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The way this article is written is highly misleading.

> iOS for mobile devices Apple, well, created iOS for mobile devices. It did not rewrite the OS X desktop that runs on Macs. Apple created something entirely new that was always designed with touch screens in mind.

Except that is untrue. Or to quote Apple during the iPhone's initial release:

> iPhone uses OS X, the world’s most advanced operating system.

What later became known as "iOS" is based on OS X which is its self based on Darwin. You could fairly argue that OS X for the i-devices was a fork but to say Apple made something "entirely new" is just false.
Because they both have an existing desktop product, both of which are dominant in their own sphere (Microsoft: desktop computers, Canonical: Linux desktop computers), and they'd really like to leverage that advantage to get into the touch-based market, which is predicted to grow massively while desktop is stagnating.

I guess there are also a few products where both input paradigms make sense, ie. the tablet/notebook hybrids, you wouldn't want to entirely different user experiences on a single device depending on the currently chosen input, so you make a hybrid user experience fitting the hybrid device. The other choice would be simply not supporting hybrid devices, but clearly that is not what Microsoft has chosen to do.
Why Time Magazine Used Instagram To Cover Hurricane Sandy?
We can't provide the details right now as they are very personal to the person concerned. The HNer we're trying to help is not a foreigner, she's Indian. The case is completely made up (I've seen the case papers).
No, I should really not provide any 'cursory details' here, you are basically going to have to trust my word on that this case is very complex and involves a lot of backstory that could only hurt, not help if I start blabbing about it in public.

Those details are between her and her hopefully soon to be found lawyer, who can then decide if he/she wants to take the case.

I'm sure the general public would love to hear all about these details (you could make a cliff-hanger mini series about it and write a best-seller) but the case isn't served by creating either a public spectacle beyond what I've already done here (a risk in itself but we have no time).
Geen probleem ;). Hope you manage to find some good representation!
Windows 8 Madness
Love every idea for 15 minutes.
Ok, We’ve finally lost it.
This brings up an interesting need: ability to easily and affordable test/simulate across the thousands of android or mobile devices. An emulator with CPU/gpu specs for each model..
And make you miss the ability to overload functions just on return type. Same thing happens if you use Haskell's regex library or try t port monads to another language.
...or a criticism of Oracle and Adobe, which is then 100% true statement.
Switching to Saturday would get the US in trouble with many religions in the US that would absolutely forbid voting on a Saturday. A weekday is much safer.

Having election day be a federal holiday wouldn't hurt.
Oh Apple Lightning connector, how do I love thee?
That is called privacy.
Indian police and people with access to political power usually pick people up on saturday or sunday when the courts are closed. This is the usual trick. A day in an Indian police lockup is not something you can stomach easily. If they are looking for you on a friday, it means political power and possible threats, beatings, forced confessions; hide and move away with family immediately until monday! If they are looking for you on other days, relax.
I wonder how easy it would be to get Android doing this automatically. It would certainly improve performance if images could be scaled once on installation of the APK instead of every time they are displayed.
> Do you go to any great lengths … ?

If he does not, does that disqualify him from holding an opinion on surveillance cameras? Is he complicit in their proliferation if he has not significantly altered his life in protest?

The only chance we have for avoiding a disturbingly Orwellian surveillance culture is to combat the public ignorance about the extent and power of the systems now in construction.

> I just ignore them and I'd probably just ignore this dude too.

In contrast, I thought the strong reactions from the people on film were admirable. Running away without expressing disapproval is cowardly; if I were with my family, I would give the guy fair warning, then rush him for being predatory.
Jacques, I had sent these questions in a mail to you. However, the answers should help others in identifying the appropriate lawyer.

1> What area of Criminal law this pertains to.
2> Is she an Indian?
3> Is she looking for professional representation or someone in personal capacity. Based on this we can look up one from a prominent firm or not.
True, but this is always why i like working for smaller companies, they generally aren't big enough to have HR departments so usually its a technical person doing the recruiting.
You can maybe try http://www.akosha.com/

They are mainly into consumer complaints but should know good lawyers and they are based out of Delhi.
I was going to suggest http://www.manymo.com/, but it seems to only allow customizing screen size and OS version — not the hardware specs.
> This protest, I can get behind. The equivalence is much greater and they've targeted the people doing the surveillance.

I don't see anything wrong with this practice? It's just parking enforcement.

In my area, whenever a parking warden issues a ticket, they have to take photographs of the violation (the vehicle parked on yellow lines, expired ticket, etc.), of the ticket on the vehicle (stuck to the windscreen, under a wiper blade), showing the license plate, as well as the relevant parking signage.

Why do they do this? Because in the past motorists have tried every trick in the book to get out of fines. They weren't parked illegally, their ticket hadn't expired, they never received the fine, the signage was missing, obscured or incorrect.

It's a cat and mouse game, and if the last trick up the councils' sleeves is to record the parking infringement on video, then so be it.
Test Drive of a Tesla S
You're especially nothing more than a mass of habits if one of those habits happens to be attempting to render all life nothing more than a mass of habits.
I'm not sure "mass" is the appropriate collective term for habits. Perhaps "collection" serves better here.

I'm more than my habits, Aristotle aside. I'm an economist and a programmer and a father. The last causes disruptive change to habits more often than not.
Hah! Reminds me: it's turtles all the way down, and chances are one of them is a teenage ninja.
At one point there's the realization that there are not as many hours in the day as there used to be because of other obligations. That's the point where your threshold of what really matters starts to get pretty close to the ceiling. It has nothing to do with being burnt out and has more to do with coming to grips with the fact that there's more to the world than you.

Although today is a special day (in most of the US) because you get that "extra hour." Grumble grumble DST...
If you want more campaigning in your area, then start a petition and vote for a change to your state's constitution to allocate electoral votes by house district. This is a change that could happen if your state wants it.

I believe on real problem is the state's voice is not heard in DC and a lot of crap is done that is not in the State's best interest. I wish they would repeal the Seventeenth Amendment so people would concentrate a lot more on the State's politics. Or perhaps, replace the senators with the sitting governor. Then the Senate would think about the state's budget and regulation burden before passing things.
Star Citizen-s. Go vote for Linux, Mac and more
Hello, see my answers above:

- It is not a good idea to discuss the details of the case right now. There is a police case, it is completely made up as an excuse to get hold of the person we're talking about (I've seen the case filing). The main charge is kidnapping, and she's the victim - but somehow she still gets arrested. India for the win.

- She's an Indian national.

- We need a professional, influential, trustworthy lawyer and are willing to pay (reasonable fees).

Thanks for your help.
All programming languages are useless
Sorry, wrong link. They make it pretty hard to find the plan that you really want (both AT&T and T-Mobile).

https://buyasession.att.com/sbd/Common/ShopRatePlans.action

Note that the plan you really want is the "Tablets and Gaming Devices". The "Computers, Netbooks, Aircards, Others" plan is a rip-off except for the $50/month 5GB plan, which is the same as the "Tablet" plan. On the "Computers" lower data rate plans, it is $15 per day, $30 per week. Data is data, so they are just ripping you off.

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Dude,
If I stepped on your toes, I am sorry. I should have clarified what I meant by cursory details (if I had realised this would be the response, I would have written this earlier, honestly!). Something along these lines as provided by @akshat above:

1> What area of Criminal law this pertains to.

2> Is she an Indian?

3> Is she looking for professional representation or someone in personal capacity.

> Based on this we can look up one from a prominent firm or not.

OK, that was all. The reason I tried to write it here rather than PM, is because others could also benefit from this kind of info when talking to their own respective contacts/lawyers/colleagues.

Again, I want to clarify that I was not digging for the kind of details that you seem to have implied on the reply. And sorry if I upset anyone.

EDIT: @swombat has already replied to these questions above when I was composing my reply to jacquesm.

Thanks, @swombat
Well, if you are not satisfied with google you can always use bing and yahoo. I do suggest you search for the same thing on each service to see the differences in your rankings.

One thing I did not see mentioned was the new google rollout on adwords and merchant center (google base feed). Google use to allow free submissions of products into the shopping segment, but now all of your product submissions must be linked to an adwords account by which google adwords can charge you. It steps directly on nextags formula.
Oh, you are right with quitter. That is a typo. It will fix it. It used chan string just because it does not matter for this example :-).
So go learn something. Either you listen to advice or you don't.
The decline of PCs and the rise of smartphones and tablets was predicted in 1993
I don't think you stepped on Jacques' toes. We're just pretty stressed about this and so being brief (I'm now replying to messages/social media and gathering leads while he tries to ring up lawyers).

I answered those points now in my post:

- It is not a good idea to discuss the details of the case right now. There is a police case, it is completely made up as an excuse to get hold of the person we're talking about (I've seen the case filing). The main charge is kidnapping, and she's the victim - but somehow she still gets arrested. India for the win.

- She's an Indian national.

- We need a professional, influential, trustworthy lawyer and are willing to pay (reasonable fees).
Have you contacted her family?
She is an Indian national, does she have contacts there?
I use old-fashioned paper and pen. Keep a todo list on a page; each day-end I add/subtract and when it gets full, copy it to a new page. This makes me revisit each item, which may create associations to newer tasks that are related.

When I start from neutral, whether at start-of-day or after finishing a task, I check off what's done, then review the list to find a ripe task to launch into.
A degree doesn't matter. Writing solid code does...
Since continuation-passing style is so popular in asynchronous code, errors are typically passed to the callback instead of throwing them. If an error was thrown in, say, a callback for an XMLHttpRequest the original caller would not catch it.
Without going into details, the first one is not an option and the answer to the second question is no, she has very few contacts.
Is this a personal matter or did the victim do something to displease the powers that be ?
Sounds like this is exactly what happened. She was picked up yesterday.
The victim has not done anything to feel guilty about. The case is made up. Not that that stopped the police from arresting her.
And notoriously hard basically means "gone in 60 seconds".
Flora Power is made in Hamburg, during your visit you can go visit Ludger and Hans-Werner at http://www.reineckes.com/ they are really welcoming people :)
If your system is hacked, _using_ any password manager is insecure. Some password managers also have poor encryption, so even read-only access to your password database can be bad.

KeePass (KeePassX in Linux) is one of the best, but a simple keylogger can get your "master password" when you enter it, and thus access to your password database.

Nothing is absolutely secure, there are just degrees of relative safety.
Awesome library. I'll start using this on my next projects. Thanks very much!
Interesting thread. When I hear 'cloud' I assume multiple data-centers- a geographical diversity to mitigate against disaster.
Without data, who is anyone to claim that GNOME is gaining or losing users? -> How and why did a number of distributions decide to go their own way?
At 14, I was programming in assembler (well, machine code since I didn't have an assembler) on the Altair 8800 my older brother built from parts. 1st program: a game called Fly! where you hit the spacebar to make an 'X' flitting around the screen turn right 45 degrees. When it hit the edge of the screen you lost. Futile - you always ended up losing! But fun to write, in under 128 bytes too.
I dont know any criminal lawyers but I am currently in Delhi and if there is anything else I can help with please let me know. My email is in my profile info.
> You didn't get to the front page.

I did, but that's not the point.

> Why do you think the problem is with the way that he describes his project, and not with the way that you describe your project?

Because successful marketing isn't everything, and because he is not describing his project. The title doesn't say anything about the game. The developer's age doesn't describe a game. I think a community like HN should value the quality of the product over the age/gender/awesomeness of the developer. But obviously I'm in the minority, and I'm just stating my opinion.

If people are going to use something I make, I want it to be because they enjoy it, not because of the number of years I've lived on this planet.
Hey Daniel i've emailed you a lawyer contact.
Thank you. There may be something you can do, though not sure what yet - I've passed your email to Jacques (he's coordinating the action).
Thanks! There is still plenty I'd like to do and improve on, still early days, but I hope it's useful :)
But mobile apps are always secondary to websites anyway. I do not think this would rise above occasional minor irritation. Whereas Mac incompatibility was a deal breaker in the 90s. It also helps that Apple has a lot more muscle these days.
It's not just India. The FBI and the DEA love to make arrests on Friday after 10 am for this reason. The next court hearing is Monday morning.
Has she got dual citizenship? That could be one avenue to look at
Not true:
"What happened that made GNOME developers seemingly abandon all sense of sanity and design a desktop interface that almost no one wants?
...
The more likely candidates for inspiring GNOME's 3.0 stumble is Apple's iOS and Google's Android OS."

Maybe the title is linkbait, but the thesis isn't absurd.
What Google did is an interesting example but at least jbri's comment referred to breaking functionality if you changed it at all so it needed to be copied.

Oracle did make the point that Google didn't copy enough for compatibility and Write Once Run Anywhere effectively forking their entire ecosystem/platform without a license. It has killed Java on mobile (although maybe it would have happened anyway and maybe it is a good thing with Oracle running the show). I think that if the participants in the case hadn't been the most hated and loved companies in tech many people might have had a different view of the case.

There are a number of other reasons for copying an API than compatibility.

1) Its an efficient (lazy?) way to get to a well designed API without you having to do multiple rounds of iterative design as users hammer on it over several years.

2) Existing documentation can be used. [Documentation, tutorials StackOverflow answers].

3) Users are already familiar with it.

It seems to me that Google did a pretty vicious embrace, extend, extinguish on mobile Java and they may still be the better custodians of the platform but I'm not sure the behaviour is actually acceptable in general. They took maximum benefit from Sun's efforts to create a platform and a community and give the absolute minimum back. Just imagine if it was Microsoft (or even Apple) in the Google roll and old Sun (rather than Oracle) in the Oracle roll - would you still feel the same about the case?

Now does this mean I want to be locked into a provider unable to find an alternative implementer of a required library - absolutely not. But that is a factor to consider when adopting a platform/library as a cost to be weighed against the benefits. I always like an exit option or accept significant risk if I don't have one. Obviously API developers could offer permissive licenses to the API even if the library itself is closed source as a way to reassure customers and gain business. I'm not sure law is required OR desirable in this area.
Thanks. I've replied!
http://www.justdial.com/Delhi-NCR/Lawyers-For-Criminal/ct-32...
The task you are engaged in is called "architectural programming."

Along with a budget, it forms the design brief.

It is the sort of task that benefits from hiring a design professional.
I think the downvote is for the attitude. Your edit didn't help. Are the lurkers supporting you in email yet?
The current maximum zoom level (I think it's "5" from the url) seems too low for some of the pictures. For example, this shot [1] from the picture "Nick Field" is zoomed to the maximum level but looks like it could zoom quite a bit more while still having a useful level of resolution and quality.

[1] http://hugepic.io/35f881f45#5.00/80.636/-135.923
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this is a brilliant, fascinating, and (from the one clip I've seen) well executed social experiment.

This is similar to a strategy often employed by Scientology against their critics. Just go out and film them whenever they are in a public place.

Don't answer questions, don't give reasons, just film them. You don't need a reason; you are in a public place, you can film whoever or whatever you want.

Truly fascinating. It's very interesting how quick many of these subjects are to anger.
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There's an economic concept called "pricing behind the curve" that looks a lot like "dumping". But it's different.

Pricing behind the curve means you base the price of your product on the average component cost over the life time instead of your actual current cost. Microsoft does that with the Xbox. In effect you subsidise the early models and make up for that in the long run. It's a valid strategy to gain market share quickly and does not hurt consumers.

Dumping means you subsidise your own product to push competitors out of business. It does hurt competition in the long run if done effectively. Dumping is illegal and you can get into a lot of trouble if you are found doing it.

Since the competing companies are not accusing anyone of dumping, I think it is safe to say no dumping is currently going on.
Thank you!!!

I've passed the details to jacques (he's doing the calling). I think this just bumped to the top of the list to call...!
Ah I guess Braintree MA is named after the original!Will have a look, thanks.
Good lawyers don't advertise (always a golden rule) but are often mentioned in searchable online media. A good technique (imho) for lawyer selection in any given major city is to collect a list of the most prominent lawyers in the specialization area of interest, and interview all of them. There will usually be fewer than a dozen candidates if you've done decent research & narrowing down. At some point in the interview ask who they would personally recommend as a lawyer if they couldn't recommend themselves. Then see where the answers converge.

This does take a few days and in a country like India might take even longer. So if you need somebody in a few hours it could be useless advice. If you can find somebody for initial representation and then switch to somebody else later, it might be more applicable.
Khaitan & Co. have an office in Delhi. Here's their Mumbai contact:

anshul.prakash@ khaitanco. com
rabindra.Jhunghunwala@ khaitanco. com
If my vote is encrypted and put in an envelope that has my name on it, then it very very much matters.

If you cam find two envelopes with my name, you can find out what my vote is ( I mean somewhere there is a decryption key)

Physical voting strips most links out from who voted and what they voted (you prove who you are at the desk then walk in and vote on a piece of paper in no way related to your name.

That is either impossible electronically or relies on unverifiable trust in the code. I know if someone looks over my shoulder. I cannot look at the code running - even if it is open source I cannot see what is really running.
> I'm pretty sure your age matters if it drastically deviates from the norm.

No, it doesn't. Most people deviate from the norm on something. Age, gender, disabilities. So what?

As a teenage programmer, I can say that teenage programmers aren't that uncommon any more. It's not remarkable, age really doesn't matter. Anyone over the age of 10 can learn programming by taking programming courses from world-renown universities nowdays. I'm 16 and I've been programming for years. That's only because I had a chance to learn programming and I took it, not because I'm more intelligent than a someone who's 20 years older than me and only got a computer when he was 18. Other people at my age didn't have such chances, and I'm thankful.
IndieSocial — an javascript library for social buttons what protect your privacy
Fire-powered cell phone chargers being sold in downtown Manhattan
If you are from the US, I highly suggest you go and take a look a the way WeWork has designed their offices.

Quite amazing, and people love it.
Thanks for the feedback. I will add more.
Thank you. We really need speed, email is probably too slow, mobile numbers?

(Apologies to you and anybody else in this thread for being brief, too little sleep and too much to do).

j.
If I had to make a choice, I'd prefer to use a polyfill [1] implementing the constraint validation API [2] instead of using a proprietary API.

[1] http://afarkas.github.com/webshim/demos/demos/webforms.html

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/HTML5/Constrai...
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I now predict that in 15 years, the tablet will be on the decline. I called it, everyone remember.
Thanks. I think in the short term we just need someone there right now. In the long term this sounds like a good strategy, if there is a long term...