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Funny thing is that it's a promo for their own Kickstarter project (Kickstarted the movie).

Based on the video revealing the fraud, there's no way I'll fund the movie. (Not that I've ever funded anything anyway)

The constitution used to be about restricting what the government could do. Now it's about restricting what the people can do.

Nice move Mr Presentation Designer.

As a non-US citizen or resident this is a great concern to me (and I feel it should be to you too).

The NSA is not allowed to spy on Americans.

ASIO is not allowed to spy on Australians.

But what if the NSA gave the PRISM tech and data feed to ASIO so ASIO could spy on Americans and answer any question the NSA asks (and vice versa).

Now neither intelligence service has an 'illegal wiretap' on their own citizens. They just receive 'foreign intelligence' from each other.

Now mix in every other 'friendly' state and there's a massive worldwide mesh of data gathering that's all legal .. in the strictest sense of the word.

(I feel like I should put my tinfoil hat on .. but since this has broken I'm fairly sure they're futile)

Not answering the question, but just saw this related article: http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/03/if-steve-jobs-applied-for-...

I like the idea of sites implementing humans.txt to go with robots.txt. Doesn't need to be linked anywhere, but it's a place for crediting the people behind the site (or company, or product .. or anything).

robots.txt is for reading by robots so has to be structured

humans.txt is for reading by humans so can be anything a human wants to put in there.

In other news, the material used to cover seats in a BMW has the highest¹ thread-count of all luxury car models.

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1. Totally made this up. The point being that nobody chooses a car based on the thread-count of the material in the seats. And nobody chooses a browser based on the power draw.

I have no doubt the study is legit and nothing is 'fudged' beyond their own presentation of the graphs and other things their marketing department have done to promote the study.

The obvious truth is that Microsoft will only commission a study on something they've already proven to themselves internally. As will every other company on the planet.

Not to mention that the sites have no relationship to each other, so a line graph like this is pointless.

Here's the graph corrected for both zero-baseline and using a column graph: http://i.imgur.com/24UrJpB.png

Respect for OK Go videos just went up a level. What an awesome idea!

As a hirer, I don't want a job board. Everything on a job board goes stale really really quickly - from both sides of the coin.

A weekly thread is probably too fast a turn around.

TL;DR: I'm happy with the status quo.

I'm not a gmail user, but if the following filter is available, I will move:

* Put all newsletters in a tab so I don't see them * Delete all but the latest five unread of any particular subscription * Delete anything older than 180 days -- even if I've read it, unless I've 'starred' it.

Can it do that? Coz that would absolutely kill for subscriptions. iTunes does that sort of thing for podcasts. How can newsletters be harder?

My "Social Graph" between Facebook and LinkedIn is approximately 2. One is for social networking, the other for professional. So if they think there's any good to come from comparing the two, there's going to be a lot of people like me for whom it Just Doesn't Work.

And we used rocks as weapons before we used them for building. (Ignoring naturally forming caves).

We know media technology is led by the porn industry. Maybe physical technology is led by the weapons industry.

Similarly I'm 8 for 10 and have been working for nearly 20 years. So I get a score of 80.

If I had an 80% success rate, but was 18 for 20 I'd score 117. To get that, I'd need to be changing jobs every single year.

The score is not only totally made up but pointless and adds nothing to the rest of the article. It's just there to suck you into the article.

Another vote for space-to-drag. Though, I guess us photoshoppers probably will continue to use photoshop for this sort of thing so our muscle-memory shortcuts might not be so important :-D

Endorsements should use a web-of-trust.

Some people (undefined process) are given an endorsed skill (eg. Python). They can now endorse anyone in their network for python. But they cannot endorse anyone who claims a skill in 'goat herding'.

Now they have meaning as you can only endorse someone for a skill you have also been endorsed for.

My former boss had added 'Oracle' as a skill. I didn't know until LinkedIn asked me to endorse it. He's not even a technical guy, so I've no idea why he had added it but he's actually been endorsed for it by other business owners.

The existence (and ever increasing popularity) of Sketch can't be unnoticed at Adobe HQ. Therefore:

1. They're going to buy Sketch¹

2. They're about to release a new product that replaces Fireworks

3. They're going to have some version of Photoshop and/or Illustrator capable of the same things.

My guess? They're going to buy Sketch. If #2 was the case, it would have been demoed at Max. If #3 was the case, they'd have demoed at least some of those features at Max.

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1. When I say 'Sketch', I mean it-or-something-very-similar

That's an interesting question. While we're kind of taking the conversation off topic, let me speculate.

Imagine, if you will, that you have a popular product that you wish to EOL. And you know that people will not be happy. In fact, there'll be people who are downright angry and feel somehow betrayed. But you're going to do it.

These people want to vent their frustration. These days, they can take to Twitter, blogs and any number of sites like HN and Reddit.

But what if, as you told them you were discontinuing the product, you also gave them space to scream blue murder? And they would be screaming directly at your company, without even opening a new tab in their browser.

Now you've corralled at least some of the vitriol on your own platform. Now you can turn off the comments in a week or a month and all that venom disappears like it was never there.

Whether this is Adobe's intention doesn't matter. It's an interesting idea none the less.

Adult sees an advertisement for McDonald's Healthy Salad. Kid points to it and wants to go to McDonalds. Parent likes that kid responded to ad for salad.

But the kid was really responding to an ad for deep fried processed chicken and potato.

This is missing the most important feature: a webcam shot of the person's face when they see it.

Why not make the contact form look a bit more like an email and put the recipient address at the top as a mailto link. That way people who like forms click and get a form, those of us who like mailto can then click on the email address.

Even better: select a photo from your library and tear it up. Bonus points for recording it as a video.

FYI: Fastmail, while still developed in Australia, is now owned by Opera Software.

I want the blend-tec guy to become an astronaut. "Will it blend IN SPACE?"

It's not about being able to access 1.x in the long term from a CDN. The problem is whether it will still be supported. If there are bugs in 1.x, will they be fixed? Will 1.x support Chrome v40 and IE 15?

Thanks for pointing me to those.

I also missed this one: > If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

I'm only up to 326 days, so I'll go back to my corner and apologize (genuinely) for not being aware of these rules.

Though I still don't think it belongs here ;-D

Missed the Hacker News on this one ..

I know I'm not heavily karma'd and so my opinion counts for less, but this isn't the sort of thing I'm expecting on HN. This belongs over in Reddit (where I promise I'll still see it .. probably reposted a dozen times)

If I had a botnet, I'd point the whole lot of them at this comment to get it upvoted more.

IMHO, it's more important to get residense.com than residen.ce

I have a site that uses the '.se' and the (non tech) people who are my target market keep asking '.com?'