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It's absolutely necessary; it should, in fact, be illegal to omit a volume control on any audio-playing control, embed, device, or otherwise. This is a bit of a tangent, but stay with me:
Much like with playing audio without asking for an opt-in (PLAY button), not having a volume control makes assumptions:

a) The computer's volume is at a sane level.

b) The video or audio has a volume track recorded at some standard volume

c) by extension, ALL audio is always at the same level, and therefore a user would never have audio turned up to listen to some prior softer audio

d) The user doesn't already have some other audio playing, or that your embed audio takes precedence over that.

e) Their speakers have volume control; they might have headphones on. You don't know their sound situation, you can't make assumptions about it.

The reason I go so far as it being illegal to automatically play audio, and not offer even per-embed volume control is because this all has the potential to cause serious damage to their ears, equipment, and health.

That's why! :)
Seems like this pops up every few months. But I guess I can't complain about the spread of the knowledge surrounding ssh security and pro tips.
It is really ridiculous that in the US you think it is a fault if someone works pretty hard in study.
That's not really proof that you were doing things correctly. You could well have been relying on undocumented corner case behavior that just happened to be true in one version of iOS, but not the next.

Awhile back, a bunch of apps got updated with what the authors called "fixes for iOS5." I have an app on the store that works all the way back to iOS 3.0, and it needed no updates at all for iOS5.

Occasionally Apple does take away documented, working APIs, but it's rare. In general, I'd say an app needs updates for a new version of iOS mostly because the author assumed things that weren't true.
Unlike the OP, I have no debt and $6000 in the bank. A soon-to-be grad student, I'm also looking at a pretty low income for years to come. So I'd like to be able to reasonably quickly free up my assets. Is the money still best left in the bank?
I work with an iPhone 4 and an HTC Sensation all day long. 12 hours a day I'm holding either phones in my hands. I have >500 purchases in my itunes account, and just as many in my android market account. That's what I'm basing my belief on.

It might have just been luck, but Safari absolutely never crashed for me, and pretty much the same goes for all my other iOS apps.

But... To be on the topic: I don't think their data is accurate because of the way publishing works on both markets, and of the lack of transparency in other important aspects (how many apps do they base their statistics on each platform ? what's the total users number they have on each platform?) which can reveal exactly WHY those statistics are the way they are for them.
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I've crossed into Canada numerous times. On the Buffalo border, if you basically said "I'm going to the casino" or "I'm going to the strip clubs", they just waived you right in.

On the way back, depending on the person at the booth, it could either be a stern questioning, or a waive through. You learned to guess the demeanor of the agents by looking at the lines of cars; if one line was moving very slowly, it was best avoided. As a general rule of thumb, the less you say, the better (of course, it shouldn't be _obvious_ that you're biting your tongue and withholding information; just be polite, courteous and to-the-point).
A long time ago when Apple was trying to get into the schools, I was in a typing class. Being a shy kid, I didn't get a typewriter in the middle of the class. I got the Apple ][ in the corner to practice typing with. My sister was in high school and was learning typing as well. But her advance class had sequences like 3;4o2.14%. When she finished, it came out to be a picture of something. We now know them as ASCII art. Through my poking around, I learn that I can write for loops on the computer, so instead of typing 10 As, 10 Bs,...I wrote a loop to output the lines. A little more poking around I was outputting the sequences from my sister class and had pictures of things on my screen. That was cool! And the rest, as they say, was history.
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After reading this it seems like a lot of the guys problems could have been avoided and were his own fault.

Now, I think the behaviour of some of the border patrol agents seems unacceptable, but he was trying to enter the US for 3 months with no proof of ties to home and no return flight.

Putting the business visa aside, that alone is enough to be rejected. If you have no job, and do not own a house or have a mortgage, and have not booked a return flight home (and I don't believe he had any documents to prove he could afford one) you are going to be rejected.

Normally I wouldn't side with border patrol but despite the poor treatment he received he brought a lot of it on himself through poor planning.
Any word on the number of Varnish servers, app servers, db servers, etc? and specs

BTW there appears to be no link to your site from your blog.
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I was flying to San Francisco one day at Pearson and was faced with a similiar situation. I was turned down and asked to be withdrawn. I had all the necessary paper work and even brought my degree / lawyer look over my papers.
I absolutely agree. This article is an awkward attempt by the author to take a subject which he is clearly opinionated about, and somehow tie the story-du-jour to it in order to draw attention. The two had nothing to do with each other, and the connections he attempted to make were nonsensical.

The article seems to be a better example of a potentially successful SEO strategy than of good journalism.
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I believe there is a similar story used in statistics courses (based on a true story) of a possible case of gender discrimination. The university (or universities) basically appeared to be discriminating against females (maybe lower overall acceptance or higher scores). Further analysis shoed that females were applying to more competitive majors. I wouldn't be too surprised if something similar was going on here.
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> The opposition of SOPA by Silicon Valley was even mentioned in the article.

Unsurprising given that this was originally published in a Hollywood Biz rag: http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/facebook-ipo-mark-z...
I think that the author is misleading his readers. YC is a far cry from a training program.

"Often this training involves setting up an American corporation for the startup activities - but I'll get to that later.".

Why didn't he just say he was accepted into a start-up incubator, and his company was being funded in exchange for a piece of the company that was being incorporated, and that they were going to make a real product and try to find customers for that product?

"We go through his whole list and at the very end, he very stubbornly says none of it matters because the real grounds for refusal are that I am trying to start a business in the US as according to the notes on my file by the Lewiston prosecutor. I refute this, explain the documentation prevents and disproves this, I explain and explain and explain and all to no effect."

What exactly are you doing in YC then...?
What university admissions choose to do is the university's own choice, particularly if the university is private, like all the Ivy Leagues are. If they want to accept lower quality applicants in the name of diversity, that is their choice. The highly talented students they reject can go elsewhere and raise the quality of the universities that do accept them. The brand of the undergraduate school is overrated anyway.
I don't know. If the candidate can find a code on the net that does what he wants, it's not bad. In some situations, even better than writing the code by himself ;)
Almost comical in how he did everything to seem more suspect (one way travel, long undefined stay, no job, etc.). As an American who went to university in Montreal and holder of the rare distinction of being called a "retard" by an officer in front of a crowded lobby at the Canadian Border, I have more opinions than healthy about the American-Canadian crossing experience. But as the officer who called me a retard told me in the back room, if you aren't a citizen, they are under no obligation to let you in. It is just best to be aware of what they want to hear (you aren't staying, you don't have a lot of cash/booze/cigs/perishable goods, all the papers have been filled, and you don't come across as deceitful) and give the version of the truth that fits that narrative the best.
If anyone just blindly put money into a company, they're just as well flip a coin. One has to do due diligent and weight the risk versus reward. And even after putting money into a company, one must constantly evaluate its performance.
Using popularity to narrow down the prospective targets is just the first step.
This exact situation has happened before, at Berkeley no less. See 'Berkeley gender bias case' in http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_paradox
It was easier and more fun to get into communist Hungary and Czech Republic in the nineteen eighties.
US border guards are primarily ex-military. Canadian border guards are often civilians (in fact, a good friend of mind worked at CBSA during summers between semesters at university). This lends a lot to the attitudes of the guards.

That said, I've always had an easy time going through the border, and have rarely had more than a couple questions asked to me over the many many crossings (this may be because I have a student visa in my passport and I believe that answers most questions for the guards before they ask them). One tip in contrast from a post above -- Don't think too much about what you're going to say, because if they ask something else you won't be prepared. Imagine border guards are actually people and you're just having a conversation with them!
There are also a bunch of Chrome and Firefox add-ons which would make this very easy.
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All these free education movement is revolutionary. Knowledges had never been so easily accessible. It used to be that education was only available to the riches. Now with people like Thrun, Ng and Khan giving quality education to anyone, anywhere in the world for free. I can only see the world becoming a better place as more people get educated.
As a foreigner being detained in the US, with no official status in the US, he had no right to a lawyer.
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Probably not. There are potential problems where you disclose an idea, the company realizes that it's something they're already working on so they don't license it, then when the product comes out you sue them for "stealing" the idea, and then they have to pay lawyers to smack you down. Also, the transaction cost for negotiating such a thing may be almost as much as the idea is worth (e.g. would you negotiate for a month to get, say, $5K?).

It may be possible to get a patent and sell it, but that's a pretty heavyweight process and doesn't have a good record of success.
Hey there,
I like the idea, it is a very specific site for a single use. Obviously there are other sites doing the same thing already.
I like the clear, up-front approach (design), however I feel that it is too minimalistic.

e.g.:
where did you get the numbers from? Amazon? Price comparison engines? Crawl the web yourself?
At what rate does the site update?
How are the ssd types maintained?

Few suggestions for future features if you want to continue working on it:

- Let the user add/submit missing ssds.

- Include an amazon affiliate link (convenient for user & might pay for your hosting)

- Instead of filtering by absolute capacity, rather let the user filter by a capacity range

- add msata as interface type

I really like the site, keep it going!
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Wikipedia quoted only the first paragraph of the opinion. The full thing is here: http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/06/08/053295P.pdf
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I agree. ARC should help solve some of the memory management issues of "naïve" developers, particularly with its zeroing weak references feature. Then at least delegate callbacks from URL connections get passed to nil instead of the view controller that just got popped off the stack, for example.

At the end of the day, though, there's only so much you can do to save a developer from himself.
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Kind of. But you might say that rational numbers are ordered pairs of integers and positive integers, real numbers are Cauchy sequences of rationals, and complex numbers are ordered pairs of real numbers, and the real number 3 can't be added to (2+i) without converting it to a complex number first.
National Sovereignty = natural arseholes? Not necessarily.

I have a friend who in the pre-Euro days only realised he had drunkenly stumbled over the Netherlands-Belgium border when he went into a fish'n'chip shop and thought 'wow, the prices are really high here'.

My own experience with the US border guards was mixed. Inland in Texas, I met a guard who ruined my day at a checkpoint (though I wasn't in danger of being detained). But at the border at Nogales, the entry to Mexico is just a turnstile, and on the entry back to the US, the guard just waved me through with a bored look on his face, passport unexamined.

I agree though that you have to be prepared, and you have to just shut up and play the game if they're being fractious.
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Honestly, I just wanted to see what the hype was all about, then see if I could do it. I got a C++ book from a friend and initially looking at the book I ran the other direction. I was in my second year in college then. Then about my third yr in college I decided I would go for change my degree from CIS to B.S Software Engineering. Really to see if I could do it at first, I thought if I could this would streamline me into project management or something of that nature since I wanted to be in tech but not a dev.. Well after taking a few courses in C, javascript, I took Java and I sucked at it at first. Then something weird happen in my Advanced Java 2 class, I got code high one day.(I was working on a calculation project). This lead to a ever-ending search for that feeling over and over again... So I ended up taking the rest of my OO classes including VB and C++ and I decided code high was the coolest thing in the world.. So I decided I would pursue "code high" as career which is dev.. Now I code for a living and I am addicted to dev and sys stuff... I'm that which I said I would never be!! Honestly I just love building things and breaking things...and building them again.
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Hey, if I ever find any reporter at Bloomberg that screws up like this I will personally walk over and fix the situation. If you wanted the same news without the personal editorial, this was our take:

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-02/zuckerberg-s-hac...
Whenever someone underplays the systematic racial bias top universities have against Asian students, imagine the reverse scenario.

If the table turns and suddenly some other racial groups, be it aboriginals, blacks, hispanics etc, are targeted with the same racial bias, would these people still doubt that there is racial bias citing reasons like this?
The question is not simply pointless and irrelevant, it is potentially illegal. Border agent may be giving you grounds to claim discrimination on the basis of national origin, which is illegal (similar to asking applicant's age on a job interview).

But it only works this way if you're a US citizen. With any other status border agents can do and ask pretty much whatever they feel like.
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You can if you like running all your applications from a terminal... There aren't any desktop shells that support it apart from a really simple demo one.
For anyone who missed it, he did a really excellent presentation on VC at Stanford last summer:

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2457
I didn't think they were in one of the batches (haven't seen the usual YC'whatever badging on any of their posts' titles here). Their job post from a while back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3099362) does list YC as an investor, though.

Edit: Patrick's previous startup, Auctomatic, was in YC W'07 I think. Maybe that has something to do with it.
You have some really great analysis here. I'd challenge you to mock up what the solution might be since that more clearly communicates your intent. Otherwise, it feels like a usability session rather than a holistic UX review. As they say, a good idea is only as good as you can communicate it. HelloFax would definitely benefit from your work.
I get loads of iOS app crashes. My wife routinely crashes the browser on her iPad. It is interesting though that unlike Android she never thought the apps were crashing, because they just silently exit and return her to the home screen without any message. She always just assumed she accidently exited the app herself. On Android on the other hand you get the ugly 'Force Close' and other unfriendly messages. I always wonder if this contributes to commonly held belief that iOS apps are of higher 'quality' (obviously other things like smoothness and design do too...)
yeah, I tend to agree.

I have at work access to an iPhone 3GS, 4,4S with iOS ranging from 4 to 5. I also have 2 or 3 different handsets of androids to work on.
I personally use an iPhone but all my coworkers androids just keep freezing all the time... (my iPhone 3GS used to freeze before but it was a long time ago...)
On the other hand, since I've switched to the iphone4S, I can say that apps crash really often but I can't tell if it is due to iOS5(thank you Apple for changing really minor dumb stuff at every f'g new version without having a real deprecation rule as Android has) or my way of using the phone(I use way much more apps).

All in all, I can't really tell if iOS apps crashes more than Android but it seems that Android OS is still very buggy yet.

also, statistics are very little weak creatures from which you can extort any figures.
especially,when you read this:

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At the airport, that's effectively correct. At a road crossing, you can always come back and try again later.
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I believe most of the "fixes for iOS 5" and "adding iOS 5 support" updates are just marketing strategies. It makes users feel that the app is up to date.

I did this recently for an app that needed no update other than a small bug fix, but I slapped on a "support for iOS 5" just for good measures.
Glad you posted this, otherwise I was going to do so. The weird wording of "business training" immediately set alarm bells off and I assumed something like Y Combinator. It sounds like a weird generic reworking of the truth you'd use when you know you're trying to skirt around the rules.
Problem is much more complicated than that.

1. Universities receive large amount of public funding.
2. Are you willing to let all private institutions, companies, individuals decide for themselves and have their own policy on serving what kind of people they want to deal with?
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Agreed 200%. Classifying YC as a training program to immigration officials is bordering on fraud. He's lucky that he didn't get banned.
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