skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Above, on the left, you can see the creative, dazzling, H.G.-Wells-spirited Time Machine interface and icon of yesteryear, receding into radiant oblivion (complete with animated stars that drift toward you). Well-crafted, they stirred the right mood. On the right, observe what Apple bulldozed the old Time Machine for: a low-effort cartoony icon in place of the hatch to hyperspace, and a blurred desktop background with flat grey controls in place of a fantastic portal to the past. To me, this "update" to Time Machine stands as one among many sad and uncaring obliterations of the heart Apple used to have.

My head was spinning (literally) every time I used old Time Machine, so I'm glad they removed this silly animation.
I am thirty and I find the same. More than two weeks of heavy days and my productivity plummets until I get proper time off.
Its sad that Github alone has become the indicator of your coding prowess, what if I have moved to another repository ?
TensorFlow-TFLearn Tutorial for Beginners
It seems as if the web has influenced the latest round of GUI designs, especially the 'flat' design trend which has clearly harmed usability when it comes to things like buttons. This is handled better by Android's material design guidelines, but it's still a regression.

The problem with this approach is that the web has no guidelines whatsoever, beyond user-agent defaults. So each and every site does their own thing (whether 'good' or 'bad') and Apple (+ Google, etc.) decides to cherry-pick what is 'popular' or thought to 'look good', seemingly without thinking through the impact on usability. Or, possibly worse, they have considered the usability impact but deem the tradeoff worthwhile.
How does the ember object model compare to MobX? https://mobxjs.github.io/mobx/getting-started.html

To me it looks like mobx provides all that is provided by ember models, but also adds unobtrusive syntax and automatic observable dependency tracking.
Why to focus on mobile app engagement instead of only downloads
"Facebook is a private company. They can choose to remove anything they like. You have no right to use their service." Blah, blah, blah.
I do understand the procedure of this experiment. However doesn't the experiment strain mentally (thus possible generating incorrect results)?

Taking the following from the paper:(http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160719/ncomms12172/full/nc...):

Averaging across subjects’ responses and ratings from a total of 30,767 trials, 2,420 single-photon events passed post-selection and we found the averaged probability of correct response to be 0.516±0.010 (P=0.0545; Fig. 2a).

Edit: Having (quickly) read the paper, it does seem the psychology of the volunteers was taken into proper consideration, I stand corrected:

Before collecting data, subjects were extensively trained using a classical light source with photon number between 1 and 15 photons at the cornea (Supplementary Fig. 4a). The improved performance with experience is clearly and quantitatively visible (Supplementary Fig. 4b,c). Subjects typically required 6–8 sessions, performing one session a day, to reach their optimal performance level (Supplementary Fig. 4b,c). Each session took~2 h, when including dark adaption.

During data acquisition, each subject went through up to 20 sessions. Still this high amount of sessions was not enough to obtain statistically significant performance for individual subjects, and therefore we pooled the data together to increase significance (Fig. 2a–d). As subject’s sensitivity and criteria used to assign the confidence ratings might vary in psychophysics trials28, we aimed to minimize or normalize possible factors causing variability to achieve maximum sensitivity and similarity across subjects by using extensive training of the subjects and using our 2AFC paradigm.

Additionally, the research does have interesting observations:

Surprisingly, a strong dependence on the temporal separation of the two events was observed peaking at ~3.5 s, with a decay time on the order of seconds (Fig. 2c). Such a long timescale phenomenon represents more than an order of magnitude disparity with the known integration time of the visual system4. This result directly shows that the probability of correctly reporting a single photon is highly enhanced by the presence of an earlier photon within ~5 s time interval.

Thus, consistent with both observations, we suggest that the detection of a single photon – or equally a photon-like noise event (that is, spontaneous isomerization) – temporarily increases the effective gain of the visual system under extreme low-light conditions, such that a second temporally coinciding photon (or photon-like noise event) can be behaviourally detected with a higher probability.
Your very own numbers should immediately tell you that they're useless, since there aren't 1e12 people today. What's the point of comparing Genghis Khan's empirical reproductive record to a hypothetical, known-to-be-impossible, known-to-be-not-even-slightly-related-to-what-could-have-theoretically-happened reproductive record?
The only thing I miss from previous versions, is the stars effect in Time Machine. It was crazy awesome to move through the stars.
The future is what the majority game developers with weight in the industry decide to use.
I am not saying drones should not happen, just that they should be used for important stuff, not for your latest underpants. Or, better said, you can get your latest underpants with drones, but you should cover all costs of doing that, including costs set by the government, which I hope will be high because I do not want 3 thousand underpants flying over my head all the time.
It's not just the fact that "people can recognise a button even if it's flat" that is the issue (I often hear people making this argument) but that the differentiation between what is a button and what isn't (e.g. what is normal text) is reduced in flat design. It is possible to make 'non-buttons' work as buttons, but only if their function is clearly indicated via other means.

This is the beauty of the traditional, three-dimensional, consistently-styled buttons: you get a 'button' by default without having to hint that it's a button using other means.
Many of the icons like Safari and iTunes haven't changed that much, just have progressed with current designs. Take a look at the Mozilla icons, or whatever app you're using like Evernote or LibreOffice. Do they remind me of a webbrowser or Office app? Not really. It's just that they are significantly different from other apps. After one or two times use, I remember what it looks like and that's all you need.
"Stealing from the front of your house does not happen because most people are not robbers"

I think that depends a great deal on where you live. Nice small town in the country where everyone knows each other, no problems, big city, no chance of it not being stolen.
That book is awesome sci-fi for so many reasons.
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I wonder how much the negatives of being short are caused by lower self esteem due to simply what people say and think about heights.

I'm one of the shortest people in the country with the tallest people in the world, the Netherlands. My height is 164 cm (aside: why do people tend to give their heights in imperial units? Does anyone get that?). I actually never had a problem with my height or felt bad about it when I was younger. I felt bad about plenty of other things about myself. I remember in elementary school a medical inspection where the inspector told me I'll always be short, and asked me what I thought of it, as if I'd be depressed about it. I didn't get her at all. But whenever there's discussion about it online, it's things like people saying women prefer taller men, or people who are 10 cm taller than me saying they hate being short, and people like that inspection woman that do trigger the insecurity part of my brain.

I think it's completely irrational though. As other people have posted, I think the link between health, intelligence and height is one of correlation instead of causation. And I know women's preferences are often much more diverse and different than what people tend to say and think. But still it triggers that insecurity. And I know that can really be a bad thing in itself. Maybe that's the real "shortness" problem people tend to have?
So what exactly is the alternative? I should carry around a physical security token with me for every single account I ever made?
I like the minimalistic UI of El Capitan. It gets out of the way, and puts in focus what I really want to look at: the content, Web pages, my code, my photos. My computer is a tool, it's not an artwork I turn on to look at.

Buttons still look pushable, input fields still look editable. The Dock didn't lose any functionality whatsoever by having the 3D effect removed.

In my opinion, the El Cap UI requires just as much talent as the overdesigned (but very pretty) icons and graphics from the previous era. I don't miss the brushed metal and pinstripes, though.
Then create a widget for that.
A humble suggestion for more readability (warning: opinionated):

const reposInfoHTML = repos
.map(repo =>
`<div class="container">

<div class="item names">
<div>
<a href="${repo.repoUrl}">${repo.name}</a>
</div>
</div>

<div class="item language">
<div>${repo.language || "Unknown"}</div>
</div>

<div class="item stars">
<div>&#9733;${repo.stars}</div>
</div>

</div>`);
$(".repositories").append(reposInfoHTML.join(''));
Or entitle people to take a quarter or two off between projects, at loss of pay. Not, "the manager and HR may or may not approve", but as a matter of course.

That gives you more or less what you want, that too in a form where you do other things with the time (travel, take on a personal project for a month, etc).

And it eliminates the concern of "But if we had him work full day our project will get done sooner."
How does it compare to http://meetfranz.com/ ?
I think practically everywhere in Europe did that in the '80s and '90s. We'd get milk and yoghurt in primary school in Ireland back then. Don't know if the practice continued past '95, though.
Or for a proper pricing of infrastructure costs: everybody who uses the roads should pay for them, according to the use they make (heavier trucks should pay more than bicycles)
Thanks, I didn't know that Ember did more than just fetching the value.

About time wasted, I feel like in the long run, you gain more time by writing statically analyzable code. If you make a typo in the string, you would have to build/transpile+launch the code in order to see the error. Additionaly, if you ever refactor the name of the property, the linter will directly tell you that "value" in the lambda must be changed.
If you are feeling stressed staying productive 8 hours a day, try comparing your productivity with others in the team. If yours is higher you deserve a better pay.

1. Everybody doesn't have similar productivity. There could be a Nx(or 10x) programmer who would finish off his work in say 2 hours. And there would be a 1x programmer who would finish the same task in a 8 hours. Both programmers are good - but the 10x programmer will get tired, burnout and eventually become less than 1x if made to work 8 hours every day. For employers and management - this is pretty hard to figure out (or understand)

2. "Wouldn't you accept a proportional salary reduction?" - Yes, only if everybody in the team exhibited similar levels of productivity. Unfortunately that is rarely true. I have faced this scenario as a freelancer when I worked 32 hours a week. Some team members have worked much much slower than me, wasted my time in meetings outside my work time, asked for help on simple things that were well documented and still got paid higher than me. I almost doubled my rates for that client.

3. One needs few hours to get-in-the-zone and task-switching costs are higher with lesser hours per day. At least that is true for me. Once I am in the flow, the outputs are much faster. I would work one 80-100 hour workweek and finish the work. If I were to do the same work in 40 hour workweek, I might finish it in 3-4 weeks. And if 20 hour week - that same work would finish in 7-8 weeks. That is simply because of the switching costs. Obviously, I cannot do 100 hour week consistently
You have completely misinterpreted these projects.
Wait, US is still RPP? I was talking about this at the weekend as one possible reason why mobile phones didn't take off in the US as fast as they did in Europe, but assumed that they'd now caught up precisely because the ridiculous RPP setup had been done away with. How on earth does anyone in the US manage to keep their phone bill down?
It's not one person's privacy though, it's everybody's privacy.

And yes, that is more important than a vague attempt at reducing terrorism because your privacy is your liberty and without it democracy and free society crumbles.

Which ironically, is pretty much what islamic extremists want.
> You know what’s cheaper than wall demolition? Chat platforms.

As if there were walls to demolish in the first place.
>> Dutch food is the worst
>> When was the last time you went out for Dutch food? There's a reason the answer is never.

These two statements I can somewhat agree with, typical Dutch food isn't very special, all we have that could have some appeal is erwtensoep (pea soup) and pannenkoeken (dutch pancakes).

>> The Dutch think of eating as a chore

This is just plain and utter BS though, you couldn't be further from the truth with that statement. You see, Dutch people don't typically cook or go out for 'Dutch food'. Even the smallest towns have a variety of international restaurants and cuisine, supermarkets have a rich selection of international ingredients, cities are littered with shops that sell oriental ingredients, etc.

Tradionally, foods that are popular here (both to eat out or to cook) have always been very varied: indonesian, chinese, oriental/middle-eastern, carribean (suriname, antilles), european (french, italian, spanish), etc. This is probably because of the large cultural diversity of people living here, who brought their food tradition with them.

Of all the countries I've traveled to, the diversity of good food you can have is probably highest in the Netherlands. Compared to for example the US, where food and restaurants (even the expensive ones) are almost universally terrible, the eating culture over here is magnificent. Other countries usually have great food, but less diversity. This all adds up to a dining culture where 'the dutch think of eating as a chore' is an almost absurdist statement. People here like to cook and eat out, restaurants don't try to race you through 3 mediocre courses, straight to the check in the shortest time possible, like in the US, families or friends take time to eat together to socialize, etc. Eating is anything but 'a chore' for most people I know of...
I would love to be 25 again.
Bitcoin’s not money, judge rules as she tosses money-laundering charge
Use Automation to Keep Your Restaurant Customers Smiling
Here's the actual link: https://peergos.org/

Edit: Actually it seems like there's more useful information on github: https://github.com/Peergos/Peergos
are you willing to pay a 50% premium for that?

Nice! I'll remember that one.
Whenever I offered working 66% of the regular office hours for 50% of my salary, my employer refused. Whenever I brought up I prefer other compensations than money e.g. cut working hours in interviews, I was promptly reminded that I will work with others and need to fit within the schedule, like off days, flexible work hours and part time work never existed. I only worked at one company that allowed parents to negotiate an early leave when they need to take care of the children.

edit: it applies to small local shops and 1000+ SF based companies too
There is some truth in this. Programmers are generallynever finished. You can always refactor or polish it a bit or squeeze in another feature.

That said in agile you have a definition of done so at least you can agree as a team when the job is done and then it's like the car mechanic example
Kirby is a file-based cms
One thing I really dislike about 10.10 is that "maximizing" a window will - with a few exceptions - switch it to fullscreen. To maximize a window I need to press Alt while clicking the maximize-button. And there is not even an option to switch this behavior.

On a small laptop screen this behaviour might be preferable, but on a FullHD display, I find it rather annoying.
I find it extremely satisfying to hang up on telemarketers mid-sentence. I also add them to my block list so I dont get a repeat call from the same number.
Update: The author have been corrected the 2nd paragraph. My comment above is not valid anymore
Is Pokémon Go success going to come to a Weezing halt?
My head wasn't, but the fans in my rMBP sure were. If I stayed in there too long it would start throttling down the CPU due to overheating.
Huh? 99% of telemarketers don't leave a VM.
All Business Is Personal
We are exploring and learning to hack the most complicated system we are aware of. Even the smallest component is truly remarkable.
I'm not sure how to tell this guy, but I'm over 40 years old and I have been using Apple computers literally since elementary school. At a certain point the reference to intuitive design can be to ones own past, if that past has become sufficiently ingrained and intuitive to users.

I thought the lament about the photo app dropping the icon that looks like a camera was particularly odd. He seems uninterested in even acknowledging the point that most cameras don't look like that anymore, and there are many (most?) full fledged adults who have never used a camera with a large attached lens.

I'd even wonder at this point if there are more people in the world familiar with Apple products than with actual apples that grow on trees, but I digress.
We work 20-hour weeks (remotely) at Apsis and it goes fine for us. We're a small consulting company with very little overhead, but I imagine it could work in other contexts as well. It certainly encourages you to eliminate unnecessary meetings!

I'm earning about 2/3 of the salary from my previous job, where I worked 60-80 hours a week. In practice this has meant a more-than-doubling of my free time outside work with only a small change in living standards, so I'm very happy with the tradeoff.

The company gets a pretty good deal too -- our work hours tend to be quite productive -- but I don't know if there's a purely economic argument on the company's side. Part of it may require looking at the company as a vehicle for employee benefit rather than an opposing force trying to extract maximum value.

http://apsis.io/blog/2016/03/14/work-and-passion
http://apsis.io/blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably

PS: Apsis is a U.S. company, though I personally live and work in Toronto, Canada.
When people say "he's rich, it wasn't a risk for him" they're really saying that the person wasn't risking their well-being. They're not saying that person didn't risk something else, such as employability; but employability is unimportant to someone in that position whilst for another person it's vital.

So yes, technically you're right, but your argument is missing the vital essence of what people mean when they say, eg, "Bill Gates wasnt taking a risk".
My phone never rings...
I pretty much do this too, but for a totally different reason: the volume on my phone is switched off 99% of the time. Why? Because I don't want some godawful notification sound / random video / anything at all suddenly playing at full blast in public. Although there is some kind of provision for separate volume levels for ringtone / other stuff in android, it's really difficult to manage, so I just don't bother.

Sometimes I glance at my phone, notice it ringing, and answer it; other than that, it pretty much goes unanswered.
Given time, a hash enough environment is going to select for phenotypes despite the quality of the genetic variation. That has to happen or the group dies off [1]. That is the point of the phase "I don't think it matters much". I expect a refutation of that statement to be along the lines of, "here is information that shows that the difference in genetic variation between the in Africa and outside of Africa peoples is so big (or the latter have very low variation) that there are marked differences in adaptability to different environments".

[1] The reason for extinction may well be very low genetic variation.
> My computer is a tool, it's not an artwork I turn on to look at

Things looking better actually has a positive effect on usability.
Small website to create GPS Heatmaps -

http://www.gpsheatmap.com

I built it to learn python and some sports api's for another project
The Stock-Android Contacts-app has a pretty big design-flaw like that. When you open up a contact, it shows you a list of the ways that you can talk to this person. So, either call them, write an SMS, write an e-mail etc.

And the Call-button is for whatever reason merged with the SMS-button.
It's just one big button of which 4/5 is for calling and 1/5 to the right opens up the SMS-app. There is an icon representing SMS in that 1/5 of the button, but nothing indicates that it's a separate button from the 4/5 on the left.
Measuring the Value of Human Capital
That was probably the only thing I agreed with, because I sometimes have to take an extra second to look for what I want there.
I see a lot of opinion here, and not a lot of hard evidence. Maybe the changes in OS X, and the move away from skeuomorphism in particular, have hurt its usability, but the way to prove that isn't through emotional op-eds.

Get a group of non-Mac users, randomly split them into two groups. Set them a number of basic tasks: writing and sending an email, editing a photo, opening a particular website, etc. Then have one group do it on an older version of OS X, and the other on a new version. Then record how long it takes them, what things they struggle with, etc. Ask them to report their level of frustration and enjoyment.

It wouldn't be a perfect experiment, but it would at least produce some concrete data to discuss.
Surely "Open the BankCo app on your phone and enter the code" is just as simple.

For banks, for example, I already have a banking app on my phone (which was originally authenticated via, ahem, SMS), so they could very easily put the OTP generator there.
World of Warcraft: A Quest into UX Design
A century of trends in adult human height
Presumably there's a setting to use the old icons if you prefer them?
I'm German as well, and I also feel that only Stickies are commonly yellow. But Stickies.app on OS X 10.11 has retained its yellow icon, and it actually makes it easier to tell Notes.app and Stickies.app apart now. (Yes, Stickies.app still has its fans :P)

I think the bigger issue with the new Notes icon is the weak branding. Previously, you could tell Notes and Reminders apart by just looking at the colours. This was really important when you told Siri to "remind me to buy milk tomorrow" - you would either see a bright-yellow note[1], or a black-red-white reminder[2]. Now, everything is "almost white", making it really hard to tell what content lives in which app. (Notes and Reminders have a lot of conceptual overlap, especially now that Notes supports checklists.)

[1] http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2013/03/siri-not...
[2] http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/location-...
DeepWarp: Photorealistic Image Resynthesis for Gaze Manipulation