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No. It just meant that they did not have the native application development SDK and the associated App Store infrastructure ready that time. Saying "who needs native apps when there is the Web" up until releasing the native App Store is typical of Apple - "who wants to watch video on small screen", "People don't read anymore" etc. come to mind.
I can't speak authoritatively, but I believe the "hidden" attribute of a field is not a visual cue, it is a presentational cue. In other words, it hides it from all presentations, whether visual, audible, tactile, or other.
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Get their email when they use the app, however you can do that, send them a thank you email and offer them a discounted upsell?
Perhaps I had the wrong impression, but I thought the correct response to a factually incorrect post was to point out the correct information in a reply, not to downmod the post. This is more inclusive (as everyone is misinformed at times) and is more useful to the community (because it provides them with the correct information).
The IRA bombings in London were 100% successful in the sense that those who planned it are now sharing political power in Stormount. Something unthinkable a mere 20 years ago. Terrible analogy.
Not to mention the fact that the word "multiplex" already has a meaning, and it has nothing to do with concatenating duplicates of a string. Unless the function name is intended to be parsed as "multiple 'X'".
I think you missed my point. It is not against theoretical science. It is against scientific politics that seem to dominate academia.

Regarding Tim Berners Lee, he is imho all but an 'average theoretical physicist' - which further proves my point.
Yandex = copy of other search engines (mostly google)

Vkontakte = direct ripoff of facebook

What's the innovation?
Keyboard whose keys are raised in proportion to their frequency of use
i realize this might be a bit of an experiment here, but i think it would be really cool if i could get an hour with a YC alum, for example, to get their feedback on my business plan. whether it's a call or just sitting down to get coffee (hell, i'll even buy you dinner or something)
Fourth time's a charm? Why Apple has trouble with cloud computing
Has anybody done any benchmarking lately to see if these hacks really save time? Seems like most of them rely on the assumption that the cpu has a barrel shifter and can do something like x>>23 in 1 clock cycle. I understand that some of the later x86 chips did not have a barrel shifter, so its not obvious to me that x>>23 would execute any faster than 1/(2 ^ 23) would. Does anybody know for sure?
Same thing for android https://market.android.com/details?id=com.onepassword.passwo...

Also, if you share your 1password db on dropbox, you can later access it via a local web interface (always making sure that you trust the machine you're using).
Ah yes, the old "Don't rock the boat, because the gov't says that now freedom is only for people who don't rock the boat" argument.
Ask HN: Patents and Inventing: Any advise? 
Does anyone have advise how to get started with inventing?

General advise would be great, but specifically, I am interested in learning a bit about patents. How to get one without being cheated. How to protect it once I have it. What can and what can't be patented? How do I know if it has already been done?

What is the best way to make money off of a patent? Start a business? Sell it and make something new? Partner up with a business savvy guy?

Are there any good books on this or related subjects?
Olark is as close as you can get to having the kind of interaction with customers you have in a retail business. People wander in and you can chat with them casually or help them use your site.

Every single early stage startup should have Olark on their site.

It's one of the very few things I pay for and it's worth every penny.
If you work in the US, you tend not to have that luxury with your 401k. Your employer picks the financial institution and you're stuck with it. See also health insurance.
I'm one of the founders mentioned, and others are here as well - please don't hesitate to ask any questions about the program.
Glad this is happening, hopefully this forces Apple to lower their cut, it's not like they can't afford it.
This is the reason why there will be major difficulty in iOS in medical. Apple has its hands around the neck of the platform too firmly to make it feasible for serious medical enterprise apps.

There are lots of people who dont believe this, but as a healthcare designer i really think that apples model is way too greedy and crippling.
Definitely agree with you, most of the value in a the school system comes on the day they hand you a piece of paper. The school system is not intellectual, it's elitist.

It's the whole idea that someone thinks their answer is right because someone dropped two hundred grand on an education they could have gotten for a dollar fifty in late fees at the public library.

I hear it all the time, "is he good engineer?" "yeah, he went to <who fucking cares>"

If that kind of thinking is anti-intellectual than sign me up for the anti-intellectual camp.
Even better than documented code is code that's so clear it doesn't need explanation, with occasional comments explaining the complicated bits.

The other case is API docs for libraries and frameworks meant for external consumption.
Federated login is becoming more prevalent all the time. Open ID started the trend and yesterday's Apple-Twitter integration is the latest example.

We'll need less passwords in the future.
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Not multi-touch, but HTC had been making large, touch screen devices based on Windows Mobile for a while before the iPhone was announced.

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_p3600-1694.php

Clearly not taken to the degree Apple did, but what Apple did was evolve it to the point where it was consumer-friendly, not invent the concept itself.
I just launched a new web analytics app, Inspectlet. Thoughts?
Because they're the only Irish bank to give a Visa Debit card on student accounts.
Perhaps someone can demystify CloudFlare for me?

Their value proposition is completely absurd ("protect websites from hacking"), yet they're still around and get quite a bit of seemingly expensive PR-spin like this article.

Who pays for the "accidental CDN" that, according to the article, pushes as much traffic as the 10th largest website on the internet? Their optional $20/mo subscription plan can't possibly cover that.
Thank you jnorthrop. Will dig deeper into these laws.
This jives with a quote from Reid Hoffman, but the post doesn't quite do justice to all the frenzied risks of founding a startup like the quote does.
“Entrepreneurship is throwing yourself off a cliff and building a plane on the way down.” – Reid Hoffman (source: http://www.vinnylingham.com/reid-hoffman-endeavor.html)
Is there any reason for the often-repeated advise to change pws regularly?
If I have a unique password like vdknzB4XoAiJIpjlN3PGf for every account, what would changing it protect me against? Hardly keyloggers, because then changing it twice a year is probably too late.
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Today I got an email from dynDNS to pay a fee for upgrade my free account. Ok this means I will lost in near future DNS of some domains I own. Anyother alternatives like everydns?
For the record, it only hides scrollbars when you're using a trackpad. If you use a mouse, the scrollbars stay visible at all times.

As for whether or not it's a good idea, in practical experience it seems to be fine.
I know there are a lot of options when it comes to analytics, but Inspectlet is designed to complement Google Analytics with everything it's missing.

We believe that we've built a suite of products that complements tradition analytics like Google Analytics very well. Google Analytics is your trusted old companion, but in order to really maintain relevance, a real-time service is necessary. Custom Metrics in real-time allow for an even stronger analysis of your site (in real-time). And of course, to test usability and how well a new interface design or feature is doing, screen capture is incredibly helpful.

We felt that with Google Analytics and Inspectlet, you have a very complete set of analytical tools.

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I've been using it as well and wow does it cut down on my bandwidth as well.
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Why can't we have both?

I'll accept the FDA wasting money, and in exchange I don't have to listen to them. The fact that homeopathy can be branded medicine virtually eliminates any point in having the FDA with regard to drug efficacy / safety.
It'd likely fry transformers before they started detonating things in your home, though. The induced current on the path from the transformer to your house couldn't be that big.

Still, it's an interesting thought. With how fragile the power infrastructure is in North America, it could cause some serious problems.
The idea that institutions have a monopoly on knowledge is starting to become preposterous. The closest thing to a monopoly is a few journals, but their days are numbered. The monopoly doesn't exist. There is absolutely nothing stopping anyone from buying any textbook and learning what they want to learn, from buying all the tools they need and teaching themselves. At the end of the day, you can learn anything anyone else learned going to college. If you are upset because you can't get a job because you don't have a degree to prove what you know, then that's something you need to take up with the companies that are doing the hiring.

How can there be a monopoly when there are hundreds to thousands of individual institutions competing for each other? Of course, college isn't free or unencumbered by some silly rules, but neither is buying an iPhone.
> I can guarantee you that everything we do will not work

I suspect he means "not everything we do will work". Either that or he's hinting that it's time to sell AMZN.
In response to his accusations, I DO think that most classics probably ought not to be read. But that DOESN'T mean I'm anti-intellectual - rather, it means I believe that iteration is everything and we just need to upgrade our old firmware. Classics are, by and large, inefficient mediums of information. The fact that they are still around today is really just a function of the fact that they were still around yesterday. And what if every nugget of knowledge and insight that is contained in a classic could be transmitted in a much smaller package? We'd have trouble remembering and applying it all, sure, but not if they were a part of our collective consciousness - as many ideals found in the classics already are. Believe it or not, you already know most of what Kant, or Twain, or Chaucer, or Shakespeare has to tell you. They were all human, just like us, and we are more than capable of thinking what they thought without reviewing what they said first.
Do browsers sync these yet? I know Chrome, Firefox et al. have various syncing options, but I've never looked into how they work exactly.

Edit: looked into it, and the situation for password sync is

- Chrome: built in since V. 11

- Firefox: available through add-ons/extensions (XMarks)

- Opera: since beta 11.5 (the latest as of right now)

- Safari: available through extensions/other services (mobileme? not sure)

- IE: unclear
not free, but probably cheaper:

http://aws.amazon.com/route53/#pricing
I figured it was something like that. Certainly explains why my ping to London is under 100 ms, right?
He had led in to a section on "Other MVC Frameworks". Then a single slide with some code along these lines:

Todo = OtherMVC.Model.extend({
clear: function() { this.view.remove(); }
});

TodoView = OtherMVC.View.extend({
initialize: function() { this.model.view = this; }
});

Basically he ragged on that for breaking MVC, and never mentioned Backbone by name. I spoke to him afterwards, and he seemed pretty set against Backbone. He considers manually bubbling events to be tedious: "not the happy path".

I've been inspired by Morphic recently, where models having knowledge of their views makes sense. When I was a beginner though, I was briefly puzzled by how to connect multiple views to a model and vice versa: I first tried to extend the pattern above before binding to model events.
Valid points, but the subscription tax is on top of application delivery fees. That's going too far, and I think we're about to see a watershed event where nearly all publishers begin to flee the App Store. Watch it happen.
I think that in a lot of cases, if you're looking to learn something "concrete" from a piece of art, or art in general, you might be looking at it the wrong way. A lot of the best art is instructive in some way, but not the same way that a wikipedia article or a technical how-to is.
Oh god no! Politicians get elected by pandering, but once they get elected they can be held responsible for the consequences of their actions. There are a lots of policies that make good sound bites but which would be horrible as actual policies. Better to try to raise the quality of the people we vote for.
What's worse is that if you ask, you'll be given a long list of "innovations" created by people who "get things done"... only that they started as research projects in academia before that. The thing is, anti-intellectuals don't look at history to see if their claims are valid.

Very convenient. Also not far from the same-styled groups in the political spheres these days.
Who cares if other people, who most likely wouldn't have read the manual for their computer, still don't?

I mean, Google is obviously supplanting the manual for a lot of things, but the point is much the same. If people read the fucking manual, they'll have a lot fewer problems. And a lot of the classics are pretty damn good manuals for life.
I'm assuming the video was taken from somewhere in the vicinity of Earth, so it doesn't look like it was aimed anywhere near us. We'll likely see some increase in solar particles, but not nearly as much as whatever was directly in its path.
This is a great quote on vision and execution: "We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details"

That "Why We Do This" doesn't change (and hence it's important to have the Why instead of 'here are X cool features') but the execution can differ. Great stuff from a great business leader.
Massive Solar Flare on june 7th.
I'd add: get to know the organizer(s). They know all the speakers/panelists/presenters. Warm introduction city.
While I too find it odd that your original comment was downmodded (has it been edited?), I don't think that a personal attack is an appropriate response. It doesn't seem like younata was being a jerk (from my reading of the comments), but your response is a bit vitriolic even if he was.

From your comment history, I speculate that you - like me - are a long-time reader and only an occasional poster. These posts stand out as being unusually negative. I'd urge you to strongly consider changing your tone (and perhaps deleting your posts in this thread). Don't let this one altercation drive you away from the community.

Best
-- David
Ask HN: Why the jealous negativity at HN?
I'd like to preface this with two things.
1. I ask this question in all legitimacy.
2. I am sure that there are many exceptions to this rule... There are definitely many great, helpful members around HN. Perhaps I'm speaking only about a vocal minority.

But why is there so much pettiness, jealousy, and negativity in HN??? You know exactly what I'm talking about. Someone will post about a helpful service that has gotten great traction + people love, and he'll get a response of "what? no search??" (Just saw this today). A man could post about how he saved a kitten from a tree, and someone will post about how he was an idiot for not using a standards-compliant ladder.

Why is there so much negativity around HN? Is it jealousy? Pettiness? I seriously think the attitude turns off a lot of people to HN and keeps it from being a great community.
For nice current images of the Sun, the Proba 2 satellite [1] continuously watches it and dumps some nice imagery/movies. It's ESA sponsored, and both it's sensors (SWAP producing the visuals) are interpreted by the Belgian Royal Observatory. Iirc the Belgians and the Canadians are the only ones keeping a close eye on the sun, counting sun spots and such. Makes for a nice desktop bg also!

[1] http://proba2.oma.be/index.html/
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>Here is the money line from Jobs yesterday: “We’re going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device – just like an iPad, an iPhone or an iPod Touch. We’re going to move the hub of your digital life to the cloud.”

Interesting that devices are only provided by Microsoft and Apple. Somehow I don't see that as a very diffuse cloud. (And certainly not one that will kill Microsoft devices.)
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Those geeks you know (and I really wish you wouldn't generalize here) are being extremely shallow, since those practical innovations almost always build on decades of academic and industrial research. Yeah, the people who put in the last piece of the puzzle needed to commercialize those innovations (which is a great accomplishment in itself, don't get me wrong) tend to be more practically oriented, big surprise there.
Stranger in a Strange Land was about libertarianism? I think you might mean The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, perhaps.
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1. Definitely disclose it. Disclose everything that would potentially be an issue. Things that take your time away, any legal issues, the whole nine yards...

2. If you are going to take on funding, move off the side project, or rather put it on the shelf. As an investor, no one wants to invest money into a company or its founder only so they could spend any spare time they have on another project when they could be spending it on the startup they were suppose to push 24/7.
"Most of the value in a the school system comes on the day they hand you a piece of paper."

Then you're doing it wrong. Like many things in life, what you get out is proportional to what you put in.
I've seen a lot of "web designer" who treat a website like a regular printing product. Only really understanding the constrains and the possibilities enables you to stuff that is really built for the web, not adapted to it. I think it would be rather unlikely for a designer w/o any coding expirience to think of stuff like this: http://www.designmadeingermany.de/magazin/5/
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People like to talk about black and white, native versus web, etc, but this is simply a matter of finding the right fit for the Financial Times. Many of the newsy apps can be done very well with the latest browsers (and other kinds of apps, too!). It makes sense for subscriptions as well as for maintenance and tech investment, and they won't lose much (if any) functionality. Some apps will always be better suited for native, but as the browser technology grows, we'll move back to web apps more. It wasn't so long ago that touch gestures were pretty hard to do right in a web app, so the only way to do a mobile app right was to go native.
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I gotta say: the Woody Allen thing is more annoying than cool. One of the advantages of living elsewhere is that when you've got Geek Stuff you want to do, you never have to make advance plans.

The Bay Area is like Bizarro Universe when it comes to nerd culture.
What platform are you on? My windows install seems to be prone to odd keyboard collisions, but mac is fine.
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I think that you have to look at how CloudFlare is billing itself. It's a simple solution for people who want to have a faster website. It's easier to implement than most other caching or CDN and that $20 plan is likely limited to sites under X amount of traffic.

The company is only sitting on around $2 mm in funding (if memory serves me) so it's either making a decent sum of money from people who find value in that accidental CDN or it's going to fizzle out quickly due to lack of funds.

The thing that you have to keep in mind is that (likely) the vast majority of its customers aren't on the same level of technological prowess that you have. CloudFlare is aimed at people who run sites and just want them to be easier to run while working better and being safer. There's a lot of money to be had from a service that can fulfill that request.

Oh, and as for the expensive PR-spin, this is the first time I've heard from CloudFlare in 8 months, even after specifically asking them to get in touch with me. If I'm not mistaken, the company has done very little PR. They've gotten attention in a way that many people seem to have forgotten -- by having a good product.
4-6 base passwords, combined with a sequence of standard variations.

Would be nice to have pubkey authentication with the pubkey stored on a distributed system online which I could revoke/regenerate at will.
"The company doesn't yet have a meaningful valuation so you can exercise for next to nothing."

The missing bit here is a definition of "next to nothing". What's the normal scenario here? How much money are we talking about? Is "next to nothing" still in the tens of thousands, or could it actually be a few hundred bucks?

The principle of diversifying investments, etc. is good advice when you're talking about your primary investments, but irrelevant here if it's really "next to nothing" that's under discussion.
...that he's absurd. I'm pretty sure exposing our troposphere to 6000K would hurt a little.
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

The base price for DNS is $0.01/day

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/dns
I do think informercials and many lousy fitness products have made me, as well as others, very quick to judge and write off most fitness products as gimmicky without much thought. It might not be fair, but its the world any fitness app must live in.
There is a growing contempt for the old academic intelligentsia more concerned with 'clan politics' than actual knowledge creation.

But lets be clear, this is the case everywhere. Geeks have the same clan politics. The difference is rarely the politics, but where you sit in the pecking order, that changes your perspective.

I actually think the problem with academia in CS today is it's too applied. They should NOT be focused on today's problems. The Cloud is not something one should do research on in academia. Industry will tackle the cloud from a million different angles. But what's after the cloud? What after touch and Kinect? Precise mind control and HUD in glasses/contacts really should be the mainstream in academic research today, but it's actually a fringe.

I think academia should be way out there more than it is. The geeks will protest that they do nothing of relevance, but that's how it should be. :-)
The passwords won't work at Gmail if the sheep enabled 2-step authentication.