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Splitting long forms across multiple pages can be detrimental to usability.

As a user, I want to know what information is going to be requested of me prior to commencing completion of the forms. I don't want to reach the payment page after filling in countless other fields to discover that my preferred payment method won't be accepted or the shipping rates are unacceptable. Placing form fields on a single page means that the user doesn't have to hand over information at the risk of not receiving something in return.

Requesting an email address or password multiple times is frustrating too. Hacker News gets this right. To sign up, all a user has to do is type text into two fields, click a button and it's done - ready to use.
I'm not sure exactly what you look for, but you can ask most Africans and they will recognize the difference.

Look at this link for example: http://www.traedays.com/blog/2006/06/are-you-thinking-what-i...
I wish it said what rank it played at... did I miss that bit?
Since this is so obvious to everyone, the logical conclusion seems to be that things worked out exactly as planned for somebody. I know, "never attribute to malice" etc., but the pattern of banks encouraging non-creditworthy entities to pig out on debt, leading to their devastating and unceremonious bankruptcy a few miles down the road seems very common by now.

I am not well versed enough in finance to speculate on who gains and how in these scenarios, but it seems like too much of a lock-in to be 'accident'. I know that in the past, nations and the IMF used loans and defaults to influence policies of other countries, could it be something like that going on here? Default as a way to force spending cuts and other political changes?
You don't think 40 bit with 1 TB RAM support is enough? But I wonder, too, why they didn't use 64 bit directly. Maybe they didn't want it to use too much power in mobiles, or there wasn't enough time to finish it as 64 bit.
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also, it wasn't really scratch that they didn't approve, it was a scratch player. The player downloaded and played scratch programs from the website. This continues to be something that is not allowed. I would like to see apple reverse this decision though.
If there are 147 entities controlling 40% of the global financial market, this is not that far-fetched.
(I think some of the current mobile stuff comes from the ubiquitous computing research that PARC did.)

They (Apple) deserve the credit for bringing those concepts to a lot of people.

And obviously it is true that interacting with objects/icons on a touchscreen is a general solution.

But the problem is not Android doing that, the problem is they lend all the aspects iOS makes original to include it in their concept. And Samsung copies the hardware look and feel.

That's the easy way to go for them. I think they could have come up with something different. Making the concept even better. But at the current situation, they will always be behind iOS, because Apple knows way better how to do great, usable interfaces. I guess iOS 6 will bring more widgets to the notification center and maybe animated/live icons or something like that.

These are the parts Google did new on Apples conceptual idea, and they will eventually come to iOS too, but more refined in a more cohesive way. Google needs to think differently.
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The term applications or apps is used on OS X too. And for a very long time.
Fair point. My personal definition of a reasonable living standard, is being able to save a house deposit and eventually buy a 2-up 2-down terraced house, without forgoing all social life or basic no frills holidays. Such as house costs £70-80k in a cheap part of a northern city, £120k in a more up-market part, and, as for London, well maybe its under £300k on the very last stop on a tube line - Morden for example.
In London you're likely to end up in a shared apartment for years. It might be a nice apartment, with good housemates, but it'll never be yours, and what happens when you get married and have kids? Lots of people answer "well then I move a 45 min train ride away". My other definition of decent standard of living involves not paying out thousands of £ to catch a stressful crowded train every day. ;)
Iceland crashed but they also declared default for all the foreign debt at the same time. As Iceland is very small, the effects were negligible for the foreigners. The effect was also a devaluation of the ISK because of the lost of trust in the country/currency:

http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=ISK&to=EUR&vi...
And the answer given in that link is: "First, when the CPU is carrying out a long operation, it may create a characteristic acoustic spectral signature: for example, below we show how RSA signature/decryption sounds different for different secret keys. Second, we get temporal information about the length of each operation, and this can be used to mount timing attacks (see Q10), especially when the attacker can affect the input to the operation (i.e., in chosen-ciphertext attack scenario)."
The OP asks for control of wages and working hours. The plan is to use a simultaneous forced raising of wages and restrictions of working hours so that everyone can have a job. Apart from being unworkable and ridiculous, this is the starting point of a completely planned economy.

Hyperbole? Maybe a little, but too many people sleepwalk into agreeing with this type of idea without thinking through the full consequences.

Sure, they wouldn't start out that way, they never do. But as businesses fail, they need support or nationalisation. Which brings in more planning. National Socialism took over 10 years to get to it's full zenith, this doesn't happen overnight, but there is no reason to even begin down the path that leads to that. You can dance around it all you like, but the only way to make this sort of rubbish work is by overarching state power over the individual. You can't try and whitewash the misery of millions caused by planned economies just because it is a cliche to do so.

It saddens me that people still think this way after a century of misery from trying to command and plan economies. And on HN of all places, which is supposed to be about startups and technology. You mightn't like my way of putting things, well, that's the way I talk and write.

Re savings rate : we are in agreement. People are using disposable income to pay down debt, which means it goes into neither consumption or new investment. Which causes the slump. This has to be worked through before things will improve.
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Examples are good,would teach my 8 year old daughter to program in a fun way
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>if you had the power to kill about 50,000 people of your choice, at the times you wanted

What kind of question is that?

No, I wouldn't want to harm anyone. You definitively can't make things better by killing people. You can make things better by letting people get to work and build their lives and families in peace.

Kill anyone? I'm aghast at the way Gaddafi was treated, even though I thought he was an evil despot.
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Does this accomplish anything above and beyond what XPath is capable of? I've always wondered why W3C has been pushing more than one standard for selecting elements in SGML and XML documents.
I would guess that any observed differences are from lifestyle (food type, amount of sun, exercise, beauty products, hair styles) rather than epigenetic differences. I haven't seen any papers where the phenotype of epigenetic changes is as clearly observable as "facial structure and skin".
I think you are confusing African ethnicities (since only using the word Africans is quite superfluous anyway).

Africa is the most diverse continent in terms of phenotype and genetics. For example: a West African, an Ethiopian and a San person have very little in common, physically speaking. It is a bit like saying African Americans are 'African' while most have admixtures with non-Africans.

Studies showed that Ethiopians (toward 50-55%) and Kushites (towards 35% for Bejas) have an important western asian input so they tend to look like transitional people.
What do you do for recording? The instant save & recall and trouble-free rendering of a laptop running Live is hard to beat. I haven't been rich enough to try a 4-iPad rig yet.

I do have one iPad synth on the app store though (GrainBender) and I'm working on a new music app for the iPad right now so I'm definitely invested in seeing this market develop.
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This is really cool. The closer-to-human aspect is great, and the graphics approach is definitely interesting. I love the idea of an AI whose difficulty could be largely tuned by implementing a max APS.

Added the code to my (long) list of things to read!
I would like to see someone go make a free operating system without using a single GNU piece. Just for the kicks.
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I recall referring to 'apps' when discussing MacPaint and Hypercard in the late 80s. Apple have used the 'apps' term for many years.
The grant might have been instrumental in getting them to bring the project to Sweden rather than any of the other Arctic circle countries though.
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You're right, I completely forgot that there are 40-bit ARM chips out there. Thanks!
Which is not dissimilar to a Palm Treo, and Palms OS was very similar to Newton.
From which point of view?
I think it's only fair for a software author to demand whatever the fuck he wants from the software he wrote

Like, a fee of $50, for example? I would say that your position is diammetrically opposed to Stallman's stated goal. But it's not your fault, the GPL is also in opposition to Stallman's stated goals. He went from having the high ideal that software should always be open, to trying to force other people to think the same thing, thereby actually limiting how people use software.

We will forever wonder now whether we could have had all of the benefits of OSS without copyleft. But I for one would have much more respect for Stallman if he had instead supported BSD-style open licenses, and tried to convince others that open source was the way to go, rather than trying to control people's behaviour through the threat of legal actions.
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Considering the huge progress that was made in the 90'ties on Linux and the lack of progress done after OS X came, I think it is safe to assume that OS X played a major role here.

Software needs resources to get created and lots of it. As a company or as an individual, you can't sink time and resources into software that isn't at least popular. You can try to invest in something, but sooner or later resources dry out, priorities change, etc, etc...

Desktop Linux seems to me that it was created by stitching obsolete software and quick hacks together with glue and spit. Even broken as it is, I still marvel at how functional it is for me. And even unpopular as it is, there are some normal people using it, which goes to show that it isn't totally broken or insane.

broken or badly designed software for which
you have the source is more of a prison to the user
than a well-made, closed source one.

I don't agree there - having the source is a huge advantage, even if you aren't capable of modifying it. Just as with cars, you don't necessarily have to go to the parent company and you don't have to fix it yourself. You can always choose a local shop for repairing and tunning.

community development simply doesn't scale

I wonder why are you saying that, when server-side Linux and related software is such a huge hit.

You can also point out to some desktop software that is free software, that is sponsored and yet community driven and that is usable. That's Firefox and it's the reason why we came out eventually from the dark-ages of IExplorer's domination.
The claim wasn't that he was a genius because he endorses his own products (I wasn't claiming he was a genius in the first place). I was refuting the claim that the manipulation of customers was one of his primary skills.
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Minor sidenote: The Corona SDK [1] is quite expensive: $350 per year to create both Android and iOS apps. There is a free, open-source alternative which is trying to do the same: Moai [2]. Also using Lua to write the game, then using wrappers for various platforms (iOS, Android, OSX, Windows).

[1] http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/

[2] http://getmoai.com/
It's not the mechanics of the price - it's the basic premise that you can fix things by forcing people to pay more for labour and to work less hours. A standard workweek of 40 hours is different to a maximum workweek of 35 hours. Put yourself in the position of a startup founder. You've got $x million of runway in your account. Now the government says your employees have to work less and you have to pay them more. Where is the value created? It's not.

As I said - what are you going to do, lock them up if they work 40 hours?

How about we just leave things alone with regard to minimum wages and let people work as much as they want?

Yes, there are already minimum wages, and we know that this already causes unemployment. If you increase the minimum wage by 20%, there will be a resulting hike in prices of things by some value. Now you've just made everything more expensive, and you've increased unemployment.

Yes, it's probably a strong reaction, but I just hate the thought of any of this type of 'solution' ever getting traction. It just seems so naive after these ideas have been tried and failed time and time again.

Anyone who is here and is interested in startups needs to understand how jobs are created. Jobs are created by the process of value being created, whereby the work of a person adds more value than it costs, and other people are willing to exchange something of value for it.

If I were president, I could dictate 100% employment tomorrow by enlisting everyone as air raid wardens or terrorist spotters and paying them a salary. But would we be better off? No. It doesn't work at any level. Sure, you can borrow a billion dollars and employ people to dig holes in the ground and fill them back in again, but then you've just made society a billion dollars poorer, and all that potential labor to do something with has been wasted.

Bottom line : people should stop trying to impose price controls on things, including labor. It has never worked, will never work and it frustrates me to see it being discussed.
JSON does not work well for binary data. BJSON tries to fix this, but in languages like C++ you will still have to deal with clumsy parser syntax when you deserialize your stuff. It's much more convenient to have native classes representing protocol objects in your language (protocol compiler generates them for you).
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Sorry, now I see that "article" is ambiguous, I should have written "study" or "paper".
Why when they can save this particular headache by going elsewhere? Island would have to really make it worth anyone's while.
There already is a lot of energy-heavy industry here in the Nordics: paper and steel mills, nuclear power, etc. Having a couple megawatts worth of datacenters is really really minor thing.
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I have always thought that the random-mutation factor in Darwin's evolutionary theory was a rather poor explanation to the highly specialized organisms we see today. In that specific account I've, personally, always favored Lamarquism as the simplest, most plausible theory.

Of course such an opinion might be considered 'heretic' among the scientific society, which I found to be way too dogmatic on most aspects.
I bet they get at least half of that back through taxes. (Assuming $6k per month, with 300 workers mentioned in the article and 14 month completion rate, 30% one-time tax on it all, comes to 7,560,000.) It does seem kind of peculiar though, makes me wonder if Facebook offered anything in exchange. Maybe some sort of data flow/monitoring of Swedish users?
Like, a fee of $50, for example?

Well yes, since you mentioned it, I think that's the author's right.

Having the opinion that all software should be free, that doesn't mean I want to force people into doing it, as that is indeed in opposition with the idea of freedom.

through the threat of legal actions

What threats? The only threats I'm seeing from FSF are in response to GPL-violations. If a software author chose GPL, that was his right and it doesn't mean you can relicense it as BSD.
Hey everyone - I think we can all agree that Thorium tech has nothing to do with the current nuclear power industry. This industry opposes Thorium tech since the government decided to abandon it's research in the 1960s. Why? Thorium fussion is safe and turns itself off in the case of a power shutdown or emergency. That's what makes it better. However, during the 1960s arms race, the other dangerous high-pressure reactors using Uranium+Plutonium were adopted because they have dangerous byproducts - use in - you guessed it, nuclear bombs!

Hence Thorium, which is as abundant in the Earth as lead and actually creates all the heat inside our earth (read: magma) was abandoned. It was a true mistake because thorium is so abundant and so safe, it actually has more than 1 million times more energy efficiency when compared to fossil fules. It truely might be the solution to global warming.

Why? The Chinese are planning to completely control LFTR Thorium technology within 10-15 years, and they will also use energy and heat from this tech to power all their recent plans for global domination of de-salinization technology (hence, control fresh water sources as well). We're really stupid to not pick up where we left off in the 1960s and finish this tech. Don't direct your anger at Thorium like it's somehow connected to the Nuclear Power industry - it's not. The current industry opposes this tech because it has no profit in terms of selling an otherwise abundant fuel (Thorium) when currently they make 99% of their profits selling dangerous Uranium+Plutonium-based fuel to current nuclear power plants.

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Right - try telling that to the boss. I'm taking the day off, but you can still pay me. It's OK, though, I've got the right values.
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Evernote uses Thrift. It makes sense to use it or something similar over a plain-text format if you control the server and the client and send a lot of data back and forth. Evernote has gone farther than that, though, providing a public API for it:

http://www.evernote.com/about/developer/api/ref/
I made a simple particle simulation in Codify in around 30 minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEqTvRd8qMM

That is, 30 minutes, plus few more minutes pouring over the examples learning LUA syntax (I've never worked in it before but it's basically Python but lazier and more forgiving)

At times it felt a bit frustrating, as some of the code, such as p[i].x = p[i].x + p[i].vx takes forever to write because of the brackets, which are 3 taps each. I think this can be improved upon in the future.

Many examples are provided which is very nice.
The graphics is done using opengl-like stack with pops and pushes of transformations.

Overall, the app is very impressive and I'd love to see these kinds of apps used in education. Kids could use it to learn programming, without having to suffer the overhead of file system etc., as on a real computer. Excellent stuff with bright future.
Actually in BSD/UNIX people generally don't use the GNU tools, except, maybe for gcc on BSDs (UNICES have their own compilers). We believe GNU tools are of very poor quality.
The true split of buyer/seller payment of the taxes depends on the type of market at the time. In a buyers market, the seller is going to pay all the taxes. In a sellers market, the buyer is going to pay all of them.

Either way, there is no justification for a tax on buying and selling things like houses and cars. Why you would want to disincentivise transactions between people I will never know.
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"community development simply doesn't scale"

I think that depends on what you apply it to. Community development seems to work well enough for individual projects, but not in-between projects (see amount of duplication caused by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org).
I don't need new selectors, I need a way to specify layouts. You know, to do the same things as tables did back in the days, but without all the ugliness.
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I wouldn't say that Thrift is clearly better then Protobuf. It's more like they solve slightly different problems and make slightly different tradeoffs.
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control in the middle

The ActiveX / OLE controls available in Windows by default are nothing short of useless.

To have a Word-like processor in the middle of your window, you have to have Office installed ... I don't think anyone can reasonably argue that you can create a competitor that way, where a "competitor" would be a piece of software that actually replaces Office, not just augments it.
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I always thought that the scientific community accepted Darwin's random-mutation factor way too easily and without challenge. It never seemed very credible to me. The more I watched wild life documentaries the more Larmackism grew on me.
I'd hate to see this guy's variable naming convention :O
A better article on the same subject: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/27/us-facebook-sweden...
Isn't that rather similar to the subprime mortgage fiasco - everyone "knew" that there were stacks of mortgages that were worthless, but everyone continued regardless.
>How should I go about giving it to them ??

You don't "give" it to them... They're out of order if that's what they expect you to do.
I believe he says somewhere that he didn't have it play against real players on battle net so far, but that he can beat AI up to insane, exclusive. I was happy to find out that he's a Stanford PhD student though, and that his office is right above mine :) So I need to drop by tomorrow and convince him to... properly evaluate the algorithm... for science.
It's almost certainly for the jobs. Sweden can market itself (to it's populace) as a tech centre. Same reason the low Irish Corporate Tax rate
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I'd love to see this with some collision detection and gravity. Unfortunately I don't think three.js provides this as it's more of a graphics library than a game library.
And that would be good in two points. People will sell less on short term, because the cost of selling will be higher. So stocks will be held longer, which will diminish volatility even more and improve the situation for small investors. What disadvantage will it have for the 99%? I see none.
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The guys at MIT may just be on your side: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism#Current_views