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I'm not sure about this specific approach. As other comments note, this is somewhat complex. That said there may be a few gem ideas.

- Did my vote get counted? (can you prove it)

- Did it get counted correctly? (can you prove it)

- Can a vote be both traceable to the voter and anonymous publicly?

The parallel to blockchain is simple. I get a "vote coin" that I can spend at the election. You can then see who has the most votes. The challenge to overcome in any block-chain approach is how to prevent votes from being bought and sold.

If done correctly you don't have to trust the hardware to trust the election. If done correctly we could vote by phone.

You can open an operational credit card account at a traditional bank outside of SVB and keep your primary banking relationship with them. I would expect American Express will give you the month-to-month cash flow and paperless billing while SVB can give you the larger line of credit and growth capital. Plus, think of all those credit card points.

Most car sites now allow the end user to customize their car with color, trim & options. I can see this being used to give the end-user a realistic view of what the car will look like.

Mass customization of cars is increasingly possible with high-end 3D printers and tech like this may allow you to insert your own idea of what your car will look like into a Hollywood style commercial.

At the end of the day, car commercials already show people drifting around corners and skidding to a stop. Realistic commercials of cars stuck in traffic isn't going to move any units.

This is someone else.

Yes. It was the one and the same. JoeB was heading the Windows User Experience team in Windows Shell before going to the TV team and then most recently Windows Mobile.

Raymond Chen writes a great blog called the OldNewThing that has some good stories. I think asking why it failed is rather hard to explain and I suspect different people who were on the project would have different explanations.

I worked on XP and a little bit of Longhorn. In my opinion one of the reasons was that much of the product direction and leadership shifted. The MSN app team merged with the shell team after XP shipped and JoeB, who was running the shell/UX team moved to a new team.

I wouldn't categorize Longhorn as a failure, but a step in a larger pattern of large release: 95, XP, Win7 and then, typically shorter releases in between that are managed differently: 98, ME, Vista.

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Does a plaintiff need to suffer injury if their constitutional rights were violated? Wouldn't this be closer to a class action since there's broad injury and violation?

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Interesting. I remember reading how Google was doing something similar in their implementation of the leap second back in 2011: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-l...

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Reading the actual text that's included in the article it seems to say that this is a non-poaching agreement for senior level roles. Specifically it says not to "Cold Call." It specifically excludes engineers and non-senior level roles so the allegation that it's over 1M employees is also not accurate as that number would include non-managers.

- Built in support for the online services from the ground up. From the filesystem to the drivers the system should be built around the idea that it can be updated easily from the web and kept up to date. - Ideas like DropBox and Backup services aren't a 3rd party feature/add-on they are core to online nature of the OS. - Perhaps a new way to manage files & folders. I can't believe we still use filename.ext. iOS has some interesting things here.

When you open search you see a table section header that reads "Friend Requests" I don't have any friend request but the presence of the header made me go looking for this type of functionality.

Other notes: - This morning I wanted to add a journal entry for the day. I looked for a compose button but it seems like that's only possible for things that are system created. - I like the time-travel area and local push. That's nice and seems better then TimeHop - I saw a couple things on my timeline that I wanted to delete. Swipe to delete didn't work, neither did tap and hold. Tapping the photo and dragging it into the lower shelf seemed really broken. (I later discovered I could swipe delete from the description, this took some exploration to discover)

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Feedback... - The initial user experience is fantastic. You take people by the hand through the setup process and granting proper permissions. This is very well done.

- The account creation was fine but could have been lighter weight. You really only needed my email and could have sent me a password if the purpose is to just backup my stuff. I think you could push this so it's not part of the first launch experience. (while still hitting your goal of preserving memories)

- I love how you pulled in so much history from an initial load. I enjoyed my photos and that was awesome.

- I think there is too much emphasis on "editing." When I tap a photo or video I want to see it big or I want to play the video. I couldn't find an easy way to make photos big and playing a video was too many clicks. Same for maps... they don't get big either?

- Nice UI dynamics on the calendar control and a couple other nice touches like that.

- With a search icon I expect a text box to type a search. Consider a different icon for browsing/exploring by location. - You use the wrong iOS transition in a couple places for modal dialogs. Nit.

- Once I used the service and understood how it works I wanted to add my twitter and instagram accounts to get even more into my journal. I suspect this is a natural reaction and would be a better place to offer account creation or Facebook integration (gasp).

- There's a screen that talks about "Friend Requests" but doesn't have any clear way to do that. Coming soon or nuke the field when there aren't any friend requests.

- This could crush Facebook. Not in the short term but if you create a timeline that is more personally valuable to people they will be far more likely to use it and share it with friends and family. Your timeline is already far more interesting then my "Wall."

- Keep it up. Can't wait to see the updates.

This NYT graphic explains the technique for anyone who has enough money to make it worthwhile. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/28/business/Doubl...

It's interesting that folks in the tech community had the same reaction that I did... TURN IT OFF. Seems that this would be one of those "Don't be Evil" moments for Google. It seems reasonable that people wouldn't want their rating or review used out of context on an ad. This is exactly what's wrong with Facebook "Like" buttons. Why repeat the same mistake?

I own some TSLA stock and in my opinion it's a blip. The stock is heading north of 200 before the end of the year, it's just a matter of velocity. The historic velocity is so much faster then any other company that I expect corrections on a weekly basis. Stock trading is often emotional like a poker player that goes on-tilt. The savvy investor actually sees buying opportunities at moments like this.

This paired with the notion that you "can't patent math" could give a compelling argument against software patents.

Very cool. My company has offices on the left hand edge by the Old South Meeting house spire near Milk St. Amazing how much stuff has changes and stayed the same. The spire's was where the revolution started in 1773. It's now dwarfed on all sides.

Any idea when it actually expects to ship?

Very cool. I like some of the stuff you've done but the css conflicts with another HN extension that I enjoy (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readable-hackernew...) I think their css is easier to read but I really like what you're doing in the menus.

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VoiceOver is awesome. I wrote a guide for people who can see. I use it all the time. http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/2012/12/18/ios-voiceover-gettin...

Plivo and Twilio provide a good architecture for building custom phone based apps but they don't seem like a good turn-key solution for a growing business. Unless I'm missing something.

The fact that there is a column for APNS (Apple Push Notifications) suggests that this is a database dump from an iPhone app that supports push notifications. APNS tokens are generally tied to a specific app so it may be possible to figure out what app leaked their database.

The "NCFTA" seems to deal with identity theft. (Ironic)

Twitter is just being stupid. They could easily offer a "pro" version of twitter that would give end-users verified accounts, added stats, better photos, wide open use of the API for 3rd party apps, etc.

Some calculations... - 500 million accounts. - 1% conversion (they could 2% or higher) - 5 million conversions - $50/year Wooo hoo. $250 million. Ok, not a billion but not a bad start, all without burning developers or free users.

Charge businesses for business level accounts and analytics and you could get another $250M.

Twitter's problem isn't just a "Now" problem it's a management team that's following Facebook on their path to ad failure.

Not sure that's on purpose. The inner DIV is set to 106.08% width. Seems they are 106% funded.

What's the best way an individual can support this effort? Do I write/call congress/senate/other?