skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about fragmentation - a quick look through the examples pulled out in the linked article just makes me think "sloppy".

But I do want to pick up on this idea that touch-based interfaces should all have the same look and feel. That idea made (and to some extent still makes) sense when you have a large desktop shared by a number of different applications, and the user is constantly shifting between them as part of their workflow.

But I think there's been a shift over the last few years. On the desktop we have monolithic applications where the user's workflow is expected to be entirely within the application, and these applications have increasingly adopted their own specialised UI style and assumed that they will run full screen. I first saw this with 3d graphic applications like Blender, but you can also see it in things like Aperture and Lightroom with their inconsistent dark palette.

And I think this is more pronounced on smartphones and particularly on tablets, where the application you are running takes over the whole display. They aren't described as "immersive" for nothing. I'd argue that when an application is something that you completely immerse yourself in, the need for visual consistency is reduced (though not removed). Yes, we need some common visual language, and for people to understand how that relates to common gestures for interaction. But I think the stand-out applications will be the ones that have a visual style that is consistent with the content of the application, and maybe with other applications from the same publisher.

I'd draw a comparison with magazines, particularly as that's representative of the kind of content that is making its way into custom applications on tablets. We don't expect Vogue and Wired to share a consistent font and the same iconography to help the reader navigate - instead we expect each of them to have their own house style consistent from issue to issue, but different from other magazines from the same stable. At the same time we do have certain common expectations that come from the conventions and physical form of the magazine, and we may also notice some common design elements due to them sharing a publisher.

I'd compare this with Apple's use of skeuomorphism in some applications. Maybe we should think of it as Apple's house style for some of its applications, and not seek to ape it in our own. It's quite Ok to develop your own house style building on a common design vocabulary - look at how Tapbots (http://tapbots.com/) work their own style into their apps for example. We're still working out what works best on these devices, but I'm not convinced that consistency of visual design is all that important any more.
For some interesting mathematical techniques that can be brought to bear on this issue, check out Benford's Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

If you have access to the Raw Voting numbers by district/region etc, this technique could make for some interesting analysis.
Providing counterexamples to a generalization is not a debunking.

Every stat I run into on the matter shows career focused women being less likely to have children or have them much later in life. Apparently there is a limiting resource whether it is time, money, or energy.
> "The truth is the distros need Banshee, Banshee needs the distros. Rather than arguing over who needs who how much, split the money 50/50."

This hits the nail on the head. Joel Spolsky's answer about splitting equity comes to mind.[1]

[1]:http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...
Sorry, I meant exactly that - do we know of any other languages than "Coffeescript"ish languages that convert to either javascript or lua? - thanks
I general I agree with this line of thinking. We should encourage women to take on careers and challenges where they are under represented. We shouldn't create sexist work environments and educational institutions that discourage participation from the opposite sex.

I don't think this is a clear cut issue though. Sexism exists in some place, but so does enjoyment by men or women for certain careers. I think part of that enjoyment is created by a culture that tells men and women to be certain ways but I think also some of it has to do with genetics - i.e. historically women were the primary child-rearers so they tend to be more of the nurturers.

There is also the question of how much energy does society as a whole invest in correcting sexist historical imbalances? Do we just say, "everyone can be anything they want when they grow up!" and leave it at that? Or do we impose things like quotas and programs specifically targeted to encourage women to join professions they're under represented?

I have mostly questions and no answers :(
Old chart - and it's been debunked too many times to count.
ITYM "WebSockets is now officially IETF Proposed Standard" or something like that.

Publication as an RFC doesn't signify any status
of the protocol standards-wise, almost any protocol
can be documented in an informational, experimental or
historical RFC.
Science journalism guidelines might be a good idea
Sorry you have to learn it this way, but most people lie about birthdate as a number entered in an online form is no proof of age.
This is a re-post without attribution from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111207104821.ht...

which was discussed on Less Wrong http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/8sj/humans_shouldnt_mak...
Report: IAC Is Google’s Biggest Ad Spender, According to Kantar
Looking closely at the Harvest I see that that the field is different indeed. Orange in the original, and "wheat" on the modified. But that wasn't immediately apparent at first.
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Y usted tiene la opción de instalar cámaras ocultas para la seguridad y la vigilancia de su casa o mientras los niños están solos en casa.
There's now Couchbase which does the sharding for you.
Why does there have to be a compromise?

Running a website costs money. Some people also want to make profit, but that's beside the point. Micropayment solutions at present are sadly lacking - especially for international audiences. Don't forget also that you and I are a technical audience; I know at first my mother thought that websites got a split of her ISP bill when she viewed their pages. So advertising bridges a lot of these gaps.

Instead it is a serious question about why some advertising must exist and be tolerated.

I don't believe anyone is saying that you must tolerate advertising :-)
The tobacco industry is targeting teens and pre-teens too.
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Look at the build fingerprint -- it contains the name of the software configuration. Yakju is Google's (ref: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-building/Ld5FoFinN7k...)

To get the build fignerprint, use adb to cat /system/build.prop, or getprop ro.build.fingerprint
I don't see this as a major problem, at least not one limited to Mint. Ubuntu does the same thing (as pointed out in the linked article) and it has been talked about happening to other packages be other packagers too.

It isn't something that you'll ever stop happening, but if the authors of software containing affiliate IDs to embed into links there is at least a way to make it obvious to the user. Make it a configurable option. Keep your own affiliate link hard-coded, but include a spot in the per-install and per-user configuration files where a different affiliate ID can be provided. On first run for a given user, if there is an alternate ID provided in the global configuration give the user the choice of which to use: the author's ID or the packager's ID, and store the choice in the per-user config file. You could even give the user the option to opt-out completely, which would be a nice gesture, and a knowledgeable user could change the ID at a later date by editing the config (or you could provide a box in the options area of any GUI associated with the application).

This way the user knows if the packager has suggested a different ID (if they haven't either just keep quiet and use the default or give the user a "Can we use our affiliate ID please? It funds development of this tool." yes/no option on first start), unless the packager patches around that, which would in my opinion be too far over the shady side of the line. By all means keep your affiliate ID (or the yes option if it is just a yes/no situation) as the default (again, if the package maintainer mess with this rather than just providing an alternate ID to chose from I'd consider that "not cricket"): I can't speak for all users but if I'm asked and it is explained to me exactly what is being sent/tracked and why I will probably say yes, if an affiliate ID is "sneaked in" without me knowing and I find out I'm liable to go to some lengths to block it.
The Blackberry boys party like Ric Flair, divert flight and go to jail.
Google founders offer '100%' funding to save Hangar One (to house their jets)
I'm much faster in vim since I gave up (for the most part) on hjkl (arrow keys are banned for obvious badness). / ? # * combined with f and t are so much faster. The only time I use j/k is 10j/10k for looking through files.

Hence, your question is somewhat misguided ;)
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What's the purpose of this lie?
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Xml-motor v0.0.4 released ~ 2 bugs fixed; an easy non-native xml-parser rubygem
I'm sorry, I can't help but read this as "men cannot have abortions, therefore they should not be expected to have to raise their children."

I am sure that that is not what you are trying to say. Could you maybe explain why it is that man cannot have an equal (or larger) part in raising their children?
I have no complaints about the static analyzer and Instruments; they're both excellent tools. The debugger is stuck in the 80's, it's essentially GDB with a very light GUI rigged on the top of it. It doesn't allow for things like easy exploration of data structures; the complaint by the OP is very legit, you shouldn't have to jump through hoops just to see what's going on in an NSArray. The very fact that NSLog is so common in Objective-C code (and not used for error logging purposes but for debugging purposes) is indicating that it is very difficult get any useful information out of the Xcode debugger. Not to mention the lack of advanced features such as Visual Studio's historical debugger that can be very very helpful.
It's not becoming popular. It's about 1% of users.

The problem is that this 1% aren't evenly distributed -- some websites are inevitably going to have more Adblock users than others, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that some large sites (reddit?) are hitting 20%.

It's trivial to get around.

Being hostile to their users/customers doesn't seem to be working all that well for the music industry, and just adds to a general feeling of resentment. It is not clear that the result would be any different in another content industry.
imap <c-c> <esc>

Now it does.
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According to the twitter conversation linked in a message here (http://twitter.theinfo.org/146020135109533696,) mysid, which is the Verizon GN is built by Google, like yakju (the Google GSM build,) and unlike yakju.+ (which are built by Samsung)
This is probably the best advice in the whole thread. Nothing could be a better investment in yourself then living on your own. I for one didn't realize how much parents take care of for you. Once I moved out on my own I really got a sink or swim feeling, and that was the jolt I needed.
In programs like Photoshop you can preview your design using color blindness filters (View > Proof Setup > Color Blindness).
Another trick is to grayscale your design to check the contrast.
This will help a lot to create a design that is also accessible for colorblind people.

Contrast is the key here. Red for example is a very dark color. That's why they use to print secret documents on red paper. When you would copy such document with a copier it would become completely black.
Note to self: don't start reading RFC's when you're supposed to go to bed to get up for work in time the next morning.
Yes, Dart. It's a Google sponsored language that's shaping up great. http://www.dartlang.org/

Dart goes beyond what CoffeeScript offers. For instance, Dart can use a lot of library code and try to produce a final script that ships only the methods your program uses.

Dart has many parts to it. There's a Dart Editor that uses Eclipse as a foundation but actually strives to be a lightweight editor. The Dart compiler shipped with the Dart Editor is the more stable one in my experience, but it tends to produce scary JavaScript at the moment. If you tell it to produce "optimized" JavaScript it will try harder to make the final script smaller, but it isn't too pretty. The Editor will get some good debugging features soon.

Then there's a new compiler that's still being developed for Dart called Frog. It actually produces much more decent JavaScript code.

And there's a VM for Dart that's useful for testing and developing smaller scripts that can run without the browser. There's a promise that the VM will be integrated with a branch of the WebKit browser component which should help with making use of the VM in a browser environment. Maybe next week we'll get a first version of it. (I speak as a user.)

As they say, the sky is the limit. I'm excited and have written thousands of Dart code, much of which has been converting my JavaScript library code to Dart.
This is unfortunate. It is not the obtrusive ads I find most annoying, those I can filter out mentally with no difficulty. It is the non-obtrusive ads that masquerade as content that I dislike.
He mentions this color vision deficiency simulator app: http://asada.tukusi.ne.jp/cvsimulator/e/index.html

It's interesting to look at real life through color deficient eyes.
Etherington brace ends Tottenham winning streak
Matthew Etherington’s first half two goals gives his team Stroke a leading edge over Tottenham on Dec 11th at Britannia stadium in Stroke-on-Trent. With Etherington’s brace Stroke has ended Tottenham’s 11-match winning streak in the premier league.
Interesting. Did you look at the polling stations at the irregular spikes? What is their number, rather than percentage. The absoulte number (even better, the number of voters in them) would indicate what effect hey had on the overall results. Also what regions are they in? In some very sparsely populated regions, like North Siberia, where "mobile" polling stations are used, the number of voters would be very small, but probably the attendance would be close to 100%, and I would not be surprised if they all voted for United Russia.
Or, this may be due to some other peculiarity of counting what constitutes a polling station (stations abroad, the voting mechanism for people who were travelling on the day of the elections, etc).
Also, please do confirm where the data comes from - is it publicly available?
> We made some bad experience when asking people to make a decision, quite frequently people would ignore the question on the first-run page for one reason or another and then wonder why Adblock Plus "isn't working"

...sooo, instead you default a feature that WILL make people go "it isn't working!!!", really?

I am sorry, this is way too much polit-speak and shows that they have just become too big, too popular. But this should change sooner or later now.
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Yep indiviual offices work so much better Mc Connel says IBM found a 15% increase in productivity.
Chechnya usually votes close to 100% for Putin, simply because a lot of government money is poured in Chechnya, disproportionately more than in any other region of Russia,
I think it really depends on what "this story" is. If the story is that there are local variations on the Galaxy Nexus, well, duh, of course there are! At the very least there will localization differences, regulatory differences (e.g. WiFi channels allowed) and the like, even for a Nexus.

To me, the real question is whether or not anything has changed about the defining attributes of a Nexus phone:

(a) prompt updates
(b) "fastboot oem unlock"

Note: I'd add "no bloatware" but given the controversy over the Verizon apps and having come across a developer who considered Gmail bloat (on an Android phone!), I've given up on having a meaningful discussion about it.
This is no doubt, a great and canonical guide for equity splitting, yet I find it hard to see the link to this case.
This is one of my favorites; until I learnt about b# (:b#) to 'toggle' to the last open buffer. Quickly remapped this to <leader>, (being ,,). Et voila: lightning-uber-fast-buffer-toggling.
8 hiring mistakes you are probably making
What if I never Opened TFU?
Very true, but IMHO That was Reddits own making. Had they put up advertising at the start, they wouldn't be stuck with such an anti-corporate non-marketable audience.

I don't think you can compare to the music industry. Blocking all 'advertising', regardless of whether it's intrusive, useful, etc, is a stupid and naive move by adblock users. Not to mention bad for the free open internet. Thankfully though most people agree that blocking all advertising is not the way forward.
Apple isn't doing any "malicious" things if you're talking about "lock down", app store and so on (the lawsuits are a separate issue).

And Google has done it's share of things; claiming to be for net neutrality but not really being when they saw a way to profit, claiming to pull out of China on "moral grounds" but not actually doing so until they got hacked, the lock-in-raise-price strategy of their for-pay platform, etc. The motto is meaningless, it's only there to sucker people and it's pretty embarrassing that it works.
This sounds like a good change to me.

As someone who never run Adblock for the past two years, I can't see how is this a big deal. IMHO, if what you want is a distraction-free reading, Readability/Reader is the answer. Maybe it's because the kind of sites I often visits, but situation on ads has improved a lot in the past few years.

I've clicked a lot of ads in the past year, some even led me to actually purchase something. Recent ones I can recalled from memory are Parallels Desktop $20 off deal (bought second license for my notebook), GraphicRiver's bundle pack (which led me to know the site and bought a ton more stuff from GR) and few books via Amazon affiliate links.

Apart from privacy concern, I can't see why someone always think ads are evil.
When considering the 'classics'; it's either joining the cult of vim, or entering the church of emacs.

Both have pros and cons; both are in the same everlasting-holy-war and once in a while either will start a new crusade.
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The dirty little secret about "music discovery" is that most people don't spend time discovering music. Sure I do because I really like music a lot. I regularly read Pitchfork and Stereogum and listen to a lot of music. But I'm in the minority on this. 90% of society (America, for me) listen to the radio to learn about new music or occasionally get exposed to new stuff through their friend - but they're certainly not spending hours of their day playing song samples on Stereogum.

I think this is why Pandora is so popular. People can pick something they know, turn the station on and just treat it like the radio. The sad thing is that if they hear something they like on Pandora, all you can do is thumbs up it, which then can be retrieved later by finding a link buried deep in your profile...a place most Pandora users never go.
They are making an impact (with authors) by starting their own book publishing service. I could see Apple as the party with the market position to do something similar with music.
If you have tab bound to something else (c-p here), then c-i will do the same.
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I believe it is immoral to in anyway pay money for anything that even indirectly benefits the members of the RIAA or MPAA. These companies have been subverting our democracy and undermining our civil liberties for decades. They are evil, do not give them money.
well don't set the only non sucky town in a shitty red neck state then - I have no problem with working in the less salubrious areas of the world but I would expect an decent increment and for the company to sort out security and a PPW and an allowance for ammo got to practice at least once a week.

Btw when I worked for a big civil engineer the bonus was up to 200%
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It's not becoming popular. It's about 1% of users

One percent of whose users? That fails to account for the audiences of specific websites. If it's 1% for all browser users, I bet you that tech related websites are seeing much, much larger percentages.
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Experience is the main factor for any service providing company. Movers in Toronto has a great experience of moving the luggage from one place to another. Guarantee of best experience to our customer is also given.
Another explanation is that people working in government bodies in Russia (including state-funded education, healthcare and military institutions) make up some 30 million, so United Russia gets a huge number of votes just from them. Moscow has a large army of bureaucrats, you know.
Does that really apply to most ABP users?
It’s a poorly drawn soapbox
> Saudi Arabia ... Baghdad

Of course it's not all about money. I'll take it from your defensive tone that you live in Austin. I do too. I also moved here from San Francisco.

Austin is a great city, but the main thing that kept me happy is that I was able to keep working my job from San Francisco remotely (until I decided to leave). When I start looking again I highly doubt I will find work that is very interesting or pays very well. Plus, like Garann said, most jobs will come with long, boring commutes unless I want to move out to the suburbs (I don't).

I'd argue that many, many software developers in the bay area already know Austin is not "every other redneck part of Texas". All of my friends and coworkers from SF had either been to Austin and liked it or actively wanted to visit sometime. Most SF software devs are not natives, they're from places like Texas and many I've met would like to get out of the bay area, but what Austin is offering is not making it worthwhile.

I want to keep living here. The money and type of work are the only real things in question... and I think this is true of more people than you think. If the only response Austin wants to give is "well, you don't want to live here enough!" then I wish the city the best of luck retaining and finding talent. I'll keep working remote, or have to move back to the bay area, probably. This sucks because I like the town in all other ways.
Postgres is wonderful and important, but consider before upvoting: What would HN look like if every x.y.z release of every wonderful and important piece of software landed on the front page?
I might be old fashioned, but I prefer science and statistics over anecdotes and political correctness.

I don't have the numbers, but I think women wanting to have children is still a pretty likely thing.

More women studying law could also happen for any number of reasons.
True to some extent, but if the non-executive Chairman still has a board of directors vote, and (without looking at the other directors) assuming the rest of the board isn't strictly Berkshire execs, the setup could work.
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mint supports the MATE desktop (gnome 2.x fork). whilst the diverting of royalties is a quite morally sketch, distribution of MATE takes precedence IMO since it is providing sanity in the world of the unholy mess of train-wreck desktop environments aka gnome 3 & unity.
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