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Current Web Design Trends – An Overview
Web design trends keep on changing with every passing year or within a period of few months. There had been significant changes last year whose impact can be seen more clearly in this year. Popularity in the mobile device space has immensely increased in the sense that Smartphones and tablets like the iPad have made the interaction between users better and have facilitated easier accessibility to contents. Moreover, now people can take more and more advantage of the latest and the optimized features.
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I was looking for an example of the service, so I was looking for demo or example or tour - I didn't realize the 'Live Preview' link is clickable. Could just be me but I think it should be displayed more prominently and visually look more clickable and perhaps label it better.

And your site should be at least as snazzy as the coming soon page to set a good example - much of the value of your service is in its looks, I'd think.
I'm in Sweden and I've heard of them but never used the service. I think they had some commercials on TV a few years ago.
I'm surprised you didn't know about the online thing, and even more so that your associates have barely heard of them. They have advertised a fair amount - try asking your non IT literate and gamer friends.

Oh well.
Interesting. One critique of the paper---the notion that a higher level of equilibrium firing would making being CEO less attractive (and hence lower the talent level) seems wrong, or at least incomplete. First, more firing would make more space at the top, increasing the probability of getting the job in the first place. Second, in a world with more firing, getting fired would be less of a negative signal. Getting canned would still be bad, but my guess is that it would be more like losing an NFL head coaching job e.g., you become an offensive coordinator, coach in college, move to a different team etc.
There's a discussion of some of the points here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2123265
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actually this sort of "advertising" isn't rare in Japanese entertainment industry. a lot of fresh actors, idols, and singers are required by their agency to update their personal blog daily and interact with their fans.

what's interesting is seeing how effective it is when applied to a market that is not expecting such attention from those in the spotlight. for the western world, twitter is a providing similar service, but perhaps we can do better..
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I used to work for a leading manufacturer of food supplements: energy drinks, sports bars, powders, pills. Most of the name brands in that industry actually use "copackers", which are third parties that take care of both the manufacturing and packaging. You provide the recipe and the raw materials, they do the manufacturing and packaging. you can make different kinds of arrangements for whether they provide the raw materials or you do. You can sometimes use different copackers in different parts of the country to save on shipping costs to different distribution centers.

I'd look into the possibility of having the packaging and manufacturing done in the same facility.

This isn't my area of expertise, but I'd try googling around for the word "copacker".

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/foodsci/ext/pubs/copackers.htm...
1. Concentrate on making your product great, instead of attacking the competition/market leader.

2. Don't assume everyone cares about things you do. No one gives a hoot if a website they click on knows what page they came from.
When the app store for iOS was released my first thought was that the Mac really needed one of these, mostly based on how easy it is to install things through Linux package managers like apt - and of course updating everything easily was nice too.

Over time (and as my experience with OS X grew) I slowly thought that it was less and less of a deal - and that few people were actually expecting a Mac App store, so I guess I just gave up on the idea.

Now it's here though, I can't believe how obvious it all is. They should have had one of these years ago. I don't think there are even rumours at this point, but Microsoft would be mad to not build one for Windows too.
I think before I would publish such a thing widely, I would ask a few friends to double check.
This is of course a case of the True Scotsman fallacy, because the author can argue (following the posts logic):

- Good programmers are stuck spending most of their time on - tools they hate.
- You do not spend most time on a tool you hate.
Therefore, you must need be a good programmer.

And tada, irrefutable argument and a linkbait blog post subject.
If the goal is privacy, there are many search engines respecting privacy already. The goal is better search results!

Since I don't have a Google account and ban many evil domain names such as googleanalytics.com, facebook.com, they can't track my information already. for me, there is no need to use a search engine with crappy user interface.
The general observation of the author is correct, but his claimed
reasons for it are flawed; it has little to do with breaking
concentration.

I was at a party with a dear friend of mine, Pat Davis, who is an expert
PCB layout engineer at Millennium Design (www.millenniumdes.com). When I
was healthier, I used to do some occasional PCB and automation work for
his company. While the two of us were talking with another mutual
friend, I said, "Working with me can be, ummm, interesting. I have zero
patience for poorly built machines and programs." And then I asked Pat
for affirmation from his own experience working with me.

Pat replied, "Sure, you can be tough to work with, but there is a real
upside to it; if I never want to do something manually again, I just
make Jon do it three times. He'll lose his patience and automate the
living snot out of it."

As much as I hate to admit it, his answer was completely truthful.
Both good points, thanks.
I've done some temporary tweaks to encourage visitors to scroll down for the preview, but after all I believe now it needs a complete rewrite to make it much cleaner -- I was going for "see all you need to see right on the homepage", but obviously it's not a right approach.

Lesson taken: Clicking is easier than scrolling and less really is more.
I started http://paggstack.com/ (A supplement out of 4-Hour Body). I'm working with a manufacturer, the company that they had make all the pills and bottles did a full service. They provide everything, design, packaging, labeling, etc.
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I'm guessing to see it one needs to use the BBC 'iPlayer' stuff and possibly it requires being inside the UK. Any chance of a screen shot?
Nokia is still pretty popular with the average person here in Italy, I think. The OVI store is a big ugly hairball though and unless they seriously fix things up, I've given up on trying to get my applications into it. The signing process is extremely bureaucratic.
I think another point is that programming is generally started as a hobby, because you love it. You might spend years and years doing it for fun - you are in control what you're doing, you do things that you like.

Then, it becomes a profession. Suddenly, even if you're doing the same things, it's now something you _have_ to do. All of a sudden it's not that much fun any more.
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I don't really have a knowledge of HTML, but when I compare the current HTML and HTML5, seems like HTML5 is more simpler?
I think it's a red herring, but enough people take it seriously for this to be brilliant PR on the part of Gabriel.
Sorry, can someone please give an overview of what this is and how it works (I did not find any detailed examples on the site).

My understanding is that its an alternative javascript engine that can be modified (using javascript itself I assume) and those modifications packaged and shared.

Is that right? I was looking for an example of how you modify the engine and what can be modified. Any ideas?
Nokia has a pretty unparalleled manufacturing/delivery/logistics chain for low end phones. They like to claim they can put a phone on a shelf anywhere in africa for less than competitors' manufacturing costs. That's pretty impressive, if true. But we're talking about phones that retail for $35. The smartphones are a joke.

But the software! I sure hope Qt is starting to pay some dividends for them. When i was dealing with native Symbian/S40/S60 development a few years ago, I wanted to stick a fork in my eye.
On a somewhat related question, why does the US think it's okay to tax its citizens worldwide? If the money is not earned using US resources, there should be no claim.
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You're obvisouly correct. "3-SAT statements" is pretty meaningless in this context since you want to satisfy one big consistent statement.
I dunno why but this reminds me of trainspotting. But choose life, right. One could avoid any risk of injury through non-participation but it's a deceptive opt out.
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Among my friends email is far more legacy than SMS. I guess you’re USian though? In the UK pretty much every call plan includes more txts than you could feasibly use in a month, and it doesn’t cost anything to receive them.
They don't have streaming in Scandinavia yet, only the UK and Germany.
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http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/js/narcissus/

Modify away.
Texts probably subsidize data.

By the way, text messages are very cheap for carriers. They are sent on a control channel which is also used to establish and hold calls. This channel has to be kept free at all times anyway so the carriers can’t use it for anything else. Text messages are moreover very patient. If the control channel is not available they will just wait.
Isn't there quite a bit of data though to make this very static picture of the market somewhat irrelevant? I'm not trying to spread FUD. I would seriously like enlightenment if I'm wrong, but these are the conceptions that I have with respect to the more fluid nature of the market:

-The trend, throughout the world, is going heavily against Nokia

-Nokia's margins on each unit is a fraction of the competition

-Nokia's relevance is largely in a market (phones) which is being overtaken, faster in some parts of the world than others, by SmartPhones

-Profits for 3rd party developers of Nokia products are smaller than profits for 3rd party developers of the competition.

I'm sure there was a point in history when horses were more popular than cars in most of the world and we all know how that turned out.
That is a killer seo title. Porn and social media in the same sentence.
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I was curious if any HNers wanted to share their experience with AngelList in raising a seed and/or Series A round? (Likely the former, as Nivi claims only 4 startups have raised their Series A through the service thus far.)
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Unfortunately last time I checked they didn't do streaming of movies, only mailing DVDs and Blueray disks around.
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So there's been a lot of talk about hipster - the super stealth startup that amassed a butt load of subscribers without revealing what it does. There's been a lot of talk about how "brilliant" a success it already is.

TOTAL BS IN MY OPINION

First of all, its just the good ol SV old boys club at work. How did the startup get prime coverage on TC their first few hours of splash page activation? guess the founding team has some great connections.

secondly, i believe only techies and irrelevant early adopters invite people to a site they have never used in return for "beta" access. 90% of the world doesn't even know what beta access is. 80% of these sign ups will never return.

What the F* does this validate?

I'll give it up for a great name and connects I would kill for, but these guys have done absolutely nothing yet as far as i am concerned. Get this shit off your homepage TMZ... i mean tech crunch.

What do you think?
I should check that bitch out. Even tho azns never turned me on that much...
With what error?
Can you please file an issue here: https://github.com/anjlab/sat3/issues
and provide link to CNF file?
You're correct. To me, JavaScript in JavaScript that can run in the browser was the most important part (although I should have added "in the browser"). If I had called it "Zaphod - run Narcissus in firefox", it probably wouldn't have gotten anyone's attention.
Plugging Wikileaks
Why does pay go up in a pay freeze? Statistics.
How Amazon is making money by giving it away
The only way to do productive Symbian development in a non-deprecated environment is to use Qt. Run away from anything that says "Symbian" but isn't Qt.

The latest Symbian ships with a version of Qt (4.6.3) that isn't the cutting edge, but is good enough.

In typical Nokia manner, they've managed to make a dog's dinner of the SDK options: there's a regular Qt SDK, a Nokia-branded Qt SDK, a Symbian^3 SDK, a technology preview of Qt 4.7 for Symbian, etcetera ad absurdum.

AFAIK, the "Nokia Qt SDK" is the one you want. (If you make the mistake of choosing the wrong download and ask about it in the forums, prepare for condescending replies from Nokia employees who seemingly can't come to grips with the idea that they should provide a service to developers. I hope the new management will be able to do something about the innovation-hostile, inbred, not-invented-here cultural factions at Nokia.)

- -

Despite the confusing options and cultural issues, the Nokia QT SDK is really quite nice. There are a few other very good things about the new Symbian^3 platform:

- It has GPU acceleration as a standard, so you can rely on advanced features like OpenGL ES 2.0.

- The platform is more than merely a single high-end device. There's a very nice mid-range option available already (the C6-01). The total sales of this platform should turn out quite impressive over its lifetime.

- Nokia has promised to ship new features as free updates to Symbian^3, rather than baking them into firmware on new devices only as they used to do. AFAIK, these updates will include Qt 4.7 and a rewritten browser.

- -

Unfortunately, Nokia is also shipping devices with the older Symbian versions. Qt is also the best way to write software for these platforms.

There's a "Qt Smart Installer" that is sort of a package manager. It's supposed to ensure that 3rd party applications can easily depend on Qt by simply packaging the Smart Installer with their apps. I don't know how well it works in practice, but if the alternative is to write to the crusty old Symbian C++ API, I'd take my chances with Smart Installer any day...
I pretty sure that humans are by far not the smartest animals on earth. My experience is that humans are pretty fucking dumb actually.
It certainly doesn't need iPlayer, and I viewed items like this from Australia recently. However, I'll try to get a screenshot, or a photo.
I noticed this myself just this week (having recently moved to the UK and, in a budget move, decided not to buy a TV or pay the TV licence).

Yes - the BBC iPlayer (which plays delayed or catch-up programs from the BBC TV channels) does have a volume control that goes to 11.

If that means nothing to you, you have a task for this weekend - it begins here http://www.spinaltapfan.com/
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Until I can get a proper asian localization (on a shoestring budget) Nokia can have 100% market shere over there. It won't be of any use to me :(
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why does so much economic activity depend on fucking people over?
Certainly wasn't a simple hackercup. I participated in both rounds so far, the first one was a mess, I tripped off the 6 minute timer reviewing the questions on my iPad in the morning, without even downloading the input files! Maybe I should have read the enourmos set of instructions before, but I did it for the fun, and reading long t&cs isnt my idea of weekend fun.

The next round was even worse, thankfully I spotted pretty quickly no one was solving the starcraft problem, an obvious problem to attract starcraft fans, and there are enough of those in the programming community. So gave that a miss and moved onto the others. Looks like most people got caught out on that problem, which was a real shame. They need to reset this round and start again to be fair, but I'm sure given how upset a lot of competitors were the server load won't be the same next time.
I disagree. A bad programmer is the guy that says "I will only use lisp! Everything else is terrible".

A good programmer just wants the thing to work and will use whatever is best for the task.

The solution is for programmers to learn more technologies and stop being so fanboish with his favorite. Rise above the language/tool. They're nothing to do with real programming, which is solving real world problems.

Good programmers don't think about problems in a specific language, they don't read code in a specific language. It's all just code. Languages are just a crappy way for humans to write machine code. That's all.
EU here, yes it costs nothing to receive, but it's still around 5 eurocents to send one. 5 cents for a couple of bytes is still a lot. As for MMS, let's not even go there, that is a true ripoff.

E-mail is not quite legacy. What would you suppose could replace it?
Here's an interesting perspective of text versus email:

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/03/faster-...

tl;dr SMS is $100 billion business, is hugely popular and still growing.
Someone who insists too much on perfection is a bad programmer, like in the example you gave. Someone who doesn't insist enough on perfection is also a bad programmer.
I would not worry about this patent. There is prior art.

For instance, this paper I wrote in 2002 uses techniques which overlap with their claims: http://www.springerlink.com/content/ujrmkgp929v6je7p/
Arh! I see.

So, when if I install this extension, I can hack those files (in the extension's directory I assume) reload the browser and the javascript engine will do whatever I have changed?
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It's not about the current data, it's about the trends.

This is like saying that "90% of people still uses horse-powered vehicles to make their trips" five years after the invention of the steam engine.
This is weird. Amazon Germany used to operate a "Netflix" offering which they sold to LoveFilm in 2008. I was actually a customer and canceled at that point, LoveFilm's site was just terrible.

So now they are buying back what they partially sold in 2008?
Really interesting article. Looking into the guy who did the original research is quite amusing, the one-sidedness of his articles is appallingly apparent.
I don't think that's the case at all.

Bad programmers spend years on silly problems that don't matter. No one cares if you as a programmer find a particular language to be beautiful. Language syntax doesn't matter. Having to type out boilerplate doesn't matter.

Runtime matters, scalability matters, resource usage etc.
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Some credit cards allow you to generate throwaway credit card numbers, and you could sell the gift certificates to people with different addresses.

My main reaction to this story is that, after months of getting crappy offers from LivingSocial and cancelling my subscription to them, they finally offer something good.
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Couldn't find the youtube video but this will help.
"Can you point to a single instance where a company was forced to commit some act that its managers reasonably thought was morally wrong because of the "law" that companies must maximize shareholder value?"

I can point to companies that sell tainted drugs, products that contain lead paint, that dump toxic materials in rivers, do shoddy work on oil wells, etc. They don't do this because they are required to maximize shareholder value. They do it because of their pursuit of money. The difference isn't a meaningful one in my mind.

I think if the law was changed and companies were forced to consider societal interest then perhaps things would change for the better. Perhaps not. As it is, the law is a bad one in my opinion.
They've streamed movies for about 6 months or more now; the selection isn't brilliant, but getting there.
Ask HN: Share your experience with a non YC or Techstars incubator.
Blackberry Spy: Features and Usefulness
A Blackberry spy can be of much use to employers, parents or spouses of cheating partners. One of the disadvantages of the latest technologies is that it is also equally fuelling fraud, lies and concealing of facts, for personal motives. A Blackberry phone is such a sophisticated device that offers one high end features that include push to email, GPS, social networking and photo sharing instantly at the touch of a button, privacy ensured apart.
Thanks, good to know. The other day I heavily overpaid again because I didn't return DVDs in time...
Thank you, and I'm sorry but it seems I have most likely wasted your time due to my own self-inflicted wound of avoiding in-browser 'players' (flash, vlc, mplayer, iplayer, etc.).
I don´t know if that´s fair, as the Nokia smartphones I´ve used are really quite nice. Their high-end options like the N8 and N900 are phones I would rather have than my Droid 2.
Thank you for so concisely pointing out one of the biggest problems the US is facing today.
Heya, author here.

That's the tricky thing. As far as I can tell, the graph shows what percentage of phone users (or mobile Internet users?) regularly access the stores.

Basically, it suggests that about 9% of app users have iPhones in China (which still seems very high -- but I guess they're all in affluent areas), 13% have Android phones, and the rest have Symbian/Nokia phones (65%ish).

Most of the top apps in the China Mobile Mobile Market seem to be Symbian/S60 apps, too:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&...
Especially on income made while living and working in another country!
The qualification round actually had at least one incorrect test case[1] as well, and I got 0 feedback on that one. I asked on the qualification page for clarification, and as far as I could tell, no questions were being answered, and mine was ignored along with the rest.

[1] The Peg problem stated that there would be no ties, while the second example clearly had a tie. Again, they updated the tests, but only in the last 24 hours of the competition I believe, and with no notification to any of the competitors.