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We believe most small websites don't have sufficient traffic on mobiles to make use of the feature, while bigger accounts would have custom websites and landing pages for mobiles and tablets. Of course, we could have launched it for everyone but we have been trying to introduce some premium features without increasing our base pricing (our basic plan of $49 for 10,000 visitors hasn't changed in last 2.5 years since launch).
Guess they have alot of patents that would create great barrier to entry!?
I have SwiftKey and Swype. There's a reason I don't install Swype anymore (and - what's the point now, if recent versions of Android bring this functionality?)

That aside, SwiftKey isn't active on my devices either: It was really neat and got worse. It's technically unusable for my 'flow' right now and I see the same issue reported multiple times on their site. No fix. Keyboard that doesn't work as keyboard: Failed product. Adding a new way to input stuff while the current version is broken is a bad way to treat users..
After signing up through Hojoki you have a regular Box account with 25GB for free as a starting point.
and it is the Obama administration that has set the record for "most paramilitary raids on medical marijuana dispensaries."

Have many presidents been in a position where raiding medical marijuana dispensaries was an option?
Do I need to be good at maths to be a developer?
"I got rejected from YC and here's my idea. It still sucks"
~2 decades.
I particularly liked the approach they took with the "first run" experience, or rather the second approach after they learnt their mistakes.

I can't count the number of times I've downloaded an app and have been smacked in the face with the exact same screen of two text boxes (username, password) and two buttons (log in, sign up).
> The auto-updating marketplaces provide tremendous value to the average consumer.

Good point. This is an "infrastructure" software, correct?

Conclusion seems to be that F/OSS forces should join together and create an Open App Marketplace.
Great work Anil. I did a quick search on beer brewing (near and dear to my heart) and found great government information from legal quantity to some local resources. This site will be valuable if I ever develop a recipe that I will want to sell. Do yo have any plans to do cross search to set up a regional type archive. For example, if I wanted to sell my beer in adjoining states such as VA and SC.

-Esther
I just signed up and tried it out with some stuff. It's like a big mashup timeline of all your stuff along with some filters.

So for example I connected my twitter and my github, so if I tweet (or someone tweets @me) it shows up there. Similarly if I commit stuff to github (or presumably if someone on my team commits stuff) it posts the commit message to me.

It's pretty neat, might dig in a bit more later.
I think this becomes more compelling if you offer multiple price points and try to set delivery expectations at each level. I'm not sure how much can be built at $500 while maintaining reasonable $/hr rates.
Also to be read as, "Apple to invest 0.38% of 2011's total profit to bring Mac production to the US next year"
Interesting considering that less than 2 years ago Mr. Jobs said: "those jobs aren't coming back" to Mr. Obama.

[1] http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20120123/ARTICLE/301239...
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It's not clear to me, either — which is also like Google Wave. I followed links to try to figure it out, but others may not have; why would a special-offer page not at least try to describe what the service is? Not smart marketing.
I'd say the worst thing about the iOS environment is that everything isn't synced to the cloud consistently. It's approaching that. Restoring your stuff should be a matter of knowing a single sign in. We're getting there. But yes, you're right, there may be stuff on the flash drive that you can't necessarily get out.

Not everyone has a tech support person to restore their Windows machine from a crash. It sounds easy to you, but it is not. The average person should not need to run a redundant backup system in their house.

I love "open" computing and I would never want to be without it. But I've played tech support for my friends and family long enough to know it's never going to be for everyone.
I would argue that the example you picked is more of a gimmick than true innovation. Tesla also eliminated the gas cap, along with the gas tank, and the gas engine...
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Ask HN: Is there an open source variant of CodeSchool/Udacity type systems?
Is there a collection of open source packages, or one, that functions similar to the CodeSchool/Udacity type of call/response/test typically for use in-browser training in tertiary environments?
These articles are such a load of crap, for a simple reason: Mac is still the development environment for iPad, and Apple is all about Apps, Apps, Apps.

OS X is better and faster than it has ever been. It's not any more locked down than it has ever been. It has more features than it ever has. Apple's laptops are less upgradable, but since when have laptops been particularly upgradable?

You can do "real work" on an iPad. It's a phenomenal machine for consuming and producing text. As a lawyer I spend my life reading or writing text. The retina screen is an absolute revelation for that. I can't run CAD programs on it, but then again I never did on my Mac either.
the Obama administration [...] has set the record for "most paramilitary raids on medical marijuana dispensaries."

That's like saying during the Bush Jr. administration that they had set the record for the "most paramilitary raids on cloud computing datacenters". The title is meaningless because the measure didn't exist before that administration.
Just one word: inward-looking
Announcement here: http://googleblog.blogspot.in/2012/12/google-communities-and...
Haha. This is too funny. I love the twitter post that just happens to have 140 comments!
If your wrists are in contact with the front edge, your desk is probably too high and you might be much more comfortable at a lower height (even beyond the sharp-edge issue, your shoulders may thank you).

Or to quote Steve Jobs, "you're holding it wrong." ;-)
>Of course, there is also no possibility of someone being sentenced to life in prison for stealing a piece of pizza in NZ either, which has happened and does happen frequently here in the US.

I can't find a single example of this. Some people are convicted for long sentences for violating 3 strikes rules, which are questionable, but I think you have exaggerated more than a little here.

[EDIT] [Added]
The comment below mentions this case, but the guy only did 6 years:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/10/local/la-me-pizzathi...

I looked around and there just are not many, if any cases like the OP describes. His comment is an exaggeration to say the least, and may even been an absurd exaggeration based on something he vaguely remembers from 1995.
With regards to 1, while it is very perilous so many companies start this way. At some point, any enterprise b2b company is going to have a small number of clients, of which any one makes up a large percentage of their bottom line.
>"Digital rights management" because oh god won't somebody think of the children with child pornography and music downloads!

I don't understand what connection you're drawing between CP and DRM.
That's kind of the scenario I was thinking of for the UK, where they have a very limited mileage insurance (2-3k miles per year). Typically owners of these cars only drive them rarely at the weekends, and only in the summer/in dry conditions.
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250MB.

In this case at least, the maximum file size varies with your plan.
Maybe if they built it 25 years ago. People that did said thing 10 or 15 years ago I'd think would have used similar methods that could be updated easily. 10 years ago was only 2002.
I suspect Apple will replicate what they are already doing in Brazil, where Foxconn locally built a factory to manufacture specific Apple products to the local market.

Note two things: 1. I suspect this would be a Foxconn factory, not Apple (note how Tim Cook says "we'll be working with people"); 2. The total investment of the Foxconn factory in Brazil was 5 times bigger, so I suspect that Apple's $100m would cover only a fraction of the total investment required to build a factory in the US.

Regardless, that's good news for the American worker.
Pretty much. I tried the current Swiftkey, and found Swype better. I just wish Swype wouldn't wipe my custom dictionary on each upgrade.
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Along with the feature, we have also put together a 32 page PDF guide on 'Testing and Optimization for Mobile Devices' http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/downloads/mobile-testing-g...

Testing and optimization for mobile websites is still in infancy and most small/medium websites wouldn't bother with it right now. But with increased usage and much of research for shopping increasingly happening lazily on tablets and mobiles, this is definitely going to change in next one or two years. Our own website gets 5% of traffic on mobiles and tablets, but it is steadily growing.
To be fair, he talked about iPhone assembly jobs. Not Mac assembly jobs.
Maybe less than two years ago, otherwise he would need to have superhuman powers :)
...and, i'd guess, a higher than average percentage of built-to-order machines.
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I'm old. I remember back in the 70's, a neighbor of my grandparents who was building his own color TV. This was probably around 1973, and I think it might have been a HeathKit. I thought that was the coolest thing! Unsurprisingly, there weren't a lot of people building their own TVs.

I've paid my dues, physically building servers, installing various BSDs from stacks of CDs, fighting with compilers on Solaris x86, queuing my jobs on my university's PDP11. Now I'm content to just use OSX, or RHEL, or even AIX if required. But I continually try to avoid transferring my own preferences into a jeremiad against whatever's popular.

Apple will continue to do well as long as it serves its customers. It's gone from being Apple Computers Inc. to Apple. That's a hint of where they see their focus being.
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Swype has one huge benefit that the Android stock keyboard doesn't: if it autocorrects incorrectly, you just tap the incorrect word and it will display a list of alternatives. Tap one and it replaces the incorrect word. The Android keyboard forces deletion & retyping/swiping incorrectly autocorrected/autocompleted words.
Running "update all" on my iPhone has been way more stable than "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" on my Linux servers over the years. It is a good model, but it is far from perfect. Could you just fire your sysadmin and put in a cron to auto update? I really don't think so.

Going through the phase of the DRM marketplace was necessary to get to the non-DRM marketplace that exists now. Politics, however unsightly, do exist. It is now more convenient to buy DRM-free music than to pirate it. That was honestly inconceivable in the Napster days.
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It might be a better idea than keeping them in a wallet controlled by your personal computer, depending on how vulnerable that computer is.
Have you tried changing the stock rubber cap to the vastly more ergonomic concave model? It gives you much finer control, effortlessly. It's a popular aftermarket part available for a couple dollars on auction sites.
This really reminds me of The Alantic article this month entitled "The Insourcing Boom": http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-inso...

The idea being that manufacturing was pushed abroad due to the appeal of cheaper labor, without a deep consideration of hidden costs or the overall context of such a transition.

GE, which is featured extensively in the article, actually managed to reduce manufacturing costs by bringing the fabrication of a water heater and other appliances back to American shores — largely due to the faster loop and better communication between designers, engineers, and laborers who all speak the same language and are in the same factory.
"We" don't destroy our immediate habitat, "we" destroy other people's habitats. Wasn't until recently that it became obvious that such a behavior destroyed our own habitat regardless, and even today it's not clear to many people why they should stop. Until then it was just a morality problem, and capitalism has no notion of morality.
Thanks for all your comments - this post has certainly generated a bit of interest and there are some interesting ideas I'm going to have to consider. Although 11 points (at 9:30 EST) is hardly justification for building the thing out. If I get to 50 maybe I would consider it.

The funniest part is to see the comments coming from each end, the Dev person saying "I can get $100 per hour, why would I do it" versus the business person who counters "I can get it built for less than $20 per hour on ODesk". I think there is an opportunity here. It's not easy to find and manage an offshore resource, and there are not that many people who can justify paying $100 an hour.
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Oh, I'm well aware that nicotine is an insecticide. But it's present in very small quantities in tobacco smoke, compared to the PCAHs.
> it says that a lot of github's popularity is amongst people who do things like "following repositories because they like them"

Yes, why not? I'm happy to star the repo which has the code my phone is running, just for later references. It might be far from the most useful feature at github, but what does it tell about me? Why are you being mean, if I may ask?

> Meanwhile, the rest of us

You and parent and maybe grand parent use this "rest of us". What does it mean? That you need to bring with you the "rest of us" (your team, your friends?) to make a point.

Mind you, under the hypothesis I understood it properly, I actually agree with your core point, which is that github is sometime giving the impression to feed the crowd with new features that are a tight bit superficial.

But this point is 98% uninteresting if you don't bring a laundrylist of mind-breaking feature you think should be coded instead. I'll help with a few:

- Commit forwarding to same repo at other hosts

- Use github as git-svn interface

- Private repos (I seem to be the only one to not want everyone to peek at my shitty hardcoded bashrc)

- Shared repo templates (eg create a new repo with a python gunicorn setup ready made, after filling a few fields), a la Linode recipies

- Allow-all repos, anyone can commit to it.

- Shareable user created repo analysers, code checkers, commit hooks.

I have no idea if any of these ideas is sane, but at least it should leave a bit less negative trails on this board.
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Yeah, there's no site there. I was fooling around with the CSS trying to get rid of the pesky modal views (sometimes it works), when I got to the page... which was just an image http://launchsky.com/img/bg-app.png. It's a good simulation but I think the author needs to make it a little clearer. I went in and put my email in thinking I was signing up and... nothing. It just refreshed the page I think. Then I went to my email thinking I had to confirm my account and there was no email. So I did it again with the same results. Maybe I'm a noob, but I think perhaps it could be a little more clear.
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Or you could look at NVD3 (https://github.com/novus/nvd3) which had 1.2k followers before the repo was taken down and put back up.
I think you totally misinterpreted your parent comment, and read sarcasm where there was none!
OR, you could read it as "Apple to invest 0.1% of its total cash in reserve to bring Mac production to the US next year"
I'm trying to slowly scale up. Adding schools is easy enough, but I also need to get all of their departments, their instructors, and their courses. All this info can be gathered by scraping, but format varies greatly on a per school basis. I also want to get reviewed seeded on a per school basis before I move on to the next one. I allow the users to add most of that info, but the more info they have to enter the higher the barrier to entering a book rating is.
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People (reddit and elsewhere, internet and elsewhere) have a crippling mental condition where if they haven't experienced a problem on a personal level, it must not exist. It's a glaring logical problem that should be as obvious as the word "NO" on a 500 foot tall, illuminated billboard.

Yet it keeps happening.
I wonder how much this move was precipitated by Google's purchase of Motorola. Google produced each generation of nexus phone with a different manufacturer. This allows Google to learn the best practices of each of them. But eventually Google will produce the nexus devices themselves through their Motorola facilities, allowing them to iterate fast and produce cheaply. Apple sees this coming and figures out they also need to produce their devices in-house.
Theory: they want to do it to be bailed out when bad times come, Just like Ford or GE,
This sort of thing is almost always handled by an outside law firm, similar to how audits are handled by an outside accounting firm.

Remember also that plaintiff's counsel also thoroughly interviews witnesses under oath. Cross-checking witness accounts can highlight inconsistency in the documentary record. It also adds a second group of people who don't want to hide information under threat of punishment.
The executives we are all talking about here largely aren't normally part of the decision process in such a case. In fact it's more-so their responsibility to create policies and create organizations who then enforce them. So I think the comment that these executives are actively breaking the law, is slightly myopic. Where these executives do fail is not providing a vision and culture that fosters fair play, but rather bottom line results.
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I don't like customized environments. When I used Opera, I didn't have to configure anything, I liked the defaults and I liked that each instance of Opera, anywhere, was the same. Browser extensions make each browser instance unique. (For the same reason I don't like heavily customized vi/emacs/unix environments).

I also view browser extensions as something that ameliorates the perceived defect, rather than fixing the systemic cause of the problem. I think that browsers should come with ad blockers by default, and if I install one myself I'm always reminded that browsers are not like I feel they should be.

As a programmer, I like clean, small interfaces and good software architecture. My opinion is that putting ad blockers on top of the browser is bad design. I feel like filters like this should stay behind the browser. The fact that browser extensions are browser specific reminds me that extensions don't use a clean, composable, generic interface, but a browser-specific, ad-hoc one. I don't like that.

I install very little software, only what I really need. I chose my software carefully. The decision to install a browser extension is more costly to me than the decision to install a particular browser. I don't necessarily think the people writing the extension are as competent as the people who write the browser, and even if they are, they are more people for me to depend upon. I did try browser exitensions, once, and I learned not to trust their release cycle.

It's all extremely subjective.
I don't think this is comparable. If you buy an iPad, you're getting hardware that is certified (and more) to run iOS. If you want it to compare this with Ubuntu, at least use a machine that is certified to run Ubuntu.

Alternatively, go ahead and complain that Ubuntu doesn't work well for you on non-certified hardware. But please don't conflate this with upgrade deficiencies.
Google+ debuts new Communities feature to help users 'find their tribe'
I think you might need some large font that says "We're not ready QUITE YET, but we'll contact you when we are... <email box>". I thought I was signing up for the site, as it currently stands.
Another big limitation is no Linux sync. Even if you don't currently have a Linux machine, do you really want your choices limited in the future by your file hosting service?
This is something that I've toyed with. I wanted to offer a service to build an MVP for as low as $999. Living in a third-world country where a lot for very talented developer work for a lot less is an advantage that I had.

On my first try, my value proposition wasn't clear enough and I clearly needed to spend more time on the whole presentation. However, I think the idea still has merit, and its something I'll try again.
I can't wait to hear about how brutal and oppressive Apple's factories are, and no one else's.
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CP is often used as a justification for stricter internet controls, which leaks over into non-CP areas.

Common strategy. Use a cause that no one will argue against in order to push rules that serve a broader agenda.
If that is the case then calling them features feels somewhat inaccurate. The location cache one was far closer to being a bug or an unintentionally poor implementation rather than something that had deliberately been inserted.
William Binney has been saying that the FBI has access to the NSA databases created from the data it collects from telecom companies.
There is no good connection between them. However, I've seen legislators often conflate the two in order to promote pro-DRM legislation in the name of protecting the children.
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He says he's a troll now, like he says he faked the Exif data on the photo, and that he painted his face black and hung out around his house watching the GSU police. Read those posts though, and then think about the details of his life we're pretty confident about (he slept with teenaged girls, his partner in the antibiotics enterprise fled the country in fear of McAfee). What's the missing piece you need to judge the veracity of his posts? Just whether he routinely abused easily-obtainable recreational drugs. Are synthetic cathinone drugs even illegal yet in Belize?

What does Occam tell you? Was it all an elaborate troll? Or is that the best thing he can come up with to say now?
As a fellow Canadian you should know that Bill C-30 is gaining support, and there is apparent international pressure[1] from US and UK to pass this legislation.

Just as CALEA continues to be abused in the US against 'downloaders' it will be abused here just as well.

Personally I would prefer Canada continue to maintain its unwillingness to implement these policies and instead wait several years to study the effects of these CALEA-like laws on other nations.

[1]: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/27/canadian-government-...
This is also good relationship advice. The slides, I mean, not putting bullets in things.
Different article, same topic, over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4881567
I guess it's always a tricky deciding which feature to apply to which plan.

On the flip side, since a lot of sites are now just starting to experiment with mobile commerce, mobile landing pages and such this feature might be useful as an acquisition "hook."
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