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Interface: A point where two systems, subjects, organizations, etc., meet and interact. -(First Google definition, and the one that I was taught)

I think the author is confused. He isn't talking about interfaces, he's talking about functionality. In his examples of mobile applications, interface is actually everything: the app is a point of overlap between the user's singular need and the tool that provides a targeted solution. (We can argue over the distinction of user interface vs. interface, but I posit the former follows the latter.)

In other words, the mobile app interface is not non-existent, but perfect: a single point of overlap between need and function.

From the article:
That’s precisely what a tool is: something which requires very little explanation for how to use it, because it is designed so precisely for its purpose, that how to use it is obvious. If you’re trying to dig a hole with your hands, you don’t need much explanation for how to use a shovel. “This is the handle” is about the extent of it.

That's an example of a perfect interface, not no interface!
Funny, that's exactly what Duarte said about Ice Cream Sandwich. I'll be honest, I kinda make the same scrunched up face when I see iOS screenshots as I do when I see a high gloss platicky KDE screenshot.
Here are the links since they are not clickable in the main post:

The reddit post for my ad is here:

http://www.reddit.com/comments/pi1k4/hi_reddit_im_doing_a_7_... which linked to my donation page (http://www.tofighthiv.org/goto/chrisb)

Stats on the ad (reddit ad traffic page): http://i.imgur.com/PNxgB.gif

facebook ad stats and info: http://i.imgur.com/fDDZX.gif
Mark Zuckerberg's perceived public figure does not inspire confidence either. His first actions with Facebook and the story around The Social Network have tainted Facebook for good.

Note this might be far from his real personality. People I know at Facebook love him.
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How easy would it be to invert this filter?

My biggest complaint with the number of stories on HN is not finding the great articles but wading through a bunch of stories about the same three or four topics I am not interested in...
This blog post gives some more in depth information:
http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/blog/2012/02/oxford-nanopore...

They claim the accuracy is 96% and has the potential to get even better, which is even cooler given the long read length.

However, any error can be pretty upsetting and most next gen sequencers overcome this by doing many reads per base. I'm guessing that the current behemoth machines would be kept around for the time being to assemble the final, error free sequences?
I was thinking the exact same thing. Great quote!
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This is crazy.

The original human genome project started in 1990 and took a decade.

Now you can do it in two to six hours for around a grand?

I wonder if we'll be seeing more people public domain their genome?

EDIT: And thats just the "Compare to two decades ago" position.

The real craziness comes when you realize that this will inevitably get cheaper, and smaller, setting the stage for more advancements in this field. (I think at this point were all expecting to be able to actually turn genomes into living things before 2050.)
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This is a topic that I've thought some on in that my company is in the recommendations space, and some thoughts on what make news recommendations difficult:

The function of news is to facilitate smalltalk.

I am reasonably convinced of this. News, as such, is mostly just something that you're supposed to have read so that you can get by in usual social interactions. What we read (and are supposed to have read) is very tied to our place in the social hierarchy. Most folks don't actually want news to be too personalized because then it loses its social function.

I stopped reading the news at one point -- for a couple years -- because of its persistent lack of depth. I realized that reading 100 BBC articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would leave me knowing virtually nothing about it, other than some factoids, whereas the same time spent reading books would be worthwhile.

There's an interesting problem to be solved here -- one that's been on my mental back-burner for a while. I'm not sure if Pandora's box can be resealed and we can work our way back to mediums with more depth and less distraction, but I both hope we can, and have much interest in the mechanism for such.
"He didn't say you shouldn't tell Google, he said you shouldn't do it."

Like, you should quit being gay, or a woman in a tech forum, or a person of color, or a jew, or having leftist opinions while working for a conservative boss, or vice-versa after you changed jobs, and quit having an address your abusive ex can discover, and quit secretly liking Lady Gaga.

Okay. Got it.
Yes, that should be the case anyway: The widget shows itself when it is finished decorating. But even then, there's no sense in deferring decoration until after some other arbitrary resources have loaded.
It might have been more accurate to say, "Ubuntu onr ARM now identifiable as such in the rear view mirror of Intel." :-)

There are a lot of valid comments here that these are ancient ATOM processors. But it is also valid to say that ARM SOCs have gotten to the point where they are encroaching on the space, and their makers (TI, BroadCom, Marvell, and others) are being forced by the demands of the SMARTPHONE wars to make them actually useful as general purpose platforms.

As a systems guy I see the things that ARM is lacking, a decent IO bus equivalent to PCI, a memory channel architecture that allows for decent off chip memory performance with memory modules.

Of course the 'market' for general purpose computers is much smaller than the market for computers as accessories (tablets, smartphones, laptops) so perhaps we'll hit a convergence point in the next couple of years.
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Using bold flat colors and clean lines and shapes, the new logo has the characteristics of way-finding design systems seen in airports and subways.

Bold colors? As in plural colors? That's the first place they've failed. And trying to emulate an airport's system for moving people around is bad from the outset - those things are meant to be simple and boring. They do their task by being unambiguous, uniform, simple... and bland.

Sure, make your logo work in monochrome for places where it has to be (like the plastic moulding mentioned above), but in both print and digital, a single flat pale blue is pretty tepid. It also doesn't evoke the multitude of colour panes that they're trying to push in every screenshot - why not simply move their four colours to the new 'window'?
I'm sure you're right. There's just not enough people writing to explain random complex subjects to people that don't study that field. And i'm correlating the concept of "news" with interesting information, when news reporting is basically repeating that which happens every single day. Thank you for the link, that may be just what I was looking for.
"If you give us a reasonable time to respond to your report before making any information public and make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data and interruption or degradation of our service during your research, we will not bring any lawsuit against you or ask law enforcement to investigate you."

You think you can sue someone for sharing vulnerability information?
I can't speak for everyone, but please just take my email address. There is no Facebook or Google Plus in my life, and I don't use my old Twitter account. I only keep up with a handful of people--something I can do with email and phone; I don't want to give glorified marketers another tool for spying on me. For me personally, the web is just a means to gain and exchange useful information to aid in my academic life; I like to stay "disconnected", if that makes sense.

Everyone uses the web differently. I understand that other (much larger) demographics have no problem with single sign on and that you can perhaps get to market faster without implementing a dedicated sign up system. I respect that.

I do like "social" (I hate that word) news sites; a tool to help cull non-interest items, prioritize on key interests, and introduce novel information from users who share similar interest graphs would help me out enormously.

I don't want to derail the topic, but has anyone given a thought as to whether aggregation (and distribution and reader functionality) could work in a decentralized, p2p manner? Without relying on a central authority of any kind?

I would love a scaled-down, low-bandwidth bittorrent-type app that delivers news items (with highlighted commentary) to my devices, already wrapped in an readability like interface, collected from among my "interest graph peers". That way, the mining/ML algorithms and processing overhead can be implemented and tweaked by me.
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"The function of news is to facilitate smalltalk."

I've heard there are studies that confirm this (sorry, no citation handy), and I've also heard it said that Yahoo! Mail's success was due in part to their recognition of this fact. Put news next to email and you reduce the friction of social interaction.

Edit: The Habermas Thesis. http://hpronline.org/specialty-blogs/hprgument-blog/why-both...
@codenerdz this is correct.

@michaelbuckbee You will have an option to choose a Ruby interpreter for each project. Just be sure to not use any interpreter that has '[global]' in the name and you'll be able to switch your gem sets seamlessly.
Want to disrupt a huge and dated market?
The hedge fund industry is screaming for innovation.

This is a market that literally hemorrhages money and will spend a huge amount of money for product that solve pain points.

A conversation with a small fund manager provided the following insights: CRM sucks and is a market there for the taking, marketing platforms don't exist, in house communication tools are costly for smaller funds and end of month reporting is expensive and ugly.
To be specific, jQuery is a utility library with a large set of DOM utilities. Sizzle is actually the DOM workhorse.

As for the article: it's a valuable resource. Especially for those that believe jQuery is JavaScript. It's a goodie.
Cscope is a wonderful tool, and it is really really nice to pop to the definition of something in Vim or emacs with a single keystroke.
Well, really, why shouldn't an operating system be "simple" and "boring" and "bland"? I don't need an exciting OS -- it needs to be dependable.
1) They don't make $100/user/year, not even close. They have 800M users and made 4.27B$ last year. That's $5.33 per user per year.

Even considering their number of active users is bunk, there's no way they've reach anything close to $100/user/year - that would mean they only had 42M users.

2) I don't think the suggestion was for them to shift to another revenue model, I think it was to give the option of subscribing. Much like many other sites e.g. Slashdot, Reddit, etc. Most people would probably still choose the free option.
i know the stats of some websites(or webapps if you like to call them as such) which started years ago with user/pass and after integrating fb got a major better sign-up rate. most logged-in users now use the site via fb.

either mobile is majorly different, the tinyreview adopter group is majorly different, their product is majorly different or their analysis is flawed (as you have pointed out correctly)
I think the situation is similar to how it is easier for a cheap product to add features than it is for a luxury product to become cheaper.

Or put another way: It is wiser and easier to start from zero and add the valuable things than it is to start with everything and remove everything that is not valuable.

Thinking back on my first year of university is painful. I wasted simply too much time 'browsing' the Internet. Every free hour I had I tried to plug myself in and enter zombie mode. I told myself that there wasn't enough time to be productive and that the day was too short. All while spending hours a day looking at cat pictures for one or two laughs an hour. With that in mind I would encourage anyone reading to self evaluate.

Going cold turkey is hard. Once you remove random Internet browsing you'll find that the day is actually quite long. I would suggest having a project to throw your new found free time into.
Super long reads also going to be incredibly useful for looking at structural variation (deletions, inversions, translocations).
He wouldn't have unless he was poorly trained. One of the better comments on the Forbes article mentioned the training necessary to do this kind of marketing successfully.

My grocery store handled it well and had obviously been trained. - Successfullworkplace.com
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I agree with this.. "why?" is the right question to ask before choosing to do anything. But unless I'm mistaken, this isn't what your article is about.
From the comments:

Perhaps you should also show Apple's original iChat logo, which you simply reused as your own (with the same shape and color) after changing the direction of the "gloss" sheen and shadowing it with a flipped, black and white version. You ripped off iChat's logo. Apple did not sue you. You did not create something original and protected.

Apple's "new" Messages icon has less similarity with yours than yours had with iChat. Apple's refreshed iChat logo also conveys some functional meaning, with its ellipsis.

Insinuating that Apple owes you something for your slightly derivative version of its iChat logo is ridiculous. You would have sounded far more legitimate (and would probably have gotten more attention for your product) if you'd instead thanked Apple for inspiration for the icon of your next Mtn Lion release (a flatter, glowing but less glossy icon), and then talked about what your product does that is novel or interesting.
While I haven't set foot in a casino recently, I was the manager of the business rules consultants doing the work for Harrahs. The world is smaller than you think and I'm well aware of their customer tracking programs. - successfulworkplace.com
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In my experience, pleasantness and unpleasantness are day to day feelings that sometimes work in my favor and sometimes don't. Many times I have a responsibility which requires unpleasant things, and it makes it more difficult to do, and might make me unhappy if my happiness is based on daily frustrations and successes. That type of happiness tends to have very little to do with our goals. Since it's also very unpredictable, seeking this form of happiness is elusive and error prone.

Maybe there's a different emotion I could seek in my life. Potentially that feeling of accomplishment. Accomplishing something feels great. A lot of people have realized this, single player video games were based on the idea. It is, however, not hapiness. Happiness comes and goes.

If I allow my happiness to flow and fluctuate and act as it always does, and rather focus on getting that feeling of accomplishment, my attitudes change. When I approach a challenge, I don't focus on whether it will make me happy. When I do that, I think about the immediate perks, but also about all the potential frustrations that accompaygne the task.

So I think about it as accomplishment. If I do this task, I will accomplish something. Taking out the trash, 10 points. I don't care about the actual points I have, as the points aren't what I seek. So I don't even keep track. But as games are goals and games have points, it might be easier to connect in your mind with some points.

Go out running. Don't think about how long you have to run for, or how fast you have to run. Don't even worry about the clothes you're in. Just get on your street, and run in a direction. Any speed. Any pace. Now that you've started, and you've jogged enough to get warmed up, pick an object a short distance away and race to it as fast as you can. When you get there you'll be winded, and tired, and you might even vomit. Vomiting is just some random frustration though, it has nothing to do with the accomplishment that you just ran faster than you have in the past x years.

If you do decide you like accomplishing things, then this pattern of setting goals and reaching them can be done with tasks lists and check boxes. Build a momentum of doing it.

The next step is to align your goals to your dreams. Then take that momentum and checklists, and you'll feel more energy than ever to getting what you want done.

I'm not specifically referring to you keeptrying, I was simply writing some ideas down and ended up switching to second person since it was more natural for me to write that way.
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You can delete flash cookies with other browsers too, but you need to visit a adobe site in order to do so: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay...
when I started doing user interface testing on websites in the mid/late 90s, all the literature I could find about user testing in the engineering library was related to industrial design / testing consumer products.

EDIT: it was probably more accurately the late 90s
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Where would one relocate to? Only real options appear to be a .ru domain and location.
Sometimes when I read articles like this it seems to me they are saying "Mediocre people only make mediocre money at best."

And I'm tempted to say "And the problem is? <long dramatic pause>"

Double Fine demolishes their funding goal, and we say "but that is only because everyone already loves them, no one else can do that."

There is this concept called 'paying your dues' which historically has reflected the time an artist (or worker) spends toiling in an under appreciated way, honing their craft. And from the folks who toil emerge 'stars' who have a knack for the business or their voice resonates with a receptive crowd. Kickstarter, Amazon's Kindle store, Louis CK's self produced show, replace the part where you develop a reputation (or pay your dues) they merely give you a way to monetize your reputation and keep more of the money for yourself, rather than parasitic forces which latched on to you early in your career like trigger fish follow a shark.

I believe that kickstarter, and things like it, will give artists tremendous freedom to create the art they want to create, when the rest of the world agrees its worth creating. But there is no disruption of the fact that nobody believes you can do anything until you've already shown them that you can. That takes work. That takes time. And that time is not part of your 'high earnings' period generally.
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The mark was done by Pentagram (http://www.pentagram.com/), one of the top design firms IN THE WORLD. I don't know how you'd plan on giving the "flag" more "polish"... Making brand marks is a LOT harder than you make it out to be. I'm not a fan of the bright blue variant but I think the mark it does a great job matching the Metro aesthetic and will be old news by the time windows 9 comes out anyway.
I don't want to derail the topic, but has anyone given a thought as to whether aggregation (and distribution and reader functionality) could work in a decentralized, p2p manner? Without relying on a central authority of any kind?

I think that's Usenet (cue George Santayana's quote).

It doesn't have a centralized authority, it's delivered in machine readable formats (so you can easily process it), it has plenty of readers, etc.
Make something. Make something, make something, make something! Make. Something. Now. I can't say this enough; the next time you go in a loop, just stop right then and there and make something. Your life will be 1000 times better.

Make something.

Now. Make!
Thanks for the feedback though I should point out that you can drag both the family tree and timeline. Just click and drag. The navigation buttons are just there for people who don't like dragging. Zooming is something we are planning.
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I just went to a free Chomsky lecture last week and of the dozens of people I've talked to who also went, all went for the political works, even the linguists.
Does it bother anyone else that this article is dated to not come out for another 12 days? Which is especially odd since I'm positive I saw this article linked to last week on another site (which seems to be when the oldest comment was).

That said, I've seen articles on this kind of stuff before. We know that microbes and fungi can control the behavior or much simpler organisms (such as ants). And I guess we know some things effect human behavior (such as rabies causing hydrophobia).

It's just such an odd notion that someone I know may behave the way they due to some germ or parasite they picked up years ago.
so i'm still waiting to hear what exactly you did in those 3 years that made you so productive?
You can use a hammer to kill someone quite easily.

Let's imagine that I go to the police complaining that a bunch of my tools, including a hammer, was stolen from my truck. Should I be prosecuted for murder? Is this a "slam dunk", and should the police and prosecutors have their manhood questioned for not going after me for murder? Even though, to the best of everyone's knowledge, no murder has been committed by anyone, least of all me?

Pretty much anyone, including you, has the ability to manipulate the market. It's not hard; in fact it's so trivial that you can do it by accident. That doesn't mean we should throw you in jail just in case you decide to do it in the future.
Why limit yourself to only those options? Put them in a prominent position if you want, but provide some way to login with user/pass, Google, OpenID (my favorite) or whatever.

Personally, I like StackExchange's model: http://i.imgur.com/7iAgB.png

It gives you some default options, but it still has that "Show more login options …" link for people who don't like them.
Unfortunately, much of the internet industry has an established history of doing just that. This heavy-handed approach to vulnerability disclosure has led to an atmosphere of distrust and is bad for everyone. Facebook's policy is intended to alleviate much of the tension involved with vulnerability disclosure.

If you're curious, the EFF has published a number of great articles on the topic:

https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/vulnerability-reporting-fa...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/knowledge-power-facebo...
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How is this the top of hacker news this morning?

It's not a hack.

I keep seeing 300-odd word articles which are totally irrelevant turn up with 'up vote me on hacker news!' links at the top. Dislike.
How many bytes of a file does it take for the copyright to be enforceable?
If people only served up a fraction of a copyrighted work(song/movie/picture), does the copyright apply? I'm not condoning illegal file sharing, but curious where the laws breaks down with digital media.
current behemoth machines have errors too, often the best way to get a really polished sequence is to sequence on machines which have different type of errors, and interlace the data appropriately.