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Netflix also rents our pedantic art house flicks so you never have to be troubled by what the rest of us mortals watch for escapism.

I'm sure you can find some overwrought deconstruction of modern human sexuality retold as 4 movements of the lives of people in positions of authority but no power, politicians of the modern era in a mock nuclear stand-down, a 30 minute continuous scene of a single flower, in water, as people pass by blurred in the bokeh of an extreme depth of field and the audio recorded so poorly you can't actually hear what anybody is saying, and a clinically shot orgy with a clown stepping in at minute 11 to juggle, seemingly unaware of his own environs -- driven by the effort to juggle so many balls.

In the end, the clown drops the balls and close to credits.

The credits of course will flow up and will be in a mix of Italian and French. Each scene of course representing impotence, sexual drive, narcissism as a sexual trait, and lust and the struggle to balance a polygamous relationship with three waitress and a gay hairdresser at the same time (as the director was experiencing while he shot this film). The credits of course flow up in Italian and French as a both symbols of ejaculation and of salad dressing.

Enjoy the search!
http://www.netflix.com/
But this time it is mandatory.
Sigh, I know. I wish AppleTV was a purely open platform. Let me throw apps on it, access websites I want, skin it, etc. The Mac Mini is the "real" appletv, except the interface doesn't work so well for a tv. Essentially here's what I want:

Put the mac mini, appletv, and time capsule in a blender. Appletv 10 foot interface, mac mini open-ness/computing ability, and time capsule size storage (TBs, not GBs).
So how is streaming HD going to benefit those of us crippled by monthly bandwidth limits? The cable companies aren't going to be encouraged to get rid of those, especially in the face of a new competitor that uses those very pipes.

And fwiw, I am in Canada, where ISPs have been imposing caps for a while now. If you're lucky, you live somewhere where you can buy service (without a monthly cap) from a re-seller (who themselves might be getting throttled by Bell, or whoever else it is).
So do you argue that startups should have goals such as we will have X number of paying users by Y else we'll fold up?
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Would a Mac mini and Boxee (http://www.boxee.tv/) work? It seems to match what you want (except for the storage space).
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Would you make the argument that Windows is more secure because its code is not open?
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Look, there is no GOOD reason for this movie not to have a decent story. People like you admit to not caring about the plot, so surely you aren't going to care whether it is good or not.

Some of use aren't children, so I don't go see children movies (except Pixar, but they can hardly be described as children movies). I don't see Avatar being positioned as a childrens movie. The cost of the movie alone proves that it is not meant to be so.
I had an older macbook hooked up to my tv, but it was lacking the stuff I mentioned and then some above.

I've been working on a hardware/software startup that does exactly this. It's running a pretty specific hardware combo with customized linux distro that works for the big screen for the price of a mac mini (with 6x the storage). It's heavenly.
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"one of the very few architecturally daring private homes in Manhattan". Are Manhattanites really so conformist?
This is where someone claims that there's not much new on the Internet.
Ah, spoiler alert!?
Yeah, it would definitely be tough to figure the numbers out. I got the orange box mostly for TF2, and I'm sure I'm hardly alone. But other than the actual TF2 only purchases, it's tough to separate how many units TF2 really shipped.
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xbmc, I can't live without it - I keep my old xbox (1) just for xbmc around, even though I have a HTPC and PS3.
then I thought, why implement something so useless in the first place?
I thought about this on my bike ride home tonight: Which part is unfair? The parent choosing to give their own personal wealth to a child, or the child receiving the wealth of their parent?

Surely, a parent who can do whatever he chooses with his wealth while he is alive can be free to choose where it goes upon his demise. As well, a child who has nothing to do with the reasons for receiving the money other than being born to a man of wealth should not be considered to be making an unfair decision.

So I ask you, who (or what part) is unfair in inheritance?

P.S. In response to your question, you can't have that because that's inherently not capitalism. It's not any individuals responsibility to take care of those around them; their taxes paid throughout life go to a government whose goal is (hopefully) to take care of its citizens. Denying a man's right to pass on his wealth as inheritance is essentially a 100% tax upon death. What's the point of that wealth in the first place then? If he made it, it's his. He can do what he wants with it.
expect Nintendo's lawyers shitstorm over this, if it goes through.
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They're not really analogous. You can get a copy of Windows and poke at it until you figure out exactly how it works. You could even theoretically disassemble the machine code. You can't, however, get your hands on a Google box (or cluster).
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You don't have 6 months of work that you wish you could do on your idea?

Take FogBugz, Trac, Basecamp or whatever project management software that you use and spend about 30 minutes to add absolutely every task you can think of to execute on your idea. If you can't find at least 6 months of work then you should probably rethink your idea.
Which part is unfair? The parent choosing to give their own personal wealth to a child, or the child receiving the wealth of their parent?

The latter. In fact, it's also unfair for some children to receive more money than others while their parents are alive, so there would need to be limits there.
There are no algorithms in Windows that can be easily gamed if the source was available. This is not about security either. Nice straw man though.
Have you seen the new release with the confluence skin? It's really beautiful. I prefer Boxee just because it has the internet channels built in. I wish there was more participation when it comes to plugins. The stuff that boxee has could easily be made for XBMC.
I am a Ruby fanboy and I can definitely say that this is very accurate. I feel very much like The Cable Guy when I'm writing C code, not that I don't enjoy that from time to time :)
Could one not also make the argument that some animal matter is actively, aggressively designed to be eaten? You don't exactly see herds of feral cows roaming the plains, do you? The ability to be domesticated as a source of food is what enabled the cow to survive while the auroch and other similar animals failed in this task and are now extinct.
Why? I don't think I'm unique in viewing "able to work remotely" as an excellent perk.
Technical analysis is just voodoo. I don't know what you mean by "quant finance" but stat arb is merely played out.
Glad to see I wasn't the only one who felt like he was watching a Nazi propaganda movie - with the Na'vi as the pure, beautiful, harmonious Aryans, and the humans as the evil rapacious mongrel race.
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Wonder how they have structured the mother company and the spin offs?
That's clever and I feel stupid for not having come up with it myself (the keeping separate revisions and symlinking part). Thanks for sharing.
Now contrast the simplicity of interacting with the most complex web application and the comparative overwhelming depth and difficulty of making novel findings in computer science.
I am still on a bit older version. I run T3CH builds, I plan to update to new release, I've only seen screenshots on the site. Since I have some free time now I'm using it constantly, don't want to mess up something if I don't have to.

Also, those streaming media "plugins", "scripts" - call them what you want, are indispensable... I can watch youtube, academic earth, demoscene tv, g4tv and many many others on my tv with remote in my hand - this is what internet tv should look like IMO. I also have IPTV installed, it feels rather similar to on-demand stuff on it.
By "open", I didn't mean "open source". If you're talking about open source, then almost everything on OS X that does not have a GUI is open source, including the kernel itself. (Also, WebKit came from KHTML. Apple couldn't possibly have made WebKit a proprietary product without getting into legal trouble, but this is besides the point.)

By "open", I meant a hacker-friendly platform. The iPhone is not hacker friendly, and the iPod is a brick for those of us who use Linux/BSD.

For Apple, open source is merely a good software development methodology that has worked well for quite a while now. They don't give a rat's ass about the philosophy behind it.
Why do magnets attract?
Bah, there's no Python.
Classic!

I am a php guy and I am sad to see the truth to our column :(

I wish the php community could get it's * together.
I don't know if you've seen Hero but that is an amazingly beautiful film. The sets, the lighting, the costumes, the actors, everything is gorgeous. You could take almost any still from it and blow it up and put it on the wall. It is set in the Chinese equivalent of the Western mediaeval period, and has all these perfect little vignettes, like a miniature visual essay into the nature of raindrops falling on a sword.

But the political message which only really sinks in afterwards is "China should stop fucking about already and just invade Taiwan" and then you think, wow, someone really wanted to get that message across to Western moviegoers...
Brian, thanks for the advice. I actually sat down with @progrium (Jeff) a few weeks ago. Really, really smart guy, and the work that him & @jf have done so far with Domdori & EventDNS is awesome!
the launcher app is pretty damn cool since you can then have it run some outside apps but still use an XBMC live installation. it's still shaky when switching to full screen. there needs to be a quality app store for XBMC like there is for Boxee.
There's still a question of how hard you have to work to acquire them and what other opportunities are foregone as a result.
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There was mandatory time off last year, too, they just didn't say when it had to happen.
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Aw, son of a ...

And I can't go back and fix it either!

s/gnomes/hobbits/

Well, let's hope no hobbits read this website.
I think automation is key to any startup that wants to punch above its weight. I kind of think that insisting on "venus" and "mercury" for server names is like calling your variables fgyt, asdf, and ytrh in a for loop. Naming is important and needs to be done with care for reuse and readability by people.

Am quite surprised that people see this as linked to sodas and drinks. Those sodas are cheap productivity wins. So is systematic/meaningful naming.

(Perhaps this is the open vs. free software debate. The open source POV is that free sodas are good because they increase productivity, in ways that are not obvious in the short term but no less real. If they decreased productivity that'd be a different matter. The free software guys are more ideological about things. )
Ask HN: Have any of you ever wanted to write a compiler or interpreter?
Hi everyone,

I'm looking for feedback on a project I would like to start. Basically, I would like to start an educational project built around compiler and interpreter design.

I remember wanting to learn how to write a compiler for the longest time. However, each time I'd approach the subject to learn more, I would run into some kind of hurdle and eventually get distracted by other projects. The hurdle usually came in the form of poor access to good educational information.

There are books available like the famous Dragon book. However, I feel that there needs to be an alternative entry vector into the field of compiler and interpreter design. The project I'm considering would consist of a simple yet fully functioning compiler (or interpreter) with a heavy amount of documentation. Beyond this trivial implementation, subjects like JIT, stack vs register, dispatching methods, and compiler frameworks could be explored.

I have a small interpreter half written for a compiler design class I took at university. But I also plan on building a web site to hold all the documentation and educational material.

Would any of you benefit from a project like this? I'm willing to go it alone for quite a while, but eventually I would need help from the open source community.

Thanks,
Nick
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Why hasn't Nintendo licensed or coded one of these and put up all of their games for 99 cents each?
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Yeah... as long as we know the truth though.
This reminds me of a video I saw a while ago. Basically a skit with a couple of actors highlighting some flaw in each language. I remember PHP being something like: "My god, there's SQL in the HTML!." Anybody know where I can find it?
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he said something along similar lines on the wolfram blog just prior to alpha's release: http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/05/14/7-years-of-nksand-its-fir...
I'd heard of that film but forgotten about it. Thanks for the reminder.
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How do you ensure that the .git directory isn't accessible?
The argument seems kind of silly. In 1993 when people started using images in their content, I'm sure people were making similar points. "My browser shouldn't download an image until I tell it to, it uses my bandwidth!" or "Don't download the image until I click it." And the web would be a different place if things were kept that way.

Now I'm not saying that the HTML5 video spec is perfect, but let me just provide a src and call it a day. Everything else should be out of my control.
It is mind blowing in 3D on an IMAX screen.

Occasionally bothersome plot aside, I found it to be the most immersive movie I've seen in years, and I think it's largely due to the excellent 3D.
(another yahoo here) It is not, nor has it ever been mandatory. There are plenty of folks on my team who don't celebrate xmas working during the break, but some facilities are shutting down (coffee shop, cafeteria, front desks, etc).
Or blackmail one another.
"For sound complexity, one language stands out. !Xóõ, spoken by just a few thousand, mostly in Botswana, has a blistering array of unusual sounds. Its vowels include plain, pharyngealised, strident and breathy, and they carry four tones. It has five basic clicks and 17 accompanying ones. The leading expert on the !Xóõ, Tony Traill, developed a lump on his larynx from learning to make their sounds. Further research showed that adult !Xóõ-speakers had the same lump (children had not developed it yet)."
If you run a tiling window manager like AwesomeWM or Xmonad it's the default.
(Than)

Lots of people are still quite invested in Friendster. Facebook somehow used the college connection to one-up them in "cool." Then they expanded beyond college/high school.

Lesson: don't trust social networking websites.
Neat effect, but those little radio buttons are hard to click accurately. A nicely styled table running across the top of the article might do better (IANAD).
"And if it doesn't work with webmail, you've lost before you've even begun, so don't do something dumb like requiring a plugin. The trick you want to accomplish is that when one person is using your software, it suddenly provides value to that person and their entire circle of friends, without the friends having had to do anything at all. Then, later, you pull the friends into the fold: if one of them starts using the software, they become their own hub, and get the benefit they have already witnessed from a distance."

Truly insightful.
you forgot to escape your sql inputs.

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Something to consider. It is only your money because the rest of society enforces rules that keep it being your money. How, why and when should they do so?

The problem with extreme libertarianism is that property rights fall apart without the constant intervention of the legal profession, including government run police. This requires more government and consent from fellow citizens than most libertarians seem to want to acknowledge.
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Is there a Nintendo approved way to get ROMs on the iPhone? Does Nintendo have no legal recourse to this?
This year the Sunnyvale campus is having some maintenance work done to the power systems, so it's actually completely shutting down, but with lots of people working remotely during that time.
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"I like movies that have strong plots and not try to insult my intelligence" isn't the same as saying every movie has to be "high art", - or "overwrought deconstruction of modern human sexuality retold as 4 movements of the lives of people" in your words ;-) .

What you've done is use the timeworn rhetorical device of taking someone's point of view and try to (rhetorically vs logically) invalidate it by positing an absurd opposite.

I think Avatar sucks except for the visuals. Bad plot, bad dialogue bad acting. None of this implies preferring "pedantic art flicks" as an alternative (this is your cute rhetoric at work - the unwarranted exaggeration of my stance).

Nice try though. ;-)
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Why color? One word: magazines. Another: Sales. Another: Marketing.

Color is easy to sell. Color is easier to market. Color grabs attention. Magazines will want color for pretty pictures and advertisements. Magazines in a ebook reader will be hot.
So: no.
Okay, I ponied up out of curiosity. Do not download this app. It does not work as advertised. It is slow, buggy (even the table display on the home screen has impressively bad rendering glitches) and, worst of all, it is not capable of loading any ROM files I tried it with -- things that all other NES emulators load fine.
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"Month and Moon are nearly the same word–why don’t they mean the same thing? The answer, of course, is that they once did."

I'm no etymologist, but this didn't seem so obvious.
There's an interesting discussion going on at Matthew Yglesias's site - http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/12/the-racia... While his short summary of Avatar is pretty far off the mark, I thought the comparison to Dune was pretty on-point. The comments are also worth reading.
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Can you explain? I have never seen the Cable Guy and I don't understand many of the pictures here.
We've been putting our code in rpms and it works well. Every box knows exactly what's deployed right now (along with dependencies and whether anything is tweaked), local edits to config files can be preserved, and "ssh yum install" gets a box from clean to production ready in under a minute.
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I agree, but I'm still kind of an Mac noob so maybe I'm just doing it wrong. The two things that irk me most: having to hit that tiny triangle at the bottom right of the window to resize it (compare to Linux/etc window managers' shortcut of moving or resizing the nearest corner from anywhere within the window), and the seeming lack of fullscreen support in most apps, which really hurts on my tiny macbook screen.
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A very difficult language to learn is navajo[1], in fact it was used during the WWII by americans to communicate and it was one of the few ciphers that wasn't broke by enemies.

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Same root. See also menses.
I've wondered a few times how valve managed to keep the show on the road - their major releases are routinely far later than expected, yet consistently good and successful.

Valve was started by a couple of ex-Softies with two-digit employee numbers. They could have bought the Vatican and turned Catholicism into a LARP if they'd wanted to.

The original Half-Life reached the 90%-complete point before they took some time out and played their own game. They concluded that it sucked, and started over from scratch. They had the pressure of building a reputation, and the advantage of not having to live up to an existing one.
The finance academics borrowed the mathematics from physics and the rigor from mathematics, but they forgot that, at the core, theirs is a social science. If they wanted to borrow anything from physics, they could have borrowed the good habit of comparing their theoretical results with experimental data. In physics, a theory is little more than mental masturbation until it's confronted with experiment. That nicely summarizes the state of contemporary academic finance: mental masturbation. Just because physicists were blessed with the ability to model natural phenomena using mathematics, it does not mean other scientists have such luck.
There's a certain degree subjectivity in any review. That said, I'd have to say that beyond the obvious usability failures, 2Advanced is a rather dreadful website.
They are not perfectionists. They have many small groups or "cabals" where everyone's input is heard frequently and features are cut when the look like it will not increase the fun of the game. Couple that with the fact that they have some serious talent on board and they know when it is beneficial to outsource(physics engine for HL2:Source) and you have a pretty good foundation.
Jeez! A big congratulations to the Tapulous team.
On a fairly related note: Here is a presentation by Jessica Kahn given to Stanford's iPhone development class. It's about the first year at Tapulous as an iPhone software shop.

The link is a video podcast of that class/lecture from iTunes U.
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You would change your mind in a hurry when your bandwidth bill comes in, or you run over your caps. That's basically what Gruber is saying: it's just not economically possible for people to embed video this way.
Yep, you can use the same certificate for email (IMAP, POP, TLS). Only works without warnings if your clients connect to the same hostname as the certificate is for (so I usually register something other than www.domain.com for the SSL site)
It's too bad ATSC didn't wait for H.264 to be practical. You could fit 4 to 8 channels in the space of one MPEG2.