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You're absolutely right. You can't always tell whether there's more content below if there's no scrollbar. I don't want to have to scroll just to see if there's more content.
The full quote: Ninety-plus percent of the innovation at Amazon is incremental and critical and much less risky. We know how to open new product categories. We know how to open new geographies. That doesn’t mean that these things are guaranteed to work, but we have a lot of expertise and a lot of knowledge. We know how to open new fulfillment centers, whether to open one, where to locate it, how big to make it. All of these things based on our operating history are things that we can analyze quantitatively rather than to have to make intuitive judgments.

In other words, you can measure things after they become variations on a theme, because you know what to measure, and you can measure them against past successes and failures. They've minimized the "nova" in innovation. When something is truly new, like the first time Amazon opened a new product category or a new fulfillment center, quantitative analysis isn't as helpful. "Stuff is up 12%, and crap is down 5%." "Is that good or bad?" "I dunno."
How To Set Up Your Home Office with IPv6
95% of code can run an order of magnitude slower than "optimal" with no discernable degradation of the user experience.

If a bus lock degrades your performance too much, either change your algorithm, or isolate that section of code and do it in another language that doesn't suffer the same performance issues.
The problem with password managers is, when you're away from whatever machine you managed to get the thing set up on, you're locked out of all your accounts.
It will reduce SMS volume by the same amount as it will reduce the Email volume.

My friend has an iPhone. I have an Android. My friend wants to send a short message to me. Will she use iMessage? No. Email or SMS.
We all know how this will go, apple waits six months until it's pissed off the maximum number of people and then it'll reverse its decision or make the terms much more acceptable.
Anonymous Announces Operation India
I wouldn't think that most sensitive electronics is big enough to really be affected, you need a closed circuit that encloses a significant area. For the telegraph (and modern electrical grid) that would be the height that the wires are strung at times the length of the wires. Anything that fits in your home is probably safe, unless your network cables have shielding that's grounded at both ends with no series resistance or something.
Unfortunately, the military and NATO play a crucial role in protecting the freedoms Anonymous waxes poetic about them usurping.

Really? No seriously, really? Is the USSR still a threat to democracy? Or do you consider the handful of terrorist a serious threat to the very nature of our democratic society?

Frankly, I don't think the terrorists have a snowball's chance in hell against us. They may occasionally launch a successful attack, but so what? Did each bombing of London bring the IRA closer defeating the British? Nope! Terrorists can't win, they can only terrorize.

I think our willingness to be terrorized, and curb our freedoms in the name of safety, is the real threat to democracy.

Right at this very moment, and rather atypically, the military and NATO are playing a crucial role in fighting for Libyan democracy.

This would be great if they weren't simultaneously providing Bahrain with tacit approval of the incredibly brutal and bloody crushing of their democratic movement.

The world's a complicated place these days and the US military and NATO have not had a real enemy since the USSR collapsed.
This is why I built http://slipstre.am/ but honestly there doesn't seem to be a lot of demand for this. Even on Facebook, where the feature has existed for a while, the average user I've talked to was never even aware of it.
> To the extent that the news is homogeneous then, all things being equal, we're going to get stuff that panders to the lowest common denominator, not in depth or challenging reporting.

You don't understand the proposals for "common news".

They're all basically "you'll see what I think that you should see I'll tell you that it's good for you and that I'm not censoring anything important."
The first image that would come to my mind is the leaves swirling in my wake as I press the pedal to the floor around a fun corner (observing all proper speed limits and common sense, of course).

It seems that some designs are justified by people seeing a design they like, rationalizing it after the fact, and applying their rationalization in a way that is too general, without considering other ways the design could be interpreted.
Aren't the Poles also a slavic people? They are doing quite well at the moment.
True. If a 'member' of Anonymous was convicted and sentenced to death for vandalizing a website, I can see a lot of public outcry. Especially if it is a teenager.
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Hah, thanks ;-)

We're trying to reduce the friction between applications and user content. In other words, to do away with all the unnecessary plumbing that most people build every time they want to access a user's 'stuff.'

That plumbing looks like a ton of CRUD-like operations that repeat themselves (auth, query, normalize into your own data dictionary, health check, etc.).

We're at first targeting content APIs (the 'stuff' mentioned above), trying to create a query mechanism so you can do broad queries with a user, without needing to know or care about what endpoints the user's stuff resides in. i.e. get all photos tagged dog, regardless of whether those photos live in facebook, flickr, picasa, or some other web service you've never heard of.

We're having a blast and even have the photo bit work.
I don't see where it addresses problem of generating large enough number of shapes that are hard enough to recognize with computer vision.

I'm afraid that nice gesture recognition algorithm is not enough to defend against bots programmed to recognize known solutions & replay (slightly randomized) predefined answers.
The documentation example for the multiplex() function seems like massive overkill to me. The most informative part of the documentation comment is the line that starts with "Duplicate some text..." So why not just name the function duplicate_text() and be done with it? The arguments could be documented similarly, by naming them "text" and "num_duplications".

I don't think I'd need an 11 line comment to tell me what this definition did:

def duplicate_text( text, num_duplications )
text * num_duplications
end

In fact, I might prefer NO comment, because comments can become out of date and misleading, whereas the code always tells the truth.
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Please watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRjM3d_Bseg
it's a module by module basis. For example, backgrounds and borders module hit CR (candidate recommendation) which is when vendors can officially drop their prefixes.

You don't really need to use prefixes on border-radius or box-shadow anymore. Not for the most part. css3please.com has extra detail on when you need 'em.
http://proxlet.com/ lets you do this. It's not a Twitter client, it's an API proxy, most prominently used in a Chrome extension for Twitter.com. I built something very similar with http://slipstre.am/ though without client filtering. In 6 months, no one has asked for it. Pattern filtering seems to be good enough (e.g. block tweets containing "4sq.com" vs. tweets from the "Foursquare" app).
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Is Apple losing its innovative touch?
- "Facebook doesn't really give your information to the advertisers"

How do you know? I think this is an appropriate time to mention what Zuckerberg once said about Facebook users: "They trust me - dumb fucks."

- "Apple will always care"

Apple uses conflict minerals and has its devices made on slave-like factories. You really think they care about anything other than creating value for its stockholders? I use Apple products myself, but I'm certainly not naive about how big business works.
BBM is not a 3rd party app, it is a core part of the Blackberry OS.

So long as iMessage remains iOS only, I don't see it severely eroding SMS usage.
You mean to say that a test like the following wouldn't be better than the comment for multiplex()?

unless multiplex('Tom', 4) == 'TomTomTomTom'
raise TestError( 'multiplex() failed' )
end

Not only does that test communicate the exact same thing as the documentation comment, it is guaranteed to be correct and not out-of-date (assuming it's run as part of a test suite), whereas the comment can easily be wrong.
what are they going to do, erase my high scores on Tetris?

Statistics show that most users use the same password everywhere, or at least at many different sites.

I don't know about you in particular, but for any given compromised set of emails and passwords a large number of them are going to work at gmail, facebook, their bank, etc.
dwolla grid looks like it holds and transfers money for people, which sounds somewhat "bankish". (IIRC, paypal managed to skirt that line, at least for a while.)

For example, if you do a $15k transaction, do you have reporting requirements?
I'm not sure about this, but is it possible for something attributed to Anonymous to be a "hoax"?

Since I thought Anonymous supposed to represent whoever calls themselves Anonymous, I didn't think there was a way for someone to "fake" that: by publishing this as Anonymous, they now are Anonymous?
Or maybe it's politicians' tendency toward accountability to the highest bidders' interests instead of constituents' that leads to low participation and feelings of disenfranchisement?
The 1Password iPhone app has pretty much solved that problem for me:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1password-pro/id319898689?mt=...
Today’s tech boom: Tread carefully, this time might not be different
The electrical disturbances don't need to be introduced into the electronics directly though - if the flare induced enough disturbance into the national grid, then all sorts of strange induced currents could appear on your mains voltage, and wreak havoc with inadequately filtered power supplies.

We rely on mains power to arrive at a nice even 50-60Hz, with the voltage varying a few percent. Sensitive electronics are designed to filter out this low frequency, but higher frequencies may well pass through into other circuits that weren't designed for it, with unknown consequences.
Geeks I know value skill and creativity over knowledge. Getting things done instead of getting stuck in pointless intellectual and political considerations. There is a growing contempt for the old academic intelligentsia more concerned with 'clan politics' than actual knowledge creation. The system looks like it is meritocratic, but whoever dwells there long enough knows how far this is from meritocracy.

What seems to be the consensus is that academia has not brought in any revolutionary innovation for decades. Whenever practical innovation came, it came from characters as far from the 'standard intellectual stereotype' as could possibly be. As a result there is a haughty "keep debating while we get the job done" attitude, which may be mistaken for anti-intellectualism. In reality it is not that geeks dislike experts and intellectuals - it is that they've met too many would-be-experts who failed their most trivial relevancy tests, so the term 'expert' raises a BullshitIncomingException almost immediately in any geek's mind.
When the choices are a giant douche and a turd sandwhich, why does it matter if I don't vote?
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I have always found those words inspiring. They guy who wrote them, Thomas Jefferson, made sure that the government institutions that he and the other founders created to replace the English law would not require the folks who felt oppressed to resort to violence.

If you look at the US Constitution as an act of social programming you may, like me, discover a deep respect for the programmers.
That should be an option, which, if it won - would require a whole new set of candidates be chosen.
This will happen gradually as a consensus for how the different new properties should behave emerges. Webkit, for example, recently started listening to border-radius without the prefix. There is no clear timeframe and neither can there be. It’s done when it’s done.

(I actually hope that browser vendors won’t be too eager to drop prefixes. This would be a bad idea as long as different rendering engines still behave differently. It’s important that there is consensus, otherwise and without the prefixes we will have to resort to hacks like in the dark past.)
Much with the workers' unions, once the ultimate goal has been accomplished these groups tend to keep finding ways (however strained) to justify their continued existence rather than just disbanding.
It's an even dumber question because we're talking about the cloud. Sooner then you think we won't even have to install the games or even have them ported to your platform. And once LTE pings are more consistently <50 (40-100 today) even your tablet/phone will be able to offer basically any game.
* It wouldn't shock me at all if one day they sold their company...*

They've already sold part of it (to Jeff Bezos) and they'll inevitably sell more of it when one of them gets old/bored/etc.
Congrats Kul
Blizzard and Valve have both successfully integrated OSX builds into their pipelines. That's two developers of AAA titles at least, and there's plenty of great indie stuff available like Minecraft.
Why do you think your motivation wanes after a few weeks? I'm genuinely curious.
This is why I always keep my encrypted keyfile on DropBox (usually a KeePass safe and a standalone installation of PasswordSafe USB mode).

This way, you can access your passwords from home, work, or your phone as long as you trust the machine you're logged into enough to log into DropBox and type your password safe password. If you can't tell if the machine is free of keyloggers, you probably shouldn't be logging into anything of personal value.
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Chuck Norris Game for iPhone
That is a great feature (automatically choosing the protocol).

I believe Windows Phone's latest update (Mango) will also use something like this but it will automatically jump between Windows Live Messenge, SMS, and Facebook Chat.

WebOS was the first to have just a "Messages" app (I believe it worked with SMS, AIM, ICQ and GChat/GTalk) that allowed you to have a conversation between a person over different protocols/services, but it was not automatic. Not sure if this has been changed for WebOS 3.0
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Out of curiosity, what's keeping you from switching banks? If my bank did this, I'd switch immediately. Any bank that shows that level of concern for my finances doesn't deserve to be controlling them.
That was pulled from the TomDoc spec- it was designed to demonstrate TomDoc, not the code. Having an overly complicated implementation makes explaining the documentation side of things a bit more difficult. :)
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I'm not sure I understand what it would mean for this to be "a hoax". Someone made and released it, right? I thought the point of Anonymous is that it is not a specific organization or group. Whoever made this video could claim to speak for Anonymous as much as the guys that hacked HB Gary, right?

Is it widely known/suspected that the various hacks and messages that have been attributed to Anonymous are from the same group of people?

EDIT: Ha. Great minds think alike. I see Xuzz was posting precisely the same idea as I was typing this.
Hope you're OK after that literal strike :)
I put a copy of the database in cloud storage. There might be a little set-up to open it, but it's very rare that I need to get the contents on a new machine.

The nitpick with pw databases is they don't fully solve the problem; I still need to know the passwords for all my computers, cloud storage account, e-mail, the db master password.

The big advantage is how much more secure lesser used accounts are (and drop in frequency of password reset requests on those accounts).
I agree. There's also the social stigma of unfollowing. Most folks wouldn't unfollow a close friend, their boss, or a new client they're trying to woo.

Facebook has done more to alleviate this problem than Twitter with the default newsfeed being an algorithmically curated one (Top News) rather than the full firehose (Most Recent) and their hide functionality. I've always found hiding on Facebook could be more useful. Hiding a single update feels pointless. Hiding everything from a friend is rarely required. All that leaves is hiding an app, assuming their update came from one. That's where content-based filtering tools like http://slipstre.am/ (disclosure: my app) and http://proxlet.com/ excel, even though they're Twitter-only.
Thanks for your input. I did try doing what you mention below, but the CEO just refuses to budge. This has been a giant slap on the face for me. I think its time to leave. Now I am worried that I might never survive in a startup.
Good documentation is great, but its importance grows with the size of the project. It isn't as important in a Rails app where only a few people touch the code and the concepts already well known about the framework.

The project can grow both in terms of code size and the number of people engaged. Each drives up the importance of documentation.
Tell your wife that the sentiment is very much appreciated.
JSON vs XML
sounds like a depth vs. breadth issue...only in this issue, both sides are being validated.
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Funny to see that your post has been grayed out, even though it's logical and makes a point. I would expect people who disagree to reply instead of downvoting. And yes, even though your topic is controversial, it passes the guidelines criteria.
I started using pwgen for passwords. These are long passwords containing symbols, letters, and numbers and nothing resembling a word.

What I find interesting is that I don't know what any of the passwords actually are. Instead, I simply have the muscle memory to type them. This is a problem if I have to remember that same password for the website's new app on my phone. In that case, I have to sit next to an actual keyboard to recall the password and type it into my phone.
BBC BASIC has been ported to a "modern computer" (if you'll accept a Windows PC as fitting that description): http://bb4w.com/
this. I use Dropbox with Keepass and Truecrypt. You can get these apps anytime from the web, put on USB keychain, or just remember Dropbox and run Keepass and Truecrypt from there. Just make sure to have a very long/secure Dropbox password, as that becomes the weakest link.

There's also Dropbox and Keepass for Android.
Nope, nowadays everything Anonymous has to originate from AnonOps and the rest of the whiteknights who've been huddling around them since Chanology. If you're not in with the <100 LOIC crew, you're not true kvlt^H^H^H^H^HAnonymous.
Ah, I see, it's an example of how to, not when to. :)
I know for a fact that I don't have skills or strength beyond others, I'm not even the strongest guy at my local gym :) If my initial post came off that way, I didn't mean it like that. I just wanted to preface it that I have been involved with fitness for at least a few years, and I know the founders are definitely involved in fitness for many years.

I'm not familiar with the /r/fitness people, but was more talking about the ironaddicts and anabolicminds of the world. Some of these people are definitely in the spend $1000's on supplements crowd, which is what I was replying about in jcampbell1's comment. I have not tried the site since it was first announced here, but at that time it was labeled as the rpg of fitness apps and did not appear to offer much in terms of routines, diet plans, nutrition tracking nor did I really think it was supposed to be aimed at that crowd.
search is nonexistent on that site...how do people use it? just browse through all the listings?
Using the idea is one thing, but taking credit for it is another. I think that's where people get hung up. Especially for non-techies that have never heard of (e.g.) rsync, Apple 'invented' versioned backups. This pisses people off that know about rsync because it's giving Apple more credit than they deserve. Apple didn't draw the idea out of thin air and develop it from scratch. They took an existing thing and made it better.
I think people will be even more anxious to buy and hold when they find out a way loan out bitcoins. For example, convert them temporarily to tokens representing another currency.
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This occurs in the search form (in a white label version of IE, if I'm not mistaken) at the local public library (they have numerous terminals scattered throughout the library). It's rather annoying to see the blinking cursor, start typing, have nothing happen, and have to find the mouse, locate the bleeping mouse cursor, and click in the test box.
I always see suggestions to put script tags just before </body>, or the inline script that generates a new <script> node. Why does nobody ever suggest using the defer attribute? My understanding is that the defer attribute will do precisely what you want - start loading the script now, but not blocking anything else on the page.
It's the same kind of game Microsoft played in the 1990's and by attrition have lost to the Linux/OSS movement.

It doesn't seem to me like it's attrition-due-to-Microsoft's-practices that have led to their downfall ... it's because of the advantages of free / open-source on the back end and because of other-platform (web/mobile) disruption on the front end.
there's a field called "neuromarketing" which is based exactly on that kind of research. I think it's bizarre.
Ask HN: Attitude of Employers to Personal/Freelance Projects
I work for a global financial institution as a software developer. I enjoy my job but primarily work on Java enterprise stack apps. It's not my passion in life however. What I really love is developing products, taking ideas and transforming them into tangible working applications. This has pushed me down the route of mobile app development as an evening/weekend hobby.

Up until now it's been a hobby, I have a number of free apps on the App Store but never really considered it to be a money-making scheme. But now I've been approached about creating a mobile application/web service on a freelance basis. I'm keen to get involved in the project but somewhat apprehensive about my employers potential reaction when I inevitably have to seek their approval.

In general what are the experiences of Hackers out there who have been in similar situations? How did you approach your employer and what was their reaction? And are large organizations generally hostile to side projects/personal endeavours?
The video and the text are not fully the same content. I do not understand why someone would make it look like they typed up the voice over but changed the words.
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>I think we are close to the tipping point where a majority of developers begin to favor webapps to iOS native apps

Isn't this pretty much what Apple wanted in the first place?
I disagree in the ways in which it is different. I think these axes are not good descriptors. And I do not enjoy beating my wife, for what it's worth.
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Facebook and Twitter can make your life
This is not entirely true. You only need to really "know" two passwords... your cellphone screen lock and the password to the encrypted password database on your cellphone.

If your cellphone uses DropBox to store the database, then you can even lose your cellphone or simply access the database on desktops and laptops directly.