skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My designer friend and I are laughing so hard at this that we're crying.

In all seriousness, this is the perfect tool for showing people how skeumorphism can be taken too far. I actually like many of these designs, but the point is that the metaphors don't actually help, and sometimes only add to the confusion. (Denim weather app? Pea coat button loops for on/off switches?)
> implying this isn't just a random fake account
> implying there is a spokesperson for Anonymous
> implying there is a trace of credibility to this claim
I think censorship is a bit of a strong word.
Yes but still.. why so very very nervous? I value that they get things working as soon as possible. After that I can switch.
there you go http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/27/apple-is-growing-rotten-to-...
This was done a few times in XBMC & a few homebrew dashboards for the original XBox. The current iteration in Steam Big Picture is cleaner and benefits greatly from a high-resolution screen and the increased real-estate that brings.

It's not a new idea by any means, but it may be the best execution of that idea so far.
Florida Golf Coast University?
Photo uploading is broken
I don't have a problem working with people who are smarter than me. I work with them quite often actually. The problem is when it comes to an intimate relationship. I actually do not think we are on the same level. I think that my level is quite alright, but she very much tops it.
Hold on - that doesn't seem to say what people want to think it's saying, does it? That's a license to use Smalltalk-80 in products. It isn't a license to use the Xerox Parc system or look and feel at all. I think the point remains: if there had been software patents at the time of the original litigation, Xerox would have won. Am I missing something?
What's the point of the service, if its author can selectively disable functionality for his own reasons, whatever they be?
I think that's part of the point here. The visual metaphor of leather doesn't make much sense, and is only there as an ornament because it (apparently) looks attractive. Why include the leather at all, if it's not a helpful metaphor for using the product?
I really would love it, especially if they add export mechanisms so I won't lose my data if they ever decide to die. Burned once already, unfortunately.
XAMPP/MAMP and others like it seem like they make life easier until you hit a point where you realize that they are seriously leaky implementations. I wish I had time to write in detail about this (because I also hate when people make claims like this without showing examples); however, I have a feeling that the people that would benefit the most won't care anyway.

Don't these distros still put php.ini in c:\windows?
But the sex itself, is it that much different than "real" sex? Are there really that many people having boring sex to make the amount of people coming close to and/or surpassing porn a statistical anomaly?

This is a bit like asking if Hollywood hacking is really that much different from real hacking. Real sex is exciting to the participants -- if done right, more exciting than porn sex -- but that excitement doesn't show up well when the act is filmed, so porn producers have settled on a series of tropes intended to make it exciting to the (predominantly male) audience. So there is lots of emphasis on body parts moving against and within each other, and the event of male ejaculation. To allow the camera a good view, porn actors fuck in positions that would be fatiguing if used regularly by people of ordinary fitness levels.

For most people, real sex involves a lot of kissing and fondling non-genital, non-breast body parts. (Sometimes biting, smacking, or pinching if you are kinky.) They may be seated or reclining, next to each other or one atop the other, for long periods of time with relatively little movement. Bringing a woman to orgasm is especially tricky: some can cum in 15 seconds while others require long and careful attention. Some have physical needs which change with time; I recall one girl who preferred a bit of roughness early in play and a gentler touch later on. When she does cum, a woman may scream and holler, moan quietly, or not at all; sometimes the only clue she gives you is holding you tighter, or an involuntary twitch of the hips that can be felt more than seen. Joe Six Pack stroking it at home doesn't want to see that shit, he just want bang bang bang. And that's what porn delivers, but imho it's the easiest and most boring part of a sexual relationship (whether committed or not).
More akin to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ko6uV83V1s

(Skip the family guy bit, and be aware that there's NSFW language.)
When it's this blatant, yes. It's not that the Verge are being pro-Apple or anti-HP or whatever, there is a massive elephant in the room that has been seemingly deliberately ignored that warrants at least a passing comment.
<start pathetic argument> I can't believe Apple is suing HP for making a computer with a keyboard, mouse and a monitor with round corners. Apple is a patent troll, suing instead of innovating</end android fanboi argument>
I like how this happens after his reddit IAmA where he espoused in a specific answer that he would work in the interests of internet users to maintain a free internet and not enact, support or enforce policies/legislature of this nature.

This is politics as usual.
"If you're in the rare situation of using GoDaddy DNS but don't use them as a registrar, then you're in luck. Simply sign up with a new DNS provider."

Assumes of course that people have their zone file to refer to. Which they should. Even if you don't know what a zone file is it's probably a good idea to at the very least make a screen grab of the information where the info is shown at your registrar. Or just use dig from the command line (see my comment further down for syntax).
IPhone 5 sales could offer big boost to U.S. GDP
Google drive media player
Hi All,

I've always wondered if there was a web application which allowed one seamlessly play media files stored in Google drive as a playlist. So after unsuccessfully searching for such application over the past few months, I decided to create one and here is the result. please share your thoughts.

http://drive.aroscompany.com/gmbox/gmbox.php
I'm always confused about Steam news from Valve. In this case it seems to actually be what I expect when I read something about Steam: the clientside application of their game distribution tech.

So many times people talk about Steam when it seems they are really talking about the Source Engine. It's almost a shock to see an article about Steam that really is about the client app.
That's not even dangerously close to blaming the victim; that is blaming the victim.
quote?

It appears I cannot view the video from Canada-land. arbitrary region restrictions cough
I heard that reasoning, too. But couldn't it be still a good strategy? You accept the counteroffer, but go jobhunting again from a higher base.
I think they mean 'Gulf'
So skeuomorphism is now anything besides Windows Phone style "pure digital"? Shiny = glass, black texture = leather, blue texture = denim, etc? That's going to be really, really boring.

I don't know why texture is such a bad thing. Of course you can overdo it like anything, but personally I prefer Reeder with a light paper-pulp backing texture instead of a plain light peach background.

For example, what is so bad about this?

http://skeu.it/image/24908403424

It almost feels like people are calling it skeuomorphic so that's how they expect the developer to feel about it. I don't think regular people look at these as real world metaphors, expecting them to function as they do in real life. That feels to me like a theoretical user posed by developers that doesn't actually exist.

In reality, people see it for what it is. Design flair. Whether or not it's unnecessary or helps the user with the app is missing the point entirely. Design that's pleasing to the eye shouldn't get in the way and cause problems, but it doesn't have to accelerate your use of the service to be positive overall.

Aero Glass is a great example. It gets mixed opinions, but I think we can all agree that it's far better than Luna and IE actually looks pretty great with it. There is no skeuomorphic benefit to having glass everywhere. It's simply design flair. With that in mind, I still prefer it.
heh, thanks for the grammar corrections. I fear I am not a native English speaker though. In my mother tongue I write better (I so as hell hope so anyways).
I find it interesting that 'Atlas Shrugged' is included under the "Red Books" list. It is a piece of fiction, even if is allegorical. Also, since Rand was vehemently anti-religion, it hardly fits with the Republican Party platform. I, along with most of the people I know who have ACTUALLY read it, rather than simply SAY they have read it, will certainly not be voting for Romney.

However, I'm sure there are many, many Republicans who will buy it just to stick it on their bookshelf (unopened) to show how truly conservative they are. My father was one such person. He has had that book on his shelf since I was a small child, and to this day has yet to read it.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought that. A bit on the large side...
"Making sense" is not a well-defined concept: Different, contradictory things make sense to different people.

In fact, basing a society on "what makes sense" [to the party that has the power] rather than a written code of laws sounds like a recipe that will quickly turn a country into a distopian dictatorship.
Pardon my naivety, but what is this '/b/' they cite?
Devil's advocate: leather, or any skin for that matter, creates a distinctiveness to the app that serves as kind of a "key" to your mental model of how it works and what it's for.

That key can be used in various incarnations of your app's UI, on the web, across platforms, or even in system services (like notifications or Siri's sheets) to let the user quickly make the association with your app.
Startup Is the New Hipster
What you've said is true, but it should be noted that not only did Xerox never file a patent suit - nobody filed a software patent suit for at least a decade afterwards. Software patents were at that time unknown. If Xerox had wanted to file a software patent suit, a good lawyer would have disabused them of that notion instantly by pointing out that that wasn't how patents worked then.

So the fact that Xerox didn't file a patent suit doesn't say much, I don't think. That doesn't mean that Xerox wasn't in the wrong or that Apple wasn't in the right; it just means that patent lawsuits really weren't the way people went about these things then.
well I answered runjake question with my definition of smarts.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4502503
Why does a review, whose nominal purpose is to give the reader enough information about the product to make an informed purchasing decision, need to mention this sort of thing at all, ever?
I moved the bulk of the sites I manage off of GD when the SOPA thing happened but left a couple because the pain of transferring was to much (read, client didn't want to).

Surprisingly, all the reasons to stay on GD vanished this afternoon :-P
Cloning Chip+PIN/EMV cards with a pre-play attack
http://boards.4chan.org/b/ (most def. NSFW)
Yep, you can turn it off:

./configure --disable-cli

The CLI is enabled by default, so most distros have this built-in if they have a PHP 5.4 version available.
Heroku's reference:

http://picsofwords.herokuapp.com
My exact thoughts. The quote for those who don't have access to watch the video:

"Anonymous is a hornet's nest, and Barr said, 'I'm gonna put my penis in that thing.'"
Design?

Some of these are actually pretty attractive and don't appear to interfere with the usage of the app. Others aren't so attractive and many more are hard to use.

Why is a texture automatically worse than a solid colored background?
>Why would I go with a company that is outright trying to steal money from me?

You really think they'd resort to deception for an extra 50 cents per month? Ignorance before malice.
On a Windows box, Helvetica is aliased to Arial as true Helvetica is not installed.
Where the Bailouts Stand in One Graphic
Since when does trusting a business critical function to a free service make any sense? At least GoDaddy has a motivation to provide some level of service because people are paying them.

Some other alternatives that aren't free, but are highly reliable are:
http://dyn.com/
http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com

I use the latter one and in addition to providing an alternative to my registrar, they also seem to have much faster response times, which cut some milliseconds off a site lookup.
> P90X, WiiFit, exercise DVDs - those become $1b markets.

Massive margin on buy-once items + insane marketing budgets = $$$. Even Billy Blanks Jr is having a hard time with his DVDs (http://www.meettheblanks.com/, watch the Shark Tank episode if you haven't already). Fitness is fickle.

> CrossFit is a $1b company.

Gyms make so much money because they hard sell you to commit, then you sign a contract you can't get out of.
Don't ask directly about turnover. Ask about average time people stay there. (Depending on your formulation of the question, you give them an opportunity to brag about how much they are growing and thus having new-ish people.)
was able to get it running on windows, so I am happy with it. Needs more in-depth guide so I know what it provides and the reasoning behind ur "sane defaults"
This is maybe my favorite new feature in PHP. In ruby I'm so used to just running shotgun locally and not having to install MAMP, XAMP, WAMP or any of those other things I used to have to deal with just to get a little web server working to develop against. Good job PHP.
The issue with Wave for me was that it killed my computer (and I don't have a light computer) and this does the same. OP his app is so nice and light...
Looks like today is International Fuck Marco Arment day.

(no disrespect meant to Marco)
The KindleBerry Pi
There is a standard called GeoRSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRSS), but I had a hard time finding news feeds that actually contain geolocation information :(
This said, the wikipedia page has an interesting example that may make a good demo: the USGS realtime, worldwide earthquake list for the past 7 days (with magnitudes).
What are some benefits of using App.net?
Actually, I kind of like this analogy. If 4chan are bears, that means they don't have any moral responsibility, and it's okay to shoot them.
Marco's response on Twitter seemed to indicate that people had, in fact, already begun to blame him for the UDID leak. At the very least, that's a foreseeable reaction to publishing a story claiming a potential link.
At what point is it OK to blame the victim? Blame on the victim doesn't have to mean the attacker(s) are blameless, or that they aren't complete assholes. She attempted to provoke a reaction out of a group of strangers some of whom are known for reacting this way, surely there's no way of looking at this without thinking her somewhat naive/idiotic?
Well I mean they're writing more stories about Microsoft/Nokia/WP because the phones were announced and are eventually going to be released soon. And I'm guessing they give one full-time writer one specific topic so they have a writer who actually follows along with what's going on with the subject.

I mean they were one of the bigger news sites to come out and accuse Nokia of doctoring their OIS videos (albeit they also got an exclusive article afterwards showing how well the OIS photos looked compared to other phones). I don't think either Gruber or Marco's accusations hold much weight.
I hadn't seen the Spectre yet, but wow is that blatant, and that's coming from someone who thinks Samsung should NOT be getting in trouble with Apple right now. This would seem a case for trademark infringement.
It is an open source project, I am guessing that one or more contributors decided they wanted the built in be web server.

There is nothing stopping others getting involved if there were other things they want to see in future PHP versions.
I've updated the app so that you can now define a list of apps that won't ever be closed.
You are conflating two independent ideas: was it wise to behave as she did, and was 4chan's response OK. The answer to both is "no". It was unwise for her to do what she did, but that does not justify the response. Don't accuse people of blaming the victim for pointing out her unwise behavior.

If I go for a walk in a minefield, it sucks that my leg got blown off...but I could have perhaps exercised better judgment regarding the location of my evening constitutional. That doesn't make it OK to deploy land mines, that just makes me an idiot for walking into the minefield.
I personally envisioned this to come with hardware (wireless HDMI) [http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/2011/02/creation-the-steam-cons...] so that you wouldn't have to have another box next to the TV but instead could keep your PC in your room and just transmit it's audio/video/controller input over to your living room.

From what I've heard wireless HDMI is not at that level of stability and reliability yet.
boards.4chan.org/b/ [nsfw]

4chan has different boards which pertain to different subject matter. For example, /mu/ for music, /sp/ for sports and /v/ for video games. /b/ is the "random" board where essentially anything goes. It is also the most popular board on the 4chan. /b/ is sometimes referred to as "the asshole of the internet" proceed there at your own risk.
I agree that Obama has been shameful re: civil liberties...so have recent Republicans. But please hold your denigration from the Democrats. They don't care. At all. 95% of Congress doesn't care. At all. Regarding Nixon in China, you need to read up on your history. For all of Nixon's faults (and they could build a mighty big Five Guys burger's worth)...the fact is that he opened up China for the first time ever for this country. That is the big deal. So, your implication is that Obama has done the same for our civil liberties? Are you implying that Nixon sacrificed our civil liberties in order to dialogue with the Chinese? I'm not even sure what you're implying. Please enlighten me.
Always fascinating to watch these robots, but I really wish they'd show them going over terrain that a wheeled robot couldn't. Isn't that the point?
it's a board on 4chan. a massive piece of random stuff, some find it entertaining, some everything but that.
To be clear: Filepicker.io isn't broken.
I agree with you, but thus far I have been reluctant to "call out" anyone, as we aren't supposed to comment if we can't add to the conversation.

Something does need to change though, just the other day someone responded to a post by simply calling the OP a "fag." While this type of behavior is common on many sites, I sincerely hope that it remains a rarity in our community.
Mind-controlling Cockroaches
Puppeteer is there to ease out Puppet-izing the infrastructure.
I think if you go around calling people "fags", you probably shouldn't expect a positive result nor much sympathy. She's an asshole for that, but the rest of the blame goes to 4chan obviously.
Google Consumer Surveys Party Conventions Post-Mortem
Blaming the victim involves some variation of:

"the stupid bitch deserved it"

I don't think she deserves any of this, just observing that it's a predictable outcome and she was stupid not to foresee.
This can improve clarity, but it's ugly as hell IMO

def make_person_an_outside_subscriber_if_all_accesses_revoked
person.update_attribute(:outside_subscriber, true) if person.reload.accesses.blank?
end

I prefer camel case
I wasn't arguing that texture is worse. When used appropriately, it's generally better than solid colors, both in terms of UX and just visual attractiveness.

But there is a certain category of textures that seem to come up most often on this site. Things like leather, denim, paper that perhaps remind users of rough, tactile, durable materials. These metaphors get a lot of use, especially on iOS, and I find that it's funny to call them out sometimes. Sure, it's attractive, but also perhaps a bit derivative.
To be fair, he's mostly instigating it himself with incendiary posts and tweets. I can't keep up with how many people he's told to f--- off in the past 48 hours.
I'd say (although until seeing the DDoS numbers, I suppose I can't assume anything) that any large hosting provider like this should have an infrastructure in place for taking care of a large attack like this. To have any less at this late a stage in the game for them, speaks of a general enough incompetence as to be enough reason to move services, let alone 'political' type reasons.

I've seen (and experienced) 10Gigabit+ DDoS attacks and generally they end up taking down the entire data-center, but that's smaller provider levels. I can't imagine that level of attack should take down Godaddy, but then who knows what they're actually running behind the scenes. Essentially, what I'm saying... is this is a large enough issue with the internet today that a provider this large should have had at least SOME protections in place for this already (And perhaps Verisign might have been a decent enough choice, or Prolexic...).
I agree. A poorly or out of context metaphor hardly qualifies as skeumorphic to me. there are still some good examples of skeumorphism gone wrong, but it's not the gist of the whole blog
without looking too much into this... she runs a porn channel, has an understanding of how /b/ works, and is now getting a ton of publicity?

am I missing a detail here or is she getting exactly what she wants
I just canceled my Instapaper paying subscription.

I don't care about this story, I just care about the provider of a service that decides to block me for his personal matters.

Sorry but it just feels like an insult to me.
That's an excellent idea. Love the simplicity.
Great, another reason to chop trees down.
Hacking Marathon Races
Tried three different credit cards. Two visas and one Mastercard. It says it can't verify my cards. Anyone seeing that?
Argh, why do I waste my time reading about famous devs vs. blogs vs. bloggers vs. journalists? It's like a car crash.

I guess it is time to turn the minaway setting up...

edit: Actually it's more like watching Jersey shore. A fantasy world where people have problems that everyone should listen to.
Thanks. More documentation is on my todo list... please stay tuned.
get many of your facts from the news. That doesn't give an accurate representation of life in America.

Nope. Quite the contrary. I'm aware that the main stream media is mostly just a tool for controlling the masses. The issue here was tptacek always rushing in to defend The Establishment in whatever is happening.
So we can use any word to mean anything?

This kind of abuse of language has serious consequences in the long run. The language of modern physics is already way too muddled.

I don't understand what you're trying to say in the last sentence. But it seems like you're being derisive, which is utterly inappropriate.
Nah, there's plenty of low end games on Steam. A larger issue is that neither Steam nor any of the games sold through it will run on an ARM processor.
What a fantastic site! Sent it round the office web devs!
I'm a big fan of The Verge but this seems melodramatic and a little hollow. The HP machine doesn't just share a few design features with the iMac, it's lifted the design wholesale. Way more than any Samsung phone did w.r.t iPhone. Not mentioning this in the article was weird.

And Joshua is being "bullied"? Really? Sensitive types, these bloggers.
Good coders work for glory, not money nor power.
There is more to 4chan than just /b/.

Yes, /b/ seems to be the only reason people hear or know about 4chan. But /b/ has done this sort of stuff in the past for massive 'lulz', and they have also stopped stuff like animal cruelty, or even that one kid who decided to post a pic of his feet in people's salad (which got him fired).

Good times here, http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tom-green-raids

There's another 50 boards on 4chan ranging from animals to papercraft. Explore.