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Why engineers have no empathy
The PSA endings you linked to all seem to be sensible and somewhat obvious advice for children, like not to pet strange animals and to be nice to your friends. Similarly, the show Captain Planet had lessons about caring for the environment. I think this is qualitatively different from teaching kids about copyright law.
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Earlier discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4683083
I got Dell C810 with 1600x1200 screen around 2003. There is a couple of them still available on ebay
We've hired cleaners through agencies in the UK before.

The issue these and similar businesses will face, I expect, is that once the cleaners become established with a household, there is always a large temptation to "go direct" and cut the agency out of the loop. THis is a win/win for the cleaner and the household. Typically the agency markup is split 50/50, and the cleaner makes slightly more and the family pays sligtly less.

There also isn't an easy way for the agencies to enforce non-competes or anything either, I'd expect.
In an iterative industry, I think there is too much emphasis on "launch". From day 1, you should have someone interested in your product/service. If you haven't got at least one early adopter, someone sold on the idea, why bother?

The real "launch" is the tipping point where there is enough functionality that it fully solves the problem for the intended audience. But you won't get there without early usage and feedback.

Rather than think of chicken and egg problems, start adding cells together and see which one evolves first.
> A pledge is not a purchase.

They should make this their motto. The Kickstarter model is fine, they just need to better communicate just what that model is to their users.
Facebook has been faking it for at least a year. By faking it I mean not growing under their own power. Now "Fakebook" either has to buy users (like the Instagram deal) or its growth is due to mostly fake users with fake likes giving fake metrics.

People are leaving Fakebook now. Not in droves (yet), but the opinion leaders within groups and families are. The ones that are informed are. And the rest will follow once there is another massive invasion of their privacy.

To those reading this who still use their Facebook account, try going without it for a month. See if you don't feel better. I know I did.
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MS has been trying to get 3rd party developers make resolution independent apps for very long time now. Last time it was WPF that was supposed to solve all problems, now it's Metro.

eg here is one blog post from 2006, which in turn refers to guide written in 2001 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/greg_schechter/archive/2006/08/07/69...

iirc there was some similar blog-post series about high dpi stuff when windows 7 was released, but I couldn't find it now with google.
There was an F3 produced for the Mexican market, which you could find on Ebay back in the day. I purchased one and used it on the Rogers network in Canada for years. I loved it and its two week battery life.
For people that can't wait: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... ;)
Your whole point is based on the "35 year-old" static. That being said, if you don't link to the resource you are getting that data from; your argument is likely not going that far.

I dropped for two years, and experience was the main bottleneck (though I thought I had a lot of experience when I did). I'd be interested to confirm that.
I'd add it:

* user observation and interviews

* a/b testing

to the list of tools.

(Indeed - the whole discussion is framed in the context of 'the product launch'. With a chunk of my clients that's just a dead concept. They're trying out new features with small chunks of their market at many different levels of fidelity all of the time. Not everybody can do this - outside of the context of web applications/sites it gets much harder - but if you can escape from the idea of the product launch everybody's lives seems to get much simpler)
Yes, but the Galaxy Nexus both preceded a working version of Flash for ICS and never thereafter shipped with it anyway (it had to be manually installed from the Store).
Does it matter if I have a Uni. degree in Medical Studies and I'm applying for an engineering position? (say a Front-End developer)
i say Yes.
Super awesome! Finally I can express my opinions without offending sponsors and the like.
> "who would buy a web server they couldn't test first?"

G-WAN is a freeware that can be downloaded from its web site.

How "neutral" in a debate is such kind of false claims that G-WAN can't be tested?
> I have been waiting for a good Pixel Qi device to emerge for several years.

Same here. Though an eink display would be almost as nice and seems much easier to get ahold of. But we might not have to wait much longer... Quoting Mary Lou,

> We will be announcing at least a half-dozen new devices with our screens in them in the next sevreal (sic) weeks.

http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2012/10/30/another-device-with-pixe...

Hopefully the new products will cost less than a grand.
I'd suggest that the one and only HDMI cable you bought was faulty.
Apologies if I sounded like I was criticising what you do - I'm sure that these made a lot more sense in the context of a presentation. I was questioning why the person who posted this link did so and why it has been upvoted to such an extent.
UNIX? What do you mean? I doubt this entry will go anywhere, but you might want to restate it.
RAM is so cheap today, I just maxed it out on my laptop. Granted, I have seen only probably 22GB out of 32GB used when I had YACY (P2P search network written in Java) running, but I still expect having system use rest of RAM for caches which in theory should speedup access to file system (on my SSD drive)
And we're back up, thanks for your patience!
Oh heck, say that then. I understand what you just said there, and I am interested. The existing wording just doesn't make sense (to me) though.
Could you elaborate more how college would have benefited you more now? Many people with college degrees are wearing your shoes.
Apple and the others no more price gouge their customers than Ferrari or Porsche do.
This rings very true to me: I like you, so I want you to be right, to the extent that I might suspend thorough analysis of what you're saying. Conversely, if I don't like you, I might ramp up efforts to find out that you're actually wrong.

Look no further than politics for day-to-day demonstrations of this: Does anyone ever apply the same amount of critical rigour to "their guy" as they do to his opponent?
Awesome idea! Now I can make honest comments and opinions that won't offend the wrong people!
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The 14.1 inch Thinkpad T21 released in 2000 had a resolution of 1400x1050. Not as good as you were asking, but an awful lot better than nearly all 14 inch laptops you've been able to get for the last 5 years.
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By logging with fb, your app will have at least my user id and email. Any data breach on your side and all the "anonymous" posts are not so anonymous anymore.
Well you're not supposed to use something as weak as Intel's integrated graphics.
How does making things smaller and smaller with each resolution increase equal "evolution?"

I would argue that making everything a fixed consistent size regardless of resolution and then increasing DPI as the resolution is increased would be a better way to "evolve" things.

"Zoom" should be an OS function (e.g. 125%, 150%, 200%, etc).
"Resolution" should be hidden from the end user entirely.
"DPI" should automatically scale with the supported resolution.

That way if the user is hard of seeing they can "zoom" things but aside from that everything would look identical no matter what resolution you had (e.g. identical on 1600x900 or 1080p, or higher).
That's different - special effects in movies make the impossible possible. A better actor couldn't conjure up the Grid.

A better musician COULD sing on tune. It is well within human capability. Autotuning is a quick hack to make up for not being able to sing.
That blog post seems fairly outdated. There are several lenses libraries that provide decent record support:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5767129/lenses-fclabels-d...

Personally, I'd much rather have a better baked-in record system, but that's unlikely to change substantially now.
I'm sorry, it's a bit early in the morning for me. I browsed the 'about' page and could not understand what the application DOES. I am not about to log into facebook through some application somebody put up randomly on the internet just yet, simply to see for myself. So, to get me started what does this application do? Thanks!
Pixels in web (css) are resolution independent. They are basically defined to be equivalent to a pixel on a desktop 96 PPI display. So using pixels in CSS is fine, if bit confusing. And of course browsers do all sorts of silly things, I can't recall if eg gecko has enabled PPI scaling on default.

edit: reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#absolute-lengths
"You see there, PHP running at front with 68 minutes average accepted answer time, either it’s too easy or there’re too many of them."

It's an average, the size of each data-set shouldn't really affect the results. If there's too many PHP questions then answer times would likely be slower. Seems just like an excuse to dig at PHP.
"So with even a $399 tablet doing 2560x1600 pixel displays, can we please just make that the new standard laptop resolution? Even at 11"? Please. Stop with the "retina" crap, just call it "reasonable resolution". The fact that laptops stagnated ten years ago (and even regressed, in many cases) at around half that in both directions is just sad.

I still don't want big luggable laptops, but that 1366x768 is so last century. Christ, soon even the cellphones will start laughing at the ridiculously bad laptop displays.

And the next technology journalist that asks you whether you want fonts that small, I'll just hunt down and give an atomic wedgie. I want pixels for high-quality fonts, and yes, I want my fonts small, but "high resolution" really doesn't equate "small fonts" like some less-than-gifted tech pundits seem to constantly think.

In fact, if you have bad vision, sharp good high-quality fonts will help.
#noexcuses"
The skilled worker can try the lottery too though. So another way to look at it is that he/she has 2 ways to get a visa, compared to the unskilled with just one.
Probably because Amazon US-East is in Northern VA, not NY/NJ. http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/globalinfrastructure/

NoVA didn't get hit that hard by Sandy, unlike NY/NJ. So data centers around here didn't tend to have problems, the few that I have equipment in didn't even loose utility power.
The idea is, that you want to make statements, but you want people you know to hear them as well. That's why we use facebook's social graph. :)
Google is a data company and its design approach is data-driven; whereas Apple is a design company and its data approach is design-driven.
Great idea, it's how the world should work, but I don't want the risk of attention by prosecutors, Comcast or the RIAA, and I don't want the extra due diligence necessary to definitively define those risks, and I don't want the surprise when any of those entities find new ways to annoy me.
My sincerest apologies. I meant no harm as I haven't browsed HN as frequently as I would like for quite a while and for that reason I'm not quite familiar with your claim but I'll take your word for it. I deleted my comment as it provides no useful information.

Again, I apologize.
you should give the possibility to sign up without a facebook account.
What I'd really like is an extension for a Facebook "read-only" mode, so I can leave myself logged in without worrying about accidentally clicking a "like" button somewhere.
Yes please!!!
I can't say how much i am disappointed by that 1366x768 crapsolution.. before my current laptop i had a FullHD laptop and that was faaar better..
Even my first laptop from over 10 years ago had a better resolution then most standard laptops have, how is that?!

(i had a 15" 1400x1050 display, then a 16" FullHD and now a 13" 1366x768)
> Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation.

I disagree. Firstly, you make it sound as if filling out some information about yourself (don't we do that all the time anyways?), posting some pictures, and updating your status is some overwhelming endeavor. For those of us old enough to have started on myspace and switched to facebook, it really was pretty seamless.

I'm not saying anyone should rush to develop the "next facebook", but I do think that the new entrants you speak of could easily become significant later on.

I agree that facebook seems pretty much stagnant when it comes to the user experience. I'm actually eager to see the new myspace once it debuts for that reason...
I was hoping that it would be a legal minefield to ban EU customers. The EU has lots of laws to make harmonise business law, so in theory it should be OK.
Intel is also pushing for higher resolutions for some time now. eg. Ultrabooks were supposed to have higher resolution screens.

http://liliputing.com/2012/04/intel-retina-laptop-desktop-di...

http://vr-zone.com/articles/from-idf-retina-quality-2560x160...
Potentially interesting, but the interface is too busy for day-to-day use. There's no reason you need to know this information for your typical search.
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Ask HN: are there simple free effective tutorials on web design you recommend?
Hi,

I am trying to create a simple and clean web interface for my web app. I am using bootstrap. However, I cannot find any complete and sane tutorial/ebook on the web that explains clearly how to create a well designed web page. I am looking for the basics here, but also for practicalities, for example, the app should look decent on IE7.

Do you have any recommendations?
He was the happiest man tested, but they haven't tested very many people. "Matthieu Ricard... has been the subject of intensive clinical tests at the University of Wisconsin, as a result of which he is frequently described as the happiest man in the world. It's a somewhat flattering title, he says, given the tiny percentage of the global population who have had their brain patterns monitored by the same state-of-the-art technology.... The fact remains that, out of hundreds of volunteers whose scores ranged from +0.3 (what you might call the Morrissey zone) to -0.3 (beatific) the Frenchman scored -0.45."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/matthieu-r...
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I think that passionate by HR standards means someone who will put the company first, and not argue about finances (pay). As in the passionate programmer who works long hours for not so much pay.
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Several years back the terms social media advertising was not in reality well-known. Several years back, the web revolution provided a totally brand-new significance for the prospect of advertising.
To be honest, without the facebook integration of being able to talk to _your friends_, there are-as has been pointed out-far too many anonymous forums already.
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A dial-in might be useful though.
I don't believe that your first sentence is correct, please can you provide citations?
I doubt it. The average resolution today is probably 1920x1080. I guess you're referring to the fact that 4 years ago, 24" displays often came with 1920x1200 instead. But I doubt enough people bought them back then to make it the average resolution (don't blame me, I bought two). Most people probably bought craptastic 22" TN displays with resolutions worse than 1920x1080; I know I talked my share of acquaintances out of it.

1920x1200 displays are still available, incidently. And overall, the desktop TFT market is much higher quality these days. TN panels are going out of style, for one thing, thank god. You can now get a 22" Full-HD display with an MVA panel for around 150 USD. Still pathetic compared to tablets, but we're getting there.
We can assure you from our side, that the way the app is structured, no part aside from login, uses facebook's user ids. We've tried to be very strict about that.
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Did you just make two separate comments praising this, both within two minutes of registering?
You don't make things smaller. You make things sharper.
While I'm only speculating, a company can choose not to offer their service in a particular country. I imagine their exclusion is due to the overhead of administration than any legal exclusions.
Annnnd this post is a hack :) If it gets more points and you get up in the queue, then this would turn into a great hack indeed.

And by hack, I mean a smart way of getting noticed, not a deceiving hack.
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just like DDG, lack support for languages other than english, something you should start from when creating a search engine
Speaker dock with no port connection.
Maybe is a monad, which means Maybe computations can be chained together with `>>=` (or using `do` notation) without checking for `Nothing`. You can easily produce a large composition of potentially-failing computations while completely ignoring the possibility of failure.

The case analysis you give as an example is only required at the point when you want to extract the final result into a different monadic context, and even then you would typically use the `maybe` or `fromMaybe` functions to make it more concise.

Only a novice Haskell user would write:

case comp1 of
Nothing -> handleFailure
Just r1 ->
case comp2 r1 of
Nothing -> handleFailure
Just r2 ->
case comp3 r2 of
Nothing -> handleFailure
Just r2 -> handleResult r3

which is indeed, just as bad as explicit null checking in C or Java, with runaway indentation to boot. But anyone who understands Haskell's rich abstractions would instead write:

maybe handleFailure handleResult $ comp1 >>= comp2 >>= comp3

The fact that you can't forget the "null check" without the compiler telling you about it is a nice convenience afforded by the strong type system, but it's far from the only benefit.
You should motivate them enough which also means compensating them well. Else you will end up searching for new developers over and over.
Remove the size displayed at the bottom right might make the game a bit more interesting....
If you look at what happens after a user action in detail, you'll sometimes see a bit of upstream traffic, then a brief pause for serverside processing, then some downstream traffic.

Responsive interfaces have to do all that in a few hundredths of seconds. Say ten for routine clicks, twenty for actions that seem less routine to the user, as much as fifty for really exceptional actions. Even twenty is not very many, and shaving off one, two or four hundredths helps.

Does it seem stupid to say that a search available in 0.19s is better than one in 0.23s? But these things do matter.
Indeed, can't think of it as anything other than irresponsible, bordering on downright dangerous.

Hacking software is one thing, but when that goes wrong it just leaves crashed servers, unresponsive web apps and 404/500 errors.

And, before someone mentinos it, hauling diesel up stairs to keep a hospital generator going (as mentioned in another story) is a whole different situation. Patients are a bit more important than a bunch of servers. But you'd still evacuate all non-essential staff and patients if you were doing that given that it presents a significant danger if something were to go wrong; especially with the emergency services already dealing with a huge workload.
Well done YC for putting people before business.
Then I guess he should have said "MRI is primitive", or "Ruby interpreters are primitive". As it is, it looks like a typical language fanboy rant more than an objective technical argument.
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I think Darth Bane Trilogy is pretty good.
Reasonable.

BTW, don't use "test" as the name for your throwaways. test(1) is a thing.

$man -k test
...
test (1) - check file types and compare values
Honesty is the best hack. If it's coupled with a genuinely good way of solving a big problem, then it's an even better hack. And if it's associated with a team that has accomplished things in the past, viola!
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Dunno, but a static generator like Nanoc & Jekyll works much better than Wordpress for me.

PS: I see the sarcasm though. :-)
And that's ok. But you'd like to test:

1) how many people would sign up without a facebook account?
2) how many of them could you "convert" and sign-in again with facebook? (saying something like "ok..now, how about you use your facebook account to [blabla] with your friends on facebook?

I'd say people are more willing to give it a try and see how it looks without passing facebook credentials first... That's just my hint..
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My main gripe with chromebooks is that they don't have a windows key (KEY_LEFTMETA). As a xmonad user, I have quite a lot of functionality bound to that key and I'm not too sure about moving it over to KEY_LEFTALT (mostly because of conflicts with my Emacs key bindings).
What makes you think that iPhone would be as good as it is if it wasn't fighting for customers who can get other smartphones?
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I am pretty calmed down, the fact is... There are quite a number of illegal activities going on in the world using the Internet. As much as you joke, the fact is I use my wifi all day long and hooking it to tor/vpn would:

1) slow it down

2) cost me money if I do not want 1) to happen

You know, I do not travel to volcanoes, but I do use the Internet. And being hit by a meteor is something over which I have no control... My wifi is completely mine to tinker with.

On the other hand: and I am not into risking SO MUCH (just the fact of receiving a letter is too much for me, sorry my values are not equal to yours) for so little benefit, sorry.

It is a risk without quotes, it is probably not a "danger" from your point of view (just to be precise): risk is anything with a potential damaging outcome... Yes, any activity is a risk. Just ask any insurance company out there.

And frankly I could not care less about Schneier's open wifi and his arguments in this case.
What's with the astro-turfing comments in this thread?
They do both, so it'll work totally offline, but it's better online and can utilise the two together seamlessly.
In my application video I look like a crazy-eyed psychopath. I'm ugly as a train crash. English is my 3rd language. My application form was written in 10 minutes and I didn't really review it. There is nothing interesting about me, I'm just like the most. (except the crazy eyes, good lord do I look crazy)

But the product I'm building (IMO) is really cool and profitable.

That said, I think I have the same chances of being accepted than those application form hackers.
There look to be a lot of new accounts all praising this.
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Giving constructive feedback like "give a little constructive feedback instead" usually goes better when you don't refer to the individual you're directing it to as a "dickhead".
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