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This is based on a stupid idea that keyboard shortcuts are fast only because they are done on a keyboard. But this is simply false -- they are fast because they are simple gestures I can train and perform without thinking about it. Same applies to mouse -- in a well designed GUI, one can easily train to select an option or go through a dialog box with a blink of an eye.

Now, typing anything is just a complex procedure involving quite a lot of attention; what's worse, it cannot be trained since this HUD's response for a certain input will be mostly unpredictable depending of the state of its fuzzy AI. Not to mention that it additionally makes one constantly waste time on reading HUD window to check what action it is planning to execute.

Finally, when drawing or using any heavy mouse-dependent application one usually can fire keyboard shortcuts with one hand while the second is constantly holding mouse -- typing requires two hands, so it makes one waste additional time to grab the mouse back and re-adjust hand.
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Well, you used to be able to graduate from high school and get a job that could afford you a house and enough to provide for your family, and a pension you could retire comfortably on. I can certainly see the appeal there. Maybe a lot of the jobs were in factories and weren't so great, but what do the prospects look like now? It's not coming back of course, but I understand why people are nostalgic for that.
I've found the following to be of unparalleled utility in evaluating truth claims in journalism:

If the headline ends with a question mark, the answer is "No."

No caveats, no special cases, just "No." If the question asked had half a chance of being true, it would have been stated, not asked.
Sounds like a bug. I can't reproduce it on my Air, and it appears other commenters have difficulty reproducing it as well. The OP/commenters experiencing the issue should probably file a Radar.
Intellectual property absolutely is rent-seeking. It brings the full weight of government to enforce an artificial monopoly, for the pragmatic end of encouraging the creation of works of art and technological advances.

The idea that one party can prevent another from exploiting a novel idea (which may have been arrived at independently) does not come out of ethics or natural law. It is a (seemingly) useful legal construct which seems to have served us as a society fairly well.

It is perfectly reasonable to challenge the idea, however, if it is no longer serving us. For instance, consider fashion and the law -- two creative industries which have no such protection and within which imitation is a measure of your success.
Haha, I came here to post the exact same thing. For those that don't know: http://technoanimal.net./ap.html
I don't understand your point--wouldn't public financing of elections remove the need to hold fundraisers?

The problem as I see it is that representatives are forced (due to the exorbitant cost of campaigning) to win over wealthy interests. This manifests itself as what we've seen with the whole SOPA debacle: representatives who are completely out of touch with their constituents.
You're actually profiting from the work you did back 8 years ago. You just built something people want to look after.

Is there any way you could put some of your revenue back into the community?

You may not have the time to spend but you can always start a small fund that the volunteers can manage.

They are obviously doing it because they love it and are not bound to do so. They are free to contribute as much/little as they wish. I'm sure they would be less happy if you decided to close down they entire project.

I think putting some revenue back into the community rewards your volunteers because they get to see the site grow further.

The fact it is still growing without your input is a great thing.
Awesome! Just wish the pre-created schemes on the right would remain highlighted after clicking one - easy to lose track of where you were.
love that someone in news/publishing is pushing crazy journalists to write for the web ... been doing this on content/copy for years using what? Google Wave
The Macbook Air does not have a combo port (currently). Just a headphone jack. I used dedicated to mean "includes specific hardware to handle this use case". Sorry for the ambiguity.

The consumer product line continues to have fewer fine-grained controls than Pro products, so nothing has really changed here.
I think this is a large part of it. When you look at something like Compiz and you say "well that is nice and cool and all but its not really contributing to the work being done." Its eye candy that can be done because we have a GPU sitting there otherwise idle.

There is a story, probably apocryphal at this point, that a long time ago in what seems like a different universe, an engineer working on the Xerox Star system, was looking into why it was bogging down. It was reported there were nearly 800 subroutine calls between a key stroke and a letter was rendered on the screen. They managed to cut that number in half and the performance improved by a third. Mostly it was abstractions,

People always find uses for every available CPU cycle, as predicted, now we're entering a time when you will need to optimize something to get more cycles.
I got news for you ubuntu, CLIs have been doing that since ever. I wonder how people decide to do things like these: the purpose of a GUI is to do the work faster. Did anyone ever try to measure how much longer it takes to perform something by typing it instead of searching through menus? CLIs make sense when you have thousands of commands available, but a typical application has less than 50 commands available and it makes perfect sense to have them in menus (BTW it's the same reason why restaurants have menus and google doesn't).

How about an alternative: Leave the menus as is, and introduce a global keyboard shortcut that searches menus, a per-application Alt-F2
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Appears to work well. I think it might be adaptive to some extent in the same way that the Dash is for program names. For instance, typing 'new window' at first produced a list of odd commands, but then after several invocations, the File -> New Window option was listed first.

Trivial example obviously. The activation key is 'alt' at present and appears to be hard wired.
See also: Etherpad, springs to mind
Maybe so - all I was pointing out was that the article was definitely talking about current salary at some points.
No, but I would like to print car parts. For example, the bit of plastic that fell off the back of my rear windscreen wiper in the carwash, which undoubtedly would cost me $$$ to replace, could easily be printed by me at little cost if I had the plans for my "open source car".
My wife, who is certainly smart and inquisitive, but not a 'power user', has been using Ubuntu just fine for several years with little intervention on my behalf, and she's going to have the same reaction I did when we upgrade her computer:

"Where the fuck did everything move to?!"

Which I guess is fine if you're willing to throw current users under the bus in the hopes of attracting lots of new users who will have never used the older versions.

(Admittedly, the neutrality of the experiment has already been somewhat compromised because she heard me swearing up and down about the upgrade last night)
Also known as Betteridge's Law of Headlines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines

Although sometimes the answer can be "yes", because they phrase the ridiculous insinuation the other way. For example, "Do cellphones kill you?" follows Betteridge's law, but the (actual) CNN headline "Are cell phones safe to use?" asks the same question inverted.
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Police/investigators don't "schedule" take downs in the same sense that a programmer/manager would schedule a project launch. The FBI wouldn't plan to make the takedown they factor it around multiple situations and a big one is that of future "threat". The police gather evidence long enough until they have an open/shut case against the convicted but should intelligence arise that the suspect is planning a major move that puts people in danger they'll act on what they have and try to make it work in the sense that they'll be protecting others.

I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but actions by the Mega staff may have triggered such a reaction. Its not unheard of for something "in the works" to trigger the takedown.
I thought they had their own overlay. Have they switched to providing pure Android?
Ask HN: Flow, delirium, or future? (Or "Is programming right for me")
Hopefully this is a slightly new twist on what seems to be an age old question...

As I near my mid thirties (or maybe trod upon them recently), I find myself more and more looking to find that rarest of beasts, professional [and related] personal fulfillment. To date, I have worked in roles that don't directly involve coding, but I have dabbled over the last 15 years in just about every modern (and some not-so-modern, I loves me some Object Pascal) programming language, but always for just exploratory reasons, or dalliances for personal projects. I would say the most complex thing I have coded was a cross platform SCSI hardware test app in FreePascal/Lazarus.

I've tried all the en-and-out-of-vogue languages and kits, from Perl to PHP to Ruby/Rails to Objective C, to Java, and even a wee bit of Eiffel (brilliant idea but I couldn't seem to do much with it).

So--you might say--it would appear that this seems like a core interest of mine; and perhaps it is, or perhaps I just like to collect programming languages like most of us love to learn just the swear words in multiple verbal languages. If--you might also say--I truly wanted to dive in and make a go of it, I already would have.

I won't go into terrible detail about why this has yet to happen, but, at the very least, let us say that I have a confidence issue that I will truly learn, be proficient, and ever learn to love testing, input validation, debugging, and all the of oft-considered less savory accoutrements required of a professional programmer.

But--and this is what hopefully kept you reading--I am also an avid believer in Flow, championed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi--and that where one finds flow, one finds satisfaction (and perhaps elation).

The rub is, I have noticed that when I do attempt a project, no matter how parochial, like an AppleScript that I spent an inordinate amount of time messing with yesterday, I do find myself lost in the "flow"... Hours pass by, every compile and reload is a test, and proper operation is a hard earned victory. In these post-code-coital moments, it almost feels like this was meant to be.

So, if you've made it this far, I appreciate and applaud you, and my basic question boils down to this: do you relate to these experiences, and have they fostered a career basis, change, or exit? In other words, when did you know that tabs, whitespace and semicolons were the life for you?
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Oh my...

> will ultimately replace menus in Unity applications

Why? Obviously, HUD and menus have different functions, and different use. GUI menus might be more appropriate for GUI applications, since you have your hand on the mouse already and you don't need to move it to the keyboard to type the command.

> fuzzy matching, and it can learn what you usually do so it can prioritise the things you use often.

Every time that I saw something like this in any application/OS (Android is a prime example), it was such an epic fail that it is almost beyond words.

1) I usually learn faster than a computer, so the way I see it is not computer "learning", but computer arbitrarily "changing" its behaviour. So, instead of memorizing "to call Jack, I have to press J and Down and Down", I have to always pay attention when the interface changes...

2) If there are some actions that I do much more commonly, then give me a way to access these actions more directly (interface buttons, scripting, keyboard shortcuts). But, in any case, my shortcuts will be almost always better than "automatic" ones, and also, mine won't change.

Fuzzy matching can be good, but I've yet to see a good implementation, and it, above all, has to be consistent! Not as in Android, where matching is "fuzzy" for calling, but exact for SMS...
Already in Emacs: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LaCarte
I wonder if the rights holders filed DMCA takedown notices before trying to get the site taken down? If they did or didn't, would that affect their role, in your estimation?
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This is not a terrible idea.

It could be implemented awfully though.
Public financing is one way, yes.

My point is that the site itself, and many people here, present a caricature of the problem. If you talk too much abou the caricature, someone may say "Oh, yes, I see, so let's do a better job of investigating and prosecuting people who buy and sell votes." The real problem is more sublte, and it is inherent in how the system works.
I enjoy listening to the Security Now podcast with Steve Gibson. He gives a great overview every week of the security issues/patches/exploits and also goes in depth into a variety of security related topics. His explanations are always easy to understand and interesting.

http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
Personally, I think you are fine. A few of my thoughts:

-You are providing a good experience. Perhaps some of them are viewing this as a good resume/portfolio piece that they can take to an employer or school later.

-Some of them may want it to be volunteer work. In highschool, I volunteered time to code a site for a local church, since I needed volunteer hours to get into National Honor's Society. I preferred coding over raking leaves, so it was an ideal arrangement.

-I don't think you are exploiting them. It is clearly a volunteer arrangement. And it sounds like they volunteered so that they could keep the site running/functional.

-If you still feel bad about it, pay them. I'm sure they won't mind. Make it a learning experience and go through salary/contract negotiations or something.
I've actually thought of a few things, but my inexperience in dealing w/ legalities involved with this have prohibited me.

For example, I've thought several times about giveaways and contests, where a console or game would be given away. But when I looked into this, all of the legal paperwork made my head spin.

As far as a separate fund that the team could manage, I'm trying to think of ways they could use this, again without getting into legal issues.
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Hey Mark, how about you get the current user interface right and quell the anger of your users about Unity before you move your UI wankery forward?
Paper isn't magical but books are, in my experience, a vastly superior medium. A tablet or a pc screen works a while, but it's tiring. Also a book is more portable, more flexible and it feels better to use. I read the most when I'm in bed but I can't stand reading on a tablet in bed. Or in the bathroom.

I spend most of my time at home surfing the internet, browsing forums and writing code. I read all the time online and yet I prefer physical paper for reading.
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To quote from your post:

"Every society has always had every non-specialist in violation of some law" (emp mine)

The false dichotomy is in the absolutist phrasing of the question. Because obviously, the answer is 'no, not every society, always and every non-specialist'. The more nuanced answer is 'yes, at the margins in every legal system there is some sort of uncertainty'.

You claim

"yet today, nobody can have anything close to this."

which is nonsense. When I shoot somebody in the face because they took my parking spot yesterday, I can be as close to 100% sure as possible that I am guilty of 1st degree murder.

But for cases where either the law or the facts can be explained in several ways, or where there is simply so much factors to consider or things to know about to have a reasonable idea of what a 'just' outcome is, there is some uncertainty, which cannot be avoided. Your original claim was "One of the most basic expectations of the legal system is that a citizen should be able to know, with confidence, whether they're breaking the law based on a reasonable search of available resources on the matter, without having to contact a specialist (lawyer)." Which of course depends on your definition of 'reasonable search', but which for an 'average' definition of 'reasonable' (i.e., of you ask 100 people, the average of those), is not true. For example there are many tax related matter that are highly specialized, and for which it is completely reasonable to expect people to use professional services to make sure they get it right. Or, as another example, legal procedure - there are so many rules and customs that it's perfectly reasonable to not expect an average citizen to be able to figure it out, and require a licensed lawyer be used to perform certain tasks in legal proceedings. Etc.
That depends, my aunt was audited and ended-up with close to a million dollar refund. Here attitude had long been, paying a little extra in taxes is worth not keeping track of every expense. When your actually making real money tracking every lunch has a minimal ROI.

PS: She did still took many large deductions and had reasonable records, she just played it safe when submitting her taxes.
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It seems to me that, in many cases, getting one's hands on the materials necessary for printing a car would make things prohibitive for the individual.

Still a very interesting idea, but I'm not seeing something like a car being printed without some major economic shifts.
This behavior is not present in OS X 10.7. However, as many people have pointed out, it is foolish to trust the display shown in System Preferences if you are really paranoid about security.
First you print a robot that will then assemble your car. Although you might need another robot to assemble the first robot..
This looks like fake reporting, written by some SEO hack and paid for by the owner of one of the domains in question.
So an honest question for the sites operators, who appear to be an injury solicitors. What's the deal with your Privacy Policy [1]? Is it a copy/paste from another site or did you mean it to be that bad? It's the reason I'm telling people not to supply the site with any personal details. It clearly says details will be used for "market analysis" (whatever that means) and the site operators can contact (spam) people by any means of communication the user gives them. I can't see a way to opt-out. I don't want to come across as offensive but I care about my privacy.

[1] http://stopsopaireland.com/privacy/
I spent a ton of time years ago making molds for some of the hard-to-get plastic parts for an unusual car of mine so that I could produce my own spare parts. Simply being able to print them would be amazing.

Of course, many of those parts might have physical requirements (elastic deformation tolerance, heat resistance, et cetera) that would not be met by 3D-printed materials, so it's not a panacea.
Thanks for posting this! I was completely unaware of this being pushed through.
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This is what I was thinking too. How would I know it's called "blur"? of course I know now because I've seen it before.
Right. Because no one on the Internet has ever rightly compared the general public to easily manipulated sheep.
Is the issue that the government has grown, or is it how the government has grown?

The demands of Government are not the same as they were in 1787. Instead of 4M people living in relative isolation we now have 310M people participating in a global economy.

Personally I want a Government than provides the necessary infrastructure and regulatory environment for a modern economy....
If it happened, it was could be the all the ex-RIAA lawyers the Oboma administration put into the DoJ having dinner with their ex-chronies at the RIAA. Over a few drink, they all talk about how crappy MU is. Next day in the DoJ offices, a few calls go out to the FBI. Cronyism is powerful, and there are a LOT of ex-entertainment folks in the government (and probably some government folks who want to get into the entertainment industry who are more than willing to do favors and pull strings).
Yea, I never understood why that isn't the case today. I mean, they ship the film to the theaters still.

Theaters should be turnkey. Find the space, set up the Movie Market Place (MMP) hardware, make an account on MMP.com, license movies from the MMP.

Should be no different from app markets.
In fact, the public rejection (if final) of SOPA/PIPA are not watershed events, but evidence of Dodd's absolute failure to execute the job he was hired for.
Ah, the approach I am familiar with is that the bastion of capitalism turns over his shares and, in turn, the trust turns over a hefty sum to the capitalist's bank account.

It's definitely not a rule-by-workers-soviet setup.

I work at an ESOP company.
They had Motoblur on some devices, and they had "pure" Android on others.

Pure is scare-quoted because of course Motorola still had proprietary drivers and carriers who distributed Droids still added their bundled apps and disabled objectionable features such as wifi hotspot.
And the pay even for the very highly skilled doesn't sound that great;

Not sure what you mean, that puts them at the 70th percentile of personal income in the US. That rather sounds like highly paid professional to me.
Ouch, down-voted. Who said programmers have no sense of humor? Well how about this way:

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And I think that this is the point where a logical person who is somewhat "internet savvy" can deduce for himself why Megaupload and Grooveshark - while both profiting from IP which they do not own - cannot be, at least morally, judged the same way. The way I see it, Grooveshark is a service that is basically trying to force or at least demonstrate to the music industry what it is exactly that people want in an online music service. I am certain that in a bizzaro worlds where music executives have actual working brains they would see it and would offer "legality" to grooveshark without pricing them out of existence. In a world without piracy grooveshark would thrive.

Megaupload on the other hand is a company whose sole purpose it to assist pirates. Without piracy there is no reason for the existence of such a service (and before anyone yells "dropbox!", I don't think I need to explain why these two services are very different).
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Though this is a bit foil-hat for most people it can be a real privacy concern. Can your mac be used to secretly spy on you? Absolutely. Has apple done this before to their customers? 100% (and so have others) see carrier IQ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CarrierIQ

If something like this bothers you theres no reason you should be using any closed source software at all.

It's that easy. If you're concerned about your privacy and system integrity don't use any software from a source you don't personally trust and that can't be reviewed by a third party.
That sound pretty awesome actually. I'm surprised ssh isn't used more often to create things like this. Could be a big help in the virtual organization world of research.