skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are missing the point here. The app in question performs a very simple task. Of course most of the users will be able to figure out little issues without getting stuck. But, if we consider the default apps as examples of what we will get with the new UI design, the article points out to how things could get out of hand when the interaction gets more complicated or the user isn't sure of what the app does. This is something people complain about, because iOS is the exemplary product that comes without a manual, and everybody just figure out how to use it.
It's not so much desensitization as media sanitization where images are pixelated, videos blurred, contextual information stripped from news reporting... leaving many in a soporific state.

If the true horrors of violence were shown without censorship, all day, every day in the news media, so nobody could escape facing the world as it is, I have faith the public would be so disgusted and so outraged that they would move heaven and earth to find a solution.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bae_1304490155

Watch and cry.
The OS X dev community is much smaller than the iOS community. For questions like those above, I'd suggest the cocoa-dev mailing list:

https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev
I am interested. Having started to use this workflow in teaching programming, I find myself wishing again that educators had better dedicated tools. We need tools that allow teachers, in their core subject areas, to focus on building strong curriculum in that subject area.

Architects have CAD software, programmers have dedicated text editors and IDEs. Educators need curriculum development tools that let them focus on difficult and interesting pedagogical issues, not on formatting and version control issues.

How do I get in touch?
> Didn't the fact that I already wrote that "Twilight is targeted at teenage girls" stop you from writing all those dreadful "counter-examples"

No, merely reference Twilight is not enough because in majority of cases, a show about a certain type of characters is not necessarily targeted to that audience.

The gist of your argument is that since (1) geeks are more prominent in pop culture lately, (2) BBT is a comedy about geeks, then it follows that (3) BBT must be a show for geeks. Certainly that's possible, but where's the evidence? Another possibility is that the show is targeted towards people who know a geek (which is a much larger audience... essentially everyone).

> "in BBT the content is all about the geek references, and nothing is generic and universal."

I disagree. BBT is a comedy, and the content is the jokes, 99% of which, you don't actually have to be a geek to get (it certainly helps if you know a geek or are familiar with the geek stereotype).

Yes, BBT includes geek references. So what? Excuse the "dreadful counter-examples", but ER included medical references, MASH included military references, etc. That's required by concept of the show.

I think the most damning evidence against your claim is BBT's audience. It's a wildly successful show, yet so many self-identified geeks on Internet have problems with it (mainly the ones who think it should be a show just for them. Hmm.) So the burden of proof that it's actually a show specifically for geeks (but just happens to appeal to non-geeks) is on you. And you presented no evidence.
The way FB implements margins is terrible, there's nothing "semantic" about it - it's basically a single level of abstraction above whacking style tags onto elements directly.
Sorry, yeah a refresh. I can't stand spending £2000+ on a laptop when the Haswells are just around the corner.
I finally made the jump from Python to Clojure when I needed to really chomp on some data.

The world is a better place for me now. Paredit is an absolute dream, and the JVM has shown itself to be truly worthy.
Same here I don't have any of the mentioned items.

It's so weird to see things like 'Twitter account' and 'Facebook account' being 'assumed'.

They are just two private companies why should we (directly/indirectly) force everyone to have one?

Email I'm fine with, it's a open technology.

It's only a matter of time until we turn Twitter and Facebook into more open technologies like email. I sure hope to see that happen.
I work with people who have TBI (Traumatic Brain Injuries) on a daily basis. Many have cognitive issues with short or long term memory.

We use iPads during "Tech days". On iPads that we have updated to iOS7, people that normally have no problem are having a heck of a time with the new UI, where things are, new actions with swiping, buttons, fonts, ect. It's not as, dare I day, intuitive. Even using more outlines on the new blue buttons (like in the App store) would make it better

Yes, most will relearn it, but it will take months for some. Great UI, Flat UI, doesn't have to mean less intuitive (borders around buttons, ect).

So we are sticking with iOS 6 on most of them.
The cat is now out of the bag. If you didn't wish to make this public, then you shouldn't have.

DigitalOcean is asking you for permission to discuss your case further publicly. Will you allow it or not?
What is the typical approach to advertising things that are very new? For example, Twitter. Back to the days when it was starting out it was not really offering a solution or a value... what do you do in this kind of situation?
You may have heard about one big supercontinent - Pangaea. Did you know there were probably earlier supercontinents ? Nuna, Rodinia, Proto-Laurasia, Proto-Gondwana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea#Formation
On iOS, "download a photo" means "save it to your camera roll".
>I really dont know, but will say seems crazy that Nokia didn't have at least a small team dedicated to making an android OS 'port' for their devices. It seems like even if they thought it was a 1% chance of windows mobile not working out for them the hedge would have been worth it.

Elop did have such a team working on an Android port.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/behind-microsoft-de...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/13/4728184/microsoft-surface-...
Which is a very good reason not to believe in market forces.
I submitted this because I don't understand how so many people haven't even heard about this yet. This is a masterpiece on writing good CSS. I'll even go so far to say it is "The Right Way" to write CSS.
I agree entirely! This is so much better than the typical "middlebrow dismissive" that I upvoted it...

And actually, if you don't like Hoon you can build your own language on this platform. So long as it compiles to Nock. You'll probably have to write your first compiler in Hoon, but we do have pretty decent combinator parsers. If you can swallow the syntax...
In this situation. Do you think your moral obligation to repay your debt outweight the moral obligation to your user's data?

Or compare this to the moral obligation to repay your investor vs that of the user's data.
Could you please give the specific details to me and to all the people waiting for the answers. Thank you.
The International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013)
Jerry Lewis "You can't polish a turd."

Stanley Kubrick "You can if you freeze it."

http://everything2.com/title/Kubrick+polishes+a+turd
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Encrypt all keywords and store it for later use...
As far as I'm concerned, it is never acceptable to simply shut off service with no explanation.

What if a site was compromised? What if an employee typoed the IP of an abuser? What if, what if?

Their "fullstop" replies are not professional.
LuaJIT. The FFI is really, really, cool (inline low level access to memory and C in a high-level garbage-collected dynamic language? Yes please.)
It did sound very promising for the couple years that it was in development, but the reviews don't make it sound like it is really worth it.

- The USB 3.0 connection operates at half speed

- The Thunderbolt Display also includes most of the same connectors: ethernet, firewire 800, 3xUSB-2.0

You get the audio interface and faster USB with the Belkin dock, but it sounds like it is much further from the plug and play without thinking about it compared to the monitor, which also includes a monitor.

If you compare a Belkin Dock ($300) + 2560x1440 IPS Monitor ($500 ?) to a Thunderbolt Display ($1000), the savings aren't that significant, and it is probably more of a hassle, even if you have to plug any USB-3.0 drives in separately.

It just seems surprising that Apple hasn't upgraded something that makes so much sense as part of a well-integrated and carefully designed system.
true, however, remember that the output must be sane too since you're putting it in the HTML
'Causes' Relaunches as Social Network for Civically Engaged
But skype does miss eye-contact and picture of half body (to get all hand movements which are important) , and the illusion of being in the same room created by telepresence , and probably had worse latency , and probably other factors i'm not aware of.

And we know from the "uncanny valley" that humans are very very sensitive to little things in human/human communication.

So it might just be that telepresence offers a altogether different quality of experience.

And regarding the topic - currently , maybe business air travel isn't dying(thought in 2009 there was a lot of talk about disruption from telepresence). But assuming we'll find the formula for remote face to face communications, and assuming there's enough bandwidth, the pace of change could be rapid(unless people will keep sticking with tradition, which might be the thing now that slows the process).

Anyway, i would be really interested to see major deployment of telepresence quality systems deployed in homes, and how that would affect culture.
My theory with content apps (I've seen this elsewhere) is that the majority of money comes from a small percentage of users (1-10%).

These users are what typically is referred to as whales. The biggest obstacle to monetizing whales is new content. Also, whales tend to be less price-sensitive. That is, they will buy what content you have at a reasonable price, and that price should be based on what those (paying) users will pay.

I don't really buy the convenience argument. It's unclear whether they released 10 books and users were still only buying 2. That is, they were unable to test whether convenience or the lack of new content was the gating factor. I suspect it was the latter.
There are many illegal things you can do with a web server, and this puts the hosting company at risk

1- Host/distribute copyrighted material

2- Run a torrent client and distribute copyrighted material

3- DOS attacks (especially when you can create several droplets for a limited period of time)

The hosting provider is like a bank, and has the right to ask you where you got that information from; and for what you are using it (though a bank doesn't ask you what you use your money for)

I think it's acceptable that the hosting provider ask for your activity and you provide a response for that (which you didn't).
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We actually released a version of the app that was $2.99 upfront with no in-app purchases to test which model worked better for us.

The $2.99 version netted us less than $20 in the lifetime of the application. It never was ranked anywhere in the app store and thus was virtually DOA.

I agree it would be great to charge upfront - We didn't have a budget to market these applications to them to show them the value before they reach the store which would be essential in that business model. The freemium model was our only way to leverage the rankings in the store and give parents the ability to see the value in the application before buying.
Situations like this will keep getting worse and worse with our current attitude towards personal data on cloud. My personal thought on situations like this has always been that locking somebody's data is both unethical and should be considered a crime by law. Service providers have full rights to refuse providing servicing to somebody but they don't have a right to seize somebody's personal data.
Meteor.js. I'm surprised at how young it still is but its got an active community and heading in the right direction.
Desktop window manager integration seems to always be tricky. I've personally sunk months of my life in getting a variety of custom window frames to work "well enough" on various Windows flavors (for Chrome on XP, Vista, 7 and newer). I think part of the benefit of these new mobile platforms is their simplicity - there is less going on outside the app's control at any given point in time, so there's less to worry about.

(On Windows, there are several ways to achieve a "custom-ish" frame, but only if you really study the window manager-app interaction and think about the problem as if you were the window manager can you come close to doing a proper job of it... handling the right messages (some of which are undocumented and only discovered via using spy tools), responding in the correct way etc.)
Interesting. I've always had much better quality using Twilio to bridge to PSTN than through Twilio Client.

I keep coming back to Twilio Client because the idea of a softphone (and a web based one at that) is so alluring compared to having to deploy more hardware.

If I recall there was also a cost advantage to using Twilio Client (you only have to pay for one leg of the call instead of both legs).

But every time we've tried to deploy it there have been quality and usability issues which have forced us to fallback to PSTN. Never the less, I'll keep trying it every couple of months... :)
> Created by normalizing and indexing video transcript (.srt) files provided for WWDC videos

Where are the subtitle files? I've never seen them for download anywhere.
I've read enough books about Boeing to say that this is established practice (IE, the people who ran boeing during the 747 period specifically said this internally).

Some R&D examples I've seen is the movement of advanced electronics and structural materials from military craft to commercial craft. Boeing and AirBus both benefitted tremendously by their military contracts.
Someone saying a design doesn’t work for them does not necessarily mean that the design failed – it could just mean that that person isn’t in the target audience. “That person” includes their state of mind, too; maybe whatever they are complaining about isn’t supposed to be used when sleepy, or when driving, for example.
My work gmail and personal gmail have always had slightly different icons for some reason:

http://i.imgur.com/GKTUNbI.png
What languages are you looking for? We have a Mandarin version and we're working on a French and Portuguese version.
It's not surprising that commercial queries produce ads.

"what are telescopes", "astronomy", "skywatching", "how to use a telescope", "telescope construction", and "telescope history" on the other hand are all web results and no ads.

Hand-picking a highly-commercial query and using it to generalize about all queries is kind of BS.

Looking at my past weeks worth of search history there are very few commercial intent queries. And when I was doing commercial intent queries (buying some rock climbing equipment) Google Shopping ads were actually pretty helpful in doing my research because it allows you to rank the results of different retailers together which is something I previously had to do by going to each individual site and checking their prices.

It misses sellers that haven't chosen to advertise on Google Shopping but all of my go-to online shops for gear (Backcountry, Moosejaw, REI, EMS, gearx, gear co-op, Campsaver, etc.) are doing it so it works quite well for me.
It'd be helpful to have timestamps (or even direct links to points in the presentation) so that we could refer to the slides for graphs and source.
This sounds like a response to this article http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Marketing-guru-Margit-Wen... on Andreessen Horowitz marketing PR guru.
So what am I paying for if the hosting providers are just passing off their own problems to me?
Lame qn but does the name Albert Jay Nock have anything to do with 'Nock'?
Linus' response:

We'll see. I'm cautiously optimistic that this is a real
shift in how Nvidia perceives Linux. The actual docs
released so far are fairly limited, and in themselves they
wouldn't be a big thing, but if Nvidia really does follow
up and start opening up more, that would certainly be great.
Agreed - I wish we had the foresight at the time to have launched with it. Live and learn.
You could monetize pretty nicely just by offering a job board too in the future. There's a ton of cash in the recruiting business... just wish the signal to noise ratio wasn't so awful.
I seriously doubt it, there is almost certainly something else going on. Does the dropbox api even use udp at all? A udp flood has little to do with the size of a file transfer, and everything to do with the rate of udp packets per second. Generally to be identified as a "flood" your server would have to be doing something very poorly coded (best case) or downright malicious. Did you check where this udp traffic was being sent to (destination ip addresses/ports)? Did you compare the dates/times of the "flood" to when your scripts/jobs were running? Did you check your server for any suspicious activity or indications of compromise? A little bit of critical thinking can go a long way here.
Oh wow.

After watching the video I'm legitimately interested in more than the language. You've got some cool ideas going on there. I'll be emailing for a 32-bit destroyer in a second.
Awesome! Can't wait for Hookfeed to launch btw!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Jay_Nock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_at_the_Palaz_of_Hoon

Four-letter names that haven't been overexposed are hard to find. But four letters fits in a 32-bit direct atom, so the attraction is pretty irresistible.
Game developers can just use cross-platform games engines (like Unity) that support Windows, Mac and Linux.
> German region format obviously also emtails German day and month names. That's really quite obvious.

No it's not obvious at all and it's shouldn't be that way. If I set my language somewhere it should be applied everywhere. I want Monday as first day of the week, not Montag.

Other companies that seem incapable of getting language right: Microsoft and Google.
You totally got it man. As tluyben said, there is no support, no follow up work. But I wanted to spend the least amount possible on "making-money" so that I can be fully on my startup for 80h/week.

I've been just by myself for 2 years now and by "hacking" the play store this way, was the only way I could build my startup, so I seed-funded it myself. And all that finally brought it on the trajectory and it just started to work.

I'm not proud of building these apps, but there are 50 clones of these out there. I don't use that money to buy things, I'm going towards for $40k in debt now by taking another loan to invest everything back into my own startup to change the world.
On a side note, I looked through that database dumper script and isn't it just a giant hassle to script non-interactive authentications with OAuth? Hope I never have to do that again.
It could "hardly be argued" that it'd be a difficult task to compete with Samsung? No, that could definitely be argued.

I'm not exactly a gigantic Elop fan but Nokia was in trouble long before he came on board. Consider this headline from his hiring in 2010: "Nokia Hires Microsoft's Elop as CEO to Reverse Losses to Apple". A top Nokia shareholder said, "Earlier management grossly underestimated the challenges related to moving from a hardware-driven business model to software." And Elop: "My job is to take the organization through a period of disruption..." [1]

That's what's at the core of this, a kind of denial about Nokia's condition pre-Elop. Fans want to pretend everything was hunky-dorey and make the hatchet man the scapegoat.

But really, Nokia fumbled their chance to build a smartphone platform several years ago. And one could definitely argue that Elop's bet on Microsoft's platform was a better shot at a profitable strategy than competing with Samsung in the Android space. (Have you considered that's why the board brought him on in the first place?) Didn't work out so well but probably neither would have becoming yet another Android player.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-10/nokia-hires-microso...
The crazy part is that it is Youtube that is driving most people to install an ad blocker. Breaking people's flow when they are listening to music at a party or while working is too janky.
"1000 Start-Ups" incubator will host a thousand startups in Paris in 2016
True, but without the risk there would be no job for them to fear losing in the first place. People need to be responsible to themselves first, and a safety net is part of that. I say that knowing I just blew through $20k+ of my own safety net after going jobless for months. It's just business after all. But then again, this is why I have no qualms giving them my upsized salary demands. Because after all, it's just business. It's harsh, reality.

The days of retiring with a gold watch and pension were gone long before I ever hit the market decades ago unfortunately.
stockholders sue all the time.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/dole-food-sharehold...

Not a penalty but the beginning of getting one.
This post is a little over the top, the examples are both legible and work, there is no need to get dramatic over CSS.
In long run is it safe to say apple can’t succeed without Steve Jobs.
I left this article as soon as the page dimmed out to ask me to subscribe.
Why not include the rest? Or at least, the rest of what was mentioned in the article.

They've already been much better in the ARM SoC space than they were on the more traditional GPU side, and I really hope that some day I can just apologize for ever giving them the finger.
Yes, of course it would be mostly self-inflicted. That doesn't make it any less real.
Static Typing May Not Scale
I don't completely agree with author's opinion.

I think the Facebook Way (tm) has its pros, but using page-level specificity is a great way to avoid specificity hell.

To be more specific, for a site with vastly different pages, it's best to have page or section level class that limits the scope of each css definition, so the person making change to one section of the site will not accidentally break other pages. Also, with little base style, there is less need to override styles with more specificity.

For such a site, CSS like this tend to be easier to maintain:

#home-page h2 {
/* home page title styles /
}

.news-item h3 {
/ news item title /
}

#widget-page h2 {
/ widget page title /
}

.widget-item h3 {
/ individual widget title */
}
AVFoundation for the records is available for both iOS and Mac OS X