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"The press is our shield against all the evil that is done against the public by governments and corporations."

This seems incredibly naive to me. It's certainly idealistic, and it's extremely difficult to believe that the media, at least the American media, isn't heavily biased by capitalism. Sensationalism does more harm than good, and it's trivial to
"buy" press coverage. The New York Times may very well have enough integrity to refuse to be bought, but it's a common practice to solicit journalists to write articles about new products and such. If you have an agenda, there are journalists ready to be paid to support it. Not only is the press sometimes not our shield, sometimes they're actually a sword against us.

While Travis' comments were certainly regrettable, there's an important distinction between talking about doing something and actually doing it. Almost anytime someone is called out for something they've said, the comments are taken out of context. It's easy for me to imagine that what was said was a reaction to a journalist behaving badly, writing an article with an agenda. It seems likely that the suggestion to use trip data was a suggestion to stoop to the same level, rather than simply to be evil towards someone who was noble and with unquestionable integrity. Uber gets a lot of press, and while some fair points are made, the press I've seen tends to be overly aggressive, misinformed, and usually displaying a clear agenda. What Uber is doing is revolutionary, disrupting well entrenched business models. When you disrupt an industry, you make enemies of the people who were lazily profiting from it. That doesn't mean Uber is good and their opponents are evil. But make no mistake that there is a battle going on, and ugly things are being said on both sides. We're all a bunch of idiots if we waste time letting ourselves be drawn in by someone else's agenda rather than assessing the merits of each side independently and voting with our wallets.
Whenever someone mentions "Christian" and "Science" within the same title they're wrong too.

This article sucks on so many levels.....
For the record, when people talk about "Brands" on Facebook, we're not talking about janky startups. We're talking about big old companies that blow >10 Million dollars in ad buys.
IIRC correctly its actually has to do with insurance premiums rather than blanket "safety" reasons.
Visual Studio express comes in different editions, so it's unlikely that Visual C# Express installed Visual BASIC, as that was what Visual BASIC Express is. And running the Express for Web 2013 installer says it will use less than 1GB of disk space.

What that out of the way, within five seconds of clicking the link here it computed 7GB of disk space. It did not provide options to ignore subcomponents like the full VS 2013/4.

My experience is that the MS tools stuff installs and uninstalls cleanly -- and what little it leaves behind are some system components that I'd prefer to have updated and left around anyway. If this freaks you out then that's what VMs are for.
"TSA officer and her barking dog"

The TSA is the agency that checks you for weapons before you enter the airport. Customs & Immigration would care about the oranges, so the woman probably worked for them.

"If you cross any state line, a human asks you if you’re carrying any fruits and vegetables."

I've only ever heard of this happening when entering California.
If you have a grudge against MS, that's fine. But this isn't really confusing at all.
For things I care about the domains are owned by me, for things I consider spammy I have a round robin of afraid.org aliases which are for all intents and purposes disposable. They are very effective for this sort of thing, but you would be wise to do your research into the history of the domain you're piggybacking to be sure it's not going to disappear.
Only two hops allowed, court order required each time, only 30 intelligence employees permitted access to the database, and only 300 searches a year - that sounds almost reasonable. It seems to me that the only thing left to make this totally clean is to take the database out of the hands of Government, put it in the hands of a private clearing house, and then require a ( necessarily confidential) court order to search the database. Just like any other court order. That would take the NSA out of the "Collecting American Phone Records" business.

Under a process known as "contact chaining," analysts examine the numbers that had been in contact with the "dirty number" and then the numbers in contact with those. Until this year the circle had sometimes been expanded to a "third hop" — a process that could include analysis of millions of American phone calls. Obama in January restricted it to two hops, and required a court order each time the database is searched.

Only 30 intelligence employees are permitted to access the database, officials have said, and it is done about 300 times a year.
The whole point of good UI design is that it should be pleasant to look at (and images can help with that) WITHOUT having to put much effort into searching what you're supposed to be reading.
Er yes Linux has been made into many products, like those Android phones. Several companies sell gcc as a commercial product, eg for embedded systems - its open source but you pay for support for your CPU architecture etc.
> If Google didn't have Chrome and Firefox was the leading browser, they'd be in big trouble with this news.

One could argue Mozilla wouldn't necessarily consider switching if Google wasn't in the browser market at all, though. Much like Apple wouldn't have dropped Google Maps from iOS if it wasn't for Android.
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Christ, does every misgiving involving web development and design need a manifesto and site these days?

website motherfucker, reactive manifesto, you might not need jQuery, contrast rebellion, extensible web manifesto, slow web movement.

so many manifestos, so little time.
> WITHOUT having to put much effort into searching what you're supposed to be reading.

Agreed, and I think my opinion differs from that of today's design crowd in what is "much effort". For me, any effort is too much. If I have to do effort to actually understand your landing page, I'm out.
The problem is that the equivalent (US) military acronym is "DOTMLPF" - Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, Personnel, Facilities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOTMLPF I'm a systems engineer that works for the military and I've never heard of "POSTED", it may be a NASA thing since they kinda have their own flavor of SE.
We are talking about something new in the works. Just like everyone else besides Apple they need to get the word out BEFORE the product to get funding etc.. I don't see how Magic Leap deserves a remark alluding to vaporware???
that site is a lot fluff and soapboxing with no real value.

it give examples of sites with bad contrasting, but don't show what they would look like fixed up. Rule #1: if you're going to complain about something, give me a demo of the point you're trying to get across so I can see the benefit. You should even go as far as explaining the process you used.

just directing people to a bunch of links and "read this guide" does nothing
The ultrawide LG is quite nice, I trialed a coworker's for a week or two. Beautiful screen and great features, and using it was interesting. It was really nice to have four or more full-height source files tiled. However, from my typical centered vantage point, windows near the corners appeared skewed. (They weren't physically skewed of course, this was just because of the angle I was viewing). I found myself rolling my chair left and right so that I could more closely center myself in front of the current window, which wasn't a big deal, just something I noticed myself doing.

Given proper resources, I'd consider getting one. Just wanted to share my funny anecdote that it's so large, I rolled back and forth to take advantage of it all :)
It's also a DRM-dystopia.
That's free as in price, not as in freedom.
I always thought widescreens "were here to stay" because its easier to move our heads to left/right than up/down... isn't this true?
Is "Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps" really that hard to understand? The other stuff reads as "if you have more than 250 PCs in your company, buy the damn thing." The exceptions they make are totally in developer's favor and proof that no matter what Microsoft does some people will bitch.
If you are still in school you could join their Dreamspark program and get Windows 8 free of charge. If you don't qualify for that you can still get a free developer token by simply joining: https://devcenterbenefits.windows.com
Again, nothing you said has anything to do with the BSD license. You are demonstrating precisely why the huge backlash against the GPL is getting so big. If you want the GPL to maintain relevance, stop attacking free software with lies and FUD. You just keep driving more and more people away from the GPL.
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> Anyone knows if there's a way to avoid that? I'd like to have "just an IDE", for node and web development.

Sorry to reply on a tangent, but for that sort of development I feel compelled to chip in and recommend WebStorm. It's not free, but ships with a boatload of features that are perfect for NodeJS/WebDev. Like a reverse-debugger that you can use on your serverside as well as front-end code. A real time-saver.

http://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2014/04/spy-js-webstorm-s...
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I think Google Glass (Aka notifications on your eye glass with a camera and augmented reality are apples and oranges.

For notifications and wearables glasses was an idea that has proven to be a bad choice for social as well as practical reasons.

Augmented reality is well adding to our reality and I believe what people really want and NOT virtual reality. I can image Amazon Echo with a butler image would be a HUGE hit as opposed to the audio only option.
Paypal has the most experience doing this with Ebay transactions I would think?
Why we use JSHint for static code analysis
Now that Firefox's teaming up with Tor, I would have been tempted to think they would make users switch to StartPage or DuckDuckGo.

Also, they really should start asking what search engine a user prefers during the first boot of the app.
Nodeclipse[1] is pretty good for doing node/web development. It supports Node/Angular/ExpressJS and many other little bits and pieces out of the box.

[1] http://www.nodeclipse.org/
This is completely hilarious. Very Fry and Laurie.
You're missing the point.

The title is clear: this article is about creating a "Gorgeous UI." It's a good to visual aesthetics. It's not about "what makes a UI good or bad."
I thinks this guy is missing the point. Google did uix research and come up with a more usable design philosophy, which makes all apps more consistent. They are now executing those grand-design rules.

In the end, apps should be more familiar, and easier to use.

The change itself is always frustrating, people who are used to an uix (by learning it), hate change, even if the new uix is simpler.
Fanfiction writers are creative with all types of media - it's part of the culture to go wild with experimental ideas and have fun with them, laughing together about it. Well-established characters mean that you have more common elements between stories, but humans find infinite stories to tell (and when you get bored of telling normal stories, you make up "alternate universe" stories for your favorite characters). The various kinds of Sherlock Holmes fanfiction are usually more serious than these Minesweeper stories, but that's more about them being based on more serious/complex material. (I have read a lot of fanfiction.)
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I'm rarely if ever troubled by UI changes but it took me a good moment before I figured out how to rerfresh your inbox in new Gmail. It's pretty obvious that you need to drag down when there are messages but without any (inbox zero) acting as an indicator, I went through all the options, and only picked the right move by accident.

If you're just starting out and don't have a feel for the mobile paradigm, those gestures may as well be magic. Maybe you're simply not supposed to refresh anything by hand any more. Maybe it's supposed to be magic.
Actually yes, that's much more fitting.
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> Or wait for Windows 10 when it'll be free for personal users.

Do you have any reference for this ? Will Microsoft release Windows 10 for free for individuals ?
:) Or, how much more efficiently could machine learning algos locate profitable F2P customers, if there were more female engineers?

Or, would more female engineers choose different mobile manipulation/psychology models, leading to less harm and more financially sustainable female "digital whales"?
Your work looks great. One thing that I struggle with, that you seem to have an good awareness for, is layout within a 'hierarchy' of controls/views. I look forward to your book.
Well, the ones we can see are! They're very very very distant objects that are very very bright, but they mostly emit along their axes. So, we can only detect the ones that are pointing at us.
There's that, and also the fact that our visual field roughly has a 3:2 aspect ratio, so more rectangular than 4:3 but less than 16:10
Haven't seen that picture before. Not sure why you were downvoted for it; seemed relevant.
This is very interesting to read. Can somebody point me to other resources? Especially for people who have not that much experience.
I don't see anyone mocking them. It's just funny to me that it exists. There are far more ridiculous short story topics posted in /r/WritingPrompts every day, and that's a default subreddit.
I'm based in the UK just outside of London and also raised an eyebrow when I read the "frothy" statement. Frothy eh? That's not what my interactions have taught me. Investors want to see a clear idea, ideally already well executed and underway and a line of sight to profitability that requires their £'s and perhaps their experience to boot.

This is as opposed to having some vague "It's like Facebook for nymphomaniac Eskimos" concept that it seems anybody in SV is capable of getting funding for.

We spoke with a couple of investors about my start up and ultimately concluded that we would bootstrap as frankly there are too many time wasters out there...
I don't remember that part. Can you remind me?
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I think VS Community Edition is great, but what I think is mindblowingly amazing is that it's free "for contributing to open source projects".

(Disclaimer: Microsoft employee.)
You're not allowed to break my facetious example by adding your own facetious information! :)

This is true in some cases, false in others. If you have 8 years worth of emails, that's what you have. If you want to segment your data based on info in your DB (people with & without a mortgage), you will probably need to use emails.

In any case, you are still leaking data. FB now know that your customer is John Lennon.
One feature missing from every modern browser except Internet Explorer is text shadow size. Most browsers support x,y, spread, and color. IE has x,y,spread, size, and color.

While I am not a huge fan of text overlays on images, it would be nice if browser vendors gave us an easy way to scrim the text a bit.
Have you ever looked into GPL? It's a tad longer than this.
If you could (or have already) written a blog post about your experience, I would love to read it.
How does eliminating the limits between keys improve the keyboard? How does eliminating the small symbols overlayed on the keys (for example I can type "!" by holding the A key) improve the keyboard?

I think the guy has valid points, and your post is just an appeal to authority.

Sadly it's not only google, it's also Microsoft (Windows 8), Gnome (3), Ubuntu (Unity), etc. This UI minimalism consisting in removing features with no good reason is killing me.
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And those are clearly plantains, not bananas!
At the moment of the transaction the books said the company had $90 more. But this does not matter much because shares were issued. In your imagined impossibly-simple company where market cap always equals cash on hand you can ignore this. In the real world, where the Earnings Per Share suddenly dropped by a factor of 100, perhaps you can imagine what will happen to the share price.
>1080 is absolutely not wide enough for today's software and web sites

It certainly is. My browser is never even that wide now, and the only thing I ever run full screen is games.
I stopped updating all my Google apps ~2 years ago because there were so many asinine, unintuitive UI changes with each new version. A lot of their changes didn't even conform to the standards recommended by Google (e.g. menu button locations). It's almost as if the UI team gets bored and decides to make changes just because they need to occupy themselves. And then instead of testing them with actual users, they just talk amongst themselves about how awesome their new set of obscure gestures and button locations are.

I'm afraid to buy a new Nexus because of how bad the application interfaces will probably be.
Every single edition of VS I have ever tried(and I worked with every one beginning with 6 all the way to 2012) had an option to uncheck SQL Server during installation. Granted, I have not worked with the Express editions,but I don't see why it would be any different.
I've only ever heard of this happening when entering California.

I've driven through 36 states and only seen this in California as well, and even then it's only on some highways entering California.
Even if I put up 2BTC and get nothing, I still have an incentive to approve it to get my 1BTC back.

The profitability for the malicious seller is a function of the probability a given buyer in the system will choose to punish the seller or recoup some money.

Also, is there a time limit? For example, what if the seller ships and buyer receives but is lazy / not incentived by the deposit..

The challenge here is this is an attempt to create a "Justice Algorithm".

I think a reputation based system is probably the solution here, and it doesn't need to be centralized. You could have anonymous reputation nodes -- which would become valueable in the system over time the more trust you have built. Trust seems to be the responsibility of the seller to manufacture by delivering goods as promised. It would be less useful for 1 off transactions with individuals.

You'd also want to calculate some trust score based on volume and value and the non-trivial challenge of preventing manufacturing trust via buying / selling to your self.
Well but if you look at it from another angle, you can simplify your logistics if you can train soldiers to not need regular sleep breaks - and that is of value during war.

If one is to believe Suvorov, the Soviets designed their logistics so that they didn't have to ship food and sleep bags to the front lines - soldiers were expected to fight three days without food or sleep, and then retreat to have few days of break with as much food and sleep as they wanted, while the next wave of well-fed and fully rested soldiers was sent in their place.
At the very least, now it seems Google is making all their applications fairly standardized in their UI/UX. I think that's Material Design at work, but I'm far from a UI/UX person.
And you could start in your small college town, work out the bugs in your process and then go national, then international. @debacle I agree. Micro-Ubers could pop up all over.
The 250 users / $1 million revenue thing is a bit weird. Any tech company with more than 10 employees probably has upwards of $1 million/year in revenue. The salary bill alone will be pushing that quite quickly. There seems to be a huge disparity between 250 PCs and $1 million annual revenue. If you had 250 PCs with less than $1 million annual revenue you'd be paying each employee less than $4000 a year.
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I think this, and the previous part, are probably most usefully viewed from the perspective of "The design zeitgeist dictates that I must do $DESIGN_TREND; here is how to do $DESIGN_TREND and make it work well" (where $DESIGN_TREND is, for example, having a huge image and making the overlaid text readable), rather than from the perspective of critiquing whether these trends in design are actually necessarily a good idea.

I say this as someone who routinely does get asked to build sites that are (to put it kindly) heavily indebted to other current sites; I can definitely confirm that overlaying text on top of images and making it readable genuinely is quite hard work - especially if your clients are choosing the images! - and these tips are certainly very helpful for those occasions when you can't hire a designer with a natural instinct for making this stuff work.

So, I say: great pair of articles with some great tips.
Eh, I just returned from Jamaica with a bag of coffee and declared it on my customs form. The agent just waived me through.
Interesting; I don't see it as mocking to post the existence of a thing to HN. The existence of a unique, curious, and very human part of the web surely fits the description of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

Thanks, frozenport. I'd never have guessed that such a thing could be a thing.
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I was anxiously expecting the update, but man that keyword is a deal breaker.
Can it be configured as dark themed?

The keyboard is a central point for UX, I've already moved away from Samsung for the same reason, and will hold the update if I'm forced to use that keyword
Those estimates don't have to hold outside US and west EU.
This is the general link, rather than directly to a version.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/LanguageExt
Google sucks at UI. Period. They had one good UI: the original Google home page. Everything since then has not been about making their products more usable, it's been about finding ways to cram more advertising into their products.

This is yet another case of where if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer. So they're not designing it for you.
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My graduate school research was associated with a very active bipolar disorders research group. Whenever ECT came up in casual discussion, nearly all the psychiatrists said they would personally choose ECT over medication.
No, they didnt plan to sell commercial plugins, other people still could.
Probably that all hardware has to be based on a government controlled "Secure Hardware Environment" (SHE). Security is a big part of the book - as you might expect from something that has key characters called Alice and Bob.
This has been discussed before and several people said they use ex for scripting (with pipes). However, NeoVim is not removing that, only the UI for ex mode.
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