skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting point. As a teen-aged atheist and Ayn Rand fan, I was so determinedly atheistic that I couldn't use the word "god" even in a metaphorical way. Perhaps I was afraid of the concept (or afraid of what devout believers would do to me). My literalism probably interfered with effective communication at times.

Nowadays I aim to focus on the underlying intent, rather than the literal meaning. God is a fairly abstract, catch-all word that can mean a lot of different things to different people.
I'm finding a lot of screenshots are generated not capturing the full page, or in some cases triggering non-desktop stylesheets to apply (ie: tablet ones). Perhaps more control needs to be made upon submission about screenshot size? and/or picking mobile vs desktop?
None of the big unsustainable pension increases involved ballot measures, as far as I know. The unions are the biggest spenders in California election and incumbency is rampant even when the state is going down the tubes.
http://wordpress.org/about/license/:

Part of this license outlines requirements for derivative works, such as plugins or themes. Derivatives of WordPress code inherit the GPL license. Drupal, which has the same GPL license as WordPress, has an excellent page on licensing as it applies to themes and modules (their word for plugins).

There is some legal grey area regarding what is considered a derivative work, but we feel strongly that plugins and themes are derivative work and thus inherit the GPL license. If you disagree, you might want to consider a non-GPL platform such as Serendipity (BSD license) or Habari (Apache license) instead.
Mass shootings are a strawman which allows convenient comparison to lightning strikes.

The correct meaningful numbers in establishing public policy regarding firearms are approximately 19,000 suicides by fire arm per year, and 11,000 homicides by firearm per year.

If we look at those numbers, the deaths in the recent school shooting are quite ordinary. The homicides are equivalent to the extra day in a leap year, and the suicide of the gunman was statistically background noise.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_06.pdf
I am generally against skeuomorphism, and prefer what this article refers to as "flat"" design. However, one of the difficulties I've come across with flat design is the ability to communicate the affordance of actionable items (i.e., buttons) vs. non-actionable items (i.e., content and images).

As an example, I would classify the Windows Phone as an OS that has fully embraced flat design. However, after using it for 6 months, I constantly find myself confused on where I can click vs. not. Other apps have trained me to recognize buttons through gradients and bezels. This becomes even more important on the phone as there is no "hover" state that helps one explore click-able areas. I found it helpful is to introduce hints of skeuomorphism when communicating affordance of actionable items, while keeping the rest minimal.

Am I the only one, or are others also experiencing this issue as well with totally "flat" designs?
As with everything on that blog: total BS.

Flat design isn't an 'aesthetic'; it's the result of considered design thinking. Picking 'flat design style' instead of x or y 'design style' is to cheapen yourself as a designer to the level of an 11 year old on DeviantArt.
You phrased that in an ambiguous way. I believe you mean that the gift is being able to feel love, not the love itself. Loving someone may cause you to give "gifts" to that person, but the love itself is not a gift to them. You are the one enjoying that gift from life.
Logical thinking is fine: garbage in — garbage out.

Logical thinking won't help if you give it incorrect input data.

Unless you believe in supernatural; everything is math provided a correct model.
I've always been struck by how little Amazon's design has changed:

http://web.archive.org/web/19990828014913/http://www.amazon....?
I am aware this 'God' concept is very abstract. Maybe I should have emphasized the any in 'any form or idea'. Indeed, I do not understand what it adds to this deep and wise essay.
Thanks for the response.

I just signed up fresh to Mixpanel to play around and you guys have solid technical on-boarding around just installing and collecting any data, but not a lot of details on what to collect. I'm sure that getting someone to collect just anything is a better first step than some sort of high level tutorial, which is why you do it that way.

I like the OKM idea a lot. Perhaps that could be a pretty solid center stone for on-boarding a new user. I just remember being overwhelmed by the blank slate every time I signed up for any analytics package.
We've moved on from discussing the content of the article's content to how the article provides an essential link in a particular chain of reasoning about the best way to address a specific subset of gun violence.

This process is called "discussion." To me, comments that merely restate the article's content without any additional information or commentary are noise; if I want to know what the article said, I can read it directly, and I probably already did if I'm reading (much less writing) comments.
Thank you for the suggestion! It uses 1024x1030 if I recall correctly as a viewport.

What I was thinking about is showing the generated screenshot after "Start" and then giving an option to upload your own screenshot instead if the current one doesn't work well. What do you think about it?
I haven't sold any, but http://codecanyon.net/category/wordpress has a good selection of people who have.
As I said, that's by the second law of thermodynamics...

There is a nice <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon>tought experiment</a> linking thermodynamics to information theory. And guess what, experiments agree with the theory.

After you have the theoretical framewok done, it is just a matter of applying the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann%27s_entropy_formula&#... entropy formula</a>, and you are done.
Moving information requires energy, and in the case of advertising, on the scale of Google's data centers.
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The real WTF (that you, me, and the OP probably agree on) is the California initiative process, which forces/allows citizens to act as legislators.

But to your point, the first substantive link off the official Prop. 30 summary page (http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/30/analysis.htm) makes clear in several places that the increases will take effect starting Jan. 1, 2012. ("Because the rate increase would apply as of January 1, 2012, affected taxpayers likely would have to make larger payments in the coming months to account for the full-year effect of the rate increase.")

If the OP was worried about taxes, he should feel lucky that 38 failed ;-).
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If you move your company to Portland or Austin one year before your exit, you'll take home an additional 13%, I think. That's significant.
What do you mean by 'some of the best'? If a CAPTCHA can be solved or guessed in an automated fashion then attackers can just throw more (likely compromised) machines at the problem at little cost. 3% is awful.

http://bitland.net/captcha.pdf
> What happens when I leave the company?

And this is exactly why programming makes you more valuable and puts you in a much better position to negotiate promotions. You give them better "machinery" for better productivity, but they need you to operate it! Now if you leave they are taking a significantly larger step back than if you hadn't built things for them in the first place.
Android has plenty of gradients, drop shadows, and rounded corners. They aren't garish hard-candy-style buttons like on iOS, but they're certainly there. Subtlety in execution is an important part of design.
This might be a good start if you're just starting out with Backbone: https://github.com/kjbekkelund/writings/blob/master/publishe...
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Until you change what those functions do, and then the function name lies.
It's state and local. But I think you underestimate the distinction between a normal fire and one set to deliberately murder. To get back to the current topic, one reason the death toll at Virginia Tech was so high was the shooter chained shut from the inside all three exits of the building. No one could escape and that gave the shooter an extra 5 minutes before the police could breach a door.

Then there are the cases where the building codes are not observed; Wikipedia even has a category "Fire disasters involving barricaded escape routes" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fire_disasters_involvi...). Only one of these is listed as an arson attack, I know of one other (Happy Land), although both of these were code type problems. Hmmm, and according to Wikipedia, the Dupont Plaza Hotel arson, 2nd worst in US history at a minimum of 97 killed, locked emergency exits on a casino floor were a factor (wow, I'm impressed Wikipedia's article does not use the word union once...).

Still can't find a list of arson fires, so further analysis by me will have to wait, but I know plenty of smaller scale ones I've read about have involved the arsonists blocking the entrances, often by setting more than one fire.
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Then tell your local officials to grow a backbone.

If incumbency is rampant, that's a structural problem with your redistricting process, not the unions.

If BigCo Inc is allowed to spend a ton of money in elections, why can't the unions?
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California is the worst run state in the nation[1] largely due to its politically dominant public sector unions[2][3] and the resulting massive pension deficit[4] that result from the state funding lavish pensions at early ages for its public sector union members. The state's liberal ideology exacerbates the problem - the Republican Party is small and weak, so there is no real political opposition to the one-party state.

[1]http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-best-and-worst-run-states-...

[2]http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_2_california-unions.html

[3]http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_california-teachers-as...

[4]http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/the-best-life/2012/11/08...
God's love is eternal and it is perfect, but it's not unconditional.

That's fair. That makes more sense than God loving an axe-wielding rapist as much as Mother Theresa.
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Skeumorphism isn't inherently bad. But problems commonly follow when designers aspire for authenticity over sanity, which leads to bad user experiences. Apple's Contacts and Calendar apps are cumbersome to use because they try too much to replicate real world objects.

More alarmingly, it limits our creative thinking. When the iPhone was first presented in 2007, Jobs kept on reminding us that these user experiences were only possible because of touch screens. We were no longer limited by static physical keyboards. The iPhone doesn't even have a shutter button in Camera.app! There are countless other examples of digitally authentic user experiences which are only possible if we think outside the box and beyond real world objects.
"Statistically, there does not appear to be much of a genetic component to pancreatic cancer, but still, I worried. How much longer do I have? Could there be a tumor growing inside of me at this very moment?"

I lost my father to pancreatic cancer when I was only 18. Even though I'm only 20, this is something I constantly have in the back of my head. Although I don't live each day exactly like it's my last, I no longer stress out over small things and am a lot more questioning of the decisions I make. Death really does strip away everything doesn't matter.
Thanks for sharing such a personal experience Paul. This article resonated with me deeply. I also wonder about God and try to make sense of my own existence. Great post!
The birth of a child does something very similar, but in a joyful way. Wasted time (TV , useless relationships) becomes better moments. It's gradual unlike death were you can have a clean slate.
UI Design is a type of language and as such has to communicate a symbol with a meaning (or action in most cases).

If you can use a language element that your user already understands, why would you rule it out?

I also wonder why you compare Skeuomorphism with flat design when you can have a flat skeuomorphic design anyway.

And I'd also be careful with stating that any design trend is here to stay. Most design trends have been here before and will be back again in the future. It just happens that the flat-look is on trend.
I've worked on code like that, and i'm sorry but i would rather read a 50 (or even couple 100 if appropriate) line function implementing specific functionality that is well written and documented with comments then have that critical information split up into a multiple functions and test cases spread out over multiple files. Sometimes functionality belongs together and it would be far more difficult to get that all that disjointed information into coherent mental model.

Not to mention how test cases and function names would just not cut it for explaining things like why the current implantation was chosen over more obvious, simpler ones, why the magic like assumptions are necessary and documenting the bugs/quirks in the underlying library or framework that are not obvious. Things like why call object.SetValue() instead of property object.value = x? Or Free memory from this call here, but not here, because the framework takes care of it.

I prefer commented code, even if it is over commented, because at the very least it is a way for the last programmer to explain why she implemented things the way she did.
Much, much better. New York City is totally politicized, else they wouldn't have done something as insane as using FMJ ammo until too many innocent bystanders were hurt through over-penetration and ricochets. Places where this is too politicized won't even do this, otherwise there's a good chance that people with a clue will be involved. We do know how to do this correctly, and note again, the NYPD situation is with handguns, it doesn't apply to the M4s in a safe concept.

You know, people normally hold out New York City as an object lesson in how not to run one, I'm amazed by anyone who thinks otherwise.
"The real WTF (that you, me, and the OP probably agree on) is the California initiative process, which forces/allows citizens to act as legislators."

I definitely agree with this (-:

You're right, in that a reasonably informed voter should have known the nature of the proposition. Unfortunately, due to the broken initiative process, those weighing the options tend not to be sufficiently informed. In my opinion (though not that of the US Supreme Court, see Calder v Bull), such ex-post-facto tax laws should be as prohibited as similar laws are in criminal circumstances.
I was actually thinking more like burning man, but same idea. I didn't actually mean it in a cynical way though, nor do I think that it's inherently cynical in any way unless you think that it's not possible for capitalism to benefit society. If you watch the movie Better Living Through Circuitry, it gives a really good look at the psychology of the people who are heavily into rave culture, and there seems to be a strong need for more things that meet those sorts of psychological needs in society.

Also, if you watch Neal Goldsmith's talk about the need for unconditional love for promoting proper psychospiritual development, I think there begins to emerge a clear blueprint for architecting more systems around this:

http://vimeo.com/16260822

What if someone made a social network that revolved around unconditional love, where social interactions were subtly designed in ways to promote community and psychospiritual development? I think something like that would have a real chance at blowing Facebook out of the water.
Gotta say, I've never had a problem with WP7. All things clickable:

- Big colorful squares

- Round icons at the bottom of the screen

- Ellipses

- Most text that is white and largish

Can you give an example of something difficult? I just flipped through my phone and couldn't find anything that might be confusing.
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Would like the option to import a url to edit.
I've been developing on PHP for several years, but I've only learned WordPress about half a year ago. Each time a client wanted something new that didn't already exist in the WordPress "ecosystem", I separated that feature into a new plugin. This way, of course, I could reuse the plugin on other projects. On top of that, I've submitted two of these plugins on a marketplace and, to my surprise, made about 1000 USD in 5 months, without that much additional time invested.

Of course, there are downsides. You have to offer support for those customers that have problems (and there will be a lot of them). When they ask for new features, you have to choose to either deliver or refuse them, each option having its ups and downs. When a new major WordPress version comes along, like 3.5 just did a few days ago, you'll have to make sure your plugins support it, or you'll end up with unhappy existing clients and close to none new ones.

It seems it's common practice for clients that experience problems to give you an admin account on their server (either a simple WordPress account or even FTP/Cpanel access). It sure is faster to troubleshoot this way, but I really believe it's a very dangerous practice and you should be wary about it.

Besides all the customer relationship hassle, you have to make sure your plugin supports (almost) all of the possible scenarios that your customers may be using. Things like compatibility with different themes, different plugins, themes or plugins that do not-so-orthodox things in totally unexpected ways, different version of them, so on and so forth.

Overall, I can say it's an interesting ride but I'm not sure whether it's worth it or not. It really depends on a lot of factors.

P.S. I'll post the marketplace and plugin names upon request. I don't want this to seem as self-advertising. Cheers!
This is the old story of "if you work hard enough you will be just as successful" and it is of course bullshit. There is an easy proof for this: Income distribution.

The income distribution would be a Gaussian distribution like intelligence, body height and all other kinds of human traits, if it were truly determined by accomplishement.

But since the income distribution has a rather exponential shape the underlying events must be independent and poissonian distributed, similar to a series of small lottery games or to put it simply: luck!

The first of those lottery games in your life is the question of: are your parents rich or not.
neat thanks.
Wouldn't that function name have to be more like setTemperatureTo350ToCookPerfectly400WillBurn300WillMush to match what the comment is saying?

What if later it is determined that the proper temperature should instead be 375 because at 350 they aren't quite cooked enough?
It's a pity that there always has to happen something terrible for one to realise that life is a gift.

Then suddenly critisism of Islam. It doesn't make sense. Oh well. Why must there always be a good and a bad god?
I really have no idea what you mean by that.
I can't make any sense out of what you said.
Surely you see the irony of completely missing the point of what I wrote?
Prop 30 did address bad schools by avoiding "trigger cuts" of 6 billion dollars in 2012-13 [1] $5.4 billion to K–14 education and $500 million to public universities.

http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/30/analysis.htm
it is not trés bon , but très bon , if you intended to write something in french.
I didn't say I wanted to control them 100% of the time.

Young children do NOT have a survival instinct. The smarter ones will develop one after they hurt themselves a few times.
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Keep in mind that theoretical constructions of symmetric ciphers are nowhere near as fast as practical constructions like AES. The real issue is that no public-key algorithms are known other than those that are based on theoretical constructions.

Also, our knowledge of complexity theory is not sufficient to show that cryptography is even possible. I suspect that improvements in our knowledge of complexity theory will greatly improve our cryptographic primitives, in both security and efficiency.
great list thank you!
That one was like taking candy from a baby. I hope you at least offered them a time limit, so there was SOME element of sport to it. :-)
Happy so far with the amount of users? I liked your site, it has a clear concept and some of the feedback is indeed helpful (in my case, having my site not in english seems to be a big hurdle for that helpfulness sometimes though, which is understandable. Wrong target-group.).

Small suggestion: You already greatly improved the workflow of actually submitting the review. One thing still bothering me is that the link to the page is not a normal link. You probably wanted it to open it in its own tab and therefore made it a javascript-link? Perfect usecase for target=_blank, which would also work with a middle-mouseclick (currently it just opens the review-page again).

PS: Are you moderating the reviews by yourself? If you add votes and have a report-system, it could be interesting whether an algorithm could do that work for you, maybe combined with the data-corpus of the reviews already in the system.
It was pretty clear in the voter's pamphlet. See the bottom of page 29 and the top of page 30.
No because the amount of detail will change at each zoom level. Smaller roads and a higher number of local details appear.
* successful businesses with unconditional love as the core value proposition.*

examples please.
For some public key systems, the search becomes polynomial. Luckily, we know of ones for which that is not the case (as far as we know), and so if a practical quantum computer could be built we would just deploy new cryptosystems (pricey, but not end-of-the-world pricey).
Martin Bryant? He slaughtered 35 people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bryant
An axe-wielding rapist is mentally sick. I would still love my children, even if they had a horrible sickness. Love is not a reward.
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It was a rough year, but HN inspired me.
Yes. Tell Paul what's appropriate in his own, intensely personal, unabashedly honest message from the heart. I'm going through pain in my life and I'm glad he shared it. His honestly about religion was heartwarming, and I knew there'd be people in the Hacker News comments looking to argue about it straight away.
Could note have said this better myself.
This was a really good post, but I'm going to be totally honest: my eye kept being drawn to an avatar of you holding (what appears to be) an assault rifle and smiling. It seems strange considering the topic.

Again, no offense is meant. Maybe its also due to recent events, but it seems odd.
And stats from their campaign: http://brewgentlemen.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/statistics/
This is tinkering with marginal tax rates, not retroactively making peeing while standing up a felony.

More seriously, there is a distinction between civil and criminal ex post facto laws (civil, including taxes: generally OK if there is a rational basis; criminal: essentially never due to Article 1 of the US Constitution).

For more, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law#United_States