skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of confidentiality issues, the post was definitely in poor taste. For example, he talks about "android’s less-than-beautiful UI". If I ever hired a contractor, and he posted something to that effect about one of my products, you can bet I'd never hire him again. It's extremely unprofessional, and a breach of trust. It's one thing talking about this stuff between friends, but another to badmouth your (former) employer to the public internet.
I made a mobile version sometime ago. http://ihackernews.com
The driving factor was clean air legislation generally, which mandated the use of catalytic converters in new cars. Lead poisons the catalyst; a tank of leaded gasoline would be plenty to render a catalytic converter useless.

Eliminating atmospheric lead may have been a consideration, but in my recollection it wasn't the primary consideration; people were more concerned about unburned hydrocarbons producing smog.
There are a number of syntactic errors and typos in the article. For instance `sum` should be:

* def sum(x: Int, y: Int) = x + y

Why `return x * y`? That is not a sum... Also using `return` is not idiomatic scala.

* List(1, 2, 3) ::: List(4, 5, 6)

That is the more typical way to concatenate lists. Using `+` will actually fail to compile.

* list.map(i => i + 1)

to increment the list. forall checks that a predicate is true for all elements.

And so on...
I think that's where "they" would point to the "distribution" evidence, that shows varying rates of the same correlation geographically.

If we go on that, then you'd have to find another event that occurred at similar rates in similar geographic areas.

Now, if only there were medical indications that lead causes violent behavior... the article only points to IQ issues, though there is likely more evidence elsewhere.
Grinding an axe over people who choose to procreate without cognizance of your interpretation of Kant's metaphysics may also be construed as a form of vanity.
I just tested this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bin1y7AxLdM&feature=youtu...
When did cluster fuck become a design paradigm?
Attention! carbocation did not type this code. His account was hacked and a programmer working for the internet mafia released this code using his stolen account to make him the unwitting fall guy.

carbolocation was with me all afternoon, we were at church working in the soup kitchen, feeding the poor. We did so anonymously because we believe people who take credit for charity work are ego-maniacal monsters.
Flawed article that ironically reproduces fallacies like those it attempts to point out.

"The Which? report found, with the help of several neuroscientists, that there was no peer-reviewed evidence to back up any of the manufacturer’s claims that they will improve performance or stave off dementia and other mental illnesses."

Neither the above quote nor the debunking of their internal studies as junk equals any proof to the contrary, that brain training -- or this product for that matter -- doesn't work.
Announcing Bouncer, a Validation Library for Clojure Apps
Interesting, I wonder if it would be possible to start a rumour by having a number of people spoof their user-agent string?

Sure , they wouldn't route back to an Apple IP address but then who's to say Apple doesn't browse via proxy/vpn somewhere?
Get some sleep, then spend another week playing with Scala and its REPL. It's a terrific tool to learn. If you like Eclipse, install the Scala IDE and the Scala Worksheet. It's rough around the edges, but it's even better than the REPL.
Thanks, fixed the errors.
...am I the only one who finds type inference bad, at least when "reading the code as documentation"?
One scary fact is that one chemist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley,_Jr.) is largely responsible for the development of both Tetra-Ethyl-Lead and CFCs. Scary to think that the things you're working on can have such huge unintended negative side effects.
Keep in mind that your angle on this is the design equivalent of "who cares about [source control/code reviews/proper architecture], it works right?"

There are coders out there who strive for absolute, unlimited technical perfection. They rarely if ever ship - and ditto for designers in that boat.

In reality most designers, and programmers, walk a balance between the bottom-line functionality of their work and less concrete (and more subjective) qualifiers like code quality or sub-pixel scaling.

There are many analogues between design and code here. Most people here would agree that sloppy coding standards aren't deadly, but encourage sloppiness on a larger scale over time. Ditto, sloppy design is insignificant in the individual case, but have the tendency to accumulate and lower the bar.

The example OP chose was particularly bad, mostly because as an iOS dev I know for a fact that getting 1x assets right doesn't take that much time. The usability improvement over time invested is not atrocious - certainly nobody spent an extra week just to get some pixels to line up just right.

The major problem with scaling 2x assets down to 1x devices is that thin features become muddy and blurry, while code-wise UI elements may become aligned against half-pixels, resulting in filtering that produces blurriness. Both the design and code elements of this are easy fixes for any competent iOS developer/designer duo, and takes no more than an hour or two at the extreme most. You get a pretty clear legibility improvement for not a lot of man hours.

Not to mention the very noticeable blurriness of the buttons in the "unfixed" versions - things that users do notice. So much so that some of them can actually articulate it (as opposed to merely being a subconscious annoyance).
I use news:yc on my iPhone. It works great and has an Instapaper "Read later" option which is exactly what I was looking for!
I don't think you're giving the future enough credit. You discredit voice control, but base your opinion solely on their present capabilities.

> the voice robot "press one for x, press two for y" is a very good subject for jokes

Interactive voice systems are among the most primitive voice control system possible. The simplest require you "talk" using generated tones. The more complicated accept a real voice but are hardly conversational; they present a rigid and invisible menu of options. At least they present options, some text-based games of lore required you to read the minds of their game designers.

But they won't always be this way. There's no reason to believe computers won't someday become as good at conversing as humans are. Surely you've noticed talking with a human over the phone is much faster than talking over IM, and eventually computers will also hit that point. Imagine it: you pick up your phone and call AT&T, the system immediately picks up and asks "Thanks for calling customer support, may I have your PIN please?", followed by "Hello gbog, and why are you calling today?". You respond with a simple "I'd like to pay my phone bill" and the conversation continues.

> With touchscreens in everyone pocket, I bet these usability nightmares will be replaced with apps or websites.

What happens when you don't have a touchscreen in your pocket? Touchscreens are magical and the current rage, but there's no reason to believe they are the last word in HCI. What about Google glass? Implants? Some other form-factor we haven't yet imagined?

Voice recognition will become faster than using apps, it's already happening! Telling Siri to "set an alarm for 9:30 tomorrow" is much faster than unlocking your phone, finding the right app, waiting for it to open, then messing with those damned spinners.

> So, in all, voice control, Siri and Google Now seem to be technological dead-ends

Siri is a vision of the future. For the first time (if you'll allow some narrative license) you can have something resembling a conversation with your computer. You talk to it like you would anybody else, and it tells you what you'd like to know. Speech is the fastest method we have of dumping information from our brains, it's incredibly natural, and it's nearly universal; I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually became our primary method of controlling computers.

I don't want to make this comment too long, but a similar argument applies to Page's vision of predicting your needs. You are focusing too much on the present and not enough on the futures potential.
I agree. I'm hoping people who know more about cognitive science and neuroplasticity will comment on the efficacy of brain training and lumosity.
> Software engineering is about striking a balance between choosing an architecture that can grow with your project while being simple enough for you to ship features today. The dogmatic approach from both sides in this ideological war is bizarre.

Exactly and the balance is not an easy thing to do.

YAGNI and KISS principle are often misunderstood and used as a bad excuse to ship crappy code, but used correctly these principles contribute to a good architecture.
The PC industry's shitty netbook lines killed the netbook. Apple was just standing there.
Yes, I have been using the Scala IDE and Scala worksheet for my initial learning. As you said, it is great and more friendly than the REPL itself. It reminds me of Python Notebook in terms of being able to get good feedback and recursively edit.
Indoor positioning is almost commercial reality in Asia's shopping malls
I was totally going to say the same thing.

The lack of evidence for a conclusion is not evidence that the conclusion is false. It just means that the conclusion isn't justified.
Traveling Ultralight
any data to support this?
I'm not sure, how strong should such a correlation be to be considered evidence? That's the real question. And I think when it comes to annual averages of broad trends its a real question how we should interpret correlations. To me this article is data porn, its a story with data. It may be some part of the truth, but I think it exists to entertain the data literate - so we can follow along with the numbers and pat ourselves on the back for a fact discovered. Its enough analysis to be dangerous.

And in case hackernews has become so infected with the kind of reddit thinking that can only see in black and white - yes I think reducing lead in gasoline is a very good thing.
I would love to claim the foresight of planning for the iPhone all along. Alas, that was not the case. :) For any of us.

We built our own browser because we didn't want to depend on another company for a critical application.

We built our own browser engine because we wanted to use the technology in more things than a browser.

We built that engine small and fast because Bertrand Serlet would have shot me if I had done otherwise. :)

You have to remember that Mac OS X itself was smaller in those days. Not iOS small, but considerably smaller that it is now.

After the initial success of Mac Safari, there was a time when I was second-guessed by some for choosing KHTML and KJS as the basis for WebKit. When we decided to do the iPhone, I was suddenly a genius again. :)

That's just the way it works in the real world.
Woah, I love how simple the editor is. I'm not sure how quickly it'd replace something like a notebook for in-depth prototyping, but it's definitely a nice tool for basic layouts.

I see you can save to the website, but is there a way you can output it as an image or something and download it?
Your app didn't really like my vertically oriented screen, but otherwise it's really neat, the random picture button is really genius (lets us use the software quickly). I hate to be "that guy" but... maybe using rounded buttons for the "preview and save" would be better? It seems to fit the aesthetic
standing there indeed, with the smoking gun, the iPad.
Or when the upgrade breaks the ability to go into a low power state. Or when it breaks some of the hardware keys. Or.....
sorry I don't know what is PG do u mean Proctor & Gamble?
There is a coworking space in Myrtle Beach you might want to check out.

http://coworkmyr.com/
Don, you've had a couple of great stories make it to HN recently -- awesome reads. Looking forward to reading many more.
The TV talk show?
There are mobile clients for hn, arent't there?
The basics of InnoDB space file layout
How Google beat the feds
China's Digital Talent Deficit
It's the analogous of Reddit comments starting with "I know this will be downvoted but..."
7 Ways to Find People for Customer Development Interviews
I wouldn't say it's "just Apple" or just a product by them. In every case of someone owning a netbook I've seen, it's just too difficult to use. Typing on a tiny keyboard is a nightmare, and running a fully fledged OS just makes the problem worse.

Apple might have accelerated it, but the form factor was terrible, while the price exceeded that of a mid range laptop in several cases.
>Back around 1990, some forward-thinking IT person secured for Apple an entire Class A network of IP addresses.

I found that fact to be the most interesting part of the article. The list of other Class A holders is also interesting: http://www.aturtschi.com/whois/neta1.html
People were snapping up $200 to $300 netbooks because they were broke, thus it stands to reason that these people were holding out to pay north of $700 for a touch tablet with an incomplete OS you couldn't run two programs on simultaneously?

What killed the netbook is simply that the price of a genuine laptop went down in price. Picking up a brand new 15" laptop for $400 was unheard of 2 years ago. Hell, I bought my i5 w/ 6 gig Ram for $550 brand new. That would have been the price of a mid-line netbook two years ago.
This is really cool! One suggestion: visual editors are probably the only place where I don't mind my backspace button being binded to the delete action. I tried deleting something with backspace and ended up back here without warning, and my (useless) work was lost. I can imagine this causing a lot of frustration in a real work setting.
pretty awesome. great ui.
This is what reddit does
Good, stay away.
In some circles this isn't a popular sentiment, but rest in peace, netbook. Put a minimal Linux distro and a light X setup on it and you've got a very usable machine for ~$300 or less. I guess when my current one breaks I'll have to resort to Debian arm on an android tablet, or similar.
Thank you! I'm typing as fast as I can. :)
Pilot is a Japanese brand, and having used plenty of Uni-balls and Pilots over the years, both companies make excellent pens.
A crash course in prolog
annotated links to learning prolog.
Turn this into a Facebook app that lets you make comics and it could be big.

Also, add some more fonts ;)
I suspect the reason for choosing KHTML over Gecko may have been more political than anything else. Since Mozilla was the dominant non-IE browser at the time, it would be hard to justify any fork to the community without meaningfully given back. For example, Apple could go off into a cave and add touch handling support with momentum scrolling and GPU acceleration, and the Mozilla community would be absolutely furious with Apple for creating effectively unusable work, assuming they did the work over several months/years in secret. The last thing Apple wants is a large group of loud people complaining about itself.

By comparison, KHTML was not really a serious project. It had a few developers, but nowhere near the scale of what Mozilla had. Thus, when they forked it to do their work in secret, only a couple people complained.
And the manufacturer re-distributes the software when they sell me a phone with it pre-loaded.
Perhaps the price of laptops was forced lower in order to compete with tablet devices.
I can't open the website right now. I wonder if it's getting too much traffic and isn't optimized for it yet?
Transfer Roundup (4-1-2013)
Intel in particular had a lot to do with it. For all their talk, they really haven't accomplished much with their Atom line: it's got less than half the IPC of their mainstream architecture and has pretty low clock speeds, and it's been embarrassingly slow about moving to new lithography nodes. (The 22nm Atom has reportedly been delayed to 2014, when Intel's mainstream 22nm chips shipped spring 2012.) On the other hand, Intel refuses to make a sufficiently cheap version of their Core lineup, which is why ultrabooks are so much more expensive and yet most components are still pretty low-quality.
The Business of Startup Acceleration (2/3) (book excerpt)
It seems like "one guy pinning certificates to Chrome" might be an interesting attack vector. How does he verify you actually work for the high-profile site in question?
Mixed feelings here. Serving justice based on information from unverifiable sources has some obvious problems.

I'm thinking of the following scenario: 1. More such cases. 2. Inevitably, some innocent people get targetted. 3. Politicians step in to "solve" the problem, we get some more bad internet law ("Internet Mob Control Act"?)
http://www.placeguitar.com
Why *.Google.com fake certificates are a big deal
Mobile friendly is low hanging fruit. How many improper up/down votes have resulted because of an insanely difficult up/down arrow touch-point? I know that I am responsible for a few.
This is definitely minimal and yet useful. I started looking for a toolbar, but there is no need for a toolbar. Slick!
A bunny with pink eye
Same way they do other verifications I suppose; by proving you have write access to the server in question. If someone malicious can manage that, there's bigger problems than SSL.
I bought a netbook because I wanted a computer that I could easily bring along while traveling because I went to a lot of meetings abroad at the time. I could easily have afforded a laptop but they were not nearly as portable at the time, so the MacBook Air style computers have also had a big impact on netbook sales for people like me.
Let's stress test it. He only shows a case scenario where the user has a 1600x1200 screen. The first example is the chaos itself. The rest seems eye candy and well done. I guess, with all the propaganda he's getting it will be contracted at Facebook.
Friedrich Nietzsche on Religion
The keyboards weren't small enough to be completely unusable, but 1024x600 was obviously never going to be good enough. If we'd had today's LCD market back when the netbook fad started, they would have been much more usable machines.
Functional Programming Wisdom
Apple Loses Claim For False Advertising Regarding Amazon "App Store"
Quite true. With censorship we used to have 99% of Google, now without censorship we have 0%. Not saying that 1% isn't important, but it wouldn't outweigh the rest.
Perhaps the opposite of that since laptops came first, by a bit.
I think the point you raise is valid, but the way you arrive to it is disingenuous.

North of $700? The iPad starts at $500, and recently, the iPad Mini at $330. Granted the Mini is late in this timeline, but it stands to reason the price point is closer than you're making it out to be.

Secondly, an "incomplete OS" is a fallacy. It's complete to the spec it was designed for. Yes, that means its not intended to be a fully-fledged desktop OS, but its not inherently incomplete, just focused.

Thirdly, "running two programs simultaneously" – I'd wager that many netbook users (myself included) found the netbook so limiting and simple that it was only ever used for doing one thing at a time, such as reading email, browsing the web, listening to music or reading a book; all of which now accomplished by the iPad.
Technical subtleties aside, I'm actually siding with Free here. I have a Freebox myself, and every computer in my household already uses some kind of ad block, but nonetheless I find the move to suit Free pretty well.

As said already, Free is trying to disturb industries, to break the status quo. €60 per month for 512Kbps vs €20 per month for 20Mbps... €60 per month for unlimited calls plus 1GB fair-use data plan vs €20 per month for unlimited calls plus 3GB fair-use data plan...

It's all about disrupting the big players. Lots of people try to access Google's services, I'd argue it's only fair if hugely-profitable Google help ISP's users better access their services.
seems legit. I'm not into the tablet market enough but are there small cheap tablets that you can hook up to a projector and use to present your powerpoints and documents? That's what most people I know having a notebook use it for: they don't want to drag around a laptop
I'm honestly surprised that Charles Arthur's article is being referenced in so many places without taking into account that Arthur is well known for being an Apple fan (there are several examples in the tech section of the Guardian; ie. the Windows PC are dead because Apple is growing faster, but don't look at the market share!).

I'm not saying the iPad didn't have a role in the netbook decline, but "Apple killed the netbook" sounds to me like it's a little bit excessive. May be it was the raise of smartphones and tablets, but not just from Apple.

Signed: an habitual reader of the Guardian's tech section :)
Anonymous Hackers leaks video of Steubenville rape case
I was pretty darn happy with my eee pc: lightweight, good battery life, durable, and replaceably cheap (for a student).

Somehow the x220 I bought afterward, for speed and one more inch of screen, compromised all those qualities.
One issue the article doesn't touch on is the various restrictions Microsoft and Intel put on netbooks (to protect their margins related to other PCs, I believe). I'd say those were at least a contributing factor (if not the underlying killer) because those restrictions made it much harder for netbooks to change as the competitive landscape did.
I tried to be careful with my wording so as to come out as neutral as I can on the subject. My intent was to turn this into a design discussion about the importance of carefully choosing default settings - I failed obviously :P

My personal opinion on advertising is very critical, very much like yours. It litterally cripples content quality for pebbles.

As a side note, I currently make about 100$/month with advertising on my mobile apps (~10-15k active users). I really want to switch to a paid product but I'm having trouble picking a correct price for it since I'm not completely satisfied with it myself. There are some mental barriers that I need to break first. Ads were an easy way out, I totally see myself in your pamphlet: a lazy and complacent developer, so afraid to see his pricing expectations shattered that he preferred to ship a free app with a bland and mediocre ad banner. Again, for pebbles.
If the Google Nexus 4 is meant to show the direction Google wants to take Android phones in, "most" android phones will not be robust for long. While the newest iPhone has done away with the glass back, the newest flagship phone from Google has a glass front and back and a non-removable battery.
*.Google.com certificate was software error, explanation by TURKTRUST
Along with the environment, what other aspects of our world are fundamentally socialized? I'm thinking things like risk of asteroid impact.
The third big reason:

(c) The standard complaints don't matter because they don't impact growth.

There's a message in that.

It is, "Ship."
I'm not going to comment on the present and future of Safari and WebKit. I'm retired. I have no business doing that. And it would disrespect the fine people at Apple -- my friends -- who are still working on both.
PSA: the published form of the article at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6115/52 includes revisions from the arxiv.org draft copy.
Looks awesome !
I was using befunky, and ps previously, but this one s gonna be my new fav
Call me wrong on this one, but if you really are interested in the code for HN why not create your own? From what I've seen so far, HN is great n' all but the logic behind it seems pretty trivial (excluding the whole anti-spam module & related stuff).

The HTML for HN is ultra simple so, there you already have a front-send pretty much done.

This reply box is pretty simple as well: a input box and a submit button.

Add some filters/sorts and other misc features and you have your own version of HN.

Not saying it's 'easy', but it's not that difficult.