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I did notice they did not say they were dropping Opera support. I think it's reasonable for them to not spend a large amount of time fixing minor bugs for a browser with 2% market share.

Isn't this the point of web standards? Things should generally "just work" in Opera if they work in those other modern browsers.
Another Windows Media Center.
It was nice, but it seemed always a little weird to reduce the functionality when there is the normal Windows underneath it. In the end did i click my videos in the normal mode.

It's not that bad, but just a little layer over their Win7 is a little disappointing. There will still be the annoying virus scanner in the background who makes noises and you will browse the files the same way like you did in 3.11.
Yes, yes there is:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
Link to anything specific as far as the tactics and strategies are concerned?
There is a difference between not being able to maintain focus and getting bored easily (or when not challenged). I can only speak for myself but I consider myself a motivated self teacher...I can focus for as long as I need but if I do the same thing with no challenges I become very bored/depressed and I start thinking of all the things I should be doing with my life instead of whatever it is I am doing...if I have multiple projects going on at once I feel better...I prefer the traditionally uncomfortable feeling of not understanding something...once I figure it out I have to move on or further development. I prefer technical reading to fiction and would rather spend my idle youtube time watching MIT lectures as opposed to general youtube footage. It is just my way...I would never consider seeking help or medicating myself over this...many of the true innovators in history have been dubbed insane or eccentric...if the average person has no idea what I am talking about or working with then I am on the right track.

Some people are just not meant to be robots...I use depression/boredom as a symptom that something is wrong and find the cure...but I can only speak for myself.

It is not that I am lazy...things just have to be done according to a different timeline...I will work 12 hrs a day but it has to be 12 hrs of my choosing. I saw no point in spending hours a night doing homework if I could learn something by reading the chapter. School and jobs have been difficult for this reason...I work for myself now...its better to go broke giving it a shot then it is to wonder what could have been and feeling trapped.
I'm pretty sure everyday rental companies (with real agents) in the Boston Area post fake apt listings on Craigslist to attract customers. Also I know for a fact that they harvest listings from Craigslist and rental sections of newspapers to call and email owners hounding them to list and show their apts. Whats the difference?
I'm the exact opposite. I hate to "tinker" around with languages or frameworks. I hate the feeling of not knowing what I'm doing and have to google for every bit of progress.

I think this is where modern trends in programming language books, and by extension language learners who enable these books, gets it wrong. Everyone is trying to teach you the bare minimum to get started, and they leave you to struggle with the rest. This is a big reason why there are so many programmers who barely know anything below the surface of the language they've been using for years.

I like taking a fairly broad tour of a language before digging in. I like knowing what the essence of the language is. I like knowing whats possible and what isn't. I hate the feeling of being blind, feeling around the room for the door knob to get me into the next room where the process is repeated.
I don't know enough to have an opinion about whether it's illegal, but even assuming it is, that doesn't mean it's immoral.
As someone who said good riddance to the Windows platform about 10 years ago (for Mac OS 9, which ought to tell you how fed up I was), I have to say that I'm genuinely excited to see Microsoft coming up with fresh UI conventions, both with Windows Phone and now with Windows 8. They could have gone the Google route and copied iOS, but they didn't. Likewise, they could have gone the Apple route and rested on making modest changes to their existing desktop OS, but again, it looks like they aren't.
I now realize that we are perfectly and 100% secure right this very moment

Lol. :-)

If a user enters <FORM OF AUTHENTICATION>, how do we know for sure that they aren't entering <FORM OF AUTHENTICATION> under duress?

Haven't you heard of the three factors of authentication?

Something they steal, something they chop off, and something they beat out of you...

We'd better just scrap this whole authentication thing altogether.

You can't. It's a fundamental activity, as old as the the first cell membrane (this is me, this is not me). Multicellular organisms have immune systems (which are often fooled). Babies (sometimes switched at birth) recognize their mother's voices right when they're born. Ever visit another city and people there can just tell right away you're from out-of-town?

The irony is that millions of years of evolution has given us humans so much built-in natural hardware for authentication that we're now doomed to underestimate the inherent complexity and subtlety of the problem.
and for once I'm not crazy !

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/cellphone-radiation...

> This year, The Journal of the American Medical Association reported on research from the National Institutes of Health, which found that less than an hour of cellphone use can speed up brain activity in the area closest to the phone antenna. The study was among the first and largest to document that the weak radio frequency signals from cellphones have a measurable effect on the brain. The research also offers a potential, albeit hypothetical, explanation for how low levels of nonionizing radiation could cause harm without breaking chemical bonds, possibly by triggering the formation of free radicals or an inflammatory response in the brain.
> then you shouldn't make the choice to have kids

Contributing genetic information and some parenting can be a net positive even if the parent is ultimately absent (for whatever reasons).

Take the extreme case of a parent who disappears just after the child's birth. The other parent may still be thankful to have the child, and the child may still be a credit to society.

Is the disappearing parent a good parent? Not really. Should he/she have never had the child, as you suggest? Well, that's up to the child, really.

I.e. it's hard to fault your parents for making you, whether they're good parents or not.

Do you have kids? It's relevant because I used to make arguments like yours until I had a child and realized how much more nuanced these arguments actually are.
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PyCon moves all over: It was in chicago, then atlanta, now santa clara and after that? Montreal Canada. We don't favor coasts, just bids.
Ask HN: How does sharing trademark or copyright ownership work?
The thumbs keyboard was one of the few things that made me think "UX red flag" -- since you can't really type on a touch screen without looking, the user will have to constantly dart their eyes from one side of the screen to the other. That would give me a headache.
Did you take a look at The Seasoned Schemer, the sequel to the Little Schemer? It might have been better suited to you.
Immoral: not conforming to the patterns of conduct usually accepted or established as consistent with principles of personal and social ethics.

Typically, what is ethical is respecting the user wishes. If I say, "Don't contact me for commercial interest" (the checkbox when you post something on Craigslist) and you do so, I would say that doesn't conform to business ethics.
My guess is both are bringing mobile UI constructs to the desktop.
BitBucket has the same problem with following projects. When I follow a project, I get messages about every person who starts/stops following it, so my main feed is mostly dozens of 'John Doe began following SomePopularProject'
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Maybe its just me, but why not wipe your screen with a flannel cloth or even your t-shirt every so often. That would take care of most of the more egregiously straight-forward attacks won't it. This of course assumes that you have fairly secure number based key to begin with.
Yeah, good point, hadn't thought about that. But would that be different from now where you have to move your eyes from the text area to some point in the lower half of the touchscreen?

There's an app that features a similar keyboard, http://radialapp.com. I think I'll get it and see if what you're saying holds true in my sample size of one.

Edit: so I downloaded the Radial version of the thumb keyboard and it totally sucks. I'm typing this on my iPad keyboard and I don't think I realized that the iPad keyboard is pretty dang easy to type on.
A couple ideas:

* Nice mechanical pencils

* A Feynman book
> How it will work when you're using it to do real work will be where the rubber meets the road...

That's where I wonder how well received this new interface will be. I wonder if this shell will just become something that most people skip past to get to the familiar Windows desktop. Granted, my experience as a power user (read: I'm a developer writing code and using the terminal--not on Windows but on OS X or Linux) is vastly different from that of a normal consumer, but I still think there is a common ground of using the computer to create rather than purely for consumption.

Still, very interesting concept. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing this released.
I always say that working with Vulcans is much easier...
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By the amount of emails sent and the similarity of emails, one could guess that they were indeed automated.

Honestly I don't really have a big problem with the tactic as both parties were winning, but I am not buying the 'rogue' sales team explanation.

Great product and business anyway.
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I have the mobile number of the nice waiter I know in a café down the road for me, when I want to order baguette(s) I give him a call and he kindly starts making them so that when I turn up I pay and collect, rather than waiting 5-10 minutes there.

I would LOVE to see a Starbucks mobile app allowing me to do the same thing, so when I get to the store I could pick up my drink and walk out. In fact it would amaze me if Starbucks don't offer this in the next 18 months, given their recent steps into mobile applications (though, annoyingly for me, they test everything in the US first, so more like 3+ years until it will come to the UK).
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It would be my opinion that PG probably doesn't care.

If this wasn't already clear, we're not looking for the sort of obedient, middle-of-the-road people that big companies tend to hire. We're looking for people who like to beat the system.

http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html
Ok, I've added it to one of my clients' sites (NOT WORK SAFE http://www.dirtyhotproductions.com NOT WORK SAFE).

I'm not sure if anyone will use it on there (especially with the big warning about your +1s being publicly viewable), but here's hoping it boosts search engine rankings at least.
After enough time I think you will be able to type on a touch screen without looking (given a decent autocorrect which is a must for a touch screen anyway).
I've owned an iPad for about a month now and just typed this comment without having to look at the keyboard (sans the parenthesis)

I think a spit screen keyboard is a win, overall.
Most of his gestures were flicks to right or left as that's the only "dimension" that the Metro UI works in.

A scroll wheel could do most of them - the snapping of multiple apps being the only outlier.

All of them would work with a 2D scroll interface (trackpad with gestures, mouse with trackball/multiple scroll wheels or touch surface), and laptops are the main bit of kit people buy these days.
Absolutely.

I hope they have a tooling story around HTML5. I wonder if that chart in the demo was done in canvas or photoshop.
I'm pretty sure Julie Larson-Green came from Microsoft Office during the overhaul of that product, which was an amazing leap forward in UI design for Microsoft. The "ribbon" certainly had/has its detractors (and I was one at first), but I soon realized what I didn't like about it was that it wasn't the old, broken system I had learned to use over my lifetime. For nearly everyone I worked with in customer service, approaching the system as an "Office Newbie" was several times easier under the new system.

She also led the Win 7 overhaul, for which I'm forever thankful if only because of the changes to how title bars work (being able to drag to maximize or cover 1/2 the screen, for instance). It was so intuitive that one day I was complaining about how Windows DIDN'T do that, but was on a Win7 box and it worked. I know Jobs likes to use the word "magic", but that was the first time I experienced it with a UI.

I'm wary of the changes I see outlined here, but I think that might, again, be the consequence of having adapted myself to bad design that's been prevalent. Past experience has me hoping I'm wrong to be wary, and I'll be delighted if I am.
There is an Android Thumbs Keyboard app for tablets: http://www.thumbkeyboard.blogspot.com/. Have heard a few friends rave about it.
Is that you Steve Ballmer? ;)

I don't doubt Microsoft's ability to get Windows 8 into consumers homes as much as I do not doubt their ability to shoot themselves in the foot by pushing yet another half-baked product out the door.

Sure in 2012 millions will experience Windows 8, I would only add that 2012 may be the tipping point with OSX, iOS, Android, ChromeOS, PalmOS and others aggressively vying to inherit their share of consumers who choose to move on.

I'm ambivalent to Microsoft's success or failure, I'm simply extrapolating from current cultural undercurrents, the sentiment even long-time Windows user's now hold towards conventional Windows PC's is haggard at best and they're more open now than ever to exploring alternatives.
beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I prefer db to gecko, it looks great. +1 on very polished
I had the same reaction. Looking into the documentation[0], it turns out that you can also use a div with data- attributes instead, like this:

<div class="g-plusone" data-size="standard" data-count="true"></div>

[0] http://code.google.com/apis/+1button/
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(IANAL; ignore me if you wish.)

First of all, trademark & copyright law are completely separate. Don't depend on any general principles to apply to both.

Second, it's probably better if you don't think in terms of "ownership". In Berne-convention signatory nations (i.e., just about all nations, including the U.S.), copyright exists in most works on their completion, with the legal author(s) holding the copyright until it expires. That would usually be the actual authors, unless it is a work for hire, in which case it is usually the employer.

So if the work is created by employees of a corporation as part of their work, and there is no contract stating to the contrary, then the issues you bring up do not arise; the corporation is the sole legal author.

In a work with multiple legal authors, all authors would have to agree to any licensing. One way to do this is for all authors to agree formally that some particular party may act as their agent in such matters. If this is not done, then, whenever any licensing or publishing issues come up, they need to be run by all authors for their approval.

As for trademarks: couldn't say.
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Better off saying nothing that trying to pretend that some rogue salespeople wanted to make money so badly that they spammed CL.
This isn't meant to solve touch typing, although it may. It solves the issue where you have to move to awkware, hold the tablet with one hand, and then hunt and peck with the other, when you're standing.
When they did their big remodel, they really should have added space for a second cashier.
Reference?

The Mongols easily won the Battle of Legnica in Poland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Legnica

That's really the most Western of their major battles, and they were turned back by choice, not by losses in battle.

Were there any cases where they had anything other than skirmishes with Germanic tribes?
It was reported some time ago (last year, iirc) that Windows 8 will also feature an app store.
> Nothing replaces a parent, even a flawed one.

That's easily refuted -- it depends on how flawed.

Talk to some kids who have been abused, abandoned or had debilitatingly mentally ill parents.

Compare with kids whose parents divorced or who lost a parent to disease.
I'm worried about the bitcoin client being in c++ rather than java because that seems to make a remote code execution vulnerability a lot more likely.

Later this year there will be an awesome NodeJS version with native wrappers (Mac, ...).
While definitely not small, the stairway book, "Programming in Scala" by Odersky, mentioned in the article, is an excellent tutorial style book. The second edition was just released in January.
One book along those specific lines is The Disorganized Mind by Nancy Ratey

http://www.thedisorganizedmind.com/

Spark by her husband John Ratey might also be of interest.
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Ask HN: Adwords or Facebook Ads for Small Biz?
If a small biz owner came to you and only had the budget to run ad campaigns through Adwords or Facebook, which ad platform would you suggest they delegate their budget to?

In my opinion, I'd suggest the Facebook ad platform. Why? Because, the small biz owner has complete reign over the area their ads get displayed thanks to the ability to target Facebook users not only by state, but by city, as well; along with complete reign over who sees their ads within those regions thanks to the handful of targeting options Facebook's ad platform offers, like age, gender, marital status, and the like.

The only drawback to their platform is that is it display-centric, rather than search-centric like that of Adwords. While you can target keywords, or "Likes," on Facebook, they really don't hold a flame to the ability to target keywords on Adwords, specifically keywords like, "buy [item]," "chinese restaurant in [city]."

Undoubtedly, a lot more can be said about the merits and shortcomings of both. So, any input on this matter is greatly appreciated.
I wonder if he was inspired by NYC's Underground Grilled Cheese: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1713815
i love this analogy and i am with you on both
That's why you (and more importantly, non-security-savvy users) should use paper keys.

https://github.com/bitcoin-labs/paper-keys
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true. we are doing some stuff on this front and we will do more. but getting our thoughts out there is never bad. this post got over 50,000 visits today alone. that's not a small number
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I share those same feelings. I guess we will see in a year(?) when it comes out.
I know quite a few people like yourself who march to the beat of their own drum. Often tremendously creative & sometimes super-productive. Both a blessing and a curse. Most of them do seem to wind up taking the path of entrepreneurship or doing something a bit further off the beaten path.
Yea, it was a thought I had too. It's similar to the Front Row and Media Center experience that most people probably don't use.

But I could see this having a different fate if it doesn't feel like a drag on the system and it can be made useful (as I think external developers will make it.)
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I totally agree with your concerns, and I also love your small touchscreen idea. A full touch interface gets really awkward, not to mention expensive, once your screen gets bigger than 10-15 inches.

All these full-screen apps with touch functions are optimized for laptops and tablets. Apple did it, Ubuntu did it, and now Microsoft is going to do it. Maybe that's where everyone thinks the future is. But as the proud owner of a 24" widescreen monitor who is always looking for an excuse to upgrade to 30", I am very disappointed with this inspired-by-tablets-but-also-fits-the-desktop nonsense.

I don't want full-screen apps, dammit. I bought a big monitor because I want several apps and all of their content to be simultaneously visible at all times. I shudder whenever a member of my family "borrows" my PC for a few minutes and goes on to maximize all the windows without even thinking twice. And I certainly don't want to wave my arms all across the big screen like an idiot. There's a very good reason why we have a small device (mouse) that can be manipulated with the flick of a finger to control an arbitrarily larger interface. I don't know how a small touchscreen might be used in a similar role while retaining the intuitiveness of a touch interface, but we're definitely going to need something like that or our arms will begin to hurt very badly after 10 minutes.
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I understand that, going against unjust rules, regulations and industry monopolies because otherwise economically; people pay more (taxi monopoly) or inconvenienced (no driverless cars allowed).

But these black hat email marketing tactics are akin to harassing people automatically without discrimination. Posted two properties? At least two emails from two 'women' advertising AirBnB. It's effectively destroying Craigslist if every company including my potential own escape backlash for spamming users.

Some people like me look to PG as a chaotic good role model for entrepreneurs.
We've tried using google docs for interviewing, and found that the code will not always sync. The remote developer would tell us "here's my code, it's ready", and we would see a blank doc for like 5 minutes.

Etherpad (and its clone instances) is awesome. Never had a problem.

Try it yourself:

http://typewith.me

http://ietherpad.com

http://sync.in
A blackboard for his room.
My point is that you don't know his situation, so you can't judge his actions. You don't know how many "externalities" there are (whatever an "externality" is).

The fact that you can't imagine a worthy justification (in terms of his value system or your own) doesn't mean that one doesn't exist. And no, you cannot categorically deny the existence thereof.
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Microsoft has done that with every new version of windows. If you're looking at writing a media capture routine then there's one api for windows xp, one for vista, one for 2k, ...
Some guy called Napoleon seemed to know a little bit about maneuver warfare, and he was around before battleships. There was this little thing called the Battle of Austerlitz[1] that the author may be interested to read about.

Napoleon kind of knew what he was doing. His use of position and movement is actually mentioned in the Wikipeda's article on maneuver warfare [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Austerlitz
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare#Napoleon.27s_u...
I have no idea how I would use this but it is so cool