skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No you're not the only one. UI design suffers from fashion fads as much as any other design-led thing. I think with apps and websites becoming increasingly homogenised and commoditised over the last 15ish years, fashion plays an increasing part.

I happen to think it looks ugly and I find it difficult to use (seriously I find using Windows Server 2012 incredibly difficult to navigate visually). I think these flat UI sites look unsophisticated and badly designed. They remind me of 1990-era user interfaces, and not in a good way.

But that's just my opinion.
Well you seemed fairly clear that poor people were being priced out of the market, but surely , if there's demand, there would be supply at a lower price with increased risk? Why isn't this happening?

Given that you seem to have plenty of real world experience about this, it would be interesting to hear your explanation. Also, still waiting for you to explain how poor people have been priced out of the industry.
the small price on the rack sticker next to the big price is the price per unit. I have seen that in Connecticut, Vermont, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Norway. Actually pretty much every grocery store I have been to in my life.
I'm trying to keep it affordable for everyone, hence the once-time payment. I plan to have a built-in store to allow sharing games & assets and when people sells their stuff on it, I'll take a cut (although people will still be able to sell their games / assets outside CraftStudio without paying me anything) and might provide server hosting and so on at a cost later too. Thanks for the advice!
HN: http://webcolourdata.com/profile/6
regarding the first link, in which Uber jumped fares during Hurricane Sandy - People who think price gouging have obviously never given the consequences more than a moments thought. He even mentioned that Uber reported the supply of drivers went up 50%. Isn't that a major, important factor. The author just blows
it off and calls the Uber evil. fuck that. I'd rather know that a service is going to be available, but at a higher price than to not have the service available at all. Supply and demand is economic law, bitches.

Price "gouging" is actually a public service, it LITERALLY SAVES LIVES. It ensures that needed materials find their way to the people that need them the most. If I'm reasonably well stocked on batteries, and a business isn't allowed to raise prices during a hurricane, I have no dis-incentive from clearing off the shelf and buying all of them. However if the prices get jacked up, I won't buy them if I don't need them. It also provides an incentive and encourages people to be well prepared.

http://mises.org/daily/1593/Price-Gouging-Saves-Lives-in-a-H...
The Devil Is In The Data
I couldn't live without a drier.... We have a garden, but I haven't set foot out there for 9+ months.
Betatrophin: A Hormone that Controls Pancreatic β Cell Proliferation
Blue For The Pineapple (MITM box)
That thought is simple yet unsophisticated.
It only indicates that drunk people would rather not wait five minutes for a cab they call (for the same price), but instead jump into whatever car is there. That choice has been taken away because people were getting hurt.

I'm not really sure what your problem is here.
Not to mention that without a lot of ACTIVE effort to make the stack NOT define you it will. The stack will strongly influence who you hire and who you hire will easily come to define you. A bunch of C/C++/Java/Rust/Go folks are going to have a different value set than a bunch of PHP/Ruby/Perl guys. Not to say their isn't overlap in people or ideas, but people who are attracted to similar technologies are often more self-similar compared to people attracted to other technologies. Depending on the problem space a given technology and the mind-sets that come with it by default may be or less helpful.
Financial Times - http://www.ft.com/
Death To The Waterfall
10 things you’ll love about MSNGR
I'm French myself so it wasn't much of a thing; I've asked the community to help with contributing new translations and I just received a Hebrew one for the website and the German is in the works.

Definitely worth it in my case, since as I have lots of young users who can't speak English.
I agree that a properly chosen suit can be comfortable and I don't mind wearing one on occasion, but I wouldn't want to wear one every day. Suits are far more expensive to buy and maintain than other clothes and they take a lot more work to maintain as well.
There are websites out there that do this, they're just not that great and usually only one sport specific. I'll definitely sign up for this just to check it out.
A collaborative assignment is a really solid education tool.

What's missing is an explanation of why the author thinks this led to an objective evaluation of what individual students learned before test day (if he does indeed think that). That is the point of an exam. Imagine if med students could collaborate on their boards. It would pretty well invalidate the purpose.
I don't know about Sweden but here in Germany it's on the price labels that are attached to the shelves.

You have a price per unit. Say a 0.5l bottle of beer costs 0.78 EUR and then you have the price per 100ml or 1l below it (1l = 1.56 EUR). It's marginally useful if you compare the price of rice to the price of Coca Cola but it's really useful if you want to know what's cheaper: Buying a package of 6 1.5l bottles of Coke or buying a crate with 18 0.33l bottles.

I'm a sucker for saving pennies ;)
Why Big Data Privacy will be self-regulating
Obama to daughters: If you get a tattoo, so will I
One less JPG
"Except I didn't actually state that I was only for the equality of men and women"

You stated you were not for equality of men and women ("I am not a feminist") but then you immediately changed your mind and said "I am all for equivalence".

You are, as I said, a feminist and more. A feminist because you are for equivalence of men and women, and more because you are for equivalence of others as well.
"Today I Did Something I Never Thought Possible Yesterday"
Zelda: A link to the CSS
The design process of my infographic about women cycling for Grinta
Not related to the content, but this is the most annoying website design I've seen in months.
I rewrote the whole runtime in CoffeeScript. I'm basically using the exact same C# data files, I simply wrote the equivalent of the .NET BinaryReader in JS (using the recent ArrayBufferView WebGL typed array thing) to read back my binary project & asset files. I then use Lua.js (https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js/) to convert the Lua scripts into JS at load time and mrdoob's Three.js (threejs.org) to render it all.
And, as a side effect you get a humidity source. I know of people in the States that disconnect their electric dryers from the exterior wall and left it vent into the house for the same benefit.
Google's Schmidt says talking to glasses can be weird, inappropriate
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Uber loves operating by "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" proverb. But what they fail to realize or discount its importance is that the squeaky wheel is also the first one to be replaced.
Thanks for the info, I should have guessed that he enabled -ffast-math manually.
Is there something incorrect about his comment? What is it?
They have not, however, made any attempt to get the app approved to serve that function.
People hang dry clothes for whole families even in Norway where I'm from, apart from when it goes below freezing, when people will often hang dry clothes inside.

I use a tumble drier almost exclusively (in London these days), but I will readily admit it is out of laziness and not because it is in any way a problem to do other than in tiny apartments etc. that might lack the space (but then again the Italian tendency to hang lines in back alleys etc. in many cities shows that even that is less about what is possible and more about what we're used to).
Very cool!

Ludum Dare starts tonight (http://ludumdare.com). You may want to throw a note their direction and you may get some interested users.
Since the article doesn't get into your purported statistics, I can only speculate as to what you are referring to. People in the U.S. often try to retroactively justify tougher drug laws by pointing to lower crime rates, when in fact often times people are simply less likely to report being victimized because they were engaging in an illegal transaction.

Moreover, reality has a way of resisting controlled experiments. It is essentially impossible to control every variable that might influence reported crime rates, so the mere fact that there may be fewer reported taxi-related crimes after regulation increased than before would be an unconvincing argument.

This is really an epistemological argument. Due to the inherent uncontrollability of every variable, the only way to accurately understand the effects of a government policy are to look at the economic incentives it creates. Simply asserting that economic incentives that underly the drug market don't also apply to other black markets is arbitrary.
Thank! Mipmapping's been on my mind for a while, haven't gotten around to it because XNA doesn't easily support generating mipmaps at runtime (most games would do it in the XNA content pipeline preprocessor but CraftStudio textures can be edited while they're displayed) so I'd have to find a lib or build something myself. Definitely will get to it at some point though :)
Why Sleep Deprivation Eases Depression
Except that it's really, really expensive per-calorie.
On the flipside, sometimes it really makes new businesses think about the role they play in society. Just because Tom, Dick and Harry has money and wants to start a business, it doesn't mean that they can do whatever they like. There are bad apples looking to make a quick buck when they can. Of course, the good apples are the ones to suffer as well. It's a hard problem to solve. Should businesses be only about making money or should it also think about the services it's trying to provide and the role it plays in society? Sorry for the philosophical question :)
In related news, I could care less if you vote this up.
Thanks for the pointer, CraftStudio is already in the Ludum Deals page actually! http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/04/24/ludum-deals-for-ld...
Why I'm an Upstart
There are still a lot of blue-collar workers.
If the devil didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Uber was built from the ground up to tangle with cantankerous and corrupt authorities whose first impulse is to outlaw it. Even if that enemy turns out not to exist, they operate as if it does. Its their nature.
FAA Furloughs: Senate Reaches Deal To Avoid Air Traffic Delays
In a quick and unanticipated session on Thursday night, the U.S. Senate approved a resolution that would allow the FAA
budget flexibility to stop furloughing air traffic controllers.
All-plastic 3D-printed gun will be available to download in ‘2 weeks’.
The 30 day free trial is mostly broken
> a tea-party style paranoid right-wing anti big evil government organization

...

> we take a slightly more nuanced view

Yeah, sure sounds like it.
Article dates from 2010. Title should be revised to note this.
Thanks for your support back then! (http://indiegogo.com/CraftStudio for anyone who might want to see the old crowfunding page from last year.)
Business model: Steal-a-business-model (Rocket Internet Business Presentation)
As a user my G+ experience is so far superior to my Facebook one that I laugh every time I read something like this. I check my G+ every day because my streams are interesting and I enjoy it; I check my FB everyday because my entire extended family, pre-school friends and their dogs have accounts there.

People are crazy to think that Google should not just have one account that spans all their services, it makes business and technical sense; however, if you don't like G+ just don't use it- your Google account just might mean you have a blank place holder page there.
I think Instapaper for iPhone is more polished and minimal compared to the new Pocket and that's why I like it. However, the web version is extremely trouble and useless and needs some work.

But when someone of my family or friends asked me to what should he use. I always says Pocket, because it is easy and not classy like Instapaper and don't forget the updates too.
You may not realize this, but you smell.
Disruption for the sake of disruption.

Some of the taxi regulations are there for good reasons. If Uber cannot provide better, cheaper and safer service at lower price with the same rules they do not have right to exist. And if they want to bring a regulation down they should do it for the whole industry if it is already obsolete.
I think a good enhancement of the law would be an exception for charging by distance without a legacy meter, if the price and distance was quoted and agreed in advance and the client has means to compare the offer before accepting it (which they should, if they are using a smartphone)
emscripten is absolutely awesome. Some time ago, I used it to port libmp3lame to JavaScript to encode MP3 files in the browser: https://github.com/akrennmair/speech-to-server
basically today's suits are like 18'th century powdered wigs.
Actually, it was: http://design.caltech.edu/Misc/month_names.html .
UCSB Scientists Create Device Capable of Detecting Narcotics and Explosives
No, you will have to compare the individual products yourself. But since products of the same type is usually on display close to each other, and the price is displayed in the same unit, it's not very hard. In practice, this means that most products have two prices listed - first, the actual price of the product, second the "comparison price", per standard unit. For example:

Brand A, Orange Juice, 1L. 19.90 (Price per Litre: 19.90)
Brand B, Orange Juice, 2L. 30.00 (Price per Litre: 15.00)

This is simply to spare the consumer of doing the math themselves, which can turn out to be quite tricky in some cases (although not in my example:)
"Flat Design". "Responsive Design". These don't need proper names. Everything does not have to be a movement, you don't have to pick a side.

If you start a project and wonder, "Hmm... should I use Flat Design for this?", you're doing it wrong.
I'd take the drink over the junk an average American eats any day.

Me too. But just because junk food is worse, does not mean this is good. I for one would not take this over: Eat food, mostly plants, get exercise and lots of sleep.
Meh - I'd rather make something that's awesome for myself, then figure out marketing it so other people can benefit as well. I believe that thinking about a market and how to make money first is the wrong avenue to go down if you actually want to care about a product you make.

If I want it for myself, I'll make it. If I think other people will want it, I'll find a way to get it there - either by selling or giving it away. Maybe that makes me a bad entrepreneur, but it means I have more fun in the things I build.
Anecdotally I can definitely say my depression seems to get worse when I'm sleeping more and it almost becomes a feedback loop because I want to sleep more therefore making it even worse. It might also have something to do with a sense of productivity feeding back into the depression but that's a different story. Ultimately this makes me want to do a better job of recording sleep patterns and seeing if that correlates with my depression. Anyone suggest using a tool like fitbit for this purpose?
Exoplanet discovery count by year
And you simply asserting that the economic incentives that do underly the drug market apply everywhere is every bit as arbitrary!

Drugs are not like cabs. You can't get a licensed drug after five minutes wait. Nobody actually wants or needs a specifically illegal cab, they just want a cab. The analogy simply does not work.

What's unconvincing is you calling my argument a fallacy and then falling back to "oh but it's hard to measure!"

--edit-- also FFS you think anyone's put off reporting assault because they were in an illegal cab? What the hell are you on? It's not illegal to be a customer, it's illegal to run the service.
What do you mean? There IS a reward structure in place. Those rewards have real value to the people who are paying for them. I did not buy in to this campaign, and I'm guessing neither did you - because the rewards do not have the same value for us. But for the people who did buy in, I doubt they're being 'duped', I think they truly value what they're paying for.

Just because the reward system is not proportional to the profits the project makes doesn't make it any less of a reward system.

One more note - I really don't think this is a "get money and don't give investors...anything back". With all the rewards he's offering, particularly all those voice and video recordings, he's going to be working hard to make good on all these "tchotchkes".
Even under definition 2, it still means 'reduce'. So if the salary was 'reduced', the second offer was less than the first one. It may have 'decimated the attractiveness' of the first salary, sure.
Washington Attorney General disputes T-Mobile's "No Contract" claim
Price "gouging" is actually a public service, it LITERALLY SAVES LIVES. It ensures that needed materials find their way to the people that need them the most.

Seriously? The lower income people living on Staten Island during Sandy would like a word with you. Price gouging ensures that things are only available to people with excess income to absorb the gouged price.

The whole point about price gouging during Sandy is that it was an exceptional event, and maybe not one we should leave to market forces. If every grocery store tripled the price of bottled water and essential supplies then many people would be unable to afford them and starve. How is that a good thing?
>using a dryer is only for emergencies!

Or towels. Put a towel in for 10 min, then let hang dry, next time you use it you will be in fluffy heaven.

Also avoid any fabric softener, they decrease the efficiency of towels.

Whilst on this important topic, whilst a good egyption cotton is best, plenty of the cheaper ones we get marketed in the UK as egyptian cotton are not well made. Trust your fingers and give them all a good rub in the shop before buying.
I live in a European country where chips are common. Yet, about one year ago I encountered a skimming device (I ripped it off and brought it to the cops). Unless magnetic strips are completely disabled (domestically and abroad) the security issue is still there.

Incidentally, one of my banks by default blocks all use of Maestro (the European debit card system) outside of the Eurozone. You have to activate use of Maestro abroad on a trip by trip basis. One of my other banks automatically blocks credit cards used in the United States unless preceded by cash withdrawal at an ATM.
Middle east stabilizes.
When rewards backfire: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
Classic Schmidt. What he says is almost always completely correct and at the same time the worst possible way to word it.
you must have a lot of time to be able to read all of them.
I may be a little cynical here but I think that businesses are amoral institutions by nature. They exist to generate a profit. That is why consumer protections have to be put in place by the government because businesses would not change a policy so long as it was continuing to generate a profit. It would be great if businesses considered the "social good", if you will, of their actions but I don't think that is realistic nor should it be expected.
Why Online Education is Mostly a Fantasy
Waste is a solved problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repos...
Sorry to be so naive but what is this meant for? As in where all could I use this?
Ah yes, my favorite pet peeve - descriptivism vs prescriptivism in linguistics. Lives have been wasted arguing about this exact interpretation of decimate, my position is that 'decimate' in a 2013, Western context means one of the definitions posted above - i.e., significantly reduce in number, not by 10%.
No it means that the resources will go the ones that have the means to pay the most. Those are not always the ones that need it most. There is reason why there was rationing during WW2.
From reading these comments it seems most people only read the headline. Such a shame, because it was a really well researched, thought through and written article.
Unless you use a screen. They could probably get away with showing the price in the app, it just have to be in the 10 km in 15 min format. They would still have to have a meter or their app certified. Or provide a fixed price option in the app based on from and where you're going like the other companies do, in which case I imagine they would be covered by the exemption.
Do you use an RSS reader? If a site doesn't update in a day, its impact on you is 0. By feedreader standards, that would be a fairly small list.

I've got about 40 feeds in mine, most of the fairly quiet. It doesn't take that long at all.
I partially agree with this.

I run a startup in Sydney and raised $1M from angels and VCs in both Australia & the US.

When I first presented to angels in Sydney I found them initially "tight", and they laughed at the $2M valuation I was pitching.

After this I pitched at 500 and at a whim doubled the amount I was raising (and our valuation).

The response from valley investors was that it was refreshing I was only asking for a $4M pre and I was able to secure some investment (in the context of several YC companies wanting a 10-15M valuation post YC).

I found that with this strike price established by the Americans, the previously "tight" Australian investors then followed suit.

Just my 2c.
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It is either Higher Prices, or ZERO availability. I'll opt for the former.
slow down and don't jump the gun on your decision, get more information, talk to other people and get their opinions.
Can we make multiplayer games with craftstudio?
* “Bacon is high in Oleic acid, the principal component of adipose (fat) tissue so it is great for increasing body fat.[...] By the way, an acid is anything that donates protons. Only a few have corrosive properties like sulfuric acid, and bases can be corrosive too.”

So now I'm thinking, ‘does this guy even know what fats are, or how fat digestion, assimilation and metabolism works?’.

* “We no longer live in a hunter-gatherer society. I have no use for bulging biceps. No one in the United States plows fields or hammers steel. It has all been automated. We need mental strength.”

Well, y'know, that's true until you're caught in a car accident, or a bombing, or a fight, or any kind of natural disaster which actually tests your ability to survive. It's simplistic and naïve to suggest that we've evolved beyond the need to even try to survive.

* “If people had more self-control obesity would take care of itself.”

There's just so much incorrectness here, I don't know where to start.

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Anyone can go ahead and try an experiment like this for themselves, and I support their right to document and share the experience. But seriously, anyone ignorant enough to try subsisting 100% on this 'soylent' concoction, in its current or future form, deserves all the health problems that await them.
This has me nostalgic for Klik and Play, though, even factoring in advancements in graphics, this looks to be a lot more powerful.
I was referring to lower cost (but legal) services. For example, living in a cheaper apartment complex generally is riskier, because there tends to be more crime in the area than there would be in more expensive apartments. This point (which I made in my third paragraph) is separate from the point I was making about black markets.

In the case of unlicensed cabs, they are clearly in the "black market" category. As with all black markets, they aren't necessarily cheaper than their legal equivalents, but nonetheless they are there due to unmet demand in the market.