skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prior to the distinction between UI and UX, you had (and still have) all sorts of graphic designers whose work fits into different ranges on the spectrum between function and form.

Poster designers are concerned with catching the public's eye and delivering the necessary information, but catching the public's eye is arguably more important. Other designers exclusively do branding, which is all about 'look' and hardly about 'function'.

In reply to the original point, I would say that, on one hand, how something looks is part of how it works, if you consider the entire user experience as the function of the product.

On the other hand, I think what you're saying is that you're reluctant to hire designers who only do a particular style well. I agree that a good designer should aspire to broaden their pallet, but I see no reason to condemn those who for whatever reason are not capable of or interested in that.

For comparison, consider that some fine arts produce work in the same style for their entire career (i.e. James Turrell) while others explore a broad territory (i.e. Gerhard Richter).
In the screenshot the ad blends into the rest of the UI instead of being clear that its an ad...And its prominent placement in the UI makes it very clickable. Following your logic shouldn't it remain in the same place but be more clear that its an ad so that people are not confused that its part of the product? This would have the result of being seen but not accidentally clicked.
You say yourself that the evidence is anecdotal. There is evidence that points in many other directions, some of which are very promising and in need of further research.

Did you have a test kit to determine whether your experience was actually with pure MDMA?
I used to work in a "multi-award winning" agency. They would pay extortionate amounts to win these awards given by people with absolutely no credibility in the industry. It wasn't an award, so much as an endorsement. The sad thing is, it used to work, clients lapped it up.
Gmail team formally announce OAuth2 support for IMAP/SMTP
the BSI isn't an obscure agency, it fills it's function well - e.g. ISO 27001 vs IT-Grundschutz certification, or newsletter with sec. warnings
There are other rectangular phones which Apple is not suing. Why is that? By investigating this question, you may shed light on whether rectangles alone is the issue or not.
Here's a kickstarter that did very well (launched, great game): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64409699/ftl-faster-than...

Personally I'm not worried about kickstarter being generally vaporware, although in some instances it will be.
It's really hard to port games like these to Linux. Many of them use closed-source or even binary-only libraries that have no freely available replacements. You can blame the game developers for using non-free technology, but in some cases there aren't any good alternatives.

Indie game development has such thin profit margins to begin with that most developers can't justify sinking man-months of effort into a Linux port that might not produce enough revenue to pay for itself.

This kind of depends on your configuration too: Sure, you may be on a modern version of Ubuntu, but what kind of GPU do you have? Does it have modern drivers that are well-supported by the manufacturer? Does it support the variety of extensions and features that a game can rely on having on Windows/OSX? 'many of the games work fine' is only meaningful here if the games all have the same system requirements and you meet those requirements. If not, the best course of action is to try and communicate clearly to the developers that there are customers who are being shut out by system requirements, to see if there are cheap ways for them to lower the requirements.
I've mentored at TechStars Cloud and I've worked with a number of their affiliate program members as well, the program is worth it if you can get in and they do a great job of lighting up local ecosystems for startups.
Important: this is good advice for hiring a graphic designer. After all, that's one of the main reasons they have a portfolio.

But hiring a UX designer is a completely different process, which needs to show their deep, deep understanding of product, user stories, etc.

And too many companies think that graphic designers are UX designers too. It's very rare to find designers that do both really well. And this article doesn't even mention the distinction.
So cool - can't wait to put this to the test!
Those paying less than $5.50 are probably paying a LOT less than $5.50, so the average may stay fairly stable.
>> The learning curve is tremendous.

Try "Land of Lisp"
http://www.amazon.com/Land-Lisp-Learn-Program-Game/dp/159327...
Yes GitHub is huge - I just say this doesn't automatically mean SF is now getting small. Nothing against GitHub, it is the nicer solution for many projects. But for example for any project with lots of media data I still prefer using SF + svn. Or for any application that is mainly targeted at normal users and not foremost at developers using SF is also great. And it's very complete - you don't have just the usual things like code-browsing and bugtrackers, but you can for example also host a php-forum on SF.
Gamification is a Dirty Word
I want it to be Scala so much as well, I don't want to start learning Go. (Although I heard great things about it, just after learning Scala, I don't want to learn a new language for a few years now)
I usually work with Fortune 500 companies, so there the price of these JVMs is a water drop in the type of budgets we work with.

But for the scenarios you described, I agree with you.
I can't give you a definite answer, unfortunately, but I believe the more detailed specification of the semantics of string references/iterators in the new standard makes it very difficult to implement std::string with copy-on-write semantics without losing the advantages of such an implementation.

For example, consider the following function:

char f(string &s)
{
const string &t = s;
const char &ch = t[1];
s[2] = 'x';
return ch;
}

This should be valid code, but with a copy-on-write implementation, writing to the string on line 3 could invalidate the reference created on line 2.

As far as I know there isn't a proper solution to this problem without changing the return type of `std::string::operator[](size_type) const' in some non-standard way.
I wasn't planning on running Photoshop or Crysis. I don't even run them on my half-dozen other computers, but I do run hundreds of low-requirement programs.

The "full OS" experience, to me, is not simply side-loading either. I want an OS that was built for general purpose computing from the get-go.

The target audience for this does not seem to be limited to corporate use and developers. It seems to be for anyone who just wants general purpose computing in a highly portable format. That's me. Furthermore, corporate users is not a small market - so I wouldn't say "limited", even if that were the case.

> The cheapest win8 device with the ability to side-load? 800$ .. The cheapest OSX device? 999$ dollars.

Right, but it's a bad comparison because one of them is Windows and the other is OS X. One of them is a touch enabled transformer, the other a laptop.

> Our best bet for an open platform, is Android...

Maybe what you want is an open platform. That's fine, but I don't care about how open the platform is. I just want Microsoft's new premium device with their premium OS because it seems to do exactly what I want it to. We'll see though, maybe I'll be disappointed.
If it won't Microsoft will pay a fine again to the EU.
I think you can maybe even make the argument that it doesn't matter if he agrees, if he's going against the HIG or even established standards then he's wrong about it.
Ask PG: HN X-Frame-Options
I've noticed that HN now has X-Frame-Options=deny. May I ask what made it necessary?
BioWare's Co-Founders to Resign
It's not a lot of money, so I'm not disappointed if 1 or 2 of the games doesn't work OOTB. I usually don't bother looking for reasons why they don't work and just play the games that do.
Rackspace just issued a response:

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/patent-trolls-make-them-pay/
Sorry if I'm missing something that's right in front of me, but can you tell me how to setup that for myself?

EDIT: My Alfred interface looks considerably different (http://cl.ly/image/1c3K1w0U182R) yet it seems to be up to date (1.2)

EDIT #2: OH, it's the paid Powerpack isn't it?
She was a senior exec. You don't keep those people around when they're going off to work for a rival.
that's not possible, because the diagrams for editing text have editing-related words in them, and if you reversed the arrows you'd have nonsense.
"While its 160ppi resolution isn't quite photorealistic, the extremely bright 3.5-inch display does run at 480 x 320, making it one of the highest pixel-density devices around today (save the Toshiba G900's mind-popping 3-inch 800 x 480 display). But pixel density doesn't necessarily matter, it's how your device uses the screen real estate it's got."

"Pixel density doesn't necessarily matter". Ha! I understand the iPhone was a very big deal when it launched, but I've always hated how ever since, reviewers have always tended to downplay or even ignore the iPhone's shortcomings compared to other phones, and in the same time try to sell over and over again some feature the new iPhone has but the others do not.

And to make matters worse, when they were reviewing other phones, they were always reviewed using the iPhone as a point of reference. "Is this specific feature as good as the iPhone one?" and just going ahead and ignoring the advantages or other features of the other phones. This happened for many years until very recently.
Just watched this talk. Definitely worth watching.

It's cool to see how Hinton worked on solving a ML problem and ended up gaining insight on two problems in biology that seem unrelated to each other, but are perfectly related by his ML solution.
Simply switching to another browser isn't a panacea; Chrome, Firefox, and Opera all have the benefit (currently) of not commanding the same market share as IE except for recently. If IE stays behind Chrome for a while (and if other browsers' share keeps increasing), these other browsers will be targeted more, as it would be more economically worthwhile. While they are an improvement over IE in the security department, it will nevertheless be interesting to see if malware authors can have success against Chrome, Firefox, and company.
A great new open-source project for in-app billing
Why would I use this instead of the BLS data: http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/sp/ncbl1627.txt

Search for "Software Engineers, Applications"
But that's the point - people complain that things are getting too complex, that they don't work all the time, and that they wish companies would focus on getting the basics right. But then they go out and but the latest products because the brilliant new features instead.
Dry-run experiments verify key aspect of Sandia nuclear fusion concept
C4 - Project Launch - www.c4ios.com
Code, Creatively. C4 is a new creative-coding framework for building interactive applications for the iOS platform. The project is open-source (MIT License) and now available for download.
Given that Apple failed on D'889 (and D'087, which was also about rounded corners) it's pretty clear that Apple does not own "rounded rectangles."

"Rounded corners," by itself, is out-and-out not protectable by a design patent, since they are functional. But as part of a larger body of work they can be. The classic design patent is Coca-Cola on the Coke bottle. It didn't stop other people from using any individual feature of the Coke bottle, but the sum of the features (or close enough) triggers the design patent.

Also, I don't believe there is an official list of just what is covered by a design patent. ZDNet is applying their own editorial judgment there; that's not wrong, but it's also not binding.
Startup Threads is a cool idea. If you're one of the people who is not interested in "swag" just don't sign up. I don't understand why people get offended by products. No one is forcing the "swag." If you've ever run your own startup, there is a certain thrill that comes from sticking your first stickers or wearing your first tshirt. The next greatest thrill is seeing your sticker in the wild on shirt on someone on the street. It's about pride. If people are willing to fund the spread of those feelings, then all the power to them.
Reminder: Apple’s iOS 6 Arrives Tomorrow, Here’s What You Need To Know
Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay
Yahoo! Mail. Email is a social network.
Apple is not just in the business of selling iPhone, its in the business of selling New iPhone to old customers. It makes sense to keep reminding your old customers that "hey you got old phone, you need to upgrade your hardware to use this new awesome app".
From the URL in your profile, you seem to do both of the mentioned things...

I won't post links here but from the link in your HN profile (http://web-wanderings.blogspot.com/) a Google search and thirty seconds or so of time reveals a Name, Yahoo account and Twitter handle, the lattermost of which (and a personal page linked from your Gravatar) both strongly tied to a particular religion.

Is there all that much to putting up the thin layer that is a pseudonym in the face of that?

(Hint: This is a new account created using an IP that isn't my own with no details given - it wouldn't (alone) be enough to hide me from anyone actively watching from HN's servers, but should stand up to after-the-fact checks...)
I didn't realize Dirk Diggler lived in Half Moon Bay.
The second link is not a good example of C++ imposing a cost for something you don't use. It's just a bad performance trade-off in std::string. The standard library types aspire to be useful in a wide range of performance-sensitive applications, but if they don't work for you, you are free to use alternatives. Programmers at my company use a variety of C++ containers that are faster than the STL containers for particular uses.

The first link is a reasonable example of paying a cost for something you might not use. However, I disagree with the article when it says there's no good reason for it. People really do compare function pointers for equality. A common example is when different functions implement different "strategies" (to use the GOF term.) A simulation might customize the behavior of simulation objects using pointers to different strategy functions, and you might compare the pointers to find all the simulation objects that follow a particular strategy, or to check whether two objects use the same strategy. Since implementations are free to inline functions that are not declared "inline," there would be no valid way to compare function pointers if an inlined function could have different addresses in different translation units.

Adding performance at the expense of sanity should be voluntary, not the default behavior. (It definitely counts as insanity if comparing &my_handy_function and &my_handy_function for equality returns false in a language where function pointers are the only way to treat a function as data.) Anyone who is picky enough about performance to be concerned about link time is on intimate terms with their implementation(s) anyway, so I think it's perfectly acceptable for such an optimization to be available through non-standard flags. Although, if any language were to standardize insanity, perhaps it would be appropriate for it to be C++.
I would like to be able to timeshift delivery which would sit well with your solution, eg. buy cards en masse, write them out all at once, pay one fee delivery charge, then they are delivered as required at different dates -- perfect for birthday cards for example
If you've read those, you should know enough to delete the "edit: Yes, go ahead and downvote me for pointing out how stupid you are." part of your comment.

Things like that detract from your message, especially if you are correct. And you were at least half right in that those are only part of the design patents asserted. The problem is that Apple really did argue that rounded rectangles were a protected design element. While you can argue over how big a part of the design patents that was, it was something Apple's own lawyers argued over at trial.

So the facts are that they claimed to own that idea in court and that some people think that was absurd. Everything else is a matter of opinion, especially the matter of how important those claims are to the design patents. So you're free to disagree how important that feature of the design patents was. But other people are also free to say that when they argue it in court, it's fair game for criticism. That's all a matter of opinion, and we're each entitled to our own.
The issue is addressed explicitly in Alcubierre's paper where he mentions (at least twice) that there are no closed causal loops in his metric. So there's no violation of causality, and the standard intuitions from special relativity don't apply. Pretty remarkable! The lack of closed causal loops apparently follows immediately from standard results about the sort of metric construction he uses. There's no need to invoke Geroch.
I only mention this as you suggest 'not understanding why people would do this', given you seem to do quite just that yourself.
Ruffletron - wearable musical controller
I would certainly hope that any IP attorney litigating these patents would be able to argue that email is most definitely not a social network as used in the context of the patent.
The bullshit you buy when you became a startup employee. Big companies grow their bullshit in linear time - whereas startups are exponential (whoops - I'm a wealth manager to stupid to do basic maths - of course I mean quadratic).

Seeing these math flaws make me wonder if most wealth managers are, in fact, morons. I'm guessing they are - otherwise wouldn't they be making their own wealth to manage?

Oh wait - this is how they are going to do it - ride the tech bubble and impressionable young millionaires to make their fortune.

Clever girl (Jurassic park reference).

/sarcasm
The YC crowd needs to pay attention to this. There will be a new wave of startups based on the common crawl as it develops.
I'll take the down votes for my post, and note that I'm not advocating you do them often, but there is something to be said about their positive effects if used sparingly and therapeutically.
also instead of learning css, should I just learn CSS3 , since its the newest one?
The free security tool, which is known as the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, or EMET, is available through an advisory on Microsoft's website: blogs.technet.com/b
/msrc/

the "Enhanced Mitigation Experience" = priceless
Teller on theft in magic
Well, the value is in never giving up your identity and never being found, at least until your cause is no longer opposed.

Now that it's clear that his opponents know who he is, his colleagues decided he would be more valuable as a symbol if his real name was known. Whether that is actually good for his health or not is anybody's guess. It's entirely possible that he is safer this way, as now his body can't turn up anywhere without a whole bunch of raised eyebrows.
The best way of assessing someone's value in this kind of work is to work with them. Extracting that second hand, through recommendations and such, seems to be substantially less reliable but perhaps there's some way to engineer around that? I wonder what you'd get if 1) recommendations were public, and 2) they were explicitly a statement that "I have worked with this person and they are better than me at X".
Word, Reed and Dirk had to get out of dodge
Benefit for the family of Sean Smith (Vilerat)
I'm with you. I thought these were one of those "ironic" type awards similar to the Darwin awards or the razzies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Award
Yes, it is very user orientated. Offering users free software with access to sources for those which are interested. And well, for a lot of software that just makes sense. Maybe not for the kernel or for web-development, but a lot for typical desktop software. SF isn't just about source-hosting, it's about hosting complete projects including distribution of binary packages, allowing that projects use custom homepages (instead of scary source-browsing...) and even support for user (and developer) forums.

I don't think it's that hard to see that this is still preferable for many projects.
World's first 2ghz smartphone - and it's Atom powered instead of ARM
This is definitely not true. Many of the best UI ideas coming out of iOS go against "established standards".

This is assuming the stuff is intentional, of course. If it's unintentional, it may simply be a low priority. Whether the UITableViewCell is de-selected during or after the animation is a pretty subtle and innocuous ui artifact that could nevertheless require deep changes under the hood to fix. If I was Marco, I'd weigh the impact of leaving it how it is, with the work required to change it, and probably end up leaving it until next time I reworked that area of my code. One man operations require tradeoffs pretty much all the time.

You can always use Pocket if you can't handle the occasional not-very rough edges this results in.
Not quite the same functionality but on that page you can click the drop-down on the search bar and "Add GitHub". Then the github command line is one of the options for search providers alongside Google, Wikipedia etc. If you select it as the default, you can Ctrl-K up to the search bar and type a command without leaving the keyboard.

Also (and I'm not sure how useful this is) you can select some text, right-click it and execute it as a GitHub command.
What I have in mind is more focused on the composition part of music creation, rather then recording / editing. But this is a very cool project! And of course collaborative sound editing would be awesome for an idea such as mine.
I did.

First off, I didn't want folks to think I was being a jerk for not responding to things there, or getting the wrong idea from my absence. It just seemed like a good way to explain what I'm doing.

Additionally, it's good for traffic, and I still intend to use Facebook in that capacity. I'll continue to post on our agency and project pages, or have someone assigned to do so for me.

As I noted in the post, I'm not anti-Facebook. I just want my time back. The biggest impact on this, came when I killed the apps on my iPhone (I knocked off LinkedIn too). Later, I may do the same to TV and respond to fewer blog posts.
Postgres Open 2012 - Slides for talks
I thought it only did not allow other browsers to do JIT compiling, whereas Apple is the one who does not allow competing browsers at all on ARM (iOS).
Yes, or folding and putting away laundry. The bane of modern existence! I'll take a hack for that if you've got one.
Vowpal Wabbit (Fast Learning)
Sure, B sees things happen in the wrong order, but I will maintain that causality is not actually violated until an effect actually disturbs a cause.

In other words, if B sends that message back to A, you have violated causality. If B just sits there and watches events happen out of order, then the causality is obscured but not broken.
I thought IAC owned Match.com.
Many people can't upgrade their iOS because Apple doesn't support it. Example: my second generation iPod Touch is stuck at iOS 4.2.