skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the very early icons were so garish I remember being astonished by them.
It's slightly better now in terms of usability. Aesthetically it’s as big of a disaster as when it first came out. There’s only so much polishing they could do to a turd.
What's constructive in one system is nonconstrictive in another. The only people who take constructive proofs to be more meaningful than nonconstrictive ones are software engineers. Usually with some mumbo jumbo about how type systems are a superior foundation for maths to sets.
"Design isn't what it looks like, design is how it works".

That is: the idea of some clear separation (or worse, tension) between mechanical engineering and "design" is, to my best understanding, antithetical to what has made Apple an interesting company that makes interesting products. Mechanical engineers are doing design work. So are metallurgists and material scientists, as well as typographers.

This is a late thursday press release, and this is an uncharacteristically quick response from Gruber. He's shooting from the hip, but I think he has a valid concern, and it's a concern I suspect is shared by lots of folks who have been using apple computers for a long time: who is actually responsible for making product decisions?
Perhaps you're interested in what it would be like to live inside that system?
I like the thin and light part, but the keyboard really makes it so that I would rather not do any work on it. I can see people getting used to it, but the tiny click just makes me doubt the reality of my typing. To be fair, it's not that bad, it's just that there are plenty of other choices that don't have the drawback.

Personally, I've settled on the 13" Surface Book as my travel machine. A bit heavier, but plenty of power, great screen, fine battery life, GPU if you really need it, and a keyboard that I don't hate. Now with WSL2 it doesn't have its previous drawbacks as a dev environment either.
It depends. When I was writing almost purely functional programming code in Scala I was frequently cursing at type inference. Each explicit type hint helped me more easily understand what each next transform was doing.

More modern languages (Rust, Swift) have also gone and say "well, omitting types from arguments and return values of function signatures is a bad idea, so let's not do that."
Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate Part II
I think you overestimate the degree to which SOTA computer vision is applied to a lot of images online, and I think bringing East Germany into it is pretty out of line.
He is being followed by a guy in a pith helmet with a moustache and a big gun.
Doesn't it strike you as bad UI design to have to consult a manual to find out that [squiggle] means "Defrost"?

How does that help our international user who cannot understand "Defrost" to be faced with an English manual?
And a physical exam? Who's going to listen to your lungs and heart, check out your throat, ears, nose, eyes? Those are invaluable in diagnosing even the most common illnesses.
oh... so i should not be able to use any websites because of the extensions I use?
Also, the "what's your estimate" question specifies "gay or lesbian", whereas the self-identity question apparently includes the B and T. Obviously this would make the high estimate for just "gay or lesbian" even further off, but it still doesn't say anything good about the article's conclusion.
It's a bad design feature that is sadly common across premium smartphone brands - e.g. the Pixel 3 is also quite hard to grasp. One thing where I think lower-end phone design tends to be better, a function of their lower priority on aesthetics.
This is a limitation due to the fact that the compiler and the editor are different software. The compiler knows the type, but your editor doesn't, so the burden is thus on the programmer to either know or annotate the type by themselves.

This is a dumb thing that every programmer just accepts. The tool should do this work for you.
Yes, we need to hack the British for their opposition to the classical liberal position of free exchange of slaves between states.
A Short History of Bitcoin Flash Crashes
Corporations are cashing in on the trend. I'm both equally happy and unhappy about it. It means that being LGBT has finally become mainstream enough, but it also shows a two-faced side to the corporations who will also donate to anti-LGBT politicians. It's pandering to us, is what it is. That part, I'm not so much a fan of.
I'm finding it hard to understand how being external to Apple is going to work for Ive and his team, given Apple's approach to secrecy and paranoiac insularity.

A seeming contradiction from the very FT article Jony is pushing his new role and company:

“[Apple Park] was a really significant project that was unlike many of our others, because it was for us,” Sir Jonathan said. It also brought Apple’s entire design team together for the first time into one purpose-built studio, with industrial designers sitting side by side with font and interface designers.

ie. we're going to be putting all the design team in one place, except me and my design team - we'll be somewhere else.

All I can speculate is that Ive will become some kind of conceptual overlord, but one ultimately well at arms length from what is happening at Apple. I can't help but feel that Ive's been pushed, in the most graceful way possible given his contribution to making hundreds upon hundreds of billions for the company. Remember the drastic way Scott Forstall was kicked out despite being seemingly successful, and for what? too much skeuomorphism? It can be easy how ruthless these people can be.

It could be quite telling that recently they had to do an unheard of (for them) backtrack in the form of the Mac Pro - essentially reverting it to the decade old design of the cheese grater and re-incorporating PCI desperately needed by longterm partners such as Blackmagic Design - heavily pushed in the last keynote, who've been suffering since the trashcan came out, with many of their leading capture cards only able to be used in the horrific solution of a thunderbolt-PCI lunchbox. This announcement does seem like it could have stemmed from that, given they said something along the lines of "we had designed ourselves into a thermal corner" with the never-revised trashcan, that ultimately lacked all the features that make it worthwhile for pro users ie graphics, PCI, storage and RAM.

Ultimately, pushed or not, Sir Jony could well feel his work was done in many ways with the creation of the new UFO campus and such a string of successful products all having reached maturity. What else is there for him to do? After so much success, it could just becomes boring. Even the best artists don't try and keep churning out number one records year in year out - there's just too many other things to do.
Though you are JavaScript programmer,you should understand concurrency control
Show HN: Created docs site about Fusuma that can make slides with Markdown
It is the freedom of the creator to pick a license and method they wish to use to distribute their work. I'm talking about DRM for things which are mostly entertainment - things like movies, games, music, etc. We all have equal freedoms to not support such platforms. I don't follow what point you're trying to make with your gym example. If the gym has some policies which you dislike, you can simply chose to not go there. (I know people love to take things to extremes, so I'm obviously obviously not talking about racist policies or other illegal exclusionary practices)
Samsung Galaxy Fit vs. Gear Fit 2 vs. Fit 2 Pro Compared
Google _user_ data. And it's certainly not your data either, if you're storing it on your own servers.
To be fair to the old man, the cloud does appear to have a lot of problems. Parts of AWS are down right now, as I understand it.
You use an extremely long track, not high acceleration.
I generally print out research articles because I can write all over the figures and take it with me to lunch and not be bothered when I spill on it, or fold it up into my back pocket. I feel like I get better comprehension too. For textbooks that's a no go for me and probably most students, because this thing is getting resold once I'm through.
> Why not reward creators who choose to distribute their works without DRM?

Your average author doesn't have a choice in this, they have no clout to dictate terms to their publishers over the inclusion of DRM
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/05/apple-par...

I heard that employees started putting post-its on walls to help people walk around safely, which infuriated someone important, because they were all taken down and told not to do that any more.
The title makes no sense.
I know he's previously talked about wanting his kids to grow up in the UK. Perhaps having finished Apple Park closes one chapter of his life and finally gives him a good enough of a reason to go back to the UK.
Okay, now have them estimate the proportion of, say: Muslims, people who can't walk, two-parent households, and retired military. Are these any more accurate?
I have tracked a number of state sponsored actors from all sorts of countries back to Yandex accounts. They are the go to account provider when you need semi-legit emails and don't want the provider to cooperate with the US.

It would give US intelligence insights in to operations from China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc.
FYI, Bill Gates has explicitly stated he prefers pirated MS Windows use to unencumbered Linux converts:

"[A]s long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

https://web.archive.org/web/20060411095315/https://www.latim...
Depleted uranium also has a few other wonderful qualities - one is that it's self-sharpening, as the nose of the projectile will shear instead of deforming [0]. Another is that uranium burns in such situations, which means you get 'incendiary' for free.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staballoy
Looks like it's the more modern twist of script kiddies on irc in the 90s.
Are you having a laugh? "as a nation who defends classical liberalism" Why should: "actions are justified"

If you think you hold yourself to a higher purpose, then why not behave as such.
I'm not sure what "moral relativism" even means.

"there’s a difference in Russia or China hacking and the US" - no, that's bollocks. I'll assert that and stick to it.
Currently work at a hospital.

- The CEO's semi-monthly emails have either contained a) reminders to get the flu shot in flu season and b) statements about washing hands.

- Thirty minutes of your new employee orientation is used to discuss handwashing with some funny stories about diarrhea and they go around to every single person to make sure they're washing them correctly.

- Upon entering a patient room, anyone entering is supposed to wash their hands

- Anyone can call out a doctor and ask if they've washed their hands and there are signs to make patients comfortable asking them to do so as well.

So yeah, 2019 and people still need all that as reminders.
Completely off topic, but it took me three tries to parse this:

There’ve been rumors for years that Ive had one foot out the door
It’s not meaningless as it’s important to plan for populations based on size. From a health perspective, there are programs targeting helping gay populations and allocating funds accurately is important so the most people are helped.

There are many practical reasons for know demographics. There are limitations and it’s probably difficult to know the exact percentage, but we still need to know as accurately as possible.
the most useful thing that article points out is that there isnt a clear way to count LGBT populations, as these are all different things.

There are also other groups of people wishing to be included in non-cisgender and non-hetero movements.

It means the cisgender and heterosexual population is greatly overestimated but simply easy to conform to.
> I think it's just that. An abrupt opinion.

Well, that is what Gruber’s blog is for, isn’t it. Gruber’s opinions.

Edit: just saw Mossberg describe Gruber’s post as “right on the nose”. Believe what you like.
Sounds like a great use for Fastmail and their open JMAP protocol.
These people were asked to choose between 6 options. Every number in every option was higher than the true value. Is it any wonder people overestimate when primed this way? I wonder how many other poll results people rely on are this obviously biased.

Edit: I now believe this is incorrect, see below.
THE FUCKING HEADPHONE JACK. JUST FUCKING PUT THE HEADPHONE JACK BACK WHERE IT FUCKING BELONGS.

FUCK.
I started my career on a IBM 360 but I learned far more useful skills with ed then vi and Unix (along with C, Lex and yacc). Those skills have stayed fresh for 30+ years.
Maybe a minor point, but I think sexual fluidity remains under-addressed by these polls. Some people are, for all intents and purposes, identifying as LGBT during, say, their college years, but then go on to settle down with an opposite-sex spouse.

If the person once identified as LGBT, but doesn't today, is it based on what they "actively" are? Or if you ever once identified as LGBT, for purposes of polling, you remain in that category for life?
As someone who doesn't do any kind of web dev it seems like this isn't designed for my use case. E.g. things like Android or iOS development didn't seem to be present, let alone more niche things like embedded, graphics, etc.
One In Five Employees Is Highly Engaged and at Risk of Burnout (2018)
Interesting compared to magic-wormhole.
https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
Black flag is a band, so your parent already answered your question in the part of the comment you quoted.
I reached out to the author because I've been a user of the app for several years, but I haven't heard back (this was only a few days ago). I'm hoping it can continue in some form.
To replace autos, buses need to have routes and frequencies that satisfy the larger travel purposes:

30% social/recreational

19% to/from work

16% other family/personal errands

14% shopping

6% work-related business

6% school/church

9% other

https://www.bts.gov/archive/publications/transportation_stat...
Haha. I must have been hallucinating.
wow... Google is pretty retarded if that is what they mostly rely on...
It blows my mind how people call things obsolete without replacing all of their functionality. The only reason the 3.5mm jack is considered obsolete is because Apple said so. Literally nobody had any problem with it existing up until the day Apple announced that iphone. If this isn't the definition of sheeple then I don't know what it is.
People also overestimate the amount of crime in America, the divorce rate, and how much money YouTube "celebrities" make.

Perception is driven by exposure. Both are driven by media.
Yeah it uses the Wayback Machine. The difference is, this works in arbitrarily old browsers, unlike archive.org which often doesn't.

I'm currently happily browsing from Windows 3.1!
GDPR strikes again!

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Drink the Bluetooth and Dongle flavour koolaid.

Headphone jack is gone for good, and it's never coming back.
I saw that and suspected it was intended as humor on his part. That or he actually missed it when writing that letter.
This is a really excellent observation, because it doesn't even have anything to do with the definitions of the terms of the survey, simply its format.
Everybody needed a keyboard and a mouse at the time.

Only a few people needed a camcorder (the most populous of the firewire-enabled devices).
Define 'pro'. My Sony A7iii uses SD cards. My Blackmagic pocket cinema writes to USB-C. If anything C-Fast is a dying medium. SD cards are tremendously cheaper, and at this point likely as fast.
Have you validated this theory against actual users?

Because I have. Users do the wrong thing. Constantly. Every single chance they get. There is no level of education that can fix it. Users don't want to do the right thing, they want it to just work with no thought required.

Every option you present to users is one additional source of support calls, frustrated users, and frustrated account managers wondering why you're making things so hard for the users belonging to customers they work with.

So my company split its authentication page in two also. It results in fewer support calls and fewer complaints to the account managers.

And for what it's worth, it works with most password managers too. Anyone having trouble with that should consider a different option. It's not like there is a shortage.
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Tom Limoncelli had a nice article about how documentation/checklists is the beginning of automation in an IT setting.

Manual Work Is A Bug: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3197520

Makes a lot of sense and something I advocate for in my department.
Something is weird about this poll. They are talking about the average person thinking it’s 20%, which is already crazy, but the most picked answer was 25% or more. What would the average have been if Gallup had allowed people to pick higher values?
> LGBTQ in the American mind share far outsizes their population

What does that even mean? Population is one thing, but can mindshare be measured? You're comparing apples and oranges.
And who is to say you can even open the file? Not many ebooks are being written in plain text or pdf after all. Usually it's something clunky and proprietary with DRM.
Defective instances are a random (though not unpredictable) event occurring independently between instances, with no influence by the manufacturer, designholder, or vendor.

Hitting the Molly Switch on a DRM service is the exact opposite.
Maybe also because it's essentially a proxy (to the IA)?
Is it obvious, or are you simply accustomed to it?

Or is it watch out for the alien with his wiener in his ear?
I am not experienced at replying to several comments a minute, I’m sure I made some errors in judgement during that process, but I think this thread is as active as it is because people want to know how this shit works, not because I’m the apex troll of pushing people’s buttons. FB and Google are in a dubious market position here but they take a lot of flack on HN for how highly they pay and how hard the interview used to be.
I have literally never noticed that. If this is what the differences between phones have come to today then to me it seems like there isn't really anything to write home about anymore and the market is completely saturated.
One in ten. That's it.
Corporations are cashing in on the trend

This is true. But it's also true that companies are afraid of being "corp-shamed" on the internet.

No marketing or PR department wants to answer the question, "Why don't you support xyz!" on the internet.

Steve Jobs didn't have a Reality Distortion Field half as powerful as Twitter.
> None of those things were mistakes, they were choices made as a result of tradeoffs that people agonized over.

You can put a lot of thought into something and still make a mistake.
This has been the case on the dev release for months but they've yet to merge it to stable.

Sure it's disturbing at first but from a usability standpoint it seems vastly superior, especially for bigger screens.
Those sentences are entirely compatible. He could even be the most talented designer in history and still reside over disappointing results at the same time. There are many explanations for how this happens. It could be as simple as being burned out or being spread too thin. And significantly, we don't know what kind of internal constraints and forces were in play, which have massive implications on outcomes.
Industrial design includes functionality. Ives' problem wasn't that he put design over other things; it's that he put form over function in his design decisions and had a very narrow set of design principles (minimalism, thinness) that he followed too religiously.
The senate wants an answer to social media
The top comment on this thread is asking for the ports back. The majority has spoken.

My workstations have become a dumpster fire of dongles and I constantly have to unplug something to use the ports for something else. The previous model was so much better.
"I have tracked ..."

No you haven't. If you had then you would keep it to yourself - I do.
Jony Ive is leaving Apple to launch a new firm
USB-C is baffling. Suppose you buy into the dream of one cable type for everything. So you buy printers, scanners, optical drives, external hard drives and SSDs, and so on that have USB-C connectors, and you buy USB-C flash drives, and buy USB-C to USB-C cables to hook it all up.

But your computer only has two USB-C ports!

No problem, you think. You've run into the same problem before with computers with USB-A connectors. The answer was simple: buy a hub that connects to one of your computer's USB-A connectors and provides several USB-A connectors to hook up your devices.

You just needs a hub that connects via USB-C and provides several USB-C ports.

That's harder than it should be. There do not seem to be many of these available, and those that are tend to not have very good reviews.
> Hamlet talks about the human condition and coming to terms with your own mortality.

So? Who cares? I don't think I ever read Hamlet. It was just entertainment, no different than a television show today.
The most amazing writing on this topic (i.e., how Apple ruined iOS) is by Michael Heilemann, Interface Director at Squarespace. Unfortunately he took down his blog. You can catch pieces of it on web archive though: https://web.archive.org/web/20130724000346/http://binarybons...
Back when they launched the Macbook Air, we also thought having no DVD drive was a big step back.

It took some time, but other companies started removing the DVD drives from their laptops as well.

Maybe technology moves around Apple after all. If your Macbook does not have a SD Card slot, then SD Cards will soon be dead.

Having a single USB-C, though, is still frustrating.
Can’t agree more iOS 7 design goal was to get rid of skeuomorphism.

This goal was so overachieved than young readers probably will have to google the term.
Rexx! Loved that on OS/2, pretty happy to see that it has a home on FreeDOS.
I actually really agree with this — I didn’t hate the way ios7 looked, but I really did dislike how much it slowed me down in terms of figuring out how to read and use the interfaces that conformed to the new design style.

At a fundamental level Ios7 relied on color instead of texture for visual segmentation — and I’m not sure about others but the texture processing hardware in my brain is about a million times more reliable at performing segmentation tasks than any subtle abstract color blend detection engine in my brain will ever be ...

I hope that whatever new design mentality arises after this change is able to better improve the efficiency with which im able to use my devices - and that the devices are once again striving to meet me as an actual human rather than chasing some local optimum that might exist by imagining some 1 or 2D abstract idea of a human ...