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There is a fine line between feedback and hovering/control. It all boils down to the inter personal relation and the respect you have for the other person (professionally and as a human being).

I have worked with both extremes. People who even after being far off want to control and are able to control every aspect of your work till you get frustrated enough and people who even after sitting right next to you know how to "lose control".

Currently I am working with people from the "Valley" who also happen to know how to give great feedback while also giving complete artistic freedom. At the same time they also know when to cut my ideas short when they do not align with the product. Win win for all and at the end of the day a great experience for the person using the product (hate the word user).

As far as the opinion to the article, I believe much before looking for a technical acumen, companies especially startups should look for the right product sense in the designers. A designer who does not understand the how to program can create great design but a designer who fails to understand the core values and strategy of the product is a ticking time bomb.
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i think the idea and principles are sound, however, if it gains any real momentum, it'll be subject to a crack down.

the money supply of a country is it's real source of power. taking it away from the current owners shall be no trivial feat. but decentralization is perhaps the way it could go down.

at the end of the day, i'm all for it. if it's inherently flawed, the masses will discover it, and not use it, at the expense of maybe a few individuals getting burned (but i think we should accept that really, it's an inevitability of the "new").
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That's true, but then yet another knock on Groupon is that it's not clear they actually have any sort of exclusive access to their userbase. It doesn't really cost a Groupon user anything to also sign up for LivingSocial or AmazonLocal, and a user looking for good deals actually has the incentive to sign up for as many of these services as are available (a good deal can come from anywhere).

There's also the common observation from Groupon advertisers that Groupon users aren't necessarily particularly desirable customers. They're often deal hunters who have no interest in becoming regular customers after they've used their coupon (not that LivingSocial or AmazonLocal users would be any better in this regard).

Edit: also worth pointing out, this is why I think Square's latest offering has the potential to knock it out of the park: user and merchant stickiness, going after loyalty rather than dealhunting, etc.
I like the automatic die-hard assumption that MS will abandon Silverlight and it won't be usable as a platform any more. Also, that nothing could replace it, even though they are saying html5/js will replace it.

Seriously... If that's MS's path, and you're following it, just... You know, follow it. It's not that hard.

Or go your own path, and pick the language you want to use.
a company that I've worked with indirectly, they market themselves as an SEO company, but a lot of it is copy-writing for web as well, or they will have specific recommendations I'm sure: http://www.mackerelmedia.co.uk/
Ask HN: Is there a market for efficiently 'rsyncing' huge sparse files?
I've written a little tool, VirtSync http://www.barricane.com/virtsync for this purpose. I use it to synchronise VM disk images. It currently serves my needs, but is a little hacky in places. I want to know whether it there is a viable market to make it worth cleaning up and packaging.

It is based on Hash Trees, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_tree so it only copies the deltas and it does in-place writes.

(rsync doesn't let you use --inplace and --sparse together.)
I Agree. It's very difficult to have an environment when you can be productive with the same application using a touch device. If you look for example at the iPhone/iPad native controls, they are pretty standard (and very well implemented): listviews, browser, etc.

If the people time with a tablet will be spend mainly on the browser (thinking html5)/mail applications there is not reason to spend a lot of time developing complex controls to use Excel perfectly on a touch device, just switch it to desktop mode and attach a keyboard and a mouse.

The question for mobile/tablet users is: are you using a complex spreadsheet on your mobile/tablet?
> When done you undock and flip back to the touch UI to take it with you, but you still have access to all your documents.

I view this as an antiquated approach to having access to your documents between your "desktop" and "tablet". As much as I hate the word, the future of sharing and accessing documents between devices is in the "cloud". Music and video are already headed in that direction. Services like Dropbox and Evernote have made huge strides. Web apps are also taking us there. And Google's Chromebook intends for everything to be in the cloud.

For sure, right now, it's not a purely seamless task if I say, create a Powerpoint presentation on my Mac and want to share it with someone on my iPad later at a lunch meeting. But, it's not rocket science either. I just throw it into my Dropbox folder. Then I open it from my Dropbox folder on my iPad. But I see these types of tasks becoming automated in the future until it becomes the norm. I don't think local storage will ever go away completely, but I do think it will be used for niche or archaic reasons.
But that's the point. There aren't 1B Win8 users and there won't be for a very long time. With iPad you have to build in Apple's eco system but with Win8 you have the option to build a standard Windows app. How many people are still running Win95 or XP? It will be a long time before Win8 reaches anywhere near 1B users.
> If within 1 month, with the same amount of money, you'll be able to buy 1.04 houses

I think 60% annualized deflation is significantly more than the deflation we would expect in the eventual steady state of Bitcoin. And if I was experiencing 37.5% annualized inflation (the opposite of 60% deflation), I don't think that would be particularly good either.

If you meant, by bringing up a central bank, to refer primarily to monetary systems based on a central bank, I don't believe that a government (a small subset of the population which is allowed to murder and kidnap and rob everyone else, and which is necessary for a central bank to exist) is a prerequisite for trade denominated in a common currency, so I'm not sure that the way our current monetary policy works is entirely relevant. The Dallas fed wrote an interesting piece on changing policy to allow for negative nominal interest rates (http://dallasfed.org/research/indepth/2003/id0304.pdf), but I think we will have to settle for negative real interest rates for the near future.

Discounting the central bank bit, I'm first unsure that the bulk of business has to be financed through debt, and second unsure that a deflationary environment can continue to exist given a huge loss of productivity. I would expect, if thousands upon thousands of businesses suddenly closed their doors to sit on cash, that the resulting shortage of necessary goods and services would put a quick end to the deflation. This would be extremely painful and inefficient in the case of a large deflation, but any global currency of bounded quantity should eventually only deflate as rapidly as human productivity increases.
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But has been fairly universally praised.
At this point MS want IE6 (and 7) to die as much as everyone else does, as it has become a source of embarrassment.

Even MS's own online office applications don't support IE6 and have not done so since the back end of 2009 (see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officewebapps/archive/2009/08/05/985... for confirmation). Not supporting IE8 would be a problem (a number of our banking clients are in the process of transitioning away from IE6, but unfortunately only onto IE8 and I assume many government bodies are in a similar position) which is possibly why Google have drawn the line there, but if not supporting IE6 is an issue then Microsoft's online products will be affected as much as Google's. IE7 is pretty much moot in my experience: I don't know of any environment that upgraded to 7 which stuck with it, those that stuck with IE6 are either still stuck there or are upgrading to 8 or something more modern and those who moved to 7 have moved again.
Dave Gooden's post only has images of the emails. The anchor text doesn't expose affiliate id's, but the link itself may have them.

Airbnb was caught, but this story isn't big enough to matter.
Other tiling wms can "split the screen". Of course, that's where the similarities end.

The problem with tiling wms on linux is that apps are not built for that model: to be stretched and squeezed like that. Notice how the video got real small and then took advantage of the extra space below the video? That's what we need linux apps to do before tiling wms will be great (well, and touch ui) for the average user.
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HN is an internationally read site. Things that are illegal in some countries are not illegal in others. As responsible citizens, it is up to the individual to not engage in illegal activities in the region said individual is in.
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Well, 37signals talked about that some years ago.. I am a front-end developer with some UI skills but no design skill at all so I maybe a bit flawed but..

It all comes down to what you are looking for, I never saw a designer as good as a front-end developer doing html/css + js in real life (of course there are a couple of rockstars on the web).

They always have more a trial/error style than good code by design. Plus with web apps going more and more front-end side, you need people that do great html/css/js if you want a great working app.
have you ever seen an engineer use a spreadsheet? it's like crack to them.
The server-side implementation of the web services that would be called by these HTML5/JS apps has nothing to do with anything being discussed right now.
I think your reasoning about 4 is wrong. It does not look solid: in the long run, the security of all crypto goes to zero. There's a very real possibility that the current system will in time be replaced by something which is intended to be better, or to fix a to-be-found flaw, but which is itself flawed in a much worse fashion. In fact, that's quite likely: under the circumstances which such a change would need to be made, there'd be a panic and quite a pressure to get it done quickly.

That being said, I don't agree with the article's conclusion, either. If/when something goes wrong, it's a completely open question whether or not the reaction will be catastrophic.
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Hi HN,

Widgetfame.com is a way to find nice looking and easy to use features and widgets for your website.

We see a disparity between features found on javascript tutorials and examples on random blog posts that require a good bit of technical knowledge, and rigid solutions targeted for the most non-technical of users.

Widgetfame wants to make awesome functionality for your website easy. We are still sad that we even require you to put a code snippet on your website to use it. Haven't solved that one yet.

This has been a side project for a few months with a friend. We are thinking of focusing our efforts on one feature but we are curious how our current multi-feature solution will serve users.

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I'm working on Widgetfame: http://widgetfame.com

I had posted just a minute before finding this page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2611775
Users can generate as many of these addresses as they like- it's all completely anonymous. But even if Bitcoin had features that allowed this sort of tracking, it would still be a non-governmental free currency that is fundamentally at odds with how the old world works.

On a technical note, this is what the content of a block address looks like:

http://blockexplorer.com/address/1PbLcpBhxrMvgdcjwSgBatg1JiF...
Interesting. I guess it will all come down to execution, attention to detail but no matter how i play it in my head i can't see the Metro display as anything more than a Flipboard-type utility- good, cool but limited.
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Corporations seem to be only adopting every other Windows version now, so it would be interesting if Microsoft decided to alternate the targets of their Windows versions. Windows 7 was good for enterprise, Windows 8 will be good for consumers.
I think they are going after this seamlessness. Remember that microsoft is obsessed with home networking.
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Hashing algorithms aren't generally as well understood as reversible encryption algorithms. It's entirely possible that these novel discoveries are just around the corner.

And when that happens...
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Assuming you mean WPA2-PSK, it's easily sniffable as well. You can start up a copy of Wireshark and enter the network password and you'll see everything, as long as you capture the initial key negotiation traffic when a client connects to the network.
lol, true
Love what you're doing. I would change the "Make your website do stuff" though. It confuses me as its a bit vague.
Posted this on the original article, but had a feeling you might not return, so here goes:

Surely that points a crucial flaw in the system, how can you manually penalize a site and not put any tests in place that would let you know when the reasons for the penalization have been removed.

If Jake hadn't filed a reconsideration request he would have continued to be "trusted less" by Google thus presumably receiving less traffic.

Google should create a simple algorithm that would alert the webspam team who I presume take the manual action on websites that the reason for penalty has been removed and they should take another manual look at it.

As I see it the only reason Jake was informed of such penalization is because he filed a recon request, what about the thousands of other websites who inadvertently had bad links or another reason for penalization on the site and didn't sport the traffic dip and didn't file a request.

Maybe I'm wrong, Matt, do Google have these stops/tests/algorithms in place to stop incorrect penalization?
You should use sum for #2:

sum(range(1,1001))
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i think the EFF take the right approach here - software patents do actually make sense, sometimes.

patents are good at protecting individuals/small businesses from being crushed by larger companies (assuming they can secure patents for their ideas)

however, the system is nonsensical when large organizations have literally millions of patents, for the vaguest of concepts/ideas (google: patent for round transportation aid, or the like), which end up in legal action, the outcome of which is irrelevant because the fees involved for the smaller party are insurmountable.

then you have companies like ATI and nVidia, who's graphics drivers probably break an uncountably large number of each others patents - we're then in a position where open source is totally out of the question.

certainly, something must be done about patents, but the nullification of all software patents past present and future? that would stifle innovation as much, if not more, than the current system.
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I totally agree, but I expect more from an MVP from a company like Amazon. For instance, that "Munch" YC company at least had a couple deals in the bay area to peruse. Ultimately it is no big deal, I love Amazon, was just surprised there was almost no content to entice a user.
> When the federal reserve "prints money", it doesn't just mail million-dollar checks to random Americans. It does one of two things. It either (a) purchases some other asset [generally US treasury bonds] on the free market, thereby injecting more cash into the system than there had been before, or (b), loans money to a bank, who will then loan it to other people who will then spend it.

The part (a) about "purchases" is not specifically incorrect, but it is misleading and shows the author may not completely understand how things work. Typically the federal reserve SELLS treasury bonds. They are sold for less than face value with a promise to pay the full value on the redemption date. The difference, of course, is the yield, or more commonly the "interest" earned by holding the bond to maturity.
Because most goods don't have the extreme pressure of Moore's law.
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It's a pyramid scheme, just dressed up in high-tech, vaguely libertarian clothing. That's why sensible governments (not the "bank lobby") are starting to ban it - it's inherently a bad idea (unless you're an early adopter - just like any pyramid scheme).

Bitcoins are no different from tulip bulbs.
If someone puts a gun to your head and tells you to enter your password + SecureID + retinal scan, what are you going to do?

Wish I'd never agreed to the biometric factor.

That was sort of my point.

Look dude, I may agree with you, but don't expect me to defend to the death your right to say it. Well, maybe this time, but just this once, OK? :-)

The problem is so complex that there is no silver bullet solution. The only thing that we can do is incrementally improve our solutions.

An important thing to recognize here is that there are often multiple stakeholders involved, sometimes with competing interests. E.g., your bank, your employer, or your email provider's website... and you. There's not always agreement on what constitutes improvement. An employer may love the biometrics idea, but as you point out, it could easily make its employees targets of physical violence.

Typically the party that chooses the authentication scheme is the one that writes the check for it. This is not always the party with the most to lose and is almost never the actual user being authenticated.

Using a hash of a retinal scan as a passphrase in order to make public key cryptography more mainstream could be a good thing compared to what we have now."

I disagree, but you haven't described anything concrete enough for us to discuss.

It wouldn't be perfect, but questions like "do you trust the hardware" are not unique to this solution. You could pose the same question about using a keyboard to enter a password.*

Right. People get their keystrokes captured all the time, so unless your solution addresses the common issues too it's not worth going inside the eyeball for it. At least passwords are easy to change.

It seems that widely adopted authentication systems can never guarantee a strongly trusted endpoint. It always comes down to trying to lock secrets in some box which is then distributed as widely as possible. This idea has failed every time it's been tried.
So that people can get all their outrage out of the way and get used to it.
Dude, your #4 is exactly what Goldman-Sachs said about real estate derivatives. That wasn't that long ago.
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It seems pretty goofy to solve this through a law. If a streaming service needs to limit this sort of thing, just limit how many concurrent streams a user can have.
Better this way than the way most projects go.
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Deflation is the big big big problem.

The only bigger problem is that many people in the bitcoin community refuse to consider deflation a problem - some even deny it is happening.

The consequence is that bitcoins are good for investors and speculators, but bad for actual sellers and buyers. People just hoard bitcoins, and sellers are constantly lowering their prices every day while no one buys from them, because who would buy in a deflation?

Bitcoin bubble will burst unless they manage to give incentive to actual sellers and buyers.

I am a fan of digital currency and currently accept bitcoins, but I am considering to stop doing that, unless bitcoin changes from investing commodity to a real currency.
Also, you can't really prove that such an algorithm is secure.

Incorrect. One Time Pad encryption is provably secure. (Proven by Claude Shannon, no less; as in, the guy who invented information theory.) It is impossible to decrypt if you do not have the key.
If you connect before the eavesdropper then WPA-2 will protect you as you will have a per-client key by that point.

But if the eavesdropper was present on the network as you joined I believe it is possible to intercept that key during the negotiation process, due to flaws in the design of that process.
I really like the design!
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Yeah, they got my purchase, but the actual game lost my interest after about a day.

Given that, a $1 game only really has to hold my interest for a day so I'm not that miffed. But the $1 games that I play for weeks are the ones that I really love, unlike this one.
> in the long run, the security of all crypto goes to zero.

Perhaps that's true, but then the only thing to do is prepare a viable upgrade path that could be executed as soon as it's evident that the crypto won't hold up. Bitcoin has that with its genesis block forking ability. As long as the network doesn't become too fragmented with forks, it'll be fine.
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I think the most interesting aspect of this whole thing is, like you mention, how new bitcoin-like currencies are perceived, valued, and participated in. Will everyone start jumping into new bitcoin-like currencies in hope of massive bitcoin-style investment gains? Will massive bitcoin miners attack new currencies networks with their computing power to protect their or others' investments in bitcoin? Will new bitcoin currencies be like social networks where only one dominates at a time for many years?

What would happen if a new gold-like element was discovered? "Red Gold" that had almost all the attributes of gold but it had a somewhat redish color and was actually a different element and it was proven to be of about the same scarcity worldwide. Would that halve the price of gold and would everyone jump onto red gold immediately or would it be shunned as not the real thing and be mostly worthless?

I'd be interested to know others' insights on this.
It's not impossible to prove cryptographic algorithms are secure. It's just really, really, really difficult. So difficult it's not even proven that one way functions exist in the first place! (For context: if one way functions exist, then P!=NP).

Proving cryptographic algorithms are secure involves proving statements over all turing machines. For example, one definition of a 'secure' pseudo random number generator is one such that no turing machine can distinguish its output from 'true' random (with 2/3 certainty) in polynomial time.

However, we do know a really-really-probably secure one way function. If there are any one way functions, then it is secure. It just isn't really practical. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_function#Universal_one-...