skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually really interesting.

I've always worn glasses but my vision has gotten progressively worse as I've aged - it's not bad, even now, I can legally drive without glasses - but it's enough to be noticeable.

I also was much less prone to motion sickness when I was younger - I would happily read full novels while riding along as a grade schooler.
1. Forswear all future purchases of Apple products

2. Wipe hard drive

3. Install Linux Mint

4. You now have a UI that behaves the way you expect

5. Profit!
Interesting proposals, but like Andy Rutledge's NYT re-design (http://andyrutledge.com/news-redux.php) limited by the practicalities of implementing them. I don't think the Wikimedia foundation has the resources to do any kind of major re-design, at least not quickly.
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Or just only permit trades at 100ms intervals or something. There are simpler solutions than Captchas.
Sorry I also meant to include the link!

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/...
Seconded. I can take road trips like crazy, but hop in the Mountain View Caltrain shuttles with their crap drivers on a warm day, and I seriously feel like I could lose my lunch.
To be honest in most cases people just laugh. I guess that means they don't really have a good answer ;)
Thank you. I was have a really hard time finding a link I felt was credible. I only know if it from seeing an interview on TV.
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> This is the thinnest sliver of a fraction of what business people think hackers should know about business.

This sounds like programmers need to know a lot about business. Of course knowledge is a light burden and all that, but do really programmers need to know that much outside their area of expertise? Isn't a shallow understanding enough? Otherwise, what would you need dedicated business people for?

> Ya know, it would almost be fair for the business people to ask "when will software developers understand software development?"

Good point! But then again, software development is difficult. It is hard if not impossible to estimate the schedule and cost of creating something that nobody has ever done before. And perhaps that is what the business folks need to understand. The tricky thing as a developer is explaining this without sounding like you're coming up with excuses for being late.
Based on the Nanex article (http://www.nanex.net/aqck/2804.HTML), it appears the chart is showing thousands of quotes per second on the left, vs time of day on the bottom.
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This redesign assumes that Wikipedia needed simplification. I think that if the brand and experience needed simplification, people wouldn't use it or would be more vocal about changing it.

The designers clearly have some layout and visual acumen, but this redesign doesn't fully grasp the magnitude of Wikipedia. Every layout is modular, and every pixel has to be fully thought out. The result here looks more like the-new-Digg than it should.
> How is the next 300 million dollar Batman flick going to ever get made if the studios let everyone go see the movie for free? It won't get made.

IP isn't what makes people pay to see Batman. The loss of IP would not prevent studios from making a killing with Batman at a theater, they'd just have to be a touch more creative in controlling distribution, timing, and release of the official copy. Even without IP, they can contract with the theater to make it a violation of the contract for the theater to copy the film as a condition of getting it. IP isn't what protects the movie industry, it's what protects the home video industry and some of the long tail profits.

Also, making a great movie doesn't require 300 million dollars, and the world did just fine before 300 million dollars movies existed.
Proposed Wikipedia logo: http://www.wikipediaredefined.com/img/4.png

Actual WordPress logo: http://s.wordpress.org/about/images/logos/wordpress-logo-sta...

(It's not just that both are W's -- they also chose a typeface with a similar distinctive swoosh.)
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Some people have 20+ character long email.

You really think they are going to be happy about sitting around typing that in on their phone hoping they don't make a mistake ?
That's great and encouraging story. Thanks for that. I see that in the end you sell yourself honestly as someone who lives and breathes hers or his field and that learning is an obsession, then you have an advantage.
If you are using direct debits you have no way of pulling the money directly from the account - you will always have some serious lag (day or two at least, often more). In that time you don't have a hold or similar on the funds, so either you delay giving product to customer or you have a few days where you trust him to actually have the funds available when your claim hits his bank. If he doesn't actually have funds at that time you effectively have a chargeback (no funds were actually available to take in the first place). Usually these are honest mistakes, especially if you do recurring billing that the customer may forget, but it's costly and time consuming to explain what happened and have the customers pay you again for something they actually want.
> What if the car was smart enough to identify situations where it was unable to auto-navigate safely? It could pull-over and ask the human to take-over for awhile.

This is precisely what the Google car does, in fact.
I can confirm that this sort of thing is prevalent across the board.
I don't know where they got the idea that a serif 'W' is the most recognisable 'W' on the net (as Wikipedia). I first thought of Waterstones (a UK bookstore chain), and then Wordpress.

Even after that, how does it then make sense to actually change it to something else, thus removing what identity there once was? It's not like the replacement (with the Adobe-esque abbreviations that are meaningless to people who don't already know them) is an actual improvement.

Otherwise, I don't really get the purpose of it. Wikipedia's not there to look fancy or show off designer skills, and I'd argue that anything that isn't pure content is just completely unnecessary for it.
This all the way. If you are trying to design a web page with usability in mind, the most important thing to do is make sure on the default 16:9 or 16:10 screen everyone is using that the content dominates the page with the least navigation overhead as possible. That is the main reason why I prefer sites that use vertical sidebars to horziontal top of the page navigation frames that take up 1/3 the initial load.
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Awesome, I had to look up what you meant by 'shipping'. Thanks for that. This is a pretty interesting article on that subject http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html
> Most people stay way too close to the car in front, though.

Yes, and people who don't care about this risk are very annoying drivers for the people who do.
My startup covers business news for the waste management industry, among others. But surely you don't want to hear about Virginia's new landfill and recycling restrictions even though they're tangentially connected to a startup and to technology?
Getting the details right on individual CSS elements is one of things that always falls to the back of the priority queue. Easel seems like a fantastic option for quickly polishing up buttons, forms, etc, which adds up to a much better UI over time. Great job guys!
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I would think the reverse. Why own a car if you can get a taxi at your door in the size/shape/color of your choice whenever you need one without having to pay for the taxi driver?
Agree or disagree with their design decisions, I do hope they are right that "the discussion begins". Does anybody know of internal/official Wikimedia efforts/discussions wrt redesigns?
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Shouldn't "Defending your privacy in US Congress" be out of scope as well, then? It certainly isn't part of a website's terms and conditions. Plus, it's hard to judge how well those activities are going, and how committed the company is in pursuing those activities in the future.
My point was simply that Google sees enough attempts to compromise Gmail accounts that I believe them when they claim widespread attacks using valid passwords are common enough that passwords are broken.

> Yes, MFA is a good idea. But that doesn't mean it's enough to prevent attacks like the one in question.

It would have stopped this one, in several ways: according to Honan's writeup, it would have halted things at a key point in the chain of account compromises. Yes, it's true that you have to trust companies - but that's always been true, even 100% off-line, as any victim of identity theft could tell you. The key point is that having any sort of MFA schema would have contained the damage to one company, halting the cascade.
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That's awesome. Especially the video recording is perfect for what I'm doing.

As soon as you guys make it so that I can get the video URL as soon as the upload starts I can integrate you in.
This sounds like programmers need to know a lot about business. Of course knowledge is a light burden and all that, but do really programmers need to know that much outside their area of expertise? Isn't a shallow understanding enough? Otherwise, what would you need dedicated business people for?

Sorry, my reply was coming from the point of view of "hacker as potential entrepreneur", not "hacker as employee of $FIRM." Yeah, if you're writing code for an existing business, just doing normal "business as usual" stuff, then you wouldn't need to know as much about the details of the business. I would think you'd still be better off with some knowledge of the "business side" of things though.
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Anecdotally, the overwhelming majority of people who I've observed using Wikipedia go to www.wikipedia.com and then select "English".
Regulated and guaranteed market makers are both (1) required to post a bid and ask even in crisis situations (2) high-frequency and high volume traders because they need to deal with a great amount of market order flow. These things are not necessarily exclusive.
> Also the capital "I" in the font they're using is killing me.

This is the main thing I remember after reading what seemed like an otherwise interesting study.
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Its awful. It reminds me of the Gmail redesign. I hate these simplified, 2d websites.

Why do you have to ruin every website?
Don't read the entire VM spec. This thinking of knowing something inside out helps you how to use it is bunk. You don't have to know the how the rules of chess came into being to play chess.

Or you could go that way, and do it as the parent says, and end up like me, somewhat dazed and confused a decade later.

Just because you invented radio does not mean the programming you put on it is the best. Realize that programming(computer) is a skill that most can achieve only through rigorous grind.

There, I saved a few years of frustration to you. Knowledge is power. Amen.
> Your tone suggests that you're a bit bored by this conversation. Are you yourself satisfied that the risk of disaster is acceptably low?

Sorry, my perspective is very unusual. First, whether or not a nation-state bans biology (perhaps because of some precautionary stance) will not dramatically change whether or not I continue to work on technology development. Second, I already find the current level of death and disease unacceptable, and risk calculations don't help me fix things. I'm just completely uninterested in risk calculations.

Edit: I was being somewhat unfair to your original post, which I had judged to be more alarmist than it actually was. I agree that mitigation strategies are important.
The last image of the US Map caught my eye. San Diego is not located directly below San Francisco. Come on guys, show a little bit of effort here and take 5 seconds to look at a map.

http://www.wikipediaredefined.com/img/45.png

I understand it's a mock-up, but it just shows carelessness. If I can notice it, it's just one less reason for me to care.
PERM regulations are also quite lax in MANY ways, and companies abuse this in order to be able to hire at a lower wage.

For example, labor certification (to determine that there is a labor shortage that requires outside talent) is very easy to game: they can run 2 Sunday newspaper ads in the local newspaper to satisfy the primary labor cert requirement:
http://tinyurl.com/czhop2f

How many people have newspaper subscriptions anymore, and how many tech workers look for jobs in the newspaper?

It's also easy to game prevailing wage requirements by conducting surveys yourself or playing with the subjective terms of the law regarding 'comparable skillsets' etc
There's no new technology intersection here. If someone got beaten up and jailed for refusing to disclose the password to an encrypted hard drive, that would be an example of what you're talking about. Full disk encryption is new. This is not. We've had photography and cops beating up photographers for a long time.

Let's be honest: this story is here because it makes people angry. It's the kind of story that you'd get as an email forward from your aunt. It gets attention and stirs up emotion. It does not gratify one's intellectual curiosity.
Thought I was the only one. +1
If this site gets big, its neutrality will be questioned, and you've got to be ready with answers. I don't want to see good efforts like these go to waste.
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I feel like this redesign invests in exactly the sort of brand-ism that wikipedia opposes. These changes seem to do little to improve the actual interface, instead introducing an intrusive menu and pasting a logo wherever possible.

That said, the connection explorer is quite neat and the efforts to ease editing have their heart in the right place.
Really? I've never in my life went to wikipedia without following a link from a Google search. I don't think I've ever seen the Wikipedia home page.
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Sometimes I get "carsick" while working with very small components (such as eyeglass-sized screws) that aren't behaving as they should, so I would have to attribute greater weight to the idea that carsickness is caused by a disagreement between the senses.
> Similarly, the restriction of the oil supply will drive up cost, drive down usage, and force the economy to grind to an ugly halt.

The economy wouldn't necessarily grind to an ugly hault - there is a sweetspot in the middle, which you are ignoring here. It could also be that people/businesses adjust to a _moderate_ supply restriction in some way (travel less, purchase locally, etc), new technologies arrive, and things change for the better.

> If we decreased the supply of programmers to 1 said programmer would be making a shitload of money - but that is not good for the general population, nor the economy.

I also don't buy into the 'good for general population' argument necessarily - it is fair for employees (in this case, programmers) to also want what is best for themselves. Corporations generally want what is best for their shareholders (or executives) and not their employees OR the general population, which is part of the reason they ask for higher caps.

> And let's be honest, as a single programmer making 4.5x the median household American income, our wages are plenty elevated.

Why do you think wages are elevated? Many programmers I work with are very smart folks, and I personally feel that they are underpaid relative to the value they are creating within the organizations they work for. Furthermore, why is 4.5x the median household income randomly the bar here? Should every profession be capped in your view (doctors, lawyers, etc)?
Agreed. But I like the highlighting, saving of snippets and history-tracking ideas. I would find that very useful for myself, beyond the "oh sweet I didn't know it could do that" but for real "now where did I once read that?" purposes.
This doesn't change the point the top-level comment was making. Even if some N lines of C spit out some M lines of different C (hopefully with N < M), the actual code written by the programmers is the code that should be counted, not the generated code.

In the case you describe, the language used to generate the code is C, but the concept doesnt change. This is where you are being disingenuous by means of pointless pedantry.
this is cool, but hope we won't see more terrible UIs from people with bad design sense
"Trading at the right speed. Not unfairly fast."

(TBD by your trusty government and regulators: what speed is fair and what is too fast.)
I worked at a place like that once, they churned through so many system administrators especially and in the end found themselves in a situation where they were finding it hard to get system administrators and after all of that eventually fired the manager who had single-handedly damaged the company by that stage it was too late. So respect is something I definitely agree a company and its higher-ups should possess.
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If the chart is showing frequency of trades it's just showing that there are more trades right?

I find it a little misleading that the graph is presented as somehow being connected to market instability. If they are correlated, they haven't demonstrated the relationship clearly to me. Am I misreading this?

Also I fail to see how someone else's algorithm going nuts could impact regular Joe traders as the article also suggests. If a stock price starts plummeting because of a bug in a trading algo goes haywire, a savvy trader would look to their news sources and realise nothing has happened. Or if they are passive investors probably by the time they mobilise to panic sell it's already corrected itself.
"I remember when I was at the law firm about being a expert witness in this case there was a big conference table with many phones on it... I could see the screen and went to pick up the iPhone to make a point about the UI graphics, and I was holding a Samsung phone. I usually think of myself as someone who is pretty granular about looking at graphics, and I mistook one for the other. So, I guess in addition to my formal analysis I had the experience of being confused." -- Susan
So exciting! We were able to remove about 400 lines of shit S3 code and an ugly flash widget when moving to filepicker.io. Great to see them adding so many services.
It was never enjoyable to me, what with moving tons of steel 5x faster than primates evolved to move at. And all the other people on the road doing the same thing, often with texting and coffee and other distractions making it all the worse.

I can't wait for the self driving car, because I have much more faith in computer systems than your average person off the street.
This is the only possible response after the "exploit" was published. Amazon's process was appropriate for their business, and the problems the journalist experienced were due solely to the level is security Apple chose to implement and their decision to allow remote wiping of people's Macbooks.

This is only a story because of Apple's of operational decisions. The information required to game their system could have come from a myriad of sources other than Amazon.
Yup. 'Shipping' comes from the old days, when we were trying to ship a product to (from development to users). In the web era, this is as simple as publishing to a server, but you very quickly realize all the tiny things that you need to do to make something that people actually want to you.
Design looks somewhat "tabletized" with oversized controls intended making usage of capacitive touchscreens easier. Desktop version of the site doesn't need such oversized controls - they don't look pretty and unnecessary eat useful space. It's nicely done though for the mobile optimized version.
BofA does this for teller transactions. To talk to a teller, you have to swipe your debit card and type your PIN. While not foolproof, I think it's a pretty nice security measure.
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I didn't even have the patience to read their own page because of their poor design choices (mostly, waaay too much scrolling).

I'm glad I don't have to read a Wikipedia designed by these people.
That doesn't seem right to me. A person driving 10K a year will hit 300,000 miles over the course of 30 years. Does the average person really have less than 1 accident every 30 years? Especially when they are younger?
American democracy has now begun to begin "The Internet Reformation". This will be annoying for the apathetic. Expect significant friction with police as they are the tools of those currently in power.

To put it another way, how useful is the right to read the source if one does not have the right to free speech, assembly, religion (or lack there of), and petition for redress of grievances.

To be even more blunt, the Magna Carta Libertatum is under attack.
Yet here we all are, reading it and discussing it. :-)
This is a great read. Brand new with current research.
I imagine, once automated cars are safe and popular enough, they will mandate that all new cars must have it and set a date after which only automated cars are allowed on the road. It will become an offence to take over and drive manually unless the circumstance demands it. You'll be fine driving your Aston Martin, but your kids, or their kids might not be.
It basically looks like a copy of Google's current design. Black bar with other properties at the top, then a big white page full of whatever. It's a fine interface, but I don't have much trouble with en.wikipedia either.
> stopped at various points for people to load up.

By that point, we will all have integrated computers in our body, probably with some kind of brain-machine interface so we don't need to interact with them. We can just telepathically request a vehicle to take us somewhere.

Screw that, I want Star Trek style beaming up by the Scottie5000 bot in space.
Weakest link is having a chain of events that prevent you from doing a backup. Two phrases that spring to mind "back don't fudge up" and "trust nobody".

Remember time beats all security.
Dude. It's like Open Source. If you've got an itch, scratch it. Write the post and submit to HN, you'll get contributions out the wazoo.
Yeah, but you have to admit that this is pretty skilled sensationalist journalism :P

How convenient Nanex didn't include labels in the graphics they provided! [1] In fact, they specifically say that high frequency trading doesn't concern them, and are talking about quote spamming. Not. The. Same. The animated graph used in the article combines metrics of both, as far as I can tell, but Nanex makes it clear that High Frequency Trading is stalled or declining while High Frequency Quoting is on the rise.

Furthermore, the bit saying "activity becomes much, much more frenetic and erratic" is just... totally silly. Partly because of what you mentioned, but also because... well I don't know what else to say, it's just so utterly, embarrassingly silly. I'd wager the graph's movement isn't even nearly as 'frenetic' as the stock market itself.

In any case, it's quite clear that the author didn't even peek at the page he got the graph from.

Ugh. This kind of 'journalism' makes me sick.

[1] http://www.nanex.net/aqck/2804.HTML linked all-too-subtly in the article