skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a design perspective this is one of the most beautiful airline booking designs I've ever seen, but from a usability perspective it might just be the worst (save for maybe RyanAir).

The cities being laid out in a grid looks nice but is ultimately far more difficult to understand then just looking at an alphabetical list in a dropdown. Auto-picking your departure city based on your current location is admittedly a nice detail, but it wasn't immediately obvious how I change where I'm starting as the "link" was different than anything else on the page.

The "Who's Flying" section is massive for having so little real information. And why are that the font is 120px (or 12rem) but the "+/-" controls are faded out and tiny by comparison?

The calendar is again completely oversized, low contrast, and difficult to understand. My laptop has a 1440x900 resolution screen and I can barely fit a single full month in the window. If I happen to want to buy a ticket more than a month or so in advance, I need to repeatedly click "More Dates" which then appends another two months to the already crazy long page? Also, the low contrast purple highlight for all the dates inbetween departure/return isn't immediately noticeable.

When I click on a ticket price another window slides up over it - took a few moments to figure out what actually happened there. Overall the "ticket selection" again looks pretty, but when I can only see a few in the window at any given time it's far less usable than a standard clean list. Also, the "Continue" button looks identical to the other addon options, and it isn't immediately obvious how to progress if you don't want to upgrade your ticket.

The seat selection admittedly is admittedly fun looking though why are half the faces looking upset? Also, versions of the seat selection where they actually place the seat INSIDE the plane in it's real physical location are more readable than this abstracted version, though I do like how they clearly broke it up into sections that show the different cabin/seat types. Again though, I can only fit about half the plane on my screen at any given time.

Having the form adjacent to the seat selection is a nice touch as you can then easily track who's sitting where as you enter their information (especially if you're a family with kids), but for some reason they neglected to highlight the seat on the visual map. Also, the form is again overly tall and I can only fit about 2/3 of it at any time.

Overall I think it's a good start but hardly production ready. My gut instinct is that most people will be impressed by how "pretty" it is, but that the overall conversion rates will decrease significantly. The one really well done idea is the fixed header, though realistically it should progressively fill out with information and not show/hide ticket info at different stages in the process (for instance, it did show my takeoff/landing times and price which was extremely useful, but now hiding that to ask me who's sitting in seat 4B, which is already emphasized at the top of the form).
Wow. Are you kidding?

"Scrolling" is the bane of all things usable? Short of clicking on things, scrolling is probably the single most familiar and universal interaction on any computer of any form factor.

Not sure how scrolling necessitates loss of context nor how not-scrolling maintains context. The two are causally unrelated.
Walking upside down with magnetic shoes
YouTube Plans To Add Built-In Crowdfunding Capability
It has been Steve's modus operandi since the early eighties to make such statements in public and in private to stop customers and employees focusing on matters they shouldn't be. It was the right move to focus on releasing the iPhone without an SDK, and to distract the issue with the webkit "solution".

It will have gotten the product out the door much, much faster than if they made it battle-hardened against third parties from day one.

It's worth noting that the SDK was released just nine months after product launch and the full app store experience came within twelve months of launch. For a 1.0 release, the SDK was quite polished and surprisingly well documented -- hardly the product of a last minute change of heart.
Wow. Employees tend to have gone to college nearby their employers' headquarters. Sources monitoring the unfolding pattern indicate that people also tend to enroll in universities near where they live. Film at 11.
Had that happen once around the time Fedora pushed systemd (version 13/14 I think), no other upgrading issues since.
Link to full YouTube blog post with other info:

http://youtubecreator.blogspot.ca/2014/05/see-whats-new-and-...
Even git itself does not show signature information by default in `git log` and friends.
It doesn't matter. Without a legally-binding pledge limiting the patents to be used only defensively, there is a chilling effect on innovators in the space. The threat of a lawsuit discourages development and investment.
There were a lot of caveats that both reduced fidelity and would have made announcements confusing back when I was at Google. Also, if one mentions a limitation in an announcement, a lot of the Search Engine Optimization community would be citing the announcement for more than 6 months. So, it's difficult and potentially counter-productive to have an announcement with lots of caveats.

V8 and Chrome weren't even a glimmer in Google's eye back in 2006, so I hope they've largely replaced the code I was working on with something based on Chrome. As late as 2010, the DOM was a completely custom implementation that looked somewhat like Firefox, but with enough IE features to fool lots of other pages that would otherwise change their content to "You must run IE to view this page". (On a side note, as much as many people would like to see such pages heavily penalized and indexed as if the IE-only message were their only information, some of those pages are unique sources of invaluable information and users wouldn't be well served by such harsh treatment.)
I'll take #1 spot on AppStore with my 3-day making game Your thoughts: y or n?
The transforms aren't complex... They're inverted. What's complex is getting the timing right (can only occur at a fixed distance from the ear so they can delay the generated canceling waves appropriately).

It's just wave addition. -1 + 1, occurring at the same time, is 0.
No, you're mis-reading the article. (1) They say expressly say fracking is not suited to the geographic topology in CA; and (2) They compare and contrast the monterey geology in CA to texas and ND where is it better suited. Basically, fracking is better in areas with flat-sediment-shale-beds. CA has dedformed rock strata. Similarly, much of the formation is not in heavily populated areas. They mention Kern county, for example, which is not considered a part of metro LA (it is seperated by a massive desert/mountain range).

http://gen.usc.edu/news/monterey-shale.htm
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Oh, I remember that. This is the best thing ever written on the subject, but I think its conclusions are regularly ignored because people want to have their cake and eat it too, with regard to fostering vanity. Everyone wants the community but they still want to be the superstar in it.
Generate a dynamic form in Flask with AJAX
I spoke imprecisely -- I don't have enough information to make that kind of a claim about "average students" (hopefully obviously).

But of the people I've worked with, there's no difference at the high end. Good students are just as good at no-name schools as they are at MIT. I updated my comment to be more clear.
> Clients drive design 99.9% of the time.

How does that happen?
"breaks people into smaller groups" by "analyzing user behaviors and interests"

I, for one, welcome our new artificial intelligence social media overlords.
Lenovo Y410 on sale for $279, PR stunt gone wrong?
It's similar to the current #1 game, but much better.
What if we were talking about Walmart instead of Amazon, and shoes instead of books? There are many brands and styles of shoes that Walmart doesn't carry because they can't get a low enough price to make it worthwhile.

Of the brands and styles of shoes that Walmart does choose carry, some they may promote by placing them on an end cap, and others can be hard to find, or even stuck in the stockroom and not displayed for customers.

Nobody thinks Walmart is being unfair. Walmart can choose what merchandise to carry and how to display it.

So what's different with Amazon? Is it their infinite shelf space? Is their industry dominance and market power?
The opposite issue is also capable of happening. Don't misunderstand, I completely acknowledge the fact that this is a very difficult issue to solve and fundamental to git design.
Before.

http://www.census.gov/prod/techdoc/cps/cpsmar12.pdf

"Data on consumer income collected in the CPS
by the Census Bureau cover money income received
(exclusive of certain money receipts such as capital
gains) before payments for personal income taxes,
Social Security, union dues, ..."

edit: the data source appears to be the "Table P-8. Age—People by Median Income and Sex" (all races) here: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/people...
Uh, no. Check #15 and #16 in "The 30 Biggest Myths about systemd".[0] It's highly unlikely that systemd will ever run on *BSD - even on Debian/BSD with a GNU userland - and those are a lot closer to Linux than than Hurd is. Systemd is Linux-only. I'm tempted to say it's GNU/Linux-only, but I'm not sure if Google's working on getting it to run on Android/Linux.

EDIT - even if the BSDs have started working on their own equivalent, that doesn't help the Debian/Hurd porters who need a working init system _now_. Or, more accurately, a couple of years ago when they really started to get the distro together.

[0] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html
Six months after launch, the PS4 is already profitable for Sony
A quality-minded pervert would probably just buy a $150 digital point-n-shoot. Just as many megapixels, no shutter sound, and much better optical components.
"You have to have one" has been true since we lost our ability to photosynthesize, and it won't be false, at a minimum, until we replace all labor with robots and develop an effectively infinite energy source for those robots.
Why no one is discussing this? Just curious. Is it a bug?
Are the official images on EC2 or any of the other cloud compute platforms?
It doesn't. :)

It was actually a personal private computer until I left that area and opened up the password. I overlooked changing 'git config user.email !@#$'.
iOS Crash Reporting Test Suite
Heh, fair enough. Was just thinking for a minute that you were suggesting you'd consider Wake Tech grads over NCSU grads and I started getting a little concerned about my school's image :).
Are you reading the same HN as me? I'd say 70% of the comments here are disparaging towards the Surface.
Interestingly, merely applying to top schools seems a very strong signal of future earning potential – whether or not you're admitted. See for example the details here:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/revisiting-the-...
It depends. Minor quakes in Oklahoma are believed attributable to fracking but it's hardly conclusive. Oklahoma hasn't had people who could read living on it for much more than a hundred years now. There's no data base; the people who lived there before didn't leave a record.

As hard as it may be to believe, there's not that much material doing downhole. It's usually as much-ish as a middling stock tank - a few million gallons - tennish or so acre-feet.

Determining cause and effect will be a mighty task.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2013/07/01/water-f... goes to the water use, with awater always being the big item. David Blackmon is a bit of an oil industry flack, but his logic and numbers marry up to other sources well.

Given California's politics, the geology ( fault lines ) and the way prices are working out, it's probably better left alone for now. The rate of innovation in fracking is staggering. The technology will be there sooner or later. I have a friend who's roughly from the general Kern County area and its a brittle place environmentally.

This being said, the LA Times is not exactly an oil/gas friendly publication - the quotes were all from professional anti-frackers. Sadly, since the Enron fiasco, we have to watch for that sort of thing. Claiofornia also has had "oil people" and "water people" and "oil and water don't mix."
"The development of trust and kindness between two people depends on the probability that they will interact in the future."

Not true. Communities can - and should - use other incentive systems to encourage good behavior. 1) Point systems 2) Public shaming 3) bans / hell bans / abuse flagging / suspensions 4) various combinations

The threat of taking things from people that they've earned, even if it's as silly as 'fake internet points,' can be an extremely powerful enforcer of behavior, given the system is set up properly.
Whats the deal with ebay? To me seems like the site hasn't improved in a decade, even simple and seemingly common features like search are buggy— e.g. go save a search with a price restriction and set it to email you: It emails without heeding the price limits.
Yeah, this is excellent news. The sooner we can cut down our dependence on the shit, the better. Local supplies just give us an excuse to keep sucking on the pipe.
Ebay India hacked, asks users to change password
MS defends corporate customer from the FBI
at least 40% more hipster than delicio.us
Skill cloud: Why companies should kill the job title
Why don't the publishers make it easy to buy books from them, instead of all this rigamarole about rights and regions? I want to go to your website, pay with a credit card, and you ship it to me, anywhere in the world, and fast.

No, instead, I go to a local bookstore, they don't have it.

I go to Amazon, they have it. I order it, two days later it's at my door, for 30% off the price on the back of the book.

So everybody does the same as me, and now Amazon is the 800-lbs gorilla in the room, throwing its weight around, and you're complaining?

You had the opportunity, 10 years ago, to kill Amazon, and you didn't, because you wanted to keep charging us more for less service.

Tough.
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Perhaps in situations where the uploading user and the committing user differ, it could read something like "X on behalf of Y". This seems like it would satisfy OP's concerns as well as yours.
Um, no. I just found out about the issue as I bought a Japanese iPhone5S in January and promptly returned it the next day because I couldn't turn off the camera sound. I picked up a USA iPhone5S in Hawaii in February. Have been back in Japan for 2 months now. No sounds coming out of my camera on my USA iPhone5S.

The thing that makes this most ridiculous is (a) they don't have the same requirement of digital cameras in Japan and (b) 3rd party camera apps you download for phones are not required to make a sound. Pretty much every Japanese person downloads another camera app for exactly that reason.

Me personally, I just don't want the sound. Sitting in a quiet restaurant taking stupid pictures of my food with my phone is already embarrassing enough without calling myself out with my phone making noise. Hence getting the USA model. Sure I could have used separate camera software but I wanted to be able to use the camera app that doesn't require me to unlock the phone without sound.
How do you figure? The same laws don't apply to digital cameras which come on all shapes and sizes.
Wait, you're telling me that the book is available elsewhere (like the barnes & noble website), but not amazon? What's stopping average joe to go to a different seller and buy it there?

If Amazon doesn't want to sell something, even a book, that is entirely their right.
Which U.S. companies offer the best pay and benefits?
It'd be pretty good if the publicity surrounding this article led to an increase in usage of PGP. I've always thought it was a shame how underused asymmetric encryption is in comparison to its potential.
It's optional, off by default, and is anonymized (apparently).
Exactly. It's not Amazon.com.
This is because of the keyboard. It's extremely heavy weight in iOS 7 for some reason — it consumes quite a lot of memory when it appears. It's not really acceptable, but that seems to be the cause of the stutters (keyboard appear during an existing animation).
I doubt it. If you follow the links to individual usernames, you'll see that they don't even get credit for the commit that might have been made on their behalf. (Although the person who actually committed got credit for their commits.)
The publishers are completely free to sell DRM-free ebooks directly to consumers that can be enjoyed on their Kindle or whatever. They insist on relying on greedy middlemen like Apple and are shocked when Amazon doesn't fall in line.

I have no sympathy for complaining publishers that refuse to actually circumvent these "bully" distributors.
Sure are! On the home page ( https://coreos.com ) you'll find links to directions for various providers from EC2 & Rackspace to OpenStack & Vagrant. Each has the exact directions that will get you started with least effort (including image ids where appropriate and URLs otherwise).
I'm really pleased to hear about how good the NTrig digitiser is. Seems like an awesome painting tool.
I'm sorry, but I think if you buy that argument, your priorities are totally out of whack.

Putting legal restraints on someone else's technology because a very small number of people were subjected to mildly embarrassing/uncomfortable situations is ridiculous.
> And often times seeing that distinction where it doesn't actually exist is a pain point.

Indeed, one man's "objective fact" is another man's subjective opinion, especially once you introduce competing demands.
The complaint covers at least two (areas):

1. PACER end-user pricing is above the cost of providing the service.

2. There are regulations in place which prevent or impede companies from being represented by themselves (or, I guess, their officers/employees?) in court, thus giving lawyers a monopoly.

The American Bar Association is listed as a defendant in the suit.

@thinkcomp I'm curious what outcome you are hoping for, and how high the chance you think achieving that is?
In Rust, we are quite strict about the syntax used for destructuring matching the syntax used for instantiation. There is a name in the tuple-struct declaration, therefore you must use the name when pattern matching (even though it is redundant).
It's the same process that would happen if you actually played both sounds. The superposition is just happening in software instead of air.
I believe PCI compliance requires signed commits. There needs to be proof of who committed each line.
No, nothing like that at all. But what I would be saying is that - as a resource constrained startup - I'd likely recruit at Wake Tech before NCSU, since it's more likely the NCSU guy or gal is going to also be talking to various $BIGCORPs that are seen as highly desirable places to work.

and I started getting a little concerned about my school's image

Well, the old joke does still stand:

Person A: Where are you going to school?

Person B: NC State

Person A: Oh that's great, once you graduate you can get a job at John Deere.

(j/k'ing!!!!)
OSX has some really odd lag issues with the UI and responsiveness.

I'm running my lenovo win Win8 dual monitor on the 1377x768 & 2560x1440 external monitor and I don't see any UI lag. This is on an older Intel HD3000 integrated chip.

My 13" MBP from the same time lags even if I'm using just the built in screen.
That is interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Well, I'm just an anecdote, but I think that's definitely true.

I never made less than an A in high school and I made a perfect score on the ACT. I feel pretty confident that had I applied at a "top school" I would have had a fair chance of getting in. Maybe not - I probably would have been weaker on the non-academic admission requirements. I ended up going to a local community college for free and then transferring to a state university where eventually I got my graduate degree. I received several awards while there for academic performance, had some papers published with my name on them, and had a 4.0 again.

Frankly it never even occurred to me to apply to other schools. I just wasn't interested and nobody talked about it. If you asked me now why I didn't, I couldn't really tell you. Looking back, I'm sure some of it was moving away from home. In retrospect I would have been worse off financially - the scholarship didn't hold past the CC, so I paid cash for the rest (I worked a _lot_) until I got a TA position and graduated debt free.

I think though some people in SV would still look at that in askance though, and see that as saying something - "hey, this guy's not as motivated" or "this guy wouldn't be as dedicate as much of his life" and maybe that's true. In terms of work performance, though, I don't see a difference and I've always received extremely positive reviews.

No doubt there are things I'm missing out on, like the kind of connections I might have made at a top school, but I'm doing pretty well for myself and I don't regret anything.
Two online communities that I had to leave because they became really mean and decayed over time was IWETHEY and KURO5HIN.

Even Slashdot decayed and when Dice bought them out it was more about commercial stuff and less about technology and making cool stuff.

Reddit is over-run with trolls on various sub-reddits they started out in /r/atheism as fake atheists trolling people and then spread to other sub-reddits. Mostly 12 year old kids who think it is funny to grief people.
Which position in the string caused the regular expression to fail?
Same here. I have plenty of friends from all of NCSU, UNC, Duke, etc... sports rivalries and what-not aside, I consider all of them to be - at a minimum - "Pretty Good" schools. UNC is widely considered one of the so-called "Public Ivys" and Duke is generally held up as "elite" if a step below "Ivy League" or whatever. And State definitely has a strong reputation, especially in certain areas like engineering and veterinary science. I think their MBA program is also ranked fairly highly as well.
In high school, I didn't know there were such things as "top colleges". I knew Harvard and Yale existed and were good...but beyond that I honestly didn't even know MIT existed. It's probably because my family has been in America for only about 60 years now and my generation is the first to go to college (honestly just guessing here..)

So I applied to college and went to a pretty big state school (for my area).

I'm really blessed to end up where I've ended up after graduation. I know so many really really good classmates who have a lot of talent and never even get a glance when looking for jobs at some of these companies. It really just isn't fair sometimes...
It isn't just "anecdotal" when you happen to be the one who has to use a computer that crashes in such a way, regardless of who makes it, or what OS it's running.
Game theory is just an explanation; people don't use it explicitly to make decisions, they just follow their gut, and evolution has caused our guts to produce rational decisions most of the time. It's the same as the theories of attractiveness based on symmetry and secondary sex characteristics: you don't look at a potential partner and think, "He/she looks so symmetric, I bet if I were to have kids with him/her they'd have a higher chance of survival." You just intuitively find the person attractive.