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The care is certainly there. It's the execution that is lacking significantly.

The types of issues Gabe describes could have been resolved if they had actual artists test the product before it was released. The drawing hand accidentally brushing against the Windows button and kicking the user out to the desktop? Please. This type of stuff is extremely trivial to discover with proper usability testing during development. (Heck, they didn't even have to release the prototypes to the public. I'm sure they have plenty of in-house people who do their drawing on tablets.)

I've always said that Microsoft is really, really good at engineering, and really, really bad at UX and usability. After reading Gabe's review, I'm disappointed that this is still the case.
Microsoft care about the money that artists are willing to pay for their product. If that induces them to make a product artists like, great.
Because writing the require statement in every file is annoying, probably. I do something similar with jQuery - I require it in my bootstrap file, then do

window.$ = jQuery

Global variables are a bad thing until they're a really convenient thing.
You're there by choice because your BF needs your help, yet you write about how you're surprised they won't fire you. That probably makes less sense than any feature request they have sent you.

It's a good question though.

After analyzing requests I have issues with, I will setup a meeting to discuss what I think are the issues, and propose a better solution.

If they push it off as "This is what the customer (or some other decision maker) wanted", I ask if we know if they have considered the issues and if we can propose alternatives.

If they still want to move forward, I ask or work with them to discover more detail about how it will be developed, and make sure they fully understand and explicitly acknowledge each piece I think is insane, irresponsible, or otherwise.

It usually doesn't get to that with good managers or clients. If it does, and it happens regularly, it's time to fire them and move on.
MaxCDN's API now 95% faster
Depressed for a Day
The real problem with online communities is that the people who are upvoted the most are the ones who spend the most time commenting.

Generally, very successful people don't spend large amounts of their time commenting on online forums. In this manner, the biggest 'losers' in the real world, with the most time to waste on the internet, become the biggest 'winners' in the online community.

The end result is that the cultural norms of the online community end up being set by people who are the least qualified to create or enforce any kind of healthy norm.

edit: just wanted to say that I recall reading something similar on a blog a long time ago, although I cannot remember the name of the writer.
HN Retreat
It will start as a mobile video social thing.
Uber Discusses Investment at $12 Billion Valuation
Yes, it's exactly the same, when you don't trust the government to allocate your tax funds in a sensible manner.

The only diseases governments have helped us with are those addressable by public health programs (and there are quite a few of those, to be fair.) For the rest, no one has ever found a more effective funding mechanism than private industry.
Auto-snap, and most importantly inability to rotate, allowed my 1.5yo kid to solve puzzles when he wasn't yet able to solve wooden puzzles well.
After an intense period of solving those non-stop (I believe it's first time he strongly experienced the positive reinforcement of winning a game), he also easily does the wooden puzzles.
I don't have any data on whether that's indeed a win developement-wise, but I'm excited that easy software tweaks (which would be impractical in physical product — how do you stop one from rotating pieces?) can dramatically affect kid's ability to engage them.
A better deal from Amazon than individual authors could get on their own.
It's not necessarily the interoperability that's the problem, it's just that sometimes she can't do things that seem sensible (like send a photo to the email app), and why are there two calendars and two galleries and whatnot? Choice can be good, but when there is initially little differentiation between options, making choices becomes a burden.
This is exactly the conclusion I came to.

The code you write for work and the code you write for you are two entirely different things. I am so much happier with my work when I assume everything is stupid and nonsensical (it almost always is, I work for a marketing company); I do it with a smile on my face because they pay me and experience is valuable. Not to mention having this kind of job when you're a 22y/o college dropout is improbable, to say the least, and complaining is stupid.
Wow, you've managed to make so many false assumptions about my original comment that I won't even bother to correct them all. Did you even read it thoroughly enough to comprehend my point? I guess not. Also have you ever heard of Broad-spectrum antibiotics? Yeah, those are nonselective.

Here are a few good links to read up on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110419214734.ht...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_flora#Effects_of_antibiotic...
http://www.naturalnews.com/042769_antibiotics_healthy_gut_fl...
Interesting story! I have to say I'm curious what the deal is with the restraining order?
It's neither. They make the assumption that their combined cloud partners aren't all in cahoots, and distribute their data such that the probability that a) one can intercept enough chunks and b) one can infer meaning from the chunks is very low.

The cynical part of me wants to say that it's very similar to a standard mapreduce, and the security properties came for free/very little.
I don't think autodidactism can be taught.

To answer this correctly we'd have to get philosophical, which means we'd both end up correct.

Suffice to say that I believe everyone is capable of learning to become a learner. You'd be surprised at what little knowledge we're born with and what our society has created for us (so-called "constructs" in philosophy parlance). Don't discount the ability for the human mind to be taught.
Have you modified your trusted issuer certs? EFF's cert was issued by "StartCom Class 2 Primary Intermediate Server CA"
To start off on a tangent...

I often wonder if the 'Like' button and its kin subconsciously encourage thinking in terms of false dilemmas?

As several others have pointed out this question and so many others in life come down to 'It depends' yet the lobbying for one definitive stance or the other goes on endlessly.

I consider myself a high school dropout success, but I'd be hard pressed to recommend that anyone follow in my footsteps. Also, I'm now persuing a degree online, nearly 20 years later.
Linux-based eyewear tracks eye movements
You can visit a psychiatrist because all others will dismiss you.
Nope. That's a good first step but here are many ways to track you outside of 3rd party cookies. Google Analytics, for example, uses 1st party cookies.
That looks cool. But I live in Southern New Mexico.

The soil temperature here gets very hot and isn't near beer cold even 3 feet down. Perhaps I could still use one of these though. As an eco-friendly coffee warmer. Fill it with canned starbucks and off we go!
France pays $20 billion for trains that don't fit its stations
Yes, you can architect a system that's more difficult to compromise or knock offline, but a better solution would be to remove the need to trust the server or to have it constantly online. To their credit, the Keybase guys have done this - their client fetches information about a user from the Keybase server, but performs the verifications itself and deposits the public key into your PGP keyring if successful. Once that's done, you don't need Kebase at all in order to communicate with that person securely.
Why does HipChat client 2.2.1080 flash my webcam on startup?
I'm running HipChat client 2.2.1080 on ubuntu 64bit and whenever I start the application the webcam flashes. I have just asked hipchat help directly and have posted on superuser.stackexchange but was hoping we could get to the truth of this. I am def concerned about privacy because skype doesn't flash the webcam on startup

http://superuser.com/questions/758053/hipchat-2-2-1080-on-ubuntu-64bit-12-04-flashes-webcam-on-startup
FT goes from -inf to +inf, LT only 0 to +inf. So, FT is twice as good as LT.
Firefox's new sync protocol
Agreed. Maybe it's better on a touchscreen than existing interfaces, but changing the dates for my flight to check price difference was a huge pain. I'll be sticking with google's flight search.
Windows 8 really isn't that bad.

I avoided it like the plague when it was first released mainly due to the lack of start menu but between the 8.1 update and classic shell maturing a bit, I basically see it as a faster Windows 7 (especially start up on an SSD). I have some minor complaints but so long as I never have to enter the metro UI I've been pretty happy with it overall.
my actual domain:

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I agree with you about specialized content, but this has nothing to do with "tl;dr".

The best HN threads are already great at giving context and making clear what a story is about. (That's usually how I learn what stories are about.) And yes, no one has time to read every specialized paper or the expertise to understand all of them. That's why we often prefer a high-quality popular article, when one exists, to specialized literature. Original papers typically get linked to in the comments anyway, for those who want them.

All of this is good and necessary. But none of it requires "tl;dr".

"Tl;dr" is an equivalent in comments to the linkbait gimmicks that we edit out of titles, and it should be kept out of HN comments for the same reason. We're not asking you to make the effort of reading every article or understanding every specialty, just the effort of looking at an HN thread for its content, without gimmickry.
Define harmful however you like. Some people might think smelling bad is detrimental to their well-being.
> It kind of seems like the least interesting possible thing to do with Hurd, given its major architectural differences from Linux, is to make it as much like Linux as possible.

I suppose that whoever uses it also needs userland software. It's fun to have a kernel with an unusual architecture, but less so when there is no application for it. I'm also not sure who the public is, apart from FSF people(?), kernel enthusiasts and people who like to experiment. But clearly there are enough people interested that it is getting more usable, and there is nothing wrong with that.
hey Steve here, the BPF+ work was done mainly by Andy Begel... really good stuff but it never got incorporated into libpcap, and I never otherwise published how the original optimizer worked. I did, however, give a retrospective talk on it a couple years back at sharkfest...

http://sharkfest.wireshark.org/sharkfest.11/

Click on "Keynote Video" for a really boring talk :-)
What is a Landing Page? A Guide to Effective Conversion Optimization
> Well you have to type something in order to start your project unless you like using file:/// URLs. "gulp watch" doesn't just run the watch task - it runs the entire dev environment with watch. How do you run multiple projects with Apache?

Apache serves everything under ~/dev and that's where I stick new client-side projects.
campers? So dig a whole new borehole each time you want to use this? I've never dug a mini-mineshaft before, but isn't that prohibitive amounts of effort ?
>and it seems like the company as a whole (including the Surface lines) has absolutely no idea where it wants to be in five years

I think they know exactly where things are going to in the next five years, yet they will try their best to arrive late. Remember the MS Courier?

I believe the future is going to be a hybrid of mobile and desktop. Its already happening with the web and other OSes especially Win8 and Ubuntu (Ubuntu mobile that turns into a full fledged desktop when docked in). So technically MS is on the right track, they are just a bit too early - 70's Groovy in the mid 60's. The biggest gripe I have with them is that sometimes they make something very good and then mess up something very little in a very noticeable way. Seriously, I am starting to believe that these tiny screwups are their signature. I have the Surface Pro I and its perfect for my needs except when I am out of wifi or need directions. Just put in a GPS and 4G already. I have waited for 2 iterations now.
Matlab source code is available for download.
It's only a problem if you have a market controlling position. The bigger Amazon's market share, the more responsibility they have to behave neutrally as the primary conduit between their suppliers and their customers. If there were a dozen other viable options for buying books online who all had similar market power and thus similar price-setting power, then Amazon could behave as bone-headedly as they wanted to.
I have started two publishing companies over the last two years. What I can say on the economics of print is that the margins are not good compared to ebooks. What this article misses is the fight is not really between publishers and Amazon, but between printers and Amazon. Printers and their distribution system are getting squeezed.
You can stick another JS app conforming the same interface, though. The interface is called DDP.
Do you have a better solution in mind? I'm actually wondering because I've thought of workarounds but they'd all be hacks like the ones in the handbook. I'd imagine other node developers are in the same boat (not due to stubbornness) otherwise we would've seen something by now.

Basically, what would be your ideal solution?
There have been basic studies on brain activity during prayer and meditation.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/22/this-is-how-your-...
Automated Hedgehog nightly run tracking
Best scrolling experience I've seen in sites like this. It might not be right for all sites, but I would like to see it almost everywhere from now on.
It's very linear and seems to work well only if you have all the dates completely locked down. I really prefer the designs that make it easy to see if travelling a day earlier or later would be much cheaper. I think the other Virgin sites do this.
Why? If I ran a hometown bookstore and was required to carry crap I knew wouldn't sell and that ate up valuable shelf space that would be bad for business. I'm not sure why amazon should be required to do something like this either. They are free to carry / not carry whatever they like, per the contracts they sign etc. There is no "everyone is equal" treatment, nor should there be.
If the higher end model uses one of the i7's with Intel's Iris graphics (still an integrated GPU), it'll have no problem. I have one powering my 2560x1440 laptop connected to another external monitor, and it drives both screens in native-res games just fine. It's more capable than the discrete ATI Radeon was in my older i5 laptop. It's also an Ultrabook (0.6"), so the same chip shouldn't have any size/thermal issues with being stuffed in an SP.
3:2 I need this so badly. I hope they solve the lag and handedness issues I really want to love this device.
To add a counterpoint: I browse very frequently but rarely ever post. I actually think some of the older posters are worse than the newer ones. A lot of HN regulars seem to me to be so caught up in it that they can't see the big picture -> comments mired in pedantry and cynicism and negativity. Sometimes it's very hard to be able to step back for a moment and take a breath of fresh air. New thoughts and fresh perspective aren't always bad.
Reddit has already been through that cycle. Reddit ca 2006, before subreddits, was not too unlike hacker news, in that it had inteligent posts with inteligent discussion. The seeds to what Reddit eventually became was certainly there, but they it did not yet dominate. I think subreddits actually made it worse, since the people interested in having online communities went to smaller and more specialized subreddits, and gave up on the default subreddits, not even trying to hold up the online community.

On hacker news, there are no "sub hacker news", and it seems to me like hacker news is deteriorating at a slower rate than reddit did. My guess is that the fact that there only is one hacker news, and no subcommunities is a partial reason for that.
There is no contradiction. You are conflating the concept of 'obfuscation' and the very specific (and rigidly formalized) cryptographic primitive called 'indistinguishability obfuscation'.
I'm in Connecticut and it defaults to Orlando instead of Boston.

Odd that other people are seeing a different default.
Costco Employees Happier With Pay Than Many In Silicon Valley
Of course they are managing their PR carefully. Apple does the same. That doesn't mean they designed the product to get a nice Penny Arcade write up. My guess is that their audience (gamers) are already in the MS ecosystem anyway.

How ironic: Apple in boardrooms and Microsoft for artists...
The Fourier Transform is just a special case of the bilateral LT. Laplace wins =)
Reporter Kicked Out of 9/11 Museum for Asking a Question Without Permission
I can't say for anyone else, but for me, I was an AV nut in the old days. I remember pulling apart an early Sony CD player in '89 or '90 and screwing each part down on a piece of wood so I could reach everything and looking at every single trace with my "new" old Phillips oscilloscope trying to understand the magic.

These stories are like finally getting to see the cards from a game long over. Pure gold to me. Upvoted.
The greatest flaw of representative democracy is that the people's will must meet the approval of some or all of their elected representatives. Due to the many and varied issues that come across the legislative bodies, you will inevitably have issues where the majority of the people are at odds with the majority of representatives. Every candidate in an election is a compromise; the voter agrees with them on some issues, but not others. The bigger Congressional districts get, the worse the problem becomes.
Do you have a build process? I still want to concatenate and minify for production, so I'm using a build task anyway. At that point having everything run in one place is no bad thing. Especially for whoever comes after me.
There's a critical difference here; those redesigns are for boarding passes issued at the airport, while Virgin's are printed at home. You can get away with a lot when your common target equipment is an inkjet rather than a thermal printer.
Because more people have wanted to purchase bitcoins than have wanted to sell them recently.
Don't forget BetterPrivacy for removing flash cookies: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy...
> Kirkenes?

Close but wrong side of the border :) I'm currently (stuck) in Ivalo[1], family home is in Utsjoki

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/99800+Ivalo/@68.6499997,27...
As @jt2190 mentioned I believe its a form of Cognitived Based Therapy/Exposure therapy.

Dismissing it as simply a lack of exercise, in my opinion, is reason to find a new GP. That said, getting more exercise is always a good thing. As is eating healthier. Cut back on the sodas and caffeine. Though, as my therapist said, unless you're unusually sensitive to caffeine you shouldn't have to cut it out completely in order to stop panic attacks.

Another thing I did was had my GP test my vitamin B, D, and magnesium levels. I was low on all and being low may be a contributor to anxiety so I started taking supplements. I'm trying to identify foods I like that are high in them so that I can get them more naturally.

Also, and this is another key point that I should've mentioned before, fear can only exist in a vacuum. So talk about it! Lets get rid of this "I'm a fearless American MAYUN!" bullshit. We're ALL afraid. We're ALL vulnerable. Its ok. It doesn't make us weak.
Well, to be fair, people have been concerned about HN getting too big and losing its community for at least two years now, iirc.
Pedantry, nitpicking, and pedantry are a step up from pure fluffiness. The question is how we can go the next step.

I find a lot of HN commenters try to put words into one's mouth. They even seem to feel they are being clever, and they are indeed imitating the outward forms of clever commenting. Maybe that's as far as we can expect human society to go.
I am really liking this design and HTML is so clean. Anyone know what the breakdown of this stack is? A lot of the illustrations are SVG how are they animated?
> "When communities grow to a certain size, people no longer expect to interact in the future, and thus are more likely to defect – to be petty, mean, aggressive..."

Wow. I can't say whether this is true or not, but how depressing. Instead of counting on this behaviour, what if we tried to change it? Kindness, respect, and general "give the other person the benefit of the doubt" attitudes could make a huge difference. I just can't get around the idea that not interacting with the same person means you can not care how you treat them... that's crazy.
Canada has the pre-payment penalties as well. Wouldn't surprise me that origins of the Canadian system came from the UK.

The US typically doesn't have pre-payment penalties which is another benefit for US homeowners since if you get a mortgage rate of 6% and a 30 yr term and rates drop to 3%, you can simply refinance without pre-payment penalty and lock in a lower rate. You do need to pay mortgage fee with the refinance, but banks often have deals where the costs are pretty low.

That said, one has to wonder if the US mortgage rules create perverse incentives for US homebuyers.
My external display just started going to rainbow static and back over and over again. Didn't think to blame the update till now. Also just had my first kernel panic in about a year.
I actually don't think so. If it is just for contacting people in your neighborhood, then it works fine. If it is for people in the same city, then the city could organize something as a utility. Mesh doesn't have to mean 'on every users' device' or even p2p.
What's the e-commerce platform / shopping cart / whatever behind this?
Page not found. What's the correct link?
The units used on Twitter seem a bit odd, what are mts? I'm guessing kms is KM? Would that make mts meters?
It may have something to do with their jobs in cargo transport. Making ends meet on a low paying, physically demanding job that probably has a long commute, and overtime, doesn't exactly leave lots of slack in the schedule to pursue anything much beyond taking care of chores and sleep. I know cause that was me in college.
Re-designing the boarding pass
Note that these days, at least in the US, generally a Psychiatrist mostly just prescribes medications and Psychologists are where you go to "lay on the couch" if you will. My therapist (Clinical Psychologist) prefers you not be on medication and feels strongly (and I'm inclined to agree) that you can find recovery without it.
Haskell for Mac OS X: Self-contained relocatable GHC builds
Well, the 10.9.x Finder is super buggy since the start, perhaps 10.9.3 just made it worse.
That sounds like it should hopefully be a software fix.
Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!
People have been able to run Ubuntu on Surface Pro 2 but it took some effort (custom kernel etc). If this has improved and if the new Surface pro can dual-boot Ubuntu without any issues, I'd definitely buy one. The hardware concept is too tempting.
Pretty cool to see it's using AngularJS.
You must be on an older iOS 7 version as the latest updates make appear to be very fast. Seems to be the fastest phone / tablet OS I've had.
Hurd is a POSIX OS.
I've seen that happen with Macbooks for years (the rainbow static), with both my mid 2012 retina MBP and the pre-retina one it replaced. Happens occasionally with my Dell monitor at home, and would happen with one of those knockoff IPS' that I used at my previous job pretty frequently. Unplugging and replugging the monitor will eventually fix it, but yeah, it's obnoxious.