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Right, but if all you care about is watching movies and reading Facebook and some PDF eBooks, then last-gen Android tablets are very competitive on price IMHO. And you don't have to deal with a 4:3 screen and iTunes.
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Or, How My Idiosyncratic Biases Prevent Me From Finding Qualified Job Applicants.

See http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-dont-hire-unlucky-people for more details.
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hmm, if its so good, why does it have a 3.7 star user rating?

the others (desksms, mightytext) are much higher.

i know that's not your point (security concern), but, still.
On a central server, I can understand. These processes were running on clients, though, and consuming as much memory and CPU as they could find.
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I know bashing PayPal is cliché by now, but its UI is seriously one of the worst I've seen for an internet service. Everything loads extremely slowly, and every action is buried inside multiple layers of navigation, which only compounds the problem.

What's more, you often cannot choose how many items to display per page or even search by keyword. This ensures that you have to click through page by page, enduring the slowness each time.

They're obviously aware of these problems, but the fact that they haven't fixed them in years would indicate that either their codebase or their organization (or both) is very inflexible.

Forget about destroying violins, for me this inability to adapt and improve their product is PayPal's main problem.
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The smart-phone is expected to be launched in USA in July (the date not yet confirmed). It is an Android 4.0 based CDMA handset with 2G, 3G and 4G network, so again all internet users need not switch their internet plans.
PayPal is indeed pathetic, not only from a UI standpoint, but from a common-sense and security standpoint: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-use...
What are your specific pain points with vagrant? Is it just that you have to keep a VM around or do you have problems with vagrant itself?
I should have been more careful in choosing my words. I agree that {1,2,3,...} and {2,4,6,...} are both countably infinite and have the cardinality aleph-0. When I said they are not the same size, I did not mean to invoke the idea of set cardinality. Rather, I was thinking more in terms of set difference: if set A contains all the elements of B and set A contains other elements also, then set A is bigger than set B.

With that said, the reasoning that you two are employing seems mysterious. In my way of thinking, the cardinality of a set of dollar bills and the quantity of dollars are not the same thing. If you start with $20 and lose $20, then you lost $20, and likewise, if you start with an infinite quantity of dollars and lose $20, then you lost $20. Whether the set of dollars before and after gambling have the same cardinality is quite beside the point: $20 never equals $0, so you were $20 richer before you gambled and $20 less rich after you gambled.
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Ask HN: how secure is my 3G connection?
Like many of you I have 3G with AT&T for my iPad and iPhone. I tend to treat it as somewhat more secure than open wifi.

Is it hard to sniff? Encrypted?
That's pretty interesting, thanks for sharing. Hadn't heard of CAN before.
>a) "Tried and true" does not mean it will work forever. It's also bullshit to sell copies of non-scarce resources. Besides, you can sell Free software. Your argument is invalid.

While you technically can sell free software, you can't make much of a profit off of it in the current climate. Red Hat et al DO NOT make money off the software -- they make the money off incidentals like support and consulting. The software is a prerequisite, but if Linux went away, Red Hat could survive by switching its techs and consultant to whatever replaced it. People who make OSS do not make money off of their software directly.

This happens because Stallman believes that no creator should be granted a limited monopoly over the distribution of his product. This is a completely reasonable "freedom" to disavow; copyright has been around hundreds of years and is explicitly authorized in the US Constitution. You can easily argue that copyright has gone out of control, but the GPL essentially mandates removal of the profit-bearing portions of copyright by legally releasing your privilege to control distribution (and thus become the sole supplier).

Perhaps this would work better in a world where copyright didn't exist at all; then there'd be no exclusive right and the numbers wouldn't skew so deeply negative as compared to proprietary options.

Personally I fully believe computer users have a right to a readable copy of the code they expect to execute on their machines. I simply do not believe that there is a moral imperative that software vendors allow anyone and everyone to redistribute that package. If a vendor chooses to do this, that is fine and good, but I don't believe it's immoral to try to make some money developing complex software by restricting licensees and utilizing copyright law to a reasonable extent (i.e., as a limited monopoly on distribution intended to promote useful progress in science and the arts).
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Just a random little thing I have noticed in multiple states and countries. Laundry machines only take quarters even when the machines are hi-tech enough to have a digital panel displaying the price. Is there any reason behind this? Why not take cards, or have coin dispenser?
Same old beast, new threads. Once you get past the first page it's ugly as ever. I think we'll see man land on the moon again before that thing gets updated.
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Oh, man, how I love that cool weather...just enjoyed SF during WWDC (which was too hot most of the time ;-).
Yes.. this is an Amazon affiliate program, you will require a US credit card, US bank account and US postal address to join this program. ie. for when they pay you your commissions it needs to be reported.

If you are not from the US, these things are not easy to obtain.

And last I checked they wouldn't even allow me to buy Amazon PPC advertising without these things either!
Lanai is part of the United States and under Hawaiian state law, he can't even close the island to outsiders (all beaches must be accessible to the public in Hawaii).

That said, he is the only true land owner there (Four Season's though must have some kind of long-term lease) and iirc, most of the ~2K people who live there don't have any kind of long-term leases and can be evicted. Of course, to maintain an island that large, you do need people.
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The personality and egO that likes to joke on fb, the personality that likes to talk stArtups.. They are not really you... Eckhart Tolle would say..
Actually, the MacBook Air 11" is very similar in form factor to the iPad.</fact> <anecdote>I have seen one customer leaving an Apple reseller store in frustration because he couldn't decide between both. So this problem exists within Apple's ecosystem as well.
1) While Oracle's chances don't look great, there is still a chance that parts of it could be overturned on appeal. Plus, if they are still hoping for some kind of settlement with Google, they'll need to keep litigating to put pressure on them to do so.

Even though Google "won" this round, I still think some sort of settlement is in the long-term best interests of both companies and the communities around Java and Android - some small, undisclosed sum of money can change hands to help Oracle save face and the two can make up and work together on Java/Android. If Sun had remained a separate company and sued Google (I believe they would have at some point), this likely would have already happened.

2) Ego. Larry and Oracle hate losing.
+1 on that.

If you open it up so that j. random startup can announce "Hey, we provide trigger foo, trigger bar and action baz" in a way that doesn't require anything more than cursory human interaction on the IFTTT end of the transaction, you suddenly become the default aggregation point for new services...

And may I say that having to worry about spammy APIs is kind of an awesome problem to have.
I think that's a flawed analogy, because the band is set up to sell the specific art of the musicians. Software companies are set up to provide a product using the craft of the programmers. It's a lot easier to keep the same flavour in your product if you have to replace a lead programmer instead of a lead singer. Programmers in companies don't do the equivalent of "I'm going to change tack and do a blues album this time".
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Sounds good to me, when do we start ?
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This is kind of in poor taste.
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Once again, the world is different for everyone. Following your gut feeling is all you can do because no rational process will get you to the answer; it will only get you the "whys".

What I mean with world being different for everyone is that you can't extrapolate from someone else's experiences. Things that are just right for him are possible totally wrong for you. And what worked for you probably doesn't work for another guy. Dropping out of college to start a startup works if it's right for you: for him it was more important to slowly build his own thing instead.

I feel so happy about people who do their thing, whether it's going with or against the things other people do.
Makes a lot of sense, given that Australia has a lot of people who want cloud services. Great position for the rest of Oceania too!
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1) They had their face ripped off and are looking to save the nostrils.

or

2) They have some secret mobile Java initiative brewing that isn't finished yet and benefits from continued uncertainty and doubt.
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I think Matthew Inman put it best: "It's interesting to watch a man with his dick in a hornet's nest try to solve the problem by tossing his balls in as well."
Microsoft this week showed itself willing to do what was once unthinkable: design and sell its own computer hardware

What about the Zune, Kin and Xbox. Two of them might have been disasters, but clearly MS has a history of designing hardware.

They are giving too much choice (1). To me, the real issue is availability. They shouldn't have had the press conference until the device was available on the same day. They _always_ do this, and it rarely works out. They would have sold more devices in the first week, had it been available immediately, then they now will in a quarter.

(1) http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...
I think Surface could be a pretty compelling product if all the stars align, but the fact that Microsoft wouldn't even let members of the press touch a working keyboard and the overall fragmented quality of the launch does not bode well.
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Yup. Could not agree more.
Here I was hoping that someone had a crazy idea for a new OOP paradigm....
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Most 2560 monitors are overpriced especially the Apple Cinema. I bought a 27" 2560x1440 IPS monitor from Korea just for $360 bucks back in january and it's perfect for this price, I still had to bought a Mini Display Port to DVI adapter for my Macbook, but even with adapter it much cheaper than ACD and doesn't have this huge reflective glass.

But yeah, it wouldn't work if you want to chain you monitors. so if you want two monitors for your macbook - at least one of them must be ACD
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>> Nothing ever get's built on schedule or within budget.

If anything, things always deliver on schedule and within budget. This is due to massive scope creep (scope reduction) and reduced quality.
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1) any replicated solution does that below a second, I've personally built stuff like that for fun

2) WTF ARE YOU INSANE ? monitoring isn't about displaying foreign characters, it's done in integers and english strings, like all programming. You will use user-related mess only in the user-related part

3) Every database does that with ease, if you talk about scaling from 100k monitored nodes, that only requires an aggregation layer, and that's still easy

4) That's a commercial "guaranteed", noone can do that with standard networks and machines

5) Indeed, but you'll need consultants anyway so shifting part of the costs to man days instead of licensing is more or less equal.

Now in reality, most products that are known actually suck (like how mysql is a "standard" although it's a total fail) and enterprisy solutions only have a little software packaging to make them look smooth - and in the case of monitoring, I haven't seen a sensible solution yet, with a complete round robin system, logical rather than string events, distributed 1st level pre-processing, etc.

I'll build one if I need one - right now I'm busy on something else.
I question the timing; it seemed rushed to get in front of Google I/O. The press had to stand behind a roped-off table of Surfaces to take photos. Clearly the hardware and software is not ready--nor does it have to be for an October-ish launch. But why did they have to demo it now when the press couldn't have their way with it?

All that said: take my money. I want one of each.
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That is a severe judgement. I see it more as a clever hack. Building a community site or a marketplace is the age old chicken and egg problem. Without an existing community, you cant get users. And without users you cant build a community.
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The concept of novelty accounts goes back to the earliest days of electronic text-based communication, and probably back to newspaper letter columns and whatnot before that.
Fixing stuff that isn't broken.

One critizism. Some years ago, G started putting these little downward arrow heads at the right side of words, meaning "click the link to open a menu". That was great. It put the user in control (again) of UI elements.

Before, there was only "hovering opens menu", and that is terrible. While moving the pointer accross the screen, all kinds on UI elements jump open and vanish again. Its confusing, most of the time its anoying.

And Paypal? The put the arrow heads at the right of the menu words, but don't respect the click convention. The menus ficker open and close again when you move the pointer away from the menu word. That is not how the it should be.
Kevin Rose first mentioned Digg as being a site that belonged to one of his friend's instead of saying "Check out my new site Digg!" Both Reddit & Digg would have been worse off if the founders didn't do what they did.

These are social sites and subject to the same kind of first impression biases that we all face in person.

Imagine showing up at a party with 2 guys sitting on a couch talking to each other compared to a party with people out front talking, people inside dancing and a small group in the back yard sharing a laugh. Social proof matters & I'd hardly consider this cheating or slimy.
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I'm not really sure what this post is trying to say. Is it trying to criticize Microsoft? It doesn't really feel like it. Is it just a "this is a very important time for MS" post?

I think that's obvious. It IS a very important time for MS and Windows 8 needs to do well. I think the post misses an important angle to Surface though: in large part it is meant to make OEMs step their game up. It shows what Microsoft envisions can be done with a good formfactor and Win8. OEMs need to step up to the plate and make similar hardware. Not necesarily identical but very much in the same spirit.

A well execution should dent iPad sales because on paper, Windows 8 with a good form factor destroys the iPad every time.

Side note: I thought the keynote was actually fine. I completely agree that something seemed rather off about Sinofsky. He did seem nervous and he usually delivers quite solid keynotes. It was strange. I think everyone else performed fine. I actually liked the way the keynote was set up. At first it's just a tablet which is cool in of itself. Then it has a kickstand. And then it has a keyboard. Surprise after surprise.

Re: "Design is about making decisions, and Microsoft could not decide. ARM or Intel? Who should be on stage? Soft or hard keys on the keyboard cover? They went with 'all of the above'."

Windows has always been about having a lot of options. I think it's wonderful that there will be both an ARM version and an x86 version.
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Cool! But does anyone have a BusyBox binary to use? I'm having trouble compiling BusyBox on Lion.

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archival/Config.in:7: missing end statement for this entry
Config.in:12: missing end statement for this entry
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I wonder if this has anything to do with the domain names.

Any ideas?
On Safari, the whole top left corner is blocked by a sticky "floating" youtube video. The video can't be played or closed. All clicks fall through to the page elements under the video.

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Ironically, we could see THE man land on moon who (kind of) built up paypal.
Wow...I can't believe this comment is the first in the thread.

HN is not about technical purity...it's about hackers getting shit done.

You may think that getting a 'vanilla' Rails App deployed to the cloud and being able to do editing in your browser is trivial - because you have invested a ton of work in your own setup and you are entitled to that.

But when did HN become a place where on the thread announcing a major achievement - the shipping of what seems like a damn good product, that may solve a pain point for many people - people are shitting all over it because of some language/community war? Really?

I am a Rails developer, sure...I may not have as much experience as you do building web apps or even programming, but anything that removes the friction of me getting a product out the door is perfect.

While I can't say I would necessarily pay for this immediately, but I can see it having immense value.

As someone that has wrestled with getting Rails setup on various operating systems for people that aren't Rails developers but need access to the source, like a front-end dev that only uses Windows for instance, having something like this is pretty awesome.

I can just push my app here and the front-end dev can edit the code in the browser....without having to worry about installing Rails (or even having the app installed) locally.

I am sure many other people think that this looks like an awesome product - hence the many upvotes.

I just don't understand how this comment got so much attention and how, after scrolling through many replies, I haven't seen someone address this issue.

This is HN. Hacker News. For Hackers. By Hackers.

Not Ruby land. Not Python land. Not Computer Science land. Sure, we all talk about those stuff.

But our #1 focus is on people that get shit done.

These guys have done so.

Congrats. The product looks kick-ass.

I await my trial.
> Skepticism about these things doesn’t require knee-jerk Apple fandom. It simply requires an open set of eyeballs.

This is why I don't read Daring Fireball regularly. It's a blog solely focused on being skeptical about everything. The whole premise seems to be to find flaws in products/services and tell the world about them. I don't mind skepticism, but there's a difference between "it has these cool concepts, but it ain't perfect and probably will fail" and "it's going to fail because of A, B, C, D, … Z"

Gruber might be accurate, but in my daily reading I prefer people with a bit more positive thoughts.
I'm getting a little used to everyone on HN bashing every redesign they see (I'm exaggerating, of course) but I have to say I really like this new Paypal design. So much, in fact, that it really saddened me when I found out that it didn't translate over to the app itself once I logged in.
I like it. It's not really "energetic" but the color scheme is pleasant, and look at the old page ...

Now the "you" part is unnecessary and quite demagogic.
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Reddit doesn't lock people into 1 account. They're free to register multiple times.

It's common practice to use throwaway accounts when writing personally.
Yes, but perhaps we it means we can stop bitching about each other's bullets of choice and get back to shooting.
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I imagine part of it might be to just get more excitement about Windows 8 both in the consumer and developer community. Perhaps they thought that it might make more developers begin to make apps for Win8? Anyone who was thinking about it should probably be convinced by now that it's a good platform...
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