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Ask HN: Microsoft from non Webdev perspective?
Okay, so if you've ever done any extensive frontend development, you probably hate IE. To put it bluntly Microsoft's browser platform sucks from a developer perspective. You make your app it works cause you know your W3C specs, etc, then you go to IE and no addEventListener or indexOf, or HTML comments (yes an IE6 bug) blows up your awesome app. Then you try to debug and get incredibly descriptive notices like [Object object] or just nothing.

So MS has failed badly for the webdev community, my real question is, what is it like developing with Microsoft tools for non-web apps, say Desktop or Mobile Apps? Do the tools make the grade of the GCC/Linux toolchain? Does everything fallapart for cross-platform Apps?
This article seems like an excellent example of "understand the biases of the author to understand why he wrote what he did."

He runs a ruby on rails cram school and some kind of non-infrastructure e-commerce site. From the first, he has an obvious incentive to talk up the market for his graduating junior developers, both to increase demand for the classes and to get them jobs when they graduate.

Designer Pages doesn't look like it has any particularly unique or difficult technical challenges -- it's not Facebook scale (highly interconnected large userbase), it's not super high availability, it's not computationally intensive, etc. That's the kind of thing where a couple of senior developer+ founders plus some junior developers might be useful.
mfw i see moot. And his only submission is an article about him becoming a jr VC.

now seriously, you should became gnome's chief designer. Just because of this:

"Many people have asked why I decided to start Canvas as a separate project instead of modernizing 4chan. The answer is simple: I, like you, enjoy 4chan the way it is. I thought it inappropriate and incompatible to change 4chan solely because I wanted to work on something new, and so Canvas spun off while 4chan remained the same."

...or maybe current gnome designers never like gnome in the first place...
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I know HN's frontpage has had a few posts dealing with what financial industry coders do and the validity of it. The ones who claim to be HFT-bot coders argue that they're highly-skilled coders...but it was not always clear if their skill is in algorithm-implementation, or in engineering. That is, they may be great at working with the traders in coming up with a highly performant bot, but they have less ability in exception-handling and design, which may be things that their bosses don't really think about. (I honestly don't know, was just wondering if someone could competently recap the relevant discussions.)
Lets stop and think for a moment about what we are discussing. Knight gave other people about $400M by making some bad trades. Also, some graphs wiggled.

The net impact on the market was negligible. If you buy on the timescale of days to weeks, you can completely ignore HFT. Here is a blog post with graphs demonstrating the market impact of various HFT events:

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/flash_crash_flash_in_...
Weird. Your post didn't have a reply link. I had to click the permalink for it.

Anyway, I wanted to say that I read an article about a guy in Seattle that always kept a couple car lengths ahead of him. I seem to remember the article saying he was able to get home quicker that way than by behaving like the rest of the cars on the road.
> Like personal, on demand buses

That use a heck of a lot more gas ;)
I'm really digging the Gmail feature. What about allowing me to pull from my own ftp server?
If you actually read the document linked, you will discover that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals did not end, or even rule on, a discussion of the legality of the NSA driven security-state. The case deals with the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation attempts to recover damages and legal fees in respect to the Governments wiretapping of that organization.

What the judge found is that: "The threshold issue in this appeal is whether the district court erred in predicating the United States’ liability for money damages on an implied waiver of sovereign immunity under § 1810. It is well understood that any waiver of sovereign immunity must be unequivocally expressed. Section 1810 does not include an explicit waiver of immunity, nor is it appropriate to imply such a waiver. Consequently, we reverse the district court’s judgment awarding damages and attorney’s fees to Al-Haramain under § 1810."

Al-Haramain failed to recovery money. In my reading of the decision, it will not have significant impact on other legal challenges to FISA, The USA PATRIOT Act, or the 2008 FISA Amendments Act. The fact that latter gives retroactive immunity to everyone and their (big) brother is a real problem, however.
I'm looking for something similar ... so checked it out.

In an oddly ironic way http://termsfeed.com/terms-of-use and http://termsfeed.com/privacy-policy return empty pages
I've gotta agree on this one. Generally all I can think when I use browser-based design tools is how much faster/easier it would be for me to go into Photoshop or better, the code itself.

I think the biggest flaw in these apps is they start people with either an amateur design or a blank template instead of exposing the grids and guides that define a website (and further define the limitations of web design) right off the bat. Even though it starts as a blank page, I love Alex Maccaw's Stylo (http://styloapp.com/) because the tools are simple and familiar, they don't overburden the page I'm focusing on and it creates smart guides that show up when I've got two elements on the same plane. It's the only one of these apps I've tried that actually extends my creativity and doesn't end up taking me longer to design something I like between clunky UI elements or trying to figure out what everything does.
Seems like the safe distance in front of a robot car would be significantly less than for that of a car driven by a human. Of course, most humans I know think that the safe distance is 2 feet, which is probably less still.
We really should be talking about total compensation, not just cash salary. $180-250k isn't unreasonable cash+%+bonus for a sales engineer or consultant who puts in huge hours, or for a senior developer with bonus/stock/etc. I think a lot of people at Google end up hitting $180-200k based on total compensation once they're at the 5-10 year of experience tiers.
first of all, awesome.

question: is video recording supported when using the iOS SDK? if yes, great. if no, any timeframe for supporting?

thanks, scott
First page for me still shows a 2005 date. doesn't matter, it's just weird.

http://imgur.com/Iwu0d
My suspicion is that the figures quoted around these Google cars and their safety record, if you take them at face value, lead to a ludicrous level of optimism.
I knew arcades that hosted competitions and were really vying for the market you're talking about. Almost all of them did have music games (DDR, Beatmania), but those were incredibly popular and lucrative when they came out. When the popularity of those games died, many of these places went out of business.

Even with music games, these were places where most of the floor space was dedicated to the latest fighting games, old school shmups, etc.

There's simply very little demand in the US for the type of arcade you want.
That is very helpful. I'm going to be proposing this to work very soon thanks to you.
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what do you use to build it? is it a native app or sencha-style?
The problem of having to type in your password on an unsecured machine still exists.

To access files in this situation, a better approach would have been to upload the file to a webserver. You can then safely download it from the library computer without anything being compromised.
You're absolutely right. We've been working in the customer analytics space for the last ~7 years, and have first-hand experience with the joys and pains of customer models.

While there are some good technical solutions to the problem, the specific individuals / customers we're targeting are those who are less technical and just need an answer to a business question.
Stylo is very nice. The fact it has, well, grid lines is very helpful. It's more limited, sure, but it looks like I can actually build layouts with this thing, not just fancy gradients.
Most of us carry smart phones that could, at any time, be recording audio, photos or video. It is useful to know if the police can abuse you simply because you are suspected of recording them.

Some of us are building or contemplating building products that make use of those smart phone features. If such activity is likely to result in police brutality directed at our customers, that is worth knowing.

Technology impacts the real world. How and where our technology touches society in general is worth understanding.
This idea already exists as car sharing schemes, it is incredibly handy. Self Driving cars will only improve car share schemes.

See the following sites for examples of car share schemes.

http://www.modo.coop/

http://www.zipcar.com/
Could it handle Lombard Street?

How would it react to a roadway that's covered in several feet of water due to flooding (and poor road design)? Or sinkholes? One-way streets? Freeways which change directions at different times of day? Dirt roads? (Can we make it autonomously offroad?) How will it react during an earthquake or tornado? How will it react to a bicyclist running a red stoplight and into the car's path, when the car has a green light? When the car comes across kids playing football/street hockey/baseball in the street, will it stop for them? How far out of the way will the kids have to move before the car thinks it's safe to go past?

Will these cars have systems to react when they take damage?
Except that Wired claims to have replicated the "mistake" at least twice (on top of the original attack). So that's a systematic error, and dedicated self-attack team ("tiger team") could have found that, and the hole could have been closed.
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Most of us carry smart phones that could, at any time, be recording audio, photos or video.

Most of everyone does, though. That doesn't make it HN material. I'd wager that most of us brush our teeth, but I don't think that an article about toothbrush sales should be posted here.
Great question! - I'm glad that folks are thinking about safety, and that it's part of the conversation here.

Earlier this Summer I was invited to attend the FBI/DIYBio outreach event in Walnut Creek, CA. (Disclosure: I'm co-founder of http://synbiota.com - we provide web-based tools and crowd-innovation environment for SynBio) Of course, one of the biggest take-aways from this meeting is that very special attention needs to be payed to how we manage safety.

The simple fact is that right now the ability to create a "Select Agent" (catch-all term for bad biological things) from scratch using this technology is currently out of reach of anyone in the DIYBio scene. That said, it may be just a matter of time until technology gets to the point where it is possible.

There are positive uses for having access to DNA code for a Select Agent, e.g. creating a bio-sensor that will warn us against contamination, or creating an antidote to the offending agent, so it may not be in our interest to completely ban this DNA code.

The good news is that in SynBio we've not created anything from scratch - all that we know comes cribbed from Mother Nature's recipes. Knowing this, each biologic has it's own DNA signature that can be used to screen out any potentially dangerous projects before they are synthesized.

This is just scratching the surface of this question. A great resource to learn about the ethics surrounding SynBio is the SynBio Project by the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars: http://www.synbioproject.org

Interesting side: When we were at the FBI/DIYBio outreach event we all received a deck of Pokemon-style "Select Agent" playing cards, which are pretty unique. We have some pics of them posted on our blog: http://synbiota.posterous.com/tag/playingcards

Some people think these cards are a bit creepy, while other's can't get enough of them! I'd love to hear HN's thoughts on this!
Agreed. I think everyone here is aware of Reddit- if we want to talk about that kind of stuff, let's just go there.
Personally, I can think of lots of edge cases that will be interesting to see answers to. For instance, a 4-way stop - we know how to handle that easily, and can overcome someone jumping out of turn, again, quite easily.

More importantly - who will be maintaining all the traffic changes? An example - a section of Interstate or road is closed for months, whether by damage or construction. And then, when it's clear again?

I'm interested in seeing how these things play out.
Neither is a Google car, though. Adding self-driving requires five figures, probably even in production.
That is complete nonsense.

Steve Jobs warned Samsung about not infringing on many of the key patents e.g. rubber banding effect and even offered to license it. Samsung refused. Hence the subsequent lawsuits.
They talk about weather issues in this video at 3:40.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkYFIhJ3rnY

In summary: They can handle darkness and rain, but not snow.

If you're interested, Sebastian Thrun has an intro to the topic as this course (you can preview all videos and problems)

http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs373/CourseRev/apr20...
"If you buy on the timescale of days to weeks, you can completely ignore HFT"

Not if you have to deal with intra-day margin calls or stop losses.

The trouble with most HFT-based algos is that most of them rely on a set of common signals (regardless of how "diverse" their creators may claim them to be) and end up making the various markets and assets highly correlated.

So when stops trigger, they cause a massive cascade. This needs to be protected against at the exchange-level (edit: they do so via various mechanisms). Most bots usually don't have the sophistication to protect against tail-events.
That's a good point. But wouldn't prepaid cards defeat this? I'm not an American so I don't know how the address verification on prepaid cards work.
Nothing new. That tag has always been in place. It's to prevent using an ad for SEO purposes
Potentially-silly question: the iOS simulator is x86, not ARM, and therefore cannot install App Store applications. Where did the Pinterest, Wolfram Alpha, etc. apps in these screenshots come from?

Are these included by default in iOS 6? (_And_ in the simulator?)
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A limo with a driver is always going to be fairly expensive. A self-driving car should come down in price a lot faster.
the technology used by HFT firms to make markets in microseconds makes the web development world look like children.

pubsub is the hot new thing here in the valley - welcome to wall street, circa ten years ago.

asynchronous is the new synchronous? what is that - a new album by smash mouth?

if you completely ignore HFT, you'd think there would be way more programmers and mathematicians available for hire.
I really wish you guys would support a bookmarklet to let you pick pictures on a web page the same way say Pinterest does it.
Yes, but does the fact that "nothing bad has ever happened" mean that "nothing bad will ever happen"?

As a developer, I'm familiar with the fickleness of software. What happens when we see HFT algorithms error in unison? What have we not thought about?
I've been using it regularly and I find the opposite is true. Right now it's great for generating snippets of styled elements, and I know they are working on making it easier to do much more. I'm really excited about where they are going. Good luck!
> How is the next 300 million dollar Batman flick going to ever get made if the studios let everyone go see the movie for free? It won't get made.

What a fucking loss for humanity.

I'm pretty sure JK Rowling would have written Harry Potter (the book) with or without IP laws. I'm pretty sure Notch would have written Minecraft with or without IP laws. I'm pretty sure there were several bloody fantastic games made in the 90s when game piracy was easier and more common.
If computers are running the markets, and the markets have such a large influence over society, does that mean the computers have already quietly started their takeover?
True, but you can only go so far down the rabbit hole until you think you've done enough due diligence to remove as much risk as you feel comfortable with.
What about situations where lanes have been plowed off-center? Even the most accurate GPS and accelerometers aren't going to help the vehicle understand that the appropriate path has been shifted.
That doesn't necessarily account for people getting car sick on long, smooth, winding canyon roads driven at constant speed. The jerk induced by following the curves in the road should be lower than that caused by braking.
I've got a 200 message/month plan from AT&T for $5 a month. My only complaint is that I can't share messages across the two lines on the account so each gets billed $5. (Also, no data plan.)
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They could be Web Apps installed to the home screen.

In fact, unless Apple has an app now, I'm fairly certain they are.
"In most cases it's just their 'idea'. So usually my question to them is - why can't I just take this idea and execute it on my own?"

Which is why so many of them want you to sign an NDA. :)
Maybe you would find these FBI/DIYbio transcripts helpful in answering your concerns.

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/fbi-diybio-2012/

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/fbi-diybio-2011/

Before reading those, and before you think to attribute all plagues and disease or suffering to the non-institutional biology crowd, I would like to point out that the world is already full of deadly viruses. The "natural" death rate from (for example) influenza is >0. This is already a huge problem, but not one caused by the "negative consequences" (presumably of developing technology to work with biology) you alluded to.

Edit: also, connor needs to stop spamming synbiota stuff all over the place
It doesn't delete the cookies, but it doesn't send them to servers when accessed from the incognito window. That's why when you open an incognito window you're not logged into any sites.
A lot of those accidents happen in rain and snow, which the Google folks admit are not as well tested. Under clear conditions on open roads, humans probably do better than 300K miles too.
What if you join Zipcar to Ridejoy to Uber to autonomous cars? Half taxi, half bus, totally convenient.
From what I understand, a phone number is close to a primary key to people in the US these days.
high frequency trading is very important!

without it, investors would not be easily able to change their minds about how much other investors think wildly complex financial instruments are worth!

think of the children!
Would you be ok with a computer that augments your own driving (similar to those cars that automatically brake when they sense an accident)? If so, then it's just a matter of continuously improving on this augmentation.

Even if it never reaches the level where you can truly step away from the wheel while the computer drives 100 miles in rush hour traffic, attaching an AI to help avoid accidents in many common situations still sounds revolutionary. I forsee something similar to a plane's autopilot -- where it greatly reduces user error yet sometimes still needs a human to take over when it doesn't know what to do.
Just tried it. Really cool. I have one question though. The option to right click and "Export HTML/CSS" only exports the current selected widget and not the entire grid/layout. That would be awesome if possible :)
How would you propose the non-technical founder raising funding without a product? Personally, I can sell the vision all day long, but people want to see a product. Any advice for non-technical founders who want to raise "idea" funding to pay a developers salary?
I literally could not enter the 2-factor code into my Galaxy Nexus running 4.1.1. The process asked for my password, then redirected to Chrome to finish the process, which asked me for a code. I then switched to the Authenticator app to get the code, but then I couldn't switch back to the place to enter it. Whhaaaaa??? I tried this 3 times looking everywhere.

I finally gave up and turned off 2-factor auth. I'm guessing this is a limitation in 4.1.1, but it really, really sucks.
It's good to know that some thought and consideration has gone into safety. Though this does just seem like a temporary measure that will keep the white hats in check. The goals of a lot of these companies is democratization. Would you agree that all the steps of the organism creation process will (in short order) be achievable in private, for good and for ill?

Personally I do think we will need some sort of active technology for protection and we shouldn't put much stock in the efficacy of legislation. We haven't been able to legislate away criminals, and we only need one criminal/virus live in the population to do an inordinate amount of damage.
I think that's intentional. The web doesn't need more fixed-size, absolutely-positioned-everything sites.

Easel aims to be a design tool, I think, to help you in coding and designing sites, but won't do all of the former for you.
I too live in the Seattle area, and I've heard of this technique. Sadly, when implementing it, all you see is the angry drivers behind you who rush to pass and gobble up the traffic bubble you've been saving.
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http://diyhpl.us/wiki/diybio/faq

The above doc aims to cover the basics of molecular biology projects in non-institutional environments. I suggest finding your local DIY group and hanging out with them for a while:

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/diybio/groups

(Usually that just means "your local hackerspace".)
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"He was charged with obstructing government administration and with resisting arrest as he was taking photographs of a brewing street fight in New York that involved a teenage girl."

Let's call it for what it is... the police were enjoying watching the fight and didn't want to be disturbed. What happened to the girl or rather the attacker? nothing, the justice was instead leveled at Stolarik, and what's he going to do back, nothing. What a shit hole NYC must be. (I might be wrong too)
This is awesome. I'm not on board with everything (as someone else pointed out, the navigation is huge and overshadows the content), but it does a good job of rethinking how users interact with Wikipedia by making it easier to use for research. Unfortunately, I can't see anything like this ever happening due to inertia and the direct democracy system that Wikipedia generally employs when making changes.
Yeah, "liquidity" is the standard bullshit distraction trotted out every time HFT is discussed here. Strangely enough, we've got "yummyfajitas" defending it again, which maybe, just maybe, might have something to do with the fact that he works in HFT.

As for liquidity, since the bots only make trades with the goal of shaving off tiny little slivers of profit on millions of trades, why and how would one of those sweaty guys ever buy anything from them? Even if one wanted to, the opportunity to buy might pass in a couple of microseconds.

All in all, working in HFT or even the financial "industry" at large, is complete bullshit. No self-respecting, decent human being should do it. No matter how you look at it, your mission there is to help world-raping scumbag bankers and the like make more money. They certainly don't need it.