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Was the cool story bro really necessary? This isn't 4chan...
Maybe because Google maps is so freakin easy to use. I mean, yeah that pic of the white house exists but finding it can't get any easier than searching google maps.

My point is, google maps is a success and success usually gets a bunch of people suspicious of you.
The leadup to the quote you gave is also useful:

The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.
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It uses a fairly small amount of RAM / RSS for the emulator, I was impressed that it could run 9 operating systems in 1GB and not too much swapping was going on. I know that normal virtualisers like xen are faster.
Ask HN: can a company do too much OSS?
#15 of patio11's summary of pg's future business trends (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1632689): "I can't name a company which did too much OSS. If no one has gone too far, we're probably not doing OSS enough yet."

As one example, I've thought a lot about open sourcing all or parts of DuckDuckGo, but have been hesitant for the obvious reasons (trade secrets, gaming the system, etc.). Of course, anyone interested would have to wade through my Perl. On the other hand, I'd love the opportunity to develop more of a community around the code.

So where's the line?
Ah, yes. The anthropomorphic elements of Apple's HCI design.

I think this is just Apple applying those same software HCI principles to their hardware design. It's merely one more tool in Apple's arsenal that their hardware competitors lack.
I made this for the An Event Apart JavaScript 10k contest but unfortunately finished it after the deadline (but not by much!).

Anyway, here it is for all of you to enjoy. Hopefully useful when you don't feel like opening up Photoshop to get a CSS color.

I'd love to hear suggestions for how I can improve it. (Sorry that the bubbles next to Lab are missing; refreshing the square on the left was too slow for it to be useful.)
Another cool story: when the first bi-color red/green LEDs showed up at Radio Shack in the early 1990s, I designed a PWM circuit to implement a battery-life indicator that would glow green with a full charge and slowly fade through yellow to red as the battery discharged. The patent committee at Dell was paying $1000 bonuses for disclosures at the time, but I couldn't get them to buy into this one. There were objections to the effect that it was trivial, or some such reasoning. I agreed, and left the meeting with no hard feelings. No harm in trying, right?
Little nit, are you sure this 'available on the iphone app store' modified button is legit? I seem to recall having to sign/checkbox to use it, besides, isn't 'available' supposed to mean something's available.
Ives -> Ive

Bucheit -> Buchheit
With the overhaul of the Gmail UI (especially Mail/Contacts/Tasks being where they are, I would not at all be surprised to find that you are correct.
I guess the main thing that came out of it was finding out how to run NetBSD and OpenBSD in recent qemu, which is not totally obvious, they didn't work out of the box. It took a bit of searching around and asking questions!
When somebody says that, they are either a Microsoft/Google fanboy trying to rile you up, or they just don't understand what makes something great.
What do you need faster for? Unless we're talking about gaming or rendering I would rather have a computer that loads Firefox half a second slower than one with a clunkier UI and less attention to detail.

>Maybe only Americans can afford such frivolity.

Tell us more about how you're better than us, please.
> Personally, I think we should not personify our computing hardware. It's a tool, not your friend.

I think the breathing LED is great precisely because it's a subtle form of personification that manages to be "friendly" without actually going far enough to be "your friend". (Remember: technophobes.)

Also, it's relaxing. Sometimes this is exactly the cue you want after a stressful session at the computer.
This article doesn't quite aim to be an intuitive explanation of quantum mechanics. What it does is, however, closely related, and may be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about quantum mechanics: it's a simple explanation of Bell's inequality and it's experimental violation. It's the violation of Bell's inequality which essentially forces us to abandon our ordinary realist conception of the Universe. This is perhaps the strongest single piece of evidence in favour of the quantum mechanical view of the Universe.

(Disclaimer: I wrote the article.)
There's more evidence of their attention to detail if you look closely. Most companies, if needing an indicator light, would simply drill a hole in the case where the light is to go. Now have a look at the MB sleep light. It shines through a few rows of ultra small laser made holes, meaning when the light is off, the surface of the case is almost completely unbroken
ah good call. I am going to change it now.

thanks for noticing it.
Right, except the "SUV" is smaller, looks nicer, has a better OS, etc...

And you can buy a HP/Dell that costs exactly the same as your Mac, if you looked at the more expensive end of their lineup.

Apple does not make cheap computers. HP/Dell make both.

And who really cares about faster these days?
> How is this unauthorized alteration of private property any different?

Their car license plates are marked "exempt" - they take that seriously....
SEOBook and SEOMoz are both excellent services. I would recommend using all of their free resources first. SEOBook has a free 7 day "course" you can sign up for to get a feel for it, plus a lot of free content. SEOMoz also has excellent tools and information as well.

If you are just looking for the basics there is a ton of free information out there. Hit seo.alltop.com to see the majority of the best sites for SEO news and information.
This is how you get a search warrant: A person makes an affidavit in front of a neutral and detached magistrate, who then determines that a reasonable person would conclude that it was more likely than not that incriminating evidence of the named items or persons would be found in the specifically named place to be searched.

Lots of legal buzzwords there. Each of those buzzwords adds overheard in obtaining a warrant. Police are happy to avoid that overheard whenever possible. That is the motivation to avoid obtaining search warrants. Plus, a privacy minded judge might deny you. With warrant-requirement-exceptions you don't run the risk of being denied a search. You just do it.
If you're losing 90% of the people on the first step and 50% of that 10% on the second step, is the second step really what you need to be optimising?
I've used Ubuntu for a few years now, and I adore Gnome's simplicity. For someone who mostly lives in Emacs and Chrome, its a great Desktop: its simple, it (mostly) works, and it stays out of the way! They must do some incredible usability testing, since it usually doesn't frustrate me like Windows does. If it didn't have such a single-minded fixation on warning you about Non-Free Components (gasp!) it would be almost unbeatable.
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You just reminded me of those folding cellphones that were popular when cellphones first became really popular. They had this useless blinking led that just bugged the hell out of me!
Here's my take on it:

-You experience events.

-You seem to have control over some events, and other events seem to be outside of your control.

-The process that determines this feeling of control is chemical, and has nothing to do with whether or not you actually do have any control.

In other words, even though control is entirely an illusion, it is the illusion that defines our existence. Understanding it is NOT useless - most people who you would describe as "assholes" are just people with control issues.
My tower has a blue power-LED. To cover it up, I stuck a dark post-it over it. Still too bright.

5 layers later, and it was about 1/2 the brightness of my MBP's snoozer. About right for a dark room. A couple months later, when I packed my tower up for xmas vacation... the post-its were bleached white, all the way through, in front of the LED. Way too much power.

My MBP? Still too bright for the night, IMO, but I tend to like dark. It's at least not annoying, like damn-near every other light-emissive device in my house at night.
There are infinite many ways of doing so. :)

For example, somewhat like the Fibonacci sequence like it is incorporated in the Lateralus song by Tool. That would be awesome.
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We've recently invested in 4-5 companies that are very similar to startups in this latest batch of YC companies...and it has happened before. Sometimes it makes me queasy, but I usually take it as a confirmation signal that there is a market opening. Competition should not discourage you unless you're in a tiny market. And there are very few 'tiny' markets.

Unless you have a more compelling idea, I would "stick it out and try to kick ass" ;-)

Best of luck to you.
It's a self-deprecating device, used to indicate that the post was intended purely as a topical anecdote which should be taken or left at face value, and not as a general recommendation to buy stock based on individual product features. :-P
I'd say your private property would have reasonable expectation of privacy. Provided your car was parked on private property this would be called trespassing should you enforce and report it. Foregoing REP really only applies to public places (parking lots, parks, the sidewalk, etc.) so I would just check your car.

Don't Fast Passes and the like already do this where possible?
Yeah, I know Buffett said that but there's a reason why nobody is buying homes right now- they are still way overpriced historically compared to incomes. Anyone that tells you property never loses value is probably an RE shill or makes money somehow off the industry.
That's brilliant. I'd never noticed that about Mac OS submenus (although I definitely noticed how arduous it was to navigate Windows submenus).

I do have one outstanding gripe about Mac OS menus, though, which is that if you misclick on some non-reactive part of the menu (a greyed-out option or divider line), it simply closes the menu. I can't think of any reason why this would be better behavior than leaving the menu open, since at least 90% of the time my intent was to actually click on something that would respond.
Glad you're already enjoying it. Thanks for the purchase. :-)
Why should there be an apparent irony? Lisp is a family of competing ideas and implementations, this can be considered bad and a "cottage industry" in the same way that the free market can be faulted for being "disparate solutions, of various quality offered by a multitude of people and companies". IOW, not bad at all; beauty is in the chaos.

With respect to Java, there is only one real solution provider, and the cottage industry is in the punditry that begs and supplicates to this sole provider on behalf of various users and their respective interests. So Java is more like the political lobbyists and lawyers.

Regarding Genera, dropping the G-word just marks one as long out of shape, Lisp-wise. Lately, the fuss is all about JVM, CLR, multicore, large scale distribution, packaging, semantic web, machine learning, mobile and application platforms. You can even grow a beard and find nirvana on the JVM:

http://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/

http://clojure.org/
I think the dupe-detector only checks against URLs that have already been lazy-loaded into memory since the last time the server was restarted.
I tried to avoid the names entirely (also: ">>="?). I don't really use Haskell, though, so it's easy for me to just recognize when a monadic interface is a useful abstraction and leave it at that.

Besides, a lot of languages have weird terminology.
Ah, thank you for the clarification, and my apologies for only reading every other word in the WP article before posting. ;) I didn't realize it was on occupied property, my bad.

Based still on wikipedia, I would describe this as a regressive tax. The amount to pay increases sub-linearly with increase in the value of the thing taxed.

In Canada, property tax is paid by the owner, not the occupant, and it pays for the same things (garbage collection, libraries, schools, etc).
[...] the moment I realized just how far Apple goes to make computers for humans. Truly personal computers.

Jobs has been talking about anthropomorphic technology for quite a bit [1]. I've always liked to imagine Jobs had some influence on WALL-E's EVE. It was a Pixar movie, after all...

1. Longer than this, but it's the only reference I could find: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html
That you can read a thread like this and describe the sleep LED behavior as "frivolity" nicely encapsulates not only why Apple does well, but why a certain segment of its competition will never grasp why it keeps getting beaten.
Sun is the line. Perhaps they couldn't sell their product either, but their competitors were making bank selling software instead of giving it away. Look at what oracle is doing with their IP
I disagree.

This is totally missing most of the fundamental game mechanics that make FPSes fun, platformers fun, etc.

In fact it misses out much of what makes WoW fun for end level raiders.

Re-reading it this feels more like a deck of false rewards to make people think they're playing a game when they're not.
Ive talks about this. The point is that an indicator should be invisible when there isn't anything to indicate. Otherwise, it's just another tiny distraction.
Reddit is almost 100% open source except for some of their anti-spam code which can be replaced by open source code. I think they could go 100% open source though as I don't believe in security through obscurity.

Duckduckgo could go for a distributed model where each install could communicate together and maybe scale better.
Let's see how those lawsuits go for Oracle, it's too soon to tell if they'll pay off.
Well, judging by the amount of progress on the application recently, I imagine they would be receptive to fixing it. Assuming someone has pointed the issue out to them.

I haven't tried to implement any intents targeting their application.
Spam protection with obscurity is different from security through obscurity. Spam protection through obscurity is fairly prevalent and reasonable.
I'm at a startup I can drink beer all day.
Yeah.
That's a somewhat strange example to use on a site hosted by Paul Graham, who writes about a pretty broad set of things, not all of them very strictly tied to the things he's particularly famous for.
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Wow, I totally missed the invite in my Junk folder! Thanks for reminding me :-)
No, they didn't, but they tied it to something unique: human breathing at a resting pace. They anthropomorphised it.

Ok, that's done, Apple took it. What's next? What's even more intuitive or revolutionary?

We'll never know if major companies with insanely great designers constantly regurgitate what Apple did years before.

I don't think its unreasonable to hold companies other than Apple to the same design standards. Certainly most large consumer electronics companies have similar resources (human, industrial, capital, etc.) to use.
I think the specific license you choose is a bigger factor than the amount of code or of a product open sourced.

I think the line is, if you are the dominant open source player in a specific market or likely to be, like sugarcrm is, it makes sense to use GPL.

If on the other hand you are not the incumbent, it makes sense to use a more liberal license, so LGPL/bsd/mit like vtiger has.

So the line really depends on your status in the market your in.
I own a MacBook. I'm an a limited budget, and yet I paid more for it than I could have for similar spec non Apple hardware. You know why? Because I like it.

My life is full of crappy cheap gadgets and things. Nearly everything I deal with on a day to day basis has been designed to be manufactured as cheaply and as quickly as possible, and it's evident. I like using my little MacBook; it's slim, it's light, it's beautifully built, it's aesthetically pleasing, it has a great keyboard, there's nothing else out there that comes close to the trackpad, it's full of nice touches and it feels like someone has put a lot of thought into it's design.

About the same time, my sister bought herself a Toshiba laptop that, on paper, was equivalent to my macbook, but it cost her about 25% less. The toshiba is almost twice as fat, has a horrid keyboard, an even worse touch pad, a battery life of about two hours and flexes like you wouldn't believe.

I guess it's similar to buying expensive clothes or paying more for a nice car (I have neither)
Yes, but didn't they wait until they had a very established community? And they're not really a technology play--not to discount their technilogy--but their success seems to be all about their community.
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''in other words, because “it turns out” is the sort of phrase you would use to convey, for example, something unexpected about a phenomenon you’ve studied extensively—as in the scientist saying “…but the E. coli turned out to be totally resistant”—or some buried fact that you have recently discovered on behalf of your readers—as when the Malcolm Gladwells of the world say “…and it turns out all these experts have something in common: 10,000 hours of deliberate practice”—readers are trained, slowly but surely, to be disarmed by it.''

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Paul Buchheit worrying about disk access times

It baffles me how anyone can program a server without worrying about disk access times, much less a service like Gmail. Similarly, what do designers spend all of their time doing if they aren't worrying about the construction process? Nobody cares how pretty your design is if you can't mass-produce it at low cost.
"Although it is typically not important to know, it’s worth stating anyway that while you can access these file descriptors though the above paths they actually exist in the memory allocated to the program by libc."

Incorrect. The file descriptors exist in kernel memory, and user code simply refers to them by number. (Sure, you have to allocate memory for the number, but that's not necessarily done by libc.)
Topics bar on the side takes a lot of space on a small laptop.

Voting on the right feels weird (used to HN on the left)

In comments, avatar+username take a lot of space.

Same digg, just a few weird visual changes.
According to the courts, private property does not have an absolute REP. Your definition of REP is not one used by any US court.

Good luck with trespassing claims. Criminal trespass elements are not met, so no luck there. You probably don't have a civil trespass claim, either. Civil trespass is intentionally entering the property of another without justification to do so. The court just affirmed that placing GPS on a car is legal justification to enter the property. So you would lose on the trespass claim.

Of course that assumes it even sees the light of day in court. Civil claims take years to litigate and seeing that no actual monetary damage was done to the car the plaintiff is only entitled to nominal damages, perhaps $25 if he is lucky. Contrast that with thousands of dollars and many hours to litigate and this case is clearly a money losing proposition.

I am not saying I agree with it. This is just the current affairs in the US legal system.

Also, Fast Passes are RFID transponders. They are activated when you drive through the toll. No GPS is present. Don't forget that you explicitly consented to the placing of the device inside your car.
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I smell a bit of fanboyism in the article.

Yes, Apple have an eye on detail (but they aren't the only one on the earth, for sure), yes, they patent they findings so they can be the only kids on the block with that particular cool look.
There is no law stating that you have to open-source any of your software. Make the decision based on your company's business needs, not on popular opinion within a small engineering niche that probably doesn't constitute the majority or even a significant percentage of your customer base.
See, you're already limiting yourself. The object isn't to indicate sleep with a blinking light, it's to indicate sleep.

A sleeping computer could softly snore. Or the logo text on the lid could blur like tired vision. Neither of those is a blinking light.
Only if you're spending someone else's money.