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What? Phones with 720p displays have been available since last year. I'd say that qualifies as "Retina".
Agreed. We need some sort of catchy term for daily deal fatigue.
The screenshots look great but I can't access the feature at all, the page just times out.
> If your future was on the line, and you didn't have the chops to make it on ability alone, what's to loose by cheating?

That's the same sort of thinking that people who take bribes to hook up phone service use to justify their actions. The small bribe is not a lot of money to the person in the nice neighborhood who is hooking up phone service, but is good money for the underpaid service worker who takes the bribe. What does he have to lose by cheating?
How do I add a habit that doesn't already exist?
Most co-working spaces that I've looked into had options for fixed desks. Even if they don't, it might be nice to think you can go get lunch or a coffee without someone taking your desk (or ethernet cable)
Godaddy no longer offers free domain privacy (which is a bad practice anyway)
AppSumo seems like a pretty incestuous (or maybe better 'self-referential' or 'recursive') business, meaning: here is a startup which is totally oriented toward taking commission on sales of other people's startup services oriented to customers who want to make startups.

By that measure, Advocare is also 'crushing it.'
This link should work http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lift/id530911645?mt=8
The version given to me by my professor was: "Think like an amateur. Execute as an expert."

Originally by Takeo Kanade. ( http://www.cs.cmu.edu/interviews/kanade/ )
I got a frozen pixel on mine and then it went completely dark! First time I have had to return a brand new Mac to the store...
> I wonder what the "right thing to do" is, for those who manage to have the perspective to think of how they should act

I'm consulting enough to pay my bills and live comfortably, while building products for which I will charge money. If these products work out, then awesome! If not, no harm done. I've learned a bunch of new skills and added some cool new pieces to my portfolio, which I can flip into picking up new clients at a higher rate.

I guess I'm pursuing a 'lifestyle' business. More power to the folks who want to raise a round of funding and work 80 hour weeks, but it's becoming less and less interesting to me over time. Especially now that I've been through a few soul-crushing startup experiences.
Sorry about the iTunes link trouble – The joys of 1.0.

Does the link to the App Store on http://lift.do work for you?
Jonathan Edwards of MIT's CSAIl published a Manifesto of the Programmer Liberation Front a while back that makes an interesting case for exploring alternatives like graphical programming for replacing text-only languages.
This strategy of collecting email addresses without delivering anything first never seems to die down.

The reason is simple: it works. Many people will hand over their email address with no guarantee of anything in return. A shockingly large number of people will do that. And then the opt-in spam begins. It's a never ending email campaign for who knows what. Does the spam work? Surprisingly, yes. Enough to be worth paying to keep sending it out. Legalised spam.

Is an email address worth something? Gather enough of them and yes, absolutely it is.

This is all pure speculation. Or is it?

If I had a dime for every site that collects email addresses without delivering anything first...

As if Mozilla didn't have enough data about users already.

Anyway, if you wanna see what this thing is here you go:

http://github.com/mozilla/napkin/zipball/master

Unzip the file and start reading.
I have no idea. If the state is the customer, who is running the prisons? (And why are prisons allowed to be run by a non-state entity?)
In general domain privacy benefits registrars more than it benefits registrants. If you are worried about spam simply setup a separate gmail account which isn't a bad idea anyway for security purposes.
Agreed. They need to solidify the core console experience before putting in these extra features. It feels wrong having to install Firebug to get a decent element inspector / console when there's already one build in.
Manifesto of the Programmer Liberation Front: http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=5%252523comment-151
Indeed, Rowan Simpson summed it up best for me (here in New Zealand) https://twitter.com/rowansimpson/status/230392577071923200
Ubiquity continued development recently

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-labs-...
I've been using the Lift beta for a couple of months and it is an excellent example of positive behaviour design. There are no gimmicks or gamification in the app, just positive reinforcement when you're using it.

It has helped me exercise more, do pushups, tidy the house and many other things because I intrinsically wanted to achieve those goals.

On a side note, I just did BJ Fogg's one week free habit forming course http://tinyhabits.com. It goes hand in hand with what Lift is trying to accomplish.
I don't know what it looks like to investors, but I am familiar with startups. And I am afraid that even in that context, it is still usually necessary for employees to understand what their managers want. Is the problem that a one on one feels like an insulting way of communicating?
The idea behind patents is a _sound_ one; it provides incentive to innovate by guaranteeing profits for a certain period of time. Those who don't care about profits can freely give away patents or not bother getting one!

The details are probably up for a fair debate -- 20 years of loyalty that can be trivially extended by trivial process changes (e.g. Pharma companies) is undesirable.

For the argument that someone else can come up with an idea, that is an interesting point. If you can see how something works, it is not that difficult to reverse engineer it. But, in the true spirit of innovation, the innovators should be thinking about _outdoing_ what they see. Merely copying someone else is not innovation. And, that is the case with so many software features: both genuine and trivial ones are considered equal.

If there's a way to hide the secret sauce, people would easily do that (and that was historically done for so many things like the spices etc). The only way to achieving that in modern day is to (i) manufacture each important component by self and (ii) create a product that can't be taken apart. Imagine an Iphone that can't be un-assembled without destroying it. In this context, patents would speed up innovation (see the development of alternative compression algorithms) by allowing to examine the details of current implementation and improve upon it.

Samsung (and others) have been making un-wieldly phones for decades. I wonder why they decided to make "rectangular phones with rounded corners" after runaway success of iPhone.

And, this comes from someone who hasn't owned an iPhone :-)
I have one and it's completely fine. I saw quite a few, between WWDC and (too many) trips to my local Apple Store, and I find it hard to believe that the flagship model of a large multinational computer company is fundamentally broken.
Tap the plus button and search for the habit you want to form. If it doesn't exist it will popup with a row saying "Habit name, 0 participants". Tap that and you will join that habit.
That is partially true. I am unemployed at this time. I have tried plenty times to gain work I can excel in, and still look/apply.

Also, due to lack of 'provable education', I can only get jobs that require manual labor (or thereabouts). Also 4 years ago, I shattered my shoulder and have a permanent injury (it is obvious in the way my arm moves).

I was let go recently from a gas station after not being able to repetitively reach across the register.

I have applied for SS disability and medicaid. I was denied for both. I do have my schooling paid for via Vocational Rehabilitation (govt agency that acknowledges permanent physical disability), as well as FAFSA. That is the route I am going, so I can do something as a respectful citizen.
My freshman year (1977-78) I was what was then known as a "computroll": someone who spends far too much time in the computing center, usually to the detriment of their academic performance. I managed to flame out so spectacularly first and second terms that I had to petition to be allowed to stay for third term. I was allowed, on the condition that I pass all my third term classes.

It was close. It came down to one exam where I knew that if I got this one question, I would pass, and if I did not get it, I would fail and be kicked out of school. I also knew exactly what equation I needed from the textbook to solve the problem. I could visualize what page it was on, and exactly where it was on the page--I just couldn't visualize the damned equation itself.

I was alone in my room, and the book was sitting closed on my desk just a foot or two away. It would have taken less than 10 seconds to glance at the equation I needed and pass that exam. But it was a closed book exam and peeking would violate the honor system, so peeking was out of the question.

So, I failed the exam and got kicked out.

I spend the next year at my local community college, taking courses in psychology, anthropology, and economics to show that (1) I could actually do college level academic work (2) even in subjects that weren't in my main interests. I also took a computer course, to show that I could succeed in college course even when I have access to a computer, to show I could keep my computroll tendencies in check.

Caltech let me back in, and I even was able to transfer enough credits from the community college courses to come back as a sophomore. And since I had graduated high school in three years, the year at the community college actually dropped me back to where my age matched my classmates instead of being a year younger. So it all worked out reasonably.
This is a good point, but a contrasting point is that people who are hungry today aren't going to wait until tomorrow to get a job. It is incredibly valuable to be able to cut the benefits, so any cuts that can be made should be taken. Revolutions would happen if a dramatic change came about, such as the welfare programs disappearing overnight; but by market logic, the poor would not riot for welfare if the welfare had never existed, giving them no expectation of it, and giving them a lower likelihood of being poor in the first place. Chances are very high that these programs will never be phased out, and likely never cut in size over time--in the long term, welfare expands to fill the gap of how much the rest of society can afford to comfortably pay. But if they could be phased out, say over a 10, 15, or 20 year period, my judgement is that it could be sociologically workable. That is to say, if there is a level at which people switch from not rioting to rioting when their benefits are cut, you just cut near that level continually until you're close enough to find creative ways to stop sending checks altogether without them noticing.
Trust is exactly the issue I am having. I can't trust someone that I cannot communicate honestly with. Why risk telling my manager any of my problems with the job when it is their job to potentially use that information against me? I wouldn't even know if they did. My brain starts overthinking the situation and I end up waiting until the only option is the worst one.
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You could try a VPN with iPredator.

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Do you understand what I am trying to communicate, or not?

It does not seem like a difficult concept, so cut out the "Comic Book Guy" routine. Go ahead and actually correct my terminology if you care to - furthering everyone's knowledge is always a plus - but otherwise you are not adding anything.
Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4062364
You Probably Really Work Less Than You Assume
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It's really tough to say, I've been working on it off and on for a few months. But I didn't really keep track of the time spent. I'll probably put it up on github when finished and see if anyone wants to rip apart my solutions and/or contribute better ones.
This is just another example of a Wolfram product that is great (almost magical) from an algorithmic/data point of view but misses the mark from a design and product point of view. As with most of his products they are clearly designed by (and for) engineer/scientist types.

This is the first time they've done something with W|A that I could see taking off since it's narcissistic, interesting, and custom for each person who uses it. But, the signup workflow is horrible (it requires a magic incantation of "facebook report"), it's a non-actionable, giant information dump that gives me no reason to come back and nothing to do with it. The blog post linked in this is basically a giant manual. I couldn't even read the whole thing. If your product needs a manual, you are doing it wrong. (I didn't even get this far, I am going on screenshots since the sign up didn't even work.)

Mine their product for ideas, and then design one that doesn't suck and that people will rave about. They've done a lot of the heavy lifting of figuring out all the ways to slice the data, now pick out the best that people will care about and aren't meaningless nerd-trivia. You can execute a million times better than this. They are shackled by their thinking both from the fact they are scientists and engineers and they are using this as a way to funnel people into Wolfram|Alpha, which most normal people have no real use for.(They seem to think we live in a world where an average person, when discussing geopolitics over coffee, gets into an argument over the ratio of GDP between Chile and Ecuador, and needs to know STAT, and pulls up W|A for the answer. Except for those whose lives are like The Big Bang Theory, its a small market.)

Build a standalone product that's well designed, curates the data to the most important parts (and doesn't call it "data"), gives them a reason to keep coming back, and is viral and easy to share and sign up for and you will be light years ahead of this thing. Oh, and if it really has something special that people want, even just one thing, guess what, you can probably charge for it too.

As for Wolfram, if he could manage to hire some creative designers and product people, and could cede his ego to their ideas a bit, it's hard to understate how much insane shit they could be building over there.

Edit: For example, it's truly amazing to me that I can still get to a page like this: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=akljdfalksjdf -- since there is a certain domain W|A can compute that is much, much smaller than the space of all queries, the user should not be able to press enter until they have a valid query. Ugh.
I'd love to see an example of someone saying Heroku is for idiots. Although it's a bit pricey[1], I love it to pieces because it lets me focus on what I like to do: shipping product.

That said, I'd be delighted if Heroku would introduce a high-memory dyno. I've been working on something for the past few days where their soft'ish 512MB cap has been biting me in the ass.

[1] Assuming you value your time at something around $0/hour.

edit: thanks for the link!
I'm all for this, but I'm a bit miffed about the terminology: autonomous/robot/self-driving cars. "Autopilot" is shorter, simpler and well-established - and IMHO more accurate, as long asa human driver ready to take over at any time is still required.
Thrun said in a talk I saw posted on HN earlier today that this wasn't being considered a problem. I'm not certain if targeted LIDAR jamming was on his mind, his comment was specifically in reference to operating with many other autonomous cars on the road.

He was concerned about GPS jamming though, but thankfully these cars have been designed from the ground up to not rely on GPS (as a signal from a satellite is not reliable). I believe as long as the area has been 3D mapped by Google, the car is capable of driving and navigating without GPS assistance.
I'm impressed with the way Apple succeeds at branding things like relative pixel density.

I expect there have to be some, but I'm having a hard time recalling similar schemes from other companies that weren't met with ridicule.
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Gets you a peek and provides them with useless data. I think it's a fair trade.
I requested that they honor the refund offer (as I'd already started migrating away, and as they've destroyed any remaining trust I had in them.) I just received the reply:

We are sorry for the inconvenience our change in plans has caused. This is the only option available. We will continue to honor your original Lifetime purchase, and you will continue to receive hosting services from TextDrive.

So, no, we can't get our refunds and get the f out. I'm deeply unhappy with how they've handled this, start to end. (I too failed to receive any of the mass mail-outs.)
Their pricing is high, but not infeasible; in theory, if you ship over 50k units, you hopefully have the resources to afford $300/month (though perhaps not, if your model is based on free + network effects).

What I find interesting is that the key differentiator between plans is the number of "Reloads". This implies that when you reach the cap, the app continues to work, but doesn't update for another month. This isn't great for users, and it kills much of the benefit they offer for sub-$300 plans, especially if you wish to update often, or you've built your server-side around all users always being up-to-date.

Brass tacks: their platform looks great, and the cost isn't a deal-breaker, but the level of moral hazard and vendor lock-in spooks me a bit. If they were to start raising rents or misbehaving, moving the codebase away from their platform would represent a non-trivial amount of work. For the client mobile project I'm starting soon, I'll probably use PhoneGap coupled with a homebrew dynamic updating system. And it's a shame, because I'd much rather use Trigger Forge.
I disagree pretty strongly here. I think that huge college loans make for a terrible start to your career. I'll concede that loans might be a better option than $8/hr, but I freelanced for $50-60 per hour during college and I believe that is absolutely a better option than taking loans. Clearly the OP has some business interest and skill, and while I don't know what freelance writing and content-focused websites would bring in, I'd guess that it's well above minimum wage.
While it appears there are not that many sports fans here it is worth noting that for sport this is already happening.

The NBA and others have started online subscriptions for their content. For people in places like Australia where cable subscriptions with good sport cost $100 / month it's well worth it.

Setanta, an Irish concern, has a streaming service that allows you to pay $17 a month or $100 a year for live sport much of which is soccer. I watch the Bundesliga using this service and it is excellent.

It's a shame that you can't get Ligue 1, Serie A, La Liga and the EPL this way. Yet.
He did a great job, and I definitely recommend the book: http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Engi...
Oooo, access pass to Strata + Hadoop World. Nice.
Its worth considering why this happens.

A startup hub like Silicon Valley is partially valuable because founders / investors / etc run into each other, and presumably something good comes out of these chance meetings.

Let's assume John is running a failing startup. John goes to TC Disrupt and meets all sorts of people, some of whom ask him how his startup is doing?

John can't say that his startup has no traction, or that they can't get investors lined up, or that the last startup he ran was a failure. If there's a shot this person can help John out, he's best served by presenting an optimistic and selective version of the truth. Which is where things like vanity metrics come in.

Even if Valley folks didn't judge startups for having a tough time, it would be in every founders incentive to present a positive outward image.

There's an art to this where you shouldn't lie or present metrics so ludicrous they tip off the bullshit-meter of whoever you're talking to. But some combination of honesty, optimism, and determination seems like a better formula than listing the shortcomings of your startup in your first casual conversation with someone you just met.
A simple Rails generator to handle address on Google Maps
The flaws are real, but they are blown way out of proportion with comments like "Apple doesn't have this technology under control. They screwed up."
Or better yet, Shirley Hornstein with unexpected people or places: Shirley Hornstein with Darth Vader. Shirley Hornstein with the Curiosity rover on Mars.
I fail to understand why this phrase is offending you so badly.

Let’s look at a more interesting example. The current design of
mozilla.org is a responsive design. I want to see how the headings
will show up on a smaller screen. If I’ve been working on the page, I
would likely know some of the IDs and structure used in the page, so
I could enter a command like:

"Responsive design" is a fairly established noun in the web design world. This is an article about new developer features in a web browser. Inside the context of the sentence, it's obvious they're talking about how a web page is constructed.

This is how web devs use "responsive design". It's being used by a web dev, in an article for other web devs. You might find it slightly confusing, but that's your problem, not theirs.

OS programmers and corn farmers use the word "kernel" to mean two different things, is this also a crime against nature?
It might just be my computer, but the font in firefox makes the w's hard to see. Its really distracting to me.

Here's a screenshot so you know what I'm talking about: http://i.imgur.com/7DrpQ.png
You assume that the car is occupied by a sober adult who can drive. Not something you'll be able to assume any more when mom can send the car to do the school run.
Drone Hijacking? That's Just the Start of GPS Troubles
But that unique instance is presumably referenced by other objects which may want to use it as part of their own shut down logic, at which point it might no longer exist. (And things get only worse in the presence of threads.)
What especially bothers me about this sort of trend is that it forces those of us who aren't big on bullshitting to do it anyway.

I promise you it doesn't.
I don't really understand the restriction that was used against Zediva. Is the key point that the same company that's renting out the DVDs is also renting out the means to perform them?

Hypothetically, a company could set up a datacenter where you rent DVD players by the hour, provide your own disc, and stream the output to your computer over the internet. It seems that this would be allowed based on the Cablevision ruling. Then, I could rent one of these players for three hours, look up someone who lives near it, and pay them to go to a Redbox, pick up a DVD for me, and pop it into the DVD player, so that I can stream it at home. It seems this would be legal and not even completely impractical.

Does it only become an issue when the player, the courier, and the Redbox are all provided by the same company?
We've just rolled out facebook free registration. It might break the intro a little as it's very tailored to facebook but you should have no trouble registering now.

Thanks!
A spiral for John: http://bl.ocks.org/3543186