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I agree. This page is great at encouraging me to spend a minute moving my mouse round and round in circles on the page, but doesn't encourage anything further. A few paragraphs (or bullets) of actual information about what you do ("We want to make the world better together with other people!" is as generic and meaningless as they come) might encourage me to click through to the rest of your site.
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I'm an Android user and I'll continue to be one in the forseeable future, but I have to agree that the back button "feels" inconsistent. There might be a logic behind how it works (OS-wide back button), but that doesn't mean it will make sense for the user. An app-level back-button makes a lot more sense to me. It should work just like it works in the browser.

That being said, I hope Google will try to get rid of all the physical buttons and "bottom bar buttons" in Android and replace them with gestures (learn from N9 Meego), so we can fully utilize 100% of the screen (and of course no more wasted front space with physical buttons, too). I think there are some phones coming out like the LG U1, which will have both a physical home button and virtual buttons with ICS. How does that make any sense? It wastes double the space.

Another feature request would be getting rid of the icons, too. I don't think icons belong in the touch world. You need bigger graphical elements, that are also richer than just an icon. I see them moving in this direction with some apps, but they need to move faster, preferably by Android 5.0.
It's not out of goodwill that the banks will eat the cost of fraud or work hard to prevent it. Banks do this to protect their own pockets, because (US) law says that customer liability for credit card fraud is limited to $50 and anything beyond that is the bank's loss.

For a counterexample, see Paypal. Paypal's unresponsiveness to fraud situations is legendary, because it's not their money at stake and as legally-not-a-bank they can simply stick their customers with the loss. (Paypal's customers are merchants, I don't mean end-consumers here.)

Getting back to Square, as long as they're not regulated like a bank, they will in the long term become more like Paypal in dealing with fraud. The founders may be able to delay or mitigate this with a strong organizational commitment to customer service, but that would be pretty unprecedented in the financial industry; the bottom line always looks better when the corporation can push fraud costs off of itself.
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"Will users forget they can just type a URL in, and instead install everything through their friendly neighborhood web app store? (Don't laugh.)"

Who's laughing? All but two of the Web browser manufacturers (Opera and Mozilla, both of which are losing market share) seem to have vested interests in doing exactly this.
Seems like the current implementation can not take care of a lot of common scenario. It is not as ready. It is hard to be safe in an open world. I guess that's the reason why Apple postpone the requirement for sandboxing to March next year.
I don't either, and although 28 isn't old, I simply don't see the need for one. I'm a software developer, which means that for nearly all day I'm never more than about 10 feet away from a computer. I'm married with a family, so I go out socially maybe once a month. Further, I make plans before I go out, so there's not much reason to have mobile access to the web. I don't have one because I simply don't need it.

Honestly, what would drive me to getting a smartphone is a data-only network so I could use Skype or another VOIP program for my telephony, and then have data "for free." I pay $140 a month for a family plan with some extras, but mostly that goes towards voice traffic. A data plan worth having would easily shoot that over $200 a month, and it's just not worth it.
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Question. What percentage of their sales in this quarter or the last were to support Pro Tools or Illustrator installs?

Are you sure they won't trade that away to Windows for a chance to improve their lockdown? You still seem to be working under the mental model that was created for Apple's actions when those apps were basically the only thing keeping Apple a going concern at all. That is not their current status anymore, and I think the model may need updating to reflect that.

The counterpoint that these people are thought leaders is still valid, but even then... thought leaders for what percentage of their market now?
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I'd be considering avoidance too if I had to give just under half of everything I make to the government.

*edit
And there are perfectly legal ways to reduce your tax burden. The point I'm laboring so hard to make here is that it's an absurd tax rate.
It may just depend on how the contracts were structured. For example, in the OP, travel, room and board were billed separately.

As you pointed out too, this contract was for 10 years, so there was probably a discount built in as part of a competitive bid.
I don't disagree, but you have to remember ... some people that supported stuff like the weathermen* in their twenties now have tenure, cushy government jobs etc. A lot of these are now "moderate" social-democrats, progressives or liberals. But sometimes only in the sense a white nationalist is a republican, ie. for lack of "better" options.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
The problem I have is that Arrington said what he said, period. And unless this was edited "Daily Show" style, there's not much way around it.

You can say Soledad ambushed him, but it frankly wasn't that hard of a question. And Arrington should really be down on whoever set up the interview if they didn't forward him the info, not Soledad. That second email clearly states that it will be part of "Black in America".

In theory I guess Soledad could have sent them a list of questions of ahead of time -- but there's no guarantee Mike would have got them. And that's typically not how these interviews are done. She could have said we won't air that answer, but frankly it's a pretty damned telling answer. And it's an answer that I have trouble believing most people would have answered so poorly.
This is obviously personal preference and opinion and all of that, but that's the whole point of discussion, so:

if (something) {
something();
} else {
something_else();
}

vs.

if (something)
{
something();
}
else
{
something_else();
}

To me, the first one is chaotic. It's not so bad like that, but throw in a loop (as well as the external function declaration) and it's a complete mess.

The second one is orderly. Block separation is very clear, and each brace is matched by an equal.

IMO, if you need to worry about how many lines of code fit on your screen, it's probably time to refactor (or upgrade from a netbook).

I might be crazy though, because I write

int* foo

instead of

int *foo

And no one does that. Pointers are a type!
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Ask HN: Any other hackers looking to start a startup with me? (or others?)
I'm sure this thread already exists previously but could not find it. If there is another thread open already I would be open to posting on it as well if someone can reply with it.
Also, does anyone know any other websites that allow good hackers to meet for startups? (Other than meetup and I am talking more on a national level not just locally).
A little about myself, I was working at an iBank in NYC and left to start a startup. I am an experienced web developer, did my undergrad in Computer Engineering.
git clone git://git.nic.cz/knot-dns.git
same can be said for http://vizualize.me being "simpler, better, and far superior" as well
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It's a good step forward though. For years, I was always torn about IDEs, it's very handy to be able to do so much automatically rather than having to do everything yourself. So much so that the productivity boost is near-required in a modern environment. But.. you don't get to edit in vi. For no particular reason as such, the editing scheme in the IDE is no less arbitrary. The whole kit would be nice, but hey, if it's at least modal and support the normal keyboard functions (around what you'd get if you just ssh:ed into your buddies box to help him with something and ended up editing things with vi, the local version, nothing customized) that's a lot.
The funny thing here is that Michael Arrington doesn't care what we think. He's just glad to be in the spotlight without Techcrunch. This is really a giant F U to AOL, telling them that he can control the talk of the town without his old outlets.
Having both Latin and Cyrillic scripts done well in a single monospace font is extremely rare. Even Ubunto Mono (which is brand-new and still in active development) is having trouble, and they're professionals who take suggestions from users very seriously. e.g. http://blog.cosmix.org/2011/10/04/ubuntu-mono-the-gamma-trav... . No one has said publicly how much Canonical is paying Dalton Maag to make the Ubuntu font family, but I'm sure it's a lot more than $220,000.
Libfreenect is not a port of the MS Kinect SDK, it is a low level API that allows for access of the basic Kinect hardware functionality but doesn't support features that the MS Kinect SDK does, like skeletal tracking. OpenNI, on the other hand, is a cross platform library that supports high level features like skeletal tracking, so that would be the way to go if you want to use a cross platform library that let's you take full advantage of the Kinect.

This Python library is a wrapper for the MS Kinect SDK, so it is windows only, specifically Windows 7 only.
> You can enable haptic feedback or tones (cringe)

Both of which are a poor substitute for feeling the button depress.

However, I was mostly concerned about feeling the button and the edges of the button before pressing it (to be able to use the buttons without looking), but I realize now that this might not be included in the commonly accepted meaning of "tactile feedback" ;)

> Are you specifically concerned about the having an icon for menu instead of the "menu" text?

No, but I am concerned about the poor choice of icon to represent the menu.

The back-button is understandable, but why does it go forward before it goes back?

And finally, my biggest problem: What does the icon-less button in the center of the Galaxy S do? I have no idea, and the only way to figure out is to test it. (If I have to guess, I'd say it's the home-button, which is otherwise lacking and is the closest in functionality to the icon-less iPhone-button)

(Image for reference: http://androidspin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Samsung-Ga... )

I was also thinking about what I suppose must be the home-icon on the Galaxy Nexus. ( http://www.google.com/nexus/img/content/introduction.png ) This icon exhibits the classical problem of over-abstracting. It is no more a home or house than it is a shift-key, up-arrow or pointed rock.

Compare with HTC Legend: http://cdn.cbsi.com.au/story_media/339301189/htc-legend_1.jp...

From the left:

1. Obviously a house (and therefore a home), even with a chimney, while still being clear.

2. Obviously a menu-button. You unfortunately have to read it, but it is at least unambiguous.

3. Obviously a back-button. (No forward motion)

4. Assuming that the user has learned the weird currently popular icon for search, obviously search. Otherwise not a good icon.

----

I hope this clarifies my original post :)
is it a pre-paid calling card to avoid long distance charges or to activate cell phone?
Yes, but the desktop experience and apps will still be a big part of Windows 8 unless you're running it on an ARM tablet. Microsoft will happily link to your native non-sandboxed app from their App Store.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/13/windows-8-store-to-sell-b...

Screenshot http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6209/6144024273_4b505de2fc_o....

I guess a big reason for locking down Metro apps is battery life concerns.
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There is a magnificent confounding of race and class occurring in this discussion.
Unfortunately I don't have a source for this, but it happened during the 2008 election:

When someone asked Obama why he would consider himself the potential first black President rather than the first mixed race President, he said (paraphrasing) "If I was waiting to catch a cab in NYC late night in a bad neighborhood, the cabbie won't think 'there's a mixed race man waiting to catch a cab', he'll think 'there's a black man waiting to catch a cab'"

I think that was well put. Even if you are of mixed race, it's how you are perceived when people make their initial assumptions that matters most in the context of these discussions.
Still not sure if I like it, but squeezing proportions doesn't only allow more characters on a line: in editors that support split views, it allows you to view 80 characters per line side-by-side in two files on screens that aren't as wide, plus fit your file browser on the left (again, if your editor has one). There are definitely uses.

Not sure how the font being narrower results in less lines on a screen, though. I doubt the font height is greater.
This is fantastic, but as someone who's playing around with making a music app, I'm still not really able to use it.

The unfortunate fact is if you don't have all the labels on board you're just going to irritate users- they have no idea who is on what label, and why should they?

That said, this is huge step forwards. Hopefully other labels will see the benefits and follow suit- it could make Echo Nest a huge player.
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I agree, it's essentially unusable on my netbook now.
What is your screen resolution?
i think i'm in a wormhole!
Once you sign up, go to http://resume.io/home and click on the "Import LinkedIn profile" link on the lower right corner.
Agreed what brk said.

You should also consider the frequency of usage that your product needs. If your product has kind on once a day usage, you can provide a 7/15 days trial. But if the frequency is around once a week you need to provide a longer trial days.

You can think of this equation (no claims of result- just what I have used):

F = number of killer features in your app
UC = usage count to get used to the feature
freq = frequency of usage in some units

Then your minimum trial period should be something like:

Trial Period = F * UC * (1/freq)

Hope that helps
I don't understand the sudden news coverage over the App Store's sandbox requirement. This impending requirement has been known to developers since at least the last WWDC.
These deals are most often non-transferrable in the case of acquisition.
Anger Fog found this issue one year earlier, 2008:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/libc-help/2008-08/msg00007.html
I agree. I'm one of those people who is very picky about their fonts, and I can't recall ever paying over $10 for a font for my own, personal, non-design related needs. In my case, it's due to the fact that I have poor eyesight, so having the right font can really make a big difference, but there are probably thousands of free/low-cost options out there.

It was hard to find a monospace font that looked great at larger sizes (14pt), but in the end I settled on Luxi Mono (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Luxi-Mono). It actually doesn't look that great in their previews, but renders much more smoothly in my editor. This makes me think that the operating system/rendering engine probably plays a bigger role.
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I think it was just a mistake, or a mental shortcut for:

"If the full path is used and the [binary or script reimplementing said] built-in has been relocated"
I have F5 bound to :bn , it let me roll buffers, then I use :bd to remove a buffer. I open new files with :Explore.
How many PCs are shipped with the previous version of Windows and absolutely no way to upgrade it?

How many Windows apps are targeted at a single model of computer and fail to work on others because they use a different size monitor?
I love this one, just watch the guys for a bit to see it: http://secretpenguin.com/about/
Clean and simple, just how I like it. Nice work on the LinkedIn importer.

Edit: Forgot to add, some more explicit privacy options would be cool. Also the "card" on the homepage (http://resume.io/{username}) seems to not be working correctly(?)
We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.

First of all, I've met plenty of people who hold racist views without considering people of other races to be less competent.

Secondly, even if they do consider them less competent, that does not mean they would not prefer the best. Personally I'd think it unlikely they'd just pick some random person from a group unless they were so blatantly in your face racist that they'd consider all of them useless. I don't think you'll find many in the latter group, and fewer yet willing to hire even the token black person to an important position.
Yes, and add to that the fact that typing on a mobile device is painful, and you have a strong usability argument for doing away with the URL bar entirely.
At the end of the day, much of the blame for racism and inequality in the US lies with those who work for or subscribe to advertiser-supported media. Both Arrington and Soledad O'brien are part of the problem.
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And I've had bad experiences with clients who want to treat an external consultant as just another body they don't have to treat any differently with respect to communication.

There's pitfalls on both sides, but I've had people not give me information for 3 weeks, fiddling with other projects, then get upset, after our initial agreed on engagement timeframe is done, when they can't just have me stay involved for another month.

I've said before, and I'll say it again - almost all projects I've been involved with that failed or were extremely bad projects (consultant or employee or whatever) failed because of communication issues, not technical issues. Even when tech issues arise, there needs to be competent communication about the impact. Good communication - from all parties - is key. It's just that with full time employees I think many managers prefer to let things slide around longer.
There are two opposing schools:

One (your?) school says readability is promoted by having as much visible structure as possible. The other (mine!) says readability is promoted by having as much visible context at the same time, as long as the structure is apparent.

so instead of

if (test1)
{
do_something1();
}
else
{
do_something2();
}

I write

if (test1) do_something1();
else do_something2();

4 times as much context on in the same space. Similarly, where (I assume) you'd write:

if (a == 1)
{
c = "hello";
}
else if (b == 2)
{
c = "goodbye";
}
else
{
c = "...";
}

I write:

c = a==1? "hello":
b==2? "goodbye":
"...";

or even as a one liner:

c = a==1? "hello": b==2? "goodbye": "...";

Even if you are not used to this style, I don't think you can claim it is unreadable. Just different.
I'm a young geek and passionate application developer. I live in Belarus (well, think it's Russia), but I think location is not so important as skills. I mostly do backends but I'm trying to learn front end development as well.

Unfortunately, I have no experience working at real-world projects, but I want to. I adore Ruby and Rails, love node.js, like Python and Django. Also I love NoSQL databases like MongoDB, I follow best practices when coding and I practice BDD as well.

I'm looking to start a startup with somebody, maybe another backend dev, maybe a frontend dev or designer, maybe both. Personally I have no idea for a startup but I'm comfortable working with somebody with an excellent idea.

me@goshakkk.name
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If anyone's wondering what the color scheme is, I believe it's Solarized http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized (on HN previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393976 )
You're right. What does imply the other is the disproportionate percentage of African-Americans in the prison popuplation, relative to the percentage they are of the overall population (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...). African-Americans are disproportionately imprisoned in every state; in twenty states, they're imprisoned at five times the rate you would expect by their share of the state's population.
You are seriously comparing a security sandbox to the gestapo? If killing off products that aren't profitable is insane to you, and implementing a security sandbox model that every other platform either already has or is going to have (Windows 8 included), I don't think you'll be a die hard fan of any company for very long.
Heads up, this doesn't work if you have Flashblock or something like that enabled. I told them via their live-chat widget, which is actually super impressive, especially because Jeff responded right away.
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This works, but then you have to use the mouse, and when you're done sharing, context isn't returned to what it used to be, so keyboard shorcuts (n, shift+n, j, k, l, etc...) don't work until you click on a story to focus.

Also, I can't hit l to like (maybe p to plus now?) or shift+s to share.

You can change my sharing options, you can change the look and feel. But messing with my keyboard shortcuts is tantamount to murder.
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I was originally thinking about a pre-paid calling "card" where you load up your balance online and you just dial one of our numbers, enter a PIN and dial the number you'd like to call.

But then, I thought it might be interesting to go for "Pay as you go" where we'll charge you for however long you talk.
Really? I don't see what's so awesome. Not saying its bad, just it's not much different than others.

Edit: reading comments I get impression it has mouse overs and other stuff that doesn't do anything on touch devices

Now I think it's kind of fail
This makes me feel a lot safer than the ones that actually shoot the mosquitoes down with lasers. It would only take one computer blip that misidentified your pupil as a mosquito to make you really regret purchasing one of those. Merely confusing the mosquitoes with some much weaker infrared degrades far more gracefully.