skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of "too much contrast" is a very recent invention with very little support behind it. People like high-contrast reading. It's easy to read. As contrast goes up, reading rate goes up. There are hundreds of studies to that effect.

Only dumb-ass designers have asserted that grey-text-on-grey-backgrounds is in any way a good thing, and they are wrong. (At least as far as conveying information goes.)
Just one thing:

make your modals close on the click action for the actual close button on the modal. Right now, you can dismiss the "edit task" modal by clicking outside of it. This causes you to lose any work done inside said modal via misclick.
Google, Facebook And Twitter Ordered To Delete Photos By UK Law Enforcement
I like it. It lets me see all the items at a higher level. The best part so far is that I can move groups into one another.

Using it quickly makes me want a couple of features:

- not needing drag n drop for something (like creating a new task or group - be default putting them in the previous group or top level)

- being able to add tasks that are at the intersection of two groups. I imagine this would look something like a venn-diagram.

Finally, I am reluctant to support a startup unless I know how you are planning to survive. Is it going to be advertisement? not yet release feature? large teams? Once you do this, I will be more comfortable telling others.
Google ships Chromebooks with secure boot enabled too. Does it get a free pass because it's not a monopoly?
This looks useful, beside looking prettier because it gives you a quick overview of everything and lets you zoom in/out on the specific activities, it feels more productive, the only thing that is non apparent is how dependent or subsequent tasks may be clearly visualized with this approach in my opinion.
It's still unlikely. The universe tends to be stable, because if an impact could heat up Mars, it would have, over cosmological time. This is not Mars' first impact.

Our Earth intuitions are really wrong for dealing with the rest of the universe. The rest of the (known) universe doesn't have intelligent critters on it making active and wild changes in very short periods of cosmological time. The universe is generally full of stable systems, in the physics sense of the term "stable". To the extent that you think otherwise, it's because we humans are interested in the unstable bits and they get a lot of play in the press, but we know and talk about them because they are the exceptions.
IP geolocalisation sucks badly. For example OVH got only 1 DC (well to be precise one big room) in Paris.
Kimsufi are hosted in their DC in Roubaix (north of France).
They also got another one located in the east (near Strasbourg).
You can also buy an IP located in somewhere else in Europe but linked to your server in Roubaix.
I use Chrome usually, just assign .pdf to load as a file:\\ but if that doesn't render. I'll try my SumatraPDF http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-read... don't load if you don't like yellow!
Adobe Reader is to PDF documents in the same way that Internet Explorer is to HTML pages...

Exploits are designed to target and exploit the consuming application of the malicious file, and are not executable by the file format itself (in these particular cases at least) in any arbitrary application that can open the file.

So odds are that a 0-day exploit of Adobe Reader using a specially crafted PDF will have no effect in Apple's Preview app, or another PDF viewer (unless the apps were all using an underlying shared library and that's where the exploit lived, but I don't think this is the case here).
> POTS is a huge ruby-goldberg device

Not sure if that was intentional or a mistype but it made me laugh:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg
Funny, not promptly giving up seems to be the basis of some men viewing me as a stalker. (A reaction I also sometimes get merely for talking to a man, so, no, I don't think I am behaving pathologically.)

I am not convinced it does work well for women, but I imagine this is not the place for a meaningful discussion about that given the amount of dismissal and negativity I am being met with for commenting on my firsthand experiences. (Edit: I don't think it works well for either gender and I don't like the implied framing that this is a men against women thing. It is a situation where "winning" requires cooperation and doesn't really occur unless both a man and a woman "win.")
Can I buy a Toyota car without the Michelin tires they bundle and get a discount? I want to install my custom tires and have no need for the tires they bundle.
Founders as Soldiers
Secure Boot.
I've taken to using Chrome for Flash. It includes Pepper, a Google maintained version of Flash. You will never be presented with an Adobe Reader prompt again.
"wolf3d used to give people brutal motion sickness."

Most FPS still give me motion sickness, but I distinctly remember throwing up with the first Wolfenstein.
What about a functionality where I can upload my gemfile when I deploy? I deploy, cap sends you my gemfile and you notify me.
Sounds like the classic mistake of introducing tech change without first selling the idea. Been there, done that myself (even with Trello!).
thanks for the suggestion, but using their online calculator it looks like they'd charge me £300+ / month for something I currently get for £~20
How many makers of car stereos control 90% of the car stereo market, and use that market share to force makers of cars to put their stereos in every car they manufacture? Oh, none? Well then your analogy fucking sucks and you should stop using it.
This is definitely a competition issue
From FAQ:

Is DropTask really free?
Yes! In the future we plan to offer paid-for business
accounts and premium individual accounts
(each with additional features), however the basic
version of DropTask will remain free.
The circles actually seems to reduce value because there is no intuitive order to each group. In some (many?) use cases for Trello, priority is important.

One thing that the circle metaphor does add is nested groups, which I can see being important for a different set of use cases.
Real-time raytracing at MWC
I asked this on reddit. The one thing about tech interviews. They could ask anything. Literally any facet of technology. How do you prepare for being asked anything?

In the Gayle book, they go from binay trees, to bit manipulation to queues, etc, etc. Of course that won't even get touched in some technical interviews, it will be more knowledge based, (Describe polymorphism).

I rarely get the complex algorithms (I am not in Silicon Valley) but I get a great deal of logic questions or draw this abstract concept out on the board. And it is hard for me to deal with NOT knowing a problem.

For example, if SQL is on the job description, might as well cover every aspect of SQL which aren't really covered in the technical interview books. How do indexes work, etc, etc? Venn diagram outer joins.
The Reality of the OSX App Store
Some even recommend writing the on paper, I find it hard to do.
It's an organisational failure if a junior employee can bring down the company in a few clicks. No backups, testing on the production database, this is no way to run a company. Feel sorry for the guy who made a simple mistake.
> It is possible with disabled secure boot. Windows 8 doesn't need Secure Boot or even UEFI to work. It's only about the "Certified" sticker.

And you dont think that is a political choice?
You could use this for things that don't crystallize.
It might even be easier to reproduce than crystallizing for things that can.
Exactly what we had in mind. Soon!
>>How do you quantify this? What is your data? I think it's easy to claim there are "thousands" who faded into obscurity, but is it truly the case?

I think all those art majors who graduated from college and still work as baristas at Starbucks is sufficient evidence for my claim.

>>I've had my 7 years of fat followed by 7 years of lean. There is a very real correlation between attitude/commitment/hard work and success.

I'm a fitness buff too, and I have to say your analogy doesn't really hold. Success in fitness is very much about dedication, because your result is a direct result of the amount of work you put in. Whereas success in career is affected by a ton of other factors that are outside one's control. Primarily, luck. When there's 200 spots open for a job that 50,000 people are applying to, it doesn't matter how hard each of those 50,000 people work to get it. Only 200 of them will.
Founder at DropTask here. Thanks for your comments, we'll give them some thought.

In terms of how we will survive, as Ygg2 has posted from our FAQ, we plan on charging for premium features and business accounts which will offer team administration/reporting, etc. In the meantime, we are well funded :-)
Trello really excels as a smartphone app. It is especially clean and functional in that setting. This approach, while pretty in the browser, probably couldn't function on a smartphone.
Makes me wonder about the unintended positive side effects of new discoveries.
Not sure I would have called it "first class", but I've read several books on my iPhone and have no complaints. Unlike a tablet, I also have my iPhone with me pretty much constantly, so I can read while microwaving lunch or standing in line at the store.
Yelp: We compete with print -- not Google or Facebook
> There's something pro-government folk seem to insist on ignoring: ROI. Companies can't roll out new massive infrastructures and throw away investment from the prior generation.

It's interesting then when some actual competition comes along speeds increase and prices lower. Look at what happened with Google Fiber in KC. This is an often repeated point that has been proved wrong time and time again. Sure, there is some truth to it on a basic level, upgrading services cost money. In reality the companies have the regulatory bodies under control, the politicians under control, and they don't have to innovate or invest to make insane amounts of money. Why not just improve services in cities where the population is very dense? Why not in places like New England where there are many cities close together? Why if I call to cancel my service my prices can be cut in half? They have the money, there is just zero competition so they don't care.
>>could help get humanity serious about existential risk

A comet hit Jupiter in the 90's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9) we watched it and did nothing about it.

Yes I understand that we may get serious about our own house when the neighbors house is on fire. But frankly I don't think we will ever get serious.

Right now Mankind's main priorities are in inventing weapons and finding most ingenious ways to kill each other.
Pepper is NOT a "Google maintained version of Flash." Pepper is Google's newer plugin API, and Chrome bundles a version of Flash that uses that uses Pepper/PPAPI rather than Netscape/Firefox's NPAPI.

For more info, check out the Wiki page on NPAPI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI
IANAL, but I think the key difference is that these operating systems are not sold as a standalone component you can buy and install on any pc you like. That's why it applies to a Windows license and not to a Mac OS license for example.
Here is a talk from the Linux EFI implementer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U
Brazil's Big Social-Media Land Grab Heats Up
Not sure why you seem to assume I give Google a free pass.

Hope they get sued to high hell, but in the meanwhile I'm just not buying them as a computer that's useless outside of Google's cloud is also outside of my interests.
> Changing that would require firing everybody who
> currently works on the Nook and building a new,
> isolated and insulated, business unit elsewhere,
> preferably on the other side of the continent,
> and treat it like a well-funded startup.

Isn't that exactly what B&N did when they created the original Nook? I can't find a link, but I'm pretty sure that they literally set up shop in California and designed the thing like a startup.
At least all transactions for purchased game items should have been logged in a separate database. There's nothing worse for a digital content company than forgetting who bought what.
>That is because most of the PCs end up being installed with pirated Windows by the local tech guru.

My Vietnamese friend had to explain that the staff in the shop expected to earn $5 installing the pirated windows on it... They where not best pleased that I intended to do it myself (with a licensed copy obviously!)
How is this better than brakeman? (http://brakemanscanner.org/) Seems like they only pretty much check your gem dependencies while brakeman also does static code analysis and points out potential sql injection spots etc...
Conformal is a startup run by a group of former OpenBSD developers
including Marco Peereboom (marco@), Owain Ainsworth (oga@), and others.
I've met most of them in person, and I've interacted with them on
mailing lists for nearly a decade and a half. They are all good people
in my book, and they're very talented. On many occasions, both Marco
and Owain have helped me debug problems while adding support for new
hardware. I can think of one time when Marco asked for both root and
serial access to one of my boxes so he could debug a HBA. I gave him
root on the system, root on the serial concentrator box, and root access
to the network enabled power strip for hard reboots. Yes, I trust him.
Psst: The Chromebook Pixel can run Linux, too
What's in a Side Project?
I think he means that the companies have a history of not being stuck with environmental cleanup costs or other secondary costs- and thus even if there will be enormous damages, it won't impact their profits.
If they put a mechanism to specifically total the car if you try to use any other brand, I'd say they would be getting sued before you can say "anti-trust".
Some friends of mine have actually made a business out of this over at http://testloft.com

From what I understand the phone won't stop ringing so clearly there is strong demand for something like this out there.
>it's telling that no other operating system except Windows commonly suffers from this problem.

There is nothing whatsoever stopping Linux bootkits technically. Please stop spreading FUD.
That's an interesting point but I think it highlights that there are different types of testing - even above the obvious UX vs QA distinction.

I find that really good QA testing often needs someone quite technical and even someone who has some insight into the way the code works. You have to actively think about ways the system could break. It's probably closer to the mentality of a penetration test than it is to usability testing.
Video wouldn't load for me, but I gather that priority is indicated by the size of the circle?

That said, I tend to agree. Trello works at least in part because it's immediately intuitive to anyone who's ever made a "to-do" list or used cards-on-a-whiteboard to manage a project.

The Droplist approach is a cool idea though, and for some things it might be better.
The reality is if Panic wanted to save some support calls they would synchronize posting direct download binaries to their site with app store approval. You usually don't need to budget anymore than two weeks on the outside these days for Apple to get around to approving an update or release and you can pull the trigger and release it anytime after it's approved.
U.K. Internet service providers ordered to block three filesharing websites
I like everything except the circles and how I had to drag drop before I can create a task. Droptask should also make a card wall layout and make the circles optional. The circles layout is too polarizing an interface to be the "muse".
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It's hard to beat a static PNG via the browser, rendered from Far Far Away, on Google's servers...

https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=https:/...

Given the volume of PDFs Google must render, I wonder if they have had any security issues from the service.
Trying to boot Linux does not "total" the computer.

Turn it off , and you can boot whatever you want.

The analogy is sorely broken.
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No business would be run like this, you fund your pensions over 30 years, not 10. The USPS is failing right now simply because that's what the republicans want, it's purely political. The tea partiers are having their to at destroying the economy.

Most libertarians dont get economics very well, they just think taxes and government are evil. Capital is not something you can save in a silo or go negative. It just flows to where it's most needed at any given time; you see it has to be spent, saving fiat currency is just a way of moving it (if you save, someone ELSE must go into debt at the same time).

Now what does economy of our kids look like? It solely depends on what they produce and consume! But that also depends on how we spent the money in the past invest in the future. Education, infrastructure, R&D, ... Didn't invest? Well your kids will suffer. Oh, china had money burning a whole in its pocket and you decided to let them inflate rather than take the money at a negative interest rate? WTF are you an idiot?

Now what are pensions? They are simply investments for the future! But you have to pace those investments and time them just right, so you don't kill yourself now and can meet obligations in the future.

The real problem that will hit us in the ass: most of us aren't covered by pensions at all and we are finding out that 401k's aren't a great alternative. That will be a bigger burden for your kids (assuming they don't abondon you) than any kind of debt they have to pay off for us (really, they are probably just paying you anyways).
Mobile A/B testing
These exploits are probably child's play for most security programmers, but I haven't the first clue how these are built, deployed, C&C'd and it just blows my mind how cool all these stages of control happen.

Are there any recommended 'Hacking for Dummies' book for learning more how these things work? It's like a code version of Ocean's 11 to me!
I find it interesting that instead of using tags to target a list-item, it suggests putting a class on every li in the HTML. Seems rather bloating to the HMTL if you have a number of long lists.

Is using descendant selectors in that case bad enough to offset all those class attributes? I think I'd rather put a class on the ul or ol so that I can target the parents if needed and then can still easily target the li children.
The reason a lot of people pirate stuff is because they lack a legitimate option?

Take Game of Thrones. You cannot afford or justify the cost of the TV package. You enjoy the show. Your friends always talk about it the day after it is aired in your country... There is a pressure to watch it and no easy way to do so. Hence piracy.

My cousin was desperate to watch a football match. She went into the darkest parts of the Internet and the end result was taking her computer to a repair shop because the things she had installed basically rendered her computer inoperable. Will she stop pirating? Probably not. She can probably better identify files likely to damage her computer.

The worrying thing is a lot of spyware and keyloggers etc are transparent. Even malware. You notice a toolbar appears but a lot of people do not care and continue to use their computer..

Someone may become reluctant if they become aware that their computer has been successfully infected by a virus. A lot of things now are far more sinister though. They do not want to be noticed or discovered so there is no lesson to learn until someone empties your bank account. Even when this happens it isn't obvious your computer was the source of the breach. It could have been phishing etc.

Piracy is widespread and the police do not even treat it as a misdemeanor. Socially, piracy is completely acceptable. Smoking has become more socially unacceptable... and yet these court judgements make the public more at risk from identity theft, fraud etc etc.. without making piracy any less rife.
There's also no way to recover your Bitcoins if they get stolen (as many, many people have discovered already). My credit card on the other hand, can be made whole again with a simple phone call to my bank (YMMV, please no stories about banks being big meanies).
Have to admit - from the video and a five minute play I find it very hard to imagine using this for anything.

The information density is very low. Doesn't seem to allow you to easily order tasks beyond dates. Lousy on phones. I could go on.

List aren't boring... there useful. I don't go to my project management software to be entertained - I go there to get shit done ;-)

What I want to know when I go to project management software is what everybody is doing now and what needs to be done next and by whom. This interface seems to hinder not help with that.
>People download things which they either do not have access to or do not value enough to pay for

Yes, THIS!

I think this is the crux of the entire argument that is completely ignored by nearly every content producer. People value things differently for a huge number of reasons. With things with a personal appeal like music, or maybe TV/Film but I imagine less so, some people will pay more for their favourite band, others won't. That means the band is undervaluing their product to their greatest fans (good for the fans) and over valuing for their lesser fans.

Normally, when I download things, it's because I don't value the product at the price it's being sold, but I do still value it!
Film is a great example of this. I'll happily pay $5 to rent a great film like Django unchained, or Avatar, etc. But am I going to pay the same amount for the (boringly bad) Bourne Legacy? No. But I would still pay something to see it.. perhaps $1, maybe $2. But I can't because there is no option to do this. So instead, I would consider downloading it.

So what have the film company lost when I chose to pirate instead of purchase? Not $5 because I wouldn't have paid this in the first place. So they've lost $2. And what have I lost? I've had to spend some of my time hunting down and waiting for the film to download (A minor inconvenience) but that's it. So seems like the only loser is the film company.

For evidence, look at the most highly downloaded film of 2012 'Project X'. IMDB gives it a 6.6 rating and it sounds a bit lame but fun. Exactly the sort of film that isn't worth full price rental.

Or perhaps that's just how I see things..
I liked a green screen (too much time spent with old terminals) and blue was ok to type on but not as nice . I went with the yellow (warning) and red (serious warning) because they are not very comfortable to type on and most people get the "alert" status given Star Trek.
Yup, I said that since command_stack is a list. You can also just check the pipeline since __len__ returns the command_stack length. Will update code when I get to a computer.
Ok, what I might do is Ask HN to pick from my 3 favorite brandname candidates!
I've also done it by working backwards. This can be useful particularly in smaller consulting firms. Say you have three tech guys who want to start consulting, you start by saying how much do you want to make each year? How many hours do you want to work a week? Then how many people do you want to hire to help? How much would you have to pay them? From this you have some variables you can tweak to see what various numbers of subordinates and various annual salaries get you as an hourly rate.
Thanks, ill update the code in a bit.
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