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I perfectly agree with you that most of the portals out over there does not respect the privacy of the Professional. Also if you see, in most of the portals, a Professional dont have a Choice about when he should receive a call from a recruiter [I mean this in the Indian scenario]. Based on these cues we have build portal azzist.com where the benefits for Professionals is "Privacy". We have a "Do Not disturb" privacy option which helps Professionals to protect their privacy. Any feedback about azzist.com is welcome so that we can make it as a perfect platform where the Privacy is protected.
Or a corrupt prison officer who leaks the whole spreadsheet of every fake name : real name.
A lot of people feel the need to complain for some reason but I don't quite understand why. I don't see a smoking gun. There are no broken antennas, and MobileMe didn't crash. Sounds like a company just released a brand new product and there are some small bugs to work out. Which it what I would expect, from any company. We all know Samsung has bugs, MS Windows 8 has bugs, Nokia 920 has bugs. When I got a Galaxy S, 2 years ago, I received an OTA update v2.2.2, it bricked my phone. It bricked a lot of peoples phones. They stopped doing OTAs after that. Then the GPS didn't work. That was sort of accepted as a flaw in the GS v2.2.2. I had to root my phone and run a third party hack to get it to work. The mp3 player had a button to view music by album but tapping it would crash the player. That wasn't fixed until much later, v2.3.4, 9months after google released it. Had to use my brothers PC, install software on PC to install sw update on phone. Ridiculous. Virtually no updates to touchwiz UI. Garbage! Calls were always dropped constantly. Then I got a GS2. It would crash... all the time. I had to reboot nearly everyday. That is sort of expected with the GS2. Calls were dropped all the time. Text messages wound't come through on Google Voice. The control buttons on the headphones worked erratically but mostly not at all. TouchWiz is a disaster. Battery life was maybe 8 hours of standby. I had to charge to phone two times a day. The phone IS TOO FUCKING BIG! Trying to use the phone one handed, the thumb muscle would touch the screen before the tip of the thumb causing unintentional taps. These are 'real' user issues. What droidfans aren't saying is that Android is rough, and they like to fiddle with it, they like to mod it and install patches, and break it and reinstall it, and fuck with it some more. This is why there is no waiting lines for Samsung products. The 'sheeple' like expensive shit that works. I mean works as in 'doesn't crash everyday', not 'boo hoo, the bridge in my maps looks funny [frown-face], this is awful I think I will go shoot myself!1!!'

I understand people are having a problem with maps but most of the blogs are complete hyperbole right now, and the maps are working great for me in NYC. Public transit was never very helpful by google maps because "public transit is underground!" Welcome to the big city. Thus no network connectivity. No one is having "real" problems with the new iPhone. This is all BS for the purpose of getting visitors to a shitty blog. No Apple has not lost its way. iPhone 5 is amazing says nearly all reports. iOS 6 is great. There are some bugs. The total package is what I would expect from Apple, past or present.
Essentially if Google use OSM and they improve/add to the map, then they have to release that data. They don't have to release, say, search data.
London Overground. Also no attribution for the originator which appears to be https://twitter.com/binny_uk/status/248824180395614208/photo... some 2 days earlier
I do, too.

Unfortunately, the thing I am usually supposed "to do" with an email is reply to it, in which case, what I actually need is a better way to keep track of my emails overall, and a faster, simpler way to be a part of the conversation. A literal "to do list" solution seems like it would simplify manual sorting, which is treating the symptom, not the cause.

Or maybe that's just me.
Partially that's the obvious due to Google having, like a bajillion servers, and OSM having like 2 dozen.

However the advantage of OSM is that it's the data, and you can render your own maps on your own hardware, and depending on your budget, make it as fast as possible.
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Does following mean not following any process?
> There do exist number systems where .999.../=1,
> however, they are not a strict superset of the reals.

The hyper-reals of non-standard analysis are, in fact, a strict superset of the reals.

> If it were, then any operation involving only real numbers
> would behave identically to the real number system.

Why is that a problem? Seems to me that that's desirable.
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Yeah this really irks me, not just about the US but immigration in most 1st world countries is a pain in the butt.

"a million people naturalize every year, so it can't be that hard" - I'll bet none of the people that say that has first hand experience in immigrating.

It is an infuriatingly opaque and arbitrary process & there is often very little you can do about it.
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I seem to recall they now have a policy specifically forbidding Twitter client applications from simultaneously posting to other services, so you probably would be violating their new rules.
Has anyone tested this for OS X compatibility?
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To be perfectly clear why this is downmodded, in the OP the developer's agency is contacted and asks for clarification. Titanium then contacts his client instead, it was not unnecessary do to so to contact the developer because they were already corresponding.
Indeed very cool. Usabilla offers a same form of feedback: http://usabilla.com/products#usabilla_live (see also button on the right side of the page).

How it works:

1. You create a widget and add two lines of code to your site.
2. Visitors click the feedback button and can select highlight any part of the page to comment on.
3. Usabilla creates a screenshot (server-side) and shows feedback in a simple dashboard.

Disclaimer: I'm founder of Usabilla.
MGWU art/marketing dude here...Thanks for asking. Gameplay videos will most certainly be part of our promotions package in the very near future (read: probably a YouTube channel). In the meantime, I can assure you that this game is legit and future updates will make it well worth your investment.
Well, here in SE Asia it seems to be just about everybody but I suspect that has more to do with app piracy.

Add in the people that bought Android phones for their extra flexibility and you get a lot closer to "a lot".
If you expand the hidden comments on Jeff's apology, Jeff "co-founder and CEO of the company" explains how proud he has been of the sales people despite "a few complaints":

>Was the sales rep over eager and trying to hussle to get a deal? Probably. In my opinion, that's the job of the rep and we work with hundreds of new paying customers each quarter and we've only had a few complaints about it.
This is a foundational essay. It's hard to believe the whole Y Combinator ecosystem has gone on for so long without it.
The hashing algorithm is one part of the puzzle. We need to get everyone to switch to bcrypt or pbkdf2.

But more importantly, we have to improve web dev practice to make sql injection a thing of the past. Most of these password thefts are enabled by sql injection attacks used to steal the database.

And finally, we need a standard solution for two factor auth. We should have a way to integrate two factor auth into our sites without being tied to a google account or something similar.
Compare and contrast: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/19/german_pirate_attack...
Hundreds of Apple iPhone 5s taken
"The apps are free but the service is paid for." Is there any useful functionality in the apps which doesn't rely on the paid-for service?
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But it didn't break any existing functionality did it? There just wasn't any!
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But do you store the data individually?

If, for example, you store that my profile was identified as real by a friend of mine, then you're essentially collecting personal data on me.

And I doubt that I would be informed about this fact, or be able to see it somewhere. (This assumption being based on the previous and ongoing mishandling / incomplete answering of requests under EU data protection law.)
If you held the the iPhone 4 the wrong way, the signal would plummet. This was under Job's watch.
Or there's a persistant shortage of software developers and Apple (like lots of tech companies) are always looking for new staff.
Outside the iOS line, Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) is a good example of something that shipped before being really done.

In the iOS line, I'd say iPad 1 is woefully underpowered with RAM. Browsing in Safari suffers due to repaints when scrolling and page reloads.

In 20/20 hinsight, shipping iOS without an SDK and even without a plan for an SDK. If they haven't introduced the SDK, iPhone would probably never had taken off.
Very interesting. I wonder why did you choose Azure Storage over AWS S3.
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That's the same thing ... An extra Market maker provides no benefit apart from being able to easily prevent there being no Market maker

Anyway makers have specialisms and get advantages from the exchange - they are not supposed to just bugger off home cos it's Tuesday
Its the Apple haters having their day in the sun. They have to have something to distract them from their rubbishy phones.
I have made the first experiment on CSS filter shaders, it was very interesting!
Open source solution : http://experiments.hertzen.com/jsfeedback/

It uses html2canvas to generate site screenshot on client side.
I didn't really understand the use case for this until the last paragraph. Might help others:

...imagine there’s a case where you would like to upload your daily log files to the cloud with a cronjob, then you can mount AzureFS upon startup and let your cronjob just copy the files to the cloud very easily.

Also loving the 'wp-svbtle' at the bottom...
This is why people (for a long time) invented things like the GNU GPL. It means you cannot 'close' it afterwards.
Fortunately for us, the programming language world isn't as litigious as the smartphone world.
Nirvana: I usually (50-60% of the time) agree with your comments here on HN, but this time... I disagree with your first, second, third, fourth and fifth paragraphs (too much hyperbole!). Android might've been bad, but is quite allright now (in many areas, including "intents" it's far ahead of iOS. Though in ease of use, ease of development and things like Core2D/CoreData lags behind iOS). iOS maps is good IMO, but worse than current GMaps.

The company is not infallible. Apple has the best advertisement of any company (IMO), but remember those unbelievably stupid and corny Olympics ads?
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No. To instruct kill() to kill a process group, you have to specified the PID of the process group leader as a negative number. Otherwise kill() will kill only a single process.
Could you add the ability to link to a set of combinations of the check boxes? eg 5000best.com/movies/#tv&1930-1965&scifi
I think we should create an app called clscraper which does as follows:

Given a set of resources, crawls across the site, extracting specific information from listings (price, number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, square ft etc, contact info). Puts them in a very simple database. This should be 100% trouble-free copyright-wise at least in the US. The larger issue becomes what happens under other laws. However building a generic tool to extract (non-copyright-worthy!) facts from ads should by itself be more or less trouble-free.

Make this generic enough to work on most ad sites out there. Push the boundary back.
The trouble is that that HFT is basically driving market makers out of business. Traditional market makers were obliged to continue trading even when the entire market had gone to shit, a service they could afford to provide thanks to their profits during normal market operations. The new breed of HFT firms that have displaced them don't do that, so as soon as the market goes a bit funny all the liquidity vanishes and people can't actually trade easily.
I don't want to be Crazy Internet Conspiracy Guy here, but I note this is a somewhat carefully worded response. mkjones did not say "We don't store the individual answers anywhere", "your answers are not recorded" or anything similar. Nor did he/she say "the data is only stored in aggregate", but "we look at the results in aggregate", which is a rather significant difference.

However, there's every chance that's just a case of bad wording. So, mkjones - can you confirm that the option the user selects on the dialog box we're discussing here ("Is this your friend's real name?") is not stored, saved or recorded in any way that could subsequently be connected to that user's account?
Antenna gate wasn't real? I can reproduce the antenna fault with a significant drop in signal strength with one pinkie.

I classify that as a major fault. For a premium product, that's unacceptable.
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Unfortunately, HFT firms playing at market maker don't actually have any obligation to stay in the market and provide liquidity. There are some people that want to see this changed (for example, I heard the head of the financial stability department at the Bank of England complaining about it on the radio the other day) but until then...
Where can we find more details about this?
I think writing out anything, even just your own thoughts on a subject, makes you a vastly more empathetic person...

Why do you think that?
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So, just to confirm here - you don't think there's anything wrong with your friends being encouraged to anonymously betray your trust by giving information to a third party that may cause you social and emotional harm?

(And records of whether that information was given subsequently being recorded.)

The article's points on "snitching" seemed sound to me. Encouraging people to inform on one another and betray trust is generally societally harmful.
I've been waiting for an invite for well over a year, maybe two years, don't really remember. Frankly I'm more than a little annoyed. Why even bother having an invite feature if you never send out invites? It's just being dishonest.
I regularly touch the lower right corner with the base of my hand when trying to reach the upper left back button on my good old 3GS ... that's not only an issue with large phones.

Secondly: big cities have network connectivity underground, try any european big city ;-)
14) Try "Now Player" and "Audium" (both from the app store). They do what you described, and are extremely pretty and nice.
I think we officially need an "Hacker News Law of Submissions": any submission which ends in a question mark will have a comment pointing to Betteridges Law in its comment thread. http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=http%3...
Navigating corporate bureaucracy (its politics, legacy systems and cost centers) is the pain point and the reason efficiencies are sometimes not implemented, even by people working within corporations. That said I see that very thing as the opportunity - there are tricks that smart operators use to navigate enterprises successfully. To get a foot in the door, track down some relevant contacts (friends, LinkedIn etc). Contact them and offer to take them to coffee/lunch to chat about what you can do for them. Don't go hard on the sales pitch at this point - just build rapport. At the coffee, it's all about learning about them - what are the strategic priorities of their business unit, and the company as a whole? (You need to slot into this). What would success look like to them? (This is not just results and efficiencies for the company, but your contact within the company will want the internal kudos for pushing through change with minimal pain and maximum visible benefit). Stage three is to provide them with the proposal - the pressure point here is to feed your contact all the materials and party lines they need to get you across the line with their various internal stakeholders. Help them help themselves - case studies and referees help here, and enterprises are all about the 'value add', so emphasize your 'above and beyond', added-value features. Your branding and market positioning will also need to align with the standard of enterprise you're aiming to work with - e.g. if you're aiming for top-tier enterprises you'll need prestige branding and a value proposition akin to being 'smart' or 'efficient' or 'innovative' etc. Many large enterprises have 'preferred supplier' or 'preferred vendor' lists so (depending on your product/service) you'll want to edge your way onto it - it helps to belong to any relevant industry associations and undertake a bit of healthy corporate social responsibility (offset your carbon usage, pro-bono charity work etc). Once you have one enterprise on board, leverage that connection to get to their competitors. (A slow-cooker version of consumer virality - name drop to their competitors that you've been working with them, and they're more likely to jump on the bandwagon). I'm sorry if I'm rambling, I hope this helps! :)
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It tried to use it today. I'm in Kapaa, HI. I searched for "Bar Acuda" a highly rated and popular restaurant here on Kauai. iOS 6 maps gave me some place in Spain. Tried "Bar Acuda, Kauai" and was told "No Results". Tried iOS 5 with just "Bar Acuda" and it found it first try.

It's not just the quality of the maps that's an issue. It's also the quality of search. Google maps isn't perfect either but on top of having better map data is has better search so for example searching for "gauteir exhibit, sf" actually finds the De Young Museum in San Francisco even though I didn't name the museum nor did I spell the name correctly. IOS6 maps just said "no results"
Not the OP, but I do write a lot.

For me, it's because writing forces you to get out of your head. When you write (presumably in language that people other than you can easily understand), you're forced to think about how others will read it. Ergo, empathy.

This is expanded even further when you begin to consider your audience ("So I'm writing for school children... how do I communicate this in a way that they will understand?" and so on).
"The best thing to measure the growth rate of is revenue. The next best, for startups that aren't charging initially, is active users. That's a reasonable proxy for revenue growth because whenever the startup does start trying to make money, their revenues will probably be a constant multiple of active users"

This, for me, is the weak point in an otherwise excellent article. A lot of investments, valuations and jobs rest on this assumption. Facebook's PE ratio is currently 127, this assumption is the reason that it isn't around the same level as other entertainment companies like, say, Disney (17) or News Corp (56). And when Facebook's valuation rises like that and people invest at that level then there's a whole lot of money for paying engineers >$100k salaries and buying up pre-revenue businesses like Instagram. So, even if you're Google and you're bringing in real money, the application of this assumption to a few big cases permeates through the whole system and means that you too have to pay engineers >$100k and you too have to pay more to get hold of someone like Nik (makers of Snapseed).

PG logic appears flawless, but as a seed fund manager in the middle of this ecosystem, he's working several layers of abstraction up from some big applications of this assumption. So much so that it probably doesn't feel like an assumption to him. After all, he didn't value Facebook[1] at that level.

I genuinely hope this assumption is correct, because a lot of people and livelihoods are depending on it.

[1] I'm using Facebook here as an exemplar, I'm sure there are lots of other companies out there with valuations that are due in part to the assumption that users = revenue. My argument is that when someone sets a valuation based on this assumption it has a knock on effect to the whole ecosystem.
i'm no apple fan and i don't own any apple products but even i can say that companies make mistakes (after all its people who run them). its how they come out of the bad situation that counts.

obviously bad map app is an inconvenience especially when you buy a premium product that claims that it just works.

is it the end though? no.

did apple make more serious mistakes in the past? certainly, but it didnt kill them

just like the antenna issue, people will complain for a bit, and in a couple of month's time it won't be in the headlines anymore assuming they FIX it. if they don't then we should start considering that they might have lost their way.
The problem is that users don't care whether a social network is distributed or not. The overwhelming majority of users don't know what XMPP is, or why they should care.

Also, the lack of a choice is sometimes a good thing. Personally, I don't want my friends to be on 10 different social networks. Facebook isn't perfect, but I like the fact that it is uniform.
I find it annoying how you have to restart the tool for each individual element. Especially as you have to go through the How Does It Work screen every time. I think skipping the How Does It Work screen on subsequent pieces of feedback would be better.
As a side note to this - being a generalist can be valuable too, because you can see cross-overs between disciplines.

My entire online presence is pretty much built on this - being knowledgeable about storytelling and the birth of the 3D gaming world at the same time led to me leaping in whole-heartedly at the inception of "Machinima", the technique of using 3D gaming technology to make films. There are a lot of people who are better at making films than I am - but very few of them were also competent at editing Quake levels.

But more trivially, there are dozens of times when you can cross over your skills to achieve results a specialist couldn't. Patrick has referred to one of his in the past - if you're knowledgeable about both advertising best practise and Web programming, you can create landing pages which are generated programatically to appeal to the inbound traffic from your PPC ads.

That's a nice bit of synergy which I believe has netted him a non-trivial amount of money in the past. If you're a programmer and an ad guy, it probably seems like an obvious thing to do - but if you're just one or the other, I can assure you it's not.

Look at two fields you know, preferably both valuable ones, and see if you can figure out things you can teach from your knowledge of both that most people wouldn't be able to.

(Another more trivial example: I've recently done some consulting work on PPC ads for a Pilates instructor friend of mine, considerably assisted by actually knowing a reasonable amount about Pilates. There are a lot of PPC ad people out there. There are a lot of people who know Pilates out there. The number of people in the intersection of the two sets, however, is small enough that I'm considering spinning the area out as a specialised consultancy.)