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It's important to remember that while StatCounter results say something about internet-wide averages, browser usage is still pretty context sensitive and corporations are still largely IE based.

Absolutely. And this is a real problem as lots of really good things are not possible in IE.
I had a good laugh, thanks for posting.
Microsoft Visual C++ supported "Edit and Continue" for many many years.
Anyone using Perl for new projects and why?
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Apply Custom Formatting to Pivot Tables, Render Chart in ODS Format
The long awaited version of Aspose.Cells for Java 7.2.1 has been released. This month’s release provides support for applying custom formatting and styles to pivot tables. We have provided a new RegEx feature for when you’re searching for a string of a given pattern in the cells (of a worksheet). We have also made enhancements to chart rendering in ODS format. This release also sees enhancements that make the Aspose.Cells’ generated file compatible with POI. This release includes plenty of improved features and bug fixes as listed below

•	Format Pivot Table with custom styles for different categories (Modify Pivot Table’s Quick Style)
•	Cells.findString()/find() supports to search RegEx and in specific range
•	Save MS Excel charts in ODS file
•	Make Aspose.Cells created XLS file compatible with POI
•	Saved XLSX file gives error: "Data may has been lost"
•	Formatted number was incorrect in the generated PDF (Thousand group characters were lost)
•	Bar chart was not appearing in the generated PDF for JDK6 version
•	References are not updated when expanding a range
For 99% of use cases on the web, you'll probably manage to get away with the W3 subset:

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

which avoids most of the awkward corners, and for which a parser is a bit easier to write.
I am wondering the same thing. Aside from being an impressive CSS3 demo what are the practical implications here? Will this make my site load faster compared to a js version? Will it likely be more responsive?
Opera has been ahead of the curve for features virtually forever (currently: tab stacking, right click anywhere to add search, and 'g searchterm' syntax). It is also much more memory-efficient than chrome/FF with many tabs.

I think it has just never been seen as 'sexy' by the tech geeks, and therefore never evangelised.

Surprisingly Opera's strong showing in mobile/wii didn't impact the desktop. Does HN think it might do better if it was open-sourced?
Is "Research Project" poised to become the new "Beta"?
Wow, this article has hit be pretty hard as well -- I have been profoundly deaf since I was about three and a half. The fact that my deafness hit quite late means that I'm pretty proficient at oral English (thanks Mom and Dad!), it does mean that I miss out on a lot at work or in my social groups.

I have had to put so much effort into getting out there and meeting new people, but now that I have, I wouldn't give up any of my friends for the world as they are pretty amazing and make sure that I'm included in everything. As in anotherdeaf's story[0], if I'm at a pub or MacDonald's or something, and they know I've not heard something they will quickly step in to sort it out. None of them get embarrassed or anything when I asked them to repeat what someone else said, and all of them are happy to say the same thing over and over until I've got it -- I guess what I'm trying to say is that when you've found your friends and trained them up, they'll stick right by you. People always ask me how I got to be so confident, but the truth is I'm really not, I'm always terrified of meeting new people but I put myself out there and make a huge effort to talk to them, ask questions and just get on with them in general. It is horrible and I'm always exhausted afterward, but the rewards make it worth it. Just stick at it, talk to people, and you'll be good to go.

Have you taken lipreading classes ever? If not, you should definitely consider it. It means that I can happily talk to people in swimming pools, e.t.c., when I can't wear my hearing aid.

Insofar as work is concerned, I've never had any issues with special arrangements for interviews -- I tend to email recruiters directly, but IBM, Google and Twitter (as well as other smaller companies) have been more than happy to make special arrangements for me. Always, always ask, the only tip I would give you is to put an obviously fake telephone number in (e.g., 000000000).

Oh, and don't worry about the girls. If they're worth it then they will come to you :) And definitely have kids. Even if they ARE deaf, they will still get a lot out of life, and things have been improving so much since I was at primary school all those years ago.

Also if (any of) you want to just shoot shit or have someone to chat to about deaf stuff, my email address is in my bio, so feel free to send me an email or add me on gtalk.

[0] http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4002231

EDIT: (Also I have just sent out that article and links to some of the comments in here to my best friends, partly as a way to say thanks to them for all the trouble they've put in for me over the years, and also to help them understand where I'm coming from some of the time.)
You should consider doing a french language intensive course, also, try to get out of the house as much as possible and talk to people and friends.

The best way to learn a new language for me it's to talk to the natives daily, even if you don't understand anything first :P. Good luck
I'm saying it's not a fas because of how tightly integrated they are in both the internet and people's minds.

MySpace had a bunch of local bands with ugly profile pages. It was basically the next Xanga, LiveJournal, DeadJournal, etc. It never moved on.

Facebook exposed APIs that developers could use to build on top of them. Facebook is a major part of the foundation of the social internet. And as long as Mark's on the job, I'm betting it'll stay that way.
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I don't get the argument that timestaps are not human readable -- they are, the only thing you need is a good viewing software. And yes, it is worth it since at least 99.999999% of accesses to this data come from machines.
I know they say that the chats aren't screengrabs, but why even make it look like they were? Text (and avatar) is just fine. Also, are these from a source different than the one BI had posted a year or so back ago?
As a person who was raised with two different household languages at different times, I can offer anecdotal evidence that this holds true. My refugee parents decided that their native language (Romanian) would be an obstacle for me in their new country (Thailand) and went for English instead. Then we got asylum in Sweden and I learned Swedish in kindergarten and so on.

In Sweden my parents started speaking Romanian at home, which I also picked up. It became a coherent triangle of languages, where home we spoke Romanian, outside of home Swedish, and English on TV and in school.
Unlike say genetic patents noting natural can make these maneuvers as they require one or more fuel burns to make the transitions from orbit A to orbit B.
Should this be extended to books that are based on publicly funded research?
Elsevier needs to burn. You want an awesome way to get a 10-20% increase in research funds? Cut the fat.
Sign languages are proper languages of their own, and even if they are invented by hearing people, when a deaf community adopts the language it usually diverges quickly from the hearing culture language.

So, you're right that there was a precedent to ASL that came from France but don't assume that ASL is much like French.
RS is not tech but a pretend Journalist pretending that PR is a tech article..
Python built-in functions are awesome. Use them
Besides seeking reimbursement for medical bills (Mr. Knecht’s alone are nearing $100,000, according to his lawyer, William Doyle Jr.), the injured people could also file pain-and-suffering suits. “If somebody crosses the center line and plows into your car, it does a number on you in terms of how you feel about getting into a car,” said Jonathan Karon, Ms. Hodges’s lawyer.

The above sort of BS is my complaint about the tort system. I've been hit by a car crossing the center line and plowing into my car. It didn't change how I feel about getting into a car, at least not in any debilitating way. I am perhaps (sometimes) a bit more alert to whether oncoming cars seem to be drifting towards the line. And please tell me how "pain and suffering" compensation is going to remedy any "feelings" you have about getting into a car?
So you learned English from TV? I thought I've always heard that didn't work.
What kind of sales are you getting with $7.99 as the price point? Have you considered increasing it?
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Maybe I'm mistaken, but it seems like the kettle is calling the pot black.

"I used to scrape articles/content written by people. I created my own content management system that would publish entire websites for specific terms."

You mentioned this in a previous comment on another thread. I remember, because it was a fairly big comment, and wasn't long ago. Considering the discussion was on scrapping, I can only imagine you didn't have explicit permission to do so. Indeed, you go on to say:

"Anyway, content would be useful to me, because I would spin in into new content, using a very basic markov chain."

Indeed, the claim you have for not doing this anymore is:

"I don't do this any more since I'm actually working on what will hopefully be a very succesul startup..."

This doesn't grant TNW a free pass. I just found your attitude interesting.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but in terms of 'successful' vs 'good', Facebook isn't good, it's awesome.

And GM's decision isn't a big deal. Facebook will definitely try to address problems in terms of ROI. Like I said in other comments, a lot of this has to do with my belief in the management team (the 'bergs).
Was the IPO Hackathon his stag do?
This response helped.
I myself am faced with a similar problem. I like cryptography so I learnt it and implemented it in some self-developed applications. But all i was doing was using API's/libraries/modules written by someone else. I wanted to be a part of the API creation/maintenance process which is actually just being part of some open-source projects.
I am going to try the approach mentioned by you.
Interesting. Why did you decide to offer different countries and different websites?

Can I ask where you are based? I've been thinking about working on something like this for the UK.
> Feature request - ability to add 'notes' to a document. I'd imagine these as toggleable divs that would be able to be inserted anywhere in the doc, then made visible or not by toggling a class. When 'on' the visible portion would just be a small box/space/marker that, when clicked, opened up a larger div with the full note.

I think this suggestion fully qualifies as something they don't want to do, "[to create] unmaintainable tag soups and inline styles".
I don't want to pay to access gov funded research, but content that takes that research and either applies a better organizational structure or adds additional value seems worth paying for.

If the author of the book wasn't adding any value, you wouldn't need the book, you could just read the research.
No. I learned English at home, and I kept up with it through TV and school. Also, I've always preferred to read in English, which probably helped a lot.
Theoretically, information is information, encrypted or not, and just because the key is zeroed out doesn't mean part of the original information cannot be obtained from encrypted data. For example, an infinitely fast brute-force algorithm could crack it, as well as a lucky guess, however unlikely. If the key is weak relative to the strength of the cracking algorithm/hardware and the cost of leaking information, then this doesn't work.
I guess I just piped my thought stream to standard output, but it's basically everything I feel not only as an investor but a user.

Why does a blog have to me anything more than opinion and conjecture? The article was provoking enough that you joined the discussion.
Replying to the reply to this- I am pretty sure the webserver can easily find out that foo is a JSON file when resolving the path. Most operating systems don't let you name a file and a directory the same thing, so the file system API knows straight away there is no such directory named "foo", and can have special handling for whatever kind of file "foo" happens to be. (in this case, JSON)
Thanks. Does anyone have further information about the status of laws to mandate open access in the EU?
I think it's a shame Codecademy (to the best of my knowledge) hasn't incorporated some more visual lessons into its tutorials by changing the CSS for HTML elements or by using Canvas. There are a lot of lessons with numerical loops which might be livened up for beginners if the loops moved some coloured circles around a canvas, say.

Personally, as a teenager I read some C books but never wrote more than the 10-line examples in the books until I discovered the Allegro graphics/game library and realised that I had all the tools I needed to make a Tetris clone, a 2d platform game, a software synthesiser...
(none of which I ever finished, but oh well!)

edit: I meant the Codecademy Javascript classes; obviously they have static CSS and HTML classes too, but last time I looked there were no tutorials to use JS to animate a web page. Maybe there are now or will be soon.
Any research funded by the NIH has to be made publicly available within 12 months after publication. The papers have to be deposited with PubMed.

http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
Since there's no link to the source nor does this post specify which court this took place in...how is it different than the decision made in 2011?

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215074/RIAA_request_...
If the user taps the green thumbs up icon and submits the form, they are invited to leave an App Store review. If they tap the red thumbs down icon, what happens? Nothing. They are given no easy way to post-up their negative review.

I don't think this is unethical. I don't know anyone who encourages unhappy customers to write reviews, on or off the app store.
The format is YYYY-DDD with leading zeroes.
That's fantastic, thanks for the link.
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Does this have an internal battery to ensure that the destruction is complete even if the power source is removed? Otherwise there's an obvious weakness: before raiding the house, cut the power: this will prevent the SSD user from being able to destroy their data.
I hate magic package names; I'd far rather be using wicket, but I wanted good comet integration for this particular project.
You might have a look at two projects of mine related to gaming and lua:

http://geolua.com/ - Allows you to develop mobile games for the browser using lua. http://geolua.com/adventure/all-widgets-demo-132 shows a basic example.

http://github.com/dividuum/infon - A multiplayer game where players control ant-like creatures using lua. They fight, evolve and compete for food. https://github.com/dividuum/infon/tree/master/contrib/bots has some example code.
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"If you can find a subtle way to segment your users by their sentiment towards your app, you can then ask one of those segments to write reviews and not the other, thus skewing the ratings."

It skews the ratings in your favor, deceiving future users about the actual quality of the app.
And you're not really helping. Perhaps if you'd posted an actually useful, thought-through comment, people would be inspired to follow the tone and standard you set forth.

Further, if you're going to to complain, please do it with arguments and maybe even solutions.
I've been trading-in my habit of writing one-off Perl scripts for writing them in C#. I just clone a template file containing enough to get a "while(<>) { ... }" equivalent and a vanilla regular expression going -- ninety percent of what my one-offs need -- and I'm off and coding.

The result is something that may or may not be faster, or clearer . . . but it's a whole lot easier to debug when something goes wrong.

I learned Perl about a decade ago, and have never felt that plumbing its depths (references were about as sophisticated as I got) would pay off. (I won't get into what I think is broken about Perl, because that discussion definitely won't pay off :-) )
Powerful counter argument.
I agree with the overall premise of the article, in that these examples are in fact exploiting UI design patterns to funnel users into not being able to painlessly leave negative reviews. But i want to offer a different perspective for consideration other than "this is evil".

As a developer of apps, you provide software that tries to fulfill a specific need of some subset of users (in other words, it's not merely an uber-fart-generator). You genuinely build this app to the best of your ability and push it to the app store. Users trickle in, based on the app description and find that, for example, it lacks polish or it doesn't have feature X yet, which is relevant to the app's domain and to the user, but is not currently implemented. In other words, there is a mismatch between user expectations and the app-provided experience.

Instinctively, these users feel the urge to leave a negative rating. It's a knee-jerk reaction. As a developer, I want the user to engage me, because obviously I have an app that is not quite there yet. I want the user to tell me what they want fixed before leaving a negative review, so that i can satisfy their needs without burying the app. By funneling him into such a feedback loop, I can better my app and in turn help him fulfill his needs best.

Is this unethical, or evil? I say no. Apple outright banning these unethical -- as the author considers them -- design patterns, would also have a detrimental effect on many legitimate use cases.
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I'd think most Facebook users don't care about the # of friends they have. Some definitely do, but I'll go out on a limb and say those are the shallow types I'd rather not be friend with anyway (but whether they compose the majority of the world is probably a good debate!).

A lot of my post was truly speaking from the heart. Facebook is great. I check it once daily to see what my friends are up to or if anyone messaged me. # of friends? Who cares. There's a 1:1 relationship between my Facebook friends and the people I'm friends with in real life.

Some celebrities accept anyone as a friend, but you have to take that for what it is: self promotion and relationship building. That Facebook account is probably unusable.
BTW: I also made a little game to check out Codea -- https://gist.github.com/gists/2762088/
Ask HN: How do you do this with a Mac?
I'd like to know how the following can be done with a Mac:

1. The equivalent of a Meta-backspace on Linux that deletes a complete word on the command-line.

2. How to tab between two xterm windows on the current virtual desktop without being moved to a different virtual desktop if you have more than two applications in total open (say Safari, Xcode, etc).

3. How to put virtual desktops in a grid.

I hope this isn't too much to ask for.
+01:00 is not a useful timezone. If you want human-friendly semantics for things like "+1 day", you need to use the symbolic name for the timezone (Europe/Lisbon or whatever). If you just want an absolute time, you're better off expressing it in UTC, possibly even as seconds since epoch.
Creating a simple editor which works, seems to be quiet hard, judging based on all the horrible examples we have of existing ones. Hopefully, they'll keep it clean and don't add many new features.
I imagine if someone is serious enough to be using this, they'd be running a UPS too.
For a program that will sit waiting for user interaction nearly 100% of the time, strings must be "as fast as possible"? That's leaving aside the small fact that they won't be as fast as possible because you're using ref-counting.

My bigger point is that programming hasn't grown up yet. We're not an engineering discipline, using the best tools and making the highest quality things. We're stuck in this ridiculous world of shaving nanoseconds from string copies, at the cost of programmer time (which is vastly more expensive) and user dissatisfaction (when the programs crash).
There's a source link at the bottom, it goes here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/6958585/RIA... It looks like exactly the same story, even referencing a "14-page ruling."
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This is very nearly exactly what I was looking for, couple of things:

Small UI crit:

When adding a Habit, the cancel button is in the top left position on the Add a Habit screen - everywhere else in the app this position is a non-destructive navigation button so I accidentally cancelled events I was in the middle of creating a couple of times.

It would probably be better to make this navigate back to the Today screen & auto-create the event and put the cancel button somewhere else.

Couple of feature requests:

* ability to make the reminder an modal alert view rather than a message - too easy to miss a non-intrusive alert

* ability to snooze a reminder - if I'm busy sometimes I can't do the thing I'm being reminded right now but don't want to forget to do it, if I could 'snooze' the reminder in the alert view that would make me more likely to remember to do it
I will totally be checking them out. Thank you.
I'm no Elsevier fan, but I think that number is a bit over the top. Most Universities have site-wide access to pretty much any paper you can get your hands on. I have a really hard time believing that 10-20% of research funding feeds those journal databases.
I installed bpython, but found it to be much more CPU intensive than ipython, for working on small machines (like a raspberry pi). Of course it's not a problem if you have a reasonnably decent hardware.

Edit: setting auto_display_list to False in ~/.bpython/config (not XDG compliant directory :( ) helps a lot. You can then use completion only when you need it.
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From the site it looks like SPDE uses Scala instead of Java, do you really think that's a serious choice for teaching non-programmers though?
David: Thank you for sharing your story. I was moved by it. Best wishes to you.