skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you're not working at some drone farm you should probably take time to yourself to relax and spend time with your friends/family. I understand if you're freelance and you have deadlines and whatnot you'll need to work long/odd hours, but honestly you shouldn't have to kill yourself with work. I enjoy what I do and have a large equity stake in it, but I'm not going to burn myself out because "I love what I'm doing." It's not good for me, it's not good for my family, and it's not good for my work. If there is a tight, important deadline sure I'll work longer hours, but in most cases it's almost certainly unnecessary and definitely negative.
Should add some sort of negative reinforcement/punishment to modify the drunk commit behavior.
StudentFreelance.com focuses the freelance job market to students
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq

"The word coq means "rooster" in French, and stems from a tradition of naming French research development tools with animal names.[4] It is also a reference to Thierry Coquand, who developed the aforementioned calculus of constructions along with Gérard Huet. Also, at first it was simply called Coc, the acronym of calculus of construction."
Programming is more like surfing an infinite amount of tidal waves of information change. Every wave is different, but ultimately they're all just waves regardless of how much people argue which is superior to the other.

Point being, when you're 35 and an expert in your field, you probably need to spend less time learning what the cool kids are up to as opposed to when you're 23 and learning your field and everything you learn is new.

That doesn't mean that you can let yourself not be current, but if your future plans are to work 12 hours per day then go home and read HN at night, I pity your wife and family prospects. :p
I guess this means that Baudot is finally dead.
> In that world, it seems pretty clear who ends up in jail and who doesn't.

Very true. :(

It's such a difficult problem in general though. In the Navy we have a term "sea lawyers" for those who try to finangle the regulations for their own personal gain.

If there was an easy way to fairly resolve each possible scenario we'd have baked it into the laws already. But even where complex solutions are standardized, that depends on the person evaluating the standard; when I was teaching my discipline method for a given failure-to-study would have been way different from a Chief Petty Officer's.

I think the only way it could possibly work in the future you point out is that, given the data exists, that the ones doing the monitoring (if any) are not able to be the ones doing the deciding.

We say "don't combine the data in the first place" but I just don't see that as a realistic possibility. Someone will have that data, and they can "leak" it to the cops just as well as the NSA could.

I think if we own up to the idea that such a data-driven world is not only possible but likely, that next we need to accept that it will happen and develop countermeasures to maintain our civil liberties.

That doesn't have to be directed against NSA alone. The FBI can legally perform domestic surveillance already (with oversight), and I've already mentioned that people at $ISP or $CLOUD_CO can leak damaging information to the cops and kick off an investigation (and such information would be admissible in court, unlike NSA methods).

Maybe adopting FBI's oversight methods for NSA and similar is enough. Certainly I think we're long past due for defining and enforcing privacy protections on-line to match what we expect in the mail and on the phone. Perhaps those protections can also protect a person in the case that a company illegally provides data about someone to the government as well. But then now we're almost back to talking about CISPA again. :)

But I think just pushing for "don't get the data" is a brittle solution at best. That only really works if you're scared of the government alone. I'm concerned about the government, but they're not at the top of my list by any means of parties that could possibly harm me.
I think it's getting very hard for bloggers to credit Apple with "genius" for making this interface change. It's a solidly done refresh of an aging UI theme, which everyone has to do from time to time because UI themes are fashion, and fashion changes. A good move on Apple's part, but it's not indicative of any particular genius.
Everyone Pivots
Are you quoting that out of a belief that I haven't seen the interview? I have. I also remember the part, I think immediately after, when he said "I think the public is owed an explanation."

Aren't we? How, again, is Snowden's credibility at issue? At all? Sure, assume he is lying. So?
You just made the most important comment in this entire thread. This should be the top post. Apple: your move.
I didn't search for a mugshot. I searched for his name, and it was the first photograph shown on the first page of the results.

Your suggestion that this was done for amusement is incorrect. A basic name search for a person in "urgent" need of money from strangers where no friend or family is able or willing to help seems like pretty basic due diligence to me.

Additionally - I'd refuse to ever lend to anybody that was an active gambler:

"@[name redacted] Hello, do you honor bets where you have made an error with the odds? (Sports book not exchange)"

[link redacted]

The exact nature of my original question was trying to determine what the money was for, and that question remains unanswered.
Microsoft also has a better term for their philosophy than "flat". They call it "authentically digital".
Thank you for explaining exactly what the parent's comment made me feel better than I could. If you read a bunch of different people's opinions, then you shouldn't be surprised that what you get is a bunch of different opinions.

Furthermore, why is the parent so interested in this idea of "Apple Users" as a group, anyway? There isn't really any such group (or, to the extent that there is, it's a very small group).
Actually there is no point - imo.

The people that "broke" (hey, see the quotes?) the user experience you expected and liked are the people that steer the project. They are free to do that, just like any company is free to (drastically? I don't quite think that's the case here, but let's go with it) change their product.

You have some benefits, though:

- You didn't pay a dime. Sure, you might've invested time learning to use Gnome 2 to your utmost satisfaction. You might've spent a good amount of hours to configure it to your liking. The product though? You got it for free and without any contract stating that your personal workflow would work in every future version, that your preferences are important to the project goals.

- You got the source. People complain just the same about WIndows 8 and they are stuck. Unless they find a way to jump to a totally different OS or stay in the past forever, they'll have to swallow the (imo not thaaat bad) changes. Maybe they can install some workarounds. You? You can enjoy a multitude of alternatives. You don't need to move away from your favorite applications. You can even, in fact, install one of the Gnome 2 forks (think Mint etc.) and imagine that Gnome 3 never happened.

You're not without options. Posting stuff like this rant on your blog? That's not helpful. You cannot seriously believe that this will change a thing. People that don't agree with you are going to sadly shake their heads. Gnome (3) developers are not even going to _read_ your blog, based on your way to communicate.

You reach only the people that already agreed with you in the first place. I'm sure you guys could have a good time in a bar, sharing complaints about ways Gnome 3 broke the user experience for you. But .. don't even start to believe that you represent all of the Gnome user base, much less the majority.

Putting everything that obviously divides us beside: Can you explain in 2-3 sentences what you'd hope to archive with that post of yours, the way you present your arguments? Is there any serious agenda, or is that just a way to blow off steam?
This project can help with printing statements: https://github.com/danielribeiro/print-foo/tree/prit

Which is helpful for quick inspection.
Ask HN, Where's a good place to spend my training budget?
My employer has provided me with a several thousand dollar training budget as well as up to a week's worth of time plus travel expenses. I can use it for any kind of programming training but I'm particularly partial to technologies at least somewhat related to web development. Any suggestions?
>People arguing 'its just a beta, it'll obviously change over time': what happened to Apple's relentless pursuit of quality before introducing something to the public?

Nothing. They were always pragmatic about it, not "relentless".

And it's not a beta. The final version is coming in very short time, so it will be 98% the same. What it is is a FIRST version (iteration) of the new design. It will improve in iOS 8 and later versions.

People always go crazy when discussing Apple and forget basic facts.

Like, the original iPhone, and ALL subsequent models, where chastised for this pain point or the other. And all pain points (from lack of third party apps, to multitasking, to copy/paste, to the 4's antenna etc) where addressed, in a satisfying matter, in later versions.

People also forget how OS X went from barely usable (10.1) to highly capable and mature (10.4 and forward) functionality wise, or how the UI changed from "lickable candy buttons, heavy stripes and metal windows" to the subdued 10.8 look we now have.

People only remember "relentless pursuit of quality". But they forget that that "pursuit" comes in iterations and years, not just on every first version they introduce.

Actually, a decade old advice among Apple faithfuls, at least with regards to hardware, is: avoid buying a 1st iteration Apple product -- it will likely have some issue to be fixed in later versions or production runs.
"Well, to be honest, she can always sign up for One to One if she needs to learn how to interact with iOS 7's magical new interface." - Apple employee's response in a few months.
Prettier? "Off" means "Make my font look as ugly as Parse's logo".
> The problem with foreigners having rights is that it goes against very deep principles in the western tradition.

Except the Supreme Court has upheld various rights foreigners have w/r/t the bill of rights.
Broken Windows Theory (about Vista) [2006]
Sorry, it's a reflex!
Its absolutely not a true statement, but you have to consider your actions in this. Posting something to facebook/twitter will never be private. Gmail isn't private, AWS isn't private, etc.

If you want privacy, stop exposing yourself.

That said, privacy in email is easy (gpg/pgp/SMIME), privacy in browsing is easy (VPN), chatting not so hard (OTR) and there's a few other things...
A New Approach to Getting out of the Building
> can you be both the place where people connect with their closest connections, and where public discourse goes on?

This remains to be seen. They have been working on it just in a really crash, burn and restart process way. Mark Zuckerberg once went through two options for public discourse

* create a Facebook fan page

* open his personal profile to public

The first attempt was silently killed (from what I can see, this is my assumption) and now redirects to his personal page (www.facebook.com/markzuckerberg -> www.facebook.com/zuck). The second attempt, well, as you can see from his profile, it is pretty much closed up now.

Private sharing, as least from the friends I have, has been going on pretty frequently, just not on the timeline

* private groups

* group messages

With messages, it seems Facebook is testing inline message (1) along the status composer (on the homepage) which aligns with the thinking that they are making private sharing less restrictive to action on while maintaining "privacy" (in quotes, as some may not agree to the level of privacy offered)

I have no data to back up how effective private sharing is though.

(1) http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/02/facebook-status-composer-me...
Hardware aside, the design of Prada phone UI is something what I'd expect to come from Apple. Subtle texturing, depth effects, restrained visuals - this would've been a true step up in making the iOS both simpler and more sophisticated at the same time.

I just really hope new iOS7 design is Apple's New Coke.
I totally agree with you. Gnome 3 is a brave departure from xp-style desktops and that's inevitably going to irk die-hard fans of the previous versions or people who love to tweak ad infinitum, but I find it a far more pleasurable experience than Unity and much more fluid than other menu-oriented desktops. Non-linux users I have shown Gnome 3 too are not only generally impressed, but also pick it up very very quickly.In my opinion, that's a real achievement.
Most of these rang true for me and I only work in a 25 personal company. The biggest one is everyone except me is only there for the 9-5 and the paycheck. Not one has heard of HN. This is why I start a new job in 2 weeks.
Aren't those some of the exact same points that the author was making?

"People think that being an extrovert means that you like being around people, and therefore an introvert “ doesn’t like people,” but that’s not true. There’s just no way I would have chosen to spend my life working with college students if I didn’t like people!

People also tend to think that introverts have a fear of public speaking, but that’s also a fallacy."
I don't think that's what it said at all.
Sadly, the icon font files themselves aren't yet driven off that. Just the docs, CSS, LESS, and SCSS!
E3: Cops called to shutdown Ouya
Barter: An Alternative To Outsourcing
That first image says it all for me. We are on a iOS 6 contact page and I want to facetime. There is a button right there. I know I can click on it and what exactly it will do. The contrast on the text is right and my brain is scanning for a section/button to latch on to. It finds it. Okay, change of mind. I don't want to facetime but rather send a message. Brain scanning for "message" button starts and finds it in a fraction of a second (not just visual but the expectation that a related feature will have have a similar way to be invoked).

Now iOS7. Scanned for facetime. They don't have it on the contact sheet. Wait... they do. For some reason I didn't register that at all on the first glance. Now message. They definitely don't have it: home, mobile, facetime, iCloud and work. That's it. Wait.. that cannot be right. Re-scan slowly. I see a speech bubble next to mobile phone number. Maybe that is it. I hope it is clickable. Doesn't look like a button.
These Aren’t the Skeuomorphs You’re Looking For
It is also fine if you kill the lobster first.
I agree. It's how I type when I don't care or not putting in as much effort - like feeling lazy or perhaps unmotivated or depressed.
Is it just me, or do quite a few of these look like they've been auto-converted from a bitmap, and picked up jaggies in the process (icon-windows for example)?
Apple helps Microsoft: iOS 7 flatters Windows Phone 8
They can if they simply sign a cert that is identical in all but public key.
How much is your personal data worth? $0.0005
Right, I get that...I meant a separate remote when I said redundancy. GitHub has just been so reliable I haven't even needed other remotes for the past 8 or so months we've been using it like joeblau mentioned.
but if everyone’s every action were being monitored, and everyone technically violates some obscure law at some time, then punishment becomes purely selective. Those in power will essentially have what they need to punish anyone they’d like, whenever they choose, as if there were no rules at all.

Could you not just subpoena the monitoring data that law enforcement had access to and make a 14th Amendment case with a quick SQL statement.
I feel kind of divided on this... I mostly agree, but we also need to think about the consequences of selective enforcement. Cannabis-related arrests, for example, seem to be disproportionately focused on people of color, which may have softened the perceived damage of cannabis prohibition among whites. In other words: we can get away with it, so it's not really a big deal that it's still illegal.

Again, I'm not saying I want a 100% effective police state, but these are problems we have to grapple with. The salience of an issue will often depend on how much it affects you personally. Selective enforcement may diminish the motivation to protest unfair laws within populations that tend to escape said enforcement. In fact, most of the things you mentioned probably shouldn't be crimes to begin with, but I bet many people don't feel strongly enough to protest them because they assume most people can break those laws without punishment. Some people aren't so lucky though.
> Also, the Constitution itself forbids "ex post facto" laws, which means you can't be convicted of actions that were not actually crimes at the time you did it.

California and a few other states love ignoring this, I believe there's even legislation going up for vote this week that criminalizes exactly this. Until the government is adequately constrainted by its contstituency, we will always have overreaches.
> People on here are nuts.

Funny, I think people who LIKE this design are nuts. People are nuts indeed!

> How are the new gradients any different than the old gradients?!

OMG?!?111 Well, it's not that the gradients are different, it's that the colors are bright and vivid and each icon has little distinction from the next. Oh, and it looks like something my 6-year-old nephew would draw with his colored pencil set.
Sorry if I've offended, I didn't phrase that very well. I didn't mean you have to work late if you like your job. I meant it's a trade-off, and sometimes working late and giving up other things is worth it.
...just in case reading HN doesn't waste enough of your time.
I wonder what the use case was for fading the chat bubble color as you go later in time? I haven't seen iOS 7 in action yet but I wonder what happens when you scroll up: how do the colors change?

At a glance the earlier messages I would have sent look harder to read.
I agree, except that hashtages are used in other languages as well. I think they even work in every language.
Each time is different. You really should take this down or wait to change teams after a year and a bit or leave. It sounds like there is serious disconnect between your expectations and the company culture and what you have written does not reflect too well on the Azure team.
Obviously, these things exist a long a continuum. For example, at Google, people do tend to write design docs, maybe because writing and sharing them are so easy with Google Docs and Google Sites. We also write lots of "Getting Started" docs, so a new team member can check out code and know how to get his project up and running quickly. How to commit and test changes. How production works. Privacy, Security, Logging, and Monitoring related docs.

Source Code documentation seems better than most companies I've worked at, and Code Reviews are not skipped. The source control system won't allow you (without overrides) to commit without review and approval for most projects.

We also don't like committing hacks just to get something to work. It is generally understood that a //TODO -- will clean up later, or promise to do so will almost never actually be cleaned up later. Rushing creates technical debt. Not saying it doesn't happen, but the degree to which people commit something they know to be wrong just for expediency is low.

This certainly affects agility. All of the burdens of docs, reviews, testing, et al do slow down iteration, but I've also been slowed down by hacky code at other companies. It's a trade off.

Personal projects are a way to let off steam and feel agile again. There you can bypass reviews, tests, docs, and just hack hack hack.
Agreed - this design is very disappointing. I want to be able to glance at my phone and understand what I'm looking at as easily as possible. Another person in this thread mentioned waking up from sleep and looking at their phone - that's exactly it for me. I'm not getting AARP magazine yet (early 30s), just want using my phone to be easy.
This a nice update for Font Awesome, but I am still a big advocate for using IcoMoon [1] to generate your own icon font.

I think it's the best way to generate a font with only the icons you actually need. It's a much more lean way to handle icons, rather than just getting an icon font with a huge library that you won't even use 70% of. And don't get me wrong, Font Awesome has great icons, but I would just use those inside IcoMoon to generate a font that has only the icons you need.

[1] http://icomoon.io/
Check out http://icomoon.io/ for this. It's a great app!
Font Awesome is a real godsend when looking for simple and effective icons. It's neat to have most of what you need icon-wise all in one place.
All this sounds about right. Sadly.
Probably is why companies come and go. Even big ones, eventually.
This looks awesome. I love the rotation, stacking, and the new icons. Keep continuing the innovation!
It occurs to me you might like this:

* https://atmosphere.meteor.com/

* http://www.discovermeteor.com/ - It's definitely my favorite Meteor textbook, and not just because it's an interactive Meteor app.

Re: "There is not yet a way to break up an app into pages"

- https://atmosphere.meteor.com/package/router

Re: the toys on madewith.meteor.com

There actually are a quite a number of production apps, rapidly growing, including:

- Gander.io - email syncing across devices

- JSpot (JoinJSpot.com) - Jewish dating site

- 26Plays.com - playlist manager

- ApplyBin - application manager

- EdThena - ed tech

- Torsh.co - ed tech

And a certain interactive textbook. :)

Re: scaling, multiple instances, etc.:

http://meteorhacks.com/meteor-cluster-introduction-and-how-i...
Real Hope
But it has been clear for a while that Snowden is not in it strictly for the heroism... the tone/slant and other circumstantial info to my mind seems to align him more with espionage than true whistleblowing.
Correct; Dune is meant to take place in the far future of our galaxy. Star Wars is a "far away" galaxy and in the distant past.

The "long time ago / far away" disclaimer is brilliant in a number of ways, not the least of which is that it helps the viewer suspend disbelief. It's also an elegant way to future-proof the technology, clothing choices, etc., on display in the movie. If Star Wars had made a claim about being the future of our galaxy, it would age pretty badly (the way that the "futuristic" inventions in Star Trek tend not to age well; consumer technology tends to advance more quickly than projections thereof).
Isn't this sort of the entire purpose of an signals intelligence agency?

China is a target of US hacking. The US is a target of Chinese hacking. And so on and so forth for any other country's names you can swap in or any other intelligence gathering mechanism you can replace "hacking" with.

One part of this story that has always seemed baffling is his shock that espionage, the act of stealing secrets or convincing someone to betray their oaths and steal secrets for you, requires some less-than-moral activities.

And by disclosing that he possesses documents that he says describe U.S. hacking against China, he appeared to be trying to win support from the Chinese government.

This seems to be transitioning from leaking to let Americans know how their civil rights are being violated into something else.