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...Redesigns of other people’s work is pure folly e.g. the new Yahoo logo, iOS7, changes to Facebook, the New New Twitter, the American Airlines rebrand. People have no context for the decision making process involved in these projects, no knowledge of the requirements, constraints, organisational politics.

First, most of these redesigns are done in good fun, as a thought exercise for the designer. New thinking applied to familiar context.

But secondly, it's so important to understand that all brands and interfaces are ultimately judged by your customers, who have "no knowledge of [or patience for] the requirements, constraints, organisational politics." I've just heard that argument way too often used to prop up a poor design outcome. Good design remembers that the context of your product is in the hands of your consumer, not in the conference room of your headquarters.

If someone outside your company offers some free thoughts on your brand and identity, it's not a bad idea to look them over. They are relating to you as a customer. (And usually, a huge promoter.)
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> They are far more standards compliant than any other version.

Of IE? Considering the other versions, that's not exactly a high bar to set.
I can't even begin to explain how much this post hits home for me. If not for my 3 years in customer service as an undergrad, I think I'd be much worse off than I am currently. It's still a daily struggle for me to put myself out there, and I have to make a conscious effort to do so. The saving grace for me, as I'm trying to run a small startup, is that I'm incredibly passionate about what I'm working on and I'm confident in my long-term goals for the company. If not for that, I'd probably not have made it this far. It took a while for me to realize that even "successful" people struggle with the same thing. I've found that the best way to get over the fear is to force yourself to do things that make you uncomfortable. While I'm certainly not fearless, I've made huge strides thanks to all my faking. Thanks to Freedman for writing this.
Oh boy. Let's hope Microsoft digs its head out of its butt with new management at the helm.
Escrow is a service, not just software. I'm not sure I would trust a service that was offered for free.
AngularJS + Firebase is really incredible. I've been doing some really fun stuff with it on mobile and it really rocks there.
Resources outside of Earth are available for human consumption provably. Alas, just at astronomical prices presently.

I understand that it is rather prudent to presume to act as if we are limited solely to Earth's resources - because we are right now - but to be reflexibly dismissive of space exploration as an avenue to be actively pursued to remedy such issues is simply not constructive.
It's disappointing that so many tech videos (in my experience) pay such little attention to the audio (bitrate and/or volume). My volume had to be at 100% to hear this comfortably.

Another example are published webcasts wherein the presenter is using their telephone (on speakerphone!) to give the presentation. That is just ridiculous.

If you do presentations don't use a system that doesn't allow you to use a microphone (and don't forget to buy and use the microphone).
My first thought - are the driveways in front of garages in San Fran? If so, then it's impossible, you can't realistically move your garage a couple of feet to the left and everything be hunky dory. Though maybe the OP mentioned that and I missed it.
Idea: Github should allow "plugin repositories" that can be shared or private.

The first iteration would have some way to provide file type viewers. A file under filetype/viewer.js.js would replace github's default JavaScript viewer (itself simply published as a repository that just happens to be the top node). You could start your own customizations by forking that repository. If you develop a viewer/editor/future plugin component that you think the world should use, send it in as a pull request to the canonical repo.

The other thing I think github should do is go the JetBrains Upstream / Google Grok (if it ever happens) route and provide syntactic / semantic analysis as a service, from which all these visualizers, editors, and other tools are built.
Have to put on my tin foil hat for this. NSA-related, too, so you're warned.

This makes me wonder just how much Google works with the US government. I'm not saying the result of whatever Calico wants or will do (because it's all pretty vague right now) is a negative.

But Calico seems to come at a time when Obama is pushing for universal health care, which will be a huge industry. Last I heard, it was estimated at $1.1 trillion.

It just feels like the US has a tendency to take something good (universal health care), and make it into something bad ("We will use this to profile/monitor every US citizen").
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An interesting trend is that we're now no longer relying on governments to pursue big, hairy, audacious goals. Governments and also capital markets nowadays seem unable to pursue any really long-term projects at all.

Instead, all the future-advancing progress seems to be made by independently rich individuals; and also not by the "aristocratic-rich" families, but by noveau riche upstarts such as Brin, Musk and others. What does it say about our current, traditional institutions if they seem unable to do that? Are they broken, and can they be fixed somehow?
You can cherry pick all kinds of things and be better than Firefox but, overall where it matters, IE11 brings up the rear.
Protip: A user with an account name, "fuckyoutoo" does not care about protips.
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And you've already refrained from having children?

Then, ok, fair enough. The question is, how do you make that fully general so that our ecosystem doesn't collapse and kill the lot of us?

And then, how do you make the economics work out? Immortal transhumans need to eat, too, but once they get some kind of capital base going that expands faster than inflation, as long as they've got even the barest livable income, they'll eventually live long enough for their wealth to grow into "OWN EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE" levels.

And we thought today's asset bubbles were large!

Meanwhile, the young of the future will be even more screwed than we young are today, for precisely the same reasons but more so.
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Blackberry could have been one of the dominant everything right now if they weren't trying to be so controlling of their market share..

Also, they need to change use from BlackBerry to Blackberry ...
Unfortunately this is most of the politics that drives health care in the USA. Most people in the US don't even get close to old age because they don't have access to adequate healthcare.

Bill Gates is saving thousands of lives by trying to wipe out diseases that generally affect poor people for very little money per life saved.
While in the US millions is spent per person to provide longer lives for a few people.
Funny, I have spent years trying to escape the small town/small-minded feel of most online communities. I favor larger sites these days, where there is somewhat less entrapment or entrenchment due to personal politicking.

That being said, I currently spend more time on MetaFilter than on HN. I sometimes don't show up here for months at a time. As an openly female member, I have found this boys club in many ways less than welcoming. Possibly not a good thing to admit.
iOS7 is released, not a beta.
I'm not convinced we can provably show that the resources on Earth aren't capable of sustaining a great many more people, albeit with a significantly different style of living.
I was in the firebase beta, and it really was pretty simple to get a new app up and running, there was certainly good documentation. What are you referring to?
If you want to keep it simple and standard looking, go ahead. I don't see that changing in any way.

A classic use case of the new feature for business users, would be using different board colors to easily differentiate between boards.

Just this would be a nice usability win.
Yeah, drives me nuts there's zero reporting/analytics. Considering leaving Trello altogether because of this.
The bound notebook thing is totally a silly hipster retro fetish. Ringed binders make so much more sense for notes and planning. Insert, remove, and rearrange pages as needed. Bind in irregular bits of paper with those plastic sheet protectors. Add labeled dividers as needed. Add computer printouts!

The only thing to use a bound notebook for is a chronological journal.
Reminds me of Anscombe's Quartet: four datasets that have the same mean, variance, correlation, and linear regression, but are really very different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet
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> If we had a regime where anyone could voluntarily place any therapy into their own body, we'd move a lot faster. Yes, a few more people would die in testing. But a lot more lives would be saved by the therapies produced.

In the age of patent medicines where you could freely use any kind of "medicine" or treatment this was not true at all. Medicine is not simple to understand or develop and asking the average person to make this evaluation is enabling a system that will take money from people in exchange for making their health worse. The kickstarter model is not appropriate for medicine.
"Here IE10 is 257% slower than the fastest browser 379pts vs 974pts)" I would say something slower can be 0-100% of the faster thing. Being 100% slower means it does nothing at all. I would define IE 10 as being 61.1% slower and Firefox as being 157% (not 257%) faster. 100% is double the speed, 200% is triple the speed, which it's not.

"A 9% improvement is still 248% slower..."

That's saying that if A is 257% faster than B and B speeds up by 9%, A is 248% faster than B. I don't agree. 974/379 = 2.57. Increase the 379 by 9% -> *1.09 = 413.1. 974/413.1 = 2.35.

Which means Firefox is 135% faster after IE's 9% improvement.
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Thank god people like you weren't around when vaccines were being developed.
Honestly they appear to have found a nice way for me to personally give them money and get something in return. I don't have to use the features but the fact I can give them a little bit of money for a product that has had a massive impact on my day to day work and a small impact on my home life (mainly shopping lists) is cool.

Great great great product.
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Oh, don't worry. Ecosystem collapse is already occurring. 2000 years? We won't last 200 at this rate.
jetpens.com, pick up a lamy safari and a couple different nibs of different thicknesses to see what you like best.
You missed the [the title of this post is tongue in cheek] part.
The Greek Spartan child rearing model, at least for boys? Historical documents would have mentioned if Spartan men turned out completely screwed up compared to Spartan women... probably. The ancients certainly enjoyed playing the compare and contrast game with the Athenians and it never seemed to come up in the numerous differences.

Also the model probably breaks down into its not terribly clear how oversupervised Spartan boys were. Its still probably a historical model worth considering.
Google does lock down the Google Play services, and their incentive for doing is the license fee$$$ they can charge to the compliant device manufacturers.
Isn’t the problem with detecting bad randomness that you can’t be sure about your decision?

That is, if you accept a certain probability of falsely identifying a RNG as biased, I don’t see why this should be a fundamentally difficult problem, at the very least for the generator with four million 0s and a single 1: The probability that a good RNG spits out less than a thousand 1s in four million queries is negligible compared to the probability that it returns between 1.5 and 2.5 million 1s.

Of course, it will be harder to detect more sophisticatedly broken generators, but still, without requiring certainty, it should be possible to make some sensible claims?
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I find Trello very tough to use with a team but great for keeping track of individual process. Asana (while very different) seems to work better with our team of 5.

I was hoping Trello Gold would have offered the things that keep us from using Trello in the first place because I really do like the the Kanban method.
Of course, you could also assume that having an altered view of reality leads one to believe it's reasonable to strike out on their own (and in some cases start their own business). Again, doesn't imply causation, but it's possible way to flip the relationship on its head.
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It seems like you're saying, it's either Ayn Rand or Stalin, there's no middle ground.
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Your logic can be dismissed as a false dichotomy.
Oh, I grew up in the same times, in the same general area, with just a little whee bit of difference: I'm aspergers, I'm socially anxious, and I quite clearly remember that most of the fun groups like you mention had were actually at the expense of the kids like me.

Ooops.

Also, while I didn't spend that much time among modern kids, I do see them having lots of fun (yes, with the eeevil tablets too, sometimes), and then going to organized activities that they often pick themselves and seem to enjoy more than kicking a brick or bullying (sorry, was I meant to say "fighting"? Well, I won't) another group of kids. And then they get a bit older, and find sports or creative or technical activities that were completely out of reach of most kids growing up in the magical eighties.

It's just part "our times were different", part golden age mythology. In reality, the entire concept of childhood as we modernly understand it is fairly young, and the idea that kids play and adults don't is ridiculous. Furthermore, it's just us adults judging kids to not having played enough without putting their health in danger or at least getting uncomfortably dirty.

Modern kids play. A lot. Just because they play in a way that's different from yours or bucolic paintings doesn't mean they don't actually have more fun than you did.
I hired my logo designer off of Dribbble, with excellent results. It probably is less of a problem for logo design, than for something like UX or UI.
Agreed, and it's really been disgusting me lately with MS. Not just IE, but virtually every MS product or service is 99% marketing-driven, to the point that it should be making politicians jealous. They don't try and prove why they're better, they just tell you that they're better. And no, cherry-picked results don't count.

All they do now is try to force a narrative about how they're "better" than some competitor in some wholly subjective (or at least, objective-yet-inadequate) way. Google vs. Bing? That entire fiasco was downright embarrassing.
The new alert banner is enormous! It clearly seems to have been designed with the iPhone 5+ in mind. At least the new ringtones and chimes are sort of lovely and not corny like the "Classic" ones.
This isn't a serious objection and this line of thinking is fundamentally flawed. You could say the exact same about the internet or the automobile or the MRI. It only solves the problem of "the elite".
Well, this is precedented in a small way - royalty. Throughout history, children of those in significant power have grown up under a microscope. Celebrity kids have a similar experience.

There are a host of other issues to contend with, my the amplification of narcissistic tendencies and lack of empathy is well documented in these cases. I can't help but wonder if the privileged children are being subjected to very similar, if diminished experience.

It should also be noted that this is not as much of a problem in poorer neighborhoods, as I see kids playing on the streets and driveways when I occasionally drive through.
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Hackerspace = adult playground.
An interesting point from one of Calico's announcements is a statement that curing all cancer would only add ~3 years to the expected lifespan.

This is thought provoking - if even a perfect solution to such a problem won't give us what we want, then we do need to "make people think differently" and try to focus on a different, bigger problem than the current approach of trying to strike out separate illnesses.

By the way, allowing medicine to think about not only "how to bring a broken-person to average" but "how to bring an average person to above-average" would also require a major change in the way of thinking for the whole area. Some homo sapiens are extremely resistant for diseases, some are smarter than average, some have much lower aging damage. Instead of thinking how to fix a genetic disease by replacing a broken gene with the "average" one; we should think about what is the best that we, as a species, could be.
If we could effectively control aging and death, perhaps that would make human reproduction unnecessary or undesirable even. Perhaps that will stop all the nonsense in the name of "oh won't you think of the children?"
"This was much more than just a new logo or a single brainstorm"

<pretty much just describes a new logo and color palette>

"The new Bing identity is more than a new logo and color palette"

Sounds like they're trying to convince themselves, telling not showing, etc.
I think a company having a design language and identity is a powerful and wonderful thing. It makes decisions easier, it makes things so much more clear and improves what you do a lot.

At a higher level, having a vision, a framework, a filter by which you make choices and solve problems makes the whole process of doing these things easier.
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Why would you actually want to increase the availability of parking spaces in San Fran?
Increasing parking spaces will make driving easier, and when driving becomes easier then more people start driving, and when more people start driving you get ridiculous congestion.
Make driving harder and you will have more people using alternative forms of transportation and less congestion.
That is exactly parent's point: a fountain pen makes sense for long-form constant writing, but not for short burst, sporadic note-taking.
I wonder if the militaristic upbringing served to remove the narcissism. An army requires a lot of cohesion and sacrifice. How well they were socially adapted, probably mattered less in a militaristic society.
Sorry if you got the idea that I was asserting Gentoo == mainstream. I was merely suggesting that maybe it might be heading towards mainstreaming, and pointing to the Gentoo integration as a step that might make that easier.
Scan chains by design, give you the ability to load each flop with whatever value you want. Then you can toggle the clock and see the result. If you were very resilient about this you may be able to gather information about the structure. Without a GDS or netlist this is all very far fetched and unlikely. I've said before, but it is far more likely to bribe a rogue designer than to introduce back doors at this level.
It would be good to get Firebase's Angular bindings to work decently well for top-level objects and improve their promise support. I recently worked on http://worldmap.io as a way to test a bunch of angular-related tech and the firebase bindings, while dead easy to start, were a pain as I couldn't resolve them in the routeProvider. Instead I had to do it inside the controller, which forced me to keep a bunch of boilerplate. See https://github.com/alexandrosm/worldmap/blob/master/app/scri...

Still, a great project and concept, just has some more way to go before I'd use it in a real project. I do want to check out https://github.com/marknutter/firebase-resource though, made by a fellow HNer and mentioned last time around.
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I don't believe that p value. the non-founder curve looks fine, but the founder curve has bins with some pretty serious deviations from expected, so you are overestimating your confidence in your curve fit.
Disclaimer: I do not hate Google; I use their search and email daily.

I hate to be this guy, but...

> OK so you’re probably thinking wow! That’s a lot different from what Google does today.

Not really. Google is in a business of selling ads. In addition, they do make money on selling/sharing/exchanging information, mostly indirectly.

> But as we explained in our first letter to shareholders, there’s tremendous potential for technology more generally to improve people’s lives.

.. and shareholders did not care about that. If you own shares of a hospital chain then you may care. But when you hold shares of Subway, Coca-Cola or Google, in those particular markets you care less about people's lives. You care about bottom line.

> So don’t be surprised if we invest in projects that seem strange or speculative compared with our existing Internet businesses.

We are not surprised. But since you sun-setting pretty good, useful projects like Google Reader, and you taking Jobs advice of "stay focus on only couple [most profitable] projects at the time", we ask: "where is the catch and how you gonna make money _otherwise_ than selling info or exchanging it?"

Just recently I have cancelled my 23andme kit (they gave me some hardtime though and never fully recovered the fee (taking legal action is simply not worth the $)), because after doing some research I found it that 23&me owner is family with Brin. There is no chance in this world you will tell me Google will not try to make money off of my DNA this or another way)

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/23andme
its not about whether elite is saved or not ... its about whether you're healthy or not ....

Imagine you have two groups of people: Group A and Group B. Group A is living longer but unhealthy and Group B is living shorter but extremely healthy , which one do you pick - I rather pick Group B ... dont know whether Calico will be about living longer or living healthier - its not a easy thing to crack but I hope they succeed ...
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I use a system similar to the Bullet Journal for notes during meetings. I label the top of the page with the meeting name and the date. Then, I take notes with check boxes next to every line that requires me to do something (even if that means reminding someone else to do something). If you want to incorporate it into your digital note taking, just check off each line as you transfer it (or use arrows or something similar).
I haven't looked, but I doubt it. We could always patch those modules too, but its not worth the effort. The real problem is getting a working python.
I'm in the same boat (background in data/finance trying to eek into UX or prod mgmt). I've noticed it all just boils down to definition.

"Design" seems to be evolving from pure aesthetics (what's the first emotion evoked upon sight) to aesthetics+function (what's the first reaction, and how does this affect my audience). Maybe it's because 10 years ago "designer" was purely synonymous with fashion or pure photoshop/illustrator. Now it seems to represent anyone and everyone from graphics/visuals, to interaction and information, and even just product.

It makes me wonder though, if there were a dribbble of site flows, wireframes, and creative call-to-actions, would people flock to it?
Oh wow... That's... a pretty big leap.
Don't put too much stock in a Show HN. They are extremely hit or miss depending on the time you submit. You might get thousands of hits, you might get 20.

The only thing you should would worry about is making sure if there is a spike that your site doesn't crash.

The other things you're talking about are not optimizing for a Show HN, they are optimizing for a successful landing page.