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One example is a company I worked with that has this ancient legacy groupware system. Shared calendar, reporting, workflow, etc. The UI is based on tables and frames, the backend is some kind of compiled perl modules or something, and it has no API. And it uses some kind of weird database format, maybe intentionally obfuscated.

The system does not work well with iPads, which were being deployed to sales. A new modern iPad-savvy reporting UI for sales staff was wanted, but the data had to end up in the legacy system during the multi-year transition that would phase it out.

We wrote a Rails app for the backend, and a native iOS client that ran on the iPads. Real straightfoward, the client app sends JSON to the rails backend. Upon submission of a report, the rails app then used PhantomJS to log into the legacy system as the user in question, navigate throught the multiple-page process, manipulating the popups and checkboxes and textfields, and input the data into the legacy system just as if the user had sat down at a PC and done it themselves.

Kludgetastic, definitely, but without something like PhantomJS there'd be no way at all to get data into this legacy system programatically.
What you're saying in no way applies to any of my comments.
Slight correction, Congress passed a funding bill for the FAA. As a condition of funding, they require that FAA comes up with regulations for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) within 3 years.

As of today, the only legal way to fly a UAS in the U.S. requires case-by-case authorization.
Wait. This isn't some downloadable blogging engine? I'm disappointed. If that "creative, intelligent and witty" bit isn't sarcasm, how about the guy 'puts up' and offers the code for download?

Unless this is the guy's business plan and he just doesn't want to kill his server. But this really looks like an "I built this really cool thing for me and some friends and you can't play" kind of thing.
You could send it to a link which is hooked to a script that swaps the links for one in ten views or what have you. The extra benefit of that approach is that you don't have to worry about getting the submission ID right when submitting. You can just edit it on your server retroactively.

Not that I'd ever be crazy enough try this for real of course.

EDIT: According to posts I've read the votes aren't valid if the referrer isn't Hacker News. So the only thing possible is what's on display.
I was referring to studies made by actual doctors not PR campaigns.

Edit: For those downvoting this I should have probably provided supporting evidence, though oddly no one treated the parent post in the same way. Feel free to follow the references at the base of this article: http://clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolution.html
After reading that my impression is that the whole thing seems kind of douchey to me. Then again, I'm not a superhero with my own exclusive club so I'm not really qualified to say anything.
No, I've operated UAS in Norway with blessings from their Government.
When I go to q=weather, I see a local weather summary above the search results. Is that what you're referring to?

I think of it as additional information Google supplies, I don't think of it as part of the search results.

I liked the old Google better. Today DDG has the simpler interface and gives me 50% more search results to choose from. Google looks more like the old Yahoo or Netscape portal every day.
w3schools.com runs google.api's and hosts ads using Google services.

This very day, I have it on good authority that their ability to game Google's search algorithm is entirely coincidental.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740869
I disagree with your outright deceit allegation, because the number of people who enjoyed the article enough for a kudos is sure to be less than the number of people who bothered with the widget in the upper-right corner of the screen. I wish I had a study handy but it's well-established that far fewer people who read an article continue interacting with the page after they're done. For me to believe that it's a serious problem I'd have to be convinced that at least 50% of the kudos were from people who didn't think it was worthy of kudos.
"Now, I agree about the temps and pressures being unnecessary. The reason for these is about efficiency of scale. In a power grid like America's where we need 1 gigawatt and greater plants, plus with licensing a plant being so difficult, you build the biggest baddest plant you can which can output the most power. This means you go with the highest temps and pressures while still being ultra safe to create a more power efficient reactor. [P] Smaller reactors which would be better for the power grids of the world. Like 250 mega watts would not need these extreme environments."

This isn't actually accurate. Reactor core water is pressurized to raise the boiling point -- at 0.1 MPa (atmospheric) it's 100 ºC, at 15 MPa (reactor coolant) it's 342 ºC, so they can push water to around 300 ºC and still keep it liquid in the core. The higher the temperature, the higher (in general) the efficiency of converting heat to work (in the case of nuclear plants, efficiency of the steam turbine). This is pretty much independent of the size of the reactor.

(Why liquid water? One huge reason is neutronics (the nuclear part): a very high density of hydrogen nuclei (H in H2O) is useful for scattering neutrons, which slows them down to speeds where they get absorbed by heavy nuclei (reactor fuel) and start fission reactions. [This isn't necessary: in fact "fast reactors" work with neutrons flying at relativistic speeds. But it's much easier.])

300 ºC is actually pretty cool; the steam from coal power plants gets up to around 600 ºC [1], and internal-combustion gas turbines can reach temperatures of even 1,600 ºC [2]. Water-cooled reactors are held back in efficiency by the need to keep water liquid at core temperatures. Conceptually they can get a bit further by pressurizing water to supercritical conditions [3], at about 510-550 ºC/25 MPa; these aren't being built. (These are fast reactors; the density of this supercritical water is very low, about 0.1 kg/L, so it's a weaker moderator).

[1] http://www.ge-energy.com/products_and_services/products/stea...

[2] http://www.mhi.co.jp/en/news/story/1105261435.html

[3] http://www.gen-4.org/Technology/systems/scwr.htm
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>Goodbye free Internet!

They're just warning residents that having an unsecured network can cause security problems. They're not making it illegal.
I might have to go buy a dozen or so of something like these:

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> What makes you love Google is Google giving you the right answer.

No it's not. What I loved about Google is giving me the ability to search the web. If my answer wasn't on the first page (or even the second), I'd refine my query until I would get it. Which was easy because Google was very deterministic, just your basic "AND" keyword search engine. Try a few synonyms maybe, different angle, synecdochical approach[1] and if all that didn't get you your answer, it probably wasn't there[2].

Today, you type in your query, Google tries to guess what you need, and shows you your results. If your answer is not there, you can try different queries, synonyms, whatever, but you'll get mostly the same results again. The web being unimaginably bigger than 10 years ago when I used the approach described above, I refuse to believe my answer's not there. Google is just being dumb.

Anyone know of a proper Search Engine? (I love Duck Duck Go but its index is rather small)

[1]http://www.searchlores.org/synecdoc.htm

[2]actually, you were probably not trying hard enough. Pressing on over the course of a week and getting some expert friends to help you would always show that your answer was in fact there. in some form or another.
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"It's a business" is a weak argument, but potentially a helpful one. Your optimal search experience generally won't line up with theirs. In retail, for example, there are all kinds of tricks used to keep customers in the store as long as possible without making the experience so unbearable that customers just won't come anymore. So if you go to the grocery store for some fruit and vegs and yogurt, you will need to visit opposite ends of the store, through the seasonal items and past racks of candy, because this apparently results in increased sales. If they were optimizing for you, they would have the basics near the entrance, and the Peeps and cinnamon brooms at the farthest corner. They might still have the best produce in town, but as they figure out how to wring more money out of their customers (on average), the experience becomes grating for some portion of their clientele.
This is staying as #1 for a while.
Or they just don't want large hunks of metal with sharp spinning things possibly falling out of the sky onto people and things, and so would like to regulate the use of large flying things.
Moderators might take it off.
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It's not required, but when you check code into TFS, you can associate it to a backlog task in the UI. You'd miss that.
I hope one day we can all work in environments that are completely non-hostile. Some jobs seem to be a lot more rough than others, in my experience. I've never had to deal with sexism or prejudice but i've had my share of crap to take from coworkers. I've also worked with highly professional, straight-laced people who know not to be asshats and treat people fairly.

I really hope you don't stop doing what you love because of where you work.
Oh wow, if that works I'm going to use Google again. I hope there's some easy way to switch on that setting with a GET parameter so I can replace my default Google search.
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Having a mental model of how the google search ranking works sounds… hard. For me the mental model works out to be "based on various statistics, google's best match for my search terms". I'm not sure that's different from "the best answer". :-)
You can see it in the url here because he wasn't trying to hide it. He could have linked to a blog post containing a hidden element that does the get (after checking if the referer is HN).
To whoever downvoted: I actually have read "Just For Fun" in its entirety, and that comment was in fact my honest assessment of what I read in that text. If you want me to come back in a couple of hours with a citation, fine.

Jobs tried to recruit Linus after NeXTSTEP was already an established OS.
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This doesn't really apply when you are trying to verify whether the client actually performed some action.

In a CSRF scenario, the client itself can presumably be "trusted" - A client behaving maliciously can only hurt itself, not any one else. The important thing is to not trust anything that may have been provided by a third party.
Wonder if you could get around that by submitting a javascript: link.
I read the same article a while ago and added it to my (long) list of business proto-ideas. Here are the notes I scribbled a few years ago:

"Build a web app/site that allows people to practice smoothing out waves, speed up time to see effects easily, animate the process for visual understanding, etc., etc. Maybe even issue stickers so one can identify people who are smoothers rather than just people cutting in line."

Lately, a mobile app or an app built into the car's computer system could coordinate smoothing actions with other cars, and give some feedback on real time smoothing.
It started because Isaac would always say this stuff like "you know i can't do that, im a lazy mexican" or "you sure you want to leave me alone with your stuff, im a mexican" and so on. At first it was just awkward and kind of "wtf", but after a while it became a thing with that group, we would say that stuff too. But that sort of illustrates the point -- the things that are funny with a core group that knows the back story and the actual intent and meaning of a running gag is different than with strangers.
FWIW:

> chisq.test(matrix(c(10,3784/2,26,3784/2),2,2))
Pearson's Chi-squared test with Yates' continuity correction
... p-value = 0.0129
With the "old" Google, a search made me feel as though I'd stepped into the potential realm of answers to my query. The most relevant, to me, was the stuff that mapped to my query the best -- nothing more, but nothing less.

Now, I feel like I'm living in the law of averages. I'm not interested in the average; I want the top of the scale. I really do not want social and local and all the other unknown contexts involved in giving me what's right "for me". With all the contextual crap, I feel like now I get the "less".

I wish they let me have the option of turning it all off, and just going with content-based search. Of course, they have to filter out the crap that's being generated to game their search index, but outside of that -- give me what the web has.
Thanks for the head's up. I'll look for it.
This is not valid reasoning. Under this logic, we could feasibly be just as alarmed by balconies of any sort or platforms at any height greater than one story.

[Edit]: Which is not to say that there are hurtling objects on these things, but that this is talking about What Happens Least, and there is just as much risk of something falling from a balcony or second+ story area as there is a drone falling mid-flight.
HN, can we talk about the items being removed from the site?
A post was made this morning regarding the Geeklist sexism controversy[1]. It rose to be third from the top of the home page, and had a ton of comments. It was then flagged and removed from the site. It was posted again[2]. It was flagged again. Then I posted asking why the items were being flagged[3]. Then that got flagged. So at this point, even discussion around flagging was being removed.

Can we have a sensible discussion about flagging on the site? The original post seemed relevant to the site- about a startup's negative response to public complaints. Why did people flag it? More importantly, why did people flag the subsequent discussion? How is that not relevant to the HN community?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3739913

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740378

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3741395
Looks like it was removed from the front page by someone. Fun while it lasted...
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-...
Let's agree to disagree.

His product is compelling for some people.

The Deck is compelling for some people.

MacBook Air is compelling for some people.

GMail is compelling for some people.
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There are a couple of help desk tools which can compile a Q&A style knowledge base out of customer support emails. Here's one I'm familiar with: http://www.desk.com/product#sec6
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Earlier I submitted a post regarding the fact that you can have a link that up votes your post.

The few posts that were submitted using this have been removed from the front page and I was wondering if pg fixed it or has anything to say about it.

Original Post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742742
As far as I can tell, only http(s) links are accepted by the submission form.
I feel like the performance of these HTML5 games still isn't quite good enough for them to "take over" just yet.
This was made by the OpenMoko guys, after that project failed. It's a pretty neat device, that's surprisingly powerful, but unfortunately there is no commercial backing to drive development.
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of course there's value in hiring Linus that's why Steve tried to hire him.
Now, this is going to bring them even more back links to make sure that they remain at the top once again.
It was funny when it was just a joke mocking foolishness. It was no longer funny when people intentionally began doing it.
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1. Kudos Button: Why the controversy? I've always viewed it as a meaningless counter that's fun to hover over. I never took the counts seriously. Sometimes I visit your site just to send arbitrary kudos. What's most concerning about the buttons is the number of readers that feel "victimized," "deceived" or "tricked" from, well...a css element.

2. Svbtle: There are few names I've come across in my career that are as painful as this one to read, spell or pronounce. It gives me anxiety, and what's worse is that it's inspired by Svpply. A good name is a word that you can tell someone over the phone without them asking you how to spell it. Period.

3. The ideas panel is cool. Is there a way you could generate the list in other ways than just manually adding tags? Could you add a bookmarking tool, for example, that adds keywords to your Ideas List once you bookmark a page you find thought-provoking?

4. The S* Network: Your strategy to build a platform exclusive for exceptionally high-rated bloggers to use wont work for several reasons, here's just a few:

4a. I loved your site's design until I saw others on your platform using it. Then it became boring and nauseating. The design of a blog tells a story sometimes just as much as the content does. It gives the blogger personality, and the reader something fresh to look at.

4c. Top bloggers (any bloggers) not only use design to express themselves, but also to stand out. To be remembered. Eventually when you notice a site's design enough times, you realize you might want to check out who the author is.

4d. Social elements and "Sharing" buttons can look messy at times, but the fact is, bloggers like their content shared, and readers like to share content they enjoy. Removing arguably the most widely used tool on the web much poorer design that displaying a 'tweet' button after each post.

4e. Aside from 'ideas' your platform doesn't have anything that takes away the pain that enough users have to make it worth building. I add 'blogging' to pg's list of frighteningly ambitious startup ideas..
A quick (but not comprehensive, conclusive, or popularly agreed upon!) guide for determining if you plan on doing something sexist, ask yourself:

"Is this for Men? Or is this for People?"

e.g. Advertising/Hiring "all-female servants" is for men. "Serving food and drinks" is for people.

Side-note: If you ever think to respond with "But what about lesbians?" you are attempting to justify something sexist. Start over and cater to People.
The "niggardly" example is cute, as is not being able to use "oriental" to describe John Cho's ancestry (he's Korean). I think that they serve as a distraction to the actual issue at hand, though. The actual issue at hand is that "lighten up" is such an obvious response, but it's usually not actually helpful.

The problem is that we live in a world where you can't easily determine a priori what will be considered "offensive"

That's only a problem if you're not secure enough to handle feedback on your behavior. The original article is all about how she wants to be able to address these very real slights so that people can know what to do (or what not to do) next time. What happens when she gives the specific feedback of telling people what not to do? They respond with the classic bullying tactic of telling her to grow a thick skin.

So, you make a mistake and offend somebody, fortunately that's not a capital offense. You get to continue living and learn not to say bullshit sexist things and learn how to be a real adult. Easy.
While I agree that C++ templates when used for anything but simple type generalization, are a gross, gross part of C++. I'd hardly call that core to the C++ syntax.

However, I'd also argue that using templates to that extent is misuse. Eventually, it becomes a better idea to simplify your approach, or invest in a decent macro preprocessor.

I for instance feel that many of the template heavy boost libraries, while powerful, only decrease maintainability of a system in the long-run.
This is for the comment votes; it looks like the vote for articles doesn't have a token.
No, I have a problem with marketing that is intentionally deceptive and can easily confuse non-technical users into believing they're paying for something they're not.

Neither of your car manufacturer examples demonstrate this. However, when a certain US cellular carrier slapped a "4G" sticker on 3G technology simply to make their product appear competitive in the market that was not OK.

Similarly, implying to users the pixel density of their device matches the resolving capabilities of the retina, when actual scientific studies demonstrate otherwise, is not OK with me.
I agree 100%. It's a fantastic piece of satire. Now that people are going around boasting about how they go to parties with naked women? It's not so cool.

When you take into account that the Sqoot API Jam was very brogrammer-like, too (although they never used the term)... Well, that just underscores that a) People now want to be brogrammers and b) Brogramming is inherently exclusive to women.
Many of these are equipped with armaments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unmanned_aerial_vehicl...

They are in active use today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan
Yes! (And what about men who aren't interested in women, too?)
It is still there, but not showing up in the index. Does not appear as showdead either, so one surmises that they are working on it.
It would be cooler if they at least gave a token amount of the purchase as a donation to Wikipedia.
Try the literal search feature on Google.
Commercially?
I'd have to wonder if you couldn't find a senator or someone to take it up as a "The government is against small business" style issue.

Also, Zerocater could be all over this :)
Personally if there is 6) I avoid it. Instead just create an account from their FB/Twitter/whatever.
Which we are by way of building codes and regulations...
>This is not valid reasoning. Under this logic, we could feasibly be just as alarmed by balconies of any sort or platforms at any height greater than one story

This is why we have building codes and regulations. Since the FAA did not have these regulations in place, it was disallowed (commercially.) Congress recently said "make the regulations" because it seems like there is enough demand to justify the increased burden on the taxpayer.
Then they should choose not to do it.
You think the SEC staff enjoy making rules and enforcing them, for no profit and guaranteeing to make enemies of one side of every dispute they regulate?
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Power distribution lines are already a major inefficiency loss to the power company. It's unclear if there would be any additional parasitic loss from the recharging bot, the efficiency of the system as a whole could in fact be greater than if the bot plugged into a metered outlet.

Kind of suits the piracy debate rather well actually. :-)
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So the new version of Authenticator can apparently import the credentials from the old version. I don't know much about Android security, but if Google lost the signing key, would they still be able to import from the old app?
Didn't know that, that's pretty awesome.