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Best UI design tool so far; HOWEVER, I am missing a lot of features from Photoshop and the Sketch itself is IMO in an early beta stage and is really buggy and sluggish.

I am currently working on a bigger project and have got multiple pages and art boards and the performance is just terrible. Could be that I am on MBPwRD, but I really doubt that. Gonna get a thunderbolt display and see.

Also there are many glitches with exporting that have not been yet fixed and I have even got an email from the Sketch developers saying that they did not notice the bugs I reported repetitively.

That said, I kind of regret getting rid of Photoshop and working in Sketch and Pixelmator full-time. I may be putting Photoshop back on as it so far renders everything as it is - that means perfectly and can export it that way as well; but I am going to put PS back on only when the CC version gets "a better trial" - I am not willing to pay around 70 bucks a month and not fully own the app for as long as I want. That's way too much for a subscription like that. Also my be cause I hate subscription system, don't believe cloud and I want to own the product. Not having problem like this with Sketch - I even purchased a copy for my fiancée - 50 bucks is a steal, I would not hesitate to drop 300 bucks, if they would fix bugs, performance issues and added all the features I need.

Can't wait what bjango is going to come up with, Marc is an awesome designer, the Skala is gonna be a blast.
If Lessig was correct when he said that "code is law," I am not sure how anything other than English could be the language of the web. RFCs inform/direct/control the creation of code and RFC Series Format Requirements and Future Development[1] reads:

2.1.2
* The IETF works in ASCII (and English). The Internet research,
design, and development communities function almost entirely in
English. That strongly suggests that an ASCII document can be
properly rendered and read by everyone in the communities and
audiences of interest.

3.3
The official language of the RFC Series is English. ASCII is
required for all text that must be read to understand or
implement the technology described in the RFC. Use of non-
ASCII characters, expressed in a standard Unicode Encoding
Form (such as UTF-8), must receive explicit approval from the
document stream manager and will be allowed after the rules
for the common use cases are defined in the Style Guide.

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6949.txt
I almost don't want to mention it, but this is the worst kind of duckspeak imaginable.

Apologies to those of you who (contra Quartz) read the appendix to "1984".
(1) should be broken among its parts. The state secrets privilege is hard to get rid of, but it is realistic to call for the repeal of the "library records provision":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_records_provision#Secti...

Notably, Google itself has launched a campaign against the gag order related to NSLs, which we should all (hopefully) support!
WikiLeaks plane ‘ready’ to bring Snowden to Iceland
I wish I could take credit for the bananas-equivalent dose, but the idea is not mine; it's famous in its own right. Also, guns don't shoot jelly beans and bullets don't have jelly bean equivalents, but bananas really do emit radiation.
You are in the USA, so asking whether the US government should run a web search engine?

I have visions of a search engine that only indexes US websites, doesn't return links to abortion providers or gun shops, and only supports English-language queries (Spanish coming soon, unless their budget gets cut).
Then the second language gets so ingrained that you start to struggle when people ask for direct translations between your mutual first language and the second language...
http://mythbustersresults.com/episode50

In the case of a bullet fired at a precisely vertical angle (something extremely difficult for a human being to duplicate), the bullet would tumble, lose its spin, and fall at a much slower speed due to terminal velocity and is therefore rendered less than lethal on impact. However, if a bullet is fired upward at a non-vertical angle (a far more probable possibility), it will maintain its spin and will reach a high enough speed to be lethal on impact. Because of this potentiality, firing a gun into the air is illegal in most states, and even in the states that it is legal, it is not recommended by the police. Also the MythBusters were able to identify two people who had been injured by falling bullets, one of them fatally injured. To date, this is the only myth to receive all three ratings at the same time.
I will note that Flash also had some really terrible redraw logic; if you had a largely static image with something animating in the upper left and lower right corners, the dirty rectangle would cover the whole thing.
Same problem here. When I read in the comments that it used YouTube, I expected it to support YouTube's HTML5 player.
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People using mobile data links to control their drones are actually rare.

I want a drone like that, but everything you can find is people using either WiFi or those RC cars remote controllers.
Skipping to the intense part of the second video in the article, the actual footage from the drone: http://vimeo.com/68229603#t=5m23s

Really amazing to see watch a movie-like, birds-eye view of a conflict (water cannons, tear gas, etc.), and definitely thought-provoking.
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What a disgusting circle-jerk of comments.

So far we have -

1. Only China should be able to hack and spy on other nations.

2. The USA should just leave everyone alone!

3. Ohh, and this guy is not committing treason and espionage by releasing things like this, he's a freedom fighter. No more secrets!

Anyone else stopped reading HN these last couple of weeks?

I stopped right around when people were beginning to suggest that random government employees should be shot in protest, and as I looked as some of the posters names, I recognized a bunch of them.
Security Guards at Googleplex Protest for Full-Time Work
Chosen for Clojury duty.
You are mistaking human nature with pathology.

I will always compete with you, because you are not me.

That's like something straight of Mein Kampf. The trouble with sick people is that they assume everyone else HAS to be sick, too.
>The problem is SVG filters let you do some pretty cool compositing stuff

This is true for every single DOM element, which can layer and obscure and filter and be additive/subtractive and can have levels of translucency. This is not a novel problem with SVG, but it's one where the appropriate solution is a simple

if (isComplexCase) {
// do uglier, more processor intensive activities
} else {
// do things the short and simple way
}

The universe of possibilities on an artifact don't prescribe a baseline performance level unless you're actually using them.

And just to be clear, I don't fault the browser makers at all regarding this (any of us can contribute to Chromium/Webkit/Firefox), as they are simply optimizing their efforts towards the things that yield the biggest return, and optimizing SVG just isn't that critical. Yet this leads to a circular situation where we endlessly hear that you shouldn't use SVG because performance suffers.
> , but as far as getting your point across it is unmatched (based on my limited 3 language experience).

Don't know if it is common for germans to know three or more languages, or if this is a humble-brag...
Great job! Seen tons of similar services, but this is really polished. I already signed up, but was looking for a way to create my own playlists. I'd use this all the time if it had custom playlists
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Huh. Interesting. Activity Monitor gives me some weird numbers for Safari's performance as I watch this on my
dual i5 Macbook Air.

When scrolling the PNGs up and down, Safari oscillates between 64 to 94% CPU usage.

When scrolling the SVGs up and down, it goes between 36-54% CPU. Very very strange. I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that the SVG is dropping about a zillion frames.
What's so strange? Pen testing is almost always outsoruced.
I have very recently started using NetBSD, after having been interested for a while (had a tendency to go to the Fosdem talks on it for a few years). I think defining what the aim is (other than "runs anywhere") would be helpful; as would not cvs. All the BSDs have a user issue, with the dominance of Linux, and they have to find larger niches.
Thanks ! Many people ask me to add playlist support, so I will try to add it in a future update. :)
I guess he's writing for die-hard NetBSD users, because he doesn't make much of an effort to explain why anyone should care about the project anymore. (I would be interested to know why.)
As a geek, I would vote for Lojban instead because it's syntatically unambiguous ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
Just to give you a more concrete example.

The CDC has made available two datasets which are of de-identified medical records going back 20 years which are updated yearly. Unforunately it is extremely difficult to find the data. In fact, I went to the correct web page and missed it. One of my colleagues found it instead. The data is in a custom text format which needs a custom parser, and the format changes slightly every year. Then codes and abbreviations are used everywhere in the data set which need to be determined and converted. Then you have the usual misspellings, etc that are common in government data sets.

It is truly a pain to use these CDC data sets even though the data itself is great.
The South Korean artillery exercise was routine, and if you accept North Korean sources, or find any equality between a shoot down made in error and a premeditated terrorist bombing, we have absolutely no common ground for discussion.
It would be very interesting indeed if that holds true for the Voynich manuscript :)
WikiLeaks' Assange urges support for Snowden
You know that semantic distinction wasn't the point of his comment.
I think what's really beautiful about Unirest is that its enough of an abstraction that you don't need to think too much about what's going on under the hood and can just "speak" fluent HTTP but not too much of an abstraction so it can be used to build specialized, per-API, clients.

In the case of .NET for example, the built in facilities for HTTP communication are (in my opinion) too low on the abstraction scale so this solves an actual problem and makes the code much more expressive (and, dare I say, beautiful)

(Disclosure: I'm the author of the .NET version)
Or just don't use sprites, once you're on SPDY/HTTP2. It won't be necessary; win-win.
No problem! :-)
Our laws seriously need updating if we're restricting kids access to new technologies so severely. Parental guidance seems like a better solution than governmental regulation.
I suppose this makes it crystal-clear that in the eyes of Washington, the people of the USA are the enemy. Now everything suddenly makes more sense.
Esperanto is far from "unbiased" - it's obviously extremely influenced by European languages. It's not a fundamentally great design either. E.g. no non-gender pronoun, for some reason. Use of diacritics and extra pronunciation rules are also a negative.

Moving to Esperanto would not save time at all, and would be significantly more difficult for the many people that now have to learn yet another very Euro-centric language with complicated. And, there's really very little benefit to switching.

Making up a language won't gain traction. Even most programmers can't figure out how to write/read decent programming languages Why on earth would we think the rest of humanity will accept it for spoken language? And at any rate, it'd have to be a lot better than Esperanto or alternatives for it to be worthwhile.
I'm interested in seeing some drip campaign examples. Just signed up for an account on raffle creator. Will this trigger your drip campaign to me?
"..about the goods of laissez-faire capitalistic systems" Im pretty certain any government agency wanting to self preserve would NOT want laissez-faire.
I guess I am such a terrible developer, that I too can't imagine a project that is useful that can ship after just a week's work (of probably part time while working at my real job).

I did an online coding interview a few months back, and after working with some dude for 20 minutes on some program he asked me if it was ready to ship. And I was "uh, no, of course not" since we had done no testing of any sort apart from mentally running through the code. "Well, make it ready to ship!" I don't think he understood. The two of us certainly didn't agree on what software engineering means.
I think this is the exact image of Assange that US authorities tried to build, as if his concern about himself is relevant for anything at all.
> The only way forward for solving this problem is for the People to collectively say, with full knowledge of the potential consequences, that they are absolutely not willing to compromise, and want their government to trade security for inviolable protection of their freedom.

The People did so collectively say: the Bill of Rights, which this president swore to preserve, protect and defend.
The site doesn't seem legit for me. I got the following email from them after sign-up:

Thank you for signing up for EduHack!

You can really help us out by sharing with your unique URL with your friends:

http://eduhack.me?lrRef=jP0nK

You can always find out how many people you have referred

by coming back to http://eduhack.me and entering your email address again.

Thank you,
The EduHack Team

e: I don't know how to quote :/
I can understand that people will run code without examine the source for it. What I don't understand is how we at the same time consider bugs and crashes the responsibility of the user, and not something that the developer is liable for.

You want to sell me software and refuse to tell me how it work. Fine. Just be dam ready to take responsibility for said software when it breaks my computer. And don't even try to steal my private data.

If a hire a cleaner, and the person goes around and steal information from my desk, I don't really care if the hire contract of 40 pages said somewhere "might collect data for improvement of the service". nor do I care if it also say "no liability" when the china/laptop/valuable item crash into the floor by the careless cleaner.

On other hand, if you give me the source, I got the tool to verify the code, make sure nothing breaks, and fix problems. Like if I buy a power tool, it really is my responsibility if I hurt myself with it.
As another data point, in the Netherlands, both variable names and comments are in (atrociously bad) English.
According to http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_386_en.p... 28% of Germans know German and at least two other languages well enough to have a conversation.

Edit: I think actually 28% of Germans claim to know their native language and at least two other languages well enough to have a conversation (for some German is one of the other languages). In any case knowing 3 languages is pretty common in Germany.
Is this a legal issue? I was under the impression that SnapChat did this voluntarily, i.e. to avoid the inevitable shitstorm if someone sent genitalia to a toddler or something to that extent.
What is the range on those frequencies?
Thanks ! How do you see this "remix function" ? Directly in the search bar ? In the playlist ?
Hope he hops on the plane to Iceland.
It's unlikely that it will hit someone, but it can, so you don't do it. Remember rule 4: know your target and what's beyond it. You don't pull the trigger unless you know where each projectile will come to rest.
I did not mean to submit this question under the guise of a complaint/demand/question. Given the recent interest in anonymity it was meant to be a cautionary tale.
I'm talking about now, not 237 years ago.
Shame every link I try to click on is a "pop-up" which gets blocked by my browser.
Without getting too much into the theory of it - it's generally better to give the candidate a chance to fail early on.
Don't want the NSA to read your email?
I'd consider using it again, but the UI is just so ugly. Maximized, it has a useless border at the top of the window for no reason (which hurts on low res laptop screens). And in general, the tabs are next to the URL, so you never get to see a remotely full title or URL. And, to top it off, the URL/tab part looks like a dev preview. It doesn't look like anyone took time to make that part look pixel perfect. For general purpose use, I'd expect all modern browsers to deliver a generally decent experience, so the actual chrome is relevant.

On top of that, IE10 has no plugin model, so getting basics like privacy and ad blocking - there's just no reason to use IE10 outside of specific demos.
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> Yeah, maybe 8-10 years ago, but now it would seem ridiculous.

No, it still happens and it isn’t ridiculous. Try driving a high resolution video wall with a MBP, especially if realtime rendering is involved.

> For a seriously pro user, this is nothing more than a toy.

I already gave you an example of what I’m going to be using it for: video. A MBP can edit regular HD footage (like from a 5D) but it simply doesn’t have enough power to edit footage from a professional camera like a RED Scarlet, Arri Alexa, or Canon C500.

Fashion photographers have the same problem. For instance, a Leaf Aptus camera shoots at 80MP. That means you get RAW files of 80MB in size. Those are not fun to import or edit on a MacBook Pro. Fashion photographers and their crews don’t wait around for that, they bring Mac Pros.
Most contracted languages in existence are ridiculous. Esperanto is especially bad: it's just a jumble of Germanic and Romance languages that is just as difficult for a native speaker of a non-Indo-European language to learn as the languages it steals from.

In actual fact, English as a lingua franca isn't all that bad. It's a creole (of sorts) and therefore has a relatively simple grammar. The drawback to English is the fact that it's a Germanic creole and that Germanic languages have a comparatively large number of phonemes to work with. It would probably be more useful to most people in the world if a choice were made to go for a creole with a more reasonable number of phonemes, such as Swahili, Indonesian/Malay or Tok Pisin. Until that happens, however, using English is quite a reasonable thing to do.
Sorry, I misread your comment, this isn't relevant.
SnapChat went "viral" on the notion that it was primarily usable as a way to send self nudies to other people with less risk that it could be used against you in the future. I don't consider it "severe" that the under-13 set is restricted from such an app. It's just responsible business operation.

Further, it takes a village to raise a child, and the "parental guidance" ruse that always appears is aggravating and unreasonable. Outside of cults and specific subcultures, children exist and engage in the general world with people who might have different opinions. And that's where laws (and companies proactively doing things before laws appear forcing them) come into play.
At the project loon launch event, I asked the google people about installing cameras. They stated that they had very clearly decided not to install cameras because they didn't want any issues to distract them from their stated goal of providing internet.
The Congress passed a law forbidding various parts of the government not including the president's staff from prosecuting it, since they can't do that constitutionally. As I remember, an amendment to do the latter was voted down, further delineating exactly what the Congress was doing.

And I guess you weren't reading the same sources I was, and as I looked up the the Dear Comandante letter from 1984 I'm reminded of at least one overt, passed by the Congress in 1988 (!) aid bill to help the Contras, point your favorite search engine at contra aid bill. Which makes it crystal clear the simple picture you are painting is far too simple to be true.

Ah, and how about this, from the AP's archive (http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1985/Reagan-Signs-Foreign-Aid-B...):

"REAGAN SIGNS FOREIGN AID BILL, PRAISING CONTRA AID

AP , Associated Press

Aug. 9, 1985 1:37 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Reagan, hailing new funding for Contra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government, has signed a $25.4 billion foreign aid bill.

''I am particularly pleased that the Congress approved the renewal of aid to the Nicaraguan freedom fighters,'' Reagan said Thursday before he signed the measure...."

Gaaah, bad memories. Anyone who thinks our foreign policy is messed up today should really review post-Vietnam War Cold War policy, where way too much of the nation up to and including Congressmen were openly on the other side. And then there's Carter's 1977 "inordinate fear of communism", and, oh, hugging and kissing Brezhnev on the signing of the SALT treaty, following in just 6 months by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Which we're still paying the price for (as well as Iran, but that wasn't so Cold War specific).

And if you wonder why today's domestic politics are so bad, it was noted when the Sandinistas theoretically fell in a popular vote in 1990 those people ran out of Socialist Worker's Paradises to support, leaving them pretty much with the US as their only target.
I'm pretty sure that's just the default LaunchRock email.
Animating transform doesn't affect page scroll, which is a more useful use case (since users need to scroll a page) than being able to use a translate transformation.

Of note, a translate transformation still isn't perfect. It seems to chug and then turn into a smooth animation.
I remember it differently. The bullet would tumble back down so long as the angle didnt allow for the bullet to arc over. You do t have to shoot up perfectly for it to fall backwards and tumble down. There's a pretty wide margin for shoot up that would cause the bullet to fall back on itself and not cause as much harm as a bullet which held an arc.
I've already outlined what I consider the potential disadvantages. By all means see if you can get your state legislature to give it a whirl, that's what they're there for,
People are the way that they are. It doesn't mean they cannot be more. The constraints of physical scarcity make us less (good/kind/moral) than we otherwise might be.

My statement was a simple description of the behaviour of individuals and states, and how each acts as their own agent. Some are more kind and selfless, and will go with less so that those around them can be lifted up, many others aren't so thoughtful. What do we do when an overwhelming majority of people and nations act primarily in their own interests first, even to the overwhelming detriment of those around them?

That you'd rather retreat into invective rather than critique my statements is telling. That you decided to Darwin the exchange is just a bit sad. Certainly what I am saying is somewhat bleak, I am a pessimist, but whilst bleak I do not think it an unrealistic portrayal of human behaviour. If it is, then perhaps I am too easily given over to misanthropy.

There are those wonderful moments where we rise above self interest and insensibility, I love it when that happens. I whole-heartily encourage people to pursue these outcomes, but the reason that states spy on each other is a realistic expectation that you cannot expect others to behave in a way that will not be detrimental to you, or your peoples interests.

It should also be noted that spying is not a natural by-product of war, but perhaps a better alternative. Tact and guile over brute force is preferable, honesty and jolly co-operation is of course best.

ps. You haven't said what you're prepared to give up so that we can curtail the rate of progress to a more sensible pace, and therefore not to pursue our interests so aggressively.