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There's a poll as well: http://twtpoll.com/swgdwm
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I would be interested to see more related research too. We spend far too much time reading text so even a slight increase in readability is important, even for non-dyslexics
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Well that will surely teach me to check the ramdom URL's I type. Was merely making a lighthearted comment on the irony of choosing a user type and asking them aimed questions.

Disclaimer; Not an ifriends.com user and never will be. Seems like a cheap adultfriendfinder affiliate. And a crappy one at that.
Each time a new Ubuntu version is released, I try out KDE - but always end up going back to Gnome for productivity reasons.

The fact that KDE is bloated because of all the semantic desktop stuff doesnt help a bit.
Since KDE has switched to its SC (software compilation) based nomenclature, I would happily pay for a KDE-light S.C. with NO MySQL, nepomuk, strigi, akonadi, konqueror and just a bare desktop with Chrome and LibreOffice (saying I can disable it doesnt count )

Since, I'm unable to use Unity in any significant way, I'm looking for a way to use KDE.

And I hope they make a much better default theme than what they have - everything said and done, Gnome looks much much more polished.
I had the same problem, but I think I may have been biased by the title and expected a "dyslexic font" to be difficult to read, so as I read it, it seemed very weird.
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I didn't mean to refute the actual statistics. I merely wanted to point out that the entire 'survey' carries the same value as 'News of the World' journalism.

Asking a user base whether or not they would be willing to trade object A with Object B without any experience of the alternative is useless.

If CNN asked 1,000 people if they would vote for Barack Obama or 'A better President' it would likely show that he would loose the next election.
The 2-3 day wait isn't the case in the UK anymore. UK banks - under pressure from the government via the Office of Fair Trading - now process money transfers in half a day.

The point is that the transfer never required that long to process, but if a Bank (or PayPal) can hold on to your money for a few extra days then it's a few more days of interest on the money for them.

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For cheap hosting of static sites, I'd look at either Nearly Free Speech[0] or an Amazon S3 Website Endpoint[1]. Amazon will be cheaper, but more complex to set up. Throwing $20 into a Nearly Free Speech account will probably keep your friend running for quite a long time.

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How sad. I hope you'll be able to cope from this experience soon.
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I guess in their defense, they never said it was a scientific poll.
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And that's mainly because of their so-called development platform picked up by marketing researchers. I am still astonished to see grown-up companies with functional websites driving traffic to "their" out-of-control Facebook pages even with full page ads.

If Google+ would appeal for marketing purposes, I bet it'll gain at least as much popularity in a blink of an eye.
Most mortgages in the UK have the condition that you need to inform the lender if you are letting the property and there may also be requirements for electrical and fire safety.

I hate to think of the potential liabilities if someone got injured in your home and you didn't have the right insurance.
Hmm, if the script is just a series of open commands it's weird that you are having issues as root (no errors displayed?). With problems when you save you mean that you don't have the required permissions(e.g. files owned by root or other users)?

A useful alias if you need root permissions to save:

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Even better: Beware of assholes. They're everywhere, and you can't always detect them.
Its a scary thought to have one company control almost all the data for a user. Just think what kind of data Google is collecting using their search engine, adsense, gmail, chrome etc. And now if they have users also move their social circles to Google+, it will give them almost complete information about a person. This is for them THE missing piece of the puzzle to tie everything together.
Just for this single reason, I am never going to join Google+ however fancy and cool those circles look like.
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Hello, I have an idea to start a DNS hosting service that would also cater to serving up geoip and DNS based mixed data streams? Worth while or stupid?

Thanks,
These are both great solutions, but there are strong geographical limitations for both of them (US or UK only).
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A bicycle helmet? I might hold a helmet over my face if I were joking around or playing a prank. If I were serious (though I highly doubt I'll end up in such a situation), I would be using something other than a bicycle helmet.
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"Google's interview process -- what's the word I'm looking for here -- ah yes, their process sucks at letting in all the qualified people. They're trying to get better at it, but it's not really Google's fault so much as the fault of interviewers who insist that you're not qualified to work there unless you are exactly like them. Of course, there are interviewers like that wherever you go."

I imagine that's one of the big problems that females, older people and others must face. If you're not like them (or everyone's stereotype of a qualified person), you'll have a harder time getting in. Not to mention enjoying your stay, once you're in.

(Maybe you're in a workplace that's so desperate for a little diversity that it's actually easier for non-stereotypes to get in. But will your coworkers act respectfully? I know that the guys at mine let loose putdowns about females, even with females in the room. They don't even realize they're putting females down.)
The ladder in the house reminds me of Super Mario. Great concept, but I would go insane living in such a 2D world over time.
Your Paypal story is exactly what makes me want to partner with someone else.

Amazon and Paypal solutions sound great but they are both limited to US and UK :(
I'm not a Linux guy, but I'm curious. And I prefer "vanilla" experience when I'm trying a new toy. Which Linux distribution should I use if I want to test a KDE as clean as possible?
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This articles arguments, like most I've read heralding mobile web apps over native ones, really only applies to content already on the web (eg. his Wired example). In that context it
makes sense. In the more common context of a developer wanting to build a, for example, load bearing calculator for structural engineers, those arguments make no sense.

Developers flock to the Market and App Store because they offer two things: discoverability and compensation. Chrome Web Store has tried to be a solution for webapps here, but really those issues still stand for webapps. And to be honest, with the sheer number of apps in the App Store, and Market's search issues, I'm beginning to question whether a discoverability advantage still exists.
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It would have to have been a huge number of flag votes -- too many to be a reasonable explanatoin. My guess is that it was moderated down. Which leaves the big question of why?

Is it because the YC portfolio is heavy on cat picture startups and light on startups that do something important?
That is likely the presumption for many people. It is in general naïve I'd have to say as your information is kept for a certain amount of time for returns or disputes and longer for archival and reporting purposes.

I don't have data, but I'd veture to guess that most non-account data is stored nearly as long - if not as long - as account data. (I'm thinking primarily of ecommerce applications here. Services like pastebin are quite different.)
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I'd understood - because we are constantly told by the Folding@Home people - that the problem was getting enough CPU for simulations. Is this not actually true?
Would have been better if it didn't count words like "pushit" as a shit.
The article says they are working to offer an "insurance option" to hosts. So what, if it happens again to a host who hasn't taken this option, they're screwed? What would have been more reassuring is saying "airbnb will of course fully indemnify hosts against guests damaging their property" - as they've had to do in this recent case. He seems to say that airbnb are working in the opposite direction in future though.
That's how I've usually heard of it being done at large companies. When a friend changed departments internally at a large petrochemicals company, he had to go through a whole application process: look on the internal HR system for a job opening, send in an application and resume, interview with the new group, etc.
The problem is that many legit people with perfectly legit businesses have seen their account frozen for 180 days without any reason and without any human being to discuss the issue with. All they could do is wait and hope they get their money back at some point.

To some it might be just an issue, but to me it's a problem that would lead my company to bankrupt.
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"left a key for a total stranger to her home"

Exactly. You have to be crazy to be a host with AirBNB
Its actually a good thing you have found another site.

It validates your idea and gives you a focal point to differentiate yourself.

How can you be different? what can I do better?

how can I do a more customer centric solution?

how can I market better?

make yourself "not" the other site - how?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat

"The rationale of the doctrine is that if ignorance were an excuse, a person charged with criminal offenses or a subject of a civil lawsuit would merely claim that he or she is unaware of the law in question to avoid liability, even though the person really does know what the law in question is. Thus, the law imputes knowledge of all laws to all persons within the jurisdiction no matter how transiently."
Your argument is specious to the point of being crazy:
- Millionaires can work on important things. (Yes they can, but they usually just end up working on their tan.)

- Everyone else is just making ends meet. (Huh? Everyone?)

- If you have the chance, join FB early so you can be a millionaire and work on important things.

Look at the startup Color. It has brilliant people and they are all working on ways to make sharing pictures with people you don't know.

We're saying, "Stop It!" Maybe you'll get a hit and get rich but that's a stupid goal.

No one needs better ways to share pictures of your cats. There are important things to do instead, and our brightest minds, instead of engaging in ways to humanity forward, are writing PHP to get themselves forward.
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I agree, it is very easy to add apps to the web store. How about traffic? I actually anticipated more visitors from the web store, but I guess that the throughput comes down to how much visibility the web store has in Chrome.

Btw, one of my apps: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/njopopanmfnbgednbm...
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Slackware Linux currently features a vanilla KDE 4.5.5. Tastes differ so you might like others (like Kubuntu and OpenSuse), too.
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Renting your home remotely seems different to how I saw AirBnb in the past, where you would be renting a spare room and living with your guests. I think that would be more supported, especially given 76% of the US population is Christian, and hospitality is a Christian virtue (in particular, Hebrews 13:2
Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.)

Lending your home as a holiday home already has well-established range of estate agents, cleaners and so on, (like Gîtes in France) so it can be done but relies on a more active role of the company organising the rentals.
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its being held up because they're appealing the judgement made with microsoft,etc... so they're trying to suck the most blood they can while they can.. even though its bullsh!t, its a headache, and another isnt needed. it's a last strike for them.

even though many may feel the appeal will be withdrawn, its still a headache.. Options i feel are..

a) pay an attorney to try and delay it until the appeal is decided.
b) take out the search until the appeal is decided.
c) pay they're $150,000 (f'n nutz) if it will grow ur sales by the time the decision of the appeal.
That's the rationalization that smart people tell themselves so that they can sleep at night.

Accidents can always happen but if you're writing PHP to tag cat pictures, no, it's not going to do anything. But keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep.
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Ask HN: What system design / software architecture tools are available?
Right now if one wants to design a website - he has to create mockups using Balsamiq, Axure or similiar tools. What if you want to design a distributed system which has a number of components but basically no user interface? Do you know of any tools which could be used for this purpose? I wasn't able to find any online.
I have no complaints about Fedora. I don't think that they change anything else but the wallpapers.
Funny thing the downloaded file is named Gill_Dyselxic.ttf.

I was looking for a font like this after seeing this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLtYFcHx7ec. Two dollar is a steal!
Related : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811756
In China, shops try to open up near competitors. Most cities have an "electric bike street", where all the shops in an area are electric bike shops (or restaurants / convenience stores). Customers like choice, and hate to go to a place where they can't compare prices. That might be zoning (I can imagine Chinese authorities saying "OK, that street can sell product X), but I think it's also a long standing tradition.

Here, shops hate to be near competitors, and it's not unknown for them to lobby the local council over zoning infringements that their competitors are making. This is despite their competitors pulling in a lot of business. After all, shops will pay many times the rent to be in a mall, proximately because that's where the customers are, but ultimately because that's where the competition is.

OK, a small hamburger joint needs to worry if McDonalds sets up next door. But if another small hamburger joint sets up nearby, it will increase traffic. The "competition" isn't the guy next door. It's the guy next door, the food strip in the mall, and home-cooked food; and only the guy next door is pulling in foot-traffic to your area. But guess who most business owners will try to put out of business?
Exactly and it's the same at hacker news. Every time we see an article about sexism in computer science, someone will show up saying that: (1) hackers are the most egalitarian group that ever walked the face of the earth and (2) they've never seen any discrimination happen. The implication here is that sexism doesn't exist in computer science.

I have seen my colleague tell (ostensibly being funny) a female co-worker that she was hired because of her looks. I've also seen people joke about interviewing attractive women. These might seem innocuous to privileged males but they definitely contribute to making the workplace worse for women and so are IMHO completely unacceptable.

These are just two small issues - and I've heard a lot worse, but try and tell someone like DHH that we have a problem. He'll rant about how being edgy is cool and that being edgy requires us to make these tasteless "jokes".
I am the developer of this extension. Interested in feedback on the extension, the ideas, and the writeup.

Also posted to reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/j1ylm/new_mutetab_ex...
Juvenile photographic compositions combining TV/movie references and controversial industry celebrities are a time-honored tradition of geek culture :). For example, it simply wouldn't do if nobody ever turned a picture of Bill Gates into a Borg drone.
I just want to add the author of the article, i.e. Hal Berenson, is one of the key architect behind SQL Server 7.0 which is a rewrite from the legacy Sybase code. More information can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/about/technicalrecognition/SQL-Serv...
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The article says of the Atlas Shrugged character Rearden that he, 'gets the girl'. Well, only temporarily. As I recall it is Galt who ultimately ends up with Dagny Taggart.
The anger on the Android forums is partly financial – one developer said downloads had been cut 80 per cent since the change – and partly irritation at Google's arrogance: the company hasn't bothered to respond.

It's this exactly that makes me wary of depending on Google for anything other than GMail. If you have any kind of problem with them you're thrown into this Kafka-esque maze of automated support that often can't do anything for you and leaves you no way to escalate an issue.
"If startup failure were a disease, the CDC would be issuing bulletins warning people to avoid day jobs." -- http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

This quote matches my personal experience as well as the experience of friends. If you really want to do a startup then do everything you can to work on it full time. Nothing will improve your odds more.
I'll go out on a limb here and point out that this is just a broken window and some unobservant neighbors away from having nothing at all to do with AirBnB or the concept of short term rentals. These people are criminals and should be treated as such.

Just like you can meet a violent person while dating through Match.com, you can rent out your place to a terrible person using any number of services. The service is something people want and can only do so much to make the marketplace safe. Anytime you connect with strangers, whether it's through AirBnB, the newspaper, a dating service, or by meeting them at a grocery store, there are risks to letting them into your lives. AirBnB is doing the right thing now, and if anything, it's good that this incident will make users of the service more careful. You can't expect companies to perfectly guard every user against every edge case when human elements are involved.
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This can't be legal in many places. It certainly isn't here in the EU, and I find it hard to believe that most (if not all) US states don't have consumer protection regulations that cover this.

If the error is due to a fault in the system the customer should not be punished for that error.

I'm not an iStuff user at all at the moment, but would consider an iDevice if it were ever the right tool for the job at the right price. If they are going to try make the customers pay for faults like this (forcing the customer to know and quote relevant law/regulations to get the right thing done) then my attitude will move to never touching an iProduct for as long as I live and recommending friends/family/other take a similar stance.
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Hi all,

Would anybody like a free, eight-week course of maths (or related fields: see below) lessons?

About me: I've been tutoring up to A-level mathematics and physics for about 10 years now. I would have thought of trying to teach maths to HN as teaching grandma to suck eggs, but this comment thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2737510) led me to believe there are at least a few HNers who don't have calculus etc. as part of their toolbox, and Steve’s flamboyant OSCON talk (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811818) got me thinking there might be quite a few who would like it. FWIW, I've a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's in machine learning.

What you get: Eight one-to-one hour-long lessons on any mathematical subject(s) of your choosing.

Who qualifies: Exactly one person who wants to, based on the following criteria:

1) You ask for something I can actually teach you. I've a lot of experience teaching maths and physics up to A-level standard (see the UK bit in here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Further_Mathematics), and I know some linear/vector/matrix algebra, more advanced differential equations, some machine learning and statistics well enough to teach with some brushing up. I'm slightly more likely to pick someone who wants something I can teach really well rather than something I can just about teach. You can ask for anything, though; bonus points for asking for something I didn’t know people wanted.

2) You can be available at a regular time each week which I can accommodate, ideally sometime between 9:00 and 13:00 BST (8:00-12:00 GMT) on a weekday from late August

3) You provide a compelling case of how this will help you, particularly if it would be hard to get this kind of help elsewhere. I.e. you may find some mathematics useful to your coding / business / love life; you know why better than me.

Again, apologies if slightly better than high-school maths seems like a trivial thing to arrogantly parade in front of the extremely smart and well-educated people at HN, it just occurred to me there might be a few people who might want it.

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Maybe it does, and maybe that helps explain the success of Google+. It only turns a month old on Thursday, but it already claims up to 20 million members. And since the service went live, Google Inc. stock has gone up nearly 30 percent, raising the value of the company (the "market cap" in Wall Street jargon) by $45 billion.
You're still here, writing these articles about how the mobile app economy is somehow going to disintegrate in favour of a return to web apps? It's over. Go home. Go.
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