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Sure understanding the relationship between good design and how it applies to different technologies takes time. Whether that be resolution independence or color correction, but once you've got your head around the "working out", there's no reason why you shouldn't strive for perfection.

Achieving pixel perfect design nowadays doesn't mean you have to go insane in the process.
Sounds like you just have an incompatible approach to quality, and you're selling a shoddy product.

Your idea of "good enough" almost certainly isn't. Users do notice even if you're too pigheaded to admit it.
Vector art produces bad results. So, no thanks. The problem is the ridiculous number of varying Android resolutions. There, we have to be flexible. But still not going to use vectors.
Hm. I've been thinking about going with a darker wood. (And it is thematically consistent in my case, since my goal is to evoke the sense of an old, well-kept bookcase; the project has nothing to do with programming beyond, well, the fact that I'm coding it.)

I'll think about it. I'll pass it through people with actual skill at UX first, too.
"!=" as "non-identical sets", not "mutually exclusive sets". This is generally the expected behavior of the "!=" operator in sets.
Sure, it might even be strong evidence. It's just not clear and we see these time series correlations again and again.
very nice UI, I really like the idea of marking an area and than choose what type it is. seems to be great for a tablet UI as well. For an opensource off-line tool may I suggest pencil project. I'm currently using it for my work.
Italy did it back the day with some CIA guys. Never want came out of it, so.
must have been easier to use an ip filter and base the identifier on ip... duh..
Command-Shift-4 in the meantime.
You've captured a lot in this comment.

Yes and I stand by every word of it

You've characterized Arthur Shorin as a 'huckster' which in many places would be considered insulting. This guy spent 27 years at his Grandfather's company and grew its revenues by 5x [1]. That is some pretty serious credibility in the candy business. Not 'huckster'.

In my book anyone who asks for 75% of your business is a huckster. I do not care about his credibility in the family business, the only thing I see here is some guy wants to pick up this lady's assets for nothing. If you read "Burn Rate" you'll see this type of vulture investor documented pretty well. They prey on desperate people who do not know any better. When making this kind of offer they are clearly not treating you with respect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_Rate

Contrast that with going broke. Having your net worth gro 25% is much better than having it shrink 100%.

Contrast that with cutting down your burn and finding other resources to fund your production run. That's what the word "resourceful" means. There is always an alternative to giving up or buying into empty promises.

Then the last lament, which I have heard many many times, is this "The real solution though is to plan things through and not get yourself in the situation of "needing" to raise cash or go bust. There are tons of ways to avoid getting stuck is this situation"

That's how successful businesses are run, including Arthur Shorin's. He did not become successful by turning over control to the first guy who asked. But of course if you have unrealistic business plan that requires a lighting to strike and you have no Plan B, the most likely scenario is a shutdown or this type of vulture deal.
Of course, but it can also be engaging. It all depends on what kind of growth you want. For the size of the reader base, it's not very common to see people "on the team" comment something here on HN once the discussion turns opinionated.
People probably said the same about the horse and buggy when the car was invented. Not that I'd personally like a shit ton of social media buttons, just sayin'
You are lucky no one changed their system clock for testing before launch!

Then again it doesn't seem Apple do that very often, cough Do not disturb cough ;)
Nice logical fallacy.
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In June 2012 I wrote this simple app. Somehow I forgot about it, the code needs a serious review. It's running on JBoss Open Shift, with jQuery and modyfied impress.js on frontend, and htmleasy on backend.
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Red Hat patches multiple web application Vulnerabilities
Here's a simple solution that works: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/emailriddler/

No startup needed.
http://newsyc.me/ is the best iPhone app I've found for Hacker News, highly recommend it over just using Safari.
I’m super excited to see how this experiment goes.

Yes, must be him all right.
Also, what were the chances that someone would even notice "Safari" in their log files had it of slipped out, vs some stats company who only work on iPhones noticing a new iPhone version.

Apple 10 years ago < Apple now
"Larry Page used to use an Android. But that is now at an end with" works just great. :)

http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#auto/en/Larry%20Page%2...
Alarmist bullshit headline.

From what I can figure out, this ISP merely provides a modem/router with a built-in optional adblocker.

I don't see anything wrong with that in particular, especially in the context where virtually all display ads violate European privacy laws because of cross-site user tracking without explicit permission.

It's just one more additional security/privacy feature on a consumer router to help ordinary users protect themselves.
Did you bug report this in launchpad?
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Yes, although back in my c64 programming days I knew the 6510 opcodes by heart, one didn't actually program by using machine code.

You used an assembler (turbo assembler, those were the days).

assembly:
lda #00, sta $d021, sta $d020,

generated machine code:
a9 00, 8d 21 d0, 8d 20 d0

Anyone else remember what this would do on the c64? :)
PHP Fizz Buzz solution, any other language solutions? 
Hi,

I thought I would try and get a collection of examples of the Fizz Buzz challenge solution in different languages. If you have a solution of this challenge it would be great to see then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_the_Roman_Empire#Lea...
You are making the wrong assumption that effect/no effect are equal probability of being true.

However, the way science works is that you have to prove an affect. The null hypothesis is that brain training doesn't have any affect on "performance". To assert otherwise, you need evidence.

>>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.

The article isn't meant to be proof that it doesn't work. He is saying that there is no good evidence to believe it does.
See, the ISP remotely upgraded all routers, activating the adblocker by default. You say "optional", but I'm not even sure there is an "opt-out".

Anyway, don't trust google translation. I found some info in english : http://www.fastcompany.com/3004452/french-isp-free-blocks-al...
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/3832126/french-isp-free-add...
That's the high level view of the problem of correlation and causation. What I'm really saying is how unlikely should we consider these correlations - especially correlations over very broad average trends in human behaviour. Now I'm sure there are some statistical tools that would give some sense of how surprising the correlation of these trends is but I'd like to know out of all the things about human society we track how many of them correlate and how closely.
I might be alone here, but I've found that it's much easier to put together a high-fidelity PSD that details every intricacy of a site or app before writing a line of code. So, I end up spending more time designing the app/site than actually coding (which I think is the way it should be). Nevertheless, this project is really cool; been playing around with it for half an hour already.
That's a base/API, not a service ready for end users. Diaspora is considering using it in some way, but so far it's limiting the logic of the node to one user only, which doesn't look like a logical restriction.

See http://www.loomio.org/discussions/1522
> You can use private litigation (sue someone for poisoning you) but that is wholly impractical.

I'll never understand how people can suppose that a government solution, which consists of a massive nation-wide bureaucracy as well as an immense violent army of what I endearingly call "the conflict resolvers" (law enforcement, courts, etc.) funded mostly by compulsory financial levies on working residents, is by any definition or stretch of the imagination "more efficient" than private litigation.
tl;dr version: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50e6993885d8d1617b000a23/americas-real-...

There is now enough statistical proof that lead is the prominent cause of crime.
Crime rates and lead concentrations are extremely well correlated everywhere: the more lead in the environment, the more crimes will occur.
Furthermore, it is scientifically proven that lead has a very negative impact on the brain, killing gray matter and impairing neuronal communication.
Unfortunately, this theory hasn't been taken seriously by the government yet because it doesn't serve any political agenda.
The article doesn't mention Google Analytics and I haven't seen a drop from my Free users in GA. Any source for that ?
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It's an active option by default. Many people does not use web panel to disable options.
sounds like an excuuuuuse ;)
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I've read about that contributing to the fall of their empire before - I guess we'll never really know, but if it did then the impact of that element on human history must be massive.

Wikipedia puts it out as an option: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_roman_empire#Lead_p...
Nothing seems clickable apart from the anchors in the mast.

Tile layouts have no place on pcs where pointing devices are used to interact with interfaces,however they seem to be a natural fit on tablets.

Nielsen wrote an article recently on major drawbacks of this trend.

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/windows-8-disappointing-usab...
Not quite.

Implore asserts that a test passes (prototypically on a passed in parameter), but if that test fails the blame is on the calling function.

Swear on the other hand will assign blame to the current function if the test fails.
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It can be engaging when it is engaging. However, the median meme, etc. of the set of all internet discussions is not.
It's a shame you can't query the CSS from the JS, so you are not left in a position of having delays specified in two places (see queueing transitions).

I guess that also questions if this sort of thing is behaviour or style?
Responsive CSS menu with a disappearing “Menu” button
I agree - learning about the C Runtime is an "ahah!" moment that usually comes too late. (It also makes interop trivial!).
The article seems to miss the whole point of the social network functionality. For example, it states: "Diaspora has now reached a level of basic functionality, so that it could be used for many purposes we now rely on other services for. [...] You can post text and pictures."

In a social network, there isn't an use case "post text and pictures" - the real use case is "post a picture of my kid so that my mom can see it"; and Diaspora fails at that, as my mom isn't there, she's on facebook. An useful use case is "post a morning rant so my friends can see it" and it fails if my friends aren't on that network.

"read user posts" is a weak feature, but "read Bieber's posts" is a feature greatly valued by millions of teenagers - and Diaspora doesn't have that feature, Twitter has.

The core value of any social site or network isn't in the software, but in the community. If the interesting people aren't there, then the service is useless to me, so I won't read or post. If the facebook site was opensourced and used by Diaspora, even then it would bring orders of magnitude less value to users simply because of the smaller community.

What is Diaspora's plan for solving the user acquisition? Facebook replaced university 'facebooks' to get initial 'hot' users; Twitter got the critical mass from a few early adopter celebrities; Google+ is bootstrapping off of gmail contacts. Tech part is 1% of the resulting value, user part is 99% of it.

If Diaspora can't show a reasonable path how they will resolve the chicken-and-egg issue to get a critical mass of users, then it's not worth to invest time and emotions in posting there.
dishonesty is part and parcel of the trade in banking and politics. competent people tend to stay away from dishonesty.
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The Arstechnica story has already been posted on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5004621
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> I'll never understand how

... And if, after looking at the example of lead, you still don't understand the role of regulation, it's likely that you never will.
See also: http://emptysquare.net/blog/python-increment-is-weird-part-i...
> I'm tempted to repeat the oft said correlation is not causation

I's be interested in seeing what you think on that score after reading TFA and possibly even the studies that it talks about.
How to organise conferences to achieve socially acceptable speaker demographic?
Conferences and Conventions: How should people organise software developer focused conferences in order that they achieve socially acceptable representation across relevant demographics (e.g. gender, ethnicity) in terms of speakers and attendees?
In a social network, there isn't an use case "post pictures" - the real use case is "post a picture of my kid so that my mom can see it"

No, you miss the point. The purpose of social network is connecting people. Posting a picture for mom to see it is just one example of social interactions, there are multiple others which can be done through social network. For example exchanging ideas. Yes, Diaspora needs to add more features to become more friendly and versatile. But it's not about making a Facebook clone. It's about giving people an option of free social network. The point of the article - start using it now if you care about freedom. The more users it will get, the more feedback and more potential developers. It's not yet about "those who post pictures just come now - it'll replace all your Facebook use cases".

If Diaspora can't show a reasonable path to get a critical mass of users, then it's not worth to invest time and emotions in posting there.

I'd say if one doesn't share the sentiment of the author of that article (i.e. understanding of the need for free social networks), then one won't find reasons to invest time and effort in it already now. But the article isn't addressed to such people on the other hand.
Might I mention that I'm building an open-source HN clone with Meteor? It's a great starting point if you want to build your own HN-style community, and it's also the only real-time HN clone as far as I know:

http://telesc.pe
> The fatal flaw of a correlation is that it can be specious — it can appear to explain reality, but really there's a third variable responsible for driving the phenomenon you're interested in.

But in the case of lead, the causal chain from lead exposure to worse behaviour is fairly well understood.
Sort of, except that this is usually considered as down vote baiting on HN and is frowned upon. From HN's guidelines: "Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you."[0]. In this case though, I don't feel it was OP's intention to invite down votes.

[0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They talk about it here but it looks like Analytics isn't blocked anymore as of this morning: http://www.numerama.com/magazine/24672-free-ne-bloque-pas-qu...
I updated the title consequently.
And a great one that is, I use it on my mobile devices.
Well, terrorists should be happy if the average american will now associate "terrorist" with "resistance fighter against rapists and corrupt cops".
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On translate.google.com [1] it works fine.

[1] http://translate.google.com/?hl=en#auto/en/Larry%20Page%20us...
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It gives the freedom to put the type when it is useful for reading and to remove it when it is annoying for reading.

It is very different from others because this language assumes the developer is smart.
The big pain point is not the rapist kids, but the adult cover-up. OK, there are charges for the rape and there will be a (hopefully) just trial for that.

But what would it take to put behind bars the justice system adults involved in the numerous alleged instances of covering up ? Their (alleged) crime is even more disgusting and it directly facilitates numerous other rape cases that didn't go to trial; they are harming more girls than the footballers themselves.
Wow, this speaks volumes about their QA process, especially for Android. This bug is known since October '12, how hard can it be for a company with 50k employees to fix a bug like this?
The core value of any social site or network isn't in the software, but in the community.

The article recognizes this and suggests that the people who care about freedom should make the initial 'investment' by creating an account, thereby increasing the value of the network for everyone else.
Choosing people primarily because they add diversity is tokenism. There are processes that are effective in obtaining underrepresented speakers that are effective and don't require choosing people because they're a minority. We should use those.

I really don't think we should label conferences failures because they do a poor job on the diversity front. Instead, we should encourage them to do a better job next time and show them how.
French user of this ISP here. Yes there is an opt-out. There is an option to disable the filtering based on DNS lookup.
Indeed -- also interesting are the results of an RDNS query on the first IP address listed in the article (17.149.160.49).
Have you tried the Scala Worksheet for Eclipse? Pretty cool.

I see that the recently released IDEA 12 has a similar feature (but so far incomplete and undocumented according to their bug tracker).
I 'm not from the English-speaking world and that holds for a huge number of people here and in the wider internet. English was the lingua franca before the internet and is the default language of the internet. Using it guarantees that the maximum number of people will understand you.
Noveau isn't so bad for 2D. For 3D, you do kind of need the blob, though.

I'm glad the devs are working on it, though.
The router/box needs to be rebooted to upgrade and there is no notification to do so, so I guess it would no be that noticeable (and users can't opt-out if they understand what is happening).
I think it's more than just creating an account. It's about contributing with relevant content, discussions and other ways of participation which increase the value of the network itself.
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Yes. The bogus filtering of google analytics has been removed. The rules are updated and refined by the ISP. Note that these filtering rules apply only on DNS lookup and not at the HTTP level.
There are suggestions that it is possible (potentially easy) for a user to get symbols into the params hash.
actually its quite usefull project. Do you know. we can use this for campaign like we love Iran.
http://www.weloveiran.org/

can you share the techonology stack or how its built. is it open sourced ?
Gender and race are orthogonal to one's merit as a speaker. Content is very relevant to one's merit as a speaker. There's a huge difference. Choosing speakers based on gender and/or racial diversity is a bad idea. It's disrespectful to the people being chosen and to the people who are trying to attend a quality conference.

It's also uncomfortable when you can tell that a speaker has been chosen for diversity's sake, and it reflects poorly on the other underrepresented folks speaking at the conference. If you have a transparent process that judges speakers independently of those culturally sensitive traits, that problem can be avoided. Everyone knows that all the speakers are there because they submitted the best proposals.

Diversity can be achieved without tokenism.
I wonder whether it would be unethical of Google to the ISP's customers.
Another site like the onion?
I'd love to have it. It's something I would give up a big chunk of salary to get. But around here (Stockholm) it seems to be almost impossible to acquire. Either it is huge companies that have strict rules about it, or startups whose managers envision that the only way to develop is to have their developers sit tight and chat alot so that they can "teamwork" because that is how you become agile. There is also the implicit "if we can't see you working, you probably aren't" thought that is prevalent on many workplaces (even if few managers would admit to it) that makes flex time hard.

The current trend in managing developers is to value "face-to-face time" and "being a teamplayer" above everything else (like competence) which makes flex time hard. Certainly, that is right for some developers but not for everyone.
Many people don't even know that there's an interface to the router.
Not quite, the point is that the caller doesn't care how much the loyalty bonus is, only that the bonus it is awarding is for loyalty.

The value of the bonus then gets captured in the domain object. If there is enough related logic to justify having a loyalty bonus object, then you might have

account.award(LoyaltyBonus.new)

Or, if we're going to start slicing things up like this, we might go for:

LoyaltyBonus.award_to(account)
Still broken on regular translate.google.com for me, using your link...
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No, because they are not technical specialists, and they rely on the technical people to tell them what is and is not feasible, and why, and how much effort something requires.
Resolve chicken-and-egg? Get some hackernewsers in for example. Let us create accounts and use the #hackernews hash tag to connect.

There seems to be no group feature like the one Google+ added recently, is there? That would make it easier to create niche communities.
20% is one day a week, assuming a 5-day work week. That's not bad.
This just goes to show that the previously known as Metro look can be overdone just as badly as rich leather and linen.
He says his article is not partisan and I believe it is not meant to be, but there are political lessons to be learned. The market left alone doesn't always pick the best product, leading to the best outcome for society. Devout readers of Ayn Rand should take heed.