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Jeff Bezos Says The New York Times’ Amazon Expose Got It All Wrong
Github repository: https://github.com/01org/acat
Hollywood Uses Bigger Screens to Tell Sophisticated Stories
I agree, but I sometimes stay in Emacs all day for no good reason other than I can - browsing, writing, email, which is like being on a different OS or system and using its utilities, apps and compilers.
I find I do the same in Smalltalk. I am currently playing with μO (muO) music composition playground [1]. I just go fullscreen, and I am in the Squeak world all day :)
As far as share work, the distributed image, although big, is complete and crossplaform. I boot into different VMs the same way, with the exception that the tooling is more common across platforms.

[1] http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/sqgeo.htm

Edit: added link
Sure, it's always a question of balance - I enjoy spending time with my friends, but I need frequent and long breaks, which sometimes leads to confusion and misunderstandings ("Why would stay in alone tonight?"). Maybe it's an introvert thing but I'm often surprised when I see people that need other people around them constantly and rate time spent alone as wasted.
Go-e ONwheel converts your bike into an e-bike in seconds
In search of the world’s smallest bird
Discussion of a previous article, focusing on the difficulties during the development of ACAT and tailoring it towards Stephen Hawking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8686757
>...still sounding exhilarated months later about providing “Frozen” dolls in record time.

At the risk of a very lame pun, this leaves me cold.

Denigrating someone else's work isn't good reporting.

They may just be "Frozen dolls" but it's what Amazon does, they sell everything to everyone.

Should an Amazon worker be more exhilarated by supplying much needed medical supplies in record time? Perhaps, but in essence - the company's ideals should (and clearly do) run through its entire business.

Working people to breaking point (which is what the article is about) can be reported on without making a value judgement on what the company sells or how important they think it is.
Stock Tips for Long Term: Top Stocks to Buy
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Startups, customer service needs a renaissance
-Easier text selection on e.g. websites where all the text is links or weirdly placed dives, basically a mode where anything that's text or looks like text can be selected and copied as plain text. And somehow don't surprisingly select all text of the website just because you started dragging from the right side of some sentence.

-Less continuous disk usage for caching and stuff, batch all disk writes together every now and then or so

-Something to block the new type of popup, the type that brings some thing to the foreground and shades the background

-Something to block all the annoying European cookie warnings, I don't need them, I already know websites use cookies
Very impressive. I don't fully understand the Demo party competitions - what constraints/limitations are there for this category? I assume it has to run real-time (i.e. not just a prerecorded video) but can people otherwise e.g. turn up with whatever they have made over time?
- works on X, the terminal and Android (yeah, that's a tall order, but it sure would be nice to have the same keystrokes available in X and on the terminal, and the same information available everywhere)

- securely shares passwords across multiple hosts (emphasis on 'securely,' unlike Chrome and Firefox)

- blocks ads

- blocks JavaScript, but makes it very easy to selectively enable it

- supports <script type="text/python">, <script type="text/common-lisp"> and <script type="text/smalltalk"> (hey, you did ask for ideal!)

- written and extensible in Common Lisp (elisp or Python would be minimally acceptable): the goal here is to be able to have 'the emacs of web browsers'
Governments can use force to make you reveal your private keys. It doesn't have to be legal. NSA's mass surveillance isn't legal but they are still doing it, which proves that the government is above the law.
Ask HN: Any good guides/examples on writing a research/technical paper?
Google has "created" the market for Java by using the technology in Android.
It seems like Microsoft is still staying quiet about this. They need to start declaring were they are going with all those privacy-related concerns.
Spatial navigation like in the good old Opera.
3.5kb kudos done right – unopinionated, made simple, so simple it hurts
## Features

- minimal, yet simple to use - [demo](http://jsbin.com/qiqirunoju/1/edit?js,console,output) in jsbin

- no jQuery, zero dependencies (only event emitter) - just 3.5kb minified

- works on every browser, should even works on IE8

- plays well with Browserify and BrowserifyCDN

- available on CDNs - JSDelivr.com, BrowserifyCDN, RawGit and CDNjs.com
The Cost of Ad Blocking – PageFair and Adobe 2015 Ad Blocking Report [pdf]
A pretty recent interview with Navis, the programmer of this demo (and many other gems of the demoscene): http://6octaves.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/interview-navis-asd....
Sadly this would break a lot of websites and apps, since a lot of scripts are served from the Google (and other) CDNs these days. A whitelist of sorts could help though.
Safari and Firefox include a reader mode, directly from the URL bar. A simple click gives you an instant kindle-like experience.

Is it what you mean?
If you're using Android, then Firefox supports ad blocking.

If you're not using Android…well, that's the choice you made.
Isn't emacs the 'emacs of web browsers'?
> That sort of thing wasn't feasible with Smalltalk.

Sure it was.

The Genera Lisp Machines had compilers for C, Ada and Pascal available.

If one really wanted to have a Fortran compiler in a Smalltalk environment, s/he just needed to port it, just like Symbolics did for its Lisp Workstations.
Hi, I am the author of this article. The game was created in Cocos2d-x-JSB so the language used was Javascript.
> I wouldn't use a language without a native code compiler

You mean an AOT native code compiler? Is that for ops reasons or what? Because JITs produce better code than AOT compilers (perhaps other than for low-level languages, where there isn't much more to optimize).
Guess nobody else reads GNU humor.

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html
I consider it a unicycle because of the word etymology. uni "one" + cycle, from Greek kyklos "circle, wheel".

Some guy showed up to the first meetup asserting that it was a "bc wheel", which I later learned is from the old B.C. comics strip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_wheel

I used to love those comics with cave people riding on wheels. Maybe that's why I like these things.

With regards to practice, it took me 2 weeks to learn well enough to travel a few blocks around the neighborhood. Other people learn faster. Many people come to the meetup and go a few feet on their first day.
Product development–How my workflow looks like pt2
Your translation seems good enough to me, but on the other hand I can't find a source for your quote using Google
I very much agree with this. The way that Smalltalk is typically implemented (VM/OS) solves some very tricky problems that almost nobody has.

Taking for example the main solution that it features: allowing for portability by running everything inside of a VM. This is an incredibly smart idea, however, it results in apps that don't 'glue' well with the actual OS. Furthermore, even the worst-case language for portability, C, does a pretty damned good job at being portable if the developer is disciplined.

On the fly editing? Awesome idea, really smart. Just don't go anywhere near my production servers with live editing.

That's what Smalltalk is to me: a bag of really smart ideas that nobody ever asked for in the first place. Really, ObjC is what Smalltalk could have been had the word "no" been used more frequently. It's a good example of what happens if someone doesn't realize that "less is more."
Well fortunately in the web we have already got standards committees. As long as those standards are supported there should be no problem.

Unfortunately current mainstream browsers don't comply with the standards to the fullest, although I admit compliance is orders of magnitude better than years ago.

Aren't Chrome only apps and web sites harming the web?

I agree with testing Linux software completely. It's maddening how much the notion of testing is ignored.

Well it's a win-win situation, build the ideal browser, then you have already built the "ideal" OS ;)
Caching might be the best way to do it.
Data Analysis algorithms for Entertainment
Thing is, depending on the data, for most algorithms the Big O represents just the worst case. E.g. your O(n) list search algorithm would only take one lookup if the first node contains the searched entry. Same goes for log, quadratic, cubic, and exponential algorithms. Even Ackermann's function would be just one call in its terminal case.
This is one of the several reasons I would probably never be able to work in the US or for an american company.

It is simply too much top-down management, too much stress and bad culture. This description is of course extreme but by my standards (I'm a swede) even what is considered normal i the US is unacceptable for me.

I don't know if I simply enjoy the prospects of a nation with a greater view on the work life but I seriously question all americans how you can tolare such an environment as many of you seem to have?
I hate preference panels
Also in terms of ivory it won't achieve much if the bulk of the demand is from China and similar places. Though I guess it might set an example for Asian countries to pass similar laws.
How to improve lead nurturing with social selling
Look into commercial book scanners that use vacuums. This is a solved problem. Kirtas is one of those manufacturers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds63ZBXFdLM
http://www.kirtas.com/

50 pages per hour with no damage to the books.

You're looking at $50k-$90k for the equipment plus $8k/year service contract, though. So you need to figure out whether book scanning is something that the Internet Archive is interested in, beyond this project.
> they needed a large number of people writing many apps as quickly as possible for their platform to compete with the iPhone.

Android was bought before the iPhone existed
"Who's going to pay for ads anymore if browsers come with adblocking by default?"

Why is this my problem? Nobody pays for buggy whips any more because we don't use horse and buggies. Times move on.

Apologies for sounding flip. I understand lots of folks have business models based on ads. This is most unfortunate, but it's no reason to screw over the consumer and not give them something they want simply because other people get paid money for it.
The big question for me is, can this paper be produced cheaply enough to be more effective per dollar than whatever our current best intervention for clean water is?

My totally uninformed speculation is they're in with a shot if they can get the production volume high enough. But I'd like to see the question explored.
> Negotiating in secret is a non-issue and likely quite helpful.

only if given strict and well defined mandate by the congress.
Android without Google Apps (2014)
I couldn't put my finger on the phenomena until I read that comic one day: [0]. It's about energy generation and expenditure - extroverts gather their energy from human interaction, introverts have to expend it on those social moments.

I keep sending this picture to people who know me personally and are surprised I consider myself introverted - after all, how someone who is seen publicly speaking so often and finds it easy to make friends can possibly be introverted? The answer is simple: I like people, but spending too much time with them exhausts me, and I need to "waste time alone" to recharge.

[0] - https://danineteen.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/dr-carmellas-gui... - first link I found, it's been floating around the tubes for some time already.
A WGo.js version of this would be cool. http://wgo.waltheri.net/player
A charitable view would be that that politicians earnestly believe the treaty improves free trade, lowering the barriers to trade so everyone in every country better off.

A cynic would say politicians want to pass laws that will be popular with their cronies but unpopular with voters, and they want to pass the blame to faceless foreign bureaucrats. e.g. "I'm sorry the tax bills for huge multinationals have been slashed - I don't like it any more than you do! It's these international treaties you see, I'm powerless to change anything"
I don't mean to trivialize the complexities and importance of setting up a development environment you are happy with, but Linux is very easily available to a Windows user via virtualbox VMs or boot2docker. Are you sure you can't find a workflow involving those that you're happy with? Editing files doesn't have to use an editor in the VM.
Webinar: CQRS and Event Sourcing with Spring
Amazon will never have the same impact on our lives like Walmart did. Simply because retail won't grow as much anymore as it did when walmart became big. We're moving into a digital economy (ironically to a small extent thanks to amazon and their elastic cloud) and there simply isn't as much revenue in a digital economy as there was in the traditional (physical) consumer goods economy. people earn less nowadays and consume less. walmart rode the heydays of consumerism in the US and I doubt retail spending will ever return to those heights: http://wallstreetexaminer.com/wp-content/gallery/economic-ch... amazon seems to me like the emerging, dominant player in a shrinking market. furthermore - looking at the digital consumer goods market - we see that in this market amazon is again playing second fiddle. this market is dominated by Google and Apple (which have much better offerings with respect to apps, music, etc.) and maybe EA and Valve for games (origin and steam respectively).
Are airline passengers getting ripped off by robots?
It is usually expected that all the work included in the demo (code, visual art and music) is originally created by the demo authors (or donated by friends / collaborators). Most of the demo is also expected to be original material, but it is ok to reuse some material from demo to demo (audio samples, textures, models, animations, shaders) as long as it is used in a unique way.

Demos and intros have to run in real time on the target machine without downloading new material on the fly. There used to be fairly generous size limits for the "demo" category, whereas the "intro" categories vary among 64kb, 40kb, 4kb, 1kb and even 256 bytes. They are meant to run autonomously, without needing user interaction. Demo competitions usually include other categories such as standalone music, art of various styles (pixel, 2d, 3d, procedural) and "wild" demos which are the exception in that they are pre-recorded videos.

As with any form of art, there are always people that ignore or challenge some of these rules and assumptions in one way or another, and a few do so in memorable ways, but that's another discussion.
Probably a realtime(i.e. happens within a guaranteed amount of time) system but the statement is still too vague.
I think Firefox + Vimperator is pretty decent by itself, it could be slightly better.

* Even better extension support -- enable writing extensions in any language: expose a file system based API for a full Unix philosophy experience. uzbl has something like this but it's not nearly as ideal as Vimperator is for my use case.

* As others mentioned, lose mandatory UI downgrades and other crap Mozilla's been pushing us lately: give us a platform to customize instead. (Practically running a Firefox compiled from sources helps with some of the issues people have, but sadly there will be a day they overhaul the UI in such a manner it hinders the usability. And because of the security stuff I just can't go back and use an old one forever.)

* Yeah, better bookmarking. Firefox could use a better system, and Vimperator doesn't solve it either. Full-text search among history + bookmarks would be pretty good.

The well exposed API for external apps could solve it all, save for crap UI. For instance, the bookmarks could be crawled to an org-mode document where I could annotate, categorize and tags things to my heart's content.
Thanks for the review. I think I read it before I pulled the trigger to order one. BTW, I think some manufacturers now make unicycles with double the range than the one you had. Silent chargers also now exist.
Fuck, I also have an extrenal keyboard and mouse - of course I do! That goes without saying! (all company-paid)

The reason why I use a mac is because everything I build is deployed on Linux. Coding on a WIndows laptop means I wouldn't be able to compile anything, and coding on an Ubuntu laptop...well...I still like having a first world OS experience.
Ask HN: Testing an idea using AdWords and a landing page?
Me and my sister have got an idea for a service we'd like to develop, based on our experiences using freelancing market places.

Instead of writing a tonne of code, with a few parts involving NLP and ML, would creating 2 landing pages, directing traffic via PPC, tailored to each type of customer, which collects their emails, be a good way to 'test' the idea?
Jeff Bezos' email to Amazonians
Dear Amazonians,

If you haven't already, I encourage you to give this (very long) New York Times article a careful read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html

I also encourage you to read this very different take by a current Amazonian:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amazonians-response-inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-nick-ciubotariu

Here’s why I’m writing you. The NYT article prominently features anecdotes describing shockingly callous management practices, including people being treated without empathy while enduring family tragedies and serious health problems. The article doesn’t describe the Amazon I know or the caring Amazonians I work with every day. But if you know of any stories like those reported, I want you to escalate to HR. You can also email me directly at [edited]@amazon.com. Even if it's rare or isolated, our tolerance for any such lack of empathy needs to be zero.

The article goes further than reporting isolated anecdotes. It claims that our intentional approach is to create a soulless, dystopian workplace where no fun is had and no laughter heard. Again, I don’t recognize this Amazon and I very much hope you don’t, either. More broadly, I don't think any company adopting the approach portrayed could survive, much less thrive, in today’s highly competitive tech hiring market. The people we hire here are the best of the best. You are recruited every day by other world-class companies, and you can work anywhere you want.

I strongly believe that anyone working in a company that really is like the one described in the NYT would be crazy to stay. I know I would leave such a company.

But hopefully, you don't recognize the company described. Hopefully, you’re having fun working with a bunch of brilliant teammates, helping invent the future, and laughing along the way.

Thank you,

Jeff
Urbit? Designed in Mars. Assembled in Earth.
Solitude makes me insane. Yes, I am more productive, but I also become highly unstable. It's a tradeoff. At the end of the day, I value my mental wellbeing more than my productivity. But good friends are hard to find, and I'd rather be alone than put up with the wrong people.

Edit: Now I really feel like reading Nietzsche again.
> allowing for portability by running everything inside of a VM

like Java

Btw., it's Smalltalk, not SmallTalk.
I see people zipping through NYC on these. Usually on dedicated running/biking paths (E River, West Side Highway), but occasionally on city streets and sidewalks, as well.

I'm always concerned I'll see them hit an unexpected pothole or raised lip at speed and absolutely bite it into traffic.
The Amazon Factor – a look at the Amazon work culture
Programming materials for better designs
I'm no expert, but my understanding is that the IBM "z" platform has a number of interesting features perhaps not found in more typical server platforms/configurations, beyond just scaling out to loads of cores and RAM.

As with all IBM mainframes going right back to the 60s, the "z" systems are designed for continuous uptime, on the order of decades, and this is evident in many of the design decisions. For example, various subsystems and components have hot-spares available, so that even outright component failures will not cause downtime. Many components are then hot-swappable, even those that might not ordinarily be in other architectures, such as processors and main memory. No interruption to OS or application-level services is expected by hot-swapping such hardware. Across the useful life of the mainframe, most repairs and maintenance would be carried out without ever shutting it down.

I understand the platform also has extensive internal integrity checking built in, a potentially important factor for various types of jobs. Its auditing service is capable of detecting unusual conditions in various subsystems or jobs ("I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit"), automatically retrying instructions on the processor if they executed anomalously. If the fault continues, the suspect processor is routed-around with no interruption to OS or applications, the job is resumed from last checkpoint on another processor, and the system phones home to IBM to log a service call. This monitoring is not being performed by processes running in userland or by the kernel, but is in fact baked into the hardware/firmware platform.

Furthermore, the systems can be configured with a variety of specialty offload processors or subsystems for tasks like encryption, key management, compression, and even logging -- which again might not be so commonly found on-board of some commodity servers.

(And, of course, even if you could put together an analogous solution with commodity kit, it's IBM! For the sorts of companies looking at a mainframe in 2015, having the IBM name on the SLA has got to be a pretty big part of the equation, right?)

Moreover, if you proposed to build and manage these sorts of capabilities from commodity x86 kit, I imagine IBM would claim that they'd have the lower TCO.
So that's where this retardation is coming from... Of all the people that edited this page in the last ten year, no one checked if this was ever deployed...
I'd like a strong "project" concept: a project could be a set of multi-tab windows, there'd be fast switching between projects and fast tab selection based on projects. Most computers nowadays have a lot of RAM and people use lots of tabs. It seems wrong that one resorts to public browser extensions to find ways to navigate through the tabs.

Possibly also tree-like relationships between tabs so that subtrees of tabs can be operated on as a unit.
Words are cheap. (Unless priced by the agency model on kindle).
The problem with a whitelist is that tracking and malicious websites would just move their scripts to these CDNs.

It would certainly break compatibility with some websites, but so did removing flash or silverlight support, or introducing popup blockers before that. And with http2, scripts hosted on third party CDN are bound to disappear.
Here's a link to a 60fps video capture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGm33hsXP9w

However, if you have a decent GPU, I think it's worth running the original executable (no video compression artifacts, etc): http://www.asd.gr/~navis/ASD-Monolith.zip