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I am starting to think you believe Apple is making a lot of money on this particular piece of hardware. While that is classically Apple's shtick (sell hardware, lose money on software), I don't feel like the AppleTV falls into this category.

Specifically, it is just too cheap in comparison to the other devices that it is nearly identical to. Even the cost breakdowns of it are showing way too low margins from the raw parts (which were priced at almost $70). They really seem to be selling this product subsidized by iTunes and Netflix.

Therefore, an argument that "the adoption rate will be lower" seems kind of silly to me... about as weird as the people who claim "the (ads or paywall) on your website are causing you to lose readers": it doesn't matter how many people are using it, the question is whether it is making money.

So, if everyone in the world buys one because it supports getting moves for free via BitTorrent (are legal things distributed via BitTorrent? yes. more than two movies you'd ever want to watch? no. are you allowed to get a copy of House via BitTorrent if you pay for cable and hulu? no.) the product would be a complete failure: it would be more successful if no one owned it.
"Fundamental reason: Apple doesn't release old, bottom of the barrel, price compromised junk."

The standard graphics cards on Mac Pros were kinda wimpy until recently (GeForce 120).
"Was valued" by whom? Are you pressuring me to conform with the local pro-non-conformity value system?

Anyway, I firmly believe that nonconformity is for adults. If you want to reject conformity you need to do it by choice, not by inability. You must learn to conform perfectly before you can non-conform properly. Otherwise it's not nonconformity, it's merely social incompetence.

Anyway, nonconformity is not the same thing as being a friendless loser.
The interesting thing with Nozick's experience machine isn't what you would do if one existed. It's trying to explain why plugging in feels like the wrong choice, even when there aren't any obvious flaws in the nature of the experience you could quickly point to.

The answer to this question and its implications will quite possibly have relevance to choices we can expect to face in the near future, even if they will not feature a fully functional experience machine.
Most people (that is, our friends and family) like that movies disappear on /movies once they're added or marked as seen

Fair enough :) It's a nice feature, but when ticking off several at once, I found it a pain to work out where the next movie I wanted to tick off had jumped to.
Why dropping www can be a problem
IML Purple Carpet Event Blog
In honor of our first year we decided to look back and identify our 5 favorite blog posts.
What do you plan to do with imagenuity.com? Just curious.
I've always thought it should have just been "web.blah.com". Same # of characters, one syllable.
The patent grant doesn't extend to Harmony because it hasn't passed the TCK (because it contains a fields of use restriction).

You also can't violate a license, if you haven't agreed to one in the first place. This is also important!

Violating a license is different than unknowingly infringing on a patent.
To me it seems not wanting to plug in has very little to do with what we believe about happiness.

The most obvious reason of all to not plug in: That one actually cares about something in the external world. Sure, the machine could give the experience of parenting, but you know when choosing to plug in or not, that no child will actually exist in the real world as a result. If anything you experience in the machine will have no real world effects, then if you care at all about the real world, that should be reason enough not to plug in.

Perhaps he is considering a somewhat harder case where the world within the machine is "real" in the sense that anything you produce in the machine lives on in the machine. So if you have a child in the simulation, that child is not just in your simulation, but will live on after you are gone, just like a real child. Then the question becomes more: Do you trust that the simulated world is better than the real one? I wouldn't be an early adopter, but I'm sure some people would be willing to make that jump.
maxawaytoolong could be right.
very often people (read "me") feel like have no energy because of too little physical activity.

your body always gives you what it thinks it need (=which is what you demand, or not, from it).
so doing some sports may solve that issue quite easily.

for the diet: if you don´t eat for long amounts of time like more than 4 hours, that´s not good, ecspacially if you eat big amounts afterwards.

another important thing is what you eat. try to cook something. fast food is just as bad as easy and comfortable it is.
hope that helps a bit :)
I second this. Back in 2000 I had a friend who had this stupid website called "GroupNetwork". Every time he brought up his site (and he brought it up a lot, as it kind of defined his entire life at the time) we'd all make fun of it for a while before moving on.

Specifically, you would create an account on it, and then had access to a rather limited blog mechanism (you could download much better blogging software) and a relatively lame photo gallery (why would I trust this site with my photos? it isn't even good at browsing them). You could then make these things called "groups" in which you could add your friends, assuming they also had an account (and how likely would that be, right?).

The worst part was that he had this "API" by which third parties could write new applications that plugged into this framework... sounds great, but it meant that all the third party apps had to use HTTP requests (dude: slow) to get access to the data. He tried to make it feel better by making all of the queries based on SQL (insecure? seriously: stupid).

OMG was that a stupid idea. ;P
Nice. Thanks!

This will save me some time in Photoshop and experimenting what color step to choose next for a good gradient.
Seems a lot like Movielens: http://movielens.umn.edu/
this will almost certainly get downvoted, but when i saw this title, i was reminded of a similarly titled list: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/23BrendonLloyd.html
Do you need a Facebook/Twitter account to use the site? I have neither.
You might find some useful links in this thread... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1282024
If it makes you feel any better I use neither platform, I am an Ubuntu user

-sent from my Amiga
The VC Market: An Adaptive System
U.S. debt held by public as % of GDP projected at 230% by 2035 and 1000% by 2080 at current rate by Peterson Foundation (a non-politically affiliated NPR sponsor):

http://www.pgpf.org/~/media/PGPF/Media/PDF/2010/04/16/041620...

For more numbers:

http://www.pgpf.org/Issues.aspx
Seamless augmented reality, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End
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Great. Just what I was looking for.

I still couldn't figure out how to fave a movie. Can't find a star in a movie page.

Let users chose "Similar movies" to a movie and add them in recommendations, If you are still not doing that.

PS: Found out how to fave a movie. I can only fave a movie that I've watched. :)
How to export emails as plain text using c#?
am trying to create an application that would access a storage location containing emails maybe stored by an email application or client.please how would i got about achieving that ?

thanks
Peterson Foundation - Fiscal Outlook for U.S.
They need to secure permission from the presenters and content owners for every presentation, which is hard or impossible.
the most interesting feature in .NET is that its memory consumption is about half that of Java on an average application

Does that also apply to Mono? If so, are Microsoft's .Net and Mono equals as far as low memory consumption, or does one of them have an edge?
Agree completely.

If I had a son who was getting bullied, I'd tell him: "put the other guy down HARD." You have to lay down a mark that you're not to be messed with - it's like prison in a way. This lovey-dovey talk it out thing is useless in my experience.

I used to get some crap off some classmates from time to time, sometimes physical bullying. There was some stupid game where guys used to randomly kick the back of other guys legs for the fun of it. One guy did it to me, thinking he had a easy target. I shoved him back, and he started laughing, thinking that he'd kill me easily. A right hook to the jaw sorted him out pretty quick. Other people take note of things like that and don't mess with you for sure.
>because it sort of invalidates the whole religion thing

No, it clearly demonstrates that religion is outside of the realm of science as many other things are as well (Philosophy, for instance. Or do you care to argue that Philosophy has no value?)
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wow, has just been fixed
Ask HN: Facebook Group for company
Facebook Groups could be cool for our company. A bit like Yammer but I'm not sure if it's the right environment. Any thoughts?
"right" in the sense that within facebook there might be too much distraction and posting "secret" stuff into Facebook is also not ideal.
>I don't think being misinformed is worth -4. 0 or -1, maybe.

They asked a useful question which should IMO have been at least a null hypothesis in some lab somewhere ("do hive deaths correlate with mobile phone use density or with mast locations"). Sure they assume something which appears slightly shaky in the process, but IMO they added to the post with their comment and deserve a +1 or +2 and a comment "that whilst it may have been an initial hypothesis it was quickly discarded, see {citation}".

Down-modding this sort of comment reduces the quality of the thread.
Hollywood: Stop Making Movies And Lower Your Carbon Footprint
Hi. Great app, but missing some essencial features:
- Import ratings/seen movies from imdb and/or rotten tomatoes. I've seen thousands, I will just ignore your website if I need to go through the painful process of inserting my history. I will give you my imdb rating list url (unique) and you update my history every day, or something.
- What about a stream with released movies, so that I know which movies got released (scene-wise, and store-wise)? That would be cool. www.mytvshows.org gives this for TV Series, but there are no app like that for movies. Maybe you could do that.
- I should have more data from outside. I need movie description, summary, director, imdb rating, rotten rating, and some more. Cant just pick a movie based on someone elses taste. Right?

Otherwise, works great. keep doing it.
2001-2009: ActionScript.

Now: JavaScript.
Keep in mind that these "groups" are different from the previous version of groups that facebook use to have.

You get a notification when added to a group and can easily leave with one click. Groups are private by default which means that nobody outside of the group can see your private groups or any of the content.

This has made facebook a lot more interesting for me. Essentially it's a great way to have private discussions between my close group of friends without broadcasting to all my "friends".

The facebook blog has a video overview: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=434700832130
>even if Violet's own life, work and research is against their laws (somehow, perhaps).

Under crazy interpretations of Sharia law, Violet probably would have been stoned by now.
Criminals Exploit Social Networks Like Facebook
Sorry, but I don't want my friends to be able to add me to groups without my permission anymore than I want people I don't even know to be able to do so. Whether somebody really thinks you'd like to be a part or decides to do so as a joke, it's still something I should have full control over.
Software Evolution Storylines
The builders of couchappspora
How come no one has mentioned Forwardable and delegators ?
They're walking a mighty fine line, not unlike a tobacco products company might walk. It's pretty obvious by now that tobacco products cause a lot of health problems. But a tobacco products company can't officially sneer at public health efforts to decrease tobacco usage for fear of being tried (and losing!) in the court of public opinion.

Scott Charney (of anti-disclosure, "information anarchy" fame, I believe) here calls for the feds to come and help clean up the mess. But wait! Healthier, less infested alternatives exist! Government funded research may twig to the fact that Windows has a pretty baroque design, aspects of which (marking a file executable by special name format) obviously contribute to the malware problem.

How does Microsoft go about getting all the benefits of a public health campaign without suffering from any side effects? Looks like another symptom of decline to me.
I'll take my chances with Oracle.

Oracle is in the business for money. Microsoft's in it for blood - because if they don't kill free and open-source software, they'll have no money.
Different vs. Revolutionary: Facebook for Women vs. designed by Feminists
The encryption pioneer who was written out of history
According to the footnote, the numbers are compiled from a potpourri of external sources. That's kind of surprising to me. I would think that GetSatisfaction has grown big enough to run their own surveys.

I didn't see anything in the numbers that was a big surprise, but I don't trust the 68% leave because of the treatment they receive vs. 14% that leave due to dissatisfaction with the product or service. The numbers seem skewed toward GetSatisfaction's forte.
I need help beating the trash at the top + great charity web-app
Why Zynga's Success Makes Game Designers Gloomy
A minimalist lifestyle does not make you a better person
Anyone else love the freenode. I am always finding great channels on freenode!
hey guys,
a lot of cool techniques to steal from the execution of this app and like my ideas please ^^ I don't like the ones at the top.

Maybe HN should post some ideas, has to be better then what any self entitled australian uni student can offer
Did it occur to you there might be a better venue to report this?
Did you talk to the owners first? Just seems weird to post it here instead of just talking to them (first).
Not everyone is as bad as facebook ;-)
Two ideas: they are using 737 as synonymous with small-to-midsize passenger jet. They could as well use Airbus 318/319/320, but Boeing wouldn't like it.

They are implying this will be a commercial hit of the same size as the 737, so it's worth of government funding (because if they don't develop it, Airbus will).
So the trick is to make it suck by design. But, that opens opportunity for people to make it suck less, right, even if making it suck less is the wrong thing to do?

I think anything sucking is bad. You can have a site that is well-designed to elicit a local flavor, which might mean "suck" to some, but it doesn't suck.

You can have an airport with bad chairs, but a built-in hotel. That wouldn't suck.
Hmm, I never understood the use of a company Twitter account following people. Why do you need to read other people's statuses on your company account?

The historious Twitter account, for example, only follows the parent company's account, just to show that it's a Stochastic project, and nobody else. If we need DMs, we email people or urge them to email us, as we'll probably need a larger space to write in anyway.

Is there a benefit I'm missing?
The Wire Monopoly Board game
Did the Free Market burn down the house?
A big pro for using a subdomain is it's easier to host it on a separate server, or even on Tumblr or the like (by pointing the record to them). This could be key if you have a webapp with a custom server configurarion running on your main domain. It could also mean your blog stays up if your main site goes down - ideal for status updates, etc.
I prefer the subdomain method. It keeps things separate. In our case it allows me to run our custom CMS for our website and separate Wordpress instance for our blog...no interdependencies of any type.

YMMV.
lemme write to them as well.
Develop killer cross platform mobile Web apps
>>A second level domain cannot be a CNAME record (note: unless you are authoritative for the TLD itself).

It is technically an RFC violation to do this, but that doesn't mean you can't do it. My DNS provider allows it and I use this method for several domains.
I am very happy flying in things that could be designed with a slide-rule. If the computer program that analyzed the fuselage is wrong and I can't spot the error because the result is too complex for a human to have a clue, I'll die anyway, regardless of what the computer said.

I like what a test-pilot once told me: We don't need milestones. We need inchstones.
The Need for Global Collective Defense on the Internet
Wow, that is a great find.

And with that, I close my thick O'Reilly book for the rest of the day.
Underscore.js: Annotated Source Code
It would appear that it is correct or partially correct. I couldn't find data for the whole time, but as of the end of last year, OS X market share appears to have flattened and then gone both up and down from that point by a fairly small amount.

Here is an article talking about market share
http://annasoft.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/report-ios-driving-...

and here is one which doesn't mention mobile:
http://www.statowl.com/operating_system_market_share_trend.p...
That seems like a good solution.

Making public groups opt-in is probably a good idea. However opt-in wouldn't change much for private groups because no one else can see the private groups that you have been added to.
As a movie buff, I liked your website. I have already started using it. However, I would love to see following features:
1. List View (I have seen about 200 in the current list of movies. Thumbnail view means I have to scroll a lot)
2. Download my list of movies.
3. Facebook app (You have already integrated with Facebook connect)
I have both but without knowing more about the site have no interest in signing into your site with either of these accounts.
Seriously!?

The articles cites an "official" of the W3C and not the name of a person. Was it someone of important such as Ian Hickson or was it just some bureaucrat or intern?

Who made these statements matters greatly and defines the line between news and non-news. This is complete non-news unless it was a person highly involved with defining or implementing the spec.

The fact that the author cited Silverlight smells very fishy to me.

This title and the entire article is just pure unadulterated linkbait.
How would they know to look there?
how the heck did they get so much traction so fast?
You'd better apologize: http://crockfordfacts.com/GN_06PA13xG5uKNcAkuh_Q
Typically the problem is that the desk won't adjust to my height.
Drupal 7.0 beta 1 Released
There's no way this isn't a clever campaignto ultimately promote a different, as yet unrevealed, startup. The production and the concept is just a little too slick.
I used Resig's a few days ago to quickly fix a bug at work. He really does a great job of making very complex language constructs understandable and easy to follow.
plus stupid IE can't set a cookie on 2 letter domain ( ie.com for example), had this problem recently :|
Akamai Employee Arrested and Accused of Being a Spy
Pre-emptive: yes, his name is Cocks. Get over it.
Ask at Stack Overflow.
I first heard about this in The Code Book, by Simon Singh, which he mentions and is excellent! It's unfortunate that they invented this when they did - it was obviously useful, but a practical implementation was not plausible at the time, so I guess the idea got put in a filing cabinet under "how to communicate without pre-shared keys," and forgot about it.
Surely I'm not the only one to notice that apparently Facebook users number "500 people and growing"?
Ok fine, so you write inward-facing web apps designed for Chromium 7 and below. Still I feel sorry for the the poor chap having to maintain your library which, you mentioned before, served mostly so that you could learn Javascript better rather than what should've been a driving factor when making the decision - the business case.
Deal Activity and Valuations in Software and Biotech
I tend to bypass making mockups in photoshop when I design a webpage. This will be particularly helpful to come up with gradients quickly to color the elements in CSS.

I believe it's the only web service of its kind as of now. Pretty cool.
Right, understood. My particular beef was that the function to create a managed Mono string from a UTF-8 encoded unmanaged string was Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi (which is even more confusing if you are familiar with the Windows string encoding heritage: how should the data be encoded in Mono on Windows? Still as UTF-8, I think counter-intuitively, and differently to Microsoft's own runtime, which will of course expect ANSI).

Let me also get a dig in at the documentation of the function: http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.aspx?link=M:System.Runtime...
Women is a social category, based on a person’s gender self-definition.

Ermm, and XX chromosomes?
And that, right there, is the cause of poverty in America, both for this guy and for most present day poor.

The poor have their needs met. Once you reach that level, why spend precious leisure time just to become marginally wealthier?
All I'm doing is to point out the implications of your reliance on current sales as a measure for future success and/or 'goodness of product' (whatever that means). If you try to mix and match your metrics (or tenses) without explanation then you are being roughly as (in)consistent ad Ballmer himself.
You can do that with any Windows app that crashes and stops repainting its client area - I hesitate to say that it's impossible with FF or Chrome. Less likely, maybe :-)
what is KatrinaList?
The Nobel Prize in Literature is odd. Looking through the list of every prize they've ever given out,

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/10/07/List-of-Nobel...

I see a lot of names whom time has failed to vindicate.
1.) Go to Stack Overflow[1] and search for "c# email".

2.) Read all of the search results. (Here[2] might be a good start.)

3.) If you cannot find what you are looking for then sign up and ask your question.

4.) Keep checking back but don't wait and don't whine for an answer. Go to MSDN[3], google[4] et al. and keep searching...

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[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/

[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44383/reading-email-using...

[3]: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories

[4]: you know where this one is right?
> they get your number

Not if it's blocked.
> We were in the library's book-sale room when I overheard him telling his friend that the two of them were surrounded by assholes—that is, the people scanning.

Just a competitor feeling the heat ;-)
Tips on Your Next Web Design from Tim Gunn and Project Runway
Project Runway isn’t just a reality show. Ok, so maybe it is but it isn’t just a reality show. Project Runway is a boutique reality of sorts, featuring people with actual skills.
Thanks for the feedback, we'll fix the problems you mentioned. What was the cosmetic issues with the Yes/No buttons?

The last one really does not matter...
Drupal 7.0 beta 1 released: get it while it's hot
CoffeeScript on Windows
How about, in addition to helping people track the movies they watch, you display information about which directors/actors/etc they seem to like best (based on the movies they have `liked', of course...)

Also, after clicking through about 50 movies on the `Discover Movies' page, I had `The Usual Suspects' show up about 15 times in a row on the page. Don't get me wrong, I love the movie, just figured I'd submit this particular behavior as a bug...:p
Yeah, we've got some comments on it and we plan to address it. It would help to understand what people don't like about it.