skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they're just acknowledging the fact that 99% of users don't need to see 99% of the URLs they visit on a daily basis.

While we're talking about things we don't need, let's include this change.

The fact is, for most of the last two decades we've already had a UI where users who don't care to attend to the URL don't have to, and users who care to notice can. What does this add? Nothing. But it does take away some legibility for people who care, and discoverability for people who might learn to.

99% of people using web browsers really get no cues from the path? Cite please. URLs aren't high tech any more than the address to your house is, and my observation is that even non-developers who are simply experienced browsers pick up cues -- even from barely legible URLs mostly meant to be parsed by machines. You don't have to be a programmer to observe that typing a string in takes you to a page, or that the string changes when the browser loads a change, and put together the address correlation until you start to understand what a URL is without even really thinking about it.

Or at least, you wouldn't have to be a programmer to learn to make that connection based off of simple observation skills if we kept the current model. If we move to this new hide-the-URL UI, probably you would (self-fulfilling prophesy!).

And sure, the web has lots of URLs that don't provide a lot of easily parsed cues. In the interest of being a little less selective, though, let's look at a few others:

http://ask.metafilter.com/261148/Give-up-financial-stability...

https://www.google.com/search?q=percent+of+the+web+powered+b...

http://blog.ebay.com/ebay-inc-earnings-q12014-twitter-sessio...

https://twitter.com/paul_irish/

http://www.allenpike.com/2014/burying-the-url/

Do people need to see these things? Nope. Can they derive utility from being able to see them? Yes. And they do.
Why not to use lorem ipsum
I loved it in the start, but in development it's kind of frustration for me. Specially while doing API design you'll get frustrated easily.
Why Use MVC In Your Next Game
Smart? Have good design taste? IEEE wants you.
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Not so much a usability problem but a climate change nightmare.

All of those people entering partial URLs in the omnibox, causing a Google search, releasing CO2 is terrible when they could be using local bookmarks.
The interesting thing about phone numbers is that they're not much longer than IP (IPv4) addresses; I wonder what it would be like if DNS either hadn't been invented, or was introduced only after the Internet had grown significantly. Would everyone have used IP addresses just as easily as they do domain names today?

Then there's also physical addresses, which have been around even before phones, and from the point of view of computer science, they would be considered a horrible "ugly" mess, yet people also seem to have no problems dealing with them in their daily lives.
Who else should defend his employer? Someone external who doesn't have any resources to follow?
Just a part of "open" web trend: prevent new languages being added and stick to legacy ones, prevent URLs editing - what's next?
You are describing a natural process, that can be found in many places: the need for progression. If there is nothing more to invent, first lesser, then well established things become the target for change, so we can keep progressing. Companies do that to keep the illusion of growth. Organizations and people do that to keep their work.

For instance in politics, good laws become narrowed, twisted or get replaced because politicians have to keep their place in society.
Maybe you care a lot about your life, and thereby about the quality-of-life of trauma surgeons. Do you think the movie theatre does?

What's so wrong with having places that can only be attended by people who are fine with nobody will be able to reach them? Businesses don't have to serve everybody; in fact, selling exactly that escapism--that only people in certain classes and professions can afford the time to experience--is exactly the business model theatres. It is also the business model of cruise-lines and travel agencies.

If a trauma surgeon wants to see a movie, they can wait for it to come out on Netflix. Just so: if a trauma surgeon wants to go to the beach and sip mai-tais, they can find a public one within an hour's drive of the hospital.

(Note that this is all assuming that being on-call is a sensible thing to have in society. We really need to get ourselves enough employed doctors that we can guarantee we'll only need some of them at any given time, so the rest can actually stay home and sleep.)
Aaron went into a place with public access internet (MIT) and had a python script download public documents that anyone on MIT's network had access (and the legal right) to download.

While an argument could be made that JSTOR didn't want people downloading so many so quickly they could have solved that other ways - nothing here was breaking the law. It was technically legal.

An argument could be made that Aaron planned to publicly release them to everyone on the internet for free (I didn't get to meet him personally, but from what I know about him I think this is likely). That was never part of the crimes he was charged for and frankly I'm not sure if it was even alleged. JSTOR understood this, dropped charges and backed out.

He was then charged with 13 felonies:

Wire Fraud - 2 counts
Computer Fraud - 5 counts
Unlawfully Obtaining Information from a Protected Computer - 5 counts
Recklessly Damaging a Protected Computer - 1 count

Aaron was someone who probably would have been acquitted ($1.5 million dollars in legal costs later), who's actions weren't illegal that was bullied with multiple decades in prison and driven to suicide because he was trying to do the right thing.

When asked about the government's actions in pursuing him, Carmen Ortiz defended her (and the government's) actions as "appropriate".

Is that Justice?

Copyright law was originally intended as an incentive for people to create, a deal with the government for a limited time monopoly in order to generate content for the public's benefit. The original spirit of the law has been lost - along with our republic. [1]

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...
Based on this similar issue where the status bar's display of the URL under the cursor is obscured for a second or so, it seems unlikely this new "feature" would be configurable.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=59592
> Start making sure that insurance companies have no payouts if the driver's phone was on X amount of time before the accident

Your insurance company will happily sue you for the payout and more if you were acting tortuously at the time of the accident. The purpose of insurance isn't to protect the driver, it's to protect the victim of an accident ("There's money and you'll get it").

> Require all vehicles to install cell phone tethers that have the driver's registered sim card in it

I have 1-3 mobile phones on me most times and share around 7 SIM cards between them. Also, what about cars with more than one driver?

> Almost ALL problems have a technical/legislative solution for them. The only real problem is that no one has either the resolve, balls, lawyers, political backing, or money to implement/require those technical/legislative solutions. So all we get are half-asses solutions with selective (and sometimes biased) enforcement by the police/courts.

Yeah, let's try totalitarianism again. This time we'll have the balls to get it right.
Google will also stop scanning business and government Gmail inboxes for ads
I think the requirements for power are much different in case of glacier that with some more generic computing. With a service like glacier, running on hard disks, you could probably completely turn off large parts of your infrastructure. With 5 hour read latency there should be plenty of opportunities to optimize the reads so that only a small part of the infra needs to be powered on at any time.

Also you might be able to skip the backup power part completely. The data is anyways distributed to few locations. The probability of many of them losing to power at the same time for several hours is likely to be very small.

Maybe there's also large differences in how the customers use the system. I would assume some customers are more likely to retrieve data than others. Once you start learning these patterns you could further optimize the storage.

The pricing of Glacier is not necessarily driven by technical reasons. Amazon already has S3 and they need to differentiate the products.
Logitech Just Entered The Smartphone Accessory Market In A Big Way
This reads like some kid wrote it, not a Google employee.

It sounds exactly like a kid trying (and failing) to use fancy words to appear smarter. I don't believe it at all.
Are you implying that new cars rarely need fixing and are much more efficient because they are completely closed down and harder to work on than old cars?
Had the same thought. Not saying Google's all sunshine and daisies, but this guys is doing exactly what anyone who was lying in this situation would do....

He has yet to give a single shred of evidence, and I find it highly unlikely that after three years he doesn't have a single piece of evidence that isn't tied to his identity.

The whole article is him trying to reinforce the fact that he 'knows the inner workings of Google', by, once again, giving us literally no evidence of that knowledge... Stating that he used Google specific vernacular in his last post, but not letting us know what...

It's not as if people are hard to convince; everybody likes to watch a giant fall, just give us some proof.
In the case of spoof/phishing sites, having the base domain be shown as it is in Canary might actually be helpful - instead of a long complicated URL that allows the scammer to camouflage their fake domain, the domain will be explicitly called out.

I don't hate this change so far (especially as clicking on the domain gives the full URL - although that's perhaps not very discoverable if you don't know about it already)
It’s game over for Bloom.fm.
This has nothing to do with a UI improvement.

The change is just a way to force users to use the "share me" buttons so google can benefit by promoting G+ or controlling the flow any way it wants. Its a good way to keep track of user flow/spread of links whereas copy-pasting a link to an IM hides that information.

In general this change doesnt have to do with bad UI good UI just pressure to use a more controlled web experience. URLs are good UI, they have extra info and the more experienced user can even manipulate them to everyone's benefit
Bleeding privacy
A record of anti-privacy facts in the press, all languages accepted.
If you're a large publisher you have options other than AdSense. Why stick with them if they are the way you say?
Its a giude about web UI best practices, and the icons symbolizing the different topics are not clickable?

Besides, I didn't even notice that some of the headlines/h2s in the subsequent pages are actually clickable.

Then, they actually enlosed their <video> elements inside a <a> tag. So now, when I click on the controls of a video, it will open the linked page. No way to use the video's controls without leaving the page I am reading.

Three basic errors found in under a minute on a simple text site. I don't think I want to take any UI design advice from that person.
Skewed to the left, you mean :-)
I'm not sure it's abandonment as much as a huge cognitive dissonance. Designers are always using that Steve Jobs quote about how design is "not how it looks, it's how it works", and the Dieter Rams principles, all of which are fairly functionalist. It's kind of puzzling, really.
Itch: mysterious power may be a clue to a new theory about brains and bodies
I'm going to be a cinic: if the Chrome team sees that users use Omnibox/Google more to got to the desired URL, that would be a positive thing (for them). Why type the URL when you can go via uncle Google?
She'll put it in the bit that says "Search Google or type URL". It is in fact clearer now, because instead of having an old url in there, it can have a consistent prompt of "URL goes here". If she doesn't know what a URL is, it's now easier to describe the input box to her.
"Most accidents occur when the bird hits the windscreen or flies into the engines. These cause annual damages that have been estimated at $400 million within the United States of America alone and up to $1.2 billion to commercial aircraft worldwide."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike

Relatively few fatalities for humans, but very high cost. And they are not made of metal or durable plastics. They are also less likely to fall onto your head with rapidly rotating blades due to technical failure.
That's because it is when you want mass-market adoption.

And UX design is only about making things easy to use. If they're not,the design is an utter 100% failure.
I agree that it's absolutely awful.

I hate how mobile safari has removed URLs, I find it very disorienting. I'm constantly looking at the URL bar to see if I've navigated to a new page or not, to see what the page I'm on is named and its purpose is, and to make sure I went where I clicked and wasn't just redirected somewhere else (sometimes this can be really confusing, for example mobile versions of webpages that dump you out to the main page instead of the mobile version of the page you were hoping for).

While I can see the anti-phishing advantages of emphasizing the domain, hopefully this wouldn't come at the expense of the rest of the URL. Right now chrome grays out the rest of the URL, which is nice, but if you want to be less subtle that's fine too - turn the domain into a button, or draw a box around it or whatever, but please leave the rest of the URL passively visible.

I think a lot of the negative reaction also comes from replacing it with a google search box. Not very classy. There used to be just the URL bar in browsers, then there was the URL bar and the search bar, then chrome simplified it into just the URL bar, which allowed you to search if you prefixed with ?, and now you can search with no prefix. The new change would just make the whole thing a search field. If you want to optimize chrome for people who don't know how to use the internet and won't learn that's google's choice, but don't expect me to use it or recommend it.
Dr. Gawande Answers Questions About ‘The Itch’
Reminds me of a post about the internals of ITA, which mentions that they used memory-mapped files to make data access fast:

http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html
And just like Snowden, he might end up fleeing the US. You think a company like Google would not come after you for violating an NDA?
In ruby we have the very mature and featureful state_machine gem:

https://github.com/pluginaweek/state_machine

I recently found out you can even choose to define states using arbitrary objects/functions, eg. date ranges. Sounds a bit crazy but I can see it solving certain problems very neatly.
You can still type URLs into the bar.

It's easier to direct them to it because it always has the same prompt text. "Do you see a box that says 'Search Google or type URL?'? Great, type this into it..."

The thing that's harder is getting them to read the url back to you.
You can try and manage the predictability using msync(), which you'll need anyway if you're doing any kind of transactional write.

For more general use, a simple way to keep the amount of 'pending writes' down to reasonable levels is to have a thread walking your mmap()'d regions and enforcing an msync() on a regular basis. This also gives you guarantees such as "each part of mmap'd file is no more than N seconds out of date".

Of course, you'll potentially increase disk load overall, since a page dirtied three times, once every second, might only get written out once by the kernel (after 5s) but if you're syncing every 1s it'll get written three times.

But you should be able to take control.
I hit play and got a Google "sponsor message" for funeral cost insurance. Full marks for sensitivity Google...
A number of the menus. When I switched, I found the RSS feed dropdown mind-numbingly slow. I've since made a userChrome.css edit which I saw on Mozillazine. Even then, there's still other animations left over. I find it really distracting.

Another more minor change was, prior to this version, Firefox still allowed fixed back and forward buttons. At some point, I should probably find a fix for that as well. Animations are supposed to make the experience feel smoother, but from my point of view, it's simply more clunky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
This is steaming bullshit.

Surely anyone believing this is being influenced by bitterness about Adsense outcomes, or a desire to see a miss-step from Google's golden goose?

I'm flagging this story.

I've not seen the decline in comment quality that pg has talked about over the past few months, but this story seems to have attracted some of the worst. This is pure drama-seeking.
Is it some kind of a test? Why is knowing IRQ relevant?

I am joining many people here, who prefer having configurable tools. I do not want to configure 'IRQ' on any tool I use, but if it will misfunction, I will search for it and find out what IRQ means and how I adjust it to my needs. Worse, is being unable to change 'IRQ' when you need to, because people in charge decided it draws 95% customers away, and you are being in a 5% boat.
My (and others') point is this obvious thumbs rule: If you hit the disk, that I/O will dominate the latencies. Even while using a scripting language.

E.g. a DB that fits in RAM is different, of course. It is hence easy to create benchmarks that generates every possible result.

So is your comment relevant to my point? Is there something about that benchmark which contradict the previous thumbs rule?

(And yes... With lots of calculations, scripting languages aren't a good idea either in many cases. Also obvious.)
First file is written "wrapped" (~80 chars per line) and double spaced after full stops. Second file is one paragraph per line and single spaced.
well, the burden of proof is on selmnoo, as he made the claim that they are good enough. the default state should always be negative.
Your CF treatment didn't seem to have any direct bearing on my own health problems, but I was encouraged by the example. Possibly I was wrong and e.g. I should be more concerned about pH -- I've made this mistake before. (I ruled out a big effect of wheat on me because I hadn't given its removal enough of a chance.)
Because even if they are guilty, there's no way they'd make a fake graph.
NYC's vision zero complaint map. Mapping infrastructure failings across the city
I am trying to understand why I was downvoted for this.
But the important thing is, how often do you manually type in URLs? The URL is still there if you need to modify it or copy it or manually typeit in, it just isn't displayed prominently at the top of the screen. What are you actually losing?
Not having useful drugs against bacterial infections has killed many more people in the past than all violent governments combinded. Because bacteria infections where the number one killer for centuries.
You can either claim that Bitcoin is evil drugpornmoney, or that it doesn't provide additional freedoms.

It's inconsistent to claim both.
I'm not saying that URLs are superfluous. But I think their function is exaggerated. Especially when it comes to Web Apps, but even in the case of articles in which hyperlinks are really useful and used a lot. They often seem like C pointers on which you better don't do any arithmetics. But unlike C pointers, often I cannot dereference them. ;)

Around '99 I did not rely on bookmarks, instead I saved interesting articles to my hard drive because links would break so often. Even today the problem remains and I don't even dare to say whether it got better or worse.

Maybe there are smarter concepts than HTTP-style URLs that we are not aware of yet. Might be also interesting regarding privacy, because many people actually do not want static hyperlinks to their personal information that last a million years.
No idea if real or not. but this person would be pretty easy for google to uncover if he/she didn't mask his grammar. Wrote a huge corpus with fairly unique use of commas amongst other things.
The url. The behavior of the box hasn't changed, just what it displays once a page is loaded.
Fee-shifting seems to me like weird and unpredictable solution to a general problem in law, it's so expensive. It's a big part of what makes legal blackmail work, and hence the worst cases of patent trolling.

It's a big part of the reason so many criminal cases are settled out of court with defendants and prosecutors haggling over which crime a defendant will plead guilty to instead of a prosecutor charging a defendant with a crime who defends his innocence in court.

So much of what's wrong with law is a function of the incredible cost.

How is it possible that the system is such that it requires millions to hundreds of millions to defend a case.
This and the other "leak" are without question the dumbest thing I've ever read on HN. If the author had proof, they would have made that available. But it's obvious this person has nothing, and this person writes like a deranged and not very bright individual. For example saying "I have proof" is about as good as saying nothing. You don't demonstrate proof by declaring it, you demonstrate it by revealing it. I wouldn't be surprised if the author was actually schizophrenic.
Very few production compilers uses "proper parser generators and grammars" for good reasons. He's even listed some of the reasons on one of the earliest slides.

Basically, the tools are generally not good enough.
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Yes, yes, logical thinking, I even agree with it.

But imagine this happening, average users will become fully IT illiterate. Growing children will no longer know anything about computers, as they grew up in an environment where everything is hidden from them for sake of simplicity.

What will happen, after our generation(s) all get old, and the growned up illiterate children take place of improving world's technology?
time_t is now always 64bit! Good to see someone working proactively on the y2k38 problem.
I miss MUDs. I remember writing a sophisticated bot to farm mobs (mobiles; monsters) for me and my friends so I could watch TV whilst it was grinding away at the game. Great times.
If you can live with boost, then boost::interprocess is a good way of managing a mmapped segment - shared with other processes or shared with yourself over time.

This give string,set,map,list,deque,vector types that work in the shared space.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/interprocess/a...
Tess Gerritsen’s Statement Regarding: Gravity
Much higher frequency, not RPM! (there is no flywheel to go around...)
Internet Explorer Security Bug: How to Protect Yourself
That works well on a sign. Not as well in a conversation.
I use xpra (to the extent that it works for me, anyway). But there are situations when I don't want to attach an X app - I just want to connect to a screen in an existing terminal. Raw text over ssh is the fastest and most responsive over a laggy connection, too.
I'm increasingly impressed with the progress that OpenBSD is making. They're hitting some real problems on the head and actually letting us know what the changes are in a concise form as they always have.

Compare this to a Ubuntu LTS release which is virtually impossible to determine a detailed change list for past the marketing and UI changes.
Thumbles – Robotic tabletop user interface platform
The article doesn't look to be using very recent Linux.

Newer ARM variants don't have their vectors at that address.