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I don't think you even have to imagine any malice or profit-protection on the part of the manufacturer to see that.

The simple fact that current cheaper parts are going to be replaced with higher-quality parts is going to cause a corresponding rise in maintenance and replacement costs.
I'm doing job interviews and I take a picture of every business card I get handed. Evernote will OCR them and store them forever, so I can trash the cards and have access to the data in the future.

For flights, I store all my itinerary information, and also make a note of the parking location in a special note. Never forget that way.

I have a note for all my emergency contact information. I have a notebook for date ideas for my wife and I.
Many of them were free. The Galaxy Tab 10.1" is from Google I/O, the TouchPad is from HP for development, although I bought the iPad and Kindle Fire myself. I do use them for development too, where it is useful to have a device for the platform you are developing for.
Did they buy Rapportive?
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> Or the fact that massive funds are spent on standardized testing which can be so difficult that high-achieving adults have trouble passing them?

Did you look at the test? He may be considered "high-achieving", but don't you wonder what he's missing by being innumerate?
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Happy to help... My email address is in my HN profile (it's just my HN username @gmail.com)
Some more information here http://goo.gl/YlFkQ but no, each data-key (master) is unique to each user and stored outside of the application and network in an encrypted store, also all PID is encrypted and non-associative. Of course, I would prefer if users didn't want a restore option, however, usability sometimes trumps security :) Lost your password == lost all your data, just doesn't cut it with users IRL (I found).
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Ask HN: Should there not be a save option on every story?
Is it just me or is it not nice to have a small save button that would save all your stories in your user. At the moment I have a bookmark folder for it, but it seems impractical. I want to simply click save of HN and keep it stored within my HN realm? Does this not make sense?
There are lots of people out there who download those toolbars on purpose, usually to get some incentive offered in exchange, like free virtual currency or something. Many of them don't ever realize that they're effectively malware.
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I know at least one Android tablet that has an extra power connector because apparently it's USB micro connector can not provide sufficient power.

Maybe the Apple USB connector is not even protected design and Samsung was allowed to use it? Is it actually compatible to the Apple connector.

Once you go for a wider connector, perhaps again there are not that many options if you want to be thin. It has to be some kind of slot of some length. Presumably the amount of pins is fixed, and you want a minimum length per pin for good connectivity? (I am just guessing, don't know much about electronics).

Anyway, do you feel offended by a slot in a tablet? Does it really matter that much?
My point about the glove box was regrettably unclear; it's not about "access to my stuff" so much as it's about "insulation from other people's stuff." In a shared car, the dirty Kleenex you find under the seat will be someone else's dirty Kleenex, not yours or your spouse's or your child's.

I'm not standing up for cars here. I'm not a motoring enthusiast. I simply think that the reason cars have been adopted so widely is because of the way their particulars fit together with human psychology, specifically with issues of control and self-esteem.
Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought this was default when G+ initially launched? I seemed to recall tagging photos and it "suggested" people (usually correctly) for the tags I was making.

I admit I don't recall exactly, however; I was never one to tag photos.
I am sure they did not copy the 21mm because it looks the best. There must be some other reason.
In a typical real-time system you don't have to deal with random processes screwing things up. Resources are meticulously allocated to individual tasks, and the tasks aren't allowed to randomly grab resources in the scenario you describe. It all has to be planned out in advance.
That's exactly what I mean... If you can have the tools you have already built sitting on top of a large panel of people who are willing to participate in these surveys for charity then you have the recipe for longer-term success in the industry, as well as a competitive differentiator over the next guy who comes along and builds a low-cost survey tool. Check out SurveyBuilder (www.surveybuilder.com) for an example of what I'm talking about.
And don't forget that he'll be influencing potential future Miyamotos...
Maybe the component supplier put in a cheaper bid if the part sizes were identical?
Every one of these features would be great if it were the Facebook equivalent, instead of G+. It's unfortunate that Google's insistence on never acknowledging Facebook's existence limits their long term relevance and success.
It's a different color, which, in Apple's view, is good enough of differentiation.

But I do wish it was a more standard USB port, like the micro one that Amazon's adopted.
Good point. That's not inherently obvious.

The correlation goes more like this:

Scenario 1: Company wants to take 20 minutes to complete their survey so they make more money. You delete it.

Scenario 2: Company wants you to take a 5 question survey, and they will donate $1 to a charity of your choice if you do it. You are more likely to actually take it because the company showed they're willing to do something selfless in return for your selfless act.
> I do use a phone and computer but only because they're necessities.

Commenting on Hacker News is a necessity.
Atlas shrugged.
It is an awesome list maker. Almost perfect. The auto syncing and having an app for every device are the killers.

But, as a list maker, why can't I make lists in user defined order? This is one of the most fundamental things a list maker should be able to do. It's so painful it's almost a deal breaker. There is no more natural way to sort things into priority order. I need to be able to switch to different notebooks (and tags, potentially) and immediately see what's most important, but the only way to do that now is clumsy hacks and workarounds. I can't throw stuff in and iterate over it until it's a hunk of polished gold. Instead, I have to come up with a "system" to manage it all. It's frustrating. Dragging things into order is the most low-tech way of prioritizing work. I read recently that low-tech solutions appeal to geeks, so maybe that's why it appeals to me. The fact that you can't drag stuff into order forces you to over-engineer your approach to task management.

For now, I make lists inside notes, but then I lose much of the power that makes evernote useful in the first place.
We never ever store, or transmit over the network the user's master password nor any of its derivatives, therefore we don't nee to encrypt it.

The user's master password is not encrypted, it is used to create the key to encrypt and decrypt user's data, and the encryption key created from the master password, as a derivative of the master password, is never stored or transmitted.

This way, we can assure our users that even us cannot ever access their data.
Back in 1989 as one of our projects in a data structures course, we solved this problem and reached the same conclusions. We did it using Pascal!
250MBps XQD cards to replace CompactFlash in high-end cameras
It is Knockout, the meta data in the font files say so.
Indeed. We've been giving the US government all the wrong powers, and stripping it of all the right ones. Heckuvajob, us.
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Yeah, I don't know about the a/c in question; however, the Colgan crash was a result of the pilot fighting the stick pusher and winning. The stick pusher is not easy to override.

It seems counter intuitive to nose down when you're falling out of the sky, but it's how you recover.
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Because it's a lot easier to spend other people's money. Instead of hiring people when you need something done, you learn it and do it. That way, when you do hire someone you are more knowledgeable and careful with your decisions.

I think it's a good way to teach yourself to be "lean" (in the parlance of our times)
I've got nothing to say about the encryption - that seems impossible to deal with.

You can (apparently) get a developer kit for STANAG 4586 for the low low price of € 9 900.00. Not like the diy drone stuff, this is a kit based on the NATO spec for participating on a UAV's control network. This is like 5 minutes and google. an organization with the resources of a nation behind it could probably get farther.
> Anyway, do you feel offended by a slot in a tablet? Does it really matter that much?

I'm offended that anyone can look at the situation and argue that Samsung arrived at their designs independently.
> since a tablet has to work with any content, the only color that is both neutral and more subdued than any other...is black.

As well as white, silver, beige, or any of the hundreds possible distinct shades of gray. Throughout 1980-90s, computer monitors were beige, and that was considered to be a classy, neutral, subdued color that works with any content, just like black is considered today. I'm not saying beige is better; I'm just saying that this whole thing that black is "the only possible color" is annoying. Apple themselves make a white iPad as well as covers in different colors, so clearly black is not the only game in town.

Oh, and I've held Sony Tablet S, and it works just fine in portrait orientation; as a matter of fact Sony's tablet is easier to hold with one hand in portrait mode than iPad is. What a bunch of whiners.
I second this idea... I've come across a few studies that say pinpointing exactly where/to whom the money will go goes a long way to increasing donations.
Messages are prioritized on the screens in the cockpit in any aircraft I've ever seen. Higher priority messages are near the top and are a different color.

There are lots of messages because lots of things can go wrong with an aircraft. They aren't all critical "land now" messages, but may be relevant.
Crashes my iPad.
Design by simplification is hard. And surprisingly not intuitive. Look at a Picasso and realize it took hundreds of years of western art before something so "simple" could be appreciated.

It's made even harder because engineers and business managers often insist on extra functionality or visual clutter.

(Often there are good usability or marketing reasons for this, but too often it's simply the desire to be "part of the process".)

Now you do give up something with simplicity. In art you force the user to supply context and sometimes even interpretation; in software design this can actually be a plus. One of the things you give up in software, and hardware, design is novelty. When you boil a solution down to its essence there's often not room for differentiation. You have to change either the constraints, smaller batteries, for example, or change user expectations.

This makes competing against something so "undesigned" very difficult without trying to completely re-conceptualize a product.

This is what Apple did with the iPhone. Now it helped them in that the basic "smart phone" was so utterly, indescribably awful before they entered the market. I imagine the process Jobs went through involved looking at the current market and deciding that there was no way to fix any of that. So they started from scratch. A big deal was realizing that they weren't simply making a phone with some connectivity features and a bigger display, but they were designing a small, portable communication platform that needed to have absolutely minimal impact on, well, portability. They looked at the problem and built just enough to solve the basics and provide a minimal amount of hardware and software to support the ideas. Anything added needs to have minimal impact on the basics.

Now they didn't get it perfect, by any means. But they did a good, credible job. Good enough that if you are a competitor you are going to have a hard time solving the same problems, with the same constraints, and not come up with something that a layman would have a hard time distinguishing from the original.

Now I'm against software patents myself, and think hardware patents should be much more difficult to get and keep. But legal issues aside, if you want to compete against the iPhone and iPad, and not seem like an also-ran, you are going to have to come up with a different interaction paradigm. A device built into spectacles with a heads up display and vision tracking? Something totally audio based; Siri anyone? I can see the attraction to a phone with no display or buttons at all.

I don't know the solution(s) myself, this is not an area I'm interested in developing in.

But I'll probably want to own whatever the next "Steve Jobs" comes up with. A Samsung iPhone/iPad knockoff? Not so much...
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25 years is a worst-case situation, where it turns out that this particular method doesn't actually help much.

But when you're dealing with biology, and particularly human biology, you are subject to iterating at the speed of the biology. Depending on the type of cancer, accruing enough people so that you can actually determine efficacy and then waiting to see how the people do on the treatment can take easily 5 years, perhaps 15.

And while a huge number of treatments look promising at this stage of development, the vast majority end up not being effective. The chances of success, amount of effort, and potential monetary payoff to the basic researchers, are all less favorable than a startup.
Thanks. That's a great idea.

I want to keep it manageable for my users. If you give a user infinite options, they will be overwhelmed. So, I am not entirely sure how to strike that balance.

Currently a company chooses 5 of 20 charities, and their customers choose 1 of those 5.
> Also, real journalists have fact checking departments that are supposed to verify those facts.

However, "fact checking departments" consist of a bunch of folks with no domain expertise, often interns, who do little more than try to find someone who can "verify" what they want to verify. In other words, they're little more than under-paid quote-checkers.
Yes we need browserid. And less security questions. Or "Facebook login"
that's the article i was thinking of! i still think 178 seconds is insanely short, though.
Author here. It is free for 30 days, and I think most people who try it will find that it's worth the price. And if not, I'll think about bringing it down when the trials start expiring and people don't convert. For what it's worth, there are desktop apps on the market that do the same thing, but not as well, and cost significantly more.

Textcelerator doesn't have PDF support yet, but it's planned for a future version. Textcelerator runs anywhere Firefox or Chrome des, so Ubuntu is and will of course continue to be supported.
A university lecturer of mine actually interviewed people in a bank, and asked them how long they thought they had stood in line. She found it was proportional to the line length, not the time they actually stood in line. Note, the bank didn't believe her, so she used some modelling package to animate it ... then they believed her.
>Clinical trials take so long because there are so many regulations about safety.

Clinical trials take so long because it takes so long to perform the study. Clinical trials cost so much because of regulations, and because of sparing no expense to make them happen more quickly.
In the weeks following the announcement, many companies have listed many of their popular devices as "getting ICS." It seems better than for versions past.

I think almost all major (Honeycomb) tablets are slated for ICS, many of the most popular phones including the SGS2, Nexus S, and others are slated for ICS. Also, Gingerbread has gotten 50% within a year of release. Plus, many pre-2.2 devices are eligible for upgrade around now. I don't think it's a stretch to suggest soon ICS will have a strong market presence, and within a year ICS+ will be on the majority of devices.

edit: ICS+ means ICS and any versions released after it, not the version after ICS.
nice, I am going to suggest this the next time we have a staff meeting
I've stopped filing paper in a filing cabinet. Now I just scan it and throw it out. (I should be shredding it, but haven't gotten around to buying a shredder). This takes strictly less time than filing it by hand, is more enjoyable, and best of all, it's searchable.

Details: I bought a Fujitsu ScanSnap sheet fed scanner (loads paper in a hopper like a fax machine) off of Ebay for $100. It has decent Evernote integration, such that I can drop in a sheet of paper, push a button, and have it scan both sides of the sheet of paper directly to Evernote.
this type of thinking is just lazy. the government did something bad? government can't work! take away as many powers as possible!

or maybe, we need to figure out a good solution. problem is, that's not easy and requires domain knowledge and critical thinking. its a lot easier just to say, well i have this one solution that will solve all the problems.
I think it's time for Twitter to move away from the strict 140 letter limit. It has served them well, but not anymore. Now it's just severely restricting the usefulness of the service and if they don't fix it soon Google+ will grab a lot of Twitter-users who are limited by the limit, like myself.

I don't have the time or enough things I'd like to say in order for it to warrant getting a blog, but not everything I'd like to say fits into 140 characthers either.

It would actually relatively easy for Twitter to fix this issue. Just do it like Reddit does for self-posts. Simply enable people to embed text the same way it lets people embed pictures and videos.

It solves all the major issues Twitter is having - people will stop shortening their tweets so much that they lose their intended meaning/readablity, Google+ stops having a major content advantage due to no characther limit and the feed won't get cluttered by walls of text (unlike Google+).
Or they could design a new cable?

Apple are asking them to change a whole load of things - colour, size, proportionality etc. Why not just ask them to change the cable?

Let's put it the other way - if someone came out and said they had a patent on some part of Apple's power cable - be it a design patent or a technology one - would you say that Apple would have to stop selling iPads? Or just stop selling those particular cables, and design around it?

For a similar case, look at the recent Doom 3 source code release. John Carmack had to remove the code for Carmack's Reverse because it infringed a Creative Labs patent (which had been licensed specifically to id, not to outside developers). He didn't have to remove the whole code base, just the one bit that actually infringed.
Try writing the code for an autopilot some time. It's hard. We spend a lot of time flight testing just the autopilot.

Making something go in a particular direction at a particular altitude at a particular speed is hard enough. Throw in a stall and the best the plane can do is try to nose down.
Thanks man. There were quite a few Romanians that messaged me, so I think there is a startup spirit in Romania.

For anyone interested, I am organizing a Startup Meetup in Cluj on Dec. 20: http://www.meetup.com/cluj-rb/events/43578682/
Well, I can say that while at work I've never had my locale fail to detect properly, so this must be a really rare thing in my 'hood.
I would like to strongly agree with your statement about idempotent DOM updates v. subcomponents. This question (re-render entire unit or manually sync model changes with individual jQuery dom changes) is one of the first things I try to think through when using JS MVC patterns. It is a huge pain when you have nested controls for nested models.
>Try it with 1 queue which feeds into whichever of the three queues is currently shortest

I have edited my original response to include that scenario as well. btw for M/M/1 vs M/M/3, here's a good reference: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastjjb/jeb/or/queue.html
Thanks man. I changed that and will push the change tonight. Let me know if you find any other bugs.
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As an Iranian I can tell you the one thing the Iranian government loves the most is propaganda. Always bet on the side of incompetence rather than Iran being super secret spies. I can almost guarantee you that no Iranian believes anything about this that's coming from Iran's side, but you should not blindly trust either of what Iran or the US is saying about what happened.

This is just trying to catch people's attention and make Iran seem like a powerful country and a threat, and trust me the only people falling for it are the blind followers of mainstream news. No Iranian believes any of this.
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I think it's the fact that there exists an organization with a monopoly on the initiation of force that is the problem. The structure of this organization matters a little less. That's why these sorts of problems happen with every government.

What the government has done in this case is criminal. But now we just have to hope that they prosecute themselves. If there were no monopoly on force, it would be possible to use a competing court system to prosecute.
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I have some measurements for that and as I get more customers, I will be able to answer that question for you.
Is there a way to use SproutCore without the command line programs like sc-init or sc-server, and without it forcing a directory structure on you?

I like the idea of SproutCore, but I really just want to do <script src="sproutcore.js"> and have it get out of my way from there. YUI seems to be able to do this and it seems even larger than SproutCore, recently including MVC in its "App Framework". Of course, you need to bring your own templating, but even then that's just another JavaScript include.

Or am I missing the point of SproutCore? What is it adding that, say, YUI or Dojo isn't, that it requires so many programs?
You, sir, are a cruel cruel drug pusher. I cannot let this naked praise for DF go without a warning: you will straight up lose days to this game if you try to figure it out. I lost, literally lost, 96 hours to DF before I wised up and purged it from my hard drive. Even so, its delicious caverns of dirt-to-be-excavated and dwarfs to be managed still tempts me, beckons me back. So far, I've held fast.

tl;dr: df is cocaine
Be sure you're not just discounting Iranian competence due to your own nationalistic pride. Its quite feasible that this drone was taken over - after all, drones in that area have been being hacked into for years. For YEARS.

And, the US military is not as smart as you think. You can buy cheap off the shelf equipment to access drone networks ..
Ultimately the point was that shell scripting shouldn't be used for "serious" programming. Yet it has been used for decades to accomplish and automate some of the most important tasks on UNIX/Linux systems. I happen to know and work in several "serious" programming languages, and yet I can knock out a functional, reliable, and understandable shell script in a fraction of the time it would take many people to do the same in X.

Since it's tracking on HN, I'll also point this out: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...
It's ironic that both sproutcore and extjs fell prey to version fragmentation in the community because they tried to do too much too fast. I'm stuck on ExtJS 3.4 waiting for the 4.x line to mature to the point where it isn't half as slow and twice as buggy as 3.x.