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Am I the only one to have pleasant experience flying?

I usually travel 2-4 times a year by myself as a single male. I plan for security (eg. I don't try to bring along liquids and wear shoes that are easily removed) and haven't had to wait in a security line longer than 15 minutes in the US in 6+ years.

I have been pulled aside twice to be patted down by the TSA, neither of which invasive nor did they get near my genitals. In contrast I have also been patted down by airport security in Belgium (much more invasive, didn't touch crotch) and been frisked twice by police in the USA (very invasive, definitely did touch crotch). [I have no knowledge of the female experience of being frisked - unfortunately I suspect a much higher level of both discomfort and inappropriate groping]

I don't like that our security is based stupid rules instead of smart security analysis, but the level of vitriol I see in the internet is totally disproportionate to my experience. The worst part of flying for me is getting stuck in the security line behind some person who still doesn't know full bottles of water aren't allowed through security and then try to argue with the TSA agents in an attempt to save $4 - and given that I still get through the line often under 10 minutes, that is more of pet peeve than a real issue worth complaining about.
>I'm far more upset over the fact that they replaced the bluetooth stack, frankly.

Yes, yes, yes. I would happily upvote articles about this subject rather than a microscopic bug (iOS6 maps is no microscopic bug).
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At Twilio, our REST API is fully documented but we still encourage people to use our helper libraries as much as possible.

It's not because we'd like to document the API less, but because there are related things - http connections, auth, etc - that need to be handled and it's easier to have the library do them. Further, the library serves to wrap the API in the idioms appropriate for the language. This may include data structures, but also includes things like variable names.

That way you can focus on your app in your chosen.. and only dig into the abstraction if you choose to.
> It feels like they give more attention to the "big" features than the "little" details, which is why I still have an iphone.

Whereas Apple ignores the big features, such as Maps. Give me a break.
Building an email client is one of those fun projects you can play with and learn a lot about how the internet works at the same time. Like most cool projects, you can either stop with a little functionality or keep going into all kinds of other stuff.

Telnet clients are also fun. I haven't written an http client, but looking at the state of web programming, I imagine that is a whole nother can of worms. I think I'd rather go for a root canal.
>is the question of what happens if the 100 people come up with 10 or 100 different solutions, all or most of which are at least as good as the patented idea, and yet few if any are exactly that idea //

If none of them were exactly the idea, and the skilled practitioners were tasked to present solutions that required no novel development only that which constituted the state of the art at the time, then the solution would be non-obvious.

Indeed the presence of many other possible solutions makes any one solution less obvious as the choice. There's a secondary effect that if the many solutions are equally good then they'll all be of little value whilst if the patent covers the one solution of the many that turns out to be greatly superior then it will have a much higher value.

Moreover on the subject of obviousness I always felt that should a patentee or their agent push the argument to it's logical end that "if it's obvious then why has no one already done it" appears to be an almost watertight argument.

To recapitulate, if it were obvious then others would have done it, if it were obvious and valuable it would be recorded (or patented) - in such case then a novelty citation should be available. If the subject of the application were obvious but of little value, ergo no patent had been applied for, then there would be little reason to continue to grant and little reason for a patent office to refuse and moreover little reason for a patentee to pay renewal costs. The result then is that if there is no novelty citation the patent office has no case [to push obviousness] or reason to practically pursue such a case. YMMV.

I just skimmed the second half but:

>I'd love to see public review of patents before they are granted. //

This is why there is early publication. Practitioners have chance to file observations before USPTO or UKIPO or who ever before grant that the examiner can take in to account. In short there already is public review. Many many times there's been a story on Slashdot with commenters aghast at what the USPTO are granting now the kerfuffle has been over an A-publication and then usually the scope has been assumed to be only limited to the title (rather than the claims).
From the demos it appears that this doesn't have keyboard support. That seems like a major drawback from an accessibility standpoint.

It does look nice and easy otherwise, though.
Activity feeds can give you great insight into what individual users are doing so you can test out your hypotheses in funnels and see if large swathes of users exhibit similar behavior. For example, one client noticed that users were scheduling appointments by clicking "day" 20 times rather than clicking "month." They made a UI change to the calendar and saw their booking rates go up.

This is also incredibly useful for providing stellar customer support. As an example, Dollar Shave Club is using Activity Feed to see exactly where a user is, which browser and OS, and what they've done recently. For example, if a user claims to have changed plans, the customer support rep can see what buttons the user clicked, what the old plan was and what the new plan is. They say it has made them much more efficient and effective when dealing with customers.
Nobody ever said that you should use REST if it doesn't suit the problem you're trying to solve.
I'm not sure why you are downvoted, but I sincerely value your opinion. Thanks.
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> Like your comment's parent, I try out another Android device every 18 months or so, and I still have yet to be impressed.

And I try out an iOS device every year or two, and I have yet to be impressed. The notification system is still inane, Mobile Safari still lags when scrolling, all your app icons still show up on your home screens, and you still can't use widgets on the home screen. When is Apple going to fix these glaring UX flaws?
Nice work. I haven't tried Firefox for a long time, but this handles well. The integrated dev tools look good, too.
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Not so well on iOS
To be fair, the Nexus 4 is based on the size and the release number (it's the fourth Nexus phone).
Man, this would've been useful a few weeks ago!

We posted this as a ShowHN recently, but we built http://www.awesomecontroller.com/ as a side-scrolling pixel site.

We used Pixen on OSX for pixel art, and it was really simple to get started. I'd highly recommend it for simple pixel work if you're not a Photoshop guru.
Very much like the idea, and am definitely interested. 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.

Security question for the use cases where that would matter. What is to prevent someone from making an impression mold and then using a technique like lost wax casting to quickly generate a copy?

As a materials scientist, this is the first thing I thought of.

Cheers and Kudos,

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America is not unique in this regard, many other countries have vastly differing state laws too.
That's like saying I consent to have the sandwich you made but I don't consent to give you money for it, therefore you the sandwich shop owner are robbing me. You analyze the cost-benefit and consent to the whole package. You can't pick and choose.
You make me realize that with people who can write well, I'll lean towards preferring email communication, with those who can't, I'll prefer phone. And by "write well" I don't mean having perfect grammar or spelling. I mean having clarity of thought, delivering a clear progression of ideas, and being concise.
It's not that you're using stock photos, it's that you're using very generic looking stock photos. The result is that given your minimal layout the first thing you see on the page are bad stock photos. So this isn't a stock photo issue, but a total lack of art direction. Also there's a larger killer issue:

I've now been looking at your page for a few seconds and don't have a clue what you do.

Maybe you've hidden that info under the fold. Maybe you haven't hired a copywriter yet. Maybe you're still figuring it out. But I have no clue what this website does and why I should trust you with access to my facebook account.

$100k sounds like a great deal of money, but it isn't: So if you're being tight with the budget I get it. However that said hiring a freelance web designer to sketch several landing pages isn't a huge investment. Unless of course this is just a throw away page and you want to spend the money on the real product.
Airbnb has the information that is shown in those examples because that user has given them the info (by registering). If someone is using a website it's reasonable to expect that analytics is tracking every move in order to make proper business decisions. If that user has registered for the application, it makes even more sense to attach their actions to their account so you can track customer lifecycle data in order to improve your funnel and decrease churn.

If you don't want a site to gather info about you, then don't use the site. Or use incognito mode I suppose.
Or in PG speak, you're noticing startup ideas, not thinking them up.
Maybe it's not cool to admit it, but this is a bug I can really relate to. I had a Facebook page title become [Object Object] the other day and this feels similar. I wonder if the luddites of tomorrow will lament the loss of these wabi-sabi details.
Well by "little things" I also meant bugs. Clock UI and new lock screen designs etc are matter of personal preference.
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I'm a 6' male with a beard, used to have long hair too.

I always got selected for "randomized" searches when flying (in the UK). At UK airports everyone goes through a metal detector. It would always beep when I went through even if I took off my shoes and belt.
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Your forgot the 7-10 minutes waiting for one of the invitees to join the call. And the occasional feedback/echo loop followed by elaborate ad-hoc algorithms to try to find the receiver at fault.
Not trolling. I work in biotech. This industry lives and dies on IP. It literally costs hundreds of millions of dollars to run clinical trials and most of them fail. If someone else can come along and make a knock-off of your product and steal your profit then there's no incentive to run them. The whole model of the pharmaceutical industry relies on ~15-20 years of patent protection. People certainly play games with patents in biopharma, too, but without some form of IP protection you wouldn't get new drugs. Simple as that.
Telnet clients are fun! It's easy to discard Telnet as an ancient, obsolete protocol, but the core of its design is actually very enlightening.
Fair enough, good points. But do you kind of see what I'm getting at toward the end? You may have some strong beliefs on patent law but does everyone? Really? Is it just me or does anyone else see this as a bandwagon thing. The next hip cause to support. More people regurgitating something someone told them without reading up on it on their own. That sort of thing. Everything else aside, that's what bothers me most about this issue.
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The view that "They have not been ruled as constitutionally reasonable upon by the SCOTUS, and that until they are, they are forbidden by the fourth amendment." is incorrect.

Were it true then every single new law or administrative action (of the federal government) would need to be reviewed by the Supreme Court before it could be applied. Instead, we have the court system to address these problems after the fact. We assume that laws and policies are constitutional when put into place and use the court system to correct instances where they are not.

For the sake of discussion, let's switch to something similar. The shoe scans are a nuisance and are not effective. People dislike it even worse than the scanners and pat-downs. It takes time, which slows down the number of people who can be processed. Some people have balance or other problems, so it means there needs to be a chair during the line before screening. Others have religious or cultural aversion to putting socks or bare feet on a dirty ground, so many airports provide booties or paper slippers. This makes everything more complex.

The requirement that people must take their shoes off has not "been ruled as constitutionally reasonable upon by the SCOTUS." Therefore, under your viewpoint is it forbidden by the 4th amendment?

The view of the circuit courts, and implied view of the Supreme Court, seems to be that the pat-downs which you mention are reasonable under the 4th amendment, given the "degree to which it is needed for the promotion of legitimate governmental interests" and that it occurs in a place where "the need for such measures to ensure public safety can be particularly acute."
It is great to see VCs transitioning into full-service firms that offer recruiting, marketing and more. When hot startups have a choice of picking their VCs, each VC needs to have a better value prop over another. First it was engineering talent that was hard to come by and now it is designers.
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It strikes me that many of our problems stem from people holding on to and trying to propagate the fairy tale explanations they were indoctrinated with, instead of moving on and simply acknowledging how the present day government operates and sustains itself.
It is precisely your neo-imperialist, 'preemptive strike' mentality that is the cause of contemporary terrorism.

It is, in fact, terrorism itself.

If you think your life as a Western consumer is somehow non-violent and unrelated to the global situation, I pity your naïveté.

I haven't the time to expound further.
For some reason when you said clip art I was expecting the vector illustrations you have in office. For your site I'm guessing you are referring to the stock photography. Personally I prefer not using stock photography and definitely not on homepages, it comes off as fake.
Nothing I said was an argument, I was only stating my opinion.

An opinion, it seems, that is not uncommon.

http://blogs.reuters.com/bernddebusmann/2011/10/28/america-w...

> Please leave your preconceptions at the door when having a serious discussion.

Upon arriving in America in 2003, I had no preconceptions. I'm speaking from my experiences living and working in the country.
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If it's only one short term job, it's totally ok. Two is ok but I will ask why. Three+ is a negative. 5+ short term jobs is pretty much no hire unless there is a very good explanation. There are no perfect companies and people have to compromise.
Sorry continuing this off-topic thread, but I'm actually curious what it takes to become 'hell banned'. I've noticed several banned users lately, and this is another case where none of the user's comments/submissions seem overly trollish or offensive.
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Sorry. That was a typo. I meant "Did he [Apoteker] make money for his companies or himself?" Apoteker has enriched himself, but that does not necessarily make him a good business man. His tenures at SAP and HP did not end well.
Thanks for the feedback! Responses:
1) We're working on a local stamp authentication code package for our native SDKs. We're at a pretty early stage right now, which means we're constantly refining our algorithms and tweaking our stamp observation interface. Thus, for the time being, it is easiest (and more secure) for us to keep the authentication services on our server. We should have a local version ready in the spring, though.

2) I'm working on a major blog post about security that I'll post next week. In summary, we have several measures implemented to prevent replay attacks, including o.auth and time-gated ticketing.

3) Agreed. This is a client-specified feature. Most SMBs want it (even if their customers don't). Ces't la Vie.

We have a couponing API for our native apps in private beta right now. We also have a Twilio-based SMS couponing feature that will launch soon.

Thanks for your feedback!
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I am working on a service where clients are in a age range of 15 - 25. Most of them doesn't have credit card.

What are your ideas to charge them? I thought in paying with the credit in their cell phones, which teens usually have. But I should talking with phone companies to be able to do that.

Have you got any idea?

By the way, this would be a good hole to fill in the internet, so use it as a startup idea if you want to
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There is some strange bug in which I cant navigate more than one month before or after. It happens after I fill the initial date box. And then as I play around with the other dropdowns, I suddenly won't be able to move more than one month back or forward in any of the dropdown pickers.
Web servers have kept access logs from pretty much the inception of the web. They're not gathering any new information, tools like MixPanel are just organizing and presenting it more effectively.
Dropbox is roughly $1/Gb per year... So you would be looking at $100-$200/year going that route. If you are paying that much for your content storage, understand you are paying a premium for the convenience of cloud storage.

If you don't need web access to your content you are certainly better off financially simply buying a 1TB external hardrive. They can be had for $50 these days.

Is price or the convenience of the cloud more important to you? I personally have opted for the external route.
The main issue here is that it's legislation covering cases not covered by the 4th amendment, i.e. where there is no Constitutional violation in the search, but which the legislature could add additional statutory requirements to. And the main reason that's the case is that you only have 4th-amendment rights in your person and property, but you have no property rights in your Facebook account, which is wholly owned by Facebook, and which you use for free only as a guest. So the only party that could object to a search of Facebook is Facebook itself (they could fight subpoenas, attempting to quash them as unreasonable impositions... not unreasonable impositions on you, but on Facebook).

I don't think that's a good state of affairs, but I can see how it logically makes sense. On HN we're often reminded that people have no right as users to any particular service from Google or Facebook, and the reason is that they don't own anything about the service or the data on it. Facebook could sell your data to advertisers, they could mail all your posts to the FBI without a warrant, whatever they want. So similarly there is no 4th-amendment right that you have relating to a search of Facebook, because it's not a search of your person or property, but of theirs. In the Founding generation this wouldn't have been an issue because it was not common to for a person to store significant amounts of their personal papers in a form where they had no ownership over them (even when you stored with a 3rd party, like in a bank safety deposit box, there was typically a contract specifying that you had certain ownership rights).

I do think there should be a fix to it, which will require implying some kind of rights that Facebook users have against government searches of Facebook targeted at that user (despite the user having no ownership in Facebook). But one wouldn't want that to go too far, because I can also see the property-rights argument: if I really do want to voluntarily mail the data on my server to the FBI, and I didn't sign a contract with the users saying I wouldn't, why should the users be able to stop me from doing so? You'd have to abrogate property rights with some kind of right-to-information-privacy that supersedes the fact that it's my server and I own its contents. Overall it seems like a situation that the Constitution's framers didn't imagine.
I looked up "half duplex" out of interest, and it fit closely enough what I imagined it meant. But the first article I found says that cell phones are full duplex. However I've found they have a threshhold volume under which they don't send any signal to the other party, so perhaps that can make it feel like half duplex. Am I misunderstanding this?

Link: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone1.htm
I do so wish this came out about a week ago. I had to resort to jQuery UI's datepicker for a thing at work.
> I say let loose the drones

You do realise that what the drone attacks are doing is to further radicalise people in Pakistan, don't you? A bit like what's happening in Gaza, what these attacks do is remove a few visible figureheads, kill people who aren't necessarily connected, and turn a good number of previously neutral or inactive people into sympathisers or more active combatants.

The idea of a relentless attack strategy is, with respect, utterly absurd and has about as much chance of real success as the War on Drugs. The rest of what you say makes much more sense. Communication is the key. Relentlessly communicate instead of relentlessly attack.
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what exactly was your point...your submission history isn't exactly jumping with submissions demonstrating it.
Totally agree, I hate to see so many startup trash posts every time.
Thanks! I'll be sure to make a show HN or something when I do. I still need to add in support for compression, but it's not high on my todo list and I'm sure the community could help.
Thanks for the references. It is as you say: Science in general is getting over it's somewhat childish dislike for anything that has to do with "Cold Fusion" and there is some earnest research going on. And why not? If there is a chance cold fusion may work it is sensible to find out if it is indeed so. Or if not.
So far they have a few interesting ideas and some unexplained experiments. But not more. No hard evidence. Just because scientists are taking it seriously again does not mean there really is something there. Compare it to MythBusters: "We've heard about this cool thing - let's see if there is something to it."