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I hear a lot of complaining about not being enough bike lanes. I get that. we need more. But I absolutely do not understand why cyclists that do have a bike lane still choose to ride right on the white line that separates their lane from mine. You have a good 3-4 feet all to your self... use it! Oh... and stop at traffic lights and stop signs like everyone else.
I've read some other comments claiming that they can cover football stadium sized venues. If that's true, I think that suggests laser illumination.
I have a lot of time for the concept behind Metro- that we should move beyond trying to represent real-world concepts in the digital space, and instead should make a "digital native" experience. It remains to be seen how it works out, but just playing with the Win8 preview, the UI is considerably better than Apple's "leather-bound" address book.
He's not exactly "not saying anything". The top link on DF ("Why wasn't I consulted", a 16-month old piece) could be interpreted as a reply.

Follow the attribution link and read: "Apropos of nothing. Ahem."
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The Internet Society data for the SIG is removed, and one of the things I'd love to see is this SIG or a similar one working with the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) to engage engineers on the design and issues discussions of SDS.
Just to add LinkedIn is trading at 617 P/E. https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:LNKD
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Hypercritical (by 5by5) is actually very good.

Amazingly, you argue that people should broaden their horizons (i.e. don't be closeminded) and yet you blindly dismiss IT podcasts completely as back-dated garbage. Discarding whole categories of self-expression/content as crap is the very definition of close-mindedness. Oh, the irony.

Maybe people listen to IT podcasts because they like to. It needs no further justification.
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I wrote a response to the Forbes article about my Tesla comic
I really like the Mac app. Yes, it can be a little buggy and get in to some weird states, but when it works, I think it is one of the best ways to use source control.

I've been doing a lot of Windows development lately and I've missed a good git tool. I'm very happy about this.
They're certainly not human readable, but I want to know who these people are that are reading the date times being passed around by two pieces of software.

Also, why are people passing around date times for specific timezones? Converting a UTC timestamp to local time is trivial in every language I've used. Converting a local time to another local time isn't.

It sounds to me like a problem that doesn't exist, and a solution that causes more problems. I'll be sticking with unix timestamps thank you very much.
A part of me wants to cry, yet I was an early user of WinCVS back in the day, due to workplace requirements. I know I will reluctantly be an early adopter of this, as well, since GitHub is the cat's meow :)
(1) Can't that be accounted for in some manner, especially when you have so much data? Typically when I design tests at work, it is not unusual to add many rules and exceptions to make sure the data is as accurate as possible.

(2) This is where it becomes tricky. You have to understand that these decisions are made at a very local level by small teams with specific goals(for example, "bump revenue from sidebar links by x%"). Also, it is unrealistic to suggest that a company the size of google can only work on super big items when at Google's volume, small improvements can add up and result in hundreds of millions in additional revenue.

(3) Not a fan of the new gmail but using their blue shade experiment as supporting evidence for why their design sucks isn't very powerful.
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A fair price, truthfully, would have been somewhere between four and five dollars, given the number of shares they were issuing.
I find it interesting that both native apps (for Windows and Mac) try hard to emulate the look and feel of their respective operating system.

One thing that is great about github.com and other websites is that it feels the same across multiple environments. Furthermore web browsers try to emulate their own style not that of the host operating system. If I use chrome or firefox in mac or windows they feel basically the same.

I wonder if more applications will go in the direction of trying to match the feel of the host operating system over the feel of there application as a whole.
That is tough to hear. I've never met Mike Moritz but he has had a notable impact on my life. I read an interview once where he said that he likes to invest in people under 30. When I heard that in my mid-20s I made it a point to move to silicon valley as soon as I could.

Whenever people would ask why I had this irrational sense of urgency of leaving Chicago (where I was doing my first startup) I would say "Ever heard of this guy Mike Moritz? He said they don't like to invest people over 30 and i'm already 26!" Of course it was me just rationalizing but nonetheless it's the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear anything about Mike. Like Napoleon said, "Everything on earth is soon forgotten, except the opinion we leave imprinted on history"
A curious value proposition. Is it for encrypted communications between people who know about encryption? Why not then just use encrypted email through pre-established trust mechanisms?

Or is it for non-technical users who are paranoid about Facebook privacy, having ready something about it once? In which case, wouldn't some kind of encrypted privacy overlay for Facebook be more helpful?

It just seems painfully, painfully niche. I can't see how it could overcome both the traction problem that all social networks face (i.e., reaching critical mass - people are only on social networks because other people are there), as well as convincing people that this is something they need (existing social networks will try hard to convince people they do not need anything like this, because their privacy is already safe). Seems a very hard sell to me.
Stock splits are an interesting discussion. Other than psychological differences, a split really only increase liquidity and encourage more small investors but it also encourages more short term speculation. Berkshire is happy to continue to cater to the highest class of long term investors with the added benefit of being noted as the highest priced stock in the NYSE. Although, they did recently do a large split of their class B stock to allow more trading and to be included in the S&P 500.
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> I'd be interested to know if energy calculations include the entire production chain,

Indeed. My layman's gut feel is that for conservation of energy reasons, if the last step gives out energy (as opposed to requiring is as is usually the case for CO2-consuming reactions, according to the article) then maybe the energy is put in earlier?
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IMO, this experiment would have worked on LinkedIn. The targeted ads I see when I'm in there are way applicable to the "professional me" than FB or Google ads. LinkedIn just makes more sense for a B2B marketing campaign. I'm sure the numbers (of users) are all smaller, but the user characteristics that lead to getting shown an ad are better discriminators in the B2B case.
What is all this "Human Readable" nonsense. Who the hell is reading all these date times?

If two pieces of software are passing dates around, use a UNIX, UTC timestamp. If a human wants to read it they're probably a programmer and know how to parse a timestamp. If they're not a programmer, then you shouldn't be showing them unformatted date times anyway.
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I'm not saying it should be hosted by the tech equivalent of early morning DJs, but I don't think from what I heard they went into enough depth planning the show. Basically it was Dan Benjamin dragging Gruber over topics until Gruber gets to a point he wants to make, and then Gruber speaks coherently and intelligently for a few minutes, and then there's an awkward pause again and it's back to him being gruff and standoffish and Dan chiming in with what he thinks.

There was so much dead air that I found it really actively hard to listen to. There's no natural flow to the conversation for my ears to acclimate to–a natural groove to fall into when you listen–you cannot passively consume it. You have to be actively listening all the time.

Which is a shame because Hivelogic was one of my favourite weblogs back in the day, and I actually admire Gruber.
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"As the stock fell, there was a long list of questions -- ranging from whether the underwriters priced the shares too high..."

I understand there needs to be a fine line between leaving money on the table and having a pop at the open. But who is the IPO process supposed to really benefit? If it's Facebook, then thumbs up for pricing it just right. If it's the underwriters and insiders, then thumbs up for pricing it just right.
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"To build a great A, one has to step back and think about what’s most important, try to come up with the most simple and shortest path to get there, build, analyze what works and why(not), measure, test, rinse, and repeat. Sounds a lot like B doesn’t it?"

Sounds a lot like anything you can iteratively improve. Could also be applied to marketing, cold-call-sales, making a great coffee, ...
I'd be interested in learning how they implemented the UI - it looks like it's native to Windows 8 but runs just as well on Windows 7. Would be interested to hear what toolkit they used.
So far, the UX has been impressive for a tool that has historically not run very well on Windows.

Edit: They've mentioned the toolkits used at the bottom of the page. Apparently this is written in C#.
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I'm just used to seeing it phrased "at $x the p/e would be...". Not a big deal, but HN has dialed the financial illiteracy up to 11 recently.
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It is the major cause of Obesity
It make our bones weak melt our teeth
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They say that you learn more in your failures than you do in your successes. I think that’s just what people say when they fail.
Fair enough, so you would go with the 37signals philosophy - that failure is overrated? I've always looked at failure as the fastest path to long term success. An investment. A humbling, yet necessary tool for startup people to learn and move quickly. I might even argue that I sometimes seek it out.
The Oatmeal wrote a response to the Forbes article here --> http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_response
While waving your hand in front of a monitor looks pretty cool, its definitely not going to work well for most work or extended use. Also, I think the reason touch-based devices have caught on so well is that we like the tactile feedback of dragging our finger across a defined plane.

I'd be interested to see what you could do if you projected an image onto a work surface to make that more interactive. Seems like it would be easier to draw or manipulate 2D things on a plane rather than trying to wave your hand in 3D space. (Image Manipulation, Graphic Editing, Maps, etc)
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> ... deploying Node is much easier. If you want to be really quick and deploy to the cloud, take AWS and you are done in 13 steps:

Those 13 steps were about compiling node, not about serving node.

Serving node is more complex. The real steps in hosting node:

1. Step up node environment. (explained in the "13 steps blog entry")
2. Make sure your node app handles exceptions and doesn't just die when something goes wrong (aka: "don't use the built-in one line http start server line")
3. Install monit/munin/god/upstart/whatever-else to restart your node servers if they die
4. Set up cluster or node.js's built-in new cluster API
5. Set up a load balancer, just in case you have performance issues in your app and you end up doing bigger work than you think you do, or have more traffic than you planned for
6. Set up database, potentially worrying about scaling issues there
7. Deployment and version rollback system, and dealing with the servers when you deploy code (need to restart them?).
8. DDOS defense.

I can see why you would want an automated PaaS to take care of all these things for you.

I see two target markets for node.js:

1. "Hey, you know Javascript, now you can write server side code too!"
2. "Hey, server side guy, hate how hard it is to do async programming in Ruby/Python (because the majority of the libraries are synchronous?) Javascript can be used on the server and doesn't have that synchronous baggage!"

The second target market certainly knows about all these 8 things I listed, but the first might want/need a managed host.
I attended RIT, which is also home to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. As "captdeaf" (who posted elsewhere in the thread) can probably attest, some deaf students are really bad at written English. The explanation I was given by a deaf guy I knew on IRC was that they were over-exposed to ASL and basically had English as an under-emphasized second language. I think he also pointed out some things about ASL that make English harder, but I don't remember them well enough to reliably repeat here--perhaps someone who is deaf can help me out?
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I am talking about his last response to a Forbes article criticizing his Telsa/Edison comic. It was a genuine, thought provoking response to an article that was discussed here on hn.
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or perhaps the author spent last week and the weekend talking up FB stock so that when he sold it on Monday morning there were some buyers, meaning he would not be losing about $5 a share right from the off. Of course the tanking stock (12% as of this comment) probably helped his decison to sell. Perhaps other buyers who were looking for a quick flip on day one or week one realised there was no carpet bagging to be doen and their immediate sell off resulted in the 12% drop. Either way it was overvalued and is now making the long process toward working out what the market rate should be.
I didn't think about it that way.
Let's have a constructive comment thread. Instead conveying love or hate for it, how about listing the cases it's good and bad for.

good

* Fruit Ninja - made for single finger input, short gameplay

* Pinching and zooming maps - good because it's usually a short activity

* CAD camera interactions - good for periodic strange rotation needs or showing a client that doesn't understand the normal movement hotkeys

* Periodic writing with pencil tool

bad

* Shooters - can't turn player around, gameplay too long.

* Longterm writing or drawing - too tiring
This is true, but in my experience, the best UX people are even more excellent at figuring out what is NOT important and getting rid of it (or not investing any time in those things at all).

I believe that's what the OP implied when he stated most simple and shortest path to get there, simplifying the UX/UI is based on deduction, archetype development and enough experience/knowledge to start off with a barebones wireframe instead of a bloated mess. Loosely basing the method of delivering an effective UX on Occam's Razor, a philosophy that states if you base your decision on the path with the fewest assumptions and thereby offers the simplest explanation of the effect, that's usually the best route to take.

The most simple path is one that only relies on what's important to your goals and skips all the bloated "data" and "ideas" that would hurt the UX.
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Yeah it is a very hard sell, the only thing I can offer is 5GB of storage with encryption.
It is for people who are concerned about privacy, but don't have the tech knowhow or who just want something that works simply, like going to any other website.
Thanks for checking it out and giving me some feedback.
> No they didn't. They would have if they had dumped all their shares the first day, which they did not.

I'm talking about the money Facebook made off the IPO shares, not the net worth of Facebook employees.

> Zuck's net worth may have dropped 10% this morning (depending on how many shares he sold yesterday).

Changing the IPO price wouldn't have changed that. If they'd opened at $15 and popped up to $35, Zuckerberg's net worth would still be the same as it was when it opened at $38 and dropped to $35... but Facebook itself would've gotten much less money out of the IPO.
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And the Github.com blog post - https://github.com/blog/1127-github-for-windows
I think we should share the original post whenever possible (Already done here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4003597). TNW has nothing whatsoever to add to the original discussion, and it has been proven true so many times lately.
I read both "What wasn't I consulted?" and "Behind a Press Release" as being very directed at this situation, neither of which were classy ways for Gruber to handle it, just snide allusions.

Dan's short message was pure class.
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The UI was implemented using WPF4 and Blend. We also use a framework called Caliburn Micro as well as a framework I wrote called ReactiveUI which orchestrates connecting the UI to data via binding.
An ex-girlfriend of mine moved to the US from Romania at the age of ten without any knowledge of English. As an adult she speaks completely fluent English with no hint of an accent. She claims that she learned English by watching TV.

Though of course, she was also living in a country where most people speak English, so I'm sure that must have helped. I'll have to ask her how long it was before she started school again, and how well she understood English by that point.
wysihtml5 is a decent editor. It's fairly lightweight in comparison to the other editors. I feel that its approach to DOM changes makes it easier to create cross-browser consistency. However, I feel the event system could really use some work and I find myself working against the editor to add new features. I would prefer if the framework made it easier to add new features rather than having to change the core to get the desired result. (and maybe I just need to spend more time with it.)

Oh, and I should add that the built-in parser isn't very flexible and requires lengthy configuration.
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1) Lip-reading is hard. In a group conversation, how many of the people speaking are actually looking at you? How do you follow a back-and-forth? What if someone interrupts? Who is it? People vary in lip-reading skill. I'm on the lower end. If someone says "Lipreading sucks," and you get 50% of it, you get either "Lipread" or "ing sucks," neither of which tell you anything. In longer sentences, you can sometimes guess, but I seem to be terrible at it?

2) My speech has never been a problem as my work understands me quite well. I perceived I had bigger things to deal with, like working on understanding what people say and getting up-to-date on stuff happening at work.

3) I have many Deaf friends back in college who I try to hang out with. I'm still learning sign language from them, and they've all been very helpful and supportive. Until I become proficient enough to actually participate in signed conversations, though, I still don't feel as if I belong.

By the way, me being more proactive is something I'm also working hard on :-) It's all a process.
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Thank you!

No, I did't have to write native extensions yet.
I plan to start another website with "advanced features" (like image manipulation, build of archives, etc), but I think I will try RoR to focus on development rather than on experiments.
Possibly true, except that parsing dates and times should almost always be done with strptime() or a similar library function.
Great!

For someone that has one foot in both Worlds (UNIX & Windows) this is a welcome addition to my toolset.
Are you serious? I ask this out of genuine ignorance, knowing only a little of what has gone on in the Windows world the last ~4 years. This is what Windows 8 apps are supposed to look like?
I hope this is the beginning of the end of TFS.
A year old article about "internet people" having some sense of entitlement about other's work? Hardly a coincidence.

It's Gruber's answer to the HN thread & tweets of last week.
I agree. I recently listened to Macbreak Weekly because Gruber was a guest on it, but it was so traditional and produced that I actually didn't like the format. I prefer 5by5 podcasts, especially Hypercritical (as others have mentioned).
I'm interested to see how the community responds to their choice of ClickOnce as the deployment method.

I use ClickOnce for several of my applications, and I'd say the users who dislike it the most have the highest technical aptitude (which, I'd guess, is a large part of GitHub's user base).
I would hope so. Being a good OS citizen is nothing but a good thing. Fewer surprises, fewer quirks, more intuitive to the user (if done right), etc.

It's nice to know GitHub made the effort.
We really need to escape the tyranny of the browser "design mode," with all its quirks. These RTEs are really lipstick on a pig, sadly.

Does anyone know of a JavaScript RTE that does all the text layout and formatting itself using pure JS?
"I made $100,000 with Facebook ads in 3 months". Would you like to hear how? (True story by the way.) But like you said, people are reluctant to share successes, by fear of being copied.
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I certainly never felt that way about it.

Windows XP, on the other hand, felt "dated and cheesy" out of the box. (Perhaps not dated, at the time, but cheesy certainly. It always felt like a fisher-price UI unless you used the brushed-metal green/silver theme.)
This is very interesting.

Will this tool be able to work with non-github git repositories?
I thought LIDAR was prohibitively expensive technology for use in consumer applications, but I could be wrong. I remember reading about it when Radiohead did their "House of Cards" music video with LIDAR tech.
I have difficulty believing such studies, especially since I could copy & paste files in Windows Explorer, using the mouse right-button shortcuts, ever since my parents got me a computer in 1995. I also do not live in the Valley or in the US for that matter, and having non-technical friends down here is the norm, rather than the exception. I have never seen one that could not cut/copy/paste files in Windows Explorer.

The only thing I noticed is that some people don't understand the difference between "cut" and "copy", or why the mouse drag&drop sometimes produces the former, while other times it produces the later. But these are separate things entirely that can't be solved by ribbon shortcuts.
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