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I don't need to know his arguments. His actions speak louder than any of his words. I actually like their idea. If he bombed because he wanted people to read it, then by tainting any copy Anonymous can make sure that he has failed.
Well, taking it as a riddle, once.

The very first human is the oldest human and they died once.
Very Impressive! I've been working on a number of 'content extraction' tools - cQuery.com and webXtract (experimental), but maybe you would find them a useful way to extract news and headlines from hundreds of online sources.

Here is an experiment that uses 'profiles' as a basis for content extraction:

http://webxtract.com/content-extractor
It wasn't an interpretation of MVC per-se but more of what I think the Model in any architecture should be. The Model can be used in MVVM and MVP as well and can be part of DDD way of doing things.

And again, for me, a model should be a representation of an object/data. If it is tied to an ORM (Active Record or Entity Framework) it may come with DB access, but I still don't think models should contain application specific logic. That's what the 'Business' layer should be for. If an Invoice model knows about tax codes from 130 different countries, again I think it knows way too much about the application.
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Well, you're not talking ALLCASES, you're looking at academic commentary. Maybe better to pursue a solution that uses HeinOnline?
How well is it going to be received compared with the level of effort required? ChromeOS is pretty bad and Google has been working on it for a long time.
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I'd never heard of Runge's phenomenon, but it does indeed sound like I was describing it. Thanks for giving me a name for it.
Only data I've found is _Why We Nap_ (ISBN 0-8176-3462-2)

Out of print, but you can find a pdf online.
http://sleepwarrior.com/Claudio_Stampi_-_Why_We_Nap.pdf
I realize they can do more than one thing at once but how about getting threaded tabs into a current build of Firefox first. Coders talented enough to make an O/S certainly should be able to make threaded tabs happen.
Is AOL diluting its web properties to destruction?
The content sites AOL has purchased over the years were popular for their independent voices - is the Huffington Post content farming going to ruin all that AOL had before?
In the part of the past where books were scrolls, almost nobody could read, and most of what was written was data. Interestingly, relatively soon after the arrival of paginated books, public reading becomes commonplace.

Scrolls are for scribes.
I think it is handled the same as the horizontal scroll on normal mice. Here is a relevant stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2842041/jquery-horizontal...
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6x28h doesn't seems unreasonable to me (but it seems that daylight could be an issue), I wouldn't call it polyphasic however - for me this term covers multiple naps of 30min during one day. My point was that I didn't recall any accounts that this worked good for someone, and I did some googling (since I considered trying it myself when I first heard about it).
There's a balance to be had.

On one hand, you need to get your song in front of as many people as possible.

On the other hand, you need to get as many of those people to pay for the song as possible.

Making it clear that taking the song without paying is bad is necessary, but at the same time you want to encourage people to try new songs risk-free. The radio used to do that. (And still does, to an extent... For the most promoted artists.)

I think a constant campaign of artists talking about about supporting them by buying their music would work much better than lawsuits. Everyone thinks the lawsuit won't get them. Many more people will react to an emotional call to action.

But that's my opinion, and isn't based on any facts that I can prove.
I think that's the point of the article- companies aren't hiring people who want to rock the boat, you have to find a way to do it yourself.
I see a blank white page with 3 links in the bottom right corner that appear to do nothing, and a lone copyright symbol in the bottom left corner.

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The original Apple requirements would have required Amazon to pull the app entirely, right? (Or sell all their Kindle books directly through Apple IAP and give Apple 30%, which was never going to happen.)
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Its kind of like that Gawker redesign that everyone hated.
No, it's not polyphasic, but it's a "non-traditional sleep pattern" and it shows that there are such things that genuinely do work.

Polyphasic is a potential extreme example, and people claim it doesn't work (although some still say it does)

Where is the boundary? What really is possible? Anyone who actually knows, isn't saying. I suspect no one knows.
I installed Lion a few days ago, and Java is not installed. The first time I typed java (or javac) on the command line, it asked if I wanted it installed - it was then automatic, I just had to wait a few mintes.
The crucial difference between this situation and the one that Google is in is that the activity the Sun CEO refered to was the allegedly infringing activity. "I'm happy people are watching our movies" wouldn't be a cause for invoking estoppel, but "I'm happy people are bittorrenting our movies" would be.

Also, in this case the crucial aspect is what the law is, not the quickly considered opinions of non-lawyers like us.
I enjoyed the service although I was wondering about the business model for quite a long time. Sad.
You mean like webOS?
I just checked PAIR and as of March 5, 2011 it's with an examiner. Most recently, on June 12, it looks like the USPTO wants them to restrict the claims in the patent to a single independent and distinct invention; i.e., it doesn't look like they'll get their way with having their patent broadly cover all forms of reward.
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The charge isn't the problem. It's the money (and time) sink of having to retain a lawyer and prove your innocence. The game is the prosecution load you up with charges and then leaves it up to you and your lawyer to chip away at each one.

If you've read the news lately you'll see 100 counts of X and 24 counts of Y. They are trying to intimidate you into a plea. They know that a conviction would be hard to get on the charges as presented so they are trying to trip you up just once. Chances are you've done something illegal and don't know it yet. So, while you are burning through savings and equity the DOJ has unlimited resources and time to come to pin something on you.

With all that pressure most people would just cop to something to have it be done with.
I love this idea, but I'm really don't understand why Sprouter down and why Sarah didn't switch Sprouter to a simple 8 hours/week side-project.
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I only recently passed the threshold for the ability to downvote. I've done so several times since then, but not in a way that I thought was being very 'loose' with my downvotes. I just noticed that I no longer have the ability to downvote. I'm assuming an algorithm didn't like my voting pattern (which is fine - I'll certainly be more careful/reserved with my votes). Does anyone know if that ability is likely to return at some point?

Edit: now I'm noticing that the downvote arrow is showing up in some situations - particularly on comments on the 'new' page.
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> You can't scroll because I happen to think scrolling for reading is broken.

You can't be serious. This is one of the foremost expectations in the user experience, fortified by almost two decades of websites that have done it this way.
While I think it's likely that many file-sharers are in the "try-before-you-buy" camp, I also expect this is mostly just a correlation. I spend more than most of my friends on media, and I also download/share more for free than most of them. If I couldn't download (or stream... thanks spotify!), I would certainly spend more, rather than less.
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Hi Andre. I actually really like the skimmer - been using it for some time with Chrome. After reading your take on scrolling - I have to agree my brain prefers not to deal with the finding and readjusting part of having to scroll through long content. It is just easier to hit one forward and one backward key to find everything on the page.
But why would the autologin implementation need access to the cleartext password ? And then why is the cleartext password stored at all ?

These seems like big holes.
In exchange for providing power to the rack, home and office owners will get free heat and hot water -- from the article

This only makes sense for the commercial data center that is already using the electricity to power the rack. For homeowners, this is like using electric space heaters, which is very expensive. Not a good deal. And as @Thieum22 pointed out, what about summer?
I'd argue that the common view that our mind is somehow independent from our body is probably wrong, and a judeo-christian falsity. Our mind is a real-time, continuous creation of our brain AND our whole body. I don't think that a brain in a vat could be anything but either a vegetable or a psychopath; and that the "ghost in the shell" (or the mind dump neuromancer-style) is anything more than a pleasant, impossible fiction, similar with faster-than-light travel.
Yeah, the trick is finding services that offer full-text searching. Unfortunately, that's pretty difficult to find. Google Scholar would probably work best in most cases, though.
They just hit a pretty important milestone for that.

http://felipe.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/initial-electrolysis-...
Imho the best example for this is that the Motorola Droid comes with multi-touch features in Europe, as opposed to the Droid of all countries were Apple holds the multi-touch patent.
Seems like a pretty good overview of Git for someone completely new to it. Looking forward to the next two articles.

I did notice the slug of the article has a -2 appended to it (modern-version-control-with-git-2), which usually happens in WordPress when there's another post with the same title. Not a big deal, but might be confusing since this is a multipart article and this installment is the first.
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> but that doesn't mean his ideas are wrong.

Agreed, but after reading a bit of it (I downloaded a file with MD5 of 9e72e26916c20481a1f6e4781fd4d505) I can spare you the pain. It's crap.

Still, his actions make it necessary to repeal all of his arguments and assumptions.
I read the front page and when the More link fails me I check http://www.hnjs.dotcloud.com/ for top new links from the last 3 hours.
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Reading the Wikipedia page on estoppel[1], it seems that Google's case is strengthened much more by Sun's long delay in pursuing legal action against Google than by a casual statement by the CEO. Of course, IANAL.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel
..just as long as the users are in the US/Canada, or happy calling the US/Canada..

Hopefully they'll expand into Europe sooner rather than later, as it looks like being a really useful service.
Given as that's pretty much the only way they can make money, it's obvious they would choose that interpretation (which would be hard to defend in court, BTW).
Scrolling is cool, and I advocate it all the time, but not for longform content.
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I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that does not need to be restarted after every hour or 2 of browsing lest it become more and more unresponsive.

I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that can start scrolling before all the Javascript on the page has finished running.

(I'm using FF 7 on Snow Leopard with 1 gig of RAM. Would I have to restart FF less often if I had more RAM?)
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I think the reason they used so many colors in their bombastic website is to demonstrate non-typical contrast solutions.
Why would anyone read a 1516 page document written by a maniac? Even sane pieces tend to be TL;DR these days.
We have softpats in UK and rest of Europe too. Indeed Europe is more liberal than UK. Also, depending on the field some discoveries (gene sequences) [sort of] and mathematical methods [definitely, eg codecs, compression algos] get patented. The important thing is that in Europe there needs to be what used to be called a "technical effect". That is not just software but software with some real world outcome, eg if your software gives you longer battery life then that aspect of the software is patentable.

As for PCT. Patents enter the national or regional phase and get examined against the local patent law. Some countries may be inclined to rubber stamp already granted patents (saving time and money). Certainly USA searches for PCT used to be the only ones that were guaranteed _not_ to be thorough!
It's not just contrast that makes text legible or not, there are many other factors:

- Width of the text area
- Line spacing
- Font-size
- Correct use of headings, paragraphs, emphasis etc
...

Actually low contrast is a great tool to have. You can't have high contrast all over the page otherwise various elements will be shouting for your attention. Controlling the volume of your copy is just as important as the factors I mentioned above.
Do they print books with black pages and white text?

No, they do not.
Exactly, there is already a news site that functions very good on mobile, and it's named Yahoo News. I'd say it's very probable that the author was aware of it.
Usually with Node.js/Express we handle stuff like authentication on middleware, so controllers don't need to bother. The route just includes the authentication/authorization middleware if one is needed.

Here is a simple example for hooking in route-specific middlewares:
https://gist.github.com/978411#file_express_middlewares.coff...
This is not an official confirmation. This is an accidental leak of information whose significance is not perfectly clear.
Flow-based programming is definitely something I'm (and some people I know) looking at. The coordination language idea is worthwhile for language-independence. And functional languages with lazy sequences are very similar.
No.

His ideas should be repealed and refuted by reason and with an open debate. Anything other than that will make them stronger. There are many people who already believe them and, thanks to his actions, countless more will. They must be proved wrong and convinced they are wrong.
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Propaganda by photoshop clone developers who don't want to design opacity layers into their interfaces.

In all seriousness, if everything was high contrast, everything would be SCREAMING AT YOU FOR ATTENTION. Webdesigners: use your personal judgement when identifying what should be high contrast (higher visual recognition priority) and what should be lower contrast (lower visual recognition priority) and all will be well.

FYI: the HN example on your site actually makes perfect sense. The high contrast content is almost always the thing I consider most important. Index: Titles of threads, Subpages: Comments.
>There have been several instances, however, where large American companies have tried to get Europe to allow software patents. Luckily so far all of these have been blocked:

Nonsense. We have software patents in Europe too.
We support calling calling over 170 countries: http://www.twilio.com/pricing/international-calling-rates

In addition, you can make client-to-client calls that never touch the traditional phone network and will work anywhere in the world.
the problem with the focus of user-centered design.

Wait, what? Why is this a problem? Who else should the design be focused on but the user of the site?

If the users are wrong, who is right?
Agreed, that is a better scenario.

Then again, stuff like authentication and authorization (two separate concepts!) are often better handled on some middleware or service layer than in models and controllers.
I'd like to point out it would be hard to add stuff that's more stupid than what he already wrote.
You can actually make your public folder available through CloudFront by creating a distribution and pointing it at the Dropbox web servers. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a risky business, since all the other Dropbox users will be able to use your distribution as well.
As a NYTimes reader and an iPhone user I am very happy they do not redirect me to the mobile site. I avoid sites that do this in Mobile Safari.

I'm curious as to who you think is supposed to have the final say on "the way it should be".
Dalvik was already launched by the time of the post. So clearly he implied the Java inside Dalvik.
YouTube is very clean. I don't suppose you would share your CSS? If not, I'll do it myself...but it's always nice not to re-invent the wheel.
Agreed. I love the layout and the UX, but it's just not fast enough.
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Any idea how this site was made? Was some kind of framework used or was it all hard coded?
Any Canadians with a little perspective on this? In the US educational use is usually covered under fair use rules.
> there are people who make it to 120 or so.

About one in 45 billions. How many people in history did reliably make it to 120? exactly one, Jeanne Calment. One other did it to 119, and that's about it.
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It's amusing that a website arguing for readability makes extensive use of all-caps, well known to be difficult to read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_caps#Readability
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I think it's really hard to trust someone that you don't know!

I would go for a friend or colleague... but never family member :)
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Considering that DropBox is designed/developed for a end user backup service...

No, no, no. Dropbox is NOT a backup service.
Don't understand why you're getting downvoted.. if this was Reddit, then yeah, but I expected more from HN crowd.

I was about to post the same thing - this is no surprise to us Jews. As the saying goes - may you live to 120 years!
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Core fonts don't necessarily equal good web typography. Arial, for instance, is pretty mediocre for the web. You could say the same about Helvetica (it is still better designed than Arial).

As for web fonts, Adobe and other foundries have large collections of gorgeous fonts specifically designed for the web.
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A bit meta, no?

I like that they're practicing what they're preaching with the product they're using to preach it. There's so much room for change in the publishing world. Pretty exciting to see that shift happening.
Even worse (or probably related) than the general contrast problem is the absolutely crazy suggestion to use

-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;

in your CSS (http://maxvoltar.com/archive/-webkit-font-smoothing)

I've yet to come across an instance where antialiased is better than using subpixel hinting.

In addition, I think it's crazy that the browser would allow a site designer to alter such a highly OS- or even machine-specific setting.

Heck - there's even special tuning wizards in most OSes to configure the subpixel hinting perfectly for a specific monitor.

Dear designer, turning that off for everybody just because you didn't manage to configure it correctly on your machine is egoistic and, IMHO, plain stupid as you make everyone suffer for a thing you should fix at your end.

/endrant
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Scrolling is vastly preferred by most because the scroll wheel is right under your fingers at all times.
Continuously generating-and-playing audio in JS isn't yet possible, except via a few experimental browser-specific APIs (Webkit-based browsers and Firefox have two different ones). But, if you want to generate a discrete portion of sound (e.g. a few seconds), you can produce a .wav file, shove it into the DOM somewhere, and then play it back. So something like this works, but a version that changed the tones in real time as you dragged the sliders wouldn't.
A Debian Developer has a good set of articles[1] on this vulnerability. It's really a pretty astonishing aspect of FireWire.

Time to whip out the epoxy, I reckon.

[1]: http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/physical-memory-attacks-via-f...
I'm not so sure about this. If a company knows they have massive piracy, they will concentrate on fighting it and it will take money and resources away from potentially better content. Real competition is what spurs innovation. Piracy is not competition.

I also don't see how innovating will even help (which leads me to believe that the examples he used got more viewers based on other factors). If the content can be pirated, your new innovations will then also be pirated.
I find it easier to read some of the low contrast sites than the linked - too MUCH contrast is often worse than too little (for me).
same here, pretty bad.
All major file-sharing services blocked :(
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It would be my pleasure:
https://gist.github.com/1106842

This CSS fix for YouTube removes a lot of functionality like the search form but since I can search youtube using extensions and the browser address field this isn't a huge issue.
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> you'd be surprised at how many people in that bracket can speak English - at least well enough to use a cell phone :)

I think you missed the point - it's not about whether people in that bracket can speak English, it's that there aren't any people in the tax-paying bracket that can't.
I downloaded a copy of the manifesto, read through the first few dozen pages or so, and skimmed through a few other parts.

The table of contents suggests 90-year war plan to unite Europe under the Knights Templar and restore pan-European identity. It doesn't need to be altered--it's already unbelievably stupid.

But he also knows a great deal about the political history of Europe and liberal thought, seen through a twisted lens. Furthermore, he follows a sort of Geert Wilders-like strain of Euro-nationalist ideas, dangerous ideas that have been gaining ground in parts of Europe. To alter this manifesto to include 'dumb things' is dangerous because first, it devalues the idiocy of his claims; second, readers will be more tempted to read it for the "good parts" while ignoring the "dumb parts"--who knows what parts were added, anyway? They'll be reading about the evils of Islam and multicultralism without understanding the fact--or dismissing it--that his ideas fit in a bizarre megalomaniacal framework of fantasy European domination, and deserve extreme scrutiny and mistrust.