skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see a designer speak up about using stuff like this more than one time. I find I'd hard to believe that you would sit down, after already playing around with this once, and say "this time I'm going to add a chevron to each cell, put the button on the left side, and go test it in the hallway". If your app is a table with a stock navigation system do you really ever need to build a second version of the same thing?
does nothing for me in ff 17/win
This is honestly brilliantly designed. Incredible work to whomever did this, really.
> If NDT is showing any arrogance, it's in thinking that he has the ability to raise the level of public discourse. He's really smart, but apparently not smart enough to realize that no amount of education can change the basics of human nature. You can teach people how to think, but you can't make them like it.

I don't disagree with you here, per se, but I think a lot can be done with education. Maybe not "change the basics of human nature", but we can probably get them to enjoy thinking and we can probably raise the level of public discourse by a significant degree.

I'm not saying it would be easy or quick, but I think that it's possible. Indeed, it seems to me to be the arc of history, to paraphrase a bit, even if it is irritatingly long.
A good but not ridiculous markup for the base model when dealer margin and other costs are taken into account. I don't know what the retailer margin is although I suspect it is very low for Apple as there is so little discounting.

What makes it even better is Apple's ability to hold the price through the product life while many of their costs will fall so margin in 6 months time will be even better.

The markups on bigger memory and 3G/LTE are massive too.
Shark Tank's Lessons in the Art of Negotiation
All it takes is a couple of clicks to get a huge list of researchers, including Harvard and John Hopkins

http://www.fusfoundation.org/research/sites
One of my favorite talks about how an interpreter can work. It's worth watching even if you are not concerned with javascript.
it wasn't 3. that was for all ipads. 2-2.5 for ipad mini: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57545123-37/ipad-mini-eati...
>The presumption that the masses are ignorant

People are mind-bogglingly ignorant, and it is demonstrably so. I don't know how one could even claim otherwise.

>If you get off your high-horse and actually talk to them, you'll find that they are just as brilliant as you, in their own ways.

These ways obviously don't lend themselves to scientific literacy, knowledge of international politics or human rights, or rational appraisal of facts. Maybe an individual has an amazing ability to console those in distress - that's GREAT, but it doesn't grant them immunity from criticism for ignorance of important worldly issues.

Frankly your attitude is typical of American "everyone is special" bullshit. In other cultures if you're uneducated you are looked down upon. While it's probably deeply unsettling to sensibilities that promote understanding and tolerating differences in individuals' capacities to contribute to society (which I do support), perhaps that outlook has some merit after all.
I would agree, if we were just talking self-identified phone surveys or something. But we're talking about people saying their children shouldn't learn about those things. I can't imagine purposefully making your children grow up thinking something is so wrong, you are an immoral person to consider it, unless they genuinely believed it as well.

So to call it tactical stupidity is messed up on a scale I'm not prepared to level at such a large number of my fellow citizens (as an American), or anyone really. I'd rather think someone willfully ignorant than that willfully mean.
Really nice to see all the bells and whistles in operation. This author understands the importance of "theme marketing." I feel like a lot of theme creators spend hours and hours building cool shit into their themes and then skimp on filling it out with demo data. IMO being able to visually play with all of the elements is just as important as creating them in the first place.
You can't copy/paste pencil marks.

Users can't interact with paper mock ups.

You have to re-draw the menu on every page you mock up or tell the people you're showing the mock up to imagine it. Both of these suck.
i'm reminded of one of my favourite programming blog posts ever, "slumming with the basic programmers" [http://prog21.dadgum.com/21.html]. i reread it every so often, just so that i keep that perspective in mind.
Is anyone else rather annoyed by the tone of the post?
> Sophos products should only ever be considered for low-value non-critical systems and never deployed on networks or environments where a complete compromise by adversaries would be inconvenient.

IMO, that should hold true for just about every piece of third-party software that you're installing on your networks/computers without having a thorough audit done on it and the integration with your systems. At the end of the day, the security of your systems is your problem, not anyone else's; while Sophos dropped the ball here and is responsible for the vulnerabilities themselves, it doesn't make you any less hosed if they're used to compromise your systems.
Filter bubbles are troubling for exactly the reason you don't seem to have a problem with.

It's not particularly good for the world to have Obama searches be filled with either Fox news results or MSNBC (pro-Obama/Dem) results.
On rare occasions, I've had HN-quality discussions about both politics and religion. It's difficult -- you have to be relentlessly dedicated to civility, and quite selective about who you choose to engage with. I don't think it's realistic to expect it to happen easily, but it's something that can be cultivated in an invite-only setting.
I'm also glad for this. I've always had a love/hate relationship with Yelp.

Sometimes there are places that I've known forever to be a hidden gem. Now they've become Yelp 5-star and the place gets great business but wait times are always an hour.

Sometimes I'm in a new city and I just Yelp for the latest and greatest. This can lead me to some of the best food I've had, complete with menu suggestions and tips from other users. This is where Yelp really excels. It gives great businesses the business they deserve.

Where Yelp fails me is when restaurants get hurt by harsh and poorly written reviews. A few one stars will even make people avoid a business. I've been to a ton of 3 star restaurants personally recommended to me by a friend and they've been fantastic. When I read the Yelp reviews people will rate 1 star for entirely subjective reasons, even worse for poor service when the explained situation seems completely one-sided. It's one thing to give a highly rated place a second opinion, saying it's overrated. It's another thing to harm an innocent small business and in a way preventing other people from giving the place a chance.

And even with well-reviewed places, for large cities there are hundreds of great places buried in the 4-star <100 reviews list. How many people really scroll past the 5 or 6th page when viewing Most Reviewed and Highest Rated?

The last straw would have to be the extortionist behavior of their sales team. But, that's an entirely different story.
You just came out of the matrix?
This is really fantastic. Amazing work.
I think you're making that mistake a lot of people in medicine make and what separates them from the tech industry. They're huge pessimists because they don't grok things like physics or computing and are trained/selected for their ability to pass tests out of a textbook. If you put your geekdom "crawl entire web/robot car/computers on every desk" hat on you'll realize you can run circles around the current medical industry.

edit: I get you're trying to give advice. If I make the claims less exciting no-one will bother. If too exciting, they think unfeasible. Getting the balance right seems hard.
Not sure what the protocol is for political stories on HN, but this is well done.
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It's actually much larger. The upgraded have much higher profit margins.

>"The incremental cost of the additional NAND flash memory to Apple is only $9.60 for the additional 16GBytes of memory and $19.20 for an additional 32GBytes of memory. This means that compared to the 16GByte model, the 32GByte version of the iPad mini generates about $90 in additional profit for Apple for every unit sold. For the 64GByte model, Apple’s profit is about $171 higher than the 16GByte version."
iUI gets a reboot, and its just as clunky? I think you can do better,
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coned has some endpoints https://twitter.com/ckundo/status/265610079783514112
Damn it, think about this for a moment. Is there no other plausible reason why he might not want to run for president? The immense effort and expense of running a campaign, for example? Or the blow to his reputation from being seen as a joke candidate with no chance of winning? Or simply the fact that he has other stuff to do?

Cynicism may feel good, but if it's causing you to jump to uncharitable conclusions while ignoring other likely explanations, then it's a problem.
right because we need more than a napkin to prototype? Im not writing prototype code. Thats so 1982.
So if things are already messed up, we should just throw our hands up, pander, and go along with it?
Thomas Szasz has left the building
Strange use of github
This looks a lot like Zurb Foundation. Nice work.
Yay machine learning! Though to scale that is a nontrivial issue...

A not-quite-as-good but easier statement to make: People who like place X also like places Y, Z... etc.
CocoaPods - manage library dependencies in Objective-C projects
Garbage collection is cruise control for memory management, but you still have to steer. The only thing GC gives you is automated cleanup of orphaned data; if you're sloppy about holding references you don't need anymore, the GC won't help you.
I'm not saying it's available at your local walgreens. I'm just saying, like robot cars were a few years ago, it's an underinvested/underpromoted breakthrough sitting right under people's noses.
And so does VigLink, and arguably at greater scale...it takes scale to do this well. VigLink claims to have over 30,000 merchants.
Its called safari mobile you fucking device nazis. None of your business. Go fart knock on facebook

AKA oh shit my "responsive design" ISNT
> I just hope AMD doesn't go away or
> Intel pricing is going to go through
> the roof (again).

I don't want AMD to go away either, but Intel's pricing won't necessarily go through the roof if AMD goes away.

The x86 CPU market is essentially saturated at this point. You can buy a "fast enough for most stuff" desktop computer for $50 or less at a thrift store, and most of us on Hacker News probably already own 4 or more x86 cores.

At this point, Intel's primary competitors are its own previous CPUs. I own several Core 2 Duos, a Core 2 Quad, and a Core i7 quad.

By all accounts, I am exactly the kind of customer they're going after with their newer CPUs. However, since I'm so happy with my current stuff, Intel is really going to have to outdo themselves (and price it right) before I'm moved to buy another Intel chip.

That's what I mean by competing with themselves.
While that would be cool, I'm not sure what Rachet really does for me above JQM. JQM could be better on performance, sure, but all in all, I don't see any other compelling reason to use Rachet. Is there something I'm missing?
It's hard to create a dramatic image of a close race when someone crunches numbers, says "nah," and convinces a lot of people. Attempts to discredit him were were bound to happen as the election got closer, along with inevitable defenses.

I think you're so eager to unearth a PR conspiracy that you ignore the more plausible explanation: lazy media.

edit: Check 001sky's submission history.
I have managed to curate my Facebook friends to the point where I can have some surprisingly civil conversations there, even among people with extremely divergent views.

I like the idea of an online discussion group for political junkies like myself that is either invitation-only or aggressively monitored for civility. Maybe I'll have to make one.
While you are correct, I still think NoSQL is a better introduction to databases than SQL. Without the syntax learning curve you can quickly interact with a database and get a feel for how it works for the first time. Once you get a hang of the broad db concepts, it could of course make sense to learn SQL given the reasons you've presented.
> As demonstrated in this paper, installing Sophos Antivirus exposes machines to considerable risk.

I've worked at Sophos and, in a way, I am not surprised. It's a company growing really fast, away from London where the top developers are...
Every project/team is different. Sometimes a designer wants to communicate with another designer, sometimes with a developer and sometimes with a client. Each of these stakeholders will react differently to:

'...this screen looks like.. well you know a stock tableview'

And sometimes these people aren't in the same room/building/country

Simply dismissing the tool because you cant think of a use-case is a bit short sighted.

PS: also when designing for the iphone, elements have a surprisingly different feel when shown on a device.
> To be clear: If Motorola were going after other companies, I would have a problem with that type of behavior. Apple and Microsoft, however, deserve every kind of patent abuse they are getting (and then some).

This isn't patent abuse at all. The patents in question involve sophisticated, complex technologies (Wi-Fi and video compression). It's not the type of thing you accidentally stumble upon--these were technologies created by a consortium, including Motorola, at substantial cost. Licensing the underlying patents, and litigating if those patents are infringed, is how the members of the consortium recoup those costs. The situation presents the classical case of applicability for patents--you want the technology to be openly disseminated, so it can be used as a standard, but don't want people to be able to use it without paying.

As much as people kvetch about standards patents, they're an example of the patent system working well. You have an industry consortium (of specialists in a specific area) which develops complicated technology then standardizes it for everyone to use. Companies who want to be compatible with the standard then license the patents underlying the technology. The patents are just the legal glue that facilitate that transaction. Patent litigation is the mechanism by which the terms of that transaction are enforced--just like litigation is always the mechanism by which the terms of transactions are enforced.
"Sophos has seen no evidence of any of these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild." in bold, along with "Sophos has seen no evidence of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild." in bold on every single vulnerability. That is incredibly, incredibly disingenuous.

Don't ever downplay the severity of a vulnerability because you believe it hasn't been exploited in the wild yet. If unpatched systems remain and the vulnerability is juicy enough, people will exploit it. Statements like theirs are complete and utter bullshit; they do more harm than good for the security of their products and customer systems.
The change in America's debt by presidential term
I'd say the chances that he'll have an opportunity to vote on his theocratic agenda are pretty high. The Science and Technology Committee discusses things such as stem-cell research and global warming, among other things.

In my state (Texas), I used to consider creationists an amusing sideshow, but they're now in charge, and writing their religious beliefs into textbooks. My heuristic now is that if anyone mentions "the Bible" in their election materials, run away as fast as possible, because they're likely backwards types who don't believe in a secular government. Same kinds of people who think you should get kicked out of Boy Scouts if you don't believe in God, only now they want to run the actual government, which is more dangerous.

Plus, having these medieval types in the legislature sets a bad example for American students, and embarrasses us in front of the whole world, contributing to the stereotype that Americans are uneducated: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20121006-u.s.-hous...
but please please please, if you're making a site that is even the least bit elastic, do put in a "<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0">. if you don't put in a min-scale=1, the iPad renders pages at 1024px wide and then scales them down to 768px, making everything unnecessarily small.
37Signals sucks. Their products suck, their marketing is hype, they will be out of business in 3 years.
Shipping is inconsequential. How many iPad mini's fit in a shipping container?
This.

Follow Apple's human interface guidelines and you'll get this for free. Don't treat them as sacred tomes, but it's no accident that the DPI on the iPad Mini is the same as that of the non-retina iPhone/iPod Touch, and they suggest the same minimum tap target size on both platforms.

The only exception to this is if you're making a ruler, and you're not.
Give it a math problem to solve and find our how long it takes to solve it. It's a hack, but that is probably the best way to determine what iOS device it is.
> It doesn't take long to do a GOOGLE SEARCH.

You made the claim; you are familiar with the subject. If you had made the search and presented links that would have been one person spending a few minutes doing a search.

By expecting everyone who reads your post to do the web searching your asking for many people to spend a few minutes each doing a search.

The inefficiency is sub-optimal, no?
Yeah, that jumped out at me as well, and actually seems somewhat irresponsible without more data (like a log of actual http traffic).

AFAIK (when I last checked), Chrome keeps no data between incognito sessions. If data is being kept, it should be extremely easy to spot and a bug should be filed. "This weird thing happened" isn't really a sufficient response to that theory.

If there isn't data being kept and transmitted, it means either the testers left open an incognito tab or something without noticing (easier to do than with private browsing, since private browsing closes all non-private browsing tabs until private browsing is over), or that google is tweaking results based on search history saved server side by ip address (and maybe other id-able browser characteristics), but only if the browser identifies itself as Chrome, not e.g. Firefox. There doesn't seem to be any real advantage there (and you'll likely just end up polluting anything but the coarsest of clustering), but that's just speculation.

I'm not able to reproduce the behavior in Chrome (though I'm having trouble reproducing even simple magic keyword behavior in incognito mode in the first place), so more data would be appreciated.
I would love it if there were URLs that I could send to friends to show battle results.
Hey, don't call him a knob.
It also has the same processor as the iPad 2. And probably the same RAM, so don't go there either.
Maybe it's me...I have adblock, Ghstery, and Disconnect running.
I'd vote for him too. I am sure his social and foreign policies would turn out fine. I don't think it is even hard to come up with a decent social and foreign policy: observe that there is a wide range of such policies among "successful countries". USA is laissez-faire, Denmark is half-socialist, Switzerland is neutral etc. As long as you are not deliberately trying to be a tool, you'll probably do okay.
Documentary on trauma of war - banned by US government for more than 30 years
Interactive FEC Campaign Finance Data Explorer
Maybe it would be "exactly what it sounds like" if it was instead called "GitHubBattle". Git != GitHub
Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel for Mac
Yeah, or the sites that say "this content is not available on our mobile site" - so show me the desktop version rather than the homepage!
That figure by itself doesn't mean much. But does anyone have a comparison to the iPad.. Maxi? I'd be interested to know which one has higher profit margins.
Another good one I find is a poker application!
This may not matter, but Apple tends to ship each unit by air from the factory to the customer which should cost considerably more than containers. (example: http://www.cultofmac.com/192038/look-at-all-these-iphone-5s-... )
I find it amusing that almost every OP in this thread has cited the same quote as proof of NDT's arrogance, and then every response debates whether NDT is arrogant or voters stupid. All of this misses the actual ignorance of NDT's letter. The last half of that sentence is key:

As a scientist and educator, my goal, then, is not to become President and lead a dysfunctional electorate, but to enlighten the electorate so they might choose the right leaders in the first place.

NDT falls into the same trap as nearly everyone since the framers of the constitution. You're never going to elect the right leaders. They don't exist. The reason our government was set up the way it was, and not the way it exists now, was precisely because the greatest group of political scientists to ever congregate in one place and time realized that people are inherently flawed, weak, and susceptible to the intoxicating effects of power. Because you'll never have the "right leaders", you must structure the system to prevent abuse by the inevitable "wrong leaders" that will be elected.

NDT, like so many others, misses this point completely, even though nearly the entire letter pays lip service to the idea that the leaders are not the problem to focus on. While he's right, the solution won't appear even if he "enlightened the electorate" to Tysonian heights.
New reality show (Real World) will start soon in Hungary
If he's your bro in law rather than brother in law, you're already in trouble.
The author is a mathematician, and thus used to thinking about percentages and numbers.

Gerd Gigerenzer has a nice book, Reckoning with Risk (or Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You in the US), in which he calls for people to stop using percentages and to use natural numbers numbers instead.

When you say that someone's risk has increased by 33% they usually have no idea what that means, but they think it's scary. But if the risk used to be 0.001% then a 33% increase isn't much to worry about.

The book has many examples from real world medicine of people having great disruption caused because they took medical treatment based on a faulty understanding of the numbers. It wasn't just lay people making the mistakes either; many doctors and consultants were getting the numbers wrong.
Hotmail blocks so much spam, Microsoft has to get spammers a real job (video)
Why not just follow Apple's iOS control sizing guidelines, which are measured in pixels, and are exactly correct for the iPad mini (and slightly oversize for the regular iPad)?
"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting style"