skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Design of Everyday Things: Donald A. Norman

The Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert Bringhurst

Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte,
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte

Beautiful Evidence by Edward R. Tufte

Small Is Beautiful by E. F. Schumache

The Art of Color by Johannes Itten

Were I to teach a course, that would be the list of text books required (so you would own them after). First and only assignment---read them. Final and only exam---what did you learn and understand. Supply proof.
Thanks for your critique! I removed "and looking forward" as you noted it was lacking, and fixed the active tense issue that you noticed as well. As for your point about target market, I decided to focus on web development again, since that's really where my experience lies. I have never worked in a small business. I can't write honest copy that way.
One would hope the different keymaps/locales help with mapping that to "alt-tab"/"alt-key_over_tab"?
Elegant?

Because a t-shirt with cola and burger residue is what characterises a hacker and an independent spirit, right?

I don't see how taking the time to have, say, a nice desk, or car is OK, but nice clothes are somehow beneath us.
Unalienable rights
Indeed, he went to Bristol and Cambridge, whence he developed his relativistic quantum theory.

He relocated to Florida towards the end of his life.

*edited the part where I assert OP was wrong.
You make some good points, and I probably should have made mentioned in my original post about how I too prefer wearing comfortable clothes when appropriate (I don't sit around my house in a suit like Barney Stinson). For example, I'm currently lounging around my kitchen in a t shirt and gym shorts. But when I need to be around people, especially at work, school, and social events, I personally feel more confident when my clothes fit better, are free from holes, and I'm wearing my nice shoes.

Also, for example, the other day I organized a "Restore the Fourth" rally for my home town. As the organizer, I felt it necessary to look nice and presentable because people generally respect nicer-dressed people, and I knew I would be interviewed for the evening news. If I had worn sneakers, gym shorts, an ironic t shirt, and a neck beard, things would not have run nearly as smoothly as they did.
Gone Full Circle Cartoon
Edward? Is that you? ;)
Why would sneakers have nothing to do in a professional environment?

Unless type X of footwear professionally disables you in some sort of way, I think the statement "[X] have no place in a professional environment" is rubbish.

This is non-sense, light-but-vicious conformism.
Looks like your link is so popular that Dropbox has temporarily disabled it!
This interview is entirely about spin. It never once asks what the truth is [1].

Brooke Gladstone: Now, let's take today the argument over NSA surveillance.
Where would you come down on this?
Peter Sandman: Well, it would depend on who my client was -
[Brooke laughs]

Brooke Gladstone: [Pause] I can see why you have such a nice apartment.
Peter Sandman: [Laughing]
Brooke Gladstone: Peter, thank you very much.
Peter Sandman: My pleasure.

Can "journalism" get more oleaginous? Such a program should not be called On The Media, but Of The Media.

[1] Edit: to be fair, she does say "That's not true" at the beginning, re the number of murders with hammers.
Probably you start that before publicly asking such a question.
Do you have an automated method of generating this list?
I think this is a balance. Well fitting clothes (suits or not) do enhance a person's appearance and speaks to their attention to detail in that area --they may or may not apply to other areas. On the other hand, dressing without dedicating much thought can come from, among other things, being too busy with 'important' things, the person is kind of lazy, at least in terms of dress, or perhaps they think they're being anti-pattern --but they're not, as many other people do the same.

That said, most people who wear suits, to address that area, don't really wear well fitting (bespoke) suits. Ill fitting suits are worse than down dressing or dressing like a slob --it says you're being rote and don't really pay attention to detail. I see this symptomatically in salespeople, and others you mention, yes indeed, it looks horrible.

A well fitting suit and matching clothes do enhance people's aesthetic look and that bleeds into their professional appearance, rightly or wrongly, in my opinion.

By the way, if your stay-at-home clothes fit well and they match in color, pattern and mood, they don't have to be special or expensive. They need to match you in some way, however. It can't be a mishmash of incoherence. It becomes a visual cacophony and can be hard to get past.

It's like looking at the person preparing your food and seeing them sweaty, clearing their throats, wheezing and uncomfortable, yet, they're washing their hands and at no point sneezed or coughed and never touched their face before finishing the preparation, but it still seems gross.
>It could very well be that they just want to know what has been collected on them.

Sophistry. He says he can think of nothing that would require monitoring. So he's protesting. Nothing wrong with that, just be honest about it. IIRC there was at least one website set up to automate FOIA requests to the NSA after the Snowden info came out. Why is this guy's story special? It isn't. Why is this even a story?

I'm appalled by the NSA activity, I support Snowden, and I want change, but this story is designed to agitate for political effect and nothing more.
The main difference of course is that murderers occasionally go to prison for killing people. Whereas the percentage of police ever actually convicted for committing a crime while on duty is so low they might as well have immunity.
I'm Sooooo glad I don't work in a "professional" environment.
I sometimes think professional is slang for pretentious.
>I prefer wearing gym shorts to slacks. If that preference qualifies as "wanting to look like a disheveled slob," then a large fraction of the population wants to look like a disheveled slob.

I don't think there's any argument about that.

Any man, over 20-22, that wears "gym shorts" casually looks like a disheveled slob.
Maybe I didn't understand it, you tell me. You're suggesting (with scoff) that driving fewer miles will naturally reduce risk of accident, so by putting less gas in the car you'll force yourself to drive fewer miles. So you tell me what I'm missing there. Because as interpreted that's a pretty poor analogy.

More importantly, I'm not trying to be a critic on your writing style, which is why I have 1 sentence about the analogy followed by paragraphs about your larger point.

Looking at the mental portion of this, the learning to eat less and better, your comments about atkins..."tend to eat less" reminds me of exactly what I say about my strategy of "intermittent fasting." (Which is a phrase I didn't learn until recently, well after I've lost the weight). What I mean is, in both cases, behavioral changes lead to eating less.

And I firmly, 100% believe that THAT is the primary mechanism that worked for me. Not changes to insulin levels effecting metabolism. But specifically: I eat far less than I used to. Far less. And THAT is why I've lost weight. And intermittent fasting helps me to accomplish that the way Atkins does to followers of that diet, ditto Paleo, ditto the Cookie Diet, etc.

Most importantly: I hope everybody acknowledges that there's mountains of contradictory research and a lot of complicated science here that nobody really understands. All we know for sure is what has worked for us, not even always why, and we are on very thin ice advocating to others what they should do.
I can't imagine anyone stepping onto an autonomous passenger aircraft for a long time, not until long after cars and smaller commercial aircraft are regularly driven using computers only. And even that seems like a stretch. I don't see how pilots use or non-use of some automated systems is going to influence popular opinion on that one way or another. But maybe there's a perception among pilots that it will.
Aren't you comparing/confusing the tool with behavior? It seems to me I could restate that as "The pencil is more powerful than the mathematical equation E=MC^2 it writes"...
Astrid, TODO list famous app shuts down
The autopilot requires the ILS to land the plane. If the ILS is inoperative, it can't autoland. However pilots do still land planes to keep their skills honed.
>For one, people who wear sneakers often do it because they are comfortable.

As opposed to what? I find Cole Haan shoes extremely comfortable for example. And they even come with Nike Air soles.
have you given it a try ? :)
That's cruel. Use something that can be constructed such as the regular 65537-gon.
The colonialists emphasized the split for political gains, and there must have been some arbitrariness in assigning each person to exactly one category, but they certainly didn't pull the distinction out of thin air. Just look at the pictures in the infobox in their respective Wikipedia articles.
Yeoman, Grunt, and Bower
I created an overview of what the three tools are for and how they can be used for front-end web development and specifically JavaScript/AngularJS developers like those I have on my team at work.
Mid-high end brands build their clothes to an aspirational fit model. Most people are forced to make that fit work for them, either through tailoring, or optimizing around what attributes of their clothing are important to them. Fashion is pretty backwards on fit - bottom line is wear your clothes the way you want to wear them, swag or no swag.
"Before we jump in, let us note that clothes best flatter a fit body. "

I'd say the statement in the article is more accurate. Fit rather than thin. And if you are not fit I'm thinking it would be better to work on that before the fashion.
A Close Look at How Print Advertisers Are Moving Digital
I would think that this technology as described would bring it back to the choice of personal freedom... If authorities wanted/demanded access to my secure information, I have the option of refusing and being limited in my freedom (going to jail).

Now I, as a (hopefully) rational human being, have a choice again.
I tend to avoid places that equate career advancement with becoming a manager.
>So I suppose I should quit pants altogether, or only wear pants with elastics, since I can't find pants long enough for my legs that don't fall off anywhere.

Or, you know, you could always have the longer ones adjusted at a tailer.

Or you could order made-to-measure pants if you are such an outlier.
Bank Of America is the worst bank I've ever worked with, just dropped them. We used them for multiple business accounts and their ineptitude is legendary. Stay away. I literally had reps that lied to us about things, left out pages of contracts etc. They were fired but its an epidemic at that place. They forgot who they work for.
I have seen the first exercise, which gives me rap music. The other exercises didn't give me any music which was a relief, though there were not audio cues as to when the exercises began and ended. I didn't have much of a need to try to work out with it because I've already tried this: http://www.7-min.com/
Yes, that's the reason that SPDY exists, but my point is that that's actually a rare implementation in the real world. As was said elsewhere in this thread, and what I was saying, is that the most likely implementation is that one request goes to, say, www.example.com, which serves a single HTML file, and remaining requests for resources that that HTML references go to outsourced-cdn.example.com. So it's actually more important to have pipelining and SPDY support on outsourced-cdn.example.com than it is on www.example.com. That is, chances are you don't need to worry about it, that's why you pay outsourced-cdn to. There is less of a need for multiple simultaneous requests when you have good client-side caching of resources too. The usefulness of multiplexed requests is negated if you only serve one request.

The above has been the exact case at a number of companies I've worked at.

Sites and companies like Google or Facebook, that serve all their own traffic, it becomes more important for.
Wow, I would've thought at least OS X mapped that to "key over tab" rather than literally alt-`... (Which is the key left of backspace with the shift modifier on a Norwegian layout...).

Incidentally, I've several times considered modifying that when writing shell scripts ... on the other hand, it does make one try to use the $(...) over `...` as much as possible, which when it makes sense, makes for easier/safer handling of backspaces etc ... so not every inconvenience is a disadvantage...
It takes guts to put yourself out there like you have and leave yourself vulnerable to strangers on the internet. So, good for you!

Thanks for sharing your story - I enjoyed it too. And remember, haters gonna hate.
CNN just released video footage they have of the actual crash.

The plane (from what I see) after crashing does a near 360-degree turn with the right wing high up – in fact you can see that the plane is almost nose down-tail up which almost makes it look like it was cartwheeling.

Very surprising revelation, I really did not expect an airframe to remain as intact as it did after going through that.
> The very point is that people feel betrayed by their government.

Here is the problem: the people don't feel betrayed. Just look at the turnout of the recent "Restore the 4th" in San Francisco--a pathetic ~400 people turned out. You claim that our elected representatives are not representing the "will of the people," but what you mean is that they are not representing the viewpoints of you and your friends. It's disingenuous.

And it's not because people are entirely apathetic. Just look at how many people Tea Party rallies attract. Tea Party rallies regularly get tens of thousands of people to turn out at events all over the country.

Maybe, just maybe, the people know and just don't think the slope is so slippery as you and your friends think it is?
Build API First
We are splitting hairs here. What is wrong? That his career dawned in Florida?
Weird. It works on mine. FF22 on Linux, although rather slow.
What I completely missed about BitCoin at first is that it enables programmatic exchange of money. That's big.
This is slick. Anyone with more vim-fu than me have a good way to add mixed tabs/spaces warnings to airline?
I second the vote for select-able colors. Even though I'm color blind, I think having multiple colors would help keep myself organized while creating.
You can gain back a lot more than you lose, even if you get into a habit of "better" eating and more exercise for months.

You probably think that exercising and eating "better" should be fine, because anything you do for three weeks becomes a habit, right? Well, not exactly. Bad habits can be much harder to break, and you may not have really broken them the way you think you have: http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/form-a-habit.htm

Be really careful before a drastic change to your diet and exercise habits just to lose 10-15 lbs, especially if your doctor and the majority of those close to you don't think you need to lose weight. It can backfire.

However, a gradual change, especially when you can do it in a reasonable, sustainable way, can be a great idea.
DIY FAA inquiries: Flight path of Asiana 214 before it crashed in SF
Since you clearly know the process, can you give some tips on protecting yourself?
Not precise enough that I would testify against myself or against someone else.
Have you ever intentionally dressed like a slob? I think it's a great way to build confidence because most of the interactions you'll have with people will start with them assuming negative things about you. When you see them realize that those negative assumptions were unfounded it I think it can help you un-link confidence and clothing.
> Technology is more powerful than both democracy and bureaucracy

That's an interesting statement, and I think one I represents a a troubling undercurrent of thought in the tech community. "We refuse to submit to the democratic process and will override the democratic consensus through technology."
What's the alternative? Do you want your tax money to go towards supporting this particular developer so that she can open source this particular project? Because that's the alternative. Or are you saying that she shouldn't have the right to determine what to do with her code? Because that world sounds pretty awful too.
I was thinking more along the lines of the title being what most people in London are thinking on a Saturday morning.
"In January 2011, the Culosi family accepted a $2 million settlement offer from Fairfax County. That same year, Virginia’s government spent $20 million promoting the state lottery."

Lotteries like this are a tax on people bad at math. How is this morally superior to an office pool?

Though I do think viewing this as a "hit" enters the realm of tinfoil hats,
Conform much? Judge more[1]?

If you are in a profession that requires a "uniform" then I may have some empathy for your ideas. Otherwise, I am mentally unable to grasp the need for this thinly-veiled, vapid, conformist outlook regarding external appearances.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6003097
Interview with a 12 year-old Egyptian Revolutionary
>Try wearing a fit shirt, long pants and leather shoes in 90+ weather...

That's around 32 oC? Yeah, what about it? People working in "serious" businesses, like banks, etc do it all the time. Not only in 90+. Even in 105+.

And even I, that dress casually (t-shirt, jeans), have never had a problem with jeans and leather shoes even in 105+.

You really think that shorts, that get you direct skin exposure to the sun are ...better than long pants?

Even people in African deserts and such (were it's more like 110+) are wholly clothed (covered).
The last 2 (U.S.) state Ids I have applied for have required 4 types of information(in the last year or so, in different states). 2 documents showing an address (proof of residence in the state), a social security card, proof of status in the U.S. (a valid passport or various birth certificate like documents), and proof of identification (these documents carry varying weight, an ID from another state is a good one...).

I needed a birth certificate, the options for getting that were to send a photocopy of my driver's license (certificate mailed to that address) or have a parent apply for one.
I've seen them get quite a bit of use in graphical code, which is, well, actually fairly common in JS.

Code that uses bitwise operations looks fairly ugly as is. Hav e you considered enabling them with a prefix or suffix? E.G. ^$ instead of bitxor, or >>$ instead of bitrshift...
That must cause some considerable eye strain. Give f.lux (http://justgetflux.com/) a try.
Yea, dropbox has a 20gb limit on public downloads so the file being ~28mbs means its been downloaded around 700 times.
As far as I know, the last Brazilian emperor Pedro II fought against slavery all his life, and slavery was abolished during his reign. At which point the rich planters turned to republicanism and instigated a military coup that deposed the emperor and made Brazil a republic. I find it amazing that republican propaganda would attempt to blame the monarchy for slavery!
I know Im missing the point, but this jumps out at me....

"closed as too localized by t.b., Zev Chonoles Sep 5 '11 at 22:18

This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet. For help making this question more broadly applicable, visit the help center.
If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question."
Just a note about approaches and landings – most, if not all airline ops usually say that you should be ~50ft when passing above the threshold.
Kind of prefer Gorilla to Guerrilla :)
I have spoken to the (community) manager. I'm hoping we will work together.
I know it is boring to write documentation, but sometimes I wish authers would write just 2 lines, what is actually is they have made. It would make it way easier to understand, and thereby be exited about it! :-)
He has a point though - people look for reasons to not listen, to stop reading and to dismiss arguments that go against what they believe in.

Adding fake 1984-esque names and grandiose claims ("turned almost a whole industry again you") makes you sound like a crazy conspiracy nut.

It also adds little to the conversation.
Ah, this doesn't work on IE10 which doesn't implement the touch*-events. It would be nice if you enabled clicking (or added a listener for "MSPointerUp"[1]/"pointerUp"[2], which however would work for mouse as well).

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh771914(v=vs.85)...
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/#the-pointerup-event
Joyinapp is crowdsourcing the apps creation process
Stay-at-home dad
ok, apparently Rdio doesn't play you the songs that I arranged...

if I have more chance to work on it, I'll build a menu to let people choose songs...

for now, you can just fork it; github.com/azer/7min.io
Install pdftk from here first:

http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
The problem I have with dress shirts - as someone who "shouldn't" tuck them in - is that by virtue of being dress shirts, they are longer because they are designed to be tucked in. Casual shirts are generally OK.

Plus, going a size larger doesn't hide my belly as much as I think it does.

As noted by another poster: I'm better off working on the belly than finding the right length shirts and debating tucked in vs out!
I left when they turned up as well and I'm no artist. There was a reasonable tech community around there before it went all trendy as most of us found it pretty cheap and convenient whilst raping the corporations around E1/Docklands as hard as we could on contract work (TBH they deserved it :)

Poor people are still there, stacked up on top of each other in the estates around the top of City Road and around the focal point of Shoreditch.

It's still like Islington (where I was born into abject poverty without even the prospect of an orange lined fluffy anorak or dunlops) in the 1970's around the back of Shoreditch. Total deprivation, but people are getting by somehow, without an iPhone or a power-job. Good luck to them but fuck the hipsters to hell.
Multiple factors need to be present for me: Fun to build, satisfies a need, currently ignored market (also part of satisfying a need), has personal import for me of some kind, will eventually in theory allow me to earn at least a living off of it.