skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lately I've had a persistent feeling of annoyance with several Google products. Each annoyance is small enough to tolerate individually, but in aggregate it seems to me that Google has really lost something in the attention-to-detail department; this kind of persistent annoyance was the same thing that led me to Google from other services years ago.

Two examples:

- maps: new interface is so terrible that I am actively looking for a replacement. It is painfully slow, search results are no longer displayed on the same page as the map (what?), and in general the minimalism has gone too far: the interface requires too much hunting.

- gmail: Previous/Next-message buttons flake out constantly (grayed out - clicking does nothing). New formatting options are hard to use and obnoxious.

And an old one that I ran in to again today:

- there is no (intuitive) way to copy a URL from google search results without all of the google redirect garbage. This fundamentally degrades the world-wide web. For example, I want to email a link to a pdf. If an in-browser pdf reader is not available, then the link downloads immediately and there is no way to get the de-obfuscated link. I clicked the "share" button in hopes that this might give me the link; but no, it wanted me to share on G+.
Wow...I am surprised how awesome this is. I genuinely feel like going out and buying a KitKat.

I wonder what the economics of this campaign looks like.

Did Google pay Nestle, vice versa or no money change hands?

This is awesome....I love to see a big company having fun.
As hinted in the comment, just type "haveabreak".
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The interactive NYT pieces get lots of attention and praise, but I remember seeing at least one critic on HN write "is scrolling the new Flash?" and a lot of discussion about how the scrolling animation in articles tends to be superfluous.
With this app, B is a category ("hardware store" or "bank"), rather than a specific location. That's the innovation.
Isn't that how most score attack games of this style work?
Ya you'd have to take that into account somehow. If 50 other people that are also interested in "technology" or whatever vote for something, then it's likely you will like it as well.

There is no reason you have to select content purely based on the website it's from, or the words it contains, but it's a really good filter for getting rid of stuff you definitely don't like. I.e. if you filtered reddit this way, most images and memes would get ranked way lower for me. Someone else might have articles or news stories ranked lower.

But mostly I'm looking to automatically find people who have similar interests or voting patterns, and then selecting based on what those people voted for to see what you might like.
Using the github library here: https://github.com/masukomi/kudos

Also from the sourcecode on this blog:
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Extracting text from haml for internationalization
Redirector gets update - statistics with charts for your redirects
Agreed, or at least a breakpoint at ~720 that makes it stack vertically (i.e. http://cl.ly/image/0m30232n1N1A)
Same here, although I prefer the dark chocolate ones (one of the few! alternative flavors available in the US). Then I told myself - wait for the contest to begin... I was one of those kids who passed the marshmallow test.
"a place where methamphetamine is legal and freely available is a scary place"

Like the USA in the 1960's? Benzedrine was sold over the counter to children and widely used throughout the country.

Now benzedrine is probably less dangerous than methamphetamine because it's slightly less hydrophobic, which often makes addiction less trouble. Meth showed up as the very similar black market substitute when benzedrine was made prescription only. It turned out methamphetamine was easier to make with household solvents in trailers; users would probably prefer benzedrine.

Both methamphetamine and benzedrine are available with a prescription. Benzedrine is the active substance in Adderall; in fact, Adderall is only a hair's breadth different from methamphetamine.

The difference is that today it's only black market customers that use methamphetamine. If we re-legalized dexedrine or benzedrine over the counter, the trouble would mostly go away.
Google had that IO board for Android though.
I agree that it's pointless, but liking a product on Facebook are signaling to their friends that they like KitKat. I think social proof plays a role here: "will I be less cool if I don't show people how I like this thing some of my friends like too?"

A brand website doesn't quite have the same appeal of social proof. It takes a greater interest in a brand to visit its website than it takes to open a logo in a friend's FB profile.
If the percentage of crack users who could both hold a steady job to pay for their addiction and also not significantly drag down those around them was > 90% (e.g. workplace accidents, parenting), then I could support ending the war on crack.
Having moved from the UK to the US, it makes me angry and disappointed that they don't use the paper/foil packaging here, so you can't do that :/
The DX is not very good for reading pdfs. It does not render them very well and the pdf viewer is lacking in features. This is remedied a bit with jailbreaking and using other software. Personally, I am still disappointed at the lack of official updates for it, especially considering how much I paid for it (shortly after it came out).
Can anyone here speak to Authy vs. Duo (as a regular user, not as someone providing 2fa for their site)?
Even the 'small print' at the end is awesome:

Wow this really is small print isn't it? Look how tiny it is. How are you even reading this? Come to think of it, why are you even reading this?? This is no way to spend your break! You've just read all of that stuff about how awesome the KITKAT 4.4 is and you still haven't run out and got one? Wow, tough crowd.
As soon as I finish writing this I'm gonna get one from my secret stash and go drink milk through it like a straw. I have to keep my stash secret because my grandmother looks at me all puppy eyed if I don't share it with her. Is it still puppy eyed if it's your gran? I suppose it would be gran eyed? Or granny eyed? Let's go with granny eyed. I feel like we've just coined a new phrase. Where's the 'trademark' symbol on this keyboard? Ah here it is ™. GrannyEyed™. I wonder if that's legally binding? Hey, let's see if we can get it trending! #GrannyEyed. Tweeted. The Internet has it now. It's out of our hands. I feel like we've just started something epic. Ok, well this was a lovely chat. I'm gonna go and grab that KITKAT now. Fancy a break?
I'd include a lot of legal drugs in my war on drugs!
https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/apache_couchdb_1_4_0

From there things I am excited about:

* Support for server-wide changes feed reporting on creation, updates and deletion of databases. That is awesome. I've been wanting that for years. So not only do you get a realtime change feed for when one database change, you know also know if a new database was created.

* Ability to show a white-listed set of document properties from users db

* Support for Erlang R16

* Better documentation
Thanks for the candid post, Dan. Very introspective and honest.
A full pipeline with fun work and great rates.

You might think about narrowing your question down a bit.
Fonts and Branding: How Typography Affects Your Identity in the Music Industry
> I don't know what the percentage is for crack but I bet it's over 90%

According to this spurious page [0], "up to 75% of those who try cocaine will become addicted." Of course, the page also says "an estimated one-in-four Americans between the age of 26 and 34 have used cocaine at least once in their lifetime, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy." Since it looks like around 15% of Americans are between the age of 26 and 34, that would mean that "up to" 11.25% of Americans will become addicted, which seems unlikely. We need some better data.

[0] http://www.treatmentsolutions.com/cocaine-addiction-treatmen...
I have to ask but I am not optimistic - would this get Linux booted on a Surface RT?
The self-righteous anger about the irredeemable horror of the new Gmail compose is starting to get a bit old.

First of all, it's not as one-sided as people are making it out. I was also annoyed when it first came out, but there are some clear benefits. Being able to browse email in the background while composing email is a huge win for my email workload (CTO for a 30-person company).

There are some important philosophical reasons behind some of these changes that I strongly agree with:

First, the small window by default encourages short emails which is always good. The OA seems to glorify long-winded CEO screeds, but by definition the vast majority of emails are going to be short (and if they're not I don't want to work with you), so it's correct to optimize for the short case. The two levels of pop-out (the second of which the OA appears to be completely ignorant of) scale up and out quite nicely.

Second, the hidden headers and formatting options are encouraging simplicity in email. Most email should not have formatting, and arguably most emails don't have CCs, BCCs, or edited subjects either. Putting them behind one extra click is really not the huge usability nightmare people make out. It takes a little while to get used to and then you just subconsciously do the double click, it's not really any harder than finding them in a sea of icons, it's just that previously you were used to that sea of options. The optimization for the common case is done correctly.

For me the new design (after turning on compact view) is a moderate improvement that did nothing to dilute the core value of Gmail which are the labels, keyboard shortcuts/navigation, conversation view and search/filters. Running it inside Mailplane makes it even better.

There are definitely annoyances, but nothing that's even close to driving me to something like mutt, and forget about GUI clients, all of them feel like molasses compared to Gmail.
I do quite like the new compose - I get a bit annoyed by the in line editor when you reply though. Feels a little inconsistent.
Makes sense. I do like it for casual mail - e.g., if I'm setting up a quick time to meet an advisor. But for more important things, it doesn't work well for me.

I am checking out Airmail thanks to an older HN thread. Cheers!
I just figured out that last point about google URLs today.

I wanted to copy/paste a link in a chat window but the google redirect url is so long it takes up the whole chat window and more! Instead of the domain.com/word I wanted.
Check out jQuery Raptorize.
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Is crack or meth legal in any modern country, after being illegal?
I'm planning on releasing a book soon and have been strongly considering gumroad. I couldn't find anything about an affiliate program (now or coming soon). Do you have a link for this, or is it just from your talks with them?
I'm sure Droplr[0] is thrilled by your name.

0: https://droplr.com/hello
That looks great, thanks. I'll try to make this happen soon.
Having said that, I can't back-up my bookshelf. Some fire or water damage, and they're gone.
These are exactly the issues I'm dealing with in re-implementing two-factor auth in my own app. On the one hand you can easily roll your own SMS based TFA with the option to use Google Authenticator with a negligible amount of work. Google's app is pretty reliable and most people trust Google (rightly or wrongly is beside the point here).

But then what if Google pulls the rug out from under apps that rely on it and what if knowledgeable users like you don't like the idea of a third party having access to their second factor?

I'm starting to think that unless you're willing to build your own authenticator apps for multiple mobile OSes SMS-only is the best way to go.
It's C-x 8, not M-x 8. Use C-x 8 C-h for help
Android KitKat: the story behind a delicious partnership
The "full screen mode" is like a parody of poor user interface and false promises.

That said, Outlook 365 is also bloody awful in terms of usability. Say I've sent an email to a list of people, there's no way (as far as I can tell, which is all that matters really) to then copy those email addresses. You have to literally click through each one and get the address individually.
Parody? This is real: http://www.android.com/kitkat/

(IMHO a bad move for the Android brand, unless teens are their new main target. But let's see...)
Towards the end of the page, it looks like they are doing this promo because you can win an Android device by buying kitkat, so this is hardly a joke, but a well thought through ad campaign.
I agree with this post's use of the word "ruined". That's what the new Compose did. It's a usability train wreck which I'm astonished they put out at all, let alone impose it on users against their will. There are big things wrong with it and there are little things wrong with it and the sum total is frustrating and disconcerting. It's one thing to redesign a website, but email is a huge part of my daily work, and this feels as if renovators just drove a post up through the living room floor.
You'd be better off with an Apple...
"the road to hell is paved with good intentions."

What good intentions? The war on drugs has never been about good intentions. It has been a combination of racism, power-grabbing, and lobbying by big business from the start. Look at the things that were said in newspapers and to Congress in the early days of drug prohibition, back when cocaine was an ingredient in Coca-Cola, if you do not believe me.

"The thing that tears me up about it is that some of these drugs (primarily meth and to a lesser degree heroin) completely obliterate lives and leave a huge cost to the general welfare of society"

The funny thing about methamphetamine is that it has medical uses -- it is used to treat narcolepsy, obesity, and ADHD. Yes, the same drug that people smoke out of broken light bulks happens to be available by prescription and sold at your local pharmacy. You know what the most important difference is? Quality control.

See, pharmaceutical drugs have regulated purity, dosage, and ingredients. You know that the methamphetamine your doctor prescribe will actually be methamphetamine and that it will not be contaminated with oxidizing agents. Methamphetamine is not the safest drug to use to get high (the dose is higher than it would be for medical uses) but even at medicinal doses the black market version is not safe. Likewise with heroin: adulterants are a bigger problem than the drug itself, and pharmaceutical opiates are safer because their production is nice and clean.

"Weed, MDMA, I can see being legalized, but the hardcore stuff I'd be more comfortable simply decriminalizing usage."

There is a bit of irony in saying that you think MDMA should be legalized but that methamphetamine should not be. MDMA is not all that different from methamphetamine (in terms of chemistry, effects, and danger to users) and quite a few "MDMA" pills actually contain methamphetamine (as a mixture, or maybe just methamphetamine depending on how unscrupulous the producer is). MDMA carries with it all the negative effects on amphetamine withdrawal (the "crash").

Really what we need is to legalize and regulate all recreational drugs. A world where methamphetamine is legal but regulated is better than a world where it is decriminalized and unregulated. If someone checks into the hospital because of a bad reaction to drugs, they should be in a position to tell their doctor exactly what drugs they took -- and their doctor should be able to assume that those drugs were not laced with heavy metals.
Hang on, Williamsburg isn't "full of people who are bright, culturally literate, Internet-savvy and far from committed to the idea of hard work directed toward earning a good middle-class living." You kidding, guy? Have you seen the apartment towers rising up down by the water. Must be the Maoists' granola silos.

Also, calling Zuckerberg a "computer genius" shows that this writer is a bit out of his depth. Z'berg isn't a computer genius, his talent is social psychology and game theory if anything.

Makes some good points ... but seems like another out of touch baby boomer trying to convince other baby boomers "where it's at". I wasn't surprised when I googled the author to find out that he wasn't nytimes staff. Yep, seems like just another guy using some big concepts to market his own personal brand (which, of course, is what he is telling us to do in the article). I smell a conference tour.
You mean, "related to the consumption of it". Obviously, the illegality of hard drugs has led to vastly elevated violence in their production.
So if the novice user is hindered by flat design, why do you think that Windows Phone is killing it in the budget market in Mexico? It's also doing really well when feature phone users move to their first smart phone.
Its 2013 and I still cant scroll a webpage smoothly.
> I don't think it would matter how cheap it is.

I don't see how that's defensible. You seem to be talking only about people with zero money, which is few people even among jobless (even homeless) people. Surely the price of the drug, all else being equal, would strongly correlate to the number of crimes committed to obtain the drug.

> I don't think it's a stretch to believe that legal things become more prevalent than illegal things, especially highly addictive things.

I absolute think that's a stretch to believe, at least for things like drugs in large areas like the USA, where physically preventing their existence altogether is (apparently) not feasible.
I appreciate the principled stance, but Amazon won't ever have a monopoly on retail.

The internet is too big, and retail is too big, for that.

Walmart, etc. would never let that happen.

Besides....as much as people like online, I don't think Brick & Mortar stores will all go away. Some may, but everything won't.
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Data Center Relocation
Are you sure about that? The block diagram shows an Ethernet PHY connected directly to the SoC, and it appears the i.MX6 has a built-in Ethernet controller.
You could just use the SMS option instead of the app one when you turn on github's 2fa. Then no 3rd party will have access to the secret.
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I only know, that I know nothing
Most mormal people don't even know that their phone's OS has such a thing like version, code name etc. Actually there are people who don't know what OS is and which one they use.
This is timely; I just wrote a post title "Three ways to impress your boss." I hit on some of the points you made, especially the one about being smart does not mean being credible.

http://dalethoughts.com/2013/09/three-ways-to-impress-your-b...
Needs bike directions.
To re-state sibling ryguytilidie's point: risk aversion is the root cause. Risk aversion is the reason why voters favor politicians perceived to be "tough on crime", feeding the whole process you described.
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There are many factors that go into this, sure.

One of them is the drug itself, and since I am not familiar with crack (thank god), I would consider alcohol a good example. It's legal, "dirt cheap", and can utterly destroy lives with a completeness few drugs seem to be able to match. Everybody knows what alcohol can do, yet it still happens a lot (to put it mildly). So yes, making stuff legal and having information instead of disinformation is not a magical solution.

But that doesn't mean illegality and misinformation cannot make things even worse. Legality does affect price and safety, I think it's very hard to deny this or show otherwise (feel free to try). If a dealer sells rat poison instead of Ecstasy, it's not like the buyers can go to the cops about it, for example... and I'm not saying Ecstasy if safe no matter how it's used, I'm saying rat poison is harmful in all cases. And dealers are operating in the underground anyway, so they have little reason to care about adding on top of that. I'm not sure about "gateway drugs", but I am pretty sure about "gateway criminality" being a real thing, and it also applies to addicts, not just dealers.
I started using eM Client as a native desktop email app because of the new gMail reply feature. Feature-wise it does everything I expect/want for email.

It drives me absolutely insane when a company makes an 'enhancement' and reduces usable window space. If I am writing a long email I want to be able to use the maximum amount of window space and not be crammed into something that is 25% of my monitor size.
If there's something I love about Fedora is it's names... not sure what was wrong with "Beefy Miracle", honestly, I liked that one too.
That's a good article. However, it's all about desktop programmers vs web programmers.

I'm a developer. Sure, I may not know all there is to know about programming. Fine. I don't want to. I'm there to develop a product. I'm a web developer. The products I develop are websites.

Sure, I could dust off those old javascript books and write everything by hand. Then program the backend.

Or I could install a CMS, a frontend framework and download a few jQuery plugins, put them together and end up with a nice website. All in the time it would have taken me to dust off those books.

Sure, I may not feel like a 1337 programmer when I do that. But boy, that feeling of completing a product using the tools at my disposition. That's what I crave.

You crave solving problems? Fine, I need you. I can't even live without you. Build me a new super awesome CMS that can do everything my client could dream of! Make is super easy to use too! Then, while you are at it, program a new browser too, so I can use all the newest CSS3 animations on it!

I'll even pay you the licences to use all those products!

But please, stop trying to belittle me.
My wife will do that. Advertising works extremely well on her.
The vast majority of cocaine and pot users live outwardly normal lives too. That isn't the point though, is it? Prohibition railroads people who were in control of their habit, it gets in the way of assistance to people who are losing control of their habit, and it further marginalizes and radicalizes people who have already lost control of their habit, and it dramatically radicalizes those who provide for habits.

This myth of "alcohol is not a 'hard drug'" needs to die. Prohibition of alcohol wasn't somehow a different animal than the prohibition of other drugs, you just relate to alcohol more than you relate to cocaine.
Browsing email while composing isn't part of my workflow. Definitely makes sense as a use case, a few others mentioned it as well.

Agreed, for short emails (setting up mtgs, quick reviews) it works fine for the most part.

Personal preference wise - I feel more comfortable sending email when I'm able to see CC/BCC, text formatting, & attachments. Understand that not everyone feels the same way.
I like the fine print

The small print
Wow this really is small print isn't it? Look how tiny it is. How are you even reading this? Come to think of it, why are you even reading this?? This is no way to spend your break! You've just read all of that stuff about how awesome the KITKAT 4.4 is and you still haven't run out and got one? Wow, tough crowd.

As soon as I finish writing this I'm gonna get one from my secret stash and go drink milk through it like a straw. I have to keep my stash secret because my grandmother looks at me all puppy eyed if I don't share it with her. Is it still puppy eyed if it's your gran? I suppose it would be gran eyed? Or granny eyed? Let's go with granny eyed. I feel like we've just coined a new phrase. Where's the 'trademark' symbol on this keyboard? Ah here it is ™. GrannyEyed™. I wonder if that's legally binding? Hey, let's see if we can get it trending! #GrannyEyed. Tweeted. The Internet has it now. It's out of our hands. I feel like we've just started something epic. Ok, well this was a lovely chat. I'm gonna go and grab that KITKAT now. Fancy a break?