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My old desktop-based email reader could do it though. I definitely feel like I lost something here. Even just a KEYWORD* search would be an improvement, and that does not require a bigger index.
I think it runs on iOS in the sense that they have a tool to statically compile Flash into a standalone iOS app.
I'm surprised. I thought Apple would have been the first to bring something like this to mobile since they already have a similar concept for laptops.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
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All you're really stating is that if the USPS disappeared, everything would be just fine and FedEx and/or UPS might even start accepting letters with 5 day delivery times for less than 45 cents instead of $10+ they currently charge for approx. 3 day delivery times. (Of course, the actual service would be totally unlike what the USPS provides.)

I remain unconvinced.

I would like to see wage comparisons between FedEx/UPS delivery personnel vs. USPS carriers. I doubt there is a ludicrous expense difference.
You claim it is simply conformity? I suppose this is a matter of opinion, and I am not so foolish as to think I can change yours. I will close by simply observing that to me, presenting yourself in a polished fashion is a display of respect, interest, and investment in the matter at hand. Even if it was simply a display of conformity, I disagree with your implicit presumption that conformity is by definition evil. You must pick your battles, and to me, what I wear to an interview is pretty low on the list of priority.
Spoiler alert: I hacked the slider min values to zero with the inspector. The tab's CPU usage goes off the charts & locks up; infinite loop.
As jws replied above you, the app no longer works because Foursquare revoked their API access (as it was in violation of their own terms).
not a bad joke...
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I put the app we used in the video up on Play Market: http://goo.gl/IZN16

It's a real Android input manager, you can use it (more or less) as a real keyboard :)

The code is open-source: https://code.google.com/p/morse-keyboard/
Very interesting; appreciate you sharing that.
They should spin this off into a "Stalkers Around Me" app, displaying location data from the users who installed "Girls Around Me".
Why is not using Facebook on grounds that it's effectively "public" considered self-censorship?
Would you be willing to surrender your ycombinator password?
My bias: I use PHP all day at work, but I'm also a front end engineer so I do a ton of JS. I do not do any node though.

PHP is a great all around tool, and node is good at one specific thing (basically request routing: node is quick if you are able to route the requests out to asynchronous servers). For most things PHP is going to help you more than node, so I would start there.
That link is down for me. But you can read more about it here:

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com
Flash RUNS on iOS/Android/Blackberry, there are a lot of Flash apps on all those platforms, including best selling ones[1]. Adobe just discontinued the mobile version of the Flash browser plugin, but what you don't understand is that with the launch of Adobe Air, Flash is no longer tied to the browser plugin. It's kind of irrelevant what Apple pontificates next or what Microsoft decides to support themselves in Metro, Air apps written in Flash will continue to come to iOS, MacOS, Windows 8 etc because it's the best and easiest way to develop cross platform applications. JS/HTML5 is not even close in performance, capabilities, ease of development or consistency (I'd like to see someone do anything as cool as this[2] with JS/HTML5 on mobiles), the only thing that comes close to Air right now is .Net/Mono (with MonoTouch and MonoDroid).

[1]http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2011/09/flash-based-mac...

[2] http://blogs.aerys.in/jeanmarc-leroux/2012/02/02/air-3-2-sta...
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Ask HN: Why was my post 'banned'?
I'm quite disappointed that HN apparently flagged (banned) this post.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3781362

It was at ~#16 on the front page earlier today, and a few minutes later it had disappeared from the front page lists altogether (I went back to about # 200 looking for it).

I can only assume that someone with the karma powers to do so, flagged it and got it nuked.

I would love to understand why.

Is it the fact that the title is somewhat inflamatory (although if you actually read the article you'll see I actually do believe Google will abandon (the) Android (brand))?

Does someone think what I'm suggesting is so preposterous?

Was it a mistake for me to write and post this on March 31? Did someone assume it was an April fools joke (without actually reading the article)?

I thought I had generated an interesting discussion and from the comments that were posted before it was removed it seemed others did as well.
Ask HN: (JoinAStartup) Our Business Model Repel's Our Customers... Tips? 
We want to crowd source developers to startups ~(1000:1) and use product managers to break down the tasks into very little peices that are given to the users to solve/do. Ideally, users can build points (like github, dribble, and stackoverflow do) and earn shares of their favorite startups! Thoughts?

Link: http://www.joinastartup.org
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It's a simple question.

I did some Googling, but I figured the collective wisdom of Hacker News might have much more fulfilling search results.
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"Zombies around me" and also "Memes around me" - as in stalking memes.
I'm not sure if the joke is Morse code on a phone, or using two buttons for Morse code.
It's also possible to write Scala in Vim or Emacs and using commandline tools like SBT, conscript, and giter8. It's not that bad.
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PostBooks (http://www.xtuple.org/) is a fairly capable replacement for Quickbooks on OSX (and Win/*NIX), and has both OSS and Commercial versions.

GnuCash (http://www.gnucash.org/) is another I've used in the past and had good results with. It's more of a Quicken replacement than QuickBooks though.
Some CEO have contempt for the people.
Ah, you've replied while I was busy editing my comment. Usually I get away with that without a collision. Well, I've tried to make it more reasonable and I suspect we don't really disagree that much. But I will add something: there are quite a few talented people who don't really have the choice to conform. They just don't "get" the social system well enough. And yeah, maybe part of it is that they're not interested enough to force themselves to do it. And I like a lot of those people and I don't like it when others turn their noses up at them.

Conformity isn't evil per se, but judging people for lack of it often is.

Interestingly, "conformity" is one of those words that no one uses about themselves. Like "tourist".
Yes, those downvotes were deserved, as was your comment. I don't deny that. I was offended by the article (which stated that a type of person with x skills does not exist), took it personally and commented accordingly. But while this post was submitted around the same time as that comment, the two are unrelated. My comment only had a single downvote at the time, anyway, and I will be the first to admit that it was not constructive by any means.

What bothers me, however, is when I see constructive and helpful comments by others (typically respected, productive HN members) that have been downvoted for no apparent reason. I almost always try to upvote these, as they do not deserve negative karma for merely speaking their minds and contributing to a healthy discussion.
Looks a lot like him, but my totally amateur 1am opinion is no:

* I can't find any photos of Dyson with hair that long

* The jawline/skin folding doesn't look like Dyson's

* He doesn't look out of place next to two actors, and nearly all non-actors do.
Never heard of Amy's before...looked it up, doesn't look horrible to me. A little high in sodium and low in fiber, but that's typical of this kind of food.

Fruits and vegetables often don't require cooking, can keep for long enough to not need planning or require water @ work. Add nuts to this, and some water or tea, and you've taken care of snacks.

As for cooking, ya you need to learn. Its an investment, but the rewards are so significant, it really should be a top priority.
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I don't think you are as well known as you claim to be. You are most likely just another face in a crowd.

Even if you are tagged in a picture, you most likely don't have an evil nemesis stalking you, looking for a point of weakness, biding his or her time to unleash the evil plot.

Or maybe you do. In that case let people know about it, so they won't tag you.
Did anyone catch the, "download our rank code so you can run Google at home", link? I didn't realize this April Fools day until I saw that...
Morse code? I think it's way easier to excuse yourself from the table tho.
Many high-speed CW (Morse) operators use devices with two inputs rather than one (called "iambic paddles"). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_key for various types of Morse inputs beyond the traditional single key.
You need to work on your proofs. Counterexample: hop in your time machine, go back to 1550, kidnap someone, take them back to 1450, and have them explain the printing press. Easy peasy.

Second counterexample: Edison made his first big move redesigning stock tickers. I'm pretty sure Edison could grok the Internet.
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I am a high school teacher, and we have had to deal with cyber bullying on numerous occasions. It's not that difficult to deal with. If someone is bullied and wants something done, they can always show their page. This stuff can be addressed effectively without ever demanding anyone's password.
Unfortunately, looks like it's definitely an April Fools Joke. (The "Interested parties" section under Future Uses seems intentionally creepy.)
Yes, downvoting is a feature available to users with 500+ karma (according to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3782217)
Ask HN: Thoughts on Our Business Model?
We want to crowd source developers to startups ~(1000:1) and use product managers to break down the tasks into very little pieces that are given to the users to solve/do. Ideally, users can build points (like github, dribble, and stackoverflow do) and earn shares of their favorite startups! Thoughts? Link: http://www.joinastartup.org
While the Mozilla one worked, your example did not work on FF 11.
I wonder what the best solution is. This definitely does seem to be a trend that's increased recently, possibly as a result of points no longer being displayed for each post, and possibly as a result of an increasingly larger community whose new members resemble the reddit crowd more than the Silicon Valley crowd.

I don't like the idea of having a cost to downvoting. People shouldn't have to make the choice between receiving a small punishment for legitimately trying to improve the forum or letting others do it. Perhaps get rid of a downvote option altogether and make flag more visible? Or get rid of downvote and don't make flag more visible? Maybe require a comment to go along with flag? I definitely think the visual symmetry in the up and down voting gives people the impression that the downvote's function is disagreement. Then again, I seem to recall pg saying that he was okay with the downvote being used that way and wasn't afraid of HN becoming http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3980096/we-didnt-start-the...
Perhaps they're reacting to your belief that you're dressing "better" than them.
I'm kind of tired of this "april fool" pranks.
Except even they're not necessarily really private, as JWZ's story about Really Bad Attitude demonstrates: http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/rbarip.html
People are discussing this because they care about HN. They don't want to see it go to shit, like many other communities tend to do.

This is a good thing so long as these opinions trigger actions to return the community to a reasonably balanced state.

It'd be nice to hear from HN management on thoughts and potential remedies for this issue. And, of course, it'd be nice to see some of these changes implemented ASAP.
Do you mean that you did your school's compiler class project each year despite not taking the class, and every year they were targeting a different architecture?
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The type of person who balks at casual dress is not the type of person who I'd want to work for or with, and vice versa. Problem solves itself.
Oh please. Why the hell did you ever think their business could work in the first place?
Kind of funny, but true we have to many buttons. Someone submit a application for a keyboard with less keyboard o YC. Also getting LL Cool J was a nice touch.
Is it really advanced or really primitive?
I like the Toshiba joke myself. I didn't imagine that Toshiba would join in on April Fool's Day, but I like the idea of an oblong tablet.
How about showing the points below a cutoff, maybe 3 points?
And the bubble pops!
It will be very interesting to see what happens when this goes to trial in May.
Thank you. Being asked what the special occasion is every time I wear a dress shirt gets old fast.
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I write lots of stuff that runs on the user's machine. Is there a particular application you'd like?
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8 out of 12 entries are from Google. Dont they have anything beter to work on?
This is just an example of how not to do an April fools day joke. These guys are posting the feedback they collected back to their server which I think is immoral.

http://www.embeddedmarket.com/Gift-For-Feedback.asp
And then contrast Smalltalk with CLOS.

(CLOS is the Common Lisp Object System. If Smalltalk is more OO than C++, and I think most people see it that way, then CLOS is ... sideways OO than Smalltalk. It's not quite on the same spectrum, but it is still OO.)
Casual dress shows confidence: "I don't need to bow to social norms, I'm confident I can sell myself and my ideas, even without a suit."
Classy cat fight between OMGPOP CEO and employee
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http://twitter.com/#!/tfadp/status/185901238477537281
http://twitter.com/#!/tfadp/status/185901564131688448
Do I still get negotiation room?
Would love to hear the 'Girls Around Me' developers chime in on this.. I never used the app, but it certainly seemed popular (though maybe I'm wrong?). I wonder if they're going to try to revamp and revive it.
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The tweets are real. Porter hasn't taken them down yet. http://twitter.com/#!/tfadp

To add some context, OMGPOP dev Shay Pierce wrote a column[1] in Gamasutra, saying that he wasn't going to join Zynga because the company "views players as weak-minded cash cows". Business Insider than was contacted by an inside source saying he was a poor worker, which Shay disputed. [2]

1: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/167244/Turning_down_Zynga...

2:
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-03-29/tech/31252887...
You would probably want to avoid IP, it seems like a complex problem to tackle. Perhaps look at other websites who are doing similar things? Good luck!
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Sounds like an episode of House.
http://www.joinastartup.org

(link isn't clicking)

I like it! I see how some may be scared but if you figure out the how to motivate us hackers.. Its awesome! Signed up as product owner and ready for launch. Is that for Busienss Dev too or only product managers?
I don't know. How often do you drive a car without having to worry about pedestrians, cyclists, stoplights or traffic laws? If I'm going to test an autonomous car, I'm going to do mimic real-world situations in my test environment.
> he sales man turned to my wife and said, "Wow, I have never deal with such a hard negotiator in my career. I've never given any one £2k off a sale, let alone on a £12k car."

This is standard sales line. It makes the customer feel like a hero, and costs the salesman nothing. I don't mean to burst your bubble, but your story is that you bought a car for 20% less than the marked price, and a salesman told you that was the best deal he had ever seen.
Do you think it would be possible to input morse code through the accelerometers, so i can tap anywhere on the phone?
I just left a comment on one of your other posts, but a new thought did occur to me: What's the difference between this and something like github?
I can't believe this. I hope it's real, because then it would be clear that Google is very close to being able to market their autonomous car technology. I imagine a move like putting their autonomous car in a NASCAR race is part of a larger plan to familiarize the masses with their technology and serve as great advertising. To get enough people comfortable with computers driving cars Google will need to fight a hard PR battle, even just to get sensible legislation passed.
Sounds like there will be some tough legal hassles.

And the earning shares thing will have to be exact using some formulas basically, which could then lead to potential for someone to game the system and get lots of shares, which would be a problem.

I think it's a neat idea but hard to get it all to work, good luck.
Somewhere between http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tSyDHXViM and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUll5SnavOw Pizza rules.
We already do test the self-driving cars on a race track. It goes _really_ fast. :-)
It's an interesting concept, but I'm not sure how it's a business model. Do you guys also take a cut of equity from your startups?
When Facebook made photos public by default, a lot of people also started turning their settings to full private mode, so by trying to force people to become more public, they achieved the opposite. The more either Facebook itself or others try to make people's private lives public, the more people will try to go the other direction.

People like to make things about their lives public as long as it remains their choice - when they are forced into becoming more public, they will look for alternatives.
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I think you just posted something on the internet. That could even, possibly, offend some people. ;-p
Agreed. However, being able to isolate a large component of driving seems useful, too. It's like a unit test as opposed to an acceptance test.
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I think his point is that sucrose is quickly transformed into fructose + glucose. And our bodies aren't equipped to process that much fructose. glucose is processed by cells all over. fructose in the liver, depleting phosphorus and making fat, when we chronically consume too much. We've eaten refined glucose for a larger chunk of human history. Until refined sugars were added to everything, we consumed a lot of fiber with our fructose sources, reducing the amount that was even absorbed. He goes into how much extra sugar we unwittingly consume from processed sources.

Too bad he sounds so smug. But I'm pretty sure he will be proven correct.
Apple is already ahead of the curve on that one: http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary...
Apparently there were investors who wanted to after the IPO, but chose not to simply because there were too many others looking for shares to borrow. Has shorting GRPN become less expensive and risky between then and now?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-10/groupon-stock-among...
Yeah, that's false.
Why not just use Java?

Java was designed as a reaction to the complexity of C++. Scala was, in turn, designed as a reaction to the simplistic nature of Java. It sounds like you prefer minimalism, and in that sense Java is a better choice for you. That's what it was designed for: simplicity.
I would totally pay to watch this.

Edit: I would totally pay to see autonomous robots race on a track without the limitations of human drivers.

I've actually driven on a track (once) and it's surprisingly different/difficult.
We are in the tax business. We run everything on Macs, except the tax return prep software (Lacerte, owned by Intuit). For that we have Windows machines. (Performance using Parallels was poopy, and Windows machines are way cheaper than human time.)

We looked. We wanted tax return preparation software on the Mac. We couldn't find any.
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Simple "solution" - delete her Facebook profile and tell them that's what she's done.

Surely there is a law that's already on the books that prevents coersion of person details? Under the U.S. Constitution, the government must get a search warrant. I don't see how this is any different - this is the government using coersion to gain access to your private life. I think that a good lawyer could take this to the Federal Court to challenge the constitutionality of the matter.
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Can someone tell me why call rates from India to US are more than calling from US to India. This in general applies for all third world countries. I believe there is some business potential that is not exploited yet.

Thanks
"can often keep long enough to not need planning": I don't think you quite get how bad ADD can be... I just threw out some (almost healthy!) unsweetened applesauce I bought and opened last winter. It was not hiding in the fridge; it was one of the only things in the fridge.

I used to go to the supermarket every week to "buy the groceries and change the spinach". (See, once I have fresh veggies, I want FRESH veggies. No water-logged baby spinach for me.)

And yeah, I actually used to cook Passover dinner for 30, built a gourmet kitchen, Calphalon pots, Wusthof knives, Matfer mandouline, Kenwood stainless-gear mixer with every attachment (did you know there's a potato scrubber?), properly seasoned wok, and a freaking pecan picker (http://ontheroadinthevw.blogspot.com/2007/12/catching-up.htm...).

Now I live in an apartment with a cheap electric stove and that stuff is in cabinets I never open and did I mention how easy it is to grab 10 frozen dinners? But yes, of course you're right.
Very elaborate. NASCAR is fully involved in this prank.
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> Why do you engage in the community?

Same deal. Occasional boredom.
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Same. Browsers need a X-DO-NOT-PRANK header.
April fools or not, if we're talking alternative fast input methods then why not remind people of chording keyboards[1]? Nice simple keypads ergonomically designed for comfortable one handed use with multi key combinations corresponding to letters / digits / symbols.

There was a trial a few years back by the University of Queensland marine division of an underwater system with HUD facemask display and a chording keypad so that researchers diving could hold specimans / tools whilst also looking up references / enter data.

Like a number of alternative key entry systems it was surprisingly fast once people became used to it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
While I'm tired of these jokes, this is the first time I've actually wanted the product.