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Ok, then. Let’s not talk about future goals, talk about current benefits. Headline tags allow the visually impaired to efficiently navigate webpages. Their screenreader doesn’t have to read everything, they can jump from headline to headline in order to get an overview.

This wouldn’t work so great if every website used different headline tags.
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Sandboxing in the appstore is probably not intended to directly protect against malware, it is there to minimize the risk of programmer error. The application developer decides the restrictions it imposes on itself. And while the current entitlements system seems quite weak compared to the normal interface to the sandbox, I think that the number of entitlements that you can request will grow with time, and with user awareness. (The Scheme-derivative that is the configuration right now, is probably not fit for user consumption)

The OS X sandbox has been around for a long while (and trusted BSD has been around for even longer), it is of course not bug free, but it is in use in a few exposed applications (like Safari), and deploying it appstore-wide will only make it even better.

I, as a programmer, sleeps better at night knowing that my (and others) applications has safety nets that protect it from doing stupid stuff.
Frankly, it seems "dumb". Foursquare suggests friends to me that it thinks it has connected via Facebook and Twitter (which I opted into it doing). The suggestions are easy to ignore and dismiss. It seems obvious to me. I guess this just feels like a cheap slimy way to be connections in the social graph, but I think in the process of doing so, they devalue the value of connections that people put effort into establishing.

If I were following all of my Facebook friends on Twitter, then it would just be Facebook. Do you really want to rush to build the next generic, mass-appeal social network where the content is low quality drivel?
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Pardon the devil's advocate question, but to what extent is semantic markup (other than with microformats) relevant to today's web? I mean, how is it used by anyone? I've tried to use semantic markup and it's not really a very effective abstraction for many kinds of data and UX.
So this article is trying to say that cheap Android phones have high hardware failure rates because of software diversity?
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This happened when I joined Quora recently. I honestly felt embarrassed that I had "followed" 100+ at once, especially since I haven't been in touch with many of those people recently.
I thought I saw on Oink's signup a toggle that let you opt-in to auto-following other users. I was surprised to see that as usually it's opt-out (if at all). What this seems like to me is a glitch on Oink's end - not following their own preference options they expose to their users.

edit: I definitely didn't mark down to auto follow my friends. I just got the pig sound notification and it scared me half to death. Oooh boy my heart is racing.
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I can do this in 20 minutes, is just a little of CSS3 and an animate function (like the jQuery one)... so not so much money spent on this.
Is it just me, or does this read like pages randomly plucked from Code Complete?

Not that that's a bad thing. But I'd expect better from the ACM.
It's also part of crazy Hollywood acounting. The more you can charge against the film the better, that's why flops like Titanic and Empire strikes back still haven't made a profit

You don't want the film company to actually own anything because then the people owed money might have something to go after
No one complains about the back button just because they don't want a way to back out of a page/action/whatever. They complain because the back button is too often unintuitive. It's never "Ugh, I hate it when the back button does precisely what I expect."

If you're going to compare to the web browser, you have to acknowledge how utterly obnoxious it is when some rogue site breaks the back button. Except then you can at least click-and-hold (or equivalent) on the back button to get a drop-down with more history so you can hopefully back out of whatever crappy site you opened.
As desirable as the specs are, this comment on Canon Rumors balances things up:

"To those fawning after the Red...sure, it looks nice, but the poor color rendering, impossible proprietary workflow, and constantly-in-need-of-updates software make the camera a nightmare, imo, to use. Canon's footage has nicer skin tones than I've ever seen out of a Red. There's a reason so much tv is shot with the Alexa, rather than the red, and why dSLRs are used on ads--1080p with nice and standardized colors out of camera is much better for post. Red is cool, but what you get in terms of extra tech you pay for in having to figure out how to use it efficiently. Canon's cine camera does seem overpriced for what you get, though--in that no man's land the AF100 and F3 already inhabit except even more expensive..."

From http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php/topic,2059.msg410...

In other news, all these $10k-$20k cameras, zooms from $45k and primes for $7k make still photography look really cheap.
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I get how some people might feel like it's annoying to auto follow, but the reality is that most people don't care / notice that they're now following all of their friends. And at the end of the day, having friends using the same app as you does provide a better user experience which is why this trend has emerged.
This announcement puts a tad bit of a damper on Canon's earlier in the day. Your cost for the Scarlet will be around $15k in shooting form. This is still cheaper than the new Canon. Canon uses cheaper media, but Scarlet has a better recording format.
I work at a young startup. Swear words are so common that they are only noticed when used maliciously.

I only seem to care when older people swear, which is odd. I never liked when my dad swore, but with my peers it feels natural.
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Except that Lucent have no real reason to put firmware in a fiber switch to read your email as it goes down the tubes.

A company that makes all it's money from targetted ads - might
As a counterexample, I just built a site with Bootstrap, and I was very happy with the experience. It's the first site I've ever made that I think looks pretty good.

I worked around the styles I didn't want in two different ways. One, I built my own version of the css that excluded all the form styles (non-native controls are bad). This involved installing some packages that I didn't really understand but didn't need to. It took maybe five minutes start to finish. The second was simply overriding the CSS I didn't want. This is absolutely no different than what you do with any other website, where you're overriding the browser's default styles instead of Bootstrap's.
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Note: This was about "Lulz Security group and any affiliated hackers" which means the FBI was far from a ticking time bomb scenario.

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“Our servers happened to be in with some naughty servers,” he said, adding that his sites were not the target of the raid. Curbed is working to get its sites back online, probably by Wednesday.

PS: When the FBI shows up you have zero rights to prevent them from taking anything on site, the only thing a lawyers can do is prevent evidence from being used in a court case after the fact. Granted, at Google scale they are more concerned with backlash and it takes a lot of effort to confiscate that much hardware, but that's not going to stop them in the case of a major incident. Also, by failing to help you are breaking the law let alone trying to stop them.
If it's to automatically follow people in your Facebook (or Twitter) account when you link your account - and, big and - if they are already using the app, then I have nothing against it. I'm personally sick of having to do the grunt work of mirroring manually and micromanaging my social networks for each new app. In these apps, if I find later on athat a few connections don't publish stuff I like, I unfollow them.
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This makes me wonder what the paperwork is going to look like.

Can you imagine gathering and verifying paperwork on potentially thousands of investors at an early stage? Talk about a time suck that people trying to get a company off the ground won't want or need.
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Reader being a "full-fledged alternative interface for Plus" is really the only sane decision at this point. One that would excite me. (I already use fb-rss for reader-Facebook integration.) I hope that's the decision that they made, but I'm not too optimistic at this point.

I personally think it would have been smarter to integrate google plus with reader more (even if that involves forking reader) before changing the product and removing sharing.

Now we are stuck with an unusable product for an indeterminate amount of time. Due to Google's notoriously poor communication, most won't wait and the community will move elsewhere.

It seems like a waste to me and I seriously doubt they had the foresight to predict this level of backlash.

I guess we will have to wait an see.
They didn't say the 1300 figure was people hours, they just said hours. So for each of those hours you probably much more people hours.
I think Canon Rumors is a little disingenuous (much like MacRumors). The workflow isn't that bad, and the skin tones look good with HDRx. Canon has some fun with formats, not giving a true RAW for video. Neither camera has the true killer feature for a lot of productions: on camera ProRes recording like the Alexa.

If Canon had come out with a camera with a good RAW format and on camera ProRes, then I would say Canon is the clear winner. As is, I think Red is a better value.
I'm so glad about this response from W3C (I do criticize the general bureaucracy of W3C though). In many aspects, I felt that the recent moves of the HTML living standard were much like that of XHTML2:

- Why do keep the redundant <a> element while we can add the href attribute to all elements?

- Why do keep <br> while we can generalize the line structure via <nl>? (NB: I'm not sure about the exact element name)

Is removing <time> in favor of <data> really different from these statements?
Did you even read parent's post? We all agree that google (and yahoo, and hotmail) parse our emails to offer better ads and to index them for search. What we're talking about is bad employees reading your emails for their own curiosity.
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As a technical founder - it's equally difficult to find a good sales/marketing guy. How are you supposed to interview them? Take four to a bar and compare how many friends they make?
They do show her in front of a green screen in the behind the scenes video....so technically, they did use the tech, but not for the actual video, of course. But great effort.
Actually you can prevent that using trusted computing.

First the VM is started. Upon boot is asks the TPM to certify the "secure computing base", resulting in a key : a series of bytes that is the hash of all computer code that could potentially affect the execution of the program. This key is used to encrypt the real root drive, via an intermediary key. THe TPM hash reported cannot be falsified due to, well, look up why that's not possible.

You select the trusted computing base the VPS provider is supposed to use, one that doesn't allow for interference except within agreed parameters, and they won't be able to interfere.

If they change the key, or the kernel, they cannot get the key needed to decrypt the hard drive image, so their info is useless.

(after this you obviously make sure you can't communicate with the box unencrypted)

Done/done.
You let your thirteen-year old stay up until midnight for a Facebook registration? That sounds less like a hard-ass and more like an eccentric :-)
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I'm a British national in NYC right now on an H1B visa. It locks me down to one employer, and the process for transferring the visa between employers is an absolute nightmare (that I am currently in the middle of).

I'm very happy at my startup employer, but you can't be surrounded by startup culture without wanting to do it for yourself. I've got tech skills, ideas and business-minded friends and a couple of potential investors- but I can't act on any of this because I can't start and work for my own company.

So, I'm here for now. But I don't see a career path ahead of me, just a ton of dead ends. So as it stands right now, if I ever want to get serious about an idea I'll have to take it to London. Arguably, that's not in my interests (I'll have to rebuild a network from scratch) and it's not in the interests of the US for me to leave.

The Startup Visa would allow me to form my own company, work for it and hire local employees. Maybe I'm biased, but it seems like a win-win to me.
This is great. I'm a practicing medical doctor and a coder. My friend and I are going to give the healthcare one a go. If anything it's good fun and we'll learn more about the real world application of data mining to medicine. Thanks for the links.
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I am not sure what is new about this. There are multiple alternatives (similar) and ways of using other services like Dropbox to do this. Its a "marketing" and "user experience" game and will need a lot of luck too, in order to make it big. Having said that, I really like the UX of Kicksend and hope that they do well.
I should clarify that the comment was by a forum member, not Canon Rumors themselves.

How much does a $10k price difference matter when you live in a world where lenses can cost >$40k?
I have the greatest respect (nay, love) for Mr. Shipley (who can forget his live twitter coverage of the bachelor), but hasn't web certificate revocation proven to be pretty much un-workable in practice? How would this be different? Entitlements sound similar to code access security which Microsoft baked in to the CLR, but which remain largely un-used.
Fortunately he had an engineering genius as his partner.

I think a team like that would be fine today. Marketing genius/perfectionist and engineering genius.
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I agree with most everyone on here and want to add two more points:

- google was not the 1st search engine
- intuit was the 40th company into the small business space

Look at them now.

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It's not an issue just of figuring out what the user wants. It's figuring out what is not working for the user and why.

In general you can assume that what's not working for current users will not work for a large subset of future desired users.
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This is a really bad web site. The page loaded, I saw the poll for a few seconds then it (apparently) redirected my browser to a blank page that took a long time to load. I could see the poll again, for a few seconds at a time, by repeatedly pressing the Back button. (I'm using Firefox 3.6.23)

Several of the formulas presented I don't know the curve off-hand, but none looked like it matched. The closest I can think of is x = y ^ 3 which approximates a logistic (S) curve; starts slow, rises steeply, then slows again, though it doesn't "plateau". Actually, an odd integer greater than 3 would lead to a steeper rise and flatter plateau, the bigger the integer the better.
Compare this to Batch. Batch uses Facebook exclusively and doesn't communicate that people are "following" you when they sign up (or to use Facebook terms, they don't indicate that people have become your friend either, they simply say they've joined Batch). They just assume that you have a relationship because you authenticate with a platform that already says you do. Very straight forward.

This is very similar to Oink's behavior, but far far less presumptuous in the way it communicates. Personally, I was thankful that Batch saved me the work of curating my network. But if you use Oink's language/behavior you have an app that says I followed someone when all I did was sign up? They almost immediately lose my trust. Not a good way to start the relationship with me.
This is a great quote:

"The value of a social network seems to map proportionally to the perceived value of its main object. (Examples: sharing best-of-web links on Metafilter or sharing hi-res photos on Flickr or sharing video art on Vimeo or sharing statuses on Twitter/Facebook or sharing questions on Quora.) If you want a community with stronger ties, provide more definition to your social object."

Something we've been struggling with is doing something too narrow vs. lacking definition of a social object. Good insight.
How should I learn to use one of these?
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Wow Paul. Someone creates a new HN handle just to refute something you've said and hide their identity. I wonder if the sign up IP was also anonymous. What happened to the days when Gates liked someone who gave him a hard time and stood up to him?
This example is perhaps better than they meant, because reading twitter from a phone is nearly impossible due to their stupid mobile interface rewrite. (Edit: I see the first commenter on their post wrote a similar thing.)

I just timed it: after turning off the wifi, clicking my bookmark of a saved twitter search on a Nexus S took 10 seconds before it showed the centered twitter logo (presumably that ajaxes in the rest of the page?) and another two or three before showing search results.

Frequently it's long enough that my phone turns off the screen while I'm waiting for it to load, at which point I usually give up.

(Yes, this is the wrong place to complain. I am only a very casual consumer of twitter -- don't even have an account myself -- so I don't know the appropriate tech support channel. Perhaps because of my casual usage they in fact would prefer to discourage users like me.)
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That only makes sense if you have a stake in Panavision. There are tons of film makers who don't have an interest in spending more money.
No, the center is off the page so the images are only on screen at the beginning and the end. It is a different effect from the web search one, or at least appears to be.
This is getting off-topic, but did you forget about AT&T's secret rooms that were recording internet traffic? It's not just Google that wants to read your mail. Governments want to spy on their citizens, and ISPs are (allegedly) cooperating in the effort.
Every single piece of documentation about appCache mentions the requirement for the correct headers to be sent. Chrome isn't being "ultra-strict", its been in the spec since day one.
I think it's as simple as "it doesn't look computery".
It's not being "ultra-strict" it's a requirement of the spec[1] that the file be served with the correct mimetype.

[Edit] It doesn't work in firefox, the attribute triggers the permission bar but because it's the wrong mimetype it doesn't actually store anything.

Check it in Tools > Options > Advanced > Network

You'll notice that it has the domain referenced but has 0 bytes stored.

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Does that work with the Chrome Google+ addon? Because Ghostery would prevent it from contacting home...
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And if engineers never had to concentrate and focus to get their work done, I'm sure their workspaces would be open to auditory and visual distraction. Don't think for a minute that the typical business allocates these resources based on practicality rather than status.
I really wonder if this falls under the category of "things hacker dislike/complain about but regular people don't care/mind"

I think Pinterest does this too. I'd guess most users think its a byproduct of Facebook connect and don't care. If I had a mass-market/consumer site, I'd consider doing it.
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Perhaps I should have said 'legit' application.

On the Windows side, there's things like file-sharing software which is packaged with toolbars and malware. That kind of thing is unheard of in the Mac world, especially in the app store.
> impossible proprietary workflow

Speaking from experience, the workflow isn't hard at all. Do you have to know what you're doing? Sure. But the same could be said for just about anything.

> [...] and why dSLRs are used on ads--1080p [...] out of camera is much better for post

Agreed. If your final delivery format is 1080p, it's a lot easier not to have to mess with transcoding.
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Two years of hard work to get about the equivalent page views of nudity. It must have felt rewarding for them though.
A friend of mine was working on an automated story telling system for Nethack as his Masters (Linguistics & CS/AI, IIRC) thesis.

It was never really completed, but there was some interesting work in applying goal-based planning AI in reverse to generate possible long-term motivations for individual actions.

I don't think it's available online though, sadly.
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Imagine if MS did the same thing with windows.

If Microsoft had done the same thing with Windows, Apple as we know it today wouldn't exist, if they even existed at all.

To me, it is mind-blowing that, nevertheless, (most) Apple fans are perfectly happy with the shoe on the other foot.
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