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Cool idea, any ideas on how to approach that development wise? Is it possible to create a year drop down menu that can select more than 1 year at a time?
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Follow my Money is a simple app I made to help my wife and her friends track their day to day expenses. It's not meant to be a replacement for something like Mint or Quicken, just an easy to use app, that doesn't require the user to remember 'how to use it'. It's been up a little under a week, and been downloaded 142 times across 11 countries without any advertisements/promotion.

I crave your feedback HN. Tell me how it sucks, so that I can make it the best tool possible.

Link to the app store:http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/follow-my-money/id471808412?ls=1&mt=8

Demo video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF1KcbNjZ7Y
I didn't hear it during the stream, but ICS is purported to have this (just like Honeycomb already does, AFAIK).
As I get older, I think more and more about my work being impactful on the lives of others. Not higher performance, better UI, greater convenience or less cost; rather, something that positively improves the lives of others.

That is really cool for Joe Cohen. Way to go.
We are simply spoiled by the Apple's way of doing things:
fixing things that aren't broken for the betterment of UX.

Absolutely. Notifications UI before iOS 5 is only one example that comes to mind.
Poor insinuation.

You could have asked me if I felt the same way about cancer and heart disease and I could have answered that no matter what disease is the cure for (or who it is for), the question of overpopulation remains.
Awesome thread!! I've been wanting to get feedback on this too, thx
Sure, but API concepts introduced in Honeycomb are (hopefully) being propagated through v4.0 and beyond. So apps have to catch up when they move to v4.0. There was a big push to get apps to build UIs which work on phone and tablets, which not many developers adopted because of immense number of bugs in their Compat Libraries. v4.0 is just going to make it worse -- my users are still running 2.2/2.3, so I can't abandon them. And I refuse to maintain multiple code branches.

If you know the details and spend a few minutes thinking about what's involved in making stuff 'just work', you'll realize how painful it is. Google's solution is to let devs release multiple APKs per platform - that is it's own maintenance nightmare (bugs/servicing, testing, dev environments, etc).
They just added Hardware Acceleration: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0-highlights.html so I imagine it's going to take a bit of time for apps to catch up.
wow - I've been tasking an agency partner to build custom reports for a client, that is catered to manager and exec level, it's been quite expensive, and taking a while to get right. Just requested access to your app, can't wait for access - retweeted to get access "quicker" :)

thanks for sharing.
Done thanks. Someone pointed me to the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation
You really should consider making this public. It is the why part of your Unique Value Proposition[1]. In fact, I'd urge you to make this as obvious as possible on your landing page. And good luck on your enterprise.

[1] http://www.furld.com/2011/lean-canvas-unique-proposition-sol...
This is fantastic news. However, the vaccine won't be in production and available till 2015. Nearly 1 million people die every year from it; which means, about 1.5 million lives could be saved if the vaccine were in production today. I know it can't happen overnight, but still: 4 years?
There was another discussion on this point, where a few others were added:

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For starters surviving malaria does not prevent you from getting it again. So a vaccine has to be more effective in creating an immune response than the actual parasite.
It's a matter of personal preference. Also depends on how big your hand is. I am, for instance, not satisfied with my 4 inch screen and selling my Nexus S to buy a 4.3 inch android.
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I'm not attempting to insinuate anything.

I'm trying to provoke some thought. What you say when directly asked is less interesting to me than how you and others respond upon seeing stories like this one, without being otherwise prompted.
Looks like unsharp mask filter is automatically applied to 4s.. which is fine for happy snaps, but if DSLR cameras applied such sharpening automatically without the option to turn it off, just watch photographers around the world take to the streets in protest! So many images on the web are so over-sharpened by people who don't know how to sharpen properly or just use the default settings.
Immediately went to go buy the bundle of 4 books (good copywriting!)

But, some friendly startup advice:

1. There should be no reason to ask for my address and phone number and such for a digital purchase with PayPal as the purchase option. Your close rate would go up if you just let people go straight to PayPal -- and ask for those details after the purchase is done (eCommerce companies learned this a while ago).

2. You shouldn't have PayPal as the purchase option. It sucks for a number of well documented reasons, and there are better options now.

3. Once I tried to complete the PayPal transaction, got this error message: http://screencast.com/t/c5crNpyDg

Happy to try again when you're ready. Just ping me.
arguably, in PHP

echo file_get_contents('http://www.gun.io')

you lose even more of the line noise of the other languages.

For a language that claims to be "batteries included" it amazes me how many Python tutorials begin with "go get and install this or that package..." How much of the Python standard library is no longer the "Pythonic" way of doing standard things? Why aren't APIs with more refined design, like Requests, pushed back into the standard library, and made the real one way to do it?

Well, OK, you'd have the problem of redundant libraries starting to stack up--it's already looking tiresome. For instance, Requests would have to be urllib3, since there is already a urllib2 and urllib. This article wants me to install simplejson, but there's already a Python json module: oh I see, it was merged in from simplejson, and now they are developed in parallel, so using simplejson may still be better, wtf? Why is there an htmllib in the standard library if I'm always going to use lxml instead? Let's not even discuss eyesores like the heritage of the subprocess and threading libraries...
To be fair, human memory and attention span is much smaller than that of the system so I imagine the curation is more useful mentally than technically? Same reason that once in a while, I purge my 20 or so odd open browser/ide tabs.
Probably, but will enterprises ever allow devices that don't have remote-wipe? (You can pretend to have remote wipe with Android, but backup software is very easy to write and have run every night, and good luck remotely wiping my S3 space. There is even software that will copy your entire flash image to S3 or Dropbox at timed intervals. Not compatible with "we don't trust our employees".)
Not as much profit in this as in little blue pills, so it simply won't be a priority for big pharma, unfortunately.
Does that information come from the same source that informed TechCrunch of the leak of information about U2 listeners?

The article in question is http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/26/androids-dirty-secret-shipp..., and the claim in question is "many return rates are approaching 40% said a person familiar with handset sales for multiple manufacturers." And that's exactly the amount of detail provided. Forgive me if I'm not bowled over.
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Funnily enough, the camera app was right there on the first home screen. He literally swiped right past it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6QbAX_E3-k&feature=playe...

You can also access the camera from the lock screen. I'm not sure that's a good example of how the interface is difficult to navigate, actually, rather than of how easy it is to fumble a demonstration.
yes there is:

perl -e 'print crypt("password", "salt")

so you would do something like:

useradd -d / -g users -p $(perl -e'print crypt("foo", "aa")') -M -N foo

working example for the site:

cat newusers | while read u p n

do

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done

Couldn't get it work with perl:)
An absurd comparison. The first series is comparing out of focus shots from older iPhones to in focus shots from newer iPhones. The last shot comparing the 5DMII makes the iPhone look better but this is because we are looking at small size photos that the iPhone by default sharpened and increased contrast and saturation on.
Can we stop calling it "copy" outside of our niches? For most readers they will infer the meaning you ascribe to the word from reading this article or look it up... there are ample other, non-ambiguous, commonplace methods to refer to text (that is one).

Its easy to slip on stuff like this when you are immersed in your speciality and don't often talk to people outside of it... although as a programmer at least I have the excuse of there not already being multiple unambiguous ways to describe my subject matter. :)

However, I will not be surprised if this usage of copy becomes more popular - both times I've seen it were on Hacker News in the last week.
I'd argue that an interface is only as cluttered as a user allows it to be. Plenty of people I know own iPhones with similarly cluttered home screens. You point out how the guy in the video takes a while to find the camera but I've had that exact problem looking for it on friends' iPhones, and that's knowing exactly what the icon looks like. Any interface can be made cluttered given a bad enough user.

I'm not a developer, just a 4th year CS student who doesn't even own an Android handset yet, but I do agree about how apps being kept running even when side-swiped away is kind of troublesome. It would be nice of we were offered some sort of option as to whether we'd like to permanently close it - but that distinction and its effects are probably lost to a majority of handset users, and is probably Google's justification.
obligatory xkcd http://xkcd.com/927/ ... i fear email will mostly broken forever, i think xmpp has a strong argument, and i'm not entirely sure throwing out mime will be possible for some time.
what is you spouse's take on artemisinin based medications?

http://www.who.int/malaria/publications/atoz/meeting_briefin...

From what i read elsewhere it works almost like a magic without producing resistance, and i'm wondering what would be the first hand account of a practitioner.
Matias Duarte seems pretty passionate about moving Android forward at least: http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/exclusive-matias-duarte-i...
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Oh, and one more thing: When creating a user account on your site, the password is emailed out in cleartext to the end user. That's a very bad thing generally, but particularly for the HN crowd.
Remote wipe is starting to appear on Android devices. Check the Samsung Stratosphere that was released this week. It also has Cisco's SSL VPN client on it.

http://www.talkandroid.com/65998-verizon-wireless-officially...

That funny word "enterprise" to me means that in fact the employee is not trusted so here's the device that's been chosen for you and your app market has been provided by the IT staff. If you need assistance, contact the help desk but be forewarned they they are fully engaged supporting Windows 95 and NT because the budgeteers have decided IS is a scary cost center.
Except that most people (even Japanese people) don't know his name.
I'm baffled because historically, Japan is all about using limitation to great effect. In terms of food, art, language (is there a more contextual language?), and engineering, Japan very much has an island-nation use-limited-resources-and-achieve-great-things approach.

The website thing that you mentioned is true. .jp websites are TERRIBLE in UX. I wonder if there is some part of Japanese culture that wants to embrace complexity for it's own sake.

And, let's be honest, the US/EU/Everywhere-Else designs for phones weren't very good pre-iPhone either. It had the same complexity problems and close to the same UX ridiculousness that the Japanese phones had. Perhaps it's a human thing, to marvel at too much to comprehend and consider it a good thing.

That being said, if any company were to come up with an iPhone, I would think it would be a Japanese one. But Japan is very traditional and Apple is unique in that it disregards a lot of conventions. I think this might be to Japan's detriment. I don't feel that they've embraced the current approach to UX, they are still stuck in the "complexity = more features = better" days of the Web during the dot-com-boom days (aka ancient history).

I hope there are some Japanese entrepreneurs out there ready to shake things up, the cultural seeds are already there for beautiful and elegant products.
Android and iOS are looking more and more similar as time goes on. Android copies iOS... iOS copies Android. Sometimes Android is ahead with features, sometimes iOS. Eventually both OS's will reach a point of maturity with relatively equal features but with a distinct look and personality.
The "unlock via face recognition" feature looks cool. But I guess someone can just take a picture of your face and show the picture to the phone to unlock it. Oh well, it seemed cool for a few minutes :)
HN is already set up for SSL; the changeover happened around two months ago[1].

If your concern is that you should be forced to the HTTPS site, even if you mistype or bookmark the wrong version, etc., then you could try the EFF's HTTPS-Everywhere extension (Firefox only. I'm told Chrome's extension framework is fundamentally incompatible right now).[2] If you've noticed a lot of comments have linked to, for example, Wikipedia using a "secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia" type URL, this extension is very likely how they got that way.

Out of the box, there is no ruleset preconfigured in HTTPS-Everywhere for HN, but the top comment[3] on the HN SSL announcement/discovery post gives a rule for it to configure it to always force HN to SSL.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3126309

[2] - https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2909103
I doubt people will back off of malaria at this point in the past it seems like once it starts getting under control in a region it keeps going down. There is a lot of anti-malaria momentum building up with awareness and malaria education only increasing.

The last few years have been success after success with the Global Fund and the Gates Foundation pouring in money.
I'm stuck on 2.6 for now, so that's probably the main issue.
Out of curiosity (as I couldn't find an article by you on the subject with Google) what was your negative re-action to Go?
I've had a feeling for a long time that Japan (not South Korea or China or other regional countries) is on the verge of a massive cultural shakeup.

I can't quite pin it down, but when you peel back the vast homogeneous conformist mass consumer oriented society, there's a really wonderfully quirky, genuinely interesting underground scene that's so vibrant, so full of energy, that it seems like it's about to burst into the mainstream in the same way the beatnick and then hippy movement did in the West.

Steve Jobs came out of that movement, who's to say we aren't about to see the birth of the next Steve Jobs in Japan? Only his parents were in a banjo kettle drum band in Osaka that played basement coffee houses and did cosplay on the weekends to super indie Manga series that explores the meaning of identity as a pop star with only digital, manufactured fans.

In the States Vietnam was the flashpoint that really caused people to gel around the question authority hippy movement, perhaps some current or future event will cause the same with the Japanese youth.
The thing to remember about malaria is that is an infectious disease.

In order to have a malaria epidemic, Alice needs to be bitten by a malaria carrying mosquito. Alice needs to become ill and have a large number of juvenile parasites in her blood. She then needs to be bitten by another mosquito. This parasites becomes adults in the mosquito's gut and the mosquito then needs to bite Bob and infect him.

A vaccine that reduces the chances of an infected individual becoming ill effectively reduces the reproduction rate of malaria.

In a vaccinated area, one would expect to see reductions in the number of infected people during the high season by potentially an order of magnitude.
Not disagreeing with virtues associated with compactness and pixel density, but to quote Tim Bray: "When I switch from the NG to my Nexus S, I think “This is pleasingly compact.” Then when I switch back to the NG I think “My eyes are happy.” Because the upside, of course, is that you have a great big honkin’ huge ginormous beautiful screen!" via http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/10/18/ICS-and-Ga...
Ah, before accelerated UI. I can pan, move, and resize windows at 60FPS these days (with vsync on, of course).
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I'll nitpick too because those are marketing decisions which are only aided by being well described.

I believe you have confused marketing as a whole with authoring the textual element of it... or possibly misinterpreted copy because it has specialised meaning in the context of publishing.
You do have a good point there, but
"For the most part, though, at least according to Charvat, the radar array is all about more efficient killing: “This is meant for the urban war fighter … those situations where it’s very stressful and it’d be great to know what’s behind that wall.”", direct from the horse's mouth.
Has anyone been able to successfully launch a 4.0 AVD image in the emu? I keep trying, but all I get is the boot anim. I also noticed that the arm image is updated to v7a.. :/
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It's not an unserved market. There have been professional copywriters since the beginning of the last century. It's also not a very well paying market for most writers. Most companies do not value the work of copy writing as much as they perhaps should.
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Agreed, he seems like he is driving for simplification and focus, which is never a bad thing.
Yes, and if they go down the toilet, you are going down with them. You aren't going to recover your losses once a more competent administration takes over.
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I believe you're an idiot.

Seriously, go back to the part where I said "I'll be the first to agree that we need a new system" and work out which of your conclusions - if any - square with that.
You win contests (with iphone photos) like Damon Winter did. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/through-my-eye-not-...

Connect with the subject (not necessarily emotionally) and portray things as you see them. Ie. it's not the tool that matters that much, it's the result/the content and how it speaks to us.
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But you're not grasping the point. Correlation is not causation. If parents are poor, work three jobs ("fantastic!", says George Bush), and don't have time to tutor their kids, their kids may watch more TV and may have lower test scores..... but there's absolutely no proof anywhere that TV "causes damage". None. Zero. Nil.
Not necessarily absurd. As mentioned in other comments here, the original iPhone had no focus. Objects close to the camera were naturally out of focus.
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Most vaccines are, as I recall, 60-80% effective. Vaccines are different from cures; they operate through herd immunity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
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Like Windows vs OS X or Firefox vs Chrome.
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It's a limitation/drawback of face recognition technology as a whole. I would not consider it as Google's.
Wow. I've only owned Toshiba phones (on both au and SoftBank) before I got my HTC Desire, and making a call was always a matter of clicking the 電話帳 button and selecting the name. Although I've used other people's phones plenty of times, and it was always pretty much the same. I've never used anyone's Sony Ericsson, though.
Many of those Android "sales" are free phones (with contract).
I'd like to recommend (without endorsing the opinions therein) this contrarian article I read about malaria, poverty, and Western attitudes towards Africa:

http://www.guernicamag.com/features/2273/pogue_1_15_11

I found it fascinating, as someone with the intent of (eventually) studying disease ecology, in particular, that of malaria in West Africa. It's a thoughtful and well argued essay, but not in the end entirely convincing to me. But it deserves to be more widely distributed, I think.

PS: Thanks to Instapaper, which made retrieving this article a matter of seconds. Interesting how one's expectations of the rate of information retrieval have evolved, speaking as a 40-yr old who well remembers waiting around weeks at times for books or journals to be delivered to the Reg.
Clean and dynamic - great start. Multiple dashboards would be a great addition, like you mention in your FAQ.

Is a Salesforce feed a future option?
I heard rumours that google was doing 2 things in particular to deal with the version fragmentation issue for developer's sake:

* Enforcing a minimum hardware level, eg opengl es2 acceleration (eg no more cheap&slow androids that do the brand no favours)
* Making it so that software updates cannot by stymied by hardware makers and carriers any more, so that as soon as google makes a new version, anyone can update to it without needing to root their device.

Are these true does anyone know?
Really? It's a dessert name, just like the other Android releases. http://www.google.com/search?q=ice+cream+sandwich&tbm=is...

This is like those HN comments that ask who rms is.
Really? I'm bet it has to do with further testing. You could give a little bit of credit to GlaxoSmithKline for working on this for 24 years. This isn't exactly a good example of "big pharma" greed.
Small note: cancer is not a disease, so it cannot be vaccinated against
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From Forbes to Hacker News back to Forbes back to Hacker News.

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