skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are all pretty and nice, but the majority of them are UX regressions.

1. App icons without app names.

2. A keyboard where the button edges are less clearly identifiable.

3. An app switcher that takes you completely out of your current app (this one is a little more debatable because there are advantages to showing views of other apps)

4. A fold to unlock that ignores the reason that slide to unlock exists, preventing unintentional unlock (fold to unlock would be sensitive to touch across the entire screen)

The messages and contacts designs look slightly more promising. I think it would be interesting and possibly more usable to have a contacts list with faces in it, but in a list view, not necessarily in a 2d grid.

I like the slide-out menu visual metaphor; it seems to give the side-out pattern some of the affordance that is lacking in the current way that slide-outs are animated.
tl;dr

"If you have a strong sense of the overriding moral superiority of your worldview, then the need to protect and advance it can seem the most important duty of all."

I'll take "What is the definition of succinct for 1000 Trebeck"
Agreed, most of these only work due to the contrived examples.

The first one only looks good because of the background, uniform nature of the icons and omission of app titles.

Think it's going to be a stretch to have all apps adapt the same icon style and users restricted from changing the background.

Nothing wrong with looking to apply a few fresh coats of paint,but unfortunately Apple actually have to think about how it works in the real world, not just how it looks.

People just randomly pointing to things that look half good and saying iOS should be like that is not being helpful.
How do you feel about destroying your lungs by living in Beijing? A friend of mine was so happy to leave after just half a year there.
The most interesting thing is that now she can make company policy changes and people engage in lengthy debates about how revolutionary (or not) each decision is. This seems to be pretty important in positioning her has a strong leader who is willing to do things that haven't been tried before.
I wholeheartedly agree: For any organization developing hardware, a 3D printer is a productivity and creativity boost that is hard to replicate otherwise. We have a quarter million dollar 3D printer at my work (a research lab) and getting used to having access to such a tool is an amazing journey. First you just print the same designs that you would have machined otherwise. But soon you end up embracing the possibilities and design things that would be extremely difficult or even impossible to create otherwise. Of course you get spoilt quickly and start complaining about issues like the fact that using the rubber-like material requires a 90 minute material change procedure.
This idea of Buddhists being pacifist vegetarians is very Western - it's nothing I've read or observed in my travels around Asia. Being vegetarian in Thailand is close to impossible (I stopped trying), even though it is a Buddhist country.
I disagree about the journalist vs. specialist thing. The journalist should be a specialist at bringing together multiple stories or perspectives together into a compelling article. The journalist is a specialist at reading and comprehending documents and info, and a specialist at talking to people to tease out the story.
Facebook gives 4 months.
3. An app switcher that takes you completely out of your current app (this one is a little more debatable because there are advantages to showing views of other apps)

What are the advantages to showing view of other apps ? Other than it looking attractive in mockups.

When I'm switching to an app, I almost always know what app I'm trying to get to, it's contents is rarely useful to know when switching to it.

So personally I've never found the stack switching thing useful in say Windows 7, it actually makes it more confusing because there's more data to take in.

OSX still just keeps it simple with the icons and that seems to work great.

Technically it's a very easy thing for Apple to implement (previews that is) but I suspect they have it like they do because it's actually the better solution.
Simply put, babies fixate on more symmetrical faces. It is not difficult to deduce that teachers would give more attention to more attractive students, all else being equal.
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It's not April 1st but I laughed out loud anyway when I read about "fold to unlock".
America is forfeiting the space race
Try Rollbar (https://rollbar.com) - we have an official PHP library.

There's also a Symfony2 bundle contributed by the community: https://github.com/staffim/StaffimRollbarBundle
The keyboard looks like the stock Android keyboard, but with black keys instead of the grey that Android has.
I like what she has been doing recently. One of the thing Google/apple/facebook does good is that these companies make people talk about them even when they are not actively trying to. Good or bad or whatever, but mostly good. It gives the sense that they are still relevant still hanging around doing things, trying new things.

When people are talking about you, most of the times, it means they care about what you do. For the longest time nobody cared about what yahoo did, Marissa is bringing back yahoo to the conversation again.

Something that was sorely missing with yahoo for a long time.
Who have they fallen behind ?
The 2010 census reported that 27% of children live with 1 parent.

> Not surprisingly, single mothers with dependent children have the highest rate of poverty across all demographic groups (Olson & Banyard, 1993). Approximately 60 percent of U.S. children living in mother-only families are impoverished, compared with only 11 percent of two-parent families.

http://www3.uakron.edu/schulze/401/readings/singleparfam.htm
Alternatively, you can think of it as a good argument for open source. Take abuse of the notification area, for example: in Ubuntu this was eliminated by modifying every package in the archive. That's something a system like Windows with closed components belonging to dozens of different manufactures can't really do.
The advantage older coders bring to the table is full-stack understanding, at least at the moment. Sure, maybe not as useful to bring your site off the ground, but MUCH more useful for any kind of optimization.
It's interesting to hear that "A" means "competent" in the USA. I'm assuming that you aren't just making an off the cuff statement of course, and if you aren't I'd like to share some Australian context.

Most people get a "C" or passing grade only in Secondary and Tertiary education. As an Aussie trying to impress American employers (in the past) with my credentials, this goes some way to explaining why they list "GPA 4.0" as required. I know practically nobody with a 4.0 GPA in Sydney.

Here is some more reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_Australia
I would argue that Mission Control—not the Dock—is the equivalent of the iOS multitasking tray. The Dock can show applications that are not running, while the multitasking tray cannot (at least, from the user's POV).

When using Mission Control, I personally do find value in seeing what my open applications are doing. Often that's a factor in whether I keep them running.

EDIT: I was assuming when you said "...keeps it simple with the icons..." that you were referring to the Dock.
The Social Store: Mobiles Deals
And a number of european countries provide extensive paternity leave (Italy 13 weeks, Iceland 12 weeks) and/or shared parental leave (Estonia 62 weeks, Germany 52 weeks, Iceland provides 12 weeks shared parental leave on top of 12 weeks exclusive for each parent, Luxembourg 2*26 weeks) possibly with mandatory share to ensure the father will get to take some of it (in Norway, parental leaves are 56 weeks @80% salary or 46 @100%, the mother gets 9 exclusive weeks and the father gets 12, the rest of the 25/35 weeks is shared as deemed fit)
I think he means "They should've made it more obvious that the bad gameplay experience was 'cause of piracy, not 'cause it was a terrible game."

Irrespective of whether you think pirates should be "punished", a situation where these people tell their friends "Nah, I played that game. It was shit, you just lost for no reason" isn't in the best interests of the publisher.
Oh so the argument was to run mining while the game is running ? Mh, considering a high end card running 24/7 is hardly producing any ROI you would need boatloads of players and a lot of fluff screens :)
These are taken out of context. They're just mock-ups posted to Dribbble to play with new ideas, the designers who came up with them are not seriously suggesting they should be implemented as is.

Saying that these concepts show bad UX is like saying that a paper sketch lacks polish. It's completely missing the point.
One of the bigger tragedies of piracy, in my opinion, is that people get hung up on the pirates and work to reduce piracy, not increase their customer-base. I feel like, especially in this case, the number of people who might buy the game but have never heard of it is higher than the number of people who pirated the game but would have bought it if they couldn't pirate it.
It would really help if anybody can link a good guide on basics of nutrition, calories, metabolism and their effects on body, weight. I never cared about these things and I never understood all the calorie calculations on the diet plans or why they should be the way they are. I searched on internet, but these topics are so full of litter. I would appreciate if anyone can link a to genuine nutrition basics.

Edit: It's better if the guide is more general, than american-centric.
And WM8
Yahoo acquires to-do app Astrid
I wonder what their international employees get, particularly those in less developed countries.
I realize this is a subtle point but I think the more accurate verb in this case is mandate rather than provide. I.e. countries don't provide maternity/paternity leave; they require employers to provide it.
Winters suck. All the other seasons are bearable.
If you're not building a physical product, I don't think it's necessary to invest in a domain. Early on you should just be focusing on the product. The name may change as the product evolves. If your product reaches any level of success, you can then decide to purchase a better domain. At the point of success, you'll have the resources to purchase a better domain.

Keep in mind...

* dropbox.com was getdropbox.com

* basecamp.com was basecamphq.com

* foursquare.com was playfoursquare.com

* facebook.com was thefacebook.com

There are a lot of creative ways to fake it until you make it. Don't choose a terrible name that nobody can pronounce, but there are other alternatives for a lot less money. In the last year, I've purchased a half dozen domains that are simple to pronounce and didn't cost more than $9.
I'm tired of the Yahoo policies PR fluff. When will we see any real software changes? Its Marissa this, Marissa that. Enough. Show me something from the Yahoo engineering team.

Edit
This is also not groundbreaking or even new. The PR team is trying to spin the shitty telecommuting change of policy with an improved maternity/paternity leave. Not that an improvement is a bad thing itself.
and a mandatory '$10 to HN url typo jar' if, 8 seconds later they realized that they just typoed the url and were hitting refresh ( or up arrow + enter ) over and over and over and over ...until oops :)
I hope this "Who's Hiring" is a sign of things to come - so many more hardware companies than previous months!
Have you heard of or taken a look at Gimbal SDK? http://www.gimbal.com - it consumes about 3% battery for always on GPS/location...
Insurance is naturally a ponzi scheme (which isn't a bad thing). You hope people pay you more in premiums than they claim. The hard part is getting the math right. You want to be able to cover all claims AND offer the lowest premiums AND still profit.
Actually there is no such thing as a stable orbit in Eindsteinian mechanics (except for 2 point masses orbiting eachother. There is no such thing as a point mass in reality). So the energy conversion from speed to distance and back is not 100% efficient and an asteroid (or the Earth, for that matter) is doomed to eventually fall into the sun or fly away from it forever. It cannot keep circling forever, even in a theoretically perfect situation.

In addition to that, the tidal forces will compress and decompress the mass of both objects, which effectively converts potential energy (the distance between the two objectds) into heat. Even though the moon is on a trajectory to eventually leave earth orbit, every tide that comes in and leaves lowers the rotation speed of the moon. While the moon has no liquids on it's surface, which makes the effect nearly invisible, it does have tides (slight variations in the angle and magnitude of gravity at it's surface) which move objects around and the energy for that does indeed come from orbital decay. Similarly, the earth loses orbital energy to the sun.
I don't think that's any sort of bias; the article's point is that Ninite's update process is much simpler to manage than the Adobe one, particularly if you are managing a network. I will freely admit I haven't used Ninite, but I know that almost anything would be an improvement on the Adobe updater.

The value Ninite creates is worth $10 a year (is the point in the article).
Please point out where I said - or even implied - the "exclusively" part.
"regularly" is free of cost and does that. it has no syncing support with I consider a good thing as it contains very personal data that only concerns myself.
Indian IT Services: Globalization and Products
I am referring to your 2008 Forbes column titled "The Coming Death Of Indian Outsourcing". It's been 5 years now and the Indian IT industry isn't dead yet. It would have been a great bet at that point in time to have gone long on the Indian IT companies. 2010 boom for the Indian IT industry was short lived. The valuations for Indian IT co's hit their peak around that time. Was it sustainable? It was time to go short on the Indian IT co's. It's 2013 now and barring TCS, the rest of the folks have retreated. All their strategies at differentiating haven't fetched them much.

I can point out all of this with the advantage of hindsight. Although I pointed out when I commented on your Forbes article, I would still reckon that it's not a fare game. So here's my take about the future of Indian IT:

On Margins:
Infosys has for long resisted competing on margins, and quite arrogantly so. It has now lost out to other players. 31% are idling on "Bench" as of today. The future is- its going to join the fray and begin to scale the labor arbitrage heights too. Although a lot depends on demand & supply, about 2 to 3 years down the line, we will start to witness a margin squeeze for all the IT co's.

Will the Indian IT co's get to the forefront of technology and technology driven services?:
No and no. Not in the next 5 to 7 years. Simply because it's not in their DNA. Although I fancy Bruce Henderson's school of thought and like to think that Indian IT co's should start acquiring smaller American tech companies and start moving up the value chain in their service offerings, start building Cusumano's Hybrid Models etc... At heart, I believe in Henry Mintzberg's school. Indian IT co's will remain at the mid and trailing edge just managing to stay off of the cliff. That's the terrain they know and are comfortable with. That's where they have come to be and will be.
Until Java can beat C/Fortran in FFTs and SVDs, it's too slow for me. Show me FFTW in Java please. Where's the Java
LAPACK?
You're asking how long until we have 4d printers? Probably a very long time. 2d printers have been around forever and still play a vital role. 3d printers are still very young and not even mainstream yet.
If anything, I think "fold to unlock" better expresses Apple's current visual style, which is that every element of the OS must exist in physical space somewhere—i.e., the multitasking tray exists "below" the home screen, the notification center exists "above" it. The current lock screen doesn't really "exist" anywhere relative to the rest of the OS.
Such articles like the OP's seem to cater to alarmism and hyperbole as these kind of events occur all the time. The difference here is that the US gov is being quite unprofessional by resorting to publicizing these events. Also, it's quite trivial/foolish to care whether or not any country will overtake the US (or another country). The way I see it - decreasing the US' influence may actually be beneficial. Rather than a unipolar/bipolar world, there can be a multipolar world. Maybe it'll reduce the crap that the US gov does/causes domestically and internationally, as it seems the fed believes it can ignore accountability because of supposed exceptionalism.
Over here in Austin at the Austin Hackerspace there are two 3D printers available for use, I've also seen another 3D printer that was printed from a 3D printer that one of the members had constructed, pretty neat eh?
> Honest question: aren't the concurrency primitives in Go largely intended to make concurrent memory accesses like this an anti-pattern

Intended, yes. But that doesn't mean we also develop "cleanly&properly" at all times, in the real world. It's a great "backup" for when formerly-prototyping-now-production code is getting slightly out of hand over time.
Parental benefits and paternity leave in Norway
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He can tout that all he wants, recipients of cards aren't going to be giving direct feedback and the sender is going to be thanked regardless. Having 'made with iPad' cheapens the card anyhow, throw your brand on it, and stop being greedy.
Btw, I would rather program in Java, but it IS too slow. (and idiomatic Java uses too much memory...)
Very cool. This could have other uses as well. I'd like to be able to seek through a video with that hover effect you have.
Thats conflating two things, Buddhists need not vegetarians, the use of the word pacfism in the article refers to it in the interhuman context.

In fact many believe that Buddha eventually succumbed to disease caused by consuming undercooked pork.

http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-MEL/waley.htm
Oh yes, this please. Something straightforward, simple and scientific. Possibly exhaustive. I would pay for a quality book like that.

There is so much noise on this topic. Oh and not too American biased would be great as well.
In a country where government is not protecting the right of free speech, or where its protection is not enough to protect you from powerful organisations seeking to stifle it (which is pretty much every country in existence, since the government can not control everything everywhere) anonymous speech may be the only way to achieve free speech.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5633954

Let’s not forget that 8 weeks of paternity leave is still way below what the law provides in other countries, on average. Have a look at this graph: http://childrenschances.org/global-maps/parents-and-children...

Paid leave from work for mothers of infants: Canada 50 weeks, Mexico 12 weeks, USA zero.

Paid leave from work for fathers of infants: Canada 35 weeks, Cuba 40 weeks, USA zero.

In several European countries, fathers get 3 years paid leave – that’s 20 times more than what Yahoo is offering.
You're going to find this crazy (and honestly, after having tried it I agree with you: it didn't quite make sense), but the "Fold to Unlock" is not just concept art from a designer: that's a popular modification you can download for free and install on a jailbroken iPhone, and tons of people really like the concrete implementation.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/05/unfold-brings-fold-to-unl...
Some of these look nice, and I really liked the keyboard. However I definitely don't agree with the author that somehow fold to unlock was "more intuitive". Also a few of them looked too similar to windows phone and Facebook Home. It should also be noted that a few of those have already been implemented on jailbroken devices in Cydia so I'm not sure how many are actually original ideas.

I am very excited to see what iOS 7 will bring us and it's good to see people creating their own mockups. Might give Apple even better ideas :)
You mean like the Flickr, Mail, and Weather app updates?

I do hope you realize that building software takes time, particularly across a large co. like Yahoo. The policy changes are immediate effects which help formulate the company culture; the long term results are the products that will show up in the coming months and years.
Sorry to nitpick, but it's WP8 as in Windows Phone 8.
Love me some power method :) I was amazed when studying it in numerical analysis, and the professor showed us how this works in the real world (Google).
There's a big difference between intentionally installing a modification on your device and having it installed by default, though. iOS's popularity is largely due to its intuitive UI.
Yeah was just referring to the ⌘ + Tab app switching which in my mind was the equivalent of the iOS multitasing tray.

Sure, there is mission control, which I originally was really excited by but in the end dont use cause it's all overload.

But yeah, if your someone that values mission control then the app previews would be a good addition, guess was just asking if anyone actually did find it useful to switch apps that way.
Same here. Supposedly there is a big overhaul on apps like Mail. I'm definitely hoping for some sort of live widget functionality and a new home screen
The only problem I foresee with MariaDB is they have no interest in porting innodb fulltext search like MySQL 5.6

Sure there are other fulltext solutions but to simply convert myisam to innodb, FTS on innodb with the same queries is rather helpful.
From an entrepreneur's perspective, those policies are scary. When you have a company of 5 people, if you have to let one of them take 3 years paid leave at some point, you might as well close the doors and cease operations.
Fun fact: if you swipe up from the lock screen to reveal the camera app, you can then swipe down from the top to bring the lock screen back down.
Bayes' rule in Haskell (2007)
I didn't know that Gawker was banned from HN. Was a reason given, or can one be reasonably inferred?
Fold to unlock sounds like a laundry room term
I can only imagine you missed my parenthetical? Like, reading your comment, one would presume that rather than saying "that's not just the design of some crazy designer, that's actually a concrete implementation that people like, but yeah: it doesn't make sense" I had said "no, you are wrong: Apple should do this, because you are totally wrong and a vast majority of people actually like it"... it isn't even "the most popular thing in the world of jailbreaking" or anything (although it is somewhat unreasonably popular for what it is ;P).
As are all sites owned by Conde Nast.
Facebook gives 4 months of paternal & maternal leave.

I really appreciate it being equal because then both men & women on my team are absent for the same amount of time (and there's no stigma about taking all of it)
I've found Any.DO better than Astrid (on an Android phone), although still not as good as what I had on a Nokia phone.
I wonder what the 1) US government has done against Chinese government industrial complex, 2) how much false information is spread this way.