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> Right now, it seems like they're catching up with the AppleTV in terms of UI/UX... which is good, except when you realize that AppleTV is and was a failure as well.

AppleTV has one killer feature: AirPlay. For me, this does exactly what you are doing with your VNC-controlled PC, but it has a nicer UI and is wirelessly connected to a device I always carry with me.
I lived in Germany from 2009 - 2010 and ridesharing is absolutely huge. I haven't heard of anything happening. I probably used the ridesharing website from 2 to 20x per month (didn't have a car but traveled a lot). This is the one I used: http://mfg24.spiegel.de (the "spiegel" part is actually a major German publication but the rideshare itself is powered by another company). I'm sure chrome will translate it for all you non-germans ;) It's been around for 10+ years
Until this moment no service convinced me to change my 10-year-old habit of buy/download the music, organize the tags and put it on my mobile device. Since I bought my first iPod until today with my Nexus S I am still doing this and it is very practical to me.
Well, see, here's the difference, it counts how you see the glass, full or empty. From my point of view, and I assume theirs, that's simply a joke that most of you got serious.

I was just asking for a female programmer to tell that she's having a problem with this, not a dude.

Probably I haven't exposed my ideas in a correct and coherent way, but I am tired and english is not my main. But trust me, I know a lot of women that are programmers, at some I look up to, and those who aren't I try to help them integrate, we need really need female programmers, because we, as males, can never achieve their way of thinking.
Is there a good equivalent to UserVoice for internal helpdesks? (Or is UserVoice flexible enough to work well in an internal situation?)

This kind of "pull up a FAQ while the user enters a ticket" tech could work incredibly well for fortune 500 companies, schools, universities, etc.
There is a (unfounded) rumor that Google is the client behind the test:

http://ecatinfo.com/e-cat/e-cat-info-hints-sat-google-being-...
This is exactly what I did. Then it's as easy as dragging the song and/or album straight to it. That's it.
And yet coagulation is the relevant thing to discuss when we talk about blood loss from surgery, which is all I am trying to address because I am uncomfortable with the fact that the journalist got his facts exactly wrong. Being cold during surgery makes you bleed more. You and others have noted that cold causes constriction of blood vessels, so if that were the driving fact during surgery, cold would be beneficial. In fact, it is not. The decreased effectiveness of the clotting cascade outweighs the decrease in peripheral blood flow, leading to increased blood loss due to cold. The journalist stated something as fact, and then tried to explain why it was so. But he started from a false fact.
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Neat, but I want to be able to move elements around. For example, I want the little arrow here ( http://i.imgur.com/ngHiG.png ) on the right side - or gone - and changing that with CSS took me about 45 minutes the last time I tried.
I've been doing this for a few months. Painting would be ideal, but my new location doesnt allow for it.
One reason I think the advice in this post is valuable is not just to test the startup idea, but also to test the founder's appetite for traffic acquisition.

Many technical founders like building products, but those products will fail without the majority of energy directed toward getting traffic. So if you can't get a couple hundred email addresses of interested customers, you can save yourself a lot of time by not going further.
yikes! Embarrassing, but fixed nonetheless. Thank you.
I really like the on going developments around Google TV, Apple TV, Netflix, ... for now the world is not ready yet for such services but will be in a few years. After the mobile, the next battle will be TV.
Later JVMs do escape analysis, though - so there's not necessarily any difference between the two methods...
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I use a Wacom pen especially built for the iPad screen and an app called Penultime. Works pretty well.
It would be interesting to know what other people in the technology industry do during their breaks. I usually go for a smoke and a cup of coffee, and maybe getting to know what other people do could inspire me to avoid this bad habit.
Facebook sees 600,000 compromised logins per day - 0.06% of all logins
Isn't reverse engineering for the purposes of interoperability expressly allowed under the DMCA?

Plus, I don't get why companies care if someone reverse engineers their super secret [read: crappy] protocol.
Show HN: OurDoings: easier, faster photo sharing
Wow. That was confusing. I just replied to a Slovenian with a German website and then scrolled down to see yours... Head slightly exploded
Since I think we all agree the post is kind of missing the point, let me ask it like this: He said he liked working a 90 hour week hacking away when he was in grad school. Is it possible to have a hacking spree that is only 40 hours a week and get the best of both worlds; spending the other 40 hours outdoors or with your family?

I guess maybe this guy is the type of person who is all or nothing. We know everyone's different in this way. But to really be devoted to a project and getting it out the door, do you have to work 80 hours a week for 3 months so you can ship, or can you work 40 hours a week for 6 months?

I have some thoughts, but I'm curious as to what others think.
1MW worth of power from fusion would generate enough radiation to kill a stadium full of people in a fraction of a second without a lot of shielding,

Well, it depends on the reaction. The p-B reaction ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Residual_radi... ) releases the vast majority of its energy in charged particles, which could potentially be converted directly to electricity with not much physical shielding.

(Not that that has anything to do with the linked article, of course).
Aspects of interest to the HN community: (1) Look at how I used an iPad for the screencast. Hands are easier to follow than mouse cursors. (2) You can use Dropbox to upload a large collection of photos. (3) The site is mostly written in a Lisp dialect, Kawa Scheme, that runs on the JVM.
"To the point where a perpetual motion machine could be created without violating as many past observations."

No, that's not fair. Perpetual motion, or even more accurately over-unity perpetual motion, cracks physics wide open; violation of conservation of energy means that everything we think we know about fields isn't just a bit off in the details, but blatantly wrong, from the most foundational math we have on up. Successful cold fusion would most likely imply that our understanding of how QM in particles ends up manifesting in more complicated systems is wrong. In this case, really, really wrong, but in general that's less of a shock. We've done a lot of work in things like superconductors and the frontiers of material science that has been something we could characterize that way, and if we ever expect to get quantum computers going we'll need some more. (There's a faint chance that we just plain missed something in QM but I'd consider the missed interaction in large systems far more likely.)

I'll still believe it when I see it and not before, but it isn't quite the same level of crazy.
We now know what Skype got out of the Microsoft deal: Lawyers. </sarcasm>
This is a publication from the California PUC: http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/42294D2B-412E-466E-A74B-...
Open source people don't care much for EFI but Coreboot can run on some recent AMD motherboards.
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I think its absolutely terrible that I can't put on rims with a different bolt pattern - and just when I think I've got it all figured out, the manufacturer changes it again! ;-)
Just to provide a counter-anecdote... I love my Revue. We don't have cable, and all of our content comes from either Netflix, Pandora or from a media server on my network. The fact that it has a browser was actually a deciding factor in getting a Revue rather than an Apple TV box. I'm also a big fan of the keyboard-remote. It nice having unified control of every device in my media chain (Revue, TV, and sound system) in one place, and it Just Works (TM). If I don't feel like reaching for the keyboard, my Android phone is also a very capable remote.

My parents are in much the same boat, and own three Revues. I realize we're not the common use case, but Google TV meets our needs very well. Perhaps 'niche product' would be a better description than 'piece of junk.'
My father leases/finances equipment and occasionally gets the used machines back after the term expires. Was thinking that a website positioning the vending machines as a great learning tool for kids would be an interesting way to sell them. Depending on the popularity, I imagine you might even be able to build some web applications that would help the kids manage and find locations for the machines (a sort of marketplace for machine owners and location owners). There's the possibility of upgrading the machines and even adding NFC support to older ones too.

Am looking into how many machines I can get my hands on now...
I have no idea why: http://folksinpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hatchet-...
This is false. The dealer will issue you a temporary permit which is taped in the front window.
Isn't that the issue Firefox was having with their so-called "memory leaks"?
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It sounds a bit on the extreme side of normal, but not to unusual for a non-tech company trying to do development(Heck the Apple guys around here talk about their 12+ work days). My first job out of college it wasn't unusual to work 12hr days 7 days a week for a couple of months at a time running up to major deadlines. On the other hand it isn't that hard to find non crap companies that don't do that to people. So I would say not uncommon but not normal.
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Say Apple took the Android model of hiding installing apps from unknown sources in settings and warning users about the dangers

With this model Apple misses out on their 30% cut of app sales.
Getting an assistant makes a lot of sense in most cases, but there is one area that you should never use an assistant.

Never let an assistant mediate meetings or contacts with clients, partners, investors, or anyone else. If you're at a start up, book your own meetings. Everyone else can do it, so can you.

Why?

1. It's rude. They wanted to talk to you but you've punted them to an assistant. For a tiny company, you aren't that important.

2. It cools the relationship before it started. Relationships are the core asset of any business. Prioritize them.

3. It distances you from the market. As a startup, you should be as close to the market as possible. Actively disintermediating from people around you is a bad sign of how out of touch you likely are.
Once you start to have more of a personal/family life, the 40 hour (or slightly more) work week becomes a lot more essential.

Kids need more consistent time from you, they can't take 20 hours one week and zero hours the next. Same with spouses/significant others.
I know very little about the field and would appreciate if you provided some pointers.
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Some languages solve this problem by not having a GC at all :) However, with a problem involving huge in memory structures like this, even manually allocating and deallocating everything properly would probably be a non trivial thing.
The problem is that people aren't perceiving the link to be applicable to their situation for whatever reason. A better solution rather than investing more time in handling emails would be to alter the message the user sees when they get the login wrong:

"Invalid username and/or password. Would you like us to reset your password for you? [button: YES, reset my password]"

If the user simply mistyped their password they can ignore the prompt and try again. If they click the YES button, direct them to a page that has the email address they entered pre-populated and a "Reset My Password" button with clear instructions elsewhere on what to do. For example, an arrow to the email field with instructions on ensuring the email address is correct; another arrow to the button with instructions to click there. Clicking on the button then shows "We have sent an email to <your email address>. Please follow the instructions contained in the email to reset your password." The email would contain a link with a time-expiring token that, when clicked, lets them specify their new password.

With that approach you could have reduced those types of emails to mostly situations where the user did not get the email.
No one ever said there was one music service to serve all manners of music consumption. There are many to serve many.

It is a fallacy to assume that everyone consumes or enjoys music the same way, or that music has the same role in every listeners life. In fact, music could have many roles depending on artist, genre, song, album, mood, etc.

You can't as a music service do a user experience and interface, business model, etc that will serve all modalities and particularities of consumption, fanaticism and enjoyment. It isn't possible. It wasn't possible with physical media either.

I have the luxury of affording many options, and so I have many options: RDIO, Spotify and iTunes. All have different uses for me, all fill different roles in my life as a music listener and consumer.

This is no different than 20 years ago, when vinyl, CD, radio and cassette tapes all had their place in my life depending on what it was I was doing.
Consumerization of the Enterprise is Happening, Stop Fighting It
Because Batch would then be permanently attached to FB and would always require FB login. There may be a point in the future where Batch allows other logins.
GreenArrays [1] has 144 chips on a die evaluation boards. The toy is a bit expensive, though.

[1] http://www.greenarraychips.com/
Best of luck with the app, but the fonts are killing me, man.
Yaix is correct. There's nothing magical about oil such that it can only be produced underground in the Earth. All the petrochemicals can be made via other processes. We know this because people have done it, some even at industrial scales. If you have enough cheap electricity, the oil problem goes away... but there's a lot of terawatts lying in wait behind that innocuous word "enough". But in the end, all significant resource considerations across the next couple of centuries come down to matters of energy, not atoms.
> I know I am going to get downvoted like crazy, but I dont care at all about my HN score.

I downvoted you because this kind of baiting is extremely annoying and is the kind of thing I would expect from reddit but not HN. It also goes against the HN guidelines:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.
I can't find the post, I think it was taken down or some such. In any case I've seen some quotes that clearly state "non-bros" are welcome to apply as well. In my opinion, (and I am only playing devil's advocate.)

If you're asking if they were sexist. (once again I haven't read it nor can I find it, I'm going off what everyone else has quoted.) Then it would seem safe to say no, what with them saying that it's not only "brogrammers" that can apply. I would also go as far to say that this post should be considered good if nothing else then the brutal honesty given. They party, they get "crunk" they brogram, which is to say they are comrades that support each other and like minded individuals. Is that bad? Not inherently so. Is it immature? I think they made sure everyone knew that was the case.

Also I forgot this part, to answer the question posted, (my bad.)

Do we want a community of people that supports a no girl allowed rule? Um hell no, I like women, generally they have ideas that I don't consider because I'm a male, my DNA and my social upbringing made me who I am, which is different then who anyone else is. I don't feel like that's what they were trying to do though.
Feedback my mvp: Notles, seamless online note taking
ARM Welcomes Windows with 64-Bit Chips for Desktops and Servers
Certainly interesting. How does it (or could it be extended to) handle these common scenarios, I wonder?

* reusing common elements on different pages

* iteration
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> This isn't about "just working", it isn't about better support...

Tell that to the iOS developer who is getting bad reviews because the app does not run correctly on jailbroken devices where some system modification has been installed.
A lot of this comes down to personal preference.

But for me, it really resonates. I'd really like to try a job where I worked, say, 60 hours one week, and zero the next. (Yeah, that's not quite a full-time average.) And, let's say, every 5th month worked every week, and took the next month as vacation.

I think I could actually be really productive this way, but I've never had the chance to try it.
I think it's been around even before the 'net, which is why several sites basically have the same name ("Mitfahrzentrale"). Student organisations and similar groups used to do it for their members or event participants.

I'd say that hitch-hiking isn't that more common than in other countries, but sharing a car for a long trip is. (And yes, dear Americans, I know, a few hundred miles really isn't long…)
> A win consumers should not need to fight for.

Rather, it's a win consumers should not fight for. Just don't buy those devices.
Changing the user agent unblocks most of that content. Although most websites streams at 480i and look pretty miserable on an HDTV.
BOFH: Hordes unleashed... by a RAM upgrade
In other words, "a cultural match".
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I like the concept but as someone who has had the unfortunate task of going through tons of resumes, there's just too much info on here. We scan. If something catches our eye, we read a bit more. Nothing really catches my eye. The comments don't mean anything to me (as the one who would scan your rez) and it adds to the jumble of text. Please, please, please, if you haven't been the one in a position to read resumes, send it to people who have and they'll give you the honesty you need.
I'm probably the only one, but I love the GoogleTV. Had it since early this year and use it absolutely every single day.
It's always on, so it's always so easy to look up something on youtube, show somebody your pictures, watch a video from my NAS, look up a recipe or a place to visit on the web, etc.

At first I thought the full keyboard was a bit too much, but now I don't mind it at all, just makes it easier to find stuff online. I love it, can't wait for the update.

The fact that it's always on is the killer for me. One keypress and you're searching for whatever you want. Whenever people visit me and we're talking about something, I just press the search key and we can all search together for it, much more social then pulling up a phone and looking down. I love it, cant wait for the update.
If you using bad grammer like this title, you are doing it wrong.
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You can change or remove icons by assigning CSS attributes to HTML elements when building your application. Removing the "ui-btn-icon-right" class from that button removes the arrow icon.

Unless I've misunderstood what you're trying to do.
I can never understand why car companies put out such ugly cars. Is there such a huge price difference between making a decent looking car and an ugly car that they have sacrifice design? Or does someone at nissan actually thinks it looks "space age".
Not only is "Radio" iffy - it doesn't even exist in the iPhone app. On mobile, there's essentially no way to discover new music.
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Papering over user support with an FAQ is addressing the symptom, not the problem. You should consider an FAQ to be a stop gap, until you fix your bad software. Example:

We get a request or two per week in Gaia GPS for people asking "How to I delete a waypoint?" and other people seem to search for "Gaia GPS delete waypoint" on Google too. To do this, you swipe the row of the waypoint to be deleted in a table view, and a delete button appears. This is how the native iPhone email works.

We describe how to do this in a page in our help describing hard-to-find-features (the top page in our Help manual even). But really, we need to make it more obvious to everyone how to do it.

To solve this problem, we changed the software this release to add a delete option to the details page of each object. When this is approved, I imagine all the support will disappear.
> MikeeUSA is a troll.

No, no he is not. A troll is someone who advances an exaggerated position they do not hold, for the entertainment value of watching the commotion it causes.

A troll is not someone who:

- creates misogynistic game content glorifying the rape and oppression of women

- repeatedly creates throw-away email accounts with new names in order to ensure his hateful message is heard in forums from which he has been banned

- hosts his personal website in Canada because he knows it's more difficult to shut him down across international borders

- bounces all of his traffic through TOR to avoid prosecution for his behavior

MikeeUSA has done all of these things. He is not a troll. He is a sad little manchild with an inferiority complex and he is a boil on the butt of humanity, but he is not a troll.

Nor are people who harrass their targets at their place of work "trolls".

It's very easy to dismiss inappropriate behavior as "trolling". When you dismiss harrassment as "trolling" and suggest that it should be ignored, you are part of the problem. When you blame Skud for "letting the trolls win," you are part of the problem.

It's absurd and offensive for you to claim that Skud is "scaring more women away" by talking about her experience or for deciding to leave the tech industry. What scares women away from FOSS are their actual personal experiences of harrassment. You don't want women to shy away from high profile positions in the FOSS community? Worry instead about finding a solution to the problem that women who do are subjected to the kind of abuse that makes them decide it's not worth the pain to be involved in this community.