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Over here in Europe, or possibly only Slovenia, we have a similar thing going on. If the driver does something stupid and plows into a pedestrian - that's manslaughter.

If an accident happens and they end up on the sidewalk ... well then it's not really anybody's fault. It was an accident.

I'm not sure why you would really want to press criminal charges against somebody who, following a difficult situation on the road, ended up unfortunately damaging someone.

However, if the person is on a crosswalk. Then it's the driver should be charged at least with manslaughter ... unless they're rear-ended or there's some other circumstance out of their control that made them unable to stop.
It is also valid HTML4.
If you are not comfortable not closing the body, you can just omit the opening tag also :). Likewise with html and head.
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I'm checking (uninstall, reinstall), but I certainly don't remember ever seeing anything about photo uploads.
It will allow vendor patching but it costs money and is damn complicated so noone bothers.
You can set up an alternative number, and can also print out a bunch of one-time use codes. One of these methods should be enough to log in and change the settings.
> This "give money and something MAY happen, eventually" model is going to collapse on itself.

I'm not so sure, crowdfunding is certainly very attractive for people that have a track record of delivering but a consumer base that is to small for traditional publishing/production processes. Think Double Fine [1], Harebrained Schemes [2], Order of the Stick [3]. The people behind these projects have a clear, public track record of delivery and the projects wouldn't have happened without Kickstarter's crowdfunding.

There is, of course, also Kickstarter original/official goal which is funding art, but here the same principles apply. With the exception that maybe art backers are a little more accepting of late/disappointing rewards at the end.

The only real question is, is there a sufficient number of such proven projects to make Kickstarter sustainable? I'm not sure, but given the size of the internet and the available talent I would suspect so?

[1] - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adv...

[2] - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-ret...

[3] - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599092525/the-order-of-t...
iOS (neé iPhone) 1.0 automatically resized the logical size of keyboard "keys" based on prediction models of the word you're typing. The video describing this behavior has since been pulled, but you can read the a summary of the behavior in this 2007 article: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10114943-233.html

So, given that pre-existing behavior, established in iPhone 1.0 back in 2007, do you honestly believe the iPad's split keyboard behavior is a bug?

This is a very intentional and deliberate decision that improves the keyboard's usability while at the same time maintaining its aesthetics.
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We're not just talking about viewing contacts, we're talking about managing contacts.

I don't trust you to be able to see my contacts, and I surely don't trust you with making changes to them.

Good luck with your service, I'm sure it's nice.
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as I see it, you must think of cost, how much of a bargain would it be to have me the potential buyer purchase such a device, and not have two separate ones instead. Another key aspect is the battery life, big screens mean your battery won't last that long, and it would suck to have both your phone and tablet dead.

I think if these 2 are resolved, people will consider buying such a device.
The same as when it released for mac?
Pretty much only source games if I recall, but it rapidly expanded to more games because they are really helpful with porting games to the new platform.

This is the last thing holding me back from dropping windows completely.
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I see it there. But I haven't really opened Google+ on the phone since the day the app was first released, so I'm not convinced I was ever presented with that page.

It doesn't seem like something I would turn on.
Ask HN: How do you find new mobile games and apps?
I am trying to find out how people find new apps and games to download. For instance for me I browse the app store and look at the top say 50 and if I see anything good I get it. But other people must do different things, as them app/games wouldn't be in the top 50 otherwise.

As I only have a 16gb iPad, size does influence my purchase. Anything bigger than a couple of hundred mb and I generally don't bother, even if it's a free app. I generally don't read descriptions but do look at screenshots and reviews.

The reason for me asking is I have developed my first iOS app but having real trouble marketing it because money is tight. So before I pay for any marketing am trying to find out which way will give me more bang for my buck. Most review sites charge for a review, hence why a app might have great reviews but when you download it, you find it's not that good and end up deleting it.

So a few questions if you don't mind -

Do you read review sites ?
If you do, do you click on adverts for apps/games or only go for ones that have been reviewed ?

If you browse the app store, do you look at description, screenshots, reviews ?
If so which one influences you more ?

Does price affect your buying decision ?

Does size of download affect your buying decision ?

Do you follow anyone on twitter or Facebook for recommendations ?

Do you read forums for recommended apps or games ?

Thanks,

Dave
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So the font hipsters have found something better (older, more obscure, purer, rarer, harder to pronounce) than Helvetica while, helpfully, still being indistinguishable from Helvetica (and Arial for that matter) to the average plebian.
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Wow. I live in Cincinnati and my name is Jay. Unfortunately I wasn't around to coin the term.
https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans... notes that old versions are saved for 30 days or 100 revisions, which does provide some protection.
I think the BBC meant white hat, not white hack when mentioning Moxie Marlinspike?
Or am I being painfully naive and missing something?
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People are way more willing to take the time to write a bad review if they feel that something wrong was done to them than take the same time to leave a positive review, even if you ask them to.

The only one that will leave a good review will be Yelp users that rates everything.

And maybe people that you did them a big favor and they feel they have to repay you someway.
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I started my business after I got a full-time client (a bit of a reversal to how it's usually done). It was the right time, right opportunity.

I also, without a doubt, received God's help, so I can't claim it was all my doing.

Would I do it again? I work many more hours than I did working for the man, but yes, absolutely.
To each his own. The counterpoints to his arguments are easy to make. Inconvenients of working for a big company:

1. You will work too much with people or processes, as opposed to technology.

2. You will work on code bases that evolve very slowly. Case in point: NTFS is hardly a "state of the art" filesystem: one of the slowest filesystems for workloads reading/writing many small files, 3 years late in delivering TRIM support, no snapshot capabilities like zfs/btrfs, no checksumming of data, probably the last modern desktop file system to support hard links, etc.

3. You will only be a very small part of something (perhaps) important and impactful.

4. It is the easiest way to guarantee you will not be inordinately financially successful (as opposed to being a cofounder or early employee with stock options).
I agree with you - every time I see some new fancy GIT shell, and all the accoutrements that must be set up in the shell to get some sort of 'application intelligent integrated development shell' I feel like its 1983 and we're building GUI's with ANSI all over again.

Of course, I'm insanely jealous of these git'ologists with their fancy shells .. I'd love to have the patience to sit down and learn their wizardry .. but in the meantime, plain ol' git needs to be learned, can be learned, and doesn't require arcane insertions into ones .bashrc before one can be productive. Nice to see it, but no thanks: I'll stay plain, just coz.
I have taken UI aspects from the HN approach to a news site (plus a few ideas from StackOverflow) to include news pages on a site otherwise developed using ASP.NET, SQLServer and jQuery - point being that it was not very difficult to build an effective news page (learning from the best) using just about any platform. In my view, way easier than learning the ins and outs of someone else's approach.

Should be pretty steady using any MVC stack.
Interesting.

In the UK jaywalking is legal but there has been an increase in pedestrian deaths. The assumed cause is "zombies" - pedestrians listening to music via headphones not paying enough attention.

Same has happened to zombie cyclists.

Funny story is a friend who jay walked at 2am in a western European village. Arrested and fined. Go figure?
I really wish Valve would get behind the Open Pandora gaming console: http://openpandora.org/

Its a fantastic machine, with a great community, and an awesome technology for single-file game distribution, or PND-files (Pandora .pnd files are self-contained applications), along with a fantastic repository already in place: http://repo.openpandora.org/

With Valve behind them, the OpenPandora guys could really do something neat in terms of creating a Linux-based gaming hardware series. Imagine the Valve "Pandora" console, either in handheld or desktop/TV-side form .. this could really happen, and Valve would gain a lot from getting involved in this.
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You must have just skipped through it without thinking, I'm sure that's what they wanted you to do :-)
Well, I've had a pretty similar experience so far. Although, I have to admit, I'm still 24 and less than a year into my first job. However, I feel like I know exactly what you're talking about. It feels to people around me like I always know everything ahead of time and exactly what to do whereas I'm constantly learning and internally it feels like I really don't know what I'm doing. But I'm always confident in my ability to learn and adapt and somehow get things done on time.

About 5 months ago I took a freelancing project that was an android tablet app. I had never programmed for android before(and had just a vague idea of what that environment was like). But I took the job anyway and assured them I could get it done in a timely manner. And 5 months later, I did, and I learned the android framework in the process.

I also had a similar experience during the summer of my 3rd year in university where I worked on a project for 2.5months where the most challenging part was user interface design. It was also a tablet-based project, but this was 2008, iOS and android had just barely come out and there were no tablet OSs. I used linux + python + pyglet and wrote my own UI toolkit. Likewise, I was out of my depths most of the time as I had never done anything remotely similar but at the same time I was never stressed out and confident I could get it done over the summer, and I did.

So I guess your experience isn't anomalous or unique(though probably quite rare). And I know at least another person, a very good friend of mine, who's also had a similar experience.
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As a longtime PC gamer, any Microsoft store is roughly 0 threat to Steam from my perspective unless publishers stop publishing on Steam, which would seems very unlikely unless Microsoft took much less of a cut and Valve refused to follow suit, or Microsoft decided to pay publishers off for exclusives. Microsoft's past attempts to make Steam-like services have been completely laughable/extremely frustrating (see Games for Windows Live, their attempt at an online community/DRM solution).

I think they're expanding to Linux entirely because they want to expand to and support Linux, not because of any competitive pressure forcing them to retreat to Linux. A couple years ago they expanded to Mac, and this is just a natural extension.
Brilliant news. Of course Valve wouldn't want their own console to be tied to Windows, and there are definitely enough Mac-ported games (e.g. including Assassins Creed, not just their own stuff) that Linux ports must be do-able in short order.

I'd hope there's some "trickle-down" effect of Steam ports- an push to sort out the knotty ball of Linux sound configuration, 3D drivers and other grimness. Alternatively it could be that you need to enable pulseaudio for title A, ALSA for title B, OSS for title C - ARRRGGHHH. Fingers crossed.
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Ask HN: Suggested OS for teaching programming
I don't like the term webapp, because it diminishes the nature of the work. When I say programming, I mean writing database-backed multi-user network applications with a web interface. So yes, a webapp, but there's more to it than that.

Anyway, I have the opportunity to set up a learning environment to teach a bunch of bright, aspiring developers everything I know about my craft in a very short time, and I've reached the point where I have to choose the machines I'm going to use. Now, because I'm crotchety and apparently just stepped out of a time capsule, I want to teach debian-flavored linux: that's what I develop in and deploy to.

On the other hand, a colleague of mine extols the virtues of OSX and indeed, I can't deny the increasing ubiquity of macs in the silicon valley. He's pushing heavily for a mac environment and makes good points in favor of it. I even carry a macbook air when I don't feel like burdening my shoulders with my usual laptop, so I can't argue too much against it.

Now, without devolving into a "mac is better than XYZ" discussion, my question to HN is this: does it make sense to teach new developers linux directly as part of their education, or should I let them accrete knowledge of deploy environments and system configuration over time?
I'm definitely looking forward to Linux on the desktop this decade.
I wonder what this will mean for dropbox. I certainly like the micro-like pricing starting at 2.50 a month.

As a statisfied dropbox user, with only ~200mb used, I don't need to pay for the service. Yet I recently wanted to show my support by taking their lowest possible plan. (I thought this would put me back 15-30 dollars a year).

Yet the lowest thing they offer is 9.99 a month. I found that suprising
I like it but it's kind of slow on my macbook I understand this make much more thing but sometime i have to wait for 1/3 second until it get switched to the new repos. Nice work tho, I guess I just need a SSD upgrade (sigh)
Does 'in touch' refer to on devices as the iPhone or iTouch or with regular old keyboards?

I hit the B with my left hand on a normal keyboard; fairly certain that's the way all professional typing courses teach teach you to do it.
I quit my job because I didn't like what I was doing. I didn't like having a boss so the easiest thing to do was "be my own boss", right? :)

So far so good, the journey is fun and I'm learning a shitload of stuff on the way. If it failed, no worries I'll go back and slave myself in a big corporation.
Linux comes with every programming language under the sun an apt-get/yum/pacman away, it is by far the easiest os to teach/learn programming on.
One of my colleagues seemed surprised that jaywalking is legal in the UK. Another friend seemed perplexed when a car stopped to let him across the road.

I think it stems down to our different attitude. We're taught in school to "stop, look, listen" but all major road campaigns focus on the driver's behaviour e.g. speeding, drink/drugs.

I think as far as cyclists go, I don't think music should affect your awareness of the road. Being able to hear cars behind you helps, but you should always be looking before you move.
This message that you will get out of your small town and meet likeminded people is a big one. However, why wait miserable years? I think even in a small town there are on average enough freaks so that you don't have to be lonely. The question is how to find and activate them.
Also, some socialization might be acceptable even for freaks, for example "normal" clothing, showering etc.
For people that use them a lot, smart text-based UIs can be much faster than GUIs (yes, even in 2012). Having the drag around the mouse and click eventually becomes cumbersome as well. But in the end it comes down to preference, I guess.
It's interesting that on the About Google Drive page, they claim, "Data is inherently social."

Funny, I claim that my data is inherently private. Is it a coincidence that companies that would like to sell my data have the philosophy that my data is "inherently social"?
Yes, I got my Youtube account locked, so that locked my Google account and I couldn't access my mails.
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If you are considered "wiered" that means you probably also lack the social competence to know what is the definition of word "friend". so don't wory as far as you know you may have many friends, but wrongly think that you dont have any. and your enemy may be your best friend. as far as you know.
I am not sure what car you are talking about, but if it has three physical different lights it may be because of differences in the relays that turn them on and off that cause slight timing differences, unless it is on every Ford Fusion...

I too have the same issue that I am able to see slight difference in timing for certain lights. I've learned to ignore it rather than let it get to me, but I've got a friend who is extremely sensitive to them and has a hard time behind the wheel of a car because the timing on LED brake lights in some model cars causes her physical pain and that causes her to lose her concentration on the road. Her husband drives her most of the time due to this issue.
That's literally jawdropping for me. I would have thought it a fantastic business... and then to find that all the filtered reviews are 1 star... unreal.
well, have you thought about how much "self serve IT" works for average consumers before cloud based services? for ex. can you aunt download and configure a mail client, or does she just have an @yahoo
"Source" is the brand name of Valve's game engine, used in the Portal and Half-Life series, Team Fortress 2, etc. "GoldSrc" refers to the legacy version of the engine used in Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Team Fortress Classic, etc.
This has been the theme for years. It is the argument that killed the original Google Drive and why Google are so late to the party.

What they didn't realize is that you need a drive product in order to migrate users from the old desktop files paradigm to the new web services.

I see Google Drive, SkyDrive and Dropbox as nothing more than a temporary bridge between the old world and the new world. I am already using webapps and web files for ~90% of my work, there is just a few little things that I still do in the desktop world, such as image editing.

The opportunity here for entrepreneurs is to look at old file and app usage and work out where the gaps are in good online services. I wouldn't worry too much about providing the actual storage, since that is now a race to the bottom, and providing the operating system or app aggregator is also now a free business, the good business will all be in the web based apps.
In my case, TF2 and Half-Life are the only things stopping me switching to Linux as my main OS. I can agree with you there, I want to be able to code and game on the same OS.
I resonate with the article but I think the author only groks half the lesson.

And, "Fuck them" is rarely the solution.

It isn't being different, accepted, weird or yourself that is important. It is how well you can interact with other human beings. You can bang on about finding your niche or just being true to yourself but you are then following just another brand of conformity and group dynamics. The author himself realises this. He's in a gym, in this tale, with others he bonds with through social interaction and bonding (talking about sports, not pissing people off, joking about). What the author has stumbled upon is an understanding of the nuances of socialising and friendship.

I resonate with the post because like the author I was weird in school. I'm still weird as an adult. I had few friends (sometimes no friends) and would frequently fight. I was an outsider. Growing up didn't change many of those things (well, I don't have to live in a Lord-of-the-Flies style dystopia any more). Growing up helped me realise it isn't about who you think you are it is about how you interact with others.

I'm still an anti-social outsider but now I know how to make friends and get along with other people. Weirdness isn't something I wear as a badge of honour, it's just a factor of my personality. I can hide it to fit in. I can appear different to how I really am in order to get things done. You can be yourself, and you should with people you want to get close to. You have thousands of other people you will need to interact with to get things done, it is them that you have to be "less weird" for.

Now, I can bond with people who once upon a time would (and did) attack me on sight. Since then, I've sat around talking the gossip/sport/trivia/current events/reported speech topic that gets them excited over a beer or other social medium. Everyone loves to think there is some huge unfathomable difference between them and people that they don't get along with. There isn't, the only thing preventing you and anyone getting along is how well you can socialise.

It's the conclusion that I disagree with the author over. They are already practising the solution, his gym buddies are bonding with the kid and the kid seems to be learning. Most of us eventually learn how to interact with each other civilly, that's what growing up is about.

Eventually, almost all of us learn how to be part of one tribe or another. We are biologically programmed to find our tribe. So what's you favourite....
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at first i was like, only 5gb free, what happened to massive leapfrogs goog. then i was like 100gb for 4.99/month F yeah america.
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