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> You're citing Apple as a company that's friendlier and more approachable than Google?

When I had App Store review issues, they very politely tried to tell me what I could do to make the ramming less unpleasant. The experience was terrible, don't get me wrong, and they have completely lost what little confidence I, as a developer, had in them, but they were nice and responsive.

When my AdSense account was blocked, Google put me in an auto-reply loop, very curtly saying I had no recourse and that they would never give me any additional information. They didn't actually growl the word "criminal" at me, but it was implied.

Apple is absolutely friendlier, more approachable, and more reasonable than Google, and yes, that is really saying something about Google.
To put it in perspective : there are less than 5 human births per seconds.

So if they want to keep their counter greater than that for a long time, they'll probably have to extend their market beyond humans.
So cool. The best part is sometimes the randomly generated names are aptly appropriate.
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I just realised this is the same rule as for bang commands in Vim and Pentadactyl.
I will join philh and sepeth in saying I really like the TypeMatrix 2030. Even if you don't make the switch to Dvorak, which the TypeMatrix makes trivial--like the old "DVORTYboards" the switch is done at the keyboard, no messing with translation on the computer side--the non-offset rows of keys will give your hands a break. It does have CTRL where IBM keyboards put it rather than where God/DEC intended (next to the left pinky), but most of us have had to get used to that, alas.

They offer keyboard skins designed to fit the keyboard: either translucent (with no labels, to work with all variants), translucent with labels, or black with labels. An anecdote: the translucent skin I first got with the keyboard had worn through in spots, so I ordered two of the black Dvorak skins. They arrived, and happily fit far more snugly over the keyboard than the first had--but after a few minutes use, though, something was clearly wrong. Turned out I'd pressed the num shift key, but the skin covered the LED that would have shown the problem. A call to TypeMatrix turned up that it was a communications issue with the company that did the skins--they recommended a leather punch of appropriate diameter as a temporary fix, and said that once they have corrected skins, I should contact them with explanation and email address, and they'd send replacements back at no cost, no questions asked. IMHO, that's service. (Now if they'd just get it out of their head that blue for labels for Fn functions is some kind of standard and make them orange on the black skins, it would be perfect--though they are aware of that issue as well.)

UPDATE: Once I am again among the employed, I will ask my employer whether I can bring in my own keyboard (just as I'll ask about being able to bring in my spare Logitech trackball to use instead of a mouse), and if I can, buy a second TypeMatrix for the purpose.
Because it's stored in a database. If an attacker has access to the database with the hashed passwords she will likely have access to the database with the salt too.
>So what does MS do? Reject the app wholesale (rather than just in the problematic countries).

Honestly, they can't really do that either or they would get complaints. "Our biggest market is China and they just removed it, Microsoft is stupid!" I know it can be frustrating but they have to go by developer intents first because then there is no guessing. It would be nice if they had a cleaner resubmission process though.
Startup Salary Calculator- Thoughts?
This is one of the messiest topics to talk about- How much can we afford to take as salary? How would you guys feel about a calculator that startups can use to come at this figure.
This calculator would take into account revenue, costs, account balance, city, runway, and every other cost. The idea is that salary every month will not be the same. What do you guys think?
An insight from Apple on the the real meaning of hiring top people
What's the actual advantage to the game? Why would a company want to create a research server for people to perfect their bot programming?
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In the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, are there a large number of people who will understand what the original-language titles mean?
Who are the hundred 'special ones' supporting such a bill in the first place? It would be really nice if someone could compile profiles of these political leaders/servants, their names, and office of public duty.

Often there are a lot 2 cent/4 cent support staff helping such 100 odd people introducing lame bills too. Call it bureaucracy or whatever. Bring these people online, and connect with them. Confront them, probably.

I think it would be really nice to meet these people, and perhaps interact with.

[Edit: Spell check]
Thanks for the response and feedback, but I will admit I am a little confused. Has this site been posted before? This is the first time I've come across it, since it was shared by an acquaintance of mine on Facebook. I normally view HN through Google Reader, which I don't believe makes use of the ranking done on the front page, and I am still very new to sharing information on HN, so I don't know if there is some kind of etiquette I should folloe.
What I've said 2 years back is happening now :)
Floating-point complexities
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One never knows what could come out of it. At the least they sell a couple of hundred or thousand extra accounts.

People are ingenious. I can imagine bot hunting parties or a person trying to crash a bot. It would be extra time spend in the game for the companies.

edit: btw good question, thanks!
More like a list of the top 20 iPhone apps, working down it until they get as many as they can.

Because have you looked at the top 20 iPhone apps? Half of it is crap joke stuff that is downloaded like crazy.
No, it's not insensitive. These glasses could be a huge breakthrough for the vision or hearing impaired: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3806640
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but only the second salt is stored in a database, the first salt is stored under WWW-Root.
Summary spam.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111091089527727420853/posts/EuMZ...
Rules order has meaning in CSS: everything else being equal, the last declared rule has precedence.
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Along similar lines and even more enlightening:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_...

(Who provides cheap healthcare? The Mayo Clinic.)
Mobile phones have VPN clients now built into the system. It was much easier to get Android (old one, 2.x but it was possible even in 1.6) to connect to L2TP/IPSec VPN than Ubuntu.

It's unreasonable to assume that majority of users surf through a VPN because no one bothers, not because of any technical difficulties. But it's also unreasonable that majority of users will surf with js disabled by default.

In general, there's very little a developer can do against a hostile network if their users are clueless. Even SSL is only useful as long as the network operator doesn't deSSLify the connection on the fly or the user catches that.
While the cause is just, I'm not sure I want to sign an Avaaz petition. After all, they are also a (political) lobby, with its own, somewhat questionable, agendas, not a grassroots movement in any way.

I also seriously doubt that a petition is better than US citizens calling their representatives, as was recommended during the last struggle.

[http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2012/03/07/the-grotesque-and-dis...
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/03/avaaz-sponsoring-fake-r...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/20/avaaz-activism-s...]
Age can't be an important factor, for every benefit of being your there is an counter one for being older.

Young don't have a family to support so can work long hour.
Older person, has secure financial position so don't have to take a paying job on the side to get by.

Young have more energy
Older people do less partying and drinking so have more energy

etc.
It's still there on the server, if the attacker has her hands on the database you have to assume that the entire server might be compromised
Sure, it's a terminology issue, but as several others have pointed out, you're the only one using your terminology. So expect people to be confused when you try to explain these things using your definitions.
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Great article until "Obama was right in bailing out the auto industry when GM and Chrysler were going bankrupt. Because it wasn’t just GM and Chrysler that were going to fail, it was an entire ripple-effect of suppliers, tool manufacturers, raw material suppliers, trucking companies and dealers that were going to go away."

That's not the full reason that they did it though. It's because they were making vehicles for our military. If our country started relying solely on foreign countries for our military, they could disable our ability to replenish or grow our ground fleets.

But, even that is not far enough down the rabbit hole. There are enough non-government owned vehicles in the U.S. to more than make up for the lack of vehicles they would have lost, even if every other country simultaneously decided that we were the enemy, our military could use the country's existing resources (assuming we were ok with that).

And moreover, we are already reliant on other countries for our military and the running of our country. The only "advantage" of a government that pumps everyone's tax money into a select number of private companies, directly or indirectly, is that "survival of the fittest" is damaged. The "disaster" is delayed- the inevitable damage grows greater. It is the economical equivalent of forestry agencies that protected forests from forest fires, when forests naturally managed themselves via fires started by lightning strikes, such that large fires would inevitably start and be uncontrollable. Large bailouts can cause incredibly bad things to happen.

So, the question is, why did they do it? Band-aids and politics. It was not long-term thinking. And that is the story of our government. For the most part, no one is willing to make the political sacrifice for long-term gain. What we need now is for someone to help make government stable and predictable again, and to reduce the amount of red-tape it takes for U.S.-based businesses to succeed. But, it is going to take a disaster for that to happen- a disaster that will be much worse because of bailouts and other shenanigans. But, as for now, we will live in the growing forests our forest rangers protect for us.
Something like:

set ts=8 sw=4 et sta

(tabstops to 8 (the default), shift width to 4, expand tabs, smart tabs)
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http://video.qlbak.com/10901.html
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> This application will not be able to...

^-- should read "This application will NEVER..."

It's easier to skim read and more finite imo
It's not like launching games on the iPhone app store is any easier. Especially since most professional studio games are moving to a free + in-app-purchase model, which is hard to compete with if you are charging for your app and don't have a full team working on it.
What is the best way to secure passwords?
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So tinurl service using anchors instead of urls.
With a webui to control the values, interpreted by js you embed in your homepage.
Please tell me someone less nefarious is offering this, and that there's an open source alternative.
This is BS in 2012. Hotels need to treat internet access like running water and make it at least as good as what people get at home. Especially when you consider many people in hotels are subject to international roaming fees if they resort to their mobiles.

Even in higher-end hotels, you get a shoddy experience, and not just this ad injection.Weird login dialogs every few hours and restricting access to one device. Outrageous fees. Lack of transparency on bookings websites about availability and pricing. And once you're online, good luck trying to watch a video or getting any work done, the connection's often too slow to do anything but check a few emails.

I really hope AirBNB puts pressure on the hotels to get their act together. You stay in someone's house for $40 and you get a much better experience than a $200 hotel room. The whole situation is why I recently made the decision to use AirBNB instead of hotels whenever practical.
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What's the median household income post tax? Can't find a good figure but it's around $50k pretax. Which is I guess 40k ish post tax, $3.5k or so per month. So 5% of that is $175.

Phone, cable, water, trash, electricity?
>I also seriously doubt that a petition is better than US citizens calling their representatives, as was recommended during the last struggle.

The thing is, this affects far more than just US citizens. What is the rest of the world supposed to do? Sit and watch while hoping the US citizens sort it out?
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The tutorial fails to open with the Chrome FlashBlock extension. The button doesn't do anything, and I have no way to selectively enable (click to enable) flash on your page. It'd be best to pop up the overlay with the flash element enabled (so I can click to enable it) or at least give me a warning if I click on it with flash disabled.

On the tutorial, don't make me type "google" to click the start button. If I click "Start", that's enough. I'm generally a thorough reader and I still didn't really see that you were asking me to type "google" vs. just anything and the button gives no indication if you click it.

On the tutorial, on step 5, you say "Click RECORD" - there are two record buttons, and neither is highlighted. This is just as frustrating as the "Start" button not working in step 1.

On the tutorial, on step 7, your "Publish" button is way outside the general area all of the other interactions have been - it's not obvious what to click to continue.

I agree with all of kaolinite's comments regarding general polish of the website.

Once I actually launch the app I get two loading screens, one after the other - not a big deal, but I'd try to consolidate that if possible.

I have no Java plugin installed, so I just get "Pick which window to record" with nothing in the drop-down and no indication of what's wrong. I have to bail right here. If I were a normal user, you'd have no indication of why I abandoned.

The actual app UI looks good and looks like it could have high potential, but I can't use it.
Why We Sketch (UI design)
Because sha1 is still super fast on a GPU. Why aren't you using bcrypt?
How to find the Top 5 largest files in Windows 7?
Only one of these is valuable to them, and coincidentally is also the one that comes out of their own pocket.
This type of presentation is terrifying for church data.

Religion broken down into pure stats. Gross.

24,233 people indoctrinated in Q1.
33,887 people convinced to give to the church.
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The conventional wisdom that asking for credit card on free trial signup is bad for conversion is hardly an established fact. Sure, more people will fill out the form (which is admittedly the point of this article), but whether or not you'll get more paying customers depends on too many factors for there to be a one true answer. Here's a good discussion of this issue: http://www.quora.com/For-web-apps-is-it-better-to-ask-for-th...

Also, some nitpicking: SSL has nothing to do with encrypting information on the server.
According to Wikipedia, the film is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics which is a subdivision of Sony Pictures Entertainment, an MPAA member. So by purchasing a copy of this film you will support Internet censorship.
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The internet shouldn't need "saving" from any country. The lopsided control that the US has over the internet is kind of an accident. This should start to sort itself out on its own. It might be worth hurrying along where possible by technical means.

Then again, the more crazy the Americans pour on, the faster their influence may wane. "American internet" might start to have the same reputation as American airports.
Why would everything be so politically correct all the time? If a group of guys want to call themselves Brogrammers, be my guest, you might even get a giggle out of me.

If you don't like the culture, then please just leave them be and focus on others things which might be worthwhile in your opinion (because apparently, this is not).

Then this: "At the University of Pennsylvania, a computer science club had to back down from plans to wear T-shirts saying “Brogrammer” to a school festival when female members objected to it."
Wait, what?
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There is a good motivation to prevent copy-and-paste - they might be storing the password in plaintext somewhere.
I can't fine one exactly like that. I remember:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2370022

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/arc/000433.html
>A given hash uniquely represents a file, or any arbitrary collection of data. At least in theory.

It really bothers me when people misuse "in theory" like that. "In theory" means "we have a model that makes good predictions in some circumstances, but there are cases where it may fall short". But a model in which hashes uniquely represent arbitrary collections of data is a model which allows for infinite compressibility of strings. That is not a theory that merely falls short in some edge cases; it is a theory which is hilariously and catastrophically wrong.
Even worse, as the article mentions, is having another set of credentials that you can't ever delete. I don't want hundreds of different websites all with an account for me that I'm not ever going to use.
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The very next sentence in this response from Russ Cox is: "Or maybe all the 32-bit systems will be replaced by 64-bit ones.". So, they do not admit this is a serious problem that needs attention, it is not clear whether they will fix it, when they are going to fix and whether anyone cares about fixing it at all.

I couldn't find the adequate words to express this so far, but the reason I at all find this situation worth commenting on is that is reassembles to me a very common pattern of denial I observe among many professionals in various professions in cases where a problem appears that is very hard to tackle or even to analyse in the first place. Often a doctor who has troubles identifying a disease will tell you it's probably just something in your head, a programmer who has trouble reproducing a difficult bug will tell you it's you who probably did something wrong at some time, even a guy who I called to repair my washing machine that was stopping the washing at random told me to "keep it under observation" when he wasn't able to tell what's wrong. Many people simply do not want to put in the work needed to solve an unexpected and difficult problem, and thus, perhaps even subconsciously, try to handle it by pretending it doesn't exist. If you want to be a real professional and a leader in what you do, you can not behave like that, you can not repress a problem when someone reports one to you, you have to have the patience to examine the issue, the experience necessary to know when you can be certain that you have the complete picture of it, then sometimes the courage to admit there really is a problem and then finally you have to solve it, or people will not respect you.
Guess: A/B testing confirmed that it led to higher movie sales.
I'm pretty excited for these glasses, but I'm curious. Is there any speculation on the potential damage this could do to an individuals vision?
By nature I'm in introvert so working alone is my preferred situation, but I think I can relate to some of what you are talking about.

Give yourself a break, every iteration gives you insight to the problem you are working on, there is no need to get it perfect on the first round. (perfect is the enemy of good).

Trick yourself, don't call your code 1.0, label it beta or a prototype for an extended period. Your longer term goal is to get to a release, but your immediate goal is to work on the next point update.

Trust yourself, if you think something has a bad code smell note it for later. If you think a UI isn't intuitive, live with it for a little while to figure out exactly what you need to change.
Point taken. Keeping a larger balance for investments does make sense.
You need to assume that the attacker will have access to anything on the server. So first thing is clearly no plain text passwords but hash only. Second thing is make as hard as possible for the attacker to decode the hash. One salt helps preventing use of rainbow tables but more salt is useless since the attacker has them. So you are left with choosing a hard algorithm to crack and currently the best one is bcrypt which is already implemented in most programming language for you.
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In the image he looks like a borg.