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That was a great article.

I love the idea of the heartbeat feature. Is that a real feature of the iwatch?

You'd think, but most consumer equipment is abandonware and the firmware isn't updated once a newer model is out.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but it looks like if you could install a system font on a computer then you could create a unique fingerprint for that computer that is detectable by any website?

I am uniquely identifiable out of the 3.7 million samples because of my system fonts.

http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/

I have a boxee and I'd been thinking about how to implement this for a while.

It seems like it should be possible to have a box act as a web server proxy where it mirrors a web page to several displays.

It would be pretty slick if you could get a simple http proxy to support screen mirroring like this, because then it wouldn't matter what combination of set top box / phone / tablet you have... you could mirror anything.

except for the fact that you couldn't tell up from down in the dark because it was symetrical.

It was really annoying when you went to pause, and instead turned netflix on.

do you have Netflix working on that setup?

xbox 360 media player was never able to handle mkv files (unless there's been an update in the 2 years that I've had my 360 powered down)

There was also that xbox 360 dashboard update that downgraded the playback quality of avi files.

"There also seems to be some performance problems arising. But nobody has been pushing any updates to fix that. So you need to reboot the device every now and then."

I've been having the same problem. I've configured it to stop scanning my Windows PC network shared and that seems to have fixed the "endlessly rebooting every 30 seconds" problem I was having... but I'm still having a problem where if I leave it on for over a day then it will lock up or lose internet connectivity.

My other big gripe is that when I use the menu to shutdown it just locks up the box instead of shutting down.

I've be consider giving the hacked boxeeplus firmware a try, but I haven't bothered because I know it's not supported either.

I was happy that they included the "you should change your password on all other websites if it is the same" line.

I find that's the biggest hurdle that average users can't grasp, it's not about one website getting hacked.. it's that if your ubisoft password is the same as your email address password then they can now log into your email address, which means they can probably take over every online account you have.

57kb of raw text without the images -- text is cheap. :)

I'd trust gwern's speculation.

http://www.gwern.net/

   The content here varies from philosophy to poetry to programming to prosaic FAQ. It is everything I felt worth writing for the past few years that didn’t fit somewhere like Wikipedia or was already written - "…I realised that I wanted to read about them what I myself knew. More than this - what only I knew. Deprived of this possibility, I decided to write about them. Hence this book."2 I never expected to write so much, but I discovered that once I had a hammer, nails were everywhere, and that supply creates its own demand3. I believe that someone who has been well-educated will think of something worth writing at least once a week; to a surprising extent, this has been true. (I have added ~130 documents to this repository over the past 3 years.)

You have to enable the typo option and the amazon referrer rewrite happens.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946194

You have to enable the typo option and it happens.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946194

1. when I go to this link: http://qz.com/96206/google-admits-those-infamous-brainteaser...

It shows several stories at once, not just the google brainteasers stories.

2. In general, people would rather read the real article instead of a summary of the article. When someone submits a summary of an article to a site like HN or reddit, it is usually flagged as blog-spam because we'd rather read/support the original content than a summary with questionable value.

3. For long form articles, nothing beats reading the print-preview page to get rid of all the sidebars, comments, ads. Look at the print preview page: it is not possible to get less distraction free than that. Any other format has more distractions.

Even aside from that, the New York Times has some of the best information architecture in the business. These are the guys who did NYTProf. Their web team is awesome.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b...

4. Some visual issues I had with quartz:

4.1: No left/right whitespace around images.

4.2: I see a vertical scroll bar in the middle of my screen on Firefox.

4.3 The black header bar which is fixed and stays on the screen all the time even though it conveys no useful information to me.

4.4: A bunch of text blurbs on the left side of the screen that convey no useful information to me.

You say you're trying to be as distraction free as possible, but that's not actually true because it isn't possible to have your business model and be as distraction free as possible. The print preview page is as distraction free as possible.

Black Mirror S01E03: The Entire History of You was a pretty decent episode of a Twilight-Zone-like show about the dark side of having a video recording of your entire life.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050/

Thanks! This is a good read.

https://medium.com/about-work/1cd9fbf8ca15

Actually, Game of Thrones can teach us a lot about UX design: kill your darlings.

What if the lobster is under-aged?

I think almost all of his books are available as audiobooks.

http://www.audible.com/search/ref=sr_ab_1_1_3?searchAuthor=I...

I'd start off with Use of Weapons or the Player of Games

I find that using a Kindle or Android ebook reader really helps avoiding the task switching, as does dual monitors.

Leave your computer on the task you are working on and you won't "lose" the result in a sea of windows.

Actually, it's a great habit to use a different machine for surfing the net than the one you use for developing. Then you are very conscious that you aren't working when you are on your "other" machine.

I'm almost envious sometimes of secure locations that limit internet access to a single room rather than allowing it to be on every desktop.

The Disney wiki confirms that Alice is not a Disney princess. Leia Organa isn't a Disney princess either (yet).

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Disney_Princess

I miss when Rory Blyth (original author, I don't know who is cutting and pasting it to their private website at wyorock.com) used to run a blog called http://www.neopoleon.com/

There was some great stuff on there. He stopped blogging in 2008 but it's archived.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080517080006/http://www.neopole...

You've heard of Anita Hill, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill

Because Disney essentially IS copyright.

The MPAA is just a publicity shunt so that people don't associate the bad press of the MPAA with the 8 brands that are behind it. [0]

The Copyright Extension Act of 1998 is called Mickey Mouse Protection Act. [1]

The modern BS of copyright lasting 100yrs [2] is caused because of the Disney corporation and the Mickey Mouse brand. Copyright will always be at least ($current_year - 1928) because of the Mickey Mouse brand.

She feels hopeless because the company that wrote modern copyright law is infringing on her copyright.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_A...

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

2: Graph of US copyright terms from 1790 (30 yrs of copyright) to modern times

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copyright_term.svg

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I always find the hypocrisy of Disney amazing given that the majority of their IP is a remix of something someone else wrote.

Should the first female nominee for U.S. Vice Present from the republican party, who rose to the top of an extremely male dominated field, serve as an inspiration for gender equality?

edit: mpyne said it best somewhere else in this thread:

   "He's saying that it's the position of power that 
    is morally bankrupt, not the man that happens to 
    be filling it today.

   If tomorrow a woman was in the same position of 
   power then it would still be morally bankrupt, 
   because it is the position which leads to moral 
   bankruptcy, not the person filling the position."

The biggest problem people don't know they have is bookmark synchronization between mobile / desktop.

I find Google Chrome does an amazing job of handling the problem, so the point where the history of the search result drop down box from one will populate in the other.

Wow, this page tries to do a drive-by java install. Other comments say its to load a bitcoin harvester.

My fav is Look to Windward, but you needed to be entrenched in the world to get a lot out of that book.

I still haven't been able to make myself finish Matter yet.

You're right. When I was looking at news articles this morning, I came across the 41% number, but that is obviously wrong or geo-specific.

cancer.org states that 15% of deaths worldwide are due to cancer, with 50% being spread amongst other non-communicable diseases.

http://www.cancer.org/research/infographics/rising-global-ca...

"In 2010, 65% of all deaths worldwide were due to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) like heart disease, lung disease, diabetes and cancer. 15% of all deaths worldwide, nearly 8 million people, were due to cancer alone. The number of deaths worldwide from cancer dwarfs the number of global deaths from malaria and HIV/AIDS, as is projected to exceed 13 million by 2030."