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Well in some fields every individual worker has their own business pro forma. So these would be harmed disproportionately by cheap immigrant competition. The capital requirement ensures that the new business is in competition with substantial existing companies.
Ugly? maybe. Hard to navigate? I don't know how you could make it any easier. Maybe making everything bigger?
wtf? You apparently don't know much about the JVM because AFAIK it was the first VM people started targeting other languages at.
HTML5 games are still a bit too slow for me. I'm on a modern machine, but if I'm doing a heavy compile in the background it shows how slowly HTML5/canvas rendering actually is. [If it could only start using my GPU?]

I'm not sure if Flash uses my GPU, but it's fast enough so that I can play a similar game while doing background compilations.
Craigslist.
In spite of the UI, it's still the best place to locally buy/sell used stuff within the US.

It has been like this for years though, so at this point I doubt they'll make any significant changes to the user interface.
Can anyone think of ways to speed the sociolegal acceptance of this technology?

Perhaps it could first get used by people who are visually impaired, or for some other reason are not able to currently get a driver's license.

Given the importance that being able to use a car to get places has on living a normal life (in most of the U.S.), one could then frame it as a human rights issue.

Once some people are using such cars, it's a much smaller step to allow other people to also use self-driving cars.
He's correct. 95% of the time it's Times New Roman, Arial, Helvetica, or Verdana.
> Yes, but IE9 will also be the new IE8 eventually.

not necessarily. IE6 wasn't the new IE4, and IE7 wasn't the new IE8.

IE9 probably won't be the new IE8 eventually for a number of reasons:

* Unless MS stops the IE project again (doubtful at this point), IE10 should arrive pretty close on the heels of IE9, say two years (similar to the delay between IE7 and IE8, or IE8 and IE9)

* IE10 will very likely be compatible with Windows 7 (and Vista, but that's not as big an issue as it's been far less popular than 7)

* Considering the two-steps improvements done in IE8 (CSS) and IE9 (more CSS, JS) the differences between IE9 and IE10 will very likely be much smaller than between IE8 and IE9, or IE7 and IE8.

The problem here is stagnancy. IE8 is the last browser of its line compatible with Windows XP, and Windows XP has a huge install base and huge former popularity. This means the (MSIE, Windows XP) platform is now completely stagnant and it will not disappears until Windows XP does.
A better way would be to make the basic functionality work in browsers, then make it pretty and really nice to use for the rest.
Well if you don't see the potential vulnerability in that, I guess there's no point arguing. Back when Linux distro's shipped with all services enabled out of the box, and sometimes with default passwords, people used to say "oh that's not a real problem, it's the stupid users." Well maybe so, but that doesn't reduce the amount of rooted boxes. So as people wised up, and the hardliners were told to shut it, things moved to 'secure out of the box' (for some definitions of 'secure') setups. Hardware-locked phones are the next step of that. There may be (misguided) commercial interests in trying to control the software; most real-world issues with a higher complexity than 'what will I have for breakfast' are multi-faceted. All that said, there is a real case to be made to control the setups of devices that are supposed to 'always work'. That's all.
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As presented, that just means 9% of people think it's too high, but shouldn't be eliminated.

I think the issue with your presentation is that 'cut' can mean either 'reduced' or 'eliminated'.
I like standing up while reading and doing more free-form work like exploring ideas. But for concentrating on specific problems or focused study, I need to be sitting down. I just can't concentrate my efforts as well when standing.
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Seconded, at least for my Chase accounts. Credit unions' websites are often much better than your average BigCo bank (ex: https://www.becu.org/).
I think one should extend the scope of classic typography slightly to understand where the author is coming from.
To me it makes perfect sense. If you can't structure your text right to get the message across, then fancy designs and widgets won't help you either.
Ha, not sure. I think file drag and drop can only be implemented in the browser. JS libraries are at the mercy of the api's available. :)
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I'm guessing he's a bit busy. He's always been. If you want to hear about him, you should head for the NiN forums and such.
That "Manic Monday" by the Bangles was written by Prince.

Oh also that "Monopoly" is an American invention (I assumed it was as British as the Queen).
I, for one, found it extremely readable on my iPad.
If somebody says "evolution is a lie, and it shouldn't be taught to children", the fact that they don't actually live their life according to that credo is sort of irrelevant.
Are softlayer servers down?
Tried to connect to my box but it doesn't work. Then I went to softlayer.com to try and log a support ticket. Can't connect to site. Get the classic "Problem Loading Page".
The quote you snipped there was just making the point that throwing Banksy in to the same category as your pedestrian vandal is a mischaracterization.

You make some good points. The artistic / social / political value of an act is subjective - yes. However I never actually said the law shouldn't be enforced against Banksy. Like you I'd expect the police to take on people wilfully damaging private property.

It's a filter that ensures only the very committed will produce works as bold as Banksy, and whether I like or loathe their messages, I expect they're worthy of a pause for thought by society. Which is what Banksy is trying to achieve.

Keep in mind graffiti has been a problem since forever (didn't Herodotus record some citizen outrage in Athens?), and is mostly banal. So admitting that in our times there is a very interesting character who is engaged in something a little more high-minded than tagging or 'spraying crap' isn't a cause for too much philosophical hand-wringing.
It would have been interesting if these new recommended iteration forms were accompanied by profiling data and performance tests across the major engines. Right now it looks like variety for the sake of variety.
GoDaddy.

I was going to cite some specific examples but really the entire site is a perfect case study for bad UI.

On the other hand, it is extremely well optimized for revenue (but that's a different discussion).
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He granted the stock, not the cash.
The only thing that prevents me from using a Kindle is DRM: I want to be able to backup and really "own" the books I buy, and read them in whichever device I choose (or Notepad).

Does Amazon realize how terrifying the '1984 incident' was?

On the other hand, Amazon doesn't need to lift DRM: a crack would suffice. Any news on this front?
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everything is forum style with a shitty forum implementation :/
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All the banking sites I have used have highly unusable UI. The same with my mobile and broadband service provider websites.

Sometimes it is just not about the UI. I can live without the best looking websites, but if the functionality is equally broken as the UI, then it is really frustrating. One of my biggest pet peeves is the back button not working in many websites. Many systems just tell you to log in again and it just freaks me out.
Nay-saying is easy. Making progress is hard work. Kudos to Google for pushing on this front. The author speculates about the state after a decade. By that time, this article will be forgotten, but google's work might still be remembered.

a) It's acceptably safe to sit on something like hundreds of mini explosions every minute. (hint: car)
b) We actually have some atom-splitting power plants running
c) Planes have auto-pilot modes and fly-by-wire.
d) Trains can run without drivers.

By the time this technology gets into regular use, we probably won't even be aware that it is being used and think about it as some sophisticated form of cuise control.
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Official word from nytimes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/technology/13social.html?h...
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It is a very competent robot system including the he great open source operating system ROS.
PR2 that can do amazing stuff like getting you a beer when you are playing pool together!
But it costs $400.000 or $280.000 if you have a good open source idea
What do you think will it be a hit? What would you programing it to do for you?
What is horrible about it? It doesn't get in your way and allows you to post quickly. This is the only place I've engaged in online conversation for years and that's because it's just so quick and simple. Compared to forums and commenting on blogs & entering captcha's it's very usable!
Methinks "Go! [bang] yourself" alone would work :)
They recently made changes, but I really love the simplicity of the UI. Minimalist. What is it that really makes it a poor UI, lack of gradients or lack of ajax. I think it does what its supposed to do exactly how it should be done.
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I have to admit that this page looks very good, unlike many other articles that claim to know the secret to web design. It would be even better if it weren't right centered.
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Seems so. I can't load my site in Hong Kong, China.
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That service working without the recipient changing his settings is by definition a security hole in the email app.
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I'm sure there's a word you can define as something that you act logically consistent with, but I think it's closer to the word "motivation" than the word "belief".
Several of the TV shows I watch put the episodes online (which is great), but the websites invariably fall short in the way they organise those videos and the rest of the site. They are definitely popular in spite of their UI, not because users "unconciously" prefer it.
You can represent any book, any image or any sound with a large number.

You can set up a cipher where anyone can write you messages using publicly available information, but only you can read them.

Human DNA is essentially a digital code, has a finite number of bits, and is smaller than data sets which we routinely manipulate today.

Every known way of making meaningful computations can be represented in a formal system which you can write down on the palm of your hand.

You can also write a recipe for producing the entirety of an infinitely detailed image, that keeps being visually interesting as you zoom in, on the palm of your hand.
Have you ever tried using HN on a mobile device?

I've been tempted to hack up yet another iOS app for HN, but A. I don't have the time to do it in what i would call the Right Way(tm) -- or a Hacked-Up Way(tm) either and B. it would really be better off as a separate style than a separate app.
you have no idea how glad I am that HN doesn't look like StackOverflow or Digg
I have quite a wide range - 50 to about 180 a day depending on the day of the week. I don't have a problem with the process of Googling but I do have a problem with some of the results for particular queries. Obviously it's better to use Wolfram Alpha or DDG etc. for more specific queries but the cognitive strain of having to allocate a search engine to a type of search is overwhelming or just too much of a time resource (especially if you search across a multitude of topics).
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Lucky you don't use my bank: it might just tip you over the edge :). Not only does the back button not work (most of the time), but they've also specifically added back-button detection so they can tell you why:

For security reasons you’re unable to use the Back, Forward and Refresh buttons in your browser.

Uh, ok...
ah. the 'pretty' logo was what a friend came up with who is trained as a designer. Now, I have no taste, so if 'tasteful' was my goal, I'd pretty much just do what he said, but besides that, he seems to think a logo that looks like other logos is a good thing, while I think a generic looking logo, while you are smaller than everyone else, works against your brand building efforts. My theory is that something that is unique (and thus ugly... isn't that what ugly means? honestly, I wouldn't know) would be much better suited to building a strong brand organically.
I like most of the HN interface. The one part I really hate is that when you click the Reply button, most of the context you are replying to, excepting only the direct parent comment, disappears. This is really irritating, and HN is the ONLY site that I visit that does this.
Why do you say that? I'm not convinced. I've met plenty of people who have claimed various liked and disliked in the offline world that were... exaggerated. Especially in the dating world, or the job interview world.
How often have you mis-clicked on an down arrow instead of an up arrow (or vice versa)?

Have you ever asked someone who's not a regular to upvote something? That's obviously not something that should be done (but I guess we all sin sometimes... call it a wild unruly youth), but if you do, you'll find that most people don't even see the voting arrows, let alone figure out what they mean.

If advanced users still make fairly critical usage errors because of small, opposite buttons right next to each other, and newbies can't learn the fundamentals of the interface, i'd say that makes it fairly bad.

On the other hand, as I said, it keeps the barbarians out.
Oh, I do. As I said, it keeps the barbarians out of the city gates.
Reminds me of Cyclomaniacs. Except no points for stunts...
I couldn't see how anything could possibly stay in orbit when gravity pulled everything together until I wrote a computer program to simulate orbits in 2d: http://ln-s.net/7oFZ

It was really enlightening to fiddle with the constants and to create events that show how kinetic and potential energy interact in space.
The Social Network scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin posts about the portrayal of women.
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+1 for Manic Monday
This was mentioned on Paul Thurrott's site in March: http://www.winsupersite.com/paul/mailbag/100321.asp#1, and that linked to an explanation from 2007: http://www.wlanbook.com/free-public-wifi-ssid/. Definitely not a new phenomena or explanation.
Sure - just Google for "mobidedrm.py" (and verify that you have the latest version - there are some old versions out there).

One note of caution: Most Amazon books are encoded in the Mobipocket format and can be easily cracked. However, there are some (few) books in another format (AZW) which cannot be cracked yet. It is possible to find out in which format a book is before you buy it.
Funny how it so many journalists believe that Apple would need a huge $1 billion data center to do streaming when Spotify obviously doesn't.
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It is actually just the opposite for me - a clear, clean completion to a project makes it easier for me - at least it has a definite and obvious goal and end-point to work toward. It is more open-ended projects that I find hard to work on as I should.
Classic "genre". Most recently Trials HD: http://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/t/trialshdxboxlivearcade/def...
So basically it's just like all the other smartphone ads either with pretty graphics or depicting something only weakly related to the phone. At least with the Windows 7 ads they show some features.

Like this commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9fXYQjwR0w

So is Droid really made by space aliens or is Motorola fucking with me?

Maybe this type of marketing works with little kids and their t oys, but smart phones are expensive. Sure your commercial was funny, but I'm still not buying it unless online people tell me to.
Boomerang for Gmail (http://www.baydin.com/boomerang4gmail/ - currently in beta) works great for this. It's the only tool I'm aware of that lets you send messages at a certain time.

See this review for more info: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/26143/send-or-receive-emails-...
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Not the most mind-blowing facts, just recent ones that come to mind:

1. The volume of water and air on Earth, compared to the Earth:

http://www.sciencephoto.com/images/download_lo_res.html?id=6...

2. The relative sizes of Earth, Sun and the biggest known stars, and the fact that a passenger airplane would take 11,000 years to circle the biggest known star:

http://www.vplay.ro/watch/qtg8z7kg/
Agreed. And people have been 'reinventing' themselves since Downtown and Madonna, if anything FB is just a new way to do an old thing.
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Since you have a C++ background, you may be interested in Seaside (http://seaside.st). It's a web application framework based on a true OO language (Smalltalk). Very easy to get started, and surprisingly different than most other offerings.

The official guide takes you through the creation of several small applications (http://book.seaside.st).

Also search the web for articles and comparisons: Seaside has several immense advantages over other frameworks...
Technically evolution does not require survival of the fittest or mutation. Evolution is merely the change in allelic frequency in a population over time.

Without selective pressure (i.e., "survival of the fittest") you can still have evolution via drift, the founder effect, etc. Drift is a very important source of evolution in a lot of situations (during my PhD I studied how a source of seeming drift in the coding regions of genes was actually caused by selective pressure in some cases).

Without mutation a population can still evolve, too - for example, if a disease struck and there was no mutation, an allele that protected against the disease would quickly dominate the population. This is a much more pedantic thing to point out (on my part), though, since every stretch of every organism's DNA mutates. The different mutation rates of viruses, bacteria, and humans due to replication errors (and the resulting effect on evolution) is a pretty fascinating topic, though.
I feel Apple is very good at identifying and eliminating visual and functional friction. Things that make you suffer. Things that you're going to have to spend time and psychic energy dealing with.
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Absolutely agree: HN's UI is bad.

I'm not talking about ugly or beautiful, I'm talking about very specific usability problems. For example, it's very hard to tell when someone replies to you, which means I would just drop out of conversations if they didn't appear on my "threads" page. (Although there is a solution nowadays, notifo). HN also has problem with the voting, like being unable to change votes, etc.

That said, HN still rocks. Does the incredibly limited UI have anything to do with it? I don't know. But I wouldn't mess around with HN too much: why mess with something that works?
It's the other way around too, at least for the first trips.

A human-driven Google Street View car would not only retrieve mapping data, photographs for the Street View and cellphone tower and wifi signatures for positioning; it would also serve to annotate the roads for easier navigation by autonomous vehicles.
I think you will find thats the case unless someone hotlinks the image. Facebook permissions work at the level of the page showing the image, not on the image file itself.
If you don't want your photo taken, or the possibility of it showing online, don't go outside!
How often do you log into your carrier or ISP websites? I don't think I have ever visited their websites, much less be bothered by the UI.
Maybe as a device the BB is not in the same league as ihpone or Android.

But you don't buy the BB for the device but for the services. This said if you want to play angrybirds get a iphone.

With a BB I can get a flat fee everywhere in the world to use the BB services. Mail, surfing the web. Which is a sweet deal if you travel a lot.
Paypal. Trying to find anything is a 10 minute exercise in spelunking through at least 10 different pages.
Aren't a bunch of the Plan9 devs working on Go though?
I see your point but the total value of the work he's sold over the past 5 years is in excess of £500,000 and that's not including books, documentaries and so on. In a country where the national average salary is under £25,000 he's hardly at subsistence level is he?

In terms of the message, yes he gets a wider audience but he gets a wider audience for a weaker message. When you're wealthy and Brad Pitt is buying your stuff (I think I'm remembering that right) being counter-culture and anti-commercialism doesn't really ring true.

Not saying I disagree with the decisions he's made, just that inevitably success will undermine his artistic position.
How is it a dangerous platform? It's still installed everywhere, it still works, it's still useful. Nothing has really changed IMHO
Definitely! I published bits here and there as an undergrad on some more obscure analytical chemistry stuff, and it was a brilliant feeling to contribute. Just in this context, it doesn't appear that it would have been notable enough for google to pick up on before they ran with the name.

I don't think I'm arguing much pro or con wise on the topic itself, just siding off into the topic of publication vs wider adoption in the target community. My case was the same, I'm sure my work was interesting and important, but it didn't exactly set the journals on fire. =)
Every single credit card gateway's web interface I've used.
It's also way too slow.
> IE7 wasn't the new IE8

Is there an ActiveX control for time travel?
Web design is 95% Typography to typophiles, 95% graphic design to graphic designers, 95% usability to UX experts. In short, people look at and notice what they are interested in, but to the average punter each of these things makes a much smaller contribution.