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Copyright laws in America are broken.

That said, this kind of corporate innovation is pretty broken, too. The way I interpret this document is not "how can we make a great product?" but rather: "How can we emulate a great product?"

Almost ironic, now that the iPhone app store is almost entirely comprised of mine craft rip offs.
how about "never use white?"

rgb(255,255,255) is the brightest color value you can have on the screen and colors like rgb(255,0,0) don't really pop against it because they're dark in comparison.
Then do you believe that the tasks outlined above are in fact Engineering. If so, why do you think so? And what is your definition of what would constitute Engineering versus non-Engineering efforts?

It's true, my definition is US-based (maybe even based on a single state), and even more narrowly, it's based on US PE licensing requirements, which isn't even necessary for many Engineering fields these days. But at least I'm not dodging the question, here.

As an example, drafting is billed at a different rate than Engineering precisely because drawing in CAD itself is generally not considered Engineering.
That's very helpful, thank you. I'll give it a shot, although I remember this being a few versions behind the BSD version?

I have a NAS that uses mdadm now (it did save me when one disk went completely bust), but RAIDZ sounds even better.
Learned about this in my motion graphics class, no such thing as pure black in nature.

Also, all of the articles on your website link to this story. Great reads.
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While the inverse of that (light text on dark) makes for a terrible reading experience, yet so many bloggers/sites do it.

(Funny observation: I seem to prefer dark themes for coding Python, Ruby, C and light ones for Java)
This pull request has a LOT of attitude for something that just swaps out a hash algorithm and uses ftruncate(2).
You should check out LibGDX, which is the same concept but has been around a bit longer.
"It'd be a great tourism experience, but what's the ultimate value to humanity?"

Developing the future technology to accomplish this feat would be worth it already. Furthermore, being the first company/country to send a human to Mars would be an enormous achievement. The number of people this would inspire to pursue this field in our current and future generations is not something that can be measured.
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Who has accused it of being vaporware?
Humans on Earth are (still) cheaper than robots for almost any task.
As long as you can disable it if you don't like it, as you can with the google+ linking, I don't really see a problem. If it's forced onto you then yes, get out of here.

> Haven't they learned that people don't like this?

SOME people.

Search is changing all the time, and it seems to happen faster every year. The two big dogs these days are mixing search with social/your data, and smarter results (custom result format and details depending on the subject, for exemple).

Google knows it and make sure to stay on top of the game, frankly not doing it would be the stupid move (one that so many big companies seems to end up doing one day). To be honest I'm even surprised they take the time to make sure you can disable most of this stuff or request verbatim search and things like that, I'm sure it only accounts for a marginal percentage of their visitors (although I'm one of them).
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the best reason I can come up with is meteors. and although taking the michael bay movie armageddon as a reference seems kinda unscientific, it's still an actual (although quite unlikely) threat. I think of mars as a backup in case something terrible happens to earth.

Btw. the video in the report mentions Elon Musk designing the rocket himself, I assume that's BS?
It's a shame that every single screen simply talks about how they can make their products more like the iPhone.

It would have been nice to see them trying to make their products better than the iPhone, but, alas, they are only trying to play "catch-up", not "exceed".
Yes but how did MSDOS at the end of the game make out? .....yes market share matters.
The best design tip I've picked up in the last five years was that sometimes, in your CSS definitions, you can use #555 or #777 or even #333, and not just black.

I don't mean that I didn't know you could enter hex numbers for colors, I just didn't realize that when I wanted a "black" border, #888 makes for a much less jarring border than #000...and this is critical if you have a lot of bordered elements.
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They might be better served to drop the 'Spreadsheet' moniker. It leads people to incorrect assumptions about the product and likely filters out potential users. 'Whiteboard', 'Slideshow', and 'Scrapbooking' are all terms that seem to better represent the (current) intended use case.
Don't forget easily customizable, xfce is really nice on the eyes after some slight modification.
This comes up often on hn. Using painting, especially Wayne Thiebaud's as support for the argument is very weak. He's a pop art painter that is known for using exaggerated colors, it's part of the pop art movement's signature style.

I would agree that when painting a shadow, you will likely find if you look carefully that it is not black, but in web design color is different and design has different goals to painting. The former is about clarity and function, the latter is expression and feeling.

In rebuttal to the argument, there are several hundred years of printing that seemed to have moved western civilization forward quite nicely that was black on white.
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> Did you notice that the salt rock itself smells bad once you've ever used it, whereas sticks don't?

Never. You would always put it under a stream before (to moisten up a layer) and after you use it (to clean it). And only after you've showered and washed with soap first.

It sounds to me like people are not using it correctly and consistently, are mixing it with regular deodorant, or have very extensive bacterial colonies on skin and transdermally.
"Borderline" anything does not make any sense to me. It seems to be nothing more than a way to call somebody something with plausible deniability, I guess to protect against libel/slander suits?

The way I see it, being "borderline" to something means that it is "close" to something, but not actually something. I guess an octagon could be a "borderline" circle? The issue here though is that if you are pointing out that something is "borderline sexist", you are basically saying "it is not sexist, but it is close to it". What the hell does "close to sexist" mean? Is being "close to sexist" wrong? If yes, why isn't it just called "sexist"?
Actually even then on the screen you don't want #000 because it's more contrast than you need and starts to strain the eye.

https://twitter.com/H_FJ/status/11800719859
I have a feeling that the new stuff we get will blow this away. Even though I love this panorama already.
I installed a openindiana ZFS system for my home just a few days ago. And I don't feel alone, now my collegues probably will also seriously consider it, because I can't stop singing it's praises.

Best install I have done for some time.
One feature that’s still missing, though, is actually running spreadsheet-style calculations on your numbers in Grid.

Doesn't this preclude Grid from being a spreadsheet app?
Paul Rand (who was perhaps the best graphic designer of the 20th Century) would disagree with that "tip"
For me, at least, it's only a small part of a greater question: Why do anything that robots do better and cheaper?

It seems to me that the best thing for us as a species is to let robots that do the things robots are good at, like translating in physical space, moving objects, manipulating matter, et cetera, and let humans spend their time doing the things that humans are good at: art, culture, coming up with novel behaviors for robots.

You get excited about exploration-- that's great. I get excited about post-scarcity. Because that will mean that everyone gets to do what they're excited about.
I think it's a great feature. "I remember reading something about X. Was it on Google+? Was it a blog post? Was it in my email?" Now you don't have to hit a number of services. I think your assumption, even for you, that you remember the source of a piece of information is faulty.

I search email a lot, and having access to it from a standard browser address/search bar is much shorter.
Personally, I use search all the time while I'm around other people or in a public place, and it would be a bit jarring to suddenly see private emails alongside my results at these times. This isn't a privacy issue per se, but it's just unexpected and I could see it leading to awkward situations for some people (e.g. when someone has someone else run a quick search for him and private or embarrassing emails show up).

If it's strictly opt-in then I don't see a problem.
Agreed. While I have no plans on getting rid of my car, my phone is easily a more valuable and useful tool. Of course, I work from home as an iPhone dev, so you can take that with a grain of salt :-)
You'll find those productive robots in every modern factory in the world, building everything from cars to candy more efficiently than humans.
I am less concerned about getting Gnome or Unity on my phone and more concerned about an experience that you get between iPhone and Mac. A seamless integration. Their is no single media player in Linux that does that. libmtp doesn't really work.
Seems OK for an initial version. I think what both the Android and iPhone apps are missing is pinch to zoom so you can expand to see multiple lists at once and drag and drop between them.
Google slowly but surely forces me into a standard two-browser setting. So far the highlight of the forced integration was the YouTube auto login, now with this option enabled it is going to get even worse.

But on the positive side this implementation reminds people with each and every search query how much data Google already has on them.
Of course, he also says that humans have had a preventable effect on Earth's climate.
I'm not saying we should or shouldn't go. I'm just responding the comparison that this is just like the early explorers. I don't think that is a proper comparison. The early explorers didn't have to contend with vastly different atmosphere's. Life in the New World was much like the old, with negligible differences compared to what awaits on Mars. The expense is also much, much more.

Nevertheless, I think travel to Mars is an inevitability but I think it represents a much deeper and dangerous proposition than what the early explorers had to face.
If I had two groups of users, one that paid for my products and one that didn't, I would move mountains to make sure that paid users weren't excluded from new features. Why does Google continually give free users first access?
I think it's going to be very hard to pull this off. I feel like Dalton is living in a bubble of people who are willing to pay to avoid ads. But for most everyone else, a social network with ads (that are not TOO annoying) is much better than one that ask for your money. He might be able to find enough people to pay to become a profitable business but I doubt he will ever reach facebook or twitter like scale. And if it doesn't scale, the paying members will leave eventually.
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I might argue that when you're that far behind, it isn't unreasonable to make the quarterly goal to "catch-up" and then finally to "exceed". These are not mutually exclusive goals, they are just situation relative.
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Setting aside any legal aspects of this, I found the document really interesting as a User Experience tutorial.
It's a privacy issue because if anyone uses my computer to do a simple Google search to show me something, they'll see content from my emails.
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I could not agree more. As the availability of information increases, the necessity of learning in its current incarnation of "school" becomes more obsolete.

It is my opinion that there is a mirror between the lifecycles of education and technology. In the very beginning, the complexities of each required dilligent and strict adherance to rules. As each progressed the systems became more complex and convoluted.

At this point they split, even though they should continue along the same cycle.

Technology began to shift focus from supplying the necessary information to elegantly presenting complex code in a way that anyone can use it (or write it). Back in the day you had to know how to program machine code to get anywhere. Now almost anyone can use the technology, from a todler to a granny. Technology is so advanced that it is almost natural.

"School" has hit this point and refuses to progress towards the natural state of learning. Instead of leveraging the availibility of information and using that ease of access to fortify practicle growth, we are forcing a system of modular selective learning. Learning that spends so much time trying to teach the basics that it bypasses connecting the actual relevance of the subject to real world applications.

If this was TL;DR here is a summary:

School now is like trying to teach someone how to hunt the wrong way. They make you read a bunch of books, write a bunch of papers, and learn the equations for the parabolic arc of a spear in midair, then drop you off in the middle of a forest "confident" you will survive, when all they had to do was give you a spear and have you throw it a couple times with guidance.
Valid point about the option of a slim xfce-based install being available.

I disagree about the 'normal people' point. 'Normal people' are less likely to download Debian as opposed to Mint or Ubuntu. If they venture into Debian territory, they're looking for something more and know what they're doing.

Which leads me to your third point, that is, I would venture a guess that the number of people who would care about this might not be in the minority after all.
(Disclaimer: I have made assumptions about the numbers, if someone has nice numbers to refute/support this argument, please do the honors.)

Also, 'ultra cheap geeks' are usually puppets controlled by the management.
Doesn't their phone say "SAMSUNG" on the top of the frontside?

Surely Samsung wanted to mimic that sleek smartphone feeling that was all the rage, but try to confuse customers with a clone? They would be doing a terrible job.
I suspect it depends on whether you see it as just viewing a flat picture, or as actually seeing from the rover's perspective. Personally, I see it as the latter, so I would actually find it unintuitive if the controls were reversed.

It's kind of funny how such a seemingly irrelevant semantic argument gives a completely opposite implementation.
And the way this is going, similarly to how Apple lost the market share to DOS, the same will happen with Android.
World has changed a lot from the Cathedral and the Bazaar era. Linux will succeed with help of Cathedral and not without.
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perhaps a few strawmen did?
The comments from "DietPepsi" do not sound like American English. I don't think whoever wrote it is American.

> his attempt at aslyum in Ecuador. [sic]

Americans would say, "... to gain asylum..."

> as a protest against his attempt

Americans would say, "... to protest his attempt ..."

They are not "apparently" American to me and Ms. Protalinski should refrain from accepting their quotes at face value.
As an interested party, may I ask why you feel citricsquid's and my comments in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4352446 are not constructive?
I think zdw is asking if Samba can be the Active Directory controller while using the ZFS SMB stack.
I wish you could enable this per-computer. I would leave it disabled for my work computer, and probably enable it on my laptop.
I wouldn't say it has been accused of being vaporware, but I think the reason some people aren't backing it is because they believe it may just be an API and nothing more (when in fact there's a working proof-of-concept alpha version).

Also, to those that've backed the project and want access to the alpha: email join@app.net and you'll be able to get in. :-)
It would be nice if he would use black for the text on his blog. Lighter-than-black on white can be painful on aging or strained eyes.

This seems to be an unfortunate new color trend. The problem is worse when zooming in on the page doesn't work or is capped.
If you're getting angel money you're right (because you're doing proof of concept) -- but if you're at the VC stage that's incorrect. And I've gotten that from VCs...
For pricing, we will ultimately charge for API interactions with Chute. The first 100k per month will be free.

We will also provide some free, permanent storage for all developers. We haven't finalized the amounts but right now there's no limit. Anyone wanting more control will be able to plug in their own S3 credentials - this is already enable for full Chute API accounts.
It's too bad it's based on DNSSEC. There's too many flaws and roadblocks for widespread adoption. If there was a compelling requirement for its use maybe it would get implemented everywhere in a number of years.

The biggest problem [to me] with relying on DNSSEC in current day systems is the non-verifying stub resolver in certain operating systems, which allows for a man in the middle attack at the client's first hop. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4033#section-7
Yeah, I know this argument - if ads are removed that EVERYTHING would be soo expensive and children in Africa are dying etc. etc. World is not black and white.

And by the way, please define "rich" and "rich enough".
"Problem is, we see dark things and assume they are black things. When, in reality, it’s very hard to find something that is pure black. Roads aren’t black. Your office chair isn’t black."

This only applies to skeumorphic designs. Terminals were green text on a solid black screen for a reason... readability. Now is the time to ditch gradients and shadows and focus on usability instead of making things look 'real'.
Great update Ian. Site is fabulous now. I'm enjoying your article on black. Thanks!
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While I'm not too happy with this feature, it looks like this is the direction Google is going with SPYW and there's not much we can do about it. Serious question for the privacy folks -- is there a service as good as Gmail that doesn't come with similar baggage? (For some reason this upset someone enough to downvote, but I promise this isn't rhetorical.)

To Google's credit though, these features are fairly straightforward to disable. I'm using their service, and I respect that these are their decisions to make, but I appreciate that I have a choice. Facebook and Quora are recent examples of more unilateral "if you don't like it then tough" policies.
...can you provide insight why? It may be so, but context is important, and argument by authority is not particularly helpful.
On one hand I agree with you completely about its apparent "obviousness".

On the other, I've seen so many devs that wouldn't even have been able to go through the process of identifying properly what to change, let alone do it, that I can recognize this pull as great.

The reality is that a majority of coders out there do not know how to properly do their job and they do not even know it (thus they don't try to improve).

(but to be fair, that's also what allow us to ask for the kind of salary we get)
Okay, don't use black. I can just go to Tools -> Web Developer -> CSS -> Disable Styles -> All Styles to fix your bad design with a superior non-design.
I agree with your analysis, but it's worth noting that size/scale aren't everything. Hacker News isn't the size of Reddit (or Digg at its height) and I'm kind of glad about that.

If App.Net ends up being the 'Hacker News Twitterlike' service, is that a success or failure?
Samsung weren't in any way new entrants to the market place and saying "It is easier to get early adopters that way." is basically saying that they plagiarise the market leader in order to confuse consumers.
Facebook most likely.
I'm not sure that this argument works.

#000 on my screen isn't black either. It's dark grey.

Doesn't this mean avoiding #000 for design aimed at screen display cause you to avoid pure black twice, and thus just reduce contrast? Perhaps that's what you want, and what looks better. But it isn't because #000 is pure black, because no screen can achieve that.
Speaking of which, I hope for the next Android version they release some stock Google Now widgets that you can just put on your homescreens, and they get automatically updated, just like they would inside Google Now.
Now someone needs to tell this to the people who redesigned http://salon.com recently. It's virtually unreadable.
The specific problem is a special case of the 'assignment' problem. First cut, it looks like 0-1 integer linear programming and, thus, maybe in NP-complete.

Looked again, the problem is least cost network flows. That is a linear programming problem. In that problem, if the arc capacities are integers, and in this practical problem they are, then the simplex algorithm can easily start with a basic, feasible, integer solution, and the simplex iterations will automatically maintain an integer solution and, then, find an optimal integer solution which provides the optimal assignments.

When we apply the simplex algorithm to least cost network flows, we get to take advantage of the fact that the problem is not fully general linear programming, and the advantage we can take is huge. E.g., the arcs of a basic, feasible solution form just a spanning tree in the network; the 'entering variable' in the simplex algorithm just adds an arc to the spanning tree and, thus, yields a circuit; we run flow around the circuit in the direction that makes money until the flow on some arc is zero and that arc determines the 'leaving variable'. Using the 'strongly feasible' basis ideas of W. Cunningham, long at Waterloo, we can avoid cycling.

But, the simplex algorithm for least cost network flows, as far as I know, is not guaranteed, worst case polynomial.

However, read:

Dimitri P. Bertsekas, 'Linear Network Optimization: Algorithms and Codes', ISBN 0-262-02334-2, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991.

and in there, or elsewhere in Bertsekas's work, is an algorithm for least cost network flows and that is worst case polynomial.

Done.

And I covered nothing classified!

And for this thread, we have a "how to" with high precision from some applied math.
"And if it doesn't scale, the paying members will leave eventually."

Could you explain why you think so?
I would think that the fact that it is a paid service will reduce the amount of noise in the system and a lot of people would value a social network with less noise.
My text editor background is pure black. I can't stand writing code on a white background for a long time. Some people uses blue backgrounds that are a lot worse.
Why the essay?
A subtle point this article makes is that pure black doesn't exist as displayed by your monitor. #000 is just the darkest value your monitor can display.

Across monitors, contrast ratio can vary by over an order of magnitude.

I'm not saying I don't prefer black, but I don't enjoy reading black text on a white background on an OLED phone in a dark room.
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