skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't really acknowledge that there might be a problem here. Since the 19th century technology has matched and exceeded many of the skills of humans. The repetition of these arguments is based on the fact that people need to find new jobs for themselves and it's not very obvious where these will come from. Otherwise they can expect to get poorer relative to those who can find new jobs. It's only going to get harder as computers and robots outperform humans in more and more areas.
Which blog is that?

I ask as a developer who feels similarly.
It's silly but the thing I miss in Gitlab is that you can't use tables in Gitlab flavored Markdown.
Mind adding to the discussion by explaining how?
Try this chain of deduction instead:

1. Smart bloggers (e.g. the people at 37signals and a handful of others) figure out that redesigns of popular websites are a great way to generate blog traffic.

2. Young designers see this trend, and think they can capitalize on it as well.

3. Many new designers start to spend their days working on spec designs, hoping to either get some visibility or impress a prospective employer.

4. They neither gain any actual design experience, nor do they (except for in the rare case) get the interest they had hoped for.

There's a lot of real design work out there waiting for new designers. They don't need to work for free, nor do they need to try to prove themselves by "redesigning" what Jony Ive and his team have spent the past few years on.

Is that really so warped? ;-)
I disagree. Maybe if anybody who would ever have physical access to your computer has the technical chops of the average HN commenter, it wouldn't do much for you. However, for somebody leaving their computer alone for a few minutes in a coffee shop or college library, this could definitely deter many opportunists.
Press the right most rectangle on the top to enable "play by keyboard" mode. I agree it is very cool.
Every time I see a new GitLab release I get excited to install it. Then I see the install instructions and immediately give up. The number one thing GitLab needs is an easier way to get it setup.
As a non designer I like looking at them too. I will admit that I usually think to myself - this designer has no paying customers this month. But, I feel like they are hustling and trying to drum up clients.

When I see these in a designers portfolio, though, presented as real work, I feel like that is dishonest.
It's possibly not GPS achieving the centimetre accuracy, but a localised system, such as locata [1].

[1] http://locata.com/
> Macports is an okay solution for package management.

People give macports a hard time, but I've never been sure why. It does binary or source distribution. It finds and fixes broken library linkage after upgrades. You can prune your install tree easily with the leaves target. All the functions are under one command, and it comes with a clear and concise manpage. I've used ports, pkgsrc, apt and rpm, and am generally very happy with macports in comparison, especially since default binary installs..

Anyway, I'm not trying to start an argument or anything - your opinion is your opinion. Besides, even if OS X users don't like macports for package management they can always use homebrew (or fink, I guess).
As I understand you need to have the same EUID to be able to bind to the same port.
It's cool sites like this that remind me why I still use a PS/2 Keyboard. Anybody else out there push all the keys at once just to make sure it would work?
Workspaces? What workspaces? No, having a bunch of full screen apps does not count.
The police models are actually made by Taser.

http://www.taser.com/products/on-officer-video/axon-flex-on-...
Achivement Unlocked: Refresh Prince of Bel Air
view > show path bar

Then you can go up a level, or many levels.
Unsolicited redesigns are great! Unsolicited dickishness is not.

There's a difference between really cool "what if" stuff that is done without pretension or expectation (there was an awesome Microsoft rebranding last year) and stuff like the linked NYT redesign, where the implication (and outright argument) of the entire thing is "ha ha you guys are terrible! look how great I am!"
I would love to hear how people get parts like this made -- what are the costs, minimums, timeline, and process (e.g. submit a 3D drawing, etc).
Ask HN: Selling your contract work
I'm just curious if there is any service out there that allows you to buy and sell the current contract jobs you have to others in the form of leads / introductions?

When I need to part ways with a contract I don't want to leave the client without a developer. I've noticed that my recommendations are highly regarded by the client. Usually I will tap into my network and pass along the work no strings attached, but couldn't almost guaranteed work for a set amount generate revenue? I'm sure there is something out there and would like to see it.
...much better at focusing and multi-tasking...

This one is wrong. According to current research, the more practice we have at multi-tasking, the better we think we are at at, and the worse our actual performance is on the task we're supposed to be doing. Therefore we're raising a generation that will do worse, but will be unaware of it.
I agree with everything, with the exception of the need to solve a real world problem. Much of the code I write is to explore, and to play. It doesn't solve a business need, it only scratches an itch to see if I can do it. Design should be the same, because when we play, we discover new avenues and ideas that we may never have realized until we tasked our brains to solve some new problem.
You might be surprised by how many of them show up in portfolios. In fact, such exercises aren't uncommon in design school. I review a lot of these portfolios. I always think it would be nice to see what a new designer might have done with a real project, instead of an imaginary one.
Can't upvote this enough.

It's very hard to stop a determined attacker, but that's not what this is covering. As a developer sometime I peer program, and that might mean handing over the controls to a colleague. Now I trust my colleagues, but you never know what their personal lives might me.

If I had, say, saved my internet banking password (I don't, but let's entertain the possibility) they could easily access the password list and copy it, then close it without me ever knowing.

It's much like leaving an open safe under my desk. Even if it's a simple lock people won't open it to see what's there. If you know I have a stack of gold you might decide to break in, but you'll know it's wrong.
The overproduction crisis is a very interesting part of standard early industrial economics. Marx didn't invent it. The crisis is very real under certain circumstances.

The problem is that, to be honest, the overproduction crisis can only happen when there is too much income inequality. Otherwise, society has ways to utilize that surplus. For example, a public sector taking up 40% of GDP or thereabouts, is a way of using that surplus.

The problem with exponential growth is that it cannot continue indefinitely. Resources are limited and so is energy use. Additionally I suspect, following Joseph Tainter's works, that exponential growth eventually leads to social collapse because that surplus ends up going towards complexity-related costs until those costs cannot be borne anymore.
I set this up for use at my previous firm and it was extremely difficult and that was 2 years ago (so version 1 or 2 I think).

It was great once it finally was up and running but I'd only recommend it if you have a legitimate intellectual property concern and can't use github enterprise.
I think the main bit I could call "warped" was that, by the end of it, he's implying that 37signals should go make some free webpages for local businesses. Because, you know, since they're not True Professionals, they're novices, and since they're novices, they need things to fluff their resumes with.

Honestly, if the author had just left out any mention of the professional designers who redesign things for fun, in the "concept car" sort of way; and specifically targeted the article right from the beginning at only the amateurs who think that "this is the way to recognition", then sure, it'd be a fine article. I also would have skipped reading it, as I think would most of HN--thus the underhanded form of argumentation required to come around from a linkbait-y premise, to his actual point.
I agree. It cannot and probably should not be considered as a replacement of the standard equipment; rather could lead to invention of a new sound/pattern itself given that it doesn't have the same mechanical nuances (limitations) of the standard equipment. Sort of like how the electric guitar doesn't replace an acoustic or the electric drum doesn't quite replace the - well the purple monster.

And then with these web-capable devices we can end up building a web of sounds! Have applications talk on notes, coherence, resonance -- hyper speech/sound transfer protocol (hstp://)? #weekendimaginations :D
If you've dealt wih servers and played with rails it should be pretty trivial for you to set up gitlab. Remember it's open source so before you say it's too hard there are paid alternatives that have one click installers.
Gitlab is a fantastic project and it would be worth the time getting it installed.
After posting my first comment, I found another angle:

Design can only do so much to make something bigger and better than it actually is. I'm sure many novice web designers have dreamed of making a groundbreaking website for a mom-and-pop business like a deli, but when they got to make the website, they noticed how futile it would be to make an incredible website for a small shop. Online orders—who's going to order online? Contact page—a phone number should be enough, list the working hours so people know when to call. List of products—why, a single paragraph is enough. Keep going and all you get is a single page with a logo, a terse description of the place, some pictures, and a phone number.

Few small business have the magic you'd need to tell a story, and if you can't tell a story, you're left with a generic thing, desperately trying to embellish it. I've seen many restaurant websites. I've allowed Flash to run countless times just so I could open them, and I can tell: they all look the same, and all of them lack soul. But I'll be honest: I don't think there's much that can be done with a small budget, and knowing how small the audience is.

A novice designer wants challenge, recognition, and the feeling of working for the big players. You don't get this from working with most small local businesses. At best, a website for a deli is just a stepping stone to a more exciting project. I'm not sure you can convince a young person they just have to keep working on boring projects (as morally good as they are) until they get enough clout to work on what they fancy.
Had you read the paper you'd know you're wrong. Most of the IPs are from botnets.
Achievement Unlocked: Black Hole Sun

-from mousing-over the play button too many times

That's 2/8 for me and I see a couple others in this thread. Is anyone keeping track somewhere?
So much of politics is a definitions game. If it's indeed possible to win a political argument by means other than proving your opponent's position internally inconsistent-- i.e., to "prove" yourself correct-- then universal definitions are a must.

For example, part of your above argument goes: control of means of production => control of economic production => control of life itself; control of means of production => control of life itself.

Ergo, whosoever invented the very first means of production controlled the lives of everyone else in the world. Or, our definitions are incomplete. Or, one or more of the above assertions is fundamentally incorrect regardless of reasonable definition.
Yeah -- I was expressly comparing to Rails, which has had a kind of de facto standardizing effect.

And in addition to not having an ActiveRecord-style de facto standard interface for CRUD, and having a much wilder profusion of datastores than the SQL/almost-first-class-citizen-Mongo in much of RailsLand, the node.js community is pulled in a lot of different directions because of Real-Time.

What's the future of ORMs in a real-time world? Projects like Derby/Racer are a fascinating/messy glimpse into what kinds of forces are shaping the data layer.

Look at how much harder simple things like validation/authorization are when you're dealing with an OT engine that doesn't understand schemas, and which do its job necessarily lives half in Redis and half in Mongo, using the ShareDB api ...

Node.js has a lot of wonderful excuses not to have an admin panel; most of them are related to why node is awesome.

That being said, I hope we get some admin panels. :) Passport.js is a decent Devise standin, for instance, and there are a lot more ORM/ODM options now than there were two years ago.
If you run Chrome on OS X and have the keychain set to prompt you on every access you'll notice that Chrome does something really shocking.

It reads and decrypts every password you have on startup.

Safari and Firefox don't try to get the password until there's a form to put it in, but that's not good enough for Chrome.

I only use Chrome for testing apps, never for real use.
I find this piece is as unsolicited as the redesigns that the author rants about. If you don't like something, then just ignore it and go read other stuff.
Eh, working cheaply for somebody else is worse in pretty much every possible way than doing something for yourself for free.
For the cases that need more complex litigation, but that is a small minority.

Ex: We paid for clerks to transcribe a previous hearing. That could be replaced by software.
Honest question. Why does the comment feature on YouTube still exist?
That's right. This article doesn't mention it, but the LWN article it cited (https://lwn.net/Articles/542629/) does.
It still is. Most nations' Commanders in Chief (i.e. the Presidents) have the power to order a nuke launch by themselves. Of course they have advisers and so on, but that does not mean they have less of a power.
Mind you, text-editing wasn't the designed-for use-case; document-editing was. Open up Pages.app, if you have it, and create a new blank document. The zoom button will set the window to an optimal size for working on the (fixed-ratio) document page. Same for a canvas in Photoshop.

Amusingly enough, the only things it doesn't really work well for are things that reflow their content arbitrarily to fill the window: text, HTML, and terminals. The three things developers spend all their time looking at!
I've seen this done 20 years ago before flash in a java applet. What's your point?
Just had my morning coffee and my kid wanted some attention.
He really enjoyed it. Thanks
Is there any evidence that demand for legal services is being suppressed by technology? In the absence of such where is that efficiency going?
I'm currently running Archlinux on a Macbook air. The instructions in that wiki article were rather confusing. I had to fiddle around quite a bit to get the EFI boot manager to work. The wireless driver is shit cause the MBA uses a Broadcom card. The version in the latest stable kernel actually segfaults and crashes the OS when you try to use a WPA2 network. Also, I still can't get the audio capture to work in ALSA.

In general, there is very little to reason to buy a Macbook if you want a capable Linux laptop. I only have an MBA because my company gave it to me. Better to buy a similarly-priced Thinkpad and use that.
> What a bizarrely sexist description

Calling it sexist is sexist. I don't see what is so wrong with calling someone adorable and sexy.
The same reason 4chan has /b/

If you don't keep the crap in a pot, it spills all over the place.
> Except in movies. There, we get to see and experience it all.

Well, movies often get the facts and the characters wrong (on purpose). Movies usually are adapted to fit to audiences who have no real understanding of History so things are made simple for them.

This being said, K-19 was a decent movie (despite the inaccuracies) and I'd recommend anyone to watch it AND read what actually happened.
You don't have any description on what this actually is, other than "The Backend-Agnostic Administration Framework".

Can you please at least describe the features before you get into installation?
Keep the format, but let me choose any gif, background and song and I would use the hell out of it.
the vertical/horizontal line thing (http://web.mit.edu/bcs/schillerlab/research/A-Vision/A5-2.ht...) is cool b/c it demonstrates an actual neural correlate of consciousness and gives this concrete example of how information from the retina gets turned into higher-level abstractions as it moves into the cortex.
Holly Molly, I live 1 mile far from this guy's last home(which was in Kupavna, Moscow region, a place where Russian air defense command resides)
And for the Australians reading you can realize that Australia is toast if it doesn't get its act together and put in a real mining resource tax. You can't just rely on employment from mining. The country's resources need to enrich its people, not just foreign investors. Otherwise you're just being robbed right before your eyes.

If Norway can do it why can't Australia?
> I'm pretty sure DirectX and OpenGL provide significantly more function calls

You bet! Small demos on PC are seriously no feat anymore, since they have so many dependencies. I don't even bother looking at these kind of competitions anymore, as the size requirement has no meaning anymore. Big, fat demos are more interesting that that aspect: what can you do if you don't have any limits? ASD is one of the key players in that area.
You call this tinfoil.... but some tinfoilers have been talking about it for years.

Here is a crazy PDF to digest:

https://neurowars.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/the-matrix-dec...

Obviously this is out there - but it is a fun read.
I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but none of the "skills" mentioned are very valuable.

People one hundred years ago also took every convenience available. Maybe your average turn of the century citizen could use a radio, but few could build or repair one.

Information access and understanding is WAY higher in general than ever before. Anyone who can use a google map can use a regular map, they'll just be frustrated by the lack of information that was never there. People rely on these new sources of information that augment the old, limited information. It's not replacing anything.
> I don't see what is so wrong with calling someone adorable and sexy.

Have you considered looking, or have you made up your mind?
I often hear such arguments, but the reality is that these smaller projects/clients are just the sorts of projects new designers are going to work on. They won't get the big assignments, and even if they did, they'd be part of a much larger team, and few of their ideas would likely ever get past all the others involved.

And, a good designer will find the story, even when working with a small client. The problem with design jobs is almost never the client, or the seeming lack of excitement in the project, but rather in the designer's ability to tease out that story and give it form. Look at a project like the design of Mailchimp. The subject matter might not seem exciting, but the designers found a way to engage with the audience and present the story in a compelling fashion. A lot of designers would look at that project as a drag; they'd be sorely mistaken.

I once met with a young designer who was very frustrated by how boring his job was. He complained about how all he ever got to do was design boring charts. This seemed strange to me. He had the opportunity to take data and make it intelligible to his audience. This was a hardcore design opportunity that he was squandering because it seemed beneath him.

A project is only as boring as the designer chooses to make it.
The internet is a wonderful place-- anyone and everyone has free and equal opportunity to put their thoughts, ideas, designs, up for display and discussion. In my personal case, I'd rather have spent my 2 minutes elsewhere.
Bah. Might as well tell the kids to get off your lawn or say you're taking your ball and going home.

Athletes practice athletics, bodybuilders lift weights, hackers hack, and designers design. Just because you don't like the medium doesn't mean their isn't value in the practice, even if it has nothing to do with design.
It's sexist, because the first and foremost descriptor it applies to of one of the most influential women in tech is... A quantification of how attractive she is.
Wow this story dropped to 596 from the front page in less than an hour. Nice.
Makerbot digitizer
I like your first line, and if I had a single criticism of this practice, it would be the way in which design egoists need to bring others down in order to bring their own designs up.
Finally, a webapp that speaks to me.
In no way did I imply that 37signals should make free webpages. (I'd never encourage a designer to work for free.) Instead, I was thinking back to when I first saw of unsolicited redesigns appear. My best recollection was when 37signals used this approach to generate visibility for their firm.
I wonder what the multiple will be for the valuation. In any case, next 6 to 12 months are going to be crazy in the ad-tech space.
I don't think that's quite true. You create a model not necessarily to predict, but to understand. A good model - which is by definition not intended to be exactly right - helps one to come to insights that can in turn help to come up with predictions that can be tested.
Great, provocative thinkpiece.

I'd add that considering the number of expensive flops this summer, the audiences' responsiveness to the massive CGI-spectacles and remakes of recent years might be beginning to wane. To make film No Country for Old Men again might require not 'beating' the man but replacing spectacle with heartfelt passion. Pay more attention to why gay-rights are unstoppable.
In addition, the VG-900 shows that the e-mount will accommodate a 35mm sensor. Mind you, the e-mount lenses are almost universally crap, but I've had good luck using my NEX-7 as a digital back for my M glass.
A W E S O M E

Even with the limited selection of dancers, dancefloors and songs, they're all brilliant!
Just checked with latest FF on OS 10.8.4. Click a button and you can see all of them. Safari will prompt for a password.
YouTube would be a better site if they just removed the feature. Let it spill somewhere else. Why should I have to read comments like that on a video that has done nothing to invite them?
I think any general north-south variation would have to be over large areas (Brazil, Europe, the US). England is tiny--of course north-south differences are going to be dictated by local factors.
You're correct when you say about YAGNI not necessarily leading to "elegant, short, and easy to maintain code". That is, in the end, up to the developer's skill.
Most of what that money buys you is the security and managerial comfort of SLAs and enterprise support. Community Editions scare the enterprise because when something breaks, there's no one on the hook to fix it (forgetting, of course, countless newsgroups, mailing lists and chat rooms usually dedicated to the topic). When GHE fails for some reason, your helpdesk can rest assured that within 4-24 hours (depending on SLA) you will have a fix that no one in the company is responsible for.
It's worth remembering that even psychohistory was "wrong". It's a good example of a model that was "usefully" right but not mathematically true.
Also, it's worth mentioning that GitLab Enterprise is open source. It'll be interesting to see how well that model works out for them.