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I know this is going to come off as defending. But I know my numbers so I'll bite.

1. But see thats the problem with your claim. It's not breaking the UX to the point of becoming unusable. I have more people click on those links than on the buy button and my conversion is not bad. (You can read about my first month here http://www.000fff.org/incomereport/)

Even if it was an actual problem you can't make any general rules based on it. "Too close" is contextual. What if the logo was smaller? If the colors where different etc. So it's not really useful. And again my numbers show no problems with it.

2. But given what you are critiquing that's the point.

3. You were confused about what?

If you really wanted to critique the UX you should critique the copy, the application on the right, the ugly logo (which kills some conversion) etc.
Maybe we should let LaTex be the way it is now and focus instead on generating better HTML authoring tools. With eBooks becoming more popular, there is certainly a need for such tools. While I understand HTML is no match for the power of LaTex currently, we need to think ahead and maybe help to create a platform for the future rather than getting bogged down by technologies of the past.
The full TexLive distribution contains all officially accepted packages ever written (this includes fonts, iconography, compiled documentation and other heavy stuff), most of the compilers, the LaTeX and Context (MK II and IV) packages and a huge toolchain. For compatibility reasons, packages are (almost) never removed. Also for compatibility reasons, the LPPL (Latex Project Public License) discourages[1] the release of a modified package under the same name, so there are copies within the distribution.

So, the TexLive distribution is the "fire-and-forget"-package in the LaTeX world, thats why it is so big. I use it for around 10 years now and I never had to install an additional package.

[1] It even prohibited that for a while, see Wikipedia.
A current tablet device, even a cheap one, has about 256Mb of main memory. Android (at least the cyanogen mod kernel) has also the ability to use a part of the main memory to store compressed swap partition data. That leaves about 80 Megabytes to userspace programs (on Android). About the amount a normal desktop computer had in 1998.

LaTex dates back to the beginning of the 80s. Given that it has the ability to create large documents, I doubt that the required amount of main memory scales linearly with the size of the document.

Also, when you use subprocesses, besides checking their return value, you have some sort of interprocess communication which should detect when one process failed to finish his job.

It looks more like the smartphone runtimes and their sandboxes just don't support it at all, because modern GUI applications rarely build upon multiple executables in the background.
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This is harder than it seems! I couldn't go past 7 and barely lasted a minute. I got hyper and missed Hacker News :)

I'm ready to go to bed now, but I'll try again tomorrow. I never thought trying to relax would feed so odd! Thanks again for the information.
While I cannot speak to that link, I can say that Buddhism is an atheistic religion.
Fair enough. I've been here since before there were guidelines. (a couple of days after the site started) FPS ain't hacker news.
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I would pay money to read this kind of insight on a regular basis.
A little off-topic, but maybe it would be possible to 'unwrap' the cup and construct a little panorama of it's reflection.
Um, no reason? Just a mixup on my part :( Obviously I meant the Senate and House mail rooms.
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Unfortunately (I'm a kindle lover too!) the best books on Zen are either out of print completely or not available digitally :( Here's a couple of good lists thought:

http://www.sfzc.org/zc/display.asp?catid=1,5,168&pageid=...
http://szc.org.au/reading.html

Given the context of this discussion, I would recommend reading Charlotte Joko Beck's books. Specifically Nothing Special, which is available digitally on Amazon :)
No, I meant a barrage. Mix all the letters to each congressmen together in the box, and have the mailroom sort it out - so it's still individual letters.

But maybe they don't have a centralized mail room? I didn't actually check.
Can you do one on using social media and the modern world of engagement? ;)

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I thought Latex was dead? It's a system I see no one ever use. With right, as it's as horrible as a doc system can get.
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My point was that, seeing as Amazon own imdb, they probably don't charge themselves ~$15k for access.
Don't know why you got down-votes, but it is indeed completely unreadable in Opera. IE crashes.
1. I like people who bite, with numbers. :D
So they clicked the Support Updates Twitter link? tl,dr; what section presents number of clicks on those menu items?

2. I don't get it.

So my aim was to give some example of how a part of design neglected can cause confusion. Where does contacting you come in between? Are you saying that I should have told you when I was using your site as an example?

3. I thought "Support Updates Twitter" was your tagline. I was like shouldn't it be Supports Twitter Updates? But why will it? And so on. Then tested same on some friends.

But after thoughts, my critique was specific to some parts. Should've kept it to there instead of presenting as if the whole site is unusable. If that is what you mean.
if you're in incognito mode it doesn't display it, but does in normal. I guess they got half of it right.
Learn to automate. If you have a language you enjoy, learn the popular test automation tools in that language. Someone who can automate testing is far more valuable than someone who can only do manual testing. Along with automation goes all the usual best practice of writing software.

Read about testing - lots of inspiration and ideas to be had. Anything by James Whittaker. O'Reilly's Beautiful Testing.

(Please fellow HNers add your favorite books in response - would love to know what others recommend).
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franking In the US, mail from the Congressman is free, but not to.

In the wikipedia article Canada and New Zealand are listed as having free mail to an official. Although it doesn't seem to be a comprehensive list, I don't think it's very common.
Indeed :) I do orientations for friends and occasionally newcomers to the Zendo. I tell them if they can honestly get past five in the first few months they are doing well :)

Also, relaxing is good, but the practice is an attentive awareness of the breath and count. Too relaxed and you'll get sleepy and lose the count, trying too hard makes you tense physically and tires you out mentally. It's about finding that balance again and again and again. Just one. Just two. Just three.
The author is not a TeX-head, or he wouldn't be surprised about WEB, Pascal and wouldn't confuse Plain TeX with LaTeX (the documentation of TeX is the former not the latter).
4G is a bit over the top. My install (TeXLive 2010 on OpenBSD) is ~2G, and that includes gobs of rarely-used packages and documentation.

Really, borrowing MikTeX's install-on-first-use for packages and making documentation optional should result in a much more reasonable size. If you want to get fancy, teach LaTeX how to decompress packages on demand.
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Would the stories making page 1 of /., HN or reddit have something to do with this?

Research is one thing but making the research known to a wider audience who generally do not read research papers, maybe that's another.

So given the choice between a handset with CarrierIQ and packed with "features" or one without all that but which works as it's supposed to, would all informed consumers continue to choose the one with the features?

Before cell phones, pen registers and wiretaps used to require a warrant. Would anyone need a warrant to get a postive response from a wireless carrier if they asked for some CarrierIQ data? They'd probably get a price quote.

Will this type of technology be used only to catch criminals, or might it someday be used to study consumer behavior? The argument it's used to improve wireless service and therefore a justified invasion of privacy just doesn't fly.
Can anyone explain the downvotes? Thanks.
The book is written by a Western MD and focuses heavily on results. It leans on the classical maps of the path of meditation from Burmese Theravada, a tradition that is about as stripped down and non-theistic as it gets. That said, the maps and some of the terms used may appear somewhat archaic to a modern reader.
Flash was a great first web vector tool. But vector has been going declarative like SVG and even XAML for Silverlight. Flash/Flex libraries were going this way as well with xml markup. I love JSON, YAML and other more micro messaging/data formats but for vector and paths, xml actually works pretty well. I do wish they also supported more micro formats if possible though as XAML ended up huge. But for source control and partial updates at least xml works better than binary.
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Sorry did not get you. You mean design analysis of social media sites?
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Android does have IPC mechanisms (Intents and remote methods) that can be used to have another process do work in the background. The difference is that even if you use them, you're still not likely to wind up with something that looks like a set of cooperating command-line utilities.

In any case, I absolutely agree that resource constraints aren't keeping LaTeX off of our mobile devices.
The ability to communicate as we humans do requires the ability to abstract, be removed from reality and ponder over it, so you can articulate your problems to others. The stories in your head are just that, except you haven't verbalized them yet.
> * You only need one binary to work with TeX. Either PDFTeX or LuaTeX. All other binaries are just glue code (for example to generate missing Metafont fonts, but who wants them these days anyway?

A lot of TeX uses Computer Modern to typeset the body (a metafont font) and I don't think I have ever see a TeX document that doesn't use Computer Modern or Euler (another metafont font) for equation typesetting.

I also wonder whether it's possible to achieve the excellent equation typesetting capabilities of TeX without metafont.
It strikes me that TeX ought to take a page from Lisp interpreters and dump core after loading all the standard configuration files, so that future runs won't need to waste so much time on initialization.
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Currently: no. In the future: don't bet on it
"One binary" is a bit optimistic; even if you never do anything fancy with fonts, you'll want bibtex. And makeindex, if you're writing a large work. PSTricks does not work with PDFLaTeX (Tikz is arguably better than PSTricks, but PSTricks won't be dead anytime soon). XeLaTeX is required to use system fonts easily.

And that's before getting into anything truly gross.
I think we need to differentiate between different types of wandering here. I think we can agree that letting our minds roam looking for creative solutions and creative questions is a good think. But it's less useful to have our minds stuck in a loop ("Peanut butter or jam? PB or J?" ad infinitum).

Anecdotal evidence based on four years of active meditation would in my case seem to indicate that the jittery loopiness lessens while the capacity for creative wandering increases.

I would conjencture that our minds are over-stimulated and hence unable settle down to make room for the truly novel.
To me the difference between "old-web" and "new-web" is a lot like the one between "program" and "application.

Old-web was just text and markup. A lot like the output of command line programs that could then be used by other programs to perform what we want.

New-web is about application. Programs made for the end-user. Apps aren't thought to be pipelined with other apps. Thus for a web-app, the browser is often designed to be the only supported plateform. Thus the extensive use of JS.
[I'm sleepy so bear with me.] Meditation is extremely easy - for a while. I'm interested in it, I try to do it regularly, but it's not easy to return to it every day, or during a busy day. We see a news article about it, we talk about it, some of us will try it for a while, but in a month from now, all of us will be at the same point as right now - not doing it anymore. It's hard to stress how important is to practice regularly, as then it starts to be really effective.
In my life, I'm returning to meditation in waves, in short periods of practice, but for some (possibly material, possibly immaterial) reason, I want more.
My aim is to find a way how to meditate sustainably, with the least effort, and how to remind oneself every day that he should meditate. Mind you, I don't know if this is even viable, as sometimes your mind revolts, and when it does, it will (on the background) use your best intelligence and creativity to avoid the practice. I think that not even smartphone apps can help you in this regard. Speaking of which, so far I've seen two worth mentioning (I haven't tried them yet), this one for iPhone http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lotus-bud-meditation-timer/id... and this one for Android https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nwalex.meditation. But as I said, I'm not sure these can help in a long run. The problem is that as you keep practicing (internal-awareness) meditation regularly, it will change your external reality (a.k.a. your life) very profoundly, only making it harder to keep practicing every day. There's a lot more to write about this, I could go on and on for many more pages - distractions, formal vs informal, beating your daily energy deficiency, cheating the thought-switching mechanism that makes you day-dream during meditation, etc.. but I want to put this in a readable and practically usable form first, if that is possible at all. (Edit: oh, and it must be a very short form - if you write a book about meditation, then - I believe - you have already failed to deliver what matters, as in that case the reader will simply get satisfied/their energy depleted with the reading itself, and their focus moves to something else.)
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I caved and ended up buying BOTH Buddhism Without Beliefs and Nothing Special. I got Nothing Special for $4 (used/paperback) so I figured I'll just throw it in.

Looking forward to some reading!
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LaTeX gets plenty of use in academic circles. Research papers, theses, etc.
I only wanted to reply re: 1.

It is 'broken' in the sense that it takes people a few seconds to realize it's even a menu. You may not like the criticism, and I know it's sort of hand-wavy and isn't using science. But I'm a former designer, and it's bad. Please tell me you can see it.

I'm not criticizing the site in general - I think it looks great. But you should fix the menu; it will make your site's users lives better, at no cost to you.
I believe this gets to the heart of what's wrong with our current education/economic system: A person in that position likely has no chance.

If one were to apply, they would say you should be able to work full time and be a successful, high-scoring full time student.

The other option might be networking, but with that kind of schedule, it's hard to network when your competition has more time.
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You can still not read or write to more than 2 pointers atomically on x86_64 so my question remains.
I think this understanding of meditation is somewhat mistaken. The techniques of single-pointed focusing are there to help us learn how to keep our minds still, not to narrow down our field of awareness (although one might do so during a practice session).

In fact, in most Buddhist traditions, the development of stillness (shamatha) goes hand-in-hand with the development of a widening awareness (vipashyana). Modern traditions like the mindfulness movement also seem to incorporate this tandem approach.
super helpful teyc, and duly noted. thanks again! =)
That's because of a lack of education, because we, the technically inclined people, have failed to serve the normal people, preferring instead to:

1) reinvent the wheel over and over, each time with a new interface, shinier and more limited than the one before it

2) cater more to our hypothetical grandmas instead of our children ... which ironically are able to write HTML in Notepad just fine, if taught how to do that

Users don't like our convoluted, hard-to-use
systems and have abandoned them for products
that are easier to use

What you're missing here is that those products that are easier to use get replaced like socks, with the users being back on square 1 every single time and struggling to perform even the most basic tasks by clicking their way around.

People all over Europe have learned to drive cars with manual transmissions - because after the initial pain, the vegetative nervous system kicks in and the wheel, the pedals, the gear switch, all of them become a natural extension, of which you don't think about anymore, just like breathing. And if automatic transmissions are great too, that's because they stay out of your way.

The UI of modern software is nothing like that. Nothing is logical anymore, nothing is designed anymore to be an extension of you. Normal users have to think about their every action, they have to visually search for clues in the UI for every stupid thing they do, they have to rote learn the paths they have to take for the software to take them from some point A, to some other point B. I saw users that have notes on the actual clicks they have to make for certain common actions. I don't know about you, but to me this is freaking painful to watch ;)

Btw, for some good user-experience guidelines, check out The Design of Everyday Things: http://amzn.to/ryfiuI (the link does contain my affiliate code) ... the one thing I took away from this book is that simplicity is a complex topic.

Why won't people do more work ...
setting up their own blogs

Setting up your own blog is just a few clicks away on Google's Blogger, on Wordpress.com, on Tumblr.com or on countless other services. It takes more work to set up a template that represents your style, but that's not something you can do on Facebook anyway.

Really, step down from your high horse, it's not like you yourself are not guilty for the current state of our industry. We all are.
When I was 13-15 "the internet" was IRC and nothing else. I still can't understand how I managed to spent countless hours doing just that (scripting and that "flooding" thing seemed to be great fun though)
> it's not a stretch to see that in the future we may have this knowledge

There's really no way to support that claim. We haven't made any tangible progress at all towards strong AI in the past 40 years. We did salvage a lot of really cool research projects on the side, but none of them even come to close to suggesting how to build strong AI.

It's like saying that building a faster car brings you closer to FTL travel. It doesn't, not in any real sense.
Most people cant handle facebook. They dont even know what they are doing there, its more like a random walk clicking around stuff. Have you ever watched a teenager use a computer? I have, it was not pretty.
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Straw man, text and markup was made for the end-user as well.
Google+ is not that small, and with their hooks in search, maps, mails, videos, etc, they can grab a significant portion of the social blob. They have some leverage.

Someone reasoning like you do some 7 years ago would have said Hotmail was too big, but then they came with Gmail and it was a real break in.

Imagine in a few months, G+ user can opt-in to see their friends' +1 on Youtube's videos in their stream, and for some reason it becomes very hot a feature. Then Facebook want the same, but don't have a Youtube. They "could" add Youtube +1 in their stream using Google open APIs, but then it would be fair for Google to require them to open their API for the reverse, and allow G+ users to have their FB friends' pics in their streams.

This would be a killer feature, because it is really not fun at all to have to go to g+, fb, tw, etc. (not counting Chinese SNSes I have to follow too) and then HN, etc.

In fact, Google Reader was not very far from such a tool, but didn't have the locally generated content's critical mass to move things over, and the interface is/was too "advanced user". Google plus may have enough mass, and had the chance to simplify the UX, by starting from scratch.
I'm surprised the Maori Advisory Board of the Intellectual Property Office hasn't blocked this on the grounds that 'koha' is a Te Reo Maori word (translated as gift or offering). They tend to be highly protective of the language as it's considered to be taonga (treasure).
I'd rather go with a rewrite that also redesigns the typesetting language. It feels like C++ of typesetting to me, although of course maybe I'm just not familiar enough with the language to see its key concepts clearly.

Maybe the Lout system will pick enough traction one day.
I didn't downvote but, pretty much every academic in the CS/physics/stats/math I've met uses LaTeX. Even a bunch of linguists I know use LaTeX.

It's definitely not perfect--I really wish there were something better--but for writing technical academic papers, it seems like far and away the best.
In that case Daniel Ingram's book Mastering the Core Teachings on the Buddha might be a good place to start.

I think it's also important not to throw away the baby with the bath water; just because the techniques are explained in an archaic language and seemingly inseparable from a traditionalist cultural tradition, doesn't mean they do not produce results. Still probably a good idea to start with something easily approachable so you can start to discern what's effective and what's just cultural cargo culting.
my point is that programs can be pipelined, not applications.
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You write unjustified aggressive phrases, which are clearly at odds with lots of people. That's why I consider you a troll and downvote you.
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