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Anyone else thought of fractals when watching this?
This is a great interface to manipulate fractal drawings. Great work.
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There seems to be a focus on Transcendental Meditation. But that may be because they are good at publicising it.
What should happen is that they adopt the Crunchyroll model and help their customers give them money. Sadly, it appears that they will be dragged into the future kicking & screaming.

Which sucks, because a lot of good artists are being held back by this.
I wrote about things that have to change with SoundCloud a couple of months ago [1]

I'm carefully optimistic that an improved interface will help improve how people end up using the site, but the biggest issues for me with SoundCloud are still signal-to-noise rate in community engagement and sound quality.

I will pay close attention to how much behind-the-scenes improvement there is, but none is mentioned in the announcement (the only one that comes close to a point in my list is on search, which I personally never use).

SoundCloud seems to still focus on being a cool site instead of addressing the very basic "data" problems like comment spam [2] (or follow spam) and, in the year 2012, they still stream music at 128kbps, which just does horrible things to your music unless you have professional mastering (even then it's a bit horrible).

What irks me most is that there are very simple solutions to both of those - For comment spam, it seems like they still have no simple "if a user posts the exact same text a number of times, containing a link, that's spam" filters in place. I know that that can be a dirty arms race, but if it remains entirely unfought, the spammers will end up crushing any and all relevance. For the sound quality, even just bumping the bitrate to 192kbps would mean a huge improvement and at a very low cost to data transferred.

In any case - I understand that they have to focus their message and that it's common to show off the more prestigious improvements. But if they have, for instance, an improvement on spam control, this is big enough of an issue for all SC users that they would really enjoy an announcement there.

A community evangelist replied to my post on g+, saying that they would be rolling out improvements throughout the year and I will hold them to that. I must say, though, that I don't get how simple things like that aren't just rolled out in shameful "oh god, you're right, we will do that straight away" fashion, to be honest.

[1] https://plus.google.com/111011776153281260419/posts/KgxmnsMG...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers/comments/sr2s5/p...
You can do this with chrome by adding a search engine (and making it default):

https://www.google.com/search?%7Bgoogle:RLZ%7D%7Bgoogle:acce...
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Good. Very good.

Something needs to be done about scientific publishing and the excessively high tolls on knowledge. The publishing industry may claim that it performs some vital role, but I find it extremely unlikely that this is the optimal way of reviewing and disseminating knowledge.

I think we are morally obliged to do a lot better.

To me the paywalls around scientific publishing is a lot more than a question of principles -- it may end up impacting my life. Five months ago I was diagnosed with kidney failure. If left untreated, this will kill me. What I do the next months may have a big impact on my quality of life.

When your doctor tells you that you have a condition that will kill you, I would assume that most of you would try to educate yourselves on the topic. This includes reading recent papers.

Well, good luck with that. For absolutely every aspect that I have looked into I keep bumping my head into paywalls. Some articles are only available if I pay a lot of money -- and I have no way of knowing up front if the article will be worth it. Kidney disease is a narrow enough subject for publications to be very expensive.

I am continually asked what the hell I need access to these articles for since I am not a doctor. Imagine that: people acquiring knowledge because they need it and not because the publishing industry needs the money...

I think it is time academia started taking knowledge seriously.
The polling loop and I/O interfaces with Vert.x is integrated in to the VM, whereas with Node.js, you'll calling out to libuv/libev/etc. That gives the JVM an advantage. Really, how much actual JavaScript code is V8 JIT'ing at all?

Really what you are comparing here is the efficiency of the paths between the two JavaScript engines and their polling I/O libraries, more than any JIT work (and let's face it, even if we were comparing JIT work, the Sun JVM has had a lot more time to tune and tweak than V8 has). In Node's case, it's talking through libuv, which means it has to transition in-and out of the V8 engine's runtime and in to a C runtime. Even if the C code is super zippy, that's costly. For Vert.x though, all the I/O and polling is integrated in to the runtime/VM/JIT. That's kind of nice.

An interesting way to test what I'm suggesting would be to do the same test with unix domain sockets/named pipes as the transport instead of TCP. The JVM doesn't have a native implementation, so it'd have to call out through JNI. I'd wager even odds it ends up slower than TCP on localhost.
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I'd say plenty of permissions systems have been a success, including the app permissions system in Android. Does it have tons of rough spots and issues? Absolutely. Handling permissions is a hard problem no one has cracked. But Android's system has also unequivocally has provided a net positive value to users and the platform.

First, there's the baseline transparency. Android hasn't had Path-style surprises because things like whether or not an app is accessing the address book or your location are out in the open.

Second, the permissions system (including negative reviews driven by it) encourages app developers to not just request permissions, but explain why they are needed. Not everyone does that, but plenty of the apps I've used do. Among other things, I can wish that were more integrated and consistent (e.g. a mandatory text string provided along with the request to shift the default), but, even today, this valuable information ends up in the app description where everyone can see it.

Third, there's all sorts of potential for tools you can build on top. It's easy to answer questions like: "Which apps access my location and can send SMSes?" There have also been attempts to revoke permissions that users didn't want to give. This doesn't always work well because apps usually don't gracefully handle not getting an expected permission, but most of the technical infrastructure is there, so it is a logical future step. And so on.

I'm not saying a permissions system will be wonderful out-of-the-box, but it is a good foundation on which you can make things better in the future, rather than settling for a false choice today.
Thanks for the note, although we probably shouldn't write off the whole post as misinformation. I think most of the info was really useful for people looking to get into the business.
What flat surface do you close by pinching it? Moreover, it seems you're trying to equate "intuitive gesture" with gestures people use with (non-computer) everyday objects, but I don't see why that is a requirement for intuitiveness.

Pinching to zoom in and out makes a lot of sense in my mind. Place your thumb and index finger at two points on a map/image/website. Those two points are two corners of a visual area. To make that visual area larger, expand the points outward. To make the area smaller, pinch inward. This conceptual mapping is very straightforward.
Re. 1 and 2, what exactly are Apple and Microsoft doing to their desktop OS to accomplish that? I'm not seeing any evidence of that happening at all.
iconic -- executed according to a convention or tradition
(reference.com)

Isn't the whole idea of updating traditions a little silly. They're traditions. We don't follow them because they make sense. We follow them because the people before us followed them.

100 years from now we'll still need a symbol to conceptualize saving something. The other ones might go away but we'll probably still need to save our work. I expect the floppy to still symbolize this. The users at the time will not understand what a floppy is. But unless there is good reason to upend convention why bother.

Just look at all the linguistic idioms we retain from yesteryear.

I don't have any axe to grind with icons. But tradition is nothing to sneeze at. Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words.
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Contrary to Chrome which pops the history stack instantly, Safari's "nice page sliding animation" is completely reversable if you don't release the gesture and "put things back in place". The animation is not a gimmick, it has a very real usability purpose.
That doesn't look like something you can't automate for most of those cases.
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I feel that the cause of misunderstanding lies in the fact that "thread" in this context is usually means "thread based IO", which means that when a thread issues a IO request it remains blocked until the IO request returns, leaving CPU time to other threads. All this regardless how many processors you have; it works perfectly fine with single processors.

Async IO is different, it's a different patter of access to IO and as such it's orthogonal to any threading or multiprocessing that's going on in order to actually do stuff in response to that IO.

> It's been found that if you employ only a single thread (that can run any number of tasks) you get a performance boost over using a larger threadpool under some conditions, but a single thread wouldn't let you scale by taking advantage of all processors.

Indeed. Nodejs solution to this problem is to have a cluster of nodejs processes and a dispatcher process on top. So multiprocessing is done the "old way".
Of course, but the point here is that d3.js really is not "doeseverythingforyou.js" : it only takes care of the "boring" stuff (manipulating DOM, binding data) and lets you do whatever you imagine. So it's more like "build this chart writing only the 19 lines of javascript that matter".
Excellent article!

I've worked with Titanium since the very beginning and would absolutely recommend it to anyone that wants to reuse pieces of their application between iOS and Android. Granted, certain UI elements that exist on iOS with no Android counterpart (and vice-versa) have to be adjusted, you're still able to retain the vast majority of your code between both platforms.

The documentation has come a very long way too. It used to be that the KitchenSink had to be forked in order to see examples of new features - thankfully, that is no longer the case. The IDE that Appcelerator has shipped (after purchasing Aptana) is extremely useful. As Kevin mentioned, the signing tasks and other similar actions are handled by the IDE, so compiling and testing is relatively simple.
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That's how you link on Reddit. Maybe he thought it worked the same way here.
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For comparision, YUI offers a similar widget: Dial.

"It's like a real-world, analog volume control dial, but with much finer UI control."

http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/dial/
It doesn't seem to work on firefox 12. Do you know where I can file a bug report? It is painful to look at arbitrary symbols on the site :)
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Performance would then be similar to a native app or similar to running on the mobile browser?
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Please demo this to Evernote. They need to leverage this asap!
Both desktop OSes are moving in the direction of the mobile ones (app stores, signed code, sandboxes, etc.). For the moment, there are escape hatches, but they are already disfavored alternatives (no promotion, no access to some new APIs, etc.) and, given past behavior, I wouldn't count on the escape hatches remaining open forever.
"Adobe has released Adobe Photoshop CS6, which addresses these vulnerabilities"
This is so cool!

I started drawing without watching the video and didn't get it. Thank goodness I didn't give up there.

Recipe for fun:

Make a very thin rectangle by dragging in a square, and holding down shift to resize it. You can basically get a line.

Drag the line onto itself. You now have a spirograph.

I would think these are actually not that big or complicated to store. Each drawing is a list of {pointer, x, y, theta} for each. You might be able to "export to text" pretty easily. Want to see a friend's drawing (and incidentally, entire drawing toolbox)? Import the text.

Edit: came back to add that I left morphing (size, length/width ratios) out of the data structure. Incidentally, maybe morphing is why triangle isn't a primitive. What relation should you set up for a self referencing triangle? Maybe if you label the vertices.

You might be able to handle the self-referencing without any extra members in the text representation. You just have to handle a special case of child pointer == self.

I didn't read the code yet, but it's fun to think about.
In accordance with the guidelines I posted the direct link to the original blog post from bit.ly, but it was DOA. Bit.ly is one of the banned sites on HN, so I found this blog post about it instead.
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I disagree with that analysis. The Judge asked the jury to decide fair use assuming API copyrightability because he had them at hand, and it was an opportunity to make his eventual ruling more appeal-proof. Finding APIs copyrightable rather than purely functional would create new barriers to interoperability, which would be a little more important than having part of a jury's verdict moot.
The same as an analog watch - when time stops.
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Amusingly, it is the same behavior as the Facebook like button, except that Github's feed algorithm doesn't filter out things you likely don't care about.
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as more and more software development teams move toward Agile, with multiple deployments of the code into production system each day, do we really need Assurance of the software functionality?
That's half the point - users don't want to be tracked.
In that case, Java gives you both options: blocking IO and non-blocking, polling IO. Netty can use both, but most people use it with the non-blocking option. Experiments have shown that sometimes one is faster and sometimes the other.
Was about to say this sounds awfully like Unqualified Reservations until I read the username.
I don't remember if I was being hasty and didn't read your whole comment, or if you added to it, but I only thought your first paragraph was insightful. ("It’s really obnoxious that the author allows this facile analysis to pass without any attempt to provide context. Hong Kong and Singapore were Western colonial corporate/financial/trade centers for a giant continent which was otherwise mostly blocked off, and so were bottlenecks through which massive amounts of capital flowed (and goods: HK, Singapore, and Shanghai are the busiest ports in Asia). The UAE is a tiny country with one of the largest oil reserves in the world.")
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Amen, but this has been going on since the beginning of tech ... look at the CP/M vs DOS war. It seems to me that Apple moved the cheese a bit with iOS + proprietary hardware + app store, and everyone has been scrambling to catch up since then.
Am I the only one who thought this post was about people?

Cool coding though :)
> Plus, once a reference is established (like the floppy disk) it's idiotic to always replace it with the latest tech (we'd have zip drives in the nineties, usb drives in the '00s, the cloud today, etc etc..)

And crashed beige boxes for Windows machines mounted on Macs: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/10/generi.... :-)
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The GIL is not a spinlock. Since only one core gets the GIL at a time, it's still just using one core (even if that one core is being switched around).

The GIL is released during the execution of some C code, so another thread may execute Python code in the meantime, but that's probably besides the point too.
> ... invalidating the code that was JITted ...

I mean, that is non-trivial.
On 1, Mozilla may have been more quiet than they should have been, but I don't think anyone was in doubt about how they felt (and I do know they had a debate about whether even do Firefox Home for iOS, all things considered).

On 2, I'd bet that Firefox won't be the only browser allowed on Boot2Gecko. I'm not saying that getting an alternative browser on there will be pretty (the browser would have to provide an unusual amount of support infrastructure, most likely), but, given Mozilla's principles, I don't expect them to actively block you from doing so (the way Microsoft and Apple do).
It's worth noting that slate.com use to be owned by Microsoft.
It's fun, but needs colors, and maybe some optional randomness.

http://i.imgur.com/ForAV.png
I'm sure that stopping competition isn't a drawback from Apple's perspective, but the official reason is that they don't want developers doing an end run around their app store to get code on the device.
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Were the papers you were trying to read in Elsevier journals? They do offer an option for people with medical conditions to get free access to papers they would like to see - don't know if that helps you, but perhaps good to know.
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I do a lot of online shopping and I boast to know nearly all big/small e-commerce site in India. But how did I miss this Jabong.com I have no idea. Believe me or not, I checked with a lot of friends (avid online shoppers like me) and none them have even heard about this one. I guess we need to come out from under the rocks.
Also, how does Google keep track of all this traffic?
This has nothing to do with security. Removing the referrer information puts Google in the position to use (sell?) this information exclusively.

While Google is collecting more and more data about users Mozilla calls it an "improvement" to keep away referrer information from website owners. This is ridiculous.

So Mozilla get's its money from Google and in return they do what Google tells them.
> Why would you not want to save what you are doing?

Because the document is public, and you don't want work-in-progress to be shared until it is complete?
In the future, there is no such action. Everything is recorded with an infinite rollback history.
Or you can do the inverse http://i.imgur.com/tMbrj.png
(I got the link that I just posted on reddit from a link already posted on hacker news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3951982 ;)
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Not to mention Craigslist.
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truly a marvel of engineering. that this stupid piece of code can be sitting at the center of a legal argument speaks volumes about how dysfunctional things have really gotten.
There are pollyfils to degrade SVG into VML or een flash for ie8, ie7 and ie6.

https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-Brow...

I don't mean that it's pretty. I'm just saying that it's possible
There is actually nothing preventing anyone from writing a browser for windows on arm. The issue is that the API makes it inconvenient for existing browsers to be ported.

I've written a proof of concept HTML to WPF parser/renderer that worked fine inside WinRT. It wadls written in c# which is where the issue is I think...
There is actually nothing preventing anyone from writing a browser for windows on arm. The issue is that the API makes it inconvenient for existing browsers to be ported.
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Our numbers are 5k, 10k and again around 10k, so this would confirm what you're saying :)
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Yes, they do. But they are cutting out the keyword intentionally. There is no technical need to hide the keyword from website owners.

Remarkable coincidence 1: There still is a keyword in the referrer for AdWords customers.

Remarkable coincidence 2: There is a new _charged_ product called "Google Analytics Premium" that promises "more data, features and dedicated support". Shame upon him who thinks evil upon it.
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