skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. Lambasting autorun as an obvious design flaw is really betraying a lack of perspective on what's actually important in a computer's design.

Yes, security is important, but making it easy for normal people to use the computer was much, much more important, and hiding people from the crap at the core of windows (like needing to hunt down blah.exe) was a very important part of that.
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"Can art be taught?" If not, then how do designers learn in the first place?

I'd say that, yes, those that possess one skill can also develop a second, unrelated skill. Some people might have a natural affinity for both, others will have to work harder. I don't think anyone that wants to become a designer is totally incapable.
John Carmack has mentioned some interesting ideas for keeping large, immutable resources in memory-mapped files on the iPhone.

http://bethblog.com/index.php/2010/10/29/john-carmack-discus... (Under "Technical Geek Details")
I didn't hear it "once"; it was a central theme of the transformation story; there were posters everywhere, email campaigns, leaflets, etc. all based on the "burning platform" standard playbook.

The reality is that the "burning platform" metaphor is a classic story repeated ad nauseam in business schools and business books; see this for example (from 2005):

The term “burning platform” is a mainstay in business lexicon for many years.

For those not familiar with its origin, the story goes something like this:

A man working on an oil platform in the North Sea awakened suddenly one night by an explosion. Amidst the chaos, he made his way to the edge of the platform. As a plume of fire billowed behind him, he decided to jump from the burning platform even though jumping is a risky option for the following reasons:
It was a 150-foot drop from the platform to the water.

There is debris and burning oil on the surface of the water.

If the jump into the 40°F water did not kill him, he would die of exposure within 15 minutes.

Luckily, the man survived the jump and hauled aboard a rescue boat shortly thereafter. When asked why he jumped, he replied, “Better probable death than certain death.” The point is the literally “burning” platform caused the radical change in his behavior.

http://www.imakenews.com/cppa/e_article000368179.cfm

(Please read the rest of this article to know how the story should be used in a business context; it really seems to describe the email, and it's prophetic since it was written six years ago).

Where do you think Mr. Elop heard this story in the first time? What's more likely, that he met an actual burning platform survivor, or that he read about this very common story in a business book?
This goes well beyond simply not having good testing though. It requires not testing and disconnecting the phone line and email so you can't get customers' bug reports. And never using the thing yourself.
Inebriated, trying to find my spelling mistake.
Add to this the fact that this vote _doesn't matter_ in the sense that deciding to turn it down isn't a final decision. This actually makes it easier for someone to vote against it for purposes of political expediency, knowing it won't affect the outcome as much. Voting in this meant much more jockeying for position.

As an irrelevant aside, I disagree with your present tense. Fractures are always existent within both Republican and Democratic parties; few congresses have been a matter of adding up the Ds and Rs except for on the few issues most bitterly fought over by D and R. In general these sub-divisions are the nature of the political beast.
To me the former is not being fluent, it's just knowing basics, the later is being fluent. But then there's being bilingual which is a completely different level, much more difficult to reach than being fluent IMO.
Mostly for geeks, who really weren't who they were designing for.
Like I said the site was designed and made in 3 days. We were trying to get something really simple and clean, fast.
At the Game Developers Conference, Daniel James is known for giving impressively open and informative presentations. He is also known for serving alcoholic beverages to the audience before his talks begin. This is explicitly forbidden at GDC. Before last year's conference, there was a rumor that he was going to end the tradition because it was becoming controversial. Instead, before his 9AM talk began, he asked that we all thank the general manager of the conference for personally arranging the table full of Bloody Marys for everyone.
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I speak Thai quite good, but still would hesitate to say I'm fluent...

Otherwise, I speak mainly American English ;)
Microsoft unveils DataJS - New JavaScript library for OData and beyond
Well yeah, they explain how numbers are stored in a computer and whatnot. It's just that for most software programming, it isn't a terribly interesting or difficult to solve problem. I suppose after so long working with graph algorithms and Turing theory, people might forget these things, but it doesn't take a great deal of training to remember that numbers have limits in computers. I think this is more a case of simple stupidity than lack of education.
Yes, you are wrong.

I study CS and the first year we learned about digital logic, how to build memory, clocks, ALUs, etc. in parallel with learning about loop invariants, operational and denotational semantics, computational complexity, algorithms and data structures, algebra, real logic, how to prove things formally, and emacs.

There were some boring courses as well, mathematical analysis etc.
Whenever 'flexibility' and 'government' are put together, the result is power and corruption. Due process and habeas corpus are not just inconveniences against the ability to fight so-called 'enemies', but fundamental rights belonging to all. Removing individual liberties is not protecting, but endangering citizens.
The “burning platform” seems to be a popular trope of change management. This is one of the many articles you can find about burning platforms: http://www.wisdom-works.com/lead-perform-sustain/change-burn...
You don't know how ironic that comment is.

I'm all jumpy with glee reading it.

"misclick downvote" ..

Do you realize the up and down buttons are IDENTICAL in "syntax" but different in "semantics"? Isometry :-)
Talk about interesting.

There's a small typo on the tweets that go out though. It should be 'someone sent you a #secretmention'

Great job, specially considering the time that it took you to make it. Cheers.
Just to be honest: the design of the site makes me want to ignore whatever advice it might contain. It doesn't really scream "I know a lot about great looking typography, layout, or web design."
Not trolling. But I admit that I'm overstating my position a little bit to see if any interesting discussion comes of it. The reality of my current situation (a one, sometimes two person team) has meant that I have indeed been following the convention I just described. That's not to say I want to, but as I mentioned, I will probably continue to for the foreseeable future without too much hesitation.
Between 1985 and 1997 Kansas City was ordered by a judge to vastly increase spending. There was no educational improvement.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-298.html
> If you speak Dutch, you also speak accented Flemish and broken Afrikaans. If you speak Danish, you can also understand Swedish and Norwegian.

It is true that these languages are really close. But I woudn't say that danes in general understand spoken Norwegian or Swedish (though Norwegians usually do understand the others better). If you speak Danish as a foreign language, I'd be really impressed if you could have anything resembling a natural conversation with a norwegian or a swede.
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The point is that Microsoft would no longer need to license WP7 (and quite frankly, I doubt they really care about those licensing fees when ecosystem market share is a far bigger revenue source).

Both companies are at a point where they're about to enter irrelevance in the mobile space (Nokia actually entered irrelevance as soon as the iPhone launched, but it took them a while to figure that out due to pride and thinking all that matters is how many widgets you ship -- they're about to hit the bottom of the abyss).

The problem Microsoft has is that all the existing licensees don't care at all about their platform. Samsung, HTC and LG all have their hands in multiple pies, not willing to commit to any platform because they don't care about who wins, as long as they make money.

They need someone to focus exclusively on WP7, delivering the best integrated experience the platform can offer. Nokia's not going to go exclusive unless Microsoft does too.

There are issues on both sides though:

* Nokia used to build great hardware. They need to start doing that again to convince Microsoft it's worth acquiring.

* Microsoft needs to recognize that WP7 isn't going to go anywhere unless something major changes.

The upcoming announcement might be a precursor to the above scenario.
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Doesn't that mean you can speak 6?

No. It's possible to read formal prose in a language without speaking it.

Polite/learned communication, specially in writing, is often contrived and limited, often resembling an archaic form of the language. It's very possible to read formal text in a language, and glean meaning from it based on your expertise in the language family. Though you would be helpless in the street.
The situation here is a bit more complicated than this headline implies. The House Judiciary Committee plans on looking at these provisions. This bill was introduced to temporarily extend them to December of this year to give them time to do so.

Today's vote was an attempt to pass this extension by supermajority, a tactic that can be used to avoid debate. A majority was reached but a supermajority was not, by a few votes. It will be passed shortly by a simple majority after minimal debate, the Tea Partiers had their say.

The White House wants to extend these provisions until 2013 no matter what the Judiciary Committee decides. They are concerned that abruptly curtailing the use of these powers will not give law enforcement adequate time to prepare alternatives and workarounds.

It is basically all a smokescreen. For the foreseeable future, law enforcement has pretty much carte blanche with respect to surveillance, and is limited only by a secret and completely unaccountable court and a few aggregate numbers they have to report.
The art of baking bread
The confusion isn't coming from conceptual similarity, though. It's coming from the use of the word "language" which has multiple, distinct connotations. Traffic signs are never referred to as "language." Both spoken and programming languages are.
Where do you go to school? Where I went, denotational semantics and code proofs were taught in a senior level class (I went to a public university though). I think you might be the exception rather than the rule.

Still, you're correct to say that engineers are taught the things the grandparent mentions in CS courses.
I agree, it seems fishy to me that saturation rather than wrap is the integer overflow behavior in these systems.
English and other (Hebrew).
Please. I for one am using the fragment hack to build a richer user experience on a widely available platform. The interactions I am building wouldn't be possible without it (or the HTML 5 pushState replaceState equivalents). Rendering my content on the client in JavaScript makes me a lot more productive, and the interactions I facilitate on my site would be impossible without it. The implementation choices of a single web site cannot "break the web". I trust that the author of this post has a lot of experience and also valuable things to say about building accessible sites, but accessibility and graceful degradation aren't the only god in my pantheon.
"Why" questions trigger feelings bypassing data input and thinking.
<1K uniques should be enough traffic to get decent results (as long as b <1K you don't mean 10 or 20 visits a day). You can get in touch me with at paras @ wingify if you want to discuss it further.
As discussed on another thread, shipping bcrypt by default isn't technically feasible yet due to the Python binding for it failing to compile cleanly on Windows: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2177989
<strike>No, timb was referring to HTML5 history api. It makes possible to alter the path component of a URL by javascript, eliminating the need for # hack. Try browsing repositories on github with WebKit-based browser to see a real world example.</strike> (sorry for my misreading)
I agree with your central point, but of all the adjectives available to describe GoDaddy's UI, "dumbed-down" isn't the one I'd pick.

What else could we use? Perhaps "functionally retarded"? Or maybe "overwhelmingly dreadful"? Or better still "Designed with a Kafaka-esque hatred for humanity that puts government bureaucracy to shame"?
Note the account's name, 'TrollBait'. Brand new too. If he keeps those kinds of comments up, he'll be banned in no time.

On the other hand, I'm impressed how you just ignored TrollBait's insult and just replied in an absolutely normal manner.
90% sounds to be too high an overhead. At 435 words per article [1] and 3553578 articles (English only) [2], it has ~1.5 billion words. At 5.1 letters per word and one extra for space, it comes out to 9.4 GB. With 27 GB uncompressed, even that sounds like too much overhead for markup, but maybe.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
Key points:

"Why questions" have the ability to both gather data and to probe for
underlying thoughts and decisions that lead to action. Other interrogatives
(what, when, where, how) provide a better way to gather data since
they focus on physical items or actions.

I've learned that if I want data, I should use data-oriented
questions that start with how, what, when, and where, and use why
as a last choice.
I'll bet that if you talk to designers and road layout experts, they'll freely talk about the "language of traffic signs". I'd also hazard a guess that people who are not programmers or familiar with how it all works would not refer to what we work with as a language, but as "code", "mathematics", "bits and bytes" etc.
I take almost the polar opposite approach to you, always providing a safe fallback to plain ol' HTML. I feel its a defensive style and doesn't provide a single point of failure. I run Noscript since it makes most pages load much faster. No offense, but I don't want to run your code, I'd rather read your content.
A few reasons:
1) I work at an international user facility for my day job and I really only want to do this once ;> With IDNs, I'm worried about dealing with Unicode IDNs. The email regex has been updated in recent versions of django to support this.
2) The length--technically, email address can be 256 characters long (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.3). The default length of email addresses in django is 75 characters and usernames are 30 characters. This is something that I want to specify (I don't need to be backwards compatible with any existing django databases).
3)
As for using SHA2 and stretching, or bcrypt, I think that they should be choices and that the auth package should simply ask the backend what to do. It's not just limited to the user's choice of password, but also to sending out tokens that are only using SHA1. If we want to use say bcrypt for those, then an authentication backend should be required to have a token generator that can be called. The default backend should simply do what the django development team thinks is best. Forms should also be the responsibility of the backend....

BUT
The problem with forking contrib.auth to make say for example "gen_auth" is that the module is pretty good (so it's a lot of effort to maintain a fork and to stay current with the django trunk) and so far I've found that the following modules rely on it:
comments
sites
sitemaps (perhaps)
messages (ok, deprecated by 1.4, so I'll ignore it)
flatpages
(and I don't know how many other 3rd party packages).

It's not ideal, but the more I look at it, the more I'm leaning towards monkey_patching.
English and Malay.
Maybe if you know about sports cars. I've seen, for example, RX-8s and thought "Wow, what a nice-looking sports car, I bet it's expensive."

They're pretty cheap.
Ask HN: The ultimate setup for a techie in a revolution
What'd be the optimum gadgets, setup a techie would need amidst a revolution (cameras, phones, ...)
Nokia is standing where Nintendo once stood: struggling to hold market share against powerful juggernauts, and in dire need of a bold product that eschews conventional wisdom, challenges consumer's expectations, and tickles developers' imaginations.

The problem is that Apple already did that recently. The iPhone was Apple's Wii, and now it seems incredibly difficult for Nokia to innovate that much that quickly without creating something the world might not be ready for, like the N-Gage.

I hope they pull it off though. Respect for the candor in the memo.
Wow, that's unbelievable. Almost any phone number in 24hourplaces.com is that Dallas number. How come the owner of that website never noticed?
And raganwald was referring to the '#!' hack, since it's really just the '#' hack. He wasn't addressing the history api.
Those Google kids are seriously nerdy.
Turkish and English.
The mechanics of the classic liberal are still widely different at the extremes. For example, a rather 'lefty' area may decide to invest in a large social project to increase awareness about a particular issue whereas a Ron Paul libertarian would see that as government waste.

Of course, most people (including myself) lie somewhere in between.
English and Afrikaans
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russian go! go! go! :)
English and bad English
>They are as socially liberal as the libertarians in congress like Ron Paul.

I think you have been misinformed.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/11/sorry_four_loko_chuck_s...
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I think there is a contrast. If I need an answer and I need it now, then yes, transcripts are quicker. But, suppose I want to learn say, javascript, then a video lecture might be more useful. I wonder if they will do ads within the videos like youtube.
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However all those IE users out there would not have that API. I remembered that facebook's starting to use that API already.

The solution with "mangled" URL seems to force a reload on every new request to lifehacker as well. Just like what Facebook did with the hash-reload.
The numerical-analysis community refers to software as "codes" :-)

I have recently seen a SIAM book that even had it in the title.
Content aside, the words chosen to construct the article's title is intruiging.

The same piece of news is currently on the HN front page twice [1][2], framed in two very different ways:

Wired: House Fails to Extend Patriot Act Spy Powers

BBC: House rejects extension of 'Patriot Act' powers

[1] Here [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2196126
Definitely possible.

2 Examples:

1. Miche Capone - one of the founders of Photovoo and a mentor at 500 startups. I've worked with him before, fantastic designer. Got a CS degree, never officially trained in design.

2. Jason Putorti - Check out his linkedin profile. He got a Bachelors in CS and Math.

I don't think it's easy, but like anything else, if you practice enough you will get better.

(Note: I don't know Jason but his profile is public so I figured it's ok to link to.)
or you could just talk OFX directly to the bank sites like ms money, quicken/quickbooks, and ibank do. it's what i'm doing for corduroy (http://corduroysite.com/).
That is actually great news. No Qt needs to be ported to Android. Then it's get really interesting.
We had a similar problem with our site, and we solved the issue by using <a id="linkID" href="pathToContent">title</a> links with a jQuery event handler that prevents the default behavior of the link.

With this implementation, when the link is clicked the appropriate content is served through an Ajax call, and the crawlers are able to index the content.

You can see it in action here http://lynkly.com
English and Malayalam.
Yes, and you could put QT on top of it!
I am stunned. Calacanis was just brazenly lying about his belief in the quality of his articles and that it was just a few isolated articles that were thin. Now he claims he couldn't sleep as well at night before due to Mahalo's mounds of crap content. And apparently he's completely unrepentant about having to lie on behalf of his company, now taking a holier than thou stance against his competitors. Unbelievable. This is borderline sociopathic.
Totally Agree - while I loved the memo, it would have had more impact with me if it hadn't had it's central theme cribbed from 'the book of management phrases' that I hear from multiple CEOs. Ironically, I was inspired _the first time_ I heard those sayings- because I thought it was something clever our CEO had come up with. Imagine how depressed I must have felt when I heard the same phrases come up over, and over again.

Up there with "Burning Platform" would be "Problems are snakes. If you see a problem, don't hold a meeting, Kill the Snake" and "Our competitors don't have this problem as a central focus, it's like the chicken and pig at breakfast, we're the pig, the competitors are the chicken. The Pig is committed, the chicken is just involved", and, the one I've now heard no less than four times at four different companies - the story about the various people working on a church, and one character, sweeping his heart out, says that he's working for the glory of god (I.E. Do it because you love it, not because it's a job).

I never really got why dying to become someone else's food was supposed to inspire us - but I've heard it a couple times now.
Just fixed that typo! Thanks!

So far its been really interesting.

Something cool is that there is a lot of info generated in different layers. The app engine gives real time info on pageviews, google analytics will give some insight here and there on where people are learning about the service, the number of messages on the twitter account is a cool "open" way to show how many people are using it and finally and finally using the bit.ly api, you can get clicks per url. So far I am really happy with how that is turning out!
German and Italian (English is on the way ;)
English and Portuguese!

(I speak spanish well enough to have a conversation, but I wouldn't say I'm fluent. Got a 5 on the AP test in high school, but if you don't use it you lose it. :( )
Hmm Slovenian, Croatian, English and German. As for computer languages I know C++ and AS3 fluently and many other not so fluently :)
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