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would be better if it's controlled by google glasses

It doesn't look like it's very hard to detect these fake users. Is Twitter actively cracking down on these or do they not care much?

$100k rewards per month / 400k customers is 25cents of rewards per customer per month.

Good stuff. Mixergy was awful when it comes to searching for something. This should make it a lot better.

I believe it's the same guys running RideJoy, which is a YC company

hangout is pretty much the only good thing about google+

Kinda off topic, but Opera Mini and Opera Mobile for Android is vastly superior in terms of smoothness compare to all other available browsers. It is very noticeable especially if the page is heavy. A good test is to load this page http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowsers... on your Android in different browser and test the responsiveness.

This article said he's got an interview with SF startup. If it's not iCracked from YC, then you guy should give this guy an interview before someone else gets him.

The title attracted my click but the content was meh. I guess the author got want he wanted by writing the title that way.

Objective C classes and methods are designed to be long and mostly typed by Xcode's autocomplete. With RubyMotion, I will end up typing out all those verbose methods, which I don't know if it's something I feel too big about.

The example author made here feels like I will end up typing about twice as much with RubyMotion than objective C.

Ruby: @window = UIWindow.alloc.initWithFrame(UIScreen.mainScreen.bounds) @window.makeKeyAndVisible

Objective C: self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]]; [self.window makeKeyAndVisible];

Maybe I'm picky, but in my iPad the side to side animation is still jerky.

it seems like a lot of Facebook users thinks Socialcam is a spam.

https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=2154928

so whats the fine line here? they clearly say they won't spam your wall, yet they post without you knowing and you can't even see yourself that you posted something?

Could it be that Intel is making current generation of Ivy Bridge less over-clockable, so when the next generation is due, they just change the thermal conductivity of it, and over-clock it a bit more and call it a new chip?

"It's time for a search engine that isn't all about ads."

How does a search engine make money then?

a quick comparison of the iPad and a apple wireless keyboard shows that the brydge is squashed closer together, which won't be very good for blind typing.

Video is kind've long. can anyone summarize please?

how do they keep people from filling in bogus answers just to get through the survey?

Anyone recommend some equivalent tools for Ruby?

thanks that gave me a laugh!

So what does this do? compile ruby code into objective c? or directly into machine code that can be run on iOS?

Summary of PG's response:

- Founder is more important than the idea

- He likes people who have been friends for a while.

- people who worked together before, so they know each others working capacity

- don't like people who came together for the purpose of doing this startup (nothing else holding them together)

- almost every startup, at some point the startup is doomed and worthless

- friends will work on the startup even if it's worthless in order not to let each other down, will often result in over coming the rough days and succeed in the end.

- It's really bad if they can't figure which one of the founder is the leader is (needs to have a more "forceful" leader)

- "it's good if there one who pushes the other out a little bit, but not too much"

Do you need to be on MFI to access the bluetooth on iOS? If so what's the process of getting on?

This is neat. How would you monetize this?

I'd like to know as well. is there something like twillio for fax or something?

I missed the original thread, so I'm not sure what went on in the original thread.

Was the reason their thread got deleted is because they weren't allowed to call themselves "Codecademy for learning PHP"?

It seems like it's pretty common for people to say "Heroku for this", "Airbnb for that". Are those "X for Y" not allowed on HN?

It's not bad if all your image assets is locally on device. It become difficult when your assets are remote.

If your image is remote, you'll need to put loading the image on a separate thread, and create a nonblocking http request to fetch the image. The problem is to draw the picture you have to use the main thread, so to make scrolling smoothly become quite a challenge.

Another way to increase scrolling performance is to only load images after they are visible. However, it is fairly tricky to get it to work.

Doing it in HTML and CSS is indeed a lot easier.

Is there a way to make Safari to automatically apply this javascript for all pages inside hackers new?

Ever since I upgraded to Lion, a double tab in Safari to zoom into the content part of the text is all it took to avoid the vomit.

I actually had "Thanks to Homakov" inside the title of this post but I guess I wasn't allowed to have that in the title and someone changed it.