skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, UX depends greatly in the kind of game you are making. I consider the term "RPG" as a super genre (super class). In it you have WRPG's, JRPG's, Action RPG's dungeon cralwers, MMO's, etc. Depending on the the game, the concept of party and it's associated mechanics will change.

You also have to keep in mind that in some games a good UX may not be desired. While I believe an RPG's UX should be good (messing around with menus and inventory shouldn't be a chore), see the classic Resident Evil games.

One of the goals of the games is to evoke an atmosphere of uncertainty, fear and powerlessness. See how the health indicator is not a concrete value (75% life, for example) but an approximation (yellow life. You may know yellow means it's in [30-70]%, but you don't know the exact value.) This helps achieve the desired emotion while being, according to the traditional UI principles, a bad UI. It's not transparent enough for the user.

I consider the game's controls to be part of the UI. It's by using the controller and how the character moves the you interact with the game. MAny people dislike the RE's "tank-controls"[1], but I find it was a conscious and deliberate choice by the game designers to adopt this type of control. It's harder to control the character but help in achieving the desired emotions.

So, to answer you question... I don't know. But it's harder to evaluate game's UX's because it can't be evaluated in the same way we evaluate traditional UX's. Sometimes, in games, it's good to have bad UX's.

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TankControls
You're right - it doesn't have to be the government's job to educate people...

...We could just as easily act like, say, Jamaica, in the township of Treasure Beach, where the government does not educate the children, leaving them to farm ackee, sell souvenirs on the beach and fish for a living.

However, the government is under our control, and as a group, our collective people who came before us figured out it was extremely valuable to educate people. And since then, every generation has valued education even more.

So, even if your personal values preclude the government from educating people and you prefer aristocracy and a severe gap between peasants and oligarchy, you are fortunately vastly outnumbered by others who believe in either a. a chance at equality, or b. the power of educated as a group for promoting the nation's interests.
My boss, My boss.. as my career has gone for a toss
my boss, my boss what to tell about my boss
as my career has gone up for a toss

his hair and brain is sparse
and he is a pain in the arse

he is stupid, inhuman and dumb
and he is a big pain the in the bum

he indulges in lot of polictics with no goal
as he is an asshole

i did a mistake by joining his team and i feel unlucky
because my boss is very sucky

he always lies and lies and lies
and my will to work with him dies and dies and dies

he gives lectures to everyone on quality
unaware of the fact he himself is shitty

he rarely ever gives us full salary
and lies about never reading our messages on his blackberry

he claims that he is a good project manager
but actually he is nothing more than an amateur!
>Not strange at all.

What exactly is the purposes of a marketing team which prevents interested users from using your products?

There is no marketing to be done at that point - the market has already found you.
Seems to me that the development time spent maintaining two different modes might be better spent simply improving the efficiency of the one correct version.
The problem is not saying that Rust is currently unstable, it is you taking the leap to saying that Rust will never be stable.
UI / UX Design Interviews, Zane David
Frank : When your friends or parents ask to you what job do you do, how do you answer?

Zane : I always start by telling them that I’m an interaction designer, but I always received a bewildered look, so I go on to explain that I design apps and websites. That usually goes down well, people seem to appreciate that I work in a creative industry.
Well the hilarious part is that AirBnB now requires guests to prove who they are by posting a passport.

It wouldn't be rocket science to require hosts to prove that they have ownership or approval to let out their flats (i mean, you can look up property ownership info online for most US cities). Especially since, from the host's perspective it's not a 1 time transaction.

They're just skirting the law because it's convenient.
Ok, now that you downloaded it, try successfully installing it.

The entire installation experience is a disaster both from the outside[0], and from the inside. If I remember correctly, guys from SQL Server Setup team had to use like 16 Product Keys to work around various, err, quirks, to put it mildly, of the underlying MSI "technology"

[0]: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/basits-sql-server-tips...
That's really splitting hairs.

It's pretty obvious that turning an apartment into a hotel room is a legal problem in many if not most instances. Making the claim that "people just aren't that concerned about the sanctity of HOAs and residential leases" is just plain delusional. You'll get concerned when your lease gets terminated or the HOA takes up action against you.

The whole situation is a moral hazard -- the owner/lessee of the apartment/house bears almost all of the risks. AirBnB just needs to keep the PR machine churning. That's why they have figured out how to verify the identity of renters (to address the issue of some sort of psycho serial killer renting rooms), but still find it impossible to confirm that lessees of property can in fact rent those rooms.
Nope, London doesn't have thunderstorms. Maybe they're thunderstorms by UK standards, but not by global standards, not in the 13 years I've lived here. One of the things I miss most about living elsewhere in the world is the stimulating weather. Be it big blue skies, substantial snow, bone rattling thunderstorms, lightning displays, hail storms that bring traffic to a halt. London is wishy washy. Drizzle, enough snow to make a dirty slush, a thunderclap, a single flash of lightning, hail so small that it melts away on contact. Summer in 2004 (2005?) was two weeks long. Literally. Two weeks of sun. Dreary weather. I'm desperate for the European economy to pick up so I can leave.
I am glad my email doesn't show up in there.
Sadly, that's correct. Those apps should declare that limitation in their manifests. Which would in the case you cite lead to a TV app not being offered to TV devices.

Botches like that are mostly due to buying cheapass, low-bidder implementations that don't implement the d-pad navigation methods in custom View classes. Actually, it's pretty difficult to avoid inheriting the default method implementations so the deficiency is probably mostly in not handling the highlighting and selection methods. Shoddy!
It's the same for Sybase ASE/SQL Anywhere, DB2, Informix, etc. Several hoops to jump through, various registration details (I hit Forgot Password, everytime); big companies with several products and one massive site made of smaller sites to serve the needs of many people and products.

Never fear windows guys and gals, your favourite open source databases that are massively scalable are readily available, and nobody from sales will give you a call to discuss options:

* https://downloads.mariadb.org

* http://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-do...

(if I put my tongue any further into my cheek I am going to make a hole!)
Apologising for everything you do doesn't look good. Stop it. Don't apologise unless you've genuinely fucked up.
In American law, a covenant is best thought of as something different than a contract. They are related, but covenants are a property law concept, while contracts are their own area of law. A covenant can run with the land: someone in 1920 can put a restriction in a covenant that the owner of the property in 2014 must abide by, even if the property has changed hands many times in the interim. However, contracts only bind the parties that agree to it.

The distinction between the two is very relevant vis-a-vis your response to 'tptacek. The terms of a lease contract are freely bargained-for between buyer and seller in the present day. Because contracts cannot bind non-parties, they will only contain provisions that at least one party considers meaningful. However, a covenant is not freely bargained-for between buyer and seller in the present day. Both the buyer and seller may be bound by provisions that both believe to be antiquated (like covenants not to sell to particular minority groups).

If you think a contractual term is antiquated, you're free to bargain with the seller to have it eliminated. With a covenant provision, however, both you and the seller might be stuck with what someone wrote-in decades ago.
I don't want to sound negative and I certainly don't want to start a war here. I also really appreciate what Mozilla is doing and I am an otherwise happy user of FF on both desktop and mobile.

That said, FF memory usage (not just pdf.js) is sometimes just insane. Granted, I only have 2GB on this Linux, but FF invariably eats most of it (with just 10-20 tabs) if left running for long periods. Interestingly enough, once I restart FF and reopen the same tabs, memory usage is far lower. Memory leak? Inefficient caching? Who knows...

Every now and then there is a version of FF that claims to be using less memory, but in my experience the differences have been negligible. So as far I am concerned memory friendly FF is something like fast Java... I am still waiting to meet one of these beasts in the wild. :)
you entitled twat
PocketScan (a tiny, mobile, document scanner)
If we could achieve near-light speed, how would time work for those traveling at that speed relative to the universe ? Wouldn't time "feel" normal but "stopped" relative to the other slower bodies of the universe ? As such, couldn't that near-light speed "slow down" the rate at wich we see the expansion of the universe, making possible star traveling ?
술 모임이나 그런게 있으면 나가보는건 어떨까 싶네요. 사회성이 떨어지는 사람도 술을 먹으면 부끄러움을 이길 수 있으니까요.

저도 부끄러움을 많이 타는 사람인데 그런 모임 같은데 나가면서 모르는 사람하고 이야기하는게 익숙해졌습니다.
A Drone built for aerial video? Kickstarter says “Shut up and take my money”
I think I saw this played as a group at Fig Boston.
The audience would shout out commands and someone at the front would type them it. They had people voicing the characters. Its worked out much better than expected, people were laughing.

Its amazing how much better these games (now known as interactive fiction) have gotten since Zork or Planetfall. Its much better at understanding what you type.

And google shows that the lost pig was the game played live:
http://bostonfig.com/interactive-fiction/
Here is a lesson I've learned the long, hard way after 30 years of being a strong introvert: it's not how or where you meet people that counts. It's how you stay in touch.

Look around you. Every day, in every situation imaginable, there are hundreds of ways to meet people. There really are. You could strike up a conversation with a stranger on a subway. You could ask for some advice from the girl ahead of you in line at the supermarket. You could ask your coworkers to hang out, or join them for lunch. You could go to meetup groups, or meet people online and transition to real-world encounters. Point is, "How do I meet people?" is the most commonly asked question -- and it's usually the wrong one.

If you're a true introvert, your biggest enemy is yourself. It's your desire to be alone. It's your preference for living by yourself, for quiet moments away from others, for nights spent at home, watching Netflix or playing games. Making friends means making an effort to hang out with them, even when it doesn't seem like the most immediately pleasurable, comfortable, or convenient thing to do at any given moment.

I hate making plans. But once I'm in mid-plan with a friend or two, I have a great time. And yet, somehow I never seem to put two and two together. I tend to decline or avoid a lot of social plans. I'm sabotaging my own friendships when I do that. Friendships are like pets; they need to be fed, walked, and watered. Some of your friends will be super outgoing, and they'll do most of the work for you. But some of your friends won't; they'll be the passive party and expect you to make the plans. And either type of friend will occasionally, if not often, expect you to make the plans. That's what happens in a mutual friendship.

So I'd ask you to ask yourself: is your problem really about meeting people, or is it about staying engaged with people? If it's about meeting people (shyness), there is plenty of good advice on this thread about how to do it. If it's about spending time with people (introversion), that's going to require some regular, concerted effort to battle against your own inclinations. Sort of like battling the urge to procrastinate. You'll have to battle the urge to self-isolate. You'll want to focus less on the initial "ugh" factor in making or anticipating plans, and more on the fun you'll be having when you're hanging out.

Friendships don't just click into place on the first interaction between two or more people. They depend on proximity and frequency. They take time to develop, and once they've developed, they need to be maintained. They are conditional, and you need to live up to whatever the conditions may be in any given relationship. You're not going to ask a coworker to lunch and become friends at the end of that meal. You're going to ask that same coworker to lunch a second time, and eventually a third. And maybe you'll be friends at the end of the fourth meal.
Play ultimate!
...and you will be amazed at what happens next!
Is firefox actually using memory in such a way that other programs can't use it, or is it simply making efficient use of memory but caching everything it can?
True, but I think the rational behind that is that imdb doesn't want someone creating a software that gets used by a lot of people which implements such a crawler.

I doubt although I can't say for certain, that imdb much cares about someone who made a scraper to gather data for a one time aggregation like this.

Of course, for a use case like OP has, the static data imdb offers would also have sufficed, I'd say. Of course, that data is not as "up to date" as the data you can scrape off of the web pages, but it would have been sufficiently "up to date" for such an analysis, I think.
6 easy steps to share visual messages in eskiis
Isohunt.to is an unrelated clone of the original.

Source: used to work for Isohunt.
VM starts swapping so much that it is not usable anymore.
1. You're using a completely different system (at all levels of resolution) so the comparison hardly makes sense

2. The browser measurement includes the browser's overhead. On my non-retina MBP a freshly started Firefox 30 yields an RSS of 240MB (Preview — the system's default image and PDF viewer — is 16MB and grows to 44MB on opening the Tracemonkey PDF). And that's with just Firebug and the WD toolbar, we've got no idea what manners of extensions or building options OP has. And for reference, opening the Tracemonkey PDF grows Firefox's RSS from 240 to 350MB.

3. The article's measurements includes rendered and cached pages, opening the TraceMonkey PDF grows my Firefox's RSS to 350MB but browsing to the end (and ensuring every page is loaded) ends up with a 480MB RSS, a behaviour which also exists (to a lower extent) on Preview, which grows from 44MB RSS to 85MB (then back down to 62MB)

4. Finally, the article specifically notes that "pdf.js still uses substantially more memory than native PDF viewers."
I know it doesn't really address the underlying issues but if the lack of a car is making you feel bad, why don't you buy a car? It might be stupid, but I felt loads better about myself after getting a car. I found carpooling to be a nice way to meet people too.
I'll hang out with you!
I downloaded it and sent 10 mBTC to it yesterday - seems to work pretty well. Unconfirmed transaction showed up soon after I sent it and later was reflected in the balance after several confirmations. The app is very rudimentary for now - sending/receiving/exporting keys is about all it does.

Glad Apple turned around on this policy. I felt left out.
The Swift Programming Language: Solutions to Experiments
"0 A.D. originally began as a comprehensive total conversion mod concept for Age of Empires II [...]the team soon turned to trying to create a full independent game based on their ideas"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_A.D._%28video_game%29
Richard Feynman didn't like honors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f61KMw5zVhg
>>> So Facebook knows I like Bob's Burgers but not The Family Guy.

I see how they would know that you like Bob's Burgers, but how would they know that you dislike The Family Guy? Or, were you saying that they know you haven't declared you like Family Guy at this point in time? I ask is cause I was missing a way they could track the former, and also because I think Facebook is missing the boat by not having a way to dislike something.

If I were looking to by Brand A and saw a lot of my negative sentiment for that brand Brand B would need less positive sentiment for me to be sawed to it. In that scenario they start to displace services like Yelp.
The framerate is much better in the PS3 version. There's a comparison video at the end of this page: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ico-shadow-...
Useful reminder: you can set "pdfjs.disabled" in about:config to turn it off and redirect PDFs to a native app of your choice.

The concept of rendering PDFs in the browser isn't fundamentally bad, but large files crashing the browser is a disaster. This happened with Adobe as a plugin and it continues to happen.

Now if someone can provide a means of un-embedding streaming video as well, that would be very useful.
good advice!!! today I had a breakfast with myself and it was awesome.
The benefit of accepting an OBE is that you get to return it in protest next time the government does something suitably horrifying.
The Smalltalk version of foreach() is called #do:. #inject: is like reduce().

That blog post inspired a fun discussion in the Smalltalk community on what the semantics of #infect: and #neglect: should be!
You can just use the latest Nightly or Aurora to see how fast these things are compared to yours. I had a same problem, Firefox being slow and clunky so I switched to Nightly and it did really increase the speed.

I think Firefox is getting faster but fact is that users also acclimate to new speed and expect it to be faster.

EDIT: Right now with about 10 tabs open FF is eating around 580 MB of RAM.
Well it happened. I didn't make the story up. It was the last two numbers. I am totally serious that happened.

Perhaps Amazon didn't validate at all. Who the hell knows?
"But honestly, 99.9% of the time I'm reading a PDF, I don't care if each pixel is in exactly the same place as it would be in some other reader application so long as I can read the content"

No, you don't actually want that. I've seen this in Linux where a PDF gets rendered with the wrong font because the correct one wasn't on my system or embedded in the PDF. It becomes illegible. PDFs are deeply pixel perfect in specification; you can't just decide to not worry about that anymore and expect anything legible to come out the other side. It is not HTML under the hood; it's a printer format under the hood.
What’s with startups’ failure fetish?
Sell your startup for a $bajillion.
The use case here seems to be for city cars. If you only rarely need to go more than 20-40 miles in a day, the aluminum batter will last a very long time (as it'll almost never be used).

Agreed, for commuters this wouldn't be a good answer to the "range anxiety" question.

I'd definitely be curious in general to see what the total environmental impact of 1,000 miles of range produced with a gas motor is compared to the 1,000 miles of range with this battery. As in, from mining to fuel exhaustion.
Your numbers about mortality are interesting, but you are not saying a word about the long-term pollution issues of nuclear. It's not like anybody is going to move in next to a meltdown site anytime soon.

Edit: I'd like to see some sources for your claims wrt the footprint of renewables, I haven't been able to find anything which supports your position.
It's immoral to bring children into this world that you can not take care of. Period. What part of that don't you understand? What part of that simple statement do you want to twist and mangle to suit your worldview?
Quote:
Grunk think that pig probably go this way. It hard to tell at night time, because moon not bright as sun. There forest to east and north. It even darker there, and Grunk hear lots of strange animal. West of Grunk, there big field with little stone wall. Farm back to south.

Orc English really bad bad. Me prefers to spare me self that pain.
Three cheers for Applait! :D
Interesting read but I would disagree that prestige papers aren't like a brand. I use aggregators, mostly, but when I see articles from certain sources (e.g. NYT, Economist or CSMonitor) I'm more likely to click on those. That tells me that quality papers still have some value but maybe only because they have maanged to keep good journalists together.

I'm guessing the future will be individual journalists/columnists marketing themselves directly via aggregators.
Actually he specifically advises against being cynical & selfish. A passage:

[after complimenting a postal worker on his hair thus making the postal worker happy]:

"I told this story once in public and a man asked me afterwards: 'What did you want to get out of him?'

What was I trying to get out of him!!! What was I trying to get out of him!!!

If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can't radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to get something out of the other person in return - if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve. Oh yes, I did want something out of that chap. I wanted something priceless. And I got it. I got the feeling that I had done something for him without his being able to do anything whatever in return for me. That is a feeling that flows and sings in your memory lung after the incident is past."

He recommends truly being nice, not just pretending to be nice. It's not really a "trick", he suggests you substantively change your behavior.
Behind the scenes of Reddit's API
What about other asians who speak same language? it's more fun to hang out with your nationals, mentality etc.
From the Kickstarter description, they're leveraging existing open source software:
"The onboard software is based on the 3D Robotics open-source code"

Also note, they DO NOT include hazard avoidance in the current product:
"The reason for this is that there is no avoidance system included in the first version."

So I think your questions are legitimate. The underlying question is: do we now live in an era when a team of mostly non-technical people with a couple of smart hackers can put this kind of product together from existing technologies without inventing anything really new? I guess the answer is mostly yes but I wonder if obstacle avoidance is really something that can be left out without serious consequences.
Hmm.. The early prototype kind of looks like a Pii. Interesting product, a bit pricey?
I'm doing so: http://gitlab.duncanmsmith.com/public/projects

My actual site is hosted on GH Pages, so I don't need that much power to host GitLab itself - 20GB storage and 1TB transfer is more than enough for me.