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At least Google let's you keep a single account. Apple is awful in this regard. The App Store experience is the worst I've ever experienced with regards to this problem. I despise it. I point to it a shining example of how despite all the credit they get, they can fail hard at basic elements of usability.
Which they are free to do, as long as they let the people who bought unlimited keep it. Even freaking Verizon understands this (though they are making it slightly more painful).

If you buy the unlimited plan, you have every expectation to continue using it. It's still a net positive.
All those people, who helped in generating data for machine learning algos, now may feel fooled, like suckers.
If you look at it, it's quite sensitive enough to follow finger motions, not only whole hand motions. So it could even follow your fingers as your hands rest on a desk.

I'm not convinced the lack of tactile feedback is a problem provided there is very good visual feedback. Do you have any studies to this point?

Furthermore, I think basic pointing and pinching are only the beginning of the capabilities this system can provide. More complex hand signals, or even face, body and posture signals could drastically increase the bandwidth of human/computer interaction, even by supplementing a keyboard.
My point was you can't create a scatter plot from a single dimension of data, and that histograms are awful because they don't allow you to see patterns. But of course you're right, it is just my opinion.
i don't see it as hidden. if you read the docs, they make it pretty clear what the limitations are on things like the datastore and why. The api's start from the assumption that you will need roflscale. It can be a pain in the ass, but it's a pain in the ass that you know about going into it.
Looks good. I like that you provide an API that supplements Envatos (seriously lacking) API. That was the biggest irritation I ran into while building ThemeSquirrel.

Good work!
From a statistician's standpoint, ratings systems suck. But, from a consumer standpoint, they are super easy to understand. A scatter plot system makes sense to me, but I would never put it in front of a user.

In my opinion, current ratings systems are 80% UX and 20% data.

For example, Newegg uses a pretty intuitive system of allowing you to sort a product page by Best Reviews and Most Reviews. In my opinion, this allows the user to make a more educated decision if they seek the information out.
They use SIM cards, right? Just pop the card in a 4G USB stick and you are done.
There is no tilt sensor on this device, so i don't think it will.
Why not try the lower bound of Wilson score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter?

http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....
I'd imagine that's the idea behind Datomic, though less direct: create product, get funded/income, make both Datomic and Clojure better in the process.
"Gorilla arm" was a term originally tied to touch screens that the user had to reach out and touch a screen in front of them. If the Leap can detect small motions of your hands as they lay on the desk, then using one would look nothing like a "minority report" interface, and avoid gorilla arm.
My arms already hurt just seeing that thing.

I don't get this 'stretch to reach the screen and swipe'. I agree with another user below that a gesture-enabled touchpad would be a better idea.

That said, does anybody know of any usabiltiy study concerned with this kind of interface?
I don't know much about how patents work.

Could this be for their TV? OTA broadcasts are technically radio waves. Right?

All TV commercials on the AppleTV are now targeted to the individual household based on their metrics about you? Catch the fade-to-black and replace them. Delay the live signal long enough to catch the fade-to-black when the show is coming back live?
From a consumer standpoint, a single five star review pushing a product to the top of the list is not easy to understand, it's a pain.
As is claiming that HSPA+ is "4G". T-Mobile is not rolling out LTE until next year.

Source: http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/119703-t-mobile-annou...
Someone on polish wykop.pl told me, that this way works only with terminals based on libXt (for example xterm, aterm, eterm, urxvt). Someone else want to contribute and write export to other terminals, that would be very nice:). If you want to use these colors right now, you may just copy hex codes into your terminal's configuration.
I think the two-axis argument is stronger than the anti-histogram argument. The problem isn't that the one-axis rating systems are aggregating their ratings into histogram bars rather than displaying them in some other way, but that the ratings curve just doesn't carry a lot of information.
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I think we are bottlenecked by content creation costs
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There are may ultralights ranked for two 190 lb passengers.. using exact fuel a light pilot and overloading a bit would do the trick.
You would likely need a prepaid sim card as well

I think that was notatoad's point. To use GPRS modules, I would think you need to buy access to the towers from somebody. I don't see how that would be cheaper than using WiFi, because you would have to pay for every communication.
This would be no different than having two histograms side by side..

Yes it would, and the article shows why and how. Scatter plots are easy to read (for comp./math. educated people). Two histograms side by side are easy to read (and find correlations) for nobody.
Sure, but that's against the rules.
There's a pretty clear correlation between the histograms and the scatterplots, too, if you look.

If you gave someone those 3 histograms and those 3 scatterplots, I bet they could match them up correctly.

Aside- The scatterplots are an awful user interface because of the cognitive effort to interpret them, but perhaps there's a way to present the same information in a usable way.
This drives me crazy when I travel to Korea. I inevitably spend a day or two hunting through preferences to get Google to stop serving me Korean Language pages. Eventually it seems to "stick", but I have to set it back to English at least two or three times.

I never thought about it in terms of personalization, I figured that being in Korea I should be getting Korean pages served to me, and I would have to make the effort to get it back to English.
Hopefully this announcement is in preparation of the iPhone coming to T-Mobile next month.
The GSM governing body sided wi T-Mobile on that dispute. "4G" has been and continues to be nothing more than marketing speak.
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The coverage at GigaOm provides a bit more substance.

http://gigaom.com/cloud/typesafe-gets-14m-to-push-scala-as-a...

And there's the Typsafe blog from the source:

http://blog.typesafe.com
Awesome reference to Shane Carruth's movie, Primer, on the homepage. Funny, I seem to be the only one who noticed it, judging from the comments.
By the same mathematical logic, almost everyone in the US today is a descendant of European royalty -- even people who are predominantly African or Native American. Similarly, everyone in the US with primarily European ancestry is a descendant of both Muhammad, the founder of Islam, and Charlemagne, the so-called "Father of Europe."

These claims were made by an entertaining article written 10 years ago in The Atlantic, "The Royal We," which covered the mathematical study of genealogy and is a good companion to the BBC piece: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/05/the-roya...
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This is great news for the Typesafe Stack. While Scala is bigger then just Typesafe I am glad to see some real support behind the awesome set of libraries they put out.
They offer plans with 10gb limit too. Which seems like a pretty large amount of data to be using without tethering.
I can't comment on wider industry trends, but I know for sure that some companies (specifically in NYC) pay decent money ($150k+) to people who do this stuff. And they can't find enough developers at this salary level (maybe they could if they paid more)
We actually use this whenever we do any ranking within the site. On the film page though, we think presenting the raw data as a scatter plot is better than a single number.
I wish people would use a 5 or 7 point scale: http://blog.jgc.org/2007/12/seven-point-scale.html
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this discussion started about sharing with non-emacs and non-developers. Git is not feasible for non-developers.
I think Rich knows that you can't sell a technology or language, you have to sell a product. That's why he did Datomic.

That said, I write Scala at my current job and am super excited that Typesafe got this funding. Please, Typesafe, follow Rich's lead. Make a real product backed by a technology, not a bunch of libraries! I want you to be around for years to come.

p.s. we're hiring. You don't even have to be super smart, just be passionate. owreese AT gmail DOT com
Yea, once your model gets more complex than a dozen or so objects, then something like this is awesome. I only with there was an equivalent in ASP.Net MVC which is the current bill payer. (Plant is the closest I've seen, but not quite as elegant, and I'm a little concerned over support).
Histograms are useful int the case of items with a strong love/hate split.

The canonical example is the SICP ratings on Amazon: 3.5 average; 177 ratings, 96 five stars, 53 one stars.

http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Prog...
This a big reason we went with scatter plots - when there's only a handful of points you don't get misled.
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Jon Kleinberg, Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University on the pigeonhole principle: http://edge.org/response-detail/2890/what-is-your-favorite-d...
Could you point me to an example of a 4G USB-capable router with ethernet ports?

For some reason my searches are failing.
It's different from having 2 histograms because it lets you distinguish people who thought it was a good movie but not re-watchable, from people who thought it was a good movie and fairly re-watchable, from people who thought it was an OK movie and not re-watchable. With a bunch of histograms you can't correlate the variables.
The company/startup behind Light Table is trying pretty hard to make Clojure more popular by providing sorely needed tools for it.
TBB is OSS, and we use parts of it (atomics) daily, pretty much as advertised.
If it's a UK company, I'm doubly amazed at all the editing misses on the main landing page. And I'm not a native speaker by far.

To be constructive:

-Inch symbol missing in first sentence
- Weird switch from "to work hard" to "and then relaxing"
- Repeat of "to use" in first smaller paragraph (by the Android icon)
- "its" instead of "it's" under Power and Portability
- Weird ellipsis in the Play Store, should be "blah ..."/"... blah",
not "... blah"/"... blah"
- Missing opening parenthesis in the Ethernet port caption
Very interesting read.

Website valuation multiples dropped very rapidly as value-per-visitor increased.

Care to share some specific numbers?
If I'm deciding whether to watch a film for the first time, I really don't understand how whether or not other people would want to watch it a second time helps me make my decision.

"We rate movies on two criteria - ‘quality’ and ‘rewatchability’, so you can admit to your guilty pleasures and properly capture the feeling you get when a film leaves you exhausted."

You are using rewatchability to infer some potentially helpful labels ("guilty fun", "exhausting but worthy"). But there's no guarantee that those inferences are safe/generalisable across viewers/films/genres, or that people who see a rewatchable axis will know to interpret it like you do...
I'm with Henry ... the scatterplot is fundamentally no different to two histograms side-by-side (though it is marginally easier to read).
At the bottom...

No GPS

No embedded 3G

No G Sensor – eg tilt racing games will not work.

No access to Buy or Stream Movies via Google Play

Also does not look like the screen will fold all the way back to make the device useable in an exclusive tablet mode.
And I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google. The upside is that if I want German results, I can just go to Google - no annoying configurations, just DDG for English and Google for German. Still, I really resent this behavior by Google.
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The article mentions an important point about 5 star systems - people tend to only use 5 stars or 1 star. This is sort of shown with the histograms.

A 2 axis system seems like a good idea. But I'd like to see it with 3 options per access - [UP] [INDIFFERENT] [DOWN].

I'm also interested to know how the system will cope with "controversial" films ( life of brian, for example) where some people are going to downvote whether they've seen it or not. And they'll campaign and ask all their friends to downvote too.
Why would I care about rewatchability? The torrents are full with thousands of lives on video I'll never watch, what's the point of rewatching anything but the dearest, youth-defining films?
I just noticed that it's got a resistive screen. I have a Samsung NB30 netbook with a resistive touchscreen and I wouldn't recommend this if it uses the resistive technology. At the very least I'd wait for a thorough review.
When I'm looking for people's opinion I want to know at least a little about the people and have more things in common with them, so that we have similar tastes. IMDB is almost useless for me, people like complete crap imo (is there any movie without at least one 10 star rating? That should be the single best movie ever). If you wouldn't fit in the community, the community's opinion on things is largely irrelevant and whether you look at the opinion through a histogram or a scatter plot is irrelevant.

If you actually have friends, why don't you ask them for recommendation in person. If your friend is really into arty movies and recommends you an arty movie as being very arty (and well done) you can consider it. Collapsing it into a single number doesn't make sense </rant>

EDIT: that's not to say that the scatter plot isn't an interesting idea, it's just not going to help much because people's background is important for rating
"People like you rated it..." is much better for users than two axes.
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Not if people alive today are still alive in 3000 years, which isn't terribly likely but not wholly out of the question either.
Possibly correct but a bit grumpily put.
When it comes to anything subjective, ratings (like those histograms) tend to be bimodal http://zedshaw.com/essays/rubrics_and_the_bimodality_of_rati...
You're putting way too much thought into what will be a drug store computer.
Embedded development on a lot of consumer electronics devices are mostly in C++ these days. Some of the UI elements are changing to HTML5 UIs without a real browser (wired directly into C++ methods talking to HW through "magic").

Admittedly, a lot of these jobs are oversees. However, I believe the amazon and MS consumer electronics groups are still in the US and I know for a fact that until this year all of the Toshiba TV firmwares were being done in the US.

However, my experience in the CE industry has been that we aren't worried about massively performant parallelism, just "moderately performant" parallelism. I want to say that as of a few years ago Toshiba TVs had something like 10-30 threads running at all times in parallel.
I said I hated HN, blown away by the response
Hi guys,

I wrote a post saying I now, unfortunately, hated Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747).

I explained that I felt with the growing size of the community HN had changed since I first joined around 5 years ago. I stressed that I didn't want people to tell me how amazing my product was if it wasn't but I felt that the HN audience had changed from a safe one - who used to criticise constructively and genuinely help you - to a much more negative one which was very keen to snipe, criticise and to just score points.

The response I recevied was overwhelming with Paul Graham even responding. Follow up blog posts were written (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747) and and I just simply wanted to say thaks.

The discussion that took place made me see that the community is still a great one - who want to help each other and who have a genuine passion in sharing great ideas and how to make good ones better. The vast majority of people participated in a great conversation - the point scoring, the grammar nazi's, the noobs - seemed to stay quiet. I could be wrong but I have noticed a real upsurge in constructive feedback since that post and I just wanted to say thanks. I hope it can continue because it can be daunting putting yourself and your site out there - we all want to make great products but some of us need help getting from ok to good or from good to great and a comment laced with negativity, without anything constructive behind it, can really effect people who are not so thick skinned as others. Thanks again.
I'd say people only use "5" (really liked, would recommend) and "meh" (spent some time, would not recommend)

In their example, blade runner has sligtly more "meh" votes and starship troopers is mostly "meh"
"We thought about this years ago we have done tons of user interface testing on this and it turns out it doesn't work"
Steve Jobs - Back to the Mac 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=ULZmlH59yKpqY&v=ZmlH59...
LOL. I read the site name as Scammysite.
So, the first person who was the MRCA-with female lineage only, ie the earliest woman who was the female ancestor of all living people, was 100,000 years ago.

But the earliest ancestor (female / male / mixed lineage) was only 3000 years ago.

(i.e. the first, had to have daughters only, the second, more recent could have daughter then grandson then great-grandson etc)

So, 3000 years before we can say anyone definitely was the ancestor of all, and there would be a lot of them. And 100,000 years before its female lineage. Then pretty much everyone is a common ancestor, back to plankton. And Dinosaurs!
Why would someone who is looking for a film care about rewatchability? Presumably they'll be watching it for the first time and then can decide for themselves whether to ever watch it again.

Or did I miss the point and rewatchability is just a placeholder for something more useful?
I like the idea of a tablet/laptop hybrid with a touch screen, but I would want the "convertible" form factor.
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I was hoping that this would be a data-only plan and that you could get it without a voice line. Unfortunately, this "unlimited" plan is just an add-on to a voice plan. I really want someone to offer $30-50 : 10GB / month service so that I can completely avoid the issues of minutes and SMS counts. :/
Thank you I was unaware. I thought it looked quite high but decided not to check. Your explanation also didn't occur to me I rationalized it away with their monopoly position but of course the IBM monopoly must have been worth less than the MSFT monopoly given the enormous expansion in market size.
If they had kids today, and then stayed alive, it would work out pretty much the same. Except it would be fairly crowded.
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The problem with most of these "business guys" is that they think their connections deserve to trade at a ridiculous level relative to talent, skill, and effort. Technical skill, to them, makes you a JAP (Just A Programmer) but not "founder material". It's the country-club mentality. I'll admit that there's room for negotiation in an exchange rate (I'd prefer pure meritocracy, but sadly that's not how the world actually works) between connections and talent, but the people who think their connections (usually inherited on account of having a prominent father and going to the right MBA school) entitle them to a ridiculous share of the profits are just exhausting to deal with and, in my experience, most of them aren't nearly as well-connected as they claim to be. If you're so well-connected, then why aren't you funded already?

If you honestly believe that your connections merit 10+ times the share that my talent and skill do, then you better prove it by getting me in a room with the likes of top venture capitalists, CEOs at target clients, and heads of state on a weekly basis (and then, after a year or two, unless you treat me extremely well, I'll be independent and start my own show).
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Actually, I find histograms pretty useful, primarily because if there is a secondary bump toward 1, it indicates there are a significant number of people who had bad experiences with the product -- more investigation required.

Having a two-dimensional graph might have more information, if the dimensions really matter. I'm doubtful that "stars" and "rewatchable" are really independent, and I'm unsure why I would care about it when I haven't seen the film. (If I have seen the film, I'll have my own opinion and not need the graph.)

I'm all for looking for improvements to the ratings game, though. What seems to work best for me is to actually read the reviews, but that's obviously time-intensive.
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I'm currently on a very limited "unlimited" data plan with T-Mobile. I find it rather insulting that they would announce a new plan that makes the same claim. "For reals this time". That's all well and good, but they need to honor the deal they made with previous customers as well. Why would I pay an extra $20 when you lied last time?
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Very interesting... I'll have to consider what we can do to update the page, while still working within the confines of LaunchRock.
The commercial entity behind Clojure, Clojure/core is not modeled in the same way as TypeSafe. Instead, its main focus (at the moment at least) is providing training[1]. The truly commercial entity in the Rich Hickey universe is Datomic and as a result also works under a different model than Typesafe.[2]

[1]: http://roadshow.clojure.com/

[2]: http://www.datomic.com/
Often I'm presented with a choice of films at the cinema (some of which I've seen already) and only want to decide which one to see next. Perhaps an ordering by score would be more appropriate?
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The point is that scatter plots are harder to read than histograms. It's not two histograms vs. one scatter plot, it's replacing the current single histogram system with a single scatter plot.

Also, side-by-side histograms aren't the only way to display two parameters in a single histogram. What about stacked histograms? They scale up to an arbitrary number of parameters and everybody who can read a histogram can read a stacked histogram. Scatter plots seem like thermonuclear overkill for a problem which most movie sites seem to consider to be "solved".
Patents don't kill other products, products do. I could make a patent for a magical frosting generator cannon but until it's on the shelves in a way affordable to consumers, who cares?

I'm starting to realize more and more that my annoyance and frustration with HN is more related to the horrible state of the media's quality.