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I don't know what is your defnition of cool idea but for me every idea is cool if it is going to make people's lives easier and wonderful regardless of it was implemented by using some old fashioned technology or some newer one
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I'm not saying it's easy I'm saying the opportunities for indie devs are huge, certainly more so than webapps which seem to be par for the course on HN. And I don't think you need any advertising. All 3 of my apps have reached top 5 in their categories without spending a dime on ads.
Now this would be more powerful if it was 3 Dimensional... Another weekend project :)
A slightly different interpretation is that slogans that aren't fully true trigger cognitive dissonance, which in turn triggers distrust.

For example: "Save Money. Live Better." It isn't obviously true that living better follows saving money -- perhaps the money is better spent for a premium product. Yet the logo, essentially big text that says "Walmart," is very obviously true: It's a big store called Walmart.

Logos generally don't make a statement and there's nothing to disagree with. So when you're shown a logo, you're free to draw on your own interpretation of the brand, but when your shown a slogan, you often experience this dissonance, which manifests as distrust.* Similarly, even the word "slogan" is enough to trigger this distrust, since you've been lied to so frequently in the past. I'd be curious how the effect differs from a true slogan, like "we are farmers," vs an untrue one like "the ultimate driving machine."

*Note that the above is essentially "The Law of Candor," from the classic book, The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Reis and Jack Trout.
Just to note: it isn't the author's title, it's a Hacker News users' title.
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The site looks great - congrats.
They have a unique URL you can share via email, facebook etc. If you refer 3 friends, you move up the queue.

I have always been skeptical about such a tactic for B2B apps. They say it worked for them but it seems they are just looking at signups. I'm wondering if they are real users or just people pestered by others to signup so that they can move up in queue.
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You happily forget (an ever increasing) non-determinism in current (increasingly) parallel hardware.

That way you cannot count only on one CPU executing instructions one by one, you have to leave engineering, you have to do some math. You have to prove the absence of deadlocks, race conditions.
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Woah, woah, Brian's retiring? Always Felleisen at NEU...
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Costs them money. When it makes them money, only then will you hear from them. Do no evil, as beautiful a plan as that was, is not what is in the new peoples hearts. A shame isn't it?
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I sincerely apologize, my first comment was not for this post. It was meant for another post.
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You can go and translate articles from the other languages' Wikipedias.
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>The best engineers I know weren't hurt by exposure to BASIC, or assembly; they were good at everything.

I wish I spend my time with assembly language with something more fruitful, like Coq (which was developed during my assembler-using days).
Uhm... all this secrecy stinks IMHO...
What usually puzzles me in all these discussions is the concept of keyboard shortcuts. They're a middle ground between GUI and command line (stretching the definition of middle ground a little). But my personal experience with people like my parents and even sometimes colleagues who use computers more than 3-4 hrs a day as part of their job is that there is a big aversion to keyboard shortcuts. I can't imagine how Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are in any sense harder than painfully clicking 2-3 times through hierarchical menus, but somehow my anecdotal experience leads me to believe that people just don't value time efficiency in a way power users do (or maybe that can be used to define power users).

Maybe understanding why keyboard shortcuts are used so little might help us understand why the command line has lesser adoption among the non-power users.
From the outline presented here, it sounds like generic web vulnerabilities, rather than something ChromeOS-specific. But with content like "hackers could have a field day accessing data on Chromebooks. [...] With Chromebooks, no data is stored on the device" it's hard to tell.

eweek has a slightly better write-up:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Google-Chrome-O...

In his demonstration, a friend shared a folder containing a note with malicious code, which was then accessible on the CR-48 through the ScratchPad extension. Once the note was opened, the note was able to then steal all his contacts saved in Gmail because he was already logged into Google's services.

Sounds like poorly-filtered ScratchPad notes (which presumably aren't supposed to contain executable code) combined with xss or csrf.

EDIT: Does ChromeOS give apps access to all cookies for all sites?
Downvotes. Nice. I guess people really don't care about HIV in Africa.

This whole conversation is only serving to make me more and more cynical than I normally like to be. I'm beginning to get the strong impression that there are some members of society that would actually be disappointed if a total cure that could be widely deployed to this plague were found. Like HIV is the enforcer for their idea of proper morals and skin color. I've heard this idea bounced around in LGBT communities before but never really paid it much credence until now.
As an administrator on Wikipedia, I thought the Wikipedia notability criteria is quite leniant about articles which are not that notable, this is evident if you ever look at what kind of articles gets kept on [[WP:AFD]]. The reason notability criteria is there so not everyone can create an article about their band which sold 3 copies of their CD (edit: Which typically have no realiable sources indicating its existance). If the article you are creating was deleted for not meeting the notability criteria, it means you probably did not source it with a reliable source, and the administartor who deleted it could not find a reliable source about the article you were writing.

If you think your article's deletion need to be reviewed, try contacting one of the admins, if your article was deleted by me I would be more than happy to tell you why I deleted it, and if I made a mistake I would not hestitate to revert the deletion.
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Right - but pretty colors and interfaces go a long way towards someone saying "you know what? I will read the about page" vs. "woah, this is gross - they expect people to use this?".

For $15, you probably won't get the most absolutely-custom-tailor-made experience - but you might at least get something that convinces visitors to take a closer look.
I'm all for burning less fuel and making shipping more efficient, but I think it is a bit of a stretch to say this particular use case is not related to finance. Ports becoming more efficient ultimately saves oil, natural gas, and other commodities companies money. Commodities traders are very tuned into port congestion and global movement of ships and make lots of money trading upon the flow of commodities (mostly oil/gas).

If this particular case is not related to finance, then how come the Bloomberg terminal tells me there are exactly 401 ships in Rotterdam port as of this morning, the 5 day moving average is creeping up, and 8 of the top 10 ships by tonnage are crude oil tankers?
I do it on a regular basis, actually. What's surprising to me is that others don't seem to: I often come across articles in other languages which are dwarfed by their English companion. I'd think that someone would have bothered using Google Translate to guide a conversion of the page from English, but I guess I'd think wrong.
To be fair, it seems that it's only the Market team (or, if you use AdMob, the advertising team as well) that is so silent.

There are a number of Google Android developers who post to the various lists on a regular basis, answering tons of questions and quickly promising to fix bugs when they're identified.

There's a going theory that, because the Market involves money (like AdMob), the developers are under gag order from Google to not say anything, and all communications that do come out are filtered through legal.

I'm not justifying that as a practice, but just putting it out there that it might NOT be the fault of a reticent (or incompetent) Market team.

Though given the number of Friday-night releases that break things over the weekend (like a recent "oops! lost half your reviews!" bug), the incompetence theory has a lot of advocates.
Do you see any evidence that it will? I don't need evidence either way to state that I prefer for it to be distributed with such information. If it is, then that's great.
I love Apple products, and am learning C++ on my own, alone along with web development, (huge task I know)
but the one thing I noticed about apple these days is that if you create an idea on their platform and they like it, it could be an feature in their next upgrade with no compensation to you,
also could someone please point out any other use case for Obj-c I come from a background of using/instructing with proprietary software and I despise the idea of learning a language for one platform and being locked in to that platform.
I work at Olark - just out of curiosity, what could we do better?
You can't say, an application is not user friendly because it has got many security holes.
Don't think of the $15 theme as permanently defining the look and feel of your site. It needs to be just good enough when you're starting to look like you have some legitimacy. If you're startup is going to be generating any amount of significant revenue for you, after some amount of time, you'll be able to go back and revisit the design.

If you're a programer and not a designer, just think of your design as another optimization point.

Whenever I worry about the design/branding of my current startup, I visit the historical timeline of amazon's logo as a reminder that we'll be able to make it better eventually, but there's more important things to work on now: http://www.kokogiak.com/gedankengang/2004/07/amazoncom-logo-...
After 5 years, businesses will have full depreciated the item for tax-purposes.
>The "implied" collusion was that the patents would be used against Google.

Everyone arguing against Google is conveniently forgetting that Google has only been sued by Oracle over Android. All the other suits are against individual manufacturers. This is about Apple and Microsoft colluding against HTC, Motorola, etc. to force them to license Microsoft software. This is not just about Apple and Microsoft colluding against Google.

The only way I could see Apple and Microsoft doing a joint bid with Google is if they retained the ability to sue other players using these patents. So until I see a clear offer of terms, it seems pretty obvious Google was not rejecting a good-faith offer from Apple and Microsoft. They were rejecting a situation where Google would help Apple and Microsoft buy up patents to use against manufacturers that ship Android.
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Prepare for some lawsuits, if your tests says someone's OK but then transmits HIV.
Not sure how useful this will be. Synching and authorization are very specific to each app.
I'm really glad it's free. Where I live, $20 pays a month of lunch or public transportation. Even if it were $1 or $0.01 it would exclude people without international credit cards.
As long as you still use a condom even if the person tests negative.
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> “Yeah, but really complicated things are going to require searching through manuals.” Maybe, but you already do that in the GUI, and very often you have to do that to accomplish some of the simpler tasks above.

I think this guy is just arguing for the sake of hits to his blog...

(1.) How many power users check a manual to do advanced tasks on a GUI? I bet most of you use 'intuition'.

(2.) How often does your mum check a manual ...ever. How long does she wish to spend to understand how to work it?

(3.) When you're explaining over the phone how she can get the program to work do you wish to be explaining a list of commands that need to be typed exactly and in order: almost like teaching your mum how to code? Do you...
Olark is a great product, only gripe (which isn't a big one) is that I liked having a photo next to my name in the chat box. I felt a photo went a long way when people could actually see who they were chatting with. I haven't used olark in over 6 months though so you may have added that feature in, I'm not sure.
Chrome OS allows cookie access on domains you specify in your manifest. https://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/permission_warning...
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> The reason notability criteria is there so not everyone can create an article about their band which sold 3 copies of their CD.

I could see this being a problem if the band's name is ambiguous with existing, important articles. But if there's no conflict, how is that a bad thing? Perhaps it would encourage people to contribute more if Wikipedia is a little too lenient rather than a little too strict.
Yeah, that's nice too. So after we've donated does it remember us?
Ok, using the "Heroku for x" analogy worked when x was another programming language. How is this service in any way similar to Heroku?

I've read the article, seems like an interesting idea, but I just can't see where the comparison comes from.
I am interested. What do you think it is permitted regarding collaboration ?
Ask HN: Using QR code to track my Expenses?
I have seen many people interested in tracking their daily expenses and knowing how much they spend on their food, clothing, rent, alcohol, etc. Some use excel sheets and some use specialized software, but biggest hindrance is manually entering expenses and categorizing it which is time consuming and hence, less effective (even bank transactions don't give individual item information).

I was wondering if it is possible to use QR code printed on the back side (or somewhere else?) of the bill/receipt by stores which will summarize the expenses and I just use my smartphone to automatically scan and save the details for my future analysis.

Do you think the limit on amount of data stored by QR code could be a problem? Any suggestions on how this problem can be tackled (using multiple QR codes/ colored QR codes)? Also, do you think dependency on the stores to print QR code summarizing the bill/receipt would be a big hurdle?

Appreciate your views/suggestions.
Nice, just the sizing part and the photo of an item you like parts to go :)
Not necessarily. A lot of apps (document-based apps, for example) really just need a basic online data store and simple authentication.
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I think MediaWiki is showing its age. Some improvements could include:
- reputation system and better meta-edit controls a la StackOverflow. This could help remove some of the politics associated with Administrative rights in the current system.
- edit thresholds that increase with size/age of articles, to avoid stupid troll-based edit wars. To still allow quick reaction to news events, have a vote-based modification system to allow upvotes to overcome the threshold.
- A robust table editor to replace the monstrosity of MW tables would go a long way to improve readability.
- ... and in general, less arcane markup.
Nobody is suggesting that you shouldn't.
That was my first thought as well. Apparently anything involving server-side code is now Heroku.
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That requires a level of trust in the motivations of a gigantic megacorp that many aren't willing to give, perhaps justifiably so. Google was good at playing "We're the good guys" as the geeky little search company ten years ago, but that company doesn't exist today.

As TechCrunch pointed out, Google can't keep pretending Microsoft has a pattern of behavior of partnering up with rivals to hurt Google if Microsoft offered to team up with Google and Google refused because they wanted all the patents for themselves.
Also think of spreadsheets. They allow normal people to write simple programs.
Bands which sold 3 copies of their CD tend to have no reliable sources indicating its existance even, with no sources, how is anyone able to ensure that it even exists? (Perhaps I should of reworded that). Notability criteria in a nutshell, basically means, the subject of the article needs to be mentioned by some reliable source. If we had no notability criteria, then we simply have no ways to ensure that the subject of the article exists or even real.

Note: I'm pretty much summarizing what's on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:N If you think I'm biased, please read the policy directly on Wikipedia itself.
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Meh, this is crazy talk... The metaphors that exist in GUIs are absolutely the reason that so many people are able to use and understand computers.
I'm not trying to complain! I'm just saying that the type system is A Thing that people need to learn, and I think that a rigorous type system can be a hindrance to learners. As such, I think Wadler should have mentioned it as a possible downside of his hypothetical world where Abelson and Sussman used Miranda in SICP, even if only to debunk it.
Poll: Have you read SICP?
I'm working my way (slowly) through SICP, and there are a lot of people who think serious programmers should read it. Have you?
No, and I don't want to
No, but it's on my shelf for street cred
About 25% of it
About 50% of it
About 75% of it
"The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley ... We will see Apples and Facebooks get built in China, India, Brazil, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and plenty of other places ... Until recently, "technology" was largely about "moving electrons on wires." Now, "technology" is about building all kinds of interesting applications on top of the Internet."

Hah! I know that people who work in 'web' are often myopic, but this takes it to a new level. "Technology" is not just "about building all kinds of interesting application on top of the internet". Technology is also about generating and distributing power, performing surgeries, curing diseases, designing engines, designing space ships and space suits, and thousands of other things that are not web application development. Even Silicon Valley is not completely about the web, it being one of the smaller areas of investment relative to energy and biotech.

That is not to say that the 'web' and a technology sector is not of unique importance however. If I were to offer any advice to the mayor, I would say that we should take a very important lesson from that world, which is that engineering and design should go hand in hand. It is not enough just to innovate by engineering muscle – the way new technologies are packaged and embedded in culture needs to be 'engineered' as well.
Who is Google suing for patent infringement? Name one suit.

Until there's an example where they are using patents offensively, it's unreasonable to claim that they're planning on doing it, especially since they have repeatedly and publicly claimed that doing so is unethical.

Oh, and that's why we blame Apple/Microsoft for using the patent system in this manner. It's unethical.
All I see is that this isn't in large-scale production yet (though chips do exist and have been verified to work), and likely won't be marketed to the general public. Preferring it to be distributed with information is great - I entirely agree with that - I'm just trying to point out that your reasons for expecting it not to include that ("this particular kit is advertised too much like a silver bullet to assure me that the manufacturers are anywhere near that responsible") make no bloody sense. This isn't advertising, this is a report on a study that was published in Nature (so why should we care what some reporter characterizes it as?), and there are no manufacturers yet.
It's funny hearing someone defending Microsoft claiming that the mobile world is in its infancy when Microsoft had a huge lead in the mobile world 6-7 years ago and had created a great ecosystem with tons of innovation. Then they inexplicably decided to stop developing their OS after Windows Mobile 6. Probably some moronic executive figured they could extract more rents that way and squandered the massive opportunity. How those executives all the way up to Ballmer haven't been fired is a mystery of Microsoft's dysfunction. Now those same morons, who run one of the great tech companies of our times, have decided that they will compete via the legal system and conniving business deals, instead of using technology. It should be criminal. I have no respect for them or anyone that works for those assholes.
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We try to provide an API that's flexible enough to do a lot of different things. You can also use Parse for some of your features, and roll your own for others.

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The template isn't as important as the source; if you drop an IEEE/ACM/jstor/Citeseer URL in lieu of a formatted citation, that's fine, and someone should fix it up later into the full journal citation. If it's a URL to a DailyKos diary or something, though, that's less useful.
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I would like to know where you get your evidence that we are falling down some slippery slope where restrictions on home experiments in the physical sciences are getting stronger

Stories like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411813

About programming I agree that it's more tenuous, but sites like https://freedom-to-tinker.com/ clearly are talking about something.

I don't see why anyone would regulate programming.

People who say things like this:

"The FBI said that cyber crime is the agency's No. 3 priority but it will likely rise to No. 1 in a few years.
FBI Supervisory Special Agent Robert White said that criminals always find new ways to exploit victims and businesses, which keeps the U.S. at risk. "Given our connection to the Internet, and our infrastructure and everything being computerized, it also lends itself to possible cyber terrorism..."
Actually, i agree with him than SICP goes through a lot more important concepts than Dive Into Python, or any other book like this can do.

I also don't find it good that berkeley is abandonning it. But, i really think that it's not necessarily a good choice for an introductory course.

To sum up my position fast, i would say : "First teach how to program some silly things, by teaching the basis of a language (and python seems a very good choice for this). Then when students are addicted, show them some SICP"

This resonates with a lots of comments about SICP, where people who liked it are often quite experienced programmers, and not beginners (Not to say that SICP can't be appreciated by novices, but that it's probably a bit hard for an introductory course)

EDIT : Sorry, jdietrich did say something very similar to me in an earlier comment that i didn't see : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2846189
No, but it's on my list of things to read when I get time.

Neither of your 'No' responses match what I suspect is a relatively common sentiment.