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First, I'll mirror my distaste for the lack of 1200 height screens. I recently purchased a laptop and had to settle for a 1080 screen over a 1200 due to the exorbitant prices. Disguisted.

However, I've been programming for 23 years and I love the wide format. I can comfortably fit two columns of code if I wish, or one column with room for other apps on the side (IM, my taskbar to the right, reference material, etc.).

Complaining because your screen is too wide makes no sense. Stop maximizing everything.
I bet a lot of wireless keys are insecure because someone's pointy-haired boss told an engineer it would be cheaper to implement the device by leaving out the challenge-response.

Untold Billions are probably lost every year by someone in charge ignoring something learned by freshmen undergrads.
Do you have any examples of violations of Fitts law in OS X that weren't present in OS9?
Isn't the situation such that this fix will take a long time to reach some of the users? Sometimes as long as "never"?
That reminds me of patents. Do/Discover something first, have an exclusive right on it for many years.
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I'm sure they'll be fast to fix this, but how fast will phone manufactures be to push this out?

This is definitely a real bug, a few weeks ago a text intended for my girlfriend went to my mom. After you send a text and it goes through the phone changes the name to some random other contact and there's nothing you can do about it.
Guys: Guerilla. It's always Guerilla Marketing, and is never Gorilla Marketing, unless Gorillas are your widgets.
Right, this makes for some very interesting and funny reading. One of my favorites is:

"you FXXK guys!
i hate the android,i love symbian!"
There's a bunch of technical details in the Kickstarter updates, if you're into that kind of thing :-) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zarf/hadean-lands-inter... they're labeled "The Techy Post, Part n of 4"
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iphone one affected everybody who uses the alarm

Not true. I cannot comment on the ratio though. Alarm worked fine for me on iPhone 4 and for my gf on iPhone 3G.

To make your statement true you should add modifiers like "on Jan 2nd", "those using recuring alarms" and possibly some others, I don't know the exact setup needed for this bug to manifest.
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I agree this is a real problem. I guess I've come from organizations where everything is declared a top priority, therefore nothing is. And nothing can be pushed aside for a true priority.

In particular, it is damaging for a leader to declare a top priority and then go on the same as usual, not making extra efforts to invest in that priority, because of course the reality is that so many things are important, and they lack the will to focus at the expense of something else.

If something is that important, you'll direct significant resources to the goal and I imagine the author of the article is sincere in doing that. Many organizations however are resource-constrained and must make tough choices. It's just mismanagement to declare lots of top priorities - heck, you don't have to say anything, just show us how you are allocating the money and people, and adjusting your expectations of everybody's schedules and deadlines.
Yeah, in fact the original motivation of downvotes was to suppress frivolous, irrelevant or off-topic comments (like the one to which you replied but not my original comment). I never downvote anyone I disagree with.
This has me all paranoid now. I've never noticed it on my phone (and I send a LOT of texts for work as well as personally), but now i've got this itch to go back through every message stream for the last few months and check.
Perhaps we should add a standard disclaimer to the bottom of all SMSs we send:

"If you are not the intended recipient of this message .. blah blah blah"
Couldn't they label the runways relative to geographic north rather than magnetic north?
OK, maybe not TW but the idea of Apple or Google buying a large content company is not so far fetched. In fact, given how quickly the cable + content guys grouped up and pretty much killed Google TV, I think the only way for iTV or Google TV to succeed is if they can break the stronghold by buying one a TV content company.
The described attack would quite happily work even if there was a challenge-response system. It works by effectively extending the range of the key, automatically unlocking the car using the key even though the key is so far away the owner won't notice you stealing the car.
> What happens when the car drives out of range of the key while it is running? Does the engine just turn off[...]?

Would be nasty. Imagine the car key running out of battery on the motorway.
The 73primenumbers thing is quite awesome. Thanks for sharing. One question - why include prime in the domain name? As of this post, 73numbers.com hasn't been registered, and it does seem shorter. Plus, the original "minimalist" 37signals guys decided not to use their domain name to highlight the fact that 37 is a prime number. Is that part of the joke, or what?
To be fair there is at least a .001% chance this will happen - stranger and dumber things have happened.
a) Not libertarian b) Not justifying SEO spam, but rather pointing out that there's an economic opportunity in disrupting it!
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From that site:

"It seems that all you really need to survive and feel rested is the REM phase, which is only a tiny portion of your actual sleep phases at night. "

When is this meme going to die? This data from the 1930s has been thoroughly disproven. Delta sleep is essential for memory formation.
Wow, somebody else from the east coast? I'm in North Carolina. I think there's one or two more of us around here, somewhere...
The "keys" in question are the ones that magically unlock the car when you are "close." The attack is a "man in the middle" attack that basically fools the car into thinking the owner is nearby when he isn't, so the car unlocks and enables the ignition.

Apparently, once the ignition is enabled, you can drive off without needing the key "nearby" (interesting experiment, I'll have to try that next time I get a "keyless entry" rental). Once you can drive off, the car is pwned - you can strip it for parts (chop shop) or fully defeat the key/ignition security away from prying eyes.
Some relevant thoughts:

* Facebook is effectively a monopoly - when regulators will start limiting its growth?

* Chinese market - without it Facebook will need to expand interplanetary by creating colonies on Moon and Mars.

* I think with 90% probability, that there will be another opportunity to buy FBOOK shares under $50B valuation after IPO (movements in public stocks are 80% general market sentiment and only 20% company performance).
Probably has something to do with magnetic navigation. Are there any aviators who can explain things in more detail?
I built LiveDirectory.org as a first attempt at providing a real and practical way for anybody to publish and manage their own content so that application developers can easily build real-time, event-driven web applications.

LiveDirectory aims to implement a WebHook style system, but with a real and practical application that is designed to be used, and be useful.

LiveDirectory is currently at a very early stage of development, but I am most interested to see what the HackerNews community think of the general idea...
I don't have any trouble with widescreens.

Right now I'm programming on a computer that has 3 16:9 screens, for a total aspect ratio of 48:9, and I've got a spare DVI connector, so someday I might add screen #4 which would get me to 64:9.
> a few weeks ago a text intended for my girlfriend went to my mom

Talk about worst case scenario!
Nice graph, except there's virtually nothing that's worth more than Apple.
Thanks, I'll take that as a compliment!
Why would they do that? Disney already does pretty much anything Apple asks them to, and acquiring them would make Apple direct competitors with the other media companies whose content fills out iTunes. The two companies have very little overlap, so there's not much of a case for doing it to eliminate competition or to make the joint operation more efficient. And Jobs already sits on the board at Disney and owns a ton of shares, so where's his motivation to push for the deal coming from, given that he already has a great deal of power and money from the current setup without the day-to-day headaches of managing a massive media company?
Exactly, a year ago I was looking for a small portable laptop and definitely wanted a Thinkpad.

I could choose the X300, X200s or an old, second-hand X61s with 4:3 screen ratio.
Then I saw this image: http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/34872.jpg

It's so obvious what is best for small laptops. X61s is smaller and has more screen real-estate compared to the 4 times more expensive X300. I think even if Lenovo wanted to go back to 4:3, they can't because of the screen manufacturers.

Another side-effect of the small laptops having widescreen is the lack of wrist support.
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You could buy used ones
IMO, even more important: open APIs and freemium.

Among the strongest selling points of open source were:

- The ability to extend software easily.

- Freedom to share software with anyone.

Nowadays, almost every web app comes with a developer friendly API that let's you extend its functionality. Furthermore, most web apps adopt a freemium model which means no initial cost (unlike open source which frequently requires technical skills and/or a server).

IMO, open source will continue to thrive in the realm of developer tools and libraries but will slowly decline in the realm of consumer apps.

As a side note, it doesn't help that RMS is completely nuts. (Disclosure: writing this from Ubuntu)
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and Exxon Mobil?

Investors are offering a price because they expect a good ROI for that price, nothing else.
To be a bit more pedantic: You have to include share buybacks and a possible (last) liquidation dividend.
This makes me happy. I loved Zork, and I don't see why text adventures need to be outdated. I would love to boot one up on my Kindle.

On that note, I can't see why anything fun should be declared 'dead'. There is something a MUD can offer that WOW cannot.
vimdiff => wide format FTW!

>>two columns of code

And that's precisely why I bought a 20" wide one, to go with my laptop. And it has been great!

I felt that it's not the presence of width that bothers OP but lack of vertical real-estate on the screen.
Imagine you're flying the landing pattern in a cloud. You just flew through a thermal boundary so your battery jostled and lost voltage for a split second, resetting your electronics that require a >5 minute reboot and config time. How do you determine geographic north?
Then they wouldn't match a (real) compass.
Stuff like this would be easy to hide in the guise of "Hardware DRM."
Not too wide, too short. A few years ago 1680x1050 used to be a quasi-standard for good 15" displays. Now you're lucky to get 1600x900.
I for one would love a Netflix app on my TV, and maybe a Hulu one. Booting into the XBox or the Wii for Netflix is kind of a pain, and only works on the TV they are plugged in to.

Of course, Netflix apps in TVs are already available.

As for channel guides and stuff like the article says, how would that even work? You normally need a cable box at the very least anyway.

(Edited comment to expand it a bit, before any replies)
> Not, maybe in terms of falsely blocked sites, but certainly in terms of having fewer false positives (e.g. spam/useless pages) in the search results.

A false positive is when a good site is mistakenly identified as a spammy site.
Are users of #1 aware of what's going on?
I read this with my head nodding the whole time. :(
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Hey guys I'm busy flipping my convertible note into what I'm calling a "second seed" round from a bunch of big name Angels for my social-mobile startup and I was talking to an advisor (totally gonna be on the board when we get our Series A) about how its time to add a technical co-founder who can really take the lead on all the implementation stuff we've got in mind and I was wondering if anyone knew the best places to find technical co-founders who are interesting in joining a startup (no salary, 5%)?

Also if you have ideas for the product we should start with, we haven't decided yet, we just really wanna own the social mobile space.

edit: also, can anyone recommended the best bars and restaurants in nyc to network with other social mobile startups?
Anyone in Tennessee? The East Coast can make it's own opportunities. Currently I am meeting up with some people today to discuss forming a hackerspace/incubator here in town. ;p
It would be one thing if TW were the only content provider out there but they're not. If apple were to buy any media company the others would be less likely to deal with them and start cutting them off. Apple creates products to view content with, they don't create content themselves.
I did see the SMS bug mentioned on several mainstream news stories.

However to get mentioned in mainstream news there needs to be a compelling story: Someone claiming that they missed a flight, missed their wedding, etc -- something to make it a real human interest story. The Android bug would have been front and center if there were a confirmed "example" story where someone got fired or dumped on their wedding day or something because of a misdirected SMS.
My take on it is that the first downvote can be crucial: people see a comment at 0 or -1 and read it in a negative light. Critical comments are interpreted as whiny or negative, witty ones as snarky. Don't let the score do all the thinking for you, voters!
Thanks, I will take a look at it over the weekend :-)
People want their TVs to display video and play games. And the apps that do that, they want.

I have NetFlix and Amazon's TV service on my TV, and they are nice. Not because the interface is good, or anything like that... But because it's a lot easier than using my computer or game console to do the same. And believe me, the interfaces on those apps need a lot of work.
Have you had a look at Textmate? It uses PGP in an interesting way, http://sigpipe.macromates.com/2004/09/05/using-openssl-for-l...
Slim Amamou, who is named in the article as the on who discovered this code, has been arrested. His phone is still updating his Google Latitude position, moving between several government buildings.

http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2011/01/07/tunisia-bl...
Actually, it's not a burn. The game, like most others, only has so many levels. I've gotten past all of them, and I don't find it fun to try to get 3 stars on them all. So until it updates with more levels, I don't feel any need to play it.
"Broken" is correct, but arguably too strong of a term. It is a man-in-the-middle attack, where the "man" in the middle is relaying the signals without modification and with an extremely short delay between the "key" and the car.

The article notes that their system specifically delays the challenge/response by nanoseconds vs. milliseconds by staying in the analog realm because doing a A/D -> Tx -> Rx -> D/A sequence added too much delay.

This implies either the car security system either measures the challenge/response delay or could measure it in which case this MitM attack still will work since attack's nSec delays will be very difficult to detect.

Most relay attacks require the signals to be converted from analog to digital and back, which takes time. The researchers were able to keep the signals in analog format, which reduced their delay from microseconds to nanoseconds and made their attack more difficult to detect.
Does indeed seem high on the "scam factor". Not something I would like to see happen if I used the site.
Yes, but if a rogue SMS message messed up your relationship with someone, such rationality might be lost.

And there's always strength in numbers, if 2000 people complain about something (ignoring the language), it tends to get noticed more than if 1 person would report it and the rest thinks "hey, it's already reported, let's shut up and wait".
Don't really see how you can say they don't concern themselves with piracy if they are maintaining a black list of app licenses.
And whatever you do, don't forget your manual compass deviation rules: accelerate north, decelerate south

Trivia note: I believe the standard compass is called a "whiskey compass". Not sure why. Probably because if that's all the nav gear you got working you'll probably be using copious quantities of whiskey after landing. (Actually if memory serves I believe the early compasses floated in whiskey. No doubt this practice did not last very long. I think they use kerosene now)
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Just like with cars and other long term appliances, I am worried about these things depending on services that may or may not exist 5/10 years from now. Up until last year, I used a 20 year old tv, my car doesnt rely on google maps (I think there are some that do), and my toaster doesnt tweet.
This is such a bad bug that I will be surprised if it doesn't get picked up by major news organizations.

The fact that this bug exists is bad enough, but realizing that your phone might never get the bug fix is even worse.
Facebook might IPO in 2012 
Facebook is expected to reach the 500 investor mark this year which means they will have to report to the SEC just like public companies.
In my car you need the RF signal from the keyfob to be nearby to open/start it. Once the engine is running, it will keep running until you turn it off, or it runs out of gas, even if the keyfob is not present.

If you turn the ignition off and it can't "see" the key, it will give you a warning message on the display cluster and you have something like 20 seconds to re-start the car before you're locked out.
In my new project, I keep hearing about all the people who did it before and stopped. Some pretty big players that are household names. I'm keeping an eye on what they've done and why they had to stop while not getting drawn into the "well, if they did it and failed..." quicksand. There are key new developments that weren't present when the big guys killed their projects so that's what keeps me moving forward.

I've also been worrying about the whole "what if I find out someone else has figured this out" thing. I think your post is a swift kick that says to keep an eye out but to spend time building instead of worrying and to keep going if the market supports the innovation. Thanks for the post!
Are they shady tactics if they actually work and the content is decent as you say? The point of marketing is to get the eyeballs, if your content is garbage then that's a whole other issue. Maybe you can go into more detail about what's shady about his tactics?
"if Lenovo wanted to go back to 4:3, they can't because of the screen manufacturers"

They certainly can, they (or anyone) just would be at a disadvantage in terms of price because of volume (and manufacturing cost, if what I wrote above is to be believed). Considering that laptops are the kind of market where most people only look at price(1), that's not good business.

(1) Except for apple of course. The only think they are better at than design is branding, and they've branded themselves above the price fray.
Ah. I was just thinking of keyless entry (which is definitely standard on that BMW), rather than the keyless start.
Just one man's opinion, but as a tivo early adopter whose tivos have been gathering dust for some time now, I think DVR is a transitional technology - something that only makes sense in an environment where bandwidth is poor and rights access is difficult. Apple TV is only really inferior to a platform like boxee in so much as apple chooses to make it so, it wouldn't be hard to duplicate a rights environment like that if they wanted to. I wonder if the ipod would have enjoyed such success if they had never supported anything but fairplay encumbered media.

Which isn't to say that Time Warner makes any more sense. Apple does seem to have a fondness for increasing their vertical integration, what about someone like Infineon? Radio components and TCG style security both are big issues for aapl for the foreseeable future, exclusively designed components there could have as big of an impact as an exclusive cpu.
What if Gorillas are your customers?
Wow, that is excellent. I plan to visit Palo Alto in a couple of months (I live in Poland), I hope this will still be around then! :)
Heh. I've worked on staff at IBM Extreme Blue for four years, and actually, our conversion rate is well above atrocious. (I'm guessing your undergrad years were a few years back, though, since you mention us & Microsoft but not our biggest rival for talent, Google).

In any case, though, you're right on the money in the bulk of what you're saying. Top-quality interns are highly aware of what they're doing, and what their goals are for a given internship. A prestigious internship should deliver on all of the following: exciting challenges, a high level of autonomy/entrepreneurship, a decent salary, and an impressive top line in the "experience" section of your resume.

From my perspective, here's what a company must do in order to attract top interns, and convert them to full-time hires:

* Be a great place to work (for interns and full-timers). Your interns will be with you for at least three months. They'll know within three days whether you treat your employees well.

* Give the interns real meaningful work to do, where they can clearly see the impact to the company's customers & its bottom line.

If you can do those two things, you'll attract great interns, and should be able to net some great full-timers as well.
Channel guides can be downloaded over the air in some countries, and from the internet in others.
Yes, he hit me with this one as well. It's a specific supplment, fermented cod liver oil with added butter fat (from cows who have grazed on rapidly growing grass). Its an actual thing that exists:

http://www.greenpasture.org/retail/?t=products&a=display...
Oh, I disagreed with his comment and didn't really think it added much. But he's been on the site a while, and wasn't trying to be a jerk or anything, so I would have left at at -1.
The worldwide ICAO regulation defines runway directions with the magnetic north. Makes sense as GPS is not considered safe enough for main navigation, it's only here for additional help (in theory at least). Also traditional radio navigation (VOR, NDB) is done with magnetic directions. Changing runways directions happens sometimes, it's not such a rare event, as the north is moving on many parts of the globe (not everywhere the same though). I know of a few places here that have changed runway direction.

Anyway, it's not that much of a burden, because there is a very defined and safe process for updating airport and airspace data. When that type of change happens, udates are shipped over many channels that pilots should follow.
I just picked something I liked and poked fun at all the 'prime numbers' things out there: 37 S, 43 things...
TBO, people want TV apps on their TV. Like an IMDB, Rotten Tomato, tmdb, youtube, or Netflix. Those are apps that would be useful on your TV. Hardly anyone is checking email, using facebook, or posting twitter on TV. Those are smartphone, tablet, or computer apps.

Who wants to get a drunken email from an ex while sitting next to your SO? There are things you want to keep on a 4-inch screen and not blasted out on 50-inches of glory.
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I don't know homebrew but macports wasn't that great when I tried it last. Apt-get has never failed to resolve dependencies where as macports did all the time.
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