skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the article doesn't really build an argument, more like paints the alternative as "the old and bad and non-agile way". Which may be true, but it's not an argument.
The idea of applying purely functional programming concepts to deployment is not new, see the Nix package manager and the NixOS Linux distribution built on top of it (http://nixos.org/). This paper explicitly makes the link with functional programming: http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf
This design-in-markup concept has been around for a while (I like the new term "NoPSD" though). I tend to flip both ways on this issue. For expediency's sake, and often in terms of usability and performance, designing in CSS definitely wins out.

The problem is that you end up with bland designs that tend to conform to the whims of the technology rather than the type of creative elegance that a PSD affords. Because photoshop is removed from the tech, a designer in Photoshop can use their imagination a little bit and force pushing the boundaries of the technology in ways that a developer typically wouldn't. Even when you are a developer and aware of the tech, spinning the design in Photoshop (and even better, further abstracted down to pencil sketches etc) just always gives more creative and aesthetically pleasing results in my opinion.
That first sentence doesn't make sense. If a merchant screws up and manages to post a flat ASCII text file of credit card accounts with CVV numbers on a URL in a directory with an Apache index enabled, your argument says "well, sucks for the merchant and all their customers".

There are clearly cases where the mere fact that someone has left something somehow exposed to a web browser does not connote authorization to access it. Those are the cases where a reasonable person, seeing what the data is after stumbling across it, would understand the exposure to have been a mistake, and not an authorization.
A collection of optical illusions made with web tech
A lot of Googlers asked for reader to be saved as it was considered a very useful tool used by small amount of very devout users. The Google of today will cancel any product that cannot be monetized properly, ignoring all internal feedback.

Another example of how things have changed is the Hangouts app. Pretty much everyone who tested it internally asked for the status settings to be implemented before going public. It was ignored and that was the most criticized aspect of the app when it was publicly released.

The consequence of this is an eroded trust in the company and a reduced brand loyalty. I will think twice before using another Google product that might disappear in favor of some half-assed feature in G+, just because management has decided to bet the future of the company on social.
this is good news. it will no longer stop IE users from visiting those sneaky sites who block users for using IE. it also makes it clear that Microsoft is finally serious about making a good browser that people WANT to use. now if they make their developer tools anywhere as good as firebug they'll have a winner. hiring some of the firebug team might be a good idea.
sigh I know I shouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole, but I really don't think overreactions like these help anyone.

First of all, sexist jokes are a bad thing, but we need to keep in mind the meaning of the word "misogyny": hatred of women. While sexist jokes desensitize men to sexism in general, which can lead to misogyny, the knee-jerk reaction you're having is beginning to resemble crying wolf.

As for the name Linda, it is a clever reference to a person who shares the same surname as the person for which another programming language is named. No doubt the choice of the person was motivated by that person's fame and no doubt that choice was immature, unprofessional and sexist. Likewise, calling it a "best name ever for a computer language" is probably equally immature and unprofessional.

But the fact is that the reference really is clever and a subtle joke. I agree with you that it's not appropriate, but it's not really the reason to cry "misogyny". Criticizing the OP for being childish, unprofessional and sexist would have been enough without trying to demonize him.
Thanks for the feedback! A lot of the use cases we're looking at are reaching out to populations who want the messages. For example, high school students who've been admitted to a college and are looking for info on summer events; texting in for customer support... areas where bidirectionally is valuable.
It will end soon. I'd say in a year from now, at most. There is also an e-pub version.
Most likely because it takes time to do those benchmarks. After Chrome 28, FF 23 should be out so why not wait for that either ?
> Chrome wins some tests but loses the most on the start-up benchmarks

Well, congratulations to FF for being the perfect browser for the 0.01 percent of people who don't keep their browser open all day.
Fedora 19 - "Schrödinger's Cat" - is most certainly alive
It's a core problem with FF. Everything runs under the same process so a single site with slow / frozen JS will affect the whole browser.
Quartzy Collects $4M To Help Scientists Manage Lab Inventory
Further evidence that no matter how "free" and "open" Android may be in theory, manufacturer and carrier modifications make it no better (and in this case worse) than the iPhone in practice.
edit: it's been pointed out that I misread the part of the article where it stated that men's performance under the alias didn't improve. My apologies. However to keep the flow of the thread I've kept my original post below:

> Research finds the threat comes in two flavours. Women can fear their poor performance will be used to bolster the "women are weak at maths" gender stereotype (known as "group-reputation threat"). Or they can fear that their poor performance will be taken as proof that they conform to the stereotype ("self-reputation threat"). Both can undermine women's ability to fulfil their true potential.

Surely you can use that same logic to say that men are under the same fears and pressures to outperform women. Trying to argue a psychological handicap like the above -where the author cites two contradicting examples that are dependant on the individual- doesn't seem fair when it's only applied to women.

The fact is, the men under an alias in that study did also improve. And the men did still still perform better. So you could also argue that this study proved that men's true maths skills are unlocked by pretending to be someone else. Which then leaves me wondering why there's the statistical anomaly in favour of men (I'm doubly curious as I'd always assumed that the figures would be the opposite way around, if just because my wife is quite significantly better at that subject than I)
10 year old dreamweaver won't know about CSS3 or anything like that and will produce code with nested tables and whatnot that is optimized for IE6.

Sure, you could just use it as a text editor but at that point there are better editors you could choose.
Couldn't we draw a line between retrieving information and modifying it?
Assuming you're not describing a woman like Rosa Ramirez as "the average worker" of today, could you elaborate a bit on the process by which the median worker ends up like her in the future? It seems to me that the market in labor is functioning pretty well, with some arguable exceptions at the very high and low ends.
The wonders of worldwide overpopulation! It's only going to get worse, a lot worse.
Why does it have to be either/or? Why can't both people be responsible? Why can't AT&T be civilly liable for leaving a gaping hole on their application, and whoever abused that information be criminally liable?

Incidentally, every time you blame AT&T for what happened, you tacitly acknowledge that wrongdoing actually occurred, which harms your argument that the data was "published".

(In the interest of combating the fundamental attribution error: I'm not happy with Aurnheimer receiving a custodial sentence for what was pretty obviously just another dumb prank. We probably agree that the sentencing component of CFAA is absurdly constructed.)
A business is very rarely build on design the way you and I probably think about good design.

I appreciate pixel-pushing as much as anyone else, but I also have been in the design world long enough to see that for most startups it isn't and shouldn't be their first priority. Especially since most of them are going out of business in less than a year.

I always try to look at refined design as a way to optimize a product. Of course some basics are needed, but that's why we have design patterns.
You can launch from the middle of the big empty desert, while you must launch from the edge of the ocean.

In other words, launches from Canaveral need systems to ensure that a wild rocket doesn't land in downtown Orlando, while presumably launches from Baikonur don't have this problem on the same level.
>>Please stop with the physical analogies. Locks and doors and physical space have well defined ways of indicating "authorized" and "unauthorized". We also have a social contract about entering spaces of others, even if there are no locks at all.

The social contract of the web is that "you can send a request to any webserver on the internet without permission". That's how the web _works_.

--

Physical analogies may have their limitations when describing the web.

That said, weev KNEW for a fact that he was accessing information that should not have been public.

In other words, he KNEW that he was walking into someone's unlocked house.

Furthermore, he BRAGGED about rubbing it in AT&T's face, and wanting to cause as much damage as possible. He had malicious intent.

So no, his trespassing was not unintended. He didn't happen to just accidentally grab a bunch of email addresses from some web server he sent requests to randomly.
> Think of the mythical pizza-and-coke-debugging-nights in your own project no-one will ever use.

Something like 60% of all accountants and auditors and about 45-50% of Big 4 accountants are women. I struggle to think of a physiological difference that would make staring at hex dumps all night unpalatable for women but would make staring at ledgers all night reasonably palatable. I don't think that's the Occam's razor answer to that question.
We can reduce CEO compensation then. There's your money from something.
I've got a tab still open and it's been updating as of 16 minutes ago (now being Tue Jul 2 15:27:02 UTC 2013), though the same URL in a new tab brings up the tombstone.
Startup time matters (a lot). Even if i open it once a day i still want it to be fast. Nobody likes slow apps.
http://docker.io is how I'd do this as soon as they have a stable version for production. Pick a common (or at least mostly common) base OS for every server, configure your entire system on top of a LXC container, badda bing, badda boom. Quick, low profile, repeatable, redistributable, etc etc etc.
I think this is an awesome idea, and the implementation of the conversation designer is beautifully simple (although it should support collapsing threads of conversation for complex interactions).

At the risk of sounding a bit harsh, anyone dismissing SMS has their head too far up Silicon Valley. Only half of the adult population in the US has a smartphone, and SMS is the best communication method for low-income, rural, and elderly communities. On top of that, something like 95% of text messages are read within minutes of being received. For the given use cases, this solution is right on.

I think the pricing is dead wrong, and there should be more emphasis on instantly signing up for free. Also, I think you should tone down the eco imagery and messaging.
Mormon nuclear fusion
Frankly the GP seemed like one of these special pleaders whose favorite paper or political group can do anything it likes because after all they're good chaps, but if the Guardian or any other media source criticizes the favorite it had better be as pure as the driven snow. Any missteps will be remembered for decades as "proof" of the Guardian's hateful bias. Only angels have standing to criticize the favorite.
Pixate Raises $3.8M to Bring Their Dynamic UI Platform to Android and Mac
It seems they are in fact making some major upgrades to the developer tools, as described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/bg182632(v=vs.85)...

Some of it appears to be parity with existing dev tools for other browsers, but it looks like some very welcome improvements.
I guess deployment to Heroku or similar is truly immutable infrastructure...
It should be noted that "expensive" probably isn't important, as fuel is a minor cost of launching a rocket into space, on the order of 1% of the total. As for "toxic", I'm betting the Soviets didn't much care about that.
I... Agree. I'd advise someone who is reading the fanfic to watch the first two films, then maybe read a summary of the rest.
This seems a bit stupid. There are dozens, if not hundreds of different 3D printer varieties, each of which requires its own tuned slicer settings. Hell, I have to use different slicer settings depending on the filament manufacturer.

What advantage is there in delivering a presliced models? Everyone has standardized on STL files for a reason.
The typography keeps throwing me off too. The process is:

Bugs
Strict mode
didn't know existed

That doesn't make sense. Oh wait, there are little words between each of those lines.
I suspect most clients will never be comfortable with "designing in the browser" for exactly the reasons you state. It does come across as amateur.

There is another reason this wouldn't work for most projects. Many, many projects are not just web based. They are part of an overall campaign that includes assets for all different types of media, especially print. Designers have to create assets for all potential media in the campaign, designing in the browser would be duplicating work.

However, if all you're concerned with is a pump and dump web product, then this approach may have merit.
I think this is a pretty strong argument:

"There is a legacy process that sits behind the design methods we apply to software creation; most of it comes from traditional marketing and design. It's an approach that's worked for creative agencies: magazines, TV advertisements, advertising campaigns – all these things are planned meticulously up front. In some cases, it's necessary – after all, it's harder to change an advertisement that's aired, or a magazine that's been printed then it is to change software.

Most software design is still outsourced to firms who are traditionally marketing 'creative' companies. They're expensive, they'll deliver you a pixel-perfect layout of your entire application, and they'll charge you for it. It's what they know. "But it's all just documentation, really." says Andrew, "Comps, mockups, pitches, they're just requirements: visual documentation."

What's worse is that we freeze this documentation as The Final Design, a canonical reference. Once that happens you stop talking about it, you stop challenging it or even being aware it needs adaptation. Worse still, there's a tendency to fall back to what you consider absolute, and the design starts driving the product. He sums it up: the accepted practice is not to redesign.

Even some of the most successful Agile delivery teams are doing design the old fashioned way. Segmenting the design off as something that has to be done first. Only then do we shift into a happy Agile land. Wherein when we get feedback, we change and pivot on our product. We need to pivot our design, too. When everything is designed up front, and we change – then the vestigial parts of the design become waste. We must be leaner."

Having founded and run a design and dev agency myself I was made painfully aware of this issue.
TL;DR

MS doesn't want isIE() javascript functions to return true for IE11. While feature detection is a better practice than browser detection, you can search for "Trident" in the user agent string instead of "MSIE" if you must.
Chrome also phones home all the time, which is why I stopped using it. I don't notice much performance difference between Firefox and Chrome anyway, and always use Noscript, Adblock+ and Disconnect.
Hey guys,
I was looking for something like this for a while (search ended a few weeks ago, sorry), but the pricing does seem a little steep. I'm working for a small firm (<60ppl), and while we have a pretty good budget for tools, this'd be a bit much for the ROI. One application I can see as being really useful is polling. I'd reply to a text more readily than talk to a pollster. Also, it'd be really good for getting information from populations in the developing world since they're infrastructure poor but SMS penetration is increasing. Wicked cool site and best of luck. If we have another use case for you guys I'll see if we can use it.
>there are side effects of raising the minimum wage.

Yeah, like more people who don't require social assistance, and eventually, more people spending money in local economies.

>Besides the fact that a small percentage of US work force are actually paid minimum, most more or less than it.

That's only because it just isn't survivable to earn minimum wage, at least not for any reasonable definition of survivable.
"The socialist initiative we need is to shut down unskilled immigration entirely."

This is the exact opposite of a "socialist" initative. Either you are being ironic or do not really know in what sense "socialist" is being used here.

Either way, feels kind of cheap considering that unskilled migration has historically been one of the driving forces behind US growth and progress, and that many first class US citizens today are probably descendants of some of those migrants.
Darpa Robotics Challenge Follow-Up: Competition Videos, Bloopers
We've been getting mainly B to E interest and our major competitors in those markets have starting plans of $1000/month. But we're interested in feedback. How would you revise the pricing?
I thought apple prohibits apps built by frameworks like this.
>>He was _absolutely_ doing this maliciously. It STILL SHOULD NOT BE CRIMINAL.

What kind of reality do you live in where malicious intent to cause harm to someone or some group should not be a crime?
<i>Some people don't value freedom, they value food, shelter and health.</i>

I hope you understand that if you are chronically starving, "freedom (of what?)" is the last thing in your mind. That doesn't mean some people prefer slavery; it might just mean that their current situation is so horrible they are willing to trade their freedom for a mouthful.
The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses
Maybe semi-relevant: http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-04-16/are-there-too...

Hard to say what's nature and what's nurture, though.
This is an excellent writeup. Break a crappy RNG next!
Wireframing via sketching on tablets
Is it not possible to be in favor of automation while also seeing the destructive effects it can have on society?
Good job on the launch! I'll second what jeremymcanally said: the pricing seems absolutely out of control. Other than that, its an interesting concept. Best of luck to you guys.

A couple of UI problems I noticed:

I keep my secondary monitor vertical—which makes your banner image look like this: http://imgur.com/3MGDYel,sxRuvJY#0

Also, the text on the first section below the banner clips a bit: http://imgur.com/3MGDYel,sxRuvJY#1 (but only on my vertical screen).
Why i joined Startup Weekend as a personal cause
All this makes me wonder if the NSA has the ability to tap your medical records. Has this reach been talked about?

In their terms, nothing is off limits, correct?
CMS Harbor http://cmsharbor.com is a site to help provide research information for choosing a content management solution (reviews, comparisons between features, case studies, videos), then help you find an implementer.

This is came to fruition due to difficulties we encountered finding reviews and helpful research for choosing between a wide variety of CMS's in the past.
> Don't confuse gov't denials concerning one activity under one program, as proof that the gov't isn't conducting that activity under some other program by another name

I'm not ruling out any scenario -- just pointing out that even if Google/Facebook refuse to comply with the NSA or you decide to stop storing data in the cloud, it may not do much to protect your privacy because your phone is not a safe haven.
It has nothing to do with overpopulation. In the U.S., the economy is much bigger, in absolute terms, per person, than it was in 1950.
Wikimedia finally rolls out WYSIWYG visual editor
The way Google runs its services, much of the infrastructure is an existing back-end (yay, map reduce, also an inherent front-side CDN). There's some application-specific hosting, but it's a relatively thin layer. So the hosting costs aren't all that huge.

My read: the stated rationale for killing Google Reader, especially in light of the huge cry of protest and impacts on blog traffic (Rob Malda posted web traffic results showing huge declines at WordPress and other blog sites at WashPo) suggests to me something else at work.

Just a hunch.
I don't know, how long were you on the front page before you got taken off? People won't complain about double posting unless they actually saw it the first time!
If they change the UA, why didn't they take this opportunity to get rid of these ridiculously long UA's that mention competing browser brand names, and just make their UA string the following:

"Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv 11.0"
I wish they (FF) would also spend some time on the small annoyances:

Lack of a restart button. Now when I upgrade FF, I have to "kill -9" it from my terminal to get it to restore windows upon restart

Memory leaks. Leave yourself logged in to Facebook for a few days, and watch it take up 2GB of memory.

No way to easily filter sites with cookies like you can in the next tab over, where you manage sites with saved passwords. Why is this? Does FF secretly want you to not muck with cookies?

Now, I'm sure there are addons and plugins for the above. But I should _not_ need addons for basic UX. Save the addons for fancier stuff.
Is the 72 hours counted from when Snowden submitted material, or from when The Guardian published?

Anyway, it's fairly common for WP to publish articles describing events of the last several hours. Presumably a shorter fact-checking interim is required in such cases.
The "iTunes for 3D printing"?

Are you trying to rank your app up with the importance of iTunes?

Or are you trying use iTunes to state your app is essential?

Weird.
So you're telling me that you/they manage to commit inserts and updates to your/their sharded databases reliably but deletes conveniently fail.
Is this not grounds for a major investigation? I'm not familiar with the law, but I know that there's been a number of cases of people that added RATs to their applications they created to monitor all traffic on that computer and email them passwords.

That's pretty much the exact same thing. Although: 'Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.'
"Living wages" supported by the only major industrialized economy not to be smashed by the two World Wars. And a labor market that actively limited its participants for many of its most rewarding roles to almost exclusively white men.

I don't get this nostalgia for the 1950's. Things have gotten radically better in essentially all aspects of life since then.
> The fact is, the men under an alias in that study did also improve.

No they didn't.

From the study abstract [1]

"Women who used a fictitious name, and thus had their self
unlinked from the math test, showed significantly higher math performance and reported less self-threat and distraction, relative to those who used their real names. Men were unaffected by the manipulation"

[1] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15298868.2012.687012#.UdLyj6xDuKk