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Hi, I'm Jason. I don't generally even carry my phone around with me. It sits plugged into the wall most of the time (often switched off), unless I'm going out and know that I'll need to meet up with people.

Now you know me.

Incidentally, I spend an awful lot of my year traveling in places where my phone wouldn't get any signal, were I to switch it on. I think this app would work a lot better for somebody backpacking around Europe than banana boating down the Amazon.
Couldn't agree more, these companies really have much more freedom than banks despite doing similar things.

Sometimes it's for the best, but it can also be for the worst (I think we all heard stories of Paypal freezing money without much of a reason).
I think a good summary of the situation is that Apple attempted to out-Google Google. Microsoft has tried that in the past, just as they've tried to out-Apple Apple.

It's bound to fail.

What's interesting about this is that it beyond a doubt confirms that Apple is now playing catch up to Google (and Android).
What a stunning naivete. Wow.

The system incentivizes legerdemain through complexity. Laws are being written exactly in the manner that benefits those that matter the most -- legislators.

In the states, there's not even an incentive for laws to actually solve one problem at a time. There is no "test case". Instead, laws addressing various problems (or perhaps a better way of putting it would be seeking various types of votes) are lumped together and all presented as a pass-or-defeat decision for the president. In this manner a legislator can vote for "money for the troops act" or "food for starving orphans act" while actually ensuring that a dozen of the local businesses that support him gain unfair competitive advantage and that the local union will be motivated to get out the vote the next election.

Laws are what get votes. This is their only acceptance criteria. The last thing in the world that's ever going to happen is to get a legislator to give up total control over the complexity and nuances of the schlock they create.
Do you have some really LARGE ones ? I just want to restart some post-it war with more modern ammo ;-)
There are no typical European CVs. Every country will have its own style.You won't see any pictures in the UK for example, but it's still not uncommon to see one in PL.
That isn't a problem with Google Now, that's a problem with smartphones generally. Even without Google Now, you can log onto someone's Facebook account, read their emails, read their texts, view their calendar, etc.
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So...if I start selling stuff on ebay, does that make me a "start-up"?

I'm pretty sure you are a couple of guys who setup a wordpress site with a generic theme on a shared server. Also it seems to be having trouble handling the small amount of traffic that comes from 5am hacker news.
Greenpeace recently published a report on overfishing in Europe. This BBC article must be pure coincidence.
how did you arrive at that? are you implying that if it was feasible it would be done already?

Microsoft could invest 40-50k a year into people who qualify for retraining either in house or at local universities and still come out ahead.
Does persona reveal your email address to the website that you login to?

OpenID usually doesn't reveal your email address.

For example, when logging in to Google via OpenID, google will only send back a unique identifier that means 'yes, the user has a google account' but no other personal information. Yahoo does the same.

(of course, it's possible to use OpenID extensions to get a user's email at their discretion)

Does persona work in the same way?
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1920x1200 does not equal high dpi. Think 1920x1200 on a 10" display. If your app runs on a high DPI screen, and the OS and your app has no support for this, all fonts and UI elements become tiny, which is unacceptable.

Windows XP had abysmal support for high DPI which usually resulted in broken UI layout. Vista introduced "DPI virtualization" requiring you to declare and provide explicit support for variable dpi in your application. Otherwise it is run at 96 DPI and raster scaling is applied. This prevents any UI layout issues but results in a a blurry image. I guess Apple uses the same approach: if your app has no explicit support, it runs under raster scaling.
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the soundcloud for 3d. i love it.
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There's a number missing from your calculations: the cash value to an unscrupulous employer of having an employee who is utterly beholden to them in the way an H1B is but a citizen/resident alien is not.
This has already been happening for quite a while now. Not exactly a radical prediction.

Learning management systems like Blackboard and Instructure Canvas are basically imitating facebook now. Edmodo goes the other way and basically starts from facebook and then adds in some learning/teaching features like quizzes and assignments.

Of course github has taken off the past few years, and it has feeds and likes (starring projects) and follows.

As someone commented on slashdot, even AutoCAD added a 'design feed' feature http://www.autocadws.com/blog/introducing-the-design-feed/

For things that aren't enough to warrant social attention to 'like' (like posting 100 times), there seems to be more use of badges like on forums and stack exchange.
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I built one project with it for pay. It is much more limited than a real native solution like obj-c, monotouch, etc.

What exactly would you do if the client came back to you and requested something titanium couldn't do?

When I was using it it had problems even moving to a page with a webview already loaded up to a webpage.

Have you built a project with a real native language for pay?
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In the areas of Europe where I live, Apple Maps doesn't know most of the POIs I search for – and if there's a result, it's often wrong.

Examples from last week:

- I stayed at the Radisson Blu Alcron hotel in Prague. Searching for 'radisson blu prag' (in German) with Google Maps immediately lead to a correct result. Apple Maps delivers no result. Using 'Prague' instead of 'Prag' didn't help either.

- I had an appointed at Skyguide's Zurich HQ (Skyguide is the Swiss air navigation service provider). Google Maps again showed the correct location while Apple Maps showed for some reason only results named 'Skyline'.

- I often used Google Maps for public transport routing. Apple Maps of course does not support this feature.

- On Apple Maps, the street I live on goes through my house. In Google Maps, it's where it's supposed to be, i.e., in front of my house.

- I went hiking in the mountains last weekend and the quality of Apple Maps' aerial and satellite images was simply awful in comparison to Google Maps.

- Etc.
I enjoyed this one: http://www.codersatwork.com/
A bunch of interviews with famous coders.
I couldn't make it to the end of the article; the writing style is too frustrating.
At least they have a business model. How many "start-ups" on HN are just a fancy landing page with an email sign-up box?
Well we are really 4 french guys, we are located in Paris in a small office. This is not a wordpress, but a prestashop and the theme is not generic. And the stuff that is innovative is that all the products are created by the community using the studio (http://www.stickaz.com/en/studio).
Have a look at http://www.stickaz.com/en/info for more infos about the Stickaz concept.
Tell me if you find similar businesses (appart from sites that let's you decline an image on mugs or t-shirts). Hope you look at it with a different angle :)

PS: we know puxxle, we existed before them and there's no user generated content on puxxle.
We have some large ones! Also you can choose the size of your pixels (up to 5cm), which can make even models with few pixels pretty big!
>I think this app would work a lot better for somebody backpacking around Europe than banana boating down the Amazon.

The former may be the exact people the makers are targeting. For instance, my parents usually go on 'package tours' where a travel company takes them around in a group; usually its to Europe, AU etc.
We did something similar in Barcelona earlier this year: http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo...

Money well spent!
I worked at a bank. We needed a team of six people with advanced and specific skills. We could only find four. We tried to import two more. Computer at immigration said no. So we cancelled the offer to the four and hired six in Singapore. That unit has now grown to twenty-five of which five had to be pulled in from India. That's how reality works.
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This implies it would be profitable for you to loan these people $40 to $50k to get this training and then (a) profit off the loans and (b) turn around and sell the finished product (the upgraded workforce) to Microsoft. It's the logic of subprime houses for subprime people (or, more sensitively, the diamond in the rough mindset).
Well off the top of my head it'd be assuming that searches were distributed randomly w.r.t bad data, whereas in all likelihood there may be some (inverse) relationship between the badness of an area and its search popularity. In general living outside the US I was happy with the gmaps solution generally, apple maps had some glaring errors in my neck of the woods on launch.
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This reminds me of an interesting little fact I learned about how Sony makes money: Life insurance and personal finance!

Source: http://www.splatf.com/2011/11/sony-profits/

Consumer electronics still generate most of its revenues (about half) - but just like GE, Sony appears to make a lot more profit financing the acquistion of their goods rather than from the goods themselves (GE makes more financing hydro-turbines for governments than from the turbines themselves).

Curious to think that the entire PlayStation line might not just be a loss leader for games, but also for the entire Sony financing arm.
It definitely looks like wordpress, and it says it is wordpress and prestashop on the bottom. Also prestashop looks like it is just an ecommerce plugin.

Did you guys take VC money or something? This just looks like a normal business to me. I mean I run a small business that makes mobile apps. Is that a start up as well? Is any kind of business with a website that sells something a start up?
So I guess you are familiar with the french street art artist Invader (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invader)
But what if the hotels aren't there anymore? All you'll know is that you have been at these geo-coordinates once.

I have the same plan for when I'm old, so I take pictures with my iPhone whenever I want to hold on to a moment (and taking a photo is convenient). The image quality may be crappy, but I end up with one more GPS-tagged picture on the world map. The iPad Photos app nicely visualizes this, before that I'd used iPhoto.

Maybe you could add support for this too and overlay it with the "fog of world"?
No, I expect they'd need to be specially designed for it, with a number of compromises (gas venting/replenishment) along the way.

Battery technologies tend to have a limiting internal resistance that determines the maximum discharge rate, although in many cases the maximum SAFE discharge rate is much lower - traditional lead acid will allow you draw so much current that the plates buckle and the acid boils...

It's all down to the chemistry, and every technology has different characteristics and weaknesses - for example, any secondary cell involving nickel or zinc has to deal with the tendency of these metals to grow dendrites when plating out of solution (ie. the recharge case) - this is what bursts a regular AA cell if you try to recharge it using DC. There are simple workarounds, and although the regular dry cell design is not optimal for recharging it can be done. It also causes the memory effect in NiCd cells, and explains why they can sometimes be recovered with a large pulse of charging current (local melting of the dendrites).
After a quick Googling:

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/09/07/convergence.html

The reasoning is solid, unfortunately.
Rather the YouTube for 3d content I think, it's awesome, I believe in your project!
This popped up on my 'should read' list. Found it very useful for my startup (I had adopted some of them unknowingly) which is quite in an early stage and when many of our updates and conversations happen over email.
Many other officials don't use mail either – they've staff doing their communication for them … and for the remaining very private communication, they often use personal telephone calls, SMS and so on. That's simply how (at least older or less tech-savvy) officials work.
If people can collaborate on tagging a photo, he added, they could easily do the same with a product or business problem

Is this not the Google Wave Fallacy?
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Love the idea. Just downloaded.

I agree with some of the other comments that using it in some of the places I've travelled would be unrealistic due to battery life.

Would be great if I could import a csv of my Flight Diary data [1]

[1] http://flightdiary.net/willjennings
It shouldn't be hard. The email contains the body of the message. So search for the message.
> are you implying that if it was feasible it would be done already?

You brought up the fact that there are 12 million workless, as a counter to Microsoft's desire to hire H1-B labor. If that's not to suggest they could fill those positions, what's the relevancy?

> Microsoft could invest 40-50k a year into people who qualify for retraining either in house or at local universities and still come out ahead.

Uhm, 40-50k a year is more expensive than full-time Harvard tuition. That does change the argument a little bit.
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This is pointless. Why are you arguing about such a moot point? We should be giving constructive feedback, not arguing about politics.
It's more than that actually.

Let's say that Amazon lends money to a high volume seller. And we know that Amazon is going to take a cut of sales. But, let's say, hypothetically, that all of this is a wash, in the end it ends up netting Amazon zero direct profit. Has Amazon lost money on this effort then?

Consider the indirect benefits to Amazon. By increasing the amount of business flowing through the site they further cement their brand and they increase the network effect of using the site. They bring more customers to the table who then become repeat customers due to a good experience on the site. Or they bring additional business as people buy related or unrelated merchandise on the site, perhaps in the same order. And they increase the potential customer base for buying Amazon gift certs. All of these things tie together and help bring Amazon more business.

Now, in reality Amazon is going to make sure it makes money on these loans and on direct sales as well, but it doesn't have to make a very high margin on such things because of the indirect effects I mentioned which provide additional margin.
What pfisch is saying, selling stuff on the Internet is not a startup. E.g. if I'm starting a flower shop business, that's not a startup, that's just starting a business.

The difference between a startup and a business is that a startup is usually trying to solve a problem (often through the use of technology, a.k.a. hi-tech) in the hope that the "invention" pays off. These sorts of high risk businesses often don't get loans from banks. That's where investors come in.

So, as pfisch is saying, selling stickers on the Internet is not a startup.

I hope you guys do well. It looks like a well executed project.
You've nailed it. As a highly skilled foreigner who's looking to emigrate, most employment visas in the countries I've looked at effectively force you to become a slave to the company sponsoring you for at least 5 years before you can even begin claiming residence status; the H-1B visa is one such visa [1].

Whilst that may be okay if you're in your early 20s or from a country with very limited options, for an older person with greater skills living a relatively good life (e.g. a high-level contractor in South Africa) it's not particularly appealing as the cost-benefit analysis isn't very positive.

Ironically, these are probably precisely the people you want emigrating to your country - people with a proven track record who are ready to settle down and want to create a future for their immediate family, spending and investing everything they earned in the same country -- not young people who have nothing to lose and will probably send the bulk of their earnings back out of the country to their families in poorer nations, and who will potentially bring the rest of their (non-skilled) family in on family visa arrangements. (Of course this is somewhat a generalization, but I think on average it holds true.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Criticisms_of_the_pro...
Refactoring is important and management should be convinced for this. Most managers also insist that the (physical!) desktops are kept clean. For the same reason code bases should be kept clean. The reason in both cases: Dirt slows down in the long run.
It's quite simple: most iPhone apps just leave the GPS turned on 100% of the time when in the background, as it's complicated to do otherwise (or you can use the borderline-useless 'significant change' cell-tower location api's).

Android gives you the option of leaving it turned off for 10 mins, fire your app up for a minute, turn the GPS on, then turn it off again and go to sleep for 10 mins again. Huge battery savings. You can technically do this on iOS, but it's a challenge and kinda-sorta breaking the background running rules so big companies like google don't tend to do it in their apps.

There you go :)
Imagine the heart-breaking scenes when you have to explain to your phone that this is no longer home, but both of you still love it...
very nice, like the subtle movement. i think the logo's style feels kind of aged though.
You're the first one to hit on the real reason: these workers are stuck with Microsoft as an employer for years. If they quit, they have to leave the country.

This basically buys Microsoft six thousand wage slaves, in the very most literal sense of the term.
For certain values of "utterly". The willingness and ability to sponsor H1-Bs is the norm, rather than the exception, in larger tech companies.
The point of serious backpacking, hiking, and backcountry climbing is to get away, not to stay tethered to facebook.
Even though the hotels aren't there anymore. We can still memorize the hotels we visited before. They are not there, so we can memorize, right?

Mapping photos to the exploration map is planned in future version, or even for a Mac version. But there are a couple of higher priority tasks we need to do before that, such as support for sync between devices.
So are the 'classic' sprites public domain? I'm sure the other characters are some minor variation of the original - but it leaves me wondering if copyright has a lower threshold/bound in terms of resolution?

In a 7x7 grid theres still a lot of variations (2^49?) - ranging down to the 'single pixel' works of early 20th century avant-garde monochromatic paintings.

Anyhow, neat product and I'm sure even a lawsuit from Midway/Atari would be good press.
I don't think you necessarily need Li-ion for that - in my experience lead acid works well enough in the domestic case, is a lot cheaper and probably safer (although hydrogen venting is perhaps an issue).

I built a little mixed DC (lighting) + AC (1kW inverter) system out in the garden (far enough from the flat that running a cable would be a nightmare of planning permissions & digging trenches).

Since it's for intermittent use the panel is tiny (50W Kyocera) compared to the battery (110 Ah 'leisure') & inverter (1kW true sine), and it works just fine even here at 53 deg latitude. It would scale up for the entire house quite well, were it not for the fact that it's a four-in-a-block with a communal roof, and 1/2 loft space unusable due to loft conversion.
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The Flightdiary looks great. We'll invest the possibility of adding it as a import source. Thanks.
They've said only 2% of accounts are paid.

Sharing is a cornerstone of what DropBox is.

Restrict sharing to only the 2%?
From the link:

Historically, H-1B holders have sometimes been described as indentured servants, and while the comparison is no longer as compelling, it had more validity prior to the passage of American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act of 2000.

And in the section on American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act of 2000:

Because of AC21, the H-1B employee is free to change jobs if they have an I-485 application pending for six months and an approved I-140, if the position they are moving to is substantially comparable to their current position. In some cases, if those labor certifications are withdrawn and replaced with PERM applications, processing times will improve, but the person will also lose their favorable priority date. In those cases, employers' incentive to attempt to lock in H-1B employees to a job by offering a green card is reduced, because the employer bears the high legal costs and fees associated with labor certification and I-140 processing, but the H-1B employee is still free to change jobs.
cool, so MS can send 6000 people to harvard for a CS degree while having them work on some menial code/internship in the mean time.
The H1B system is a textbook case study in regulatory capture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
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That would be a real bad idea in this scenario. It would reduce their profits and decrease the chance of the seller being able to pay back the loan in full. When your playing with amazons money, your interests are aligned and what is good for you is good for them and viceversa.
What does Maps in iOS 5 use? This is just a comparison between old and new Maps.
Read my reply to lusr. Your use of the word "literal" isn't exactly warranted.
Thanks! Only 50 lines of vanilla JS for the 3D animation :)
As for the logo, honestly, I like it but I don't love it, thanks for the feedback!
Imagine if you could propose a law, then garner support for it at a grassroots level. E.g back in 2002(?) someone proposes a law that makes it a criminal offense to declare war without the backing of the UN.

Effectively anyone can table a private members bill and then the whole country can vote on it. Most amendments would go nowhere but some would be significant enough to attract enough attention for significant majority of the population to cast a binding number of votes.

It would be a more significant moment for democracy than the Magna Carta.
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I disagree that there should be protections to stop people from "ripping off your stuff" and selling it without paying you for it. Instead, there should be protections to stop people from copying your idea without you getting credit for it. But there don't need to be legal protections. All you need to do is make your idea public to prevent anyone else from claiming they were first.

I'm serious about getting rid of all patents and all copyrights.