skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That linked one is inoffensive though still a bit goofy IMO: we've got lined paper, but the text on it completely disregards the lines, and the rope/metal cord hanging the paper doesn't look right depth-wise. And glass + lined notepaper is a weird combo in general. :)

But I agree with your take that in a case like that it's merely a stylistic choice (some of the other examples, though...). The interesting thing to me is the cyclical aspect: skins seemed to have died down in popularity, at least among the geek crowd, for the past decade. Apple's brushed metal stuff was largely derided, Luna got toned down to Aero Glass, Aqua got toned down to what it is today, "skinnable" became less and less a bullet point for apps (ah, for the good ol' days of Sonique and Audion...). It remained on the web, since there's no good "native" equivalent like for desktop apps, though even there Bootstrap was a move away. Then it exploded again, driven by iOS and an increase in single-page web apps. I have to wonder if it's due to an influx of new designers and developers who are starting on iOS or the web and missed the first go-round. Ultimately I suspect that many of the more extreme examples we see today will end up massively toned down, along the lines of Mac OS X 10.0's Aqua vs today's. I.e., linen/denim/leather/etc are today's pinstripes and brushed metal.
The FBI Agent (Christopher K. Stangl) appears in a recruiting video for cybersecurity experts. It is no sign of secret knowledge when his name is used.
We've seen a quadrant close to this space thoroughly explored: Non-technical founders with strong personalities. MBAs were the most heavily funded during the first bubble in the 90s, far more so than technical people.
The power of stories on our minds
She might be hoping to make money by exchanging messages with people (MyGirlFund charges for that), or by doing live webcam sessions. The free videos might help as marketing for that
Hacked Apple UDID data came from BlueToad, not FBI
Spoken like someone who has never been slut-shamed. Or had his/her leg blown off by a landmine. People don't actually get maimed because they stupidly walked into a minefield. They get maimed because someone put a minefield where they live and grew up, and they can't live life at all without being in constant danger. Women don't get slut-shamed because they did something to deserve it, they get slut-shamed because they live in a culture where our first reaction to anything having to do with women and harassment is to look for a reason why she had it coming.

Someone doesn't have to say "I blame the victim" to blame the victim. Usually what they say is something along the lines of "I'm not blaming her, but..."
As a designer, I couldn't agree more. Skeuomorphism can be great if done right. Nowadays visual designers (who are wannabee UX folks) think any sexy texture (leather patterns) can increase usability of an app. Even startup founders think the same. They don't realize design is not the shiny new coat of paint, design is how it works. In fact if your users think "it works fine", it means you've done great job. Your objective is not to hear "wow it has sexy design".
>For example, what is so bad about this?http://skeu.it/image/24908403424

from a usability standpoint, absolutely nothing. from an aesthetic standpoint, it is tacky as hell. They may as well have wrapped their login form with faux-fur texture leopard print. You're right, it is merely a stylistic choice and it isn't going to confuse the users. That doesn't make it good.
This really, really sucks. I like Marco's take on development (both software and career) and entrepreneurship, and he has a "no bullshit" approach to technology.

But what the heck is going on today? He questions The Verge's integrity (despite having nothing more than the absence of a iMac/HP Spectre One comment), tries to backpedal on it, then starts blocking sites he's feuding with?

Lame. He's normally the most level-headed of the popular Mac bloggers.
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It is a political opinion based on facts. I can't think of another President with a less qualified resume. 1 half term as Senator, a few years in the state senate, and "community organizer" isn't exactly the resume most Presidents have.

Going back to Carter:
Carter: Governor of Georgia
Reagon: Governor of California
H.W. Bush: Ambassador, CIA Director, Vice-President
Clinton: Governor of Arkansas
W. Bush: Governor of Texas
Obama: 4 years of 1 Senate term, 2 of which he spent running for president.
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I'm badly aching for this feature. Running log aggregation are such a pain when a statistical understanding of what is slow is as useful and extremely cheap (in terms of compute power) to gather. Adding some of the detailed information to that log would also be quite expensive (such as detailed timing of queries in a handful of dimensions), but are cheap to aggregate on the fly.

Even though it is a mere contrib and as such not included in the top of the release notes, I predict pg_stat_statements will be a huge leap in productivity in terms of tuning database indexes, which nobody gets around to getting time to do because it's a total pain to do the reporting about what is actually slow. Now it'll be pretty easy by comparison and I hope people will write even more reporting tools to make it trivial to do a reasonably good job.

An index suggestion tool may be more credibly in the cards of the moderately distant future in the future now that this critical work is done.
Well, it's not a direct causal connection -- that's how we use "and" in English -- but basically, moral responsibility is commutative.

Bears don't have a responsibility towards us: they're bears, they don't realize it's wrong to eat hikers. And accordingly, we don't have a responsibility towards bears: If there's a bear that's eating hikers, we don't try to have a conversation with it, we shoot it and move on.
"In statistics, prediction is a part of statistical inference. One particular approach to such inference is known as predictive inference, but the prediction can be undertaken within any of the several approaches to statistical inference. Indeed, one description of statistics is that it provides a means of transferring knowledge about a sample of a population to the whole population, and to other related populations, which is not the same as prediction over time. When information is transferred across time, often to specific points in time, the process is known as forecasting."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction#Statistics

It's not forecasting if it doesn't involve time, but it is if it does. That's why you can find evidence saying "Prediction == Forecasting" because that is true if there is a time component.
They have. They've switched to Verisign.
Without being a policy analyst for the CIP world, just a guy who writes code in it, these seem like a good idea. The only thing I would add is a point 4- failing audits should hurt/cost. There needs to be an incentive to not fail.

The key problems to avoid lie around point 2. It can not become a case of regulatory capture. Nor, for that matter, should be a bunch of IT security yahoos who don't understand the unique demands that CIP/SCADA systems have.

(By the way, if anyone wants to talk about this sort of thing, feel free to email me).
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A wood farming industry could be great for the environment, if done right. As long as you don't burn it, wood is a carbon sink, and as long as you keep replanting trees as you cut them down, you aren't really deforesting.

Basically, assuming this is produced sustainably, for every tonne of this magic wood pulp we produce we suck about 2/3rds of a tonne of CO2 out of the atmosphere. Win-win!
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I think a good team will have some of each and a good manager is responsible for everyone getting along. The interesting question is what happens when Rodrigo reports to Gabriella a year down the road - will he realize that her people skill got her in that position?
As a web-dev I see these kinds of comments a lot.

There is a simple solution:
Step 1) Upgrade your browser.
Step 2) Enable JavaScript.

You can't strip down your browsers functionality and expect the web to conform to it.
Thats like saying this website won't load on my potato! EVIL EVIL potato haters!
just launched this start up recently. comments are welcome.
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I'd love to have a really long debate with QS leaders because I'm uncertain of my views just yet. But here's a few thoughts:

1) Medical apps only track vital signs. Tells you nothing about chronic/progressing diseases yet

2) We don't need to obsess about stats to improve our lives. We don't need these kind of distractions.

3) Measurement is still highly manual for many cases. Won't hit the mainstream until people don't notice it.

4) What problems does it solve exactly? Withings is useful though, but only as a luxury/fun item.

It's too early. That's my only sure opinion. Far, far too early. But as this thread proves, I'm quite poor at predicting the future ;)
I remember when this started happening, something trickled over to Reddit and so I investigated to get the full story.

Needless to say, it was rather quite horrible and I really did feel for the girl. At the same time, I was utterly confused as to why on earth she tried to poke a hornets nest...

It's a shame that people are still trying to ruin her life more. It's almost like some people think if something is done over a computer, it's not "real".
...how again is someone who (according to the article) has been part of 4chan for some time fundamentally incapable of poking that particular bear?

I understand and agree with your logic (at least so far as "judging people for their participation in unavoidable situations is wrong" summarizes it), but I don't think it applies here.
Skeu is saccharine, and that's why it sucks. Mouthful of gloss. Yuck.
If the bad guy has intercepted the DNS, they can just provide the md5 of the bad script, no?

That's enough extra work, and unreliable enough, that the attacker might not bother. Why work so hard to sabotage the user who checks md5sums when you can just wait for a user that doesn't? Just because thieves can carry lockpicks doesn't mean that you shouldn't bother locking your car: Protection against lazy, opportunistic thieves is still better than nothing.

The other advantage of the MD5 plan is that you can download the MD5 from a different site than the script, at a different time and over a different internet connection (or, perhaps, over https). A specific, important version of that use case is: If you're installing the script over and over again in an automated fashion, you can download its MD5 in advance, cache it, and then check it against every future download of the script to verify that the script hasn't changed. When the script gets updated and the MD5 legitimately changes, you audit the diff and then update your copy of the MD5 for the future.

Meanwhile, using curl-over-HTTPS seems like it couldn't hurt, but better make sure 'curl' is really checking the cert and aborting on cert mismatch, because tools can be very sloppy about this. Also, you're still trusting the third party site, and once their site gets hacked it's game over… unless you have another canonical source for the MD5 sum.

One ultimately realizes why real packaging systems have signed packages, with private keys assigned to developers.
Your design is definitely way better in my opinion; much easier to focus in on any specific information immediately (and with no scrolling required).

The only significant usability change I'd make to both sites would be have the one who wants to know the details send a link to a setter URL of a known key (e.g. '/set/foo') which would both display the information to the user and send the information to the server so that '/foo' now persistently displays the same information. That way, any potential user (say, an IT helpdesk person) doesn't require any expectations of the person whose details they want other than the ability to click a link.
Ok, fair enough. You covered a lot in that comment, and I think I agree with a lot of it, even though I'm conservative.

And, my opinion on who/what is destroying our "republic with each passing minute" is much different than yours, but that's why we live here. :)

I agree, this convo has completely diverted from the original thread topic, but my comment was in response to your comment about civil liberties, etc. I'm happy to listen in to the other stuff, but when you venture out into other political philosophies, be prepared to debate. I don't care how smart you think you are :).

But, I stick by my original statement of, "man up and quit defending him." My gut tells me you're somewhere in-between, like I am, but only you can answer that...
To be really pedantic, your assumption that there was some expectation that my post would not be snarky is fallacious. Why do you hold that expectation? See, I wasn't the one calling out the snark, I was just pointing out what from the OP could be considered snarky, and I did it in a snarky way. That isn't irony just because you held the (incorrect) belief that for some reason (again, what reason?) my response post could/should not be snarky. That is all besides the fact that you had to dig up a proscribed definition of irony from god knows where to support your faulty premise.

Nice try though.
I do agree that if a developer has some personal beef with a website that should not allow him/her to think they have the right to block it from their users. Apple wouldn't dream to go as far as to block google.com or samsung.com on their OS's for example just because they have some serious business disagreements. The fact is though we only really have one side of the story here, so hopefully Marco will explain his side of the story (perhaps on his podcast http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze).

To be honest though I simply cannot believe he would think such a thing acceptable, he seems like a pretty clued-in guy this would be a blunder of epic proportions if true, there's something more to this story.
In this case, I think it's kind of a stretch to suggest the victim doesn't hold some level of culpability.

She wasn't randomly targeted just for going about her business; she was targeted because she repeatedly posted calling /b/ "fags," "jits," "[/b] ain't shit," etc.

Suggesting that she doesn't have any responsibility for what happened doesn't make any more sense to me than condoning how /b/ responded.
Branded, possibly sub-domains, etc. So it looks like a tool their business created for their clients.
Facebook Had A Huge Drop In Traffic Last Month (but it doesn't matter..)
"But ComScore's Andrew Lipsman says that the drop isn't cause for worry.

"The decline is due to a US-wide change in our weighting methodology based on newer US Census data," Lipsman told Business Insider in an email. "The decline is due to that, not organic reasons.""

I just find it interesting that the story was published and given that headline given the comment from comscore.
We still have more work to do. And in any case you can't actually buy it from the site - it directs you to iTunes which tells you not to buy it. If you do buy it you can get a refund from Apple. Furthermore, the site itself generates negligible traffic compared to iTunes for us.

We'll wipe out the site and point it to the blog in due course but it's midnight here in the UK and as you can imagine it's been a draining 24 hours.

EDIT: Oops, I voted you up. In any case I am neutral about your response ;)
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I don't see why not. Pocket computers didn't really take off until the iPhone made them fashionable.
"But ComScore's Andrew Lipsman says that the drop isn't cause for worry.

"The decline is due to a US-wide change in our weighting methodology based on newer US Census data," Lipsman told Business Insider in an email. "The decline is due to that, not organic reasons.""

I just find it interesting that the story was even published and with that headline given the comment from comscore which is where the metrics come from. Maybe the headline should be "analyst doesn't do his homework..."
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The Art of Hidden-City Ticketing
I don't understand all the hate for skeuomorphism lately. Who cares if the todo app uses a design that makes it feel like a leather bound paper notebook. The point of design is to make something functional and beautiful. As long as it doesn't actively make the functionality worse, and some people like they way it looks, what is the problem?
You know what is really broken? The "X is broken" record.
Sorry but I have to agree with Josh. This has been going on for a while now so does it really need to be mentioned in every article?
Marco has a history of doing this. He's a developer, and an opinionated one at that (which is saying something for us guys.)

His actions here stink of foul play rather than any genuine worry. Maybe he has another side to this – but if he does, telling people to fuck off isn't the way around it.
FitFu allows you to do a lot of stuff without even signing up for a "FitFu online" account, and even once you have signed up we built it to deal well with being offline or on a flaky internet connection. Effectively when we "turn off" the servers the app should just treat it as if it is offline and continue to function normally but without the network features working. I think this is generally a good approach to take on mobile.
That FIFO temporary file is the file descriptor of the subprocess' stdout. You're accessing it through a pipe.

It's most useful when you want to diff the result of multiple commands, e.g.: diffing the contents of two directories:

$ diff <(find /first/path | sort) <(find /second/path | sort)
I honestly like it. I can actually read the source, as opposed to a pkg or or .app.

Do you think piping a shell script is less secure?
Strangely, I never minded having my Skitch images uploaded to Skitch but I don't really like now needing an Evernote account. (it's my understanding that I will, but it's not clear)

It's really too bad when great software gets tangled with a service. What I mean is that I'd ideally like to use Skitch with whatever online storage I want.
Very nice article. I recently switched to amazon from dyn. One thing I noticed is that amazon has unique hostnames for the nameservers.

Can you comment on how Amazon's use of unique name server names impacted your results? I have a suspicion that amazon is half as fast because it requires two lookups instead of 1. ns1.dyn.org is likely to be cached, but llkadjsf.amazondns.net is unlikely to be cached.
>> she takes 30 lines to write what should be written in 15 or 20, she introduces bugs that QA has to spend their time on, and she doesn't really grasp the concept of writing code that performs well

>> she is a great communicator and is able to explain complex technical issues quite clearly to clients

I haven't yet met a developer/programmer who writes a code like the one described in the first statement being a great communicator as described in the second statement. Most of them who could articulate complex technical issues seem to be great programmers too. Any counter examples?
>Spoken like someone who has never been slut-shamed. Or had his/her leg blown off by a landmine.

Lord knows it ain't easy being a slutty amputee.
The app will exist in your iTunes backup(s) if you've sync'd since buying it, and on your device(s) unless you delete it, so users shouldn't have to worry too much about accidental deletion. If they delete it from both places then I'd suggest they probably don't want it back anyway.
"Photos are a b*tch: Photo uploading is broken"

If you're going to use profanities, then please, at least use profanities.

"In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself." - Tim Robbins
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excuse me but these kids are clearly rockstar ninjas and they have earned the right to speak as they choose!
Do you know why debian did that? Any links to debian-devel threads?
I just want to add in my experience in this field and using Filepicker.io as a service:

We spent the better part of two weeks introducing inline images into our social network's stream which worked by the user copy-pasting a URL to a youtube video/vimeo video/imgur gallery page/imgur photo page/direct link to any image mimetype into their status update box and posting it. If they did this, some javascript would (almost) magically show a preview of the attached media and show them that it would be displayed inline. We thought it was awesome and would be the greatest thing ever.

No one used it.

Not only that, our biggest assumption was wrong: Our users didn't know how to upload photos from their computers onto imgur or another photo upload service, if they were told they could copy/paste the URL to an image and have it show up.

Luckily, the weekend after we released this feature Filepicker was announced and we jumped on it right away, I set up a new version of inline images on our site using Filepicker and our previous method combined in less than 2 days, and it was live that Monday, and guess what? While most people still don't add images on our site, the usage rate has almost gone up by 10x.
Save for SMS and email reminders, this looks remarkably similar to a site I built a while ago called FlashcardStash (http://flashcardstash.com) (used to be WordStash).
Has anyone made anything like this and then licensed it, unbranded, to gyms for a monthly fee?
Right. And also this 'real' debugger would not be predictable, would crash, wouldn't work with my favorite environment, would be a hell to install, etc... No, thank you very much, good old GDB is fine with me.
Suggestion: Check the version against the latest release and kindly notify visitors if a newer release is available. Provide the link to make it easy to upgrade.

I've often had family and friends ask me why some site or service doesn't work but they don't know if their browsers are up to date. I would love to start by directing them to a site like this and telling them to upgrade if they aren't using the latest version of their browser.
...

I'd love to read this, but there does not appear to be a way to read the full article on an iPad.
You're calling _me_ angry?
except for the fact that leather is massively overused these days.

There's nothing inherently evil about having leather, but don't think it makes for a distinctive look.
I suppose my error was giving you the benefit of the doubt by assuming that you did not actually intend to be snarky.

Also, read that definition again. It is not archaic, it is modern "it has been common since the 1600s". This definition was pulled from wiktionary.

So to review, I dared use the word "irony" in an informal fashion, and you are a snarky pedant.
I don't like the idea of trying to make code as small as possible. You might end up with perl one liners...