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I don't feel think something being 'socially acceptable' in a group is a good way to measure if it's good.

If the existence or state of things is determined by groupthink in different circumstances the world is in a lot of trouble and doesn't have a strong foundation.

We live in a strangely retarded relativistic and selfish world where everything is everyone's and nothing is anyone's. A world with no measuring sticks yet many measurements.

I suppose that's a difference between a lot of people, there are those who think things are simply determined by who they're standing around whereas there are those who hold to more definite and progressive concepts of things that don't change as if a wave driven by the winds of the sea and tossed about.

Then again, I avoid jaywalking, which is seen as madness by some and is often trailed by some silly rant about police making money. It's viewed differently by others and those are generally the ones I prefer to be around as they're a little more uplifting and less vulgar.

I avoid cheating too, for example, classes at university finished yesterday for this semester and I had one last, small piece of assessment to hand in and I had done it incorrectly and I asking a friend how she went about solving it—it turns out my calculations and the like were correct, there was just something wrong with my logic—she said to just copy her answer verbatim which I couldn't do despite her arguments that it's not worth much, it's the last day or 'everyone does it' which sounded like a puppet talking.

No, it's not just you, everyone has accomplices.

I.
Dash Technologies, Inc. seeking lead front-end web engineer - Part time/Remote are lovely

What if, instead of scribbles on a clipboard, teachers could instantly translate a fleeting thought to call a parent into a playlist in their phones?

Check out what we’ve done to solve this pain point at http://aliyabhatia.posterous.com/private/tunrgdjyaI#!/slides...

As Lead Engineer, you would:

-	Build a product that teachers and principals are begging to see in their classrooms and schools
-	Work with an Emmy Award-winning designer to develop web portals, mobile apps, and our main website
-	Manage a team and build a company

What we are looking for:

-	Experience integrating web and mobile APIs into web development
-	A passion for education and education technology
-	Demonstrated ability to manage a team
-	Excellent communication skills
-	A discriminating eye and willingness to vet options and make the right decision for the product
-	An “all-hands-on-deck” mentality and willingness to support in any area needed
-	Strong preference for candidates with past experience in mobile development
-	At least 15 hours per week to devote to Dash’s development needs

To apply:

-	Send a resume, cover letter, and links to portfolio pieces to Dash founder Aliya Bhatia at aliya_bhatia@mac.com
-	Qualified candidates will undergo between 1 and 3 interviews with various members of Team Dash for fit, team chemistry, and domain expertise
So the solution is to cheat?
I'm a big fan of the Chrome addon called Concentrate - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/idfmgklhndkcggamad... . It allows you to create a blacklist of websites and then it doesn't allow you to navigate to them for a set time period. Of course, you could always switch browsers, but if you're resorting to things like that, I can't help you.
Ask HN: Are there laws around aggregating and archiving news stories?
I feel like I've heard there are laws in Germany at least that require news agencies to delete news articles published online after a certain period of time. Is this true? Are there laws in the U.S. similar to this?
Yes, see: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Texas-reache...

"The company got a look at local enthusiasm for the project last week. During a federal environmental hearing in Brownsville more than 500 area residents attended, with most showing support for the company's plan to build a spaceport just north of the Texas-Mexico border on the coast."

Texas is in competition with Florida and Puerto Rico for the launch site.
IIRC Google gets confused if you were once logged in. Either log in or delete your Google cookies.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote

Dash Technologies Inc. is seeking a front-end web freelancer to use existing API to develop web portal for users.

You would get to work with an Emmy award winning designer and a team of educators on a product that teachers and principals are begging to see in their schools and classrooms.

Send a resume, cover letter, and links to portfolio pieces to Dash founder Aliya Bhatia at aliya_bhatia@mac.com
I enjoyed a similar experience sitting in the middle of a mile-on-a-side clearcut area on a windless, zero-degree Sunday in January in the far north. No planes, no traffic, no animal noises. I sat on a frozen log and listened to the blood in my ears for a half hour.

Give me a good book and I'll spend 45 hours in one.
The problem with e-mail is that people often don't take a step back before replying, especially when they're angry.

That usually results in long, ranty emails that can be all over the place.
Have you, or anyone representing you company/app, ever approached WhosHere to 'merge' businesses as they claim in their rebuttal blog posting?
I think the major mobile operating systems are rapidly approaching maturity. I don't expect any radical changes in Android, iOS or WP at this point. iOS in particular hardly looks different than what Steve demoed in 2007.

This is also why I think Android's upgrade problem may not turn out to be so important in practice. Even if the carriers utterly fail to roll out OS upgrades, the 2-3 year device churn cycle will eventually get new versions in play and ICS has fixed most of the glaring problems with the OS and is "good enough". Once Google makes major components like the browser upgradable as apps it won't be that important to rev the base OS.
Article also fails to mention that using something like factcheck.org will typically get you branded a liberal.
It's really exciting to see a great development tool. While I love vim and will passionately fight for it's place as the best 'text editor'. I readily recognize it's faults as a development environment.

All the other tools I've seen up to this point seem to be a text editor with plugins or additional components stacked on top. Even IDEs seem to follow this pattern and are development tools built on a text editor.

It is nice to see a holistic approach to designing development environment from the ground up. To me light table looks to be the first real development environment as opposed to an improvement.
If you want an example app that is a RESTful API with JS front end, please excuse me pimping my own project: http://phreeze.com/ (the REST server is in PHP)

Here's a language-neutral book that goes into RESTful services: http://www.amazon.com/RESTful-Web-Services-Cookbook-Scalabil...
I feel like some of these suggestions would defeat Apple's minimality. Amalgamating Windows and Android's complex features with Apple would completely damage the benefits of iOS. Stripping things like personalization, information display and unnecessary configuration options is what makes Apple what it is. If you want/require Windows and Android's tech customizability, you wouldn't own an Apple device. If Apple implemented those features, it would be like Facebook reverting to MySpace's overabundance of ugly profiles and teenboppy usernames.
I suspect you know what to do when you run out of bubblegum then?
Yea, I don't seem to have it figured out how to land on the front page either. Somewhat timing based, I guess. Try again during the afternoon and you might get more bites!
As a vision researcher, I think that size should be measured in degrees of visual angle, not inches. In this respect, there's no difference between a large screen and a small screen with the same number of pixels, and it's easier to hold your phone closer to your face than to sprout larger thumbs and buy new pants.

If there's a restriction of the iPhone's small screen, I think it's actually that you can't have as many touch targets as you could with a larger screen.
> seriously, "regularly" turning down offers for work at a rate of over $400/hr?

I wonder what the hourly rate of a small-firm lawyer is.
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I'm not a lawyer.

I've never heard of any such law requiring anyone to delete their own database of content--as long as the content is legally acquired. Look at Lexus Nexus. Their whole business model is an online database of news dating back decades.
I like what idoh said. Talking to your neighbors (by that, I mean where you live, not where you work) may give you some suggestions of what's important for non-programmers (which makes up the majority of the population).
There are people who have been harmed by people taking drugs. There are also people who have been harmed by people drinking alcohol.

Is there really anything that can be done with absolutely no affect outside of their self??
Technically, having a bunch of HTTP resources that return data of type text/csv in response to GET requests is a perfectly valid API. It's also easy to build: just put those CSV files in a directory and have Apache serve it up.

How useful this is depends on how clear the data is, how well they document things, how sane their document formats are -- in other words, it depends on things that are much harder to mandate than just "have an API". I'll predict in advance that most of the APIs here will be pretty half-assed.
Who's Here and Who's Near Me are different names. Get over it.
There is no way that Apple is going to add any sort of direct file access into iOS 6. This would completely undermine the work that they have done to get rid of the metaphor.

That said, there is certainly a problem with how files interact with iOS, mainly when it comes to email. Bridging the gap between the non-mobile file world and the pseudo-fileless iOS is going to be tricky.
Their trademark probably shouldn't have been granted. This company didn't trademark the word "Who", they trademarked "WhosHere" which is quite obviously a different word. This reminds me of McDonald's who go around the world suing every company that has a food product starting with "Mc" (eg. a Scotch distillery founded a hundred years before McDonald's even got sued). Unfortunately the US patent and trademark system is broken and can be easily manipulated by entities with money, and when abused by assholes like this, it just makes our world suck even more.

I hope their actions haunt these individuals for the rest of their hopefully short careers as business founders.
They clearly stated that the initial offer was just the beginning of negotiations. I didn't see anything wrong with the offer.
And "Chinese".
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Downloading and consuming some content removes the primary reason of purchasing something—to consume that content.

Now, the ideas of people on here and in the tech world in general really can't be further than that of those in the 'outside world.' When people I know who aren't technical people speak of downloading stuff many often make note of how awesome it is to consume something without having to pay for it.

Not paying. It's a big deal to a lot of people who pirate.
The names aren't even that similar. "Who's" is the trademark you are being assholes about? seriously? I can't see how they would stand a chance in court.
Because the veins are very near your ear canal. Any outside sound is not available, so the only sound you hear is those that are internal and wouldn't get very far anywhere else...
> Yep, Microsoft buried the shutdown option in the settings menu!

I never shut down my phone or my tablet. They are always connected and always ready to go. Both of those are computers. That's what Microsoft is going for. If they can break the "shutdown habit", this will be a positive development for them.
Should simply be, "Troll".
Leon Chua also considers PRAM to be a memristor technology [1].

All 2-terminal non-volatile memory devices based on
resistance switching are memristors, regardless of the
device material and physical operating mechanisms.

[1] http://www.springerlink.com/content/f41r8m054x550430/
All I want to know is, if I launch a location based app named "Around Here", will you sue me?
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I shutdown my MacBook Pro about once a month (mostly for OS updates). Simply closing the screen puts the laptop into sleep and opening flawlessly brings up the OS multiple times per day. Perhaps MS is aiming for a similar os/hardware symbiosis with their next OS iteration which would justify hiding shutdown option.
It seems that one of the tests is whether the person offering legal advice is being compensated somehow, and another is whether there is some kind of ongoing relationship. (I'm imagining a scenario where someone offered their services as an "immigration consultant" for a fee, for example, and they made promises that they could help you navigate the red tape of immigration.)

Maybe if one posted enough legal advice on a message board like this one, some kind of pattern could be established, and the person could get into some legal trouble.
That's certainly true as far as perceived size goes, but I don't find it practical at all. There's a big usability difference between, say, reading while holding my phone at arm's length while resting my arm on a table and having to hold a smaller phone closer to my face to get the perceived font size to be the same. Holding stuff closer to your face just isn't as pleasant.
1080p, surround sound, perfectly mastered instead of being ripped from a dvd or a cam, and no threat of being sued.
It appears he was able to get some traction and they started to salivate thinking about picking off those users on the cheap.
Clever. Also, I applaud you. Many of use sink hours into pouring over HN when we should be working on other things. And it's not even our home page.
interesting, thanks. Hemingway said the same about writing: he'd work until he knew where he would pick up the next day. Then he could stop. In between, he'd not want to talk about what he'd worked on or planned to next sessions as that would get in the way of actually doing it.

I've had success writing code this way. If there's a wall, talking about it helps; if there's a flow, shutting up and letting your subconscious at it helps more.
> The tooling around dynamic languages is almost laughably primitive and limited in comparison.

Around most dynamic languages, there are exceptions like Smalltalk which has excellent tooling including the automated refactoring and the best development environment around. Let's not forget, tools such as automated refactoring and xUnit type test tools originated in Smalltalk.
How do you choose the splash screen for the different movies? It seems that for each movie I tried you have a very good screen-cap that is obviously not something random, and yet it is also not the official poster.

Did someone select these screens by hand?
Disclaimer: I work at a legal online video streaming site.

Jaywalking, doing drugs, and underage drinking are fundamentally acts against rules, not acts against entities. A risk is being taken and the burden of failure is on the risk-taker.

Selling alcohol to minors is unethical. Do I need to get into that? Acquiring media in an unauthorized fashion is an act against the creator and their licensed distributor. That makes it unethical.

You can separate whether an action is justified, and whether it's ethical. There are clearly reasons to pirate - valid or not^, the act itself is not ethical. And I think it's clearly so.

^ personal opinion: mostly not

There's also the separate but related issue that many believe that entertainment is a right, or that it should be available in all mediums. While I do believe that it should be available anywhere at any time, pirating should not at all be considered an ethical recourse to acquiring it through other means. Art doesn't exist absent the influence of money. Entertainment is commercial art but that doesn't mean that its artistic value excuses the viewer from participating in the artist's (creator's) intentions for distribution.
Well, it depends on where you're from. Your link shows that US water standards are lax compared to European standards. But more than water, I'd be concerned about the amount of hormones and antibiotics in meat.
My biggest beef is a low hanging fruit issue.

I can't get any reliable voice dialing recognition (I'm using Voice Control but I haven't had any better luck with Siri on my wife's phone) - it would be nice if you could limit voice dialing to your favorite contacts as opposed to your entire address book.
Weak sauce. It just seems to me a slight trend lately. The age people started coding is creeping lower. Just like the "Check out this app I wrote in random time"... random time seems to be creeping lower too. Maybe I'm wrong. But none the less, what age you started says an entirely different thing about you than what year you started.
You're talking about a "license" for which the licensee is paying the trademark holder a royalty for the right to use the trademark. It's quite common, especially in the startup world.
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That's not how it works. The second company would pay Kleenex for a license to use the trademark. This does not dilute the trademark, in fact, it actually strengthens it. The third company, which does not take out a license, would be subject to trademark lawsuits by Kleenex.

Hope that helps.
Liberal isn't a dirty word, it's not something you're branded with.
Yes, but visitors that buy guidebooks do not go to your mono-cultural hometown. They go to New York!

Even in my (relatively) small-medium town in New Hampshire[1] there's an amazing variety of high quality restaurants. A lot of people abroad in their own similiar-sized towns don't get to ever try authentic Mexican, or Cajun, or American comfort, or sushi, or Greek, etc, all of which are available here.

For most tourists, especially tourists from small towns going to NYC or Boston or SF, America is a cultural delight of food.

[1] http://www.yelp.com/c/nashua-nh/restaurants
I've just created a web app for encrypting data into url. The intent is to encrypt data at the client side without leaking the plain data to any server. The encrypted data are packed into a url for easy sharing. Decryption is done on the browser with a password. SJCL is used as the workhorse for encryption.

I know there's a prevalent view against doing crypto stuff in Javascript so extra precautions are taken to minimize the security risks.

- All web content (html, css, js, images) come from the same server.

- No download from any 3rd party websites or CDN.

- Use SSL certificate for all content to prevent code injection along the way.

- Encryption and decryption are done on the browser.

- Nothing is submitted to the server and no input shown to avoid XSS.

- Url fragment is used for encrypted data which stays on browser.

- Server doesn't do any encryption work besides serving the web content.

- The web pages can be downloaded and run off from the local file system.

- Have as few dependencies as possible, just: SJCL, Bootstrap (css), and html5.js.

- Keep things simple for verification.

Please review the app and code to see if there are any security concerns. Thanks!
Totally ignoring all the specific changes which are very debatable I think the biggest challenge Microsoft has is a significant number of PC owners are already on the fence about buying another PC. The one they have works OK and they have shifted a lot of their day-to-day computing to SmartPhones. Quite a few of them are already at least casually interested in the iPad instead of a new PC. When they look at Windows 8 they have to decide if it's worth investing the time to learn something new in an era when they are using their PC less than ever. It's kind of the perfect storm with a higher barrier of entry and a lower value proposition to the consumer in the end. Tablets are a different situation though I think it's also a huge uphill battle for different reasons.

The scary part is they have unintentionally interweaved the fate of all their different platforms together. If Windows 8 is a huge flop on the desktop who's going to buy a Windows 8 tablet or a Windows Phone? The Metro UI is unique enough that the taint of failure will stick to it. Metro could become the new Clippy. The mere sight of it could make people recoil in horror. No one could exactly tell you why they hated MS Bob, Clippy or Windows Vista. They just knew you were supposed to hate it because everyone hates it. If that happens with Metro Microsoft is looking at another 2-3 year 'reboot' and I just don't think they have that much slack left to work with.
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Well, Yahoo has a trademark on "Yahoo! Buzz", but that doesn't mean someone else couldn't go out and make a product called "Google Buzz", because they did. And "Buzz" seems like far less generic a word than "Who".
It's hard to imagine some federal agencies being able to do much of anything within 90 days. But, I look forward to poking around with some of these APIs.
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I think there is a very basic dynamic here. Often it is hard to see some aspects of a system from inside it. Organizations need people who are liminal in order to see the changes they can best make to stay competitive. The rank and file still need to be solid, normal people, but the drivers of change will not come from this crowd. Having ADD, Aspergers, or Dyslexia may be one way of achieving this liminality, but I am not sure it is the only way.
Interesting to see that according to your source, European standards are 3 to 5 times more strict than the US. Depending on your definition of "rest of the world", maybe you meant water in the US is higher quality than India? Probably true.
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My wish is that Apple adds paid upgrades for apps in the app store.

I'm now close to releasing a major upgrade for an iPhone app, but these upgrades aren't going to be sustainable for me without paid upgrades (I don't want the new features to be IAP features)

In the long run, this will also benefit customers because paid-upgrades will help developers add more features to the app. Users who want the new features can pay for the upgrade. Users who don't want to pay more can stick with the older version of the app (and hopefully the app store will make it possible for users to re-install older versions of the app).
Absolutely. In Japanese, for example, you'll sometimes hear conversations littered with なんか (nanka) and かしら (kashira).
Technically having a bunch of HTTP resources that return data of type text/html in response to GET requests is a perfectly valid API. Indeed, it's one your web browser uses all the time. There are also plenty of products that let you set up such a system quickly.....

So I guess I agree with you but would even take it further.

Of course, if that API is Stuxnet or Flame-based....