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Re:Goodbye “undefined is not a function” on Monday February 23, 2015 @03:39PM (#9096856)
Can we get a properly working window.onerror? Currently we either get a very generic Script Error (0 information for debugging) or have to wrap every native method in one with a try/catch. This is more for error log collection and aggregation to understand what's breaking in production.
Re:DuckDuckGo Goodies on Sunday May 11, 2014 @10:11PM (#7730880)
Couldn't find any Bitcoin goodies. That's surprising!
Re:TechCrunch covered Vic Gundotra's departure badly on Friday April 25, 2014 @11:24AM (#7647062)
2010:

> Schmidt: Our view of social is a little different than what everyone has been writing. we want our core products to get better from social information. > We are trying to add a social component [to google's core products] to make them even better.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/16/details-on-the-google-socia...

Re:Google+ Head Vic Gundotra Leaving Company on Thursday April 24, 2014 @03:43PM (#7642483)
Google tried social without a real name policy (aka Buzz) and it didn't work. Google+ has better content.
Re:Update on Coinbase Data Security on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @04:49PM (#7511551)
You can add a soft rate limit with a captcha to make sure it's a human doing the requests rather than a spammer's script.
Re:Moto 360 on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @02:41PM (#7424010)
It has voice and touch screen. Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xQ3y902DEQ#t=60
It's not the only one overall, but this one likely ranks the highest. It also is bundled with gmail because it links to gmail domain (mail.google.com).
It really depends where the crawler is finding these links. I don't think this is a mistake. It's possible that people are adding these links to their site instead of "mailto:" links and crawler is simply indexing them.
Re:Dropbox raises about $250 million at $10 billion valuation on Friday January 17, 2014 @06:10PM (#7079123)
Does YC buy into later rounds of a company or just let the dilution happen?
Offering previous iPhones as a price-reduced version works well for the development ecosystem (i.e. minimize fragmentation).
Re:Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data on Thursday December 05, 2013 @04:57PM (#6857589)
You don't need to restore with Gmail.
Re:Show HN: A search engine that lets you 'add' words as vectors on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @02:09PM (#6720104)
Stanford - American + Canadian = University of Toronto

I think it should be Waterloo.

Re:I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb on Friday November 01, 2013 @03:46PM (#6655865)
How are you promoting Lockitron when they are still not shipping? http://blog.lockitron.com/
Reduced it to 200kb. I love my city, what can I say. :-)
Great idea! I was thinking about using accelerometer as well. It'd be cool to track reps and try to beat personal record.
Or, they simply allowed for apps to release on their own schedule, because the OS point version wasn't ready. If they could of announced it all together they would of.

This, however, does nothing to solve update fragmentation. OS updates change the OS, and certain devices simply don't have the memory, or other hardware restrictions, to allow for newer updates. Those did not include app-stuff, the app announcements were just coupled with OS announcement.

Re:Microsoft prepares U-turn on Windows 8 on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @09:00AM (#5667866)
Why don't you just press the power button on your PC? That sends a signal to Windows to do a soft-shutdown.
Re:Show HN: A url-based API for images (my weekend project) on Saturday April 27, 2013 @07:00PM (#5619353)
There's a startup that's building an iOS app to talk/chat with pictures: http://tryrelay.com
Re:Facial Recognition Failed in Boston Bombing on Sunday April 21, 2013 @10:32AM (#5584953)
Interesting to see articles promoting adding more surveillance cameras for all their flaws (bad angle, resolution trails behind phone cameras, etc). I would focus on acquiring publicly available photo data in real time at dense events and scan them. I.e. crowdsourced surveillance. I'm sure someone is working on that.

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