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Last month, I ordered Paw Wax for my 13 year old dog, and a Dremel 300 for my son's birthday from Amazon. I'd like to think B&N can compete, but I've never used their website and last time I bought a book from a brick and mortar location, it was sad.

I'm old enough to remember when checking out of a book store often involved a short conversation about books rather than a "No Thanks" to a Godaddy like gauntlet of magazine subscription offers and membership cards coupled with watching another human being humiliate theirself.

Sorry but I don't care if B&N puts tits in the box with their tablet, I have no love for the brand.
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That would be useful to me. Waow it's pretty nice. Color theory I'm going to watch that. What I got to sign up? Well it seems like professional content so I'll sign up quickly. Oh I have to pay? Hahah forget that, so many free resource on internet, feels like I'm going back 10 years ago when I had to pay for an encyclopedia or a research engine :)
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Perhaps people also have low expectations for software.
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Yeah, that was my guess too. But none of the pictures are amazing, they're just random stuff of random human life. They can surely do better than that.
Thanks for all of your suggestions! I will try all of the products and will be happy to help with feedback.
performance, probably.
Thanks. Yeah the UI still needs work. You can turn off notifications in the Growl system preference pane. I'll probably add setting in the app.
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I'm not sure if this is specific to just a job board targeted at developers but even on a job aggregator like Indeed.com, I can't filter by some elements that I can see people interested in like:

- Benefits (401k matching, health, vision, dental, free lunch, daycare, etc.)
- Equipment (what is provided? Ergonomic chairs, etc.)

I know some of this may seem like the wrong things to focus on when choosing a job but I personally know many folks who spend a significant % of their income on healthcare and child care and it should be considered as important as salary.
Making dozens of quick things to try them out (and then abandoning them) isn't such a bad strategy when searching for a good business idea. Obsessing over the backend of an mvp might be a net negative.
I find that strange, also. It just seems like, either compact continuously (and don't make me worry about enormous dbs because of hidden files, and the trouble that can happen when it gets too large (> 1/2 disk space, so I understand)), or give easy access to the versions. I'd prefer the first, but from a user perspective (although maybe not a db-designer perspective), either-or makes sense.

That's the fallout of eventual concurrency, though.
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The point is that it's unnecessary to find the plaintext; all you need is some plaintext that produces the same hash value. It doesn't matter if your actual password is "zipobibrok5x10^8" when "fordprefect" also gets you into the system. (That, of course, only applies to a single system -- or to a cluster of systems all using something like an unsalted MD5. It would matter if you're trying to leverage a password found on a cat fanciers' site to empty someone's bank account.)
I think you are confusing the emotional relationship and connection with other likeminded hackers and entrepreneurs - not YC or the YC brand itself.

Last I checked, pg hasn't started a tech company in decades. It's not the orange bar I'm here for, it's the people in the comments - most of whom are not even affiliated with YC.
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> In the long-term, there is the possibility that a group/company could manipulate and in-essence, "program", a human being to think and do whatever they desire.

Do you really think this is new? While we haven't arrived yet at Dollhouse-style programming of individuals, programming the masses has been around since the dawn of civilization, and simply increased its efficiency with the advent of mass media and psychology. Now the "compliance professionals" are moving towards a new level of efficacy: algorithmically personalized messaging, rather than scattering seed at random.

Make no mistake about it: all communication is fundamentally mind control. (Don't think of a pink elephant.) We can't stop it; we can only learn to defend ourselves.
What's the YC brand? I come here for the intelligent conversation about tech subjects.
This application is very interesting. I like what you've done with the UI. The top-left album view / controls panel is neat.

As a recent Spotify convert, I may not find as much use out of it as I would have a few months ago, but thank you for sharing a free beta. I will certainly be watching this project in the future.

Also, I think the icon looks great, for what it's worth.
I wonder what a fair benchmark test would look like. Would it boil down to an argument of C++ vs Java for floating point operations?
Fair enough, I suppose I didn't read your original comment closely enough. I appreciate your essays on the topic, but I fear that too many people have, without a full understanding, drawn the conclusion from them that SHA = bad, bcrypt/pbkdf2 = good, without fully realizing that SHA is an integral part of pbkdf2.
The app is very nice looking, and already packs quite a good amount of features. Special mention to the import from iTunes (although not playlists?), global hotkeys, visualisation of most played stuff, Growl integration... The monitored folders look really cool too.

That said, iTunes+GimmeSomeTune already gives me those features and a killer one: iPod sync. In my case, Enqueue doesn't have quite different features enough to make me switch completely from iTunes (yet?).

It's already very good work though, and the development seems to be going strong. Keep up the good work!
Cool! I was just trying to keep track in some spreadsheet that lives on my laptop, but this is much better. The use of Gravatar is also a nice touch.

I am unfortunately not knowledgeable on the issues that come with enabling https on a website, but that would be a nice feature.

It'll be interesting to see how this sort of activity incentivizing stacks up against more active variants like http://www.habut.com/.
Agreed. I'm using MySQL to store relational user data and CouchDB to store docs- in the same application.
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Interesting to think about how this was conceived as representative of human culture: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/images/image082.gif

Who on earth (literally) drinks like that? :)
"not the open source philosophy"

It doesn't matter what the philosophy is, it matters what the laws says and what it allows you to do. Many companies don't want you to resell their products on ebay (their philosophy). However, the first sale doctrine says something different (the law).

So while you may not like someone re-packaging and re-selling open source software, as long as they are following the license, there isn't much you can do about it.
I've only seen Steve on TV, but here's my guess.

1) Ask smart questions to smart people. Steve seemed to be a master at this - he can sense when someone is glossing over something, and attacks it. I.E.: "What do you mean, 'for now'; will there be problems later on?". Most people don't want to hear the things you clearly omit. Steve went for the jugular.

2) Experience. Heard of the Next computer? Uneconomic - the whole automated assembly, and razor-sharp magnesium corners, and 16 different shades of black thrown out because they weren't quite right drove the costs up too much. Heard of WebObjects? Steve had his failures. He tended to salvage what he could, restart them, and finally get them working; but he still had failures. I bet he learnt a lot from them.
I really do not agree with that, now that can work with small websites you don't care about and just not going to do maintenance.

but in my experience, the technical debt will be a big problem later on, if not a total deal breaker. This is a problem found a lot in html integration, and jQuery new comer that push one millions of events in the dom.ready

Unmaintainable mess = hours and hours of lost work

I find that the easiest and cleanest solution is generally the better, I always try to not over engineer my code.
Neat, but not all pictures are linked. Here's s site that has working links to all the pictures:
http://re-lab.net/welcome/images.html
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Going from memory, the plate defines a base unit of measurement based on the frequency of the Hydrogen atom (lower right). Hopefully every space-travelling civilization has got that one down on paper.

Then it goes into how to play the record back (the speed is drawn around the edge of the record), then how to demodulate the waves, then how to convert the data into scanlines and plot them in a square and get to the calibration circle (middle of the disc).

It's kind of quaint that we sent this record of civilization out as gold-plated LP record. Very 70's.
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If you want US firms to pay attention to EU data laws, you'd have to devote some real resources to enforcement.

From this side of the pond, these laws look like they're only very sporadically enforced, and only against large entities like Facebook who've got the legal resources to deal with the hassle. When viewed with typical American attitudes, that barely makes them laws at all - they're the equivalent of jaywalking in NYC.
Most people would not think of it in those terms, but yes.

I dabble and play with other programing languages and operating systems, but I make my money as SQL Server DBA, I hold multiple technical certifications from Microsoft, and use several Microsoft Products at home and at work. I have a long term relationship with Microsoft and follow news from them closely.

In a more frivolous example, I noticed that Bioware tends to make most of the video games I really enjoy. So, I follow news of new released, updates, etc from them.

Anything which provides a convenient mechanism to get news from companies like them that I deal with on an ongoing relationship, can be useful to me. Something which would let me send them questions and or feedback that they would actually pay attention to, would also be valuable. So, I do not know if I will ever use this particular feature from Google, but I certainly do build relationships with global brands and an effective tool in that arena could be useful.
Both iPhone and iPhone 4S have great cameras, but I have recently tested 4S camera vs Sprints Epic Touch 4G(Samsung Galaxy S 2) and couldnt find discernible quality differences that would make iPhone 4S stand out.

Furthermore I loved the fact that Samsung's Camera software allows you to specify the ISO and focus mode(spot/center/etc) whereas neither Camera+ nor iPhones Camera app provides for ISO manipulation(I dont recall if Camera+ allows specifying focus modes) -- this could be a limitation of iOS SDK.
Maybe a book of pics would have been better, or some microfilm - that is if the aliens can even see in our spectrum.
Most of my album art is not displaying. Any info I can send you to help debug?
you can't tell me you haven't noticed a bias towards YC-funded companies in the comments here. they don't just get more attention, they get more love.
It's certainly a witty statement. I will give an 'upvote' for that. However, I cannot agree with the statement. It may have started the way you are describing however, there are so many practical uses for a consumer as well.

Essentially, it makes the offline work "clickable". There are other technologies as well that serves as a bridge for offline2online (folks have already mentioned about RFID). QR code is just one of them and as with any solution it has it's pros and cons.

I do like the trend of businesses trying to make things interactive, contextual and personalized. I hate typing URLs on my phone so any solution is a welcome one.

As for folks complaining about the aesthetics of the code; there are companies working on making the code invisible: http://www.digimarc.com/
Personally, I would like a non-proprietary technology though; so unless they make it royalty-free; I will continue to favor QR codes.
People in 2011 lose weeks to tuning allocators and collectors in real high level languages.

But that's, statistically, almost no people out of 'people who use GC'. There aren't that many allocators in common use that even have much in the way of tunable parameters (I can only think of the JVM ones, offhand), the people who spend weeks tuning them have very particular needs - high throughput, low latency, high-enough complexity to warrant a high-level language. These are the sort of people who also do things like start at a PHP page and end up chasing performance improvements in the bowels of a network kernel driver. It's done, but it's unrepresentative.

ARC fits better with the C world

It seems like a much more central reason ARC is more suitable than a GC for Objective C than 'GC tuning is occasionally a dark art'.
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> There is no way to back track traffic and discover who sent the request.

If you control a vast majority of the nodes, this is simply incorrect.
Why the hell is rzbn's comment below dead and mine just above is upmodded? They're saying the same thing. Modding on HN is bizzare and fickle
Much in the same way that Processing can be compiled to work on Android, Cinder can be compiled to work on IPhones & Ipads.

Also, I think Cinder has a bit more of a direct approach to OpenGL, whereas Processing has built up a simplified layer on top of JOGL to make doing the more common things easier.
So running with your example, assume I have a transaction that adds 5 to a column value and then reads the value back.

If I start with a value of 0, then run my transaction twice, can both transactions return 5? Or is it guaranteed that one will return 10?
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Awesome work! Very promising.

A question: When you import from a location do you consider playlists and audio files?

It seems if you have a folder /music/album/ and inside are the audio files for the album and a playlist for this album that your app would create an entry in library for all items on playlist and the files thus duplicating.
iTunes used to do this but I believe now consolidates.

A few things from my first impression.

1. Importing music did not seem to show a progress dialog of any sort. For a user with a large library this may not be desirable.

2. The equalizer is a nice feature. Adding some more presets to the equalizer may be nice. Most come with a slew . (nit picking)

3. Playlist/History/Preferences areas should be the full width like the library window is. Those 3 areas feel out of place in consideration with the rest of the app.

4. Nice work, you just found a new user! Let me know you would like a guinea pig. Happy to help if I can! (Development or feedback.)
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Beautiful site, great UX.

I will be signing up and if the videos are as good as the samples I'll definitely be sticking around; worth $49 a month for sure. I love that you guys are trying to tackle this end-to-end - ambitious, but I hope you pull it off.
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Hm, in vim one can do

:map J jjjj

But I guess using existion elisp functions might be useful.
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I read it with this tone also, but the "I'm not at liberty..." part is different from "I don't want to bash them here," and is a little troubling.
Summary : they are the same hardware wise. The reviewer barely mentions software. And it's clear he never either device in real life. Not even from far away.

Why is this even here?
Manual controls would be great.

Camera+ lets you separately control focus point and metering point, that's most likely what you're looking for in "focus modes".
If you don't know that you need something like this, then you probably should be using Postgres or something instead. It's mature and usually plenty fast enough. (Unless it isn't, in which case you can feel free to start considering fancy databases like this one.)
Can it delete my dupes? That's a huge feature for me.
The sidebar is a "now playing" playlist and I think the most interesting part of the app. When you double click a song it copies the current library into the sidebar. It lets you edit the order things get played, or what gets shuffled. You can drag and drop songs in and out of it.

You can hide the browser by right clicking the header and selecting 'hidden'.
You have no idea how long I've been waiting for something like this to come along! Really great feature set and looks great, you've done a terrific job.
Is there a video? Otherwise, what makes this interesting? And why is it creepier than any other plastic toy?
All you gotta do is explore is cosmology, psychology, and Buddha-nature. Steve did the thinking that most were afraid to do and convinced with tenacity.
You've got a ton of 5-star reviews (50!)... but I'm not sure what the game actually is. Can you explain how it works? Could be a great Christmas gift for the peeps on my list that don't need another pair of gloves or a magazine subscription.
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There is a problem with sorting - iTunes has option to mark an album as 'compilation', so that it'll combine it anyway even if it has a lot of artists. Can't find anything like this in Enqueue.
> Perhaps people also have low expectations for software.

Maybe, but I don't think that has anything to do with the point that people could have easily migrated to other clones but stayed with twitter as it was the best platform, performance woes aside.
I think we've finally came to the place where consumer-grade digital cameras will quickly begin to fade out. The images and video coming from the 4S are mind-blowing -- I'm still dumbfounded such a small lens array can produce such clear photos. (Check Vimeo's iPhone video channel.)

The only thing my 4S lacks that my point-and-shoot has is an optical zoom. Beyond that, the phone's ecosystem of photo apps plus the ability to drop photos into Facebook in seconds makes warehousing my old digital a no-brainer.
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They totally obfuscate what is going to happen -- Many times there is little to no information about where a QR code will send me.

How so? Every app I've tried (for Symbian) shows me the URL and asks me if I want to load it.
From the Facebook comments:

Timothy Joseph: Thank God! I'm so happy to hear this! What a great company to have done this. I wonder if my employer would have done this for me.

That is an interesting question. If someone where I work (ClearChannel, owner of over 850 radio stations, and dozens of high-profile websites like RushLimbaugh.com and GlennBeck.com) went missing, I wonder what company resources would/could be used to aid in a search effort.
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Objective-C message sends are not much slower than C++ virtual calls:

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And that's from 2008. Clang's improved it a lot.
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You are right. I do find myself wondering, even though it's none of my business, and suspecting the "worst" about a woman I don't know.

Hopefully, she just went on a bender, had a absolute blast, but it got a little out of control- perhaps resulting in dehydration or something else without too much social stigma.
Ok. How about something like this? http://i.imgur.com/M5lWg.png
Amazon's running an ad in which people use their smartphones to take photos of things, scan barcodes, and search to wishlist/buy things on Amazon. There's even a scene in which a guy in a brick and mortar store puts a package of diapers back on the shelf.

In other words, Amazon is actively predating on retail markets left and right, to the extent of relegating them to display models for their own merchandise. Media consumption is a big recent play, but they're moving forward on killing traditional retail, too.

Meanwhile, B&N is making competent moves in the struggle to survive. It seems almost noble in its futility.
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I disagree that it's a small design change. The decision to use finger input as opposed to stylus input has a cascading effect on the whole UI. Fingers are too fat to click on lots of little buttons, so you have to use direct manipulation everywhere you can.

Take something simple like zooming or scrolling a page. In Windows Mobile circa 2006, the basic paradigm was the same one you'd use on the Xerox Alto in 1973: click on scroll up/down buttons to scroll, click on a menu and then on zoom in/out to zoom. The stylus was just a less capable mouse on a smaller screen. On iOS circa 2007, you pinch to zoom the page and swipe to scroll it. There is no analogue to this in the previous Windows/Menus/Icons/Pointers paradigm.

I think the iOS UI is really the perfect example of something that wasn't just tweaking. Windows Mobile was just a tweak of the mouse-based Windows UI for stylus input. iOS threw away the Mac UI, predicated on the mouse, and started from scratch. "What does a UI look like when you start from the assumption that you're manipulating it with your fingers?"
> I think that there's an alternate way, but it comes at a cost: we have to de-standardize the tests.

Why do you think that "standardized test" means "same questions for everyone"?

Also, we're actually not that interested in the score at the end of the year but in the difference between what the kids could do at the beginning and end of the year.
I love the clean, simple interface and the small memory footprint. I suspect there is large enough number of tech savvy users unsatisfied with iTunes to create a really nice market for this.