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You get it more than most. This is right on target.

It goes from 50/50 one day, to 90/10, to 10/90. And yes, often as I have lived and witnessed, UX is set up to fail through that structure, especially when they don't actually "own" anything.
Oh, if we're allowed to go that far back in history, why don't we take a stopover to, say, 1939-1945 or so?
In regards to #1, it's abnormal because Kickstarter doesn't allow you to change or remove rewards once they are created, you can only add new ones. I've run into some campaigns that did some pretty creative things with their reward tiers on Kickstarter to be able to get around this issue.
Your comment reminds me of the line from Meet the Feebles: "No. That's lousy."

I'm not the creator, but perhaps you could offer 1 (or 2!) actionable critiques? For example, you mentioned the navigation path. Where did you get stuck?
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This is hilarious, I actually had to check to see if this was an Onion post when I saw the photos of their office. Classic!
This is one area in particular where the past is not a reliable guide to the future. The future is an unknowable country especially with respect to how much one should be saving. The rough rule of thumb, of course (I hope of course) is to save as much as you can and that isn't too painful. Savings is a cushion. It provides security. It buys options. Money can be turned into (almost) anything else you need/want. And there is absolutely no way that a sufficiently intelligent, knowledgable and honest person can come up with some magic specific number or percentage and declare confidently that that is what you should do. Save as much as you can/want, and generally the more the better. Old news. Resolved issue.
I forgot that the stock python drivers weren't open source. The "dragonfly backpack" is a cool looking project.
I don't think you have clearly understood most people.

Most young people genuinely can't afford to save for a pension beyond the state-provided pension - if you have any significant pension at retirement, you're in a position of luxury.

People with private pensions are, objectively, significantly wealthy retirees who don't really need or deserve such tax protection as they presently have. This has already begun to change: the age-related allowance for pensioners has been scrapped, this year.

You might be right that the political incentive won't be there (certainly, the media has spun the 'granny tax' impressively), and surely you won't suffer from being able to afford both housing and retirement savings, but the generation gap between wealthy old people and struggling young people is definitely causing increasing political tensions.
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Are you kidding me, why would he give himself up?

History is not on your side, most exiles or refugees live all their lives in exile.
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>You are on to something but it seems that american exceptionalism was there from the very beginning and before it was a global superpower

Maybe 'global superpower' wasn't a metric early America used to inform its (yet unnamed) notion of exceptionalism. Your quote from Jefferson speaks of an "empire of liberty."

This could make sense if you think about it. Young America had just accomplished the almost unthinkable feat of winning independence from the Globe's biggest superpower of the time. In winning this liberty, the young nation began its life by defining itself through this hard won liberty.

In a sense, America's view of what made it special might have been a response to and departure from the concept of a superpower (which it had just cast off).

The characteristics he lists:

>monument of human rights...freedom and self-government...it is to be lighted up in other regions of the earth if other regions of the earth shall ever become susceptible of its benign influence.

His dialogue doesn't involve power or might, but rather rights and example. Even the hopeful spread of America's influence is framed as something to be willingly adopted and benign.

I'm not a student of American history, so I don't know how consistent this interpretation is with the other writings and beliefs of the day, but it's really sad to me how far we've fallen from this ideal. The modern American practitioners of American Exceptionalism seem to have perverted it beyond recognition. Especially when you look at how many of these same administrations prop up dictators when it serves our perceived interests.
Well, I hope it's being done securely. I don't know much about the particulars of Android's iOS, but having a low-level language with access to the whole OS (which is what a real user would want for mobile programming, really) could be dangerous for native security.

On the other hand, if Google or Apple backed a high-level scripting language like Python, that could also lead to security concerns, but I would feel safer with that than something like C on my mobile device.
It's the synergy of all pieces that exist. Their population is healthier (in part because of cycling, and quality food, and good healthcare, education, etc), so cycling is a fun and useful activity. They have the city planning designs for cycling lanes that are safe, make you feel safe. And yeah, other incentives and de-incentives applied to driving.
The problem isn't so much that people are complaining it doesn't work with iOS 7, it's that those reviews are usually accompanied by a low star rating or, in some cases, harsh criticism based upon the user's ignorance. I don't mean ignorant in a harsh or derogatory way, I mean it literally - the user doesn't know why and assumes that because the app is the thing that is crashing, it must be the app.
That's not good enough. Defaults are extremely important in software, because that's the experience novice users will be stuck with permanently.

It's not even implemented in an intuitive or user-friendly way. When you search your computer, you don't expect Amazon search results to randomly appear.

Compare the Ubuntu dash search to Spotlight on OSX, it looks very amateurish. Instead of improving it, their developers have to waste their time fudging Amazon search results in.
In part this has to do with good city design.
Haha now that's funny. The man did nothing wrong that's how negotiations are done between lawyers all the time. He presented new terms, the bank agreed so now they have to honor the contract they agreed to.
I think we can be more definite than that. Based on "Common Sense" and "Rights of Man" it is pretty clear that Paine was oppossed to any kind of government that was more concerned with furthering its own power than the social good.
Googling shows this story to be a hoax.
It qualifies as a negative review because it's almost always accompanied with 1 star. 1 star reviews matter in the AppStore.
What makes no sense to me is what's the risk for the vendor in letting someone redistribute the driver's binary blobs. Any competitor who wants to reverse-engineer the code can already extract it from the released product anyway!
Ireland also has a high car tax (of about the same rate as you mention for NL), but has similar driving/cycling culture as the UK.
Compare this with the late PyS60, where you installed a little SIS on your phone, 2MB or so, and could then run simple Python scripts. Forwarding all incoming SMSs to another phone number was a six-liner or so.

I've never used it to build big apps, only toyed around with examples, but then again, it wasn't made for the big applications, rather for small ad-hoc scripts.

Kind of Eclipse plugins vs Emacs scripts.
> [0]: http://letterror.com/fontcatalog/fontfont-beowolf/

Oh, that's cool, that's the handiwork of Guido van Rossum's brother:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_van_Rossum
Sen. Wyden and Sen. Udall don't count?
A full description of the system and language developed as part of the DARPA funded SyNAPSE program is in this paper:

http://www.research.ibm.com/software/IBMResearch/multimedia/...
In return, Google gets 3 first round draft picks and an engineer to be named later.

(Seriously though, this whole article is summed up by your sentence, the rest is filler)
Ask HN: What's the cheesiest recruiting overture you've received?
For example, the subject of an email this morning:

Start-UpDevelopmentTeam.add (new Person (you));// I have something which may interest you

(Contemplating whether I should tell him his code will fail, but I think that will only encourage him.)
I work for an advertising photographer. We constantly work with 3 local (seperate) copies of the same data. Would love to find a viable cloud service.

If we could test this that'd be great!
"With our pay-as-you-go pricing, you pay a base rate" LOL
You are hand wringing over the details and completely missing the point. The most conservative possible interpretation of Snowden's leaks still leaves the NSA secretly spying on the private communications and online activity of hundreds of millions of innocent people. It is a starkly totalitarian measure that is unparalleled in human history.

If you find it difficult to see why this is morally abhorrent, I'm just not sure what to say you to you, as I think it would be quite apparent to the average 9 year old that deliberately spying on people who have done nothing to warrant suspicion is wrong.
>Russia has nuclear weapons still pointed at us - thousands of them. Canceling ANY kind of talks is a bad idea, you never know the mentality of someone behind the button.

Wow, talk about a Cold War throwback.

I do know their mentality: very much the same as ours. The Russians weren't "irrational crazies" after WWII, and they aren't now.
I have a soft spot for side-channel attacks, they are often a beautiful example of out-of-the-box thinking. This whitepaper is no exception, in particular the second part about (ab)using the SVG filters.

I was thinking, of course it doesn't help much in mitigating this attack, but they calculate average rendering times over several repeats of the same operation. When profiling performance timings, it's usually much more accurate to take the minimum execution time. The constant timing that you want to measure is part of the low-bound on the total time, any random OS process/timing glitch is going to add to that total time, but it will not somehow make the timespan you are interested in randomly run faster. There might be some exceptions to this, though (in which case I'd go for a truncated median or percentile range average or something).

Also had some ideas to improve performance on the pixel-stealing, as well as the OCR-style character reading. With the latter one could use Bayesian probabilities instead of a strict decision tree, that way it'll be more resilient to accidental timing errors so you don't need to repeat as often to ensure that every pixel is correct, just keep reading out high-entropy pixels and adjust the probabilities until there is sufficient "belief" in a particular outcome.

But as I understand from the concluding paragraphs of this paper, these vulnerabilities are already patched or very much on the way to being patched, otherwise I'd love to have a play with this :) :)
"Seriously, what an amatuerish-looking mess. White text on black, no clear
navigation path, I can't imagine any random end user actually using one of these
sites."

You could say the same thing about MS-DOS, but if it gets the job done it will
get used. The most important thing is functionality, not UI. After all, you
can't polish a turd.
It is very stable only over the VERY long haul.

Look at the SPY index, which is total returns (including dividends) of the S&P. Take it back to 1994, which is as far as Yahoo Finance allows.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=SPY+Interactive#symbol=sp...

In the almost 20 years since, there are many 5 year periods of rapid drops, and many flat 10 year periods.

If you look as the NASDAQ it gets much worse.

One can say, "It's been a rare 20 years" but who are we to say the business environment pre-1994 is more similar today than post-1994?

I think you can't speculate on what the future will look like, you have to prepare yourself for the uncertainty. (Invest in yourself and your health, prepare for the possibility of retiring later, don't ignore your spouse so much that they divorce you, etc.)
They are contributing to their ideas, providing insight to help them make decisions.

A project manager will want to know how much time is needed and when to do user research, diary studies, usability sessions, surveys, wireframes, user stories, etc, etc.

A UI designer will want to work with the UX professional to understand what the user goals are, the user journey is. The UI designer will then design a UI to satisfy that story.

Marketers will communicate with the UX professional to give insight into the market needs, what competitors are doing, who the target customers are, and they work together to produce a coherent marketing message that matches the product.

Developers will work with the UX designer to understand the user impact of design decisions, the goals they are achieving, how to format usable error messages that fit a wider consistent experience, making sure that the press of a button doesn't have a 5 minute delay.

The UX professional is the user's stakeholder to make sure everyone is building something with them in mind. Without that everything is very siloed.

So yes, when I say they work with them, I really do mean it. They don't instruct, they don't follow, they simply collaborate.
Second. I live in Houston, and my commute is 3.5 miles each way. If the sun is up and you're outside, you are sweating. Doesn't matter how slow of a jaunt it is.

For those not familiar with summer near the Gulf, the high the past week has been consistently 95-100 F, with relative humidity ranging from 40% to 90%.
This is really awesome. Thanks!
Being an internal consultant is often what happens. It's a horizontal role that might look like it's owning a bunch of things, but really it's support various needs in various domains that have a touch on the user/customer "experience."

So yeah, I'll be in a PM meeting and then leading the PM meeting. Then I'll go out and into a meeting where we're analyzing analytics on the website, then to a meeting with devs on how we're implementing the interface literally, and getting me set up so I can run builds, edit the html/css, write all the front end views while devs create the models.

And then the CEO pulls me aside and wants to know what 'I'm doing to help turn this company culture into one that is user-centered and customer driven."

So it is like being a consultant on this huge spectrum of "customer/user experience" touch-points, and it's way more than just 1 or 2 people can do. And then all of this is rolled up into the perception that you're there for "look and feel" which probably only takes up 15-20% of your actual job.

You've made a really good summary of how I feel often.
Often the PM is doing design because the designers don't exist. When you are lucky to have designers, the PMs focus more on project requirements and project management and the designers focus on definition, but they obviously have to work together. In heavy design oriented orgs, you even have UX PMs who are responsible for managing design schedules and coordinating between designers and the rest of the project members.
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What exactly is the functionality though? They don't make it obvious - it looks like any of 1,000 generic photo sharing sites. It doesn't make any sort of compelling value proposition. What makes it so special to be worthy of being a GNU project?
Please note:

1) U.S. is 32nd in the world when it comes to freedom of the press.
2) U.S. is also pro-torture and quite clearly anti-human rights, with their judicial system being just as corrupt as Russia's, if not more(See: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-judge-re...). I can go on and on about Gitmo, overthrowing foreign governments(Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria, Gaza strip) et cetera et cetera. U.S. doesn't really have a clean record when it comes to human rights abuses.

The only difference is that the U.S. hides behind "Justice!" propaganda and americans believe it, but everybody in eastern europe knows that Putin is quite clearly against democracy, and he doesn't try to hide it.

I'm not saying that Russia is better, I'm just saying that it's naive to think that U.S. is much better, with its imperialist politics (Assange/Sweden case and forcing a president's plane to land).
Python has been on Android for a long time. The first instances I know of is SL4A: https://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/

Kivy for Android has been around awhile as well.
Depending upon what category you're looking at. For us folks that are close to retirement than a 20 year old, it does say to save near 50%. My current 8% is what I can max at, and thus my calculation of working another 100 years based upon x times my salary.
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> Emotion and vividness trump logical reasoning when it comes to swaying the masses

See, you're going in the wrong direction right of the bat. The people that disagree with you aren't stupid. A lot of them are smarter than you are. They just have different values than you do. Speaking down to them will never work.
Well put. The user experience is everyone's responsibility. I've seen a number of teams that let the 'UX Specialist' dictate the entire UI. Usually research that does not account for cognitive bias is done in place of testing. Effectively you are basing the entire UI on the opinion of one person. That is always a bad idea.
This really shows poor planning on Google's part. If their goal with the Nexus line it to be able to release builds to ASOP, they need to source their parts accordingly.
...Really? Please don't yell - it's not conductive to making your point.

I said "ridiculous" because it was a narrow, misinformed comment that failed to properly encapsulate the entire subject at hand. It wasn't representative of what's really going on in the political theater between Russia and the United States right now, e.g. no consideration of Russia's motives, positive impact of the NSA, how Russia would be hypocritical to endorse press freedom and citizen privacy, etc. etc. etc.

In fact, nothing about his comment was obvious - if you continue on through the thread, you can clearly see how my rebuttal dissects the entire view that Russia "gets" anything very sufficiently.
> There is something to be understood about modern Russian culture - being successful cheater and uncaught thief considered a virtue, praised in a folklore with an iconic characters as Ostap Bender or, on a lower level, untouchable criminals, so-called Thiefs-Above-Law.

This appears many in unequal or unjust countries in the world (for example North Africa), and it is easy to understand: When the powers that be are not seen as just, it's easy to motivate cheating against their rules.
Sorry, I didn't mean to necessarily endorse either of them. I just mean if you check the fact sheets there's normally a field for "leader" which has their name listed after.
Wiktionary gave me the following:
"in charge (not comparable)
Having the responsibility of leading or overseeing.
He left his daughter in charge of watching her younger sisters.
Having the power of command or control.
This internet browser puts you in charge of your personal settings. "

Both of these men have a great deal of the power of command and control in their respective countries. The recent leaks have made it also very clear that they are "overseeing" heh. As for leadership that's a sticky subject that is way too philosophical for me to touch right now.
This is exactly how I base my calculations.

Pension calculators which assume e.g. a 7% annual rate of return (with apparently no inflationary concern) are just financial propaganda.
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There is only one, and one reason: their country is flat.

A lot of Dutch people come on vacations in Walloon (french speaking part of Belgium) and they never ever can be seen riding a bike because our hilly landscape make it a tiresome activities. Even for inner-city short distance trip.

This reflects in the technological development of their bike: heavy frame, few gears, additional front basket while every teen here rides mountain bike made of carbon fibre, 21 gears at least and state of the art front shock absorbing mechanism. I am only slightly exaggerating. And jealous.
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Edit: Not sure they support Australia, actually.
I'm not sure why MySQL seems to have received more attention over the years. PostgreSQL might be more robust.

One point about PostgreSQL that bothered me was the apparent lack of case insensitive collation. Where SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL default to case insensitive, PostgreSQL defaults to case sensitive, and there was no built in way to change this, so you have to do things like "WHERE LOWER(namecol) = 'jdoe'" to work around it. At least that was the situation last time I checked.
It's about policy not power. Location location location.
By far the most important factor is that it's flat and population density is high (meaning most bike trips aren't necessarily very far).

An out of shape person riding a bike a few kilometers over very flat terrain is fairly easy, even with a crappy bike. Throw in more hills or longer distances and things change dramatically. Even a single small hill or overpass on a bike journey changes the amount of effort needed by a huge margin and increases the fitness minimum that would result in that journey feeling comfortable.
I would expect that sort of user to (a) probably not be running an iOS beta, and (b) less likely to think to report it as not working on iOS 7 specifically. I'm sure in both cases there are exceptions, but it's surely not the majority.

Agreed, the 1-star reviews are unfortunate. That's exactly what I was talking about as well. I just don't think it's a big enough problem to justify removing the ability for people to post useful information regarding compatibility with an OS version that exists in the field in significant numbers.
Thanks! Awesome service. I haven't seen it earlier for some reason.
The best designers I have worked with write code or wrote code at one point in their career. It is difficult working in a medium you do not understand.
Thank you for the citations. I agree with you on all points, my point was simply that Russia is not a superlative example either. Both the U.S. and Russia are locked in a murky political limbo with all sorts of controversies, but neither should be a shining example to the other.

Russia has (as other commenters and myself noted elsewhere) historically been against privacy and press freedom when it's inconvenient for them, and has a host of other human rights violations. But you're right, I'm definitely not attacking Russia from a superior position as an American here :)
UI designer is not really a job title. Visual and interaction designers are common titles, UX designer is used in orgs who don't want to distinguish officially, though designers usually have strength in one area over the other.

At least that is the way it seems to work at big companies. I'm sure smaller companies use whatever the manager thinks of.
The way I'd look at it is that focus and confidence is a pre-requisite, not a guarantee. Arnie was right.
I can sympathise with the OP. Free accounts also costing us money but if we strip them of the key feature (NLP) or limit them, the conversion drops because it is a service that takes some time to learn and people tend to be lazy.
So it's an excellent opportunity for up and coming designers to contribute to a promising open source project.
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