skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Style tiles help establish a common visual language before getting started on the mockups. “Can we see what this would look like in purple” will no longer be such a painful question. Style tiles consist of fonts, colors, patterns and other interface elements. Now, when your team needs to add a new screen with various elements, it will be easy to borrow the asset from the style tile that you previously agree upon.

This sounds a lot like using bootstrap, except you have your own custom version. This would help improve the consistency of the design and make it vastly easier to iterate.

Styletiles, bootstrap and other basic web widgeting toolkits will transform the way web apps are built, saving tons of time and producing better results.
Kickstart promoter threatens physicist who concludes proposal is a sham
KDE has been using similar gear iconography for at least a dozen years. http://www.google.com/search?q=kde+gears+icon
In RubyMotion, a string is a NSString, a floating point number is a Numeric, which is a NSNumber, so it's not a leaky abstraction like Phonegap is. Your Obj-C knowledge will carry forward if you already know it. RubyMotion puts Ruby's sugar on top of it too, but there's almost nothing the from the iOS SDK that's off limits, if you need to use a method from NSDate instead of Ruby's Time, you can. In PhoneGap, if you wanted to use CoreImage heavily you'd likely have to write a custom PhoneGap plugin, in Objective-C, to make it available to your JS. In RubyMotion, you just use CoreImage.

A couple of maybe-unexpected (but documented) differences for iOS devs: you don't use ARC, RubyMotion does its own memory management, and there's a wrapper around Grand Central Dispatch and you can't access it directly (I don't know the full reasoning for that).

For a Rubyist: You sometimes have to deal with pointers which looks strange. There are named parameters, which Ruby 2.0 just introduced but it will look a little strange at first.

Overall, there's conflicting idiomatic styles between Objective-C and the iOS SDK and Ruby's typical implementation (camel-case vs snake-case, short method names vs long method names, implicit returns, etc). You'll have to make a decision for yourself how to resolve that. Debugging is still a little rough around the edges, it's doable but not as nice as regular Ruby or Objective-C, though the RubyMotion REPL helps immensely with that.

Additional benefit, unit testing is easier than Obj-C and built into RM by default with MacBacon (RSpec-like), and Ruby has a strong culture of testing code, so that's a positive influnce in the iOS dev community.
When I am talking about market fragmentation, I was referring to the electronic distribution market: I mean that a distribution platform that has a lesser offer but has exclusive (permanent one) because of a tied up with a specific publisher is very restrictive. I wouldn't have problem if, in this case, Valve and EA could agree to allow reselling of title through their respective distribution system.

Imaging that, going to your local super market (ASDA for an example) you could not find a major brand of cereals (Kellogs for the sake of argumentation). And that you would have to go to a direct competitor to find it (Tesco in this case). This is a fairly strait forward hurdle against a free market.
The sources I've seen all refer to a Windows stack-overflow / exploit.
Oh, not at all. I didn't want to clutter things with a detailed dozen to hundred dimensional example.

A good intro to various (small, 7 to 10 dimensional) standard bases of personality descriptors is Making Sense of People: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050JKCI6

Plus, some of the attributes depend on the person observing. People have widely varying likability based on who they are around. (e.g. "knows how to comfort me when I'm sad" or "quality of goodnight hug" or "their voice makes me want to tape their mouth shut and throw them in an active volcano")
I fall a lot
SimCity Burning: A Warning to Publishers on The Dangers of Always-Online DRM
Telecom Firms Seek to Curb Publicly Funded Web Services
As a person interested in developing games, I'd like to ask what's the aggravating factor here - the fact that many EA games require to be always online or the fact that EA's servers can't handle the load? I'm guessing the latter is the real problem, while the former is probably more a matter of principles (which for a majority of players don't matter) that a real annoyance.
wow that is EXACTLY what I need. I Hope.
Unconstrained and Undisciplined Disruptors Accelerates Market Transformation
The big problem with any additives is that asphalt is usually ripped up and recycled. These processes usually make it harder or impossible to recycle.
It's real simple.

Don't spend a penny of your money toward it if you don't want to / if you disagree with it.

And $1 million? It's going to cost radically more than that to launch the product. You do realize how much even a mid size title costs to make these days, right? All $1 million does is get the ball rolling (barely).

Try $15 to $30 million dollars just to build it out.
"I'm so much smarter than everyone else I've ever met, of COURSE I will get away with it"

Sometimes this happens. See: Facebook y Google.
That might be true but I do recall that last "cover" update was announced to all but rolled out incrementally as well. The mentality issue might be the true root cause but perhaps if they did more announcements people might get more used to the idea of things changing.
Kickstarter should spin out their video games category into its own brand. After all of the long-dead series/genres they've been reviving, they're the most beloved "publisher" in ages, the direct opposite of EA/Activision.
Points to the author on that.

Personally I just did a depth first search.
The professor reminds me of this book:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
http://www.amazon.com/The-Curious-Incident-Dog-Night-Time/dp...

The character sure gets around even though he can't process most of what's happening between normal people.
Free as in give us your credit card details and cancel before we change you. Not happening.
Basically, this.

As a developer, I get to _chose_ how someone uses my code. I can release my code, and attach one of any number of licenses, which give another developer _permission_ to use my code, while laying out restrictions.

If that license is violated, there is a legal recourse for me (and one which is used quite often to enforce things like the GPL, etc.)

Within the development community, this is the accepted protocol for how you "borrow" code from another developer. Violating this protocol is pretty much universally reviled.

But the same universal revulsion doesn't exist for design.

Unless you literally copy and paste someone's actual file.

And I think that's where the disconnect comes from.

In development, the hard work is in the typing, not the idea, really. If I see an animation effect I like, or a feature from a competitor's product, there's still a massive effort I have to undertake to recreate it. The "work" in development is in the work itself, not in the idea.

Obviously there are cases where this isn't true. Novel design patterns, component compositions, etc. exist. But I'm going for an 80/20 discussion here.

In design, the work itself is generally secondary to all the upfront effort work of the "idea". A designer will throw away a dozen, if not more, failed attempts at an idea. Minor things like color, shape, typeface, will be iterated on over and over again, until something takes form that looks "correct". Once they've reached that climax though, the actually complexity of the end product might be minimal.

Recreating all of that designer's choices is beyond simple, so long as you have the software. Even if you don't literally trace their image, all of the "work" has been done for you.
Scoble + Expect Labs at SXSW
According to him that's what the books core idea seems to boil down to, but I think I'd bring the book with me because of all the other things as well: "fugues and canons, logic and truth, geometry, recursion, syntactic structures, the nature of meaning, zen buddhism, paradoxes, brain and mind, reductionism and holism, ant colonies, concepts and mental representations, translation, computers and creativity, consciousness and free will, sometimes even art and music of all things!" -preface to the twentieth anniversary edition
>I'm so much smarter than everyone else I've ever met

People that seem to think this never seem to consider a simple explanation: Perhaps they just haven't met very smart people yet.
How does the finance industry benefit the human race?
All this tells me is Apple should pay more attention to enterprise needs. Obviously this is IT dept hammering their users to update due to the bug.
I think that for projects like this, Kickstarter is becoming less a place to raise funding, but more of a place to gather publicity. The site is fast becoming a household name and as far as games go, has high prestige for a place where alternative, retro, hardcore games go to be revived.
$20 a month for basic ssl. I have 2 criticisims of cloudflare and im a paying customer, which arent even close to making me look for alternatives. 1. They have had a few outages (but everybody does, amazon included). 2. Ive made their page rules engine do what i need but i felt their docs were not deep / technical enough about how their engine works. I had to play a bit to get exactly what i wanted. I have largely been happy though. Im not affiliated with them in any other way.

Also, though cloudflare allows it specifically for this purpose, cnaming a naked domain isnt technically in spec for dns. Every device / browser ive tried deals with it just fine though. If you are a stickler for rules go with a www. subdomain.
Except VCs get equity, they get a return on their investment. Not a copy of the product. Do you think ycombinator should have funded dropbox in exchange for a free dropbox account? Like I said in the post you replied to, he has access to VC funding. He chose not to take it because he can abuse kickstarter to get the same funds without giving up anything in return. It is nothing like saying they should fund it personally instead of taking VC money, I specifically said taking VC money was one of the two options he should have taken.
Infiltrate Preview - Stephen Watt Keynote
Is this the correct thing to do? Wasn't it taken down for a reason?
Yes but most, if not all, PHP 5.2 code runs on PHP 5.3 without modification.
So what now? How can this work?

It doesn't. Our most recent copyright overhaul (which this is a feature of) currently works close-enough to OK to be tolerable to those who would otherwise fix it.
Imagine how poorly something like Minecraft would sell today. Minecraft was amazing when it was released with a 256 color palette in 1993, but nobody would go for that today.

People want graphics, not great gameplay...

No, they want great gameplay first, and great graphics second. That has always been true and will always be true.
I really have no specific explanation for it (that's really not the crew I hang out with), but exploits for the Mac ecosystem, iOS in particular, are in very high demand and do cost more.

Some theories:

I don't necessarily think it's because Mac 0-days last longer, but I know they do consider it a challenge; The difficulty may factor in to the price somehow. Maybe because there's the presumption the average user on iOS may have more cash to burn than the average Windows user.

They may have more to gain by hitting Apple employees for trade secrets.

Of course, all this is pure speculation.
You're probably thinking of Kickstarter in its original "support a cool project to make it happen" mindset. Like most high profile projects, this isn't like that. It's one part marketing, one part a pre-order system, and one part a market research tool. In that light the personal wealth of the project owner is irrelevant.
The fact that the total prize money is Pi million dollars is adorable.
Thoughts on the new PayPal Developer Web Site
The postal service would be much better off financially if Congress would take off the handcuffs. On the one hand, they cut off tax-payer funding and tell it to fund itself (in the same way a for-profit company would), but it micromanages it in a way that it couldn't/doesn't (and shouldn't) micromanage its private competitors, like UPS and Fedex.
How has Jonathan Ive been open about his work?
Yes. Facebook is a business model where the money comes from legally violating users' privacy which the users served into their platter with full consent. I never ever blame them - though I don't like it.

Can't speak of the new interface, my account still hasn't got it. Hardly matters. Because now I only check Facebook two a friend's contact details or message a friend for whom the only medium communication has reduced to Facebook chat/messages. Or maybe once in a while to make some smart-ass status update :-)

Liking pages is inviting spam. I've stopped doing that. I keep my minimal contact over there. With cell phone, email hidden from outside world and make a point to check the settings time to time. I do not share photos over there any more. I usually do it via Dropbox or just email it, if it's a few pics(Google sees it then :P).

Google+ is a lot lot more cleaner and easier but unfortunately there's no one else. I mean for me there's hardly 2-3 guys who share it and I am not switching friends or making new ones to use Google+.

Mediaite is a portal I see. I apologise but I couldn't get the context or maybe the joke was lost on me if there was one :P (non USA guy here).
I looked into this a year or so ago when I was looking to "vimify" my whole setup. I couldn't get into Ranger because of the lack of real image previews (I was doing a lot of image processing stuff at the time). W3M looks like it will help a lot with that though, so I'll definitely give it a second shot.
One issue may be that the usage share for IE10 is almost negligible currently because it hasn't landed on Windows 7 yet. (But it will soon, so... hmm.)

Pwn2own bounty for breaking IE9 is only $75,000.

Bug price list 1 year ago:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/23/shoppin...

It is indeed too bad that the Safari bounty is only $65,000.

And IE9's bounty is only $75,000.

So yeah, perhaps these bugs are being sold to governments instead.
SimCity, Diablo III, MobileMe & Sidekick - When Will We Learn?
Is this legit? I have no idea what to make of it.
I've been kind of surprised by ign's writing lately. They've gotten a lot more thoughtful, past the simple game review writing and have much more intelligent pieces these days.
Marc Benioff: How to Turn a Simple Idea into a High-Growth Company
I'm also amazed by the work done by the journalist into this article over a quite long period of time, the interviews, the fact-checking, ... It's a bit sad that content on most blogs or even respected papers is written several orders of magnitudes faster.
The only part of JavaScript that's tied to working with web UI is the DOM API, which isn't even a part of the ECMAScript standard but rather set by the W3C and meant to be language-independent. I think Python could have worked out on the client-side but there were other options and none of them lasted. Give JS a more serious look. You might be surprised to discover that it has some unique features that make it attractive as a general-use language. I think JS has a lot to do with why people suddenly wanted closures in Java or that they implemented proper first class funcs in C#. It's exceptionally good at event-driven paradigms, normalization and reducing complexity, which is exactly what was needed on the client-side but also serves as a powerful feature-set in general use IMO. It's good at letting you set your own paradigm. If you don't love callback-passing-intensive code, that's something you can bury under an interface that appeals to you more.
Rich entrepeneurs should fully fund their next company, rather than seeking VC (or KS).
Online Illness Early Detection
Noam Chomsky: Will Capitalism Destroy Civilization?
If they actually provided something for the tax - email servers, or encryption services, or just enforcing the same privacy laws on emails as on physical mail - this bill might get somewhere.

Why doesn't anyone propose repealing the 2006 law?
Agreed! Amazingly the "twist" doesn't appear until after around 4300 words -- which were themselves captivating even without yet encountering the twist!
I don't mean trolls in a sense of them not producing anything. I mean in a sense of extorting money for what they didn't make. I.e. racketeers. Non practicing aspect is not the case here. Racket aspect is. They deserve to be called trolls, even though usually it implies NPEs.
RFduino: iPhone, Bluetooth 4.0, Arduino Compatible Board
Metricon 8 From Outside the Establishment: Size Does(n’t?) Matter
Metricon...data science...unicorns, what do these all have in common? Find out in our latest blog post.
No, on Windows right now, I'm using the same version and with 9 tabs open I got 512 mb being used for chrome.

EDIT: When this happens you can see if VMMap can help you.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd535533.asp...
Pretty good way to do your initial user testing.
An alternative is Teamviewer- http://www.teamviewer.com/

I've found it excellent. Free for non-commercial use.
Another Bitcoin Hacking--a $12,000 Loss
Go Concurrency Constructs in Clojure, part 1
How is it an abuse? Because you don't like it?

How about treating the backers like adults who can make their own decisions? Your position comes across as very patronizing.
I played back before the trammel/felucca split. (I was a beta player -- people who play MMO betas these days are spoiled compared to how UO beta was; I still have the install CD that we had to pay s/h for! Ah, 1996.)

I still think the split was a bad idea. I think of Eve now the way I thought of UO back then: if you can't afford to lose it, don't leave town with it.
Both, I suspect, though not handling the load is as bad as shipping a game that simply doesn't work. But since they have to be online, you can't fire up a game on an airplane, for instance (unless you feel like buying the wifi). Nor in the car. Nor on the train. It also means it's simply a ticking time bomb - when they decide to end support, you lose your game, completely. I've out-lived a lot of products - why would <application X> be any different?
You would have to provide it as a Tor hidden service though, otherwise all of your expenses in running the site would open the way for your anonymity to be breached (i.e. your domain name, your hosting provider, etc).

Basically if you're providing a service to someone, then there is a possibility of said service revealing who you are. E.g. if you're sending drugs to people, then maybe the packages are traced to a source.
Good stuff nikita, keep up the great work. I also vote for getting object literals added (it will be a great addition to the array literals).
He's doing a tremendous service to Kickstarter in fact. It's beautiful that the platform can be used to get the ball rolling on a potentially fantastic new gaming world. One of the most renowned video game developers in history chooses to use crowd funding to kickstart his new game, and directly involve those who are willing to take a risk with their money because they want to see the game exist - what a tremendous accomplishment for Kickstarter.
Quick Shooter Mobile Game Postmortem
I disagree. They had a bug where push email was broken. They didn't even recognize it for months. That's unacceptable. Push email in corporate is huge, but again they really don't care for their enterprise customers and it shows. This update was very late as well.
Georgia House rejects bill to ban municipal fiber networks
Seems well beyond what any reasonable person would call evil. You require a company to save a business to not be evil? Even if saving the business is impossible or a resource suck?

People had problems with Microsoft buying companies to merely shut down competition, not cause they bought companies and didn't save them. It is hard to believe the Motorola purchase was to crowd out a competitor.
Popehat's comments on this are illuminating.

http://www.popehat.com/2013/03/06/what-prenda-law-is-facing-...

Do not taunt super happy fun federal judge.
Rich entrepreneurs should not fully fund their next company, and instead should seek VC or KS.
Another example: Maple syrup is legal and yet FPAQ exists.
for myself i upgraded to get out of a battery drain issue (GPS was always on, brightness was not auto-controlled, etc ... all leading to battery drain). i read a lot of similar complaints in forums and i figure this is why people updated.
As you can see, I've got a long way to go. It did feel good to get this to work, though. The things I've always done with programming have been mostly tutorials.

They definitely leave you lacking as far as how to setup a program.
Only if you're misusing the term. As popularized by Stevens in 1954 it just means the car companies are going to use styling to get you to buy a new car before the old one wears out.
Even with a red LED, many people will not recognize Google Glass as a video capturing device. And if this product takes off, what's a person to do if he doesn't want to be recorded and tracked? Imagine sitting in the subway or at Starbucks around 10 Glass users.
The Renaissance, Thanksgiving, and Startups
Web-based 'brain' for robots goes live
TRCE is fundamentally different from BD+ in that the the code is served remotely instead of locally. That means that the validation code can be changed per connection with unlimited variations. The only way to deal with TRCE is PSB (Perfect SandBox), which is not trivial to implement.

Twitter doesn't need to ban unauthorized clients. They can use the detected client info for QoS to give preferential treatment to their own client and render the rest in the "best effort" service class, which could make unauthorized clients appear to work but unreliably.
I think the problem is people confuse design and aesthetics a lot. Design is inherently meant to be universal, and obviously if something is really well designed it does make the product compelling and attractive.

Design cannot be copied, while aesthetics can.

One can copy a single design - say an icon for example, but they cannot copy the original designer's workflow and thought-process in coming up with the final design, it is and always will be unique to each individual. A copy-cat can't come up with an entire icon-set after copying a single icon, whereas the original designer can. And I seriously doubt good designers not getting work due to scummy photocopiers grabbing up jobs.

In regards to 99Designs & Fiverr:

The only requirement of a client on there is that it needs to look good. And it's easy to make something look good, but does that work with their overall product? Does the product even have a design language of its own?

And usually the clients are low-budget shops which even if they wanted to can't afford a decent designer. The same problem exists for developers as well - Do we see top developers crying foul about their code being re-used?
I think the word "popular" is a bit misleading. I was eager to get the latest update because of the battery issues I've been having since I got iOS 6. It's kind of like saying the java exploit patch was the most popular java patch ever.

That said, wider adoption of the latest iOS does make life a littler easier for developers.