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buttery graphics

Really? What does that even mean? Why is it that the only analogy that people can find for "smooth" is "butter"? I actually find butter kind of gooey and greasy.
My greatest fear is that it will never get better.
You can certainly use your Authy app for it, it's just Authenticator.
> Once you buy Kindle books, you're unfortunately only renting them.

Luckily, it is VERY easy to crack Amazon's DRM in Calibre.

Not excusing the DRM - I'm just thankful it's easy to get around (all you need is the Kindle serial number, which is easy to find in the settings on your Kindle).
> It was a very different market that Windows Mobile competed in

It seems you assume Microsoft decided not to compete then. I wonder why they made Windows Mobile then...

> Similarly, the failure of Windows Mobile 6.5 is irrelevant for the purposes of discussing Windows Phone's prospects.

Forgive my lack of faith, but a company that has, consistently and for as long as this market existed, failed to deliver a decent product, even despite the huge mountains of cash spent in developing it, seems a very unlikely competitor now.
Actually, I think M$ just bought themselves a lot of power. Microsoft's achilles heel was always hardware, and Nokia's was software until recently when they started pushing Windows Phone OS.

So the way I see it, M$ just bought a hardware company that already uses M$ software. No brainer.
I wonder if the timing of this annoucement is linked to either:

- The Note III launch tomorrow

- The fact that Apple sent out invites for its iPhone event today
> I actually find butter kind of gooey and greasy.

...but not gritty nor lumpy.

Also, "smooth as silk".
What is the source of "X is dead. Love live X" posts? I know about the historical chant where X=the king. But who started the first blogpost with such a title? IMHO it is now a cliche. I get a twang of pain when I reach such titles on HN.
In Pages, or Google Docs, it's just a document. It's always saved, always up to date, it just works

I have a friend that uses Google Docs. He once sent me a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet.

I got lost in the user interface at one point and ended up seeing the list of all of his documents. I clicked on one thinking it was the correct one and loaded what appeared to be on quick notice a journal of various medical problems he's been having.

That's the future.

You're right. The future is people using technology that they don't want to be bothered to learn and thereby having it do things that nobody (especially them) intended. I'm sorry you lost a document but you fell through 3 failsafe levels and did it to yourself. Pretending things like that don't happen to Google Docs is ridiculous and shows your true bias.
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> A strawman can be used to explore their views.

No, it really can't. Using something meaningfully distinct to "explore" their views is the exact same logical fallacy as using something meaningfully distinct to "argue against" their views. What you are dealing with is something distinctly different than their views, whether you are "arguing against" it or merely "exploring" it.

And, even if it could, it still wouldn't be equivalent to exploring their views, so being called out for using a strawman when using a strawman -- for whatever purpose -- woudl still not be being called out for using a strawman whenever you rhetorically explore someone's views.
Removing DRM from azw files is trivial if you are using calibre and have the right plugin. I do it as a matter of course whenever I buy any books from Amazon.
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I'm a little surprised anybody could prefer paper books for reference...

For me, full-text search, bookmarks, and copy/paste make ebooks far superior for referencing. Not to mention I don't have a bunch of books cluttering my desk.

In any case, I completely agree this is awesome. I've been considering selling most of my old physical books and buying the ebook versions, and this will save me a bunch of money.
You should have tried to hit refresh. The image is sometimes a white family, sometimes black, and sometimes biracial. Rating areas where people live will always be sensitive (property values, racial discrimination, etc), we do not need to manufacture drama.
Sweden just decided to grant permanent asylum to anyone who decides to leave Syria. I thought that could be interesting.
That's #3125. #3124 is "We are sexy and we know it."
Interesting. At first glance, this feels wrong, but thinking about it more, the only significant issue I really have with it is that it seems strange for the DEA to be allowed to issue its own warrants.
You posted really good, original content, so you deserve it!
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Norway is one of the worlds most exotic places that travelers must have in their wish list. Norway, officially is a Kingdom, a Scandinavian country with amazing and majestic landscapes like nowhere else on earth. Here is a collection of Norway landscapes photographs from different photographers from around the world.
> which was never a requirement for GPL.

Depending on your definition of "easy-to-build", the GPLv3 addresses that (partially).
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Yes, valid points. You should consider that most people who live in metro areas would consider it a significant degradation in quality of life to live in central TX. I would consider it similar to a decrease in pay.
I am an established developer, and licensing would not hurt me at all: I work for a big company, I have a CS degree, and years of experience. I object to licensing because it would destroy the most appealing aspects of our industry. Right now, if you've got a great idea you can drop out of college and bootstrap a company that changes people's lives and makes you a billionaire. That is fucking awesome. Licensing would kill that completely.
I feel like author went off the rails in a few places, and there were more digs at White Men than I thought was justified (note: I'm a non-white male). It's become somewhat vogue to use "White" as a pejorative and synonym with "bigot", and I'm not okay with that.

If we want people to stop seeing us as our collective racial/gender/cultural stereotypes, then we can't engage in the same shenanigans ourselves.

That being said, this post struck a chord with me. As a pretty vanilla straight male, I can't identify with much of the gender issues she posed, but her blog post reminds me heavily of trying to discuss race on HN.

I frequently see some incredibly racist things being posted around here in the comments, and I've basically stopped calling them out. You see a lot of the same reactions in this community as what she describes - a lot of "why are you so angry", a lot of trivialization of the issue, a lot of unexamined privilege, and lots of people reacting very defensively as if simply by pointing out inequities I'm painting a giant bullseye on your racial-majority forehead.

These problems exist. They are real. If you are not part of a racial minority you probably won't fully comprehend what it's really like. But that's okay, no one expects you to fully grok it, and no one is calling you out just because you're [insert majority race in whatever locale]. What we do want is some modicum of understanding, some modicum of respect, and less middle-brow dismissals of things that millions upon millions of people are experiencing.

So yeah, I think the general thesis of this post is sound. I just wish she were less vitriolic about it - but honestly, having gone through similar things (in a racial, rather than gender, context) I can see why she is.
But yeah, the save thing, the lack of automatic cloud support... that seems anachronistic.

Ironically, you saying that is anachronistic because it shows you've never used Office 2013.
> "Seriously: fuck wikis. They are bad and terrible. Do not use them. Take the time and effort to write some real documentation instead."

I simultaneously agree and disagree with this. Wikis fall into two categorys:

1. "If I build it, they will come", which is where the developer who doesn't want to write docs throws one up, and says "hey, all you users, document it on your own, I don't want to mess with it". Then new versions come out, things change, the docs are old/incorrect, and people get frustrated, and nobody end's up using the wiki.

2. People who actually take time to make it into a great site - these are few and far between. http://ipxe.org is one example of a well done wiki, but I'm betting that a single person spent a good deal of time doing the site.

Unfortunately, it appears that 95% of the technical documentation wikis out there are in group #1, not group #2.
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Microsoft swallows Nokia's handset business for $7.2 billion
It's automatic. To be in the ask page, you must left the url field empty.

(And if you fill both the url and text fields, then only the url is shown and the text is ignored.)
That's true, I haven't really read all the details about this KitKat deal.
Klondikes!
I really want to read Rodney's blog post.
8-10 or less per week. I count that as sending emails to people, browsing different marketplaces, interacting with different kinds of clients (including on here).

I'd LIKE to start updating my blog and using twitter a bit more. One step at a time I suppose..
Design Is Not Art
Skeuomorphism used to be a huge red line that divided iOS and Android design

Not true. The original Android design was not flat. It's WP7 that introduced flat design; and Android basically copied it.
i just assumed there would be more and scrolled down, worked out.. but yeah, not very apparent otherwise
You are right it should be ^ [a-z] [a-z0-9]* @ [a-z]+ \. [a-z]+ $ like someone else pointed out.
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FYI. I work with an Amazon author and he received an email asking if he wanted to "opt-in" to the program (which he did). So it's completely at the publisher's or author's discretion which I think is the right way of doing it.

Also the author has the ability to set the price for the Kindle version. It's dependent on the retail price but from what I've seen if the Kindle book is >$6 the author can do $2.99, $1.99, $0.99 or free. Then as the price gets lower (>$4) the options narrow to $1.99, $0.99 or free and so on.
You know why it's probably not a sponsored deal?

It's google award for KitKat for being very active on G+ (it's the first thing i thought about checking after i saw this, and i was right) - also, haven't found such big "communities" except Google's own.

Probably they also were joining G+ from the start and i couldn't find any article about the default smartphone the employees of KitKat receive :) .

PS. I believe KitKat's competitors aren't really happy about this :)
If someone stole my car, and I come up to you. Angrily:

"vukmir, some asshole stole my car! I can't believe it! I was late to an important meeting! What a fucking shitbag!"

Would you respond with:

"Woah woah, why are you so angry?"

You know why I'm angry. The only context under which "why are you angry" is even a sensical question is one where the thing I'm angry about isn't worth being angry about. Which is also to say "why are you so angry" necessarily entails the dismissal of the subject the speaker is angry about.

edit:

> "how do you ask someone who is obviously angry why he/she/it is being angry?"

How would you respond to my hypothetical rant above, where someone has stolen my car?
That is to be expected from a first generation device unfortunately. Windows Phone 7 was Microsoft toe-dipping into the mobile space with the Metro UI to see if it could be viable.

While WP 7 was a huge success in this regard, the hardware / platform wasn't designed with a long roadmap set for its future, as in order to advance Windows Phone to WP8, the hardware specs of all of the WP7-generation devices was to be abandoned.

I just upgraded from my HTC WP7 device to a Nokia Lumia 1020, and the phone is amazing. I use Android on my tablet, but I prefer Windows Phone on my phone. FYI, the camera on the Lumia 1020 is as amazing as all the reviews say it is.
Great game

Big lag! I hope this is because lots of people are playing :)
It did not 'nearly kill them all.' It killed five people, none of whom where in the cabinet although they were senior party members. The UK didn't have to invade Northern Ireland because Northern Ireland was (and is) UK territory and there was already a substantial active military presence. For about 25 years the British army sent fresh soldiers off to do a tour in NI to toughen them up.

In short, you have no idea what you're talking about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles
Making Things Is Too Hard
I'd wager that it's a variety of factors that are mostly cultural.
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Just because Apple bundles a mail app and browser in with their OS doesn't mean that those kinds of things make up an operating system.

Yup. People bashed Microsoft about this for years because everything was so tied together, there was even an agreement to unbundle it as part of a European Anti-Trust case[1]. As developers, we are ALWAYS talking about decoupling systems, making things easier to manage and exchanging data using APIs. Don't see what the problem is with this, and if it means Google is able to get security patches out quicker rather than relying on manufacturers, then this is a win-win situation.

I wonder if Apple will ever get the Microsoft treatment

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_compet...
This has been needed for a long time. Glad to see it finally materialize!
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ITT: People with absolutely fuck all better to do than nitpick at Android. Pathetic.
ujsfdo, try https://app.rackspace.com/mobile and let me know what you think.
Why on earth is he framing it as though it has something to do with time? Like, there was a time when you couldn't rely on browsers having javascript, so progressive enhancement? Progressive enhancement wasn't because browsers didn't have javascript, it was because people turned it off. They still do. And horrible javascript "apps" that just show some text and pictures are only going to make that number get bigger.
The thing that always bugged me about rendering things in the client was...

1) supporting 2 templating systems (server & client)
2) no graceful degradation (or "progressive enhancement" depending on your opinion) (i.e. being able to get a page's content with a simple wget)

In any case, since it hasn't been mentioned in this discussion, I'd like to direct people's attention to PJAX (http://pjax.heroku.com/).

I've found this to be a nice, simple solution to have pages work identically with and without javascript. The initial page load is rendered by the server and the HTML of the subsequent sections of the page are rendered on the server but loaded via ajax and updated with one jQuery .html() call. The app URLs and the ajax URLs are the same but they return the page's full contents (<html>...</html>) when requested regularly and the page's partial contents (<div id="#content">...</div>) when requested asynchronously.

Check it out if you haven't.
A lot of Americans say 'reaching out' when they mean 'talk', it sounds ludicrous to me- as if it were the bloody Creation of Adam ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michelangelo_-_Creation_of... ). So naff.
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He was just attempting to make a "Break me of a piece of that KitKat bar" joke - but we all know how far jokes on on HN.
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I have owned the original Paperwhite since it came out, and I love it - can't recommend it highly enough. The frontlighting is wonderful.

However, I really wish that this newer one had physical buttons on the side for turning the pages, like some of the other Kindle models. I find the touchscreen rather irritating when reading. It's much easier to have buttons on the side that you can press without moving your hand/finger.

If they had included this, I would easily have laid down $120 for an upgrade immediately.
They just released it today to counter the iPhone press conference confirmation.
Click on the question mark. I'm running firefox and it works...just know what you have to do
I'm a white male. I'm a husband. I'm about to become a father (we're avoiding finding out the sex until birth, so there's a 50% chance I'm the father of a daughter). I work in IT. I've worked with a few women. Some of been excellent, some haven't. Just the same as the men I've worked with.

I tried to work out what Shanley never, ever wanted to hear again, and I figure that it is the following 7 words.....

"I don’t know much about this, but"

However, my follow on from the but is; I'd like to get educated. The following are the points I'm taking out of this article (please let me know if I missed any, I am seriously not being sarcastic or a jerk).

- do not try to defend the "white male establishment" which I apparently am part of. (I do not feel part of it, but I guess I get lumped in it until I prove I'm not part of it?)

- do not attempt to tell a woman what she is feeling (luckily, I've learned this lesson a long time ago)

- do not talk about my experiences with women in IT (they are probably outliers like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer)

- be able to read vague complaints about general sexism with out thinking they're targeted at me

They're fairly easy things for me to work on.

I would actually be interested in advice from Shanley on what book I should pick up to educate myself with.

A wall of passionate words with out a good call to action for white males to pick up on is frustrating to me. I want to try and help, but beyond being the decent human I've been relying on, I'm at a loss.
$0.136 is "Light utilization". I referenced "medium utilization" which is $0.084
I think Charles Stross writings on ebooks is interesting and insightful. He should know: he's a tech-savvy best-selling author. (He hangs around here too: [1])

He wrote a couple of posts a year and a half ago, they still apply. In them, he explains how Amazon is making itself a monopoly, and that isn't good for anyone but them.

What's been most informative to me is how tiny publishers actually are, and how little money the author actually gets. It doesn't paint Amazon as the good guy. It's also why I buy my books hardcover now: more cash for the author.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstross

[2] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/understa...

[3] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/more-on-...
...and for there to be a war on drugs in the first place. Eliminate the fundamentals, and there should be no issues at all, really.
This is neat but I wish the score was accurate. Currently if I click forfeit it will show me the correct answer but not do anything. I can then write in the answer and then it will increment the x/y score. However, it doesn't take into account forfeits so I always get a perfect score.
What's the precise definition? The browser rendering partial HTML as it is streamed down? That is just built-in browser technology to achieve the same goal. There's no meaningful distinction in terms of the end result.
"derailing" is a very strange concept.

In a conversation, you generally don't get to declare all your premises off-limits, nor do you get to determine unilaterally what the other participants will find most interesting to talk about. Sometimes people will consistently disagree with one or more assumptions you make. If they do, it might be because your assumption is wrong or because you did a poor job of explaining it. In which case it's worth spending some time on that area of contention. And sometimes what you find most interesting about a subject won't be the same thing other people find most interesting - and that's okay.

As near as I can tell, complaints about "derailing" translate into "I wanted to make a speech, but the other guy kept insisting on wanting to have a conversation." Is that all there is to it?
The most startling aspect of this writeup is the iOS / Android revenue difference. I'd have expected Android revenues to be lower, but not by about 1/3.
I just wish my car supported A2DP streaming instead of just voice streaming over Bluetooth... 3.5mm or USB cable doesn't even supply the song's name.
Historically, "East Indian" meant something else entirely.

Is that also "annoying" to you? After all, some hillbilly somewhere might not appreciate the many nuances of differing cultural practices between Sumatra and Tamil Nadu. Worse yet, she might not even care! Is there any aspect of any European language that doesn't annoy you?
It's great to see another big web service implementing two-factor authentication. Looks like 2FA is going to be a standard option in web apps in the near future.
That top comment is so daft and separate from the reality of open source development. HN has really degraded if that comment gets taken seriously.
And is any of that... "luck"?

What about the qualifications you had in order to be hired by the dream company? What skills and networking have you had previously before being able to convince VCs? If that hot girl said "yes", doesn't it mean you had to approach her first and manage to convince her?

There are thousands of opportunities passing us by every year. But we are only prepared to recognize a handful and even less prepared to take advantage of them.

Now, the specific circunstances that lead to, say, Instagram's acquisition can be called "luck", in hindsight. But they were in a position to take advantage of the deal, it is not as if they just found a lottery ticket on the street.
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Here's some other stats for those interested... and also this might serve as some encouragement.

I didn't have a blog at the time but wanted to write something to submit to HN so I set one up on Posterous and wrote my post. Ended up #1 for about 6 hours, and stayed on the front page for over 24 hours.

http://www.chrisacky.com/images/stats.png

But do you know what I loved the most...

After I wrote the content and submitted to HN, I took my dog for a half hour dog walk.. and came back to this.

http://www.chrisacky.com/images/trends.png

If you write anything, providing it's: original, interesting, controversial, echo-chamber'd or otherwise a decent news-scoop, you can usually get enough upvotes to make front page.

Unfortunately, I've found that the really technical posts which are awesome never seem to stick around for that long which is why it's good to check out /new every so often too.

IF YOU DON'T WRITE IT, THEY WON'T COME.

Everyone should have a blog, and providing it's not spam, you will be amazed at how easy it can be to get readers.