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Yeah the completely market revolutionizing iPhone taking all of the high end market and Android taking all the low to high end market had nothing to do with Nokia's downfall.
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What's the problem with PGP?
On HN, you could give people the benefit of doubt and assume that market-share growth wouldn't be brought up unless the numbers were large enough. I would refrain from quoting that figure if it went from say 10,000 units to 20,000.

Last quarter, iPhone sales were 31 million devices and WP8 sales were 7.4 million devices. If WP8 is selling one device for every 4 iPhones, that is indeed a decent result relative to where they started off from.
I agree. I worked for a company that was building their own TV platform on top of Android. From their (and my) point of view, Android was meaningfully open.

You don't need Google's closed services to have a working and meaningful platform. You also still benefit from the large developer mindshare and identical APIs compared to Google's Android.

You don't have the added benefit of the content discovery & delivery platform Google provides, nor of any of the closed Google API's. Depending on your use case, that may make it "meaninglessly open", but I would definitely argue that this isn't a universal statement.

I also have multiple Android devices that don't have access to Google Play (a set-top box and a system-on-a-stick) and I really don't mind that they don't have access to Play.
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This is a brilliant! Excellent execution as well and it brings people together to form connections that can last longer than the current exchange.

This is what we should be seeing more of on HN.
Paypal is a turnoff for many customers. I've met people who will not use it no matter what and will quote the popular horror stories.

Braintree seems ok-ish but has a €100 minimum monthly fee. Paymill seems to be just fine but has some formal requirements.

Realex and Sagepay have a monthly fee, also require a merchant account, this is where the fun begins (although Sagepay offers own merchant accounts too).

AIB Merchant Account charges:

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Once off registration fee of €190.
Credit Cards: 3.00% per transaction
Laser Cards: 25c per transaction
Visa Debit Cards: 35c per transaction
Please bear in mind that we have a minimum monthly charge of €30, so if your total charge for Merchant Service Charge and Laser each month does not equal to €30, you will be charged €30.

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To get an AIB Merchant Account you also need to provide 3 months of bank accounts, and, wait for it… A BUSINESS PLAN (!)

Also…
"Once the signed application is returned to us it will be processed within 5-10 working days."

Stripe. All you need is 10-15 minutes it takes to fill the online form and set things up. Done. I always thought the downside was that it was considerably more expensive than others. Not in Ireland, it isn't — unless I'm missing something.
Too see how much our Government understands the problem, the Minister of Communication asked the "Correios" to build the secure email system, "Correios" is the Brazilian equivalent of USPS.

There are dozen more qualified departments to work on this, and the incredible idea is to build an encryption and certification for email text, they never heard of OpenPGP.

It looks like he really thinks because it´s email(electronic mail) gasp the postal services should handle this.
The Nokia Bandit leak says  Windows Phone may have larger screen
<sarcasm>But security-aware people are negligible minority!</sarcasm>
..and the same argument applies to being a Windows Phone vendor - if Nokia had great success with WP, others would have followed and they would have been in the same situation.

However, Nokia actually has, and used to have lots of resources, far more than most other phone vendors. They had the Ovi store, Nokia Comes With Music, N-Gage, and finally a very nice in-house NAVTEQ Maps application. The "only" problem was that they never really managed to do most of these _well_.

Which I think is at the core of the problem. Choosing Windows Phone as the platform only made it worse and tied Nokias hands, not better.
A hack is worth a thousand pictures
Oh, and avoid baseball idioms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_English-language_id...
I'm ready for JavaScript sites ... but notice a very important nugget in the authors post, "web apps need to have good URLs". This cannot be overstated.

1. Stop preventing middle and right clicks on JavaScript enabled links. For left clicks, sure ... control the flow.

2. Respect the fact that this is NOT a desktop environment, therefore my view of your program's "screens" should be on a per URL basis. I actually might want to view a list you generated in my own separate "window" or "screen" with the URL visible, usable, and savable in the browser.
Isn't $10k/yr the generally the suggested figure, maybe $1k/mo for simplicity? $10k/yr makes it $2.4T. Social security is approximately $770B, safety nets $410B. Medicare/Medicaid is around $730B. That's getting close.
That's irrelevant as it usually only goes bang in production under production load and data volumes.
Yeah, it used to be much more than that. It is $19 a year though.
> Other approaches use PhantomJS to create a "rendered" copy that is accessible to primitive clients/scrapers.

Then your site does not require client-side JS support.

The point is not about what technologies you use to produce documents, the point is what data you [can] serve.
I've never seen one in SE or East Asia, not one, in Hong Kong, Singapore, KL, Bangkok or even little Phnom Penh, and you would think MS would see WP's best chance was to attract buyers who hadn't bought a smart phone before. What are they buying? Samsung mostly (and not just Galaxy, they make a lot of android phones at a cheap pricepoint), with 20-25% buying iPhones.
Do you pay corporation tax in Europe?

If "stripe in Ireland", and an office in London then you should right?
> I don't know of something similar can be implemented with email because you still need headers to be visible.

Anon.penet.fi - the first well known anonymising e-mail remailer - is 20 years this year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer - it's not only possible, it's trivially easy as you can rewrite the headers as you please.

For just anonymity from someone without ability to eavesdrop you don't need much - just strip out the headers from the sender, and replace the sender and recipient addresses.

For protection against eavesdropping you need at a minimum encryption between sender and the relay, and the relay and the recipient (which could be another relay). EDIT: against a dedicated opponent you want more, including end to end encryption as well, of course.

There are lots of e-mail remailer designs around (most substantially more advanced than the Penet remailer)
Sorry, but why is this on the front page of HN?

Let's say I can understand the NSA stories, since they're somewhat tech related, but this is just off-topic, IMHO.
I like to save every document I read online (including discussion, if possible, these often contain insightful posts). Maybe it's obsessive, but I do it.

Some documents, especially those using Ajax for loading content or multiple pages, make this difficult. I hate them. (Hacker News, oddly, does it too - when a discussion is archived, it becomes paged, which makes it more complicated to store.)

I wish there would be a standard way to store page offline, including all the JS changes made to its looks, all the external content etc.
Hi Marcin,

I have one idea about a useful plugin for twitter. Are you comfortable with "text meaning" and twitter apps?

Regards
Elop worked for Microsoft just for two years before leaving for Nokia.
Another top secret test that the Israelis were not told it's supposed to be secret.
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You could always just show up and walk around the outside of the campus, take a picture of the colorful Google bikes and the Android mascots for the various releases.

There are usually lots of Google employees getting some sunlight in the surrounding park.

I'm not sure what you'd see inside the buildings. I worked as a consultant for the previous owner, Silicon Graphics/SGI, during the first dot-com boom, and they were neat architecture, but still just office buildings.

I think if you plan a whole trip out to Silicon Valley for the atmosphere, you might be kind of disappointed.
Can you install the version of Mac OS, iTunes and XCode that go together with each other and stick with it?

I'm thinking of getting a Hackintosh on my laptop to get started with iOS development, but I'm not ready o get a new laptop just for that (and I don't really like Mac OS).
Perhaps people are motivated by the news and wish to defend their knowledge investments?

It's not a failure, nor is it a success. Yet.

People were saying this a decade ago about the Xbox remember.

Microsoft only decided to compete just over two years ago and they're entering a very competitive market. It takes time to get traction on these things and they're doing it, just slowly. The potential to grow exponentially is still there.

As for the declaration of failure, are you really qualified to judge what a failure is or are you spouting the echoes of all the tech news journalists who like getting hits from slating Microsoft (which will never become unfashionable)?
The deal does makes sense - MS has oodles of cash and several cash cows but no stars for the future. Other two players, Apple and Google has already brought production in house - MS has a fighting chance with this acquisition - though the larger issue of MS bureaucracy can rock this boat as well
I understand how a mistake in an A-list interview hurts you, but how does it hurt the A-list company?
Could you elaborate a bit on the part where you mentioned "far east weirdness: Tamil / Burmese / Malay".

What's so weird about those languages? All three languages you mentioned are linguistically very different and have long histories (particularly Tamil).

I wouldn't call them far east either. These languages are predominantly spoken in South and South-east Asia.

(I am from Singapore where Tamil and Malay are official languages)
they subsequently came out with the n96 which is a great phone.

By the way I still use an n95. It's great because it's a smart phone but not considered a smart phone by att so I dont get charged data. I can use wifi anywhere. It is a bit slow though.
well that's because US has the market dimension of the full EU and more.
This is why also if in EU wp is aroundd 10%, worlwide it is still on 3%. Us-Africa(that is still for more than 60% on dumbphones)-Cina-Japan do not like it for various reasons
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Why should it be abandoned? Just because the author isn't a fan of WP8?

The general public aren't a fan of WP8 either.
The rote, unskilled work in auto assembly was easily automated (apply a spot weld here, insert a part there) but a lot of the skilled work was as well. The precision parts in automobiles used to be made by hand by machinists. This was highly skilled work, and it's now almost entirely been replaced by CNC. Machinists today, to the extent they still exist, are much more like programmers. They are still used for small and one-off jobs, but mass production of machined parts is programmed directly from the designs now, so you don't need a machinist in the picture at all for that. No amount of keeping up with innovation would have helped there.
I _think_ the exact definition is within http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area modulo variable exchange rates
Easy enough if you go to the Nimrod site and look at the documentation:

http://nimrod-code.org/tut2.html#macros

http://nimrod-code.org/manual.html#macros

Note that Nimrod also has templates, which also uses AST-based macro expansion.
Wow, thank you. Now I know the quote predates Twain's use.
Something I would really like to see here is use of gender-specific pronoun "he" or "she" instead of "they". Yes, the language has changed so that "they" is acceptable as gender-neutral singular, but it's still regularly jarring, and when the information is or can conveniently be there (you can very easily collect it—male, female or unspecified) it makes it much more pleasant to read.
I'm 21 right now and i felt that same thing 6 months ago. Then i left my job. i still think i mad a great decision.

Stop killing your self and follow your <3. (this line is bull shit)

based on my experience

pro:
happy as fuck life.
0% depressed life.
no shit from boss.
you can code only when you want.
infinity amount of time to do new things.
you can work on startups, cool.
you can freelance. (i only do freelance now)

cons:
you will need money, which is kinda hard. (if you are not a rich basted)
Unemployed tag feels like shit. (if you are not doing freelance)
slowly you will go away from programming. (programming is not fun when you do it too much)
you will make less money, and 25 age is for marriage in my country. i'm 21 so i don't care about that right now. but you are fucked.
Good one, beautifully done. Just signed up. :)

Request: Provide an option to delete swaps. Once I've found someone willing to exchange help, maybe I wouldn't want to continue advertising the swap?

Just a thought... :-)
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Do you know how we would go about doing it? (That's not a snarky Q - I genuinely don't know!). I too would love to but I'm unsure as to how to reliably do it - and in the mean time gender-neutral was a safer bet.
Excellent points. Wish I had written this comment. =]

Denoting when you're speculating is definitely important. It can help to deconstruct the problem - a bit like a well-placed assert statement.
Thanks - that one is absolutely on our list.
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People are giving advises all over the web, as if, getting to a point where you have $7B to spend is not a result of a series of wise decisions and solid strategy.

I am not a Microsoft fan to say the least, but boy, we understand that this is all your personal opinion, etc.

However, have you ever touched or got near by a pile of a billion dollars, that you allow yourself to make such strong opinion about? Did you ever have 1% of that money, or .1% of that money?

Everyone has the right to have an opinion, but please, assume "they" know facts and figures you don't.
In fact, you don't even have to allow delete - you can just let the users 'hide' them. That way, if I want to offer the same swap, I can just 'unhide' it. :-)

Out of curiosity, what's the stack? I read Heroku & MongoDB. I'm guessing it is an Ember.js app?

EDIT: unhide not unidentified. Damn you auto correct!
> Nokia Windows Phones the fastest-growing smartphones in the world

Huh?
Open a page you admire in Chrome, inspect it in DevTools and play with its style rules. Start a project and copy liberally from the masters.
I must disagree. In 2010 Nokia was 70% of Brazil smartphone market and their share was still rising, very fast. Symbian phones were known to.be solid, fast, and had apps and games ( even a port of counter strike! )

As soon Elop announced Symbian death, the whole thing tanked, and I cannot help but feel that Elop is stupid.
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My point is that it depends on what you mean by "fix." Is it extremely hard for a person with a unintelligible accent to eliminate it? Of course. Could that same person with a few hours of regular effort quickly make incredible progress (in that most of their peers would go from not being able to understand them to being able to?) I'd have to speculate yes.
The thing that most puzzles me about US banking is the fact that wire transfer (expensive) is the only reasonably real-time electronic transfer mechanism.

ACH ("direct debit") transfers take 1-3 business days to come in, and can only clear on business/banking days, and only after the bank opens, at 9 AM! That means someone is actually sitting there and clearing the transactions manually! WTF? Is this 1954?

When my UK friends initiate a transfer from Paypal to their bank, it hits their bank instantly, any time! 3 AM on Sunday morning? No problem. As I understand it, the same is true throughout much of Western Europe. Only I'm stuck broke until the bank opens on Tuesday so my "electronic" transfer can "clear".

Yes, I'm aware of the fact that they probably realise substantial profits on the interest-free floats. I don't really care about the reasoning for it; the fact is, it's absolutely absurd.
... or I could leave it at the hotel.
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You could tie it in with letting the user specify the name to display; changing away from using Twitter handles is probably not a bad thing anyway. Thus you could have as part of the sign-up process:

1. Call me _________
2. Refer to me as
( ) male ("he")
( ) female ("she")
(x) gender-neutral or plural ("they")
( ) actually, we're a group ("they")

For e.g. Twitter sign-up, you'd auto-fill the first with their username and the second with gender-neutral.

That does sound rather awkward and could hopefully be improved upon. (I added the final option as it occurred to me businesses could use this.)
windows vista/7/8 have greatly improved the out of the box driver stuff. I believe a fresh windows 7 install has something like 7 gigs of printer drivers alone (!)
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The entire source code is on my GitHub account: https://github.com/jackfranklin/skillswap

It uses the free Heroku instance with the free MongoHQ addon. That way if the site failed completely I wouldn't be out of pocket! If it keeps being used we'll either stump up some cash for Heroku or look at other hosting options. For now the free Heroku is fine, and the free MongoHQ addon still has enough space, particularly as we're storing so little.

There's no Ember or any similar framework, just a bit of jQuery that does the search filtering (which I want to improve - the entire site is a result of a 3-4 hour hack yesterday, plenty can be improved upon).

It's a small Ruby app that uses Sinatra, with Mongoid my gem of choice for talking to MongoDB. Uses the omniauth gem to authenticate with Twitter, and that's about it. Dead simple :)
There are other things besides personal financial profits. Think of them as taxes to maintain Internet working and flexible.

If you don't pay that tax, you're personally contributing to a future when simple documents become full-fledged programs, and everyone lose abilities to easily manipulate and interact with them in any but author-defined ways.

There are cases where you can be exempt from that tax - if your site is not about documents, but their transformations, i.e. it's more of a process, not data. (Then you should call it app, not site). But vast majority of sites isn't.
Anyone travelling from Belfast? Would love to join!
I did this too, when I had the iMac. I have a nice hutch arrangement now.
Fix'd. https://github.com/ryanseys/ryanseys.com/commit/2c043f
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And which one of your many fragmented communist or socialist parties that combined has ~5% of the votes for your national congress is it that'd supposedly be strong enough to carry out such a takeover?

None of your big parties are anywhere near being communist, despite the history of some of their elements.

EDIT: Not that you should trust your government to run a "safe email service" regardless. See it for what it is: A way of showing how annoyed they are about the NSA revelations.
Many universities offer such services to students but the take-up level is normally very low, so I'm not sure there's a huge market for it.
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Hi,

I believe I will be able to help. Please send me an email so we could discuss the details.

Regards,

Marcin
Could someone who understands art elaborate on why both the original work and this are important?
If the government doesn't want to recognize the value of your money, they don't need to snoop on your communications with your bank to do it.

Conversely if you're actually interested in protecting your information, then client-side encryption with self-authenticated keys has always been the only solution.
Android certainly does not have lower system requirements than Windows Phone. I mean, it could run on lower spec hardware... for some definition of "run". Mine are both last-gen devices, but my Lumia has half the cores and RAM as my Galaxy and runs twice as smoothly.

I hear later versions of Android did get smoother on flagship phones, but I don't know how or if that translates to lower-end devices.
less than Apple and Google charge

What your parent wants to do, "build an app to use on my own phone", is free on Android.
The last place I would trust my private data is ANY government. They would better spend that money on PGP promotion and public education to get some real privacy.
Who cares about the tech bloggers? Android customers don't care about fragmentation. They care about having working apps. Developers care about fragmentation, and this approach (unlike updating Youtube in this way) helps with their problem, regardless of what bloggers say and who is in a "war" with whom.
> It had a functional nature, which is easier to learn than the object-oriented programming.

Uhm PHP is not really a functional language, it is a imperative one, or am I misunderstanding something?
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If those people were let go (or retrained) continuously as they became redundant, instead of being employed in a unsustainable behemoth which then collapses all at once, they are much better positioned to re-qualify and re-join the workforce (maybe in the same, maybe in a different company) in a higher-skilled position. This could happen multiple times over a career.
> In fact, you don't even have to allow delete - you can just let the users 'hide' them. That way, if I want to offer the same swap, I can just 'unhide' it. :-)

Yes - there is already a flag for this in the model, but the functionality on the front-end to mark it as complete didn't get finished (yet).
Great idea, novel execution.

However - you might want to stick some validation or a moderation step in: the first in the list is currently "necenzurat is looking for help with getting laid. In return, they can offer their help with massage.".

Unless, of course, that is the real underlying intention of the app...

EDIT: After a short think, I think it would be nice to use a similar auto-complete "tag" entry system a la Stack Overflow. This would make entering any number of skills a great deal easier than just a text field.
Yes, yes, yes, and thrice more yes.

We embrace complexity at our peril. Dullness is a virtue.
Like you said, Amazon devices are not Android, even though they are architecturally very close.
Yup - spotted and deleted that one.

I think we need some form of being able to flag an entry as spam, and it going into moderation when that happens.
>just like Linux forked Unix

Darl McBride? Is that you?