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What about adaptive / responsive design?

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/01/12/guidelines-for...

http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/30-creative-examples-...

I know it's easier to throw the same page no matter what screen size it is.

First you say that there is no single solution:

"You can not have one magic solution for all."

and then:

"Well, very simple. The iPhone is capable of rendering and interacting with the full page. It was the first browser to do so - it don't require a lite version. You could tap, zoom, pinch, drag and get the full depth of the page."

You just defend your ugly design by "it's not doable" and by "we know better"
I'll just leave this right here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20731659
It would be interesting to see some sort of on-the-fly "topic" creation. For the AirBNB scenario, one AirBNB topic that would be a page that links to the 3 or 4 individual submissions currently ongoing (potentially with some comment previews, etc.). This would also cover the case of the same basic story (Foo releases Bar!) that gets picked up on multiple tech news sites and blogs.

For things that are re-posts of the same content it might be best to be hand-curated. Where If the re-post appears to be gaining traction, pull out the old submission and discussion, but put it back on the front page for X amount of time (merging discussions from the new submission into the comment thread of the old one). For scenarios where the re-post is getting no traction then just kill it.
> Develop your own streaming or radio service. Pair this capability with our recommendation engine to have the ability to create track and/or artist based playlists on the fly with minimal effort.

(source: http://www.mndigital.com/services/content-fulfillment.html)

Seems pretty compelling that as a customer of MediaNet, their service (aside from uploads) is totally legal, unless MediaNet is somehow not.

But they could simply turn off uploading should they be called out for that--I should have addressed that in my original comment. My guess is that much of the community wouldn't care if that feature was gone.
Emacs worked for me. But that was long time ago, in “by hand”-cross-compiled system, not any Debian.

(BTW, cross-compiling the entire system is tons of fun — for cross-gcc you want libc, but to compile libc you need cross-gcc)
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Who exactly are you trying to claim the "conspiracy theorists" are? People who believe her story more than Airbnb's response?

As far as I can tell, she's not trying to get some sort of payout from Airbnb. If she were, it would be much easier to threaten to sue, and then settle out of court, than to post about it on her blog. I think that she was just trying to warn people about the risks of Airbnb; that while it's all been pretty safe and a rewarding experience for everyone involved so far, she's managed to have the inevitable first truly awful experience, and Airbnb basically offers nothing to help deal with the situation.

Of course she knows that people suck. But sometimes you can be lulled into a false sense of complacence. No one has had problems so far. You get to talk to the person beforehand. And you may believe that Airbnb has better safety procedures than they actually do; you figure that they've done their homework, do some sort of basic screening of hosts and guests, when in fact they actually do nothing and don't give you enough information to do it yourself.

Have a little sympathy for her. Even if you know people suck, it can be traumatizing when it actually happens to you. She had her apartment vandalized, many of her most personal belongings stolen, her identity stolen, her credit card stolen and used.
Hm, why is this relevant to Hacker News? :\
By the statement of the question that answer is easy: get rid of all of the men. When a boy hits 18 he is killed for the safety of the women and children. Problem solved. But before doing that perhaps reading up on the various sci-fi that has explored this to see how it turns out.
Sent a note to my congressman... not that it will do much good.

Also, pretty annoying that they try to hide behind "protecting children from pornography" tag line...
There's a world of difference between seeing shit happen to other people and having it happen to you. You might think you're ready to handle it, but the moment you're violated it will likely affect you in ways that you could never really imagine. (and that's not to say that everyone will fall apart - but it's almost never what you expected)
RAZR, ROKR, RIZR, KRZR, PEBL, SLVR

shudders
You realize that commandT also comes with a 'commandB' command that allows you to navigate open buffers?
Fantastic, installed.

Had searched, but didn't know which one to trust.
We got so much interest in our "What do the highest-paid programmer's make?" article http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592671 ($400K for a former HFT dev) we wrote this follow-up with a deeper look inside the industry, languages and tools used, etc.
And Data Protection laws
Any phone can be a Facebook phone.
I also like these rules, a lot. I've had bosses who used similar rules; they seemed to work pretty well.

The tone doesn't bother me. I've been a boss, too, and sometimes you really do have to get people's attention with a 2x4---especially when dealing with young whippersnapper subordinates who have a high opinion of their own capabilities [I should know; I used to be one of those].
So far as 2 I'm frustrated because I'd like to emphasize what's unique about Ookaboo. I could do the same slide show everybody else does, but I've got better metadata and don't know how to show it off in a way that people get instantly.

I'm not so sure what you mean by 4.
But you did provide a little up-pressure on the stock price.
Apple and Google are foreign corporations?

Also, I know people who live and work in foreign countries and haven't stepped foot in the US for decades who still pay tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to the US each year in taxes. So yeah, it's unfair that large, American corporations are somehow exempt.

I'm as tax-phobic as any red-blooded yank, but if we are going to demand ever increasing government services and entitlements (including corporate welfare), we better be willing to pay for it.
You don't need Phonegap to write apps in html5/css/javascript. We did it with Zite using a WebUIView wrapped in a native app with a little bit of glue to hold things together. Obviously it is a matter of opinion whether the performance is on par with native, but I think it reaches about 95% of the native experience on an iPad 2.

We did have to spend a significant about of time optimizing css transitions to make it happen.

(It's highly and multitudinously rated, FWIW.)
In my previous post I mention a similar burglary DID happen to me. Honestly, one cleans up and gets over it.
Hmm, that must be a thing that varies by state -- I've never heard of such a provision in KY.
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What you're not considering is that what may constitute a valid URL may also be able to be executed as an SQL command.
Who exactly are you trying to claim the "conspiracy theorists" are?

Guys like spolsky who suggested it might be a group of goons hired by a hotel association.

I now just think she got burglarized, and found out the hard way that SFPD can't really do much to help. She probably doesn't have renter's insurance, which does not apply in the case of an illegal sublet anyway. She's a freelance writer, so she's probably broke and therefore trying to squeeze something out of AirBNB.
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This reminds me of the ESPN phone: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/07/21/bodenheimer-jobs
128mb is enough to run nginx with static files.
macbook air contest. TaskRabbit iPhone App Awesome UI Goodness.
On that train of thought, I wonder if the human body produces enough heat for it. Imagine a radio player that just has to touch your skin to work (after proper safety evaluations, of course).

Briefly ignoring Mark of the Beast sort of implications, this has some amazing, useful potential
I'd like some more details; they must be doing something very novel if they are eliminating the inductor. If you just build a traditional switching converter with a capacitor instead of an inductor, you end up with less than 50% efficiency.
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I have some idea on the discrepancy. Neither party are being deliberately disingenuous. It is more of a point of view issue. This mess take a long time to fix even in the best circumstance. So it is natural for EJ to still feel violated and frightened. She say "Since June 30, this co-founder has been the only person at Airbnb from whom I have received occasional contact regarding my situation". I think she is too shaken to appreciate the direct involvement of the 2 founders. I'll be lot more piss off if the customer service is the only one to talk to me.

Airbnb does sound like they are doing their part. Although if they really do pressure EJ to take down her post it will be the dumbest thing to do. It is lot more useful to publicize they own effort to help and perhaps compensate the victim.

Arrington present only the worst point of view. The sky is falling if you only read his post.
- Simulation games: how to make realistic, educational games interesting without cheesing them up in order to make gameplay tolerable. For example Sim City, Rome Total War, Battlefield 3 and other FPSs, Farmville etc. If you're wasting your life playing a videogame, might as well learn something about the real world.

- Journalism and PR: how to provide objective journalism through new tools like data analysis, computer models, simulators etc. Use historical analysis to put events in context. Get rid of sources of drama, like writers and editors and focus on charts. Those can be read and debunked quicker, various opinions/biases could be compared more clearly. A report about a murder should be a chart that includes the murder rate in nation, city, area, show population growth, poverty etc. A report on political affairs would show money paid to politicians, estimate # of lobbyists involved, size of affected market, etc. Reduce talking heads and drama to minimum.

- Suburban Sprawl: popularize condos instead of individual homes to contain suburbia. Better mortgage rates for condos, advertise urban services, cost of living without car, etc.

- Family planning site: encourage a smaller population. Give coupons to small families. Many governments have such programs, you'd make them easier to use at least.

- Obesity: coupons, money saving for buying proper food instead of processed carbs and fast food.

- Internet addiction: psychoanalyze internet users through traffic stats etc. Figure out how to get them off, maybe through exercise program, nature getaway, new experiences.

Personally I'm suspicious of attempts to solve problems in the developing world that aren't part of some all around solution. Making it easier to grow food, access to water without a simultaneous plan to lower population size seems like a dangerous game. And a lot of charity programs are undermining local economies by handing out free food.
Posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2816073

See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2816526
Personally, I think the best approach to learning RoR is to learn the basics of Ruby first, then move on to Rails. It also helps to work on your own project.

Tutorials are ok, but I find them more useful as a tool to see how someone else would approach a particular problem, as opposed to a learning tool. The reason I say that is because many tutorials breeze through important concepts for the sake of brevity.

Picking a simple project and using books or online info to work through the process is, in my opinion, the best way to actually learn. Once you have a grasp on the language, start looking for good code examples and study those. In the end, the more you read and write code, the better you'll be. I'd say you could certainly make good headway in a week with a schedule like you describe.
You've changed the scenario. You're now talking about spending the money, which is wholly different from the scenario I described. In my scenario, money flowed but did not help the economy. In your scenario, you're assuming the $1000 was spent and then following the trail of its expenditure. But if the money is never spent, none of that revenue will ever get to the government.

I also think you might be wrong about the legality of a tax-free wealth transfer. According to this site, Romania has no gift tax.

http://www.cfe-eutax.org/taxation/gift-tax/romania

And if we are extending the metaphor to wealthy individuals and corporations, they have plenty of people on staff to help avoid or minimize taxes. Ironically, I also read that Banks are specifically excluded from the VAT in Romania.

> Companies also pay taxes on investments or sunken costs, not only salaries. So if Apple brings home some of those billions, but acquires some U.S. company, than a lot of money will still go as taxes.

I'm pretty sure that's not the case. If Apple brings home those billions, they'll pay whatever taxes are owed for that profit. They won't pay extra if they then use the remaining money to buy up another company.

As for why Romania is doing better than Greece, I think it has a lot to do with the fact that Greece's debt is about 144% of its GDP while Romania's is about 34%.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

Romania's revenue/expense ratio is also better than Greece's. There are probably a lot of reasons why Romania is doing better than Greece. It's not just because Romanians send money home to their families.
Different strategies work for different people. I've found I can't pick up more than an hour or two worth of material a day before I start to hit diminishing returns. The longer I press on, the less productive that time is.

I think an hour or two a day is ideal. Work through a single tutorial, finish a chapter in a book or watch some screencasts then implement what you learned. Build a bunch of toy apps that will be thrown away using what you learned that day. At first, you'll start out just doing some command line stuff.

I think most people learn Ruby and Rails at the same time. I personally found that I got more out of it if I focused on Ruby first (a couple hours a day for a couple weeks) then went through some Rails stuff.

I think the "Sweat Lodge" technique is flawed, because it presumes that you'll eventually stop learning. I think it's better to get in a habit of learning a little every day. You're always a work in progress, and you're never "there", so it probably doesn't help to try to speed the process up for getting "there".
100% agree. At a certain point, when a service is in violation of numerous local laws and is facilitating harm to its users with no recourse, maybe it's time to go back to the drawing board.
Imagine a phone built purely for Facebook, which is built to their specs (low battery usage) and uses half the bandwidth of current smartphones when it comes to updating FB status, uploading pictures etc. Facebook could have a winner in a country like India, where bandwidth still sucks and there is a large FB user population.

A cheap subsidized phone, and maybe even with subsidized bandwidth usage (similar to Amazon Kindle and Sprint) built just for Facebook would be a killer. They could certainly grow their user population beyond a Billion, but the question is whether they could monetize on those users.
I'm not disagreeing with that, but the executive branch has some influence. Especially when the vice president casts tie-breaker votes in the senate. Vetos also need a larger majority to override and congress is often split down the middle.
It was clear they eventually team up with a phone company when they revealed the new messaging system in November of last year. This is a big step to further establish their platform.

That said I would have expected a device with a bigger display and less buttons.
This looks like a business phone to manage your spare time.

I hope this is just a mockup of the homescreen as it features icons that look nearly the same (three icons that could mean "contacts" and two that could be for "messages"). Also browsing the web might not be a great experience.

I think they could have lowered the price tag and make browsing on Facebook free focusing more on ad revenue.
Previous reports of this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2818847 <- This has all the comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822935

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822162

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2823776
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Can we stop blaming Android for what the carries do with their phones? Please?!

I have a Nexus S. I switched it on and it just worked.

In fact about 5 minutes after I switched it on, it
informed me that there was an upgrade to Android available.
"Do you want to upgrade?" Sure. Just like that, over the air.

Do that with an iPhone, you need iTunes installed (i.e. you need a computer somewhere).

There's no crappy software on it either.
Primary reason: It's in beta.

Code folding is on the roadmap (http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/19281-syntax-code-fold...). Personally I don't miss it. I think it's probably just not a high priority.
Excuse me for strongly disagreeing, but one doesn't need to know her to answer whether she's lying.

The facts of what AirBnB is, or is not, doing to date are known and demonstrable.

So far, and after far too much time has passed, only words and assurances have surfaced. No one from AirBnB, nor you yourself, has mentioned any concrete assistance already provided directly to this AirBnB customer. In this very thread, the founder says, more or less, "We're here for you." What has that meant so far? What does it mean now?

Without knowing her, by seeing proof from AirBnB you would know if she is lying. If you don't know, that would imply you haven't seen proof of concrete support to date.

I recently listed a property on AirBnB. AirBnB could make $8,500 a year from me in fees -- it's a nice property. I'd hate to see it damaged.

You can see I have a high degree of interest in seeing how AirBnB handles customer service, to decide whether I should instead be using an old school Realtor™ or VRBO w/ manual listing and screening. I'm sure there are others thinking this same thing, and we early adopters talk. A lot.

Will AirBnB be like Nordstrom and Apple, or will it be like Chase Bank? So far, I'm seeing inaction followed by hand-waving once word got out. Let's see AirBnB's no-spin action approach if there is one.
If you finish up railstutorial.org (should only take about 30 hours or so) you'll have a good footing to take on whatever else. A lot of what learning programming is is beating your head against the wall solving a specific problem. None of those hours are wasted because it's a certainty that you're learning answers to other problems while solving your current one.
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I remember the RAZR...

That was the phone for a while.
Curious-- how does this incident affect your thoughts on being a host, if at all?
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Other reports of this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2818847 <- This has all the comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822935

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822162

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2823808
tax on earnings are listed here - http://www.sii.cl/aprenda_sobre_impuestos/impuestos/imp_dire... - and the 40% rate applies to earnings over $12,500 a month (it's banded). there are also incentives for investment that count against that (so you invest the money in a pension fund, say, then that lowers your effective wage for tax purposes, i think (not completely sure)).

the 35% tax is described here - http://www.sii.cl/portales/inversionistas/imp_chile/impuesto... - and applies to earnings of people who don't live or have residence in chile. so it wouldn't apply to someone under this grant. also, it's not in addition to other taxes (so it's 18% over VAT, if that would have been charged - again, this is just from skimming the docs).

[edit: you need to translate the fourth paragraph to understand the "additional" nature. here's a link in english http://www.thisischile.cl/frmContenidos.aspx?SEC=187&ID=... that says This tax applies to those who are neither residents nor residing in Chile and ranges between zero and 35% on total revenue depending on the type of income (e.g., for services, royalties, interest, transportation payments, insurance, capital gains, and dividend distributions). In the case of utilities, the “First Category” tax can apply as a credit towards the additional tax.]

in general, chilean laws and taxes are all described online. you don't need to post uninformed speculation - you can search for the details. disclaimer: i just skimmed the links, and am no expert, so my summary may be incorrect.
> you should be condemning Airbnb's pathetically slow response (which you do not dispute)

Yes, he does dispute it. Read his post.
While your general point still stands, I don't think the existence of credit rating agencies proves much. Even if they would otherwise have been liable, there fundamental utility would, I'm sure, have led to specific legal exemptions.

As it stands, the operation of such agencies is subject to a lot of specific regulation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_bureau#United_States
And those phones cost $100?
If everybody is so familiar with GAAP, the SEC's case is much weaker. They're arguing that investors will be too unsophisticated to differentiate between this new, weird accounting measure and the usual standards.
To the best of my very limited knowledge of nuclear plant design - no. Insufficiently paranoid and not gifted with perfect knowledge of the future - maybe.

The facility was fairly hardened versus geology as it was. It's just that geology is as big as the planet while anything you can possibly build is taken from scraps laying around on a tiny surface layer. It can and will punch you in the face despite your best efforts to plan for it.

It was also built starting in 1967, so we are talking fairly old designs. Three mile island was 1968 and related to bad interface design. Chernobyl was 1970 and related to it being designed and built in the USSR. Modern designs are light-years ahead of these, there's just too much paranoia and FUD to get money to implement them.
Given that the list was presented here "with a lot of respect and admiration for the author" I get the impression that this is simply someone who is indeed interesting to work with and validly good enough to play by those rules.

I had a boss's boss that was like a mini version of this at a menial job quite some time ago - I didn't enjoy working with him, but we got shit done quickly and efficiently, and the meetings were at least painlessly short. I vastly prefer this to working with incompetent people, and because my boss's boss was the way he was there were very few incompetent people around me in positions of any authority.
This is why I will never buy an Android device. Device manufactures have ruined the platform.
How do you account for the same story about IE users having a low IQ having been submitted at least 5 times so far? Yes, most are sinking without trace, but it's still really annoying to see the same thing over and over again.
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