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OS X Server has some good built-in applications, like Podcast Producer, which can serve as the centerpiece of a video capture / workflow / conversion / uploading / streaming platform.

Some colleges use it for lecture capture. It's pretty decent by itself.

However, the logical extension is iTunes U which is devoid of any real support, except via a forum, and an email system which sends out the dumbest canned responses I've ever read.

I tried for several weeks to get iTunes U set up properly, and no amount of expensive deluxe enterprise support could do the job. Even on a priority ticket, Apple techs and my sales rep told me repeatedly, "Uh, support for that is via email only."

And then the canned email responses were utterly Kafka-esque, as in, "Oh gee, did you break your iPod? Did you lose a file on your hard drive?" When I called in desperation to their iTunes support (as they instructed in the email), they could not get past their own support screen which demanded a product serial number. For iTunes U? No serial number, no service, next! Thank you, come again!

I'm an enterprise customer. Or was.

The rest of Apple enterprise support is solid, but if you're just setting up iTunes U in 2011, it's a ghetto. It's so bad that after months of training, evaluation, vendor selection etc., after investing tens of thousands in Apple hardware, software, training and enterprise support, we killed the project because the iTunes U part was just brain-dead support-wise.

That, and we started to feel like we were just shilling for Apple's proprietary stack, paying for the privilege, and then getting the insult of hearing "there's an app for that." Yeah, but where's the support? We paid a lot to find out it doesn't exist for iTunes U.

So that's why I'm a tad disillusioned about enterprise Apple. (I've been Microsoft-free for 12 years, by the way.)
I once read a great article on asktog, called "How I made a Small Fortune (out of a much larger one)". It dealt with advice, from someone who got a lot of shares of Apple when they IPOed.

For some reason I can't seem to find it anywhere. Can anyone provide a link?
Looks to me like someone has cloned areas to cover the score overlays that were present in the original.

You can see a line in the top right of the manipulated image - http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2236/5733655921_b28748984b_o....

Which matches the position of the score banner shown on the original - http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5101/5734289061_34f76398e9_b....

Unlikely this was done 'accidentally'
Fedora 15 Boosts Linux Security
Part 2 is already available - see http://lwn.net/Articles/443775/
What is the alternative - accept that victims of sexual discrimination and harassment stay silent?

If they don't name names, nothing changes; if they do name names, they're accused of submitting someone to trial-by-Twitter. A catch 22 if I've ever seen one!

As to your "shit like this shouldn't be blogged about" comment, that seriously bothers me. Are you SERIOUSLY suggesting that victims of sexual discrimination stay silent? Jesus tap-dancing Christ, the Rapture came and somehow I got teleported to the 50s.
How Byron Sonne's obsession with the G20 security apparatus cost him everything
Penetration of Mac into the enterprise is going to have to have a generational component. New businesses can start out on Mac and be proud of their difference. Businesses that are already on PC aren't going to budge. Businesses where Macs have a significant footprint might expand that, however.

So, a business strategy that will take 15 years to come to fruition? Who knows? It's as likely to happen by accident as anything else. (And yes, the odds seem long.)
Show HN: Lean Designs Can Now Generate Better HTML/CSS Than I Can
How do you know when your 'project' is ready for a public beta?
I've been working on a project in my spare time and will never be happy with it, which I guess is a good thing. At what point do you tell yourself that it is good enough to get out there and get people testing, without being too early to ruin it?
Wrong: if they do name names nothing changes. And I am suggesting that your first thought after being the victim of any crime should not be to broadcast it publicly on your blog. Blogs change things for the worse in a lot of cases and this is one of them. How can you expect an impartial trial when the victim has already laid out the entire crime publicly? This is why some civilized countries have insane legal controls on broadcasting a trial in progress.

Seriously I am not going to fight this battle again only in the end to be accused of being a woman-hater.
If you want improvement in this area get your daughter to date a nerd in high school.

Men who go into technical fields suffer serious scars from social rejection that's every bit as painful as apartheid. Considering that techie men spend their sensitive formative years being completely shut out and excluded from the company of women, a woman is pretty presumptuous to think she will be treated fairly by technically oriented men.
This implies that the penetration of companies is the biggest driver of malware. Do you have numbers that support this?
Off topic:

What did happen to the torrent anonymity proxies, that was in the media a year or two ago? Are they used, but not discussed in the media?
My idea actually covers 2 major concerns that I've had in the past.

1) Keeping the "Rackspaces" of the world in check (I've had intermittent outages with them and other hosts that they never reported) and when I call them up and tell them they usually refund some portion of my monthly bill.

2) I'd like to monitor sites for additional server issues (http error codes, maybe even add future tests for alerts when speed is a concern)

I wasn't thinking of fixing issues as I think that type of managed service would be very difficult to coordinate between varying hosts.

I know there are services out there that currently provide 3rd party monitoring but the idea here is that you don't have to pay unless there is actually a problem in which case you can probably end up contacting your host to see what went wrong and potentially get a refund for some or all of your monthly services (per your contract with the host).
That and its not native. Still might make sense to replace json with it on performance sensitive projects after major development is complete.
Because JSON is around twice as fast to encode/decode in Node, which is where I really need the performance. MessagePack is just slow, complicated, and unnecessary.
It's been a crime for years and the police don't seem to have been able to stamp it out. Gosh, it's almost as if they can't be everywhere at once and that citizens will have to take some responsibility themselves for what constitutes acceptable social behaviour. Writing about it on blogs and news aggregates and raising awareness is the only way the problem will get solved.
If we could see how many votes each of the comments got we'd know who had done better out of the exchange :-)
If you want improvement in this area get your daughter to date a nerd in high school.

I'm a nerd. My sister's a choreographer. My parents encouraged my sister to date my nerdy friends. It generally had the opposite effect.
How Microsoft avoided the IPO scam that LinkedIn just fell for
Or a lawyer. Especially if there's documentation involved. Making a private, nasty situation for the jerk who did this (and possibly a settlement) could probably deter future behavior, at least for this one person.
I think you mean 25%. And it comes out ~50% the size of MessagePack after gzipping.
In the Information Age, Curators are King
On Tyson's Face, It's Art. On Film, a Legal Issue
Sounds like this could be a seam-carving or patch-match algorithm in play. These are used to resize images without distortion.

A research video called "Image Resizing by Seam Carving"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcIJXTlugc
"Never speak ill of the wrong or negative person. It takes you down to their level."

If someone is trying to force you into sex, and you stay silent about it, they're probably going to do it again. At some point you have to speak up.

But being a guy, I have no idea how hard it would be to come forward with such allegations. I've never done anything comparably brave.
If there is even one other person at the company, calling yourself the CEO is helpful, rather than foolish. In particular, it signals to potential investors and business partners that you are the one to contact regarding investments or other business deals. Don't get hung up on it, just go ahead and be the CEO.
It is not embarrassing for the entire industry and any attempt to paint this as an industry-wide issue is insulting to those of us who do not behave like this.
Is it illegal ban somebody from a conference for personal reasons?
As a nerd, I feel your pain but equating social rejection from women to apartheid is probably overreaching a bit, no?
I think the issue really stemmed from outing individual people. The problem with that approach is that it boils down to a he-said-she-said, and its natural in such a situation to side with the more prolific character.

If Tammy were to out the organizations, I would know which groups not to donate money to
Well, it's interesting to hear how some people justify this sort of thing to themselves. I suppose at least the fact that they do need to justify it to themselves gives us some hope; if they didn't even realise it was wrong, they wouldn't need to give themselves excuses.
I'd probably say the opposite - most of the entitled, pigheaded jerks I know weren't nerds in HS, but the bullies, jocks, and other people who got what they wanted in life handed to them, or grabbed it for themselves.

Once they hit real life and realize that things aren't as easy as they were lead to believe, things get nasty.

On the other hand, most nerds/geeks tend to have had more time looking inward, and are sometimes more able to empathize with others. Or they ignore the social scene altogether.

(just my experience, YMMV)
With all due respect--and your post comes off as misogynistic enough that that is, I must admit, very very little--this is completely off-base and insulting to about half of the human race. In no way does being shut down in high school mean anything as far as acting like professional, reasonable adults is concerned. I work at a company where a large proportion of our management and project management is female; we have a few female engineers as well. And nobody cares. They're people, for christ's sake.

That people who talk the way you are have unresolved issues means they need therapy--it is not a license to hurt other people because they can't take care of themselves.

I would hazard a guess that companies that focus on not hiring assholes would not have the problems the writer refers to. I would further guess that there are enough people in the startup world who don't feel accountable and never had professionalism (hell, basic manners) hammered into their skulls that think their behavior is OK.

(EDIT: Paul's explanation in his reply is much more level-headed and worth a read)
So what's your suggestion, besides suggesting that people simply shut up about it?

I think there's an appreciation to the dangers of a very public airing of dirty laundry - but the alternative (shaming victims into silence) seems far, far worse.
> Unfortunately, Microsoft's style seems to be to release browsers that are obsolete before they're even available.

I still don't understand why people think this crazy rush to get new browser versions out as rapidly as every couple of months is a good thing.

Even if browsers support new features that fast, full-time professional web development agencies aren't going to keep up with the developments at the same break-neck pace, never mind anyone else. Even if they did, I doubt many of them would risk their reputation designing live sites for serious clients using unproven novelty technologies.

While Microsoft's release cycle is perhaps longer than I would choose, at least they have some stability as a result. We may have hated IE6, but we did so only after several years of it being clearly the best browser in town, which people often forget. In any case, at least its quirks and foibles were well understood, and workarounds were widely documented and used basically successfully. Ditto for IE7, and anything from IE8 onwards is pretty decent as far as web standards go. For all the anti-IE criticism, the Web developed from a novelty to a routine part of daily life on Microsoft's watch, and about half the people in the world still use IE to get stuff done, despite all the possible alternatives available to them.

Right now, with these absurdly rapid release cycles, it just feels like Google and Mozilla are having a big game of mine's bigger than yours is. I'd rather they stopped breaking actually useful stuff in releases they are pushing to the browsing public: Google have broken everything from rounded corners to HTML5 video, while Mozilla have fundamentally stuffed tried and tested tech like Java applets and basic typography by trying to be too clever with new technologies in recent versions. I'd rather the Chrome and Firefox teams caught up with basics that most people actually care about: Firefox 4 still doesn't do sensible tab isolation years after IE and Chrome did, while Chrome still doesn't seem to have an ad blocker worth anything, for example.

Meanwhile, I really don't care that they can hide the URL bar now; I have a 1920x1200 screen and I like to know what site I'm really visiting. I don't care that Google support "open" video formats like VP8; the serious video publishing world uses the technically superior H.264, and Google just removed support for that in Chrome for purely political reasons.

Please note that none of this means they can't issue security or performance updates as necessary. But Microsoft do that too, they just don't feel the need to slap a big "this is a shiny new version!" sticker on it every time.

> The way IE is developed is a relic of the desktop software era.

Contrary to trendy opinion among bazillionaire wannabes on Hacker News, the vast, vast majority of the world's IT infrastructure still lives in the desktop software era, and most web-based or mobile-based software sucks on technical, usability and basic functionality grounds. And I write that as someone who makes his living working with those technologies, just trying not to suck at it quite as badly.
As a coder and geek I find it horrible that I'm not expected to treat women like an equal simply because I might have been "excluded from the company of women". The idea that techies somehow are entitled to women is sad and pitiful.
What they're saying is that it's an accident rather than "yeah, we photoshop our photos to make the crowd look bigger --- standard procedure."

Who cares anyway?
Does "one of the organizers" imply that the other organizers know of the reasons for the ban and play along with it? Obviously there are many jerks in the world, but I admit I find it hard to believe that there could be such a random concentration of jerks. Or were they all jerks who bonded through their jerkiness and then decided to launch a conference?
There's no rule that a business has to serve everyone (except for in certain regulated cases like the water company, and even then there are limits).

In the situation described, it's definitely not ethical.
"Seriously I am not going to fight this battle again only in the end to be accused of being a woman-hater."

If you don't want to participate in the discussion, fine. But please don't try to encourage others to do that.
Maybe it was not a feeling of entitlement but rather a problem with dealing with rejection that caused the problem - like a nerd could hurt and hence find it unbearable to be around the desired woman. That would take some practice.
UK TV star is first to face jail over tweets
I can't disagree more strongly with the things you wrote. In fact, I'm pretty appalled by them.

"Men who go into technical fields suffer serious scars from social rejection that's every bit as painful as apartheid."

I'm not really sure you get what apartheid is.

"[A] woman is pretty presumptuous to think she will be treated fairly by technically oriented men"

Why? Why is a woman, just because she's a woman, supposed to be treated unfairly? Just because some people were treated badly (supposedly) by other women? That's just... random. If I were treated badly by a blond person once, or even more times, that wouldn't make it OK for me to treat blonds badly, just because they're blond.

On top of these points, you're also implying a lot of things that aren't true.

"Men who go into technical fields suffer serious scars from social rejection"

All men? Only in technical professions? Why are you giving weight to this not very accurate representations of anyone going into a technical career being socially scarred? Even if it has some basis in fact, it's nowhere near ubiquitous. And it's certainly not only people in technical professions - many people have scars from childhood.

Besides, you're making it seem like the women are the problem, who "socially scar" and "completely shut out and exclude" technically-oriented men. In truth, it's often the men's fault. They just don't put as much effort into "socializing" that they do into other things. It might not always be conscious, but it's a choice they make. The worst thing to do is to "blame the women", both because it's inaccurate, and because it's unproductive.
Stealing has been a crime for years, and the police haven't been able to stamp it out. Is that a reason for not reporting it? If victims weren't reporting stealing to the police, that wouldn't be helping in any way.

What good does writing a blog post that as far as we can tell doesn't contain any checkable evidence do? (and I'm not advocating publicly shaming the guy -- again, the legal system is the established road for crimes, and this is no exception).
Sex appeal has been repeatedly demonstrated to yield significant advantages. Discrimination, although contemptible, is just the other side of the coin.
hg does and I think git should do it as well. `hg revert file.py` creates a file.py.orig where file.py is being reverted. It does creates an extra file which you don't want but it's better in the cases where you accidentally reverted.

`hg purge` purges all files not tracked by mercurial and `hg rever --no-backup file.py` can be used when you don't want backup.

Considering its usefulness, I am happy to put up with untracked, original file it creates which I don't need most of the times; but boy is it a lifesaver when I do need it.
Nice find, that makes a lot of sense. There's another line in the top-left, note the blue-jacket guy getting cut off at about the same height.
We haven't even heard both sides yet - but even if it is not ethical, I don't think the police enforces ethics, just laws.
> be accused of being a woman-hater

This only seems fair, as your opening salvo began with accusing anyone who disagrees with you a man-hater.

I seriously doubt that a blog post was the "first thought" in any of the many prominent incidents of this nature. It's a very serious, very personal topic, after all; and I've seen no evidence whatsoever that putting it up on the internet for all to see was a 'first thought'.

What you really mean in your suggestion is that these women should never make a blog post.

One compelling reason for publicity is that these problems go beyond individual occurrences and permeate the startup/IT culture. No number of quiet police reports or settled lawsuits will bring about changes to that culture, but a glaring spotlight may have an effect.
... is this serious? No. Really. What?
SWOM
This past week I was banned from one of my favorite conferences because I wouldn’t have sex with one of the organizers.

This makes me wonder about all the quips like, "Who do I sleep with at [ ] to get featured in [ ]?"

A part of the public image of companies like YC and Berkshire Hathaway involves their associating with good people -- because good people tend to produce real value. Likewise, if the Silicon Valley startup scene is more than just a hollow reputation market, then there is some real value on which a real stand for values can be based.

Conversely, I feel that such behavior is one symptom of the economics of a possible reputation bubble at work.
If you're going to have people close to you testing it with no real worries about user activation, engagement, etc. just get an alpha out there and start getting feedback from real users. Once you've driven out most of the bugs and the app is fully functional, move it to beta and start actively trying to get users. During this stage, you should be continuing to fix bugs, listening to user feedback, and iterating as necessary. It will never be too early to "ruin it"; if the idea has legs, users will be more forgiving in the early stages and will most likely give you really good feedback on how to improve the app. Just get something out there and start learning from users. I too am a perfectionist, but you just have to bite the bullet and get it out there. Remember, "great artists ship."
Whether you like it or not, whether it's true or not, computing has a reputation for being a mens' club. And things like this don't help. So yes, this is an embarrassment to the industry whether you're directly responsible or not.
Or `git checkout file.py` for that sake. git should really create a file.py.orig like hg does or provide some alternate way to undo an incorrect checkout/reset.
How about reporting crimes to the police?
What is "right" and what is "wrong"?

There are no absolutes.

You have your religion; I have mine.

Each of us is always justifying whatever we do.
Okay, I'm going to reach far now: Sorry, but this is blogspam. You have to ask yourself: What is the purpose of this post here? What exactly do you want to achieve by posting it here? The answer is clear, this is posted here solely for generating publicity.
Now let's dig again: Why do you want publicity for this?
If there is a real issue here, take it up with someone who is actually responsible for fixing it.
If you want to publicly shame people, then keep posting it on sites like HN.

99% of all the people visiting this site won't ever concern this issue, and as surprising as it is to myself, I'm actually a little offended by your insinuation that I should care about this. But that's not the actual problem I have with your post. The real issue is that this kind of topic has been discussed a million times, and therefore has no place on HN.
This. Never liked nor used XML for that exact reason.
Stcredzero's listed amazon AA batteries: $12.95 for four.

Another amazon listing for Duracell 4-pack Alkaline: 4.95 for four.

Rechargeable: $3.24 per battery

Alkaline: $1.24 per battery

3.24 divided by 1.24 = 2.61.

After 3 recharges, the rechargeable has now become cheaper than the alkaline battery. It seems difficult to believe the performance would degrade sufficiently after only 3 recharges to justify sticking with alkalines.

As for the lengthy recharge, the solution there is buy a second set. Keep one in the charger (a good one that goes to trickle when done), when you run down, swap. Result, no effective wait time for fresh power.
So now they can't name the tv star who named the footballer, this is getting totally ridiculous...
You could easily invent a programming language expressed in JSON literals, it just wouldn't be quite the same as javascript. I'd argue that sexprs are simpler because they only use one container type (alists and plists are merely conventions, not baked into the grammar). However, JSON's omission of the symbol/string distinction is one argument the other way.