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For the leather in Calendar yes but not for the linen effects which are subtle and relatively nice yet fall into the same category.

I think most people are agreed that the issue with Calendar is more about it being bad rather than a specific design rationale or style.
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EDIT: for people up voting me for this. I appreciate the thought but I don't feel comfortable collecting virtual points for this. Instead of an up vote please just post a reply.

In addition to showing agreement or appreciation, people may be upvoting to push the flamewar threads further down the page.
Agreed. I get the point that new cars are intricate, crammed and complicated but a light bulb is a user serviceable part that is really not much harder than changing a lamp at home. Would you hire an electrician for that because you didn't want to blow your home's electrical system? ;)
Of all the people who would be at a consulate the IT guy happens to be the unlucky one.

Reports now say 4 people died; one of them the US Ambassador to Libya.
This is great news for me. I am already moving there on international experience Canada program and wanted to work on my ideas and since Canada have similar market as us, I could test my idea if it holds and take it to next level. Location really matters, if you are living in small country with small population speaking unique language and the general population is conservative consumer then you will see why location matters.
He was a bad mod, with an awful tattoo. He was exceptionally good at eve online diplomacy.

The point is not that he was a unique and amazing human being without fault, but that he was our human being and he's gone. Over a shitty video that no one sane thinks is relevant or impressive.

Rest in peace.
And now the US ambassador to Libya has been killed. Another successful foreign intervention ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19570254
As negative as people are on Quora (oh lookz bubblez!) - I honestly think that they are onto something (as is Google+).

They are both interest based social networks - rather than geographically constrained ones (i.e. Facebook and people you know IRL). Think of all those disparate niche forums we all frequent around the web lumped into one easily usable, easily searchable, real-time and real-name network - that's what Quora/Google+ are becoming.

Quora/Google+ are essentially specialist forums reimagined - topical discussions based along interest lines with real-time feedback by people you can actually see (instead of geographical/friendship ones and pseudonyms on forums).

I go to Facebook (rarely) to catch up with people I know IRL - but with whom I don't really share that much in common (apart form going to school/living nearby). Indeed, outside of Facebook's instant messaging utility - I really have very little use for it (yes I understand that "normal" people differ).

I go to Quora/Google+/specialist forums/HN to discuss things I'm interested in with people who are like me. They do have something here - and the fact that they have such a strong hold on so many smart people (see how prolific some are) illustrates this fact. I think reports of Quora's death are greatly exaggerated (especially with their war chest).

For more, see here on (you guessed it!) Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Hypothetical-Questions/Imagine-its-Janu...
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More info: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/09/20129112108...

Ambassador to Libya died of smoke inhalation during the attack, along with two US security personnel who were accompanying him, security sources told Al Jazeera. Another consulate employee, whose nationality could not immediately be confirmed, was also killed.
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I am not blaming it on the others.
The launch of the iPhone 5 is obviously not as interesting as the launch of the first iPhone, since they are just introducing more features, not a new device family.

It's a suspense thing - if you know what they are going to show the presentation gets boring. "Back in the days" it was exciting when there was one more thing. Now you already know what it is.

But again - I am not blaming anybody for this. I could just stay away from all rumor sites if I wanted to have that feeling again ;)
It's not that a man secretly wants meaning but the facts deny any such thing. I guess evolution has programmed the man to seek meaning (from a psychological point of view). So no matter what intellectually he believes in, there would be a certain push to crave for that meaning that in reality doesn't exist. Thus the despair on the helplessness of situation.

I know using medication or treatment I can block that craving for meaning (lack of which ultimately causes despair), but I'm just unsure right now whether such a thing should be done.
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Barret, YES Europe is covered! :)

Thanks for taking the time!
> If the rumors were exciting, people wouldn't be able to contain themselves with excitement for the actual launch.

Why would people be excited for the announcement of something they already know. And if you're talking about the release date of the product, people still line up outside apple stores for days ahead of time when new devices come out.

> Blaming it on the others again (copy cats, spies, and so on...)?

How is saying that you're "doubling down on security" blaming others? Note that Tim Cook said this in response to the question "What have you changed? What's different?"
When I read "fullscreen zoom" I thought it would maybe use fullscreen APIs... so far I haven't found that. Does anyone know a lightbox that does that well (like Facebook photos)?
Journalist goes undercover making the iPhone 5 at Foxconn
... and it's gone. Still nice little game.
I am thankful that the first time reading this post I missed them. Vile Rat was a leader in an alliance in a game that was disliked by a lot of people. But even the alliances currently at war with his in game could take a minute to show appreciation for the man he was. He was a good man.

Wars, religious freedoms, whatever don't matter. What matters is that a guy who volunteered to work in the conditions he did from a sweet(and safe) job in the Hague died today. While trying to help a country.

I appreciate needless flamewars being buried. Since I can't stop the up votes I will give $10 for every one up to 3 that I receive to the family. And a further donation of $970 for everyone removing the distraction from this thread.
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Because it's a series of pretty picture - not an actual working product.
It's good idea to take money for things that took a lot of effort and have high quality. But with all free open source possibilities in this area, I think you're right that it seems a little overambitious.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509514
Flickr down: Is Yahoo finally letting it die?
Don't call it magical if it can't fly.
According to Wikipedia[1]Matrix Inversion is also O(n^3) and according to the note can be even better by inverting smaller matrices within and multiplying[2].

My linear algebra isn't very good so I'll have to look into LU Factorization but is there vast difference between the computational performance of the two operations? (Assuming you don't need solve Ab=c for different values of b and c)

Also is LU Factorization used often in machine learning instead of inverse?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_of_mat...

[2]: Because of the possibility to blockwise invert a matrix, where an inversion of an n×n matrix requires inversion of two half-sized matrices and 6 mulitplications between two half-sized matrices, and since matrix multiplication has a lower bound of Ω(n2 log n) operations[17], it can be shown that a divide and conquer algorithm that uses blockwise inversion to invert a matrix runs with the same time complexity as the matrix multiplication algorithm that is used internally. source is [1]
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Relevant - Hydrogenaudio listening tests (530 tests) scored Opus higher than HE-AAC

https://people.xiph.org/~greg/opus/ha2011/
http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/results.html
Interesting point. That is precisely what I fear: if I fix the unhappiness would my philosophical beliefs get diluted. Maybe that won't be the case, but I don't know that right now.

There may be Nihilists out there who are very happy and never feel any despair, and that's what I'm after too. Nihilism definitely doesn't mean you should be unhappy. In fact, in light of no meaning, the sole purpose should be to seek happiness (why would anyone want unhappiness). But it's just bit difficult for me to feel blissful and happy all the time in spite of the full awareness that it's pointless after all. Occasional despair is inevitable from Nihilism, won't you agree?
Why don't they do this open source and free. Isn't that something can be cloneable by a good JavaScript developer in a single day? I just don't get it.
I think they're getting at the way Google hiked their prices which resulted in some peoples bills rising by a factor of 100. GAE has every right to make money - it was the speed and direction of the change which caused 'controversy'.
This is a dumb question - but they be illegal to ride powered on public roads/sidewalks in the US?

They'd certainly be illegal in the UK... which somewhat reduces the possibility of fun things.
Become more popular on Quora, ha? :) HN began to suck, chances of getting discussed is pretty low.
But you would have something to show for it. You'd have gained the experience of actually doing it. And you'd be showing good decision making skills ;-)
Would you be willing to share some links to your research? I find this area fascinating, and also believe this is going to be a big market in future.
I think your point was valid before the release of Android 4.0 (ICS). It brought proper design guidelines and a common UI pattern for applications, and the experience now looks polished compared to 2.3 and below. What I love about it is that they don't enforce the rules as does Apple, they consider that if users don't like your UI or the user experience you propose, they will simply uninstall your app and you will be the loser, not the platform.

What you could blame ICS for was that the user interface was not always as smooth as it should have been, but JB has fixed the issue with Triple Buffering, and VSYNC (the famous project butter) and now Android just looks and feels great. Give it a try if you have the occasion.
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Dave McClure post was framed as 500=APPL, YC=MSFT analogy. Artists vs geeks. Intuitivity vs analytics.

It's not about being an underdog or a black swan. Both 500 and YC must differentiate. It's the only way for the founder to grasp the accelerators' pitch.

Everyone wants to put out their expressive character. Michael Jackson can be recognized from the silhouette, so can you do with your company.

So it's fine that Paul Graham played out the analytical card and Dave McClure counterplayed the same card as Apple played against Microsoft - we are the hippies, not the science guys.
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I am the business guy; that was kindof the point of this experiment. I don't have some other idiot telling me what to do. (I mean, sometimes I still have an idiot telling me what to do, but it's not some other idiot.)

There was one guy that I turned down that I probably shouldn't have turned down. But he was more technical than I am, too. That was probably a mistake, but he's working on his own thing now.

The thing is, nobody else would have had the follow through to keep bleeding money on the thing for as long as it took me to figure out what the hell I was doing. I mean, would that have been better? maybe. Almost certainly my lifetime earnings up 'till now would have been greater. Or maybe a business person would have kicked my ass 'till we came up with a solution that kindof worked even though I didn't know what I was doing? Or maybe they would have come with enough money that I could have compressed those lessons into a shorter timeframe? (Most of my early mistakes had to do with hardware and the cheaping out on thereof. With sufficient capital, I could have moved on to making other mistakes earlier.)

But really, having a business guy would have been counter to most of the reasons I went into business in the first place. I thought I could do it better. If I really am wrong, I need to accept my place and get a job.
I agree with most of these points. Good design is iteration though - you want it to be familiar to the last. However, iOS was good design from 'nothing.' 5 years on, it's boring design now - it should have had some serious reiterations.

Going from 0 to iPhone 1 was a huge advancement. It would be nice to see half of that again. Each new iPhone comes out with one or two gimmicks, and an iOS update that'll run on the last version anyway.

Saying that; I'll still be replacing my 4 with a 5 at this event. And I'll still continue buying Apple products. Not trying to suggest we boycott them, but I am feeling like they're not showing their innovation qualities.

I do disagree with the Samsung point. I think their case was beyond fair.
No arrow key support and er, why would I pay for a lightbox?

Edit: http://projects.nickstakenburg.com/tipped/ on other hand is something I will pay for - looks fantastic.
Imagine you're now the best programmer in the world who knows as much as any other programmer knows, and more. How depressing would that be. You'll always find room to improve any library you download from the internet. When you have no idea to do something, you have no one to ask. You'll have nothing to learn from reading programmer's blogs. Nothing to learn reading programming related entries in HN. No role models to learn from. No new information to read from programming books. No enlightenment reading Knuth's (Or Rob Pike or Paul Graham or Jeff Atwood or any other programmers') writing.

No, I have no desire to be the very best at all. It'd be great if I can always have someone in front of me to learn from, all the time.
Yes. It's called Market Share.
> Are the rich and famous happier than the rest?

Generally, yes, though not as much as expected. See http://www.bakadesuyo.com/who-is-happier-billionaires-amish-... or https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.ba... for example.
There's no doubt Apple changed a lot of markets and made a killing in the process. It greatly disappoints me that being the biggest public company on the planet isn't enough for them, and they have to start suing everyone.

Meanwhile all of their rivals did, absolutely squat.

It's not that their rivals weren't trying (Maemo and Openmoko were definitely interesting), Apple just beat them at what they did best -- making it all fit together, and convincing people they needed it.
If you by Brejvik means Anders Behring Breivik, I feel compelled to correct you because of the gravity of your error (even though this is off topic).

Breivik is/was a Christian, and his main motivation for the terrorist attack was religion, specifically Islamophobia.
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That statement implies an impotent God.
it works for me ;)
It's actually quite difficult to find a Lightbox that can be used in production and works across all devices and browsers, supporting more than just images. At least I haven't found one yet, so I will definitely check this out.
Interestingly I think the one thing that would cause a spike happened outside the last two decades - the discovery / development of antibiotics.

You may be right but there will still be bottlenecks in the process around patient trials and the more "manual" stages of any treatment.

I think the next big improvement will likely not register on life expectancy because it will be in response to a specific problem. The next generation of anti-biotics for instance will have a massive impact but will likely only cancel out the negative impact of drug-resistant strains of bacteria.
I thought I was depressed and anxious for almost two years. It turned out I just had a chronic sinus infection.

I'm suspicious that a lot of what gets considered as psychiatric problems are really physical health problems. Anecdotally, a lot of people switch to a nutrient dense diet and cut out potential allergens and wind up feeling all better.
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absolutely agree. I believe that our body and especially our minds aren't prepared for the kind of lifestyle we're living today and that puts a strain on our mental sanity. especially the lack of physical activity I believe can have a seriously negative effect on your body, because you lack the release of dopamines and endorphines. furthermore I you're a frequent HN, reddit or similiar reader, the information overload might cause confusion and disorientation (in terms of mental goals) and also lead to depression. You're also more prone to lose touch with your body when all you're focused on is your work or the computer, you might just need a certain minimal level of social interaction to stay happy. I think it's wrong to believe that with enough will power you can work all day in front of the computer. it will eventually run you down, you'll become less productive and as a result less happy.
An entire day of a good Javascript developers time is worth less than $75 to you?
Good: Escape key works to exit.

Missing: Doesn't respond to space / pgdown / left-right arrows.

Missing: Can't drag the image with mouse to flip to next image.

General page design issue: Page has style disabling outline on all anchors, making keyboard navigation (tab / shift tab) navigation downright impossible. Please make sure I can use tab / shift tab to browse the site.

General page design issue: Disabling the style rule 'outline-style:none' does make site usable with keyboard. But only somewhat, because you still can't tab onto the demonstrations.
Comparing the stock photo of the ambassador with the picture of the man being evacuated from the burning building suggests that it was indeed Christopher Stevens, who later died of smoke inhalation.
It would be remarkable if a company with $10bn in cash and short-term investments had a market cap of $2bn.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AFB&fstype=ii...
Wait, it's been a whole year already? Wow, time flies.
Dan Lyons' writings on Apple no longer excite.
FSJ was completely hilarious. This isn't.
To me the real story is how powerful the last four digits of your credit card are and how easily they're attained. Even more shocking is your privacy basically depends on the least secure online account you own.

Think of how easy it is to write a program like this:

INPUT: list of someone's online accounts,
desired account access
OUTPUT: step-by-step instructions of numbers to call and forms to fill out
to obtain desired account access

All you would really need is a small database of the information required to reset your password and login for a bunch of popular accounts. Your script just has to connect the dots.
Point of order: notifications owe far more to Palm than they do to Android. The engineer who developed them was hired away from Palm.

> it becomes boring to use an iPhone, no novelty, no surprise

Apple will always face this sort of criticism because:

1. Geeks do want novelty/surprises/the ability to tinker.
2. Geeks are a minority of customers in the real world.
3. Geeks are a majority in those who are vocal online.

A lot of people I know won't use an iPhone because it's "closed" or, back before the 4, because it didn't have a dual core processor. Meanwhile, millions of people who for years craved stability, reliability and simple UX design continue to buy, use and love iPhones every year.

Lyons is a troll. We should be above feeding trolls on HN.
I agree, but people have been saying it about the iPhone for a while. The 4S was touted as a huge disappointment in the tech press.
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Anyone else still confused by the word "responsive"? I always expect something with a high degree of interaction, widgets etc., instead of just meaning "resizes how HTML should resize".
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You think the photo is of someone trying to help him? Hmmm. Could be. Hadn't seen it that way at first.
I don't follow. Because they don't wake up at the same time that means they are never awake at the same time?

Each of them would have to sleep more than 12 hours each day for that to even be possible.
Personally I'm amazed at how high up this submission has made it on HN. I mean, VR wasn't in the hacker or IT community AFAIK; he helped run a big clan in a cult internet spaceship game. He was the victim of extremists in a dangerous region, like quite a few others. Yet a blogpost about him has risen to the top of HN.

There must be a good number of (ex-)EVE players here, or maybe it's because people strongly feel the immediacy and tragedy of an event like this even though they aren't part of the communities involved. Maybe they've even only heard about EVE on HN itself, but somehow feel like this guy was someone worth respecting - I don't know.

I don't really have a point to make, but I'm bemused and sort of glad.
if its a non-trivial peice of software, it almost certainly is encumbered, don't forget about idiotic patents like 1 click, there are likely millions.
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This script looks terrible on mobile browsers. 50 Euros for this?
Its amazing that the BBC article has 11 links to 'share it', but nothing to actually comment on it.
If Android users are bi-modal then simply factoring in the number of Android handset sales is not an accurate comparison either.

It sounds like what we really want is a histogram of web usage vs number of users :)
Do they supply a course in how to use it? :)
Great! Now all I need are some products to allow me to get dressed in the dark; quieten opening draws and wardrobes; silence the noise I make as I hop around the bedroom trying to get my left foot in a sock; stop the floorboards from creaking...