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Very valuable feedback! We are experimenting with different kinds of learn more tours and explainers.

Glad that in the end you got it.
If they have access to the application code then it's all over, since your application has to be able to decrypt the password back to plain text to use it.

The only way around this that I can see is just using a different method of authentication.
Out of all of the reasons why this is crazy including a misleading title and screenshots, I just can't believe the app size is 121MB.
Do people actually work all those hours or do people appear to work all those hours?
Yeah same here. No clue what your product IS. You need a big fat example on the homepage.
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I did a bit of research, and I believe that it's covered by 17 USC § 411(c). You can only sue for copyright infringement within 3 months of the work being "first transmitted" (which I assume also includes publication), and 48 hours after the work has been "transmitted".

Not sure if there is some other part of the U.S. Code that applies though.
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Am 26 and just moved back home where i hope to make this happen. Do i have resources to pull from? Not really and to be frank with you i don't know what to expect. About getting a job? My fear is i might get comfortable at it and just give up on my dream. Thanks though
Theremin's battery-free bug
Moderators should note that I'm commenting on a disparity between the article contents and its title. If you know that there are more pivots that's all fine and dandy, but the article only mentions 2 and that's not enough not warrant the "many" in the title, imho.
We're testing different variations of the pitch. We find it really hard to pitch features and functionality to business/management people, so we have a few variations running that are pitching only benefits or pains, but no exact functionality. For the features tour we decided one must sign-up and try. And only then we take them trough features tour.
Vice is the hipster's bible, or it would be if they weren't all so meta-contrarian.

Their stock in trade is irony piled upon irony forever.

It can perhaps best be summarised by this scene from Nathan Barley, a comedy about a magazine which is basically Vice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLAm21GwfXw

Primarily the last bit.
1) What is "Daddy"?

2) You definitely need some screenshots or a video. After browsing the entire site for a few minutes I only have a vague guess of what this application might do.
Show HN: Pre-configured Django project, Git repo, and virtualenv with 1 command
Ahhh, the '/tour' page is what your homepage button should link to. Even move some of that content to the homepage itself.
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and on the other hand, check out the http://status.appfog.com/ page (hint: it doesn't exist)
From the title I thought they were just after the domain name! Seems they have picked up some pretty cool face recognising kit.
Not disagreeing with the bulk of your comment, but...

In the December quarter alone Apple generated 85% of Walmart's most recent annual profit. And most likely for Christmas 2012 it'll exceed 100%.

Or put another way, if Apple hits their numbers for this year, they'll do about 200% over the profit that Walmart does (annually).

I only point this out because it's staggering.
I hope the [relative] corpse that Netflix will inevitably become is made a poster boy for copyright reform. Netflix was used as the "streaming delivery" guinea pig by big content, and now that they've seen it to be profitable, they don't see why they should give Netflix a slice of the pie (thus comes Hulu). I completely agree that the media companies are actively trying to harm Netflix.

Netflix, of course, is aware of this and is quietly attempting to procure rights to in-demand programming. This is the motivation behind picking Arrested Development back up. It's a good strategy if they believe they can swing it, but it's very threatening to the media conglomerates (who are already terrified of the internet); certainly a tough act to balance. Netflix is between a rock and a hard place.
(video)

Was expecting a (written) post from the blip.tv folks on how to do hammock-driven development. Oh well.
Agreed - note some of the most enduring new UI conventions we've come to expect in the last couple of years, all of which were pioneered by third-party apps bucking the trend (even in places where there was already established convention).

- Pull down to refresh (where Apple encouraged an explicit refresh button on the bottom of the screen)

- Swipe aside views (where Apple encouraged explicit navigation buttons)

- Slide aside menus (a la Path, where Apple expected tab bars to fulfill that role)

- Fan-out controls (a la Path, where Apple expected the use of drop downs)

The list goes on. I for one am happy that some people are unwilling to just follow the tried and true.
How would you prove that the seller didn't resell the exploit?
Not so much against the charities - just the use of the charities as a shield for Inman's slander.

Inman has really screwed up. The personal attack against Carreon was an over reaction and largely unnecessary.
Thx, this is amazing feedback, exactly what we were looking for here on HN.
Motorola was left for dead before Android. HTC jumped out to an early lead with Android and their stock went up 400%.

And they're both in the toilet now. Android saved neither company.

I think you're missing why Google open sourced Android. What B&N and Amazon did with it is exactly the point of why Android is open source

Google cares about selling ads. It shows those ads on websites, in emails, in apps, and in services like search and mail.

Before iOS and Android, smartphones ran Symbian, Blackberry or Windows Mobile. None of those had a decent web browser, which Google needed to attract users and show ads.

So it's pretty obvious why Google bought Android and why they open sourced it.

Now, do you want to guess what would happen if Amazon and B&N added built-in ad blocking to their Android devices?
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> He is only arguing that there is universal truth in proxy by arguing that the scientific method is more valuable than anecdotal evidence.

The strawman here is in equating (published) statistical analysis with the scientific method. Of course the scientific method is more valuable, but that's not necessarily relevant.

Please have a look at http://xkcd.com/882/ if you haven't already - what this comic describes is a very valid statistical analysis, according to the "scientific method", (only neglecting base rates like 99% of published papers do).

This is (unfortunately) very commonly practiced in the life sciences, including medicine -- sometimes knowingly but mostly unknowingly. Bad reporting not required for a horrible, long lasting effect on the future.
wow bgr.com finally got some spam to the front page!

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kemper

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=zacharye

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=CitiiDB
The price is pretty ridiculous too. I would have bought it simply for the novelty if it wasn't $10.
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Is it the most profitable company ever after accounting for inflation? Probably not, but would love to see some data on that.
I think this is poor design choice. Why would you want to "unlock" a laptop. It is not prone to accidental touches when it's in your pocket or the bag, which is exactly what "<gesture> to unlock" is supposed to prevent.

Now, I'm worried that they've done this just to look cool and so that people go "hey, I do that on my Windows PC, and the same gesture works on my (very rarely found) Windows phone".
I have two small children of my own, so I know the behaviour :-) None of what you say negates the fact that at the point in time that the child says that they hate the thing they hate, they really do. As I say, hatred is a subjective emotion not necessarily informed by objective reason.
Second the Lenovo Thinkpads. Right now I am running a T510 with out of the box CentOS 6.2 (All default options chosen during installation, no tweaking afterwards) and I get battery life in excess of 3.5 hours.
Yet another reason to not use Facebook.
You are welcome :-)

What are your plans with it?
Retina MacBook Pro, what does it mean for web design
That sucks beyond belief. You often hear of litigation cases in the States but rarely hear UK cases being publicised.

You should come to the Hacker News London meet-up and let me buy you a pint or twelve.
Note: If fellow hackers would like to be considered for an interview on a future episode, please refer to this HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4127237
I'm assuming that was the result of an auto-correct.
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I don't think it's safe to assume that government simply means spying on individuals for national security reasons. Governments engage in corporate espionage all the time, and not just China.
I suspect Facebook has bigger plans for Face.com's technology than auto-tagging. I bet they integrate facial recognition technology into the Facebook Platform.

Tagging every face... everywhere... and sending that data back to Facebook. That could be monumental.
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I use node, but I use a normal editor, not the browser
I'm willing to bet a fair number didn't read it. Given one of the reviews:

>Very Stupid App!!!!

This is just a waste of money. Don't buy this app because you cannot even write a document!!!!!!

But that's about par for the course. The dissatisfied ones are always the loudest. I do highly doubt they had permission to use the Microsoft trademark in that way though.
I've just made $2,180,000.0 :) (169 trades).
Simple, nice idea. Congrats!
I like the do-not-overload your slides advise and noticed tremendous improvements in focus and "aliveness" in my presentation but I was wondering if anyone from a more traditional finance or consulting perspective could weight in on that issue.

For example a friend of mine works on conventional M&A projects - with very crammed Powerpoint slides full of facts and figures. I have seen similarly crammed slides from the big consulting corporations. Now I was arguing for a Tufte approach, i.e. making handouts instead, but he rejected the suggestion as he is only one of the younger team members and the therefore associated problems with breaking the "we have always done it this way" paradigm.

I am still somewhat pondering about this issue and I am not quite sure if having really packed slides can not actually become beneficiary in some occasions - meaning a hitting-them-over-the-head-with-data approach where it is core to produce some "evidence" and "analytical" approaches. I have found a similar mindset among some academics for constructing the viability of their research questions, methods, results in order to succeed in the peer-reviewed process.

I would love to hear some opinions by those working in conventional blue chip companies how they view this slide/presentation issue.
I remember Facebook recently implemented their controversial Face detecting module. Privacy advocates were freaked out because Facebook was trying to automatically tag people in photos simply based on face recognition.

I assume they're going to be moving forward in that regard by acquiring Face.com's tech.
Looks like it contains videos too.
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I believe that's part of their magic trick. I don't think as many people would rush to think it's the official MS Word if it cost only $1.

The price, app size, screenshots. Everything is misleading, except the one thing most people don't even look at, which is the text description.
Monumental or invasive? I personally fear for the latter.
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Navel gazing circlejerk. Have fun everyone.
>You should just take them at face value for what they are.

The problem is that this is impossible for most people.
Yeah. Can't wait for my facebook using mates to make my shadow profile more accurate.
Awesome tool - we used it at Startup Weekend San Diego!
Personally I've found that having my company gives me something to pin all of my personal projects, freelance efforts and stuff that belongs to me on. Eventually this grew to the point where I was able to leave my full-time job, and I'm not sure that would have happened if I hadn't gone through the motions of registering a company.
Ask HN: Best mail hosts?
I've been trying to ween myself off of Google-hosted products, even opting to pay for things rather than get them for free. Gmail is the last big dependency of mine.

Can anyone vouch for a mail hosting provider? The things I'm looking for are:

* Reliability (uptime, durability of data, long term viability, etc)

* Security (preferably MFA, access audit trail, generally secure reputation and history)

* Good search (yeah, this seems to be the deal breaker) -- I don't do labels/rules, I tend to try to do zero-inbox, but rely on search to dredge stuff up later if I need it.

* Any kind of support for multiple identities, and custom domains, would be nice, but not required.

Anything out there that may fit the bill?

Or is anyone else in search of something similar and also coming up empty handed? Is there a niche looking to be filled here?
Probably just for the domain.
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Facebook have been using face.com for face detection and recognition for a while. I guess they were happy enough with the results that they wanted control of the technology (and/or to stop others from using it)
Nonlinear lesson design (Giant Ants of Doom)
maybe a short movie explaining things would do the trick.
Wow, I assumed that Face.com was a part of Facebook.com...their look and feel seemed like a front-facing spinoff of FB, to get developers more interested in the technology. Their API has been very generous and useful for all sorts of projects, but I'm sure this is going to freak privacy advocates even more...frankly, the connections/derivations FB could make with face recognition will not be any more comprehensive than what they can already do with the interaction data they already have.
My email client keeps crashing this evening for some reason, and what I want to say doesn't fit into the 'feedback' page you have there, so I say it here:

I'd like to use your site, but I don't have a Facebook account (removed it a couple years ago), and don't want to be bothered to remember what my twitter password (which I virtually haven't used once in the past years) was.

I understand why you might want to enforce a social network account (1. engaging people to be more social and bring their friends and 2. simpler management of accounts), but I personally have literally zero interest in what my friends like to watch, and have never and would never use Twitter/Facebook. Why can't I use your site? I know I'm not the norm, but you should allow everyone to use your service. If you're valuable to them, they'll bring their friends with them, and if they're not, then having their friends' usernames won't help you. Registering and keeping track of users is absurdly easy, so I think you should re-consider your choice of mandating social accounts.

(Sorry it's not relevant to this topic, just wanted you to know that there are people like me who shy away from any and every service that requires OAuth)
Yeah, right. I wish.
The last talk I gave was the first talk that was recorded and whilst prior to the talk I felt confident that I was a decent public speaker, seeing the talk afterwards on vimeo instantly showed tons of room for improvement.

First time you give a talk, record it and watch it back afterwards. You won't believe how many subconscious mannerisms you display either in your speech or body language that you didn't even know existed.

Also, never ever drink before giving a talk.
The author is focusing on the wrong details. As long as the workflows and interface element positioning and shape are kept consistent, the visual theme is of little consequence. As long as the back button is on the upper left of your iOS app and has the right shape, it can have zebra stripes for all your user cares.
wait why?
For myself, I can't really say. What I can say was that reading The Fountainhead was a truly dreadful experience. I hope that I never live in a world where people live their lives like Howard Roark does.
I haven't run the Consumer Preview yet, but in the Developer Preview, I kept getting kicked out of Desktop and into Metro when requesting a lot tasks that were initiated from the Desktop. The fullscreen transition was very jarring when I expected to stay in Desktop.
Sorry for the late reply.

I remember reading an article (That I cannot seem to find at the moment) about US border agents stopping a Cartel submarine dead in its tracks. What they found is a minimalistic submarine, capable of transporting a small load of product to a destination. They've found other submarines that have sunk due to their bad quality.

I think we're confusing actual military submarines with a makeshift version.
My "old school" of UI dates back to the 1980s, and through the mid 1990s.

To my eye, UI shows elements of program legacy. From Apple (early Mac) to PC (DeskMate, Amiga, MS DOS), early Windows. On the Unix side, a proliferation of X toolkits: Xt, Athena, Xaw, Motif, Tk, gtk, Qt.

For desktops, one of the beauties of X is the emulation modes of many window managers -- if you prefer the look and feel of Windows 95, Amiga, BeOS, Motif, CDE, VUE, old-style Mac, Mac Acqua, or any of several dozen other desktops, it's possible to try them out easily. While not all of these emulate deep characteristics of their source GUIs, there are at least some characteristics which are available for review.

Even CLI/console tools show their legacy. Emacs draws from TOPS/ITS, mc from DOS via Norton Commander, dd's odd command-line syntax will be familiar to those who've used JCL. Even native Unix/Linux command sets draw from various BSD (short options, single dash, single character) and GNU (long option, double dash, word) formats. More recent commands with a weaker Unix philosophy legacy use a single dash and even MixedCase words (ImageMagick, some disk utilities).

While inconsistent among tools, the formats do give me a clue as to what the legacy, and possible behavior, of these tools will be.

In the mobile space, minimized UIs are somewhat necessary. Interestingly, several of these were pioneered on Linux (e.g.: Matchbox). This does not mean that there's no room for exploration of useful UI metaphors in a new and highly constrained form factor.

Of possible interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits
It's easier when your target is just one OS.
Sam,

you got some cool stuff under your belt [this and prior projects].

You definitely need to make smth out of it!
I thought it was interesting that the seller's last name was Potemkin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
Check out my version, only 10 bytes.

GAME OVER.

It's not very playable, but "who cares"?
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Show HN: Driving school price comparison (currently for Poland)
Almost every time when I go to post an "Ask HN" story, I submit and get "deadlink". If there's some kind of CSRF token that's expiring, maybe you can increase the timeout a bit? Or maybe I need to type faster in my "Ask HN" posts...
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Soooo... people do realize that this is from September 2011, right?

Not sure why this was posted here today, but this is "old news" in the sense that there have been many more such proposals submitted as the nations of the world gear up for the updating of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) treaties relating to telecommunications.

Links to news items about some of the newer proposals can be found here, among other places: http://www.scoop.it/t/wcit
Perhaps due to the fact that automatic face detection is an invasion of privacy.
The username it's attached to is "admin"?

Plenty of situations where cracking the administrator's password via a custom rainbow table is potentially worth it.
it happens both ways. some people actually work 60 hours a week
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This is incorrect. Read the entire post and realize that Facebook has been using Face.com's tech for facial tagging already.
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There are a number there that are new registration e-mail, which doesn't necessarily mean it's stored insecurely.

E-mailing it around isn't a great idea, certainly, but it's not as bad as storing it reversibly.
The pursuit of obfuscation for its own sake indisputably makes it art IMO.
maybe this should be you pitch.
I forgot just how opaque linodes acknowledgement of the issue was. Basicly just a head nod saying "yes, there was an issue." with no follow up or anything. Makes me really appreciate the heroku outage post. Makes me kind of sad to realize just what we'll put up with when things are out of sight. An issue analogous to this at a normal colo would be a HUGE deal.
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Why does your server code and your UI code share the same base directory?