skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the number of fingers used in a gesture maps well to the 'scope' of the gesture, that's how I have BetterTouchTool set up. I use two-finger gestures for things like scrolling and zooming (content-level), three finger gestures for things like back, forward, next tab, previous tab (window- or app-level) and four fingers for expose/task switcher/hide all windows (multi-app/OS level).
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"That's why you don't have to hold a book or your mobile phone or tablet at eye level."

Bad ergonomics though. I actually got what I call a reading injury. 45 minute walk to work gets boring after a while, and after getting tinnitus (which when it was bad is /really/ bad) I was paranoid about listening to music or podcasts. So I read a book on my walk. Walking plus reading = bad for your neck. Took a couple of weeks of not read-walking to get my neck back to not hurting.

That's an extreme example though. However, even in simpler terms, your neck is not made to be held at an angle for extended times. When you curl up on the couch with a book, you'll usually have good support. Do that same angle in an office chair 40 hours a week and you'll start running into problems.
Yes, possible:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/01/gingerbread-n...
Part of H.264 being a RAND standard (though not an "Open Standard" by the generally accepted definitions, since it's not royalty free) is that they can't cut special deals like that.

Don't get me wrong there's already special deals baked into the fee format (like maximum fee caps for the big insider companies that could move the market on their own if you pissed them off) but it is in some ways "non-discriminatory", which is the ND in RAND, which would stop them doing a deal.
Ask HN: How to earn 1 million in 5 years without working for a startup?
There are many constraints for people in joining startups like family, non-immigrant status etc. What is the best way to retire in 5 years if you are a great programmer.
I hadn't heard that (and thought I'd been paying attention), so if anyone else was doubting vetinari, here's a link:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-2.html

Claims decode for Theora, VP8 and Vorbis, as well as encode and videoconference for VP8.

Basically every Android tablet at CES was Tegra 2 (I think it's the reference platform for Honeycomb) as well as a few of the high-end phones e.g. Motorola Atrix
How would you take screen-shots? Or more importantly, do a hard reset when it crashes. I find the home button is also easier to use to wake my iphone than the power button is.
That 'touchpad plate' of Apple's (can't recall the official name) isn't as precise as a mouse. Our web developer gets a new box from Foxconn about once a week as he pretty much buys one of everything Apple makes. A true afficionado of the touchscreen/pad, he just couldn't use that plate for the specific reason that it's just not accurate enough for serious work. Touch and mouse focus on different things - and the mouse is venerable, not vulnerable :)
I wrote a couple of test android apps in scala and was very pleased with the results. Scala is a huge improvement on java but gives you nearly the same execution speed which is particularly important on devices with limited CPU and RAM. There's a plugin for sbt (a scala build tool) that will assemble your .apk and upload it to the emulator or a device.
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This isn't to say that a long term goal of html5 video served via a patent-unencumbered coded isn't a motivation of theirs, I just think that the decision to remove native h264 right now is more of a way to keep flash a practical option than an ideological move.

If they want to achieve that long term goal, isn't it obviously better to act sooner rather than later?
The main problem with Italy is that the country is led by people who have absolutely no clue: and I don't mean just politicians. Big names in finance, industry, entrepreneurship, banks. Most of them are there just because of their connections and they are sinking the country.

Nobody invested in Marco because there's nobody there good enough to recognize what is worth and what is not. They would not be able to invest in google, either.

This is not just a problem for tech startup, it is a problem for anyone who needs money or encouragement to fund anything slightly innovative. Someone told me they tried to convince big companies to open an embedded childcare department, something that is absolutely normal abroad because it increases dependents time at work and even make money to the company. They went all the way around and could not find anyone interested.

Just nuke that country already.
At first google should improve http://translate.google.com to show valid translations.
I simultaneously have issues with Kurzweil's tendency to be overly generous with his "Mostly Correct/Correct" categories (check out my comments in other threads) - yet, at the same time believe it's important to look beyond the nitpicking of minor details. In the _specific_, Kurzweil is overly generous - but I think it's important that we don't lose sight of the fact that the general arc of his predictions, are, in fact, pretty good.

Critic is not necessarily pejorative. A critic can point out the good and bad.

From: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/critic

Critic: One who forms and expresses judgments of the merits, faults, value, or truth of a matter.
That's false. Read this: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-Jun...

MS didn't commmit to anything, Mozilla essentially blocked H.264 from becoming specified codec too. All had reasonably sound reasons to hold their respective position. Not everything can be explained as good vs. evil.
I feel that Flickr is going about it all wrong. They host pictures, but they lack focus. IMHO they should begin offering ways for their hobbyist audience to make money.

1) Allow companies to post picture descriptions they want, and allow Flickr users submit entries for those requests. Companies can buy the images they want; Flickr makes a small royalty per transaction.

2) Host a Stock Photo interface for users who want to participate. Users who submit entries for photo requests, which are not accepted, can be moved to their stock area.

3) Use their audience to build an online photography service directory - complete with galleries for each photographer represented. Allow customers to book and rate directly through the site.
Write something people want.
Jesus. What on earth is "Etsy for cloud services"?
It's not about the Youtube servers. I think, it's about the Youtube clients. Licensing costs may be small for Google but they are not small for manufacturers of mobile phones.
Yes, even in 2011 i still don't see anything that could really substitute the mouse on desktops or laptops. Every alternative is a pain to use (e.g. touchpads).
I remember when they first launched, Backtype seemed like something I had been looking for — a way to automatically aggregate and archive the comments I've posted on various blogs and such. I spent some time getting increasingly frustrated trying to use their webapp when I realized I had apparently misunderstood the purpose of their indexing — they were actually reinventing the trackback.
PoF built critical mass via marketing. OKC is a superior product in every way except sheer number of users.
They look very friendly to "full-hand" mousers, but a little unfriendly to "finger" mousers. Do you finger-mouse? How do you find it?

EDIT: It's obvious how you find it, you said it directly. Change the question to "do you finger-mouse?" :)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation
And yet he seems to believe petabytes are bigger than exabytes. This and the rest of the text makes me believe he doesn't know perfectly his subjet, to say the least...

Storage is cheap, and getting cheaper by the day. I don't think there's any reason to believe it's not going to continue that way in the foreseeable future.

EDIT: to give some numbers to the argument, I know that two years ago you could buy one petabyte (that's one million gigabyte) worth of storage for less than a million $.
Here is a scenario, IF everybody else decides to change CEO, where does that leave Mark Zuckerberg?
In some way we will always have a need for a system which allocates capital from those who wants to lend it to those who can convince others that they can make more money by lending it to them. Destroying this is neither possible nor desirable.

But we can definitely destroy the part of finance where the government pays money to companies like Goldman sucks or try to bail out companies.
I took the liberty of turning this into a userjs, for those of us who don't want to install an extension to run an extension in Chrome : http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/94618

I'll try and keep it updated as much as I can.
Anybody else find it really funny that a guy called 'touretzky' is threatening Sony. Just me? Oh.
I hope they provide the option to disable it though. I'm a mac user - multiple windows per application is my bread and butter.

I do agree that there needs to be better management of the tool dialogs though.
How did they "move" to SF -- esp. regarding visa issues -- is what we'd like to know... Tell us more!
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On 4.3, this would be a four finger swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar and a swipe from left to right on the bar to reveal the sound controls in any device orientation. Works pretty smooth, i'm running it now.
Wow, cheers mate. You want me to ping you at your email when I change things?
I don't think the four-finger operations are on the iPhone/iPod, I think they're only on the iPad.
Big fan of the trackpoint. I hate trackpads, they're always clumsy (though multitouch was a great advancement) but the trackpoint is precise and doesn't easily 'drop' things when you're dragging. Nothing like that trackpad moment when the item you're dragging doesn't quite reach the destination before you hit the side of the pad :)

Found the trackpoint hard to learn though - there's a lot of subtle muscle control. Steep curve, but rewarding once you have it.
That is very, very tasty. And you gave me an idea of how to fight those tiny vote arrows, thanks.

EDIT: updated with spiffier voting arrows.
If that's convenient for you, sure. But I think setting up a Github repo that I can watch will be easier for you and me (you do use Github, right?).

Otherwise I can check the code page once a week too; not really an issue.
Promise my ass. Burn them, hang them, just kill em dead and then steal their stuff. Everybody be cool this is a f*in robbery!
It's pretty straight forward for any european to go to the US with a turistic entry and you are allowed to look for jobs or anything else with that (you are not allowed to work, though).
I ported it to regular user script:
https://github.com/adsahay/Comfy-Helvetica-style-for-HN

Works in Firefox and Chrome. Why should Safari have all the fun? ;)
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You can, of course, use whatever you like, but I think that putting a serif font as an alternative for Helvetica Neue/Helvetica for Linux users is a bit silly.

There's plenty of Helvetica alternatives on Linux.
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Debatable.

Well, technically correct of course, it doesn't have to be signed. But it's an open question where the lines are drawn with regard to agreeing to a contract you never read and understood.
He's an extremely successful singer, first as part of 'N Sync and later on his own. Up through now he's won 6 Grammy and 2 Emmy awards. He's been in a handful of movies before, but I think the Social Network was the first I recognized him in.
What about people missing a finger?
its forward not backward.. o_O
I would gladly accept an OpenFlash, even if the code is from Adobe, at least I would know what exactly I'm running on my machine.
I don't think it's a step backwards, but clearly there is a double standard here by fully supporting Flash. I knew it from the beginning that supporting Flash wasn't in alignment with their open web vision, yet they still did it to spite Apple and its iPhone. I hope they get rid of Flash within a year.
I fully agree with the article. Google's move makes me very angry, for two reasons:

1) Google uses us as tools in its battles and wars, because it is us who will be inconvenienced for years to come if companies continue to fight over video codecs. Sure, the explanations are grandiose — "we fight for openness" and the like — but the fight is being done by our expense.

2) Google's hypocrisy is unbelievable. H.264, an ITU/ISO standard, documented, with reference implementations, with a free/oss encoder (x264) and hardware support in a bazillion devices is called "closed and proprietary". Meanwhile, Adobe Flash (which this whole fight will just strengthen) is just fine, thank you. Oh, MP3 and AAC are fine, too.

I'll skip over technical details in this post, suffice it to say that I know and understand why H.264 (especially Main and High profiles) is vastly superior to On2 VP8 (now renamed WebM).
Half-baked Android tablets will help Apple, give hope to Microsoft
A bit of a nit, but once you distort a result, I think you lose the right to call yourself a scientist.
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They specifically grant a perpetual royalty-free license for internet broadcast where the end user doesn't pay a subscription or per-video fee, though:

In the case of Internet Broadcast AVC Video (AVC Video that is delivered via the Worldwide Internet to an End User for which the End User does not pay remuneration for the right to receive or view, i.e., neither Title-by-Title nor
Subscription), there will be no royalty for the life of the License.
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Ngày nay, các công ty vẫn phải bỏ ra hàng tấn tiền để cố gắng thu hút được tài năng bán hàng qua các bảng tìm việc, nhưng chính họ lại làm giảm hiệu quả của chiến dịch đó bởi những gì họ đã đưa vào quảng cáo của mình.
The license even perpetually exempts non-subscription, non-pay-per-view internet broadcast, so Google won't owe any royalties unless they start broadcasting on television, start offering a subscription version of YouTube, or start offering pay-per-view videos.

See the top of the last page of: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC_TermsS...
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Maybe there's room in the market for a third big player* now? Digg's reputation has gone down the toilet and is declining.

Reddit has taken over 1st place but they have a few problems: First, Conde Nast doesn't supply them with enough resources compared to their popularity. This makes the user experience painfully slow, and the site is down even more times than Twitter was in the early days.

They also don't have a designer which makes the usability bad.

Third, they lack the creativity to make money off their huge userbase.

I'm sure these three reasons are related. If a start-up would be launched now it could even exploit the recent delicious-catastrophe by importing those links. This could bootstrap the community and content, and it'd make for some good marketing.

* I still count 4chan as an underground site, but maybe they are the third player. They're niche though, so let's say there's still room even then.
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No Java implementation is unencumbered as Google is discovering with Dalvik (http://gigaom.com/2010/10/05/google-seeks-dismissal-of-oracl... ), and as the Apache foundation has finally resigned themselves to with the ironically named Harmony (https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_asf_resigns_fr... ).
Actually, as far as pain goes, my hand hurts a lot sooner with a mouse than with my laptop's touchpad. The touchpad makes it easier to (1) switch between the right and left hands to move the pointer around and (2) move the pointer around without moving my wrists from the keyboard, and both these things really improve computer usage long term for me.

I haven't used a mouse in years.
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This has more point on the iPad than on the iPhone. The iPad is big and heavy, making it much more of a chore to reposition/flip it in order to find/press the button. It's also very easy to hit the button by accident.

Double-clicking to switch tasks is especially difficult. The weight and size makes it very hard to get the right muscle tension to press the button rapidly. I often press it too slowly and get the home screen instead of the task bar. I'm surprised that Apple even released it this way. Maybe the long delay bringing multitasking to the iPad had something to do with this.
I'm continually amazed at the erosion of the term "Open Standard". There's a whole segment here that reads like someone arguing "It's not about Free Software, after all Internet Explorer is free", or "It is Open Source because you can just look at the python code they provide".

If someone comes up with a catchy slogan for their concept whether it's "Free Market" or "Fair Trade" it's simple politeness to engage with that and make a substantive point rather than making up your own definitions to suit and play semantic games.
By mouse I understand the ability to move the mouse pointer and left/right click.

At a conference it's better to go light, just with your laptop/netbook, carrying a real mouse around doesn't make sense, but when standing in front of a computer at work or home for several hours a real mouse is still more comfortable/ergonomic than a touchpad, although I do find the touchpad more comfortable in situations where I do lots of typing, since it's closer to the keyboard.

I get the trend of smaller / lighter / more portable ... I haven't used a desktop in 2 years. But I still use a good keyboard and mouse when I'm at my desk; anything less is just for superficial usage.
I actually work faster using a [touchpad + keyboard] vs [mouse + keyboard]. The trick is placement. The touchpad needs to be right below the keyboard (like a macbook layout) so you can switch faster between typing and moving the cursor as opposed to using a mouse. If your OS / trackpad supports gestures, that increases speed of use as well.

For comfort, imo the whole thing needs to be lower, closer to your legs. If you're using a standing position instead of sitting, just change the position to closer to your thighs.
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Essential Reading:

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That's fantastic, thank you. I'm updating it to eventually be reasonably cross-platform and cross-browser as well as mixing in things suggested in this thread, so keep an eye on that page – a GitHub link may pop up there if I get around to it, and the updates are generally posted right up on that page.
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Thats why you will burn in hell.
That is a rather anachronistic complaint. The term “open standard” was a term of art for standards such as H.264 long before the term “open source” was coined.
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Speaking as someone who has been on a couple... they change everything. You think differently, about different things. For the most part I would summarise the changes as less emotional, cooler, more patient, slower to anger, but lots of the changes seemed completely random. If you randomly change someone's thoughts, they might think about suicide less often, or they may think about it more often. That's just my guess, which judging by this article is about as good as anything right now.

> Isnt it exactly what it is supposed to be working against ?

Not really. Depression and suicidal tendencies are two separate things. Anti-depressants treat depression, they aren't designed to reduce the risk of suicide.

This article might be interesting for you: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=being-sui...

> “Concluding simply that depression causes suicide and leaving it at that may be inadequate for several reasons,” he writes. “It is abundantly clear that most depressed people do not attempt suicide and that not all suicide attempters are clinically depressed.”
Here's a version that works in Firefox (minus the zoom):
http://pastebin.com/AaWkNdjF
I use the addon Stylish to load it.
My wireless mouse is usually in front of my keyboard, ending up between my arms while I'm typing.
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Seconding the sentiments on withdrawal. I went off Citalopram cold turkey due to an incompetent doctor (who incidentally had not informed me that it was a dependency forming drug). I have never, ever felt that shit in my entire life, and hope I never do again.

If you ever launch into a profanity-laden tirade at the top of your lungs in public because a car was inching forwards at a red light, you might also be going through withdrawal.

Tip for those who want to avoid this: Fluoxetine. Switch to it before quitting, it has a really long half-life so you can just stop taking it, and the levels in your body slowly tail off. Much nicer.
I would argue that none of the desktop browsers are having an effect in this area. The only thing that is really driving the adoption of html5 <video> is mobile devices and their poor or nonexistent support for flash.

Many sites that serve mobile devices html5 video still serve flash to html5 capable desktop browsers.
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I remember reading somewhere on Stack Overflow that Scala development on Android was less than optimal. Do you know if the situation has changed at all?

Edit: Here's where it was -

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/476111/scala-programming-...

And some more information:

http://riddell.us/ClojureAndAndroidWithEmacsOnUbuntu.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3242034/android-without-j...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2832773/alternatives-to-j...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3002566/can-i-program-for...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1994380/substantial-andro...
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Saying that it's a service that you can use to build mashups would have been a lot less intriguing ;)