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Takes about the same time to unlock in my experience(EVO 3D).

I'd really prefer for a different unlock method all together. I'd like my phone to be locked in case its lost/stolen, but I'd like it unlock faster. It's be fine wearing a Bluetooth-enabled accessory (ring,tie pin, device secured to the shoes/belt/pants/wallet in some fashion) that would bypass the lock because I'm with-in a given radius to the device.
Just ship something
I've always thought that we should be wary of correlation between two series that are positively correlated with time.
Firstly there is nothing trivial about it. The concept never existed before the iPhone and it is absolutely not intuitive that it is how list scrolling is supposed to work. It's unquestionably distinctive to the iPhone.

Secondly what a software engineer can do in a matter of days is a ridiculous and pointless measure of anything. I could build Google's original search engine once I knew exactly how it worked. It's the "how it works" part that is novel.

Thirdly you completely fail at understanding the maths here. The only reason it is a billion dollar idea is because Samsung sells so many devices.
An observation that I made recently during a multi-day brainstorming[1] session. The managerial attendees were, in every case, decked out with multiple high tech gadgets while the technical types all used pen and paper for note taking.

Just saying.

[1]: I hate that term
>> Yes, you can, for now. There are no guarantees this will happen with future versions of iOS.

[..]

>> If you jailbreak you are forever a fugitive. You can never again just update, you have to wait and make sure it doesn't kill your setup. You can end up losing your warranty, be refused tech support, etc

Well, in a sense that's an inherent risk of customizability, a tradeoff you have to make. Home screen customizations are probably perfectly safe on stock Android, but I'm not sure how more intrusive modifications will affect updating Android phones that are heavily skinned by the manufacturer (ie: most of them). Maybe I'm wrong, but I suppose you can forget about applying major updates to a Samsung TouchWiz or HTC Sense phone without either undoing or screwing up all your customizations, or in the worst case even bricking your phone to the point it needs a factory reset. If customization was at the top of my feature list, I wouldn't risk anything but a stock Android device.

>> Finally, from a philosophical standpoint, it is absolutely absurd that I should ever have to break something I have paid for to take full ownership of it.

From a philosophical point of view you can have all kinds of opinions, assertions and beliefs about anything. In reality, what you are calling absurd applies to a very significant majority of products you can buy in stores. You can tune your car, but don't expect the dealer to fix it under warranty. You can modify the OS on your desktop computer, but don't expect Microsoft or Apple to supply patches to the problems you may introduce, or even make sure stock patches don't break your setup. You can make most electronic devices do things they were never designed for, but the risk of breaking them is all on you.

Here on HN, we take customizing hardware and software for granted and think it's only natural to modify it to make it better suit our needs, but I don't think a whole lot of people around here think the same about modifying (for example) their furniture, their clothes, their kitchen appliances, etc. But I'm pretty sure their are lots of people on other websites talking about exactly those kinds of things, people who wouldn't even think about customizing their mobile phone or PC. I realize this is getting a little tangential, but the point here is that if you really want to, you can modify almost anything, but almost always the risk is on you, whether you like it (from a philosophical standpoint or otherwise) or not. I don't see what makes mobile phones so special that you should expect the manufacturer to provide you with the tools to modify them, especially when there are alternatives that allow it out of the box. No-one forces you to use an iPhone ;-)
Your comments demonstrate serious lack of understanding of business ethics, email marketing, marketing in general.

Your comment shows a serious lack of understanding in general. Its not smart to judge a person by one comment and dare insult them publicly.
You don't know me, or anything I do. But I will tell you one thing. Don't even think you can come in a try to put me down like that. I do not deal with bullies. Also, read the site rules. People here value mature discussions, not insult fests.

If you've "been told worse insults by better people" maybe you should seriously reconsider whether all those better people had a point.

Some of them did. That is why, rather than randomly attacking people and insulting them, I've changed into someone who is able to see from their POV. I'm not perfect (by far), but I do try and help everybody be happy. I don't go around insulting anyone over discussions. Much less, when from my post, I have already receieved emails of people getting positive results from applying my advice.

Have a good life.
I... think you miss the parent's point, which is that the features a social network provides to an individual user aren't just technological. The point is connecting people to other people and almost always that means to specific other people, and if those specific other people aren't on the new network that's not a feature the new network provides until they migrate, and that's not something you can fix with just tech (except maybe by automating crossposts? hmm...)

Edited to add:
Joining a social network is, therefore, adding features (when viewed through this lens) without doing any coding.
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"I can't say it made me the coolest kid in school, but it was fun. Don't worry, I still got chicks because I played trombone and was in advanced math." <-- I can relate (except I played trumpet)

I enjoyed reading your story. Always inspiring to see someone with a passion just go out and build something themselves. You weren't building a business you were scratching your own itch. Congratulations on the sale.
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the blocking is not optional by default, it's an opt-out system. It also blocked (yesterday) the Analytics tag. The system is based on DNS and forwards requests to a server hosted by Free (the ISP) that returns a blank page.
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> It could well be that the technology isn't polished enough for Apple's standard but I know when I see an Android user use it, I walk away impressed and questioning why my iPhone can't do that.

We're living in a post Siri, post Maps world. Apple is not concerned if software works before they decide to ship it.
> Apple's idiotic focus on skeuomorphism

I fail to see how it has anything at all to do with skeuomorphism. What object exists in real life that is comparable to a bounce back scrolling list ?
Yeah their docs are excellent!
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One protocol I've skimmed over is http://about.psyc.eu/ which claims to bridge IRC and XMPP, among numerous other things.

The claimed scope is so broad, though, that it's hard even to figure out a good starting point for further investigation.
If people weren't put off ten years ago, I don't see why they should be now. Everything is easier, and we have way more and better tools for our needs. Debugging javascript in ie 6 will be hard to equal in terms of insanity (and think about html/css in ie6 before the various "hacks" were discovered)
Looks like she's going to learn this lesson the hard way:

If it's not backed up, it doesn't exist.
... thanks to government subsidies. This is still not an industry that is profitable on its own.
A more apt comparison would be if you didn't know about the iPhone now. This conversation between Zuckerberg and Andreessen didn't happen right when Netscape came out.
In fairness, it never said "extraordinarily good support".
Mega Man 2 will always be new in my heart. =)
I wrote something similar as a StackOverflow answer once: http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/learning_html.en.html
Rant: "blabla sucks repeat"

Much more than a rant: "here's what not to do if you are a business; why not to do it; how it makes your customers feel and here's a perfect example"

This one is squarely the latter.
Sounds good, your email is not there though :(.
This isn't going to help today, but everyone should be using something like Backblaze by this point.
I really, really, really hope you are right about "users could make a habit of this, and tools would be developed.".

But I guess that less than 5 per cent of users would ever go to the trouble of setting up backups. After all Facebook is in da freakin' cloud - what could go wrong?
Kudos for recreating the algorithm ... Too bad there is no details if it is by inspecting the assembly code or by external observation ...

Now ... if someone could do the same with the name of the worlds in the original Populous ...
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Facebook is about displaying posts in descending order. This screenshot is way to confusing. It's too hard to follow posts. It may work for, say, Pinterest but it wouldn't work for Twitter and Facebook.
For reference, here's a list of what is reproached about W3Schools: http://w3fools.com .
> "People who care about software freedom" have little relevant content to anyone but themselves.

I have a friend who cares very much about freedom, in the FLOSS sense of things, who is a musician (and not a coder at all, as it happens) and has several videos up on youtube with >10k views - that would seem to be content that's relevant to quite a few people who don't "care about freedom".

Don't make the mistake of thinking that just because someone supports FLOSS ideals that sums them up entirely.
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Of course you can. Here are the instructions on the free website :
http://www.free.fr/assistance/2253-avec-un-modem-adsl.html
You mean, by spamming you every ten minutes with random ads between crappy shows? The premium content (Netflix, HBO, Hulu...), people are willing to pay for it.

It's the same trade-off for the web: if you want good content, either you pay for it (NYTimes), or you have to deal with targeted ads.

TV networks don't target ads not because they don't want and prefer their own business model. They don't do it because they can't.

And anyway: targeted ads are also way better for the user experience. If the advertiser know you're blind, it won't show you 1000 times an ad for sunglasses.

Tracking and ad targeting mean less ads across the web.
I can email a Dropbox file to someone and search my mail on my iPhone.

Or am I missing something ?
Good to see more books that talk about mitigation. Hacking books are great fun and insightful but they are often not as practical for admins.
I think they don't delete photos. They just mark them as deleted. So she might have a chance there. She should take her computer to someone who recovers hard drives. The data could still be in the disk. Tell her to stop using it until then to try and save as much of it.
Not dangerous, but completely useless.

Self signed certificates are only usefull if you communicate them by another medium. And even then, browsers make it quite hard to manually add certificates.
Really nice! I think it might be good though, if the UI controls for speech bubble style could be on the other side, away from the "business end" of the (default) speech bubble. Usually those controls will be covering the face or mouth or... sound utterance mechanism of whatever you're making talk.

Really nice and fun though!
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Hey Everybody!

I want to buy a new phone to play with the latest android. Everybody talks about the Nexus 4. The only problem: Its not available. What would you guys do? Money is not an issue. So if I can buy something as nice as the Nexus 4 for twice the price, i would be fine with that too. Any suggestions?

As far as I know Samsung phones have a critical security bug so every app can access all data on the phone. So Samsung is not an option, right? Or does this not applay to the Samsung Nexus line?
Personally I’d never claim to offer extraordinary support - the expense is insane. There are cheaper ways to brand - with much smaller downsides.

My experience is that people who are building things and doing things in a company are actually not competent to offer support. There are real skills - mainly people skills, that CSRs have that you didn’t hire the builders for. Additional a giant percent of good support is speedy responses, and long conversations. Both things that require lots of man hours. So you need a ton of CSRs. Which is expensive in itself.

But then - customers have an insane way of finding critical bugs, and making completely reasonable requests that had never occurred to you. Things that require builder and makers of your product to be fully accessible to your CSRs. So you need to staff for that as well.

And that gets you to good. How you move from that to extraordinary is some thing I don’t know how to do (And I’ve read a lot of what Tony Hsieh has to say), but I do know it’s going to be extraordinarily expensive.
It is, but it contains some truth... many people lately go around thinking the can do amazing things(see: almost any startups). Amazing support, amazing API, amazing whatever. Same for the job specs, "The best position in the world! With nerf gun fights every day!". When this was not an extremaly common thing it was cool but now many of this things can be seen a negative thing. I immediately believe that 90% of these people are liars because it's easy to make big claims but really hard to maintain the them. And the more you claim the harder it will be. In the end the first impression I get of you is that you are not reliable, which is not very good.
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It's usually very fast, around 1 second. In fact, they had to slow it down, because sometimes it recognized the face immediately, making the user wonder whether there's any security check involved. But it's useless at night, which is why I don't use it.
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> Apple is not concerned if software works before they decide to ship it.

The VP in charge of iOS Software Engineering was publicly fired over Siri and Maps.

Pretty sure they do care.
There is no war to be had until Intel seriously considers operating on much lower margins. Their problem is not just idle power & heat dissipation, their real problem is cost/ unit. Whatever Intel does going forward, their fat days are over.
It has a normal screen timeout. When it gets close to the timeout, it looks for 'open eyes looking at me' and if it detects them, stays on. When the screen does turn off, it's like any other timeout - it won't flick back on by newly detecting eyes again.

And no, of course if you're going to use your screen as a flashlight, it's not going to detect your eyes and stay on. If you're not willing to go to the marginal effort of activating a flashlight app, what mechanism do you propose they use to have the phone detect when you're using it as a flashlight-by-screen?
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How do you find ideas?
I just got out of DevBootcamp and I want to practice Javascript, backbone and more ruby/rails...

Ideally I would love to be working on a simple, funny, original little project where I could practice!
I'm already working on www.swiv.co to work on my Ruby, but now, I can't find any new cool idea to practice javascript.

I keep bumping on things making me think "aw that was a funny idea!" but can't find my own anymore.

Where do you get inspired?
Even if they mortgage / sell their property, their vehicles. Use all family resources? You gotta do what you gotta do if you're facing felony charges.
They might also enjoy from tax breaks (future or present). I'm not clear on how, but with Buffetts talent to bend tax laws, you can be sure that is taken into account.
I agree.
However there is something to be said about different approach to social media. Twitter isn't a Facebook clone, it has a different approach to being social.
Google has a chance to compete with Facebook, because of the gmail users + android users.

But next big social network can't be just a copy of facebook functionality with a GNU stamp on it, and some technical differences that make no impact on end users (centralized storage or not).
I wish I knew what the next big social network needs ...
Try to recover local data.
Sharing a few thoughts:

- having a per-machine key auto-generated will not work properly with PaaS (such as Heroku, DotCloud etc), especially if you have N machines behind a load-balancer. In that case they need to share the key, so using a Heroku production variable or similar will have to be used instead.

- I believe we (Rails users) should at least move away from having a hard-coded key in the source by default, and instead generate and deploy it by other ways (such as symlinking like database.yml or PaaS variables), since having it in the source put an onus on people having access to the source code (such as freelancers/contractors, or other team members without deploy access etc). This should be treated sensitively!

- in today's practice of having the key in the source code, some staging environments would currently also have the same key by default, and sometimes these are less secure or up-to-date compared to production environment, providing another attack vector maybe.
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This reminds me of a lone developer who balances hundreds of clients, where each client expects same day personalized replies with nothing but the right answers.
Here's another shout-out for the .38 G-2. This is a great goddamn pen, and I have at least 2 boxes of them in my desk right now.
I also use hckrnews.com, its a much better interface for HN.

Particularly its useful, if I have not used HN for some days, and come back to see 'what great items have I missed?'.

edit: minor rephrase
DRM will be an issue for any older purchased iTunes Music.

But you can pay a little more and Apple will provide non-DRM versions.
1) Just as it is about to lock the screen it checks if someone is looking. Doesn't matter if it's one or two persons. If you're looking away at that instant it locks. A reasonable compromise that ensures it works more than good enough if you're reading an article.
2) It doesn't power off just because you are not looking at it. You can still use the phone as a flashlight.
3) It doesn't work if you're holding it sideways or cover the camera lens. Don't think this is a problem though - again the feature is directed for situations where you are browsing some content or reading an article.
4) It works if you have glasses
5) It doesn't work in low light situations, also a reasonable compromise.

I think the way you have to see it is that you don't really think about the feature. Sometimes you are reading something and notice the screen isn't dimmed. Sometimes when you're reading the screen dims and you have to touch the screen to have it not go into lock mode.

Having used it in practice for a few weeks I can say it's a great feature. I would expect it to show up on iOS and the core Android distribution.
Try getting them onboard with www.hipchat.com.

Even tho I still use IRC at home we use hipchat at work, and it works pretty well. The ability to easily send screengrabs and similar stuff to other users is pretty handy.
I took a pod from the list:
http://podupti.me/
Went to sign up:
https://poddery.com/users/sign_up
There is no way to use my facebook or google account to sign up! IMHO, The barrier of entry for regular people is too high...
Also, good luck putting a spiral-bound notebook in a tight pocket.
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> Fortunately, it looks like Apple will finally address this in the future

Ha, sorry, reminds me of that Samsung commercial. We're going to get that in the next one.. right?
I always had to mail a link to the Dropbox file on iOS.
And searching for old emails was hit and miss on my iPhone. On Android you're basically using the same search function as on gmail.com.
Strictly speaking, however, there is a difference between knowing about Netscape and knowing what they were doing. Myself, I used Netscape software daily between 1996 and 2000 something but can't say I really knew what the company was doing. Sure, I know all about that they released a web browser for free, but I have no real idea (without looking it up on Wikipedia) what they really did for their shareholders.

So I could definitely see myself posing that exact same question to Marc Andreessen.
Looks good, works well.

Would love to see some kind of "snap to grid" type feature for easy alignment. Bonus points if the grid dimensions are user definable :)
Nice to hear that it's fixed.

Wish I could get my phone updated without rooting it. My friend's iPhone 4 (released June 2010) is now patched up to worked with group messages fine, but my EVO 3D (released June 2011) that's a year younger won't get any updates. Android fragmentation graphic info:
http://cdn2.techanalyzer.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Andr...
"I haven't read the article but..."

So it's come to this on HN...