skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a ton of good blogs, articles and collections out there, this quora post covers some good ones:

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-influential-UX-design...

Also, create a bookmarks folder (or even just a regular folder on your Desktop) just for collecting UX/UI designs that jump out or appeal to you. Either bookmark them, or take a screenshot, and use good, descriptive tags (e.g "Search Results", "Dashboard", etc). Then block out a small amount of time each week(I usually spend like a half hour or so over Sunday morning coffee) to review them; ask yourself why you like the designs/patterns, what appeals to you, why its effective, how could it be more effective etc. You'll start to recognize patterns and develop a sharper eye for effective UX/UI design throughout the web.

Finally, accept and embrace the idea that good UX/UI design is very much an iterative process, it's OK (and actually pretty common) to not get it perfect the first time around.
Palestinian tech startups offer hope to struggling economy
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I stay focused with pretty much anything in my ears. Sometimes I even listen to very thoughtful discussions while coding, like an interview with the maker of The Wire for instance :) It won't work for most people, but it does for me.

With this said, music is the most effective, and I am currently rocking it with the lastest album by Passion Pit called Gossamer (available on Spotify US).
170M actives is not that bad at in my opinion, but 170M out of 500+M is quite strange. And yet, we have to remember twitter is much more suitable for brands and celebrities than it is for the "normal"-less-known people
In a lawsuit filed against spam tool providers in april; twitter claimed it had 140 million active users.
140 million claim is right on page 1.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/88206156/Twitter-lawsuit-to-counte...
You've got a point there. I'm not saying we shouldn't use robots extensively, just reacting to the idea that "humans don't belong in space, it's too expensive".
First insider trading lawsuit filed against Zynga after executives cash out
The sad thing is that this highlights one of the biggest problems with dealing with big technology firms (Google/Apple/Facebook/PayPal). You need to gain substantial media coverage before you get anyone from the firm willing to address your issue.
I usually listen to Post Rock (e.g. Explosions in the sky) when I write code. It is mostly (99%) instrumental and that helps me avoid voices of any kind. Also, invest in really good headphones/earphones. That helps block out sound of any kind.
Ayurvedic thailam gets scientific validation
More like this http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-guy-who-worked-for-money
You can also view it on Wikimedia Commons as a slideshow, via an experimental interface: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Fran...

Commons is a bit messy, since it started with a focus on archiving and sorting images more than displaying them (except insofar as they're displayed in Wikipedia articles), so it's not surprising that third-party sites are re-presenting its content. And since its point is to collect freely licensed content and promote reuse, there's nothing wrong with that. But there's a bit more focus recently on making it directly browsable.

Slideshow gadget info: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-GallerySlidesh...
Only 175M of 500M? The people are Techcrunch are so out of touch with reality. That's more than 20% of users. If 20% of all your users are active, you should be commended.
One could simply modify the known file in any way (say, appending garbage) to change the decryption key, ciphertext, and storage key.
That seems to be a departure somewhat from the very doctrinal "you have to use all free software or it doesn't matter" (my paraphrasing). By this logic, Ubuntu is good, running GNU/Linux on whatever not-completely-free platform you have is good etc. etc. It's very pragmatic and I agree fully - I just didn't expect RMS to be so pragmatic.
Check out http://dribbble.com/ for inspiration on graphic design.

Widely adopted UI Patterns for solving UX Problems:
http://ui-patterns.com/patterns

search on slideshare for UX / Usability presentations for Devs
Another anecdote, this is mine:

I made a change in my lifestyle and I can work faster and for about three times the hours I was working before that.

My lifestyle change is not related to caffeine, I stopped eating lots of carbs and now I follow a keto diet.

YMMV, etc.
I'm not exactly sure what they're saying here other than "Android games can run on our Android console".
Or games that require closed-source servers where the server software isn't provided to customers, but only to select hosting partners.
We're doing fine, thank you.
I think it is important to distinguish UX from UI design. UI Design is a facet of UX, but actual user experience design delves deeper and is multi-faceted.

This diagram[1] shows the facets of UX exceptionally well. In the same vein, this article[2] defines UX accurately.

[1] http://uxdesign.com/assets/Elements-of-User-Experience.pdf

[2] http://uxdesign.com/ux-defined
Even if you were wilfully ignorant?
What strikes me as significant about the predictions, is, what has dictated our development is the kinds of materials we can produce, not necessarily the ideas behind what you can build from those materials. I realise the illustrations are flights of fantasy from the imagination.

However I wonder if you focus on the materials of the future you could make more accurate predictions.

For example carbon nanotubes is a material of the future (I've heard it said we could build a lift to the moon with carbon nanotubes).

Superconductivity, when we can make room temperature superconductive material, well blows the mind to think what you can make with that. Hover cars?

Wireless electricity, not strictly a material, but a game changer none the less.
I've wondered this for a long time..

Facebook is another one I've wondered about. It was common practice for anyone I knew who was playing Zynga games that they'd create second, third, and fourth FB accounts, as you received perks for having friends playing the game along with you.

This wildly skewed those 'accelerated growth' numbers that led to the over evaluation of both FB and ZNGA.

I'm curious, once everything shakes out, if all these companies earning extravagant evaluations on the backs of the number of users they have will be audited, or taken to court for gross negligence, as they 'had it within their capability' to find out if people were creating fake accounts. Of course, that would be incredibly hard to prove, but a lot of people have already, and will continue to lose money on these investments as their practices become more well known.
Its hard to be your own boss
We are about to accomplish most of the dreams they had about air travel. The only thing remaining is free Internet while on plane :) (I know it exists but very uncommon especially in Europe)
She really needs to finish her book, so she can get back to being awesome on the internet.
Here's the non-paraphrased portion (which I should have just copied verbatim beforehand, I suppose):

"If you use something to do jobs in your life, you must be free
to change it today, and then distribute your changed version today
in case others need what you need.

"Art contributes something different to society. You appreciate it.
Modifying art can be a further contribution to art, but it is not
crucial to be able to do that today. If you had to wait 10 years
for the copyright to expire, that would be ok."

So it's more that a program is a tool for work, such as simulating physics, running an AI state machine, animating skeletons, or rendering polygons, while art is just there to look at. You could argue that the game isn't complete without both, and you'd be right, but the art can be swapped out for random pixels and the game will still work whereas the code cannot be swapped with random other code. The functional distinction comes from software being breakable, it's a machine. Art isn't really breakable, it's just ugly (to some people).

If the physics engine of a Free game has a bug, users could fix it themselves and announce their changes in case someone else hits that bug--or even report it to the game maker's public bug tracker with a patch. There's also a factor of urgency involved that I didn't mention in my paraphrasing. If a game is broken, it needs a patch ASAP. If it's just ugly (to some people), that doesn't really need to be fixed right away. Plus if non-commercial modification is allowed, people who find it ugly can release "better" versions (which may be new assets or may be a hack to the game engine that adds new shader programs).

It does seem to get more complicated in the video game world where sometimes the distinction between program and art is blurred. In a hypothetical game with a completely free engine, I'd expect the non-free "art" to consist of base graphics that are manipulated by the engine. The manipulating code is free (and will work for any piece of art fitting the requirements it has, which may be quite restrictive), the input to the engine is not.
Why I have decided to switch from Linux to BSD
Why Box Is Raising $125 Million to Change the Enterprise
Because no one visits their sites in the first place? (With the exception of people who want to make fun of them)
Given that three people posted a link to the same parody video within three minutes of each other, I'm forced to assume that Adam Curtis is a brilliant filmmaker.
That "hairy" stuff is a straightforward use of GCD semaphores to signal when an animation has finished. I just spent 20 minutes reading up on GCD and dispatch_semaphore_wait(). This technique is elegant rather than hairy.
Ask HN: Do we need SMS based authentication?
I'm doing a research on multi-factor authentication methods and how it's used today.

Do you really think SMS based authentication secure your app?
Whether you like to integrate something like to your app in future or have you already integrated?
FDA approves first pills with digestible microchips
There are numerous startups that have been spun off from PSU in the State College area.
The real problem, according to UBS, is that in absence of an acknowledgement they sent extra orders. UBS improperly acted. The first rule when you set up risk limits is to consider both actual position (acknowledged) and theoretical position (assuming all orders are filled). Standard risk controls would have prevented this.
>2. FB may or may not be involved in the ad-bots, but, they will drop their $ contingency on ad-rev for the name and payout these guys to shut them up.

This was predicted.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4313405
Unfortunately it will end up full of kidporn just like Freenet. This says a lot about the present state humanity, and what it says isn't good. Giordano Bruno and the Renaissance alchemists would have killed for a system like this, but the most interesting thing we can think of to do with it is fill it full of pictures of child abuse so people can jack off to them.

It's nasty stuff, too. This is not "merely offensive." Kids are abducted and murdered to make this stuff. In some cases, the act of making it causes bodily harm. (Think of the mechanics of an adult having sex with a six year old.) In parts of the world children are more or less raised for the purpose. It's horrific. Picture someone getting off on photos of war atrocities. This is up there with that, but worse... imagine that the war was held expressly for the purpose of producing the images.

Edit: there is also, of course, rape porn depicting adults being abused horrifically. That isn't any better, and freenets are full of that sort of stuff too.

I'm not saying the technology is bad. I'm saying that it says something very depressing about the users of said technology. It also makes me dubious about running nodes on such networks, since I know that a lot of the material I'll be storing and forwarding is abuse-porn.
Um....no. Intelligent coders understand that there are always limitations placed on them and accept that to produce quality code, they need to understand their environment and code for the end user.
"I honestly love projects like this one, but is the implementation language really worth fragmenting this niche?"

If you honestly love these kind of projects, than I can't understand why
you're asking this question?

It just has to be worth for the guy doing it. Every other view point
considering the usefullness of it or how profitable it would be, is
just killing all the fun and in a way taking away all the meaning.

"Uzbl is in Python and I can't think of any objective reason why Haskell
would be better for a browser."

It's like asking, if there's an objective reason to write an applikation
in Haskell instead of Python.
Here's some stuff to get you started. Wrote this a little while ago:

http://www.jeremytunnell.com/posts/books-on-user-experience-...
Except imperializing half of the world, being a member of G8, a nuclear superpower, and leader in a few major industries.

Sending you kind greetings from the champion country in getting screwed over in the last centuries.
Reading articles like this makes me wonder, is there any "prediction" made by people today for, say, 100 years from now? I wonder how the future people would think about those "predictions" :)

Or, since I want to be alive to share the laugh, any prediction for year 2020-2050 made this year or last year?
Strange. Have you ever been to France?
Nice job Jordan! Would love to get together with yourself and others to see how we can all help each other out.
You may actually want to send multiple orders, which is why pretrade duplicate checks usually assume a fixed window (2 orders of the same price/quantity/side in a 50 msec window)

For example, sending a large order to the market looks different from many smaller orders.
I hope to capture every single one of them, eventually, on this map!

I am debating seeding it with startups without their knowledge. Fortunately, of the 19 who are signed up, every single one has done it themselves (with exception of Gabe from DuckDuckGo, he tweeted me "permission"!)
I was using my phone browser when the site was down. What I noticed was that the "secure" icon was displayed when I tried to connect. However, this may have been an artifact in the address bar from the previous site which was secure - I haven't paid that much attention to how the phone's browser handles slow loads.

The reason it caught my attention was due to the recent https "Ask" threads, and my first thought was perhaps full time https had been implemented. I wouldn't bring it up except that it was unusual and correlated with HN content and the outage, even though it is likely to be a coincidence.
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They're saying "We got social proof from an A-lister"
Fedora 18 to feature the GNOME2 fork MATE
depends on whether investors have put money in assuming 170m or much higher.
Right now this looks very bad, but is nothing beyond poor timing.

Of course the execs who could not cash out in the IPO wanted to sell their shares and be rewarded for going public.

If and when evidence emerges that they knew the business was going off a cliff, then there will be a case.
Multimedia Troubleshooting
UBS was rendered an undue risk when the first order didn't acknowledge. Sending future orders was UBS mistake, despite the eventual performance.
New book Measurement by author of Lockhart's Lament
I'm guessing it'll be tweaked to support a controller? And it's a big-name "Launch Title". Gives some cred.
Try to understand design, and analyze sites and designs you like.

I highly recommend reading David Kadavy's "Design For Hackers": http://designforhackers.com/
But since your throwaway identity has no reputation on the network, it is much harder to find a node willing to carry your data.
China: Lost in translation II
They need to fire the employees who thought investing in Facebook was a good idea in the first place.
"I have no idea who's going to take over things like certification of achievement and certification of course quality"

Grade inflation and diploma mills, both incredibly popular in the brick and mortar .edu community, show "the market" doesn't care about those problems.

My gut level guess is massive gamification. I'm not going to get "a" cert for my coursera quantum computation class, I'll get a "medal" in qubit definition, a medal in inner product calculations, a medal in mastery of the implications of the two slot experiment, etc. So your QC crypto startup wants to hire a dude with minimum 500 medals in physics, minimum 300 medals in quantum physics, minimum 100 medals in quantum cryptography.

From the inside, as a coursera student, what I don't understand is why coursera is so chronologically limited. I must sign up before a certain date, must do homework before a certain date, must this date, must that date. I don't know why, other than they like arbitrary chronological limitations. So its youtube with a wiki and a quiz/survey program... why add a weird scheduling layer on top that doesn't fit the technology/culture of online education?
I got a 500 error on lesson 1 of unit 1, i.e. I made it all of 0% of the way through. :/
The console doesn't exist yet and SquareEnix already is already making FF-remakes for it! I'm happy to see a big name in the gaming business offering some support, but I'm more excited to see some original, thinking-out-of-the-box homebrew games. I want to play the next Cave Story; I've already played FF3 like a bazillion times.
I agree. This is an easy problem, considering FB's resources. Only a logged in FB user can click on ads. Not random crawlers. That alone makes this problem 100 times easier than what Google has to face with invalid clicks. No excuses.
I don't think the target market is looking to play starcraft on these things, but rather just be able to run the full version of applications.

I know having a nice thin device that can run OneNote is what I look for more than anything.

There's nothing better than being able to take endless amounts of handwritten notes, and have them all indexed and searchable without any extra effort.
I don't know how FB currently charges, but if it's a flat rate per click, I'd think a reasonable solution would be make it proportional instead: this user spent 100% of their clicks during time period X on you, whereas that one spent only %10.

Then you would price based on the share of the user's attention you got, not on individual clicks.

Seems a lot simpler than retroactively invalidating clicks from users who pass some arbitrary threshold.
errr. just because it's static, and a pdf, doesn't mean you want it cached on amazons servers.

sensitive business documents and such.
Air travel was seen as a maybe but the first successful powered flight has not yet happened

By 1900 there had been several successful experimental airships, and in 1900 the Luftschiff Zeppelin LZ1 launched. It would be another three years before the Wright Flyer flew though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship#Early_pioneers
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I was also going to make a similar comment, along the lines of "OMG, this is Steampunk porn!" or something, so that I don't think it's sad :)

On a more serious note, those images also reminded me of Hayao Miyazaki's work (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=5...)
Can't argue with your assessment but the top parent of our thread talks about Azure and Heroku where both platform support fully whatever their bread-and-butter (Azure with .NET and Heroku with Rails), meanwhile GAE does not.
Can we add other people's companies/accelerators etc...? I could probably populate a lot of the Pittsburgh area quickly, but it looks like you have an approval process.
Assuming that there are no weaknesses in SHA256, you'd have to calculate a set of 4.8x10^35 hashes to have a one in a million chance of seeing at least one collision in that set[1].

If you could calculate (and store!) a trillion trillion (10^24) hashes per second, that would take about 15000 years. Needless to say, nobody has ever found a SHA256 collision.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack
A better way to discover new youtube videos
I agree that's a lot, but we need to bear in mind that active can have a lot of definitions. From the article:

"active in this sense means the number of accounts that were modified over a three-month period, including changes of avatar, subscribing to a new follower or tweeting"

Three months is a long time for activity - monthly / weekly / daily active user metrics are more common. Also, it (apparently) isn't counting a visit as activity, just these actions. That just makes this a weird metric to benchmark against.
Bias is not a binary proposition. There are degrees of bias. More is, generally, considered to be worse.

"But they're all doing it too!" is not a defence against charges of bias in any case.
You said a view can only have one model, I was saying that within a view "model" is just a connivence helper function, you can reference as many models as you like, but give them their own name
You are completely right, Marcuse is very modest in portraying himself as an influential figure, and I didn't want to sound as if arguing that he had no influence. He had an influence, but he was in NO way involved in organizing any of the actions the students took. To quote him, he was a "father figure" to them, rather than a leader.

To answer your second point, I don't want to argue that Adam Curtis makes bad movies, quite the contrary. But his intellectual contributions are very questionable. There is a reason why contrarian people like Noam Chomsky are widely respected, and there is a reason why people like Adam Curtis are not. To quote Carl Sagan: 'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.'. And Curtis seems to provide the former without the latter.
Not everyone has a product to sell. Some people are affiliates or make money through ads.In which case, PPC is a form of arbitrage for them. Others have an offline product, and only run ads to increase brand awareness of that product. So pay per actions makes little sense, since they can't track them.

There are also some niches where there's more ROI in PPC.
a hammer is not a paperweight
Moving Beyond Direct Conversions (1): Adapt to the Purchase Cycle
If you're complaining about something free, you are not the target market.

Also, mobile apps and websites designed for mobile devices are two separate things entirely.
Teenager Arrested In England For Criticizing Olympic Athlete On Twitter
As you can in other fields, you can learn a lot by studying what the leaders do, understanding it, and imitating it.

You've got to get away from people who say "We can't do it the way Google or Amazon does it because they're big and they can afford it." You've got to think instead "Google and Amazon are big because they did things right."

You've still got to think about (small) scale though.

Back around 2000 I was interested in user management and authentication and back then the main challenge across the industry was conversion rate, and it was very good to imitate what Yahoo did.

A few years later, Yahoo's signup and login process had become quite complicated because they had a notoriously foolish user base that was vulnerable to fraud and phishing. If you imitated them you'd quadruple your development costs, kill your conversion rate, and get your email box flooded from people who forgot their passwords.

(Funny, Yahoo started to go downhill around they time they did this!)

So look at the leaders and think about what they do critically. Don't listen to voices that say "we can't afford it" -- you can't afford to have employees that are lazy like that or for that matter, to be working for a project manager who won't do what it takes for your projects to succeed.
If you post an email chain, please, post the messages in timestamp order.

It's a little annoying when you need to scroll all the way down to identify the beginning of the discussion, and then have to read from bottom to top to see the exchange as it unfolds.