skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this set up:

I'm using Debian right now (to run Chrome), that's a mode.

I'm using Xen right now (to run Debian), that's a mode.

And yes, these are captive, modal systems. But from a UI point we have to take some strata as granted, as operating system level. Yes, perhaps Debian is a modal interface, whether it's hosting Xorg or Mir or Wayland or KMSCon or ssh sessions. But these are host environments for the proper interface, and so is gdm or slim or lightdm running my X session, and so is openbox or kde or gnome-shell or awesome running my wm, and so is chrome running my browser.

These are all concatenative contexts providing strata for the application. They are modal systems, but notably every one of them exists to provide an amodal system for the host of services running underneath it. Amodality still has to derive functionality from some greater level, so the distinction I think your not encompassing is one of composition versus aggregation.

In composition something owns and dictates the interface.

In aggregation things contribute to available interface options.

If I wanted to, I could have a media player running and control it via global hotkeys. If I wanted to, I could open multiple chrome windows. If I wanted to, I could open multiple tabs perhaps across multiple windows (Awesome powers activate). If I had multi-pointer-X and a good browser I could edit multiple text boxes.

In contrast, when we talk about modal UI the discussion is around UI that captures the context. It locks out other modes of operations. Modal systems do not provide aggregate strata into sub-systems running under them, they lock out other sub-system from running. Amodal systems contribute capabilities to users.

I'd like to find a way to loop back around and describe MDI as contextual without being modal (on the grounds that it's the same mode repeated), but I don't think I have sufficient argumentation to press that far ahead. I feel on firmer grounds taking issue with your characterization of what really is modal by standing on the aggregation versus composition point, and by highlighting the concatenative nature of the systems you describe.
somehow, it doesn't work in my Chrome (Chrome 25)
Said this before, still want to see it fixed, as I can't stand to read the page with the huge grey box on the right side that disables scrolling without being moused over content. Last time though, I didn't have my environment info.

Windows 7 Ultimate SP1
Chrome Version 26.0.1410.64 m
I thought it was missionaries in Africa, but it's been a year since I looked at their page. I had thought they had a demonstration mission flying from Europe into Africa, but perhaps it was a different "para-car" solution.
Whoa no way - I totally didn't know about this. Awesome, so cool! Thanks so much!
That would have been much easier if I liked fish, plants, etc :/ I'm a pretty fussy eater, sadly.
Imagine what Steve Jobs could have done if he hadn't gotten into drugs! I bet Barack Obama could have gone so much further in life if he hadn't smoked weed.
Am sorry, i just have to reply to this.
Disclaimer: I use vim.
Anti-disclaimer?: I spent two years studying cognitive science and one of my electives was HCI.(though i wasn't excited about it to be honest :P)

By measurement of what? UI quality? what is it's operational/measurable definition.
I suspect modes are unavoidable to deliver the kind of power vim does (over text editing )with only keystrokes.

P.S: That said, i think it's a very sad thing that we can't have that joystick at the centre for the keyboard(in the home row, like in thinkpads) for all laptop keyboards.
I personally consider the Pre2 the high-water mark for smartphones.
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I'm skeptical of your broad, unsubstantiated claims about a drug that you can't even spell correctly.
Wow this amazing. I frequently have tens of tabs open because I am typically working on multiple projects at once and don't want to bookmark all the pages while doing research.

Solves a pain point I have in a clean and simple fashion. The best a product can be.
History best viewed as "thank goodness we crawled out of that mud" ... it was not good, not a fun way to program when you had to do any significant task but not freeze the rest of the system; or if you screwed up an accidently went into a hard loop....

In Windows 3.x modulo the DOS boxes allowed by 386s and beyond; they and the Win16 subsystem were preemptively scheduled, and a lot of good software targeting Windows deliberately used those boxes running ancient, decrepit DOS.
You can be busy or remarkable, but not both...
Well, I just did. Seriously, wtf. This is honestly the first time I heard about that, and I don't usually live under a rock. Looking forward to interesting internal discussions about this.
It's a buzzword, not a quantifiable thing.
Agreed. I only found the Money Moustache guy a few weeks ago, but somehow I was born with the same mentality of him.

I always saved the majority of my income. Last year I retired from my corporate job at the age of 40. It really is possible to do.
The best thing I ever did in Gmail was filter the word "unsubscribe" to skip the inbox and go into a "Newsletters" label. Whenever I peek in there I see nothing but garbage, dozens of emails a day that I wouldn't have cared about. Right now it's sitting at 5,162 unread emails. It keeps my inbox almost always being things that are relevant or interesting.

I've shared this with a few friends who love it. It's pretty flawless. It's never caused me to miss any important emails (that I'm aware of).
There are three factors you have to keep in mind when writing content: Message (the content), Media (how you distribute it (a blog)), Market (who reads it). The better way of adjusting for those three (optimizing) is to measure conversions on the Message. Otherwise, you are tracking fluff. Of course, my opinion based on experience.
Now in Base64, which makes the link longer, but is in most modern browsers... I should really get back to work, this is just too much fun.

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The key being that the entire context of the mode is staring you in the face the whole time.
> But there are piles of UI design research studies that show modal interfaces are, in fact, bad.

Then how do Vim users work? If they're doing something that doesn't let them work, how do they work?

Or is that not what you were saying? Then what the Hell were you saying, and how is it relevant?
Given your experiences with Asterisk.. would you think a larger call center could utilize it? Our ancient AltiGen system is starting to become a problem and IT won't budge. I looked into Asterisk but since it's not much department I can't really push without facts.

One of our departments will receive around 13,000 calls in a month. The others not so much but thats the type of volume we see.

Thoughts?
Raskin... wasn't he the one who said configurability is evil and shouldn't be allowed?
Life is not like a TV repeat. Whatever made your dog -- experiences, reactions, etc -- was unique. You would expect what your dog ultimately became to be in the clone too. And that's just unfair to the clone. It'd be like expecting identical twins to actually be identical, beneath their appearance. Also, even if the clone did magically repeat your dog, you wouldn't be the same. I've been through this many times. Know when to just let go.
That's the most brilliant simple solution I've ever heard.
Yeah! That's basically Step #1 for me except I was too scared to actually unsubscribe (especially in college). Turns out I don't read any of them and for the most part my life is still good :)
I've used a couple others like supervisor, node-dev (yeah, I know it's not meant for production) but forever seems to be the most reliable IMO.
> Jef Raskin

Isn't he the one who thought configurability was always bad?

> You guys stand in the way of UI progress.

And here we go. You think we're so stupid that we can't know what's best for us, and need to be condescended to by someone who has no idea of what our workflow is like but Knows Better because he's... what? An Expert?
My question is why we focus so much on the personal income of founders. Someone getting rich is the least important or interesting thing about a successful company. What matters is the impact on the world.
Show HN: My first project, helping recent grads learn the art of networking
I assume it's because the mob eventually got involved. Plus, the authors comment about his first trip there makes me think they wanted to clean up the country so as to not scare off tourists.
I remember having read this before, but I always get a good chuckle from it; all of the snark is incredibly well done. I always burst out laughing when reading "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them."
There's an important distinction to be made between the storage layer and the analysis layer. Something like HDFS can make sense as a storage layer once you hit the > 10TB range even if your average dataset for analysis is reasonably small (and it should be; 99% of the time you can get by with sampling down to single-machine size). That doesn't mean you need to be setting up all your analysis jobs to run via map-reduce; you can usually dump the dataset to a dedicated machine and do it all in one go with sequential algorithms. As a side benefit, you have access to algorithms that are really difficult to express efficiently as map-reduce (eg, computations over ordered time series).
I'm not the author of this, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around how it works, but one potential use for it in the future might be essentially a browser-based application platform. Visitors could run, edit, create, and host their own web applications. But it's still very early in development - there isn't a security model yet, other than sandboxing user-generated scripts using Web Workers. There are some sample apps like an RSS reader and so forth here: http://grimwire.github.io/grimwire/#_apps There was also an article on Mozilla about it a couple months ago: Building User-Extensible Webapps with Local https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/03/building-user-extensible-w...

PageForest is another site that lets people create their own javascript applications, hosted on appengine: http://www.pageforest.com/ And other sites that let visitors create and host their own apps or games include http://pixieengine.com/ http://www.playmycode.com/ and http://scratch.mit.edu/

There's some more info about Grimwire here: http://grimwire.github.io/grimwire/
Man, when I think about the heart attacks I've put my conservative Indian parents through (frequently getting lost/injured/severely sick as a small child, dropping out of high school, getting married at 19 with no income, refusing prestigious consulting jobs to go work at startups, then leaving 3 jobs in a row with less than a year at each...) it makes me realize that parenting must be even more of an emotional roller-coaster than starting a startup. I'm guessing it never gets easier, either.

Luckily it's turned out pretty well so far. I'll be sure to thank my parents for putting up with me for so long.
They service the entire GVRD, so it can easily be an hour of highway driving between jobs. Also, 16 hour days aren't unheard of. Bear in mind, too, that he might have an 1600lb boiler in the back of the truck, which isn't friendly from a fuel efficiency standpoint.

The 300-400 mile range isn't to cover the average case, but rather the worst case. The vehicle needs to be able to handle the hardest days that'll get thrown at it without recharging. An algo that's O(log n) in the average case but O(2^n) in the worst won't likely find traction.
Lost me when said iPad was the cheapest tablet you could buy.
I'm at Google and would be interested in helping as well. My email is in my profile. Let me know if I could help.
Xen 1.x development included a paravirtualized Windows XP using this program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen#Microsoft_Windows_systems_a...):

"During the development of Xen 1.x, Microsoft Research, along with the University of Cambridge Operating System group, developed a port of Windows XP to Xen — made possible by Microsoft's Academic Licensing Program. The terms of this license do not allow the publication of this port, although documentation of the experience appears in the original Xen SOSP paper."
Some very "down is up and up is down" speak here, to generalize from DMCA applied to cell phones (which is a travesty, everyone agrees) to saying copyright is about "control over other peoples' property." Falkvinge strains to find the edge cases in the application of the copyright laws, then tries to make it seem like that's what the copyright battle is really over. But in reality, the battle is not about copyright suppressing "creativity and innovation." The MPAA and RIAA aren't coming after people making their own movies, music, software, and games and releasing them under Creative Commons-type licenses. What the battle is about is people wanting to download shit for free. It's the rhetorical equivalent of criminals holding up hostages as human shields.
"Mamu" means "Mother" for Balkanian Turks.
To be honest, most founders dream of big Mark Zuckerberg-like success (who wouldn't?). Reading stories about who just "make a living" isn't very promising or exciting, and I think hope is your strongest asset.
This article is decent, but it forgets to mention that Samsung has done more to help Android take market share away from Apple than any other company.
I think it blends in well with the nature of Facebook comments. Most of the comments are quick observations about a post. So it's better to absorb the relevant observations first then continue reading if it sounds interesting. Plus the reply feature fixes any chronological issue.
Why would you want to use virtual memory? I bet that laptop has a 5400 rpm hard drive - there is no way I want it to be swapping on and off of it at every opportunity. The OS would grind to a halt.

For most developers' usage, you'd be better off with a 32gb SSD than with the 320gb slow-as-hell spinner drive.

Not to mention a cheap 15.6" laptop gets terrible battery life. My $250 Chromebook gets 6.5-7hours, even when running Ubuntu via crouton.
Title needs to be corrected. Based upon the URL, I assume the submitter typed it wrong.

I thought I heard the next Xbox will have a Blu-ray drive. Until physical media for gaming consoles is dead, I imagine that will still be used for those.

Edit: also needs a 2008 disclaimer. That makes a bit more sense now. I assume it has another 5+ years in it, if the PS4/Xbox use the format.
Since I got my Pebble, I wear a watch almost all the time
But not on weight/battery life. It all depends on your priorities.
Additionally, the meat of grass-fed beef is much better for you than corn-fed (actually I believe the real difference is in the fat).
I'd be curious to see this data on Windows. On the Surface RT Flash seems to perform really well. How much of the issue is Flash vs how much of the issue is Android?
China is the new USA: perilously dependent on new credit for growth
Ugh.

Ugly.
They definitely have a right to do it, but there are less offensive ways of making money.
I am grateful to finally see this in an article. The "big data" craze is being pushed in areas where it really doesn't make sense. We've been bit by the Big Data bug where I'm at, but it's not coming from the statisticians. It's usually the executives proposing a shift to big data.

People underestimate how much work it would be to shift an old server onto modern technologies and tell the statisticians to use MapReduce and NoSQL instead of SAS and SQL. If the Fortune 500 world has taken this long to catch on to R, imagine how long it'll take to completely change the DBMS and analysis software!
Related discussion from three weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5602727
"being used by colleges to leverage the admission of even more average students from well-off families"

Entirely possible that the mix of students at a University as far as "class" needs to be skewed a certain way as well to gain other hidden benefits..(Add: in addition to what else is being talked about in your and other comments.)

For example you don't want 90% of your students coming from NY State, you don't want 90% of your students to be asian and you may very well want a larger percentage of your students coming from upper middle class families just because it creates (in their opinion) a better environment as a whole at the University.

Meaning a mediocre student from a wealthy family is still a person from a wealthy family. A mediocre student from a lower class family is a person raised in a lower class family. Different dress, different actions etc. (I'm purposely using extremes to try and make the point about possible motives.)

All of this of course is not talked about but entirely possible that it exists (pure speculation). Just as it's possible that two women interviewing with exactly the same qualifications (and family background) one who is extremely attractive and one that isn't, the attractive one gets the admission.

Your thoughts?
>send an average of four ads per page

Holy shit you sure love raping your viewers' eyes. I can't wait for the day when all the popular browsers(except chrome obviously) gets bundled with ABP by default.
Thanks for replying. I've thought quite a bit about this, and I agree with you somewhat. I certainly don't have unrealistic expectations of the exact same dog being reborn. However, there is obviously a nature/nuture question here, and I think with a very similar upbringing/training, the dog could certainly be very similar, but I'd feel very lucky just to have a similar dog, and certainly wouldn't put a ton of pressure towards her in her upbringing.

At any rate, I obviously haven't made the final decision to go forward with it - as I mentioned, not until things advance quite a bit - I just want to make sure I have the option.
Kudos to the author of grimwire, and many thanks for making this project open to everyone
Step 2: create a URL shortening service that uses the same scheme.

Edit: Actually, now that I think of it, I might do that as a project.
Exploring Ubuntu Touch, the other Linux OS for your phone
I'm editing a textarea, that's a mode.

Yeah that's why sometimes when I hit Tab in a text box I'm momentarily confused because my cursor disappears. Sometimes I want a hard tab. Modes mean I can't use my muscle memory, which means I have to be "mindful" which sucks.
FBI’s Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Internet Should Be Trashed
Nobody in this thread knows what they're talking about. You might as well have said "As entertainment, food is no worse or distracting than television."

Look, not everybody gets addicted to pot, in fact most folks don't. But it's psychologically addictive like everything chemically active you put in your body, and being constantly stoned because you're addicted is a miserable way to live.

I know, because I've been trying to quit all year. I've failed twice since February and I'm on my third go of it right now. And I only smoked a half-ounce a week for a year or so. That's probably a lot to the people reading this, but it's really not much as far as potheads go.

I'm sick of thinking so much slower than I know I can, being so much dumber than I used to be. I can't do my job nearly as well and I take pride in my work, so being too dumb to do my job has been really upsetting. I almost wish I were still addicted to cocaine, because at least then I kicked ass and took names when it came to thinking/analyzing/working in general.

I'm tired of being too lazy to leave my apartment all weekend, of the food I eat when I'm stoned, of not being present around my friends, family and co-workers, of needing to smoke when I wake up because it's so uncomfortable to be lucid. My motivation to pursue new ideas, to eat healthy and go to the gym, to meet new friends and pursue new women is all through the floor. My body desperately wants pot right now and I'm anxious and depressed as hell and my body is tugging at me to reach for any alternative, like alcohol or cigarettes.

Every drug taken to extreme can seriously hurt your life. Even weed. Stop trivializing it because you smoked a few joints in college.

Edit: and now I'm slowbanned, for sticking up for myself when someone kicked me while I was down. Time to roll a new account, I guess.
A couple pieces of feedback I have:

I would move the video higher up or make the hero a video/gif of it in use. It hadn't clicked for me what the app did until I watched the video that's halfway down the page. All the information before it didn't mean anything because I didn't get the concept.

The app looks incredibly flexible. But with that, it's somewhat hard to picture how someone would use it. You have a few use cases laid out under the intro (Ideating, Task Management, Visualization, etc.) but I didn't immediately get how I could use your tool for all those things. I would expand those use cases and show how they could be accomplished with your tool (through screenshots, animated gifs, or more short video clips). I should be able to picture myself using it.

That said, it looks like a great tool. I'm looking forward to checking it out more.
I recently moved all our node.js tasks over to supervise. We saw just as many node crashes within 'forever' itself as our applications.

We now have a policy that node.js is acceptable for rapid prototyping, but developers are on the hook for migrating apps to [a blessed language] before production use. (edit: I realized naming individual languages is the making of a religious war)
At least it is only software-regional. I've bought the One X in Taiwan when it was brand-new and now I have an Android 4.0 phone that only supports the following languages: Chinese, Simplified Chinese and English (I'm still too scared of Buyer's Remorse to check what else is different).
Helicopters can be landed softly without power, via autorotation.

It's not hard to imagine an autonomous helicopter that can manage autorotations. Some drones already do. But for people-carrying operations, it would need to have an extremely fine-grained terrain database (better than we probably have today) to pick suitable landing spots and avoid low-level obstacles.
How much do I have to pay to install a camera inside your TV?