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Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:40PM (#50281966)
You can take along a battery pack with usb-c and charge the macbook.
Re:OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:45PM (#36870767)
If it's sophisticatedly rewritten then it's no longer AI generated
It does. Cmd-Shift-/ and start typing
http://www.indeed.co.uk has a very clean craigslist-like style which I find a joy to use when recruiting.
Re:Ask HN: Google Doc email virus? on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @05:57PM (#14260555)
Changing your password is the fastest way to ensure all authed sessions on any device is logged out. Google offers a "log out of any sessions" button somewhere in account settings, but most other services don't.

If your email account is compromised, any service that do password resets via email confirmation, are potentially compromised by whoever has access to your email via OAuth.

We at CopyCopy (a cross-platform cloud clipboard) solve this problem by only universally copying stuff that you copy twice.

So:

copy once -> not sent to cloud/devices

copy twice (or click floating button) -> sent to all your devices and cloud account

Indeed, WHATWG is currently considering [1] a related scenario where rogue websites with access to the clipboard will inject formats with dodgy payload to exploit flaws in some app if the user pastes.

[1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1244

Windows itself leaves the c:\users\<username> path as it was first set, even if you rename the username.
We (copycopy.com), do.

Atm we use a mix of QtQuick/QML and some widget code mainly when wrapping QtWebKit it for some parts of the app furniture that need it.

Although the guts of our app requires native code (for clipboard monitoring and websocket message receiving), were considering ditching much of the UI in favour of a webapp.

With Marshmallow, you can just turn off or deny certain permissions. So for most people who really want to run the Uber app, the question is really whether it runs OK without all these permissions.
My mother published a fairly seminal paper on the topic [1] 18 years ago which concludes that emotional awareness (specifically, the "Theory of Mind"[2]) can be learned by people with Autism.

At the time this was against prevailing wisdom but AFAIK is now considered accepted wisdom.

[1] https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?cluster=165456960940191... [2] https://www.autism.com/understanding_theoryofmind

Re:Abandoning Gitflow and GitHub in favour of Gerrit on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @07:53PM (#11435563)
It does. Dependant changes/commits can be pushed at once, and if they are submitted out of order, they will be queued until the dependant changes are submitted/merged. In recent gertit releases, you can even submit (merge) all changes in a particular topic at once.
Re:Qt 5.6.0 released on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:54PM (#11300986)
They announced a start-up/small business plan [1] of $49/month.

[1] http://www.qt.io/start-up-plan/

Re:Never buy Epson printers on Saturday March 12, 2016 @06:28PM (#11275279)
The Brother color lasers also are happy to print without color toner cartridges present.

By contrast, HP's cheaper color lasers require the cartridges to be present, and if they run out and are left in the machine, they cause banding over your printouts. This is due to their integrated drums wearing out, so you have to replace the color toners even if they're not being used (or hack around with transferring chips onto less-used old cartridges, even black ones so they're seen as colour ones).

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016) on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @08:11PM (#11207491)
CopyCopy, London, UK | REMOTE or ONSITE | UX/Graphics Designer and/or Frontend Coder

CopyCopy is a young, cosy, startup currently launching a consumer productivity app.

The ideal candidate would be comfortable:

• Mocking up beautiful compelling usable designs

• Undertaking user research both with on-site interviews and via data-driven analytics

• Have experience in user research for deciding good UX based on actual data.

• Have a ability to dream up good UX and get in the minds of users

• Not afraid to do frontend coding to create engaging interactive design for our webapp.

Brownie points if:

• Your a great graphics designer who can draw up custom illustrations

• You're not afraid to create rich properties for native UI platforms like Android, iOS or Qt QML.

• You're comfortable with Git and other such geekery

Prefer on-site in our London office but may consider remote applications for the right candidate as long as you're located +/-3 hours from London (GMT) timezone.

Terms negotiable: long-term contract or employment.

Just email a CV to [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Evernote alternatives for research? on Monday February 01, 2016 @03:38AM (#11010557)
You're right, and thanks for the feedback.

We thought animations would be good enough but people do like to see the real live thing. Here's a live demo, albeit one with rather poor sound and editing: https://vimeo.com/140990404. Password is "disrupt".

Re:Ask HN: Evernote alternatives for research? on Sunday January 31, 2016 @08:17PM (#11009028)
Try CopyCopy. We do bookmarking and article saving but more broadly let you keep anything for later just by copying it (using normal copy and paste). So we handle not just web articles, but any information that's copyable in any app! See https://www.copycopy.com/

If our homepage isn't clear enough, check out https://www.copycopy.com/product (excuse the unfinished wording on that page as it's not live yet).

You can go to https://www.copycopy.com/account and turn on experimental features which will enable tags (called "labels"). From our webapp https://www.copycopy.com/clips you can search clips, or filter them by label.

Oh, and we're quietly releasing our Mac OSX app tomorrow.

Re:Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy on Friday October 23, 2015 @08:08AM (#10438051)
This sort of stuff can be the basis for many XSS attacks, see http://websec.github.io/unicode-security-guide/character-tra...

For instance, \u2329, \uFE64, \uFF1C and \u3008 can be best-fitted automatically to \u003C (the regular '<' mark in HTML)

Re:Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @07:11PM (#10300501)
I've founded a startup that wants to tackle the digital notebook and save-for-later problem, for any content - not just web stuff. What's your wish list for your ideal notebook?
Re:10M events a month, free on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @06:03PM (#10013208)
OTOH if you can afford the time and resources, then human customer support is an excellent source of user research. If you record these customer queries you can discover what's the next bit of functionality that your users want, that your competitors don't provide. You also discover which existing functionality isn't explained well enough.

You can use the normal self-service helpdesk methods to filter out the newbie questions.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015) on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @06:17PM (#9815627)
CopyCopy, London, UK | REMOTE or ONSITE | Marketer/Growth Hacker

CopyCopy is a young, cosy, startup on the cusp of launching a groundbreaking consumer productivity app.

We require someone to help us get many many users to try out our service!

The ideal candidate would:

• Know the correct channels for marketing our product.

• Have good writing and communication skills.

• Be prepared to get hands-on posting on all relevant marketing channels and pushing our product.

• Have been involved in a tech product launch.

Brownie points if:

• You've worked in advertising to some extent.

• You've done some really cool "growth hacking" in past.

• You've got some coding or design ability.

Remote applications are fine as long as you're located +/-3 hours from London (GMT) timezone but we're very happy to have you on-site in our London office. Will consider shorter term or longer-term contract or employment for the right candidate.

Just email a CV to [email protected]

Have you seen followup.cc?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015) on Monday June 01, 2015 @11:33AM (#9639387)
CopyCopy, London, UK | REMOTE or ONSITE | UX/UI Designer and/or Frontend Coder

CopyCopy is a young, cosy, startup on the cusp of launching a groundbreaking consumer productivity app.

We require someone to help us get many many users to try out our service!

The ideal candidate would be comfortable:

• Mocking up beautiful compelling usable designs

• Undertaking user research both with on-site interviews and via data-driven analytics

• Have experience in user research for deciding good UX based on actual data.

• Have a latent ability to dream up good UX and get in the minds of users

• Not afraid to do frontend coding to create engaging interactive design for our webapp.

• Implementing new UI for web and mobile apps (Android and iOS) via mockup tools.

Brownie points if:

• You're not afraid to code using native UI platforms like Android, iOS or Qt QML for rich prototypes.

• You're comfortable with Git and other such geekery

Remote applications are fine as long as you're located +/-3 hours from London (GMT) timezone but we're very happy to have you on-site in our London office. Will consider shorter term or longer-term contract or employment for the right candidate.

Just email a CV to [email protected]

We're also looking for a marketer, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9639361

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015) on Monday June 01, 2015 @11:31AM (#9639361)
CopyCopy, London, UK | REMOTE or ONSITE | Marketer/Growth Hacker

CopyCopy is a young, cosy, startup on the cusp of launching a groundbreaking consumer productivity app.

We require someone to help us get many many users to try out our service!

The ideal candidate would:

• Know the correct channels for marketing our product.

• Have good writing and communication skills.

• Be prepared to get hands-on posting on all relevant marketing channels and pushing our product.

• Have been involved in a tech product launch.

Brownie points if:

• You've worked in advertising to some extent.

• You've done some really cool "growth hacking" in past.

• You've got some coding ability.

Remote applications are fine as long as you're located +/-3 hours from London (GMT) timezone but we're very happy to have you on-site in our London office. Will consider shorter term or longer-term contract or employment for the right candidate.

Just email a CV to [email protected]

We're also looking for UX/UI designer, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9639387

Re:How Googlebot crawls JavaScript on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @12:17PM (#9532795)
I don't think this is true at all.
Re:Code Review Best Practices on Sunday May 10, 2015 @04:56PM (#9521287)
Step over

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