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The Fifth Estate tried to make things look realistic, so a fair number of CLIs have actually made their way into at least a movie

http://sciencefictioninterfaces.tumblr.com/post/160895580781...


oh hey, thanks! I'm excited this is something people still remember. I hope people get behind this, it's a lot more accessible and there seem to be a lot of people trying it out.

Studios keep pushing the UIs visually but we need to keep up with the ridiculousness


Were you thinking of this post? http://seenaburns.com/debugging-electron-memory-usage/ Curious if other people have more on it


Ah, missed the responses on this thread due to some work stuff - this looks like it, yeah! Thanks for digging it up. :)


Oh hey I run this, originally I was just collecting the fui designs for reference when trying to make my own as a desktop (https://github.com/seenaburns/dex-ui), but since then I've kept it going.

My personal favorite is probably still Oblivion http://www.gmunk.com/OBLIVION-GFX but if these are too over the top science fiction, The Bourne Identity's is pretty fun too http://coleran.com/gallery-category/fui/#the-bourne-identity


This is an incredible and timely resource for me. I'm currently building a spaceship cockpit for my young sons. I'm a former EE, so I've got the blinky LEDs, switches, LCDs, keypads, and other physical UI components covered, but I'd love to add a sophisticated GUI component. Unfortunately, I'm not much of a coder. Do you know if any sci-fi GUIs are available as Android apps for tablets? I have 3 Kindle Fire tablets that I would love to turn into dedicated GUI touchscreens for the cockpit.


I set up SquareHome 2 with Minimalistic Text widgets to be kind of a retro-futuristic control panel for my phone. I'll bet with some time and the right icon packs it would make a pretty nice cockpit HUD.


You and your kids might enjoy piloting the ship using Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator (http://artemis.eochu.com/)


Thanks for the tip! I just installed Artemis on 3 tablets and it's fantastic for my purposes. And looking at the Artemis forums, there are a number of people building Star Trek-like bridge consoles, similar to what I'm doing. Except I'm aiming for more of a gritty Alien type of aesthetic.


Any script you throw together to output floats works. One example I have (for linux) samples wlan0 stats every two seconds to test download kbps.

The code is here: https://github.com/seenaburns/stag/blob/master/examples/netw...

Trying out some of the examples for Spark is also fun: https://github.com/holman/spark/wiki/Wicked-Cool-Usage


This is an awesome idea! Is there any way to create a randomized list weighted with popularity (so for a given tag you can refresh to find new links, but still ones likely to be interesting)?


Thanks for the support, really encouraged by the feedback here on Hacker News. You guys are great.

To your question, yes I am currently testing some ideas for a magic ranking system. One option is as you say a kind of random select amounts popular or trending links. Another is a smart weighted sort when filtering by multiple tags. One problem is that right now if you add jQuery to your filter, the javascript results are going to just dominate everything else.


Are inline if statements considered good form? I rarely see them in use and I've heard people complain about them before.


For anyone interested, a few weeks ago, someone posted a paper on the popular data mining / machine learning algorithms that gives a brief overview of some common algorithms [1]. Someone also posted a few presentations on them if you just want a bullet point summary of the gist of each algorithm [2].

I just finished looking through both. They're both great if you're hoping to get some traction when it comes to learning ML.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4938162

[2] - http://www.cis.hut.fi/Opinnot/T-61.6020/2008/


I'm going to second snapping, even if it's just snapping to other elements on the page.


Seems as though this is already a feature. When I created a headline and moved it close to a body of text, a guideline appeared and I was able to snap to it.


HN has really motivated me to start thinking about side projects seriously, even if just as learning exercise or solving my own problems. I only just started publishing them a few months ago, but I've had a lot of fun these:

Chroma https://github.com/seenaburns/Chroma - Python color handling and manipulation library

Desaturate https://github.com/seenaburns/Desaturate - Menu Bar app to force Mac OS X into grayscale display

Tungsten https://github.com/seenaburns/Tungsten - Wolfram Alpha API wrapper for Python

Open URLs In Tabs https://github.com/seenaburns/Open-URLs-In-Tabs - Port of John Gruber's OS X service to open links in tabs, modified to work for Chrome (/ your default browser).

Desaturate is definitely my favorite. Now for 2013, I have to learn to comment more and write more.


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