skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OBAMA GAY LAW PASSED THAT DISCOVERED BY STEALING THE BANK PERFECTIBLE.

THE ARE IN AGENCYS WAR.

REQUIRING THE JUDGES NOT HANDLE THE NORTH AMERICAN LAWS.

SEND AL HACKERS.

AGENCIES Monsanto AND AGENCIES OF MURDERERS, HANDLED HUMAN mainframes, YOU DO INCENTIVES FOR INTERACACCION.

ERRORS TO COMMUNICATE WITH OTHERS TIME TO RESPOND, REPS, OTHER TYPES OF ERRORS ARE CODES THAT cauterized AREAS BRAIN E hypothalamus TO BE REIPITAN
THE NUMBER OF TIMES required pending add up EVENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS.

EACH COUNTRY SATELITAL CONECTION CHANGE THE CODE.

SATELLITE TRANSMISSIONS USING THE NUMERIC ALPHA CODES IN WHERE MEDIA
CALCULATIONS FOR CHANGE IN PROGRAM IS DEFORMED DEPENDING ON PURPOSE, CHANGING HUMAN BEHAVIOR,
PASSING OF THE COUNTRY TO COUNTRY AND BEHAVIOUR OF CITIZENS CODICGOS CHANGE.

YOU DID A LITTLE EYE LOOKED FOR HIS EARS AND TASTE IN BLACK AND WHITE.

WHAT DID THE CHILD DO THEY SEE TRHOUG HER EYES EARS AND TASTE IN BLACK AND WHITE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uupPp...
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Totally agree with this, although they didn't invent the tips they're giving out, so there is still some value to the content.
p.s. 205/45 17 is a good test tyre size
Awesome page, it itself can be deemed as a good example of good UI design as I can learn the majority of the lessons by quickly scroll down and read just just the titles and pictures.
I can certainly see some valid points. It's a bit unfair to judge fair points on the (poor) design choices the website made.
Thanks! I am using an instrumentation amp indeed. As for the 50hz, I think I'm getting that noise just because my laptop is not grounded properly, no biggie
Vote for Obama or Romney? Both indistinguishable when it comes to the question of surveillance and basic constitutional freedoms.

We routinely hand over our "papers" when traveling, or even when just buying beer.

"If you see something, say something" hardly needs additional comment.

They're not nearly as extreme as they are or have been in some places, but the US certainly seems to qualify for all the basics you outlined. And we have indeed normalized the situation to go about our lives.
OBAMA GAY LAW PASSED THAT DISCOVERED BY STEALING THE BANK PERFECTIBLE.

THE ARE IN AGENCYS WAR.

REQUIRING THE JUDGES NOT HANDLE THE NORTH AMERICAN LAWS.

SEND AL HACKERS.

AGENCIES Monsanto AND AGENCIES OF MURDERERS, HANDLED HUMAN mainframes, YOU DO INCENTIVES FOR INTERACACCION.

ERRORS TO COMMUNICATE WITH OTHERS TIME TO RESPOND, REPS, OTHER TYPES OF ERRORS ARE CODES THAT cauterized AREAS BRAIN E hypothalamus TO BE REIPITAN
THE NUMBER OF TIMES required pending add up EVENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS.

EACH COUNTRY SATELITAL CONECTION CHANGE THE CODE.

SATELLITE TRANSMISSIONS USING THE NUMERIC ALPHA CODES IN WHERE MEDIA
CALCULATIONS FOR CHANGE IN PROGRAM IS DEFORMED DEPENDING ON PURPOSE, CHANGING HUMAN BEHAVIOR,
PASSING OF THE COUNTRY TO COUNTRY AND BEHAVIOUR OF CITIZENS CODICGOS CHANGE.

YOU DID A LITTLE EYE LOOKED FOR HIS EARS AND TASTE IN BLACK AND WHITE.

WHAT DID THE CHILD DO THEY SEE TRHOUG HER EYES EARS AND TASTE IN BLACK AND WHITE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uupPp...
The Aeolipile is so massively inefficient and cumbersome that there was noting the greeks could have done with it.
Percentages are but one part of a trend. The graph is meaningless without total growth over time, and number of tags per user per tech. It could show anything, i.e. C# growth increase (or decline), even though the percentage overall is in decline.
I guess that most PHP developers 're busying with their coding, not viewing HN threads like most of Ruby developers ;)
I was thinking the same thing. Most of the C# queries I might have had, have already been asked and answered effectively on SO.

However, that is probably also true for many other languages, and from a 30,000 foot view, this does look like either a shift in language popularity or a shift in the makeup of the SO visitor population.
So what's the preferred route for an opensource project?

# TODO add crypto

vs

# TODO get someone to review the crypto later
The Verfassungsgericht ruled that collected data had to be deleted.

Sure provides may store data for themselves - for example for billing purposes.
Tesla Motors Petition Exceeds 100,000 Signatures
I'm well aware of it and didn't even notice it the first time. Why would it be off-putting, though?
If your domain name is goodui.org and you lead with "A Good User Interface ... is easy to use." you'd better be damned serious about user interfaces. That's my take.
I agree on the footer, but I'd go ahead and assume it's 100% intentional.

If I had to guess, it's to entice people to scroll down. I don't think it's done perfectly, but I do think the execution of this idea is better on http://goodui.org/howtoabtest.html

The fact that there is something there, and it's kind of hidden (at least on my screen) then there is this natural curiosity built up..

It's important to have good content to draw people downwards, but when you combine good content with small psychological tricks-- it might just pay off. The guy has 17K email subscribers and that is a lot of people who do trust him
Reach into the computer and grab a pixel [video]
Thanks. You are correct about lower case k for kilo (but upper case for mega and up), but the official unit for 1024 bytes is the kibibyte, which is KiB:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte
Testimonials are one of the things that make me skip things right away. I would explain why, but I'm afraid that would at best be used to find ways to circumvent that, and deprive me of one of the litmus tests for mediocrity and needyness.

Speaking of needy: Calls to action I accept from activists, but that's it. Just describe the service or product, name the price, instead of treating me like a moron who needs to pulled along the funnel. Keep your gifts, too. Well, all of that depends on your target audience I guess - I surely am not in it, phew.
Right but the UI tips can be used in many applications, the marketing tips just apply to specific cases, like when talking to a potential customer.
Agreed, horrible interface - I didn't work out how to hide the banner. And the banner combined with the large font and big separation on the page made my reading feel really restricted - couldn't read it easily.
Your willingness to pay is probably W << N.
I'd recommend against using the Default Bootstrap CSS (tm) if you're trying for a unique UI approach.
Is cryptography engineering or science?
Non extradition due to death penalty might work anywhere in Europe. It might not if US says it won't execute Snowden (if they lie, then no one will ever be extradited on that basis again, as that would be illegal from then on).
Our goal is to always provide a free plan. We will have paid upgrades which will enable us to scale the service while keeping high quality.

As developers of responsive sites we're trying to make the workflow more streamlined. We want the service to be as unobtrusive as possible, i.e. not requiring major changes to your current markup or custom styling. Hopefully we're on the right track.

Let us know what you think!
Maybe the shop owner sells... gefilte fish. :)
This is a great list of resources!

I'd be very interested to see how well it converted, as it would seem that the main idea is to get people to sign up to Jakub's email list (which I have done on the strength of the material).

Jakub, would you be willing to share your conversion numbers from the influx of HN traffic based on this page? Maybe send it out in the newsletter I just signed up for :-)

edit why the downvote?
It may be easier to make a list of countries that don't do mass surveillance. Are there any?
>My concern is allowing people to patent biochemistry/DNA sequences, which is clearly bad.

I was thinking about this earlier but I concluded that it was morally no different than any other form of patent - and modestly comparible to patents on new drugs (or software, indeed).

For example - the protection afforded by patents on new drugs is said to justify the amount spent by the pharmaceutical industry on R&D/drug discovery.

Why is the argument different for seeds/DNA sequences, or any other invention that benefits humanity, if it is?
But how is that not psychological trickery?
(So that's where that hum comes from. Been wondering for a long time.)
And even the degree of his credibility has become totally irrelevant.

It's the political _system_ that needs some very serious overhaul. Now, if this is possible without _major_ pain for the People, I'm not so sure anymore...
Would be nice if you could select your vehicle and it'd auto select a likely size
The footer isn't so bad on a rMBP, but that's still not a very good excuse for why it's so big on lower resolution machines. I did find the information on the page quite helpful.
And such data can be accessed by law enforcement agencies, see http://dejure.org/gesetze/TKG/113.html (also the old version).
Rediscovering Radio Through Apps
thanks for the feedback, i have been looking into how to get a database of car/tyre sizes.
I am assuming you do the A/D conversion with the electronic board, and then treat the digital signal with the Arduino?

How difficult would it be to wire your A/D conversion unit to do USB? Then any laptop, or even a smart phone could do the UI part. Or am I missing something?
> If I need to exchange encrypted messages in some store and forward style I'd likely use PGP.

Do you or others have any recommendations for cross-platform library code (at least OSX, Windows, Android, Linux, Windows 8) for this purpose?

I may have understood incorrectly, but I thought that using gpg from code required launching a sub-process (e.g. via gpgme). That makes me very nervous from a library point of view, perhaps I'm wrong to be nervous.

Is the answer still "use PGP/GPG" or is there somewhere else I could look to avoid home-made cryptosystem here?
The Changing Face of Spam | TIME.com
I think that highlights a problem with the way the data is presented. jQuery clearly belongs with JavaScript, just as iOS and Objective-C belong together.
Nicht zum Thema:
wer hätte gerne ein HN mit deutsch als Amtssprache?
I would say learning git/github should be the first step.
icke
Looks like there's an opportunity to sell an app for this. A key for leveraging the untapped brainpower is presenting Mechanical Turk work in a way akin to many successful games: optimize the interface to a mobile device, make it "instant on" with pre-filtered options (no/minimal login & other logistics), just present the next task as something to do in a minute or so (or skip in a second). Sell that for a buck or $5, pushed as easy for a buyer to earn back fast. Crack for intellectuals?
1. As mentioned, you need a pointer hover for the buttons. Otherwise I had to guess they were buttons.

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2. 'Size not found, please try again'

This not found message is small and displays in the wrong place. When you click the calculate/search button, your gaze is down at the bottom, and the error appears at the top of the page, out of sight.

Perhaps animate the color of the button, during search going purple say, then when the result is in ( none: red, some: green )

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3. Please number the search parameters. You need all 3 to have values. Make them bigger too, they get lost.

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4. 'We compare so you don't have to'... I'd put that as 'Save time comparing tyre prices with our simple wizard'

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5. Include a working example with some actual results as a link. Chose a common car. Ford Fiesta 2009 165 x 30 x 13 ==> 40 comparisons
Iceland parliament member fails to Grant Citizenship to Edward Snowden
>"what is the point in having a password if the state can just ask you for it" is like asking "what is the point in having a gun if the state can punish me for killing people with it at will?"

no it's not, bad analogy. in the US the state can't put you in jail for not giving a password (remaining silent).
Exactly right: concerns about minimum wage are misplaced when the workers are foreigners. CloudFactory in Nepal pays workers about $1/hour (disclaimer: visited them, think they're cool, no other affiliation). Terrible for US workers, more than being a high school teacher in Nepal.

What concerns me more is how all these systems are difficult to use and built for humans to complete tasks. The next revolution should be letting programmers use AIs.
I read it as inviting a business guy into your idea;
"If we choose to work with you we'll create a new company (probably called Bitsy Ltd)"

I hope you guys do well, and since you landed on the first page of HN you may get that guy/girl. They will be quite young I imagine, but it doesn't mean they won't be good.

Best of luck.
Ask HN: Examples of startups focused on AI?
Hello there, I'm interested in dabbling with some projects related to artificial intelligence. And I would love to know of any big startups focused on AI, or build products enhanced with AI. Could you guys name a few? I know of some such as Hunch, Siri.

One pattern I noticed among most of these companies is that typically do not become really BIG companies or generate billions in revenue. So what's the prospect for someone looking to build a company focused on AI, or enhance current products with AI, e.g marrying real estate with AI, or search with AI? Or perhaps social networking with AI?
It's a list of things to try out in order to improve conversions. Individual items on the list may not appeal to you (or me, either), but that misses the point of the article.
British Airways Trialing E-Ink Electronic Baggage Tags
NoScript wins again. I didn't even know there was a problem until I went back and deliberately turned on scripting for the domain.

(I mention this just because in the periodic NoScript debates that show up here, I think people don't believe me when I say for every site it hurts, there's another site it silently improves.)
You are really harping on the footer.. I don't think that because you have 1 simple disagreement in his UI makes him "not dammed serious about user interfaces". The guy makes his life with UI.
Shared Command - Ben Horowitz on Zynga
If I select Width then Profile at that point you can calculate (ajax callback for example) which sizes are available for that combination and grey out the ones I cant pick.

At that point you could get rid of Find Best Price for Tyres completely (as the system would know there are results at that point and display them for me) (or keep it just in case).

EDIT: You could also grey out the Find Best Price for Tyres until at least one selection is made since people may want to look for 205mm in 1 or more sizes.
Neither of those reasons is compelling. A short video is a feature and a long video is a disincentive to viewing it.

Not everything that's memorable is good. I was happy to see the "play" button alternative to the scrolling interaction. I used the play button, enjoyed the video and believe I will remember it without experiencing the annoyance of having to manually play it using the scroll bar.
There was a funny line in The Social Network that went:

`Like my brother and I are in skeleton costumes chasing the Karate Kid around a gym.`

That's kind of what America looks like. Snowden has all these mighty military secrets, but at the end of the day they just look like school bullies who want to smack him around. What Snowden did is without a doubt a crime, but one that seems like it was necessary, and should be easy to resolve. The longer this draws on the more America looks like a misguided bully, forcing weaker kids to pick on the nerd. It doesn't help that the mood seems to be to string him up as a traitor in war time.

Edit: 'easy to resolve' sounds flippant, but it's being turned into the biggest manhunt on a global stage since Bin Laden.
'icke' doesn't really match my definition of 'deutsch' :p
Heh, "Try Giving a Gift instead of closing a sale right away". I start to read this sentence and a giant email signup footer pops up, covering it.
Very good write up. If you want to trade speed and memory for accuracy, you can make a large lookup table for your sigmoidal function which should just about double the speed of it.

As an aside, and not to be too critical, because the post was great, but as (presumably) a non-native English speaker, you might do a spell-checker on your post. There are also some missing pronouns which make some sentences very Spanishy.
I would say that this has more to do with making a good Landing Page than User Interfaces in general. All good and solid advices thou.
the purpose of this tip is to make a stronger emotional connection with the users

Actually, the idea is to "make them" make an emotional connection with product.

This is as nice as the Japanese using robot pets to keep the elderly company. This is not an emotional connection, this is playing tricks on fools to sell them shit they don't need.

Whatever happened to the idea that maybe, just maybe, some people land on your page for whatever reasons, and not because they have any use for what you're selling? That you're not entitled to every single last one of them? If they see 5 products, and don't really want any of them, what's the problem with that? Why nudge and prod and leer ever which way?
One interesting thing here: The less balanced design structure is, the more focus the reader gets to read all content. :)
It has got to the point with SO that if a question is obscure enough that there isn't already a question for it, I know when I ask I'll likely not get an answer.
>They also starting smelting aluminium.

An energy intensive exercise made extremely affordable, because of very cheap geothermal energy sources.
GPG actually has a library with all the crytographic primitives in it called libcrypt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libgcrypt

If you want the PGP-level stuff then there's GPGME: http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/index.en.html
Tags on new questions is a pretty bad way to measure that. SO traditionally had a huge .NET audience, so many questions are already answered. Total number of questions tagged would be a somewhat better metric. An even better way would be to see the views on each question.

Probably the best metric publicly available would be the trend of the number of job openings on Dice or Indeed. Anyone got that data?
DANE. The proposal where the DNS becomes the new CA, so the United States Government can be the root of all CAs.

Good plan.
Oh come on, you didn't have to create a temp account for that. This is one of the reason why I am coming to hn - to learn something that goes far beyond the realm of regular discussions.
She says, ｢零れてるよ｣ (kobore teru yo) at the end. Which means, "It's spilling."

It's used as you'd expect: to let somebody know if a sink is overflowing or if a bag tears open and things are falling out.

In the context of the video... I have no fucking clue.
If you click a button and drag the mouse it starts a rectangular selection that can select multiple buttons on the same row. (Chrome, Win 7)
Well, it puts "high conversion rate" before "easy to use" in the very first sentence, so I kinda guessed that if there's a choice to be made between "good for the product" and "good for the user", the former path would be taken. And I would say that that choice has to be made quite often in UIs...

(Never mind that generically talking about "UI" when it's just about online page layot -- and not even the entirety of that -- is a bit misleading and/or exaggerated.)
And for me on my desktop the footer was so un-noticeable that I had to go back to the page to even see what it was that you had an issue with.
A Disease Without a Cure Spreads Quietly in the West
> Question for those in this space: is it possible for you to give constructive criticism for a project without calling people "incompetent"?

Sometimes 'you're incompetent at X' is constructive criticism.

Someone who doesn't know how to accelerate a car is an incompetent driver. That doesn't make him a bad person; it doesn't make him worthless (as an example, neither Newton nor Plato knew how to accelerate a car); it does, however, make him incompetent at driving.

One should understand one's weaknesses. I know lots about some things, a bit about others and nothing about yet others. As an example, I know absolutely nothing about assembly line engineering; I am an incompetent assembly line engineer—and thus I do not produce assembly-line-engineering products.
More or less...

Here the few pro-death penalty politicians are extreme far right... So noone want to vote for them (specially because here most of politics are around the left... we have no really power right-wing party, the mainstream party that most people consider "right" is the socialist party (that obviously is still left, even if center-left).

But it is obvious that the population DO put killing criminals in high regard, otherwise they would not kill them quite frequently (and I must confess, if I could, I would kill a bunch of guys too, my parents house got robbed 8 times already, and because of some broken laws these people cannot be arrested, and for other reasons the police even refuse to come visit a crime scene, they just ignore it... thankfully, I don't need to kill all of them, one of them already got a sword on his gut after a failed robbery, and others are going toward the same path, considering they also even tried to rob house of cops, even a SWAT cop once...)

And it is not just matter of... economics. Here it is cultural, the amount of rich people that are criminals here is very high too, Brazil has the famous Gerson Law in effect ("Gerson Law" is how people nicknamed here the theory that most people here will do ANYTHING to achieve personal advantage...)

I remember when a pool was made here, that asked two questions: "Are most politicians corrupt?" and "If you were elected, would you be a corrupt politicians?"

The reply to the first was around 90%, no surprise here...

The reply to the second, was 60%
The problem seed manufactures get to enforce useless patents. Step 1, patent junk DNA. Step 2, prevent farmers from using seed banks due to useless patent. Step 3, profit.

Net value to society... Nothing.
I can respect that you do not like what Bogue does/writes, but decrying someone you do not even know personally as mentally unstable/ill is simply presumptuous in my book.
Such a harsh accusation should be backed up by hard evidence, and probably better made in private rather than shouting it all over the internet.

Your posts very much shine a light on your mental outfit as much as the guy you're decrying as being dangerous and mentally ill.

My 2c. Take it as you will.
HN itself is 'not consistent' with the trends of culture at large, so this does not surprise me. ;)
The desktop interface ought to be optimized as well. You could even go as far as bringing together multiple sites like M-turk to keep your filtered job queue full (standardized API, anyone?)

It should also be possible to write something to check a bunch of bitcoin faucet sites and present tasks as they come available (though I suspect that's less than honest work, heh). Many of those have timers, which are easy to predict, and video watching can be put in the background so you can do things in parallel.
Not when their second advice is ... give a gift? What's that got to do with UI?

Edit: It's a good idea, great marketing idea, in fact. But when you're advertising ideas to improve UI, I will be quicker to judge...
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