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This doesn't substantiate the claim that it was "cunning", i.e. a planned ruse by Apple. I can still remember the disbelief when iTunes was ported to Windows so I'll need some convincing that Steve Jobs was so ahead of the game that he started out by playing possum in order to lull the labels into a false sense of security. Was the lack of Firewire adoption also part of this masterplan+
One-word summaries would suffice, actually, now that I've managed to figure out what they do. How about "deegList", "Trailer", and "Review"?
Well, thanks for the support;

Problem solved is giving people a reason to actually trust the recommendations made by recommendation engines. We have never known why Amazon (IMDb etc) was recommending us some movies rather than some others. There's a very strong algorithm behind these recommendations, but we believe that humanized recommendation engine is better because you can actually ask the person why he/she liked a movie and would recommend it. It's kind of like Aardvark: sometimes you want a person, not a web page, to answer your question.
I'm wondering what chair people suggest, I use a rather generic chair from Office Depot, that was only about 100 bucks. It's ok, but not great, also getting a bit old. Mind you this is while working at home.
Noticed the footer overlaps the playlist: http://i.imgur.com/xjUxo.png
Tilaa.nl is probably the best one I've found. Very well supported and professional.
This riles me every time I hear about it. I remember just watching one of the parliamentary committees on BBC Parliament and thinking why the hell are these people in charge of the biggest IT project in Britain.

I often wonder why open-source can't provide a good and cheap solution to this NHS IT problem. I know I'd happily work on something that will benefit the health of the entire population. I don't find it too hard to imagine that there are lots of other developers out there who feel the same way I do.
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And in general, supply/demand curves are also not necessarily linear. A 10% reduction in the supply of oil could result in a tripling of the price. A 10% reduction in the supply of "awesome programmers" might cause a large increase in their salary, or a small one.
One may think, that early bet on Facebook is not a per-say highly-leveraged, because it must be paid in full cash.

In practice it's such a risky investment, so it should be considered more like an option or outright gamble.
As to your 1.: Let's assume you're being honest and it isn't sock puppetry. It's still basically astroturfing, and I, at least, don't want to see that here.

If entire communities are allowed to flock to Hacker News to upvote the latest post about their pet platform, the site will become nothing more than a cheap marketing tool.

So, PSA: Please don't strip-mine this community's goodwill for your own or your company's benefit.

As to your 2.: You're entirely correct.
I don't think an option to hide mainstream recommendations does quite what I want. That would help when looking for more out-of-the-way hidden gems for recommendations, but it doesn't help when trying to rate films I've seen to improve the quality of my circle. I'd still suggest that you propose rating movies that polarize people heavily, as a partitioning technique. This works both in the general case (show me movies that many people rated, but which get both very high and very low ratings frequently), and in the specific case based on the contents of your circle (help me rate movies that would differentiate me from members of my current circle, not just movies that would reinforce my circle).

As for 0.5 versus 0, fair enough; it just seemed a bit quirky. :)

> Regarding "but now I don't see an obvious next step.", this sounds weird; you should normally have been redirected to a search result (a Circle) straight out of rating 5 movies, no more. Isn't that what happened?

Nope; I kept rating movies, until eventually all of the initial sets of films disappeared, and nothing else happened.

> There's no other "I haven't seen this movie" once you land your first search Circle, because there's no point. Either you haven't seen it and it stays as a recommendation (which you can add to your deegList), or you really don't want to see it and you can therefore Mute it with the "-" sign.

Fair enough. However, I wonder: do you take "mute" into account when doing recommendations, or just hide films? In particular, I see a number of films for which I could either rate them 0.5 ("I can tell from the trailer that this will suck") or mute them ("I guess I should reserve judgement, but I don't ever want to see it").

One more misplaced translation: "Retour en haut".
Once you know what thr icons are about, it's better to have icons; less test, visually more appealing.

How about that? At first it shows-up like words; once you've clicked one, it only ever comes back as an icon.
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No, you can only say "no" if you're a self-employed professional like a doctor or lawyer or consultant with his own practice. Then you have the choice of whether to take on a potential client or not. However, a professional who works for someone else has to take on their employer's priorities. That's the deal you sign up for when you become an employee; that's what you give up for a regular monthly paycheck.

If you're very valuable to your employer, you might be able to get away with saying "no". But most people are not indispensable, and if you say "no" too many times, your employer will start looking for ways to replace you.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/apple-launches-find-my-ip...
funny that nobody commented that iPhone had this :).
"...everyone was poor and life was cheap..."

There are still many places in the world where this is still the case.

However on the positive side, (if that's not too crass) everywhere is getting better. Someday all places will be as safe as we have come to expect.
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There's a theory that Pi digits contain every possible finite sequence of digits.

Just think about it. If that's true, the whole universe is described inside Pi with any precision you want, with any time precision you want. Somewhere in Pi your whole life is stored.
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-office-chair
I'm criticlly dependent on these little ear plugs, only way to control your environment

http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/mack%27s-ear-seals-dual-pur...
I see what you mean. No one has complained so far among our current users, but you're probably right that it can be annoying. We'll look for a way to fix that issue.
I read MMM years ago when I was in school because it was supposed to be one of the must read book of the field I was getting into. I found it abstruse, outdated, irrelevant and boring at the time.

The older, more mature, me with some real world experience, got back to a completely different book. What was dry is now engaging. Random opinions are now insights.

It also helps that my English is much better. The obscure vocabulary and outdated terms have become good writing and old fashioned (in a good way) style.

One thing that surprises me is the definition of architecture. To Brooks the architecture is the set of manuals needed for the user to use the system being created. It sort of is the (external) specification of the software. He clearly states that the architects must refrain from prescribing how the implementation should be. This is very different from today's definition of architect and software architecture. Why is it defined like this? Why isn't the conception of the (internal) architecture of the software a concern to Brooks?
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Kickstarter and development of affordable 3D printing are another two, just to lengthen the arrow pointing in the direction of the future you're imagining.

Having said that, the transition from our current world to that world could be pretty darn rocky, if it's even possible.
Thanks for the great feedback! I'm taking notes on everything you mentioned - will work on these for the next release.

Would you mind sending me an email, evan [at] markdownpad.com? I'd love to talk typography some more.
Aha. I've found my place to add this comment.

The grammar in the Hebrew does not seem to be correct. In Hebrew, nouns often precede adjectives. "Societal longevity" should properly be אריכות ימים חברתית.
That would make it hard to get used to the interface. If you're really attached to the icons, I'd suggest leaving them, and just providing the text as tooltips.

Also, clicking on it once doesn't mean a user will know or remember what it does. :)
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If you're going to use menu buttons for formatting, you could just get rid of the left pane altogether, use it as a WYSIWYG editor and export to markdown. So, yes, in my opinion it is clutter when you don't need it.
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> It's obvious that for a lot of HN participants, the
> site isn't fun unless we can divide everyone into
> heroes and villains

Do you think this is specific to HN?

Most news stations, for example, seem to me to be all about dividing the world into heroes and villains.

Also, do you think this is something that can be changed? My initial reaction is that this kind of black-and-white thinking is part of human nature, stemming from our need to apply our own morality to the events that occur around us.
Google+ still has a chance. But time is running out. Having just used it with a class for a semester, it was great (because all my students use Facebook so they weren't distracted!)but there are some huge gaps. Will everyone be gone before they are fixed. Why oh why, didn't they introduce shared circles from the start. Try to get 50 students to add each other, it is just not possible. This is the customer service Amazon point that was made so well in the article. I think it was great that it went public, there are lots of great points to think about.
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Polarizing the ratings seems like a nice way to quickly make them go their own way, indeed. With our algorithm, rating 'not popular' movies works just as well actually; but maybe we should also show movies people shoulDN'T like? I had given thoughts about it, but the layout is already kind of 'full', so it's not very easy.
We'll definitely look into it though; thanks a lot.

No, we don't currently take into consideration movies that have been muted or added to the deegList, but just like the polarization, we've already given thoughts about it (especially for this) and will probably take it into account in the next algorithm update.
Thanks again ;)
Just read a little of the above link. Personally I think http://progit.org/ does a better job of a conceptual walk-through while at the same time giving you exactly what you need to get started tracking your projects. It also explains the different types of suggested collaboration strategies in a way that you think "ah that makes sense".

Personal thanks to Scott Chacon if he's reading =)
What chair is Adam Sender using in this pic of his 20-monitor set up (http://www.oobject.com/trading-places/hedge-fund-manager-ada...)?
Another editor bound to one operating system. That's one of the awesome points of Sublime Text, usable on Linux, Windows or Mac.. in short, i won't use it because of that.
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Age of Spiritual Machines is why I became an engineer from an artist/musician.
My bad. I thought TruthElixirX was asking for a source for the bit about the record labels.

You could be right, but honestly I didn't want to take your position for fear of putting Steve on too high of a pedestal - for it would strain credulity for someone to have had his impact on six industries without the application of strategic thinking.

It would be truly god-like to have stumbled into it all via mediocrity.
If anyone hasn't read Understanding Comics, it's a fantastic book. http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-M...

And for the HN set, it is actually really good for UX inspiration.
Hey Ashton, thanks for letting us know. We'll look into that asap.
Did you like the rest?
I always felt in the zone with a beer, late at night. Bit of Justice or something on Spotify (or otherwise set to some sort of chilled out dubstep playlist), lights dimmed, and off I go.

Now being actually employed, I don't often do much at home (and don't even have a desk any more). There's not much concept of a zone there and I've become more collaborative and less engorged by my work. So it's more about throwing ideas out there, engaging in discussions, and talking through benefits and implications.

So in that sense my coding zone is less about blanking out the rest of the world and getting shit done like it used to be. It's mainly about being on top form with new ideas and creativity.

Aside from all that, I don't understand the caffeine thing. It's almost a stereotype. A good cup of tea or glass of water does me better.
Not being able to provision on demand is a deal breaker, though.
When people propose the "cover 150,000 km^2 with solar cells solution", I like to see them go on the record as saying that if we actually tried, they would not immediately turn around and start screaming about the 150,000 km^2 of Mother Earth we just converted to industrial land.

Solar of any form has a major power density problem. At least, it does in the biosphere, which it should be observed is only a rather small percentage of the universe....
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On a related note, I just created a bookmarklet to collapse comments. http://jaekwon.net/hncollapse.html
I also hit somewhere in the the $100-200/week, especially if you include wine. And that is basically doing all my own cooking and no prepared meals. Meat is a large part of it, as is fresh fish, but I eat less meat the many people I know, however when I do buy meat I buy the best quality I can find. Basically I don't buy more than most people, but I tend to buy the more expensive stuff in each category. Especially my Cheese monger can see a 'sucker' from a mile away and always manages to convince me to buy something hideously expensive he's just imported from France.

I have no doubt that I could easily get under $100 a month if I had to, but I love food, love to cook, and have the money, so I see no reason not to spend that money on food.
This matches my own experience with productive nocturnal coding marathons.

There's something very tranquil and calm about knowing the outside world is asleep. The dark has the effect of making it hard to see anything that isn't immediately in front of you, so when you're coding you don't see anything but the screen and the keyboard.

It kind of gives you nothing else to think about other than the problem to be solved.
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Please do enumerate the solutions you are alluding to if you're willing - I'm sure I'm not the only person on here who is curious and has no idea what you're talking about or where to start looking.
"it seems like a solid study"

It is, provided that context is given when statistics from the paper are mentioned...which rarely happens.

To fly a Bonanza you have to have a private pilot's license, a high performance endorsement (required to fly anything with HP > 200), and a complex endorsement (required to fly anything with a constant speed prop, flaps, and retractable gear). This takes some time...and good luck getting insurance coverage (the real factor in what you do/don't fly) if you don't have an instrument ticket.

Furthermore there's a world of difference between zero or a few minutes of instrument experience and three hours. I don't have any study to back this up but I'm a pilot and can tell you from experience that the first time you go on full instruments it's sheer sensory overload. Three hours doesn't prepare you to do a decoupled IFR approach or anything, but it give you enough to do a 180.

Here's another important factor about the study that never gets mentioned: in the study the attitude indicator (artificial horizon), heading indicator, and vertical speed indicator were covered, simulating a partial failure of the vacuum system as well as a partial failure of the pitot/static system. No pilot is going to take off these instrument in failure, and should they fail in flight most pilots are getting down, now. I know I would be heading to the nearest field if I saw partial failure of both instrument systems.

So instead of saying "VFR pilots are toast in 178 seconds if they go into clouds" quotes should read more like, "if you happen to be Dr Sam Beckett and you find you've quantum lept into a Bonanza that has partial instrument system failures and you've flown into a cloud, you better hope Al can jump your ass back out within three minutes."
It's a possibility, but I doubt so. The current system would be enough I guess, and we've already got a lot to do/manage/fix... Well, actually, you sir just gave us a lot to do ^^
Actually you are incorrect, a free market is one in which people voluntarily interact for mutual gain, i.e. it is not coercive. If their is government interference then it is not a free market, cornering a market does not make it any less free if done solely through voluntary trade.
184 people are underpaid and living in poverty.
The toolbars and status bar can both be hidden under the View menu.
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Truth is, the original iPod was not a good music player. I remember the varied competitors it had at the time. I ended up purchasing an iRiver iHP-120. That was a device that still holds its own to this day: a 20GB hard drive, MP3, WAV and Vorbis support (and it can play FLAC nowadays), USB mass storage, LCD remote control, dedicated line-out and digital line out, which, to this day, I know of no other player that has this.
Also on a related note, I created a Greasemonkey script that allows you to navigate through the comments chronologically, using the right and left arrow keys. It helps with the problem that, once a thread becomes mature, it's hard to find the latest comments that were added.

https://gist.github.com/1187770
This is pretty cool! I use YouTube for music all the time -- I'm not quite sure. I keep finding music apps that aren't quite right, and don't have what I want to hear (or not set up how I want to use them), and I end up back at YouTube, which indeed sucks for this.

No useful advice at the moment, beyond a vague suggestion to revisit the domain name choice (if somehow you're not wedded to this one by now, and you see many other folks with reactions like mine). I'm still not quite sure of the intended reading, but first I saw a slightly jumbled "tubgirl"(!), then I saw "two-baller"; now I'm stuck with a reference to "tubal" (as in tubal ligation? ...) with a flickr-style ending. Maybe just put an "about" link somewhere that gives a hint?
I would really love to have an API for lamernews, given that the system is trying to be more open than HN: http://lamernews.com/news/58
Hey, I wrote this! Thanks for posting this here.

I'm going to update the blog with more adventures in Code Nomadry.. I've been some crazy places. It's way, way fun.
I'm one of those weird people that finds music distracting.

He didn't mention his computer set up very much, even though he has a pretty good one. Personally I'm going to be 100% more productive if I have a second monitor so I can code in monitor 1 and have documentation opened in the other.
Any way to see the highest ranking a story achieved on hacker news?
for example, given any submission on HN, what was its top ranking on the news page?
That is not the same thing as what this article is talking about. Remote wipe has been available for some time through different methods.

What is being done here is an "enterprise" type integration, that data put on the phone is kept track of and if the phone leaves a "secure" area, then the tagged data can be automatically wiped.

This enables some different models for wiping that might be more fluid then the "nuke it from orbit" option. By tagging specific pieces of data as sensitive (and performing information flow analysis to track wherever that data gets propogated to), they can target the wiping to just the sensitive data. So before you even realize a phone is stolen, it can be securely wiped.

Another interesting use case is to automatically wipe the sensitive data whenever leaving the workplace, or perhaps some radius around work. That way, whenever you go on travel (or even just home for the day), the sensitive data is wiped, but say your contacts, personal email, and other app data could be retained, leaving it as a perfectly functional smartphone, without any of the company's data to lose.

Holes in their technique include simple attacks like turning the phone off (and pulling the SD card), but hopefully the sensitive data is also encrypted whenever it resides on disk.
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Are you kidding? If anything, what you said reinforces the fact that iPod is a great music player. It had the best way to browse music library (wheel), syncing experience (playlists, play counts, etc), best interface and best industrial design, all suited for one purpose: listening to music.
Thanks for the link. Awesome paper.
Great work on this bookmarklet. Looks great, and thanks for contributing to making HN better :)
They are not a good way to stop spammers, the bot can easily make a comment and check if its there when it is not logged in. But it is a good way to annoy HN users when they get banned.
> A company doesn't have a single conscience.

Insightful: while it's seemingly simple and obvious, everyone I know has fallen prey to the opposite belief, myself included.
You might find this useful: http://times.usefulinc.com/2007/03/06-sparklines

Note the second and third cases under "middle ranking". That seems like a category of films you should present to help add more nuance to a user's ratings and circle.
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I'm currently developing a similar open-source news aggregation codebase in Python/Pyramid. NoSQL support is something I'd like to add at some point but right now all database operations depend on SQLAlchemy. I would really, really like to see some NoSQL-ish modifications to a library like that, I hope antirez or other big names in k-v stores work on that soon -- it would certainly expand redis et al much faster.

I plan on making a big formal post about this when it has a bit more polish, but there are already a couple of sites that are using it. Here's the link if anyone's interested: https://github.com/sjuxax/raggregate
Can anyone suggest particular USB DACs? Preferrably ones that work on Linux.
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A few times now, I've refreshed and gotten a recommendation smumary with ratings, star icons, +, and -, but no titles.
Unfortunately, it may be against YouTube's Terms of Service since it strips the video from the content. http://evolver.fm/2011/03/25/how-youtube-radio-disappeared-f...
>Likewise, he explained that around 22 percent of people don't complete their course of antibiotics, which helps to creates bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. "You have to change the way you deliver medicine."

When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The thing is technology isn't going to help these 22% of people. Self responsibility and a little education would help.
Coffee doesn't do it for me... it doesn't create more energy - it simply takes what your body is storing for later and gives it to you now. Which is good, except when the afternoon rolls around and I'm falling asleep in my chair as I pay off my energy debt.