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You all dismiss these as things as minor annoyances, but you're missing the main point. It's these details that separate a brilliant user experience from a poor one.

Apply may have less features, and it may be less flexible. But it provides a nicer experience, because of these kind of levels of details. You pick it up and it works, it really does feel like magic.

I use both, and whilst my Android is considerably more powerful and has tonnes more features, the iPhone is just a pleasure to use (and I'm a Apple hating Google fanboy, so this pains me).
That and the horizontal complaint are the ones I don't really get. Horizontal doesn't really make sense as a horizontal orientation. And orientation changes with widgets on the home screen brings it's own issues. Take for example a home screen filled with edge to edge one row tall widgets. How do you resize that to fit into a horizontal orientation?
We're huge fans of Alex MacCaw's open source projects. Divshot is written completely in CoffeeScript and Spine. There are features in Stylo that we'd like to add to Divshot such as color pickers and more design options for the inspector (gradients, border radius, etc).
See you there. I'm excited for this one.
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If they were planning to have a cell phone for the next two years anyway, then it makes little difference. The commitment reduces their choices, but if they weren't planning to change then it doesn't much matter.
You could probably set up an alias for that in the Chrome / Firefox location bar too.
FWIW, they spell it out for "Devices with a hardware search key" in the official changelog:

http://www.android.com/about/jelly-bean/
Because this kind of idiocy needs to have light shined on it.
Well, I am just glad that Android, Windows Phone and Windows 8 store apps don't have this stupid restriction if you don't use their payment systems.

Walled garden and 30% forced cut of app sales is one thing, but a forced 30% cut of every in-app sale is like erecting a toll booth on all apps. Gruber's explanation of "Apple does it because it can, and the people complaining are just jealous that Apple can and they cannot" doesn't really fly.

This is one of the reasons that Apple is dragging its feet on making HTML5 web apps work on par with native apps, despite Jobs' anti-Flash memo two and a half years ago.

Edit: Sigh, looks like this submission is sinking on the HN front page due to people flagging it for it being anti-Apple. Be classy, HN.
Yep. One of the co-founders is a former lawyer who in fact coined the term "patent troll". Now they are world leader in patent trolling. "If you can't beat `em, ..."

It's great lesson in copouts. Instead of using your resources (e.g. a former Microsoft CTO's intelligence and amassed wealth) to fix a problem, you take the easy way out and exploit the broken system. What a tremendous success story.
Pretty much yeah, but more so the copywriting. Please let me know if this is a no-no on HN :).
Is it actually peer to peer? Based on your website's working, it looks like you send messages between two people, but use your servers to do so, which isn't exactly P2P in the traditional sense (ie. BitTorrent, etc).
I would have thought the solution is simple - release an extremely primitive Android app of the same name and splash screen that says "Coming soon", and report back to Apple "Yes, I have an Android version of my app."
Honest question: why hasn't Apple fixed this fucking stupid review process?

They have the resources to pay cheap reviewers who are probably better than this guy. I'm sure college kids with no job prospects would jump to "work at Apple" even if it's making $10/hour reviewing apps.

Why not allow all apps into the store as long as they pass some security checks done by Apple (no downloading executables etc)?

The current review process is just encouraging developers to look at alternatives. Android for starters. I'm even spending time learning about Firefox OS. If Apple would stop rejecting totally legit apps for "having limited entertainment value" when my Mixpanel analytics say otherwise I (unfortunately) wouldn't give a shit about Android or any other mobile OS.
IIRC those were scans of primate brains. A more recent and comprehensive study conducted by Dr. John H. Halpern, Director of the Laboratory for Integrative Psychiatry in the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse at McLean Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School found no residual cognitive effects in humans.

"New Study Finds No Cognitive Impairment Among Ecstasy Users

[...] a team of researchers has conducted one of the largest studies ever undertaken to re-examine the cognitive effects of ecstasy, funded by a $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and published in the journal Addiction."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110215081736.ht...

Conclusion from the actual study (journal behind paywall):

"In a study designed to minimize limitations found in many prior investigations, we failed to demonstrate marked residual cognitive effects in ecstasy users. This finding contrasts with many previous findings—including our own—and emphasizes the need for continued caution in interpreting field studies of cognitive function in illicit ecstasy users."

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010....
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Will do, thanks for the feedback. Did you subscribe for the mailing list?
Ask HN: how to monetize products for people based outside any major countries?
Where i live, you can't get payments for Chrome apps or even Android Apps and you can't set up any donation buttons (paypal, etc). You can get money in paypal, but you cannot transfer it to a bank. Basically the only thing that works here is Adsense. (Couldn't find any clear information in the App Store website, so i'm not sure about Apple).

So, does anybody living outside the big countries have any experience or success stories to share?

Is it possible for international independent devs living outside the US or any major countries to monetize their work?
What do I have to do to get an invite to test it?
Genius. I look forward to reading / watching!
I have never found the back button to be confusing. The problem is that we call it a "back button". To me it's the "anywhere but here" button. When I don't want to be where I'm at I just start pounding on it until I arrive at something I do want. Either something in my history or the home screen.

I actually really like the implementation of it.
Thanks Sacha! Love your site, we got a ton of great leads.
Solution: If a court finds you to be a patent troll you get the death penalty.

That should solve things. :)
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Just for easy reference, this is a video of Teller's 'Shadow".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un1pNtmYguA
Then I suggest that you may have a problem with your short term memory.
Well, your explanation assumes that the magician you would get permission from is still alive. Most material used in modern magic was invented decades if not centuries ago.

In today's world, these age-old effects or gimmicks are popularized by various working magicians, some of whom make a name based on them. And once in a while a completely novel approach is invented.

Most new effects are the result of borrowing. A card trick may use a lift invented 100 years ago and a bit of verbal patter similar to something invented last year. The respectful magician will give credit where it's due and will still be respected if he has truly innovated.

If there is true innovation no magician will begrudge him the use of the borrowed elements, unless of course they make up the bulk of the trick.

The magician's creed is closely correlated with the steps needed to gain the respect of other magicians.
This looks great, can I have an invite?
I was rather fascinated by Myhrvold, and the IV gang a few years back. The promise of a "pure invention" company where hundreds of scientists were toiling away on big ideas, creating a true innovation market, seemed rather exciting.

This was after all the guy that founded Microsoft Research, which unlike most of MS, has produced some rather interesting and innovative tech.

The reality though is they seem to spend way more time buying up cheap patents and then sending out "an offer you can't refuse" to hundreds of companies, hoping they will invest.

Which ultimately amounts to a smart, sophisticated patent troll. A super-troll if you will :p

Furthermore they were in the habit of outsourcing the muscle to 3rd parties that do most of the dirty work like suing, so their reputation comes across more noble, at least on the surface of things.

It's not like they are all bad, and comprised solely of attorneys. They really did invent some stuff, like the tech behind TerraPower a traveling wave nuclear reactor.[1]

The trouble with IV is that suffers from bi-polar disorder. On the one hand they want to invent stuff, but yet suing everyone else and generally being shitty is what pays the bills.

>"Litigation is a huge failure," Myhrvold says. It's "a disastrous way of monetizing patents." (2006) [2]

Then in 2010 they filed the first lawsuits directly.

An Intellectual Ventures spokesperson added that the company expects people to use the “patent troll” term, but “this is simply our company protecting its assets.” [3]

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower

[2]http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-07-02/inside-nathan...

[3] http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2010/12/08/intellectual-ventu...
Lots fo suggestions for this one :)
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Some notes from looking at the Go code. I don't know how important are those for performance, more like style nits.

Java version doesn't do type conversion: https://github.com/collinvandyck/go-and-java/blob/master/jav...

rs.getString("id")
rs.getBoolean("admin")

Go version does conversion at runtime, as row.Scan() accepts interface values.

Also, the usage of sql interface is not optimal (at least with regards to code length) -- since the query is for one row, why not use QueryRow instead of Query?

Authorization header decoding is strange -- it creates new base64 decoder, then string reader, then decodes. Why not just use base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString() and get rid of a few lines of code and a few allocations?

https://github.com/collinvandyck/go-and-java/blob/master/go/...

Similarly, JSON marshals into a newly allocated slice instead of creating a decoder and then marshaling directly into ResponseWriter.

https://github.com/collinvandyck/go-and-java/blob/master/go/...

Constants for HTTP error codes, that are declared in net/http, for some reason are redeclared

https://github.com/collinvandyck/go-and-java/blob/master/go/...

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I sometimes wonder why various benchmarks include colorful charts, but fail to include a few lines from a simple run of profiler. It's so easy to do, and yet nobody bothers to learn where the cycles are actually spent!
I have spent most of my life in open source communities and understand completely. It's a different way of looking at the value of an idea.

Much of the magic community is a huge turn off to me, but it's an enjoyable hobby that I have a lot of interest in.
I have my Canary version updated, but it doesn't seem do be doing anything after I allow mic access. :(
Say what you will about Ouya but I believe that Pebble will deliver. Allerta isn't a fly by night maker team. They are real company and have already made a smart watch product, the inPulse smart watch. I ordered one when they offered their special pricing here on HN and was pretty happy with it. Sure it has it's short comings but it seems like a good start and I feel that Pebble will deliver.
I worked as a webmonkey intern with these guys back in the late nineties. When they "shoot" the machine it shook the ground for a hundred yards around, which they neglected to tell me during my first week. I had just gone through radiation training and I'm standing in the room next to the giant warehouse that housed the thing when there's a huge boom and the ground shakes. Nobody else batted an eye so I played it cool but great googly moogly that was scary. And that was before they add a great honking laser that comes over from the next building and zaps the core of the machine. A lot of those guys were stereotypical crazed geniuses, it's fun to see their work carrying forward.
Branding is definitely about function, but the way branding functions is very esoteric and generally intended to be subliminal. But when you're working on branding, good designers work to a plan. They know what the client wants to say and they say it. Bad designers (like those with a style) post rationalise their work, and that's a dishonest and ineffective approach to design, in my opinion of course.
Oops, Rackspace never acquired SGI. That acquisition was done by a company called Rackable Systems.
That's a joke of course.
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There is a nuance here -- magicians are possessive of someone else taking credit for their idea and do not appreciate someone selling it as their own.

Sort of like the way the BSD license works. However if credit is given and the new effect is sufficiently unique/innovative, then no objection is reasonably made.
You're correct - it's not network peer to peer. We route all messages through a server, which allows us do things like async messages (storing messages sent while users are away). To the user, it just looks like p2p though - exchanging messages with one another.
Here's what Alexander Shulgin[1] had to say[2] in response to a similar question on the subject:

Dear Dr. Shulgin:

Lately I've been hearing a lot of talk about how every
time you take ecstasy it does permanent damage to the
brain. I've also heard that ecstasy puts holes in the
brain. Are these statements true?

-- Road Dog

Dear Road Dog:

No, they are not. The "permanent brain damage" is based
totally on studies done with experimental animals, with
the findings extrapolated to encompass the human subject.
In a simple statement, there have been no studies in man
that have indicated brain damage.

The "holes in the brain" is an even more outrageous
deception. These popular holes are areas in brain scans
that appear less active in attracting radiolabelled agents
that are agonists for certain receptor site areas. The
pictures that are shown for comparison are not of the same
person with or without MDMA in them, but of different
people, one of whom has used a lot of ecstasy and the
other one without any such history. The quintessence of
this line of mythology is an article that appeared
recently in the Willamette Week. It not only assured the
reader that there were holes generated by serotonin loss,
but that they became flooded with dopamine (the default
neurotransmitter) and, being attacked by hydrogen
peroxide, produced rust.

Sorry, drug warriors. No damage, no holes, no rust.

-- Dr. Shulgin

I can also strongly recommend reading the information on MDMA (and other psychoactive substances) on erowid.org[3]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin

[2] - http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/shulgin/adsarchive/brainhole...

[3] - https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/mdma/mdma.shtml
To be fair the headline and article is a bit over dramatic.
If you still (incorrectly) believe that MDMA causes "holes in your brain" (referring to a retracted study where the instrumentation was not calibrated properly over-exaggerating how much MDMA affects serotonin levels) or Parkinson's disease (referring to a retracted study about how labels were incorrectly placed on bottles and monkeys were administered very high doses of methamphetamine and not the MDMA) I strongly recommend watching Ecstasy Rising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjvNCijeYlI

The short version is that there is lots of DEA-funded propaganda and verifiably flawed scientific studies out there. Buddhist monks and therapists have used MDMA before in their practice where they claim that one dose of MDMA is equivalent to a full year of couples therapy. I'm really glad more research is going on in the open about MDMA; for too long it's just been the DEA using fear mongering.
If this is based on pygments, is it reasonable to have a command like this that works on everything pygments knows how to highlight, and plugs into a bunch of pretty-printers / reformatters, e.g. GNU indent?

Is there an equivalent of pygments for pretty-printing all the things?
> Well, for starters, imagine a legal organization with hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank. How many trolls would dare risk going up against them?

Uniloc[1] have gone up against Microsoft in an 8 year case. That's pretty significant.

The Wikipedia entry for patent troll[3] mentions a few companies, and who they went up against. (Techsearch vs Intel; Forgent Networks against 60 companies using JPEG (collecting over $100million from 30 of those companies before prior art made the patents invalid); RIM paid $625million (Canadian or US?) to NTP inc; MercExchange vs Ebay with damages at $30million but some secret deal worked out later.

It feels like these people won't care about the legal fund.

[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniloc#Patent_lawsuits)

[2] (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-05/microsoft-settles-f...)

[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_trolls)
Author here, unfortunately no thunder on Mountain Lion :( [1]

It's from my zsh theme: https://raw.github.com/igorgue/oh-my-zsh/master/themes/igorg... I stole it from the cloud theme and another theme that I don't remember.

The thunder lights up when the program doesn't end property (return 0).

[1] <3 thunder http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Heart_Thunder
It's funny, I have the exact opposite impression. I loathe picking up my iPad. I get into the browser and open a youtube video. How do I get back to the browser? Go all the way back home and hunt down the icon? Seriously?

I want to just check something real quick, I'll just pull up my home screen and...crap... I have to actually hunt down an app? For real? I just want to see <whatever>!

The navigation model in iOS, to me, is just broken. I think it's a polished experience no doubt. I think it's snappy and smooth. I just don't find it very delightful. It's work to me.

My Jellybean Nexus, on the other hand just makes sense. It flows, it puts information where I want it, and does it all in a pretty seamless way. I'm rarely lost.

For me I prefer the Android experience on it's own merits.
I'm sure that doesn't hurt...
Here's a similar trick with the Python json module:

echo '{"hello":"there"}' | python -mjson.tool
It's a nightmare for usability, now that I think about it, but I also do this.
"Well, I am just glad that Android, Windows Phone and Windows 8 store apps don't have this stupid restriction if you don't use their payment systems."

The Android Developer TOS says that any other in-app payment system isn't legal, and grounds for your app being removed from the app store.

I haven't studied it, but I suspect Microsoft's ToS will say something similar too.

Edit: Android's DDA section 3.3 and 4.5 disallow using other payment processors. http://www.android.com/us/developer-distribution-agreement.h...
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Sure. In the meantime, the world's most important new computing platform has some significant design issues that require attention.
Ah, I misunderstood because I read the misleading title, which implied that input was human voice, not touch tone. Totally makes sense, thanks.
You appear to have mistaken anecdotal evidence (yours) with a widespread trend.
Well, 99.99% of the millions of people queuing up for iPhone 5 don't know about stuff like this and some don't care even if they do.

If the Kindle app lacks the ability to buy books, they will blame Amazon the for lack of that feature and not even linking to the Amazon.com page to buy. This is losing battle regardless of a few HN'ers switching to alternate platforms because of this.

Same as with the patent case against Android, Apple has much more to gain that lose by pissing off some developers. In fact, much of their fan base was cheering on Apple against Samsung and Gruber has ~220K Twitter followers, so I felt that the lawsuits may have the effect to actually legitimizing patents among the sizable segment of Apple aficionados. Like Microsoft in the 90s, Apple has turned into this juggernaut that no power grab can really affect their market sales.
Reading the updates makes it seem like the issue had more to do with Kickstarter and Amazon than anything else. The project was "funded" on July 8th, but the funding wasn't released to them until August 16h. Once that happened they continued giving updates, put together the box and electronics (yes, this was a little more complicated than just a box), took pictures of the items being produced and then announced when they'd ship it.

I think delays with this type of thing are to be expected, and by themselves are not the worst sign.
To be fair, iOS does not have a back button.
Prior Knowledge's Veritable database sounds intriguing. I do a bit of work on the analytics side with medical claims data. I wonder how effective Veritable would be against a large medical claims data set where you have multiple hospital claims, lab claims, pharmacy claims for each member.
Double-tap home. That last app you were in is the left most in the list. You shouldn't be hunting for anything, ever.
I am talking specifically about methods created recently. Obviously if a performer is dead and has released their methods then no permission is needed. If they are dead and haven't released their methods, likewise.

You're focusing heavily on borrowed elements from long ago. Sure.. No one cares. However take something from a current performer and it will not be respected.

I do agree that the magician's creed is very much about the steps needed to gain respect of other magicians.
You missed the part where his 'short term memory issues' are not a problem with IOS devices.
The OP's suggestion has nothing to do with net neutrality.

Net neutrality is about the /network/ being neutral to what it carries. The network should deliver skype, or google, or HN, or whatever, and treat them all the same. The network operator shouldn't get to charge Google for the privilege of using its pipes, just because Google is a big company with lots of cash.

The OP was suggesting something entirely different: That tech companies (and, yes, websites), should boycott this district of Texas.

That's no different than AmazonFresh being available only in the Seattle area.
How can anyone approve an ad like this? (scroll down a little)
I always wanted a nonlinear editor for representing stuff like different choices of wording in a song or piece of fiction. It never occurred to me that the same idea might work for conflict resolution.

Of course, if branches could be introduced both manually and by editing conflicts, what if there are conflicts in the branches? Would it work to just simulate adding new branches as an incoming conflicting edit?
I think you should see the real version and not an explanation of the version first. Watching this could ruin the suspense and enjoyment one might find watching the real performance.
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Just curious, how much do vague patents like this cost? Are they cheap? Expensive?
there is so much going on how could i possible know what you're referring to?