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android:background="#ffee11" on the button?

That . . . actually works! Well, now I'm embarrassed. I had previously had to go this route http://www.androidworks.com/changing-the-android-edittext-ui... with text fields, and assumed it was the only way.

How do you get buttons to occupy a percentage of the screen (I hesitate to ask, as it's probably something similarly trivial . . . but it's been such a painful subject for me that I really want to know!)?
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Besides the chatroulette meets facebook aspect, how is Airtime creating a live network that's any different than what Ustream and Justin.tv has already done?
I can definitely recommend Jackson. Performance is stellar and it's easy to use.

It does make your APK a bit bigger (in our case, about 20% of the APK size comes from Jackson) so if you're only going to be parsing very little JSON, you can still make do with JSONObject.
Reminds me of my first grade teacher telling me to stop signing my papers in (neat) cursive as I wasn't supposed to know how to do that until the end of the year.
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Quit fretting. U.S. is fine in science education
Like me. I can easily reach over 450 tabs, and have been using this feature since Firefox 4, when it was added.
Sorry, but that analogy is disgusting.
I guess they can argue that part of the Airtime brand is the founders and/or that they want to give the product a "face".
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I found the Google+ "what's hot" feed interesting too, until they went through yet another redesign and I couldn't find it anymore. I didn't have enough interest to ask the Internet how to find it again, so I slowly just forgot about it. Now I don't felt like I've lost any utility from not giving it three minutes of my time every day.
Summary:
Researchers from the University of Bonn have just shown how a single atom can be split into its two halves, pulled apart and put back together again. While the word "atom" literally means "indivisible," the laws of quantum mechanics allow dividing atoms -- similarly to light rays -- and reuniting them. The researchers want to build quantum mechanics bridges by letting the atom touch adjacent atoms while it is being pulled apart so that it works like a bridge span between two pillars. The results have just been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
If you've made it to Inferno, doesn't that imply you've enjoyed ~40+ hours of Diablo 3? It's some very cheap entertainment once the hours count gets near the dollar cost.
I think you solved my imgist.com addiction. Thanks!
Threads and processes can be given a lower priority.

Edit for @barrkel: you can also do more advanced resource shaping on some OSen. Like limiting the number of network connections per second, and limiting the bandwidth. There are also cpu throttling possibilities where you can make sure a process only runs max 10% of cpu. Or as you say, putting scheduling into the app is another possibility.
Exactly! Facebook already knows everything about you (if you're using it right). They pre-populate what they think you'd like, and you can fine-tune it manually.

It might even lead to more engaging ads, and a new market for companies who can't figure out how to create gripping ads on Facebook at the moment.
This has been done before (Chatroulette off Facebook) and numerous other Facebook platform apps. None of which have taken off. The core problem they will face is that most people don't browse Facebook (much less a video conferencing app) to meet new people...
It breaks the rest of the storyline.

To be brief, the ending of D1 and D2 were ominous, at best. D2's ending left off with doing something so horrible and crazy that no one knew the full consequences.

D3's story favors the archangel Tyreal over humans or the heroes really. The ending is some unicorn pooping rainbows where in Disney fashion as soon as the bigger baddy is defeated by the hero, the angel steps in for a "finishing" blow on the downed enemy, proclaims himself wise, the area is magically repaired of all damage. What follows (the falling) is the single stupidest way to end it, ignoring the consequences of it in favor of a symbolic ending.
Agree that it sometimes appears to be that some feel it makes them superior. But could also be for the same reason that people get a rise out of being a bad boy/girl and not just ordinary. Off the top another example of this is someone saying it's good to have a special needs child because it makes them a better person. Or how having cancer was a good thing. I'm sure someone can find the appropriate psychological principle that I am referring to. (Not talking about rationalization.)
Has Facebook popped the bubble or just let off some steam?
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My friend, let me introduce you to the wonders of modern science. Fresh fruits and vegetables are now heavily exposed to pesticides and other substances that retard decay (even organic foods, though the exposure is lessened). Cheeses now include preservatives that did not exist 100 years ago. Dried meat has always had a lengthy lifespan, since the lack of moisture prevents decay (see the 1-year old McD's burger at SeriousEats), but today dried meat has the additional benefit of sealable, airtight packaging to prevent unnecessary exposure to moisture. (This also applies to fresh fruits and veggies). Many organic foods dispense with pesticides but irradiate the food with UV prior to transport.

London and other European cities were never as far from their food sources as American cities are. They also benefited from well-maintained road systems (i.e, paved roads) that lessened transit times.

Though as I said, "most" food spoiled on the way to market, not all. Food spoilage is still a problem today, but we have both minimized the spoilage, maximized production, and adopted certain techniques so that spoilage generally does not affect downstream food production or sales.
I find the idea of Facebook getting boring very interesting. Do people complain about email or gmail getting boring? Their address book? Skype? "Safari is boring these days"? For many people, Facebook is a medium. My girlfriend is busy on the iPad writing stuff in her family's private group. I am just going through the timeline looking for interesting articles just like I do on HN.

Now I wonder what people who consider Facebook "boring" did before they left. Play games or be there just for the novelty of it? Then this is not a loss for existing users.

I can understand the privacy concerns and the "not useful" answer though, with the terrible usability & iOS app.
I fully agree, I currently have 174 tabs open, and that's actually a low number for me (I closed a couple hundred down on the weekend). Having all of them reload when I restart my browser was a nightmare before this feature. Everytime I'd have to hunt down a couple tabs that contain auto-playing videos. All while getting Basic Auth password popups for work related resources.

Plus, it is much better for over-all performance since some websites switched to an interface that polls for updates in the background.

Of course I know I'm not a typical user, so I wouldn't really argue against this being an option that is off by default. But it would very much hurt my user experience if it weren't available at all.
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"Jessica and I had dinner recently with a prominent investor. He seemed sure the bad performance of the Facebook IPO will hurt the funding market for earlier stage startups." - PG

What part of this is unclear? PG was sure enough to write a letter to the startups warning of the oncoming contraction. I am guessing the VC was someone of the caliber of Ron Conway.

I do not have data as data is a historical record (in this context), not a prediction of the future. This is why it is a warning of thing will come, but the question is HOW MUCH will the market contract, not IF if will contract.

"I think it's still too early to see if there is a material impact."

I believe this should read, "I think it's still too early to know the extent of the impact."

EDIT: I don't have any hard data, I am using PG and AVC to assert that what they say is true based on the information they know.
66% of users are tuning in, not 66% of user accounts.

I might even go so far as to say that this is only accounting for 66% of active users.

Of my ~30 or so friends, only 5-10 use Facebook actively and only 2-3 post daily. Most never post.
It was used heavily in the fixed income division. I was there during the phase out and among the A-Plus developers there was an "...out of my cold, dead hands" mentality. They (and there were a lot of them) really loved it.
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Yeah, it's definitely an improvement for you 50+ tab peoples. Not so good for the 5-8 tab people. I think both groups should get a good user experience though.
A lot of people dissatisfied with D3 are also satisfied with StarCraft 2, which had a 12 year delay from its predecessor.

Tastes change, but I don't think that's the primary issue at play here.
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Comments here so far seem to agree that the article goes too far, that we need both abstract and experiential learning in schools, and the article misunderstood the purpose of the microscope test question (reading comprehension).

Yes, we do need both abstract and experiential learning. But we need different ratios of them at different ages. Teenagers are much better at abstract learning than young children, and young children are much better at learning skills than teenagers or adults. That is why young children can be piano prodigies, become multilingual, etc. There is nothing wrong with book learning, but it is currently close to 100% of the school day in our elementary schools. At least 50% of class time should be devoted to practicing skills at this age -- painting, singing, playing drums, athletics, building robots. With four years to learn something like physics in university, 100% book learning makes more sense.
Do you have any arguments that aren't flippantly insulting and irrational?
It has been tested on all major browser including IE 7 and up. ES5 getters, CSS animations etc. will only be used conditionally if the browser support it.
This is Rashmi from SlideShare.

We have considered some way for people to officially acknowledge their inspiration by someone else's presentation. That might have helped in this case.
I love the web, but let's be serious here.

As a user when I install an app, I want to be able to give
it access to a selection of:

- Program storage, to a limit
- Whether it is permanently available or downloaded or cached for a while
- Access to RAM at runtime, to a limit
...

No no no. Normal people want to install an app and just have it work. They trust iOS apps because of a perception that they are carefully monitored, and because nothing particularly bad has ever happened. They don't trust the web because everyone has heard of email, credit card, etc. scams. One big reason for Apply to only allow in-app purchases through their system is that, therefore, third-party apps never see credit card information and can't do too much damage.

If you want web apps to succeed, figure out how a normal person is going to find, install, and trust a web app not to steal their credit card info. The only answer I can think of is through app stores run by trusted browser vendors.
Unfortunately, the app requires that you login with Facebook.
Are you saying Java deployment is complex? WAR files have been easiest to hot deploy for at least a decade - that too directly from your IDE with the click of a button. PHP deployment simplicity definitely beats everything - and Ruby will come last :(
Gifts don't count as income in the US. There's a gift tax on the donor, but that doesn't kick in until you give $13,000 per person per year. Not sure about other countries.

Widget: Heck yeah! Wanna write one? :-)

Intended to be mainstream, starting w/ Github. But Guido isn't on Github, only Google+. :-(
Thanks for pointing that out. It should be fixed now.
You mean apple users, as in "the people who actually use the delete funcionality on an apple keyboard and have nothing to complain".
He was. He called the Gnome 2 developers "interface nazis":
http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/9680-i...
"Even calling those with Asperger's "aspies" is condescending."

Why? Are you claiming that using "aspies" is an "a" word?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

"People identifying with Asperger syndrome may refer to themselves in casual conversation as aspies (a term first used in print by Liane Holliday Willey in 1999)."

About Liane:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/experts/liane-holliday-willey...
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> Without facebook

You're confusing "without facebook" with "without the internet". Without facebook, yourself, your family and friends - would just be using something else.

People leaving facebook are not doing so to become socially isolated. But because there's other means to keep in touch without the whole facebook stream overhead.
> Literally, facebook is a modern "An open letter to my friends" system. And it's great at it.

I actually think this is Twitter (warning: I stopped using it a year ago). Usually if you have followers you can assume that they read your stuff sometimes. Not so with Facebook. You may have been purged from your best buddy's newsfeed just because you usually have little interaction on FB.

I sometimes feel the urge to post a cat picture just so that people who don't care about politics will Like it and thus keep me in their newsfeed. :( (Assuming that this is how it works.)
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Yes, but it's not near as 'roulette'. I get the impression it connects you with people that are a part of or near your social network, and/or people that have similarities according to your interests, likes, etc.

Edit: There's also no anonymity to it. Your identity is there for all to see, so there's an inherent level of accountability there that should deter the...exhibitionists. :p
There's definitely different groups of users here. Without being able to spy on firefox users, I'd guess the 5-8 tabs people are a decently sized group. The one tab people, and the 50-400 tab people are probably other sizable groups.

The new change helps out the 50-400 tab people a lot. Each group could all do with a good UX though.
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I'm not sure if it's a bug (I'm using Chrome 20 beta, on Lion), but as soon as I've visited the Airtime landing page, my browser behaved automatically, as if I pressed the "Launch Airtime button" and I've instantly received a "Welcome to Airtime" email, even if I didn't accept their request of permissions.

I didn't have a look to the code, but I really hope this is just a bug and not a malicious use of Facebook authentication...
The MIME type is allowed to add information about the nature of the data encoded on top of the encoding. This is why we have application/xhtml+xml. It means "this is encoded using xml, and btw the parsed xml structure is xhtml".

The ideal place to handle this is (as pointed out above) content negociation - specifically as 'application/rjson+json'
That wasn't really aimed at the comment above. It was that the majority of "behaviour disorders" are 'diagnosed' by teachers or parents.

In the US I have known children who were medicated for ADD on the word of a teacher or classroom assistant. Basically it becomes the socially accepted alternative to making the disruptive kid sit in the corner.

The rather more laughable but harmless affect is the middle class parents who have decided that any deviation from perfection in their assumed to be perfect little offspring is obviousness a medical disorder
Even the verbiage ("recipe" etc.) and iconography seems uncannily similar to IFTTT.
This is what Facebook's utility for all of us is. Just replace cute photos of their kids with cute photos of your crush (or ex), and replace marriage events with house parties, and you've hit what the twenty-somethings on fb do daily. Anything else is to justify being there.
I think you come from a false premise. The idea that "book learning" can be successfully measured through standardized testing does not have as much backing as you think it does.

One of the big problems of standardized testing and school in general the way we've been doing it is that you can inculcate a great deal of pseudo-knowledge, and you can probe for its existence through these targeted tests, but in many cases you fail at instilling true understanding and knowledge.

Math and science becomes rote memorization of formulas and terms and plug-and-chug. But this isn't learning.

A classic example of the problems involved here is to go ask a bunch of recent college graduates about where the mass of a tree comes from. Even if you only ask people who have studied photosynthesis, you'll still get an abysmally low percentage of correct answers, if any. The same goes for any question on any topic that's covered in college which requires actual understanding and thorough application of the alleged "knowledge" that the students have acquired.
Off-topic: has anyone on HN spent time cataloguing either good UX choices or bad UX choices in today's web?
I'm slowly beginning to take interest in user experience design (I'm a backend developer).
At my first company, I freaked when we got a major competitor. The CEO smiled and said it was the first sign of a good market. He was concerned about the lack of competition up to that point.
It's also important to think of the market outside of tech: it's been intensely downsliding in the last month or two. The "European Question" is kind of a Big Deal.

A draining tide sinks all ships.
There is more talk about facebook sucking/going under these days then I can remember about any web company and it seems everyday I come across a new technology that will only allow me to use it if I have fb. There are so many other options too. BrowserID?

So thre devs are too lazy to build their own auth sys, or too lazy to provide more than one federated auth sys and therefore they never get customers they could have had?
> this all goes into a FB database somewhere, which who knows has access to it, or backups to it. Enjoy being harvested voluntarily.

Are you being ironic with a statement like this, or are you serious?

The second there's even so much as a bug that affects some obscure privacy setting, the TechCrunch pitchforks are out, and the brand is on the line. Do you really think that FB is just gonna let anyone rummage through their user's private data, just, you know, for fun? Can you even imagine how damaging that would be? Why do you think FB blows millions of dollars on engineer salaries to work on privacy features — which you just dismiss in a sentence like they're nothing?

The way I see it, you're already in a database somewhere, many of them, but the difference is you don't have access to that data — you don't even know what data exists, where. Facebook comes along and says "OK, fine, we'll play along, except we'll let the users decide what data they provide, and we'll try to help them benefit from it as much as possible" — and suddenly, Facebook's the bad guy. All the government, banking, insurance, direct mail databases out there and people have to go after FB, where every click has an associated privacy setting. It boggles the mind.
The Android Docs app has already been renamed Google Drive.
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I really wish there was a way to feel the texture of lava but with a more soothingly warm temperature rather than 6th degree burn temperature.
That was one cool looking video!
Facebook Connect likely solves the dick problem.
I thought that stuff was well covered already, with the leader being Locale (iirc).

Did anyone try a couple of these and can provide a comparison? The article is light on details, the biggest difference that I noticed is the configuration via a website. Well, and the Facebook login downer.
I think it's great that Tim Berners-Lee is still chiming in on the contemporary issues involving the Web. From a latecomer like me, it seems the Web (and the whole of society) has incomprehensibly changed since he first specced it. That he can stay still be a leader goes to show how solid his original proposals were.
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You couldn't be bothered to read two more sentences that demonstrate that he gets the difference, yet you could take the time to write a response?

Some of us simply take issue with the revisionist history where we went from the stone age to this new concept of socialization brought to us by Facebook.
It's pretty good and I enjoyed it a lot...

Now on my 3rd time through, some of the stuff has me scratching my head. Why am I lighting the signal fires, doesn't everyone already know everything is fscked? NPC's are completely useless against even the lowest of creatures, and so are the followers... The only formidable fighter in the entire world is you.
Cisco is desperately frustrated by Huawei?
I would think they could sell it a bit better than "Create shared experiences with people you know, and people you want to know." The point of a one liner is to hook the reader with something unique and memorable--you could transplant this phrase onto half the social startups out there.
Out of curiousity, what's the value-add of Pair versus just using SMS/MMS? I looked at their website but I didn't "get it".
I love that it allows me to keep up with those people; I hate what they find interesting to post.

IOW: because I follow folks on Twitter by "subject" and not by friendship, I get lots of really relevant interesting content.

Perhaps I'm just not using it properly? Like, I miss communities concept from Orkut...
Author here. I do a lot of analysis each day and am constantly sharing it with my team by taking screenshots of Sequel Pro. I built Oculus so I could keep a centrally available repository of my research, that everyone could access and collaborate on. It definitely has a ways to go, but I would love feedback!

Also, this is my first attempt at providing a live demo of software that can execute arbitrary SQL. I'm probably crazy for doing this, but I thought it was a lot more interesting than doing a video. If the demo suddenly disappears, you'll know I wasn't able to harden it enough... :)
Facebook was chosen for the beta.
What other authentication schemes would you expect?

(besides creating a dedicated account)
Agree, but only because the items you cite here are too technical for an average user. I think the way the iPad implements location API is an example of permissions working really well.
Great way to keep an eye on EMR costs ...which can get pretty expensive!