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Usability hackers: Help us choose the right homepage layout.
We're designing our web site and I'm in disagreement with my partner over how best to best represent the products benefits and features on the homepage.

I believe that the homepage shouldn't contain too much information, a brief sentence or two about each benefit with a link to another page with more info about the related feature - see wireframe - http://goo.gl/Bqj2B

He believes in more information available right there on the homepage and by using tabs the user doesn't even have to leave the page to decide whether he is interested in the software - See wireframe - http://goo.gl/g4Ub5

I'd really love to hear from other hackers which they would choose and why? This is the last piece of the puzzle before we launch our software. Thanks.
Humans are not "robust adaptive machines" in a space environment -- airless, zero-g, cosmic radiation.
Comparing al Qaeda and the IRA
I agree, except for the fact that in the field of space exploration humans can now be largely substituted by machines, and will be more so as our machines advance.

Philosophy and art do indeed require lots of human intervention. Thankfully, they are cheap, as is much of the basic science research that we should be prioritizing ahead of, say, super sexy space stations.
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It is important to note that copyright law and trademark law, while both considered "intellectual property", differ quite a bit. Copyright was originally enacted to "promote the progress", while trademark law is intended to protect consumers (to be brief). Further, trademarks are enforced as long as the owner of the mark continues to defend it, while copyrights last _only_ 70 years after the death of the author.

EDIT: Grammar, and to add that what I've written is only the tip of the iceberg as to how these concepts differ in law.
Great news for Box. Great service and very nice people to work with.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-online-marketin...

is an amazing resource
I have never paid more than $1 for a standard CFL in the past 3 years... I've gone to my local hardware store several times and replaced all of my bulbs, but none of them cost more than $1. Here's a 2-pack at Lowes for $0.98: http://www.lowes.com/pd_20845-371-60038_0__?productId=123352...

Dimmable ones have cost me $5.
I think he is cornered right now and this move is going to buy him some time. He cannot fire Rebekah Brooks right now, for it will seems like the whole thing was approved by the top management.
I think the real issue is that there is a misalignment of "business models".

On the one hand you have an open Source project with little funding relying on a small group of volunteers acting mostly out of a sense of social responsibility and on the other hand you have dishonest rip-off artists able to make money for free with little or no practical sanction applied.

Its not really google's job to police the web (Note I'm not condoning Google's behaviour). The extent to which they do this depends on how well that policing activity aligns with their business interests.

The root problem is profit Vs non-profit in an environment with dis-interested / conflicted and or toothless regulatory bodies.

IMHO Money is metaphor for power and as long as VLC/VideoLAN is a 'not-for-profit' organisation they will have problems.
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speculation => Well, if tt.fm is raising money at a sudden $40M valuation, maybe they're positioning themselves for a quick exit via Facebook.
So the basic operating principle behind lighting LEDs is the correlation between light output and temperature. As the LED heats up, its light output decreases. If you want a single LED to produce more light, you have to pump more current through it - meaning more heat and a resulting higher temperature, shorter lifespan and reduced efficiency. Thus, you have a tradeoff between more LEDs and lower current (higher cost and more efficient) and less LEDs and higher current (lower cost but less efficient).

Switch tries to give you the cake and feed it to you - they give you lots of LEDs, running at high current, and they manage the heat by immersing the LEDs in a liquid [liquid water has a conductivity and capacity for heat ~5x greater than aluminum even with a lower density]. But this has its own problems that you can probably imagine - not least of which is that the liquid probably absorbs more light than it gives back by removing heat.

Based on my "in the know" status, I can tell that Switch will be losing big bucks trying to sell those lights at $20 but they are working hard to cement themselves in the market early. I'm very sceptical and look more towards smaller innovators like LEDNovation and LED Integration Technology.
Yes but India has/(had? kinda not really) the caste system so it would be expected that people in the same family have the same profession. Intellectually speaking, in your average Indian village just how many people would you expect to be schoolteachers and how many would you expect to be labourers? Approximately 50% of the population is female, do you think the number of schoolteachers in a pre-globalization Indian village approaches that ratio? What were these other women doing then?
The gain is, actually, putting humans in the space. It's an arbitrary objective that you (or me) may not share, but it seems to be the primary objective. Other gains usually don't outweigh the costs, but are useful at marketing the idea to bot people. They lower the perceived-by-bot-people loss, to the point where the loss may be accepted as the cost for winning the human-people.

As far as I am concerned, I want human uploads in space. Durr.
Aha! I'd been wondering---I've seen this a few times over the last couple weeks and wondered if I'd stumbled into a different section of YouTube or something, but it was always ephemeral. Apparently I was just falling into the A/B testing. :)
The shuttle reminds me of one of those awful software development projects which start with clear, simple goals, until all the "stakeholders" start wanting their pet feature and need to be appeased because they will bring more money to the table, and you end up with a bloated, over-engineered mess.
Really? YouTube could remove the comments and not only would I likely not notice, but I'd consider it an improvement. Their current comments harbor some of the most idiotic fury I've seen on the internet.
Not only can people change metadata, there's also a good possibility that a scene group and an innocent home user would make separate rips of a CD that would be bit for bit identical. There are checksum databases online that enthusiast rippers can use to verify that a ripped CD is identical to the results other rippers have achieved (i.e. no errors occurred in the ripping process).

There is a whole technical community dedicated to getting quality CD rips. As an example to how serious people are about this, one technique is to disable or circumvent the optical drive's buffer and make multiple read requests to each area of the disc to help ensure that the correct data was pulled in.

http://www.accuraterip.com/

http://www.digital-inn.de/forum14/
That's just wrong. So if I leave the door to my house unlocked and you walk in and take my stuff it wouldn't be stealing?
750M is the latest oficial user count as of FB-Skype integration
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Raw data here (http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S215964...) from their previous post here (http://wbills.posterous.com/59740254).

Oh, there's a map. No Australia. ;(
Because that's not even remotely true. If you leave your wallet on the table and someone takes it, you've most certainly been the victim of theft.
Seriously? YouTube comments are some of the worst on the net. If I were YouTube management, I would leave the comment box, but only show non-submitter comments if someone actually left a comment or otherwise clicked on something to show comments.

As for the redesign: Pretty nice, but I miss the full-screen button.
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I seriously doubt it played/plays out as described, but it seems too strong a similarity (it's a classic Temptation of Christ description, which m__ pointed out below also makes an appearance in The Lion King) to not be the intent of the author of the OP to be hinting at.
> It would be more accurate to say that you left your curtains open, and someone took a picture of the inside of your house through the windows.

And if I was naked at the time, and if they then sold those pictures of me, I'm fairly certain it would be a crime.
> No advertisers, no readers, an utterly tarnished brand...

hmm where do you get that from? All sources point to NOTW having the highest readership of any sunday paper.

eg http://www.nrs.co.uk/toplinereadership.html
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That's simply not true. If I leave my bike on my porch and it goes missing, it's "stolen" whether or not I locked it up.
Seriously, the benchmark says it's 590 times faster than regular python. So it's probably 59 times slower than optimized SIMD code?
Ask HN: Question on copyright/trademark
Hello HN -

I am in the process of building a startup and have a question regarding the name. The website I have chosen uses the .me TLD, and I intend for that to be part of the name. For example, say my site is Foo.me

Another larger company exists and has Foo.com, and There is a copyright for the Foo product - however, from what I understand names must be trademarked and are not copyrighted. My product is NOT a copy of Foo product, and I intend the product to be known as "Foo.me" . I cannot find any listing in the trademark database for "Foo". Am I safe in assuming my product name is safe from any infringement on Foo.com's name and/or product?
> - Why the phone companies aren't being hammered for security lapses. Data Protection Act anyone??

What security lapses? Honestly asking, the article didn't seem to mention anything.
I like it. The dark background doesn't blind you when you're watching a dark video now.
Yup, same concept, different naming.

Yet another useful variation is the idea of a public circle which multiple people can share to, aka a mailing list. There are lots of use cases for that, but that's not the primary thing that I am missing on Google+ right now.
I think the most fascinating fact was the speed of turnaround. This has been just on the radar of UK reporting for some years, with newspaper investigations and TV documentaries digging into the first and so far only convictions and doing everything but saying "And there is no way this was limited to only one reporter"

But no-one cared enough to turn it into action.

Then suddenly a court had evidence "someone" had deleted voicemails from a kidnap/rape/murder of a 13yr old. Within hours everyone from the PM down had hung them out to dry.

Overstepping the line is a herd instinct. I heard it on radio and just said "someone has to go to jail".

I am just wondering if Murdoch's lawyers are saying "It could be you"
My most heartfelt condolences to Meredith et. al. I crossed paths with Len only briefly during his days at Netaxs; he was without a doubt one of the most brilliant people I've ever encountered and one of those I most enjoyed conversing with.

It's been years; when I got work from a colleague from the Netaxs days, I was an am still stunned.
I've been using this replacement for Terminal.app while it's been in beta, and it's fantastic. It natively supports splitting, windowing, and tabs, and it has great keyboard shortcuts for navigation between all of your windows. It also has fullscreen mode (and top-of-screen mode) if you like to dedicate a Space to it. There's a Solarized theme for it if you're into that sort of thing. It supports Growl if you can't stand not being bugged about unnecessary information (or you can turn it off if you're the productive type).

This is the very first thing I install on a new Mac for development. I highly recommend it.
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Nothing was taken.

It would be more like "I leave my front door open, and you walk in and take a photograph".
You mean "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less." ?
Projects of this complexity are difficult to mothball, and the costs of restarting are very high. We've seen that with the F-22 fighter.

What we really need are politicians who can grasp the ROI of basic science (which is what I believe the JWST is) and have the will to prioritize it.

Sadly, politicians with both brains and courage are a rare breed.
ISPC (from Intel) lets you write SIMD programs like C (no intrinsics)
The web is responsive on its own - by default
The tabs look sleeker imo. And the users could switch between the benefits faster than having to click on a link, wait for the page to load, then go back to the home page, wait for that page to load, then click on another benefit. With the tabs visitors can get a decent amount of info without wasting time.
yeah, I screwed up on the date...
The dimming is generally done on the AC side before it even reaches the bulb. So it would be dimmed by either resistive (unlikely) or by cutting the AC waveform by timing the zero crossing point.

For more information, and a look at the waveform that is produced see this awesome page: http://www.epanorama.net/documents/lights/lightdimmer.html
It will be bundled in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.
People who type "facebook" into Google probably would.
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There's a later paper available for reading: http://www.leshatton.org/Documents/Texp_ICSE297.pdf
And now go find a designer to help you out on weekendhacker :-)
How do you compare to all other monitoring services and why would one want to pay you $8/mo and not, say, Pingdom?

Bonus question - How reliable your monitoring infrastructure is? If I don't have an answer to the question within few seconds of landing on your page, you won't get me to stay. The competition in monitoring segment is fierce, and your service simply does not stand out.
I'm considering purchasing Comcast internet for businesses (not the residential stuff), and am interested in your comments about bad routing and peering. Can you expand on that, please?

EDIT: I'm talking about Chicagoland region. Didn't know it was geographic.
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It has a military focus. I'd like to see devlopment with a broader scope. Like how to teach more people to read. Or farming.
May be a partnership with web hosting companies will drive traffic? Affiliate marketing in those area probably will help.
Sounds like you need a FitBit - http://www.fitbit.com/
I've got friends who literally won't go anywhere without theirs now. Their website is pretty great for tracking other health data as well.
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You are talking about the PWM frequency. If you are having issues with that make sure to look for a manufacturer that has theirs at 30 Hz or higher, when I worked with LED's we tested that 50 Hz was enough to make sure that humans were unable to see that the light was not constant on.
Great next step for a great new App! Go KIK some butt!
The low voltage, direct DC environment that you have is far less harsh on electronics than built in AC-DC transformers with much higher voltages, variances and surges. Batteries usually don't peak, their voltage just drops off, which most electronics can deal with just fine. You also have a battery between your electrical system and your solar charger, which smooths things out considerably.
For more on the physics behind "white" LED's, there's a pretty good summary at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode#White_ligh...

The fundamental challenge is that the wavelength of light emitted from the LED is constrained by the band gap structure of the diode. To get white-looking light, you need more than just one narrow frequency band.

For instance, until some new materials were developed in the 1990s, this is why there were no blue LEDs, only red, green, and amber.
Hi, I'm Max and I wrote this article. You should read it if you've ever been asked to work overtime by your boss or by a client.
>> LEDs have a radically different spectrum from "regular white light"

> So do incandescents.

What do you mean? Incandescents have essentially the perfect black-body spectrum (the effects of the spectrum of tungsten are insignificant). This is what's called a CRI of 100. If you want a bulb with essentially a daylight look, you can get a halogen incandescent, and as a bonus, it's 30% more efficient. LEDs and CFLs don't come near this.

> The good thing about LEDs is that they're easy to tune; they're becoming very popular in the film world

The problem is that people can't tune the color filtering in each of their rooms with the expertise of a Hollywood cinematographer.

If you can test this product, great, but unfortunately, HN doesn't lend itself to this, since the thread will be long dead by the time you have results. I wouldn't expect anything amazing, anyway, since the CRI is not fantastic and the LEDs appear to be standard jobs.
Not taking people's money doesn't get you sued. Amazon's scam-bots cancel legitimate vendors all the time because they 'smell funny'.

And nobody asked Google to background check - the offenders were reported, and Google whitewashed the report. That raises suspicious eyebrows because Google is making money off of the offenders.
$8/month seems like a fair price to me when taking into consideration the problem you're solving. Maybe try running a special on AppSumo.com. I'm sure a majority of their users are in your target audience.
That's also not legal. You can't simply walk into someone's house, regardless of whether it's locked. It's unlawful trespass, it's a gross violation of privacy (especially since you took a picture), and it may be legally deemed breaking and entering, burglary, or some other felony depending on jurisdiction.

Also, I believe that the voicemail "hackers" also deleted some voicemails, and in that case something was indeed taken.
I didn't look at the guys spread sheet, but I wonder if he discounted the future savings to their present value and current interest rates.
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No, but if you don't lock up corporate secrets, or put passwords on computers, then it isn't industrial espionage when I walk off with a copy of same. This is why everybody carries cardkeys - not because they work very well (folks circumvent ours with a coathanger when they forget their badge) but because the act of having cardkeys makes taking stuff a crime.
You say that like politicians with either brains or courage is somehow not rare.
I am utterly incapable of intelligently commenting on the cost effectiveness of this telescope, but I will note that all of NASA's current money problems could be solved by allocating it just a tiny fraction of what we instead wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I'm sorry to keep talking about these fucking wars, but it really does make me want to cry.
I completely agree. This would be the one killer feature that would take g+ over the top. This would simply render g+ superior to all other social networks.
Why don't they just paint it then, or put in some simpler kind of yellow plastic?
I agree that this is more interesting. Some basic background is at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode#White_ligh...
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Well, that's an argument of self-interest. Does the PR cost outweigh the profit?

I think a lot of firms come to the conclusion that the profit is bigger. Most of the world (consumers) doesn't give two shakes about patents.
The author/narrator didn't say anything about Aussies, the BPO trainer did.
Yes, it would be great if we could separate the social infrastructure from the social apps. If Facebook ever goes under or out of style, we'll lose the graph of everything that's been put on it. But if we had an infrastructure of just a "Rolodex on steroids" that the Facebooks, Google+s, even Youtubes, etc. could build on, that would never be a problem. When you buy a new phone, you don't have to recompile a phonebook.
I was actually thinking of _Star Wars_:

"Join me, and together we will rule the Valley as CEO and employee!"
I meant proof-of-falsehood for myself. That is, I knew vaguely that a lot of things that were written in that article were not quite true, but I didn't have facts that showed them to be false, except for the quote in my original post. I didn't write all the facts I had against that because I felt that, if you do not believe my anecdote, offering more than one doesn't strengthen my case, and if you choose to believe it, I needn't offer more than one story.
"Public Circle" concept = Facebook Page with Facebook Groups adding ability.
I don't think the analogies are doing justice. Nobody's house, not even a virtual one, was involved. An open-to-the-public voicemail system was used. The 'victim' was sympathetic and folks reacted emotionally. Its not clear to me this was espionage, or even a misdemeanor.
I didn't say it was legal, I just said it was a bad analogy.

If you setup a directory /admin on your webserver, and forget to password protect it, and someone accesses it, you can't really call it hacking.
The biggest problem I face is finding the initial set of users whom you can interact with to identify the product/market fit.

Lets say your customers are small businesses.
- Do you cold call them about an online product/webapp?
- Adwords is too expensive when you are not sure if there is demand for the product.

Finding the first 100 customers who love your product is the hardest thing (or so it seems to me).

I would love to hear stories on how you guys went about finding the initial set of customers.
I was about to fix it, but using jekyll that breaks the link...
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Sure I perform window operations, but they're not nearly the same thing as using Windows--which entails a lot more than using windows.
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Decrapified URL:

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"Public Circle" variation = Facebook Groups.
The real problem is what happens if Kik is not installed on either end. The hassle that the user would go through to get it working is something that probably 95% of users will not bother with, unless what they were sharing were extremely critical.
I am a Skype user and not a FB user and I have no intentions of ever using the FB product again (I deleted my account around 2 years ago). I wonder how many of those 750 are the same as I.
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If you go with the non-tab version, you could do an auto-scrolling page that has the sections of those 4 features lower down the page. This way everything is visible on one page.
This sounds like how I helped my grandma with her Outlook/phone/digital photo woes. With some things (email) she was extremely successful; with others (digital photos, saving attached photos from emails) she remained lost forever.

She could have benefited from a dumbed-down interface for the things she struggled with. Picasa was as close as I could get as simple photo management, but she needed something even more seamless and simple.

It makes me wonder why there aren't more companies creating products like the Jitterbug ( http://www.greatcall.com/ )--for those of you unaware, the Jitterbug is a cellphone with very large buttons and a presumably easy-to-navigate menu system, with concierge operator service for remedial support tasks ("I need to check my voicemail").

Maybe we have tried making extremely simplified UIs for common computing tasks, and failed (Clippy/MS Bob)? Is there an extremely simple photo management app (or something on the Mac) that I'm unaware of?
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