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Even my girlfriend (iPhone 3G and 3GS user of over a year) is jealous of my Nexus One.

But he's right, in a different way. When I use a computer, I make it do things. I give it commands, and it executes them, faster than before. I can write a script to transcode ripped DVDs overnight, according to my specifications, and automatically calculating crop values, pixel aspect ratios, etc. to produce the appropriate output for putting movies on my handheld devices. I can write programs that manipulate masses of data in heterogeneous formats and emit summaries, graphs, animations, visualizations of my design, not limited to the preconceptions of some third party software designer thousands of miles away.

I use my computer as a computational device. To compute things. iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, these aren't computational devices. They are a different kind of thing; but my need and desire for ad-hoc computation are not limited to my current location or equipment, so I want my phone to be similarly flexible. But the things an iPhone etc. can do, I can also do.
I guess what I meant was, they can hire anyone to simplify their layout, hiring this guy isn't gonna change anything. I'm sure there are dozens of people at Myspace who want to simplify things. Just click on the link to the dude's about page (which is his myspace link) and there are about 6 flash advertisements on top of all the other crap. Link: http://www.myspace.com/nouman

Facebook removes customization/control from users, and that is why it is so popular. The focus is on communication and connection, not customization and self-promotion.

The fundamental being of MySpace is what is flawed. Girls with glitter backgrounds and odd poses trying to show off their budding teenage breasts, guys trying to get some ass and scope out girls. Of course that happens everywhere, not just Myspace, but that's the kind of reputation that it holds. Most people's "pages" are difficult to look at. The only thing that Myspace is decent for is grabbing new music from bands, as that is what it originally set out to be.

It's doomed, time to jump ship. No facebook^H^H^H^H.... clean design is going to save it now. It's fostered a community that reflects it's design, a crappy one. Just like the startup I once worked for... the culture was shitty no matter how much emotion and passion you put into your work or saving it, it was useless. Certain things cannot be changed or fixed.

This reminds me a lot of Dustin Curtis' redesign of AA. I think the guy has talent and I don't mean to knock him at all, but you can't just expect to throw a fresh coat of paint on something and assume the people who use it and the stigma about it will suddenly change for the good. Heck, Facebook gets shit from users every single time it's redesigned. "1,000,000 strong to bring back the old Facebook!" - there have probably been 15 of those created every single time FB throws down a new design.

tl;dr - I digress... the problem with Myspace is not the design and UX, it's the people on top (Newscorp), the community that has been fostered around it, and the stigma that it has in society. There's no turning back from that. My mom, grandmother, cousins, friends, colleagues, high school buddies, you name it are all on Facebook. Friends that I made before we could text or IM each other, back when we had to call or go knock on the door to see if they wanted to hang out, are on Facebook with me. My myspace page is a joke, a place where my ex-girlfriend used to get jealous and flaunt photos of her tits to all her friends. It's an absolute joke.
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> I even tell my dealer to change my tires twice a year

> I even drilled a hole my wall, and bought a 60 feet cable, at the cost of $300

What?! Is this guy completely oblivious to the way he spends his money?

> Yep, I am one of the drooling mac fanatics.

Oh. Well, there you have it.
In fact, I think the problem is in considering the turing test to be a definitive test for AI. Its certainly a definitive test of some subset of AI (which I am unsure how to define exactly), but to really consider it a definitive test of all AI is silly. I think this is the main point of the article. Sure, if a machine that acted exactly like a bird was invented and flew, that would be a flying machine, but thats not the only way to build a flying machine. Thats "bird like flying" in the same way that the turing test is a test for "human like intelligence."
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There is another great piece of similar story in China: Hao123
Oh, I agree 100% with you on that. Sorry for making it sound like I was debating.

I just wanted people to know that the author didn't actually say what the title says, so there's actually nobody saying that myspace should be a facebook clone. We're preaching to the choir. Or being trolled exponentially, if I may say...
someone has created a faster version at
http://vimeo.com/9403208
although this may have gone to far the other way at only 35 seconds long!
there is also a four minute version with colour cycling found here

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1663241/a_very_cool_deep_fract...
> The only alternative to 'sham' governments imposed from outside are 'strong men'

Maliki seems to be on course for fulfilling that role in Iraq.
Wow, that's great - how did you go about getting daylight saving time to work properly?
On2 also do video hardware chips for phones via a company called Hantro they bought which fits into Google's Android plans, and they have a cloud encoding platform though I'm guessing Youtube already does it better.

Hantro info:
http://www.on2.com/index.php?319

On the other hand On2 announced the deal with "Google and On2 to Improve Video Quality on the Web" and Google's title was "Innovation in video on the web" and used phrases like:

"Today video is an essential part of the web experience, and we believe high-quality video compression technology should be a part of the web platform," said Sundar Pichai, Vice President, Product Management, Google. "We are committed to innovation in video quality on the web, and we believe that On2's team and technology will help us further that goal."

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/innovation-in-video-o...

So draw your own conclusions but I think that's some fairly heavy hinting from Google. Of course that was before MPEG-LA dropped charges that would have cost Google about $25 million over the next 5 years and generally held back video on the web so you could put it down to sabre-rattling.

edit: Also it's not the only way past the current impasse. The MPEG patent holders could release a patent-royalty-free subset. Not a total win for free software folks, winning the battle like that could lose them the war but it would perhaps suit Apple as it would probably match what they support in iPhones anyway. Google and Apple apparently have already tried to broker a deal and got rebuffed but maybe Google have more leverage now.
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Not just flyover country USA, as you pointed out-- "struggling societies." I would have said "developing countries." That's a much bigger market for Yahoo! I'm thinking of countries like the Philippines, where YIM and Yahoo! mail are still very popular. And don't forget, the RP sends more text messages than any other country.
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It was Jalopnik otherwise known as the hand that feeds the Top Gear news section. If you read TheRegister you might understand a little. Just because someone dies you shouldn't stop acting like yourself.
The designer's concept is about customizable widgets, it's not about facebook. I think it may make sense: typical myspace users LOVE filling their page with glitter, photos, music and all sorts of customization, so his idea is in line with the Myspace concept.

I'll agree that the demo page is a bit bland in that respect though.
I don't want a freaking iPhone that won't fit in my pocket.
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A modification to the process described at http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/ could do it, but you'd get like a fraction of a second of decoded audio from the images on that page, so not that interesting.
It's already a common thing. That ship left port a long time ago: personal sites are very common. How is this fundamentally different, in terms of self-promotion, than a personal site with a resume on the front page?
What's interesting is that they're willing to take the time to figure out Facebook and Farmville, and they seem to relish the frustration they bring on themselves by not paying attention to the whole process, but rather just the end result.

Just think how much time they'd save, time they could be playing Farmville, if they used things like bookmarks, or set their home page properly (to Facebook, perhaps), or any of the other features and tools that are actually designed to make their experience easier, faster, and more efficient.
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sorry what I meant was I hope people posting resumes on hackernews showing up on the front page doesn't become a common thing.
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Wow that's an unexpected statement coming from the CEO of a major security firm. It's obviously extremely uninformed with respect to the nature of the internet, and more broadly, information dissemination. The gating issue isn't the expense or bureaucracy, but the fact that there's a market for information and if you make the web boring it will go elsewhere. We have the technology now -- or rather, the knowledge to build the technology -- and there's no other way it could go. Makes me nervous about Kaspersky's approach to security. In fairness, the view proposed in the OP is probably not exactly what he meant, and his view of IT is colored by spending his time immersed in the technological underworld and its machinations. It's probably understandable to wish for order when all you see are viruses and botnets emerging from third world countries daily, but it still doesn't nearly excuse promoting the concept of "internet police," even if they were at all plausible from an implementation point of view.
You should read this comment (which quotes the same stats as you) and the response to it, really good stuff:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1125225

Where that comment differs from the linked image in the post is talking about income vs wealth. I think the graph makes things look fairer than the are. I'm pretty sure that if you take account of all taxes then the US has a regressive tax system, and he's claiming it's progressive, so clearly something has been missed out.
Amazon gets nearly 10% in some areas, I worked with startups where we got the Conversion rates from 1% to 5% this was mostly adwords and landing page optimizitaion.

At the end conversion rates define your cost per user and how much you have to make with each user. So don't stop worrying.
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CPU wise you should be fine. System requirements call for GeForce 6600 or Radeon 9800 though, so the shared-memory GPU of the Mini might not suffice. I suggest comparing the 3DMark score of the mini with that of a card that's definitely supported.
All that waffling on and a mention of whether it's HTML5 compliant and whether it supports the <video> tag at least.
It's very good that Kaspersky is not responsible for rules of Internet.

Guys with similar mindset created rules for .ru domains and now it is simpler to sell own kidney then transfer .ru domain from one person to another (And this bureaucratic system less secure).
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I'd say just to save time and face. If he was found with a bullet through his head or something like that it is not unreasonable that all airports and roads would be closed for a while, but if it looked just like a heart attack the murderers have a bit of extra time to leave the country.
He successfully -- dare I say it -- hacked the job application process.

We spend our careers building stuff, we spent our free time building stuff, we spend our nights dreaming of building stuff. Then for job applications we write ten sentences on a piece of paper and call it a day. What is wrong with this picture?

I think every developer should have an interactive resume. Make it your next weekend app -- what can you do to show off your skills, demonstrate you have personality, and also make a cogent argument for hiring you?
I don't want a freaking computer either. But I do want something that will let me listen to a streaming music app while writing emails.
This was almost certainly not Mossad, for precisely that reason. Mossad is not known for sloppy work, and this was nothing if not sloppy. The passports were bad fakes; several of them were duplicates of real innocent Israeli lookalikes; 11 people to kill one guy with no security detail, all of them with their faces on camera? Yeah, pretty sure this wasn't Mossad.
i was going to write some rant about how we're all n00bs at something... but then i read this.

these people genuinely are idiots.
Generally speaking, Lisp programmers tend to ignore the closing brackets. They're something for the editor to handle.

Also, most Clojure functions tend to be only a few lines, so you'd rarely find yourself with more than, say, 8 closing brackets.
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Much as I'm in favour of people understanding the structure of URLs, the article is wrong suggest this is the best way to prevent bank phishing. The correct advice is to bookmark your bank login URL, if your bank is competent this should be an https address, and always reach your login page using this bookmark. Never click a link in an email to login to your bank, it requires a great deal of effort and skill to check an emailed URL is valid.
> The only alternative to 'sham' governments imposed from outside are 'strong men'

Please be careful with that. In my country (brazil) we had a US-sponsored military dictatorship in the sixties-eighties that was both "strong men" and a "sham government", and it crushed a lot of the intellectual and cultural development happening in brazil at the time, all the while only preventing a very small risk that the country would turn communist. And today one of our most US-friendly presidents (Lula) is an ex revolutionary (and many people in his government were politically persecuted, exiled and tortured during the dictatorship).

It's really awful to think that this is still happening in other places around the world, and that fundamentally the american people do not see any major problem with the idea of interfering militarly in a government across the globe.
I admire this guy's confidence, but that's just a clear cut imitation of facebook. As other people mentioned, the people who use myspace don't want myspace to look like facebook. They want it to look however they want it to (which could be tied back to the name of the site). Clearly what needs to be redesigned is the backend, not the frontend. As far as I know, customization of a myspace page (beyond setting a background image) is still only possible by referencing esoteric, undocumented css classes and id's. I can't even fathom the number of ridiculous hacks it takes to create a myspace page like this: http://www.myspace.com/attackattack

No, I don't listen to that band. However, I have a good feeling that everything on that page was created and tested extensively by someone from Vans Warped Tour. Most of the elements are shared among various bands who are all playing in Warped this year. And while a team of people probably took a week to make all of that work, one guy could have gotten it done in a day using straight html and css.

My band has a myspace page, and people have offered to customize our page for a modest $100. And I don't exaggerate when I say this: $100 is probably a deal. One of two things has to happen. Either the bugs allowing customization need to be fixed, or customization needs to be supported legitimately. It's as if the creators just threw the site into NewsCorp's lap, and it hasn't been touched since.
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"Because next time someone (else) may end up dead after an interaction with Foxconn."

Maybe? Maybe not? Why speculate. Let's just decide that they are guilty now.

And, just to make another point, 1000's of people commit suicide every year - Should we blame their employers as well? It's all a bit too circumstantial for me.
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This is a fantastic post, esp if you're like me - a geek that studied philosophy.
I thought all that was necessary was to place warning signs. i.e. if you leave a big sign that says "warning this house is booby trapped and unsafe" that's sufficient to protect you against a burglar who sues you for the leg that your spring-loaded machete hacked off.
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Interesting. As a contrast in Germany the gym teachers are usually quite competent and have to pass physical exams. (The computer science teachers less so..)
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A section about the trouble hierarchical information layout causes, in an article posted on (and written about) the web, is interesting, since some of the early motivations for hypertext were precisely the feeling that hierarchical structures and navigation were unintuitive and limiting, and that instead links between relevant stuff should be the main abstraction. Ted Nelson in particular seems to see eliminating hierarchies in computation as sort of a holy war.
I love how the guys who come up with this magically assume that it'd be somehow enforceable and wouldn't leave the internet a barren wasteland.

And if some countries don’t agree with or don’t pay attention to the agreement, just cut them off.

He really has quite a naive understanding of foreign policy.
Simple: just don't do business with them.
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Yes. You're assembling sequences of characters which tell a computer to do something. Those characters are then processed by a lexer and a parser, turned in to an abstract syntax tree of some sort and used to generate a result. Just because the languages you are using are declarative rather than procedural doesn't make them not "code". And if you're writing code, I'd say you're coding.
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Smart idea, hope it works out for them :)
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Wolfram Alpha has an _awesome_ time zone converter,

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HTML isn't meant to handle presentation. Ideally, it's a way of marking up content to allow an arbitrary presentation layer to be laid on top.

I prefer generating HTML content through s-expressions. It's more flexible and concise than a templating library, and it forces you to bear in mind the separation of content and presentation. In turn, this makes it easier to unit-test the views, and to write automated integration tests.

For instance, if I were a designer writing a template, I have control over both the CSS and the HTML. This might tempt me to write the HTML around a particular design:

<div class="post">
<div class="small">
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</div>

But if I am a programmer, without necessarily much knowledge of the presentation, I might be more careful to write more semantic HTML that's presentation-neutral.

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[:span.points (:points post)]
" points by "
[:span.author (:name author)]]

Which has the useful side effect of making it easier to write tests:

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Fairly inaccurate. E.g. Java is the most important open source project Snoracle has, and they've been quite explicit about what they'll do with it (e.g. "it makes no sense to open source JRocket", instead they will be merging it with HotSpot).

Obviously they have and will be canceling some things, and their silence about OpenSolaris has that community very concerned. Then again many consider it to be a failure in the marketplace; heck, I'd be using it (was planning on using it) if it wasn't for its abysmal hardware support (I even bought and am using a Tyan motherboard that they used in one of their workstations).
Would it be a reasonable HN policy not to link to paywalled articles?
"The next morning we found that ipnat.sys developer (being in India) suffered all sorts of Internet and power problems overnight and was unable to finish the utility. It was a new day when we received this news so we completed the utility ourselves…"

I've heard that one before! (Not that they don't actually have those problems in India)
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I've read about that discussion but lacked the energy. :-)

(Anyway, your link might have a point in that the inherited dictators might on average be less actively evil than those that crawl to the top of the heap. That seems like arguing that some cancer form has a little bit less mortality than lung cancer. It might be true, but the practical/emotional impact is low.)
Nice remark on how the need for a "powerful" IDE is a code smell. The need for the IDE reveals that some abstraction the language should provide but isn't has to be handled by something else. No such problem with macros.
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