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I've been out of my home country for > 6 years, have lived and worked in 3 countries in that time, and spent 2 years driving through 16 more. Does that qualify?
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There's an important difference here.

If you have subscribed with a credit card, and forgot about the subscription (but generally fine with it), the service would still receive weekly payments.

In case of bitcoin, if you have forgot (that would be the case for 80% of us), the payments are stopped.

But I completely agree that it's possible to implement subscriptions (read: automatic payments) on top of the existing Bitcoin infrastructure.
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Windows 3.1, really?
If you care about your product you have to draw a line somewhere. The more developers that take a stance and don't support the criminal negligence of IE's support of broadly accepted standards the sooner we can all eliminate needless time costs of making sites agnostic to the point of stupidity.
> font and font size choices

Agreed. I don't know if it's just me, but Helvetica looks rather bad on Windows. I've found that Segoe UI almost always looks more pleasing, and yet Helvetica is omnipresent on the web (partially because of Twitter bootstrap).
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I think wise people prefer programming in good languages that enjoy the benefit of hindsight. Common Lisp does not have the luxury of hindsight, and can hardly change its specification to reflect modern theoretical and practical PL results.

Personally, I slightly prefer Clojure over SBCL.
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That's inaccurate. HTC had a record-setting quarter with the introduction of the G1 at the end of 2008, and the Dream was also a bestselling device. By the second year Android was outselling iPhone (which had been the fastest selling phone in history up to that point). Android was, by all reasonable measures, an explosive and rapid success. One could argue it took a few months to "take off", but its sales numbers have vastly outpaced Windows Phone, even from the very first months. By the time we were 21 months into the story it was obvious to anybody paying attention that Android was going to be Apple's primary competition in the smart phone market.

Windows Phone is a flop. It may be good (I wouldn't know). But it is demonstrably not popular.
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What I find fascinating is the app store URL. It includes en-US and the app is identified by a GUID so you have no chance of working out what it is other than clicking on the link. Locales of fr-CA and fr-FR worked but not en-UK or en-GB.

Apple has a country code, the app name and a numeric id. But the app name is just decoration and is ignored, so you could easily mislead by putting in anything you want. From the country code it looks like they believe only one language is spoken in any country (eg I couldn't select between French and English for Canada). The ids aren't in numeric order - probably some sort of timestamp instead.

Google uses a descriptive URL without country or language parts, and then the app is identified by package name (bundle id equivalent for the iOS crowd) which looks fine to us techie folk and mostly follows being the DNS name with some extra gunk such as com.rovio.angrybirdsspace.ads

Amazon Android URLs are amazon.com/<App Title>/dp/<ID> where the app title is just decoration and can be changed to anything and ID is hexadecimal(ish).

They all have various issues. I think locale information as part of the URI path is silly. Titles in the URLs is nice but open up social engineering attacks. As a techie I like the Google approach of identification, but that too is prone to social engineering (to my knowledge they do not verify a correspondence to the publishing organization DNS). But it is prettier than random numbers. A GUID is Microsoft's hammer and solution to everything. In this case it just makes the URLs unnecessarily long.
android ecosphere's pretty light-handed.
I'm pretty much in the same boat. I hang out here so much because a) a lot of the content shared is interesting to anyone with an interest in technology, computers, or lately the world in general (seems like HN has been growing more broad), and b) With the rare exception, the discussion here is interesting and executed with respect. At times the conversations are more interesting than the articles. People here often cite sources, they highlight points they liked about a post before they disagree. I had a philosophy teacher who often would randomly just throw out into the class "Intelligent people disagree! It's ok!" I feel like that is supported here, a majority of the time.
Ok. In the libertarian utopia, who covers the cost of running the courts?
Sorry, my comment wasn't very well formulated. I actually was trying to be slightly sarcastic and over-dramatic to make a point. The point being, Apple seems to demand quite a bit from its employees, such that they are required to make sacrifices other companies do not usually require. For me, flying 14 hours to be away from friends and family and not allowed to go anywhere but the factory and the hotel in which you stay seems like suffering. To others, that could quite possibly be the best experience of their lives. To each his own I guess.
Of course, I wish you the very best of luck. :)
I for one, welcome law-abiding driverless cars.

Speed limits are set for a public benefit, and its a sort of tragedy of the commons why speeding by humans is the norm.
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Right, and it's not like the people who somehow existed before cell phone technology magically perished because of these supposed emergencies. We are not helpless creatures here, sheesh.
Sure. Then you should be able to go find the top sites in 1998, select somehow for the sites where design was a competitive edge, and find among them many examples of designs that are better in some way that is straightforward to explain.

I gave up trying, for whatever that's worth. 1998 just looked crappy. Great year for indie rock! Neutral Milk Hotel! Bad year for web design.
Who else thinks that Google should put more effort in the Google Play app curation?
Charles Carreon is selling an ebook of his experiences for $5MM a copy.
Yep. At the scale they are starting at, they can micromanage the control a bit, and team up with a company like ASUS to build the hardware.

Without having to embed a display on the device, I really don't find the price point of $100 outrageous -- aggressive, absolutely... but I am thinking they can probably make the lowest of the double digit margins on it.
If Bush was still president this topic would have dozens of variations posted and perhaps thousands of comments by now.
A good example of this can be found on SoundCloud. They load a placeholder image that represents the common sharing widgets and then let the real widgets load over them. The problem is that the font rendering makes it look weird on any platform except the dev platform: http://i.imgur.com/lejjI.png
It is a related question, there are plenty of people with marginal housing arrangements who live in weekly rate motels for more than half of each year; paying more for housing that would cost them less if they had the economic stability to rent those same rooms by the month. So at the margin, the availability and constraints on the supply of housing units do directly affect some people who are homeless.
If I heard a joke about naughty toys in a movie? Or some good friends made fun of me while out drinking and said something like that? Sure, no problem.

But in a finance app? Not okay. If I'm trusting this company's app to manage my finances, they should show a professional level of distance and respect, and not have some robot joking about my sex life. It's personal, it's potentially insulting, and it's in a context where this kind of subject should be left alone.

And that's saying nothing of the fact that in countries like Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Qatar, people are probably not anywhere near as open about sexuality as we are in the United States and Europe. If you want to market a product in those countries you should respect that.
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So, the iPhone is almost even in sales with the entire Android ecosystem consisting of thousands of models, many of them cheap or free to consumers. Am I supposed to be impressed?
> Try "big boobs" with a Z.
I have to assume this comment was sarcastic...
This is the dumbest, most ill-informed article I've think I've ever read. This guy writes for Bloomberg? Holy cow I thought its standards were higher. Sure this is some sort of a joke?

Against my better judgment, I'll respond: the retina display is instantly noticeable, absolutely gorgeous and will obviously become the standard resolution of most notebooks at some point in the next few years.
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You have to NOP each program, as the code to check each program against the server (which is written by the 3rd party developer, which then talks to apple server), which is significantly more effort than if the verification with the apple server occurred on the device.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned putting the phone in a foil pouch. As 'antenna-gate' demonstrated it doesn't take a whole lot to make a phone unable to connect, with a conductive foil pouch you can put your phone in it and no matter what it is not sending out any info about you, but you can easily pull it out and use it.

The other thing they don't mention is disinformation. Phones do not use the encrypted GPS channel, they use the regular one. And spoofing it can make you phone think it is somewhere that it isn't. Cell tower data screws with that (since if you cross correlate to cell tower pings you end up with conflicting data sets) but within the range of a tower its eminently doable. The recent 'drone hijack' example had an idea of how much it costs ($1K) to build a reasonably high powered GPS spoofer, to spoof the phone in your pocket would take a very small one (and no sense screwing up your neighbors phone right?).

All we need are a couple of cases where the cell phone data "proves" you weren't in the area of a crime and blam!
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Reddit is a bit like the craigslist of news aggregators. They've resisted the lure of monetizing in any big way and continue resolutely to put their users first. Digg got overambitious and sold out and their users smelled it and left.
On the subject of conversion rates, the Download and Buy links are separate, with no mention of an unregistered trial or watermarked demo mode. That uncertainty might be affecting your tryout rate. If the "Download" button said "Try it!", then the certainty that there is some usable trial would be higher. Side note: I notice that the (watermarked) saved images lack EXIF info - is that preserved in the registered version? This is very important for many photographers...
So where are the '?' coming from? I think I have to call shenanigans / database, there aren't any in the image, or even any shapes like it. But then, I'm not sure what they're implying with this paragraph (this is the whole paragraph, my additions not italicized):

>Fig. 6 [the eye chart] compares our uniﬁed SR result against ground truth. In Fig. 7 [baby with hat] we compare our method to results from [11,13] and [9]. Note that our results are comparable, even though we do not use any external database of low-res/highres pairs of patches [11, 13], nor a parametric learned edge model [9]. Other examples with more comparisons to other methods can be found in the paper’s website.
To be fair, the title (both this one and the foxnews.com headline) is linkbait. But Apple is selling 2/3 as many handsets (not really "almost even") and losing market share, so the report represents real motion and is newsworthy. You're not supposed to be "impressed" per se, but if you're interested in the smartphone market it's stuff you should be reading. And if, as I suspect, you're a die hard Apple fan who hates all things Android to the core: play around with a device running ICS or JB. I think you'll be surprised at how impressive they are.
How would that work? Are you suggesting 3+ of the access points within range working together to triangulate me, and saving that information, along with the phone's MAC address or similar?
I think that's a very good point. It's similar to how when you start learning something new, you'll make a lot of progress easily and everything will seem fresh and original. After a while, you've discovered most of the big ideas in the field and have see a lot of what is on offer, so things start to seem worse and less original.

A good way to test this hypothesis would be to check with people who are new to the scene and new to Hacker News. Do they react to the content similarly to how old members initially reacted?
Reddit as a whole brings immense value in the sheer volume of unusual content. The AMA section varies from banal to fascinating, for example — and the strength of the interesting content far outweighs the easy-to-skip bad.

The quality of individual subreddits varies wildly, of course. This should not be a surprise. In a way, Reddit's subreddits feature brought back the spirit of Usenet.
Thanks for pointing that out. I still find a self-hosted Kickstarter-style campaign unpalatable.
The "commonly downloaded" criterion seems especially odd. "We only stop unsuccessful malware"?
Actually, according to the article Android is selling 50% more handsets. Not really "almost even."

I don't think you are supposed to be impressed, it is just a bit of sales data for use at cocktail parties. It seems pretty clear that both iOS and Android are here for the long haul.
They are perfectly free to continue their use (misuse) of the laws and the courts. Just as technology companies are free to sell things (or not) where, when, and to whom(1) they choose.

I for one would enjoy seeing a company refuse to ship goods to that entire wacky eastern Texas district that made such a nuisance of itself by supporting trolls.

(1) With obvious limitations on race religion etc.
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This data comes from Nielsen. Where does Nielsen get information on smartphone sales? In other words, how close to the truth is their data?
Good point. It can be easy to conflate cause, effect, and coincidence.

The lesson I take from the story is that the smart people had extreme freedom to pursue their research. I don't think a university can just create a dumpy building and hope to produce some Nobel prizes. <:)
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Totally agree, it is actually pretty easy and worth it if you already have to have a server. If you don't already have a server, then it probably isn't worth adding one.
The scary thing comes when people stare using it to convict someone of murder. CSI has trained us to do things like that :/
Back in May, Jeff wrote on his blog: https://www.blurity.com/blog/2012/05/01/blurity-is-back/ "What happened to the web version? In short, the market happened: nobody wanted web-based photo blur removal. A minor pivot, but a pivot nonetheless!"

This seems to be that effort: http://fixblurryphotos.com/ Blurity is mentioned after the deblur is performed.
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I meant less useful for the purposes which such algorithms were originally designed for two decades ago. They original use cases were discrimination, not making prettier pictures. I am quite familiar with compressive sampling.
What an awful, buzzwordy article.

"Google tried this scorched-earth policy with Android, but in doing so lost control of the ecosystem—as the Amazon fork demonstrated so forcefully." - What does this even mean? Yes, open source means that even your competitors can use it. But there's quite a software difference between Amazon's version and Jelly Bean while the cost of the Fire vs. the Nexus 7 is $0. I don't think Google's too concerned about Amazon's "forceful" fork.

I don't see Google having problems matching Amazon on its price. The difference is that if updated properly, Google's Android will always give a better experience. If you aren't tied to Amazon Instant, why would you NOT go w/ the Nexus 7 over the Fire?

Same thing for the smartphone IMO.
I did a lot of the later Project Euler problems when I was trying to learn Haskell. Getting things to run in a reasonable amount of time without just writing brute force C code was very challenging, and I learned a lot from the discussion sections you get to read after finding the answer.
They use Google Docs for the bug/feature submission pages. For some reason, that tickles my funny bone.
To me it looks like when they published their app from the US, they got all valid reasons for a rejection. The fact that Toshl's app was present for an year with all these faults is not a good argument for being automatically accepted.
>And if, as I suspect, you're a die hard Apple fan who hates all things Android to the core: play around with a device running ICS or JB. I think you'll be surprised at how impressive they are.

I understand why it's hard to get people to believe this, but it's absolutely insane how hard it is to convince people of this. I've seen more and more people floored at Jelly Bean. They watched the demo video and are amazed at how nice it looks and how slick it is. I don't have the heart to tell them that Honeycomb was 50% of the way there (Between Froyo and JB) and that ICS was... 99.9% of the way there. There are hardly any visual changes outside of the "Project Butter" between ICS and JB and yet all the people are acting like JB is this big visual refresh.

Don't get me wrong Project Butter uped the ante, but not that much. It's as smoother or smoother than the iPhone, but ICS was nearly there. The 60Hz vsync just made it that much nicer. Plus, none of that 2002-2003-esque skeuomorphism. It almost pains me to see iOS in places after Holo in ICS, it reminds me of plasticy KDE.
What kind of half-assed excuse is that for not implementing a good feature that's proven to work?
My wife (not tech savvy) is in the market for a cheap tablet. I compared the Fire vs. the Nexus 7 with her tonight. She's only remotely thinking about the Fire because we have Amazon Instant w/ Prime. I'm trying to persuade her to go w/ the Nexus 7 so that it'll at least last for a while.

I think the hardware and services have flattened out enough that the only thing that matters anymore is the OS. And Google is winning that race against Amazon.
What the hell does this mean? I preordered my Nexus7 weeks ago and the charge finally finalized and hit my card today. I have not received any emails or any information of any kind from Google since I preordered.

Google I love you, but please stop leaving your power users and developers out to dry...
Yet another business method patent and the expected "wtf!?".
I'm not sure if this is a good idea, in general. How do you compete with a completely free service? Sure, there are some ads, but is it noticeable in desktop/mobile Twitter apps? Even third party apps that use the Twitter API? The same principal stands for Craigslist - it's hard to compete with free by offering "customer trust." I don't think there's much value in customer trust compared to free software where I know I can't complain if it goes down. Now, if I used App.net professionally in the sense that I cannot ever have my notifications go down, I might do it, but then again, there are so many social networks that the odds of both Facebook and Twitter (the two largest ones in the US that I can think of) will be down at the same time.

Still, good luck to him.
This is why I'm excited to pick up Rust. I feel like Go makes it very easy for me to get running and churn stuff out with a simple syntax but Rust seems to be bringing in more of the "new" in CS and I want to give that a shot. Rust has surplanted my interest in D and this comment is pretty much exactly why. When I look at D I see a lot of C/C++ type things that make me go "Wait, I thought this was D and not C++ improved".
Why an SD card? The phone itself is already a portable device you control.
Have you checked out http://opencode.us/?
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If you'd like, I'll write a letter to the editors of the Times and see if they can replace Brooks with you.
I am impressed. Still, I suspect all the images shown on the webpage closely follow the frequency spectrum of natural images. Different methods will do better under different frequency spectrums.
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"But Apple is selling 2/3 as many handsets (not really "almost even") and losing market share"

Actually, that's something I'm not clear on. Apple is losing percentage, but that might be in a growing market. Losing market share would imply the market is staying the same size, no?
iOS has been my bread and butter for the last year but I really think Apple is losing ground here. If Google wasn't having such a hard time getting OS updates out there I think Apple would be in serious trouble.

I think Apple's simplistic, app-centric model helped get the iPhone out the door in 2007 but it's showing its age now and Apple's regressive, skeuomorphic designs look increasingly dated compared to the competition.
Shame that when you actually USE an ICS/JB device all you notice is how inconsistent and unpolished the UI/UX is across the OS, vendor additions and the apps. And this is on the Samsung Galaxy 3 the supposed flagship phone.

It's confusing enough just knowing when to use the hardware "back" button or not.
comScore is showing a similar trend I believe.

http://mashable.com/2012/07/13/android-51-8-market-share/
The concept is cool, but I think that once all the tokenization is done on the full construct of the language, it probably won't be substantially that much faster than hiphop C++ converter. This is only a 1.0 with benchmarks based on limited functionality. As the code-base grows, so will the pains to optimize the speed.
I'm sure there were plenty of people who bemoaned integrated circuits being less repairable than circuit boards, and then ASICS for being less repairable than single purpose DIPs. We really need to build everything out of wood, I guess.
> And why should serviceability be sacrificed for qualities
> like weight, form factor, etc?

Well, just see the teardown of Apple product and think, how much space would be needed for the replaceable battery (with casing), packaged RAM, etc.