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Slick site! It would be good if going back through the navigation history took you through the images you had viewed. Currently it just goes in and out of thread view.
I think you need a favicon =)
I don't think frequency flooding works with the newer types of microphones used in modern analog phones (electret/dynamic). The article specificly mentions carbon mics, and that frequency flooding can be defeated with a capacitor.
I think this is just mistaken. How is mixing your social circle into your search NOT relevant? Given that people routinely move in tight cliques, whether or not they know it. If all your buddies are into kink, a search for "horse" or "crops" is likely to turn up something rather different from if they are into agriculture, and this is not uncool.
Claude Hopkins was doing A/B testing as early as 1910. He had people send out different versions of direct-mail ads, which they would correlate with sales.

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Advertising-Scientific-Classics-L...

I recommend this book. Apart from this and other techniques that he pioneered astonishingly early (we know that's true because the book came out in 1923), it's striking how many brands Hopkins created that are still household words today (Goodyear, Palmolive, Quaker). The book is also a plain good read.
I've had exactly the opposite experience. I've owned 3 thinkpads, 4 macbook pros (between my wife and i), and an ibook. The thinkpads are tanks that take any beating i give them and keep running. The ibook was solid. The macbook pros have been complete crap--breaking dvd drives, failing harddrives, failing keyboards, cracked displays, failing trackpads. On the dvd drives, Apple has refused to admit the problem, and has repeated deleted forums with people discussing it. They've completely lost me as a customer.
And don't forget the upcoming windows 8. I think that they can recognize that Microsoft will finally offer something new. And maybe, the true rival for iOS and iPad format will come from Redmond, not from Mountain View.
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I've looked at a few freelance sites before, but turned away because all the "Requests for help" want an e-bay clone for $200.

It's at that point I think the entire site is rubbish (low quality offers for work etc), so I think you may want to ensure work offers are reasonable to set a standard.
I think as long as they don't abuse power in law to protect their huge profit margin, then any one who thinks they can do better job will be rewarded handsomely and they will step in to compete. If iPhone didn't make so much money, I wonder Google and Microsoft would spend so much man power on their mobile systems.

The sad thing of my home country, Taiwan , is no one has such power to make such a big profit. All electronic manufacturers fight for 0.5% margin among each others, Chinese and Koreans. Most of ic companies are heavily subsidized by government with low interest loans. They are just too big to fail. I would rather to see they can build business that not only self sustain but making profit without tax money from general public.
Isn't that the whole reason behind the Ultrabook initiative? This way you get a pretty decently designed laptop. For desktops you can get a few cases that can compete with the looks of the Mac Pro, although few of them are as organized on the inside, at least without a bit of work from those assembling them. Not that it matters all that much (and never mind that I still think the G3/G4 plastic cases were nicer).

Regarding OS software, it doesn't look like Apple is even trying very hard anymore, so let's see if things like Ubuntu can catch up. (Personally, the bits of software I like most on my Macbook aren't even from Apple.)
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funfact: David Ogilvy had below average IQ (96) http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vrDEWAcDGbkC&lpg=PA1...
How to contribute a patch to a GitHub hosted Open Source project like Code 52
Well, I certainly didn't appreciate the potential use cases for an iPad: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236558 until I used one for a while. I love gaming on the iPad. The abundance of well-designed, easy and quick to play 2D games is almost overwhelming.

The iPad is fantastic for video. Several hours of tutorials or iTunesU before needing a charge. My 11" air can burn a full charge in a couple of hours of video playback (flash or html5). And it's nice to watch on the iPad, and code along on the Air.

Reading and browsing goes to the Air or EeePC. The keyboard makes a very convenient stand. Lying in bed, propping the front edge of the laptop on my chest and using the trackpad to navigate is ridiculously effortless (and lazy). Page load is noticeably faster. Text is also much crisper on the otherwise inferior TFT screen. A touchscreen does bring a somewhat visceral (for lack of a better word) feel to browsing that I miss on a computer.

Of course, all of the above would hold true for an Android tablet as well. Ok, maybe not the games, yet, but the Market is getting there quickly.
I'd like to hear what you think.

I like Google+ and SPYW, so I can only speculate. But, since I work for Google, it's important to me to be able to understand what complaints users have about our products.
that's a trade off. a bad one.

in CL you don't think about posting, but your ad will be removed by other sellers with higher price (happened to my nexus one when i tried to sell) and buried in a couple hours. and expire in a couple days. And then, the READER has to put in all the time the writers didn't put.

on other sites, you waste some time to write, but you can be sure you will not be removed without reason, the ad last longer, and the buyer can get there quickly.
To be absolutely clear, I'm complaining about Google, not you, and I already said Google's behavior is better for most users. I'm not really sure what more I can say to be "nice" and still be honest, because I am angry that I was missing search results because of a behind-the-scenes change that I would only have discovered if I was regularly checking my preferences to see if the choices I made have been superseded and contradicted. And that's what I found: when they created this settings page they erased whatever language settings I had (which I think was just "yes, I would like to see languages other than English") and left only English selected.

Honestly, you shouldn't be so sensitive that you perceive criticism of a web app as criticism of your advice, or assume that I didn't check up on it. I just wasn't happy about what I found. Per my first post, all I want is to be able to use Google and understand roughly what it's doing, and it failed very badly in this case, since the one thing I was counting on it to do -- include foreign language pages, because I asked it to -- was actually the thing it wasn't doing.
I would love to see you succeed with this as the area I live in is really lousy for live music if you're not constantly tuned in to the buzz.

I am a musician and have a fair number of musician friends who tell me about shows happening locally but it tends to be a repetition of me going out to see the same 3 or 4 bands all year...

Another trap to avoid is having someone that has close to a monopoly on bookings in an area do your curating. There's an agency here in South Florida that has bookings tied up for 90% of the good clubs in the area. If they're curating, you only see their acts. :(

Again, great idea, I wish you success.
Although Imgist has been technically launched for nearly 9 months by now, I am surprised and delighted to see that mongout.com doing a very similar thing, and making headlines here on HN.

A few of the things that I hope sets Imgist apart is that it preloads everything for a very speedy experience, and it lets you browse by date. It also lets you collect your favorites in an account.

I hope HN gets a kick out of this, as it's been a great experience for the small group of us using it over the past several months, and it seems like it's the flavor of the day.
If you hook something like this to the macbook, do you get the option of selecting an external mic?

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-3-5mm-Jack-Audio-Adapter/dp/B...
Did this really warrant downvotes? It's a perfectly reasonable point of view, calmly stated.
Neat! Intuitive, no explanation needed except for the diagram of the arrow keys below. Suggestion: Add a timer to show people how much time they waste (of course, not everybody wants to see that).
Why shouldn't a privacy policy should be as easy as "Goodnight Moon" ?
no idea what kind of car you were looking, but my last experience I took 1.5 mo to find a decent one. and then negotiation took another couple weeks.

in all that time i was still "searching" craigslist, and I could see the same cars over and over. A few were fast, of course.
eh, it's close, and probably on some level derived from, but certainly different enough. Congrats on being game of the year?
We've got some pretty granular analytics on the site. It'll be interesting to measure how much people are engaging with it. We'll probably write a blog post sometime over the next few days regarding this if anyone is interested.
My reading of the privacy policy is that Google isn't asking for any new rights here, they're just being explicit about what they plan to do with data they collect from you. For some people, the explicit enumeration will make them say, "whoa, time to get out of here!" And that's what Google wants; they don't want to surprise their users with features that may make users feel unsafe online. (Remember, Google tries to keep customers by providing great products, not by locking them in. If you want to stop using Google Reader, or whatever, you can export your data to a usually-standard file format, and join a competing service instead. That's pretty awesome, considering they make no money when you stop using their service.]

You can chalk this up as "evil", but it's just the opposite. Google makes search results better when they can track you, so they want you to know that you're being tracked and how to opt out. Yes, tracking is scary and the ideal situation would be not tracking anyone ever. But that's how pre-Google search engines worked and those search engines barely worked at all. So I don't see how Google can provide a search engine without keeping some of your data around. They know this and want you to know, too.

What you should be afraid of are the companies that try to disguise what they do with your data. Someone is selling my name and address to companies trying to sell me credit cards and aluminium siding. I doubt it's Google.
This post should really be titled 'How Not To Create a To-Do List'

I'm a firm believer in the GTD (Getting Things Done) school of thought, which addresses many, if not all, of these concerns .

Paradox of choice: You should never have a choice of when to do items. Instead, pick a time every day/week to organize your to-do list and figure out when things should be done, and in what order. This should be separate from the time that you're doing tasks. So when you reference your to-do list, the choice is always simple: 'Can I do the next item on the list right now or not?'. (In practice you bend this rule slightly - but only by a little bit... a lot less than most people think).

Heterogeneous complexity: See above. Also, write down time estimates for each task and time yourself.

Heterogenous Priority: To-do list items should be on your calendar. A calendar is a to-do list, and a to-do list is a calendar. If your two are separate, you'r doing it wrong (according to GTD). And if it's on your to-do list, it should be done today or not at all. If you didn't get to it, before immediately bumping it to tomorrow, ask yourself whether it really needs to be done, and whether it actually fits with your long-term goals.

Lack of context: GTD specifically recommends partitioning tasks by context.

Lack of commitment devices: Having the list pre-sorted (ie, sorted at a time separate from when you're actually 'doing work') addresses this somewhat. It's not a cure-all, but honestly, if you're having trouble committing yourself to do the tasks as you prioritized them last night, I can't see how you'd be any better off with no structured list guiding you.

As for that last element: Yes, you do need to learn how to say 'no', but if you say 'no' based on a careful, logical evaluation of your to-do list at a time when you're not doing work, you'll be making a much wiser judgement than if you say 'no' because you're feeling overwhelmed by all the things that you're keeping in your head.
The problem is that the content creator might not control the URL; their video might be posted by someone else to YouTube, or their image to Imgur etc.

I was thinking that if the submitter knows who the creator is, they can include that person's email address (which is usually not too hard to find).
that was even less to the point. you are good

ignore the mistaken identity, was just a means to reach the false/wrong accusation resulting in the experiment he just did convicting him.
> I'm sitting here using a year-old $1300 HP Envy 14. It's the MBP of PCs

Sorry. Had to stop reading after that because it'll be obvious what's coming. The problem here is that you are the prey of "High-End" PC companies with emphasis on the air quotes. You fell for /the works/ and the bells and whistles.

This is the problem with PCs. Anyone who can make a decent build for $700 will tell you the same: Pre-built PCs are the built like matchstick homes. As long as you put enough glossy paint on the exterior, you can sell it to any sap.

Now I don't go out there and advocating that /everyone/ build their own PCs (though they should at least consider it). I do advocate, however, that one should do enough research to be comfortable with their purchase and to NOT be comfortable with "I just bought a $2000 PC with all these shiny parts. It /has/ to be good."
I take it you never traveled in your life?
> Suggest that a left or right hides the comments as well as moving forward or back.

Agree, this behavior was very unintuitive.
This site's really slick! Do you think you could add an auto-play feature so it'll be a slideshow? I've got two monitors hooked up and it'd be a good screen filler to have that just running on one screen.
reddit/imgur might not like that.
HN [bay area]: I want to trade my finance knowledge for some html/css expertise
I wanted to see if someone on HN is willing to teach/mentor me through learning more advanced HTML/CSS techniques [JavaScript and any other relevant technologies welcome too], and in general, learn the fundamentals of how to put together functional interfaces. The goal is not mastery, but to become reasonably adept. I realize this is a long process, but hopefully learning some best practices will expedite the learning process.

I know a lot of this is online, but its nice to have a variance in learning mediums.

Below are some details on my current skill level, what I’m looking for, and what I can offer. I’m located in the bay area.

Current skill level:
I know the basics of HTML/CSS. I guess you could say I have the skills of a novice programmer, mainly in Python [+ Django], Scheme, and minimally in JavaScript, Ruby.

In exchange, I could teach you any amount of the following [if finance doesn't interest you, we could see if there is still a mutual value-add]:

- Account Fundamentals (understanding the 3 financial statements and how they flow together; balance sheet, cash flows and income statement)

- Interest theory, fixed income/debt/bond valuation

- M&A analysis and Valuation (Discounted cash flow, comparables/multiples, accretion/dilution)

- Options/Futures fundamentals

- Bankruptcy/distressed corporate situations

- Crash course on how to dig through and interpret SEC filings (the only reliable free primary data source if you want to invest in public markets)

Why would you need these skills? I think they are crucial if you are:

1) An entrepreneur who will ever raise capital or sell your company

2) Someone interested in learning how to invest in the public or private markets – this knowledge will serve as a solid foundation/prerequisite

3) Someone in optimizing the financial efficiency of their business

I’d like to think I am at least acceptably good at teaching. I used to tutor economics, accounting, SAT prep, etc. and have received good feedback.

My email is in my profile, I look forward to hearing from you.
Confirmed. Came to log the same report.

I was happy to see the onscreen arrows since many experimental UIs seem to be relying on the keyboard exclusively. I figured those keys meant some thought went into iOS support.

Regardless, I'm still having fun just clicking thru the pics. Thanks.
Колонка: DRM надо запретить, так как оно токсично
This article is light on the details. Here is the paper it's based on (I think):

http://users.cms.caltech.edu/~schulman/Papers/intercoding.pd...
That would unnecessarily eat up a ton of bandwidth, I think people using this will usually go through most photos without pulling up the thread.
I would put the title on top.
You must be against the advancement of the human race. Don't we all spend enough time on Reddit already?

Just kidding, this is excellent. Great job!
See http://imgist.com -- we definitely made the snappy-ness a priority.
I made something similar, but as a desktop app. It does all web pages, not just images.

https://github.com/FigBug/Allochthon/wiki
Hope springs eternal...

But so does a-historical thinking.

"Programming is broken. Completely broken."

The "software crisis" has existed since, oh, computers began, maybe fifty years ago. Which means that, in a sense programming couldn't possibly be "broken" since it never ... was ... working ...

A way to put to it is that programming has never been as amendable to planning, to the realizing one's intentions as ... we THINK it should be.

And there's the interesting part.There are lots of things that are hard for humans beings - say, flying supersonic jets or solving partial differential equations.

What's funny about programming is that we always have a hard time of it BUT we always, over and over again, think it should be easy.

There is something interesting, a study for psychologists.

I would claim that a factor is that since programs are like the natural language we normally use, we intuitively expect programs to be a "smart" as other human beings in understanding our intentions and so we wind-up disappointed over and over again.

Of this leaves "intentions" and "smartness" as defines in our model. Perhaps we can use this situation to get some clues as to their meaning...
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Awesome work! -- I've also built something that is, awkwardly, nearly exactly the same. Check out http://imgist.com
Very nicely made. My only criticism is the purple progress bar- what's the point of it? I thought I was going to run out of images when it filled up, but it just kept going. Is that filling an indication that it's going to yesterday's posts? It feels unneeded, it's distracting.
The main purpose of showing the election fund raising data is for showing organized data. Data can be adhoc depending upon needs. The raw data is from fec.gov and the result is organized data.

I do not know about "http://data.influenceexplorer.com/contributions/. My connection to that site was unsuccessful. I will check it out later.

Thanks for checking out mydataorganizer.com/fund.html and providing feedback.
http://imgist.com/aww/
For those who prefer electronic versions, My Life in Advertising is available on Google Books for free:

http://books.google.com/books/about/My_life_in_advertising.h...

Scientific Advertising is also available for free (as a pdf):
http://www.scientificadvertising.com/ScientificAdvertising.p...
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"Apple products are considered chic, and people merely buy them for the fad value."

Yeah. A "fad" that lasted for 12 years now, since the introduction of OS X with ever-increasing Mac/OS X/Apple sales. Are you kidding me?

Have you ever been to a conference for geeks/hackers/programmers? Most of the laptops you'll see are Macs. Go to Python, Ruby, Rails, Mongo, MySQL, Node.js and whatever conferences -- hey, even in Java conferences, despite Apple not caring about the language at all. You can also try visiting a university such as Stanford and see which are the most popular laptops there. Most people on Hacker News use a Mac too (according to a recent HN poll I saw).

You seriously believe that all those highly technical and capable people are victims of a 10-12 year old "fad"?

Btw, even Linus Torwalds (which doesn't like OS X's os tech) admitted that he wrote his autobiography on an iBook, running OS X and using Word. (Torwalds also used an Apple G5 as his desktop machine for a while, though he run Linux on it).
"Mongo" != "Mong"

'MongoOut' would be fine

'MongOut' is not.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not talking about the window size, just TFO.

I agree, you as an application developer shouldn't have to recreate TCP. The code already exists, I'm just suggesting that it shouldn't live in the kernel/OS. There's no difference to users or developers at the application layer. (I think evolutionary pressure is a good thing, but there's no reason not to preserve the interfaces for compatibility.)

<?ego_rant("on")?>
That said, since we build towers up -- and TCP has already been working for a long time -- it may be against the grain to redirect growth towards the perimeter. It feels retrograde and less snazzy. But if we don't take advantage of the land below us too, the building topples/the goal suffers. Examples would include redundant encapsulation of frames, unnecessary round trips, etc. Start imagining tunneling TCP over TCP (if you've ever forwarded X11 connections over SSH over a 56k modem, you probably know what that would be like). It begins to feel like we're base64-encoding everything.

I think there's an even more important example to think about though.

People jump through major hoops to make their webservers incredibly fast, and able to handle 100s of thousands of connections per second. Worker thread pools, I/O completion ports, you name it. Unfortunately, webservers are serving up TCP connections and TCP needs state to be reliable (otherwise it's just UDP). Unfortunately since TCP is being used to transfer HTTP, which is supposed to be stateless, these goals work against each other.

Imagine how fast a webserver might be if it didn't have to hold onto connection data at all... TFO alone doesn't get you there, it just gets you back to 1 round trip.
<?ego_rant("off")?>

I am saying that we wouldn't need to "invent" TFO at this late date if we had started from there (no time like the present). TFO is like digging up though. :)
So you're saying apple is eight years ahead of HP in plastic cases.
Also I think the whole global restaurant industry is probably at the same magnitude as Apple. And the whole industry is possible making billions in profit from "Overcharging" millions of people.

The power of technology for a lot of times just concentrates what was distributed, small scale into a behemoth. But at the same time, I think by blaming Apple but ignoring possibly similar industry that repeatedly rip off customers, ill treating employees, but at a distributed fashion is somewhat unfair.
Corporate PR non-sense: "The company said the change would simplify the company’s privacy policy — a move that was encouraged by regulators."