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Universal search isn't really universal if the functionality doesn't act the same throughout the system. I agree that the search functionality from the start menu is excellent. Just starting to type away will automatically bring up search and begin to almost instantaneously offer results FROM THE START MENU ONLY.

Want this functionality from the desktop? NOPE! Want this functionality from the App Store? NOPE!
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It boggles my mind too. This is new to people here?
This is the closest thing, I guess: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-5.5/UPGRADING
So why do I buy this over say an iPad mini 3G?
Your argument is both irrelevant and incomplete.

The parent claimed that a greater level of immigration would likely have dramatic electoral consequences. You implied that the current level of immigration does not have dramatic electoral consequences. These claims are completely orthogonal.

Furthermore, the latter implication (which I assume you made on the basis that it is the only way the rest of your post conceivably supports the claim that the parent argument is bullshit) doesn't follow from the fact that the electoral consequences of immigration represent a continuation of an existing trend.
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Easier than anyone else, I'd say.

"Hi Everyone, POTUS here. About those treasury bonds a lot of you are holding... we're not going to pay interest on them. Or pay back the princiapl. Ever. On a totally unrelated note, here are some pictures of our 11 carrier strike groups. Impressive, aren't they?"
And that makes the crash ok? Applications shouldn't be non-responsive period, even if the network becomes unavailable they should at least fail gracefully.

Whenever I shutdown/restart Windows 8 for my monthly update (or whenever my machine gets too slow), most of my applications crash out (meaning, they can't shutdown in time for Windows to complain about it and ask you to crash the apps explicitly). This is with decent network.
We are never going to know the tablet's honest-to-goodness price point since it will never be sold without a data plan, so qualifiers such as "cheapest" don't apply.

Does anyone know how much a similar, not-rebadged tablet costs in a Lenovo store?
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So enlighten us all, rather than posting snarky comments.
Makes me think of the first reply to this StackOverflow question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...
Click on the version a few times for the jelly bean world.
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Wait, your resume says you're from North Carolina and you went to Case Western. You should really know this.
It's still very counterintuitive to the universal search functionality that exists on the start menu. Which, I might add, is fucking fantastic!

It doesn't make sense to my feeble mind to bring up a charm for search while in the App Store. Why can't I simply just start typing?
Agreed, street view has always amazed me. But what this does differently, which is very useful, is that it gives me the ability to download a large image quickly of a location.

I can use this for work and it removes some friction from my workflow.

Thanks for sharing!
Pretty sure they're html5, they display and refocus properly on iOS devices so there's definitely not a flash requirement.
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There's clearly a need for a word that means, "increase in the price level" and that word is "inflation." Your nitpick almost reads like a criticism of the word "fever": it doesn't distinguish the causes of the fever but lumps them together.

Economists have been studying inflation long before they really understood its causes and there are surely more refinements that are left, so it's vital to be able to talk about the observed phenomenon in a cause-agnostic way. Just like it's vital that doctors can talk about "fevers" without having to know about the exact underlying cause.
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> Since when was the Labour Party no longer "progressive"?

Since Blair.
Windows 2K is the newest version of Windows that does not "phone home" to activate after the product key was entered. Thus it is widespread due to piracy.
Upvoted for the lyricism and poetic nature of your comment; I'm not very receptive to the magic (or usefulness) of this, but your comment made it worthwhile! ;-)
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I am impressed at how expressive interfaces and structural sub-typing are for Javascript, even though there is still no way to express a heterogeneous array. However, I have been very disappointed at how weak their type inference is and that they have no plans to improve it. http://typescript.codeplex.com/workitem/329
Could you expand on this? Why will it get you black listed? What kind of situation are we talking about? It would be pretty annoying to get black listed.
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I think what they are attempting just 'sounds ridiculous' to you because no-one has succeeded yet. If they fail, then you'll turn out to have been right. If they succeed, then they'll do very well.

It's still a horrible idea to say "we'll just take our smart phone app, make all the touchable buttons clickable ones, and voila, we have a full-featured desktop app!"

Which is why they haven't just done that. They've put a lot of thought into it and come up with a system that scales through different interfaces.

Tablets are all about single tasking

Except for windows tablets, that encourage multi-tasking.
>when was the Labour Party "progressive"?

1918-1995

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clause_IV
Not everyone can or even should be a programmer.
Unfortunately, I don't have the URL as I have erased browser history since then. But I tried again and didn't see this issue.
That reminds me of Poe's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

As she didn't state she was trying to look stupid on purpose, it's very possible it was genuine.
We still eat with forks and knives, cars still have a steering wheel in front of us, a pen still looks similar as the plumes of way back, etc...

Monitors not upright? I don't think so. Some things just exist as they are because, of all possibilities, they are the most convenient. You can put monitors on the floor, on the ceiling, horizontal in front of you, or vertical in front of you. The latter turned out to be the most convenient.

Now we have the technology to make small phones with displays and use them. That is very convenient. But will it make me work on that on a desk? No.
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She may be dumber than a brick but of all Internet communities I would expect HN to sympathize with the point she's making. Are we seriously entertaining the notion that googling for a piece of software then downloading it from some unknown source and installing on your computer with privileges to inspect network traffic is proper user experience just because we don't like the idea of an Internet filter?
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Nice to see the authoritarian streak is still strong... eh?
They probably don't want more competition
Ugh.

The author displays an autistic focus on economic benefits, which I believe is more or less besides the point. Standards of living in the developed world are very high already, vague promises of '“job upgrades” responsible for a 0.6% increase in native wages' and 'Some newcomers contribute more in tax than they receive in services' are not going to reassure those with a lower education and precarious jobs.

Mass immigration is a cultural and human-rights issue. Disallowing migration from poorer countries into the first world is pretty harsh on those who really strife for better education and living conditions. On the other hand, human societies have cultural traditions and a lowest common denominator on morals, work ethics, tolerance and democratic thinking.

Mass immigrations threatens both the cultural traditions and the common ground and therefore absolutely need to be considered.
Hi, the director / coder here. Crazy to see on hacker news. We had to have it on just Chrome because of the twin pains of time (never enough) and money (added code, more testing, etc). For most of the project there were only myself and one other coder doing the work.

If it isn't working for you or have questions, feel free to let me know...
Sure. But:

- How do I make sure any other systems I own also get the patched version? (Gentoo: set up an overlay and commit the fixed package)

- How do I get notified when the package was updated upstream and my patch is no longer being applied? (Gentoo: emerge tells you when a new package is being installed from a different repository than the currently installed package)

You're probably going to say I should use a PPA, but not everyone is comfortable with signing up for a proprietary service and accepting their TOS. And setting up a PPA is way more complicated than maintaining a portage overlay in some VCS. And of course I have to submit a new package whenever a new version of Ubuntu comes out.
Thanks for the replies here.

Of course, I've been reading Jeff's posts for some time and know his creds. My question was not really very specific to him and this post of his, but just this time I caught myself mid-thought wanting to check whether the link is an affiliate link. For another author, I might not have been surprised, but I was in this case.

Mentioning that a link is an affiliate link (as cwd71 wrote) would be enough for me to put more trust in an author.
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Doubling a really small number does not make a large number. We're still talking well under 1% annually. The only reason that recent immigrants can affect the election is because recent immigrants are voting the same way as a large portion of the current electorate. That argument applies today and it will apply in the future even if immigration levels double. If they go up an order of magnitude, it might not, but nobody is suggesting that.

I'm having trouble parsing your last paragraph. There are at least 3 different things that "latter implication" can refer to...
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It's a gross over-simplicication to say that the shadow minister for culture, media and sport is the "Internet Minister". Whilst the internet definitely comes under this department, in a year that this department was also responsible for delivering the Olympics, I don't know why I expect her be any more knowledgeable about the Internet than Archery.
I do not find this surprising. I think a lot of MP's are somewhat unqualified for the role they do. I think it is scary that politicians are put in charge of thousands of employees and billion pound budgets without having to have any experience managing in the first place.

MP's are in charge of procurement. Take defense. If you have no experience procuring weapons / aircraft / whatever how do you know you are getting a good deal? Sure there are advisers and whatever but surely before you approve say a £10B pound submarine project you should know something about submarines, who builds them and what is a reasonable figure to pay?

I feel as well that one person cannot be responsible for such a broad range of topics like "Culture, Media, and Sport" which the Internet inevitably falls in to.

Regarding the point about "children are more technically aware than their parents" I think it is invalid. I think as a parent you need to involve yourself in your children's lives. You need to get up to speed with what is current. The excuse of "I'm old" or "I'm not hip / tech savvy / whatever" doesn't fly. It really isn't difficult to ask Google how to filter web content. Just as it wasn't difficult for me to phone up my TV provider and ask how I hide the adult channels on my TV.

You don't need to be a genius to work a computer. You just need to apply yourself a tiny little bit to do whatever it is you are trying to do.
I disagree but I respect your consistency.
To draw on your Ferrari analogy: Ferrari market to a tiny percentage of the car driving consumers as a whole. So of course that would make no sense. Also, Ferrari drivers don't tend to also drive Minis, so why have a unified experience.

PC-users and Tablet-users and Phone-users are all huge, mainstream, overlapping markets. I can see there might be some trade offs and problems with unifying experience - which is why I said this is a brave move by Microsoft. But you're basically bringing up one of the trade offs (screen size) and using that to write off the whole initiative.
Your post was thoughtful and articulate. I thought I'd check the site as though I were considering starting a project there. First I checked the Guidelines:

http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines

Part of the first Guideline says:

"A project will eventually be completed, and something will be produced by it. A project is not open-ended. Starting a business, for example, does not qualify as a project."

If I were starting a project it seems clear that the expectation is that I deliver something.

I'm not clear if that agrees with your view or not I guess I'm not clear what the expectation of crowdsourcing is. Maybe it's just a buzzword.
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Hey HN,

So I run a company (Vidpresso) which needs some enterprise sales folks. The thing is, I'm like all of you: Product focused, hackery, etc., and while I think sales is a necessary part of our organization, I've seen it be such a negative part of other organizations that I NEED to figure out how to fix this problem.

To be clear, I don't think product is more important than sales, or vice versa. I think they're parts of a whole, and need each other.

Traditional sales compensation is typically commission-based, which makes it very 1:1. For every item sold, salesperson takes home X. Nobody else in the company gets paid that way... every other knowledge worker is part of a team.

Any advice on how to structure a sales organization so that product and sales work together in harmony?
Here's a somewhat different take on this perennial scare story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/16/greenpeace_itu/
E-mail validation can be useful, but I would stay away from this thing. Look at what you are trying to do from a higher level.

Most likely the user wants something from you as well as you from them. If a user gives you a bad e-mail, despite a very basic e-mail regex, whatever, they won't get an e-mail, not my problem.

If it is to register on your website, just let them, send them a confirmation e-mail to their 'email', meanwhile allowing them to use the system (or not). Then if after x-time they haven't confirmed, just delete the user again. This will save you a lot of trouble.

If you want something more high-tech like checking a huge list of e-mails in a system you could go with a solution suggested below, just send them an e-mail.

Regex is evil!
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Hi, please the detailed comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4793863
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Yes. Because if you don't have a filter you can download one, but if you have a filter built into your internet connection, you can't undownload it. You can't choose the competing solution.

How is that a good thing? How would it help the bottom line in the long run?
Nice! Also try http://mapcrunch.com. It takes you to random places! They have been live for 2 years!
I'm confused. Are you saying that the media sensationalism surrounding fear of terrorism is simply accidental, and that the government has just naively bought into it and reacted accordingly?

Because if so, no, I don't think that's an adequate explanation. Obviously not malice, but just greed. The media is greedy and likes to air stories that sell, even if they are irresponsible. Politicians and government agencies are greedy for power and know that taking advantage of people's fear of terrorism is an easy way to grab that power. It's not evil for the sake of evil; it's evil for the sake of money and political gain.

But it's definitely not mere stupidity.
Heterogenous arrays can have very poor performance on some JavaScript VMs, particularly Google's V8. If you can avoid them in performance sensitive code, it's a good idea to do so.

For more information, see this excellent talk:
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Why do you care? You're in charge, and Contractor A is sending you to an informational seminar in Hawaii and Contractor B is only sending you to Italy.

Clearly Contractor A has the better proposal.
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Have you tried Windows 8 for a day or two?
I just did a presentation on TypeScript last night and the biggest pushback was debugging in JavaScript. I told them source maps where coming, I had no idea it would be so soon though. Maybe next month we can have generics!
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WebHostingTalk[1] would be a better place to ask this question. There are certainly plenty of companies there that will help you create a turnkey business, but personally I don't think the budget hosting market is very lucrative - if you look at the VPS Hosting Offers forum[2], there are literally people offering VPS hosting for <$2/mo.

[1] http://webhostingtalk.com

[2] http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104
PHP being popular is a fact, that doesn't mean that I use or advise using php only.

And the fact that lots of people that don't understand that syntactic sugar is not the only thing that matter in a language always bash popular languages that are not "cool" is a very common symptom that describes my previous comment very well.

And there is a third fact, that "sensitive" people like you that don't like strong opinions like mine feel the urge to disagree in a way that adds no value to the conversation and ironically call others "douche".
Oh no, not another 'Why I' article. This is at least the 5th on the frontpage today. I'm getting tired of these stories... HN starts to feel like being in Groundhog Day.
But, unlike XHTML, it is possible to validate an e-mail address with a regular expression (assuming comments have been removed).
Or you can sign up for Amazon Prime and use their streaming service, which works on Linux without jumping through hoops.

If you're willing to pay for individual movies/shows (in addition to the $79 a year), Prime even has a much better selection than Netflix.
If you overlay the Congressional districts I bet you can see the impact of Gerrymandering on some of these maps. When a party can receive well less than 50% of the votes and attain well more than 50% of the house seats you must congratulate them on trampling the intent of representative Democracy.
Indeed - the submission headline is particularly stupid (in case it changes, right now it reads "UK's Internet Minister is particularly stupid, can't use the net".

It's not the fault of this MP, it's the fault of the entire government (both present and previous) for setting up a department with such a huge remit. The Minister for CMS is responsible for the arts (film, stage, fine art, etc), sport (public funding thereof, etc), and media (everything under the sun: radio, TV, printed media, electronic media, etc).

It is virtually impossible for whoever occupies the position to have mastery in every field he/she is responsible for. Terence Eden might think she's not very bright when it comes to the internet, but there's a lot of people in the arts despairing about both the incumbent and shadow CMS minister as well!

Fundamentally, this problem isn't going to go away for some time. It's the product of merging several different posts and positions in an attempt to reduce the civil service budget.
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Now that I can't answer. I do know their goal for making it a charm was to provide an easy platform for apps to implement search, to get as much participation as possible. That said, each app could still individually make design choices toward usability. Seems like what you're asking for should have been an obvious improvement in such a central app (and put usability far beyond Apple's App Store).
This comes as little surprise upon thinking about the cost structure which seems to still aptly define the Chinese economy. With the cost of manufacturing still relatively low on a global scale, it should at least in part follow from this that opportunities for hardware startups would be relatively greater.
Actually, I'm also the creator of MapCrunch.
That's not a problem for a government agency to solve, that's a problem for an OS vendor to solve with proper sandboxing and a clean permissions system.

Are you seriously arguing that it is acceptable to allow your government to censor and (even more) trivially monitor your internet connection for, well, any possible reason, let alone one in support of a policy that wouldn't be particularly effective even in the best case scenario at achieving its goal?
Pink ribbons are advertising to gain money for a private organization (whether or not they do anything to help cancer victims). The Jesus fish is also advertising, promoted by private orgs looking to gain money & power. The Darwin fish is a private viewpoint. "Support the Troops" is propaganda, "Information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view." It's promoted by neocons or hawks or whatever you call them, who are seeking money and power via war.

From Wikipedia: Political analyst Noam Chomsky has criticized the slogan, saying, "[...] the point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything [...] that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about."
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Ask the Germans and the British before the WWII.

They were the largest military power at the time, Germany in land, British Empire(India,Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ethiopia...) on the sea.

They started getting in debt and a little country called United States became the biggest creditor of the world.

They they killed each other in a stupid war trying to reign supreme, and someone else did.

Now this someone else had started thinking their power will be forever. We will see...
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I've seen estimates that you could execute a continuous 51% attack for as little as 80 million in hardware. That's quite affordable to any central bank that feels threatened. I think a couple weeks of this would destroy all confidence in BTC.
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