I'm absolutely fascinated by the difference in responses I see on HN versus talking to my friends (liberal arts). They were concerned with the future implications for cultural integrity as well as how it would effect labor forces and capitalism as a whole. Any thoughts?
I, for one, think this technology is awesome and think it could follow the progression that the train system went through in the US (transcontinental railroad, expanding, webbing out, lightrail, subways, trams, metros, etc) and see this as a possible next step in the evolution of transportation.
it's not about placing headlines and pictures front and center, it's about placing the right ones there, without adding too much complexity...you get the headline, the first few lines of text.. that's nothing new, look to techcrunch or pretty much anything as an example of that. It's the layout and the fact that you see the entire page without being inundated with scroll bars and overloaded with information... and a blog isn't exactly the right thing to be using as an example to compare? in fact, a blog seems like it would care less about which article's are being read and more about just articles being read in general.
completely agree. If I click the back button, I want to go to where I was before accessing the entire "newspaper" not just back one page (which kinda defeats the entire purpose of being able to flip the pages back).
at the same time, a UI like this can be really nice. I don't think it limits the presentation of information but actually simplifies it and let's you gain more info with a single glance. It also allows the designers/editors to draw you in with headlines and pictures in a traditional way, placing what is most important (we would hope) front and center.
will it actually be used effectively? eh...probably not for anything other than on the ipad.
I'm honestly just curious and I could be missing something trivial... but how does the "simple asymptotically optimal solution" take into account an even length palindrome? in the sense of "deed" where there are never matching letters to the left and right of the interesting position...i think it would still be O(n) but I just don't see the algorithm taking it into account...