jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
DPI [Dots Per Inch] != PPI [Pixels Per Inch] - this is a common misunderstanding when discussing screen resolution and they're not directly comparable.

DPI has to do with the printed image - how many of the smallest dots of ink can fit along an inch on paper. The resolvable image detail depends on this as well as other factors like the dithering algorithm.

PPI defines how many groups of pixels (each normally made up of an R, G, and B sub-pixel) fit in a linear inch. Even this is complicated by things like some of the current OLED screens that have twice the number of green sub-pixels than red and blue.

More: http://www.google.com/search?q=dpi+vs+ppi
Three links to the same blog on the HN front page. Does this stink to anyone else?
On a technical level you couldn't be more correct.

However, for various reasons – a mix of cultural and economic I suspect – ridiculous hidden installations and other software showing a coldly calculated contempt for the user are a fact of life while using Windows, and are very rare indeed on other platforms.
I agree, and it will do that eventually. They are making it an open standard so it can be integrated into other devices. And i'm confident the 3G limitation is temporary
Interesting. Yeah I mean even the average interactive ad where a couple screens of text slide in and then some links appear requires a bunch of back and forth and refinement in my experience, so there'd definitely be a market for competent creators of these ads.
These weren't deliberately engineered for a couple of hundred villagers.

They are made from an available and suitable plant into a shape of a bridge, but not with a specific intention of being suitable for a couple of hundred villagers only.

They might as well be suitable for a good deal more, we weren't even given any measurements, crossections etc. in the article to even begin to guess.
I'm 99% sure that you're joking.

But if not, have no fear.
Yes. Why shouldn’t it be? I genuinely don’t understand your argument.
Super interesting, thanks for sharing!

These things are always my favorite to deal with - the feeling at the end when you figure it out is amazing, and you usually learn a ton on your way there, too.
I was going to go for the XPS 13. It’s a great laptop, but now that it appears Apple might be making a decent laptop once again, I’ll probably shoot for the MacBook Pro 16” instead.
And Wikipedia is hosted on... a .org. Great!

Why not shake them down for those sweet donations?
The fast switching ability isn't a bug by itself, but it makes the insecure authentication much worse. Shitty IOT auth does not mix with power electronics.

Whether Tesla is worse than other providers in this space is another question, and may well have a depressing answer.
Obfuscated cold storage for God’s sake. It’s crypto, who knows what that could be worth by the time you’re out of prison.
I don't recall signing an NDA (or any other paperwork) before my interview. And when I conducted interviews, I was never given any paperwork to make candidates sign.

The thing to remember about Apple is: it's really big. The interview process for an engineer working on Mac OS X could be completely different from that for an engineer working on iPhoto vs a product manager working on the iTunes store vs a finance person vs a supply chain person (et cetera). Generalizing is hard, and probably wrong.

Generally, we did a couple of rounds of phone screens, and brought someone in if we were convinced they had enough technical savvy. Once they were on campus, we'd evaluate competence (do they know what they're doing?) and personality/fit (can we work with this person?).

Given that our team was a bunch of generalists, we'd ask you about everything from pointers to dialog box design to HTML to database administration to shell scripting. We'd expect you to know a little bit about everything and be an expert on one or two things.
It seems like the basic assumption behind this kind of thing no longer holds; when systems in the past couldn't do power management, the idle time processing power really was wasted and these kind of thing simply utilized that.

Many modern systems throttle back their power consumption when the load permits, saving battery life or ac consumption, so this really does pass a cost on to the end user.

It certainly will impact the user experience on a laptop by draining the battery if you hang around on sites that use it a lot. I'm not sure how they can avoid this.

It would be nicer if they made it visible on the sites and had a global opt-out
Just curious: why use more than one OpenID account in the first place? I've genuinely never understood why people would do that. Am I missing something?
Glad you like it! Easter egg: http://browserling.com/queue
Clickable Link: https://www.23andme.com/store

Original Source: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=2412731

Killed post to original source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937634
I interviewed with Apple last year, and I wasn't asked to sign an NDA. That said, I didn't actually see anything that would have required one.

I didn't apply to Apple - they found me. A year later, I'm still not sure how that happened, since I don't know anyone there. It could have been through a public talk about user experience that I gave (the position was for UX director of the Apple web site), it might have been through something I wrote, or it could have been as mundane as a LinkedIn search.

I went through a series of phone interviews in the usual ascending order. Everyone I spoke with was very sincere and conversational, there were no MS or Google-style "tests" to go through. We looked at work I'd done, I talked about my approach to UX, we got to know one another a bit.

Eventually, they flew me out to Cupertino (I live in NYC), and put me up at a nice hotel near the Apple campus. I spent a full day in an interview room, meeting various members of the team I would be working with, both above and below the position I was being considered for.

The only time we left the conference room where the interviews were happening was to take a stroll over to the cafe for lunch. I went with most of the team, and we talked about day to day life at Apple, what it's like working with tight security, the fancy Apple buses that take employees from SF and the East Bay to work, people's personal projects and hobbies, etc.

I got some insight into the way Apple works, and predictably, there was none of the corporate silliness that you'd find in a less confident company, none of the buzzwords or process for the sake of process. I could see that they all worked incredibly hard, but the fulfillment on everyone's faces made me want very much to be a part of it.

In the end, I didn't get the job - they ended up either not filling the position at all, changing their team structure, I'm not sure - they left me feeling very good about myself and the experience, probably the best way that I've ever not gotten a job.

The main impression I was left with was that I had just wandered back to a pre-dot com era where people worked incredibly hard to make great things, rather than to maximize profits or burn towards an IPO or whatever. It was one of the most human job interviews I'd ever been through.
I found this paper to be really helpful as well, which is linked to from that article: ftp://ftp.lambda.moo.mud.org/pub/MOO/papers/JupiterWin.ps
The Google Talk client is horrible. It wastes tons of CPU when it's loading up the contact list, and still uses a bunch just while idling. If you have it on all the time, it will eat your battery away such that a Blackberry 9700 with no other apps running won't last a full day. I tested this on my own device a while ago, it might have gotten better, but I doubt it.

Blackberry Messenger (BBM) also has a typing indicator, delivered and read indicators, and it's faster than anything else out there.

Also, the fact that it's only on mobile devices and not desktop computers means that you know your message will get delivered to someone's pocket instead of the computer they may have left on. An odd side effect of its lack of portability.
Give it time, soon Thanksgiving will become an artifact of a holiday with a small loyal following and Black Friday will become the real holiday.
I'd suggest picking up something popular and spending good amount of time in churning out projects. I see that you have Lua on your Github, but since you're desperately looking for work I would advice you to pick up ROR or Django (if you like web dev) or iOS / Android (which might be a good fit with your interest in games).

Lastly, I've heard good success stories of people who've been to dev bootcamps (such as Hacker School etc.) which excel in getting you competent enough for an entry level job in a tech company. A simple Google search would help you find a couple near your area. Save up for it and consider giving that a shot as well.

All the best!
I worked a limited time job on odesk for about minimum wage for about 20 hours to get a 5* rating from an employer. Then I did the same at minimum wage x1.25 , rinse and repeat until you are making about $40 an hour. I always told my contracts, "I bill for every minute, but you can fire me at anytime if you're unhappy". Unfortunately there isnt really a market for much higher on odesk and then you'll start to have to look for contracts elsewhere. But in lots of the country $40 is tons.
I find it kind of interesting that a lot of words peak around the middle of the 19th century and have been in decline ever since. I'm guessing this has something to do with the increasing number of books published but it is still kind of hard for me to imagine that "the" is less commonly used now than one hundred years ago. The pattern holds true for a lot of common words...
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All the effort we put into technology might not matter that much if we kept technology off to the side in some sort of R&D department, but we don’t take that approach. Technology infuses all of our teams, all of our processes, our decision-making, and our approach to innovation in each of our businesses. It is deeply integrated into everything we do.
</quote>

According to Bezos you're wrong. If technology infuses all of their processes that also includes hiring.

And let's not forget Conway's law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Law

Everything matters. If only because good people will ignore companies that have stupid hiring processes.
Congrats! (I'm an investor in Square)
AFAIK the only way Apple can enable Nitro for 3rd party apps without enabling executable memory pages generally is by separating JavaScriptCore (and WebKit render engine) into separate processes (ala WebKit2 / Chrome) which are allowed to create executable memory pages.

Then, of course, there is no way to create bindings between your code and the JavaScript interpreter (at least not without the overhead of IPC, which would probably negate any benefits of enabling Nitro).

So yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath.
I love it, we do this with facebook but it is clumsy and facebook is constantly trying to make the stuff public.

I would love an ipad app so stuff I shared would show up on a dashboard for grandma and grandpa who arent competent at using the internet (i.e. picture frame which shows the newest stuff from the kids)

I also saved a bunch of events like first food etc that I lost during a hard drive crash, love the idea of emailing to mark the events.
Those job descriptions are stuff they find on the internet. It's divorced from the reality of the position; you only find that out when you do an actual interview. I'm not saying there aren't places where HR is in control of the hiring processes, but I also know from person experience that it can be the case where HR is in charge of posting positions and taking applications to simply hand off to Programming.
Yes, because they're going to be doing it in New Mexico, on land that can't be used for crops.
well, your post is separated into 4 different sources. my guess is delicious isn't going to be acquired and left alone but instead improved upon by integrating and improving upon your 4 delicious replacements
Since this case is likely to get a lot of attention, I thought some might find the jury instructions interesting. They contain a pretty good explanation of how one interprets a patent, and what the burdens were on each side (Bedrock for proving infringement and damages, Google for showing invalidity).

In particular, they give a nice explanation of what it would take to invalidate the patent. The standard of proof for that is "preponderance of the evidence".

More filings in the case are available here: http://dockets.justia.com/docket/texas/txedce/6:2009cv00269/...
Great idea. Even better that it's on GitHub (1). That way it can improve quickly and have community discussions on some of the more subjective markup guidelines.

I think this can be especially helpful on local dev servers (turned on when a DEBUG flag is set, for example) while building a fresh site.

[1]: https://github.com/redroot/holmes
If Apple can do so without tracking the location of the iPhone and knowing its identity, yes. But then the scenario you propose admits that Apple tracks the location of the iPhone to some degree.

The most charitable case would be that Apple only tracks location based on the cell tower to which the iPhone is connected. The worst case is that it tracks location based on every hotspot and celltower the iPhone sees.

Since the most charitable case would produce the least predictive power when selecting a relevant subset of the crowd sourced data and the worst tracking case would produce the most predictive power - and given the level of detail reported to be stored on the iPhone is consistent with the worst case and less consistent with the most charitable case - the worst case scenario regarding tracking would appear to be more likely.
"If you want to have fast and accurate positioning, you have to provide them with your anonymous tracking data."

No I don't have to.

I am currently working on an offline positioning system based on a (hopefully complete) dataset of all GSM-Cells in the world (http://myapp.fr/cellsIdData/). The sqlite3-database is currently 25MB big with some room for optimization. I do this for Android but the iPhone also has enough space to hold this data. Although I think it would be impossible with iOS because of missing APIs to be notified when the cell tower changes.

I'm sure that cell towers are enough for Assisted GPS to get a quick fix.

If people would have found a data set of all cell towers ids and coordinates no one would have had concerns about privacy.

Tracking data is only anonymous if it cannot be de-anonymized. Since I cannot check that this is not the case (with Apple, Google and Skyhook) I have doubts about the so called anonymity.

edit:

I am looking for a comprehensive dataset of wifi access points MAC-adresses and coordinates
Did I read that correctly? Anyone can try and get a meeting and there is no screening?
African countries are generally extremely homophobic too. Politicians in Uganda are currently trying to introduce a bill known as "kill the gays".

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/15/ugandan-mps-pr...
FTA: "GOOG and FB ceased competing directly, focusing on what they do best instead."

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices” - Adam Smith

Some things never change.
This was the point of the article.
Since it mentions various other frameworks and approaches (imgui, flutter, etc.) - this video here gives overview of the three tree hierarchies flutter itself uses: in their lingo: widgets, elements and renderObjects - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=996ZgFRENMs

Basically, widgets (in this context) are the immutable parts (e.g. "config"), "elements" would keep the updates, and relationships (parent/child), and renderObjects - layout, drawing, etc.
No who you’re reply to, but while I can see that it is a little antagonistic are you suggesting that citizens shouldn’t feel responsible for their government?

You do realise that the USA is supposed to have a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people”?

In my view there isn’t enough responsibility taken by US citizens for their government, certainly stemming from a lack of general citizen engagement in politics in the USA , so it might be actually helpful to remind people that their government is their responsibility.
Homophobia makes the rape way more believable ironically. If they are homophobic enough to think sex with men is the worst thing to happen to a man then guess who is more likely to think raping their enemies is a better way to hurt them?

And that is before the 'obviously a repressed closet case' aspects of virulent homophobes putting way too much thought and effort into 'fighting' something which doesn't affect them. Far more than the typical outgroup 'easy target' and 'scapegoat' maltreatment.
I haven't stepped into a Amazon Go store yet, but the tradeoffs in requiring an account/app have been on my mind after experiencing the new Seattle Target in Ballard. It's entirely self-checkout (with an assistant or two there), but the dystopian part during the self-checkout process is an LCD monitor and camera right above you showing your face with "RECORDING IN PROGRESS" above.

The Amazon Go convenience store at 920 5th Avenue (looking from the outside) felt a bit sad in their dining setup - it's a tiny bar that seemed designed for quick, alone consumption. I'm guessing most folks going there grab a lunch then go back to their office to eat.
(image: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Amazon+Go/@47.6063189,-122... )
Looking at the graphic in the article, it looks like their denominator is "all tweets from US adults". In other words, users 15-17 make 0% of "tweets" by definition. But of course, they are well over 0% of tweets in the ordinary sense.

I see no particular reason why tweets from 18-year-olds are especially more interesting than tweets from 17-year-olds.
If you are in a pressurized climate controlled cabin, why do you need a space suit on?
> It is pretty much impossible to sell anything digital with smart contracts, because due to the source code being accessible to everyone you can always figure out the password, key, or secret URL to whatever is being sold. Without paying for it.

Pirating most software/movies/music is pretty easy, but people still sell it. I'm not sure this is as big a problem as you think it is.
I'd be mad if someone tried to force such software as the way to do things in my workplace. However, thanks people try to build better things even if everyone else thinks they are wasting time. I find trying to come up with something better than git important at the very least from an academic perspective.
CRDTs (and I guess MRDTs are no different in this respect) are often touted as an enabling technology for collaborative local-first applications (see e.g. recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21581444) but I fail to see how they are useful beyond the simplest of cases: the emphasis is on automatic convergence, but it seems almost impossible to preserve non-trivial application-specific invariants without manual merging (I am thinking of such applications as collaborative source code editing or vector graphics editing). Am I missing something?
Inflation is commonly measured against the price of goods, at the consumption end of the pipeline. Are there other measures of inflation that incorporate the price but where it is also normalized by what consumers actually get for that price?

Somewhat flippantly as an additional example to shrinkflation, if price indices now incorporate AAA games, how do they account for Fallout 4 (2015, 85% rating) versus Fallout 3 (2008, 90% rating)?
In London minicabs and black cabs are very different. Black cabs can be hailed whereas minicabs have to be booked and are regulated differently.
A few things going on here. This is a continuation of an ongoing battle between Tfl and Uber. Last year Tfl threatened to revoke Ubers' license unless it complied with regulations involving basic safety checks and coorporated with British Transport Police over crimes committed by drivers.

Well, one year on and Uber has not been able to get its house in order. This move will doubtless be extremely unpopular with Londoners, many of whom will suspect that the black cab unions are behind it. Uber called Tfl's bluff last year knowing there would be a public backlash if their services were withdrawn. It will be interesting to see how it plays out this time.

Regardless of your opinion of Uber and their labour practices, they offer an incredibly valuable service to millions of people. They have massively increased the availability of minicabs, made booking them incredibly easy and safe (not to mentioned with far better coverage than was previously possible) and affordable to more people. Not only that, thousands of people now make a living driving Ubers whom before wouldn't have been able to get a job as a minicab driver at all, as the firms would artificially limit numbers to keep fares high.

Uber and Tfl are both playing a risky game here.
The only reason anyone would ever call targeted ads "selling your data" is to make people who don't fully understand it believe it's scary. Completely misrepresenting what they are doing.

How about we, as a collective, say it for what it is instead of using words that mean something completely different and let people come to their own opinions instead of thinking for them?

As bad as a news outlet.
Love that they share their numbers. Although, I would love to know what is the average split choosed by buyers between dev/charity/"tip" !!
"It’s important to note that salts are useless for preventing dictionary attacks or brute force attacks. You can use huge salts or many salts or hand-harvested, shade-grown, organic Himalayan pink salt. It doesn’t affect how fast an attacker can try a candidate password, given the hash and the salt from your database."

Why are you storing the whole salt in your database? Isn't it much more common to keep half of it in a configuration file? I know Django has a SECRET_KEY parameter for this sort of thing, and hopefully other frameworks do also.

For that matter, why is authentication being handled by the web server? If you've got data worth stealing (billing, emails, medical), you can afford to spring the extra few hundred for a proper authentication server.

Gawker's password handling (7-bit salt, in the database, digested with crypt) seems like the worst possible implementation of secure password storage.
Oooooh I see now, you took what I said and changed one of the words. Totally missed that before wareya's comment.

robots.txt and favicon.ico share nothing in common. Browsers do not automatically request robots.txt every time you load a site. If you count a bot as one visitor, they make up maybe 0.01% of your traffic. It's also an explicit request, the bot actually wants that file. Users don't actually explicitly ask for favicon.ico, their browsers do it for them when they type in pagename.html. It's also not part of the page like the icon is. favicon.ico is like having javascript.js and style.css in your root directory auto-scanned as well.

Unlike favicon.ico, you couldn't just slap a line in your HTML here instead, it would already be too late for crawling. If we tried to put this into the headers for a bot's HEAD request, then people with only file drop access to hosting wouldn't be able to change the robot settings.

That said, I'm always open to considering better ways of doing things. Maybe we could have web servers optionally parse robots.txt locally, and bots could get the information from a special OPTIONS / HEAD request instead.
> Shopify believes they should be able to discriminate against people for holding political views.

So what? Do you think Shopify should be forced to do business with someone who wants to sell Nazi paraphernalia? Do you think you should be forced to do business with someone who does?