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>Doesn't mean even slightly that Steam is a better alternative. It's a horrible launcher and a terrible Mac OS X app. It's a great service and games store and I use it all the time, but as an OS X app it's awful.

I agree. I'm hoping competition will spur one or both of them to actually make a kickass service.
Will Online Learning Disrupt Programming Language Adoption?
I'm not porting over existing .NET code, layout isn't a concern there. Rdio is the one Mono based app I've used (that I'm aware of), and it seems to handle UI mostly fine. I'm more concerned with the coverage of the Android APIs overall.
The widely adopted solution is to explain permissions clearly (eg text in app description or link to a web page).

In this case I wasn't even talking about the Trello apps storing credentials in AccountManager - I meant it as a client of the AccountManager to let me use the existing credentials the device already knows.
Shame on Siri – Google Brings Enhanced Voice Search To iPhones And iPads
Maybe that was his intention, but it's hard to deny that the main focus of Amazon was (and may continue to be) books. I think it just boils down to whether or not you believe in the aforementioned idea that it's only possible to do one thing really well.
- Learned a lot about enterpreneurship, startups & hacking (would have otherwise taken me 3-4+ years)

- Started blogging because of HN

- Started and made money on MVPFor1k thanks to HN & it's members ($5-10k)

- Got some freelance work while I was in high-school

....

- Met a good friend a couple years ago on HN that later on became my first customer, and a powerful testimonial.

- Acquired some customers because of it ($10-20k value)

- Got into a seed incubator because of it ($20k+ value)
We can actually watch in real time as the details from each capture are beamed back to earth! Hooray for public servers and progressive JPEG!
Yeah, I remember Venus was sometimes called as the "other blue planet" but it was an actual Hell of a place to live in. Looking like Earth but nothing close to it that would make it inhabitable.
Coloring inside the lines is vastly overrated. Just ask Mrs. Zamula.
English is indeed spoken by over a billion people, however it's not spoken by the other six billion.
Definitely.

A lot of large launches are done by United Launch Alliance (ULA), which is a Boeing/Lockheed-Martin consortium. (I.e., they provide the rocket and the launch facilities -- for instance, they did all the Shuttle launches, as well as the MSL launch.) You'd have to involve them at an early stage to get costing worked out.

There's a second consortium, also Boeing/Lockheed-Martin, that does manned space operations for Shuttle (formerly) and for Station. (Operations = flight control from the ground, post-launch. E.g., rotating the solar panels on Station.) That one is called United Space Alliance, or USA for short. Catchy, no? ;-) AFAIK, USA does not play any role in unmanned operations.

As the GP pointed out, there is a lot of money in launches, launch vehicles, and in manned operations, hence the contractor involvement. As you can guess -- you can't even play Boeing off against Lockheed-Martin because they're in a consortium -- that world is kind of creaky. SpaceX is disrupting ULA big-time.

Lockheed-Martin is also involved in instrument design and other non-launch activities. Getting an instrument into space is a multifaceted affair.

Here's a good example. Juno, a spacecraft currently on its way to Jupiter:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/overview/index.html
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/juno.html

Managed by JPL, spacecraft by Lockheed-Martin, science PI is at SWIRI, instruments from all over. And this is a "medium-size" mission, not a "flagship" mission like MSL or James Webb.
Although what about from a human health perspective? Can humans survive in a gravity that weak for a long time? What about animals?
My searches are too personal now. I search for a snippet of code and all I get are iPhone or Minecraft related results. How do I turn off this personal-ization of my searches?
A Photo Retrospective of the Games that Developers Say Zynga Has Cloned
For an 8 hour drive? Still not true, especially with a limo.
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This service costs $50/year more than Craigslist!
This service costs $50/year more than Facebook!
This service costs $50/year more than Twitter!
I imagine that "it won't fit on a CD" is an easier argument to win than "gnome has lost its way and is no longer suitable to be the default on a Debian system".
Microsoft Is Rushing To Open More Stores To Sell Its Surface Tablet
If you want a cross-platform UI from the same codebase, you should use Gtk#, not use Windows.Forms. But that requires a UI rewrite.

An alternative is to split your code along the business logic/presentation layer boundary. Share the business logic and write a platform specific UI using the native toolkit on each platform: WPF or Winforms on Windows, MonoMac (Cocoa) on Mac and Gtk# on Linux.

The Winforms stack has not been maintained for about 5 years, and was never particularly debugged nor maintained on Mac. We wanted to remove it, and just tell people "Sorry, this API is useless", but there are a few type dependencies that are needed elsewhere.
HAMMER2 ( http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/hammer2.txt ) is far more interesting to me than sitting around waiting for someone to care enough about Btrfs to finish polishing it until it's ready. The world is ready for a post-ZFS file system, it's just a matter of who delivers first and with an acceptable license. Btrfs hasn't at all capitalized on the significant interest surrounding it, which is a shame.
I actually worked with BufferBox this summer as part of my design class. They mentioned that while they and Amazon Locker were breaking new ground here in North America, this type of service is pretty old-hat in Europe. For example, DHL runs their PackStation service in Germany (and apparently in the rest of Europe too) [http://www.dhl.de/en/paket/privatkunden/packstation.html]. There are a bunch of other fairly large and developed competitors all over Europe as well.
> I could spot black on two out of three

If you're on a Mac, go to spotlight and open Digital Color Meter. There is no black (0,0,0) in any of those paintings. The blacks you "see" are exactly the subject of this article and parent comment.
I don't think this is viable for Craigslist style transactions, meeting in person lets you verify the listing is what you expected and still leaves room for haggling if necessary. Picking up from a locker would require complete trust in the vendor and leave little room for recourse if something went wrong.

This could still be good for small transactions, Craigslist is just too small.
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It really depends. I am not a fan of the tip because it is a bit misleading. The reason there aren't many true blacks in representational art is due to reflection of light into the shadows.

Also, given the overall temperature of an image, it can be just as high-contrast to use a color on the opposite end of the color wheel.

Either way, these are style decisions, which are highly subjective.
I think that the fear of ridicule is very healthy. It is one force that acts to discourage us from being inundated with solutions that are incomplete or half-baked, and which might not even be solving the right problem.

I like the data entry technique for the tablet which is at the heart of this demo. But there is no reason to throw around the word "innovation," even when warding off the worst forces at work in the world.

On the desktop, that dead platform, UI designers have been inventing new user controls for many years, and packaging them as products. But no one important comes to their frantic defense when one of these bundles of features is under-appreciated by its intended audience. Perhaps that says something about the current environment? Maybe we should just let these new-ish hardware and software platforms mature without getting breathless or aggressive when contemplating them.
Those thin borders and underline also benefit from not black. #333 is usually the darkest you should go for text and these features.
Most of the Open Source/Free Software is far more concerned that new Linux releases can install with no problems in a used computer some low-income person volunteers to help rebuild someplace like Free Geek...

"The Adoption Program

Free Geek receives donated used computers from the public and Build volunteers refurbish them with care. These computers are then “adopted out” to volunteers in exchange for 24 hours of volunteerism to our Adoption volunteers.

Volunteers in the Adoption Program

disassemble computers for recycling
help receive computer equipment from donors
test basic computer components
help keep our facility clean

Volunteer tasks in the Adoption Program can accommodate a wide range of abilities — we’ll work with you to make sure you can spend the time necessary to earn your computer. No computer experience is required to participate in the program.

Adoption volunteers disassembling computers
When you complete your 24 hours of volunteer service, you’ll sign up for a basic class on how to use your computer. At the conclusion of the class, you’ll take your new-to-you computer home. Adoption volunteers must take the class in order to receive tech support. You can learn more about What You Get with your adopted computer.

It the Adoption Program sounds perfect for you, here’s how you can Get Started.

Volunteers can receive one computer per year.

http://www.freegeek.org/volunteer/adoption-program/
Chrome multiple profiles, ftw.

https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
The problem is that its algorithmic. The content owners aren't clicking around and claiming videos -- Google's Content ID system finds videos that look similar to theirs and then claims the video.

The ideal case would be someone reposting a trailer or a music video to Youtube. The content is identified as being owned by a partner. Now the partner gets the money and the poster still gets views.

Cases like the OP thus cause a problem: the majority of the content is 3rd party and free.

Note: I'm not defending CID or saying its a good thing. I just think your proposed solution won't fix the issue at hand.
Humble Bundle for books
Not really. I am expecting my grandkids to still be the same species.
I don't follow, looking at the number of files on my laptop right now a very, very small percentage of them are intended for my interaction. The vast majority are intended purely for interaction by programs / the system. That tells me the file system should handle what is best for that case and my interaction should be proxied by another program that makes the file system fit for my consumption, e.g. Finder.
more crap, 'nother day.
I think that's where the interop story becomes a critical feature to drive adoption.
> They renamed "My Games" into "Library" with Games, Media, & Tools subtabs and after giving up on the whole media bit just have "Library" now.

This happened a long, long time ago (read: as far back as I can remember).
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/statusnet
We just blogged a case study from the PictureTHIS, an app from the guys that did Draw a Stickman:

http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/08/07/picturethis-fun-for-both-...

They have a nice case study.

You do not have to pay before you try, the evaluation version lets you do all your development on the simulator. If you like it, you can buy it and deploy to device. And if you are unhappy, you can return it within 30 days.

That said, we will work hard to make sure you are delighted with our product, and keep you as a user.
I just want open standards!
New to Notify My Android (NMA)?
I want google drive but with the widespread use of dropbox.
I think the current gmail search is a lot better than what it was a few months ago.

I still wish they did page numbers for search results or something like that. (I'm aware of the manually editing the url hack, but it's not the same experience.)
Your monitor must be set at ridiculously hight brightness and low contrast, or you're just being obnoxious. I'd make text a tad dark, but it's not hard to read at all as it is.
You know what would be nice? The adoption of an uncapped economy (a currency) based on kindness, generosity, and civility. Something like Bitcoin, something virtual that would add up, but where the only trade-off would be reputation. A "Like" button attached to your name. But instead of having someone else Like you, you would have to Like yourself and tell why each time (using 140 characters? !)

Think about it. Each time you give, you share, you note it. Then others sees it. Just thinkin'.
Hmmm could this be used to turn the tables. What I'm thinking is you buy a area of land that needs clearing up - video it and when it is claimed as copyright you then sue the copyright abuser to clear up the land as they claimed its there rubbish. Not best example but hopefuly shows how this can be levelled.

What has happened is alot have loaded up alot of common things and sounds and as such any autobot will match them up with pretty much anything you do in some situations.

Can bet if you upload a video of your first born that it will match up with something somewere else. It's like patent trolls, only automated, utter nightmare.

This is also one of those moments were I liek the UK libel laws as deformation of character under the guise of falsly breaking copyright of somebody else's contents is one of those area's were you would have fun in court and fiscaly rewarding.
The problem I have with all these sites is that they are run by for-profit companies, which (for me) makes them untrustworthy. I would love to see a social networking site run by a democratic non-profit organization dedicated to freedom.
While yes, the original pictures from the low res camera look bad, the new raw pictures from the higher-resolution cameras aren't really that much better.
Better than the images from the iPhone 1, probably. But better than Viking 1 images from 1976? Honestly, it doesn't look like it.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Mars_Viki...

Just look at the detail per pixel. It's amazing. You can see tiny details in the sand.
It's looks like if you took an image on a 20 megapixel DSLR with a high-quality lens, then scaled the image down to web size. The resolution isn't higher than a camera-phone, but the detail is remarkably better. And that's from nearly 40 years ago.
If that camera works for 10+ years, I'll take that resolution any day! Beautiful!

If you want to blow up a giant printout wait for the stitched-together shots, I suppose.
That's probably not the case after the iPad 3. Lighter text doesn't always look good on iPad1/2 because of the short reading distance + standard res screen, aliasing is very visible.
While I've had a tinker with both Mono and Android, I haven't used Mono on Android. I have however, had the displeasure of using it on GNU+Linux. I'd sooner do a UI rewrite than touch Mono again.
I hate to be overly negative against this startup, but I have a couple of issues with this service, that haven't been addressed since Webvan in 2000:

1) The target audience is definitely those people who are too busy to get their own groceries. If they are too busy to get their own groceries, aren't they too busy to cook a meal? I would think that take-out or going out to eat would be their #1 competitor in this area. When both my wife and I were working full-time, at the end of the day we were so exhausted that the last thing we wanted to think about was what we were going to eat, and then actually cooking it. We ate out probably 5 days out of the week. Ordering take-out will be quicker, and less of a hassle.

2) If the delivery person selects items such as meat, eggs, milk, etc that are expired or very close to expiry, it will likely cause a complete lack of confidence in the service. It will only take 1 bad experience buying meat, or a couple of busted eggs in a dozen, and they could potentially lose a customer forever. I'm not sure what their return policy is, but if they have one, it will likely be pretty costly for the company. There also could be incentive for people to return their close-to-expired food to Instacart, claiming that the delivery person selected it. It may seem petty, but for example very high chargebacks rates are one of the biggest challenges that Square faces right now.

3) Free delivery is interesting, but the 3hr delivery window I think will turn out to be pretty inconvenient for customers. It means that they need to deliver their goods at home, because who wants to be stuck at work waiting for their groceries to be delivered? I'm not sure what the delivery times were during their beta testing, that would be interesting to know, but my best un-educated, armchair-analyst guess is that the highest amount of deliveries will be from 7 to 10pm, and on weekends. If Instacart takes off, it means a disproportionate about of work required between 7pm and 10pm, and a lot less at other times. This sounds like a lot of people sitting around waiting for deliveries.

4) Safeway has their own delivery service as well, with a 1hr time window. What exactly does this service provide that Safeway can't? Is it cheaper? Or just faster?
Ask HN: Is anyone else being forced to move to Facebook timeline?
I've been resisting timeline since it's introduction, and have never agreed to it being on my profile.

Today I logged in and saw a message "You now have timeline. Preview it before others see it beginning August 14".

Does anyone know if Facebook can move me to timeline without my explicit consent?
Or, we could end up with many different services with similar-yet-ultimately-disparate feature sets that people just give up. The consumer wins when she can use competing products together without jumping through hoops - Someone mails a word document, she saves it to Dropbox, and opens it with Pages on her iPad.

We need open standards and competing implementations. It's an absolute mess right now.
Wikipedia also has an English article about Packstation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation

(You might think it's only on the German wikipedia, that's why I think this is worthwhile to post.)
app.net is a dumb name...NO THANKS; just because some no names are supporting it doesn't mean it's a great idea either.
It happened to me too. And yes, I guess it can move you to anything without your explicit consent.
According to CNET, it's not actually a grocery logistics outfit, but a delivery company. They're just delivering groceries ... from the local supermarket. A remote shopping and delivery service, limited currently to groceries. I foresee and expansion into restaurant delivery, too.

If it bombs, it won't be because they can't keep the lettuce fresh from the field to your door, it'll be because you just can't do Ultimate Delivery for $99/yr.
Hmm... a social network run by Mozilla perhaps?
I love #fafafa.
IPv4 "I'm a hacker" header
"Glad you like the changes! Sorry it took me a while to answer, I was watching SCIENCE."
How many generations in the future does it take before you cut off your compassion?
There is a lot of black on HackerNews and I love HN:)
Does anyone have a link to the straight up PDF version?

It's easier for me to read the text that way & I think it's sorta evil Scribd wants me to log in (or give access to my Facebook account?) before I can download.
I'm really not sure why people are down voting you. It is absolutely true. Most people are not prepared to take out their credit card for something like this. app.net becomes valuable once it has data but it needs users for data.

Most users of twitter are not developers, they get their value from the free frontend. Developers are complaining because they don't have access to the data. So they want non-developers to pay so they can have data for free. These non-developers dont really see any value in giving data to developers.

app.net wants to sell a story, but it wants people to pay for it. Duckduckgo is also selling a story but for free which is why its doing so well. If DDG pitch was pay us money for a privacy concerned SE then it to would have miserably failed.

(this is not a prediction that app.net will fail, I really hope it works)
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If they wanted to scale, they would need to make deals with the grocery stores to pack the groceries, or have their own food depots so that the delivery people wouldn't have to waste to packing groceries.
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I can't understand the motivation for this. The opposite makes more sense. Where web results are shown with Gmail search. People often use search with other people looking over their shoulder .. how many times does one browse emails with a group of people around them?
I find this approach too extreme. Black is sometimes needed. You may choose to use true black and maximize the contrast when you need to improve readability, especially for accessibility reasons.
Should we disrupt the PBX market?
I took it apart using apktool to have a look.

It looks like a reasonably well structured Android app - comprehensive manifest, lots of activities, uses resources in preference to assets etc.

They use numerous 3rd party libraries:

* ACRA for crash reporting

* objectweb's asm for an unknown reason

* json-smart for json

* ActionBarSherlock as pretty much every app with an ActionBar does

* Google analytics

* Google cloud messaging (aka c2dm)

* Handmark's pull to refresh library

* https://github.com/iPaulPro/aFileChooser

* http://ormlite.com/ presumably to cache information to a local SQLite database

* http://loopj.com/android-async-http/ for http

* http://ocpsoft.org/prettytime/ for time formatting

* http://viewpagerindicator.com for tabbing interaction

When searching for webviews I only find them used for the login.

When looking at the localisations there are quite a few languages present, but it turns out they are from the library components above. For example if you use Czech the app will be include except the pull to refresh component which will use Czech.
The moment you add a dot of any visible color in that cave, it's not pitch black anymore. So no, 100% black is not found in nature paired to other colors.
Excellent video. Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3400449

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3410744

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4337291
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I switched nearly a year ago. I'm shocked that they have waited this long to force-switch everyone over to it.

Out of curiosity, why are you opposed to timeline?
Updated.

My ulterior motive was to see if you had multi-account support. I have a work trello account and personal one, and needless to say the web experience is dreadful.
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Only if you inherit every object in your application from their "goog.Disposable" super class and call object.dispose() whenever you want to get rid of it. This kind of negates the point of garbage collection. If you aren't removing event handlers when you destroy objects then it's your own fault.
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just a small nitpick, you should be able to calculate portfolio variance using simple matrix operations instead of writing a double for loop.

something like.

temp = a* std_dev

var = np.dot(np.dot(temp.T, cor), temp)
Don't worry, they have an exact clone of him ready to step in.
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The layout is painful to use (I've seen friend's accounts)

And I really hate the "inline" ads.