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I’m curious why you seem to think that Fitt’s law doesn’t apply to touch interfaces. Sure, certain concepts can’t be translated 1:1 (like infinite sized targets at screen edges) but even those have somewhat similar counterparts in touch interfaces (screen edges are also special places with larger targets in touch interfaces).
Hopefully it does, but be ready to fight for it ;-)
How is gnome-shell in ubuntu (11.10) deficient? It is perfectly functional for me.
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I use Noir for a few things, and it's been great so far.

You can write Clojure on the front-end as well with Pinot, which is a ClojureScript framework created by the author of Noir (ibdknox).

Noir isn't very large, so it's easy to read through the source if you're not sure how something works.
For amazon, the tablet is a also way to get many people to subscribe to prime. prime users buy 3x-4x than normal amazon users. So they might have better subsidy model than google.

The future opportunities in controlling digital content and mostly e-commerce are huge.Wal-mart size huge.New prime customers really help amazon fight for those opportunities. Losing a bit of money on tablets is just small investment, nothing more.
As soon as it's in use, it starts to rot. This is the hardest challenge in writing software.
>It's not tax avoidance, it's tax minimization. There is a big difference.

I thought "Tax avoidance" was the legal term for legally minimizing your tax burden, so "avoidance" and "minimization" would be largely synonymous. "Tax evasion" I thought, was the term for avoiding taxes through illegal means.
Pre-funding, yes, is a leap of faith.

Post-funding, if you offer a market salary, standard benefits, and a startup working environment (which seems to be the norm for YC startups), why wouldn't top talent choose that over, say, working for Google?
> Noir isn't very large

None of the main clojure web libs are very large, so this applies to all of them :)
Twinkies harm nobody in moderation, you just don't like them. Confusing "I don't like it" with "it's not good" is an unfortunate but seemingly quite common problem in society. You'll often see this manifest with so called "second hand smoke". When confronted with facts (such as for example, anti-second-hand-smoke laws are only necessary because OSHA recognizes the scientific fact that it doesn't pose a credible risk to heath (OSHA has air quality standards, and other people smoking does not trip them)), they often fall back on "well it smells bad".
DAE not have any issues with non-Unity Ubuntu? Hell even in 11.10 they seem to have fixed the critical Unity/compiz invis-window bug. Minus window behaviors that people aren't used to and the knee jerk reaction to the unity-launcher (learn the shortcuts, it's fast to use!) I have nothing but pleasant experiences. I've found actually gnome-shell to be pleasantly minimal and usable too.

That all having been said, it's really, really hard to beat the simplicity of Cardapio and Docky[1]. I feel very comfortable here.

Now, if we could just fix the font debacle that is Linux. [2]

[1] Caradpio+docky http://i.minus.com/iA94EsbEeR2fz.png

[2] Note how the menus are different here in each application. http://i.imgur.com/ER4pR.png (Firefox, native gnome-terminal, qt VLC)
A more general concept is the steering law.

"The steering law in human–computer interaction and ergonomics is a predictive model of human movement that describes the time required to navigate, or steer, through a 2-dimensional tunnel." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering_law
Excuse my French, but what does that have to do with anything?

The issue at hand is about Facebook not respecting your request to log out of their service. "Log out" means "I'm going away. Do not assume anyone on this computer is me anymore."

Facebook deliberately choose to ignore this convention, and continue to track users using various methods in order to gather more information for their purposes.

What Facebook should have done was delete all Facebook cookies - end of story.

How that is related to the pros and cons of HTTP is beyond me.
There are 3 problems with this statement that I can see.

1) people haven't even agreed on the best technique for utilizing multiple cores, or heck, on the difference between concurrency and parallelism, and quite the contrary, I think the x86 architecture is too smart and carries a lot of baggage compared to the elegance and simplicity of pure RISC processors

2) most of the time you're not really working directly with hardware -- like, for example modern kernels do not allow you to access the memory of another process directly, and that value that you wanted to save in RAM may end up in a swap file on your hard-disk.

3) what hardware does have is a separation between hard-disk, RAM, L2 cache, L1 cache and CPU registers. In a perfect world there would only be one type of memory, unfortunately that would be too expensive and without much benefit versus the current state of the art.

For maximum performance (which is required in many instances) you do have to know about the difference between these multiple layers of memory and take appropriate action, even though many times this is abstracted away from you.

The problem with "volatile" is different in nature - the behavior of volatile is not really portable and in practice it is also useless as higher-level APIs, like POSIX threads, do have better atomic and fence semantics that are more portable. Basically "volatile" was added in for good measure and it is now a legacy generating lots of problems.
He said UPS.
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Looking for a Django dev with front end experience and a good intuition for UX to work on small fixes and features. You should be comfortable with Django, jQuery, CSS, HTML and all that good stuff.

We are a marketing service for businesses utilizing QR codes and smartphones.
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Ideally we'd like a passionate individual who is genuinely interested in our project. The possibility for full-time employment by the end of the year exists, but if that's not your thing, no worries, we won't pressure you into it.

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The experiment I'd like to see would be for some country with an obesity problem to make it so that prepared food must be priced proportionally to its calories.

I think one of the reasons for obesity is that it is really really easy to get a ridiculous amount of calories without realizing it. Most people would not eat half a large pizza for lunch every day--they would be aghast at eating that many calories. Yet a large combo from a fast food burger joint can easily have more calories than half a large pizza, and many people will eat that every day. (And I'm not talking about getting the biggest, most decked out burger offered...I'm talking middle of the line, such as a double at a place that offers singles, doubles, and triples).

I realize there is much more to healthy eating than just watching calories, but for most people in obese first-world countries the problems from obesity dwarf any other nutritional problem they are likely to have, so first things first.
With everything you said -- isn't that the way you're supposed to do things? Seriously. You see what others do who are successful and you try to understand what it is and replicate it and improve on it.

It's not about domesticating genius, but its about understanding and application. And last time I checked the ONLY scientific method we have for understanding something is measurement.
It would be remiss to not point out that noir probably has the strongest set of documentation (both api and tutorial styles) of the main three libs.
Inspired by this post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3063359

You can append a custom formula as a hash tag:

http://www.olegkikin.com/audio/audio.html#(t>>12|t&#...
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Nothing in Clojure is large by, say, C standards ;)
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Fixed a few issues, now works on Opera as well.
A recording of display will be available for download; so you could grab a still or loop the video and post on your website.
i have bipolar 2 myself, and although i wouldn't say i've 'overcome' it, i've made a lot of progress.

keeping regular routines, eating healthy, and avoiding drugs have all be great for me. i tried these many times in the past, and kept failing to stick with them. it wasn't until i underwent intensive psychotherapy five times a week before i was able to start helping myself better. because i feel my emotions so strongly, for the longest time i was terrified of any form of introspection; all i knew was that if i thought too much about how i was feeling, i was likely to end up in tears.

after a bunch of failed relationships, several suicide attempts, and months of a worsening drug addiction, i finally found a therapist who was able to work with me.

i'm no longer so afraid of being a terrible person that i let people walk over me. i'm no longer so resistant to think about other people's feelings because i've learned how to do that without getting swept away by them. i can even look people in the eyes without feeling like i'm intruding on their privacy.

most importantly, though, i've learned how to understand my own feelings, by talking to them and asking how i can help them, rather than trying to suppress them or running from them in terror, when they do things like convince me that i'm starting the singularity and have become a telepathic warrior monk. even though that can be pretty fun, it usually doesn't end well.
Darnit! I had this EXACT same idea. Even the layout was the same in my mind. I'm not mad at the developer, major props for the hard work. But I AM mad at myself and hopefully this will serve as a reminder to future me that I should execute on my ideas.
perhaps one could categorize pages, eg, I mentioned something here about creating a UIpalette http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060902 - could you pivot around that? Make the site a destination to find new content.
Well, the VC really did steal your idea. And yes, ideas are worth something.

Talk to a lawyer, find out the statute of limitations, document everything, then make a note to keep an eye on them. If it seems like they come into some money, go for a settlement or a judgement.
America is still a deeply segregated society. And the segregation is built in such a way that it tends to keep people where they always where.
As long as xmonad is still in the repo, do whatever you guys want.
Maybe you can judge him by the company he keeps and who he speaks with in these matters? Others, who "have done a lot of legitimate scientific research" in the areas of obesity and health look up to him as a well respected researcher.

You really need a better attitude about approaching these things. :(
Unity is opinionated. That will always lead to mixed reactions, depending on whether your opinions match their opinions.
I am not saying that "expectations" are slippery slopes, it is just the word I use to describe the situation, much like I use "government granted monopoly right" instead of "intellectual property right".

I am just observing what governments do and what their purpose is supposed to be. Once we can agree on what their purpose is, then we can decide on what they should be doing, and perhaps how to make them more efficient at doing it.

People today expect more from their governments than 2000 years ago. If we were talking about "rights", they would be the same throughout time. But it's more mundane than that.

Anyway, "ensuring that the minimum expectations of the citizens are met" is not just for welfare states. It is for ALL governments that serve their people.
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Paste this in the address bar if you want to read a forbes article in a single page:

javascript:(function(){if(window._wait)return;window._wait = true; var i = 2; var max = $(".page_links a").length + 1; function all(){$("<div>").appendTo(".body:first").load(i+"/ .body",function(){i++;if(i>max)return;all()})};all();})()

EDIT: Tags?
The Ron Paul solution? How do you propose to move from the current situation to a non elastic currency backed by a combination of commodities, in a way that doesn't involve hurting a lot of people? And how would it be better?
What browser are you using? I can see all the characters. They have specified 'sans-serif' (which most of the times means Helvetica).
rocks - in R, just

library(quantmod)
getSymbols("CPIAUCNS", src="FRED")

then you can get nice graphs with something like

library(ggplot2)
CPIPCT = data.frame(CPIAUCNS / lag(CPIAUCNS,12) * 100 -100)
CPIPCT$date= as.Date(rownames(CPIPCT))
CPIPCT <- tail(CPIPCT, 240)
CPI.m <- melt(CPIPCT, id = 'date')
ggplot(data=CPI.m, aes(x=date, y=value, colour=variable)) + ylab("YoY % Change") + theme_bw() + scale_x_date("") + geom_line(size=1.4) + opts(plot.background = theme_rect(colour = 'black', fill = '#CCCCEE', size = 1, linetype='solid'), legend.position="top") + scale_colour_manual("CPI", breaks=c("CPIAUCNS"), values = c("#0000CC"), labels=c('All Urban'))

or just get the graphs online with Fred Graph -

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/
I think the point is that you write your content in Markdown, the structure of your site in JSON, and this generates and serve HTML with a decent CSS. Interesting for programmers who want to quickly publish content without bothering with presentation. It's like Jekyll or Nanoc for busy (or lazy) people.
Love this. I've been trying to get my wife to move downtown for a while, this actually shows there are units in our market available. Thank you so much!
Good question. $10 buys the movie and as a "Thank You" you get a line of text on the billboard. $49 buys the movie + soundtrack and you get 1/4 screen text/image. $99 buys the movie, soundtrack, special features and you get full screen text/image and $149 gets an associate producer credit as well on top of this.
Basically, people are buying the movie in different packages and are getting the billboard message as a "Thank You" from us.
Hang on a second. What about Silk? Think about this for a moment: Who wins if web browsing is ridiculously fast?

Amazon is presenting this as a win for users. Perhaps, but not only so. It’s also a win for people who build complicated web applications. Such as... Drum roll... Amazon.com.

What the Kindle claims to have going for it is that I as a consumer can buy a low-end device but enjoy a high-end experience when I use a non-trivial web application such as online shopping.
Will participants be evaluated solely on their code? Or will you also consider what school they attended, years experience, etc.?
Seeing the Tux body
Strange. I've used LBE Privacy Guard to block the device ID to loads of apps and have never seen it cause a force close. Doesn't it use per app device id forgery anyway?
I made an HTML5 generator. Check it out:

http://www.olegkikin.com/audio/audio.html

You can pass custom formulas in a hash tag:

http://www.olegkikin.com/audio/audio.html#(t%3E%3E12|t%3E%3E...
It wasn't until your comment that I understood what he was talking about. I just couldn't fathom the usage scenario he's describing -- I've never seen anyone use menus that way.
I'm on Chrome 13 and yes, I see all characters too, but Ż, ž, č, ą and ę are displayed in a fall-back sans-serif font. All others using Istok Web, as defined in the CSS. It doesn't look good.
No kidding. It made me sad to see my favorite Linux/package management feature (misused?) slighted especially when it did in fact work quite smoothly.
Hard to see it from where I'm sitting.
There has to be a strategy here. Either they are incredibly intelligent and not disclosing this strategy or they are banking on mass downloads to figure it out in real time?.. Either way this is going to be a great case study for business to-do's or dont's.
Wait 15 minutes then check wikipedia :)

Every source in the wiki article is either not linked or an article at ACM. Pay wall is a pity. I wonder if ACM crawl wikipedia looking for articles hosted on other (free) sites and link them to the same ACM hosted article?

EDIT: I've now added all the real links I could find. I'll check back in a few weeks to see if they have all been removed.
I just wanted to correct something about Fitts' Law.

The article talks about how big the angle is, but this is not very relevant. In fact, if you throw the mouse in the upper right direction, it will hit the top right corner no matter which edge it hits first. Thus you actually can hit the corner spots without even aiming in a particular square.

Try this on a mac: throw your pointer into the top left or top right corners, and press the button. You WILL open the menu, even though it may not have been obvious that you would -- the highlighted region around the icon does not extend to the edge. So in fact, it's ok to make them smaller.
It says "Firefox Web Browser". They've tweaked this behavior several times.

Without hover it displays the title of the window (unless you have many, non-fullscreen instances, it which case it is just the application title). When you hover, it truncate/fades the application title to show you the menu. They opted for truncation because they want the leftmost menu to appear in a consistent location.
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Something like that would have come in handy for me a few minutes ago: I was calculating sqrt(2) to 10 places and sort(3) to 15 places, by hand on pencil and paper, and some of that got a little tedious.

I was doing this because I am relearning all the math I once knew but forgot. I'm currently finishing up relearning single-variable calculus, and I'm using Apostol's "Calculus" and doing all the exercises. One of the exercises at the end of the chapter on sequences and series of functions asks the student to derive an error estimate for the binomial series expansion of (1-x)^(-1/2), and then asks for the computation of sqrt(2) (using sqrt(2) = 7/5 (1-1/50)^(-1/2)) and sqrt(3) (using sqrt(3) = 1732/1000 (1-176/3000000)^(-1/2)) to 10 and 15 places, respectively.

Since pocket calculators would not have been available to the typical student in 1967, I decided it would be cheating to use a modern calculator or computer. I wanted to only use technology I might reasonable have had if I were a freshman in 1967. (Too bad it couldn't have been 1977, when I actually WAS a freshman taking calculus using that book...I had a nice calculator then).
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must've been lost in the rush http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3061884
Absolutely. But I also question the criteria of the hypercompetition, and the judges' valuation of the signals. Volunteer work in a Guatemalan day care center may indicate altruism and awareness, right up the moment when it becomes an aid, or a requirement, of Harvard admission. Likewise the school paper. Maybe the insistence on being "well-rounded" pushes kids outside a purely academic focus, and gets them exposed to things they might otherwise miss. But how much will a kid get from an experience without an interior interest? "Gotta go check the 'well-rounded' box."

Likewise I wonder about the curriculum they have to hit. If they are doing so much homework, why aren't they more numerate, why aren't they more familiar with the underpinnings of our literature and history? Why isn't Harvard conducting interviews in foreign languages?

We've made a grueling admissions process that measures compliance with a particular norm of social and political values, and tries to be "academically rigourous" without suggesting that particular topics are especially important or essential.

And why, exactly, is Harvard so much more important than Brown, and Brown than Wesleyan? The education available at these cannot be so different as the quality of the social network established. Now networks are extraordinarily important, but are the Harvard grads _learning_ that much more after college? or is the difference in their positioning for various status competitions?

It's hardly surprising that this process perpetuates the same status structure that determines its rewards and criteria. Those rewards and criteria are stated in vague but emphatic terms, which can only be judged subjectively. Is it any wonder that the process seems crazy? or that makes suspicious the very notion of "excellence" supposedly at its core?
The article talks about how big the angle is, but this is not very relevant.

That's not what he means. The "angle of escape" referred to is the angle at which you can move your mouse out of the target icon to a menu item after the menu is open. If you go too far horizontally first, the menu will close in favor of a different menu.
The margins on folks who do buy Amazon content are probably pretty good, helping make up for those that don't buy any content. For example, there is a strong incentive to subscribe to Prime once you have a Fire, which not only brings in some good money but also encourages you to start buying things on Amazon.
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The segregation is not all systemic. I remember reading an article discussing research discussing how neighborhoods change as a result of very slight preferences of "I'd rather be by somebody of my race than a different race." This applied to black and white neighborhoods.

Taken over time and populations, these very slight differences in preference (and, realistically, in the USA, it is unlikely to be "slight") lead to segregated neighborhoods.

If anybody has the original, I'd love to see it again and find out what I've mis-remembered. I couldn't find it.
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There's so much more to Acme than piping.
Actions based on regex matching via the plumber for a start.
Menus you can type / keep in a text file anywhere you like.
No stupid colour syntax highlighting or pointless fancy shit.
Fortunately not.
PayPal has turned into just another mechanism for online fraud. Basically the way it works in the past few years is a customer can buy whatever they want from you using a credit card linked to their PayPal account. As soon as they get the item, they cancel the transaction and tell their credit card company that their card was used in a fraudulent manner without their knowledge. The credit card company then seizes the funds and PayPal is left in a situation where they can either eat the cost of the item and give you the money, or their "investigator" can find you at fault and force you to eat the loss. Because they don't have the power to challenge the credit card companies, they side with the customer almost 100 percent of the time and then stick you with the bill.

With non-tangible items, such as calling card codes, video game subscriptions, and digital items, there is pretty much nothing you can do to get your money. PayPal has act to like it has investigated the situation fairly, so they tell you that they sided with the customer no matter what evidence you have presented them with.

Unfortunately, this type of behavior is largely why eBay is in decline. My parents ran an online antique business in their spare time but they were forced to shut it down because it no longer felt safe. Personally, I've been on both sides of a PayPal dispute. When I almost lost a few hundred dollars selling a non-tangible item(luckily the item was recovered), the PayPal customer support rep told me that it didn't really matter what evidence I furnished and that if I wanted to sell something similar in the future, that I should try to deal locally because being scammed on PayPal has become an epidemic.
I'm not sure if, as I progress through my 30s, I am becoming more liberal, more cynical or more jaded, or what, but it seems like every day I read some article about the United States which elicits a, "What the FUCK?" from me.

This is one of those articles. Seriously? Prison??