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If Google Search worked like this, I wouldn't be using it. The title is definitely important, however on Google the title is less important than everything else combined, and that's how it should be.

Also, from your examples all the apps you mention are above 4 stars and have massive downloads. TweetDeck may be better than Twitter, but the official Twitter is not too shabby either.

Also I'm sick and tired about apps with title-SEO. Twitter is a known brand, however if Twitter were to be launched today as an iOS app it would be called "Short-message your friends" or some crap like that.
Apparently neither can Facebook, if recent attempts are any indication.
I was, and it was. Thanks for finding it again.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4544063
It actually feels less designed to me.

Some would say that less design is a good thing, for the same reasons less code is a good thing.
You are asking Siri to work when there are kids around (e.g. other people are speaking)??? Well, no wonder, it doesn't work for you.

I run a couple of times a week and even then it works very nicely (e.g. a lot of ambient noise). I also have an accent, thought not a horrible one. My kids (who have a native US accent) also use it with no issues.

Before you give up on Siri, I recommend the following. Bring up the Siri prompt, and there will be an info icon on the right. Tap it and see what it's good at and how to get the best of it. Once you've gone through this 5 minute exercise, I believe, your experience will be much improved.

Another pro tip, is that pronouncing punctuation greatly improves recognition and context. In other words, if there is a comma in your sentence, actually say "comma".
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Extremely poor scroll performance, it has to re-draw everything every time I scroll. OS X 10.8.1, Safari 6.0, 15" 2009 MacBook Pro.

The design is nice, though.
I've always wondered; how many pieces of much value can be made from lumpy, soft plastic with a low melting point? The results I've seen always look lumpy due to the resolution of the printer, the plastic isn't that hard, and the melting point is pretty low.

While I've seen a few neat things of novelty value, most of the actual things that I would want to make would require metal or harder plastics, and a lot more precision than these things are capable of.
I fear I was misunderstood. What made me laugh was the thought that the internet is a sort of wild west of ideologies and Iran, from what little I know, is a very tightly controlled ideological context. I did not even read the article. It's just the title that struck me as paradoxical. "Internet" == uncontrollable, Iran == tight control, "Internet" + Iran == WTF? Hope that makes sense.

I realise internet here probably just means a research network. I have tremendous respect for the Iranian people and certainly their computer professionals. From what little I've seen they are very bright. As for comparisons in terms of engineering talent I was thinking almost on par with Russia. If I'm way off the mark it just shows how little I know. Pay no mind.
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4546615
Hm - is this just for Mac OS X or is this true for the windows version of virtualbox as well?

I was trying to find the difference between virtualbox and vmware player on the windows side.

Can't really decide between parallels and fusion though...I need to run some opengl stuff which isn't too complicated, but I'd rather it be solid. But I do like to use virtualbox to test some python/django/nginx builds so better ubuntu and networking support would be nice.
I believe, that time Randall spent planning and sketching before actually drawing it, should be taken in account. I really hope Randall (though he is not very open on such things) would give "making of" info.
If you were a 3rd party spammer/marketer company, and you thought Tiny Post was gonna be huge, you'd probably jump on it fast and spam the *$^% out of it.

So it's very possible it could be a spammer getting on board early.
Show HN: After a couple of months playing with the Reddit API, I built this...
In my experience if your employees (me) show these signs we don't think you suck we know you suck.

Why don't we keep you in the loop? Well, you're not technically competent enough to understand the problem so I go straight to the devs on whatever issue I'm dealing with, explaining it to you is a waste of my time. This also leads into why we ignore you; you don't understand the issue, you can't fix it, you're effectively useless except for marking out schedules and having slightly higher authority than I do.

To be honest I don't understand why this is on HN. Since when did these simple, short, and obvious posts become amazing and worth reading?

Your employees probably think you suck as a manager because you do.
If I remember correctly, I had to reinstall xcode to get it working again
Okay, here you are:

People should stop trying to make entrepreneurs feel guilty for not living up to their personal ethical standards. One of the advantages of our free society is that people can choose to work on weighty issues or fluffy diversions. As long as you abide by the law, you should not be criticised for the style of business you decide to pursue. If a lot of people can make money from social networking then that is definitionally a good thing (i.e. a good thing is a thing which makes some people money.)
Not to defend... but if you came across similar pain, you may be more negative than him
The challenge was not directed at me, but I'll take a brief stab at it :

"It is morally acceptable for some of the brighter minds of a generation to invest their time, effort and energy into developing social products - including but not limited to Facebook. These are fully legitimate free market business ventures, and we need to stop collectively pontificating about what may or may not constitute a socially worthy business goal."

This is, I believe, a more concise summary of the parent's perspective. It meets a different need, and I don't view it as being "better" per se.
Can someone explain the USP of tiny post?
It looks like it's a pinterest clone.
This is why I think CAN-SPAM shouldn't exempt "transactional or relationship messages" (and I send over 75,000 e-mails a week..!) Every automated/transactional mail, commercial or otherwise, should have an unsubscribe link or mechanism these days due to the noise.
Also, just because someone on the internet says "X is illegal", it doesn't actually make X illegal.
Heh... fanboy much ?
So, we can't find good businessmen?
http://movies.io/ ? Sounds familiar?
On an unrelated note, I am curious, how can you write such long comments while working as lawyer ? Are you taking any Nootropics ? Please note that this is not a sarcasm, I am just trying to be as sharp as you are with the limited time that I have during the day :)
Not by selfhosting, it seems (page timeouts).
Because TC is an "authority" on the subject and people like that. Let's say that I had submitted a post about black swans at the same time as that post from PG was submitted, then there's a higher probability that the post from PG would reach the front page because PG is an authority
Ooops, that should read 'for well under $1000' - for a camera like the T3i or somesuch, plus a few SD cards.
I wonder if that was part of the reason for the redesign.
Yet another rant about how "Apple is loosing it". Very tiring. I can't wait until people stop complaining and start being constructive again. I miss that here.

Yes the maps blow. So let's talk about maps, not the entire complete product which you seem to loth. No offense by this, just would like to move past venting for the sake of venting.
The backlash from using real private-individual photos on a service without their permission would be large than using model shots (for which there's a chance TinyPOst has the rights).
Sounds more like the classic we-need-a-client-for-our-service-so-we'll-buy-this-general-purpose-utility-with-a-large-fan-base-and-remove-any-functionality-that-doesn't-drive-them-to-use-our-service mistake. Don't have a Joel link for it.
An analogy I try to keep in mind is that often as a manager you are in charge of manning the rudder and steering the ship in the right direction. Typically, you get a great seat on the boat and the laborious job of motility is left to someone else. Without a team of people dipping their oars into the water, though, you're just adrift.

Managers often lose sight that their job should be the least selfish role in the organization and that their job is really determined by the success or failure of those they manage. Your job is to facilitate your employees, not handle them. Your job is to nurture their talents and help them with their faults. The greatest success a manager can have is helping someone live up to their potential.
Just revert back to the backup you took right before you did the upgrade.

You DID do a backup, didn't you? You HAVE tested that your backups are working, by doing a complete recovery with them, right?

Right? ;)

My personal philosophy is to be cutting edge on my personal/hobby gear (like the last gen MB Pro I keep for, ah, movies and such), but not to do ANY same-day updates on anything even remotely required for work. That shit stays behind the times but reliable for paying the bills.

After I've seen the upgrades working in the wild for a week or two, and I have verified that all the stuff I need actually works like I need it to, THEN I'll do the upgrade on my work box. After backing it up, of course. Hell, I even have a text file with search phrases and forum URLs for the software I need to have working to make it easy and ensure I don't miss anything.

Call me crazy, but I've learned that lesson the hard way.
True, but as a 3rd party spammer/marketer company why would you think Tiny Post is going to be huge?

Usually you'll need some indication that this is the next big thing, or at least that this app is taking off. I just don't see Tiny Post hyped in the press at all.

Also, looking at all the people these fake users are following, most of them aren't active and haven't posted much. Doesn't seem like a flourishing ecosystem where 3rd party marketers would be attracted to.

But then again, I could be wrong. I've added this point to my post and also I've tweeted the Tiny Post founders as well, hoping to hear a reply.
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> To be honest I don't understand why this is on HN. Since when did these simple, short, and obvious posts become amazing and worth reading?

I've only been reading HN for a short while, but my impression thus far is that the people just sort of throw up a post for everything they run across that seems even slightly interesting, and, well, see what sticks... :]

I read HN via the RSS feed, and it's way ahead of everything else I read in terms of article-count.

[This is in contrast with sites like, e.g., slashdot—however horrible its editors are (and it's true, they are), it does have editors...]
Does anyone know why in the 5 years of the maps app it was never updated? Is it possible Google didn't want to maintain the app on iOS? We are assuming Apple had some control over whether the Google app stayed on iOS but the contract was up, and it's possible Google didn't want to renew. After all, Google has a web based app that works on iOS... Maybe that's all Google wants to give.
This stuff may not be so obvious to a newly appointed manager who does suck. Remember the Dunning-Kruger effect and all that. Mind you, the article does feel light and could probably be done much better. But what seems obvious can very much depend on the person, and people can be incredibly oblivious to what others think of them (I have to admit that I've been there myself).
> creating a private WiFi hot-spot with your iPhone 5.

> Wait a minute. The iPhone 5 doesn't do that.

Uh? It's been doing that for 4 or 5 years.
Skitch has been in constant decline since Evernote became involved. There was a period of months where it was rendered totally unusable for me because it would crash when you tried to upload to a custom SFTP server (my only use for sharing images). I bought Skitch with the hopes that it would at least continue working as it was but I have been thoroughly disappointed.
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Apache Wicket: small auth^2 example with Spring & Hibernate
That is what I thought when I saw the site. Looks like a cheap clone of movies.io.
Replicated is the wrong word. Superceded is maybe a bit better. Never say never my friend. These things take time.
Actually, I don't believe Apple has sued Google.
> Wait a minute. The iPhone 5 doesn't do that. Hey, but it's longer, thinner and faster. What else do you want?

Sadly, you're mistaken. http://i.imgur.com/SPBUH.png

If you're iPhone doesn't have it, blame your carrier http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1937
Every iOS device connects at the same time?
(Vagrant creator here)

Ugh. This is a pretty bad situation. I took a look at the VirtualBox Darwin driver source code as well as the relevant method in the Darwin kernel (`host_vmxon`), and I can't see a workaround that I can meaningfully or confidently contribute. I'm hoping for a quick turnaround by Oracle or Apple on something here. :(

For the future, I've been working on VMWare support for some time now, and it should be ready in the next few months. These sorts of problems will be mitigated then by saying "oh, well you can just use Vagrant with X instead for now" (where X is some other virtualization layer).

For now, I'm sorry, I don't think there is anything I can do here.
Just went live a couple of minutes ago so it has practically no links. Still in beta! Your feedback is very much appreciated!
Google didn't write the iOS 1-5 Maps app. Apple did.
That may be, but I want to have all this information in my editor too so my editor can warn me about it. Take something like a developer just defining a macro like __USE_GNU to get rid of a warning about an undefined function; you just have no idea what box of Pandora you just opened up with all this preprocessor magic going on behind the scenes. Who knows? They might even be re-defining MAX_PATH or something. With code making assumptions on the value of this macro you could open up new bugs. I want all this information right there for the developer in his editor.

Also there's just no guarantees on how the software is built; in a lot of cases that's even outside a developer's reach.

But, yeah, since it's next to impossible to actually get to that state then, yes, sadly the only real option left is to analyze your finite set of builds.
OP is thinking he can enter the app store and have his app somehow be better than all the apps that came before it to the point where it'll rise to the top in iOS 6's listings.

My app (KEYBOX) has been on the app store for over a year and in magazines and whatnot and I've ASO'd it to quite an extent where the sales have stabilized but penetrating the first few pages for most searches in various languages still proves challenging.

Users fall into roughly 3 categories...

1. Actively looking for your app (be it by name or function) and will buy right away.

2. Not looking for your app but may buy if they stumble upon it.

3. Not looking for your app and and wouldn't buy even if they stumbled upon it.

We developers don't have to do much to get users from group #1, and #3 is simply not interested. We want to be in front of the eyeballs of members of group #2. Apple's rankings are still a black box but the higher up our apps appear in the listings the more likely they are to be seen and therefore purchased.

The app store is designed to make money above all else and if Apple wants to keep it that way it needs to make sure apps aren't hidden in the catacombs of the app store. This redesign my end up doing just that.
I happen to think that Zynga is a 21st century drug dealer. Their "games" are designed to turn people into clicking-addicted machines, slowly depleting their psychological until they start buying virtual gold. Plus, companies like Zynga target the most psychologically vulnerable members of society. Probably the worst is children.

Give it 15 years and Zynga-style behaviour will be subject to legal restrictions, I'd say.
what's with all the negativity :P. the new design is waay better. I'm surprised they haven't updated it 'till now.
I'm always tempted to switch to key-based auth myself, but I travel a lot and the thought of me losing my private key and thus being permanently unable to decrypt my files/log in to my servers scares me to death.

That's the fatal flaw in the key-based system: while the chances are slim, if you lose the key or it gets stolen (stolen laptop?), the consequences far outweigh the benefits. I'd rather just remembering a complex password for personal encryption/ssh, use a simple throwaway password for general web app use, and not have to worry about losing a key.
Have you tried the new maps? The only real regressions I can see are poorer satellite imagery coverage (big whoop - it's a gimmick for 90% of the time) and non existent public transport routing. In my experience in the UK, the public transport routing never really worked on the google provided maps either.

The maps themselves are provided by TomTom and in the UK and Europe at least they are very high quality, can't speak for the US.
No. If you take a look at the people taking and finishing Coursera courses, it's almost all people who already have degrees rather than students or other pursuing their initial higher education.
ftp/sftp upload was the most distinguishing feature of skitch. All these cloud snipping apps like droplr.com and getcloudapp.com all pretty nice, but have no custom upload location (linked to their own cloud) and no annotation ability.
Why is the encoding/decoding done on the server side?
You can easily do it with javascript, and fallback to normal <form> post if JS is disabled.
> Can't really decide between parallels and fusion though

In case you haven't seen it, MacObserver did a comparison of Parallels to Fusion to VirtualBox recently (on the Mac):

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/benchmarking-parallel...

Their conclusion is that Parallels 8 is a bit faster than VMWare Fusion 5 and both are much faster than VirtualBox. VirtualBox doesn't have nearly the 3D support of the others, so depending on what OpenGL stuff you try to run it might not work.

> Hm - is this just for Mac OS X or is this true for the windows version of virtualbox as well?

You mean is Parallels and Fusion more performant than VirtualBox? I'd be willing to bet that the commercial products in this arena are easily faster.

As for me, I have no real need for Windows, I just like to keep the ability to run Windows apps on rare occasion, so I've stopped paying for VMWare Fusion updates and plan to just use VirtualBox since I don't need the speed. It was Steam on the Mac that put an end to my need for really good Windows virtualization.
more importantly, how do you get your sucky manager to read that article without being too obvious?
Can someone explain to me what exactly is wrong with the OS X terminal?
Right arrow key doesn't do anything on Firefox. Sometimes the image is blank and only shows when you press back. Keep clicking next and it'll say "error loading page"

If you spam the "next image", weird things happen. i.e. clicking on change channels will redirect back to the current image.

>You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page.
This sums it up pretty nicely:
"Ubuntu sucks but not on my Dell XPS 13, now I can -finally- ditch my Mac"
Taste is not limited to "heavy drinkers". But water is also incredibly consistent and palatable to almost everyone.
This seems to be based on an upgrade to the EFI firmware, in addition to the 10.8.2 update. While I've got verified backups for the OS, I'm not in the habit of regularly backing up the EFI firmware, nor do I know how I would restore it on my MBP.

Anyone got advice for backing up firmware on laptops to allow for roll-backs on breaking changes?
This is different from the classic phenomenon explored in Yes, Prime Minister[1].

It's not that they manipulated the questions in advance -- it's that they reversed the meaning of the questions after the respondent had answered them. Even under these conditions, the majority of respondents were then prepared to support the position which they had, ostensibly, only a few minutes ago opposed and vice versa.

Remarkable.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
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I was just at my library trying to get a form, but they were out. Great surprise to find this link on my return.
This does not bode well for international users. I've been traveling through Asia for the past year, and the Google-based maps app has been invaluable (and quite accurate) in every country I've been to.

On the other hand, my girlfriend just upgraded to iOS 6 and her version of maps is basically completely useless. It won't find anything that my iOS 5 version can find.

Maps are such an important feature for travelers that I basically can't upgrade to iOS 6 until the situation is addressed, hopefully by Google releasing a standalone maps app.
According to the article, your job as a manager should be to interrupt them with one-on-one meetings where they teach you what you should already know and then discipline them for not being back in the office at 1:00 PM exactly.
Yeah, even something standalone which attempts to implement a C-preprocessor such that my editor can hook into it and properly resolve the used code-blocks might be already useful. But it's going to be a massive pain, if not impossible, to actually implement it.

I remember the day I actually realized what a clusterfuck the whole preprocessor was when trying to figure out all this precompiled header craziness; it's only there to solve all the horrible shortcomings of the POSIX/C/C++ eco-system as designed and imposed on it by how the preprocessor works. Even Strousup at several occasions admitted that he would like to have the preprocessor removed from C++. That's not going to happen anymore and it's obviously Captain Hindsight speaking here.
I will exclude France and Germany if the (Shift-123) is different from French/German layout, but otherwise a lot of programmers (power users) use the US layout. Esp. if we are speaking about people of certain age who maybe have started when DOS was cool.
I'm not going to lie, that's what inspired me, but on a podcast I recently listened to: http://technophiliapodcast.com/2012/episode-25-interview-wit... They said they were planning on going legit and go with only indie movies, but that would be a bummer, and with the recent demonoid takedown, I thought it would be an interesting project to play around with.
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How better location data could mean more-targeted mobile ads
I just regretted to upgrade the mac app store version of the app to 2.0. You know, the problem with app store is that you can't really use old versions of an app.
The new version completely destroy the useability of snapping and destroy useability of sharing. Yes, they need tight integration with Evernote, however, Evernote really isn't my favorite for managing images (I use Flickr more) and they completely destroyed that too.

It's been too long that I saw such a degrade of functionality of updated apps for a very long time.
Do you actually use the satellite imagery that often? Most people I know used it once, to look at their house, then switched it back to the map view.

For Apple, they just need to license more satellite data, which they no doubt will. Google maps satellite coverage was pretty sketchy in the early days too.