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It's pretty hilarious how this is the "state of the art". It's basically the worst experience present on a fresh iOS device before you've added anything to it.

(Let's preface this with the following fact: I have very small fingers. These issues lie in the implementation of the software, not in my bratwurst fingers).

Here are a few problems that I've had with it:

1. Touch-canceling doesn't appear to work in the same way as it does for most native apps; the result is that many links are followed by accident.

2. In the Genius tab on the App Store, the tap area for the “Not Interested” button is way too small, and the touch-down feedback is too late. The result is that about 60% of the time when I'm trying to hit that button, I get sent to the page for the app that is in focus.

Now, to be fair, they've actually improved it quite a bit from what it was, it would seem. But it still dwells in the uncanny valley of unhappiness. If this is the state of the art for the sort of thing you are trying to do, than I'd recommend you doing something else.

To put it another way, if Apple, with their massive resources, cannot make a better web view experience than the embarrassing disgrace that is the mobile App Store and iTunes Store, then that may suggest that it is prohibitively difficult (if not impossible) to make web view experiences that any solid engineer can be proud of.
It should not be a matter of degree. Selective punishment is unjust whether it is done in a courtroom or a kindergarten class.
I think kickstarting with the expectation that you receive something is the wrong idea. I think it works especially well for funding people to create media or fund performances. It's a way for us to help fund/create the world we want to live in.
To say Bitcoin has no inherent value is not quite accurate. The inherent value of the Bitcoin comes from the electricity required to power the computational cycles to "create" it.
The problem with GWT is that it appears to be a low-priority product at Google - it took them more than a year to release v 2.5 vs 3-4 months for 2.4 and earlier. And we all know what happens to low-priority products at Google...
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Not if you're sitting on a couch it isn't.
Honestly, that kind of stuff is much closer to gambling than what I would consider gaming. I just really hope (though I'm probably wrong) that "social" games occupy their own niche and aren't pulling gamers away from more honest games.
I'm primarily a PC gamer, although I certainly see the benefits consoles bring to the table (cheaper, easier, much better for in-person multiplayer).

I'm really dreading the death of PC gaming for one reason - controls. For a lot of game types, nothing comes close to the keyboard/mouse combo. For example, how many good RTS games have shown up on consoles? That is largely because of the input situation.

I really think there needs to be a rich, precise input device for consoles, and I don't think things like Kinect, as cool as they are, are the answer. When I see games like StarCraft, Company of Heroes, and World of Warcraft ending up on consoles without being horribly dumbed-down, I'll feel a little better.
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I'm simply trying to point out that there are decisions you can control and decisions you can't. You can control what your life takes a dependency on, and how tightly coupled you are to particular products and services.

For different types of products and services, you have more or less control and confidence about the future of those products and services. For software that you own and run on your box, that control and confidence is higher. For services on which you are completely dependent on software running on someone else's box for which you have no contract or service level agreement, that confidence and control is lower.

You have control over whether you want to complain and whine when a service you've tightly coupled yourself to makes a change you find objectionable. You don't have control over that change. Understanding which decisions you do and don't have control over is useful.
Great. First pesticides, and now this.

No thanks, I don't want to breathe in atomized droplets of highly corrosive acid. I'd rather die from excessive global heat than live with the unknown ramifications of injecting the earth with acid.

The actual plan is preposterous, as well. It's clear that Keith has little understanding of the details of his plan and whether it even stands a chance at working, because there is absolutely no scientific methodology at play here. Where is the evidence? There has been no citation of any source that confirms his assumptions. Where are the small-scale trials? How does someone just take jets to the atmosphere and spray it full of sulfur without even knowing the ramifications? When people were testing nuclear power plants for the first time, they made sure to do so in a controlled environment. Crossing your fingers and carrying out a very complex procedure for the first time in an uncontrolled environment without knowing anything beforehand is not only remarkably stupid, but it's also very dangerous.

Currently, we're in a safe zone with regards to climate change. If we increase the number of carbon sinks, and if everyone switches to electric cars tomorrow and aircraft start using cleaner-burning biofuels with low NOx and CO2 emissions, we can decrease our carbon footprint by a large amount. Planting a lot of trees and stopping deforestation can compensate for the amount of carbon in our atmosphere already.

Also, investing more time and money into alternative energy isn't a bad idea. Turbines have been around for centuries; it's about time we started using more of them. Solar power is advancing very quickly and could really offer a good source of electric power. If every state had 10 windfarms and 10 solar power plants, then we could be self-sustaining for as long as the Sun doesn't implode.

A shame, though, that our bureaucratic government would rather invest money into restricting freedom rather than invest money to better our world. It's also a shame that people will be too selfish to give up their hydrocarbon-burning cars and vehicles.
No. If Microsoft came out with a single OS upgrade that they wanted developers to target, and put that on WP7 phones, then I would consider that reasonable. They are not. They are giving a point release to their long-time supporters while telling everyone else that WP7 is dead and to write code for the new hotness. That's unacceptable for phones that could be less than six months old. It's simply unacceptable.
Is it possible to calculate market cap for WoW gold? Is there way to know how much is in circulation?
Right now, the sale of ammunition isn't regulated in the same way that firearms are.

The reason people are looking at ways to "print" banned firearms parts is because they aren't available or are restricted in some fashion.
Rather than glorifying the act of piracy, this movie does a wonderful job of exposing the founders.

One of them is an Alcoholic right-wing racist, another a drug addict.

Peter Sunde seems to be the only person who who seems vaguely normal.

I wish teenagers, children and other "pirates" realize that there is no glory in associating themselves with these sociopaths.
Email is not very integrated with all the web based media services. Try sending a YouTube link or spotify song with moped. Or arrange a meet by inserting foursquare venues.
Cost does not equal value.

And it goes the other way around anyway. Higher prices lead to more people mining.
If I recall correctly, Python's indentation counts characters, so a single tab is not the equivalent of four or eight spaces, but only one. If you accidentally mix them, therefore, lining things up visually in your editor will result in indenting or outdenting where you did not intend.
I did not watch the video, just read the article.

What is the "major PC flaw"? The input methods that did not evolve? Kinect says hello! Apart from that, many gamers use controllers on PCs.
>TPB isn't fighting for your freedom. They are helping in the demise of independent artists. Sure, you will always have a few people that play for free because it's fun, but because of the current state of the Internet (the new generation feels like they are entitled to music and anything else online, for free), it's going to be very difficult to actually make a living unless you are signed to a major label.

Did independent artists ever subsist off album sales prior to the internet/TPB?
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Agreed. This is -- or should be -- called "premature refactoring."
Though, one person out of ten is less significant than 100/1000. We should work out the probabilities of someone telling you you're a jackass given that you are/are not one, and update the proverb to use likelihood ratios.
This would be great. It could definitely use a fun alert or a way for a user to make their own alert via some url.
Yes, and not so great for others. Have you tried playing Batman: Arkham Asylum with a mouse/keyboard? Those combos are so much harder to pull off! What about 3D platformers, where analog movement is paramount? Racing games, where analog steering and acceleration really help?

Nowadays, I find that I use my PC gamepad as often as my mouse/keyboard.
Participation is totally voluntary. Private ownership still exists. When someone is dissatisfied, they can seek redress within the system, and if they find that unsatisfactory they can leave with little impedance. It's a voluntary co-op, not a compulsory governmental program. While human nature will exist, widespread tyranny and/or compulsion is not a function of The United Order, and those inclined to prefer that nature over discipline or concern for the group are free to do so, and they are free to pursue whatever opportunities they would like on the outside.

Control is very local, administered by bishops who supervise a few hundred people. Unless there was blatant misappropriation or significant credible protest, a bishop's dispensations would likely go unchallenged. Broad centralized programs that cause trouble for some unforgotten little guy are not plausible in a scenario where control is so widely dispensed and so locally focused.

Of course, there's a religious element to this. We believe the bishop has the right to be led by revelation in these duties, so that dilutes a lot of otherwise intractable social ramifications of such an organization. If a man has been ordained by the prophet to do a thing, tolerance is much, much higher than otherwise, and peace is much more likely to be kept despite individual disagreements.

By extension, Mormons further believe that those who accept the judgment of the bishop with the recognition that their bishop is the authorized representative of God in that matter, even if it opposes their personal judgment or opinion, will be lead and blessed such that they become the wealthiest people on earth many, many times over, incomprehensibly more wealthy than contemporary Western nations. Mormon eschatology, in fact, indicates that a society operating under these conditions will be the only place of prosperity on the whole earth for a time, and everyone else will be at war and unable to cooperate sufficiently to sustain any significant productive output.
Straw man thinks DRY applies to two-line function. Straw man is a straw man. Also, less code > DRY. In fact, less code -> DRY. If refactoring makes for more code, not really DRY. More like taking a principle to its illogical conclusion. Compression is a process of diminishing returns.

Although there are certainly times when a factoring two lines into one line is better. Like when it's self-documenting, or when those lines otherwise add noise to part of another function.

Sometimes a new function is not the right approach to avoiding repetition. If you can't write a function to adhere to DRY, use a macro or equivalent. In C/etc, macros are wonderful if used well.
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We, the citizens, have set up a system that rewards this kind of behavior. It would be odd if Heymann didn't respond to the incentives we have placed before him.

Taren's quote portrays him as ruthless. I concede that we don't know exactly what went through his mind, but based on the facts in evidence, I think that that appears to be an accurate characterization. I, at least, cannot imagine how anyone with any compassion or principles could have looked at what Swartz did and concluded that it deserved to be treated as a felony worth years in federal prison.

Anyway, as I said upthread, the point is not so much what happens to Heymann as it is publicly making the point that Federal prosecutors in general have too much power and inappropriate incentives.
Many American websites use payment gateways as well. That doesn't mean they all do.

We have laws that you must comply with if you store data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Secu...
It's not about the language used, it's about the context. He's not expressing anger or making a humorous statement. He's just throwing f-bombs around to show that he's your "brah." I don't quite understand it, but every time i read something by @fat, i feel like i'm reading a YouTube comment from a 10-year-old.
For everyone out there who wants to pay bitcoins using PayPal I found a hack that worked (be aware: this might take sevwral hours the first time.)

Buy Linden Dollars - Take them out in bitcoins. Simple but takes hours of waiting the first time to get verified etc the first time.
We can agree to disagree. If you're going to put forward the view above though, you can't really complain if someone were to argue that the lack of women in tech is more due to their own interests and aptitude than it is widespread sexism and "male privilege".

I'm not arguing this subject, except to say that I don't think the OP makes a good argument that "it sucks to be female" in this industry.
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My exact point was that the refactoring was ill-advised—but in my experience as a contractor (which means I've seen a lot of horrid things done in code) it happens a lot.
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So then they are stuck with bitcoins and you get a chargeback fee. No big deal if the value keeps going up. They sell bitcoins anyway, at a market rate plus a percent.

There is a risk that the price goes down, but the bitcoins don't drop out of their pocket because your bank refuses to clear a transaction to your account.

To be a responsible / sane business, they need to keep a hedge of Bitcoins anyway, in case the value spikes and they can't immediately buy the bitcoins for the price that they quoted you, that you locked in when you ordered; that is another factor contributing to their risk of loss as well.

The part that makes the business stable is that 5 day lag between their purchase and sending of your bitcoins. Their losses are limited to whatever can be stolen (now mostly some other way besides bank chargebacks) and whatever swing as described randomly falls above the level of their margin.
Square dimensions = 2

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PC Gaming is alive and well. It's just that they don't spend millions on marketing themselves. Minecraft, GoG, Diablo 3, WoW, LoL all are standing examples that PC Gaming works.
IIRC in Texas, they regulate the sale of Erlenmeyer flasks:

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/RegulatoryServices/narcotics/na...

http://www.crscientific.com/texas-glassware.html

Keep in mind that TX generally has a pro-gun population.
As I tried to make clear in my comment, I was taking issue with his/her method of delivery, not what he/she was objecting to. His/her point is a perfectly valid one, but that's orthogonal to whether he/she chooses to be nasty.
Is this really that much of a deal breaker?
Sorry, yeah I've been using W7 since beta and now W8. I don't know what kind of crashes happen on Linux with office software.
Can you provide live examples? `_gaq.push([]);` shouldn't result in any errors with Ghostery. I'm curious as to what's happening.
>> we do see the same kind of results from his peers
It's interesting.
Can you name some of them?
With published works
I call this "container hell."
I think trademark infringement is definitely too strong. That being said, I think it's a stupid name.

"Oh look we're going to be marginally competitive to Square, we're going to offer more than Square.. CUBE!"

No. It's an unoriginal, hackish name, but at the end of the day it looks like it could be a decent product.
>Yet, his site "Flattr" charges a higher service fee than any other service of its kind

Could you show me another service 'of its kind' as awesome as Flattr? Probably not.

Speaking of the the services not of its kind, Flattr's 10% is well reasoned. Appstore/Google Play charges 30%. Have you heard about Envato? They charge 50% on all sales until you make $70,000. Thousands of people make a living out of Envato and Appstore/Play.

Also don't forget that Flattr is dealing with micro transactions. With Flattr you can give $1 to 10 different content creators. Could you do that with Paypal? I think not. So, I would say that Flattr's 10% fee is well reasoned and acceptable.
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You've misunderstood that defintion.

Economically speaking fiat is a currency that exists by rulemaking instead of having an inherent value— it's constructed. The definition doesn't say who does the constructing or how.

Bitcoin is a fiat currency— the fiat is embedded in the software that runs on and is enforced by all the Bitcoin nodes, it's the rules that make the currency exist and work. It's largely immutable, participated with by consent, transparent, and cryptographically strong in the way no government fiat is— bit it is technically a fiat currency.

This is no big deal unless you make the Internet-liberitarian/goldbug mistake of thinking fiat is a dirty word.
I think her quote goes a little beyond "ruthless", and now you're claiming he has no compassion and no principles.

Seriously, this is getting out of control. I have no idea whether an investigation will turn up evidence of misconduct, but I doubt you do, either.
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And I wonder what "normal" programmers even means.

Is it "normal" as opposed to "exceptional/enlightened", to "anormal", to "strange". Doesn't compute.
By right-wing racist, are you talking about Fredrik whose children are mixed-race (note the clips where he got married in Laos) or Carl who's married to a jewish woman?
This might be a risky comment, but the way Hacker News has become an activist dumping ground for Aaron Swartz links is, in my opinion, slightly disturbing and exploitative.
Second these guys, managed to find a seller and complete the transaction in under ten mins! Although was only a small amount.
Hi, I'm pretty sure this was discussed like zillion times before in HN. So, without having to go much longer, I suggest you to give a look in Laravel http://laravel.com/

Do a good research about what's new in this project, you can even find comparisons with Rails, Django and so on :)

Good Luck!
The Deccan lava flows started about three million years earlier, see for example http://www.ias.ac.in/jessci/jun2001/1352.pdf
That is confused.

If I smash the hope diamond and then get the pope and four world leaders to urinate on it— then surely the resulting mush would be the most rare and costly constructed substance on earth. It would also be worthless.
Gabe Newell is only trying to realign himself. The Windows-download market is getting crowded with better and more efficient service providers - GoG.com, Humble Store, Desura, GMG, GG, Impulse, etc.

Valve will be beaten by both bigger and smaller competitors (Ouya, Apple, Sony/MS), all thanks to Valve time.
I suppose it is possible that programmers in Denmark are more skilled in crafting secure payment processes than Americans, but isn't it more likely that you're opinion is biased by a reporting bias? You are simply observing more reports of problems at US websites because they are so many more US websites than Denmarkian.
I don't mean to be difficult, but I'm not quite following. It seems to me that setting out concrete criteria would be more exclusionary than the current policy of "If it runs OK, we don't care how you made the sausage." The only reason I can see to want Apple to be less permissive is if we're beset by a flood of crappy alternative languages and we need some standards to hold language implementors to — but I don't see that problem being a real thing. So I'm a little confused about what you're looking for.
AFAIK, no site breaks, even if you block them totally via hosts or Ghostery.
Oddly enough, they're still a company worth roughly $2.17 billion. I'd certainly be happy with that failure.
I just checked out that Kickstarter video. Where does it say it'll be free? In fact, I don't see how it could be, at least in the long term.

They are building a web app. It will require ongoing costs to host, support and enhance. I don't think their $10,000 goal (of which they have raised over 50% more than that) could possibly cover these costs.

What you're doing when you fund an idea like the above, is funding a startup. They will own the technology and can do with it whatever they want. That distinction may or may not matter, but it's important.

Nobody in their right mind would pay $10 for a couple stickers. You are not getting the value from the little token gifts. You are getting value in feeling good about helping someone achieve their dream...and potentially building something you intend to use.

You will not benefit economically from giving your economic assistance in helping get their idea off the ground. For tons of people giving money on Kickstart, that is just fine. The lesson is not everyone is wholly economically motivated. That's pretty cool.
>I wish teenagers, children and other "pirates" realize that there is no glory in associating themselves with these sociopaths.

And I wish people would properly use the word "sociopath".
While a preprocessor all the same, I wouldn't put LESS in the same category as Stylus and Sass. It will never have some of the more powerful features the others do.
Ask HN: My kayak conundrum
I've got a problem I'm hoping some of you may have a solution for. I've got a sea kayak that I store in a shed near Sydney Harbour. What I want to do is rent it out to five or so people who can all chip in x amount of money each month and get access to my kayak whenever they like. The problem with this is controlling who gets access and when. I can easily build an online app where each person can check in and out when using the kayak so the others know when it's available or not. The shed it's stored in is padlocked and has other kayaks stored in there as well. What I'm hunting for is a padlock that you can lock and unlock via a swipecard and that you can remotely give access (or deny access) via the internet. This may not be the best solution, and I am open to suggestions.

Does anybody know of a product that will let me give and control access to the kayak to various people depending on their online booking.

I imagine something like this already exists for car sharing services and other sharing companies, but I can't find the right solution anywhere.

Any help would be ridiculously appreciated.

Clark