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No, there is no conventional standard for auto-complete and you would have to be able to determine whether or not the user was actually trying to employ a/c functionality versus typing a term that they've already brought to the forefront of their action. Auto-complete interrupts this mental workflow and affects the UX in a negative manner. It's like continuously prompting a person who has difficulty with stuttering. After awhile they'll find you too difficult to talk to and go back to drinking beer and watching TV.

One aside is the convention of time/date/location that you'll find everywhere. For whatever reason someone needs to capture the information from the Andorrans to the inhabitants of Wallis and Futuna. I can't fight people that include over 200 options for countries and territories when this info could be ascertained and captured via other methods, but people already have a mental map of where their options are in these lists, so if you really need to, then go ahead. iOS has the best solution for this. Also, a select is a part of CRUD, so please don't use it for navigation.

The solution that I like to employ is an unordered HTML list, with the items bricked in equal size, separated uniformly right and bottom and floated left. You can see this when you look at Google+'s circles. The user knows to read from left to right (assuming western conventions) and can navigate top to bottom with the ease of the mouse without making commitments. I currently do this with a list of ~250 options and employ ajaxy magic to capture the user's actions. I assist the user by alphabetizing the list so that they'll be able to mentally map their position as well as curated and separately displaying the most popular option at the top of the list, much like US-based website will do when displaying "United States" as the first option in their select. If displaying on a mobile device, I would recommend displaying in a one-column list; if a user can navigate Twitter, they'll have no problem with scrolling down to find their selection because they've already been trained to do so and it'll come as second nature. (which is why is good practice to adopt conventions from popular applications. Why fight it?)

Another option that I've found helpful i to employ pathways when too many options with similar names can cloud the user's mental map. It's ok to break up a form into logical step-by-step pieces. You gain the user's trust by preempting tedious actions. Intersticial pages, not pop-ups, are ok if the user understands where you are taking them and for the tricky parts, some reassuring copy can do the trick. People read; just go through Amazon's checkout process a couple of times over the course of a week. You may forget a step, but they're right there to help you without employing navigation or CRUD devices on the screen.

tl;dr: just put the options in a list as ajax buttons or checkbox-activated text. Keep it simple and organized and don't play hide and go seek with the user.
You've got it backwards. Women aren't scared of hackers, hackers are scared of women. This is a gross generalization, but it fits for the examples you mention. Yes, some nerds are completely unattractive and girl-repellent. But it doesn't take that much effort to become attractive, and a lot of hardcore computer guys are attracted to computers precisely because working with computers allows you to lead a solitary lifestyle with minimal social interaction.

I'm certain that there were people before that were as scared of social interaction as the biggest hardcore nerds today, but they weren't working in a technical profession. Working with technical things 50 years ago required interacting with other humans much more than computers do, because the machinery in question was physical and more distributed.
Public patents, private profit?
FB has but to do one thing to remain king of the heap and that is to maintain focus. The more junk they add to the site, the more ads, games, stupid apps (find out who's stalking you!) the uglier and more MySpace-like it becomes. FB succeeded in large part because it refused to be everything to everyone and become uglier. That said, the experience I get viewing my FB feed is aesthetically less pleasing as the months go on.

G+ OTOH is the new, shiny, clean kid on the block and my feeds are still pristine.

If FB continues on the path they are on the influential thought leaders who hate clutter will completely leave for G+ and that will be the beginning of the end of FB.

Would G clutter up G+ with junk? Not likely. They LOVE all that more detailed info you're voluntarily giving them that they can then serve up tailored (revenue-generating) ads on your Gmail, searches, partner sites, etc.
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I was recently diagnosed with a condition called Keratoconus... from wikipedia:

Keratoconus (from Greek: kerato- horn, cornea; and konos cone), is a degenerative disorder of the eye in which structural changes within the cornea cause it to thin and change to a more conical shape than its normal gradual curve.

Although my doctor said it was not caused by 10+hrs/day in front of a computer, i suspect otherwise. Its a relatively rare condition, and at my current office there are three of us (out of 25) with the condition.

I would like to know, dear HN readers, do you have this condition?
Honestly, my plan is not to let this change my life or routine. If I don't do that, then I've let someone else take control of my life.

Of course, the gym I go to is going to be closed this weekend (they're even closer to the blast site than my office), but they've already posted that they'll be open again on Monday, so I have hope that Oslo - and Norway as a whole - won't let this change their society.
fscking $60 for a damn serial cable? WTF? It's not even the awesome "it-breaks-when-my-cat-chews-it-too-much" white cable with the "it-breaks-when-you-look-at-it-funny" excuse for a strain relief that Apple industrial design insisted on.

All that aside, I think Apple has a ways to go if they want to catch up to the DIY capabilities of Android: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/adk.html
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There's a bunch of icons on the desktop that look directly cribbed from Windows (show desktop, command prompt, documentation), are those legit?
The problem with implicit semicolon insertion is that (1) the rules for it are too complicated and (2) it's called "semicolon insertion", which makes it sound stupid. Lots of other languages — FORTRAN, Ruby, Python, Tcl, BASIC, sh, LOGO — use line breaks to separate statements without the problems that come from JS's too-clever semicolon-insertion rules.
I agree, although I wish I had a nickel for every article out there that heralds social networking as nails in the coffin of email.
I knew that the US federal government had odd relationships with its technology contractors, but I didn't know that an entire program exists apparently to force the taxpayer to subsidize technology that it should therefore own---but it turns into a private tech monopoly, which (as with the company in the article) makes its money mostly from selling the resultant patented technology back to... the US Federal Government, which pays for it with... more taxpayer money.
I'm in this business to make money.

Anything consumer-based requires a huge user base because you can only charge a small amount per user. Huge user bases take time (read: a lot of money) to build. And users are very finicky and not very loyal. They get bored easy and move on to the next hot thing.

This idea of building the huge user base first, then trying to figure out how to monetize it later is way too risky for me. One false move trying to monetize it and your entire user base just disappears. No thanks.

To summarize, my opinion is that, based on my limited experience and common sense, B2C products are way more risky than B2B.

I think B2B is much less risky with a lot more opportunity to actually make some money. It's (relatively speaking) very easy to monetize a B2B product. And there are so many niches that it's very easy to find a product that adds value.

My comment of not quitting your day job if you're going after B2C assumes you are trying to bootstrap your startup. You simply don't have the money to bootstrap it. If you are going after VC money, then you'd have to get the VC money before quitting the day job. However, you won't be able to get the VC money til you can prove your product can gain hundreds of millions of users. It's a catch-22.

My advice for anybody looking at doing a startup is to stick to the boring B2B market. Don't get swept away with a grandiose idea of building a hundred million user product. Even the most pedigreed players in this space can't figure out how to manufacture huge users bases (i.e. Color).
Sure sure, that's terrible. But where is your concern for the legal staff and execs who conspired to trump up charge of hacking and lie to obtain an unjust extradition - nearly ruing someone's life and as pointed out above, only one "misunderstanding" away from ending in a police shooting.

This is true, even if unpalatable. It's mob justice, and it's because there aren't mob courts. If there aren't people's courts, or courts providing justice for the people, this will become the people's justice. The phrase "What does work" should suggest to you that it is becoming the common perception, if not fact, that the system does not "work".

The way to fix this is to, VERY severely, punish all those involved in corrupting the proper functioning of the law. You know how severely you'd be punished if you tried to bribe your way out of a drunk hit-and-run slaying of a cop? Certainly it'd occupy at least the next decade or so of your life. Like that, but more, and to the corporation itself as well.

Otherwise the victims, seeing only ruin via the system, will seek their own solutions. I'd like a better system which means identifying why this one doesn't work instead of just hearing happy platitudes while we end up like Russia.
Forgive me if this is an ignorant reply, but I thought the point of this was to give developers the ability to make official, Apple-approved apps that interface with devices that communicate across serial. Things like industrial machinery, GPS loggers etc. I've actually been looking around for something like this in order to make an iPhone application to use as a flight computer with gliders, since all glider-approved GPS loggers (which are MUCH more accurate than the iPhone's built-in GPS) communicate via a serial connection. If I understand correctly, until now you would have to use a jailbroken iPhone in order to do this?

Is there an easy way you can use Bluetooth to solve the same problem? Please correct me if I'm missing something here.
...or someone in the chain will benefit from saying "see how well our email campaign worked?".
And if you read the rest of the presentation, don't forget to read along with his notes http://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/samples/notes.html#s...
There is a better chance of Apple choosing its next CEO through a raffle of ten golden tickets hidden inside iPad boxes distributed around the globe than that they’d give the job to Eric Schmidt.

Quote of the day right there.
McVeigh was sort of Catholic. He wasn't motivated by religious extremism, but he was not an atheist.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh#Political_views...
Tab works as expected here in FF4.0.1, when the focus is on the normal control, I can switch to the 'enhanced' version using tab and start typing my country.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows may be the seventh and final Harry Potter novels written by British author JK Rowling. He was released on July 21, 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing in Britain, the United States by Scholastic, and in Canada by Raincoast Books
This really needs to be the top comment- Takes alot of the mystery about this out of the question/
You would think that at least geeks would be appalled by Apple and avoid their products because of this. But every geek I know (save one or two) is raving about their Apple gadgets.
While I have never played it, I have heard good things about the complexity of the Europa Universalis series. IF author Adam Cadre wrote a mini-review of it a few years ago:

http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/10898.html
The OTA update worked without a hitch for me on an iPhone 4 running beta 3. I haven't noticed much different except that it is a little faster maybe.
TL;DR "Apple is doing something silly to force you to use their proprietary stuff"

I run Lion in a VM just to spite them.
Unfortunately, the discussion sparked is not very interesting. I'm not sure you're an intentional troll, but many responses (particularly if they're all trying to say "no, that's a horrible idea because...") don't indicate a worthwhile comment so much as a successful troll.

In this case, if the powers-that-be were as powerful as you claim, we wouldn't even be having this conversation; Peter Adekeye would not be free and back with his family considering legal action, the Canadian judge would not be lambasting the US and Canadian prosecutors who were involved, etc. etc..

Am I just another sucker for the troll, though? This seems obvious, which means it's probably boring for most readers.
If you receive the "Thank you for your RSVP" email does that mean you're in or is there another round of selection? Need to know before I book my plane ticket..
Thank you, the ps/pdf wall most research is behind greatly limits its availability.

Wait until they've published and do it anyways. If they sue/etc you the Streisand effect should hopefully help your notability (and thus career) more than not.
If you have a mostly b2b startup, the applications for Tech Wildcatters are open for a few more day! http://techwildcatters.com, you get up to $25k
Nonetheless, I hate Java. It is a handy mental shortcut, one that has yet to lead me astray. My belief is that the problems for which Java-the-language is the solution are problems I don't want to work on, and that I don't have enough time in my life to address the problems I do want to work on, so I should simply develop a Java allergy that kicks in whenever I see the generics syntax and that causes my eyes to water until I flee towards fresh air. It works well.

This idea of developing an "allergy" / "hate" for Java reminded me of http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/04/21/135508305/the-... ( HN discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464764 ). More specifically the part about "culling":

Culling is the choosing you do for yourself. It's the sorting of what's worth your time and what's not worth your time. It's saying, "I deem Keeping Up With The Kardashians a poor use of my time, and therefore, I choose not to watch it." It's saying, "I read the last Jonathan Franzen book and fell asleep six times, so I'm not going to read this one."

[...]

What I've observed in recent years is that many people, in cultural conversations, are far more interested in culling than in surrender. And they want to cull as aggressively as they can. After all, you can eliminate a lot of discernment you'd otherwise have to apply to your choices of books if you say, "All genre fiction is trash." [...]

The same goes for throwing out foreign films, documentaries, classical music, fantasy novels, soap operas, humor, or westerns. I see people culling by category, broadly and aggressively: television is not important, popular fiction is not important, blockbuster movies are not important.

--------------------------------------------

I also have this avoidance mechanism. I don't have enough time to learn about each programming language / framework / paradigm, so I kind of hate / ignore some of these, without really knowing them (PHP, .NET, Windows, "enterprisey Java solutions"...). Not sure if it's the right thing to do, but I still have plenty to learn with the languages / frameworks I am interested in...
[Quote]TV didn't kill radio[\quote]

Nope, but the internet is. (i work in radio, BTW)

Can't happen soon enough, if you ask me.
Hopefully they're smart enough to check the Referer header.
The WSJ doesn’t, but they like scoops because scoops draw traffic and thus, ad revenues. And lots of competitors have an interest in manipulating Apple stock, and they also know that a publisher like the WSJ likes scoops.
I quickly changed the setting to 3 finger swipe for back/forward and page turning.
If this solves your problem, then you probably didn't need MVC in the first place. But this doesn't necessarily decouple you from the DOM, and it sounds like all of the code that works with these models is a bunch of jQuery callbacks hooked into the DOM. Is that right?

If so, and your project is sizable, then an MVC, like backbone.js, could be beneficial.
This is huge for diabetics. Not only will this alleviate some of their suffering, but it will make it easy to compare how the bodies of both diabetics and non-diabetics react to sugar. That will help optimize medication and help prevent overdosing on insulin.

My dad actually lost his vision to diabetes, which began a downward spiral of inactivity and isolation and eventually life in a nursing home. If he had been tightly monitored, that could have been prevented.
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It's a little like how people are aware that farm animals are often mistreated, but meat is delicious so they eat it anyway.

Yum.
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This isn't so much about the funeral industry in Louisiana. It's the precedence it could set for anyone else out there who wants to challenge another state regulated cartel (think of car dealerships for example).

From the article:
"'defendants moved to dismiss based on the legal issue of whether protecting a discrete interest group from economic competition constitutes a sufficient legitimate government purpose.' Put more simply, it's as if they said, Our purpose here is to protect profits in the funeral industry, these regulations are a rational way to do that, and we're allowed to pick market winners and losers if we so desire -- after all, its only intrastate commerce we're talking about."
My 3.2 GhZ Dual Core system chokes at times with it, so yes. The biggest catch is that the core of the game is not multi-threaded (though graphics may be depending on config). The throughput of a single processor core is the most important factor in the simulation's performance. The iPad, while nice for the rather passive computations it's expected to perform, just doesn't have the muscle.

Now assuming the game could be ported to iOS (wrapper/emulator or whatnot), 1 GHz would allow you to generate a small world, and maybe play for a year or two at a low FPS. (I used to play the older version on my 1.2 GHz AMD "netbook," so it's certainly possible.) But in fortress mode, when you've got a great many dwarfs doing pathfinding (say, 80+) and a whole bunch of other stuff being tracked by the game, the simulation can be extremely taxing on system resources. Ultimately, most forts die from what is called "FPS Death," when the simulation frames completed per second reaches an unplayable level.
I am an engineer at CloudFlare. I've got the page in question open in front of me in IE7, but I'm not having any issues with the CAPTCHA submission. Can you provide any additional details about the problem you're experiencing?
This has been out for a while.

Here's an accompanying serial terminal app (that only works with network devices, for some reason) in the App Store:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/get-console/id412067943?mt=8
IPad (1), IPod Touch (4), IPhone (3gs). Still need to get an Android of some variety. Probably will get a WinPhone 7 as well.
Apple expands the App Store to 33 new countries and territories
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Speculation on Steve Jobs' successor strikes me as, well, pointless. The dynamic that drives Apple today is very much the same dynamic that drove it at the start: Woz and Jobs. We saw, in the late 80s and early to mid 90s what happens when the "Jobs" half of that dynamic is not there. The "Woz" dynamic, however, has had a good line of succession to cary it forward the entire time. Looking forward, it seems pretty clear that with a few more years of grooming and practice on stage that Scott Forestall will replace Jobs and keep that part of the company moving forward. Astute observers, however, would also be focusing on Federighi. It seems less clear to me that he will be able to carry on Woz's legacy...but I could be wrong.

Apple with Jobs, but without Woz, is just an empty suit...a really, really well hand tailored $6000 fine Italian 3-piece suit...but still just a suit
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Not sure how Dylan can say the below quote with absolute certainty...

He can say it because Google apparently can't be bothered to explain exactly what 'violation' he supposedly committed.
Some googling will show you evidence that it does indeed work. For my part, I corrected a slight astigmatism;

This guy claims to have been clinically blind and recovered using similar techniques

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJS2LTsQde4
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I'd say it's a bigger order of problem than not having the mail at all. I have mounds of inadequately organized information. I don't want to add to the amount of noise I have to sort through.
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Not too many actors and actresses in Hollywood you can easily change gears when it comes to different film genres There are a lot of those who choose to follow a particular style of the film
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it's easier, and cheaper, and more accesible to play around with a RS-232 cable... I've like 4 USB-RS232 adapters, and it's very easy to implement the protocol even on the dirtiest and cheaper chips...
I'm not interested in the article as much as the thoughtful comments from the HN community
Hey, where're the salary poll results?
Everything iOS 5.0 is still under NDA, but here is the full changelog: http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/22/apples-full-change-log-for-ios...
is more an interface to play around with your ipod and Legos and alike...
I'm really curious to know what this was originally designed for.

It has consumer-friendly "Windows XP" style UX and the user it logs into isn't root/sudo.

This all leads me to conclude the original purpose of this tool was for "normal people" to use, and so I'm left wondering whether it was for agents or informants to be able to communicate back to the mothership securely.

If this was for security personnel or those performing forensics on evidence, there wouldn't be cutesy UX and it would be logged in to root. If this was for 'rank and file' staff in CIA/FBI offices, they wouldn't need a portable distro.
I've always had an iOS device, but no room in my life for two of them:

2007-2008: iPhone 1st gen -->
2008-2010: iPhone 3G + Nexus One -->
2010: Nexus One + iPod touch (sold iPhone 3G) -->
Late 2010 - May 2011: Nexus S + iPod touch (upgraded to Nexus S) -->
May 2011 - present: Nexus S + iPad (sold iPod touch)
Anyone has the right to download anything from anyone else. It's the content-provider's server and it's their job to tell it who it should and shouldn't give content to. Making content accessible is implicitly giving permission to download it. It's how the internet works, by design.