skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Er, what? Please explain -- I type a function name into PHP's search box (or actually, at this point it's so well indexed on Google all I need to do is type the function name into Chrome's omnibox) and I get exactly what I'm looking for. I'm guessing I'm not in the minority of people who visit PHP's site for language doc / reference. As an end user, php.net gives me what I'm looking for 95% of the time. How is that not good UX?

I do like github and find it to be well organized as well, although it's search leaves something to be desired and sometimes I find myself fumbling through the UI to find a specific git feature. Although I'd argue that the breadth of functionality they need to cover is beyond that of a language site like PHP's.

On a complete sidenote, I've always thought github's 404 page was neat, but what does it have to do with good UX?
I disagree from personal experience. On (a) if you receive an email confirming your registration that displays your password, I guess it could be hashed later but probably wasn't, right? And (b), this happened with my city's utility bill service (has a lot of my personal info) and an email to the mayor's office got it addressed. My larger point is that telling a non-technical higher-up can go a long way for things where customer service may not see the bigger problem.
Google Maps blew everyone the day it came out.
those sites were up before CSS, it has nothing to do with demand.
Someone at Apple is going "we have had iOS 6 in beta for months now; is this really the first time anyone noticed this issue?".
I'm glad you reminded me that Steve Blank is the only living authority on start-ups, and that the word start-up can only mean precisely what he says, and nothing else.
> no one serious about learning a new language is really going to be dissuaded by "ugliness"

What about people who are not serious? As I said in my post, this "ugliness" acts as a filter to turn away non-experts. Whether this is good or bad depends on your point of view, I personally think it's bad.
If I was to try to break salted passwords, my first inclination would be to find the largest set of known passwords and try those before resolving to a pure brute-force approach. Thus if you password "ILikePuppies" is ever exposed as a password, then I would consider it insecure.
The translation is almost same, however, the meaning is quite different.

Chinese 망양보뢰 means that it is not too late to fix the cowshed after lost. Korean, however, shows the useless of the fixing activity. Later connotes the regret.

:)
...and it is still wrong. They do hash their passwords.
New idea for startup: Kickstarter for New Hardware and Product Design. "Now WITH renders."
I think I would have remembered that.
I would love to prove you wrong, so let's hope somebody contacts me to redesign their site through this article.
We often hear that "ideas are worthless, execution is everything", so it comes as no surprise that someone who executes well, should reap the rewards. I've heard many times about how terrible the Samwer brothers are for "ripping off" others innovations, but the truth is they have proven that they can out execute the original innovators.

In the case of Groupon, there was very little innovation, so riding the wave over an incumbent seemed on obvious. However many have tried, but few have executed as well as Samwer and in the end Samwer proved the business was too simple to emulate.

I don't think in the case of Stripe and Square that emulation will be a viable strategy. Payments by their very nature suggest an extremely high level of trust. Short term emulation would seem to breach that trust. I wouldn't invest the time nor money in a platform which is inherently built to sellout.

Pinterest on the other hand...well...good luck!
> It has an annoying file size limitations, though.

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/59578

The link you submitted is for:

Microsoft Windows 3.0 Standard Edition

Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1

Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11
I've thought for a while now that Kickstarter should have upper bounds for funding to prevent people from unwittingly accepting too much money and forcing the scale and scope of their project to change. Once a project is 200% funded, stop allowing more backers.
iOS6 Safari Caching $.ajax Results
So you're saying in another 7 years and Apple maps should be good? I understand the strategic motivation for switching to something they can control, but it really is a big step back for iPhone users.
It up for me.
That's true (or may be true), but unfortunately nobody is comparing Google Maps circa 2005 to Google Maps today. They're comparing Google Maps today to Apple Maps today and finding the latter wanting.
I actually found this a couple weeks ago when I was getting ideas on what they store as their as most likes (like rdio) just use value="password".
I know you're replying to Saiko-chriskun, but I would just like to point out that my post was not about UX. I don't have any complaints about the UX of the Go site (although as far as PHP is concerned, they could probably remove some of the clutter on there).
This particular issue is probably lurking in code that I've written. The gist of the fix is to ensure that Cache-Control: no-cache is explicitly set on anything you don't want cached.
Believe in 0
I know why it is different on each system, it is because the numeric user ID is encoded in it.

I am 99% sure I am right, all the fields/values are merely obfuscated with a constant key. Not proper encryption at all.
First, I'm saying that the number you cite is not the true cost of the phone because it does not include the subsidy that AT&T pays the manufacturer on your behalf.

Second, I'm saying that the true cost of an iPhone is usually greater than they true cost of the typical Android phone they're matched up against. In AT&T's case the apparent cost of ownership looks the same because they pay larger subsidies to Apple than they pay to Android OEMs. This works differently on other carriers (especially prepaid and overseas carriers) where the headline cost-of-ownership changes depending on the phone you buy.

Third, I'm saying you end up paying the true cost of your phone one way or another regardless of what the headline prices look like. In AT&T's case, I'd say they recoup the larger subsidy with things like stricter unlocking policies and changing app restrictions (e.g. FaceTime, tethering, ...).

Fourth, I'm very much not saying you get more hardware for your dollar by buying an iPhone. From what I recall of the estimated component costs, I think the hardware costs are roughly equivalent between competing phones (and if you insisted on picking a "bang for the buck" winner, you'd end up on the Android side most of the time). Apple's high margins and profits come from somewhere, after all.
One man's theft is another man's anonymous homage.
The problem Apple has is that Google Maps is awesome and they somehow have to top that. When Google Maps came out there was nothing to compare it to, it was so far ahead and so much better than anything else.

I think Apple has a difficult task ahead to "reinvent" maps. Also, do maps need reinventing?
A Close Look At Your Bills' 'Fine Print'
Can't help but notice that its a google+ user, that happens to work at google. Must be some strong kool-aid over there in Mountain View.
Look at this site: http://kernel.org/ Design is plain, the mascot looks amateurish, there is no logo to establish brand identity. They don't know how to sell anything, this will never catch on.
Government entities can and often do own intellectual property - patents, trademarks, copyrights - and regularly defend them.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_New_York for one famous example.
Tell that to the guys at Australia's CSIRO who just won some global WiFi patent actions.
Most (if not all) have been updated since the advent of CSS, though.

You may be correct about demand, but it just seems logical to me that when a notable programmer is spending lots of time either coding, or travelling the country speaking at conferences and/or having high-level meetings, etc...basically, busy all the time...the last thing on their mind is "I need to make my website pretty". I think that most of what they host on their site is simply either for their own reference or for the reference of others. I know I've said more than once "just go to my site, it's linked there" when asked a question about something (and I'm the most un-notable there is).
The core idea of one company egregiously violating another's marks/trade dress is nearly identical to the Samsung situation.

The difference I suspect is that Apple will pay up the same way they did when they just went ahead and named products identically to other companies' products (iPhone belonged to Cisco, etc.).
In the USA maybe, but in many (most?) countries government organizations can hold copyrights and trademarks.

For the record, the Department Of Defense frequently applied for new patents, many which I presume come from DARPA research.
I agree that if you get the password in an e-mail plain text, there could be an issue... unless your e-mail client is rendering that section using a browser... which happens to have an encrypted version of the password stored locally.

However, in Pandora's case, this isn't what is happening, and it appears they've taken pretty extensive security measures given their constraints.

Telling a non-technical higher-up there is a problem, is also a good way to get a technical person in to trouble. If it is merited, no problem, but if you are wrong, you've just rewarded good work with a load of crap. It is much more appropriate to follow up with the appropriate party and at least give them a chance to respond before sounding the klaxon.
Sorry, your active link colors distracted me. What were you saying?

Ergo, I can't be bothered to look at funny 404 cartoons when I'm trying to read documentation.
Bad Idea: Making Non-Coders Code
Jesus. Is this a troll post, or are you being serious?
One man's snarky comment is another man's sarcastic wit.
Although not an Apple fan, I can relate to their purchasing behaviour through an analogy of my own:

I am a massive Pixar fan. I think almost everything they touch turns to gold and I haven't seen a Pixar movie that I dont' like (to be fair, the last new release I saw was Toy Story 3). When I saw the ad for WALL-E, I thought it sounded like a stupid idea for a movie, but I still forked out the $10 to go see it at the cinema. This decision was purely on their past record, nothing to do with my perception of WALL-E. Sure enough, I loved it.

Perhaps this is a similar way Apple fans make decisions.
er, the $400 clock is a foot-and-a-half across. You probably want the more reasonably priced normal clock: http://www.momastore.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDi...
Salon Sells The Well to Longtime Members
LinkedIn 404 page
Salesforce CEO: Future Software will look like Facebook
Possible, yes. But given the way many people criticized Google's tone at the time (nervous, etc.) it doesn't seem likely to me.
Another connection related issue is that iOS 6 cache responses of ajax POST requests. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550441
I think the Apple RDF was more a "Steve Jobs" RDF
Did I just learn how I will torture my coworkers tomorrow? (We have a shared Pandora computer in the office - each day someone gets to choose what plays.)
Product Vs Service: James Altucher Vs Mark Suster
> The documentation uses a fluid width layout which hurts readability on wide screens

I agree with this, but I still think the golang documentation is well designed for usability. If you compare this page - http://golang.org/ref/spec - with this page - http://git-scm.com/docs/git-config, you'll see that the golang site has limited the font and background to a few non-glaring colors.

The red text on the git-scm site is just awful. I can scan the golang pages easily, but a page like this - http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-t... - is too visually distracting.
Ok, you're able to accomplish your given task on php.net; it's functionally complete to you, someone who has probably visited it many times. It really isn't a very high standard to find the only text input box on the page and type in exactly what you're looking for.

And, that doesn't inherently make it well-organized, nor does it say anything about how discoverable content is, or how well the interaction is with the commenting system, or anything else really.

It is a science, I implore you to read up more on it if you really think your anecdote is an example of 'good' UX (and by extension, design).
I like it, but I can't help but feel that the toy is sort of limited in the mechanics it can teach. :/
Not every web developper is a iOS developper.
Microsoft torpedos lots of things and Mono will eventually be one of them. No self-respecting *nix engineer would allow Mono on his system so it's rather pointless. Only Microsoft people want Mono, never the other way.

I'm sure Microsoft's "open source" is not as "open source" as anything from anyone else.
Cucumber has some flaws in my opinion, but I think saying its intent was to allow non-developers to write tests is mistaken.

It's more a straightjacket that ensures a minimum of mutual intelligibility, particularly when a developer and domain expert are collaborating. Trying to make a tool that non developers can use to write tests is nearly pointless (selenium remote control for example). But adopting an approach where an analyst can look at what's on the screen and say "Hey, no, that's not right. We have to get the foo form in the file before it goes to bar department, not after." It's also nice in the context of CI, where non developers can look at a status webpage and see the state of an app is without drowning in technical details.

As an aside, my criticisms:

I hate how favors a specific BDD template (As A, In Order, Given, When, Then etc) rather than letting people pick their own language sensible for their project. The product/business people I've put in front of cucumber generally disklike that language, and often feel resentful for it being forced on them.

And secondly, I think the way statements are matched to step definitions via regex is awkward. Regexes in general tend toward frustrating abstraction. Do I want $1 or $2 or $3 or wtf was $7 supposed to be again? They also don't compose well. In my experience this choice ends up making the step definitions a cluttered dumping ground that takes more effort to organize than I'd like.

I think both of these would be solved by using a more proper grammar mechanism, probably PEGs, and keeping the rest of the tooling ignorant about its specific definitions.
active link colors distracted you? what? so.. you don't use syntax highlighting in your editor?

and what exactly does a 404 page have to do with a page with actual content.
There's an English idiom too: to "close the gate after the horse has bolted".
The issue here seems to be that Apple have developed a reputation for producing polished "finished products" that doesn't gel particularly well with rolling out "perpetual beta" web services.

I assume their hands were tied here, and there was no way for them to roll out a "New Maps Beta" for interested/adventurous users while still bundling the Google-powered Maps app as the iOS default (the same way they rolled out Messages beta as an optional download for OS X users while still bundling iChat with the OS). Certainly, the fact that the new Maps isn't billed as a "beta" (as Siri still is) doesn't match the tone of Apple PR's message.
Hah, yes, there's tons out there.
Time to break out the gifsockets.

https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets
I think there's a bit more to this toy than simply 'pink it and shrink it' as they say in retail.

The story + building is the innovation - meeting girls where they are and presenting construction/engineering themes through something other than a jumble of Legos. (This coming from a girl who loved Legos but didn't end up as an engineer)
It is almost certainly a terrible idea for Apple.

Carriers already push iPhone alternatives for all sorts of reasons. It doesn't matter how good the third-party transit apps are. Not having transit routing built in is an "instant demo" for any carrier sales rep trying to push an Android or Windows Phone. And, last I heard, Apple sells far more iPhones through carriers that they sell directly...
So when Apple infringes on someone else's trademarked products, the affected party should be grateful? Because it might be "free" advertising?

Are you out of your mind?

What's with the sycophantic comments all over this story excusing Apple's terrible behavior?
While this is true, there are bounds of I (heart) something_somethings and AFAIK, NYC does not go after them for infringement (I feel as though Apple's rendition is sufficiently different that it's not the same as the orig (hand lengths, motion, etc).
Moreover, in the NYC case, I (heart) NY is trademarked and part of an advert campaign, so I can understand their defence of their TM. Did The Swiss RR get a design patent for the timepiece?

So, while you are right about the ability of a gov to register and/or patent things, I'm surprised they'd be willing to follow through. It's not as though Apple is trying to make money off of them by selling a knock off product or piggybacking on an advert campaign.

Good point none the less and thanks for the explanation.
Ask HN: How do you reach out to customers without being spammy
Hey all, so we started a site called Seedlauncher which is a crowdfunding site for local, small businesses. We have a semi open beta, and are trying to reach out to small businesses in the area where we live (Colorado), but we've run into a bit of a roadblock.
So to get critical mass we want to reach out to a specific niche small businesses community that's really passionate and expand out from there. We've talked about it, and decided that Micro-brewers/distillers would be awesome. The questions become though how do you reach out to these groups without comming across as spammy. I don't want to just put stuff all over homebrewer forums and piss people off, but I also am not sure how to get the word out. Maybe go to meetups and pass out info? Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for all your help guys.
Even with the sets there is still learning involved in lego or at least skill/work involved for some(the same people with the imagination before I would imagine). I'm young enough that I grew up with lego sets(actually I grew up with construx and built many a string controlled robot with them!) my favourites were the pirates ones and I still have them in a big box at my parents house. The lego sets I had came with a set of instructions on how to build whatever they were for. But the booklets also came with 4 or 5 pictures of other projects built with the same or a subset of the same parts but no details on how to make them. I admit I wasn't imagining a new thing and building it but I would always work out how to build what they showed and I learned a lot from that too.
Why don't you link to git-scm circa 2009 (when Git started getting popular): http://web.archive.org/web/20090303081943/http://git-scm.com... No brand identity? Mascot (or whatever it is in the header) looks amateurish? No thought given ot typograph? And somehow Git managed to kick everyone's ass. Here's a hint how: by being better than all other version control systems and not by having the prettiest website.
The point isn't if Apple Maps will be good or not. The point is that Apple won't give us what we want and that is Google Maps.

There is a better product out there, and until yesterday I had easy access to it on my phone and now I don't (sorry I don't like loading up google maps in the browser).

If I had to bet, I'd say Apple won't approve Google Maps native app for a while just to force people into using their Maps hoping we'd get used to it.
Much of this could have been solved with an overlap between the new and old Maps app. I'm not sure what the best way to do it would have been – make the new one an App Store app while renewing the contract with Google for another 12 months, kind of like the Messages beta on 10.7? It would be out of character for Apple to release a public beta of something for iOS, but not as out-of-character as what we've seen happen with the release of iOS 6.
No, a qr tag can't replicate itself on infected devices.

A nfc phone can. Even if the range is small, it can send it's payload everyone you were trying to use it intentionally.
merely blips on an otherwise uninterrupted upward trajectory.
Seriously this is a huge oversight. The only thing that comes to mind is that the web-app developers (understandably) didn't see the need to test on iOS 6 but I can't imagine there was absolutely no overlap.
I agree the tone of many of the comments are not up to standard. I think both mine, and and the one you chose to go after were. Neither of us questioned her professional skills, talents, intelligence, awesomeness etc., just her domain expertise (in a domain which I'd think no one would expect expertise), which seems eminently reasonable given that the only indicators were a lack of said expertise. It seems even more reasonable because she acknowledged that she does not.

You are criticizing the people who are behaving in a civil manner for the behaviour of those behaving uncivilly. Try to focus on the jerks, there's an off chance they might get it.
Really nice hack but as a PSA to others I would like to say this: Make it happen! Don't give up! Organize your view controller methods. Also don't let your view controllers start to look like what this post is describing. Don't throw everything in a single VC in a crap-ton of private methods. Go ahead and write some helper clases if you need to. Every time I have to fix someones 2000 line rat nest of a view controller I die a little inside ;-)
I've had three Mondain watches in the last 15 years (I really like them) and I had to compare side by side to see the differences. They're there, but they're subtle, and even to someone who is very familiar with the design, they're not immediately apparent.

So yeah, blatant rip. For folks pointing out the Braun parallels, it's important to remember that Braun never made an iPod. Apple transposed design cues from one long-since discontinued product to a different product in a different time. It was an inspired move and I applaud them for it.

With this clock, they're transposing nothing, they're adding nothing, they're improving nothing. This is just unlicensed copying. It's a credit to their good taste, perhaps, but not their sense of ethics.
Encryption is not the same as hashing.

That said, when I said the title was edited, I was not referring to myself editing it.
Because they contain documentation and have to be fast and readable. While modern web-design, it seems, is bent on creating slow sites with barely readable gray letters on off-white backgrounds.
There are two ways to avoid cartel diamonds. The first you probably know about,
namely, man made diamonds, but I've got a hunch her "fake" complaint might
apply here too.

The second is "Polar Diamonds" from Canada. They are the only source of natural
diamonds that I know about that isn't controlled by the cartel.
Snarky comments have always existed on HN. Whether they are downvoted or upvoted is up to the community.
I own a mondaine watch like this, I rather like it :]

And truthfully, seeing it in ios, I must say I kinda like it, even though its obviously ripped off and the anit-apply-fanboy in me wants to see blood
-- This staged financing concept is why they do vc in rounds a, b, c etc.
Agreed about the Go site. Not ugly at all but, personally, I'd set a max-width on the container and maybe up the line-height a bit.

What don't you like about the OP's site? It's certainly "hip and modern" but what makes it horrid?
Apple to entire iOS userbase: "walk it off, suckers."