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This is a classic case of misinterpreting the data - 85% use it because the only way you can copy, without using a context menu or a keyboard shortcut is by holding down Alt and then clicking on the Edit menu.The point is, people use keyboard shortcuts & context menus because they have to today.

This is the danger with reading too much into simple data - just because 85% of the people do X, it doesn't mean that X is good. Do you expect the data to show that people don't copy paste because its not intuitive? No, in most cases they 'have' to learn it, and figure it out by asking a friend, but they don't enjoy the learning process (and indirectly, resent the platform itself).

Everyone who struggled with the concept of right clicking eventually learnt it - the problem is not that right clicking or context menus are impossible to learn. It's that they're not a natural way of interaction, and should be eliminated whenever possible.

You shouldn't have to learn to use a menu to do what you want, especially when 80% of the time you just need 4 actions.

The simplicity of modifiers (tap, double tap, swipe) is what makes touch platforms like iOS very intuitive. A direct, clickable button ensures that novice users can accomplish simple file management tasks by learning a single modifier (the click).
Does he have any history of open sourcing his software?
Well, yes, Apple designs products for rich people in the first world who have always-on fast internet (have you seen the sheer size of Apple point updates?!). Microsoft designs far more inclusive products.
I was going to post here asking what sort of scaling the report was talking about since asking here would be faster than registering to get the report. Now I have your answer, but the answer is intriguing enough that I'll probably go ahead and register.
I checked and the cert from gmail.com for me is from Thawte. Is this a targeted attack toward only those in Iran?
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Re: explorer-- then I probably used the wrong term. I was refering to the program you are using when you are on the desktop, and simply want to copy a file. Mac used to call this the "Finder," I believe.

Now the idea that you actually have more problem with experienced users is interesting. I can see that in myself (damn new microwave!). But I still feel like it's no harder to learn, however, than what a bunch of icons are supposed to represent. But once it's shown, then is it really hard for them?

Seems like the problem is one of discoverability, not complexity.
How can this be patented?
I learned about linked lists in college, in the 70s, when i first learned Fortran. How can this be patented?
Thanks. We're still in the early stages of Minus but our focus will always be on creating a simple and universal experience for our users. Part of that is also to make sharing more interactive and that's something we'll be exploring next :)
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With regards to Microsoft's usage statistics, and the counter-argument, I can't help but think of this:
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/09/counterintuitive-w...

Simple usage statistics aren't especially valuable if you don't look at the overall picture as to why features are used (e.g. who would cut and paste if they understood how to move?). I'm not sure if either side is properly analyzing the available information.
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"98% of startups fail because 98% of startups are unnecessary. They're trying to solve artificial problems." -Joey Pfeifer
In other words, the popular vote is disregarded because different 'types' of people shouldn't have too much power: the density of cities should not grant that population dominion over the agrarian folk.

In practice, the system grants sparse populations dominion over the majority. There's no well-thought-out philosophical reason for this, by the way, this was just a compromise states like Virginia had to make to get states like Rhode Island to agree to the Constitution.

Philosophically, people are people. Why should they be effectively disenfranchised for choosing to live in cities rather than in the mountains?
And what happens if there's a file type the OS doesn't support? In my case that often happens with mkv files.

How do I tell iTunes (or any other music player) to import some of the music on my USB drive? iTunes doesn't even allow you to do that with iPods...
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I think so. This kind of thing are almost always targeted attacks.
The question is whether the founders are capable. Do you think 98% of founders are incapable of creating something useful?
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Minecraft on 360 is never going to be more than a niche, given the type of game it is. If it's available through Steam, however, the majority of PC players will end up buying through Steam and that population will pressure the non-Steam PC players to move to Steam.
I'm apply last year (W11) but was rejected. Now I know why - not because I'm russian, just my idea was a totally shit. Thanks PG, that you reject me. I got many ideas since last year - Startups Franchise, Help Button to any smartphones and many other, I invent new XML-format RSS+ and tons of many ohers great things. Now I got an idea, that 85% of G+ techbloggers say 'this is realy cool' because this is really cool, not because I'm think so. This is a startup, that can grow fast and make good cashflow. September, 15 Steve Blank come to Moscow and I'm pitch him with it. If him also say 'cool' I'm apply. I have a great cofounder - IP lawyer from New Delhi. We can do it, PG.
Probably because people think it looks fun and are wiling to put in the few minutes it takes to not a be completely useless with the device.
Yeah, but he did spend a good portion of his life on the Danube fighting German tribes. Probably did not carry much with him.
A (niche) use may be to compile for NativeClient, to provide better responsiveness if you're doing large templated live-previews (though admittedly this is more sensible with formatting like markdown rather than templating).
Not that I know of; he worked for King.com, which produces proprietary Flash stuff. I don't know if he's released the source to his one-off games, like the Infinite Mario Brothers, but it would not surprise me either way.
Interesting, but how do you use it?
If you click on your name at the top right it will bring you to your profile page. From there click on Saved Stories. This will show you a list of all stories you have up voted in the order you up voted them. This is typically what I do to find a story later.
While I agree with all of your points, keep in mind that when 'civilians' were just getting to use computers (being forced to at work, etc.), Mac lost in favor of the IBM-compatibles (what people started calling 'pc's). There are a lot of reasons for this, to be sure, but difficulty of using the PC was not something that carried much weight in the argument (I was there for the arguments, and I was a mac man).
Or how about:

Which is better, something which can learn exactly as we programmed it to, or something which learns by some unknown way in which the big 'ol bucket of bytes orders itself?

Or, if you had a magic learning machine, wouldn't you want to know exactly what its learning mechanisms are?
File systems and file browsers are just never going to be easy for users to understand. That's why Apple is slowly but surely hiding them entirely from "beginners"/"people who don't care to learn how to use their tools".

Microsoft's solution is more akin to the way animal researchers teach apes to recognize arbitrary symbols. It's a subtle and pernicious form of vendor "lock in", because when you try to move those users away from their comfort zone in Outlook or Windows Explorer, they feel lost.

Personally, I think Microsoft and "people who can't be bothered to learn their tools" deserve each other.
Who holds the patent, and/or what's the patent number?
_They use this to show that “the commands that make up 84% of what users do in Explorer are now in one tab”. But the more important thing is that the remaining 50% of the bar is taken up by buttons that nobody will ever use, ever, even according to Microsoft’s own research._

This hits the nail on the head when discussing the UI decisions made. If Microsoft had included the top 10 commands in an organized manner, plus a few more from their data, it'd probably be fine.
Thanks, I remembered it was something easy but my Google-fu was failing me. And what about Chrome/IE/Safari?
He was a bright guy, but as he developed philosophy he also preached against democracy in favor of some kind of military dictatorship run by philosopher kings.

It seems like you're attributing the ideas in The Republic to Socrates. Of the Socratic dialogues written by Plato, some of them were fairly faithful representations of conversations Socrates actually had and others used Socrates as a fictional character to argue for Plato's ideas. The Republic falls firmly in the latter category.
I understand what you're saying, and despite the content of my above post I've never been an Apple guy, always a Windows one. Every time I went over to the Apple OS I felt I had one hand tied behind my back by lack of options. I also try to keep in mind that I'm not typical. I started on "PCs" in 1981 and have grown with them, this all comes naturally. So when I judge a UI I literally stick my Mom on it... she's 68. I have also had the good fortune to work with a lot of 'artistic types' over the years as well, and in turn I watched how they use a UI. In my experience they just don't use much more than what is presented before them option wise.

Trust me, I agree that this new ribbon is very cluttered and contains too much visual noise, but in turn I don't mind exposing things visually to the end user. I hate MS Office with the ribbon, but I deal with people all the time who love it. Just let me turn it off :)
Move To and Copy To have existed since at least XP:
http://i.imgur.com/NsPGD.png

But they had to be put there by the user. :)
Great! Finally there's method to the madness of startups.
Today I read an article with the headline "How to Pick the Right Idea for Your Startup." That right there epitomizes exactly what is wrong with startup culture.

Don't have an idea? Don't have a startup.

Ideally, problems could be solved and ideas implemented without the need to form a company, get funding, or turn a profit. Those are simply (often optional) measures that must be taken to help realize the end goal.
In chrome looks like you can't remove it, but at least you can disable the use of that CA to identify sites,ecc... from preference>manage certificates.
Thanks for the detailed comment, truly appreciate it and a lot to take in all at once ;)

There is a lot of noise in the space and a lot of competition, and as someone new entering the space, we definitely have a long way to go. We've only setup a team and started working on Minus full time about a month ago here in NYC. The vision behind Minus is and will be focusing on creating a simple and universal sharing experience.

Minus will evolve over time and we are open to all suggestions and feedback on how to improve and hopefully you'll think differently in few months :) Not sure if you saw, but we have many apps also available via http://minus.com/pages/tools that we're working on simultaneously and improving along with the web front.

Thanks!
There are already many of these out there. Let's say they are all pretty sub-optimal both from a player's and a developer's perspective.
convergence is not compatable with FF 6.0 btw. You'll need to manually check if your using 6.0.

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Usability of this (and anything, really) would improve dramatically if in each system there were one correct way (based on selection by scientific usability testing) to initiate each task.

The "helpfulness" of providing "n" ways of doing the same thing is an illusion and only undermines the ability for users to establish a shared context which can be used to make user actions more automatic for the experienced and easier to teach to the inexperienced.
Not when the phone costs hundreds of dollars less with a contract.
Yeah, while I think that select all & select none are pretty important ribbon items (most people never learn CTRL+A or Shift+Clicking), select inversion feels like a power user option to me.
Anyone who lives in Washington and California knows the contradictory results you get from this. If you ask the people "hey, do you want stuff?" they vote "yes, we want stuff". If you ask people "hey, do you want to pay for it" they vote "no, we don't want to pay for it".
nobody in YC will ever hold your age against you. It's a complete non-issue. If you want to develop this idea then you should apply.
Maybe the randomization could be weighted by the individual percentages. For example, randomize if the candidates are within 1%, but give the higher-voted candidate an increased chance of winning weighted by how far apart they are. That way the difference kicks in slowly, reducing the incremental value of additional votes in a reasonably smooth fashion.
Take the risk and apply. They are looking for brilliant people and are willing to mold and improve your idea or give you an entirely new idea if they like your team. While there needs to be a basic concept/product there, they really do count the team much higher than the idea.

Go for it and good luck!
I usually rely on my stock answer. "If you have to ask, then no."

Or the converse: those who need to know it, know they need to know it already and will learn it.

Machine level knowledge (not just assembly: caching and DRAM architecture fu is just as important, IMHO) is really useful. But it's not "needed" to write working software, and the hordes of assembly-ignorant (some of them are actually reasonably super-mediocre) programmers out there are an existence proof of this fact.

But the great hackers all know their machines, and that's one of the aspects that makes them great.
I've burned through three Vertex 1's where the third was replaced at my request during RMA with a Vertex 2 (that was nice of them at least).

The first was when my current system was new two years ago. I was never able to get it working.

The second lasted a year and a half before it started corrupting files before finally dying.

The third lasted almost two whole weeks before I received a BSOD while gaming and a no longer detected SSD.

All three of these requires some form of CMOS reset/firmware fiddling to get running initially.

At least the Vertex 2 seems fine so far. But overall, I'm not too impressed with OCZ. I'll give them credit for replacing the drives without much fuss, but the last two RMAs took around 2 weeks to receive the replacement. Which is a huge pain in the ass when it's your OS drive in your rig.
This post didn't even need words, just that progression of screenshots. Windows 7 feels almost like a nice breeze and them, wham, that Windows 8 monstrosity. Functional, data-driven arguments will never convince me that a user's first reaction to that window will be anything other than confusion.
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On a Mac, go to Keychain Access, hit the padlock in the upper left to unlock the system keychain with an admin account, select System Roots from the list of available Keychains in the upper left, find and select DigiNotar Root CA, get info (command-I or hit the i in the bottom area of this window), open the Trust section, for "When using this certificate" select Never Trust.
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I have two OCZ drives, a Vertex 60GB in a lightly-used Fit-PC2, and a Vertex 2 240GB that was in my ThinkPad W510. They both failed after a few months.

To their credit, OCZ did replace the drives promptly and without hassle. The 60GB replacement hasn't failed (albeit again under light use). The 240GB is on a Fedex truck for me today, so we will see on that one.

I put a 300GB Intel 320 in the ThinkPad about three months ago. No problems at all with it, but time will tell!

The Intel drive has better utility software - you can do a secure erase, for example. OCZ doesn't provide a utility like that. There are open source utilities and such, but it can be pretty chancy getting them to work (I never succeeded).

An aside: I kept the ThinkPad's hard drive and put it in an Ultrabay adapter replacing the optical drive. Large and less frequently accessed files (photo, video, downloads, etc.) go there. This gives lots of extra storage and should save wear on the SSD (not that it helped the OCZ any).

The hard drive is set to turn off after a few minutes even on AC power, so it sits idle most of the time. When I do need an optical drive I use a USB one, or I can swap the original drive back in.
The humble bundle is anomalously well performing, but they sell a couple of dozen games per year, each in batches of 5-6 that only sell for 2 weeks.

Steam sell a couple of hundreds indie games (out of many thousands currently on the market) throughout the year.

I think the HIB is by design not a service that the average indie (or even the exceptionally good indie) can get on.
Your comment makes a lot of sense. If true, I think a good series of quick video tutorials would provide a faster outcome.
The trouble is that getting people to recognize that is really hard, and just changing how the system works probably won't do it. If you want to politically antagonize nearly any American with a strong political affiliation, regardless of what that affiliation is, just tell them that the margin of error in the 2000 presidential elections was far larger than the difference in votes, and therefore both candidates were about equally legitimate winners.
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If you want to disable diginotar's root CA on your Mac (for Safari/Chrome) you can open Keychain Access, select the "System Roots" keychain at the top left, find the diginotar certificate in the list, and delete it (or disable it, which is what I did).

EDIT: This definitely works for Safari, not 100% sure if it does for Chrome after all.
Chrome uses whatever the OS uses, as far as I can tell. Preferences > Manage Certificates just opens up the Keychain Access app. Upthread are instructions for how to do it from there.
I'll tell you what. She's not making it up and she's not a drama queen. Will you agree with both of these statements regarding this specific situation?
The guy who sets up the flight school, collects the money, and hires an unqualified instructor bears no responsibility for the outcome?
I second the question.
FWIW the current deploy procedure I use for $job (written by a colleague) is an unholy mix of jammit, spritemapper, rake, %x{git} and asset_id.

It _does_ work, but I am quite looking forward to the integration of rails 3.1 to get rid of it.
Do not wait. A great cofounder is more likely to come along if you build it.
So it looks like the file is the unredacted diplomatic cables (cablegate), not the insurance file

https://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/108251897961517056

Where was it leaked to, has anyone seen this file in the wild? I don't see it on torrent sites.
I find that you always stumble upon fantastic articles. Recently I learnt to accept that I will never be able to read all of them and that in-fact it's better if I don't. Instead I will read what interests me at the time (while it is on the front-page of HN) and if it disappears then so be it.

Though to answer the question, anything you upvote is saved in your user profile under 'saved stories'. That's a minimalistic way to track them. Instapaper is another great alternative.
It's cumbersome because you have to navigate through a bunch of menus - however, its easy because you have a finite, visible set of actions to look through those menus (tap, swipe, repeat) and a finite set of menus themselves.

In a desktop OS, you have a seemingly infinite set of modifiers (Ctrl, Alt, Double click, click, right click, Ctrl + Shift), which are not 'logical' operations like tapping and swiping - they must be learned and remembered.
Has anyone from other countries signed up for this? Does anyone know how the visa situation is in order to work for those 3 months in the USA?
This prototype is a failure of both design and usability. It's an offense and a joke against anyone who expects to be able to interact with a machine in an efficient and intelligent manner.

- It's ugly as hell

- A beginner is bombarded with way too many things to click on

- An expert is annoyed by useless buttons and waste of space

Sure, you can turn it off, but who wants to configure and reconfigure UI preferences for the rest of their lives (sidenote: reminds me of eclipse)? Sensible defaults, please.

Contrast this with Apple, whose designs often define what good design and usability means. In their apps:

- The appearance is simple, well-designed, elegant

- The only actions present are those deemed most necessary to the user

- Tons of functionality is hidden under shortcut keys, modifier clicks and context menus for expert users (after years on OS X, I still discover hidden elegance as a result of their zealous attention to detail)
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I'm not sure what type of "documents" you're referring to, but the images could be handled as with any other media import upon attaching the drive – i.e., within the image browsing app. As for moving images to the USB drive, that's an export from the image browsing app.
The founders don't all have to be programmers, but we prefer there be at least one.
I prefer this layout: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6068/6091344748_8571cf15b4_b....

Over your current one. I'm curious why you changed it? It's message is much more clear.
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He released the source to several of his 4k/LD games (which are most of his games).
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You've actually always(at least since W2K) been able to get the "open command prompt" option by holding Shift when right-clicking in a folder, and I think there's some tweak deep down in the bowels of Windows that turns it on permanently.
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i applied as a solo founder for S11, and didn't get a single hit to my app's demo. since then, i've been lucky enough to join a team (we met through a yc reject hacker dating event at the hacker dojo!) and we're pumped to apply with a new idea for W12 :)

solo is hard, not just on yourself, but also in terms of statistics. it can be done, but it's probably easier to find at least another person to tilt the odds slightly in your favor.