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I'm expecting that it's probably not going to go much above where it is right now (which is still twice as much as I figured it'd bring in); despite quite a few downloads from HN, no one has paid for it. That said, I'm sure I could increase paid conversions with some work, but I honestly don't care enough to do so. I built this so that I could build neat demos on my iPad, and there's no way I'll recoup the cost of 5 or so hours of dev time I spent on this. I'm just glad that it's working well for people.
> Why were sine, cosine, and tangent all positive in the first quadrant, while only sine was in the second quadrant?

You were not endlessly drilled with diagrams of circles that made the signs obvious? Trigonometry without diagrams is like pie without fruit!
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The '81 recording makes it difficult for me to enjoy other interpretations. The Aria is played more faithfully, but I find the pacing jarring to my Gould-81 ears.
One a random note, it would be cool to see AppList integrated into the preferences to allow for per-app toggling.
>As if the inside story of our planet weren’t already the ultimate potboiler, a host of new findings has just turned the heat up past Stygian.

I hope, when old media finally dies, that this sort of "clever" news-writing dies with it.
An update to my Creative Cloud confusion: http://patdryburgh.com/blog/no-serial-number-needed/
With all the backlash over Gmail's icons, why not just use text?
I thought about doing that, but at this point I don't think it'd be too terribly useful. If I do anything more with it (outside of fixing bugs if they pop up), it'll probably be to add a WebGL toggle inside of MobileSafari somewhere, for convenience.
I can't hear it with my equipment, but it's definitely visible in the spectrum around 14kHz. http://seanpalmer.smugmug.com/photos/i-4Z4GXQm/0/O/i-4Z4GXQm... I tried isolating it. http://soundcloud.com/sep332/isolated-artifacts-from-kimiko
>unless you are going to roll your own emergency power, multiple redundant HVAC, and fire supression, as well as shell out hundreds of dollars a month for significant upload bandwidth to your house or apartment, your data and encryption keys are still in the physical possession of a corporate datacenter.

You don't need significant upload bandwidth for email. Or download bandwidth either. (Unless you're expecting constant DDOS attacks.) Or emergency services. The HVAC might be a good idea.

You could have made your point a lot better by just saying that 99.9% of users will never set up a home server to do email. Which is the truth.
This is from 2009. Is there news on whether the charges were valid?
> Do the (thing above) and come back when you finish it.

Do you even know what advice(1) is? That's not advice as I understand it. That's an order. You're giving orders to a complete strange on a web forum. Think about the intelligence behind that for a second.

My comment on this site was referencing the comment by Paul Topping(2) on the TC link. His opinion, and one I agree with, is that Visual Languages become too cumbersome for anything but small projects, and my example is using Visual Programming for layout. The XIB's are XML in XCode.

1) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/advice

2) http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/27/hey-kids-get-off-my-lawn-th...
I think your definition of 'looked fine' is a lot different than Steve Jobs' and people who need bifocals.

My guess is that your task bar in XP must have been less than a centimeter tall, the system font less than a millimeter tall. I know there are a lot of people like you who value having more on the screen like that, but realistically, that's not a very large market niche.

The goal at Apple was to keep roughly the same dimensions for interface elements while increasing the sharpness of text and icons. If the user wanted to, they could reduce the font size in whatever application they were using to make practical use of the increased pixel density.
The classic example is screen readers. A phrase that’s italicized because it’s important should probably be slightly louder, but a phrase that’s italicized because it’s foreign should probably be pronounced slightly slower. Those are entirely orthogonal things, and it’s useful to distinguish them.

Semantic HTML + CSS can be taken too far, but having separate layers gives you a lot more flexibility than presentational HTML alone, which tends to be very brittle.
I just added bootstrap-wysihtml5 to a project and I'm liking it. My only problem is it won't let me type comments in the HTML view and I can't figure out how to dynamically resize the text area. Redactor seems to let you do this. Looking forward to trying this out as well.

Edit: Redactor looks like it retains formatting for the HTML. That's enough to make me switch.
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How is "mute by default" different from "no autoplay" except that when users actually hit play, it would just start somewhere in the middle? (That sounds like an even worse user experience.)
Yes, I had exactly the same thought.

The corollary is that these icons are as bad as text; sure, they work great for left-to-right reading Americans that designed them, but what about everyone else? (My favorite is the "parking" icon. How does a big P help someone who calls a parking lot a "駐車場"? The P icon looks like, "welp, nobody that came to the meeting came up with a good idea, so let's just implement a shitty idea instead." "Sounds good, Bob! Man we're dumb!")
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Thanks for this feedback. The filtering system is pretty non-existent in this version (just one level of categories), and that will have to be integrated.

Adjusting what's show in the view is important - either with search, or filter, or by organizing by similar items. Those other pivots will built on top.

For this v1 we were mostly exploring the feeling of this much density and scale of results - so helpful to hear that she thought the images are too small.
Is that true? Any stats behind that?
Agreed, though I've been married long enough for the smart & sophisticated thing to have been pretty well seen through.

P&P has a cafe. Yet with $5 in caffeine & sugar giving one 45 minutes table rent, I doubt that brings much in.
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Human drivers are terrible. Is it so hard to imagine computers doing significantly better? Why do computers need to be 100% safe when the humans they are replacing are nowhere near that?
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True. But residential bandwidth is just one of many reasons why mainstream users aren't going to actually own their own email anytime soon.
I wouldn't recommend using the WebGL enabling hack at present, for security reasons. But then, people who are jailbreaking their phones in the first place are probably making a different security vs. features tradeoff.
Generally the models have it becoming fairly distorted in various ways and then strengthening again in the opposite polarity. It never goes to 'zero' because there isn't a model where the core stops moving. But there could be some 'local' poles in addition the primary poles. Think of it 'aurora borealis at the equator' kind of weird but not 'sleeting sheets of coronal mass ejecta raining death on helpless flora and fauna.'

Of course nobody really knows, we have models, we have guesses, we have theories. I've not seen any credible theories that result in the field going away but it doesn't mean they aren't out there.
This was my attempt: http://soundcloud.com/antiterra/variatio4squeaks
I wonder what happens when a low light camera meets a laser pointer. Does anyone know?
They have to replay the sound because the gunshots are indistinguishable from the sound that lady's bones make when she contorts herself to sit at the terminal. (Look at her arm.) What an ergonomic nightmare.
"Clipping."
Polarity flips take thousands of years, as far as I know. In the middle bit you have loads of poles floating around and the ionosphere is much weaker and very confused, so you get a hell of a lot more radiation at the earth's surface. I also read that there is a minor north pole floating around the South Atlantic at the moment, which could presumably have you sailing in circles if relying on compasses.
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This is an excellent recording. The voicing is very clear, the touch light, and the phrasing clear. My gripes are tiny, things like in variation 13, I'd love to hear a little more leading through the phrase with the pedal, but honestly, that would probably break something else in the phrasing. I'm a violinist, not a pianist, so I don't know the Goldberg inside and out the way I do the Sonatas and Partitas.

However, I'm confused why Gould came up at all, since his recordings of Bach are lousy. His tempos are often so bizarrely fast or slow that the music is lost (particularly in the two and three part inventions). His voicing ranges from pedestrian to wrong. As for his messing with tuning and his piano, he was largely an eccentric crank who pretended that no one else was doing that, had been doing that, and was doing a better job than him. Look at the Goldberg recordings on harpsichord by Wanda Landowska (my favorite) and Anthony Newman for much, much better renditions than Gould. As for greatest pianist of the 20th century, let's be honest: Rubinstein and Horowitz were both better pianists and incomparably better musicians.
My wife claims that the switch from elementary school witgh one classroom teacher to the middle school with departmentalized classrooms could also be a major cause.

A singular teacher will be able to integrate all subjects together during the school day.

When you switch to department teaching there is less emphasis on the importance of a particular subject. For example a students English teacher will not show the importance of Math.

Also teachers seem to hesitate to tell a student that they are incorrect. Teacher cushion their responses by saying this like "hmmm, ok... lets see if Johnny agrees" or "I'm not sure about that, lets try it this way". This works alright for most subjects, but Math is pretty black and white. You either get the answer or you don't.

Students also don't get grades in elementary school. Getting a poor grade in a difficult subject like math could turn them off.
I assume the layout breaks on my setup because I have set the default browser font size to 18px

FWIW, that's the same problem I was seeing at the top, and I too have my default font size at 18px.

I also see areas overlapping badly alongside the full stack graphic, which apparently you don't in Chrome.
The article mentions that the devices did manage to record conversations in at least one case. If so, they are clearly capable of recording conversations, just not optimized for it.

Also, how do you distinguish gunshots from background noise and triangulate the location of shots without first collecting raw audio from multiple devices and analyzing it?
Looks pretty good but the widgets have a really crappy experience on mobile. Tested on an iPad.

You can't release stuff like this without proper mobile support. This is 2012.
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Huh. I'm pretty sure that shooting down a UAV would be fun, and I'm not even a criminal.

I know of army units that have a machine-gun-the-RC-planes day for fun.
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Theres no reason this couldn't be a user permissions thing like the geolocation API's. If the user wants a particular page to have autoplay enabled, then the user should have the choice.
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I'm trying to solve an age-old problem with self-learning. You want to learn how to do something, whether it's programming, investing, or musical instruments, but don't know how and where to get started.

What I am trying to build is a community where knowledgeable individuals can share their opinion on how to learn something. Later, we would like Onvard to be the place to start, and find the best resources.

The design needs a lot of work, but I just thought I'd put it out there and get some feedback.
A submission of the tiny, cheap and dangerous fake iPhone charger killed my account 1 month ago, even though it got 140 points (duplicate or linkbait, anyone care to explain?)

http://www.arcfn.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and-why-you.html
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3903705
As I understand it, the opposite polarity isn't a guarantee. The weakened magnetic poles wander for a period of time. Once the magnetic field reasserts itself, the magnetic poles return to the physical poles, and if they're opposite, so be it.
Go is one of those languages I'd like to use more, but can't find a good fit for the kind of work I do (I mostly write iOS apps, and programming languages myself (weird dichotomy I know)).
I'm trying to solve an age-old problem with self-learning. You want to learn how to do something, whether it's programming, investing, or musical instruments, but don't know how and where to get started.

What I am trying to build is a community where knowledgeable individuals can share their opinion on how to learn something. Later, we would like Onvard to be the place to start, and find the best resources.

The design needs a lot of work, but I just thought I'd put it out there and get some feedback.
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yep. on macbook pro side scrolling was great... although i imagine that might be a bit unpleasant on less advanced trackpads or desktops.
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Ask HN: Image gallery software for fine artists?
I've been relying on the gallery that represents my paintings for a web presence for a few years now, but I want to move my catalog to a personal website again. I use Filemaker for my actual, offline catalog. Every now and then I look for a solution that would let me get rid of the Filemaker db and just be able to do it all on a server, but most image galleries are geared toward photography - which usually entails more focus on the numbers than presentation, and the metadata fields are not easily customizable. As a painter, I need something that doesn't visually intrude on the image, ideally would automate thumbnail creation, be flash-free, possibly have a zoom feature. Suggestions appreciated.
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The movie Minority Report is starting to look a hell of a lot more real. I didn't even know this technology existed, it's awesome but at the same time scary. I wonder what other technologies are out there like this nobody really hears about?
Plenty of movies have time-lapsed scenes of the sun going up and coming down. Vampire movies are a notable example, because of the significance of the sun. I'm pretty sure "Blade" had a couple of examples.

Films featuring people trapped and forced to survive in the desert are probably also good candidates. And some romances where the couple watch the sun set on a beach, or possibly watch it rise having had that "first talk" all through the night.
First major competitor to TinyMCE i've seen. Great work, this is awesome!! I hope this becomes big.
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If <i> means something different from <em>, you can keep them distinct while keeping everything "semantic". In fact, you could have a dozen different HTML elements for each use case of italics, e.g. <foreign> for foreign words and <t> for titles of books and movies, and it will be a mess, but it will still be "semantic". So the semantic-vs-presentational argument doesn't even apply here.

Meanwhile, the whole concept of using italics for emphasis is a Western idea. CJK languages, for example, don't use italics for emphasis, and most of their italic fonts actually look terrible on screen.
For those of us looking in, we already have a game called football, so s/Baseball/American Football/
Ask HN: What sort of startup talk is allowed at work?
I was talking to some business friends of mine, and they were very dumbfounded about the claims that companies make about employee side projects.

To what degree am I allowed to focus on my startup at work? I never write code, but I do ask technical questions on freenode about setups and favorites ycombinator articles.

Am I being paranoid? I'm just worried, because I run a blog under the same nick (not this one), and any competent googler will show me asking questions at work pertinent to my startup.

Probably a stupid question, but I'd really appreciate any links/knowledge drops. I think I'm being paranoid, but I don't know.
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I wonder if JazzyChad would have used Flattr's blog as an example, or written this post at all, if Flattr hadn't made it to the front page six hours before this was posted.
I used to do this sort of thing informally (meaning that we followed the standard and based our internal standards on it, but never sought certification) when I was an ISO.

It would be interesting to see the scope that describes in detail what exactly was certified. These certifications are typically very focused and not general or broad. For example, I saw a company's data center certified once and one specific system is a teaching hospital's IT department, but I've never seen a very broad, general certification. Based on what I've seen, the cost would be enormous and it would take years. It's an on-going process too that never really ends.
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The author of this piece REALLY wants to write fiction. I can appreciate the florid tones in a human interest piece, or in an epic tale, but time and time again, I found myself wanting more information where instead, I got a bit of fluff.

It was well-written fluff, but still. Facts, please!
Settings -> Safari -> Audio -> On/Off, or with a permissions dialog

There is no good reason to have Audio off by default and have no way to turn it on for games.
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Docs Detective is using Go for its main document comparison algorithm. Its running on App Engine, where most of the app is in Java. Cross-language communication is done via the shared datastore and web-hooks.
How's the layout broken?

For 2 and 5, I'm guessing it's the same issue that juriga mentioned, as I also have my default font size a little larger. I see the same effect as in juriga's screenshot at the top, and in Firefox I also see a lot of overlapping text in the area alongside the full stack graphic. My defaults are font size 18px, monospace 16px, minimum 10px; maybe that will help you to reproduce the problem.

As for the graphic itself and the accompanying text, as with much of the document, I think the idea could probably work but I'm not wild about the current execution. I won't repeat things others have already said in detail, but FWIW I agree with the people who have suggested that the graphics lack a common visual style and the text sizes lack a clear hierarchy.

I figured the industry experience covered some of this

Yes and no. If it's me, and maybe I've got past the initial scan and now I'm looking for more details to prepare for an interview, I'd like at least a rough idea of your level with any relevant skills you're claiming. That means, broadly speaking, how much experience in total and how recently you used that skill.

A list of buzzwords and a list of projects but no matching between them doesn't tell me which are your relatively strong skills. Unfortunately, I'm going to assume by default that none of them are particularly strong, simply because in my experience most people who list lots of skills on a CV/resume but don't highlight their particular strengths among those skills usually aren't very strong at anything.

If you do have relatively strong areas, particularly those that are relevant to specific job, then failing to highlight them means at best you're missing a chance to direct the interview in a way that is going to make you look good. At worst, you're going to get asked about your weaker skills and if you get caught out on the technical questions/programming test/whatever the interviewers are going to assume your other skills are all of that level.

If by 'real people' you mean recruiters, that's not my primary target audience, I have an utterly boring, scannable MS-Word document for them if needed.

I guess in that case my question is: who is your primary target audience for this document? If it's technical/management guys who are going to be conducting an interview once you're past the recruiters, I'd still say scannability is essential. It's totally unfair that people who are going to make decisions that could have a major effect on your life aren't necessarily going to read the whole document you've spent so much time and care preparing, but in the real world, that's often going to be the case, so you might as well play by the same rules as everyone else!
We're using it for all our toolchain in our small first game. We've also created a small build system based on v8 (javascript), but integrated it using go, it generates all your project so you just need to compile it.

We were using it also for our web page (a custom blog engine made on go), but, we left it on alpha, and Go 1 changed a lot, gofix didn't fixed and priorities made us choose another tool for our web page.

Still, i think go only needs a desktop GUI toolkit to become popular. It has a lot of potential.
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DPI is very different though, a screen sub pixel can vary in luminescence (typically index in most displays with 6bits of accuracy, minus crappy colour gamut on the display) whereas a printed dot is limited to the ink colours used.

Some printers overlap dots, print thicker dots, and have other tricks to work around this aspect. I don't know as much about this area, I've worked mostly in graphics, but my understanding is that because the colour gamut for each printed 'pixel' is less expressive, you need more dots in the same area to get a similar result.

Furthermore, dpi expresses printed 'dots' whereas a pixel on most displays can be considered three fixed 'dots', one for each display channel. Although lately, some LCD substrates are cheating a little and displaying only 2 subchannels per pixel.

Anyways, that's everything I know about dpi, as I said, I'm more versed in video rather than printing. So take this with a grain of salt: I think you need to multiply PPI by 3 to get DPI, ignoring cleverness on the part of either display or printer manufacturers.