skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
99% of UI/UX design is people copying each other. The remaining 1% advance the narrative. Becoming great at UI/UX means becoming the 1%, but there's no shame in just being good.
To give a counterpoint, I not only know maybe a half dozen people who voluntarily use Outlook; I know at least two who voluntarily use Outlook on a Mac.

I think the fact that few developers enjoy using Outlook is causing you to overgeneralize. Most people who don't care about things like whether their email is in mbox format, or who don't want to learn how to use Mutt or notmuch, find Outlook surprisingly easy to use and powerful.

I poked around on outlook.com, and I don't see anything particularly innovative, other than it looks and works nearly exactly like Outlook 2013. But I wouldn't assume its lack of anything novel dooms it to obscurity, either. Outlook, unlike Notes, is a positive brand-name in some circles. I wouldn't be surprised to see this get a relatively large amount of traction right off the bat.
Finally, someone gets rid of the "Compose" button.
Captchas everywhere are starting to get impossible for humans. MS should have solved this problem better though, they have the talent.
I know a good few people that willingly use Outlook, including ones who use it for their Gmail account. Its actually pretty good at being e-mail PLUS calendar PLUS tasks, and so on. Google still haven't got that yet IMO, by virtue of "Google Calendar" and "Google Mail" being two separate products.
I've tried about a dozen of them; no luck so far in getting it right.
Get a good quality MIDI controller and use the plethora of awesome physical modelling software to generate any sounds you like.
ZynSubAddFX is my personal favourite.
I can see this scenario working - local event, targeted adverts, non-commodity product.

The concern with FB (and other social platform advertising) is around 'intent' and whether you can viably sell commodity product to visitors not actively searching for the commodity product in the way you can by advertising on a search platform - and whether the pricing on a social platform should reflect a different quality of referral.
coming from the guy who sells a Facebook analytics service
I'm not evaluating it from the release notes--I was rereading them to make sure I wasn't just missing some major improvements I just hadn't noticed while using it. I don't think it's well designed at all, and it's certainly not polished at all, which is an important part of good design.

I suspect that most of the major changes have been on the back end, and that it is a substantially better platform to develop on. Unfortunately, that doesn't affect me at all as a user. I want to be able to run terminals and a web browser and not much else (and I don't think I'm alone in that), and so making Gnome a better environment to develop against is unlikely to make my life any better in the foreseeable future.
Accidentally downvoted you; I thought people on HN interested in autonomous, decentralized systems not acquainted with Giordano Bruno should become so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno

http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=446

"The Art Of Memory" by Frances Yates outlines the pathway of mnemonic and knowledge systems from alchemy to the Rennaissance, and is a comprehensive introduction to the life and work of Giordano Bruno, Ramon Llull and many other ancestors of our various technologies of memory.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Memory-Frances-Yates/dp/022695...
Sounds like a lot of interesting innovative features that a lot of people might use: social, quick-views, select-all-messages-from-sender..etc

I kind of have a problem with their design though. I guess it is all part of the Metro initiative which can look nice in some of their efforts (mobile) .. but here it just shouts at me something to the effect of: "I'm so new and cool and fresh that I don't need subtlety or pleasant earthy colors. Mail, People, Calendar, SKYDRIVE.. I dare you to click EVERYTHING!" Maybe I'm getting too old in my 30th year of life but that intimidates me more than it excites me.
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This looks really nice, but what's up with the URL?

https://dub002.mail.live.com/default.aspx?id=64855&owa=1...

Doesn't look like outlook.com to me.
Thanks! It's incredibly exciting for us to finally share Hiptype with the world and start getting more authors and publishers using the product.

We've been particularly interested with what the HN crowd would think about things made possible with Hiptype, like A/B testing or beta testing versions of a book.
For what it's worth, most of my time has gone into working on Celluloid, which is the concurrent object framework I'm using to write the Cryptosphere, as well as taking the rather intensive http://crypto-class.org
So I go to register at Outlook.com...

1. Enter details with a short, simple email address. Submit the form;

2. Sign up fails. I provided an alternative email address but not a phone number; apparently both are required for password recovery (why?), despite there being no indication both fields are required. Grudgingly give up phone number and try again;

3. Sign up fails. Apparently my phone number isn't valid, and I have to delete the first digit (0 in the UK, to be replaced by +44) for the form to accept it. Try again;

4. Sign up fails. For some reason the form has kept all my other details but has decided to lose the month and year of my DOB. Re-enter those details and try again;

5. Sign up fails. I was presented with the same CAPTCHA for the first three attempts but apparently it's now changed; Enter new CAPTCHA and try again;

5. Sign up fails. Finally, the form tells me the short, simple email address I chose is taken. There was no indication when I entered the address;

6. Give up and forget about it.
This actually makes we want to use my hotmail account a lot more. For the longest time I used hotmail for junk emails and random signups to shield my true email address. Interesting how UI/UX can completely change your attitude toward a service (I never expected to change from Gmail until right now).
Sir Jonathan Ive: We nearly axed the iPhone
It may not be the author's intention to imply this, and I'm glad he had a good experience, but it's worth mentioning that this is a single experience, and not necessarily evidence that some Facebook ad campaigns aren't being hit with false clicks.
There were plenty of people who liked AOL too. Does that mean we should still be on dialup?

PS: I've read very, very, few comments, on any site, from people who claim to "like" Unity. At best it's more of a "it's not as bad as everyone says".
This preview features screenshots that you can not zoom in on or open the full version. That seems a bit self-defeating.
You made 10K in revenue or profits ? If revenue, tell us your cost as well. if profits, kudos and congrats for smashing success (no pun intended)
Perhaps. I have 10K emails in my gmail account and 3 in my outlook.com account. We'll have to see how it goes in the long run. But I'm seriously thinking about making the switch for a while.
If you attack the question this way you can come up with crazy beliefs like, "you have to be a man to be a good programmer".
Now you've really got me thinking...

Could Bayesian classification be implemented through a homomorphic cypher?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Anyone has the link to the article jericho promised to write ?
"As you expected, given Microsoft’s criticism of Gmail’s ad policy, the product doesn’t scan the bodies of your emails. However, it does tailor ads based on the email address of the sender, and the subject line of the email"

What kind of advertising-friendly info can they glean from the sender address? Ads for competitors when you get newsletters/signup email?
Sorry about that. At the time I posted this, I just wanted to get it out in the world and move on. I felt (and feel) that Facebook had already wasted enough of my time. If I knew that ten thousand people were going to read it in a single day, I assure you that I would have spent more time editing it to give you a better experience.
Because games are performance sensitive.
The tools to create cross platform games exist but the issue is that many companies have sunk a lot into DirectX based tooling & experience and DirectX only works (properly) on MS systems.
I'm still new to the UEFI thing and don't really understand the issue totally ... but would doing something like getting a System32 box (or building your own) and then installing Win8 do the trick? Obviously it still would have Windows code on it, but wouldn't that sidestep the hardware manufacturer issue? or something ...
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I don't think anyone's talking about living in a bubble here or deep in the woods. If anything, office space culture is anti-interaction and extremely isolating.
Awesome! This is exactly the kind of learning experience that would be useful to someone who has been studying Haskell intensely for a week.
But base64 encoding is pretty easy to identify, as are most imaginable encoding schemes. Simply disallow them.

If the encoding schemes become so obscure as to not be recognizable, then the problem is still effectively solved.
With a sufficient technical background, you could work for the FBI helping to monitor, decrypt, and track these a-holes.
Also this is the second p2p system I've tried to develop: https://github.com/tarcieri/distribustream
Suhail, with regard to impact on installed sites I agree that lost event data is not the end of the world. However, it's currently taking 20-30 seconds for requests (inserting the mixpanel js) to timeout. During the outage, it would be much less painful if the requests were failing more immediately.

I just sent this same message to support (at) mixpanel.com.

EDIT: just to reiterate -- the major problem isn't the API being down. It's the extreme timeouts being experienced trying to load a static JS file.
When this stuff was posted three years ago on HN, there was a link to an interesting site that has many examples of future predictions http://www.paleofuture.com/.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729904
I have a Roku and an AppleTV and the latter gets a lot more use because of one feature above all - Airplay (and the Netflix UI on AppleTV is way better than the Roku).
In addition to the great links others have posted, I've got some strewn about in my UI collection - http://lookwork.com/mandy/library/ui
Congrats guys! Analytics for books. This is such a great idea...I'd thought it would have already been created. Good luck at Demo Day.
I would guess that's more a byproduct of the irreplaceable though, right? In an industry where the "good" actors have an agent, not having one would make you look illegitimate. In other words, if Brad Pitt didn't have an agent it's unlikely people would put up with Extra #12 having one.
I created two aliases for my account and I can no longer sign-in to my account. I tried my original id, and two new aliases and nothing works. Hope I haven't lost everything in this migration!
It's good to read these guys, but it's nowhere near sufficient. Over time I've lost my fondness of Nielsen. He's too much of an engineer and doesn't understand subjective factors. Ever notice that his website has very poor usability due to inappropriate (read: lazy) use of typography and proportion?
Precious $DIETY, take my $APPENDAGE. Please let the next version of OWA look like this.
Certainly, a browser larger written in Haskell might be interesting.

People are critising this because so far they have done nothing interesting, just written a simple 'hello world'-type wrapper around a mountain of C++ code.
That... is actually a very good idea!
France has been by far luckier than Poland.
> Maybe just casually say "and I'm going to use :tab which allows me to select multiple lines and line up the equal signs" or something similar.

No, I wouldn't want them to casually say anything... that's why the subtitles would be an unobtrusive compromise, since you can just turn them off. I think this would be even more important if the screencast was targeted at new users of the language or framework or whatever, since the viewer might be confused and wonder if ":tab" was something to do with the syntax of the language.
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The graphs comparing the "indegree" distribution of each candidate's new followers to that of comparable accounts would be much more informative if they showed the distribution of distributions.

In other words, show the range of indegree distributions from the 20 comparison accounts (not just their average).
You may run into problems if you log in via your Xbox account (which uses, let's say, your Gmail address). Try sending your Gmail account, via Outlook.com, a message and let the authentication fun begin.
To add to the discussion... the location of a piano has a large impact on its ability to maintain its tune. For example, humidity plays a major role with impacting the soundboard, as well as all of the various wooden components of the piano. In general, a piano should be located in a consistently-maintained environment with regard to humidity and temperature, away from windows and direct sources of cold and heat (e.g., HVAC registers).
I wonder if the NBC exec filed the complaint personally. After all, if it was his, 'private' information and email address, then what standing does the NBC intern have who filled the complaint have? Just a concerned citizen? Oh, but it wasn't a private email was it? I'm confused. A person tweets the corporate contact email of an executive and that's not ok? But Spike Lee tweets the personal address of someone he thought was Zimmerman's with the presumption that someone would act on that information and that's ok? Spike Lee potentially endangered a life (the people at address received death threats).. What's the worst that could have happened to an NBC exec-- he gets a strongly worded letter? Twitter should always come out in the side of presuming free speech unless that speech violates the law. Tweeting someone's email address does not meet that standard. And, the fun part is that NBC is a public company. Shareholders technically have a right to information regarding the executive team in the context of their role at the company.

C'mon Twitter, don't be evil.
> I just read through the release notes [...] can find literally nothing that actually makes my life significantly better.

So you've never used it, yet feel the need to coment on its features anyway? Try it. Some things, like the dynamic vertically stacked desktops, simple and attention-grabbing notification UI, and clean overview mode (and even the autohiding status bar, which I hated initially but have grown to like), are actually really nice. Yet they aren't going to look very impressive if your only "experience" with them is screenshots and release notes.

It's good. It broke a lot of stuff, and so many people will forever hate it. And it still has bugs (my biggest pet peeve is that being in the overview mode breaks all the desktop keyboard shortcuts) and misfeatures (app-based window selection will never work for me, though the traditional alt-tab mode is now a well-supported extension). But it's good.

Try it for a few weeks, learn it, then come back and flame.
I bought a $300 eMachines EL1360G-UW11P for a home server to replace my 2001 vintage 800MHz P-III.

I installed linux but it wouldn't boot. Major bummer.

It wasn't clear that UEFI signing was at fault, but there was no other reason for it to refuse to boot the image. The install went fine right through the reboot. I re-installed linux trying several different things, all unsuccessfully. I also booted a "rescue" image and verified the install looked valid.

There was no way to turn off UEFI signing in the BIOS menus.

I went to the manufacturer's web site and found they had a "Linux BIOS" image. http://support.gateway.com/us/en/emac/product/default.aspx?t... I was able to reflash the BIOS with the P01.C1L image, but I had to force it by looking at their "flash.bat" file adding a /X flag to the flash command in there.

With the "linux" BIOS image, the board booted linux just fine. Huh.

Lessons Learned:

* UEFI is a real risk. Most mainstream PCs nowadays boot linux out of the box. I lived through the times when I bought a new PC "at risk" because it might have chips that were not supported by linux. UEFI brings that risk back, but through software, not hardware. Sucks!

* The hardware manufactures apparently are getting the "it must run linux" message, even for low end throw-away machines. Yeah!

* Reflashing BIOSes, especially when the user has to manually override "self protection" aborts, is not something an unsophisticated user is going to be able to do. Sucks.
New Yahoo Mail TOS will not let you use your mail
Once you try to accept the new terms, it keeps asking over and over again redirecting to: http://us.mg3.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?reason=launch_error&ec=ymws%3AServer.UserOpenFailed
Romney to reveal vice presidential pick via smartphone app
Can you talk more about what the glitches were like? We're a few months away from production with our first product that uses redis, so this is very interesting.

Have you simulated a network partition? How does redis handle the reconnect?
I was nearly in shock as to how complicated the landing sequence was going to be and then...sky crane.

That is one amazingly ambitious project.
It obviously is a remake with the new design philosophy which i like, i think the calendar and other live products will follow soon.
These days it is inconceivable to make any webapp, big or small, without some kind of Javascript MV* framework. IMHO Backbone is a great choice as it isn't too opinionated to start with, but scales to more complex scenarios.

What would be "nice to have" was a part regarding memory leaks, as it can become a problem with Backbone's Views.
BBC News Interactive: Your Olympic athlete body match
I believe the game either has to be free to play or have a free demo. So that requirement is easily fulfilled.
Looks like plenty of opportunities for more installation pieces like this: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/us/28piano.html
Sorry, We Don’t Want the Stuff in Your Garage
So he lost the original amount he paid for the records, because the value went from $COST_OF_RECORDS to 0. That still has to be considered.
Grats on the launch guys
looks like they haven't migrated all the boxes to the new outlook.com domain yet
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227045

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3905618

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1660096
Microsoft really doesn't care about branding: once I logged in to my new @outlook.com Inbox using Outlook.com, I was redirected to live.com where I had a single message pre-sent to me from the "Hotmail Team" welcoming me to Microsoft Live Hotmail.
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I love this! The only missing is a mini-player theme, like this Chrome app mock-up: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9196433/news.ycombinator.com/ghostl... Clicking on the album cover would pop-up all of the album specific stuff, clicking on the (i) would give you all the "static" stuff.
Just tried it out and from my initial experience gotta say this isn't bad. The UI feels pretty clean and easy to read (which I always found to be an issue with gmails web interface). Doesn't look like you can use IMAP with it though so I doubt I will use it for my main email address anytime soon.
We switched to Google Apps at my company. Out of 120 employees, there are still 37 using Outlook. Some of them use Gmail on the web periodically, but most of those 37 are adamant about not switching (even though the Outlook on Gmail experience is objectively terrible compared to in-browser).
That's not a rant. It's a perfectly normal, human reaction to what Windows does to the human brain.
I have a different perspective. There is opportunity all over the place. User experience is crap most of the time, security poor, solutions to real customer problems weak.

The skill we need to develop is the ability to identify when a problem is ripe for solution. That is real opportunity, and there is a lot of it out there.

Absolutely grab a great opportunity when you see one. But if you miss it, the next one will come along in another five minutes.
That would be me with a Mac.
You, and searchengineland, are fixating on the word "widely." At the last company I worked at, my work email was in a single place - on the site of my company, on the contact page. According to the searchengineland examination of the word "widely" (which I'm not disagreeing with, and I think is a poor choice of words), it was not widely available.

Maybe "clearly" available is a better word? But fixating on the word "widely" is clearly a red herring, and is clearly not something that searchengineland is advancing as a reasonable criterion for a TOS violation, and is clearly being intentionally obtuse.
As a counterpoint, at my work you can choose what you use. All Windows users are using Outlook. Half of the Mac folks are using Outlook, then there are a couple Sparrow users and the rest use Mail.
Mobile game devs: Middle-aged women are taking over the iPad
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Ah, we do have a firewall at work which is pretty aggressive. Didn't get time to check it out yesterday at home. Will do so today. Thanks.
In that case, it sounds like a fantastic deal. Network effect.
No, if you can guess it (e.g. name.surname@company.com).
The point of the post is about the efficacy of the Facebook ad, not revenue vs. profit. Come on, folks.
Could this work in a hybrid app for iOS? Specifically, we publish a hybrid iPad app using an open source framework called Baker (http://bakerframework.com/). I know a lot of people publish books using it as well. Only problem is, Google Analytics doesn't track HTML pageviews inside an app, and most in-app analytics are geared towards native apps. Setting up analytics is painful.
I find it somewhat odd to claim a business email address as "personal" contact information. If he puts it out on business cards with company logo on it, or if it's anywhere on the web, it certainly isn't "personal" and it is obviously meant as a means for contacting him about business related things.

I just find this to be a cheap way of shifting the focus away from the public backlash about their crappy programming decisions.

And Twitter has gone along with it. Sigh.
Hotmail is their Email service, Outlook is their email client.
thats a good news for long time fedora users. I'm using Fedora since FC-2. After Gnome-3,my machine became unusable.
I don't want to switch to ubuntu :P Last month I filed a bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834266 for it too. Glad to hear this change.
Geeks are excited about it because of that. Others either aren't aware of it or would rather play games on the Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, iPad, etc they already have.

The PS1 was successful because it was put out in large numbers by Sony, not because of the relatively small modding scene.

They are going to have to find something more than ports from other systems to wow people.
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What. An. Awesome. Video!! I wish I could (afford to) make videos like that.
That's a bad analogy: America never promises freedom in her founding documents and constitution. She promises us Liberty, which is a very different concept than freedom.

In software, however, they are not arguing for liberty and the rule of law, they're arguing for true freedom.

I guess they have drawn a line in the sand and said that any less free is unacceptable, however, more free is also unacceptable.
> The email address is/was easily found by a google search.

It is now, it looks like it was not before: http://searchengineland.com/nbc-olympic-executives-email-was...
In no way can this be called a reply to the "bots" post.
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Oh I agree, I'm just amused by people utilizing restrictive licenses to promote "freedom".

Can I do whatever I want?

Then it ain't freedom.
That's obviously true, I think the question at hand is about how much longer its run will last.