skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zip codes can and do cross both state and city boundaries in some cases. That's not true of zip+4 but most people don't know their extra 4 digits.

Then there is the expected rhythm of filling in the form as city,state,zip so putting zip first throws people off. I did a form once where we put the country above city/state/zip so we could do the wording for those more appropriately (e.g., switch to "postal code") and even that was annoying to many testers.
I'd the prefer to not disclose that publicly.
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I will looking into adding it.
The mapping zip codes to city is not strictly 1:1. I don't have a better source for this, but the description in Wikipedia states:

"The Postal Service designates one _default_ place name for each ZIP code... Additional place names may be recognized as _acceptable_ for a certain ZIP code."

This means that someone may continue to write their address as Smalltown, EG, 12345, when technically it is Bigtown, EG, 12345. Of course, this would not be the case with zip+4, which like the UK postal code system, identifies a much smaller grouping of addresses.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_code#ZIP_codes_and_previous...
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Velcro would be decidedly cheap and tacky. It would also not be very durable. As for a ratchet, I'm not entirely sure what this would look like, but it might be doable. It wouldn't have the nice feel of MagSafe regardless, though.

As for differently laid-out magnets, I believe Apple's patent is pretty broad, and basically covers any magnetic attachment of a power supply to an electronic device. Supposedly (according to Wikipedia) some Japanese appliances have magnetic connectors, so it's questionable how valid Apple's claim is. I guess the real issue is whether anyone wants to fight Apple over this. And to be fair, Apple clearly put out a genuine innovation here.
Review my startup, moodpanda.com , UI Design
Hi All,

My friend and i have been working on http://moodpanda.com in our spare time for about a year now, do you think we should stick with the more friendly cartoon style UI or go for a more medical business look?

Any feedback you guys have would be great.

Thanks
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I took a look and couldn't find it anywhere in there. I think this may have come from outside the paper.
http://www.geert-hofstede.com/hofstede_dimensions.php

Have a look at the Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimensions, the five dimensions may allow a richer explanation than the 'yes' and 'no' question. There is an over arching theory independent of local characteristics as well - might even be falsifiable (aka Popper)!
I prefer being hostage to Microsoft rather than Apple, the Gnome team or the KDE team. Outside of building your own OS and your own user interface, you only have slightly more of a degree of freedom with 'nix.

At least my master gives me a 'created-date' field on every file. Gosh, that makes sense. I'd have to write my own file-system or use some outdated, unsupported crap to have that on 'nix.
This seems to be the new theme: Create a startup that has no long-term plans and the goal of being bought out by a larger company.
I would be interesting to do this survery at the start of december , after some 5 million(or more) people would get their pre-ordered kindle fire and use it, talk about it and show it to their friends.
Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired
Personally I prefer a refurbished iPad 1. I can get one for $250-$300 online.
I thought that the act says it is illegal to send false takedown requests?

While it is clear that Warner was not playing by the rules, the question of whether Hotfile is entitled to compensation for the DMCA “fraud and abuse” it claims Warner conducted is for the judge to decide.

I guess it comes down to whether HotFile has the money (they probably don't) to fight the fraud case. This makes a mockery of the justice system.
Fixed Positioning in Mobile Browsers
Very good post. I am a dual citizen of the United States and Italy, and though I grew up in America and consider myself culturally more American than Italian, I lived, studied and worked (as a developer) in Italy.

It's difficult to describe the situation to an outsider, but I found Italy a beautiful place to live but a frustrating and difficult place to work.

1) Italian bureaucracy is maddening. Simple things that take five minutes in America, like getting residency in a state or setting up a bank account can take days if not weeks or months.

2) Taxes and rent are absurdly high compared to wages. I had a great job--and compared to my Italian born peers it really was--that earned 2,600Euro a month. My one bedroom apartment cost 1,400 Euro + 400 euro for utilities and taxes (and utilities is where you get taxed into oblivion).

3) Nepotism and "serving your own." True to what the article mentions, to get my job I had to go through 4-5 rounds of interviews. When I was chosen over the two other Italian candidates, they were blown away. How could they chose this foreigner over them? It didn't matter I was a better programmer, or an Italian citizen, or that I spoke Italian. I was American and they were Italian -- how could the employer possibly chosen me?

4) A cultural tolerance for being corrupt or sly and getting away with it. I'm generalizing some here, but I feel this to be true for the most part.

And, to those who speak Italian (sorry could not find the clip with subtitles), this is a wonderful scene related:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8TZNxWixN8
I typed 'ita' and the first option was 'United Kingdom'.
In addition to fixing the sorting as other people have mentioned here, it would be great if you made the return and tab keys choose the topmost completion.
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Speaking as someone who pre-ordered the original iPad, has an iPad 2, has bought iPads for everyone in the family, and loves the iPad -- I preordered a Kindle Fire.

The funny thing is that the iPad started out as a media consumption device but rapidly became a pretty decent all-round device (it doesn't replace a "real" computer but it sure reduces the need to have one around), but it's still 1.5lb and quite big for, say, reading in bed. I prefer reading an iPad to reading a book (I'm reading Clash on Kings in paperback right now, and almost wishing I'd paid -- double -- for the Kindle version) but I'd prefer reading something as small and light as a Kindle to an iPad if it had a color backlit display. (I'd have bought a color Nook if they could play Kindle books.)

Oh look, the Fire has a color backlit display.
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I love working from home, I'm only in the office one week out of every 3 the rest of the time I'm at home working. My fellow employees and I actually find ways we can work from home when we're 'suppose' to be in the office.

I love being able to use my own equipment, being comfortable, not being interrupted by the constant office noises and being able to do whatever I want. Plus the time saved on not having to commute I can work overtime and make more money.

In the office I have to use their desk, their chair, their shitty monitor. At home I can use all my own equipment, everything is there and everything works. I can take breaks at my leisure and because I'm more productive I can play games, or watch some TV, or go out for a 20 minute walk.

I also save 4 hours a day on commuting while working from home. Time which can then be spent either working extra, for more money, doing things around my apartment, hanging out with my wife.

After 3 1/2 years of working from home my wife doesn't bother me, or at the very least, she knows when I can be bothered. It's about setting boundaries. I also work with a partner who's also working at home who I can talk to and get assistance from.

I'm sure it all depends on what kind of job you are doing, I provide tech support to customers all around the world. Somedays it can be really busy and some days it can be extremely slow.
If it has the right software and is easy enough to use, I can see this happening. Given the choice between a $400 iPad and a $200 Kindle Fire I think I can see a lot of people taking the cheaper option.

Whether it is sustainable will depend on the performance/usability of the Kindle. The problem with current iPad competitors is that at best, they come in at the same price point as the iPad and fall far short in terms of usability.
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I have a tool called 'messagebox' that pops up a dialog, and a script 'now' which outputs pretty-formatted current time and date; doubles as a work log:

#!/bin/bash

if [ -n "$1" ]; then
task="$@"
else
task_file=$(mktemp)
export task_file
rlwrap bash -c 'read -p "current task: " -r task; echo $task > $task_file'
task="$(<$task_file)"
rm $task_file
fi

# don't keep a handle open to current directory
cd "$HOME"

echo "$(now): $task" >> ~/.pomodoro

(
sleep 25m
messagebox 'Pop!'
) &

echo "25 minutes starting now"
Don't see why you got down voted. It's a valid opinion. Speaking as someone with an iPad and iPad 2 (both of which I love) they're a tad heavy for reading in bed. So are thick paperbacks, but the Kindle and Kindle Fire might just win on this factor alone.
They probably used the ISO list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1
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indeed, still doesn't beat typing 'c' 3 times.
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IANAL either, but my understanding is that you have common-law trademark rights from the time you start using the name in interstate commerce, whether you add TM or not.
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>If you could get a boring 9-5 with a big business, be treated with respect, get paid well, have health insurance and a pension, more people would go with that.

In my experience, this is what working for "big business" is like, given that you're skilled at something.
Company stock is basically ownership, and there's a dollar value attached to it.

So is does Zynga's request run into the practice of extortion? It's another way of saying, give us your money or else something bad will happen.
Not only do they add no value to society, one could argue they are responsible for decreased productivity of employees who waste their work day playing Zynga games or come back to work tired after wasting 2 hours at night planting cucumbers on FarmVille.
It seems that many commenters are missing the value of a demo combining effects in new ways, presented in a new context.

There are many app experiences beyond simple navigation that ask for and respond to actions/events - many would benefit greatly by expressive animation. I agree the effects shown are more distracting than useful, but this isn't a CSS template for folks to copypaste. It's inspiration to experiment and discover the subtle, sophisticated, delightful details that make your app feel alive and exciting without going so far that it becomes a whirling and twirling abomination.

Use some design judgement. Don't sniff at the tech demo for being a tech demo.
Considering the iPad has been on sale for the last 2 years and have already sold millions, I don't find this surprising since the Kindle Fire just went on sale.

Now if Apple had released a iPad 3 at the same time as the Kindle Fire was released for pre-order, that would be more surprising.
That's not the reason. The question seems clear to me. Moreover, your assertion could only be true if people believed that more than half of female bank tellers are involved in the feminist movement, which is implausible.
Italy has an education problem though. Only 1 in 10 have a higher education diploma. Among the 30-34 year olds, it's 20%, but this is still less than half what most northern European countries have (Ireland is top with 50%). [Source: IMF & Eurostat via my newspaper today.]
Could you retrieve the country from the IP address to set the default?
I use my iPhone 4S as an e-reader before going to sleep. my iPad 2 for the rest of the day. my 4 year old son is using our old iPad 1 and he loves it.
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Something on code navigation & smart code completion.

I am going to echo a reply elsewhere on this thread and say you should contribute to the emacswiki if you can as well.
The connected world is moving away from PCs.

Adobe's previous plans were to have Flash be a unifying rich media platform across all these newfangled devices, like TVs, tablets, alarm clocks, etc… Flash could grow as the "connected market" grew.

Adobe has clearly decided that they can't accomplish this. Since being everywhere was the only way to keep Flash relevant in the long term, I think they've acknowlegded that the future is dim for Flash.

AOL slowly become a hush of their former selves when dialup revenue dried up. Rather than betting the farm on an eventual loser (though a lucrative one), Adobe is doubling down on the winner. This must have been a tough decision, but it's clearly the right one.

The future of AIR and other Flash-based app stuff is less clear, but if Adobe is spending less money on developing Flash, I'm not sure how they can continue to be successful with stuff that leverages flash.
Remember the "borderless" Internet? It's officially dead
Darpa to detail program that radically alters security authentication techniques
do companies have to be in the valleys?
How is this not extortion?
Versioning is definitely a royal pain in mobile apps where the API calls are changing so quickly. I'd love to see some more stuff on how StackMob handles that in subsequent posts.
Makes sense to me. I was already looking into buying a Kindle Fire for my mom. Don't have the money for an iPad.
I wonder how many startups in Portland are jumping with joy after checking their emails this morning.

In all seriousness, I bet this will be an extra boost for the startup scene here, and soon be another bullet point on the list of why Portland (or the NW in general).
My friend and I were just discussing how awesome it would be to have a reality show/movie/drama series about some startups and founders in the valley–but mixed with a lot of what you described (lust, betrayal, absurdity, etc.).

Post your kickstarter project when it's live–I'll contribute.
Old news, see here for comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3218774
Whilst some country endonyms appear to work (Deutchland, Hrvatska, Suomi), non-latin endonyms (日本,Россия) fail, some even when romanised. This isn't an easy thing to solve when many countries have multiple de facto or de jure languages.
Well, I don't think this "works". We are conditioned to think that lists are sorted in alphabetical order. When I key in first few letters of a country, I expect to jump to that country's name directly. But with this redesign, I ended up typing more letters to "fine tune" auto-complete's suggestion!
> She asked me again, and I told her about a job offer from a bank and she looked up to say, "who wants to work at a bank?".

I wouldn't have mentioned who the other offer came from. It's not something they need to know.

Are you actually flexible? Surely there's an amount you like. I would have said something like, "I have an offer for $X a year, but I'd much rather prefer working for you, so my minimum would be $Y," where $Y < $X.
Yeah, that's exactly the type of 'noise' I was referring to. Improper histological staining, poor imaging skills, etc. are all things that the human mind can immediately discover. The human mind is smart enough to not rely on the assumption that all random variables implicated are conditionally independent of each other. Computers, on the other hand, use algorithms rooted in these assumptions.
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Nice idea, going to cause some trouble I think..
It can happen with Apple, if you rely on a proprietary technology they control, but it cannot happen with Gnome or KDE because, if you don't like what they do, you can always roll out your own.

I see you are unfamiliar with modern *nix OSs. Mine gives me both creation time and access time:

rbanffy@computer:~$ ls -l --time=atime a.out
-rwxrwxr-x 1 rbanffy rbanffy 8378 2011-11-10 15:24 a.out
rbanffy@computer:~$ ls -l --time=ctime a.out
-rwxrwxr-x 1 rbanffy rbanffy 8378 2011-10-22 19:31 a.out
"reducing cooling energy use by 90-95%" seems unlikely, unless you are in a cool climate and you can use outside air to cool. That is, put the radiator on the north face of your data center.

This is exactly where more conventional and less sticky methods can achieve good results, so I'm skeptical of the value.
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What's worse is that I never know exactly how much I'm going to pay (this is what my accountant tells me anyway).
A different approach I've tried before is to perform a lookup on the visitor's IP address, and then to auto-select the country that we think they might be from. If we get it wrong, they can always select another country the usual way.
Sure. That's nice about HTML, but too bad you lose almost every other quality thing because of it.

I don't understand why everyone is so hung up on HTML though. The internet is not HTML, the internet is TCP/IP and all the protocols that ride on it like HTTP.

Why can't we just leave HTML the way it is, use it primarily for making nice documents and come up with something new for apps? You know, instead of trying to shoe-horn everything into a spec that has to cover both apps and documents or anything in-between?

Why isn't there a standards committee for a kit like Silverlight or Flash? The runtime would have to be built once for each platform, but that's no different than HTML.
"Sorry! My Prada's at the cleaners along with my hoodie and my fuck-you-flip-flops you pretentious douchebag!"

No, but in all seriousness, I get (and appreciate) what you're saying. Considering my less than conventional educational background, I just wanted to exude my seriousness in the workplace. But as you mention, culture is extremely important at Google, and I trust that they have interviewed enough people to know who "fits" their organization; regardless of one's capacity to do the job.
"Although Zynga's decision might be met with some criticism, the firm's executives reportedly justified their strategy by saying it was best for the company. With the unvested shares, the executives believed they could attract more top talent with the promise of stock."
I have a suggestion for this specific article. I like that it's short and sweet, but I think it could have used a mention of the C-x e e e e e e pattern. I find myself using this all the time to do medium difficulty refactoring on a section of code. Rarely, if ever, do I use C-u 0 C-x e.
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Have you used the Asus UX31?
The writing is atrocious. "...are the two researchers who have had made the study." or "It’s exactly this selfish desires that they tried to exploit and experiment with great success..."

I barely made it through.
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I have to ask. Is it common for anyone to type their country starting with characters inside of the word?

I.e. instead of typing "can" for canada, would you type "ada" or something similarly fuzzy?

I personally type "can", and if Canada is not the first result I consider it's usability inferior to a standard drop-down.
Perhaps adding a geo-ip look up to help weight the results would make this better? None the less this is a huge improvement then a drop-down with every known country.
Engadget has a nice screen cap of the panorama mode.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/ios-5s-panorama-enabled-w...
Stop Blaming Your Family, Your Friends, & Your Society & Get Off Your Ass
Are you sure the same people are saying both?
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Typically employees of a public company have to agree to never trade in options involving the company for the duration of their employment.
There is a keyboard macro counter, which I've been able to use in situations like this. It's described in the manual[1] and on this Stackoverflow question[2].

[1] http://www.gnu.org/s/libtool/manual/emacs/Keyboard-Macro-Cou...

[2]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1509688/emacs-macro-to-ge...
Animation is not at all mutually exclusive of good usability. Usable animation makes state transitions clear to users in ways instant transitions never could.

The perennial example is iOS: Almost all of the animation is there to guide the user through what's happening when the state changes. Left/right transitions make view hierarchies intuitive to follow. Expand/contract animations spatially establish the home screen as the very top level. It's subtle at times, but the animation in iOS is almost never decorative; it's only "fun" because it builds and reinforces the user's mental model of what they're navigating, making them feel in control.
Gladwell basically calls Jobs a tweaker. He didn't tweak products, he reinvented them. In fact, Jobs didn't have the skills to be a tweaker (the guys Gladwell compares Jobs to were essentially hardcore engineers).

Here's a simple example (from Isaacson's book):

When Jobs was working on the Apple II he wanted to build the power supply into the box but didn't want a fan, so he hired a guy to design a new kind of power supply that would meet his requirements. This guy _invented the switching power supply_ to meet those requirements.

This kind of thing occurs over and over in Jobs's story. (E.g. the mouse at Xerox -- which you'll recall Jobs "stole" from Xerox, but in fact was invented by Douglas Englebart -- had three buttons, cost a fortune, broke down frequently, and didn't scroll diagonally. The mouse on my mother's 128k Mac eventually failed after five years when its plastic feet were down flat.)
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So you don't use any proprietary technology then? What kind of car do you drive?
Purple Monkey Dishwasher!!!! I've said these words to the most die-hard Simpson fans and they look at me like I'm from outer-space! It's my favourite line, but this is the first time I've ever seen anyone quote it besides myself.

Sorry, I realize this doesn't really advance the discussion.
The nook reads kindle books just fine with the right calibre plugins.
Does “A VC” have a blind spot for Apple?
Is Google Dart on Target or Does It Miss the Mark?
At this point, only those living under a rock for the past couple of months are unaware that Google has taken on JavaScript with its latest project, the Dart programming language.
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With the unvested shares, the executives believed they could
attract more top talent with the promise of stock.

Not anymore they won't.
But can AI and machine learning give us answers to questions that have definitive answers? And, can it actually be interesting without science?
I completely agree with you, even if I'm from Portugal I understand it perfectly.

For instance, in order to get my SSN in portugal it took around 1-2 weeks. On the other hand, in the US I got my EIN in 5 minutes online.
Wonder what the long term effect is on something like polyester caps and delaminating multilayer boards

Fire suppression is going to be fun.