punee

Possibly the most pretentious post I've ever read.

The issue may be simple, but it doesn't have a thing to do with what you're talking about. Amazon operates in France. It's a local business. Next question?

Terminology quibble, but not all Nash equilibria are prisoner's dilemmas. Indeed, some Nash equilibria are also Pareto efficient (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Nash_equilibrium).

Yes, there could.

It's not "silly", it's the basis of what separates science from religion. There's no final answer. Everything can be questioned.

It's funny how purported skeptics are so quick to look for eternal truths.

OTOH, that "wh" is pronounced /hw/ only reinforces his main argument.

I am not sure either how he inferred from Andreessen's tweets that there was any paradox in Silicon Valley not paying for the safety net.

From a (n admittedly somewhat utopian) techno-libertarian POV, couldn't Andreessen mean that Silicon Valley will be providing that safety net itself by making it affordable through technology?

Silicon Valley won't "pay" for the safety net, it will get paid for it.

I can't count how many times I've had to tell designers that their great design idea of resizing the first "tile" to perfectly fit the viewport was a UI (and conversion) disaster.

It's also a well known problem referred to as a "false bottom." See number 15 here: http://goodui.org/

Yeah, sure, Mr. "Smalltalk and C# developer", the Sistine Chapel is a tourist attraction.

I am not sure if you have "delusions of a creator" but you sure seem to have other delusions.

Some people on Hacker News are honestly embarrassingly retarded.

Assuming I'm a marketer who's using A/B testing tools and who's only interested in getting "statistically significant" results, and assuming Bayesian methods provide some advantage in terms of regret minimization that translates to real dollars earned, I feel that I could totally outsource my understanding of the theoretical underpinnings that get me that result. After all, what percentage of Optimizely or VWO users perfectly understands the statistical framework the tools are based on? So I'm not really convinced by that line of reasoning.

I guess that's as good a place as any to ask some more general (and naive) question : how come Bayesian methods still haven't taken over the testing market given their (as perceived by my narrow understanding) advantages?

I think the term of art is "accident de personne." I certainly heard it a few times myself.

The SNCF can be blamed for a lot of things, including subpar service quality, but I don't think they ever tried hiding the nature of those accidents.

Also interestingly, they will "translate" movie titles that are in English into a different title, also in English. So "The Hangover" becomes "Very Bad Trip".

A lot of subtitling in France? Nope. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find any (by default that is, you can always turn them on). The overwhelming majority of shows are dubbed in France too.

The explanation is some form of ingrained linguistic pride and more pragmatic concerns: viewership would drop about 30% if they stopped dubbing.

http://www.slate.fr/story/18195/pourquoi-la-france-double-t-...

I'm not sure it's abandonment as much as a huge cognitive dissonance. Designers are always using that Steve Jobs quote about how design is "not how it looks, it's how it works", and the Dieter Rams principles, all of which are fairly functionalist. It's kind of puzzling, really.

The fewer words you use, the more that tends to happen.

Product looks pretty cool.

However, I'll give you a -5/10 for another tiny font size and font weight product page. Even Apple who, as far as I can tell, originated that style, doesn't go for such extremes.

There's no way anyone on a large screen is going to read the minuscule body copy.

"I really love how the tiny font almost blends into the background and forces me to squint", said no one ever.

I don't think the video background works either, it's too distracting, and makes the headline hard to read when it blends too much with the background color.

The headline is also fairly weak and lacks clarity. Your product is only tangentially about dragging and dropping. On the other hand, I can't see how you can avoid talking about bookmarking or "saving for later", which seems to be the main purpose. So I would mention that somewhere in the headline/subhead.

The fact it's in the cloud seems to me to be a point of parity at best, given that Chrome can already sync your bookmarks by itself. Same with Evernote.

Besides, the formulation is a bit clumsy given that I do not want to drop what I'm saving just anywhere. I want it to be organized. I want to drop it where I can find it.

My guess is that you mean I can drag and drop it from anywhere, but again, that's kind of a platitudinous feature these days.

The main benefit I see in the product is that it gives me a higher level of granularity as I can save sub-elements of a page directly, instead of bookmarking a whole page, or resorting to a third party, out-of-the-browser program to save and organize e.g. images independently. So it seems to allow me to save exactly what I need, more easily.

(Note that I have no idea if something similar already exists).

Your quotation talks about design, not about looks. Huge difference.

Regardless, absolutely NO ONE who uses an application gives a shit about how it is implemented. All people see is the interface.

That may include elements that depend on implementation to make it responsive, but what matters is how it looks and feels to the user (i.e. fast). How that is achieved is irrelevant.

How it looks isn't "more important", it's the only thing that matters. All implementation changes are driven by design concerns.

Well, isn't that the whole point?

You're not sure because you _can't_ be sure. Because there's no competitive offer to help price discovery.

So, where is that quotation from? Oh, sorry, it looks like the "journalist" was just making shit up and putting it in people's mouths? What garbage.

Seems like a bad choice for a headline/title. You're advertising a gimmicky, non-essential feature of your app instead of one of its valuable benefits. But curiosity-based headlines can only be so efficient when they're not paired with a more fundamental appeal (e.g. the fear that your wallet is not safe in the example you mention).

Another good reference, although less advertising oriented, The King's English, by H.W. Fowler, insists on solid principles:

  Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched.
  Prefer the concrete word to the abstract.
  Prefer the single word to the circumlocution.
  Prefer the short word to the long.
  Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

Freely available here: http://www.bartleby.com/116/

It is an issue that is found in other countries proportionately to the prevalence of socialism. The French, for instance, will not only blame everything on the government (or people who have had success), but expect everything from it (find me a job, keep me healthy, save my company from bankruptcy, provide me with nice state-sponsored TV fiction championing the values of "diversity", etc.). You don't want America to go down that road.

I'm here to let you in on the little secrets of fashion so people think you're even more awesome than you already are.

That's how this should read. That would make unprofessional copy look like lazy professional copy, although I suppose there's a more general issue with tone throughout the post. Needless to say a lot of work still needs to be done.

As for the idea itself, I would probably try to appeal to qualities that nerds value. For example, they sure spend a great deal of time making sure their code is elegant. Maybe you could try to see how you can translate the rules of elegance as they apply to code into fashion parlance.

Scikit-learn for Python, great tutorials/user guide covering various ML techniques, makes prototyping very easy: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/

Those of us in the rest of the world (since I, too, speak for the rest of the world) don't really think America is crazy about anything. Perhaps those of us in the rest of the world need to stop trying to lecture other nations about what they should "understand."

That sounds more like what I'm used to seeing. I guess the parent was being a little hyperbolic, or simply hastily generalizing what may be true for professional photographers (i.e. conspicuously pointing large gear in the face of people without asking for their permission). Even so, you'll find millions of your typical subway candid shots taken in Paris on the internet. I don't suppose all of these shots resulted in the photographer being assaulted in front of a consenting crowd.

The preferred separator in French is a non-breaking space, so it in fact would be 1 000,01. But that is irrelevant because this article is not in French. It really should read 7,207 images per second, which incidentally is the name of the video in the original article.

This is part of a larger tutorial available here: http://ufldl.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/UFLDL_Tutorial