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1) Software and music piracy isn't legal anywhere in the world as far as I'm aware. If it is legal where you are then your country needs to step up and fix the laws.

2) Sounds like arm waving.
Well, that completely destroyed my iPad 1.
"Suicide was the leading cause of death among men age 20–44."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan

My main source was from this blog (in Japanese) which uses statistics derived from OECD.

http://ameblo.jp/kokkoippan/entry-10238629843.html
I find the behavior can cut down on clutter when pulled off correctly, though. Twitter offering context-based actions, for instance.
I heard a rumor that Facebook will support SPDY, but Google supposedly paid Facebook to only support SPDY for Chrome users. I guess we'll find out now that Firefox will soon support SPDY.
On your first third point, I agree if we can all agree that SOPA is simply not needed. If there is no self entitled thinking 17 year old college student no where in the world right now copying music or software illegally then SOPA is probably unnecessary.

On your second point, no home, street, city, county, state, province or country can survive without laws, laws do not break the preciousness of anything in life and if they do then they should be opposed. I've read nothing that shows how SOPA breaks the Internet and as far as the Internet being precious, that sounds like emotional arm waving.
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There's a beautiful segment in planet earth about this. I believe its the jungle episode from season 1.
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You got a valid point. A a trick could be to focus on a problem, encounter many ideas (especially from other fields), and see if you could apply that idea to solve that problem. A problem that's hard for a technical person to solve could be trivial to someone who looks at it from a psychological point of view, and vice versa.

But the key is to always have a set of problems floating in your head. Having an idea, and seeing what problems that idea can solve is not as effective, as you often end up trying to force a square into a hole.
Thanks so much for this article. Hidden interface elements that only appear when hovering over a secret spot like it's some kind of easter egg is one of the most frustrating things I have seen. It's not really user interface design so much as it is user interface abject failure and total ignorance of how interfaces work. I refuse to call anything so dysfunctional design!

This has been sneaking into desktop application interfaces also for about 5 years now.

There's no problem with it in a video game where you are finding a secret passage, or it is an easter egg that is of absolutely no consequence whether anyone finds or not.

But for critical functionality it is inexcusably and is so offensive to concepts of usability that any "designer" using this technique in software for basic functions should be identified and blacklisted from industry.

What is the affordance of invisibility? There isn't one.
Looks like they are also trying to wash away their other obligations to a partner, founder, or key employee.
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Is this worth getting? Anyone know of a comparable offer or service? A little off normal topic but I want wifi for my ipad and I don't want a contract.
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Since discovering Jekyll and the fact that GitHub Pages will host your content for free, I think this would be the ideal solution. However Jekyll is a pain in the ass to use, which is why I've been working on http://jekyllbootstrap.com/

Jekyll bootstrap is intended to deploy straight-away to GitHub pages so hosting is free. I'm not finished though so any more eyeballs I get on the source will definitely be helpful. Merry Christmas =)
I have always called these interfaces 'scrubbing interfaces' and I believe it's a well known anti-pattern. It used to be popular with flash programming and design-heavy sites that didn't want all of those 'ugly controls'.

Here is my rule of thumb: avoid attaching functionality to the hover event. Visual effects/indications are fine.
It helps when the activation hover area is large: anywhere over a tweet, all new per-tweet options appear.
> The front page of youtube now - for me is full of crap that I have no interest in at all.

So that's what "upgrading" my YouTube account with G+ means. Thanks for the heads up and glad I didn't click it.
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Those are neat links.

But, in using a 94-inch aperture, they neglect the possibility of flying an optical interferometer, or a deployable mirror. This technology opportunity has probably not been neglected by the powers that be.

Here's a couple of links (they speculate it's a deployable for RF SIGINT, but truth is we don't know):

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/22/tech/main7077593.s...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentor_(satellite)

It sounds like I misplaced my tinfoil hat, but that's what you would have thought about recovering films with a grappling hook.
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Damn, you totally stole my idea.
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You're right if by correctly you mean not like this. The 'correct' way to do it would be to indicate that the field is editable. Once the user has clicked you can enable/reveal the save button if you really want it hidden. Twitter's tweet box is obviously an editable form element that can be clicked on.

It is ok if clicking on an element enables additional contextual actions… the problem is that we don't look at a page with our mouse pointer. The pointer is a proxy for our hand not our eyes.
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So... you were doing 'before it was cool' then?
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I agree. I hadn't heard that term. There's a related anti-pattern called Mystery Meat Navigation.

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/mysterymeatnavigation.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation

Mystery meat was weird looking inexplicable icons that you had to click to find what they do or hover to get a description. Sometimes, including in both those references, they extend it to be cases where the inexplicable icon doesn't even exist and a description is invisible until hover. The hover patter, what you call scrubbing, seems to me to be related to but different from mystery meat, which is characterized by seeing a navigation element and saying "What on earth is that supposed to be?"
Mystery meat nav (and bad design) is what I call it.
I agree!

Here is another semi-close example. Not about hovering, but how about needless hiding of important user experience?

https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/797

I filed this super minor issue in the browserid issue tracker and it was closed with 'as designed'. No feedback as to why it was designed this way, but it sure seems silly to me to hide the 'remove' button under an 'edit' button.

I can understand this on a UI like an iPhone, but on a web page?

Oh well.
Yes, absolutely so. Amazingly, iReader, from Apple, for the iPad, uses this antipattern in the critical main navigation bar! It disappears instantly and one has to click randomly at the top of the screen to get it to reappear, then try to press the tiny button that takes you back to the table of contents before the whole thing rolls up again after a delay of a second or two. Very frustrating. This sort of nonsense is bad enough when one has to hover with a mouse. But when there is no hovering available on a device and one finds key interface elements are invisible and must be unhidden by clicking randomly, one must wonder what sort of monkeys they got working there, or at least what their background in UI design is.
I can't tell from the article if they adjusted for quantity. Certainly stock options have a larger incentive when you own more of them, which is typical for executives.
Disadvantages: Not for the non-geeky. You can only post from a computer where you have your static site generator set up

Not necessarily. I have a very simple static site generator (basically a single Python script, plus a few dependencies) running on a EC2 Micro instance. It watches changes in a shared Dropbox folder (using inotify and dropboxd) of a bunch of Markdown files and templates, and generates HTML posts, index page, and RSS automatically. I could post from any machine as long as it has my Dropbox account, even on my iPhone! No more command lines or git stuff, just write. Dropbox will take care of the rest.

Joe Hewitt's Nerve [1] works this way. I believe Marco Arment's Second Crack works similarly, too, but it's not open sourced yet.

[1]: https://github.com/joehewitt/nerve/
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This argues against maximizing the stock price in the short term. Nothing about shareholder value beimg the wrong metric.
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Thank you for this -- an accessible presentation of the most important facts and numbers on a contemporary, quickly moving issue. We could use more of this from journalistic outlets as well (albeit without the editorializing).

And the 'What the Internet could look like...' scroll down is simple yet truly elegant. Bravo.
Let me reword that for you: Stock options are more effective when given to people who can actually manipulate the stock price.
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While this is a great learning experience, it is hard to write a blog engine that will stand up to traffic spikes on the first try.

If your goal is learning a new language or framework, this is a great idea. If your goal is to have a reliable, traffic-resistant blog I think it's best to stick with a tried and true platform.
The GitHub example used to be better designed in that the "edit" link would appear right next to the text. So, you'd the see the repository title, move your mouse over it, and hey! see how to change it.

With the button all the way to the right, that connection is somewhat lost.
"In today’s paradoxical world of maximizing shareholder value, which Jack Welch himself has called the dumbest idea in the world, the situation is the reverse. CEOs and their top managers have massive incentives to focus most of their attentions on the expectations market, rather than the real job of running the company producing real products and services."

Maybe the real genius of Steve Jobs was to actually spend his time running Apple, creating real products and services instead of playing the expectations game with investors and shareholders.
Using a platform like Tumblr makes a lot of sense, but lots of people still don't do this as evidenced by all the stories on HN that link to overloaded servers.
This is so true. I look forward to Web3.0 through...
Sounds like it still requires more setup than the average non-geek is willing to do.
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So nothing to worry about until the fungus decides it likes brains more than sunlight?
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I'm not sure I agree. It completely breaks on tablets for one thing.
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Hey HN,

I have two desktop computers with 2-year-old quad cores and 8gb of ram. They are still somewhat powerful machines, but they sit in my closet because my MacBook has all of my needs completely covered.

I thought about donating them to a hacker house, like noisebridge - but I hear that they'd probably end up in pieces and never really used.

What should I do with these machines? Happy to donate processing power (put them online in my apartment), but I'd rather just physically give them to a good cause.

Cookie points for crafty ideas.

Thx HN & merry xmas :)
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Haha...awesome. So there actually is no orphanage. What a surprise.
Putting hover-revealed controls on elements users interact with often is perfectly acceptable. Throwing every single control on the interface, regardless of how often they are used, is bad design and it overwhelms non-techie users.
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A lot of people (on /., especially) seem to think Stratfor, being involved with "intelligence" is some sort of private-sector CIA/NSA, an intel version of Blackwater.

While Blackwater was apparently one of the Stratfor customers in the released files, another organization that came up was Doctors Without Borders. I assume they would be customers because they often work in conflict zones and unstable regions.

Another customer was affiliated with Apple. I suppose it'd be useful to keep tabs on things like the political situation in Thailand, where some suppliers might be located. If some major upheaval were possible, they'd want some warning, so they could start finding possible alternate suppliers.

While Stratfor's site is down, you might get an idea of what that sort of organization does by looking at the Jane's website, or the Economist Intelligence Unit's site.
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Why not write a letter, send an email, and make a phone call?
Good point, I'll add this.
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I actually dropped Google+ altogether because of "plus pollution" -- after dropping a few lines and asking for a way to opt out of the crappage. I can't for the life of me see why anybody would want the main service of another web site crowded out by social garbage

Most of my circles of friends and acquaintances (in real-life terms as well as the Google-branded version) intersect with me in areas other than things like YouTube video interests and so on. Should I share political leanings and hobby interests with everybody who, say, develops software on the same platform I do? If that's the case, then I missed the memo.
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Just be careful who you circle...

But then again - the best thing about Google+ is getting into chats with interesting folk you don't already know. That's it's ENTIRE selling point for me right now. Most people share crap (like everywhere else) - but it can sometimes spark the awesome chats... and the chats are everything.

So being really conservative in who you circle defeats the entire point of using the service as far as I am concerned. Cause let's face it - most people aren't using it to connect to people they know. Facebook's features are far to advanced for people to switch for that reason.
Tab. The tab key should first take me to the most important clickable (or text-entry) part of your page. If you don't do this... It's not the "I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed" routine. It's both. I'm both angry AND disappointed.
First I slogged through the submitted article. It had some interesting anecdotes about betting on professional football in the early 1960s in the United States, which the author takes as an analogy to the current stock market. I searched back through the list of earlier Steve Denning articles on Forbes to try to find one previously posted to HN that I remember for its silliness and lack of connection with reality. On my part, I can't see I disagree a lot with the idea that publicly traded joint-stock companies do well to attend to the needs of customers, to build long-term value, but the author seems to embroider that claim with a lot of hysteria about the future of capitalism. Precisely because he can point to successful examples (Johnson and Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and Apple), it seems to me that what he identifies as an idea that leads companies astray can be responded to as a market opportunity for other companies to achieve the goal of maximizing shareholder value (over the long term) by the instrumental means of attending to customer needs. I'm not sure that the author has added any new insight here that isn't well known to owners and operators of businesses. (Has the author ever owned any business in the real economy besides promoting his own writing?)
I hadn't heard of WP Engine. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the tip.
Exactly -

I can't wrap my head around how clueless Google is being about this...
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Does ICANN allow registrars to do that?
"Ramanujan cultivated his love for mathematics singlehandedly and in total isolation" ...

"At the age of 12, he borrowed from a friend a copy of Loney's book on Plane Trigonometry, published by Cambridge University Press in 1894"...

"It is not a remarkable book, and Ramanujan's use of it to propel himself to the centre stage of 20th century mathematics, has made the book remarkable. It was largely used by students of Carr who were preparing for the entrance examination in mathematics at Cambridge University. Ramanujan used the book to master all of 18th and 19th century mathematics. He set about to demonstrate each of the assertions of the book, using only his slate to do the calculations. He would jot down the formula to be proved, and then erase it with his elbow, and then continue to jot down some more formulas. In this way, he worked through the entire book. People used to speak of his “bruised elbow.” Sadly, he took Carr's book as a model for mathematical writing and left behind his famous notebooks containing many formulas but practically no proofs."
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It's called Enronitis. If you expect managers to be ruthless about shareholder value you'll wind up with managers who are ruthless about benefitting themselves.

The Enron problem is ... the predictable result of too strong of a share-centered view of the public corporation... Corporate law demands that managers simultaneously be selfless servants and selfish masters. On the one hand, it directs managers to be faithful agents, setting aside their own interests entirely in order to act only on behalf of their principals, the shares. On the other hand, in the service of this extreme altruism, they must ruthlessly exploit everyone around them, projecting on to the shares an extreme selfishness that takes no account of any interests but the shares themselves. Having maximally exploited their fellow human corporate participants, managers are then expected to selflessly hand over their gains...

Altruism and rationally self-interested exploitation are extreme and radically opposed positions, psychologically and politically. ... For managers, one easy resolution of these tensions is a simple, cynical selfishness in which managers see themselves as entitled, and perhaps even required, to exploit shareholders as ruthlessly as they understand the law to require them to exploit everyone else. ...

Internally, the share-centered paradigm is just as self-destructive. Corporations succeed because they are not markets and do not follow market norms of behavior. Rather, they operate under fiduciary norms as a matter of law and team norms as a matter of sociology. However, the share-centered paradigm of corporate law teaches managers to treat employees as outsiders and tools to corporate ends with no intrinsic value. Just as managers are unlikely to learn simultaneously to be selfish maximizers and selfless altruists, they are unlikely to be simultaneously cooperative team players and self-interested defectors. Thus, the share-centered view undermines the prerequisite to operating the firm in the interests of shareholders. ...

Managers constructing the firm as a tool to the end of share value maximization treat the people with whom they work as means, not ends. ...they learn as part of their ordinary life to break ordinary social solidarity. Learning to exploit ruthlessly is surprisingly difficult. ... But cynicism can be learned, and managers subjected to the powerful incentives of the share value maximization principle do eventually learn it. ... This training, however, surely creates cynics, not faithful agents. ... A manager whose lived experience is a pretense of selflessness (with respect to employees, customers and business partners) covering real disinterested exploitation (on behalf of shares) is unlikely to suddenly see himself as “in a position in which thought of self was to be renounced, however hard the abnegation” and voluntarily hand over these hard-won gains of competitive practice to his principal. If you can properly lie to your subordinates, why not lie to your superior as well? ... In the end, the cynicism of the share value maximization view must eat itself alive.

-- http://slackwire.blogspot.com/2011/04/selfish-masters-selfle...
Does SPDY also improve video playback ? because that's what i heard was better for youtube on chrome.
Besides, "On the Internet", GoDaddy is a more relevant target than the US government.

If the US Government wants to censor the internet, I can do nothing - I don't live there. However, if GoDaddy wants to censor the internet, I can move my domains away.
...and heaven help anyone using JAWS on such an interface.
What original group?

It's highly likely that the first people who used the identity never did any of the things that you've heard of.