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> What I don't like about these Chrome UI's is that they don't respect my OS settings

Hear, hear. On our new serious workstation, we mostly run a variety of developer tools and browsers, some basic office software, various graphics/DTP/modelling stuff from companies like Adobe and Autodesk, and a bunch of tools to automate things and join the dots.

On a quick look, exactly none of the major products there uses the standard Windows 7 UI conventions.

I, for one, am sick of:

- not knowing which keyboard shortcuts perform frequent tasks like undo/redo, or more generally, not being able to navigate a UI using systematic and intuitive keystrokes;

- every application's windows having different conventions for dealing with multiple documents, docking panels, and so on (and making the labels ever-smaller wherever they are, so your documents all look like "C:\users\Fred\..." and your web pages are all "Favourite Site | The S...");

- every application having different and increasingly obnoxious methods of giving you "important" notifications;

- every application having different and increasingly obnoxious auto-update policies that break stuff;

- every application having different ways to download and maintain plug-ins;

- more and more applications trying to squeeze every last square inch of screen space by hiding commands behind a small number of tabs or, worse, meaningless menu-icon-things (we bought large, hi-res monitors for a reason, and having access to browser bookmarks within two clicks is worth far more to us than reading a web site at 2560x1400 instead of 2560x1370);

- every application shoving its executables and config files in its own place (not helped by Windows 7's holier-than-thou "you can't put that in that directory" and "are you sure you want to do that" messages);

- and many other things that just make day-to-day work horribly inefficient.

I wish Microsoft would define a robust, standardised set of UI conventions again, based on usability rather than flashy stuff, and then at least stick to it themselves instead of inventing a whole new bunch of tricks for every new version of Office, IE, Visual Studio and so on.

And then I wish other software, including everything I mentioned above and most definitely including Firefox and Chrome, would just follow the conventions or make some effort to collaborate and standardise in connection with Microsoft (or whoever else writes the platform(s) they run on).
Maybe also an interesting mindmapping tool for HN:
www.mindmeister.com

They have their mindmapping software running in HTML and Javascript since it was called "DHTML"

They focus a crazy amount of time on UX improvements.

Example of their mindmaps:
http://www.mindmeister.com/de/107112097/how-to-organize-a-ba...
> Apple has made it pretty easy to start writing iOS apps. Of course, Step One is “Buy a Mac.” Easy! Then just download the free Xcode Installer from the Mac App Store, and start writing code when it’s done.

> Android is a bit more involved. You can download the SDK easily, but to actually start writing code, you’ll want to setup Eclipse and install Google’s ADT Plugin.

Buying and setting up a new computer is "Easy!" but installing Eclipse is "more involved"? Having to sign up for a $99 developer program is omitted. The size difference, of a couple hundred mb for Eclipse vs 4gb for Xcode is omitted.
Whit Scott, the filmmaker behind this project, is an amazing visual story teller. Having spent years behind the camera with some of the biggest in tech its great to see him stretching to feature docs.

If I didnt know Whit personally the number one reason I'd support this project is because most of my experiences with Toilet Paper to this point have been shitty.
For $15 you can always have a charge/sync cable for your smartphone with you.
There's a whole community over on reddit worth looking over. Lots of Diablo 3 information.

http://www.reddit.com/r/diablo
Web search is the same way.

This sounds like a lot of meta-level confusion.
Hi Andy!
Solving for those 'challenges' people pose is the key. However, you have to figure out how to prioritize what to solve. Keep the product CORE intact and have a good vision. You cannot change that all the time. Certainly a great post!
I'm saying that if you watch the actual video I linked to that was the pretext for the large-scale invasion of Afghanistan, it's extremely clear that the man in that video looks nothing like every other photo/video of OBL from both before and after.

The U.S. government told us in 2001 that they found a video of OBL claiming credit for 9/11. Given the evidence, is it really that unreasonable to ask whether or not that video is actually authentic? Is it really that unreasonable to expect the government not to make unavailable critical evidence in the matter?

How come HN gets pissed off at the sort of people who say that evolution is fake without looking at the evidence, but when I ask for evidence that this video is actually authentic I get downmodded over 40 points?
that's probably because i don't scrape the full descriptions, just the tags. thx for pointing to it, will look into it.
A couple of points...

> Android has a system of layout containers (similar to HTML)

It would be more correct (I think) to say it's inspired by other Java layout managers, Swing and SWT aren't a million worlds removed from Android (but I can't really expect someone new to Java to know that!)

And the emulator. The Android emulator is not slow. I have a netbook, which is an absolutely fantastic way of finding out which applications do far too much but you never notice because your computer is very fast. Team Fortress 2 is slow. Eclipse is slow. I tried booting the Android emulator and gave up waiting after an hour and a half.

Overall, awesome article. Refreshing to see someone providing a useful comparison between the two rather than arguing over one or the other, and as a Java developer who knows a little about Android, I feel I just learnt a lot about iOS. I'm actually amazed at how much they have in common, you wouldn't think so from the arguments!
I personally will not even consider a keyboard which is not split (i.e. "ergonomic"), simply because after typing on one for the past decade I cannot go back to regular square grid keyboards without feeling as though something is horribly, horribly wrong.
It's one thing to not like advertising in general; I think we all prefer to avoid them. A lot of times, ads are crap. Its another thing to entirely dismiss adverting and the people that are involved in advertisement. It's just down right shitty to be condescending about it.

My counter point (http://blog.fisharefriends.us/2011/08/never-work-for-google-...) is that good ads are beneficial to businesses and consumers. Businesses need to make money to invest in future products, and advertising is a necessity to making money.
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I prefer to use Firefox's Keyword Search bookmarks over wasting pixels for the dedicated search box. I couldn't live without my personalized search keywords for sites like Wikipedia, Amazon, Yelp, YouTube, Dictionary.com, Netflix, and more.

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart%20keywords
Good news for the Instructables team (I hope), but an odd choice for Autodesk - maybe they're trying to get a little hip and edgy?
How sovereign debt becomes leverage - a lesson from history
Netflix is expanding globally. They've already announced the expansion into Latin America.
HSBC to cut another 25,000 jobs
the rendering for masonry is pretty heavy, i know. quite like flash ;)
Pointless.
How come it got so much up-votes ..

You might not work for the big three for "these reasons", but i doubt that anyone else would even think about reconsidering their wish to work/job there.
Totally agree. "out of favor" != "gone".

Distributed, message/actor models have exploded. There are better options to multithreading now. Only niches (often front end ui something) need multithreading.
The final design was awesome, just get rid of the home button and it will be even better. I can't remember the last time I used that button.
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How long did you wait until you quit your job? Where did the idea come from? Did you outsource the web design?
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Turn each state into a multi-member district. Small states with only one rep can be combined with other states to form three-rep blocks, i.e., North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana can be combined into one election. Elections can be party-list elections. For example, Utah has 3 seats; each party puts forward a list of 3 candidates, and the voters vote for the party of their choice. There's no longer a need to redraw lines because there are no more lines.
Foxconn Will Replace Workers With 1 Million Robots in 3 Years
Yes, but the difference is it would happen more gradually, rather than making it a law, and the next day everyone's patents are abolished. Plus, I think it would be a lot harder for politicians to abolish patents vs adding this one as an option. I figure there will be companies opposing this and lobbying the politicians to not support it, but it probably wouldn't be as bad for a law that abolishes them.
Operation Northwoods: a series of false-flag proposals from 1962
Chrome and Firefox both support Ogg? Good enough for me!

And if enough people use Ogg (and leave IE users in the dust) then IE won't have any choice but to accept defeat on this.
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Anyone else want to see the ffmpeg command lines used for various conversions? I've looked before for them, but had no luck.
Does Facebook have standards on what kind of ads are served? Does Facebook try to connect people with ads that are relevant? Somehow even if you are trying to _do the right thing_, the author still can't fathom why you'd sink so low as to work for Facebook.
The "detector vans" are FUD, what they actually do is just assume that everyone has a TV and send them a letter. The TV licencing company (and it is a company, not a government organisation) is quite misleading in the way it practices, their inspectors cannot for example enter your property unless you let them in. And they can't force you to answer any questions. So there's no way for them to prove you're watching TV without a licence. All that said, personally I think the TV licence is awesome value for money, BBC TV and Radio programmes are generally of very high quality, and of course there are no adverts and there are very strict guidelines on impartiality etc
> It gets me a little personal validation that we still have many exiting challenges ahead.

I read that one of the US Patent Office people quit at the turn of the 20th century because he was convinced there was nothing left to do.

If I have learned anything, it's that for every problem humans solve, a few more pop up that we never thought would exist.

It makes me happy.
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I don't get the objection. A company providing an online service has to be paid somehow. It's either going to be paid by subscriptions, or by advertisers. The people have spoken: the ad-supported model is nearly universal, the paywall model is rare and unpopular.

I don't see how Google and Twitter are guilty for giving people what they want. I am sure Google and Facebook would have gladly avoided the whole advertising rigmarole if they had been able to charge for their services; but the fact is, Facebook would have about 150 users now if they did that. I personally may or may not like this situation, but this is how it works.

Speaking of moral imperatives, I will say one thing for the ad-supported model: it opens up the internet to developing world markets in which people would not be able to use paid services.
I'm not sure what you're referring to. On my computer, it looks either like [this](http://i.imgur.com/jZiFO.png) or [this](http://i.imgur.com/yHMKH.png). No "floating button in the top left" either way.
There's a big difference between a moral objection and just not liking ads. I don't have any moral objection to ads, but I share this guy's dislike for them. I never click them and would, for various reasons, generally prefer to pay for a service rather than use it for free and have it monetize via advertising.
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[Show HN] Showofffr.com - our DjangoDash project
Looks cramped to me, but I may have sausage fingers.

It also isn't an IBM Model M.
#7: The mobile/wireless/handheld market is still at least 5 years out.

This was written in 2004. iPhone App Store launched July 2008. Pretty good prediction.

Overall interesting to read these and see how many of them he nailed.
How is name-calling useful to anything here?
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That's easily removable even now -- right click the toolbar and choose Customize.
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This is the product of 48 hours for a team of two (myself and my friend Chris Jones).

Showofffr is a handy place to put HTML, CSS, JS and images so you can easily show them to a client, co-worker, whatever as mockups/wireframes.
When the prospect confuses price quotations then something is wrong
While this does look very pretty I'm kinda concerned that they're throwing a lot of good stuff away. I'm running Firefox 5 and it really feels polished, there's so many things I'm still discovering and thinking "hey, that's cool". It's a feeling you most often get when a design has been iterated, and tweaked, and worked on for a long time... I get the same feeling frequently on the Mac I have to use at work.

This is prettier, yes. It's also a lot curvier and wastes a lot of space compared to Firefox 5. In particular, vertical pixels are at a premium for me, and Firefox 5 has done a lot to improve this... this is a step backwards, as the main bar at the top is larger.

And seriously, those curves take up a ridiculous amount of real-estate - compare those tabs to Chrome or FF5, how many can you get on your screen?
Steve Yegge is always right; unfortunately, sometimes he's right too early. This was the case with his game, Wyvern, which was a something akin to a beautifully retro meeting of Nethack and Everquest... with a client for the Sharp Zaurus.

If it'd been iPhone, it would have taken off. It was just way too early.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28Civil+Engineers+%2B+...
forget to mention: you can switch off the scrolling by clicking 'autoscroll off' in the bottom right corner and get a normal paging which is more friendly.
Great question amoore. I'd like to know what technology stacks you guys are using to launch with. Being a developer, now learning 'dev-ops' that's always something that's interested me. Do you guys launch with a server that's good enough to get by until your user base increases or do you launch with a beefy server from the start.
Aw shit man, I'm a physicist, and even I can't fucking understand Higgs bosons. Allow me to quote from the Wikipedia page on the Higgs mechanism:

In the standard model, the Higgs field is an SU(2) doublet, a complex spinor with four real components (or equivalently with two complex components), with a Standard Model U(1) charge of −1. It transforms as a spinor under SU(2). Under U(1) rotations, it gets multiplied by a phase; this mixes the real and imaginary part of the complex spinor into each other, so this is not the same as two complex spinors mixing under U(1) (which would have eight real components between them), but instead is the spinor representation of the group U(2). After symmetry breaking, three of the four degrees of freedom in the Higgs field mix with the W and Z bosons, while the one remaining degree of freedom becomes the Higgs boson – a new scalar particle.

That clear? No, it fucking isn't. And it just gets fucking worse after that.

I'd really like to be able to form some kind of picture in my head of how a Higgs Boson gives mass to other particles, but I just can't... and if I could it would probably be wrong.
So what's wrong with 98.6?
JailbreakMe’s sophistication is on par with that of Stuxnet

No kidding…
it would be really cool if you also answered to emails.
oh yeah... I reported on this a while ago. I guess I didn't discuss the implications:

http://tnkr.net/linchrome.png
The points won't be anonymous. You need to supply bank information. Sure, someone could fake that, but there are plenty of routes to go if you are going to fake information. It isn't like this route gives you one of those debit Visa cards or mails an address cash.

Have you heard of rampant money laundering in eBay?

The only fraud they would have to deal with is the same fraud they have to deal with when they sell stuff in their online store.
I'm curious as to how you plan on implementing your results... Are you working on integration with existing CMS systems (WP/Drupal/etc) or are you building something more abstracted?
Apple TV Adds Support for Cloud-Based Storage of Purchased TV Shows
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So much misinformation. Apple "rushed to patch the security opening" because IT'S A SECURITY FLAW that allows unrestricted code execution via a website. That's a pretty huge problem; shouldn't it be fixed right away?

"After Allegra released JailbreakMe 2 last year, Apple upped its game another notch, randomizing the location of code in memory so that hackers can’t even locate commands to hijack them." Another security method, and one that some people ripped on Apple for not including for so long. Now they put it in and it's a paranoid response to stop jailbreakers?

Listen, there's no legal issue with jailbreaking. That issue has been settled, as much as it can be without a lawsuit and a court ruling. But Apple is under no obligation to make it easy, or to leave gaping security holes for jailbreak tools to waltz through. We need to stop acting like Apple is persecuting jailbreakers, when what they're really doing is fixing security holes.
I am pretty sure Apple is capable to solve jailbreak problem temporarily themselves.
Great point. We still have that list to this day and we keep adding to it.

We even structured our whole company around solving problems. We assign major problems to our teams, they come up with a solution, we pick the best one collaboratively, and those turn into tangible projects.
Multithreading is certainly popular to pee on these days. It requires a fairly high level of understanding of how your data flows to get right, and languages do not help you out in that mechanism.

So CSP-based models have gained a lot of popularity, as a way to kludge around it and get most of the benefit (but shared memory is still a property of threading I don't see emergent in the CSP approaches currently).
I wound up quitting my job about midway through October 2010 because customer support was beginning to require too much of my time.

The idea was in no way original, but came out of an opportunity to both prevent hundres of people from losing their videos when my old company was sold to SnapFish and make a bit of money. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2833008

The web design came from a combination of two templates that we bought. I'm currently talking to a designer about redesigning everything so it doesn't feel so much like a template site and does a better job of showcasing the product.
Nice! This is perhaps the one single "essential" thing I miss on Linux.

I wonder if their work overlaps with the android client at all?
I was hoping to learn where the 5K was spent as well and looking at the level of work http://ednacional.com/ does I would bet most of that money went there.
Do you actually use the button itself rather than a mouse/keyboard shortcut?
...the implications of it being ppapi:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2760660
Comex and others are finding bugs, and Apple are fixing them. Not because Apple are irrational control freaks, but because the bugs they find and use to jailbreak the devices are extremely serious security holes. To not fix them would be incredibly irresponsible.
Is that immediately clear from your landing page? Is that your main message? Shouldn't your landing page shout:

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firefox has an addon called omnibar that does exactly this.
Changing the way we communicate (Facebook) isn't changing the world... Startups should quit that cliche it's getting old.

In the end any company purpose is to make money, if you get annoyed by ads, then go work for a non-profit.