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While we are making the language more straightforward, it's not even "experiencing problems accessing Twitter." Like what problems, dry mouth and nausea? The problem isn't some incidental experience, the problem is that they can't access Twitter. Because it is not responsive, connections do not complete adequately, the intended page is not delivered. Twitter isn't working right. And this isn't a perfectly appropriate time to be puffing up its employees with honorifics like "engineer" (are they certified?)

Why not this: "Oops, the site is down because something isn't working right on our end. We're working on getting the site back up as soon as possible." (BTW, isn't working right is a euphemism for "broken")

Seriously, why not? Twitter is a great big company, why does it have to use language which puts a mere individual at a disadvantage? Is the position of this large, wealthy corporation so desperate that it cannot afford an ounce of humility at the moment it has made a mistake? Does it need to get the upper hand over little individuals looking at its web page?

You know the maid and the cook have to say big, frankly-worded mea culpas when something is off. "Diners may be experiencing issues digesting the Royal Egg Salad. Our Gastronomists are currently conducting an in-depth probe to resolve the issue." "We understand that diners are experiencing problems chewing."
I think the obvious next step was / is to make OAuth 1.0A into OAuth 1.1 by mandating TLS/SSL and declare the SSL-mimicking parts like the timestamp, nonce optional (i.e. ignored). Anyone can just do it by fiat, since it will be backwards compatible with OAuth 1.0A clients. They'll just send the proper timestamps and nonces, but you are ignore those fields.

I found those fields were 90% of the problem with OAuth 1.0A implementations. Maybe there's security value in those parts in an SSL environment I am missing, but I doubt it since SSL does the exact same thing.
>The OP correctly points out that certain system utilities cannot be sold this way.

It's not that simple. Arbitrary features of your favorite app may not be allowed on the App Store just because Apple didn't feel it worthwhile to create an entitlement for that feature. Everything they add has a cost and it's very easy to say "that's not important."
that is exactly correct. VC's are facilitators, middlemen, and wholesalers, they are not equity holders. Their goal is to move equity. If the 'end-user' of the equity ends up owning a great business, great, if not, makes no difference to the VCs. You could argue there's reputation risk at stake but I don't see it: Fred Wilson made his name with geocities, a company that never earned any dividends for its ultimate owners (yahoo) while generating huge returns for its equity resellers. And we celebrate him and that deal as a success. Finding the greatest sucker is not a sustainable strategy, it's simple wealth transfer, no value gets created. it's not a way forward.
ack has ignore built in for certain filetypes. Then combined with my shell expanding * to just the files and directories at the current layer, ack will not find certain things that grep -R string * will.
The readers of Hacker News are NOT a representation of the mainstream, bulk programming workforce.
Man, they didn't show you that in Star Trek...

edit: to be specific, they glossed over it instead of confronting a scenario where an enemy hijacked a replicator to make whatever physical or chemical weapons they wanted at a moment's notice.
From what I've read, FTTH installation costs over $700 per house so $300 doesn't sound like it's defraying much.
Given Zynga's history they likely won't vest anyway (clawbacks).
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Generally, a company's purpose is to make money. Digg lost $40 million. How is that a success?
It still sounds outrageously expensive to me. In Portugal the cheapest fiber triple-play plans cost $40 a month.
Why lower the price of the initial purchase? Just keep it simple: basic app is $10 forever. The basic version of the app comes with some basic useful features. Premium features become available via in-app-purchase as the developer makes them. Users can choose to use the premium features or not. Bug-fix updates are just free as they should be IMO.

Using a theoretical video editor as an example: $10 gets you basic clip cropping, placing clips next to each other, background music, importing, exporting and titles. So a basically useful app. Later the developer updates the app with a few bug-fixes and a premium "transitions" feature that's available via IAP. This update is of course free to download. So existing users get the bug-fixes for free. Anyone who want the premium feature just unlocks it and uses it indefinitely.
Ask HN: A good screen sharing app in the browser?
I always find the coolest websites on here, but today when I was trying to work with a client I couldn't find the one I remembered in my mind. I used to use screenleap.com because I seem to remember it not needing a plug-in. Now it needs Java.

My question is this: Is there a screen sharing app out there without cost that works in a browser so my client doesn't need to download anything?

Thank you!
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Why can't Twitter say it in straight-forward language:

"The site is down. We're working on it."

That would be so refreshing.
This applies to every social community once it gets popular, though. The front page of Reddit used to be tolerable, for instance.
Ask HN: Laid off, frustrated, looking for advice
This is a combination of venting and looking for advice. It's a different account than my usual Hacker News, would like to be anonymous at this point since I'm looking for work.

I live in a large city in the Eastern time zone, 40+ years old, my most recent job was for 12+ years at the same place, 10+ in Java. I got laid off in May. Got my resume together, talked to some recruiters, the usual stuff. I've had a couple of nibbles, couple of interviews, but no offers so far. It seems my problem is that the assignments I was given was just regular Java coding, more back end than front end. Not much J2EE technologies, light on servlets, JSP, JSF. Also, the company didn't use Hibernate or JUnit. Basically, I don't have the fashionable skills. I have no doubt that I could pick them up quickly, but if I don't go in saying that I have actual experience with them then firms don't want to talk to me.

Here's an example of my frustration. Back in early June I sent my resume through a friend to a company they work at, they have an opening. I hear back that they're looking for someone with Google Web Toolkit experience, I don't have that, no luck. I talk to a recruiter in late July, I hear that the position at that company is still open. I could have learned GWT in six weeks, I think any decent developer, at least a decent Java developer, could have learned GWT in six weeks, but the position is still open and whatever project they want to do is stalled while they wait for the perfect candidate.
Building browser extensions with trigger's tools is really straightforward if you're familiar with Chrome/Safari/Opera/...'s extension api.

The most surprising thing for us was that IE extension mostly(3 lines of IE specific code) just worked.(Before that we had a huge black box of code that nobody dared to touch.)

I'd love to write a long post about our experience but there is nothing special to say. It works and it's great.
Well, it's definitely possible to print a silencer, a pistol shouldn't be that much harder. I'm afraid that this would make the governments impose stricter laws on 3D printers, which is not a good thing...
I would love to see a documented A/B test of a failure message. But I have the suspicion that this is one of those "industry practices" based on presuppositions and anxiety rather than any demonstrated track record.
This does away with everyone-is-on-newest-version paradigm of automatic updates that makes support easy - in fact, it makes it much worse. Instead of five old versions of the app, you might have 1 base + 12 permutations = 13 different combinations of functionality to support.
So, here I sit, trying to figure out what to do to maximize my chances. I've worked on some home projects off and on, but lately my time, and my attention, has been talking to recruiters, researching companies that I'm about to interview with, that kind of thing. I'm looking for some general advice, but it wouldn't bother me to get comments like "You should have done X, Y, Z, five years ago, but you didn't, sucks to be you" so this can be a cautionary tale for others.

Moving isn't really an option.

I consider myself a developer, programmer, whatever you want to call it, and not a "Java developer", but it's where I have the most experience, and if I went off to semi-master PHP, Ruby on Rails, or something else I'm afraid I'd be in a worse position than I am now where no one looks at me because I don't have the experience.

Some questions:
So far I've been going through the recruiters, haven't really hit sending resumes directly through what I see pop up on LinkedIn, or Dice, any of those. I've sent my resume directly to companies twice, heard nothing back. For a senior developer, is going direct and trolling the career sites a way to go, or will I just get spammed and waste my time?

I've heard that hiring slows down in the summer, is that the case? Is it me or is it the season?

Would a J2EE certification help? It might not make a difference to the startup guys here on HN, but would Java experience, no J2EE experience but J2EE certifications get me in the door somewhere?

What technologies are in demand? I see J2EE (whatever that means to some people, that's a lot of technologies in there), Hibernate, JUnit, HTML/CSS/JQuery.

Do home projects & code on Github make a difference at the non-startup companies I've been talking to?

I have time on my hands, and can to "anything", but I don't know the one or two things to do to actually get me back to work.
They don't. The $300 installation fee doesn't cover the cost of running fiber to your house + the cost of the box.

But it's hugely cheaper to wire your house at the same time they are wiring your neighbours. That's the catch -- the deal disappears once the neighbourhood is connected. They're not going to do a truck roll for $300.

Once your house is connected, upsell potential is a lot better than if it isn't.
http://www.differencebetween.net/language/difference-between...
I might be reading it wrong, but it looks to me like he printed a receiver and placed all the moving parts and the barrel etc. in it. See "I printed a modified version of the lower from cncguns.com"
I seriously doubt it. Can you imagine Adobe's Creative Suite in the Mac App store? Never going to happen.
Welcome to California.
I guess 3D printers will be banned from the airports.
Seriously, what happened to real journalism?

Articles are now being written based on a handful of unverified forum posts. Really?
It's not so much that folders are counter-intuitive. The problem with them is that they impose a single, arbitrary structure on files that could be organized in many different ways. For example, you could have folders like AllMyImages/ or AllMyCatImages/ or CatImagesJuly2012/ but there's no way to anticipate what will be the most useful directory structure for all future situations. It would be more flexible and useful to have indexes over the files that let you dynamically organize your content according to attributes such as contains-cats, date, is-image, author, etc.
Hm, could you write a client using the Dropbox API wrapped in, say, a FUSE filesystem driver? Just to use the remote storage directly as a filesystem?
> My ISP doesn't install software on my computer, ...

Not for lack of trying. I recently helped my friend set up Comcast and part of the installation process included downloading a required suite of "configuration" software. We were able to figure out a way around it but most people probably just click through without a thought.
I once had a co-worker, LS, who insisted on never saying the word "problem"; everything was a "challenge". Always. If the data center exploded in a fiery ball, we were experiencing massive system challenges.

I bet our VP of Operations a hundred bucks that he couldn't get LS to say the word "problem". Without missing a beat, he turned to LS and said "I'll pay you fifty bucks to say the word 'problem'." And he did.

So while I support your quest for transparency, I really can't participate - it's proven expensive for me.
Because most customers don't care about gigabit. I'm a tech geek and I don't care about it- my existing speed (around 10mpbs, I think) has rarely posed problems for me.

In any case, $120 in Kansas City is not ever going to translate to $120 in New York City.
There's a gulf of difference between having access to your surfing habits and having access to that information via a structured database.
A suppressor has no moving parts and serves only to baffle the expanding gas and reduce noise. It experiences relatively low heat and gas pressure. The components of a firearm have far tighter tolerances and must withstand significantly higher levels of pressure and heat. It's not even close to the same thing.
Annoying exception: scp only accepts -r as recursion flag, not -R.
Airline bankruptcy is a normal business activity, akin to an occasional server refresh in the data center.. It doesn't disrupt the overall airline industry, and it's not a catastrophe to a bankrupt airline.

http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
You could, but the latency would still suck.
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Actually it was touched on in a number of episodes (which i don't feel like digging up) but in more than once instance they mentioned that the replicators had safety systems that prevented unauthorized creation of at least some dangerous materials, (from what i recall, poisons were mentioned in one, weapons themselves i'm not sure).
I'm not sure if the developer necessarily takes a hit. Say I have $15 to spend on a video editing app. $10 for the initial app and $5 for the only premium feature I want results in me giving $15 to the developer (less Apple's cut etc). However if the developer adds 5 new features to the app and I have to choose between buying features that I mostly don't want and can't afford or not spending the money I'll most likey give $0 to the developer.

Similar situation with luxury features on cars: it makes business sense to sell them individually.
This is ridiculous! Zynga is an over-inflated bubble stock, simple as that. Every Retail Investor/Stock Broker/Investment Advisor should always be watching what the Insiders do. If a CEO of a company dumps significant amounts of their stock holdings, watch out. It's as simple as that.

If hypothetically, Larry Page & Sergey Brin sold off a large chunk of their stock, I'd be a sign to be careful of Google stock until the market reacts and the reasons are fully known.
I see your point. I haven't thought about that.

On a second thought: If your customers are satisfied, they will give good reviews on the the new version and it will regain its rankings. That's a great risk for the developer, I have to admit.
I think somebody read your post.

Just got my invite an hour or so ago...Simple has a big section on "what's in the pipeline" for them.

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Interesting coincidence.
Javascript relative time displays have hilarious results if the web browser's clock is set incorrectly. That's mostly not a modern problem thanks to NTP being baked into modern consumer OSes but it can be terribly confusing if you have a misconfigured client.
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Be deliberate.
+1 for ChucK. Learned that this past year in school. Was my first time programming, definitely wasn't as difficult as I always envisioned it being... (:
Can you give examples you have in mind of AI applications that requires high bandwidth? Something related to vision maybe?
Who doesn't have a gigabit NIC? They've been standard for years.
I'm having trouble accessing the footer of your site (looking for an About link). Every time I scroll down a new group of photos load and pushes the footer down even further.

Chrome 20.0.1132.57 m
Win7 x32
This is another demonstration of why federal network neutrality regulations would be premature.
I frequently want to scroll the display without moving the cursor. As for selecting lines, you do realize that Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E work everywhere in OS X, right? Generally whenever I select an entire line, I do so to erase, move, or duplicate it, and Cocoa's Emacs-style shortcuts are much nicer than Windows/CUA-style shortcuts for these operations (and difficult to support on systems where Ctrl is used for menu command accelerators).

Far more frequently, I want to delete from the current cursor position to the end of a line, and Ctrl+K is much nicer than Shift+End, Backspace.
Much more extensive and detailed information is provided by https://github.com/hoxu/gitstats
Thanks! Still a lot ahead of us, stay tuned!
Anything is better than the rubbish we currently get from Comcast...
1) Betabeat isn't the NY Times.

2) Betabeat only reported that this forum existed and that someone had made these claim, which is indisputably correct. You may think it's not particularly news worthy, but online journalism is a big places and there's plenty of room for everything.

3) Would you rather this article not be written?
> If you paid as much now as you did for the same flight in the 70s, you'd still get the very same service.

I believe they call it first-class now. I had the opportunity to purchase a first class upgrade (first time not flying economy) on an Alaska flight from Seattle to Oakland, and the service difference between the coach experience just two days prior was insane.

There was no meal in coach (flying during breakfast), and the attendants came around once for drinks and once for trash. They were polite, but didn't make much small talk because they were pretty busy.

In first class, there was a complementary meal served on a ceramic plate with metal silverware (this flight was well after dinner), and a variety of complementary alcoholic drinks were offered as well. The attendants called you by your name (they verified the name from the flight manifest was correct the first time they came around), and they made small talk about your trip.
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Can you imagine if someone you were expecting immediate payment from for a service you just provided said "I can't write you a check, but give me your email address or bank routing number and account number, and I will be sure to have that transferred to you, which may take two to five days." No way. Maybe someday.

I wouldn't say "infeasible", I think-- it's basically an information problem, right?

If you think about it, it's very strange that we treat checks as "immediate payment" when they amount to a classy IOU: "I can't wire you the money, but here's a piece of paper with my account number on it, and if you take it to your bank they'll call my bank and they might give you the money in a day or two." Initiating an EFT from your smartphone should be at least that credible, right?

But of course, it will be some time before small business owners at large internalize that.
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I'm not taking a stand either way on if they're intuitive, I've been using a PC for far too long to even try to think about it.

But what you just said is the opposite of: "Folders are non-intuitive if they aren't learned"

It would have made sense if you'd said: "Folders are non-intuitive because they must be learned".
This approach also forces the developer to build in a notification system to tell people the new app is out and how to find it.

I guess you could can make a small update to the 'old' app that will pop up a window notifying of the new one when the old app first starts, but that seems rather kludgy.
I think there should be a #3 .... startups that devote their blogs to random hn fluff about being a startup rather than whatever they actually do.
I only feel this way about Zynga. Knowing their history and everything about the way they have conducted business, I have no sympathy for them and even their investors.
1.) Blogspam. OP is http://www.webpronews.com/gunsmith-uses-3d-printer-to-make-a...

Does HN have any mods?

2.) Have blue has a blog, he's written two posts about this: http://haveblue.org/?p=1041 http://haveblue.org/?p=1321 It appears to be down right now, though. Cache links: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DlBe32... https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Z_5bOF...

3.) He printed a AR-15 lower receiver, which is the part, under US law, considered a "firearm". The high pressure components (barrel, bolt) are all made from conventional manufacturing processes, using steel.

Lowers are typically made out of aluminum, but they don't really experience any great stresses, so it's perfectly possible to make them out of plastic. (There's a number of commercial lowers made out of fiberglass: http://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?t=65134 (I'd link directly to the manufacturer's site, but it seems they're better at making guns than they are at securing web servers)) As he notes, people have even carved them from wood.
Indeed. T-Mobile's Wi-Fi Calling feature is hands down a better solution than femtocells. Being able to use your phone while in someone's basement always seems to amase people when they see it. Not to mention the ability to "roam for free" while on Wi-Fi overseas.
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That's a feature ;)
The photo site will load as long as the album contains more photos to display. Here is the direct link to our about page: http://www.popset.com/about
The Minecraft API is going to make mod development SO much easier. No more decompiling and patching hacks. I've been waiting for this since Mojang snagged the Bukkit team. I look forward to the first client/server builds that support it.

I added a Jenkins build job for it on BuildHive so anyone can download the bits if you want to play with the very limited banning API that they apparently have so far :)
https://buildhive.cloudbees.com/job/swashbuck1r/job/Minecraf...

I hope they'll consider adding a build job for the official project.
The receiver is the only part of the rifle that is controlled. Everything other than the receiver can be bought on the internet without background checks or registering of serial numbers.
Not to mention the gratuitous editorializing by the author throughout the article.

Are there any technology news sites that are truly journalistic these days? (serious question)
Vayable combined with Airbnb seems like an awesome, off-the-beaten-track way to travel. I hear people talk a lot about traveling but not wanting to do "touristy" things... Vayable seems like a compelling way to get more authentic experiences while traveling. Can't wait to try this when I'm on my next vacation.