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> Shed Zaw can probably count on one hand how many times he's been afraid of being beaten, killed or raped--if the count is even greater than zero. Not so for most women. Remember, this is about emotions.

Is it really about emotions? I'm looking at the statistics for 2009/10 in my country[1] and it seems men are more than twice as likely to be murdered as women. I don't have statistics but I'd be quite surprised if women were actually more likely to be assaulted than men, particularly by non-partners, which is what we're talking about. Is the actual level of hazard not somewhat relevant, as well as the emotions? If (and you may disagree) the level of fear doesn't correspond to the level of hazard, is it not counterproductive to expound the idea that women are at constant risk of violence?

[1] http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-s...
$30 AND a large chunk of your sales profits.
Out of curiousity, where did you grow up? It makes a big difference for the temperature in the winters!
Mog does this now. We recommend based on play history and, if you have Facebook connected, we offer you recommendations based on your Facebook likes, as well as a separate collection of recommendations based on your friend's likes.

We also tell you which friend recommended which album, so you can immediately tell whose tastes are more in line with yours and whose are poo.
The biggest barrier to entry for the Mac in the corporate world is SAP. SAP GUI and the additional products it runs like the reporting tools (Bex) just cannot be run on Mac. The SAP GUI only works on Windows and in theory is supposed to be supported on Mac through Java and HTML equivalents, but in practice they don't work.

SAP is so ingrained into corporate IT that unless SAP themselves decide to rewrite everything (unlikely) I can't see PCs being replaced any time soon.
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Obvious when you really think about it, but it's so easy to want those engagement metrics higher and justify counting the first visit.

Signing up isn't cool, you know what's cool? Coming back again.
Grooveshark lets you upload music as well and is legal.
I understand the need to confuse "ownership" with hackability, for the purposes of philosophizing on this site. We are all tinkerers.

But by every definition of ownership recognized by society and our laws (at least in the United States), you completely own your phone. You are lawfully allowed to do the following:
- crush it, destroy it, put it in the dishwasher, or drive over it
- open it up all you want
- sell it to someone else
- Install alternate software on it

You are under no obligation to anyone once you have purchased that phone. It is, by ANY definition, legally your property.

The WORST thing Apple can do to you, is void your warranty. And that is completely acceptable.

Whether you think it should be less or more difficult is a philosophical discussion. The fact is, you have all the same protections under any laws that most people who "own" things have.

Reply to VladRussian Below (I couldn't find a reply link): Won't get me to disagree with you on anything related to the DMCA. I think it is a pigheaded piece of evil legislation. :) But most of the things I'm talking about aren't related to the DMCA (at least I hope not).
Started a petition on AskForIt.com:

http://www.askforit.com/3993/all-computer-manufacturers-that...
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Agreed about the thread usage: the code I put together for threads in various languages is as naive as possible. Having a thread pool in proportion to the number of CPUs and pulling tasks from a queue (a la "Nginex") would be much more efficient.

Interesting comment about the date formatter. I might put in something some time to compare the relative time spent in formatting vs the other concatenation. I suppose I'd be grateful if somebody made a fork with versions showing the split of time between those steps.
While I agree on that systems should have a mechanism for users to enter "Setup Mode", I don't understand why the recommendations ask systems to ship in that mode. It would only affect the first boot of the system, and I seriously doubt that for anyone that plans installing Linux on first boot visiting UEFI configuration would be a significant barrier.
I've never used Tivo but I do navigate to AMC to watch The Walking Dead on my cable box.

I'd agree that the situation is not ideal but I wonder how much Siri would play into this considering the NY Times report of integration of Siri and an Apple television.
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Well, not that my iTunes library is larger than my online streaming library, but it has a larger library of songs I listen to than my online streaming library if that makes any sense to you.

Also, my iTunes library is available offline cross-platform. I'm not limiting myself, which is why I'd say I'd use both. I'm expanding myself. + my offline library is more organized. Am I alone in this viewpoint?
Nice unbounce page ;-) (The star icons give it away) Honestly right now it's not worth anything to anyone and I'm sure you're losing potential signups. I was going to sign up until I saw that you were going to charge for it. It's way too early to do that when there's not a clear enough value prop. for anyone to do so. Take out the "I'm gonna charge you for this" and just see if people want the thing at all even if it's free. That's my $.02 :-)
I consider the root cause to be a mis-match between the memory management needs of the application and the assumptions of the GC. Their solution matches the application's memory usage with the assumptions of the GC.

What would be more useful to them is to be able to provide either hints to the GC, or to actually have some control over memory management. That is, keep the application the same, but let it influence GC behavior. They're forced to go at it the other way: keep the GC the same, but change the application so what the GC does becomes the right thing.

they modify the code in ways that don't represent the semantics of the problem to work around a limitation of the implementation.

That is always true when you start optimizing for performance. And nick_craver explains why the proposed suggestion may be easier to say, but there are hidden complexities. Personally, once you start introducing external control to your application like that, alarm bells go off in my head.
The article actually claims "it will either succeed today, or fail today and Rossi has two months to rectify any problems".

So it already was avoiding a definitive answer from the start.
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It may or may not be illegal, but inasmuch as ride-sharing is actively encouraged by state and local governments, it is unlikely that anybody has ever been prosecuted for this.

The taxi regulations only apply to taxis that can spontaneously pick you up on the street, not cars arranged for in advance. The gray area e.g. Uber is whether or not hitting a button 5 on your iPhone 5 minutes ahead of time counts as being "arranged in advance"
To counter your anecdote with another, a good friend who is weekend racing his Boxster at Laguna Seca was seriously considering buying a Tesla Roadster. But when he dug deeper, he found out that the Tesla can only be driven at full speed for a very short amount of time. After that, the battery temperature gets so high that the car switches into 'crawl mode' until the battery has cooled down again.
There are many fine product designers and maker geniuses around the world. I'm not trying to say that it is a common gift.

But it is certainly more common than an inspired and/or visionary business managers. At least I have met many of the former type and maybe only one or two of the latter. And they will probably never get a chance to take a shot at making a story as Job's.

That he was a genius manager is even a bigger cred to me. Since keeping ones true self and inner voice intact in cacophony of minds, emotions and ambitions that is a multinational is a worthy feat of its own accord.

Hell, the biggest team I ever got a shot at running was 15 people big. And for myself the wide variety of emotions and motives experienced, was barely a taste of what it means to run an organization 10's of thousands people strong.
Try juggling. What's interesting about it is that I have to consciously turn my forebrain off to juggle successfully.
This is sort of interesting, but I'm not sure how it applies to non-black hats. If you are responsible for this code just switch it all to mysqli and be done with it.
You are a pretty big fool, believing Apple is to blame for pricing in the iTunes Store. The content providers set the prices, not Apple. They just distribute and take a small share.

And how is Apple dominating my computer? I have no clue what you mean.
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I would rather skip the "app per channel" and have Apple develop the base app with each content provider providing a plug-in. This would allow navigation and search consistency while allowing content providers a chance to do their branding.
It would be like the Windows Start Menu where you had the likes of Start -> Programs -> Muffleklumpf Software Ltd -> Picture Editor.

It led to a searchable start menu.
hard backed book? Clipboard with a few sheets attached? Window overlooking a street?
>> If the h-ratio of a user is less than an admin-specified threshold, we flag the user as detrimental to the overall quality of the site...

This would give me pause. I read HN more for the comments than for the articles. The comments frequently of higher quality than the articles. I usually upvote early from the new page so that the topic will get wider discussion. That means that not infrequently, I will upvote a mediocre article or one I disagree with to get the discussion going. If necessary I'll throw in a comment saying why I think the article is off-base.

I would hate to be ranked as doing a disservice for what I am attempting to do. Perhaps I need to flag more Arabic and self-promotion spam to build up my meta-karma, although I think the current flaggers are doing a good job.
if it was purely about price, then these people would've purchased these options regardless of the shortcomings if they had known about them beforehand. and if this is the case, they went in with eyes wide open and the cloud is right for them.
Of course, but as you should know by know, nothing is ever innovative, revolutionary or even noteworthy if it doesn't come from Apple. At least as far as DF and "tech" sites like it are concerned.

I find this particularly ironic, given that Google TV with the Market (and apps like Al Jazeera that do exactly what the article describes) came out today. There isn't even a mention of this anywhere on his site.
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Juggling is good. I do that, and my other mental-break hobby is Rubik's cube type puzzles. Sometimes spending five minutes deeply in thought but a completely different kind of thought is exactly the right refresher.
Do you remember when Amazon deleted books off of peoples' kindles? Remote control of your phone is one obvious way in which Apple owns it and you do not. And the average person might not think they would care but when their copy of 1984 disappears they get angry!
Rootkit doesn't "install itself" - user installs it by running something shady and entering their own password or clicking Yes in UAC prompt.
The new Ariel Atom is the fastest road car on the Top Gear test track and it's up against the best of the best.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_test_track#The_Power_B...
Or find a library or College locally with photocopiers that can scan. We have one at work, it scans A4 sheets at the same speed that it copies, software can select resolution (300dpi max), colour and PDF or TIFF/JPG. On our system it e-mails the resulting pdf to you. I've seen some with USB ports.
when i went to Germany, someone hooked me on to gelegenheit. i thought it was the shit ever since. i would use google translate for the site, then call the drivers asking if they spoke english. They all said 'a little bit' even though 98% were fluent, which must be some kind of German modesty thing. The site seems to have clones or sister sites in most western europe countries as well. I would have expected people in various Eastern european countries to shun these services on safety grounds, so I am surprised that it is big in Slovenia.
17" touchscreen in place of the dash

In all honesty that's an idiotic trend that I hope ends soon. Touchscreens (especially ones with menus) are impossible to navigate without taking your eyes off the road. In my old Toyota Echo I could find every control (and its state) by feel alone.

Now, if they added tactile feedback to the touchscreen (say vibrations as you moved over controls on the screen, and requiring force to "click") and got rid of menus, at least that'd be usable (if not still silly).

...That said I'd still buy the car if I had that kind of disposable income.
To combat that, I usually use my short breaks to collect articles using Read It Later, or Instapaper... then use the longer breaks to actually read them.
Ask HN: Why nobody else can see my submission?
If I am not logged in I can't see my submissions in the "new" section (so I guess nobody can). Does anyone know why ?
Not quite sure but with "service" are you talking about something similar to real-time ridesharing? Has been around for quite a while but never went big:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_ridesharing
Yeah. I should do something like that. What I end up doing is just not reading stuff. Or taking breaks that are way too long.
AFAIK, it is actually meant to contrast with the stereotypical nerdy programmer self-diagnosed with Asperger's — who would never refer to a coworker as "bro" — rather than to denote a "male programmer." The terminology is very unfortunate, though, especially if you're outside the culture it originated in.

I think the idea they want to convey could be more inclusively expressed as "We believe in being happy and having a life and interests outside of programming" or something like that.
Love Rdio, hate that I cant shuffle more than one album at a time in my queue.
Reports of iPhone 4S battery life problems
I hacked my dinosaur toaster so it toasts a picture of RMS. it's awesome.
This is why search needs to be a huge component of a successful product in this area. For Google, it's their tried-and-true search bar. For Apple, it seems like Siri is their entry point.
Here at The Agency, we often work collaboratively with partner agencies who are responsible for the analytics & reporting for a client website. Without fail, they pick the most impressive numbers to present, not the most reflective of "business success" (which, admittedly, can't always be directly related to sales figures, but you can usually do better than "overall page views month over month"). This isn't their fault - it's the sort of stuff mid-level brand managers want to take to the CMO to say, "See, it's working! Please increase my budget." And the CMO doesn't mind much, either, because he can go to the board and say, "See, it's working! Please increase my budget." And the board likes to leave their meetings happy, so they generally don't mind good news... except when that good news doesn't match what the CFO is presenting for their revenue.

Measuring the wrong thing is endemic to technologists because we have the opportunity to measure everything! Drucker once said, "what gets measured gets managed." That couldn't be more true. If you optimize (manage) for monthly actives and count the signup visit, you probably don't know if people actually like what you got, or if you're just shouting loudly enough for them to glance at you. I'll repeat my usual mantra: measure as close to the cashflow as possible, then logically back your way out from that to understand your funnel. If you can't put a dollar value on an action (10% of pageviews turn to signups, 25% of signups become active users, 60% of active users become paying members, paying members are worth X, therefore a pageview is worth Y), it might not be worth measuring.

Quasi-apropos: what makes Facebook so impressive to me is not that it reaches 51% of Internet users, but that the average one views over 1,000 pages a month[1].

[1] http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/
The Atom has long been on my list of a car to buy once I have more than enough truly disposable income (and an OK from the wife).
What's important is the number of accounts compromised not the number of successful logins. I doubt their numbers are all that accurate, and some accounts are probably compromised several times a day etc, but I can't see how you can look at those numbers and things "this is a good thing".
Or you could just publish anonymously, using a Tor hidden service, using a tor2web.org URL so regular Internet users can access it.
Would seem very wasteful to be chuck a 40/50inch/whatever TV in trash/rubbish every 2 years just because it doesn't run the latest software. Whilst phones have a history of that, TV has the best part of century without it.
Thank you for posting the "entire article as one page". It's appreciated.
I was in the same boat. It made the platform unusable. That coupled with some of the worst and most apathetic customer support I have ever experienced, I swore to never go back.
Not by any number; just by how thoughtful the comments seem.
In fairness, if you're starting a software company and you imagine a room full of women, you're either wholly ignorant of the demographics of the industry or you're planning to discriminate like crazy against men.
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Remember that a key part of the TV experience for much/most of the audience is the brain-dead-simple "turn on, zone out" experience. Pick a channel and see what it feeds you. Background noise. "Here we are now, entertain us." When a show ends, just roll right on to the next one.

Apps are great for a smart interactive experience when you want it. TV per se isn't.
this adds complexity. Maybe you think that complexity is warranted, but you have to understand that there is a cost to it.

You can always buy a product from someone else, or make your own if you think there is a demand that isn't being filled.
Well spotted! Thanks - fixed.
The About Us page (http://www.audiogalaxy.com/misc/aboutUs) and this blog post http://www.audiogalaxy.com/blog/2010/10/audiogalaxy-is-back/ should explain the story.
This all seems reasonable to me, but I'm not sure this is the full meaning of the "I finally cracked it" remark.

I know Steve was enthusiastic about the moment when he could see something that finally met his standards, but he also wanted to see all the details come together before being confident in something. When I read that quote, I thought that must mean that Apple has a fairly complete prototype experience that Steve was satisfied with. So I think this aspect could be at the core of what having "cracked it" means but it means more than that.

For another view on the Apple TV's near future, here are my thoughts on this topic from a month back, focusing more on the fact that apps are not going to be remarkable in their form yet still have the power to powerfully disrupt the massive cable industry: http://www.quora.com/What-apps-can-we-expect-for-Apple-TV/an...

By now I have come to believe the TV-set approach is for real. Dan Frommer's argument from yesterday is compelling and input switching is so awful that it may be the biggest opportunity to relieve consumer pain. Reworking the TV set looks more and more like a highly strategic and experience-changing way to put all of Apple's advantages to bear on this apps-as-channels approach.
>The WORST thing Apple can do to you, is void your warranty.

before that the "WORST" was much worse
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/library-of-congress-adds-...

And this is the main point of all these discussions. It isn't about technical obstacles put in place by Apple and difficulty to break them as it only adds more interest to process, It is about criminalizing the very act of analysis of the system, ie. an act of mental activity, applied to the system you're supposedly own.

>I understand the need to confuse "ownership" with hackability, for the purposes of philosophizing on this site. We are all tinkerers.

Nobody tries to confuse ownership and hackability. They are orthogonal. What people still trying to bend their minds around is the ownership and off-limit (for your mind) holes in that ownership established by DMCA.
You're right, I was working backwards from the life-stories of billionaires I've read about. There are surely a vast number that wanted to become billionaires before they were even millionaires and failed.
What was the initial investment?
Cutting out the Middleman: Digital Publications, Ads and TV
Stanford and Cal not good enough?
Try Audiogalaxy - it might be what you've been looking for. It's still your music, just available everywhere without uploading to any server and without ads. http://www.audiogalaxy.com (Discl: I work on it)
Sure, but also have less than 1 billion active accounts. Anyway, I am more reacting to "this is the best way you can make these number look?" vs. some real estimate of the number of compromised accounts.
While reading this I was thinking it would be interesting to see an infographic which showed the relative size/mass you would need of various isotopes to detect, say, 500 msv/hr in open air at a fixed distance. Since most people never see radioactive substances, it could be interesting to compare them visually.
No, Microsoft tried to push things this way with their home media server in the early 00s, but it is too complicated for normal people (non hackers) to administrate. So everything is going to the cloud.

Your solution would be great if bandwidth didn't exponentially increase each year.
For me, it’s the appeal of being able to make 3D models without having to download and learn a complicated 3D modeling program. I've tried Blender before and found it very hard; an easily-accessible and understandable modeling tool like this makes it a lot easier to try to have some creative fun. Yes, it’s a lot less capable than a real 3D modeling program, but it has enough power to make some interesting things.
I'm curious, why is Coding Horror not in your lists? Is it too high level to be considered a programming blog?
But no MMU
I login and logout from facebook in my office, my home pc where it is shared by my family members and on my phone every day. I do same for my primary gmail account. Multiple login each day is very common I think.
Why put it in the trash? You can use it in some other room, the garage, etc... I'd put a two year old 40" in my office happily.
Eheh, not an unbounce page. All mine on a Linode VPS.

I'll charge for this. So I'm not interested to emails of people who would not pay for it. According to your idea I would drop "elite" too. No no, we'll be few and good :)

Thank you for your feedback!
I love sweets but that does not mean I fill my plate with them.
My personal rule of thumb has always been: "When it stops being fun and starts being work, it's time to find something new." I try to keep my count at "zero" hours as much as possible.
I agree with your overall thrust, but just a point that bugs me sometimes: Your comment would be much stronger without the "male privilege" explanation. That kind of talk has the wrong effect on people who aren't well-versed in feminist literature and there's usually a less broad description for the specific case you're talking about. For example, it's easy to think of programmers as men because working programmers are disproportionately likely to be men.