skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"hiding less used features" Like sending an email?

I agree with everything you've written above, and unfortunately agree with you that they've nearly perfectly designed the UI to match "some population".

I firmly believe that proof of space aliens on earth will not be techno-thriller like spaceplanes in area 51 or theatrical drama like a UFO landing on the whitehouse lawn (we'd probably shoot it down anyway) but more likely we'll finally prove space aliens are among us when we properly identify the UI designers at APPL, GOOG, MSFT are all Vulcans and Orion Space Pirates which explains why normal earthlings can't make any sense out of what they're pushing to us.

The "modern" problem with UI seen over the past few years isn't conservatism, or ageism, or noob orientation, or pushing hardware tech for the sake of increased sales, the problem is the focus groups being used are composed of homeless Alpha Centaurians on LSD instead of humans, so naturally the endusers have an intense WTF moment when they're subjected to something that makes perfect sense if you have eyeballs that can see ultraviolet and seven fingers per tentacle.

Several jobs ago I worked at a place where they formally directed us to think about any written communication we generate, and if it sounds like something you'd read in a Dilbert cartoon, think it over a bit more. Modern UI designers need to implement a similar rule, if Cthulhu rises and decides to use your phone, or Vulcans land and click on your website, and they love it and feel you designed your product specifically for members of a horror mythos or space aliens, as a designer you're probably doing something wrong unless you're a hollywood sci fi prop designer.
I'd gladly give up 2 hours of my time over a 4 hour interview with a whiteboarding exercise that I inevitably fuck up.
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I didn't know this - pretty cool http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/github.com/ipython/ipython/r...
This may not have occurred to you, but it's an investment of time both ways. The company most likely spent >2 hours of staff time filtering resumes, & handling communications before issuing the code challenge.

If a fizzbuzz-order phone screen was done before the longer coding challenge, for multiple candidates, then most likely >> 2 hours.

What sucks though is when the hiring manager pretends (as managers often do) that the challenge will take "only 2 hours", but in reality -- to get it production-grade, well-document, and (as happens quite often) provide fixes or workarounds to bugs in the hastily drawn up spec -- it ends up taking 5-10 hours.

And as a reward, you get sent back to the internal recruiter, with their finite attention span and short-term memory capacity. And the usual random delays, inattentiveness, and cognitively detached communication loops ensue, for week after week.

Fun for everyone!
The answer is every single time. They do not read prompts ever.
Maybe like 18 months ago.....
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I normally use linux but thought i'll try w8. Installed it on dual boot and played around. Wanted to restart it so I could boot to linux. Had to google how to shut down w8.
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If you have no idea where potential consumers of your product might be, you shouldn't even start building something to target them.
The demo doesn't work because https://rawgithub.com/maroslaw/rainyday.js/v0.1.1/rainyday.j... is 503ing, not because he doesn't support your browser :(
Hmm, a few visitors and Ryan's blog has crashed. What non-Microsoft tools & hosting do you think he used?
This video sums it all up: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oprUI6nupfc
Yeah, the San Francisco office is now officially the headquarters (moved from Copenhagen in 2009), but as you can see from the bios of the people listed as being in SF on that page, it's almost exclusively the sales and finance office, not where engine dev takes place.
Most of the time the top article goes down. However there is always gooogle cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:U8pNBnR...
> She was an educated person who was doing what we want educated people to do in our society: teach other people what they know.

We apparently don't value teaching French very much, and I can't really argue that we should value it more.

> No, It doesn't really sound like you do.

I certainly do. But what really irks me about this piece is that we're supposed to feel particularly outraged because this woman belonged to our class (educated professional). And that rubs me the wrong way.
Could you pack any more condescension in a post against happy iOS users? I happen to like ios7 because it is the most productive mobile OS available, for my needs. Which are not trivial.
> She lived day-to-day, didn't bother to plan even short term future, it's completely her fault.

Nobody should have to go without healthcare just because they didn't plan ahead or didn't do the right set of steps. Health care should be available for anyone without putting the burden of being eligible for that care on individual people.
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Yes, this is a common source of bugs when you're not sure what is changing. See below, someone suggests to use 'to' and 'as' prefix to convey immutable / mutable methods.
While it's fun to make fun of a 25 year's seemingly rash decisions, sometimes those youngsters' rush to embrace a new language or tech actually does move business forward where before it would not have.
It works without the host file hack (from Germany).

Edit: I just browsed TC and I am getting the torrent download there too..
Is it OK to store candidates personal information in a free SAAS?

The fact someone has applied to you could be highly confidential.
Hey, you might not get this but the issue you reported is now fixed (failure to resolve segmented index expressions after some changes to PG system functions). Thanks for reporting this and let me know if I can help with anything.
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The problem with this approach is that when someone creates a better weather site and the Web decides that it's good, it won't become the top result, because Google's weather functionality is already hardcoded to be the top result.

The right solution is for Google to open up the SERP in a limited way, allow sites to put their widgets there and let them compete. This is tricky (tech, business, UX...) but it's doable and it would be better for the future of the Web.
I was in NY for vacation during the opening Friday and decided to head into a queue and line up for the 5s, suspecting that it may sell out quickly while also leveraging the pricing difference between Europe and USA. This was the first time that I lined up for any Apple launch (execept for the yearly WWDC waiting line of course), and it was overall a fun experience, not only because my girlfriend joined me there and we had breakfast while waiting, also, it was sunny.

The 5s has been my first new iPhone since I got an iPhone 4 in 2010 and for me, coming from an older device that didn't even have Siri, I am extremely happy with it. It may be a moot update if you already haven an iPhone 5 (or maybe even a 4s) but to me it feels like an entirely different device (not only because I also updated to iOS7 at the same time, of course).

I really like the finger sensor, as it makes login a lot faster. Of course, there're security issues here, but for me it is just a convenience method, if people are able to break through this sensor, they will also be able to use other methods to gain access to my data.
I also look forward to apps that leverage the M7 as I tend to do a fair bit of walking and running and like to see at the end of the day how well I performed.
I really like Siri, again, this is my first time having access to it, and I already use it for writing text messages, checking the weather, or creating schedules / appointments.
In general, the speed difference between my old iPhone 4 and this one is staggering. This, of course, was to be expected, as the 4 was crazy slow at times, but it still makes me happy.

All in all, for me, the 5s is a great update and I hope that the 'most forward thinking phone yet' comment from Apple is close to the truth, as I again, plan to use it for at least 3-4 years before updating again.
https://gist.github.com/gregclermont/6669056 - It's being worked on. Doesn't look to be malicious at current.
I found Cory Doctorow's recent short screenplay on the topic quite fitting:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/05/metadata-w...

(features Winston Churchill, Alan Turing and Theresa May)
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The only decent argument against anything in the Microsoft stack, in my opinion, is the licensing costs. You pretty much need to develop on Windows using Visual Studio. And for ASP.NET you pretty much need to deploy to IIS on Windows Server. Though at scale the OS and MSDN licensing costs can be just a drop in the bucket. That is until you decide to use SQL Server on the backend. It's a great product but the licensing costs can make you go broke. If I started a new product or company and used .NET and needed an relational database I would seriously consider PostgreSQL.
A few years ago, I participated on a interview for a job (in a startup) which requires some skills in ASP.NET.
When I started talking to company owner and I said to him that I knew PHP (and ASP.NET too, of course), he started to say that ASP.NET is better
because it's paid, expensive and it has a great support from Microsoft... That's all he said about it.
Later on, I discovered that almost 7/10 of big companies' IT managers think the same, that's why ASP.NET still has its audience.
The same goes on with Oracle.
503 kills the demo :(

https://rawgithub.com/maroslaw/rainyday.js/v0.1.1/rainyday.j...
I'm with you. I think it's funny how people put down a technology (ASP.NET) that was released in January of 2002 because it's not up to snuff with 2013 web development tools.

I also made the switch to ASP.NET MVC and can't imagine ever going back to ASP.NET. The unbelievable clean HTML you get, full control over rendering and rapid development is just phenomenal.

Most of the anti-Microsoft comments I see on HN are of the "but VB6 is terrible!" and "ASP.NET stinks!" variety from people that stopped looking at Microsoft development tools over a decade ago and are still comparing those old tools to their modern competitors.
"today WPF is all but discontinued"

This is an interesting claim - WPF is still the main UI framework for writing Desktop apps, right? I don't know of any replacement framework that is preferred by MS for authoring desktop apps (I never use any WinStore apps on my Windows 8 devices).
It would be nice if they had an option during install to pick your search engine. Google, yahoo, bing, duckduck.
If you liked Minefold, I'm working on a service called Pickaxe (http://get.pickaxe.io) that's in a similar vein. It's not up and running yet, BUT you can still register to be eligible to beta-test it (for free) when it's available.

http://get.pickaxe.io
No more Hibernate? Really?
I guess we'll have to wait for not too expensive, electricity efficient and fast FPGAs.
> That's not true. The lady worked part time. Most dish washers work full or longer time work shifts.

This is not true at all for dish washers and retail workers. The trend over time has been to schedule those workers at the maximum possible amount without them qualifying as a full time employee, which may entitle them to some kinds of benefits.
Maybe one of those PHDs thought that you've captive audience. Let's make them spend more time on your site.
It looks like rawgithub.com is 503-ing. Here's a version of the demos with the JS file pasted straight in:

demo 1: http://jsbin.com/UFudExe/1

demo 2: http://jsbin.com/ePidOJe/2
So often the line is when the business owner has spent enough money to feel more comfortable with their technology choice.
Here you go:

demo 1: http://jsbin.com/UFudExe/1

demo 2: http://jsbin.com/ePidOJe/2
Have you tried "invert colors" under accessibility? Makes the color palette rather crazy but at least everything is dark.

I don't understand what light colours have to do with hipsters though, most UIs tend towards lighter colours, it's the old school unix coonsoles that preferred dark.
From Rawgithub.com's website

> Use this for testing and for sharing demo code with friends, but don't use it for anything production-related. It's slow, it might break from time to time, and it's intended as a convenience for development, not free static hosting.

Rawgithub is nice to test something out on but probably not going to hold out against HN traffic. I did get it working with a different link you posted and it looks very cool.
Tesco (UK's largest supermarket) to launch own brand tablet computer
Here’s a working version http://jsbin.com/ixUSEBE/3/
I copied the rainday.js into the HTML so it doesn’t rely on external resources.
5S is much more in demand than the 5C. Pretty good, I say.
The script is being served up via rawgithub, which is 503ing.

Here's a version with the code pasted straight in:

demo 1: http://jsbin.com/UFudExe/1

demo 2: http://jsbin.com/ePidOJe/2
It was Isaac Asimov I believe.

http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
Stability, maintainability and long term investment is many time more important than gee-whiz tech.

I'll add one more: Googlibility. I don't like to use bleeding edge technology because when I google error messages I get nothing back.
The article fails to mention that this significantly surpasses the most commonly repeated estimate of 6M (made by Piper Jaffray).

Source:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57603553-37/apple-expected...
Agreed! That misinformation-graphic is full of fallacious information. Just alone the bias of asking homeschooled children whether they think their homeschooling was beneficial; there are so many reasons why there would be a positive bias built in that totally pollutes the data. One top of that, you compare costs but don't provide an adequate cost structure for the fixed and variable costs of the home that the homeschooling is being conducted in??? It's all just trash, and, ironically, poorly reflects upon homeschooling if that is what comes of it.

Ignorance is bliss, just like unsettlingly blissful homeschoolers.
Don't you know you just hover the mouse in the magic spot and then move it up quickly when the magic charms bar appears? ;-) I am fine with Win 8 in desktop mode but every once in awhile, I'll click to open a file and be thrown into tablet mode and then you're in a different world.
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When a board is private, only those users added as members to the board can view or edit it.
here's the second demo (different backdrop, and no horizontal motion):

http://jsbin.com/ePidOJe/2
Piss poor excuse - think of all the users using a password now downgrading their security, but Apple advertising it as "high security".

I like what you're saying, massively allow users to secure their phones without the pain of entering a password, but when it comes at a compromise of "little is better than none" is not the mentality people need for security. I'd rather see corporations rewarding and encouraging proper security strategies rather than creating some compromise for marketing.
Part of the problem, I think, is that our concept of privacy is tightly linked with our physical embodiment. But our concept of self is no longer limited to our bodies. We conceive of our online avatars as ourselves. But our instincts about privacy haven't kept pace.
Happens to me today on Spiegel.de - one of the largest German sites (news site)
It might not be a big technology story but it's a big business story.

I think it's big deal not because it's Tesco, but it's a big deal because it could be Target, Wegmans, Wal*Mart, Nasty Gal or any other retailer. Retailers are happy to give substantial discounts if you have a loyalty card, so I think they get the concept of a subsidized tablet that collects usage data and keeps you in contact with the brand.

On top of that, if Wi-Fi is provisioned in the store, the tablet can be customized to provide in-store experiences. For instance, the Nook always shows "Barnes and Noble Store" in the network connections chooser which advertises that you can go there when you're on the road.

On top of that, it gives retailers all the more incentive to develop better mobile experiences.

In the Android ecosystem, we'll probably see "white box" tablets made in China that can be easily branded by any company. Perhaps we'll even see contests where you can win a "Red Bull" or "Budweiser" branded tablets.
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Apparently you can use your Tesco card points to bring the price down to £60, and in a manner that doesn't use £60 worth of points, which moves it further into impulse territory.
Happens to me on Spiegel.de
See my reply to welder above on the topic of Backbone.js. I had just finished a project using it before I came to this job and I was quite certain I didn't want to use Backbone.js again. I knew there were better solutions out there. The t-shirt thing was actually an experiment to try out AngularJS and see if it was good enough for our needs here.

I had meant to do the same with Ember.js as well but AngularJS did the job so well that I decided to just go with it. So possibly Ember.js is even better. I don't know. But I can say we haven't really regretted AngularJS yet.
Agreed - I enjoy it. It's been streamlined to be good at conversing easily with people via e-mail. If you use other more "Outlook-type" features a lot in e-mail you might be annoyed.

If you're writing a marketing e-mail with HTML or something longer, it's probably not great. If you like to use a lot of rich text formatting then it's probably not great, but for actual, pithy e-mail, in plain text, quickly, I think it works really well. Keeping your messages in the background to cross-reference things without opening 12 windows is awesome.

That said - I did have to search for a second to figure out how to edit the subject. A couple of quick tweaks or the addition of a "message settings" button for more admin-type tasks would make it just a bit better.

Everyone's a UI critic.
I'm in the process of converting my team of 50ish programmers in Chennai into a DevOps and "legacy apps support" org because finding people with the necessary current skills is proving too difficult. And by "current" I'm talking basic stuff like javascript competency, an understanding of what MVC is (versus dragging toolbox controls onto a webform and writing a couple lines of databinding), and the impossibility of hiring people who have programming experience in anything besides .Net (and to a lesser extent, Java, but even Java is hard to recruit for) and SQL Server or Oracle. My "low cost" (which, as a result of demand and globalization, has turned into "US light" rather than "developing world") country of choice now is Mexico, and -- judging from the recent recruiting challenges there -- I'm not alone. In the Guadalajara area, HCL, Tata, Infosys, HP, Dell, Oracle, and a raft of others are all gobbling up freshers who really can code themselves out of a box, who have good communication skills with at least passable English, who are able and interested in learning new skills, and generally speaking have much more in common culturally with the US.

I am certain there are both bright spots and bright futures ahead for the Indian IT economy (and education system), but for now I'm either putting my creative work in other countries or hiring [much higher cost] consultancies to augment the local skills in my captive team there. The cycle mentioned by other commenters here and in the blog post of finding employment solely for the sake of certification or learning a new skill to support jumping to a new employer is a huge turn off for two reasons: 1) a lot of the incoming freshers literally have zero skills and it's a huge time sink for the experienced folks to get them to the point where they can contribute, and 2) by the time someone is contributing they're already either looking for a new job or expecting promotions and salary hikes in the 20-50% per annum range. This is untenable and quite ridiculous, even with the recent inflation/currency issues. My company, like many others, have a different job code/title scale for India than everywhere else in the world, just to support the concept of having a dozen steps in between fresher (literally zero skills) and senior engineer/architect... not to mention similar things on the management side.

I could write a book on this crap and, frankly, I'm already feeling riled up just thinking about it so I'll stop here. I'll just leave it at this: I truly hope the Indian education system and cultural issues surrounding employment, family, corruption, and financial stability are worked out in the coming years, but the stress dealing with this mess through the past ten years has put me off enough to abandon ship. The cost savings is just not worth the productivity hit (not to mention subjective issues like time difference).
It's hosted with Wordpress on Linode so you are correctly spotting a huge dose of irony.
I see where this assumption comes from, but scraping the personal info off a phone is a thing, and "random thieves" might be the minority when it comes to stealing and reselling phones (at least in europe or asia they are rarely random. It don't know for the US).

I haven't heard of it recently, but a few years ago there was a story on phone operator temporary staff that would offer clients to move their contact info from their old phone to the new one (it's a completely legit service) and keep a backup of the old info to sell it. The price for an entry was something like 2 cents, but data would be sold by batches for about 700~800 dollars.

I didn't find any quick resources in english, just for the numbers there was this piece by trendmicro (to note, they are of course biased to make the number a littre bigger)
http://blog.trendmicro.co.jp/archives/4828
Or you can use Tomatoes[1] to track also your working time.

[1] http://tomato.es
> Tried reading this but the site was down... ironically.

I googled the title and grabbed Google's cache (in text-only form, the real deal wouldn't load for me).

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:U8pNBnR...
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You make a good point.

Some pretty cities in American flyover country are a very good deal. Eugene, Boise, Flagstaff, Albuquerque, Salt Lake, and others can have half the coastal wages and one third the cost of living. In some ways, they're an analogue to the advantages Mexico has for its local well educated class. On the other hand, the American flyover cities achieve it in a very different way and make the advantage available to a wider range of skill levels.

Mexican flyover cities don't seem have a comparable advantage over the big city, mostly because it's harder to get a high skilled job in the cheaper parts of Mexico. I've only lived for a month in a smaller Mexican city, though; my view may be incomplete.

Or course, not everyone wants to live in LA or SF or Mexico City.
In what scenario is opening a torrent client a major security issue?
To add some low-budget examples, I did a tally [1] of where the 2013 Independent Games Festival finalists came from, and Sweden had four:

Göteborg: Hotline Miami, by Dennaton http://www.hotlinemiami.com/

Malmö: rymdkapsel, by grapefrukt http://rymdkapsel.com/

Malmö: Year Walk, by Simogo Games http://simogo.com/games/yearwalk/

Stockholm: Eleven, by Christoffer Hedborg http://elevenminutesofspace.com/

[1] The full IGF finalist list annotated with location: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/igf2013_geography.html