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That "article" is shit. It has no information on it at all.

I found Apple's web-site a little useful:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/new-itunes/

The new iTunes looks terrible. It looks like they are Metro-fying the UI (i.e. removing all of the productive bits and then claiming the simplicity is a good trade-off).
I'm guessing because 4294967290 = 2^32 - 6
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My mother's family are all from the Durham area and Norwegians speaking English all sound like they have an North-East accent to me. My grandmother now calls my daughters the bairns, pigs were always swine, etc. One of my mother's cultural touchstones as a child was the 'Oor Wullie' and 'The Broons' comics, which are actually scottish but close enough to NE English for her as a child to consider it part of her cultural sphere.

Now clearly my grandparents and family from that region all speak English, but it's quite different from the English spoken in SE London where I now live, so my daughters are picking up a cockney/Kentish dialect that's very much more West German.

So I don't think it makes a lot of sense to say that English is more this, or more that. It reduces down to saying that more people in England live in regions influenced by language family X than live in regions influenced by language family Y. But they all are speaking English.
Personally, I think I just have the keyboard layout more or less memorized in my head. I type about 80-100 wpm. I'll often hit the keys on the outside of the keyboard with different fingers on the fly and I dont pay attention to it. I'll put my hands on the home row, sort of, when I'm done typing something out, but my pinks usually go to shift and enter rather than 'a' and ';'
Reddit gold is a freemium model, not donations. Are Conde Nast meant to continually bankroll something that doesn't generate profit?
That's actually a great idea. Wonder if this can/should be made more well-known through the wiki software?

For example, maybe all Wiki article paths should redirect to a specific version? E.g. if I go to "wiki/tree" I'll get "wiki/tree/1101" which is the version number. Then, every page can have a message at the top saying "to get to the latest revision, click here". (Just an off-the-top-of-my-head idea of how to do this).
If the e-book is being sold in the same way and marketed as a physical book but on a digital media, always accessible, they yes, we can indeed demand the right to have access to it.

If however, in the very unlikely scenario, they market those books as temporarily rented products, and clearly informed the consumer of this fact (to the point of informed decision, by legal definition), then the customer can only expect what was informed at the time of purchase.

By the sound of the article, this is not the case however. If the company had been located in the EU, they would be in violation of a number of consumer protection laws.
>The accounts they used weren't fake

Uh, yeah, they were. They intentionally created _false_ accounts of people with different names to give the impression that a lot of people were already submitting content to the site.
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I'm not sure Tesla needs to drop the price back at all. I recall many iPhone buyers who were upset when Apple reduced the iPhone price.

If Tesla's costs to make each Model S go up, they can't avoid raising their prices.

It'd be nice if they were dropping prices, but I assume only a new model of Tesla would feature a lower price.
If you're going to touch type, you should use a layout designed for it, not a layout designed to prevent typewriter from breaking.

Dvorak, Bépo, etc. Much easier on the fingers. Then you can do the "robot" diagram because it's sort of built in your layout. Even for programming it's much better.
Mice breed fast and die quick, which lets you run a lot of trials much faster than you could in humans or primates. They're also "close enough" that most treatments will have similar effects in both - most treatments that work in mice but not in humans usually fail due to bad side-effects, or due to having the same direct effect as in mice but that not causing the follow-on effects that are what is actually desired.

There are vastly more compounds and potential treatments that are harmful or do absolutely nothing than there are that are beneficial - being able to filter out nonworking treatments quickly is very important to actually finding the stuff that does work.
I thought I would run the numbers.

http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-H... is a good rough estimate of Transit Costs on the internet.

For 2012, it's around $2.34/megabit/second.

Testing the math "at break even" - $15 / $2.34 = 6.4 megabits/second. 6.4 megabits/second at 30 days in gigabytes = 2,073.6 gigabytes.

So, there's enough margin for everyone to be using the 500GB without that ISP going bankrupt. (Yes, I realize that they have costs for servers, cooling, real-estate, diesel, staff, security, etc..., but this shows we're in the right ballpark with a 4x margin)
We use them at my day job, their support can be a bit clunky in terms of turnaround times once you've escalated something tricky but they're generally quite helpful and certainly legit - we have a mix of EV and regular with I think 1 wildcard and have never had any particularly serious issues other than slow EV paperwork.
Making private complete copies is legal in most countries, in particular European ones. Private copying levy stems from this concept. Photocopy an entire book for private use only is thus perfectly legal if you are in one of those countries which allows it.
I don't believe anything is actually being removed. Judging by the screenshots on the preview site, it appears that all existing functionality is still available, with some of it placed differently than in iTunes 10.
I also grew up in Scotland. At one point I worked with a Swede and was interested to find that many Scots words are closer to their equivalents in Scandinavian languages than they are to those in English.

For example, "greet" for "cry" is clearly related to the Norwegian gråte or Swedish gråta. Likewise "kirk" for "church" is a lot closer to the Norwegian "kirke". These are the only ones I remember off the top of my head, but I remember there being surprisingly many.

edit: bairn (Scots) vs barn (Norwegian) for child just came to mind.
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This website has not shown up properly for me once in the last 10 minutes... No style sheet, missing end of html or times out each time... Incase anybody from the site reads this.
I never formally learned how to type. I had no clue what "home row" meant or where you're supposed to keep your fingers at any point in time.

However, I do touch type -- I never look at the keyboard while typing, even for symbols used when programming and I use almost all my fingers, except perhaps my left thumb, it stays on the space bar but I always use my right one for that. And I just tried an online typing test. When I strive for 100% accuracy, ie, I go back to fix mistakes when I notice I made a typo I got 75WPM. Also, I usually type faster than I do when taking these tests because the slowdown for me is in reading not typing because many of them have nonsensical texts(not as bad as "Green ideas sleep furiously" but nonetheless, probably something I wouldn't write naturally).

I also don't even remember going through a "hunt and peck" phase when typing. I thought this was natural and all people who use the keyboard a lot evolve into something like this naturally.

Edit: I just looked at the definitions for some of these things and which keys you're supposed to hit with which fingers and I noticed that I usually keep the keyboard slightly to the left side so that my right hand is at an angle, not straight. So instead of splitting things vertically between my fingers on the right side it's a bit different. For example I hit the "Y" key with my middle finger and I move my entire hand down to hit the "," with my index. So it's definitely suboptimal but it's good enough for me.
I don't care why, as I browse with javascript disabled I just end up on a blank page and move on to something else.

I suggest both you readers and users of blogspot do the same.
It's been said by others HNers, but I want to stress the point further with a reformulation.

We have great difficulties to find foreign planets. We barely know what's beyond Pluto. Heck, we probably have a couple of surprises waiting for us in the solar system.

One cannot expect us to be able to detect alien probes, operating with engines and communication capabilities beyond our understanding, probably only few meters wide (if not much smaller!) and operating somewhere near our star, probes we don't even attempt to detect in the first place.

Plus there is a bias toward colonization. I agree that an advanced civilization, except if it becomes extremely xenophobic, would probably want to explore the universe, but colonize? If you have the technology, it's possible you don't need to spread physically that much.

Just speculations of my own, of course.
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Sorry but all this does is change the user agent string, it doesn't change the rendering engine, viewport size, emulate touch events or anything else you need to do proper tests.
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In case anyone is perplexed by the "-6" comment, the decimal number -6 represented as a signed int in twos complement is

11111111111111111111111111111010

When interpreted as an unsigned int, this is 4,294,967,290 = 2^32 - 6.
This has nothing to do with DRM, it is a crappily designed customer authentication system. If B&N had any sense they would offer customers the ability to redownload their purchases at any time after say, 120 days, for an additional 25c.
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Huh. Stand by ...

Edit: It was there a minute ago and I had it open, but now it's returning 404. No idea what's happened - I'll look for another version. Thanks.

Another edit: Truly gone, although it was there when I used the bookmarklet to submit it. Very frustrating. Should I delete this?
Did it not occur to you that this was probably for non-programmers or those who aren't technically inclined?
He didn't go far enough. The real challenge would be to approximate Flatland where you are constrained (as much as humanly possible ) to two dimensions. For example the desk in this home would not be allowed as a person could occupy the same 2d space.
I guess someone wanted to buy 6 stocks, pressed wrong and made -6, and the program did not have any data checks and sent it to the market.
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I believe it's worse than that.

Since as long as I remember and probably even before that, when explaining networking to executives, marketing and other technically challenged people, we use drawings. In these drawings the part representing the internet is for some reason drawn as a cloud, probably to convey that some magic we don't want to get into the deatils happens there.

Now you've got it, the cloud, a.k.a. the internet symbol for ignorant people.
The DMCA kicks in if there is DRM involved.
in essence, the crowd-funding model is working just fine. Game publishing will never be the same.
Don't think so, and that's a big downside.
Sure, but IE screwed up more things than it got right. Way more.
>>"* Need to host a dinner party? Rent a space with dining facilities and equipment that you need.*"

I think realistically if you don't have the space, you don't host the dinner party. Usually not. The whole cost-benefit-convenience-sunk cost-etc balance is completely different.

Someone who likes to cook and host might spend $75k on kitchen fittings, appliances, crockery & such every 10 years. Say they host 5 dinner parties per year. Would that person be wiling to spend only $25k on the kitchen & the remaining $50k + consumables on hosting the 50 dinner parties? Probably not. It's just different.

The JIT equivalent is not going to be renting a venue for a dinner party. It's going to be going to a restaurant or a bar.
>you are out of luck and have to buy a new one.

Yes. A new version of that book, not a new version of every book in your library.

>Of course, by centralizing many books to one physical object, you risk losing much more content as you lose that physical object. But the advantage is that, in case it breaks, it can be repaired (which might be impossible with a physical book)

Which is irrelevant if the company doesn't allow you to redownload the data, as in this story.
You might try an e-ink device. That will solve your problems of fiddling and pixelation. I find them far more comfortable to read as well.

Regarding your memory system, this is a matter of changing habits.

As for the nostalgia, I could tell you I miss my CRT and the clack of a first generation remote, or the times when video content was limited so everyone watched the same thing, of when folks could design with their hands and wrote letters. Times change.

I too love physical books, but I won't buy them these days because the convenience of ebooks is just too great.
Copy a physical book and you have infringed on its copyright. Copy an ebook with DRM and you have done the same, AND run afoul of the DMCA.

Lets not lose sight of the fact that DRM does present a different situation by pulling additional laws into play, in our blind defense of DRM.
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"kirche" is German for church - I think that may simply be very similar in all the dialects in contention!
Kill that noise right now.

Before you grabbed that little war drum, if you thought of the consequences you really wouldn't want to start such a conflict in the first place.

The quick, unorganized retaliatory response from an anonymous actor is usually such that it puts innocent services and people directly into the crossfire. Not to mention an anonymous moniker allows anyone to act on the behalf of anyone.
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I love it but I actually don't understand why you decided to put two completely separated features in a single library: the alert/confirm/prompt dialogs and the log/success/error messages.

I think that if you'd split this two things into two different libraries it would be better (e.g.: if i want only dialogs i'd prefer to include just them)
> edit: The funniest result of being a quick typist is that I use copy+paste less than I did a few years ago. Often the context switch between typing and selecting is too much work and it's quicker to just type things twice.

Same for me, ish; I often find myself just using backspace and retyping the last few words if I find a typo a few words back, as opposed to reaching for the mouse and redoing just that word, or using the keys to go back. Going four words back is usually a matter of alt + left-left-left, alt-backspace, re-type, but still I find myself just deleting the last couple words and retyping it.
I agree and it created a shitty situation. But I have to believe B&N did not intentionally institute this policy and will quickly change it.
I'm impressed about the amount. While my impression is that these days, a Silicon Valley startup can "easily" raise multiple millions over little more than a few launching customers, getting large investments in Europe has repeatedly been proven difficult. Is this a sign that things are changing? Or was my assumption wrong from the start?
I learned to touch type with the home row thing, but I never find my fingers really going back to the home row, they just go to the next letter that needs to be typed. I guess with experience comes automatism, which in my case doesn't always involve going back to the home row after typing a letter. Or something.
Have the Beeb given up on editors for their website? The first sentence is so unlikely to be true, "a day entirely without violent crime", really? I could perhaps accept this if they added the word "reported". But the following statement that "Monday was the most bloodshed-free 24-hour period in recent history" is devoid of meaning, if a spokesman really said this then they should be fired. "Least bloodshed" has meaning, "most bloodshed-free" is simply idiotic. And yes, people who talk about "50% less" when they mean "half as much" are also exposing themselves as people who do not understand what they are saying. Hmmm, more coffee required.
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We're looking for a VP Engineering candidate to come in and take some duties of our current VP so he can focus on the architecture and systems stuff instead of team building and politics. This is fine, I think we're all in agreement with this. Now to "spare" us mass interviews they've been interviewing candidates for a while now and about 6 weeks ago they brought one in they really liked for the team to meet him. We sat with him for an hour each and chatting about his history, what he wants to do etc and that was it. The three people that met with him(our of the four in the department) gave him a thumbs-down. Fast forward to yesterday and they've announced they've hired him.

4 person department, three people met with the guy for an hour and all said he's not a good fit and they hired him without asking or telling the department. Is this messed up or am I being a pussy? It's a <25 person company and we(the department) have been there for two years.
I posted this here partly because I see fairly large amounts raised in Europe on a regular basis, but this seems to happen in completely different "spheres" than HN, and results in people thinking nothing is raised (which appears not true from what I came across).

I will try to write those down for the future and share back.
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It was sold quite early, but for a double digit million dollar pay out. For a while, it was the biggest YC exit. It has been spun back out into an independent subsidiary, which Alexis is involved in again in an executive role (Steve could have been, too, I'm sure, but he's working on Hipmunk).

What do you consider success for fresh out of college 20-somethings, if having a few million bucks in the bank, and having built one of the biggest sites on the Internet, isn't success?
Oh really? Because nowhere does it depict controls for a connected device.

It'd be nice to think that Apple pulled its head out of its ass and pulled the iOS-device management out of iTunes, giving us a separate and proper management console for these handheld Unix computers. The fact that we're five years in and still using a shitty jukebox app to manage these things (with hacked-together tabs that don't even work properly) is an embarrassment to Apple.

Given Apple's recent UI regressions (the widely and rightly hated Address Book and Calendar come to mind), there's little hope of improvement in iTunes. Remember that "total rewrite" of Finder a couple years ago? We all know how that turned out.
o rly? I, and probably the other 'fast' typists here, type a lot faster than they can talk - plus, almost nobody can 'speak' perfectly, so corrections - even if assuming the speech-to-text converter has a 100% accuracy rate - will be very frustrating.

A better system would be a thought-to-sane-text conversion. But I doubt that'll ever be possible, :p.
And that's why you should always use unsigned ints

And put sensible limits and checks in processing untrusted data (that is, everything that comes from the outside)
Great way to sell actions at the price you like :)
Maybe http://typing.io ?
Right! I'm European but HN really is my only news source for things like this. Care to point out some main places in these completely different "spheres"?
As a native Swedish speaker, I was curious to see how well the auto-translator would handle this rather niche financial text.

The wording "The value of words corresponding to" in the second sentence confused me, but I first chalked it up to me not understanding finance-speak in English well enough.

Then I realized hovering shows the original text, and investigated. The original Swedish text has a typo! It says "orden" (="the words") where it should say "ordern" (="the [purchase] order").

I found that amusing. :)
Do we see many homes near the minimum?

When some arbitrary floor is having an impact you'de expect it to be felt. A lot of people have had a minimum wage job for example. Most are aware of it. Few people even know about minimum home sizes.
Unlike all those novelty accounts on reddit. Or, for that matter, unlike your username here, "kami8845", if that is your real name rather than a false name.

The accounts were real enough. They were people (Steve and Alexis) posting interesting stories to their own site. They just happened to give the illusion of lots of people doing it...which is kinda mandatory for a new site, if you want to kickstart it.
I only learned of "bairn" from the Broons - "loons"/"loonies" and "quine"/"quinies" was used where and when I grew up in Moray.
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indeed; smacks of cherry picking. I would also have liked to see those stats compared with the same ones for German, since that was also part of the hypothesis.
Having both an iPhone 4 and an iPad 3 as well as a Macbook Air and a fat iPod Nano (best thing ever), I found it interesting that from all those keynotes we had this year, knowing iTunes would get reimagined got me much more excited than everything else they announced. I feel like we have peaked on those technologies as for most people (like myself) everything is just good enough.

In more detail, I feel like the iPhone 4 (until I updated it to iOS 6) was fast enough that I didn't feel like buying a new one. The iPad 3 got the retina display which is just amazing to read. It could be lighter but, for its use, it's good enough for me not to want a new one. (I will eventually buy an iPad Mini once it gets retina though.) My Macbook Air is still incredible fast and I don't think going retina now is necessary thus saving me some money. Finally, there was never an iPod like the fat Nano. I could get more storage but it still works perfectly.

My birthday was last week and I usually buy a gift for myself but this year it felt like everything is just fine and I don't need anything else in my life. Good times I guess.
You are right it only changes the user agent string...
But still Chrome can at least emulate touch events
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I got a Das Keyboard with no markings just to finish learning touch-typing

Me too.

I recently also noticed that if I close my eyes while typing, my accuracy is very very close to 100% (ie in every typing test I've taken to try it, I got 100%, but in real-life typing, I do make the occasional mistake) while with my eyes open, its anywhere between 80% and 99%, depending on how tired I am.
I've found myself slowly slipping away from iTunes to manage my library and I'm not seeing anything that's really going to hold me for much longer.

It's a shame as I remember being excited when I started using iTunes way-back-when.
Maybe

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Shit, I did. No clue how that happened...
Are you calling most of Western Europe (including Germany, France, all the Scandinavian countries) "wretched backwaters"? What country DOESN'T count as a wretched backwater, aside from the U.S. of course?