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1Password 4 launched for iOS
So I have been working on an antialiased vector drawing library for the Light (called 'wuvoxels'). now the nice thing about the wuvoxel approach is that it can scale across multiple lights seamlessly- allowing software to be written that will work on a single light or across a whole room.
Same situation here.

Am I correct in assuming the following characteristics? The guy you are talking about:

* Trusts you to do your job, and assumes you are pulling your weight in whatever way you see fit. (contrast: "We need your ass in the chair 08:00-16:00 so we know you're working.")

* Trusts you to do your job, and accepts your technical decisions even if he doesn't fully understand them. (contrast: "I just don't see exactly why GitHub would be better than our existing Team Foundation license, so we won't switch.")
What? No. Gender isn't determined genetically. It's a psychological phenomenon. Also, sex can't even reliably be determined by chromosomes. There are things like Klinefelter syndrome, or XX male syndrome (exactly like it sounds).
I'll throw my voice into this maelstrom.

1) Search for "Google Maps" and it is the 5th result. The app is literally called Google Maps. The results before: Fine Maps, PD Maps Worldwide Edition, Google Earth(?!).

2) 300 comments and the topic of Apple anti-competitive behaviour with regard to App availability is hardly touched. In fact the top most comments are on UI and nitpicking over details such as Bookmarks and response speed.
The function of the "transit" button seems a little weird generally (in web maps too).

My observation is that it (1) turns off some of the excessive highlighting of highways and other roads (which for some reason is done by default even in very transit-oriented cities), and (2) it turns on highlighting of "rapid transit" lines.

Unfortunately the definition of "rapid transit" used for this function is sometimes very poorly thought out.

For instance, Tokyo has a massive rail system that covers the entire metropolitan area with a fairly consistent level of service. However Google maps only considers the city-center subways—which form about 25% of the entire system—to be "rapid transit", although from a user's point of view there's very little difference between subways and most other rail lines in Tokyo (they generally use similar scheduling, rolling stock, stations, and even station spacing in many cases). So enabling the transit option in Tokyo highlights subways, but it actually de-emphasizes many other (essentially equivalent) rail lines!

The only thing I can think of is that the design of this feature was based on the particular city (e.g. NYC), and then sort of slapped onto other locations without a whole lot of actual thought... :(
They're using Coinbase it seems.
Right. I think that most companies are going to need to grow their own talent if they want to be located in a second-tier tech hub. You find generally good people and teach them what they need to know, which means you can't expect them to be responsible for major deadlines in the first 6 months. Many companies aren't willing to do that, and the grow-fast-or-die build-to-flips can't afford the time.
It will be interesting to see if there's a spike in iOS upgrades now. I suspect a lot of people will have been holding off.
Iron Buds (durable in-ear headphones) - creation of the items took longer than most people expected, communication was OK, and the items were delivered as designed.
It would require browsers to be updated (to support checking the hash), but not servers.
> 1) Search for "Google Maps" and it is the 5th result. The app is literally called Google Maps. The results before: Fine Maps, PD Maps Worldwide Edition, Google Earth(?!).

I suspect that this is simply due to some part of the searching algorithm that takes things like number of downloads and publishing date into account. Over time the position will probably change.
Unlike many gadgets people buy, I don't think this is one you would easily forget or put in a drawer. People use indoor lighting every evening, and this is much more than any old light. You just need to place it somewhere central, and decide what triggers (other than manual control) will change its illuminance/colours/patterns. Oh, and many basic decorator lamps at a lighting store are more expensive than this.
So is this place to share tactics and network?
The short answer: Because it doesn't make business sense to.

As much as we all complain about programs being slow, at the end of the day a lot of people are not willing to pay substantially more for software that runs 10% more quickly. If you want to work spend more time developing to build a more efficient version, you need to pay your developers for that time, and you won't recoup your costs.

Compare to one of the industries where performance is focused on - Games (disclaimer: I'm a games developer). When you're making real-time games, performance does matter. There's a real, noticeable difference between frame rates (say 20fps vs 30, or 50 vs 60) that will make a big difference to how much players like your game, and ergo it will affect your bottom line.
We are at a stage now where its becoming easier to automate medium difficulty tasks (things like general office paper work - the lower-end white collar jobs) but we cant automate some 'easier' 'blue-collar' things like cleaning toilets and laying roof tiles - as its cheaper to get a low-class worker to do it than create a robot.

The middle class are the ones who are going to feel the heat over the next century. The smartest humans will not need to worry until a true singularity begins, really.
I’ve tried to adapt your code snippet into an UserScript: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/154080

It works OK, but I’ve run into a problem with textareas: if a textarea contains the name of the Great Leader, after script executes, the name in textarea is simply deleted.

Maybe you have an idea how this can be fixed?

P.S. By the way, you should consider installing the snippet yourself on your site: unfortunately, your page doesn’t follow the proper typographic rules! :(
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The search algorithm isn't necessarily predicated on name, which is silly in many ways but I wouldn't say it's anti-competitive.
Where I live, annihilation is actually an apt description. Apple Maps is completely unusable for me. I don't know how they managed to put the airport where _it used to be 25 years ago_, for instance. It can't find one of the biggest swimming halls outside of town, and last time I needed driving directions it put me on the wrong side of a roadblock, whereas Google Maps routed me the correct way (running on an old iOS device).
I'd skip the FB ads unless your product is not related to tech. Most tech savvy users have adblock and won't see the ads resulting in poor conversion rates.

For 20,000, I would spend it on a designer to make your product look great if you already have an MVP. If not, you should be working on getting an MVP and not worry about ads just yet.

An easy way for market validation would be to use a sign up page like launchrock and put in a elevator pitch. Ask friends to share on FB/Twitter and see the response.
Much the same could be said of most electronics. Toys gadgets gizmos. This is hacker news so I wonder how this sentiment belongs here.

Nevertheless, there is a conceptual barrier here that is difficult to cross, and it has to do with the expectation here that a gadget or product should hold our attention, or in other words, to be a distraction, in order to be worth our time and money. The light however is not exactly the same sort of thing as a game console- it's aiming for a different kind of niche, the niche of ambient computing. A kind of gadget that you /don't/ notice, that doesn't hold your attention. A gadget you buy expecting to forget that it is there- because it is just quietly doing what it is supposed to: ambiently communicating. A mood, a temperature, a status. It's simple as that. As geeks we can hack on it and overcomplicate things, but the essence of this is simply: connect a light to the cloud.
Really depends on what kind of product I would have at which state and what I need to do next.

If I were at your position and the product is actually ready already I would spend all of that cash on advertising after I would make sure that my current server infrastructure can handle the possible growth.

Though first I would calculate how many new visitors I possibly could get from adwords with the cash. Once the calculation is done I need to test if the possible growth can be handled. If I can not handle the growth I would check how much new hardware I would need and buy and install those. The rest of the money would be used in adwords for new possible clients to create more revenue.

I would not have used the money to get new computer or hired virtual assistent, because I see that as a waste of money. Then again I would not even bought that VPS as I would have one or two dedicated servers anyway.
> Facebook won the casual social sharing of photos and 500px is winning on the "professional" side.

There's probably room for a lot of different kinds of photo sharing apps. Even ones that the tech press or hackers don't care about. Shutterfly pulls in hundreds of millions dollars a year, mostly from paper products related to uploaded photos. Like photos for your kids' softball team.

Flickr can't be the next Flickr, because when Flickr was Flickr it was the only app of its kind. People really were doing a lot of different activities on the site; photos were the media object to organize it around. Back in 2005, it was Twitter, Facebook, LiveStream, Tumblr, YouTube, etc., all in one. Whatever Flickr is going forward, it will probably be more narrow and more deep. I'm not sure they can win as an all-things-to-all-people photos site.
GitHub Is Not Your Sweatshop
What can you buy @ 4chan?
Just a step back for perspective comment:

"I don’t have a car, so the lack of public transportation in Apple’s Maps app pretty much makes it useless to me"

Apple’s Maps app is still a searchable, zoomable easy to use map of the whole world that knows where you are! A few years ago this would have been the most comprehensive, user friendly anyone had ever seen. We are all characters in a Louise CK bit. 5 minutes between discovering some incredible futuristic technology that we didn't know was possible to feeling like we deserve it and getting angry at the incompetence when it doesn't work perfectly.
This is exactly my experience with Apple Maps as well. It's so unusable that after a few tries, you just stop using the app altogether.
How to track a Twitter referrer from Google Analytics 
Now at a glance I can see which individuals are generating the most click-throughs, the comparative size of the number of followers they have, new versus return visits and more. It’s important to remember we are extracting visitor counts for all links tracked by Google Analytics regardless of any other service that was used to shorten them. Suddenly Google Analytics data has got very personal.
Grph.in - How are employees moving between companies?
I've been sleeping around 4.5 hours in average since last few weeks, working on a tech startup idea. I think I should go for at least 6 hrs now. 8 hrs sounds more appropriate though.
A 4chan Pass, which allows you to bypass the CAPTCHA for a year.
Give them to someone's kid who's into computers. I'm sure they can get some use out of it.
But i dont accept 4chan.
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basically by replacing utilman you can execute arbitrary code with system(?) privileges? does the login manager check the signature of the executables?

Full-disk encryption sure is nice thing to have, even if it isn't bulletproof.
Huh, I got it wrong, and I didn't go to any of the schools mentioned in the article, maybe I just stupid?
I went from the 30" Apple Display to the 27" Thunderbolt Display to dual 27" Thunderbolt Display. I agree one large screen is probably better than multiple smaller screens but for my own purposes, I prefer dual large screens. Triple if my computer could have support it and maintain three 27" screens. The dual setup is much better for me.
In theory, yes. In practice and on Windows it still maps to a lot of (superficial) hassle.
Unboxing Meteor
Beyond Agile Estimation Part II: Improving Your Metrics
I've found you can edit the names of starred locations through Google Bookmarks: https://www.google.com/bookmarks
Converting Eclipse to a fully 'Dark' theme
I heard Ms. Rosenthal speak at a VLAB panel discussion @ Stanford, she didn't have anything interesting to say other than parrot the other panelist. She had a gimmicky concept with no tech background or demo to show off. I highly doubt the TV show will have real AR, it will just be super imposed post editing to make it look like people are using devices that have AR apps installed.
Firefox 19 on Window 7, and the page sails by just fine.

I would've hazarded a guess at a Webkit bug, but OP mentioned she developed this on Chrome..
I'm saying that the rules are either going to become more liberal or severely conservative. I'm simply pointing out the conservative, somewhat nonsensical one.

I think the rules do not make sense considering my point, as they were never intended for that.

And by 'that guy' I mean devil's advocate for a possible future idiotic fear-mongering policy.
It looks great, the fact that it has 480 upvotes on here shows that a lot of people wanted it.

The transport directions are slightly better, it'll find actual options for me now but does still occasionally go "Nope, no public transport around you!" when I live near a bus stop. And a train station.

It's slightly laggy on my iPhone 5, I popped it up with a high view when I was on the train and it was very visibly jerky, Apple Maps was much, much smoother.

Hey guys, SIGN IN. You want your search history? SIGN IN. That's really annoying, and given when the whole Maps shift started it was rumoured that Google was demanding more and more information on the searches it points to Google really wanting that search history with your account.

POI stuff spanks Apple, easily. Apple sucks at that at the moment, the fact that Google can autocomplete a hell of a lot of it is much nicer.

I don't like some of the UX choices, the 'tutorial overlay' says the bottom right button is tappable but it's actually a slide over, tapping did nothing for me. Accessing Street View is non-intuitive. Occasionally it felt like there was a few too many taps to get me where I needed to be. This is all stuff they can work on though.

All in all, it's pretty good. I'll have it as a secondary Maps app, I'm going to try stick with Apple Maps though. Not because I'm a glutton for punishment but because it has genuinely started getting better for the use case I need it in. Choice is always nice though.
Nice. Any plans on using this data to extract some more insights?
Audiogalaxy was one of my favorite ways to listen to music without physically storing it on my iPhone's hard drive (since I have something like 8,000 songs). The only disadvantage was that I had to keep my desktop on (and the Audiogalaxy helper on it on) so that streaming worked, but it was a great solution for a pretty big problem.

I'm very interested in what Dropbox is going to do with Audiogalaxy. Perhaps more of a dynamic cloud solution where content is not only stored but also interacted with? To be honest, I love the Dropbox interface, but I use G Drive because of the ability to edit documents on the fly instead of having to download them, edit them, and then overwrite/save. It would be awesome to see Dropbox incorporate client-side content editing capabilities, and I could definitely see Audiogalaxy helping with the music streaming aspect of it all.
There is no time or description of the hack, any more info?
Show HN: PhoneGap(Cordova) Plugin for Google Analytics SDK v2.0
> I would dissociate "publisher" and "assets". Even if THQ dies their assets will be passed on to someone else. You rarely see IP completely disappear

Maybe not disappear, but end up in a legal limbo (eg split up to multiple parties), or in a vault of some insurance/investment company which has no interest or clue to do anything with it. While I can't now recall any specific examples, iirc there has been cases like that before.

idk how the Interplay breakup eventually landed, at least some IP managed to get out.
It's usually far more complicated than a choice of language. Most of the problems I see are related to poor technique. Especially related to accessing resources.

"Browsers" are a good example of that. Often it's not the browser but networking problems, lost packets, latency, server responses, etc. Windows frequently waits 30 seconds when accessing network resource to tell you the resource is no longer available. Painful!

In my experience, fast code is usually beautifully written. Very logical and methodical. To be an awesome developer you NEED to be a perfectionist.

AND AVOID POLLING RESOURCES! Everything should be event driven. This is a concept very few developers truly understand. Events, events, events, events!

Agree that there's also a business case. However, $150ph developer who knows techniques is worth way more than 10 $15ph programmers because they implement the right solution the first time or make sensible decisions when taking shortcuts. Worth every dollar to find people who know what they're doing! You get what you pay for! (If you know what you're looking for!)
Ask HN: Do you think that "suits" are dangerous for startups
When I say "suits" I mean the MBA kind of guys.
Being a creator myself, I want to support other creators by making a purchase. All I want is a little extra something for the people who buy and to not try and extract the absolute maximum amount of money from me. Especially if its a digital product.
I should also add, polling is why I'm with the late Steve Jobs on HATING flash. Way too many Flash "designers" have NFC when it comes to good code, so they poll rape the CPU which is NOT good on mobile devices for battery life! Evil, evil Flash.
Sanitising User Input from Browser. part 1
alas I have only pledged for one...However, if I were to receive a Christmas Bonus....
I wasn't elected into office to serve or help anyone. These people are voted in to carry on the duties of a government. Digital gadgets on an airplane is the sort of a low hanging, non-issue that a lazy politician would take up. This is what they call a first-world problem, and FSM knows America has its fair share of non 1st-world problems that need addressing.
There is some "climate deniers" ...? Huh, that's really interesting actually. I didn't think one could denied the whole climate.

Anyway, the problem isn't if there is a global warming or not, but if it's normal or not. The earth is warming globally since 200 centuries, after the last glacial maximum. It's a natural process.

Still, 20 years ago, we were afraid by the next, soon, glacial period and the global cooling ... Tons of documentaries tried to afraid people with that.

You know, the first to sponsor Global Warming theories and the IPCC was Margaret Tatcher, when she wanted to convince to vote the budget for a nuclear plant.

It's all about energy and money, that's it. Even geologists must eat. And it's so easy to have a proposal approved if it begins with "the effect on the climate change on [paste anything here]". Easy.
Ruby Garbage Collector Performance
not sure if you're astro-turfing or really unaware of the difference, but in its time rebol had the level of awareness of, say, the rust language now - not something a lot of people used, but with a decent profile in the technical press. a known, interesting, but unlikely to make it language. a class B if you like.

in comparison, red is class C. it's new, has little awareness and little coverage. it's even less likely to make it.

this is not a judgement on the merits of either language (although if you want that, rebol's syntax aware approach looks more interesting to me than anything red has to offer), just trying to give a historical perspective: rebol was bigger than red is now and, i suspect, still has more users, even now. on the other hand, rebol is clearly heading down while red can only go up.
Dropbox is already betting on Photos storage and sharing, now they seem to be taking some steps into music storage/streaming?
I've been a fan of Audiogalaxy since their P2P days. Back then they were the best at showing me new music based on similar artists.
Today I use it on my android phone to stream my music from my home desktop (Mac). It works flawlessly and the experience is far superior to Google Music (which is limited to 20k songs, my collection is about 22k)
The best feature on their app is the "Genie" mode, which creates automatic playlists based on the current song.
Wondering what's next for them inside Dropbox.
Ask HN: do you like "new" yahoo mail that has been forced at you?
Early this morning my little girl ran to our bed all crying that Little Forest dissapear from her Yahoo. First I did not know whats going on until I opened my own mail.

It seems that Yahoo mail got GUI alterations without even asking their users if they want to have it applied to their profile. Nowhere I can find how to switch it back. I remember from GMail even Google had option to go back when they switched. This is very sad...

While explaining my daughter what has happened, my hope was that we can just go and reapply Little Forest theme - but little we know, all the themes are gone and you are left off with nothing other than boring colors.

As of alterations (I will call them that because I have not seen one new option/feature so its not like this is "update" per say [rather downgrade since themes are gone], but rather bunch of alterations thrown at you for God knows reason [I have my AdBlock on and I am afraig of turning it off -- perhaps themes dissapeared because now they can be dynamically replaced by ads, don't know), the only thing I noticed is three icons (trash can, favorite and checkbox) running around after your mouse that annoys me and wont let concentrate on reviewing mail.

Can someone tell me whats new about ths GUI and why it has been shoved in users throats without question or option to opt out?

As of my daughter it seems that GMail still allows for cool themes. Glad to know that. Will train her on using Gmail this should be an interesting experience.
A little test show otherwise: http://imgur.com/hBuzt (Unlogged-in / Cookieless)

Perhaps is related to the kind of subjects you are searching for; or it may just personalization by google.

Or maybe we are both biased for ultimately silly reasons and the truth lies somewhere in the middle but the lack of available data reduces everything to mere speculation.
That depends what you mean by "smartest". The lower levels of law work, once occupied by paralegals and young lawyers, are already becoming subject to automation. Medical diagnosis, too.

The expensive, expert professions are precisely where there's the most economic incentive to automate as much as you can.
They already have a huge user base. If they can provide additional features and make money from it, why not do it?