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Just today finished building my web app search engine and directory http://www.iwaat.com (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3784625). Still a ton of work and features left to build.
The same could be said for the endless memes that infest reddit. Popular is not always good.
Some self promoting here, but this is my html resume project based on Jason Blevins' CV Latex template. I am using Prince, but printing from the browser gives a nice result too.
https://github.com/chucklarge/html-resume-template
This is something I've put a lot of thought into over the last couple of years, but I've never gotten around to figuring out an actual model or design.

My basic premises are:

* hearing aids are commonly moulded to fit the individual, and thus have exceptionally good noise rejection.

* They are designed to be worn for long periods of time without discomfort.

* The ability to selectively attenuate/amplify certain signals would be very useful.

* Being able to pre-process incoming audio would be extremely useful for suppressing transients (say, gunfire, nearby aircraft, roadworks) to protect the user.

* A phased microphone array could be used to provide directional selectivity, and to determine and recreate the position of the original source.

* You can transparently mix other signals into your normal hearing, such as music, phone calls, games, etc.

In terms of tech, there's really 3 things to figure out:

1. Can you achieve good isolation (external noise attenuation) whilst providing high quality audio playback?
Ideally the quality would be indistinguishable from not wearing them, but physics might disagree.

2. Can you build a relatively compact microphone array with positional discrimination capabilities at or beyond the human ear?

3. Can you build a DSP with the necessary discriminator/transient suppression/mixing capabilities within a realistic power/space/heat budget?

4. Can you build the whole thing into a per-ear unit or headphone unit, with wireless links to some sort of controller, plus sources for input (e.g. a phone or music player)

5. Can you make money out of it? (Given how useful it could be to especially police/military, I'm going to go with 'yes')
I wonder how the German ß is handled. Having no clue about the implementation of these transforms, wouldn't that be a similar case?
Google never made money with Android; now is even less important
If you only have one element, then why does it require jQuery?

Is learning this one simple API call too hard for people?

document.getElementById()
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Not to discourage further discussion but there are a lot of good resources here:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A(se...
if you are publicly promoting inappropriate content at work, there's no need for your password. the subject of inappropriate stuff on facebook needs context, employers asking for your password does not - there is no possible situation in which that could be justified.
People want to learn to code?
Dear moderator, I would prefer that you didn't change my title from 'The sports team tax' to 'The 'Dodgers tax'', because the phenomenon exists in many places, but not all HN readers may know who or what the 'Dodgers' are - especially readers outside the US.
This one is off-topic, but the first one that had me for a second: http://www.criterion.com/films/28373-kindergarten-cop
Hey - cool first version (the design is incredibly polished for a first version!). There are a few sites out there doing this (but in the mobile space) - Quixey's probably the biggest, but some other directories/review sites that might be worth looking at (if you haven't already) are FeedMyApp and AppStorm. Not saying this idea has already been perfected- but these other sites might provide some UX ideas beyond the MVP you built here.

I'm a huge fan of the hover on the search results page - very well executed. I think the browse by category on your homepage could be more clearly defined - I see what you did but the actual apps draw way more attention than the category titles, so there's a bit of a disconnect there (you feel like you're just browsing a list of featured apps, without much order to them, despite the fact that they're organized by category).

Excited to see the next version..
The alternative is to make unlucky consumers pay more, and the lucky ones pay less.

The alternative is to allow consumers the choice to buy an extended warranty or not.
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Java avoids casts in most cases with generics, it supports inheritance, and it has a simple type system. Ditto with C#. (I also haven't heard people complain about the complexity of F#'s type system, so I'd point to it, but I don't know F# enough to be able to say whether it's a good point or bad point in the space here.) OCaml also supports inheritance, although its object system is kinda weird (in that it doesn't really fit with the rest of the language; I wouldn't say it's overly complex though).

Basically I don't think that Scala's complexity should burn us on type safety in general. I think Go and Dart, for example, are an overreaction to the complexities of type systems like those of Scala (no generics and null pointers in the former, and unsound covariant generics and null pointers in the latter). There is room for a statically typed language that brings the benefits of type safety that make programming easier without the complexities that make programming harder; the fact that we haven't found that sweet spot yet doesn't mean that we should just throw up our hands. I'm not convinced that the sweet spot is either unsound or requires casts.
A sample size of 1 is not representative. If the university is more interested in teaching "programming," then that's fine, but if you want a solid grasp of computer science, then most of those subjects are still necessary.
I've been forcing myself to use GNOME-shell for the past few months, just to see if it was as bad as most people make it out to be, and I have to grudgingly admit that some of the design choices are elegant.

For example, I find myself liking the activities overview more and more since it combines together functionalities that you'd have to access separately on other desktop environments, namely a keyboard based application launcher, windows scale (or exposé for the Mac crowd) and virtual desktop manager. It's problematic that each environment maxes out at 8-9 windows before it becomes unmanageable, but the philosophy seems to be new desktops on demand, which are quick to create (just drag a window to the blank desktop or middle click an application to launch it in a clean desktop)

And the new Alt+Tab behavior does have a silver lining in that it scales much better for large number of windows since it allows you to drill down much quicker to the window you're looking for: Alt+Tab until you reach the application, Alt+<above tab> to reach the specific window you want. Or Alt+Tab, then use the mouse to highlight the application and then the specific window.

Another little know functionality is that the shell comes with a screen recorder: Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R to start recording, again to stop, the video is saved as WebM on the root of your home dir.

It's far from perfect, some functions take way too many motions to execute, and I wish they allowed you to bind mouse shortcuts (it would be perfect to enter the overview), but the basis for what could become a pretty decent desktop environment are there.
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In Poland, if a disagreement between sale contract and reality is found before 6 months from sale have passed, it is assumed that it existed when sale contract was made. If product does not work, and the fault is not on customer's side, it is considered to be a disagreement between contract and reality, and the seller is required to fix or replace the product. This way, there's a 6 months implied warranty on almost everything.

Of course, 6 months is less then 1 year, but I can easily imagine it to be extended further.

Also, IANAL.
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Reasonable question, but I suspect the answer is, practically speaking, "no".

Two important things to remember about negotiating contracts: A) They are mainly about the spirit of the agreement, and B) If any of the language actually gets as far as being tested in a court and you're just an individual, you're probably already fucked.

Zynga/OMGPOP clearly think it's unreasonable for any of their employees to do any outside game work. When Shay said, "Hey, can have an exception for my pet project," they said no. If Shay had tried to find some behind-their-back trick, the best case is that they just wouldn't care.

The worst case is that they fire him and bring a suit to take the game from him. Whether or not they win, Shay probably can't afford to spend $100k or more on a lawsuit, not for a little side project. So if he's lucky he escapes with $5K in legal bills so that he can hand the game over to him and agree in writing never to utter the word "Zynga" again.
There is a world of difference between a proper typesetting engine (such as LaTeX) and HTML-to-PDF. Box layout, hyphenation, ligatures - the list goes on. Of course, optimizing the typography in your resume is likely unnecessary. But that doesn't make the difference go away.
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It's not 14 months, but in Poland, if it happens before 6 months, it is considered to be a defect that existed during sale.
Browse the gnome-usability mailing list archives— you will see that there are barely more than a dozen threads each month, none of them really touching major usability issues that would come with significant design changes.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/

I used to be involved with Gnome a long time ago (pre 2.14), and have lost touch since— so maybe the accessibility mailing list is now outdated and I'm looking in the wrong place — but I feel like there's a huge disconnect between the various teams, and that design decisions are taken by isolated groups of developers, with little regard for system coherency or good, consistent usability.

Linux-world developers are good at many, many things— but in my humble opinion, good usability and design are not amongst them.
Reluctant to comment, since this is circumstantial and may be seen as not adding to the discussion, but for what its worth, I've heard (long before this incident) many cases in which Dan Porter has exhibited this type of behavior (immoral actions), and that this headline in itself is not an isolated incident.
General comment about TD games:
Whenever there are no clear tower/mob advantages, I simply maximize damage-time per dollar. (You can go a step further and do damage-time per dollar-space.)

Simply doing that, I'm on round 200 with 100 lives, on my first try. Eventually it makes sense to only buy orange towers, no upgrades.
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there is no such word as "dependant." it's "dependent." really sorry to be that guy but it would hugely brighten my day if you could fix the spelling in the title.
Interesting. Do you know if hiring remote (worldwide) candidates is a common practice in other units of Amazon.com as well?
I'm not sure how many folks who read Hacker News work in videogame development, but for any who are, I'd like to propose something simple: refuse to work for Zynga. Extend this boycott to any videogames company that behaves in this contemptuous and insulting manner towards the people who actually generate the real worth in the company.

Sentiment towards the likes of EA and Sony are at an all-time low for their consumer-hostile behaviour, and I think the market is ripe for being shaken up. We've already seen in recent weeks that the games-playing public are prepared to reach into their wallets even in the middle of an economic downturn and help fund videogame projects through Kickstarter.

If the people who make videogames refuse to be treated like disposable commodities by obnoxious pricks like Dan Porter by boycotting working for them, then eventually these organisations will have to change their ways, or risk being replaced by companies who will treat their staff with respect and humility.
Learn you lots of Algebra; then go learn you some functional programming (in particular LISP, HTDP: How To Design Programs and SICP are great for this).

Then I would pick up Randall Hyde's books on "How to Write Great Code" series - he starts out with machine fundamentals (stuff you would typically learn in an Assembly or computer engineering course minus the Assembly).

Then I would learn some type of Assembly (again I recommend Randall Hyde).

Then, IMHO follow @BlackJack's comment of subject matter.

NOTE: I'm a self educated programmer.
Not quite what you were looking for, but I built this: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from... and this: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/home-made-iphone-scanner-stand.h...
I agree with the sentiment, but this list helps so that you don't miss any good ones that may not make it to the frontpage
Thanks for the feedback! Quixey is probably the site most similar to mine and they're certainly not the only player (just met a couple guys from there at yesterday's Super Happy Block Party Hackathon).

I agree with you on making the homepage category links more prevalent. I figured it might be a problem but liked the design enough to keep it. Guess I'll be changing that up now. The order is actually based on traction (an index I've come up with based on publicly available data on each app).
Nearly fluid: Time Warp Non Newtonian Fluid
You should probably go back and re-read the editorial; He didn't call them evil because of a contract dispute.

Personally, I'd have no trouble hiring Shay Pierce. I like it when people I hire have some backbone and some moral sense. Obedience is occasionally useful, but making software is essentially a creative effort (as is starting a new company). For that, you need people who can think independently from the basis of shared values.
Don't these parents have better things to do and complain about.

In the US, school administrators yield to every single one of the parents' whims because they fear lawsuits. It's a vicious cycle— parents feel more and more entitled to complain and make demands to the school, and administrators have to indulge them more and more. It's a sad mess.
Same here. Probably one of my flags but I am too lazy to check. However, I do like the idea of real world maps as a game data source; it was fun to see the 'enemies' advancing on my actual house.
It depends on what your basis of physical property is. I don't want to expend thousands of words discussing the matter so I'll just direct you here if you're interested: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/patents_and_copyrights.htm...

Personally I am uncomfortable with the parasitical nature of taking somebody else's artistic creation, for its entertainment value, without any sort of consent/compensation involved.
Blackboard Buys 2 Leading Supporters of Open-Source Competitor Moodle
One of the top reasons people mention for sticking with cable is for live sports. If that's case, it might just be sports watchers are the only ones left on eventually anyways. I for one would be much more likely to have cable if they had al-cart pricing.
I think we need to seperate two issues here: One is whether or not a particular government does a good job and the other is how democratic it is.

The first question is too subjective in general to have a useful debate. I'll just say that complaints about interference in local affairs have been a mainstay of all political unions ever formed, including The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Just ask the Scottish. And it's completely natural because "interference" is just another word for "governing".

However, the parent post was about the democratic legitimacy of the EU commission. The commission is not directly elected just as most other governments are not directly elected. In most countries cabinet ministers are not even elected MPs. Parliaments are elected and sometimes heads of states but rarely governments. The closest thing to an elected government are probably the presidential systems in the US and France.

Most critics of the EU do not want an elected EU president or a directly elected EU commission as that would obviously take away more powers from the nation states. That's a legitimate position, but it's incompatible with criticising the EU for not being democratic enough.
Especially confusing as "tax dodgers" is a common phrase.
Financiers and Sex Trafficking
>>>Intermediate:

>>> - Encypting your Entire Hard Drive with Truecrypt (Mac and Windows)

Do people recommend this method, or is Apple's built-in full disk encryption sufficient?
It dumbfounds me when alleged journalists print anonymous slander like this. Whatever one thinks of Shay Pierce's editorial, he signed his name to it and is answering questions about it.
Hilarious. I can't wait to see content relevant to my interests in my PD alerts.
Bootstrapped startup saves over $100K by dropping IE
This is a very cool effort and method to teach a very silly font/language idea.
It does more than just selecting an element. It also finds an inner element to do the burst from, grabs OuterWidth, and sets css.

While it is possible to do these without jQuery, you could say that about any jQ plugin.
> People shouldn't base their lives and decisions around imagined scenarios that involve sociopaths.

Women are constantly trying to figure out how much risk is attached to behaviors that men take for granted, and alter their behavior accordingly. It's all fine and well to say not to worry about "imagined scenarios" involving sociopaths, but there are many real life stories of women who have been stalked and received persistent death threats just for having a blog online and being only moderately well known. And in the case of something like check ins, any stalker wouldn't just have your email to send threats to, they would have your physical location.

Unless you are a woman, I would suggest that you may not have the best perspective from which to tell other women what they should and should not be afraid of.
I have wondered about this as well. Certainly the combination of an in-ear device and some external sensors would be killer at parties. Look at someone and tap your ear, they get a ping that you'd like to chat with them and you enable a conversation.

For the UX folks it would be interesting to design a chat UI where the inputs might be things like head tilt, nods, shakes, taps, and voice.

The smarts don't have to be in the hearing aid either. My phone and my tablet can be the 'processing' power with the WiFi/4G connection.
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I do. Thank you for the link.

It doesn't really matter what universities do or don't teach. If a subject is of interest you should learn it. I thought everything you and the linked article listed made sense.
From the page called "Filling Out Webforms":
...So many websites began asking you questions that seemed innocuous, but were actually designed to allow you to be controlled; so that Chinese authorities could make sure you were unable to view photos of Tiananmen Square, American authorities could make sure you were unable to view magazines published by "enemy" countries, and corporations were able to gather all your information to sell you as a data-package.

I consider myself rather paranoid, but I think this might be a litte exaggerated. However, this is all definitely possible, and if the governments haven't already begun mass surveillance, they probably will.
Is this a case of if you can't beat 'em, squash 'em?
> Some of the next steps will be discrete/invisible headphones that we can always be wearing

I just ordered Sony Ericsson WM600 bluetooth receiver (35 EUR with shipping) for my miniature Klipsch X10 in-ear headphones (they are amazing, btw). Will make an ideal discrete set, I think.
Wifi only devices have no time source (Android doesn't include NTP) so a wifi only device can have drifted quite a bit.