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I concur. And I'll pass. "Acting with integrity" as compared to "don't be a grin fucker" hasn't exactly lost it's ring. The latter term is crass and hard to say. Poor slang branding in a crowded lingual market, if you ask me.
Ask HN: Is anyone else sick of seeing Apple computers in movies?
Man, went and saw a movie the other night ("Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"). The Apple logo kept coming up all the way through the movie - everyone was using Apple laptops and there were constant shots with open laptops with the little Apple logo light shining away. I'm getting really sick of it - every time I see a movie they are using Apple laptops, there is the logo - again!
Apple computers in movies are coming to be over-exposed. Seeing Apple logo's in movies rips me out of any immersion that I might have had in the movie plot and makes me start thinking about Steve Jobs and iPads! Not what I want to be thinking about in a movie.
Is anyone else sick of the Apple logo and Apple computers in movies?
Do the touch APIs let you look at the actual dimension of a finger press, or is it just an x/y coordinate? I mean, does the information come across as a circle or as total surface area lit up by the touch or anything? I don't know the tech behind the Apple touch stuff at all.
I pointed this out on Reddit and am getting accused of being a spook.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/bj7x5/wikileaks_...
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That is a bit crazy extreme.
I sleep 3 hours every 12 hours and it works great for me.
This was my question, so I looked at the source. It refers to a page on algorithms that claims that it is 8-bit clean, i.e., it preserves non-ascii characters but does not modify them. I then compiled a test program to verify this, because the bit twiddling in the source code looks a little nuanced. It IS 8-bit clean.

Although, if you're looking for something that converts non-ascii characters to their lower case equivalents, just use LibICU. This library looks nice for decoding things like HTTP which have plenty of ascii-only case insensitivity.
iTunes is fairly jacked if you want to use it in any way besides "syncing your iphone". Try using it to point to your remote library on a shared file system. Immediately it tries to copy that whole file system into your local computer ..
Fortunately Google is going to help out by hosting a wikileaks server, as part of its goal of ending government censorship.
Wouldn't a truck, carrying almost twice as much weight, use almost twice as much fuel? Also, I think that (given normal combustion engines), the more power you try to get out of them, the worse the efficiency of the engine, so any gains you can gain from the "almost twice as much fuel" would just be lost there anyway.
Ah, thank you. The Millennium prize people might have been confident they wouldn't have to pay out, eh?
All I read from these case studies is that unless your product is targeted at the masses, you should avoid Freemium. 0.5% ratio of premium users is simply too low.
Gotcha. I've never really used iTunes with networked computers.
this doesn't change the status of OpenSolaris.
Where did you hear that from? Or are you being facetious?
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Sorry for being lazy. Does it need root rights to forge ICMP?
I'll bite, and take the counterpoint.

Most people aren't grin fucking you because of some inherent moral instability. They're doing it because fighting you over your idea that you're in love with isn't worth it to them. First example he gives, where Manager Bob is getting ignored -- what if the executive simply doesn't need or respect Bob's opinion? He doesn't need to prove to every non-exec that he thinks his idea is good. Unfortunate, but a fact of life in a hierarchical organization.

I like to think of myself as direct and honest, but the overwhelming social norm (at least from what I've seen, on the East Coast of the US) is to pick your battles. If you push back on everything you disagree with, you surprise people and quickly pick up a reputation as argumentative. This is especially true if you engage on issues outside your area of expertise. Programmers telling accounting how to fund benefits? HR telling programmers which hours are "proper" to work? Organizational grunts telling execs which markets to expand into? Even if the outsider is right, it's not worth the time of the expert to fight it, and they'll smile, nod, and hope you go away quickly so they can continue being productive.

By all means, you should stand up and call out the obvious bullshit, but the world is not black and white.
My post was not meant as proof, it was just intended to trigger a thought process in the reader.

We make a lot of arbitrary distinctions about the legitimacy of institutions.

When we see the leader of an Afghan city state traveling around in an SUV with a bunch of guys with machine guns, we call him a "warlord", yet we offer utmost deference to the US presidential motorcade.

Look at it this way, society has winners and losers. Winners generally want to continue being winners, so they end up in control of coercive force (guns, military, etc.) and they end up with the tools of propaganda at their disposal (newspapers, puppet officials).

What differentiates one nation's winners from those of another is far less than we tend to think, since much of our "consent" to the status quo is built upon our belief in certain doctrines and institutions.

Surely our democracy is worth something, and many of our institutions are worthy of some deference and respect, but so are China's and Mexico's and Iran's...

There are a variety of other fallacies which add to our distorted view of the rest of the world, which I could also go into detail about.
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In some senses you're right, in that great art is usually created by ignoring the conventional wisdom etc.

However, even then feedback is important: as Paul Graham has repeatedly argued, great artists don't usually work in total isolation (the Renaissance was concentrated in Florence, etc).

However, my point applied more to non-fiction than fiction: it was based on my own experiences writing Flexible Rails (self-publishing, getting early customers and feedback, etc) and then Hello! Flex 4 (traditional publisher approach). And we even did release Hello! Flex 4 while it was being written, but I didn't build the community of "earlyvangelists" around it that happened with Flexible Rails. Part of this was the content (Hello! Flex 4 is an uncontroversial introductory book; Flexible Rails was arguing something and was something largely new), but part of it was affected by the dynamic of self-publishing vs. using a traditional publisher.

With Flexible Rails I created a Google Group that had hundreds of readers, while the book was still in-progress. I felt I had a closer connection with them, and I learned what worked and what didn't work in my book, etc. So that post was about those experiences.

Finally, a disclaimer: I'm not an artist, and certainly not a Dostoyevsky, so I really have no idea what kind of feedback that type of talent wants.

(P.S. I love Dostoyevsky btw; I read Notes from Underground and The Brothers Karamazov while working a summer job in university at Walmart -- before I switched from Philosophy to Comp Sci.)
Ask HN: If you had an iPad, would you find this useful?
I have been working on a small project lately that is an iPad app. It's a simple twitter client that filters out tweets with URLs and lets you conveniently browse them.

Screenshot: http://go.owu.edu/~bbachary/twiturls.png

My question to you guys:

1) If you had an iPad (or will have an iPad very soon), would you find it useful?

2) What features would you look for in such an app (may be you'd want to be able to retweet the message, send the URL to Instapaper, bookmark the message and so on ...) ?

3) How often do you go through feeds from your twitter lists? Would some kind of lists integration make this app more useful to you?

4) Would you consider spending 99 cents on an app like this? Or, would you rather invest on a full-featured twitter client for the same price?

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
Solaris has gone back and forth between fully commercial, to free + free updates, to commercial, to free without updates, to now commercial again.

In my experience using solaris at the bottom-end has been kind of a non-starter for a decade now because Sun yo-yoed the licensing enough to remind people they shouldn't use it.

Honestly, good riddance. Oracle can go figure out what they're trying to do and this will motivate the open source OS hacker community to get the relevant features of Solaris implemented (or surpassed) in other OSes.
facetious. Google should actually take a real stand against censorship.
I posted something similar there yesterday which wasn't too ill received:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/biz27/all_the_re...
Sun was embracing Open Source to some degree - though they were always a little schizophrenic on that policy, and never really held to a clear position for about 3-5 years in the middle - but the last few years they seemed to "get it". While this is a minor change (it doesn't appear to affect OpenSolaris) it does seem to be indicative of Oracle taking a few (small) steps away from that position.

But, on the flip side (and I say this as someone who learned Unix on SunOS 2.6 in 1998 - I still type ps -ef, and as a Joyent user, though tcsh has given way to bash in my finger memory) - Solaris really is an edge operating system for the masses, somewhat more akin to AIX. Pretty much the common (server) OS for the masses is Linux, with Open/Free/NetBSD making up the majority of those not going with Windows.

The only people I know using Solaris these days (and this is just an anecdote, so be gentle :-) are people running Oracle or other environments that need to be enterprise robust on vertically scaled system, people using sparc gear, or people who have a legacy investment in Solaris. This is sad - as few as five years ago, Solaris was still a popular choice for new companies - the OS was just so rock solid stable.

I'd love to hear a YC survey on OS choices for server backends - my bet is 50%+ on Linux/BSD, less than 10% Solaris.

I'm wondering what percentage of the remaining 40% is Windows, and if AIX ever gets a vote. I'm presuming HPUX is not chosen for new companies any more, and I fervently pray that everyone steers clear of SCO.
why is everyone hating on this kid? this is a freshman design student that put something on the web he thought was interesting. nobody should be seriously taking this as an effort to replace your beloved coke bottle!
Aren't you neglecting to consider the (in these days, very real) chance that it is worth him accommodating the girl, rather than the other way around?

Both he and she could have substantial reasons making it worth being accommodated by the other. I wouldn't assume that only the boy is worth accommodating - especially since he's in tech, where there's a lot more flexibility than usual for working remotely, etc.
One opinion I do want to throw out there is with the screenshot the author has of the mac Coda application. What strikes me as completely out of place interms of visual asthetics is the mac vertical scroll bar.

While the rest of the screenshot looks pretty consistent interms of colour (low-contract, grey(ish) shades, modest use of gradients), there's this bright, shiny, blue, bubble-shaped scroll bar wedged inside a heavily-gradiented scrollbar background.

Whenever I see UI articles pointing to mac appeal, this is the first thing that strikes me as out of place. And I hope I'm not the only who thinks so.
Why does a manual directory structure require indexing? Directories ARE indexes. All the player needs to do is give you a file browser, which starts at the root of your music tree. My old Archos did that, and it was quickly ready to play after power-up.
As Scott points out, some great novels have been published in serial form. We're not claiming that this has to be the rule though.

However, there's another interesting question: how many good or great novels are sitting half-written on hard drives right now as Word documents, with a discouraged author about to give up on them?

If those novels were published as they were written (with automatic distribution of updates and a community of a few passionate readers / fans), maybe some novels worth reading will get created that otherwise might not be...

That said, the obvious market for the Lean Publishing approach is, of course, technical books. Scott and I have both written computer books, so we're very much scratching our own itch here. Another great market for using Lean Publishing principles is cookbooks, we feel. Lots of people are blogging and even tweeting cookbooks (although I want more than a 140 character recipe!), and this is definitely something that could be published using a Lean Publishing approach.

Neither of us have any idea if it will work for fiction :)

Obligatory plug: we welcome computer books, cookbooks and even novels on Leanpub :)
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I am in total accordance with you. Apple is pure evil just imagine they had the core of their operating system(Darwin) open sourced even if they didn't need it to. They contribute to some high profile open source projects(WebKit, LLVM & SproutCore). Their web browser is standards compliant and their competitors can use the same rendering engine. And you can choose to buy an Apple product or not. We need to stop them now before they destroy our freedom forever.
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I defy you to say that adding index entries to a 500 page manuscript is stuff-you-want-to-do :)
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heh. well, my idea of 'pretty' is probably so far off from yours that I wouldn't know. I'm halfway colorblind, so all your well-tuned colorschemes are for naught. A friend made me a (presumably really nice) multicolored pastel logo for prgmr.com. I thought looked like a yellow circle. Apparently, it had four different colors.

But yeah; I mean, I've seen a lot of really bad websites that have obviously had a lot of effort put into making them pretty. Remember the 'click here to enter' intro screens? or flash-based websites? One certainly can be pretty without being usable.
Refillable bottles (plastic or glass) are widely used in Chile. I'm quite surprised to see that the concept doesn't seem to exist in the US.
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It's understandable that people get tired of repeating themselves, but on the other hand, if you're trying to be a leader and you're not selling your ideas to everyone around you who might listen (and using this as practice to improve your ideas and your sales pitch), you're not doing your job. I may not buy your argument but I'll respect you more for genuinely trying to sell it to me on it than for ignoring me.
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Good point about time. Just for fun...

Assume t0 < t1

Original: NOT(NOT(Mainstream(t0))) ==> NOT(Succesful(t1))

Contrapositive: Successful(t1) ==> NOT(Mainstream(t0))

Edit: Small edit for clarity and spelling.
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Same here, though this is my last semester. At least, I hope that statement is true, as I don't think my classes have been getting their fair share amount of attention lately...
A friend of mine at JHU is working on iPad integration in health system informatics. It's a great device and all, but the first thing doctors ask:

Can this thing be autoclaved?

I don't think Steve Jobs is thinking about that one. Android might be better off.
You could just return an empty bottle every time you buy a new one (or pay a deposit if you don't have one). Oh wait, that already exists (doesn't sound as cool, though).
Gotta say this is impressive, though.. a world where a 16 year old both looks and talks like a 25+ year old is a pretty alien one to me. I'm only glad I'm out of the dating pool! When I was 16, the girls were spotty, wore no or bad make up, and were into screaming over boy bands. It's a different world :-)
Interesting, I agree with your facts but I read the author is meaning the exact opposite.

I.e. the author was asking us to take note of these mainstream opinions that brilliant people had and how wrong they are. In other words, even if brilliant people think you are wrong, you may still be right.
This whole saga is probably the best thing that could happen to WikiLeaks. Huge increase for their visibility, which in turn increases the value of the role they play.
This was exactly my thought. My second thought was Clay Shirky's classic "A Group is its Own Worst Enemy" http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

He quotes from research derived from watching a group of neurotics that consistently defended itself against his [the researcher] attempts to make them do what they had ostensible gathered themselves together for. The second pattern of defensive behavior was identifying a common enemy. Clay writes:

"The second basic pattern that Bion detailed: The identification and vilification of external enemies. This is a very common pattern. Anyone who was around the Open Source movement in the mid-Nineties could see this all the time. If you cared about Linux on the desktop, there was a big list of jobs to do. But you could always instead get a conversation going about Microsoft and Bill Gates. And people would start bleeding from their ears, they would get so mad.

If you want to make it better, there's a list of things to do. It's Open Source, right? Just fix it. "No, no, Microsoft and Bill Gates grrrrr ...", the froth would start coming out. The external enemy -- nothing causes a group to galvanize like an external enemy.

So even if someone isn't really your enemy, identifying them as an enemy can cause a pleasant sense of group cohesion. And groups often gravitate towards members who are the most paranoid and make them leaders, because those are the people who are best at identifying external enemies."

So let's forget about Apple or Microsoft or any other so-called-enemy for awhile and get back to coding and "defeat" them the old-fashioned way.
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This is coming via brightcove, a company that handles video for some pretty big clients (AOL, Fox, GM, A&E). Whatever it takes to get us off flash I'm all for.
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"If RMS wanted GNU software to spread then he shouldn't have gone into politics and preaching. He should have made sure that GNU software was more useful to the software users"

Indeed, consider this alternate timeline whose RMS is more pragmatic and willing to give up a few short term small victories in order to win big in the end:

It's the late '70s. The microprocessor revolution is just getting started. RMS and his band of wily hackers jump onboard, realizing there is going to be a lot of money to be made, and that a person with a lot of money can do a lot more good than a person without a lot of money.

They make a decision: they will go commercial, amass a fortune, and then retire to promote their ideal free software world.

It's GNU BASIC that Altair picks up in this timeline, not MS BASIC. It's RMS that gets the IBM deal. It's RMS that becomes the world's richest man.

25 years later, RMS retires, and then sets up the FSF, endowed with about $50 billion dollars. With just the investment income, not touching the principle at all, the FSF is generating enough money to be able to give out 50000 grants a year that each pay a developer for one year's full time work on free software.

In 10 years, the FSF has produced GPL replacements for every important piece of non-free generally available software on the planet. The only non-GPL software left is internal things on corporate intranets.
Another use case: You're talking to someone who's f*cking you over, big time. Responding with hostility or on-the-nose sincerity will only invite disaster or escalate the situation. Sometimes, not always, the right response is to smile broadly and say something friendly, Then get out of dodge.
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Really good book for people that haven't followed everything they have said though.
I've followed some of the stuff that has made it to HN over time so I recognized a bit but it is really well put together into book form. They follow their advice of cutting back the idea's to the essentials although I would have liked them to go a bit more in depth, you could easily have whole chapters on some of the good concepts.
A number of programs do this. In iTunes on OSX open up preferences, go to the advanced tab and half way down is the option "[x] Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library"

Yeah, it's enabled by default but I'm pretty sure it's the correct behavior for most people.
Even though I agree that the figures are strangely high, I wouldn't actually hold it against them if they just said they want to keep some for themselves. If they're really followed by spooks, detained and threatened - I guess they could use some reward for all of that. It's not something you sign up for with the minimal wage. (when they went public about those incidents, I assumed they're at least a bit worried about "disappearing")

But yeah - showing what is the money spent for would be a good idea.