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> Saying you're "the greatest" just because you're pretty good at punching people? Get back to me when you've won a Fields Medal, dude.

If there were such a thing as a Fields Medal for boxing, Ali would have won it. He wasn't just "good at punching people", he brought in techniques that changed the sport.

It's fine that you are comfortable being as ignorant about boxing as most people are about math. That's your prerogative. That said, dismissing someone's accomplishments based on your ignorance is a shitty thing to do.
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Gauche? You know that manners were an invention of the aristocracy, right?
Given the recent exploits of other popular web services, I'm curious to hear a bit more about your security model. The privacy policy makes it sound as though all non-credit-card info is transmitted and stored in plaintext.
Got it. I've heard that theory before but never have I seen any substantial evidence. I accept that the food I eat might have some effect on my "hunger" and "energy level". Which in turn could make me eat more or exercise less. That doesn't really have anything to do with calories per se. Many other causes have the same effect, e.g. psychological or hormonal situations. However, the real argument seems to be that what one eats impacts one's "fat storage or metabolic rates". That's hard to believe. It would be interesting to see some hard evidence to support that claim. The present study tries to give some results, but I think the sample rate is insufficient. I've seen much evidence to the contrary.
I agree with the consequence and buy accordingly. I don't have anything to add to your first posting, where you've stated how things factually work out.

But I haven't seen anyone argue that Apple's feature cut-off is hardware-bound. This is not reading tea leaves by a far margin. It's a business decision (like many) that goes against the interests of users. No harm in keeping that in mind.
No, the tau manifesto agrees: radius is the more fundamental concept. That's why tau is better! Pi is an expression relating the diameter to the circumference, which as you point out is a little counterintuitive.
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Something really bothers me about the design of this app... definitely not trying to be a hater here, but the color, font, spacing... everything seems a little off to me.
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But why do they eat too much? Two things to consider: higher fat meals can make you feel sated sooner, so you eat fewer calories. Also, there is evidence that carbohydrates trigger an insulin release which activates a hunger response.
I've not used it, but I have friends who really enjoy [Epic Win](http://www.rexbox.co.uk/epicwin/). On the downside, it doesn't sync and is only available on iOS.
Yes, that's exactly my point
>zaurus

Brings back memories. I used to work on some of these devices for desktop sync. (With Schedule+ no less. Damn, that dates me)

I have seen some Japan only devices with fabulous color screens. They were way ahead of their time.
A casino could hire a bunch of professional/expert poker players, put them in the poker room, and have them literally play against the novice/intermediate guys

This is actually done, and fairly common. Usually, casnios pay small-time pros a flat rate to seed poker tables, and don't take a stake in their wins or losses, but the point is casinos do hire pros to play against customers.
Well you are one of the few on HN. Although a lot of it is probably more of a hate America thing, which is always popular.
>The majority of the HNers believe that there should be no intellectual property at all.

Most also make their living off producing intellectual property, which is... interesting at the very least.

Also most will totally get onboard the intellectual property train as soon as it's the IP of a sympathetic target (e.g. The Oatmeal) that's being threatened.

Basically the average HNer believes that copyright law should be "I can have whatever I want for free", hasn't thought it through too carefully beyond that.
Nexus 7 review: The best $200 tablet you can buy
Yeah, except without all the bad parts like images that can get corrupted and stateful (wtf were they thinking?) web-apps.
I haven't used it but I'm guessing that the invites will be tightly integrated with email. The user experience will probably be something like invite users by email. Ones that have gmail/G+ can click through to further integration. Others will simply see an invite page (a la evite).
I've had this happen in quite a few places, including Wrigley Field, GenCon, and other large events. This infographic explains the timing better than any I've seen yet.
Maybe, but even if that's the case he started from nothing before. I honestly think he could even pull off a fundraiser.

I thought his money has been seized by the NZ government though.
Yes, that's how we all jump to a particular line :) It's just easier to target a specific line when numbering is turned on, as hesitz said.
Maybe the Surface will be better.
No, it doesn't stream from the phone to the Nexus Q. It tells the Nexus Q where to get it from the cloud. The NFC is a handshake based on physical proximity to establish credentials for the Q to access the your cloud ephemera. (wifi streaming may also be available as a feature, not sure)
I still feel like I have to do math (albeit simple math) with relative line numbering. If I want to yank a block of code that's X lines long, I have to look at line X, and add one to the number next to it. E.g., when I want to grab 8 lines, the last line I want to grab has a 7 next to it.

I guess I think it'd be more helpful if the numbers were inclusive, and 1-indexed. I'm not sure how to configure that though.
The best answer to that that I know of is by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaan_de_Groot: "De Groot found that much of what is important in choosing a move occurs during the first few seconds of exposure to a new position. Four stages in the task of choosing the next move were noted. The first stage was the 'orientation phase', in which the subject assessed the situation and determined a very general idea of what to do next. The second stage, the 'exploration phase' was manifested by looking at some branches of the game tree. The third stage, or 'investigation phase' resulted in the subject choosing a probable best move. Finally, in the fourth stage, the 'proof phase', saw the subject confirming with him/herself that the results of the investigation were valid."

IIRC, in phase one, experts see wo or three moves to look deeper into. Non-experts see many more.

I recommend reading "het denken van den schaker" if this interests you. It is very readable by laypersons (and a translation in English exists)
Totally trendy and a good example of why the new gTLDs won't break the Internet. Most TLDs stopped really meaning anything a while ago.
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Instantly Everywhere*

*Except Android, Windows mobile, etc..
Why use 'keyup' and not 'onchange'?
There's also https://github.com/jeffkreeftmeijer/vim-numbertoggle which seems to do the same thing. I've been using that for a few months but i'm still not sure it's actually an improvement. It gets in the way almost as much as being actually useful.
Out of all the todo apps I've tried. Every time I go back to writing shit on a white board.

I've timed myself. IT takes me about 6 seconds to write something on a whiteboard. And about 10 to take a picture of it with my phone.

Compare that to the 20+ it takes for me to pull out my phone, open an app, get into the list I want, and then type it out on a shitty little keyboard.

Until you make a note taking app that takes less time to use than a white board, I'm gonna use the whiteboard.
Focus - command-line productivity tool
Here's a simple Python tool that helps you focus on specific programming tasks by automating repetitive setup and teardown for tasks and blocking out distractions (sites/apps). Supports a plugin system for easy extensibility. Check out the code on github: https://github.com/xtrementl/focus
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I have all kinds of questions about how they choose which information is most important about a user's geography, such as showing trains schedules when in the station.
Did they take all of their Google Places categories and analyze which apps where being used more in what types of places?
How do they decide where you are at in a city, where locations are all stacked on top of each other?
I hope they open this up so we can add in relevant streams, mostly public safety info.
p.s. I would love to work on these problems. City data is super interesting to me.
If you're operating on more than just a couple lines, then it's probably a bad sign to be doing math. It's usually better to navigate to the end of the selection and set a mark or select the text in visual mode.
Well I would think pg has thought it through, but there are a lot of newbies on HN as evidenced by the sudden use of OMG and LOL that was absolutely not on HN before his "Kill Hollywood" essay.
Maybe the service wasn't illegal, but he is still a criminal. Just look up his history what he did to the warez scene with his friend Gravenreuth. He also was involved in other criminal activities, so I don't know how people can say "The poor guy".

I don't think he care much about internet freedom and he would probably sell his mom if he could make money with it.

PS:(google translation of a paragraph on https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz)

"Schmitz, who claimed to be a "highly talented high school" placed at the boarding school at Plön have visited, in reality, Henry Harms school, a school principal Plön. After leaving school he spent two years in boarding school Rohwedder, a facility for adolescents with behavioral problems."

I would sum him as fat, retarded, wannabe hacker chav with a strange drain to criminal activities, who try to place himself in the center of attention. He couldn't get attention without doing this things, because nobody would give a fuck about him.
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I'm a big RTM fan myself, although I'm honestly not too pleased with their latest UI update on the iPhone. It's prettier, but not as snappy.
Actually, I believe the term "Mobile First" was coined by Luke Wroblewski, and Luke's post below pre-dates Fred's by nearly a year:

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?933

One of Luke's key tenets on Mobile First is about how smaller screen sizes force you to focus your messages -- and lack of focus is a huge issue for most Web sites.

Fred seems to be coming at it from a slightly different angle, but I think it's important to include Luke's ideas here in the discussion... it's how designers and UI experts think about the term "Mobile First".
So, is this Google's answer to Siri?
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Chrome comes to iOS
Do you really think that's so clear cut? I/O has visibility well outside the developer community, it gets covered in the mainstream media. Just today I read about it on the website of the most widely read German news magazine (an article is linked prominently on the front page and it's the lead article in the technology section).

Like Apple, Google can and probably is using their developer conference keynote to announce things to consumers.
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And lordy, so many nouns. Looking at the whole pattern, with DTOs in and out of Interactors, Presenters to format the DTO for the view... it never ceases to amaze me the amount of work people will do to supposedly save themselves some work. The amount of architecture people will put in place to 'put off decisions about architecture'.
Never Again... Again.
i think this is great - few questions for you:

- is there any way to altogether delete tasks? looks like you can only archive
- are there any plans to have an osx app? i was just looking for something like this yesterday for my MBP
It does some pretty sweet 3d-aware image manipulation. I wouldn't call that a slide show.
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There's a big difference between trying to sell an unsubsidized $600 phone and a $200 tablet.
So this looks similar to the Local Scout that Windows Phone added a couple of years ago. Of course that was limited only to places.

Features like these are nice "demo" features. These make great ads but does it really get used in real life?
Does Chrome on iOS support WebGL?
Does it use it's own rendering engine or is it just interface on top of a UIWebView?
I thought this was going to be about cheese but it's just another to do list.
"Siri make me a reminder to delete all my to-do apps."

"Ok, making your reminder."
I would sum him as fat, retarded, wannabe hacker chav

I was with you up until this point. None of those things are relevant to whether he engages in criminal behaviour.
very old news...
>What made you think that's what's going on here?

As I said, the gross misrepresentation of your main competition.
I agree that setting up PhoneGap isn't hard, but if this is a marketing ploy... well, it worked on me. Trigger.io appears to have SMS support, which PhoneGap no longer does, so I'm going to check it out.

That said, it irks me that I'd have to pay $3600/year to support more than 2 platforms.
It would be really cool if this would have a rule-system programmable by user. Something like - "if I'm next to a good [type] restaurant show a card", "When I enter my flat, show me [last messages, friends updates, ..., n] etc.
On{x} (www.onx.ms) seems to be doing it in a pretty interesting way. I'm pretty sure that merging those two ideas would create a very handy product.
This dialog reminded me of a rumor I heard awhile ago about trying to measuring efficiency of Lance Armstrong (competitive cyclist). A brief search gave me [1], but I'm sure there are better articles out there. My big take away is that even with modern technology and understanding there is just so much we still don't fully understand - especially about the human body and processes.

[1] http://www.sportsscientists.com/2008/09/coyle-and-armstrong-...
It takes me around 4 seconds to type in a task with MyLifeOrgainzed. (Can be 2-3 seconds for short tasks.) No need to open the app, it's always open, just press a shortcut key to bring up a dialog for adding a task.
> . It seems the assumption is that people will adapt to however fast we can push the information at them. I'm not so sure that is an valid assumption. Or if it is, I'm not sure I like the way we would adapt to this vision of the future.

If true, this would be very ironic, as Google's ascendancy was based on their curation of the wild wild web, making sense of the terabytes of data out there.
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A what? I have never heard the words "hypermedia" and "API" juxtaposed as such. Is this something different to a REST API, which the results returned by Google seem to suggest without clearly articulating the difference.
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It comes with Android 4.1
I flashed a Jelly Bean ROM today that came out on xda-developers. You access Google Now by swiping up on the lockscreen. Uploaded a screenshot here- http://s18.postimage.org/7obav45sp/Screenshot.png
Orkut was a Google project from Orkut Büyükkökten's 20% time.
He (PG) was talking about a new protocol that allow people to share tasks and control how many tasks they can have. Not a simple TODO list though.

I don't think this is suppose to be an email killer. If they are doing this because of what PG said then I am afraid they might misunderstood him.
The "Request Desktop Site" button is the killer feature for power users.
I am having my doubts on if JDownloader is actually sanctioned by the hosting sites. At least whenever I have to use it, it takes quite some time to update its ability to work with certain one click hosts. I also always suspected that the TOS agreement is some way for the JDownloader developers to transfer the responsibility of breaking the TOSes towards the user.

Don't get me wrong, I am a regular user of these kinds of software products, but just by their incredible amount of supported download hosts it seems that they are at best "tolerated". But I guess the tolerance level is also quite large in this "sector" as long as it doesn't target their premium account business.
By that logic, Retina Macbook Pros are only for developers too.
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Agree. 7" is the best size for a tablet. It's really portable, very handy. If I were to buy a larger tablet, something like Surface with its fancy keyboard cover is far more appealing than a tablet that is only partially functional.
On the client end?
Quite possibly. Certainly in the old days one could express an opinion that "Hey, maybe there's certain advantages to copyright law" without getting modded down to numbers so low that the HN system refuses to express them.

Y'know that book "Fifty Shades Of Grey"? Well that's what your comment's gonna go through in the next hour if you disagree with (I can't believe I'm saying this) the hivemind.

edit: Also, what's with this new "You're submitting too fast. Please slow down" message you get if people start downvoting your posts? I've had it swallow a bunch of (intelligent) posts this morning due to the fact that I expressed an unpopular opinion on a copyright thread.

That fucking does it.
No 3G though? I guess when you're only willing to spend $200, it's not worth it?
Close your office door?

Noise and visual distractions are largely created by design decisions...that loft with brick walls and hardwood floors looks really cool, but carpet, acoustical tile, and gypsum absorb sound energy. Open space plans in live spaces make the issues worse.

With noise, the second strategy is sound masking. For example, having a small fan generating ambient sounds will reduce the distractions caused by sounds to which we are attuned such as people's voices. Having your earphones on low serves a similar purpose.

Opening a window helps on two levels. It reduces the hard surface reflective area and introduces masking noise. But like all anti-distraction measures, it requires the occupant to have meaningful control over their environment.

I once had an assigned office and where the desk and return placed my back to the door (and hallway beyond) and staring at a blank wall behind my monitor. I got crap from my boss for rearranging the furniture so that I could face the door because it required walking around the end of the desk to sit at it...that's what working for architects is like.

Good luck.
Oh, come on, really?
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I'm evaluating Trigger.io currently for a new project. I've used phonegap on a couple large projects before, as well. For me, Trigger's best value proposition isn't the ease of development. For the average hacker the few extra steps you need to take to use Phonegap/Cordova aren't overly complicated and in the end you have a better idea of how everything fits together. If Trigger.io's main selling point is going to be "easier to use than phonegap" I think they may fall flat.

Where real value can be provided, however, is in providing turn-key modules that allow developers to drop in native controls to supplement their web applications. The biggest issue with hybrid mobile application development today is embedded webview performance, especially on older devices. Using a framework like Sencha works wonderfully for newer devices (it feels positively native on my iPhone 4s), but because they have to rely on javascript to fix elements and scroll certain sections on older devices, it ends up delivering a sub-par experience for those users (on older androids the scrolling performance is atrocious).

Trigger.io is currently offering API calls that allow you to drop in a tab bar and a navigation bar which are native components. These are the two elements in a mobile app that are most likely to require fixed positioning, so this frees the webview up to simply serve a normal web page with natural, native scrolling on all devices. This is essentially what Facebook is doing with their current app - fixed native navigation elements and scrolling UIWebViews. However, as we all know, Facebook's results have been less than satisfactory. They admit that this hybrid approach helped their developers iterate faster and be more productive, but instead of sticking with that strategy and figuring out clever ways to make it perform better, they've capitulated and are going full native.

If Trigger.io was able to solve that problem and make a hybrid HTML5/native app perform as well as any other native app, they would really have something there. My advice would be to figure out how to get UIWebViews to load faster and cache better, how to allow customization of native UI elements so that designers can deliver a unique, beautiful interface that scales across multiple platforms, and continue to provide best-in-class hooks into the native functionality on the leading platforms, such as dead-simple push notification integration. Focus less on competing with phonegap and more on solving the hybrid app problem.
I have 20 and even then most of it is muted. I think it's the platform and the culture that the service creates which give rise to hiding stories and unsubscribing from people's feeds.

Either that, or I just don't care for random, short-form content.
"pi is a lie" and "pi is wrong" are incredibly disingenuous slogans. I would be really excited about this site if it weren't for these sensationalist remarks at the top. It's sad, because their main content is all about mathematical reasoning, which overall they do a fine job presenting.

pi is not a lie. It's not part of some conspiracy theory among math elites to mislead the masses. It's not about math bureaucrats refusing to admit they were wrong. Everything they told you about pi is true (or it isn't, but in that case it's not true of tau either). pi and tau are really just two different notations for the same concept. Only perhaps one is more elegant and convenient than the other, making it more fundamental in some mystical way (and perhaps preferable if you ever need to convince visiting aliens that you are intelligent).
Why is it so tough to kill Email
To-do app: Yawn. Stupid name: double yawn. There has only been one moderately innovative app in this space and it was Clear. Clearly, the space is now beyond saturated.
"LogUserIn" is not a class; classes are most often nouns and actions are typically verbs. A "User" class (or "UserController" class) with a "login" method is more appropriate.

See also: http://pragprog.com/articles/tell-dont-ask
This is really great timing: I woke up this morning thinking "You know what I really need? Another todo app!"