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Mobile Safari doesn't run any sorts of code, other than Javascript. No Flash, Java or any Mac equivalent to ActiveX—and without hooks to those, the JS can't really do anything either. I suppose you could find a vulnerability in the app itself, but iPhone apps are themselves sandboxed to prevent installing code without getting an elevation prompt (which is what that "Login with your iTunes account" prompt really is.)

To your first point, though: I thought you were talking about listing arbitrary apps in the central App Store without vetting them. People trust things that, like you said, come from reputable sites. The App Store is seen in its entirety as a "reputable site," no matter which publisher actually wrote the app. I'm all for allowing you to just surf to an .ipa file and download/install it, but don't allow people to list a trojan-horse "Apple Remote" right beside the actual "Remote" without creating some form of community filtering or known-developer verification.
Let's rewind here, LOL.

This is where we went off the tracks:

Yes, my example is different. I'm using that difference to demonstrate that your argument fails.

From here on out I've been saying:

- (i) your example is sufficiently different from mine that to me it proves nothing about mine (though I'm sure it's an example you know how to "win" arguments with)

- (ii) here's why I consider your example sufficiently different from mine as to no longer be relevant

- (iii) please explain why I'm wrong -- why I ought to consider your example and my example equivalent

...at which point to my eyes the rest of our "conversation" reads as you re-iterating that you prefer your example to mine blah blah blah.

And it's worth noting you can't even summarize my scenario accurately, which gives me little faith in your reading ability:

* You think that should be able to benefit from work that he does before you have a need but not from work that he does after you find yourself in need.*

...is wrong; the work was finished well before I was in need...regardless of whether I die or not he's doing no further work, full stop.
Futura is "childish"? I've never heard it called that before. It's geometric, mechanical, and inhuman; to type what Metropolis was to movies, maybe.
Yea, it's like an Express article snuck into the Post.

Edit: ^ Washington
That's interesting, I have a totally different experience with the site. The animated ad for the Sunday magazine totally dominates my glance at the page. My eye is drawn along the horizontal and vertical rules to ads in blue, yellow, red. I don't immediately see "Top Stories" or "Sections"; I see the flash ad, then "IN SUNDAY'S TIMES", then a tab-headered table labeled "MEN'S 3RD ROUND|WOMEN'S 4TH ROUND".

The site, to me, is a good example of the tension between old-school print standards and web-based media. If you take a given story I prefer to read the "PRINT"-ed version, e.g., http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/world/07weapons.html?hp vs. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/world/07weapons.html?pagew... The former is busy, moves, has lots of conflicting colors. The "printed" version is widely-spaced, simple.

The sfgate.com website strikes a different balance that's seems further from its respective printed paper. It's similarly strewn with ads and blinkies, but they don't seem as jarring to me, it feels like a website while the nytimes feels like "the website of the newpaper".
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428776 as one example.
You should always put a PDF with non-standard fonts through Adobe's "preflight" (it's part of Acrobat) or an equivalent processor. It will tell you if the fonts will be embedded, and an assortment of other useful things.
> Verdana is a good choice for headings.

A font designed to be readable at small sizes is good for headings? I seldom mix sans, but I usually will use an Arial heading with Verdana copy. Verdana becomes very unsightly above 14px, in my opinion.
I am flattered he thinks I work for Google though. ;)
I would like to pre-emptively add to your comment: If anyone says "you don't need that many tabs" I respond: "You don't need to tell me what I want to do".
Can you give me an example of why this is useful? What do you use such a large number of tabs for?
Not great for the 10-20% minorities which are supported by the government of the whole country. They'd probably face oppression under a new regime, or themselves begin to rebel.
Even faster!

1. Double-click/highlight any word or phrase on a website
2. Right-click
3. Click Google search for [whatever was highlighted] (results in a new tab)
I find myself deferring to the OS more and more these days, specifying simply "sans-serif" and "serif" where the precision doesn't matter. A bonus is that your page will listen to browser preferences.
Exactly, and yet governments like mine (Australia) are pushing it as a global agenda item, while ignoring (or underspending on) possible support for other issues which the numbers show are bigger / better value challenges.
"The NY Times design is a disaster. It banishes the useful events feature to the most obscure part of the page, while giving tons of space to a feature that would only be used by the tiniest fraction of the users."

I think you're exaggerating. The NYT designer's redesign is extremely similar to the existing layout, with perhaps a bit more spacing and better colors. You may not like it, but it's a stretch to call it a "disaster".

When I said you have a problem, I wasn't trying to imply that you're irrational or confused. I just think you have an opinion that's rooted intensely in the way that you use the site (totally understandable), and you're trying to generalize that opinion to everyone. For example, I've never used the events feature that you find so important, and before I saw the NYT design I had no idea that you could create an account. If I didn't know it, maybe there are millions of other people who don't know about it either -- a good reason why the feature might be under-utilized.
Ask HN: Good looking news/social media sites?
The wired article about the craigslist redesign has got me wondering. We've all come across beautiful photography and design portfolios, but what about news and social media sites? Which ones would you consider to be efficient and aesthetically pleasing at the same time?
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If you want to run arbitrary applications, just jailbreak.

Or, I could buy an Android phone, instead, and have no need to violate the license of the product to use it the way I want to.
None of those people are using YellowPages.com over the physical phone book because the aesthetics are better.
I can only speak for people I know, but as far as I can tell the phone book is being replaced by (a) cell phones, which until the iPhone mostly had horrible UI design and (b) Google, which goes barely beyond Craigslist in the visual design department. I don't know anyone who uses YellowPages.com. (According to Alexa its reach is 0.1%.)
The IBM z9 is very interesting and the HP BladeSystem enclosure could be enclosed in an air-conditioned tube in the front lobby of any company.

But sexy servers are a hard sell. We will see a lot of rack-mountable dull-looking boxes. Any attempt to make them pretty is little more than lipstick on a pig.

There could be some space for good looking computers on the desktop. Where is Sun and NeXT when you need them? ;-)
Most of the criticism (I think) revolves around the methodology being biased towards unambitious projects. The economists were asked to rank proposals according to how much good they would do in alleviating existing world problems. The premise is a limited budget roughly based on 'aid budgets'.

I think climate change should have been left outside of what they were looking at altogether for lots of reasons.

The projects are too uncertain to be ranked.
Putting an extra $1b towards existing climate change projects may result in absolutely no effect on climate change. We are talking about risky, expensive projects. An economist doesn't really know if a propaganda campaign to convince americans or Chinese to sign some deal is better then some geo-engineering technology project to directly cool the earth. It is outside the realm of what smart economists are good at.

- It is coming out of different pockets. Climate change affects rich countries too. It is self interested spending. Certainly, there are tragedy of the commons like problems. But it is still in the interest of those spending to spend.

- The effects of climate change are uncertain and indirect. One of the potential climate change issues is decreased glacial melt in India resulting in less summer river flows in to Pakistan. India is entitled (by treaty) to a fixed (in litres) amount of water. Pakistan needs this water to grow food without which it will be in famine. This could result in, mass refuge crisis, nuclear war, etc. It is virtually impossible to link something like that directly to an increase or decrease of $500m in spending by some NGO.

*But... If you are a millionaire or in charge of an NGO or a foreign spending budget or give money to a poverty related charity, the Copenhagen Consensus seems like an important list to consider. If decide to act against its recommendations, at least have a reason.
http://torrelay.com/

It works fairly well, though a while back (as I recall) they shifted from freemium to pay-based because they couldn't make enough money to operate otherwise (too many people using up limited bandwidth and not giving anything back).
I think that this is more of a result of the way this particular study was structured then anything else. The study doesn't rank challenges, it ranks solutions.
There is no big harm in giving something a name. Giving a name also helps if you find a need to reuse it later. Plus a name can give a hint to what this code is for.
I like how Chrome is more stable and uses less resources then Firefox. Does not crash on me like FF does.

Though it is not my default browser - yet. I'd definitely switch when they have same add-ons and it with such added it remains stable/does not crash. One can hope...
How would you define section of a country.
I was speaking more to the relevancy of the original Wired article and this post to an audience of designers, and idsgn readers more specifically, not to us here. But yes, this is a reposting to us, so it's not needed.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750916
I'm not so sure. iPhone users have a distinctive "feel" that distinguishes them from other smartphone users. This translates into different behavior, different responses to stimulus.

For instance, they tend to be music lovers, more-so than, say, Nokia purchasers. This translates into high-bandwidth usage, and iTunes sales probably isn't shared with carriers. They're interested in accessories that achieve sonic fidelity, something that carriers are notoriously bad at. So they get legit in-ear stuff instead of buying carrier's bluetooth crap.

And Safari is--well--usable, in a way that many (but not all) mobile browsers are not. The awesome layout engine and sweet UI mean that you are likely to actually use it while waiting in line or whatever, where on many other phones the usability cost is so high that you'd rather be bored for 120 seconds waiting to check out of the grocery lane. And of course, the aggregate cost of millions of people waiting in checkout lines is a force to be reckoned with.

This is coming from a guy who loves his iPhone, so feel free to cast my unwavering praise in a negative light. But the thesis--that iPhone users have distinct behavior that tends to oppose the aims of carriers--is a valid one.
It looks like the duplicate detector still needs more work. There are lots of duplicate submissions again.
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"Just do it." What is your personal brand?
Just Do It.” The Nike tagline is a message that has been ingrained in all of us due to the power associated with branding. Nike is an empire that has proclaimed its identity and has consistently focused on who they are and what they stand for in the world. When I began thinking about Nike, and the way that they have become part of our vernacular, I began to think about the concept of branding and how it epitomizes creating an identity. It made me realize that this type of identification strategy is not only apparent in Corporate America, but it is also something that takes place in the lives of all of you and everyone else in the world. When we establish an identity for ourselves, we become the Nike, Addidas, Under Armor, and Google of our own world. But if this is the case, then what is the message that you want the world to remember you by, what is your logo, and what is your brand?
And I was wondering how the other 50% will manage to survive.
Being "knee-jerk" means being reactionary and reckless, whereas I am making a single, limited argument: the law prohibits unpaid labor uniformly in all situations. It does not require a regulatory value judgment to make a decision.

You may not like the values the law represents, but you can't attack its implementation as subjective.
I also want to point this out:

It's also interesting that your response to the fact that it's not the actual beneficiary who is using the knowledge, but a speculator, was to invoke realpolitik.

One problem with that is that the means produce the ends. The other is that the speculator doesn't have the characteristics that you use to justify your conclusion, but your conclusion is unchanged.

You've per usual mischaracterized what I said.

Anatoly raised a valid point: the specific scenario I drew up isn't actually an accurate match for the scenario at hand, and explained that the moral calculations would probably come out differently in a situation that more closely resembled the situation on the ground.

Unlike you, he very carefully sketched out his own situation, premises, and conclusions, and pointed out explicitly where our views of the world diverged. He then asked what the moral choice would be for Bob -- whether Bob ought to shut down Jim's off-brand pharma factory or whether Bob ought to let Jim stay in business.

Given such a well-formed approach I felt it warranted a proper reply.

I first explained why as a practical matter if Bob is an elected representative -- and thereby accountable to his constituents in some fashion -- the incentives for Bob almost certainly tip in favor of Bob's letting Jim continue.

One thing I admittedly elided somewhat was the relationship between "Bob's incentives as his constituent's elected representative" and "Bob's moral obligations as his constituent's elected representative"; there are entire fields of political philosophy that try to nail that down and getting dragged into it in this context is pretty much a derail.

Suffice to say that yes: Bob is clearly incentivized to allow Jim to continue operating due to the situation Bob is in -- whether Bob is being moral to do so -- and (unstated but implied) to the extent you think that the moral balance generally tips in favor of saving lives now (at the expense of ignoring some patents) instead of preserving the integrity of the patent system (at the expense of deaths) then Bob is, additionally, morally correct to act on those incentives.

I then pointed out that that analysis only applied if Bob was an elected representative.

The only mention of realpolitik was in one of the explanations for why Bob would be incentivized to allow Jim's explanation to continue; it was in the context of a hypothetical defense he might offer to his constituents after he shut down Jim's factory. The realpolitik-derived explanation Bob could offer was that even though he might personally approve of Jim's operation allowing the operation to continue would jeopardize other trade agreements, with worse consequences than whatever fallout derived from shutting down Jim.

I then explained this was a politically weak explanation, as it made Bob look lame for having agreed to such crappy trade terms to begin with; given that it's a weak explanation that makes Bob look bad he'd be incentivized not to wind up in a situation in which he'd have to proffer that defense.

If what you got from that response was "realpolitik! that's another word I don't like" I give up.
Yet, if you look in functional programming code (e.g. Haskell, Scheme), you'll find many anonymous lambdas (that in python would be > 1 line). Why would good coders bother doing that?
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Actually I did, LOL.

The request that you either:

- explain how both ditches and knowledge share an identical classification along both of those axes (excludability and rivalry)

- or explain not only that your little theory doesn't recognize distinctions about the above but also why your little theory ignores the distinction

...was an invitation to stop carping and actually state your premises. You declined, and just huffed that "duh they're different but I don't care".
Well, it is already happening.

I am studying Law as an external student. All lectures are delivered using Powerpoint + MP3s. Tutorials via Wimba (both chat and audio). Study groups are actively encouraged (for some subjects they are required) and also use Wimba. Legal databases supplement traditional textbooks. Exams are done either on-line or invigilated at a University in my home town.

My campus is 1900 miles away and I need not visit it during my entire degree.

You might not be able to do it that way in Chemistry or Physics but in Law it works very well. I can't see why it wouldn't work in Mathematics or many other subjects.
Yeah, I'm not sure the telephone thing holds much water. Sequences are much easier to remember. No one has trouble remembering the tune or lyrics of a song they like, far more than 7 notes / words.
Sorry, I meant to say "if you're already locked into a contract with AT&T and can't afford to buy another $500 phone because you made the wrong decision—just jailbreak."
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Or you could just flat-out ask them if they memorised all of their introductory CS textbooks.
I disagree that CrossFit doesn't train you for a marathon. It might not train you to be an elite marathoner but it does train you to be an adequate one. Greg Admundsen who is a fairly well known Crossfitter did nothing by main page workouts for preparation for a 100 mile race and he finished 80 miles.

There is solid data, described in the article and found elsewhere on the web that short, intense fitness sessions where most of your work anaerobically will in fact prepare you for aerobic activities. CrossFit is the empirical proof of that.
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It's good to hear from other CrossFiters outside the community. I spent the weekend at a level I cert and loved every minute of it. The highly intense workouts are both always interesting (and always painful) and highly results oriented.
Okay, I'm dating myself then, because I think things started going to hell in 1978, not 1992. Although we got minifigs, which were a lot better than those strange half-people that came with the duplo kits (e.g. http://www.tons-of-toys.com/item_images/Classic%20toys%20and...)
It's odd that in listing the ways to store a choice of 40 numbers from the set {1..100} the paper doesn't mentioning the traditional approach of using a string of 100 bits. Bit n is set to 1 if n is in the subset, and 0 otherwise. This is damn close to the theoretical optimum of 94 bits, and way simpler.
> For example, I've never used the events feature that you find so important, and before I saw the NYT design I had no idea that you could create an account. If I didn't know it, maybe there are millions of other people who don't know about it either -- a good reason why the feature might be under-utilized.

And that proves my point. The NY Times redesign dedicates lots of space to a new feature that relies on a feature that no one uses. Craigslist is designed specifically to be anonymous to the point where you don't require an account. Putting something that personalizes an account goes against one of the things that made them popular in the first place.

This reply shows that you are posting on the redesign without doing any research. I don't use the events feature, but if you bothered to do any research before commenting then you would see that it is quite popular.

The most cursory research on what the posts are will tell you that most people use the site to get/get rid of something (e.g., jobs, items, sex), or for the community features.

A design that requires marginalizes one of these things to the least visible location is a disaster.
No answers? :-/
yeah, that was horrible. I actually went into firebug and changed the class so that i could read it.
Original article with bigger pictures:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9014161/Slideshow_Wha...
These are all pretty simple and fair questions. Nothing you should need a textbook for, unless you're faking something on your resume...
Ask HN: Graduate early?
Hello, HN.

I'm a junior in high school. I have the option of attempting to graduate early.

What do you think of that?

I don't know whether it should be done.

Here's backstory:
I'm a junior. By the end of this year, I will have completed Multivariable Calculus, if that matters, and would've taken 7 APs. There are still some interesting classes to take next year in my school, but I'm thinking maybe there would be less crap to deal with in college, and more learning; I'm also not sure of advantages of staying in high school.

I'm thinking that life is short, so there's no reason to waste it, and I might as well skip a year.

I'd like your take on this. Thanks so much.
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"...one of the best ways to help a society generally is to create events and institutions that bring ambitious people together."

in that I'd include the internet and things like social media sites
> Safari can’t connect to the server.

I don't believe him.
I see now that you're talking about the OS level where I was thinking more at the language level. Still cool. Let me know when it's ready :)
I've always been impressed by Newsvine.

http://newsvine.com

They fit a lot of content on the page in a well laid out manner that I haven't seen on many sites.
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It is time to learn how to make your own decisions.
I'd say that sense of moral obligation to achieve -- tied in with making things better or removing an evil -- can play a large part in ambition and determination.
I couldn't resist. The same person had another post of equal logical value in defence of the app store system. It seems like there are some people who see it as their role to defend Mac products and in particular the iPhone no matter what the situation is. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple had a team of paid commentors for this sort of thing. Comments like these have that sort of feel to them. Either way I think that sort of generic, knee-jerk and irational type of post is deserving of a label such as fanboy.
Ah, was posted previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=190963

Still, an awesome analysis that traverses the code hierarchy from assembly to Haskell.
Unless you're having a rough time of it in high school, I'd advise you to enjoy your teenage years and the leverage afforded to you by virtue of being considered young and precocious.

Precisely what advantages are you hoping to gain from skipping your senior year in high school? "More learning" and "less crap to deal with" aren't advantages; they're common signs of teenage angst in smart high school kids.
Hm, I find that page horribly crowded with way too many boxes and way too much small text.