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I'm interested in the fact that your clients never sought someone cheaper to execute the plans in your report. If one of the (or THE) difference between consultants like yourselves and freelancers is the research and strategy work, then wouldn't it matter less who executes that plan?

In other words, once you've come up with the strategy is there still extra value in it being executed at your rates, compared to a freelancer executing the same plan at a much lower cost?
Unless someone cares a whole awful lot nothing's going to get better its not.
"The attention paid to terrorism in the U.S. is considerably out of proportion to the relative threat it presents."

W O W. My jaw completely dropped when I read this sentence.

Considering we've averted 40 terrorist plots since 2001 this is pretty scary somebody would actually print such a statement. Keep in mind, those 40 are the ones we actually know about as well.

I'll continue to put up with the minor headaches as long as we continue to stop these plots before airplanes crash into skyscrapers or car bombs start exploding in times square.
Looks great. I like that it is big with plenty of spacing. Most date pickers seem to squish together the numbers without any apparent reason.

It'd be so helpful if makers of these js elements put screenshots of what the element looks like on top 3 mobile devices. Of course, this raises the question that they would need access to these devices. Which raises the question, for people who do mobile-heavy web dev, how do you test things rapidly beside having an iPhone next to you to constantly hit refresh?
Dharmesh classifies himself as a "complete introvert". And his behavior with respect to phones is consistent with that. But I find it hard to believe that he has gotten to where he is today by taking this kind of hardline attitude w/all the ways that his introversion manifests itself (it makes me anxious, therefore I won't do it, sorry). I'm pretty sure that all the public speaking that he does makes him nervous as hell (he usually begins his talks by admitting that), but he does it anyway.

As a fellow introvert, I am constantly trying to decide when to push myself out of my comfort zone (because it would be good for my career), and when I should just accept the way that I am and seek to add value in ways that I am most comfortable.

I'd love to see Dharmesh write about how he came to the decision of where to draw that line; e.g. phone calls are out, but public speaking is in. A takeaway from this article could be "don't try to be something you're not", but I feel that its a bit more complicated than that based on what I (think I) know about him.
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Yes, that is essentially my view. I do not believe the TSA's current procedures are constitutional. The court system has not corrected this instance of over-reach after ten years, and the TSA's policies continue to become more restrictive, intrusive, and degrading.

I do admit that declaring the TSA's current behavior as 'forbidden' is overzealous and legally inaccurate. I'm just an angry textbox and not a lawyer. :)
Suppose I were to break into your house, steal one item, and soil the rug each day, every day, evading all determined efforts to stop me; yet you still kept going to work, paying your taxes, and so on. Could you prove that the cessation of my bad actions would not throw your participation in society into a tailspin? Or, would it merely be the welcome end to an extremely expensive and annoying problem?
How does this differ from the jquery UI datepicker?
Simple trick for iOS: use the "Reader" feature of Safari to scroll to the footnotes while maintaining your current scroll in the main window. Switch back and forth whenever you encounter a new footnote (scroll positions are kept in both windows).
What's really amazing is that every now and again someone makes HN easier to read and use, and every time after about an hour, no one cares again. Simple text with simple styles just works, because the content is unbelievably good. Everything else is just bells and whistles.

Good job on the bookmarklet, though I am not sure if anyone will actually use it :) I think it's one of those things where you think it's a good idea, but really it's not quote as big of a problem as it seems.
If this really were the doctrine under which these searches were instituted, wouldn't there have to be a situation where the search procedures are fixed at the point where you bought your ticket, and they can't spring surprises on you by changing procedures between purchase and travel? Maybe I'm being unreasonable, but if the idea is that you implicitly consent when you sign up, then it seems like they should not then be able to change what you consented to later.
awesome article on valley's legendary hustlers :)
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iOS Simulator with desktop Safari's inspector if needed. If it is a more simple page then a separate browser window resized to mobile size.
A.A. and his alleged coconspirator may be exonerated, so maybe you're right. But using a flaw like this to download 100,000 email addresses, and then select from those addresses those of prominent members of the media to do outreach for a PR campaign, all the while talking on IRC about selling the addresses to spammers --- that's something more than simply observing increasing numeric IDs.

Your last sentence is needlessly and pointlessly hostile. If I was arguing out of personal interest, I wouldn't be recommending that companies pre-consent to having strangers test their web apps by setting up thank-you pages, now would I?
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Get back to me after you present a forged travel document in Germany, or show up at the airport with a device that will look to everyone else like a bomb. This ought to be good.

And I'd rather be corralled into a "free speech zone" for expressing a countervailing political opinion than arrested and indicted for it, as you would be in Germany.
Thanks, Michael. You're right on the spot with all the point you've made. Though some explanation is visible if you scroll we really need to work on it. And copywriting as well.

Agree on stock photos. Generic look is killing me too to be honest. That's why we're asking for some help from HN audience hoping to get some real life heroes on our main page.

P.S. $100k is just one of the first seed rounds - not a one time transaction, so you're right - that's not a great deal of money but we're working on it.
You can't spoof them with you fingers

Well, okay, but I could trivially present a custom application for stamping that would record them to make my own stamp. That's probably fine for loyalty programs, but is most certainly not fine for EMR. A dynamic QR code might be clunkier, but a static key will never be secure.

(or sniffing the real application from the background by jailbreaking)
Yeah, I agree. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to choose a year. Intuition tells me "this is a text box, I should be able to just edit that text" but it won't let me.
I uploaded all my photographs (some 100 gb) to Google Drive. They're way cheaper than Dropbox at the moment. For a moment I considered setting up a server for file storage in the basement, but I calculated energy bill would be more than what I pay for the cloud.
Looks like a really nice jQuery alternative from yui3 calendar (http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/calendar/ )
i think Dave - see http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/would-oracle-actually-buy-... - and Eric - see http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/03/20/could-hp-r... - have contemplated on the viability of such a deal.

I wanted to get your thoughts on Oracle, after the potential acquisition, changing its name to HP.
Unfortunately I can't seem to find it, but I thought there was a quote from Larry in all the HP/Oracle mudslinging about Autonomy barely being worth $1Billion. That's pretty impressive forecasting given that HP now values them at about 1.5B (10.3B purchase price minus the 8.8B write-down).
Brazil??? Oh yeah, they're real bastions of freedom, fighting an even more nobler War on Drugs than the US...
Nice. It needs a way to "click off" the picker to close it, without choosing a new date. E.g. the date is pre-selected, I open it, and then I want to close it again without changing the date. I intuitively expected that if I click the original field it will toggle off again, or I clicked elsewhere on the page it would close, like a lightbox overlay.

(tested on iPhone iOS 5.1)
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on Notes for years, and never thought it lived up to the hallowed Lotus name. It was a fabulous product if you were an IT person, but so poorly designed from a productivity standpoint

It's amazing how far you can get by pleasing the IT people who as far as I can tell are the only group that's pleased with the current version of Notes.

My first experience with Lotus Notes was in 2005 and I found it to be a bloated piece of crap with archaic email rendering, barely functioning search, and long wait times for even basic operations. I was hoping to see news that IBM was sunsetting the entire product along with the Domino servers it runs on.
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> whereas jQuery UI datepicker is 42kb minified

For anyone who cares, the Closure Compiler gets jQuery UI Datepicker down to 30kb (11kb gzipped).

Not quite as drastic as he claims but still significantly larger compared to his 6.7kb (2.8kb gzipped).
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There was IMO a third failure: they released an app with no clear purpose and no indications of what it was meant to do. I downloaded it after the hype about the acquisition, had to guess what the different icons did, I made a profile image and took some photos that were maybe uploaded somewhere?

I've no idea what was actually meant to happen, except it was supposed to share photos somehow.
Maybe I'll be in the minority here, but these are all problems with YOU, not with the telephone. Observe:

> 1. I don't like synchronous communications.
Ok, sure, if you're "in the zone" or something, just turn off your phone until you're done. Sometimes doing your job means responding to things synchronously. I don't think there's any careers out there that involve 8 hours of sitting in your cube uninterrupted.

> 2. I hate making small talk.

Boo fucking hoo. You have to express an interest in another human being's life for 5 minutes. Cry me a river. You're an introvert? So what? That doesn't give you a free pass to forgo all human interaction.

> 3. I have a really hard time saying “no”.

Grow a pair. It's one little syllable. "no". Practice it in front of the mirror if you have to.

> 4. I'm pathologically polite, and just can't get the timing right.

Talking to people is like any other skill. If you practice it, you'll get better at it. Maybe if you didn't avoid talking on the phone at all costs, you'd improve.

> 5. I'm absolutely terrible at ending a call.

Again, grow a pair. "Well, it's been great talking to you, but I have some work I have to get back to. Goodbye" It's not that difficult.

I'm as introverted as the next guy. I hate talking on the phone too, but as an adult in a business environment, sometimes you have to. You can spend some time developing a valuable skill, or you can whine about it on the Internet.
I can tell you that your experience will be vastly different depending on where you live and work. That's why it's hard to make meaningful statements about America as a whole, such as "Americans think they are number 1" or "You're more likely to get murdered if you move to America". Nobody throws a dart on a map and moves to America the country, they move to California or Virgina or Wisconsin.

Your supporting evidence cited a Fox News poll, which is probably the most biased and self-selecting demographic I can think of. That's one of our well-publicized failings, actually--the inherent biases of corporate media and the echo chamber of politics.
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Yep. Stock photos. Thank you, Yogo.
I'd say generic. But hey, how much $ and time you'd spend to find some real heroes, bring them together and do a photoshoot? Time is money.
Thanks a lot though. We're here for criticism, not praise.
Unfortunately you'd have to not use a majority of the web services you probably use. If its not Mixpanel, its their own internal solution, an alternative etc.

This is essentially just visualizing the logs most companies are already keeping. To be hyper vigilant:

1) Sign up for a unique email address for each service
2) Don't upload Gravatars
3) Read the privacy policy and TOS of the various services you use to see if you are comfortable with what they are measuring

The truth is, this kind of information is easily overwhelming, but will be useful for customer service and product teams trying to identify where users get lost using a feature, signing up, purchasing a product etc.
It sounds like you'll have a tough time getting your customers to pay you - if you're after money, is the idea still worth pursuing if you're going to have to 1) convince them it's worth paying for, and then 2) find a way for them to pay you? It seems like a lot of hassle.

That being said - people who don't have credit cards a lot of the time have parents/guardians who do. You could try that?
They're quite different. Intercom activity streams shows you when how often a user has visited your site and the conversations you've had with them. Mixpanel shows what actions a user has taken.
What you're saying is true. It's a small problem and people will forget; they always do. My real intention was to make it easy enough that there was a chance (a very small one indeed) PG would stick it at the bottom of the page and never have to think about it again.
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It's an old screenshot from before Chrome got Retina support.
Absolutely. I realize that this is all speculation at this point, and a question I have relating to the legitimacy of things like this occurring is how - if it's true - it was kept under wraps. Time and time again we hear these workplace horror stories, but where are the whistleblowers? Is it not safe for them to go to the police? Do they not think their claims matter? Were there mumblings of these occurrences that went unnoticed?

It's bothersome that there doesn't seem to be a place where people can go to speak up and not feel like they're suddenly a risk to future employers, but at the same time not cause the company a burden should the claims be unwarranted.
No, nothing like that. I do not have a constitutionally protected right to eat a sandwich. I do have one to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.

Furthermore, with the sandwich, there are alternatives available to me. I can choose to go somewhere else that serves cheaper sandwiches, or make my own. There are some places that I just cannot get to without flying; and some for which getting there would take so long as to be completely impractical, thereby cutting me off from a large swath of possible activity if I do not "consent" to being touched in the nether bits.

Their argument is like saying that by walking into a fraternity, a woman consents to being groped. Hey, maybe they even put up a sign saying "we grope women who enter here." That argument does not make it consent.

Furthermore, you are not able to remove your consent once you reach the head of the line. At may airports, they subject only some passengers to having nude photos taken of them by x-ray (or groping if you don't consent to the backscatter). But at the point when you get to the head of the line and find out if you're lucky, you are not able to leave in order to avoid the search; they have arrested people for trying to do so.

There are certain ways to coerce people to create an illusion of consent; but that shouldn't be confused with actual consent.
The data is valuable but these companies aren't basing a business off of it, its to improve their product.

Really we have to trust each company individually that they are using our information responsibly cough Google cough
Thanks! Also just found browserstack.com
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and one more thing to look at, revenue by lines of business http://www.trefis.com/company?hm=HPQ.trefis#
Thanks for your feedback! Responses:

"My pre-question qualifier: most of the use cases that immediately spring to mind for have the user holding an authenticating block, and not the touchscreen device."
-Could you say a little more about the use cases you are thinking of? Who do you consider to be the "user"? Most of our targeted use cases involve transactions where many smartphone users need to interact with a single, centralized system, person or installation. For example, our loyalty apps are downloaded by a retailer's customers, and then credits for purchases are added to their apps via a stamp placed at the retailer's point of sale. We consider both the customers and the retailer to be "users", though.

As for the security question, the capacitive touch points are embedded in a low capacitance elastomer, so physical duplication (e.g. casting) without destroying the stamp isn't an option. We also have other optional authentication layers (GPS-gating transactions to a stamp's known lat & lon, time-gating transactions to a stores hours of service, etc.) that would make even a duplicated stamp much harder to use.

Remember, its not hard to make a functional copy of the mag stripe on your credit card. I would argue it is much easier to do that than it is to spoof one of our stamps. Further, we don't print the "secure key" (the stamp point coordinates) on the front of our stamps, but your credit card number is plastered across the front of your plastic . . .
Those are features. Besides not giving my N10 back after showing it to her, my mother also wanted to know how to get her calendar to show up on her lock screen. It does have value and isn't just cosmetic. That I can check my email and calendar by simply turning on the screen is very valuable to me. Additionally the clock now includes the additional functionality that CM had just added (though I don't think the code is shared amongst them).

Besides, I was referring to small UX/UI details (new swipeable gestures, new bits of polish here and there, new icons for core apps, new even smoother/slicker/amazing multitasking animations [much less disorienting than 4.1 in my opinion], etc).

I'm personally quite aware of the Bluetooth, etc bugs (though I can't reproduce battery issues on ANY of my Nexus devices, it's obviously an issue). They're obviously problematic. I understand why they replaced the Bluetooth stack but they didn't do a very good job of it.
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I feel the opposite. Something that can take 30 minutes to do over the phone can be resolved by a quick 2-3 IM or email.

The back and forth required to flesh out technical requirements and specific details just takes too long to express well in a phone call. Forget pseudocoding. And the small talk? A tedious reminder that solving my technical problem involves providing emotional support to another human who shouldn't need it.
One man's bribery is another man's method to reach a real person in the government instead of a feedback form (like complaining on HN about some way you got screwed by google's automatic processes).

The good side of lobbying allows for some interest group, lets use the people who do commercial fishing in the gulf as an example, to pay attention to their interests and let someone know about problems in legislation they foresee or notice after the fact. Without them, each congressman (or some subset of them) would have to employ someone who knew a thing or two about marine/environmental biology to read all their legislation for ways that it could harm x. It's really unpopular for congress to spend money on itself, so this probably wouldn't happen and we'd ignore environmental impacts of a wide variety of things.

This, of course, is in theory. I whole heatedly agree that the balance of power between interest groups and of interest groups isn't at any sort of ideal point, but I can't see removing their ability to communicate with politicians as a good thing. Lobbyists do a whole lot more than just donate to crooked politicians.
Grantland does a really great job.[1] It's probably because Bill Simmons, the founder of Grantland, uses footnotes extensively in his writing.

[1] Example here: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8486795/the-harden-dilem...
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Sounds frustrating.

While it may sound reasonably possible to allow a downgrade I don't think that's the case. Apple has made this no-downgrade a core rule so that developers can rely on that rule and only worry about building a one-way data migration path for new versions.

So maybe some of your data / configuration has been converted during the move to iOS 6 and now there is no process that can convert them backwards into an iOS5 format.
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We are doing research yet, but we got 1 resolved we think (I mean, people will want to pay for it). Number 2 is what our trouble. This is not in US, but Argentina, where people are not used to give their credit card details online, and they won't definitely do it for they childrens.
Hard drive. USB2. Cheaper per gigabyte, you own it rather than rent it, no internet connection necessary.

Consider how long it will simply take to upload all your stuff. Assume 2.3MBit upload (ADSL2+ with Annex M). You have 200GBytes = 204,800MBytes = 209,715,200KBytes = 1,717,986,918,400 bits to upload. At 2,300,000 bits/sec, that will take 746,950 seconds = 12,449 minutes = 207 hours = 8.6 days. Even with fibre broadband (10Mbit/sec?) it will take you two or three days. Or, you can expect ~250Mbit/sec write from any old USB2 hard drive you buy, so you'll be done in an hour or two.

Of course, if you have access to a decent internet connection, and there's no problem your using it for personal stuff, or you're just more patient than me, online storage has much to commend it.
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I found the copy on the demo page to be very clever in anchoring different emotional cues to specific days of the year.
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I agree with you. However, using false reasoning probably doesn't help. While it may help vent your frustrations, it may also make others thinks that your views are ungrounded in reality.
Ask HN: Alternatives to software startups?
Hi HN,

Lately I've been wondering about something: you hear a lot about web and software startups, and a few things about hardware startups now and then, but virtually nothing about other types of startups. Of course, there are good reasons the aforementioned types are so popular (lack of enormous cash requirements comes to mind), but have you ever thought of 'alternative' startups? Startups in the chemical industry? Biotech? Maybe even mechanical engineering?

So what do you think: do you think there's room for those kinds of startups in those areas (despite the fact that web/software is probably easier), or do you think this is something you need a big business to pull off? Have you ever had a startup idea in one of those areas?

Just curious. :)
Hong Kong's murder rate is 0.2 per 100,000. Iceland and Singapore both have a rate of 0.3.

Clearly Western Europe is a horrible, brutal, violent place against which the inhabitants of these countries should be clicking their tongues.
Convenience would be nice so that I don't need to carry movies on my laptop and could stream them, but perhaps that is a bit move work than necessary.

I was considering buying and partitioning a time capsule to use as both external storage for media and as a time machine backup. The wireless setup is nice since it becomes more transparent.