skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you use it you'll see why breadcrumbs are inferior. Breadcrumbs don't give you a sense of place. Breadcrumbs aren't natural. It sounds like a subtle thing, but once you use it you'll see the difference. Also, sheets have a much larger click target which makes them a lot easier and faster to use.
Apple fairly routinely lets themselves be exceptions to rules for their own platform. Lion is distributed via the Mac App Store, and I'd put money on them not allowing Ubuntu or Windows to be distributed via the Mac App Store in a similar fashion[1].

1: future anti-trust cases or congressional testimonies nonwithstanding
No, sorry that was GB and Russia that did that during WWI
I'm quite sure they used to use google in the past

> Why can't DDG just cut their losses and invest in building their own index?

That's far from trivial task.. Scraping and using other peoples results is easy, building and scaling a huge database like search index is one of the hardest problems you can find.
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This is cool, but the light isn't nearly powerful enough. I have a CREE-powered flashlight that I've been using for the past 4 years or so. I think it cost about $60, and it runs on a single AA for a couple of weeks when I run it in flashing mode. I have a velcro strap that makes it easy to put on / remove. It will inevitably get stolen when I forget to take it off one day, but at that point I will just buy another (the new CREE LEDs are even more powerful).

I got my taillight off of eBay for a few bucks, and I don't really care if that gets stolen.
Disable the HTTPS-Everywhere ruleset.
That would be one discussion. The original topic and any comments about that topic.
The only purpose of breadcrumbs is to provide a sense of place. It literally tells you where you are and how you got there. And where you can easily navigate back to.

In terms of being natural, they definitely don't map to a physical analogy like your sheets do. But that's a good thing to me.

edit: I agree with the click target benefit. Although I think you could do some useful things design wise with breadcrumbs to achieve a lot of what you guys did with sheets.
Basecamp Next's speed comes from the combination of an aggressively cacheable design and HTML 5 pushState.
I assumed he was gesturing at the creation/destruction discord inherent in sex/war with war being the referent for obscene. Of course, a full account of sex more than kisses and pleasantries, it also involves competition.
Bump was a huge winner at SXSW two years ago. I think this release will help with a strong comeback. It's still a pain exchanging information.
(replying here since jason's comment is too deep to reply to)

Thanks, that clarifies things perfectly.
So does this imply touchescreens with the iOS Gaming Center to come?
I had a big long post written up about crippling depression, and how it really can stop a person from functioning in life.

Instead, I'll just post and call you a fucking idiot.
> That's exactly it though! Gruber thinks he's on an select list of writers and journalists. Instead, I believe he's an item on the Apple marketing checklist.

You can have a writer on a marketing checklist; quality writing is important for marketing to certain demographics.
Show HN: Web app to send email notifications when a Dropbox file has changed
Drawing a star causes the video to appear.
I wouldn't bet on it. At least not before imprisonment, torture etc...

Being a Canadian citizen might bring more international attention.. but when you're born in Iran, have Social Security number and are required to travel to Iran with your Iranian Passport and not your Canadian passport.. they will do whatever they want.
Hey HN, a friend (current business partner as well) of mine built this. I thought it was cool, so I decided to pass it along.

The main use case is when you're away from your computer or don't see the desktop notifications, you can still know if a file was modified. Ideal for small collaboration of files on shared folders.
Curious to hear what you think once you use it. Looking at something and using it are two very different things.
Hey, Apple Here's why I am not buying more iPads
TL;DR:

Data Plans and Carrier Tethering.

Data Plans: Too expensive and unfair. Should be like DSL.

Carrier Tethering: I want to buy an iPad, not a life-long hardware dependency to a carrier.

Here's the long version:

We have one iPad 2, two iPhone 4's, two iPhone 3GS's and three iPod Touch's (and a bunch of Mac stuff). I'd like to buy iPads for the kids. Three of them. Ain't doing it. Why?

Data plans are really unfair. Why should I pay for separate data plans? Why can't I buy a family plan of some sort that is based on bandwidth used or some other metric. First of all, most of our devices are operating out of WiFi most of the time. Which means that the carrier is charging me not to consume bandwidth. And, in fact, I am already paying the same carrier (AT&T) for my DSL connectivity! Double charging for the same bytes shuffling about?

If my family had four iPads we'd have to spend a minimum of $100 per month on connectivity. Again, most of the time we are all on WiFi. But, at times, we are not. And, in general terms, only one or two devices would be away from WiFi at any given time. Yet, we have to pay to not consumer carrier bandwidth.

You could easily find yourself spending hundreds of dollars a month only because you have multiple devices. If DSL where priced this way most homes would have to pay several times more what they pay today as it isn't uncommon to find multiple devices using the connection at all times.

You'd probably sell more devices if data plans were closer to the way DSL is priced: Charge me a fixed amount per month for a given SLA, no matter how many devices my family owns.

Secondly, there's the issue of carrier tethering. Stop it! Please! I want to buy an iPad or iPhone. That's what I am buying. I couldn't care less who the carrier is as long as the service level is good. And, I should be able to instantly switch to another carrier if the one I am with stops servicing me well. I should not have to spend hundreds of dollars to buy the same device with a different RF section so that I can switch carriers.

Anyhow, as I said, I am not buying more devices because of at least these reasons. I would imagine there are lots of other folks who are on the same boat.
There is no strict dictionary definition of an "encyclopedia." It's a broad category which includes works which have original research, which aren't organized alphabetically (or even with specific 'articles'), which are written by experts or by non-experts, and so on.

Nothing in what I said was meant to suggest changing much less gutting Wikipedia. It was to say that the concept of an encyclopedia is very broad, and includes both Wikipedia and encyclopedias with policies which are directly counter to some of Wikipedia's policies.
Good Gigaom article about downtown Vegas and the startups there today in Gigaom http://gigaom.com/2012/02/16/an-inside-look-at-the-high-tech...
Good point. Maybe the best thing then is to add a rule for "img" or maybe ".fixed-size" with "box-sizing: content-box" right after after the "*" rule.
"Depressed people are found to be more rational than the people who feel successful."

You know how I can tell you don't have depression?
Reminds me of the GDrive story[1]. Basically, Google killed a Dropbox competitor project 4 years ago because "files are so 1990". Fast forward from where they thought the death of files was imminent and they're now preparing to launch Google Drive[2] again.

Files are more popular and profitable than ever. You have companies like Dropbox and Box.net making serious money. Yes, I can see that we may one day not need to expose the concept of filesystems to an end user but I think it will be a very very long time (like generations) unless there is some revolutionary new computing concept besides the ones we have today.

[1] http://googlesystem.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/how-google-docs-...
[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/9071936/Google-...
Gruber was clearly not the only person briefed in this way. A cursory glance at other tech news outlets show that many reporters were given the same treatment.

Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/16/apple-os-x-mountain-lion-...

PC Mag: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400311,00.asp

Tech Crunch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/os-x-mountain-lion/

Time: http://techland.time.com/2012/02/16/apples-os-x-10-8-mountai...

USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/story/2012...

Cnet: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-57378751-248/apple-mac-os-...

Jim Dalrymple: http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/02/16/first-look-os-x-mounta...

Slashgear: http://www.slashgear.com/meet-apple-os-x-mountain-lion-16213...

The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/16/2801047/mac-os-x-10-8-moun...

Macworld: http://www.macworld.com/article/165407/2012/02/hands_on_with...
Or copy the letter from here (which I think may be getting updated with additional emails):

http://peoplewithoutnation.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/maryam-m...
Apple would likely revoke the certificate for the developer of a DVD ripper, simply to avoid the liability.
It's available; see https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/django/. This is in "ready to merge" status, i.e. it's technically ready to the point we want to merge it into Django proper. I hope to do so soon, possibly as soon as next month at the PyCon sprints.

However we decided not to merge this in for 1.4 for a couple of reasons:

1. As you might imagine, it's a big patch, and potentially destabilizing. Although it's in a good state now, it go there fairly late in the 1.4 cycle. If we'd merged it there wouldn't have been enough time to be sure we didn't break anything for 2.X users. So we held off the merge to make sure that 1.4 was as stable as possible.

2. The approach Vinay took (and the one we're sticking with) is a single-source approach. That is, a single source tree to support both Py2 and Py3, no 2to3 translation needed. The difficulty of this approach is directly proportional to how far back in the 2.X line you want to go. We promised that Django 1.4 would support Python 2.5, but single-source including 2.5 is a lot harder (and makes MUCH uglier code) than single-source for 2.6+. So we made the call to make the Py3 support depend on dropping support for 2.5, which we'll do for Django 1.5.

So, all in all, time timing wasn't right for Py3 support in 1.4, but it is right for Django 1.5. Which is why I expect to see this branch merged shortly after the final 1.4 release.
Justifies the need for technology education for people making the laws and giving ruling decisions that effect the lives of people. If the guy who made the cms for the site is given a death sentence then why not the people who built the web server and thus all the way up the stack ...
Then again its a "dick-tatorship" ...
The MacBook Wheel: http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary...
"Teenagers aren't going to go on making careers out of tagging photos and checking into places."

Exactly. No human will do this, computers will do for us in an automatic way, using search and programming.

We will ask the computer:

"Show me my 2004 photos in chronological order, and the computer will do."

What is the problem?
Slight depression may have tended to keep our ancestors quietly enduring (not fixing) problems rather than getting into harm's way, but like anxiety attacks and cytokine storms, it can become a pointless, debilitating overreaction to a situation that doesn't warrant it.
The (oftentimes sublimated) drive to procreate is one of the most powerful drivers of all human society and action. Perhaps even THE "primus motor" behind it all.

In Prometheus Rising RAW mentions that the reason monks take a vow of chastity is because it instantly frees them from one of the major hamster-wheels of the human condition.

Of course, I'm not planning to become a monk :) But food for thought...
Your description of depression makes it sound like, if only depressed people would stop taking medication, they would naturally find the "actual problem" (which you assume exists), solve it, and then no longer be depressed.

I don't know how much experience you've had with actual clinical depression, but as far as I've seen, those people are not "more rational", and leaving them to their own devices makes things worse, not better.
That's nice and all, except that I can't add my phone number to my Messages account, so anyone with a mobile devise can only send messages to my phone. Unless they sent a "text" to my email address, which I'm sure people do all the time.
What is the best way to approach this obfuscated code:

http://www.asciiflow.com/asciiflow/asciiflow.nocache.js

I feel like there are better deobfuscation tactics than those mentioned here:

http://handlers.sans.org/dwesemann/decode/index.html
In that sense, a company that makes any commodity, like toilet paper or aluminum cans, is "almost" an investment bank.
OS X tip: Open the containing folder for a running app
Press the command key and click on a running app. Opens the containing folder and highlights the app.
Hadoop for the Enterprise Architect
How do you edit images to display as circles using CSS?
Apple Sold More iOS Devices in 2011 Than All Macs Sold in 28 Years
Couldn't agree more. Part of my initial reaction is also just me rebelling against the trend of using physical world analogy's to solve modern UI problems. Although at least the sheets are actually useful unlike Apple's skeuomorph UIs (see: iCal).
Lodsys v2.0: Intellectual Ventures sues AT&T, T-Mo and Sprint over MMS patents
EU Court of Justice: SOPA-like legislation is verboten in Europe [pdf]
Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars
I worked on a project recently where the previous designer did this and it was absolutely maddening. Switching the box model can be useful sometimes, but it makes no sense to me why you would do this globally.
I think it's more your comment that is useless, not Gruber's reporting. It's evident from your comment that you don't like Gruber, so you excerpted a couple lines from the long article he wrote and attacked them, glossing over all the other details he did report on.

It's cool with me if you don't like Gruber, but we don't really need to hear about it. Instead, just stop reading Gruber. It's particularly useless to read your ad hominem attacks against both Gruber AND his readers in the last sentence you posted.

Gruber TOLD us what is "different" now; what's different, clearly, is that journalists are being given briefings like this to spread the word in advance about OS changes. That's quite obvious from his entire article. You're just being obtuse. As for why Siri isn't in this release, well, one assumes it's cause Apple isn't done with it. It's not Gruber's job, nor is it interesting to readers, to post his guesses about things which are NOT in the new release; what's more interesting is what IS there.
Yeah. I fiercely admire Apple for having the balls to fix what was obviously backwards but heavily entrenched in the minds of the public. They almost always do the Right Thing.
That's the big joke man... modern day 'politicians' do not seek to create jobs. They seek control and power.

It's up to nerds like us to design, develop and innovate systems that decentralize not only the internet - but politics as well.
The US government in no way has a consistent policy. It's a $4 trillion beast, filled with millions of actors, and countless departments all running their show the way they see it.

More often than not, one hand is not talking to the other. They constantly leave each other out of the loop.

One department wants freedom in the middle east, the other prefers secular military dictatorships under the guise of stability. And so on and so forth.

One of the biggest myths about the US Govt. is that it acts with any form of cohesion internally. In reality, you might as well look at it more like a hundred micro states, all with budgets the size of a nation like Bulgaria (eg - $20 billion).
I bet there is a significant portion of inexperienced users who are annoyed by those and then fill in their emails just to get it out of the way.
Maybe. I hope not. All the filmmakers/editors I know still use a previous version of Final Cut, many of them really like some of the features of Final Cut X (syncing is apparently dead easy, nearly automagic), and remain hopeful that Apple will pull it together and address their needs in future updates.

I don't know if you have used/use Final Cut 6/7, but it is a phenomenally ugly, often poor performing, generally unintuitive piece of software. I can see where the motivation for a full reboot would stem from.

Now, a reboot that involves consolidating formerly modular panes into a single window when the target market typically works on two, three or more displays is just dumb. A reboot that was, as a practical matter, 0% backwards-compatible may have been necessary, but if it could have been avoided, it should have been. But buried under all the mistakes, I think there was some genuine good intent (yes, I know I'm grasping at straws).

I primarily work with music, and you don't need to be as involved as I am or attend as many shows as I do to know that for any artist/band that uses a laptop on stage, the MacBook Pro is the de facto standard. The same applies to Mac Pros in studios (although those boxes may be going the way of the Dodo as well).

None of this necessarily makes a difference to Apple; the new features in Mountain Lion which focus on Chinese web portals and social networks serve as a reminder that the emerging Chinese middle class is likely as important a segment to Apple as any, and the number of potential customers in that group already dwarfs the ranks of every DJ, producer, sound engineer, and electronic musician on earth.

Still, it would be a great disappointment to me and many others if Apple were to abandon such a loyal group of customers who helped them reach this point.
> I feel equally guilty because my country (and others) overthrew their democratic government in the 70s

I think that was 1953.
"As it stands today a Chrome user is no more valuable to Google than an IE user (well, apart from google being default search provider)"

I'm not sure your caveat is needed -- on a new installation the first thing Chrome does is ask you what search provider you want to use, you're just as free to pick Bing as Google.
This looks like a great redesign overall. I'm still not entirely sold on how sheets are any better than breadcrumbs, other than being a different UX implementation of the same concept. But I'll adopt a wait-and-see attitude. Playing around with it is definitely needed for something like this.

The one thing I will say though: every link better be "openable" in a new tab. While I love that you're helping me focus on one thing on the page, we're multitasking beasts at heart. If I can't Cmd-Click anything in that interface I'm going to be quite disappointed. But if you're using HTML5's pushState I'm assuming you have that already taken care of ;)
New Features in Xcode 4.3
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Oh I am sure that there is no rescue in the works. That is kind why I wanted to convince you to go do it.
Fun with Ruby Block Parameters
The Messages beta has significantly impacted my productivity in one day. I no longer have to look down at my phone to text while I'm at my desk and instead can chat with my SO all day while I work, and the them it appears like a text message.
Stopping the entity from functioning is exactly what it is supposed to do. It's selected into the genome because that entity gets help without hi tech medications. I've been very depressed, and never took drugs, I picked myself up and fixed my damn problem. I don't like the quickness that doctors will screw with the machinary of the mind with drugs. Its like a caveman working to fix a harrier jet with his club.
Oh, I don't even remember that I have that installed. Yeah, that was it.
The problem being, of course, that other sites are using FB for logins. Granted, this is a problem only if you consent to it.
Guess my use of it is in the stat. :) I'm using may be 50% DDG and 50% Google. Still training my muscle memory on the hot key.

DDG's privacy policy is superb. Its search result is pretty good with non of the bloats. I still remember how Google Preview was infuriatingly distracting that I had to install add-on to get rid of it completely.
Rest assured, you can cmd-click everything!
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The future is a RESTful Drupal
http://webdesignerwall.com/demo/css3-image-styles/
Pretend I'm Apple answering these questions for a moment...

> Chrome

"Safari."

> Photoshop/Adobe CS

"Creatives? Did you see what we did to Final Cut? Have you noticed how little we talk about the Mac Pro anymore?"

> Fusion/Parallels

> Text Editors

> FTP Clients

"We're in the consumer products business, not the 'tools for nerds' business. Ask an XServe customer if you want more information."

> Microsoft Office

"We could care less if we sell boring-ass business software into enterprises."

> Dropbox

"iCloud."
Is this just me or did somebody else think they overpresent some of the features? Take 3:20, "I can just click the Todo's link and a sheet pops over the project" - yeah sure that's cool, but that's just really what I expected, it would have been ridiculous not to have a list view of all todos! It gets even better at 3:42 - "now if I can want to dive into a specific to do item, I can just click on that to do item and look at the item, and go back to the project. No need to go to the list first" - again, isn't that just an obvious principle you'd expect any decently designed web app to follow?
Yes, 37signals has nice designs and the new design looks sleek. The sheets are also a cool idea and catch up looks useful, but this ridiculous overemphasizing of completely normal "features" makes them look a bit stuck up to me. The feature set is also still pretty sparse for $49/month but that is an entirely different topic (and apparently hasn't really bothered users too much in the past)
So his message is basically that Microsoft users are creepy beta orbiters who have to send songs to girls on the Internet, while Mac fans are suave lotharios who get to enjoy actual physical proximity with girls instead? Good marketing there...

(We all know what Unix people are up to: arcane invocations to fsck daemons to gain access to remote mounting privileges shudder).
Not completely accurate. First, the author's reasoning is more interesting than that specific stack. Second, you can opt out at any time: So replace "have to eat [...]" with "may eat".
Gruber was clearly not the only person briefed in this way

I gave up after reading a handful of those. Which of those people did Apple brief "in this way"?

Anyone could have written those articles just from the copywriting on https://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html
Anatomy of an FS_SPECS (FreeSWITCH) Feature Set
Mobile Morning Coffee - Apple locks down address book, LightSquared is dead
Or when you need to restart the machine because of a low-level software update... or because something has gone wrong with the software or the hardware.
Hey Startups 'Minimum Viable Product' Includes Privacy Controls for Users
Microsoft creates 'mini internet' to test Internet Explorer 20,000 times/day
I would be curious to hear opinions from people from the Valley.
If you live in central Europe, I suggest going for quark instead (or in addition to) cottage cheese.