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Largely agreed, but if you'll permit me to get cute, I'd suggest that's there's always been UX. Whether in city design, the evolution of tool usage, invention, product design, etc.

Permission denied. :) Everything but tool usage is in the realm of cultural evolution. For the simplest tools, most all of the error is user error. There's simply not so much functionality in a stick that isn't mostly dependent on user actuation.

our brains have evolved to conceptualize it, albeit intangibly until now.

That's my point. UX flaws that are independent of user error have been largely intangible until now.
Ask HN: Do you live in the UK? North UK, perhaps?
And, most importantly, would you be interested in working with me?

I'm 19 and I live in Liverpool, UK. I work for a pretty big webdev/webapp company as a PHP developer. At heart, I'm a Python developer and if you are too then that's great - but feel free to give me an excuse to learn something new. I've been coding since I was in primary school. My parents were strict with computer access so I would write code on paper in my room then type it up whenever I got the chance. I've always loved code.

When I first became a professional programmer about 2 years ago, it was a dream. I was being paid to do what I wanted to do. But now, as happens, I'm sick of my day job. I want to actually build stuff that either matters or is at least interesting, not just a website for a truck company. I have ideas and if you do too, fantastic. I don't care what technology you want to work with, if it fits the job I'll learn it and we'll use it - I just want to make things.

If you have experience with startups, that's probably a good thing. The only experience I have is reading HN and The Lean Startup. Oh and I ran a sweet smuggling business back in high school ;-)

Interested? Please get in touch. My email is in my profile.
Interesting, but not really what I'm talking about-- I don't mean mocking a person in particular, but the sort of jokes one might tell about men which are funny because all men are child molesters (but it's not offensive because of course I know all men aren't child molesters).
Gameplay, And The Importance Of Intrinsic Motivation
Idea Factory:Insights on Creativity from Bell Labs & Golden Age of Innovation
I'm not so sure it's exactly simple to implement. A quick glance at the code, it seems like they had to implement vector field support from scratch.
How Forensics Claims Facebook Ownership Contract Is 'Forged'
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This Sony High definition model offers Full HD 1080p which suggests our connections settle for 1080p signals and therefore the show can render that signal in Full HD 1080p. the flexibleness of native 1920 x 1080 shows permits any high definition content to be viewed while not the necessity to down convert pictures to the native resolution of the display. Take full advantage of Blu-ray Disc players and PlayStation three systems that may deliver 1080p content. taking part in Movies and games on these systems are unreal with the graphics that your new Sony Bravia offers. Action movies can jump off the screen, whereas taking part in Playstation three your characters can jump off the screen, I even have never seen something adore it.
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It's also neat because you can tell where the mountains are. They're the sections where the wind was pretty slow, and then it speeds up and then slows down again. You can see it over the Rocky Mountains.
Tapose resurrects Courier concept for the iPad, rubs salt in your wounds
Prince already supports the new page floats attributes. A copyright notice in the ACM style works for me with "float: bottom;". The w3 css3 draft [1] has some more examples, also about two column-wide figures.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-gcpm/#page-floats
Chrome could not be written in Go, due to the stop-the-world GC. 200ms GC pauses are completely unacceptable for a web browser.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Slammer
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The jokes I mentioned are funny because it alludes to men being rapists and child molesters. E.g. the joke about me abusing my girlfriend wouldn't be funny if there wasn't the stereotype of men as abusers.
Re Lockyy - the trend of people downvoting and then continuing to argue with someone is annoying. Sometimes the font is so small I literally cannot read what has upset people

is this a technically solvable problem - if you downvote doyou then get your reply link taken away? Is this actually a problem or are downvoters different people to those who keep on arguing?
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Super earths total in the billions - may be hospitable
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Should be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJldn_MmMY
It's pretty impressive to launch a new version the day after Demo Day. I don't think anyone has done that before.
Unfortunately, I got Scrum going at a small, chaotic, mismanaged consulting shop I worked for after using it at my previous job with reasonably positive results. Management loved it because it fed their natural micromanaging attitudes (e.g., employees are basically lazy children, will not work unless coerced, and must observe strict deadlines). I realized all too late that I was contributing to that.

These days they only do the daily stand-up, which is of no value to anyone except my former manager, since people talk directly to the manager and not to each other (this is one of many reasons why managers should not be in stand-ups). It became exactly what you said: a daily mini performance review.

I've since realized that the things that make Scrum successful are the same things that make a team successful, and that you can't necessarily connect a causal line between Scrum and team success if the team would have probably been successful anyway. It basically comes down to the team having a good rapport--regular communication between team members, the ability to seek advice without judgment, and the ability to communicate blocking issues in a timely way to the right people.
http://www.codiqa.com/

This was posted a few days ago. I've been playing with it a bit (after having bookmarked it). It seems pretty cool.
URDU SEX STORIES
Unless they keep their attack up / the DNS root down long enough to make cache timeout, this should not be noticed by any "normal" people.
How is it wasteful? Unlike most novelties, this one is actually useful, no? I have not ordered, but it seems that one can actually make use of the rolls as one would a normal roll.
NINJA EDIT: There is an 'unzoom' button on the left!

I can't figure out how to zoom out either because I don't think they've implemented that functionality. You can also zoom in infinitely...which is strange.
Sounds like a hell of a blog article. I hope you write it.
Microsoft's new Open Sourced Stacks
Here's a screenshot
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3155323/Screenshots/8q28.png
Up until the point you want to return an object from your container, sure. Then you have to return a Comparable and the user has to downcast it into the right object.

Plus, you pay the overhead of boxing.
I built a location service that allows people to play games with people who are nearby. I built a small geo-location service and a messaging server for the games. The servers are tiny and fairly simple. The games themselves are written in Javascript. Good times.

https://github.com/fmstephe/location_server
http://windonthewater.com/ (use http://windonthewater.com/i.htm on your phone)
http://windalert.com/ (iOS app for mobile)

NOAA Point Forecasts: ex: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=20.91&lon=-...
Normally, Minecraft logic requires some time in-game to execute, but last year (IIRC) someone was able to invent "instant" logic gates and transmission wires, by exploiting some unusual interaction between pistons and the block-update rules. They're quite bulky, but they do get the job done of achieving FTL communication and supertask computation ;).

With an optimizing compiler to take advantage of these, it might not be unrealistic to implement Minecraft in Minecraft. The real-time speed would only be limited by the real hardware, not by the Minecraft hardware.
Kronokraktor
Lifestyle self quantification tool I've created is finally in the app store.
It's the first app I have created and I hope it's not the last :)
And some people think mathematicians have no sense of humor!
That could be true, but I believe it to be unlikely in this case.

It's easier to benefit from a false-flag attack by just doing it- denials don't carry as much weight in an emotional, post-attack context. When forewarning is given for a false-flag, you give the accused a chance to back away and say "it's not us" before an event, lodging enough doubt that the size of the crowd with torches and pitchforks isn't as big afterwards... I think this would be counter-productive for the guys staging the false-flag attack.
Yes, when I was setting up a server I eventually had to apply a separate and more draconian set of firewall rules to IP addresses in Russia and China to avoid my logs just filling up with Junk, failed logins , attempts to access shady looking URLs which did not exist and HTTP requests filled with fragments of shell or SQL script.

To be fair I'm sure this only represents a minority of the people in these countries but perhaps it is just that it is more lucrative there.

I imagine it's quite hard to earn a decent living in the west just by breaking into a few servers and sending out a bit of spam, in Russia it probably looks like an attractive get rich quick for anyone with tech skills.
It could have something to do with the indoor air quality (search for 'Sick building syndrome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_building_syndrome). I've worked in an environment where the air quality was lacking, and I always felt horrible after a couple of hours. Do keep in mind that in a packed office, with multiple computers, printers et al the CO2 levels will skyrocket.

Ventilation is important, as is cleanliness and excersise. If the problems persist, look out for a bigger office!
Just pushed a major update ;)
Title is misleading. This is moving ASP .NET MVC framework to open source. ASP .NET itself is part of Windows, and is not licenses under this umbrella.
Nonsense. You would hate Android written in Go, because of the GC pauses. Dalvik has a concurrent garbage collector; Go has a stop-the-world one.
I'm assuming Facebook, Twitter and Myspace are not paying Bell Mobility anything for this. Essentially, Bell is offering it to customers as a carrot to sign up with them. "We don't charge you for social networking, which we know you will use every day!" sounds catchy to a lot of people.
Show HN: JavascriptU, workshops on modern JavaScript patterns & libraries
You're invited to learn with us. From the basics to the advanced, from jQuery to backbone, from the DOM to whatever you choose. Anything is fair game and you call the shots. The course topics alter based on the votes of the attendees. You literally learn what you come here to learn. We're starting in San Diego and encourage others to hold JavascriptU workshops everywhere.
Your version of a datahaven seems flawed.

Granted. I was just thinking of what could be done with off the shelf parts.

I think the scheme can stymie anyone without a wiretapping or a search warrant. Eventually, the law will change to adapt.

How will you manage what addresses they are accessible on?

Steganographic messages posted on darknets over TOR.

Heck, you even made your data trackable down to a few meters by using GSM.

My design goal is to let the authorities eventually shut down the operation, but still deny them any information when they do. I think that's as far as one can practically go with off the shelf hardware.
Installation Of Vendor’s Patch Does Not Always Guarantee Security
Yep, traditional banks. As long as the revenue is stable enough you don't need a personal guarantee from a traditional bank. They can be just as intrusive as other investors and even require thinks like the company take out life insurance on key employees. But it is a real option you may want to look into.

Another option many small companies don't consider is net 30 - 60 day payments from key suppliers. You generally get a grace period after an initial bill and can often work out a deal where you either have say 45 days to pay while still being considered current OR get a discount if you pay within a week of getting a bill.

One company I worked with had the equivalent of a 60k loan from CDW due to the rate they where buying equipment plus the grace period.
Jeff Bezos Finds Apollo 11 Rockets
A social network for domains?
Adobe will begin charging rev share for premium game features
Before we start another huge chain of people saying this is the death of Flash because all the developers will leave the platform due to revenue sharing, please read what the requirements actually are. This will only apply to very specific apps and developers. Unless you are planning to use Unity or UnrealEngine in Flash, this will most likely not apply to you.
But in that case wouldn't you be looking to get the essence, the plain text useful stuff of an HTML document, in which case wouldn't parsing using regular expressionism or something be better than NLP? I haven't really done scraping and parsing of documents/text so I'm not too sure.
HTML is a terrible way to build applications. All these complex approaches have failed miserably on a technological level. Why are Mozilla even bothering to "solve" all these supposed problems? There is nothing new here. You can build anything you want in a simple virtual machine or sandbox. And yet we're going to get all this stupid application-level nonsense as the bottom level. It's like people are eager to repeat the mistakes of operating systems and plugins, except this time the complexity will be in the standards. Give the power back to the programmers.
> I understand, but I'm not convinced that the macros couldn't be somehow compiled down to some more compressed binary representation.

My understanding is that this is what .fmt files are for. I'm not sure where the line is drawn between what goes in a .fmt file and what is packaged as ordinary TeX code; I imagine that, like much else about TeX (which I love), it reflects the machine constraints with which Knuth was faced while writing it (in the late '70's and early '80's).
The Asymptote of DevOps Utopia
very pretty. related: http://windhistory.com
Right now it applies to very specific apps and developers. Tomorrow, if this model shakes out favorably to Adobe, it may not. The frog boils slowly.
We'd love to make a custom floor! We can do any size piece as long as it's tiled by panels. It'd be cheaper to use the standard sizes (so the largest panel to tile would be 16x20) as it helps us conserve material. But we can conceivably make single maps or panels as large as 18x32, which is the size of our laser-cutter.
The Performance Golden Rule: 80-90% of web page load time is in the front-end
I'd agree.

Every time I've quit, it's because I felt I was repeatedly getting the short end of the stick, and management was expecting me to roll over every time I brought such things up.

I quit my first job at 15 1/2. I worked at a Wal-Mart during the summer to buy a computer. I covered 200% more departments than I was hired for. I never took a day off, despite coworkers just not showing up so they could go to the beach. My department manager LOVED me. After my 3 months, I got $0.24 of my $0.25/hour potential raise. I asked the store manager responsible as to why I didn't get the other penny. His answer was utterly asinine. He expected me to go back to work, understanding. Instead, I called my mom and went home, never to return.

The next two jobs I was vastly underpaid. I knew this because vendors, contractors, my own boss and even the office manager told me, quite literally, that I was getting screwed. I was told to man up in response to crappy raises. Instead, I found better jobs that were willing to give me 25-30% more just to walk in their door.

At one place I blew the doors off of all expectations. I qualified for well above the normal bonus. 32%. I was denied because in order to get the bonus I had to have been there since July 1st. My start date? July 3rd. It's not like it wasn't going to be pro-rated, or cut in half. I simply wasn't going to get it. 32% of my salary was a chunk of change large enough to buy a family sedan, cash. Obviously, I made an issue of it. I had vacations denied and had already dealt with that. When a partner said that there was nothing he could do I gave him my curt two-word response and walked out the door... to basically get my lost bonus half as a signing bonus, and the rest over the next year.

Employment is a two-way street, and when you also decide to make it known that my contract is "at will", be advised that I'm aware that I can just not show up anymore, just to make the point. And even though I won't do that, I know I could. At the very least I ask that you demonstrate it, and ensure that I feel appreciated. If you don't, don't be all that surprised when I jump ship at a moment's notice. It's not rocket science -- put your best foot forward, and if you can't, explain clear as day why you can't. Show some humility, and don't expect me to simply sit there and take it, especially in this market. I'm pretty good about making my happiness unknown, and giving organizations months and months to respond before I finally depart. However I've worked with folks that their mentality towards burning bridges is more akin to Aliens: they don't burn bridges -- they nuke them from orbit, just to make sure.

People do business with people they like, and your employees are not exceptions.
The point is that Google isn't self-motivated enough to get an Open-PNaCl-Whatever in shape to be standardizable on their own. They need Moz and Opera to push them, not rebuke them.

I understand Moz's position. I'm just frustrated. Mozilla seems to be so proud to have finally reaching the point that we can run Super Nintendo games in the browser (http://browserquest.mozilla.org/) only 18 years after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBAND Meanwhile, Alchemy and NaCl can deliver a better-than-iPad3 user experience (zero install + sandboxed, etc) comparable to http://infinitybladegame.com/ to the browser today.

When I speak of deeply-optimized native, I'm talking about large volumes of tuned double-precision SSE vs tuned double-precision math in JS. If I were to cheat and do single-precision in SSE, it would be more like 20x. Moz is talking about adding a Matrix4x4 type to JS to make it easier for games to keep up. That seems to me like a patch to the larger problem of SIMD not making sense the context of JS.
Tricorder project
Asus Reveals Embarrassing Sales Stats
> I chose Neo4j because graphs are an elegant way of storing relational data.

As opposed to, say, a Relational DBMS?

What you've done might be very interesting and rewarding to you, but it feels like you wasted three paragraphs in your response with something that falls right into the "just because I could" camp.
No amount of process can fix bad communication.

Sure it can. If I've got a team member who can't be bothered to let people know what he's doing on his own, I can hold a standup every morning to make sure the information gets communicated to the team. If he lies every day about what he does, the longest he can go is one sprint before his work gets verified.

I'm trying to imagine standups on a building site.

I don't know, I think it goes something like this:

"Hey Tom, how far did you guys get on the roofing yesterday?"

"Only about a quarter of the way. Some dipshit ordered the wrong shingles."

"Ok, Bob will you get on that today so Tom and Dick can finish the roofing? How about you Fred, where are you at on the sheetrock?"

"Living room and kitchen are done, I should finish the bedrooms today..."

etc. Pretty much what actually happens at a construction site if the builder is competent.

I don't know what kind of standups you've been in but they sound like they were run by someone with no training or experience in the process.

Good teams communicate while they build, and know where each other are.

How do they communicate? What if Tom doesn't know what Dick's doing and Dick doesn't think to tell him because he doesn't know Tom needs to know? This doesn't magically happen even if everyone is individually a star at what they do.
Follow up and further suggested reading/study over on my blog. http://liberumvir.com/2012/03/28/seeds-article-for-omniti-th...
In the FAQ it says if you wish to apply with multiple ideas use one of the other founders accounts. Maybe you should apply as 'no idea' with one founder and with your idea with another founder. Hopefully PG can clarify if this sounds reasonable.
And that's why I love Hacker News! Thanks for the tips, trun!

I'll make sure I use batching first, and look into the unions technique after that.
Great idea. You can clearly see how the wind patterns are distorted around the Sierra Nevadas and Rockies. While in the East wind patterns are much more smooth.

You could also add color to indicate the temperature of the air.
That should be,"Google's self driving cars can navigate drive through restaurant drive-throughs." Although I am highly impressed by Google's self-driving cars, I can't help but feel a little bit let down that the car did not navigate around tables, make way for waiters, or squeeze through tight spaces.
I think you misunderstood the phrase (which has been removed since?).

I signed up (my web history has been disabled for months) and I only have data about my OSes/emails/locations, nothing about search "Web History No activity found."
Solve My Biggest Problem and I'll Solve Yours
I remember ReplayTV once getting sued because they provided a "commercial skip" button that fast forwarded through commercials automatically. So yes, a third-party may indeed prevent you from fast forwarding due to lawsuits. http://news.cnet.com/ReplayTV-puts-ad-skipping-on-pause/2100...
That's a clearer explanation than I was able to parse from the article - thanks!

It seems to me that the right thing to do is to implement the blanket redirect centrally. If ISPs want to implement something different for their traffic, they are free to do so.

The IPs are probably now no good to anyone anyway - they will be in too many blacklists.
I can't help but think that must have tasted terrible!
I agree with this.

My problem is that I have a big problem sacrificing my free time for my regular paycheck while the boss makes potentially millions.
New, easier-to-update Flash designed to snuff out malware attacks
Are TWSS jokes considered offensive now? If so I'm going to have to go to work with tape on my mouth because usually I just can't turn it off!
The converse is true as well. If life is not found in an environment that is hospitable to it, it dramatically reduces the odds that life exists anywhere else.