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What I found kind of icky was the fact that he keeps saying "Steve Jobs" all the way through the article in a way that doesn't feel natural; more like keyword spam.
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CEO mea culpa; vows fix.
The ipod was around for three years before it took off in sales, and there were plenty of other music players available at the time that were more popular and had better functionality. Most of the iPod's initial success wasn't because of anything innovative about the product, but because of very, very savvy marketing.

It's very interesting to watch all this historical revisionism that paints Jobs as the mysterious shadowy figure that was the creator of the digital portable music device, which was a boom product from day 1. Don't forget, Apple has also had several flops over the past decade, but no-one remembers them because of selective bias.

Jobs was an incredible man, but let's see him for what he did; don't turn him into a myth.
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I'm not sure if this is an Australia-only thing - and I was under the impression that if was far from being so - but here the responsibility to shareholders of a corporation is solely fiscal.

The reasoning behind this is that shareholder needs tend to differ. If shareholders wish to engage in philanthropy, the corporation is not the ideal (shared) vessel for doing so. Instead, individual investors may receive their asset's rent and choose to distribute their earnings as they please; management is employed to run the Corp and not make decisions for the shareholders' philanthropic activities.
My feelings exactly. It was always a blocker before, being locked to a provider is murder.
One of my favorite uses of the long S in an Achewood comic: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10192004
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Prior to the invention of windshields people used goggles to protect their eyes from bugs, dirt, wind and rain. In 1904 the windshield was invented but unfortunately with the first windshield came new problems. Upon impact or accident the windshield would shatter allowing shards of glass to seriously injure or kill the occupants of the vehicle.
I was shocked last night when I counted 27 articles about Steve Jobs and three about other stuff.
Thank you for shareing. I'd feared that I wouldn't get to save that moment.
I think you have it backwards. To not comply with US diplomatic interests doesn't mean the US stops exporting into the country but means that US will make it harder for the country to export to them. The US is a huge factor for every country whose economy is based on export, like Sweden. The reverse is not true: Sweden (or every other small country) is not a crucial market for the US economy, which makes it possible to ignore them as long as they act on their own.
Is there something that they are not telling you?
well, there was the great erlang flood of '09 (though I can't find a screen grab): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145
This article along with the New Yorker's piece rank as the best I've read since he died. He was an amazing man, and changed my life and many others', but not perfect.
I have no doubt that they did. Attention to detail is the game.
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Given your 3.5" measurement, a 7" screen for the iPad would have been much better, would it have not?

Apple's not shipping a bigger phone yet because it's something they can hold back on until they need to do it. The iPhone 5, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5XL iPhone 6... one of these will eventually do it so as to sell you something new.
I can't imagine too many people who wouldn't like that system. If only there was some way to introduce this idea to some kind of tech start-up community.
Interesting. But then why didn't the author benchmark that too? Pretty graphs like that can confuse people not making a deep analysis of what's going on. There are no disclaimers or notes about it.
Nice! There's a featured channel covering Steve Jobs in Cull right now too.
"Three Apples changed the world"
"Three Apples changed the world, Adam and Eve's, Isaac Newtons, and Steve's".
> Whatever body limits the government is itself sovereign.

Why does this need to be a formal body? The public itself - in the form of a dynamic and multi-polar civil society and not a single formal institution - is an appropriate counterbalance.

The catch is that this isn't really possible if the entire system of government is organized on democratic principles - we currently have too much democratic process to achieve appropriately democratic outcomes.

Tweaking the balance between various co-equal government institutions is a good way to limit the capabilities of the overall system without having to rely on any permanent external force to restrain it. If we returned to dealing with social problems via judicial means on a case-by-case basis, instead of giving legislative and executive authority a priori top-down control over everything, we'd be much better off.
For a while it was 30/30, and about 55 or 56 out of the 60 in the top two pages.
This is the only response to the article that gets it. When I read the article, I immediately picked up my iPod touch and put my thumb into the top-right corner as far as I could stretch it while remaining comfortable. It rests right on the corner, covering it nearly perfectly.
I can keep stretching it to the point where the last joint in my thumb meets the edge, but it feels terrible to do so.
I'm sure this wasn't the only factor that went into the decision for the screen size, but I have to think it was an inflexible maximum boundary for it.
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I really want a good movie recommender system. (Which I suppose makes this a good idea to work on.) However, focusing on these sorts of issues seems like exactly the wrong way to go about it.

I understand that people overwhelmingly tend towards the extremes of rating scales. But who cares? There's so much noise anyway.

Here's what I want: (1) include (all) films and television series and (2) include top 1000 lists for as many niche categories as possible (foreign films about relationships, teen comedy, and so on).

I don't even care if it is personalized, because the personalization is always horrible. (I've tried Netflix, Jinni and others and they're all terrible.) Just having the average for the movie is actually amazingly accurate on many measures (within 10--20%).

Is there something like this? The closest I've gotten so far is finding a good IMDB user list or two.
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This is what happens when you are just an employee. This is also why I don't work for startups. You work long hours, many times are under-paid, and after putting your life unto a project, get little to no money if it gets bought out or they go big (you also might just get fired instead).

This is why you need to start your own company.
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This is the main thing Jinni claims to do.

Have you tried it?

http://www.jinni.com/
Hacker News is a bit like KAOS. Unless you're at the North Pole, there is no joking here.
I got one as well. http://i.imgur.com/dZife.jpg

Unanimous, save for one story on Linux.
A slave is someone who does not have permission to chose his own work, and does not have permission to (or is prevented from) quiting. (Note that I said permission, not ability.)

A slave can still be paid.

Based on my definition of slave I believe the pyramids were built by slaves.
This seems useful, yet awfully much like another step on the slow path to legitimizing 'poor taste'.

That's a bit harsh, so let me qualify it. I actually rather agree with the division inherent in this and think it will resound with people, but I honestly believe that this is yet another step towards turning our society into idiocracy. It's the slow legitimization of appreciation for content that we acknowledge as garbage but consume anyway. I firmly believe that there is inherent social value in this garbage content remaining quasi-taboo - a social pressure not to like such things. Sure, most people will watch some anyway, or play the latest mindless shooter, or what-have-you, but so long as it's understood that most people will mock you for publicly liking this, the norm does not drift towards mindlessness - you still need to consume some legitimately good content, even if only to have something to talk about.

I don't mean to attack the site; I think it's a great way to slice into the recommendations game, and I do think a lot of people will get value out of it, and it seems like it may well succeed. I simply am afraid it's a net negative for our society in the long run (then again, of course, not launching is hardly going to reverse such a trend.)

Edit: Make that symptomatic of a net negative. I've thought some more and this is only giving an online portal to express the shift I talk about above, which has already been happening aplenty.
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> "a 7" screen for the iPad would have been much better, would it have not?"

There's a reason iOS5 features a "splittable" keyboard that brings all keys within thumb reach of both edges of the screen.
Agreed, I have large hands I typically wear xl gloves, and I wish the iphone was larger. Some people may not have large hands but long fingers, there are many variations.
I didn't get a screenshot, but it was unanimous at 11:04 PST.

http://twitter.com/#!/trailbehind/status/121827334541164544
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You are absolutely correct.

The dozen or so hackers in this thread that expect that "security vulnerability" is some magic keyword that gets you talking to the head technical honcho of the security group have probably never answered phone calls for a big company. Phone support for somebody like AmEx is a huge burden of cost and manpower; the structure of the tree has been set firmly in place since the 1980's to take care of the most common 90% of issues using the least-paid person available. I'm sorry, if you're in the long tail you will just have to expect to wait extra. That goes double if you are not a cardmember (read: paying customer).

I am surprised that the above person in Australia got through at all, and that the CSR had latitude to try to spend time replicating the issue. In my opinion, for a credit card company, 20 minutes and a positive conclusion for a matter as rare as reporting a webapp vulnerability is a success.

Sure, none of you should be thrilled about the situation because as technically-oriented people with generous motives the system is not set up to serve you. But that's not a failure of the system, except maybe from your own individual perspective. Believe me, AmEx has done the cost-benefit analysis and they are saving boatloads of money by having those rare well-intentioned hackers listen to some hold music, because it is too expensive to sort you out from the thousands of loonies that got a phishing email. Security breaches are an acknowledged risk and they are already prepared to absorb their effects on multiple levels.
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This is a perfect story about Jobs. The ipod was brilliant, but iTunes is a truly terrible program. It is by far the worst program that I use on a regular basis. But the greatness of the ipod (or iphone and ipad) outweighs putting up with iTunes.

I've always wondered how Jobs could put up with iTunes being so bad. But now everyone is perfect and he obviously had a blind eye when it came to iTunes.
I really disagree with the premise of this post. Emotional impact (United 93), psychological impact (Black Swan), intellectual demands (Primer) all equate to a lower rewatchability score, since watching the movie takes a lot out of me. However, the more of an impact a movie makes, the higher my opinion of a movie. Because something is light and fluffy doesn't make that movie "better", it just means it's easier to watch.

Rating films this way may do a good job of the "so bad it's good" camp (Snakes on a Plane), but will do an incredible disservice to movies like Black Swan.
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Do you have elf hands? I've got pretty small hands (I wear a small or medium in men's gloves depending on the brand), and with the iPhone tucked into my thumb as close as reasonably possible, I can reach every pixel on the screen, and I can reach past in spots. If I hold the phone so that it's most comfortable (and most secure feeling), I can reach way past the edge and slightly past the far corners.
Maybe, just maybe, they factored in supply chains, costs and re-engineering effort and decided that it can happen later.

Sometimes you wonder why such speculative (not to mention defensive) articles get on the front page on HN. Aren't we supposed to be more rational and balanced?
Here is a PDF that I captured at 11:34pm EST, that also has 30/30 articles on Steve Jobs. I was going to post a link to this, until I found the snapshot.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chro...
Circular reasoning:

The iPhone is well designed.

Therefore they used a 3.5" screen.

Therefore the iPhone is well designed.
You forget Mac clones.
I think the alternative is people pretending to like things they do not. You can't force people to appreciate your brand of high culture by mocking them for not doing so. At best, the people you're trying to win over will publicly pay lip service. At worst, it will become more difficult for people like you to find things that you think are worthwhile, because the space will become polluted by people who don't get it. Let people like what they like.

I, for one, am not ashamed to say that I like stupid things.
Actually, my `we' meant the Germans. And not so much only the long-s, but also Fraktur.

The Nazis banned Fraktur, probably because Hitler didn't like it, and we never re-introduced it. As an irony of history, for some people Fraktur now carries connotations of the Third Reich. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua-Fraktur_dispute)

I have a few old books in Fraktur. Faust and translations of Shakespeare's plays.

P.S. For my resume, my name only has the wrong kind of s.
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Wasn’t ðis ðe guy who has recently advertised for ðe Free Software Foundation? Woman, ðy name is inconstancy…
Here is the next best thing: video of Woz talking about the early years with Steve and how things came about - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tENeGiaLXA
For those of us without an apple developer account:

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Yeah. We know how well that went with GAE.
Ok... that fixes the keyboard, not the entire reach, which is what OP is discussing.
Neither have I. I just find it very beautiful.
IMO, the original is better.
It's not that ship spinning is some preferred activity in Eve, it's simply a preferred activity vs. Captains Quarters (CQ). The problem with CQ is that it did not run very good on most machines and the movement of the characters was very stiff. Also the load times to get to CQ were longer than that of ship spinning.

As far as the item shop, it turned out that a monocle cost around $80 after converting isk (in game currency) into real money via the purchase of plex (Eve supported gold buying). The items were grossly over priced which made CCP seem like a desperate broke evil corporation with which the player base has lost most of it's trust with.

As far as the direction of the game, with the introduction of a long awaited feature, Captains Quarters, that was not even completed upon release, it made it seem that CCP was not willing to listen to the wants of the player base in which direction they should devote their programming hours. Plenty of activities in Eve have not been updated nor has the game play had an injecting of new and invigorating play style in a few years. With CCP's latest move, it has made me and other players think twice about investing more time in a game that the developers seem to no longer care about.
This is a really important point, and it'll probably justify its own blog post soon, but a quick response would be this:

I'd class United 93 and Black Swan as being, sort of, emotionally exhausting. And yes, I'm not going to rush out see them again. But that's very different to saying they're a bad film. I would suggest that, at high levels of quality, low levels of rewatchability makes it actually a better film, in a way.

Or, at least, it differentiates them from another terrific film like The King's Speech. If you're the kind of person who likes watching beautifully constructed but largely enjoyable films, your tastes will tend toward the top-right of the graph. But, if you enjoy more difficult or harrowing films, your favourite films might be lower on the rewatchability score, on average.

My point is, while quality is quality, a measure of skill and talent, rewatchability is personal, and groups similar films together in interesting ways. Where your favourite films come out on the graph is really not important to anyone but you, when you're looking for more stuff you like.

You may still disagree, but thanks for taking the time to comment :)

-glen.
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I think this is why they have both ratings. A quality rating and a rewatchability. As the site appears to be in private beta I can't play with it directly, but I would assume both ratings are exposed when you look at a movie, which will help you decide if you want to watch it. For example, if I come home on a friday night and I want something light and enjoyable to watch, I definitely don't want to watch Primer no matter how good it is. I'd instead go for something with a high rewatchability score. But if I'm in a mood for a "truly good" film then I can go for the quality rating score and ignore rewatchability.
The Macintosh wasn't the first personal computer the same way the iMac wasn't the first all-in-one, or the iPod wasn't the first MP3 player: it wasn't, except for most people, it was. It wasn't anything fundamentally new or special, but it changed everything.

As for influence... True, lots of people have been strongly influential. Take Tim Berners-Lee, who invented HTTP, HTML, and the first web browser... On a NeXT, a computer built by one Steve Jobs.
If you haven't played for more than a few minutes, you really should try TF2. Besides being free- The cartoonish style will cease to matter completely in an hour or two, the children can be muted in 2 clicks, and there aren't any memes. (though some hats are a little silly, some weapon names are punny, and some taunts are also puns. Example: "Your Eternal Reward", a Spy knife. Example: "I will kill you with bear hands!", Heavy, equipped with Warrior's Spirit http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Warriors_Spirit)

Oh, also, don't play 2Fort, and turn off sprays. Options -> Multiplayer -> Do not download any custom files.

It takes a little while to get competent, but it really is a pretty good game, and twitch-reflexes are not important for anybody but scout and perhaps sniper.
48 hour hack challenges? Group gatherings? Learn-from-each-other meetups sponsored by a grant or some friendly companies? Great.

I agree, this sort of stuff is just a cash-in.

(Or providing more grist for the local VC/Angel mill.)
Well I think in this case, all you would need are some categories or tagging in goodfilms. Tagging would be kind of cool going past genres to things like mood, like a "easy watching" tag or something.
Yup, I wonder what the author will say, if the next iPhone has larger screen.
Wow, nice observation, very interesting. I've never seen that other phone before, amazing how much it looks like the iPhone.
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My actually quite small hand, compared to a Logitech G7 and the SGSII. I'm guessing.. the guy made a guess compared to his iPhone4, without really using a SGS2, only seeing some.

Before getting it, I too though it might be too big. But nope. Using it since 6 month.
As long as the body is thin like the SGS2 its perfect. There's only a small region at the top right I can't reach and which I don't need to.
Also note that his graphic is wrong, as the SGSII is much higher, but not much wider than the iPhone (and thats probably why it works so well despite the size)

'nuff said, here's the pic:

http://i.imgur.com/LFoIR.jpg
I've got pretty average-sized hands and finger reach (which I know from piano lessons). With an iPhone 4 firmly gripped in what I consider a natural way, my thumb can reach comfortably to the top-right corner of the iPhone display and very little further.

So, while I think the diagram is exaggerated, the writer does have a point. My guess is that the 3.5" screen works very well a very large percentage of adult hands (say 75%) and acceptably for, say, 95%. I think a 4" display would probably pull things out of the bell curve. I suspect given that Apple probably made a LOT of prototypes that the iPhone's screen size was determined empirically.

To me, the iPhone4 feels almost exactly right in terms of width (I think it could be up to half as thick without feeling flimsy).
I think the most amazing part of this is just how quickly it disappeared. That graph showing it almost entirely disappearing — after being used for hundreds of years beforehand — in just 15 years is pretty amazing. The explanations in this article, sadly, aren't that in-depth about why we see such a big switch so quickly...
The reason the iPhone 4's screen is 3.5 inches is because the iPhone 3GS was 3.5 inches is because the iPhone 3G was 3.5 inches is because the original iPhone was 3.5 inches.

A consistent platform is a huge deal. The whole point of the iPhone is that it's touch friendly. Part of the iOS user interface guidelines is making sure touch areas are the size of a finger tip. This is heavily emphasized.

If there were different sized iPhone screens with incompatible aspect ratios this guideline would be meaningless. An app that has finger sized touch zones on a 4.3 inch widescreen phone would not on a 3.5 inch standard screen phone.

Apple's designers know this. It's on purpose. And Apple's designers decide what its devices look like. That's why the iPhone 4 has a 3.5 inch screen.

If you want to wonder why the original iPhone had a 3.5 screen, you've got to go back to 2007 when everyone else was still trying to copy the Blackberry. A 3.5 inch screen at that time was already unprecedented.

I don't doubt Apple prototypes iPhones with different screen sizes and there is pressure to upgrade. But the fact Apple has not just shows how reluctant it is to break with consistency. If Apple moves to a new screen size, I think it will have to be larger for backward compatibility with old apps. I highly doubt it will go smaller, ever. All old apps would suck on a smaller screen, and Apple doesn't deliver sucky user experiences. And if it does go larger, it will be a big deal. I wouldn't expect a new screen size for a long time after that.
People change.
I have my screenshot too from last night. 8:57 PM PST.

http://i.imgur.com/SVokO.png
he's holding it wrong
i dunno, very skeptical about the conclusion here. w/ the nexus prime (purportedly) at 4.65", that seems pretty ideal -- decently big enough to read a pdf, but still small enough for portability (pocket transport, unlike a tablet needing to be tossed into a backpack/bag of some sort). nice merging/compromise of smartphone & tablet (which i suppose is the point w/ this new ics os).
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Ask HN: Why the black border?
I've noticed that there's a mini black border on the top of the HN bar.

Why?
The iPhone wouldn't be what it is without OS X.

There's another thing.