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Yes it is trival. As of right now:

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Blogspam. The linked article isn't even comprehensible. I really wish I had enough karma to downvote.
A much smaller connector that can be plugged in either orientation, with more rugged and reliable connection points. I'd say everyone benefits.
This is utter BS.

Only because Apple will wind up extorting money from users on these damn things.

As it stands I have MANY power adapters for my apple products. I also have many adapters for my laptops: I keep multiple chargers in my backpack, a charger in basically every room of the house and I buy the 3rd party iphone cords from deal extreme that are 7 feet long because the length of an ipad cord is retarded.

The fact that apple things that the crappy headset should cost 29 bucks, and the charging cords should be 20 is INFURIATING!

Seriously, these things, we all know, cost .50c to make.

If there is one thing I absolutely despise about apple, it is moves like this.
In Vancouver it's hard enough to find french cuffs on shirts

I've had no difficulty finding french cuffs here -- have you tried Moore's?
if i had to pick one asset as my favourite it would be the one that got me hooked in the first place, the design. plain and simple. being, i’d say, a fellow ui junkie, it really is unlike any other interface (mobile or otherwise) that i’ve interacted with. and it’s because of the interface that, despite missing the occasional hot app of the day or some super-cool new feature available on another device, it never even crosses my mind to switch to another platform…

i know this probably sounds like total marketing bullshit, but it really does feel alive and in a very natural/real way, while also being super-slick and digital at the same time.

when people think of wp (if they know of it, lol), they think of big colorful tiles and blown-up (cut-off) typography; and while those are the most prominent aspects of the visual design, the way it all flows together puts that all in the background and what you experience using it on a day-to-day basis is what’s left, namely the content you’re interacting with. this is especially true as nearly every app is designed to fit-in, and in terms of usability, always function in a way you come to expect. this provides for a seamless experience switching between the os and apps that feels so unified you really forget there’s a difference.

beyond that (and actually, feeding into it), and why i really take offense to the original comment, virtually everything down to the smallest detail is incredibly well considered and implemented. there are so many little things you can’t pick-up on when looking at screenshots (or a spec sheet) that make the experience all the more alive… things like the gliding effect and acceleration/deceleration when sliding between screens (and the way that ‘blown-up’ test moves as you pivot); the lock screen animation that has a nice bounce to it; the way jump-list letters slide into one another as you scroll lists; and even the clicking noise when you lock/unlock your device, all just make it feel really satisfying to use. by contrast, using another device, no matter how slick and impressive it may be, just feels cold and boring to me.

..that aside, everything else works for me just the same as with any other device. pages load-up fine, wifi works (?), it runs great, and there are a lot of other neat features baked-in [1] that i don’t feel like rattling-off right now. biggest complaint i hear is the supposed lack of apps; it’s true that some big-name titles are missing, but the vast majority are there and there are many great third-party alternatives (and incredibly awesome devs) you come to really appreciate. it’s never really bothered me much, but if you’re an app-heavy user (or addicted to instagram or something) you may want to hold-off.

that’s my (very long take) on it. i’d just add that it is really worth trying out; no number of videos or screenshots or reviews or me rambling on can carry-across the experience of just picking one up. i had no ‘dog in this race’ when i first got on to wp, but now i’d say i’m firmly in the fanboy camp, so you never know..

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone#Features
Works decently well on my iPhone. Looks like the OS play/pause functionality is there, but not back/next track.
But entrepreneurism!
They look like a hardware company, not a web design company. Why do you care about their-not-the-latest-hip-web-theme website? I rather they save the web design money to deliver a lower priced product. Every company starts with no corporate history. You are welcomed to buy from Intel if so choose. Hardware price drops all the times. The price point is not too far off.

HN has been big on launch early and get feedback. How shallow it is to have negative feedback based on look. Let's wait and see how the product turns out, rather than commenting on their web design.
This is exactly how I approach improving in programming.
Since I didn't really get into it until I started college, I always feel like I'm playing catchup to everyone else.
The trick to making progress is to not get discouraged.

You'd be surprised how far "do a little bit each day" will get you.
Not using all the available new semantic markup is a little different than having a site that doesn't rely on Flash to serve audio.
The impact of continuous delivery beyond engineering
It depends on your definition of fun. It can be hilarious!

I would guess that all of these bugs were known by the developer at the time of ship and not seen to be important enough to 'fix'. Bug #4 may even have been an authored response. As a player, that's exactly what I want to see happen when I throw in a flaming barrel.
Disney Interactive Hit With Layoffs
A Celestial View
Are you based in the US or overseas? If not, where are you located and if in the US, have you explored online money transfer services? Seems like that would solve your problem
You're right. We're just asking questions. There's nothing wrong about asking questions when there's no proof one way or the other.

That's why I think Barack Obama is from Kenya and Karl Rove personally blew up the twin towers.
Minimum. Viable. Product.
Spot on. The childish criticism on the web design really sounds like competitors are feeling the heat.
That's exactly what I thought you were saying.

Maybe it's because I've been dealing with other people today who think that the simplest explanation of the Dan Rather memos was that it was all a master plot by Karl Rove, so my patience for people suggesting non-obvious routes that lead back to a politician had already been significantly spent.

Is it possible this is something set up to benefit Romney? Yes, it's possible. It's also possible it's something set up to benefit Obama. Such speculation seems useless since the simplest explanation is that someone thinks they can make some money. EDIT or for the lulz.
Hm, I guess I'm blessed with a library for it, but I'm using my own WebSocket server with no sweat right now.
Do you even know what HTML5 is? HTML5 doesn't enforce the use of header, section, article and all of the other tags. The tags you mention are merely for semantically marking up content and are block level elements like DIV's. The fact that Grooveshark is using things like HTML5 audio and whatnot without the reliance on 3rd party plugins like Flash to me is what HTML5 is all about.
Sorry, I'm really just upset that Flash is still being used on their main page (the page that the article links to). I had to go to html5.grooveshark.com to get a version without Flash.

I guess its silly of me to not take "all devices" as "all mobile devices", which is reasonable in the context of site vs appstore
> And so the biggest part of Step One is not to get better at doing, it’s to start doing.

Agreed. I see so many people just taking class after class when they could be coding their own project instead of stupid homework assignments. I think they are just procrastinating.
They manifestly cannot do their work without resorting to deception. Virtually all policework above the level of street patrols turns in one way or another on some flavor of deception.
There is a dropdown button next to each song that exposes "Play Next" and "Play Last"
It seems these guys running shady businesses on internet have never heard about Brazil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_Robbery_%281963%29#...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Battisti_%28born_1954%29
What's really the issue is that someplace money exchanged hands for this study to be run. And at Harvard Medical School?

Just replace prayer with voodoo dolls and feel the nonsense flow from your screen.
This isn't news. I've been using the beta for at least a month now. The player is great, but the rest of the UI is severely limited. No logging in is supported, so you're stuck searching for every song you want to hear.
Yeah, but I want to be able to use my headphones or other accessories to control that.
fascinating but bleak picture he's painting, despite his efforts to be optimistic. It does seem like the production of internet tech is going through a restructuring, and his interpretation rings some bells for me. Being over 30, perhaps I'm in the diehard dinosaur group who curse the incubators and miss the true hustlers...
Gonna go look for my tiny violin
What the hell is the point of selling three for $29? "Oooh, one dollar of savings!"?
Skeuomorphism is important, necessary even. The issue is that people are conflating it with nostalgia.

An interface can be considered skeuomorphic if it provides affordances that are useful in the physical world - shadows, shapes and animations based on the laws of physics. Such an interface provides the necessary clues to tell a user how to interact with its elements.

Nostalgia serves another purpose. It creates an association between a common old interface, and the new one. It provides the clues as to why the user should interact with its elements.

I would argue that skeuomorphism is not the easy way out, its the right way. Nostalgia is a much more likely candidate for being the path of least resistance. Because the alternative is education.
Take another look; it is supported now. It's quite different than html5.grooveshark.com was.
Hah..A certain recruiter send everyone in my team a fedex envelope with a recruitment letter hand signed (sent to the company mailing address). I got the darn thing twice (followed by usual Linkedin spam by the same recruiter).
Great example of how innovation can occur when new challenges (artificial or physical) arise. Ironically, this is happening in the same industry that failed miserably at adapting to new challenges. Rock on, Grooveshark.

BTW - the mobile browser app is incredible.
MIT Researcher Proposes Rights for Robots
If I have to set up a Trigger.io build/test environment to see something used in a mobile app, it fails on being simple. I know it's your platform and all and you're trying to sell it, but entice me to use it with breadcrumbs in the form of progressively more advanced demos up until I need Trigger.io to see the most advanced demos.

Is using/experimenting with Trigger.io as trivial as an apt-get or npm install?
that would lead to the accessories being compatible with the new iPhone.

Yes, god beware: people could buy accessories at a competetive price and time.
I had to work on it. Every day. I'm pretty shy normally. Around the end of freshman year I started to get tired of being nervous every time I met with someone. So that summer I tried to meet someone new or reconnect with someone old every day. And I did.

I talked to so many random and interesting people that summer (many of whom I still keep in touch with). I actually reached out to you, but we never found a time that worked for us :)

But yea it's a skill that you have to develop like any other. Pays dividends when done honestly and earnestly.
Inevitable discovery doesn't generally apply to primary evidence, which this clearly was: the officer saw the phone, picked it up, and searched it without even an incident arrest, let alone a warrant.
You could also take the approach the Django Book originally did. Posting the book online while you write, with editing help from the community and a print version available once complete. I would definitely buy the print version as well as use the web reference.
This is really cool, i can now use this at the gym instead of Pandora! It looks like there is still more functionality to be added but that will come with time. I like that it plays in the background while i am using my other apps as well.
Just watched Chris Mallick's movie/flop "Middle Men"
You might be interested in "zargs" in zsh, which would save you the call to find.

Furthermore, instead of the pipe to sed and extra xargs, it might be clearer and simpler to do something like:

zargs -n 1 **/*.jpg -- make-thumb

Where "make-thumb" is a short script (or even a zsh function, if you care about saving a fork for each input file) containing:

convert -geometry 200x $1 ${1%%.jpg}_thumb.jpg

But, in real life, instead of writing such a script or function, what I'd probably do instead is:

zargs -n 1 **/*.jpg | vipe > myscript

and do some quick editing in vim to modify the zargs output by hand to do whatever I need -- and then I'd run the resulting "myscript". Just fyi, "vipe" is part of the "moreutils" package [1] and lets you use your editor in the middle of a pipe.

One final trick is for when you need to do in-place image manipulation. Instead of using "convert", you can use another ImageMagick command: "mogrify". It will overwrite the original file with the modified file. Of course, you should be very careful with it.

[1] - http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
Actually not that bad, but I think the story of production may be better.
I don't think I'll ever understand why companies expend a ton of energy developing a decent web app, yet neglect to turn on the apple-mobile-web-app-capable meta tag which makes the app run fullscreen when it's saved to the home screen...
This is actually a limitation of the web interfaces for Rdio, MOG, Grooveshark, and I'm assuming google and amazon's cloud player as well.

EDIT: Just found this http://getfactotum.com. But it'd still be better if there was some HTML5 support for it since the app only works on specific sites.
It seems to me that 3D game AI is like low-latency trading: it's not about sophistication in approach, so much as fast execution and knowing how the system (e.g. the exchange or the game world) and tools work on a microscopic level.

I think one of the issues in game AI is that "good enough" is the target for commercial work, and it's not finding platonic solutions to the underlying problem. I'm working on AI for Ambition (using vanilla neural nets and backprop, to start). I'm not actually creating an "intelligence". I'm creating something good enough to pose a challenge (e.g. not make obvious stupid plays that ruin the feel). Eventually, I'd like to have agents that give me more understanding of the underlying structure of the game... but for now, something shippable is the target. With games we don't want a real human intelligence (humans get bored and leave, a few cheat) but rather a reliable player at a customizable skill level.
Is any of your work available to the public?
Thanks, really great to know others find it useful.
Worth of Web: Calculates worth of your website by various criteria
Ask HN: Do you have loads of browser tabs open at once?
Hi, I am considering building a browser extension/website that saves your browser tabs for you. I have a problem of having lots of browser tabs and not wanting to close any of them when I want to shut down my mac. Are you having this problem too? Would you use a browser extension/website that allows you to save your browser session and recover it on any computer/browser anytime?<p>Thanks in advance for the feedback.
Want to comment just to stress that this feature is EXTREMELY useful and has saved me from all sorts of tricks with file intermediate output with filenames that match process ids, etc.
The "reasonable expectation of privacy" is critically important to the interpretation of the 4th Amendment in criminal controversies. Reasonable people, like it or not, do expect that their text messages are private.

It's a rather self-defeating view of the 4th Amendment that suggests that, because the government could easily gain access to a piece of data, that data must therefore not be private. The government can easily get access to most data.
Key size of 1024 vs. 2048 bits should not account for 225 ms of latency. Here's the result of "openssl speed rsa" on a mid-grade desktop computer.

sign verify sign/s verify/s
rsa 512 bits 0.000217s 0.000014s 4608.1 72363.4
rsa 1024 bits 0.000711s 0.000032s 1406.0 30788.2
rsa 2048 bits 0.003630s 0.000092s 275.5 10825.0
rsa 4096 bits 0.021180s 0.000299s 47.2 3349.2

In other words, the difference between 1024 and 2048 bits for the server is 2.9 milliseconds, two orders of magnitude less than the latency the parent comment posted.

Second, it has nothing to do with the "performance on your end" (the client).

The client side of SSL is limited to public key operations only (cert verification, encrypted the pre-master secret). These are 40x faster than private key ops, key length being constant. You're talking a difference of 60 microseconds on the client.
I use it to talk to my friends back home because:

- it's free (or inexpensive compared to international SMS)

- it doesn't require any technical expertise whatsoever

- it's cross platform

- it already has traction

I can't think of any alternative which has this combination of properties..
> the same industry that failed miserably at adapting to new challenges.

I didn't realize the "users sharing tracks they pirated" industry had had trouble with adapting to new challenges. If anything, they have the most experience adapting to new challenges.

Edit: Before someone says "not every single track on Grooveshark was pirated," think carefully about whether that's an intellectually honest argument to make.
you don't think it's absolutely unacceptable that Grooveshark makes money off of content they don't have the rights to?
You, Robot?
The police do not need a warrant to search suspects incident to their arrest. Contrary to message board expectations, it is for that reason among many others that the police will not arbitrarily place you under arrest; arrest is a big deal. If the police arrest you unlawfully and discover key evidence of a major crime, your showing in court that the arrest was unlawful can undo their case.
The State of Open Source Spectrometry
Usually 30+ and use the built in functionality within chrome to save all tabs to a folder labeled by date.
Glad to see you guys growing and kicking ass Stammy. Keep it up :)
I would imagine this is a plus for them, sadly. It's probably easier to extract revenue from a walled garden than an equally user-friendly XMPP client.
Absent a warrant or an arrest, the police cannot use your phone to "get in touch" with one of your contacts and then derive evidence against you from that action. That seems sensible to me.
> They didn't compensate me for travel.

(From the comments on reddit.)
I thought it might be the "tags" panel - a way to organize your watched repos?
Really? I've done it once or twice, not hard at all with smali: http://code.google.com/p/smali/
It is still a rumor.
Yet some people are riled up.

Take your pitchforks and torches when it's confirmed, but not now.
Wow, you haven't shopped for iPhone accessories recently, have you? Aside from cheap cases at the dollar store or Monoprice, everyone is charging the same price for accessories and cables. Walk into any Target or WalMart and marvel at the "competitive" $29 items compared to Apple's $35.
Perhaps a better solution would be to tie it to the Google account on the phone? This could be done without requiring the user to remember any details as most people already have an account tied in.
Never Mention Another Product When Describing Your Own
I work for a globally distributed company and we have similar issues. The only way I see it working is by allowing total freedom and getting people fully immersed to the point of ownership over their tasks.

We also make team collaboration software, so we utilize it and I highly suggest everyone else trying this model does the same. Use the software and do not deviate, then watch your company flourish.
I hope to be pleasantly surprised by a really stellar phone, but honestly I just don't know what competitive edge they could bring to the market, unless they've made drastic improvements to their flavor of Android.
Is anyone interested in a years worth of tweets?
When that option is enabled, audio will not continue to play in the background.
The officer discovered the phone in a room in the apartment he had not been invited to. The officer had, at the time, no evidence of wrongdoing by the boy's caretakers. The officer claimed the phone "beeped", whereupon he picked it up, opened it, clicked past an error message about a past-due bill, and then scrolled through the message history on the phone.
Maybe it's not available everywhere yet, I can't log in either, actually I can still see the "grooveshark beta" header. Am I the only one who sees this?
جدول وموعد الدوري المصري 2012-2013
Installed TagTime and test drove it for a few hours.

Seems useful. I made 2 comments over at http://beeminder.uservoice.com/forums/3011-general/filters/n....
I'm surprised that the author didn't realize that Apple could generate revenues of $1 billion for every 100 million Dock Connector Adapters it sells for $10 ...
Oh. That's... very annoying.
This tag caused an issue on certain versions of Android for one of my mobile web apps. I'm able to consistently reproduce this on Android 2.3.3. When an input field is focused upon, and the on screen keyboard is initialized, focus on the input field is lost, causing input to not reach the input field. So just make sure it's only included on iOS devices.
Github's got a huge advantage though: Massive product/employee fit. Every person who works there probably uses the product personally on a daily basis. That really helps smooth things over and has to be a semi-secret weapon for them.
Nokia Faked Its New Lumia 920 PureView Ad
The kid wasn't dead when the phone was searched, and there was, as the court itself noted, no evidence of wrongdoing apparent the the officer who conducted the illegal search.

But that's besides the point. "Inevitable discovery" does not simply mean what it sounds like on a message board thread. It is not an invitation for the police to sieze everything they can and then come up with a compelling story for how they would have found it anyways. In particular: when the evidence in question is the direct result of an illegal search, its inevitability probably doesn't matter.

If the officer had a grave suspicion of wrongdoing, he had available to him a mechanism to search the phone: he could have arrested its owner or any other occupant of the house. What he can't do, at least without a warrant, is walk around someone's private home without permission and search their belongings. Had the message been flashing on the front of the phone, it would have been in plain sight and probably have been allowed. The message was not in plain sight.
No, yes, maybe: I meant legal episode of the author of that essay.
They were using an ad-laden stream, so I assume they weren't paying for it.

Worldcon, which is responsible for putting on the Hugo Awards, is a pretty ad-hoc organization really. Each year is a different city, run by different people and a different corporation formed specifically for that year's convention. There's the World Science Fiction Society which is the international organization behind it, but they're unincorporated.

In practice, of course, there's a core of people that have a very strong influence over things, but it's not really a traditional business as such.