skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally think skeuomorphism used well can be a good thing, but it has to be used well. Does the leather texture on Lion's iCal harm the app? IMO, no (though the specific choice of texture and color could be argued with), and I think textures/colors like this can give an app a "face", something to visually distinguish it, and that's important. But the stitching underneath it? It's superfluous, takes up extra space, and adds significant distraction and visual noise. Glad to see it's gone in Mountain Lion.

Likewise, I thought iBooks on iPad looked great at first glance, but over time the extra visuals got annoying and cluttery. I was very happy to see them add Full Screen Mode.
PhysOrg appears to have been banned as a site to submit from by Reddit. ScienceDaily is just a press release recycling service, nothing more. Users here on HN think there are better sites to submit from.

Comments about PhysOrg:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3077869

"Yes Physorg definitely has some of the worst articles on the internet."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3198249

"Straight from the European Space Agency, cutting out the physorg blogspam:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1116/ (press release),

http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1116a/ (video),

http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/releases/scien... (paper).

"PhysOrg: just say no."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3611888

"The physorg article summary is wrong, I think."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108857

"Phys.org is vacuous and often flat wrong."

Comments about ScienceDaily:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3992206

"Blogspam.

"Original article (to which ScienceDaily has added precisely nothing):

http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/abundance-of-rare-dn...

"Underlying paper in Science (paywalled):

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/05/16/science.1...

"Brief writeup from Nature discussing this paper and a couple of others on similar topics:

http://www.nature.com/news/humans-riddled-with-rare-genetic-...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108603

"Everything I've ever seen on HN -- I don't know about Reddit -- from ScienceDaily has been a cut-and-paste copy of something else available from nearer the original source. In some cases ScienceDaily's copy is distinctly worse than the original because it lacks relevant links, enlightening pictures, etc.

" . . . . if you find something there and feel like sharing it, it's pretty much always best to take ten seconds to find the original source and submit that instead of ScienceDaily."

Comments about both PhysOrg and ScienceDaily:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3689185

"Why hasn't sciencedaily.com or physorg been banned from HN yet?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3875529

"Original source:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hinode/news/pole-asymmetry...

"What ScienceDaily has added to this: (1) They've removed one of the figures. (2) They've removed links to the Hinode and SOHO websites. (3) They've added lots of largely irrelevant links of their own, all of course to their own site(s).

"Please, everyone: stop linking to ScienceDaily and PhysOrg."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3867361

"Those sources don't have RSS feeds, and ScienceDaily and PhysOrg have a bad habit of not linking to such things."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4083766

"Added value in PhysOrg article: zero.

"Please, everyone, stop submitting links from PhysOrg and ScienceDaily. I have never ever ever seen anything on those sites that isn't either (1) bullshit or (2) a recycled press release with zero (or often negative) added value. (Sometimes it's both at once.) It only takes ten seconds' googling to find the original source."
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I don't want to jump on this bandwagon of "fanboy!" chanting, but it does exasperate me a little some times how little-known Android's "intents" feature is. It is genuinely fantastic, and underused even by Android developers themselves- I never stop being frustrated that I can't make a shortcut directly to Instagram's camera screen.

iOS really has no equivalent, beyond these hard-coded intents for Facebook and Twitter. It's a real shame.
Why?

Isn't the whole point that people can submit what they find of interest and what they believe will interest others? All it takes to "ban" them is to not vote them up.
Android is no problem because of the Dalvik byte code engine but Apple is a whole other matter. Apple has over 600,000 apps in the App Store that are all coded for ARM. Moving to a new instruction set architecture is going to problematic.

If Intel had taken low power seriously back in the days of the Newton and the StrongARM (which Intel actually owned for a while) they might have won the Apple business instead of ARM back in 2007 but now it is probably too late.

Apple has switched CPU architectures before but never with the number of applications that they are currently dealing with in the App Store.
Not sure about the date of publication, but Rob developed these ideas in the early 80s, his Sam editor (that Ken Thompson still uses) is based on it.
While I agree that Go is suitable for his examples, it's not suitable for hard real-time. As far as I know, its GC does not have bounded latencies. There are GCs that do have bounded latencies (see the Metronome project for Java's GC: http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view_project.php?id=174) which then allow them to be used for hard real-time systems.
What kind of "beginner"? If you mean someone who has never programmed before, Go is much simpler to learn than C and makes a lot more sense.

If you mean someone that is a programmer and hasn't used go before, I can tell you I went from "never having seen Go before" to "reasonably proficient" inside of two months. Further, my Go code is easier to read and maintain than anything I've done in other languages. (I came largely from Java, so maybe that's not saying much.)

I think that for beginners of either kind, the documentation and community support are just as important as the language itself. I mean, look at something like JavaScript, which is picked up by "beginners" all the time and is, frankly, obtuse as hell. Go has great docs and a really friendly and helpful community.
OK. Show me a CAPTCHA that is easy for humans to read, and very difficult for computers to read.
I know something that is not two-factor authentication
I'm not sure after reading it again .. might be a case of:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law
Did I miss something in this article? How is the app store being _slightly_ prettier "going to change everything?"

There weren't any real game changers in the iOS announcement but if I had to pick one it would be passbook.
Did hell freeze over?

I've been waiting for an update to the Linux Skype client for years. Years!

Of course, if I have to install a ton of i386 packages or have big ass ads all over the place I think it's not worth the effort.

Is it too much to ask to give paying customers access to just a lib that can be used in other GUIs? :(
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Thanks for the shout out, it's always great to hear from a happy user!

You are correct on the business model; right now, it's promotional fees from developers plus device manufacturer licensing fees.

You are also correct that we focus on a different use case than Kyte. It seems to me they're more focused on location and telephony (very worthwhile, btw!), whereas we are all about making it for kids to find and play great apps.
What support does SoundCloud's new single-page interface have for IE8 and IE9? Does the new interface use the HTML5 History API to enable state/page transitions? If so, what fallback technique was used for non-HTML5 browsers? Do these browsers get a single-page interface enabled via URL fragment identifiers (#'s), or do they fall back to a multi-page interface where page transitions are handled as they traditionally have been on the web?

Is there any data on how much SoundCloud's transition to a single-page interface decreased latency during navigation relative to the traditional page-loading model?

Apologies if these questions have obvious answers. I tried to sign up for the beta but the party was full, and I'm not familiar with SoundCloud's interface.
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Must have!
No, the Linux ecosystem is not capable. Look at the open source Radeon and Noveau drivers; they're way behind their proprietary counterparts. Also, Imagination refuses to publish PowerVR documentation and it's not clear that they'd even allow open source developers to access the docs under NDA.
Is it actually cheaper to produce videos explaining things than to provide a few screenshots with texts? I don't have flash installed on my browser anymore, too lazy to switch to Chrome just to watch some random video.
Users complain when Facebook changes a font size, or a button color. They complain no matter what, and Facebook has gotten quite good at just letting them whine away for a week or two until they give up and shut up.
Moreover, going off the discussion on the KytePhone app yesterday, Android offers the chance of hardening your device more thoroughly against curious little fingers.

That, and the lower price-point (particularly if you by an off-contract phone, ~AndroidTouch, on ebay), is a clear win for developing kids stuff on Android.
He's picking a bunch of problems C is really good at and then roughly, fairly mechanically translating to Go.

I don't think he's trolling, but I do think he's playing to C's strengths and Go's weaknesses, possibly by accident.
Based on other posts at the site I would have to agree.
If you've been through the YC interview process, we would love to get your views on this.
What process would you recommend? The process was pretty open market. Anyone was able to apply for a gTLD. Running a registry is not cheap or simple. If the price for application was lower, every Tom Dick and Harry would have been applying, and then they'd have to wade through thousands of applications per tld. So who do you propose is allocated and gets to runs the ".author" tld?
Why is that a bad thing? If these outlets are spouting off lies/bad science then having this behaviour noted is a good thing, indeed it's a great thing IMO.
They should make something where both players battle with games on each other's t-shirts!
I would think that there would be few problems porting your source from ARM to x86. Heck, if you use the iOS simulator, it compiles to x86! Maybe a Rosetta like shim could be used for apps where the authors do not update them.
This will elevate (lower?) him to Jack Thompson status quickly.
Looks just like a moving circle on me, hardly pacman. (Chrome 19, Windows 7)
I'd like to see the death / an alternative to DNS for resolving names to IP. Its become a little too political + an easy target for snooping/censorship (yes, techy people can get around blocks but that's not the point).

In terms of web, most people search rather than go to an address, and if they know an address at all it's google.com.

Domains are now more for machines than people, so perhaps a different way of resolving / finding information would be better - something peer to peer, distributed and self repairing.

I speculated a little about this when the whole SOPA thing kicked off: http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2012/01/10/dns-is-a-symptom-of...
Excellent examples of gaming t-shirts
If you are the gamer, then you probably have a lot of things that are relevant to the games. I must say that are not so many original gaming t-shirts. In the continuation of a collection of examples really interesting t-shirts that have the prints from scenes of different games.
Since the point of the audio version is not to be hit with lawsuits under the ADA - perhaps it should just be a little icon of a lawyer?
The other replies to this comment seem to imply that this is unlikely, but I must say that [while not good for science], it'd be kinda cool in a spooky way for Voyager to just suddenly disappear to us as it passed the boundary.
The space outside is not quiet. We can pick up all sorts of frequencies from outer space, and the spectra seems to have no gaps.

It just that we can't seem to find any intelligent message buried in heaps of information that's falling on Earth.
There's screenshots on the app store.
"Space douche-wagons" is now officially in my vocabulary. Thank you.
Introducing the all new Kippt
> you need a larger storage

Why?

> [you need] a wireless keyboard/mouse

Why?

You are presuming a certain use case here. I don't think there is a market for this product as a portable, general-purpose computing device. I do think there are a number of other use cases, though:

- Limited functionality, interactive kiosk/infowall type systems
- Remote logging and processing systems, particularly for complex sensors
- Embedded industrial or robotics systems
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I think nux6 means running Go programs without an OS, directly "on the metal". There was a proof of concept early on, but it was abandoned.
Well, chances are it'll get even harder now, not easier since they'll need to add further complexity to differentiate humans from bots.
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Sorry, we are in the process of adding new screenshots to the website. View the app on the App Store for a much more detailed description and screenshots of it being used in a variety of situations.
It's a bad thing - effectively it gives a few search companies control over the entire namespace. ie. if it's not searchable, it doesn't exist.
I do enjoy watching the lawyer who drafted the letter squirm. Hopefully other lawyers will take note.
This is really already the case for some people. When I watch my mom use the web, she'll type "gmail" into google rather than typing "gmail.com".
Buddy you haven't seen anything yet.
Disclaimer: I'm a software guy @ Intel.

I feel that a lot of sw folks have a lack of imagination when it comes to hw. A lot of very smart people here work on making an efficient, fast front-end. There's lots of research in this area. To my eyes, the implementations are stunning.

To say that a variable-length CISC instruction set can never be as fast or effecient as ARM is sort-of like saying that an interpreted language can never be as fast as C. And we all know how that goes over on HN.
> This is something that is missing from Backbone
> and it's something that always comes up

... not so much missing as agnostic. You're quite right that subviews always exist in complex applications, but they're best handled in different ways depending on your templating / HTML-generation library of choice, and your app's architecture. Backbone doesn't want to force you to necessarily have a complete static hierarchy of View objects from the root DOM element down to the bottom ... many applications don't need or benefit from it. That said, if you've got a piece of functionality that you think would help with subviews in most Backbone projects, it would make for a great ticket or pull request.

> You would bind the events on the list (just once,
> for all items) and find a way to know on which
> item the event was triggered.

Yep, and Backbone encourages that kind of delegation by default at the view level ... mostly for reasons of statelessness rather than performance. It's awfully nice to know that all of your events are always bound and ready on any given view, regardless of whether or not that view has any HTML yet, or has even been inserted into the DOM yet.

That said, binding to individual elements isn't problematic unless you're truly doing too much of it. 20 songs each with their own bound callbacks would be fine, but 2,000 songs wouldn't be. When to delegate for performance follows the same reasoning as it would in a plain 'ol jQuery app, and is touched on briefly in the FAQ: http://backbonejs.org/#FAQ-tim-toady

For what it's worth, here's an example of a Backbone view that's using delegation and a single event listener as a callback for all of the individual blocks in the charts: http://blog.documentcloud.org/blog/2011/10/entity-charts/
He is definitely serious.

I do think that all semicolons really shouldn't be used. The only time I ever use semicolons is for error checking in Go.
Can't believe I had to scroll down the entire page to see this. It's so obvious!
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Their testing and high success rates on the public Google reCaptcha test probably tipped off a Google employee internally.
I really can't fathom why that is. The wiki mentions something about "bloat". I can hardly imagine that properly using multiple users would bloat much of anything!
The rpm package has a bug: It has a bunch of translation files that conflict with the older skype version.

So remove the old version of skype first before installing the new one.
Well the speculation I mentioned did say something to the effect of "almost all". The possibility it sparked in my mind was that outer space is very very noisy and we only receive a very small sample of radio frequencies which happen to penetrate the barrier.
Why is 1 not a good idea?

Tragedy of the commons. The space gets crowded. Let users decide which icons are there, and then it becomes a pain for the users to manage.

having the option to customise the dock doesn't mean you have to. (It is a neutral feature, at worst.)

Neutral at best. If you're savvy enough to manage such a dock, you don't need it. If you're not, then it will cause bewilderment. (Seriously, I've had students who can't double click.)
Windows RT’s steep price will help Microsoft's tablets succeed
Don't forget third-world countries that largely rely on XP. IIRC as of about a year ago, a double-digit percentage of asia was still on XP.
Also, Ghost in the Shell.
From this I get
1. A server side developer (C#/Java/PHP/Whatever) trying to be a HTML designer
2. A n00b HTML designer that's not been around long enough to know the different IE box models and workarounds needed.

I'd guess 2. You can get most layouts to work in IE7, and with a lot of effort, IE6 even. Agree on the security aspect, but bear in mind that the majority of home users probably have Windows Auto Updates on so they should be running IE8 (I know IE7 was a forced update for XP users, not sure if IE8 is...) So that means either a user has turned off auto updates, OR mroe likely it is a business with policies in place.

There's nothing on that lexity site (at least from the demo) that couldn't be coded to work in IE7 with an conditional css include.
I don't think it would take much to recompile existing apps but there are so many apps, just approving them would take Apple years.

Then think of the all the apps that are tuned to take maximum advantage of the platform. That code may work but it doesn't mean it will work optimally.

Intel is going to have to do a lot better than "we win some, lose some" on battery and performance to convince Apple to switch.
Nope, can't say I've needed to do any 2D pattern matching on the UNIX command line, ever. Sure back in age of dinosaurs when command line was being used for 2D graphics this may have been useful, but ... we have actual GUI interfaces to do that now.
> Apple has switched CPU architectures before but never with the number of applications that they are currently dealing with in the App Store.

All that would require is Apple to say that all ARM iOS apps don't work on x86 version of iOS. It's not like Apple currently even guarantees an App from the store will work between iOS versions. The need to update apps for an architecture change would simply be pushed to the developers, just like it is now for iOS versions.
I discovered Kippt through the front page of Bootstrap (it's one of the main thumbnails - I would say the best looking thumbnail - under "Built With Bootstrap"). Has that been a good source of users for you guys? Or not at all?
>"Submitting your own articles once to a place like HN or reddit is pretty shady in the first place"

I just disagree. These sites operate pretty well as martkets. If your stuff sucks, I likely won't stumble on it.

>"since that's not the intent of these sites"

Ironic, since we have a "Show HN" topic here, the sole purpose of which is to do what you're saying shouldn't be done.

>"The intent of these sites is sharing stuff you found, not stuff you created."

I want to read good content; I don't care who submits it. I'd rather risk people submitting their own crap sometimes than never getting a chance to read something good that nobody "found".

Spamming is one thing, and obnoxious. But I find it a tad hypocritical to accept A/B testing colours on a button to squeeze another buck from someone, but reject someone A/B testing content to find out what combination of words in the title creates the most page views. It's the same business.
Arch changes wouldn't be a problem for Apple; besides having done it before, they don't have an issue with forcing devs to make major changes if it makes the platform better.

However, it's unlikely Apple would switch to x86 unless Intel was willing to license the spec (Intel would much rather make the chips); as ARM licensing allows them near-full control over their chipset vs being dependent on a third party.
isn't it possible lots of people do it without ever talking about it?

I hope it's the case.
Look at how many billable hours were involved in .xxx. Even non-controversial TLDs will generate mountains of legal paperwork.
Backbone.js views done right
Clicking from the linked article to get to the download page, the download is still for 2.2 :-/ Anyone got a direct link to the 4.0 page?

ED: The English version is 2.2, the American version is 4.0...

For non-americans, use the american link: http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/l...
If I live in a soundproof house, no noise in no noise out. But when I walk out onto the highway, there's a lot of noise. The speculation was that outer space is a transportation network and high-speed communications hub, but we're being left out by not knowing how to access the stream of noise. I'd really love to find that article again.
I don't think there's any evidence of that and we have plenty of radio telescopes listening to deep space.

But there are significant problems picking up 'intelligent' signals like the ones being transmitted by Voyager because of the 'free space attenuation' of the radio signal caused by the spreading of the radio signal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_path_loss

The attenuation of radio signals in this way is one of the reasons why it will be difficult for any other civilisations to pick up our radio signals. There were some calculations done by the SETI folks on how far out our common Earth radio signals would be detectable (such as FM radio or broadcast TV) using a very large radio telescope and the answer was that they wouldn't make it our of the solar system.
It has 512MB of memory and a 4GB flash drive. That's enterprise level compared to what many people around here first started using Linux on.
Or you could just look at the $ value of your time and realize it's cheaper to just buy CAPTCHAs. There are services that provide labor to unemployed persons in lesser developed countries. Excuse the flamebait, I just want to alert y'all to the possibility.
Do you have link to the $120 Cedar Trail system you are speaking of?
Looking forward to your next post Renat. Cloud changes everything for open source for sure. The concept of "freedom" changes completely.
The distortion argument is weak; transparency solves it as well as opacity does.
That was a hack, not some sort of prank to punish you from importing a lib.

Importing libs is on the todo list though!
This is exactly right; although not all "proper" theaters have two projectors. Where I work we have one and a "long play" tower which allows us to play the whole film with one projector.

Many still do run changeover systems, though.

(In case you're interested, I work in an indie cinema in the UK, and we're really scared about the costs of changing to digital, which we will need to do in the next 12 months)
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