hassle.
Great.

I think that with GrexIt, the value bring is:

- you can add a discussion to grexit with a button press.

- we replicate the discussion before it was added to grexit accurately in grexit along with all attachments

- we track follow-up emails on a discussion added to grexit automatically.

- inside grexit you can organize the content using shared label which are like email.

- Google apps users can just use their Google accounts to access grexit

- we are coming out with group based access controls soon which will let you control who sees what.
It would be hugely ironic if he used an Android phone for that...