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Amen: the Apple remote is /ludicrous/. The original poster also was talking about how great it is for being small... it isn't like the people who make television remotes couldn't easily make them smaller: if you take one apart you realize they are almost entirely hollow.

The real world use case for a remote involves grasping it in your hand, which is not even remotely comfortable to do with the Apple remote. Meanwhile, I normally can't even find the thing, because it is so irritatingly small, thin, smooth, and tapered that it is constantly lost: it slides under papers, falls into the couch, or even manages to disappear into your own lap.

This simply isn't a remote that a normal person can use.

Frankly, the more I deal with people who insist "Apple is for end users" the more I realize that these people don't even understand what an end user is. Instead, these people are all geeks who happen to be geeky in the same way the product designers at Apple are, and therefore they get turned on by the same ludicrously ineffective-for-actual-end-users design choices that Apple often ends up making.

(By the way, it isn't usually holding one button: the Apple remote has a bunch of "secret" combo pushes that involve holding down two buttons at once for at least 6 seconds and then letting go. Rather than add buttons to a design, Apple prefers forcing users to remember large numbers of obscure gestures and modifiers keys, and the Apple remote is no different.)
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I was thinking that as I read through this post. I have the nametag from that conference hanging right near me, and I kept checking and seeing that it matched every point. It's not magnetic, but it is length-adjustable to avoid the belly problem.
You can mock up something reasonable with point and click gui, yes.

But it will be horrible unless you can finish the programming.
Mini-Deadmau5 costume video...hilarious
http://vimeo.com/16520938
I think you both can agree. His quote:

So in general: you don't need to regularly change the password to your computer or online financial accounts

I think it depends on your definition of "regularly". You say once a year, and it's likely he'd agree with that. He might disagree if regularly is defined as monthly or quarterly.
Well, most people may have some idol.

Compare it to as if you find some issue in the Linux kernel, post it to Linus and he calls you back via phone, explaining why it must stay that way (or so).
pick the language that will get results faster. that sounds like java.

at this point, future hires do not matter. do not worry about them.
Summary of that article:

Metcalfe's law assumes that when you add a new person to a network, he will communicate equally with everybody, so that he contributes 1 unit of value per existing node, leading to O(n^2) growth.

But that is wrong. Instead his communication is more likely to follow a Zipf distribution such that he contributes 1 unit of value to the existing node he communicates the most with, 1/2 unit of value to the one he communicates the second-most with, 1/3 to the third-most and so on. This means each new member contributes O(log n) additional value, leading to O(n log n) growth.
improve your SEO. http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/5940 is computationally fine, but you get less link juice than you would if it were something like http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/5940/major-league-2

whats up with the discount movie tickets feature? it seems kind of neat but it also seems like a conflicting feature when you're offering analysis of movies that aren't or aren't primarily still in the box offices.

visiting your page, have the general idea of what the site's about, but i'd like to know more before i sign up for an account. your sale involves me doing a good bit of work in order to get any kind of result.
Probability, Law and Innocence
This sounds vaguely familiar. It was fiction a few years ago when Cory Doctorow wrote about it. :-(
The Anatomy of a Sizzle Program
Joojoo, we hardly knew ye; Fusion Garage’s tablet is discontinued
Doesn't netflix do this for you?
A little off topic but can anyone tell me why when I go to a website and then hit back facebook.com shows up in the back history? My company blocked facebook so I can't go back at all and have to manully select the last page I was at. bothsidesofthetable.com does this for me. I"m using IE8.
Why People Want Less Choice
I would check out http://www.unbounce.com. It's a landing page platform.
Event Delegation in Sencha Touch
The bottom of the page reads:

Copyright 2010, Aspen Labs, LLC

Does this mean that you own any designs, answers, projects etc. that I upload? When I look at the "Request Invite" page, the first thing I see a spelling error ("enthusiests") in the first sentence, and this claim is the last. Not exactly encouraging.

I'd much rather see some sort of open license, like a Creative Commons license of some kind.
I doubt they'll make ZFS GPL. ZFS is a really big reason to use Solaris, and unless they plan on killing Solaris, Linux's paws need to remain off of ZFS. On the other side of things, Oracle has a LOT of Linux installations, and the features of ZFS that btrfs is bringing on board are unbelievably useful, especially in a database environment.

With btrfs, periodic snapshots can be done without touching or "notifying" the database, in O(1) time. I know that I've setup a PostgreSQL box on ZFS to do snapshots every 5 minutes, just because it's so "free." Most database software has some sort of built-in mechanism to do snapshot backups, but they're generally quite expensive, especially when compared to snapshots in a COW filesystem like ZFS or btrfs.
the site itself looks good.
but after clicking through the site i still got no real idea what the site is actually about.
the only vague hint i get is "the best way to find new movies"

make it very clear what users can do on your site and what benefit they have using it.
there´s that screenshot on the landing page but i don´t know what all that means.

working on that will help a lot i guess.

another thing is: when clicking on a movie there´s this read more button which simply links to wikipedia.
as there´s no new window opened, everytime a user clicks on that link he propably won´t find/come back.
so the first thing you can do is, to make those links open in a new window, or even better show that information inside your page.

if there´s something in the workflow most users will do, which requires them to leave your site (even for a short amount of time) you will lose many - even of your existing users.

hope that helps, martin
"Unlike xargs however, Parallel lets me make use of the many cores that I have access to [...]"

Unlike xargs? That's just plain wrong, see xargs' -P flag.
If I want a fuller interface, I can use Apple's remote application on my iPad or iPhone or iPod Touch. I don't care for the idea of trying to make one remote provide both the minimal and the maximal interface at the same time.

This seems like a good direction for Apple to take. Instead of putting a full keyboard on every remote, just allow additional peripherals to be added via USB or Bluetooth. Unfortunately they certainly hasn't made this easy: http://www.hackint0sh.org/f98/77420.htm

I guess I can see why Apple would keep this entirely within their own ecosystem for economic reasons, but this feels like it really limits the utility of their devices. Wouldn't they do as well to have a simple way of connecting standard devices AND provide what they feel is the best experience via custom apps?
App inventor is really only meant as an introductory tool to programing, but if you want to built an app that is worth something you'll have to learn and write the code yourself.
A warm and fuzzy, Apple-is-greater-than-I, when Steve says "F U"
It's very doubtful that either jshen or Dvorak "cried like a baby" or "pounded their fists".

Dvorak was so incensed that someone moved his cheese (to draw from a terrible book) that he wrote an article predicting Google's "inevitable ruin" was beginning. This is the sort of over the top rejection of change that exemplified that childish response.
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Advising people to not meet their financial obligations? You're an idiot, do you not have any kind of moral backbone?
A better way to ask this questions would be:

"I've tried x,y,z and y worked the best. Here's why I think so.... I want to try a,b, and c. Which one do you think would work better"

What can you do for me that Netflix can't? All I want is to know what movie I should watch next based on my previous movies, I've watched.
Is the valuable information in the emulating of the device, or the algo's used to process it's images? It seems like MS's bread and butter is the processing (and speed of) - more akin to your example of G's search algo, in effect isn't that what he is asking for? Is that not something that someone could sell (to the detriment of MS' research investment). Honestly I think it is great he is holding a contest for this, was just trying to draw a comparison that if this were the other way around (High profile MS employee asking for the breakdown of a Google device) the MS employee would be tar and feather'd. Maybe that is just the hole MS dug for themselves (that Google might now be digging?)

On a side note, I think that the vocal capabilities of the device are far over looked. The voice recog is amazing.
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20+ New Features/Updates In Apple iOS 4.2
Moving Away from NoSQL: Why Size Matters and Small is Better
Its funny you say the answer is "Search" but of the 4 things you want to do when you fire up your tv, none of them are "Do a text based search for content".

1. Go to specific channel

2. Find if a program is playing right now

3. Browse a category of programs

4. Access an existing digital library.

Existing remotes actually do many of these pretty well. A keyboard based search only really helps with 2 and 4 and even then might actually be an ancillary experience unless you are looking for something specific. Text search only helps when you are looking for specific content it helps you find content you know exists. But I really don't think thats the main problem for people watching TV.

I think most people do what I do when I get home, sit down and try to find something interesting and new to watch. I think the problem is that most people have a hard time finding that cool new show or video. Now similar to the web, when I want to try to find something interesting I don't go to Google. I go to reddit or HN or fark or digg or some other source of curated content.
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Blazing fast Firefox 4 beta 7 impresses
They already delayed the release by 2 years more than they should've.
Developers discover hack to enable shared printers for AirPrint
We are trying hard to make the most useful APIs easier to develop against - let us know which APIs you'd like to see in the console: sramji@apigee.com
Ask HN: Windows Cloud Servers - War Stories
I'm thinking of setting up a Rackspace or Amazon Windows cloud server for the first time. Do you have any war stories to share about either? How about the good things?
"It delivers highly competitive performance and puts Firefox back on an even footing with its rivals."

Is it me or is that a backhanded complement?
He did. It was also available to download for free on the Internet.

"No IP" does not mean "You can't charge for things." Enough people would rather go to a movie theater than get on Bittorrent that he made his money back.

Side note: I was one of those people. I wear Pirate Bay tshirts around, I'd throw out all IP law if I was in charge... but I did pay money to go to the theater to see Avatar. Going to the theater and getting that crazy huge screen, great sound system, and (maybe) the 3D was totally worth it.
I wouldn't first argue that Dvorak spits out 'ignorant bullshit' while claiming that all design preferences are equally valid.

Indeed. So who claimed that all design preferences are equally valid? Oddly you seem to be inferring that I did, but I actually didn't, making your lead-in just some noise in hope of soliciting a bias from readers.

At some point, Yahoo (and others) had pretty cluttered interfaces and people eventually shifted to Google, commonly citing simplicity

But can you see that perhaps Google was pursuing simplicity by making their image search all about the images themselves? Further they made perusing large sets of images simpler.

For users who don't care about source pixel sizes or originating domains -- which I suspect is most -- that was just distracting noise on the page. Google simplified the search to a dense, and often beautiful, collection of images, with some powerful functionality on the left.

For this reason, I find that taking the leap to 'everyone complains about changes' to trivialize the fact that many people may, in fact, appreciate simple interfaces.

Everyone complains about changes, good or bad. That is a simple truism of the world. It does not trivialize the usability of the interface, which is why I specifically talked about the usability of the interface -- all Dvorak cares about is what used to be there and now isn't. He doesn't care about the advantages of the new interface, because all he's focused on is the negative change (for him).

It's ignorant bullshit.
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When I said every language is inferior to Lisp, I meant that in the most tongue-in-cheek way possible :-)
Nothing is wrong with choice. An analogy:

I love using vim. It's super awesome. But most people don't want to use vim. I'm in the minority of users. That doesn't mean that vim is wrong, or that Notepad++ is 'better.' It just means I'm in a minority.

In this case, the latter is vastly superior (for me) because a TV isn't something I want to screw around with. I want to do two things with my TV: Start playing the game that's currently in my XBox, or flip through my Netflix queue and click play. I've never used 99% of the options on my XBox dashboard, because I don't care about any of that stuff. I just want something super simple.
> At some point he stopped writing the column

Wasn't he around til the bitter end of MacUser when they folded or merged with MacWorld or whatever?
Fox Joins ABC, NBC, CBS in Blocking Google TV Devices
> unless your language is the best that could ever exist.

Mine is Scheme, so, yeah. :)
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>With the new version of Google images, the images don't become actual hyperlinks until you have hovered over them for about a second, so there's a considerable delay when trying to open multiple images in new tabs quickly.

That is patently untrue.

[source: I just tried. I middle-clicked as many links as I could as fast as I could. Each one resulted in a new tab instantly]
Um. There is no pay wall... Not until next year anyway.
or Steve Jobs is just a very good CEO
I think that's sort of implicit in writing/producing for the web though. Most people do it with the hope of getting something out of it, some are just a bit more brash about it.
Previous discussion on GNU parallel:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801186
He uses Dropbox. I've seen the icon on his Macbook Pro :)
John Nunemaker recently wrote something about this: http://orderedlist.com/our-writing/blog/articles/conference-...
That's exactly what they are doing. Facebook has a 24% market share, according to the article, which is "nearly twice as large" as any competitor.
The situation is that after 8 views (aprox) of articles you're asked to Register. You can always clear the NYT cookie or switch browsers or whatever.
I just tried in Chrome and it's as you said. In Firefox, however, it's a different story (and FF is my primary browser.)
Flagged. Anything with Dvorak's name should be auto-flagged. If he ever raises an argument that's credible to the HN audience than that means he failed his own quality criteria: that is to write a specious argument designed to appeal to the uninformed reader but that fails any sort of detailed analysis so hard that anyone with half a clue who reads it will be compelled to debunk it and thus angrily drive traffic to the article.
So I notice that you are taking images off amazon's API and are reposting the covers... how are you getting away with this. I had a similar idea that i half implemented and had to abandon because amazon's API policy is very specific about hosting and grabbing their images from their API. They also supposedly don't want you to cash almost any of their information ...
Don't count them out. Let's see how version 2.0 does on Android. They've shown they can build something with a very lean team...
Fascinating his wife’s movie, released the same year, actively litigated those who shared the movie online.
Partly that but also to make the people with those on to feel important :)
I asked him if he ever uses emacs now. His answer was mostly what nswanberg posted above/below. No more emacs.

BTW, on Clojure, he merely stated that he used up his lifetime's quota of parentheses while completing his Ph.D.
He has a very good dev understanding, it is more about being more useful and efficient directing the company rather than writing code. Steve made most of the major design decisions in OS X, for eg. and is a lot like billg at msft
xargs can't distribute tasks to remote CPUs though.
Liberate your Facebook contacts' email addresses.
Create dummy yahoo account. Log in to it.

Navigate to address.yahoo.com

Navigate to Tools -> Import

Select Facebook icon

Grant permission to import from FB to Yahoo

After import, navigate to Tools-> Export

Source: reddit user sgibson12
thanks, Steve. n00b mistake :D
BrowserSpy.dk (see how much your browser reveals)
I interpret the graph as saying that Google's share is in fact the smallest; this makes sense when you consider that it is display advertising. The missing 50% is not more Google, but long-tail.
Any time. Welcome to HN.
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Don't trust profile pics; beware of the angles
I do have some experience with Go.

But what I would recommend is you get your own experience and come to your own conclusions. It is a simple enough language that doesn't take long to learn.

That or you can listen to all the FUD from people that clearly have not used Go and refuse to do it because it somehow doesn't tick enough checkboxes in their pet features checklist.
Any linkable images of the nametags? Just curious to see how they look.
I give it two weeks before the open source demos become cooler than Microsoft's.

Maybe not doing the same things (I remember they have a database of human positions and bone structure), but at least as good looking as.

Or maybe just plain useful for non-gamers.
x86 is a perfect comparative example. An architecture that is a patch on a patch on a patch (add several more layers here until you're tired) going back to the 8086 a kajillion years ago (a processor which was less sophisticated and powerful than an arduino). Intel tried to kill the architecture (replacing it with IA64) but AMD patched it yet again and the result was successful.

Nobody sane would design an architecture like x86 (or event x86-64) from the ground up today. Yet here we are.
Living in the moment really does make people happier
Whether you're actually worth $X.
Maybe? I'm not sure. I remember Andy Inhatko having the back page for a while, and some other people as well, but I don't remember where those things fall in the timeline w.r.t the merge with MacWorld.
Great news for typography lovers.
"Happiness is found by living in the now, particularly if the now involves having sex"

Indeed. :)
Original article: http://www.gtvhub.com/2010/11/10/fox-com-now-blocking-google...
The parallels between the makerbot/reprap and the Altair 8800 in 1975 is very interesting. It couldn't do much, but it marked the start of the "personal" computer era. Microsoft made it's first piece of software for that machine.
That would have been a smart thing to do 10 years ago - now that isn't going to stop anybody.
Any number of triggers would work. :) You can always modify his code with an approach that is more to your liking.
Wish people would link to original sources more often. Come on this is HN, we don't need or want the extra layer of gloss for this.

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/11/08/risk-re...
Is this the Google Nexus S?
Patents and copyright were a tremendous progress back in the 1700s when you need a "privilege" from the King to undertake about anything. Nowadays they're just some sort of fossilized roadblock from the past. Here's another fine example of this sorry state of the matter.
Moves like this are convincing me more and more that my decision to drop Cable TV completely was the right decision.

I can't wait until this War Against the Consumer is over, but until it is I'll do my part to refuse to support these antediluvian companies as best I can.

Don't get me wrong, I'll happily pay for content I want to watch. I was just paying for content that I never even thought about watching, much less enjoying, especially when much of what I want to watch (Daily Show, House, Dexter, etc) are online for free legally or come from Netflix.
Maybe browser makers could expose a few lower level constructs in JS to make efforts like CoffeeScript, Objective-J and GWT easier?

That could be a short term solution. Long term we have to hope that LLVM and NaCl pick up steam.

But many languages for the same tasks will create fragmentation. Right now there is a big pool of developers proficient in JS. They even use the same libraries! The libraries are where a lot of productivity gains come from. The web became an "easy" platform to develop for. With fragmentation that could be lost.

CoffeeScript is interoperable with JS, easy to pick up because it's mainly a cleanup, but Objective-J and GWT are too far out. GWT needs a reworked JQuery, called GQuery.

So there are these economic considerations that are probably more important than language preference.
Maybe you should offer respect because your perspective on the world is not the only valid perspective. Maybe your perspective limits you from seeing other aspects that could be worthy of respect.
Without JS the site puts up an obnoxious gray semi-transparent layer on top of the text, making it really hard to read. It is, apparently, required for the best "experience" even though it appears the articles are all there beyond the readability barrier.

Please fix.
Cloud. Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
What you're saying is "They won't make ZFS GPL because they want to keep people on Solaris, but they'll develop btrfs because they want to use it on Linux".

When the two FSes are so similar, what's the point of developing them both? They either want the features on Linux, so they should GPL ZFS, or they don't, and they should discontinue btrfs. Either way, btrfs loses, but either way, we win (btrfs won't stop being developed, so we'll get a great FS one way or the other).
It really is a pleasure to work with and on this project.
I know what he said so let me clarify. Facebook's wall permissions break down into three groups of differing granularity:

1) Who can see a given post by you on your own wall: Each post can have different permissions w/ groups.

2) Who can see a given post by others on your own wall: All posts of this type are controlled by a single permission assignment with groups.

3) Are friends allowed to post on your wall: This is an all or nothing setting. In other words you can either let all friends post to your wall regardless of visibility or none.

My question was, what happens when you allow friends to post on your wall (item 3) but not give them permissions to view posts? This would be a somewhat awkward situation, hence my question.
Handy if you're going to email, message, chat, or enter a password.
Just translate it to javascript.