skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contrast, you're right. And also, there are good examples of gray (low contrast) texts - some auxiliary elements.

But when the main text - e.g. an article body - is published in low contrast so that I need to inspect HTML and disable the color to be able to read it, such cases make me sad :(((

:)
Nice if you have a big monitor in perfect lighting conditions and good eyes. Grandparent's complaint is legit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
And yet, the article has 200+ upvotes and the top-rated comment thread completely accepts the frame of the article and its assumptions.
While social media has made it worse, we shouldn't place blame on it entirely, or perhaps even heavily.

One of my study mates from freshman year in college committed suicide down the hall from me during orientation week our sophomore year, presumably due to the dissonance between her pressure to perform and her peers' glee of being back on campus.

http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2004/09/sophomore-found-de...
Who cares about the looks, really? The looks are there just to present the content, in a way that fits all the devices that are used to view it.

Sure, you can do some artsyfantsy pantsy stuff now and then, but then again, it's about the content too, just that the whole artsy website is the content.

And this guy has the most generic looking blog structure also, so why is he blaming the guilt on somebody else. I'm so glad I don't have to go through these "designed just because design" flash websites anymore and try to figure out different structures for each page.
I assumed it was easier to force someone to leave because they "lied" on that form than going through the proper process.

My family was searched and questioned crossing into the US from Canada, on our British passports. The American relatives we were visiting were unimpressed.
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It's actually an indication that lower class people can consume quite a bit regardless of whether they work. It's hardly clear that this is a good thing.

http://www.bls.gov/cex/2011/Standard/income.pdf

It's hardly clear how task rabbit is pushing is in that "wrong" direction - it's not as if task rabbit has somehow eliminated other good options (such as not working and receiving wealth transfers, or perhaps those unsustainably overpaid factory jobs politicians like to talk about).
If mentioned style works is simple, and represents/introduces product/service well, then why not. What annoys me is when designers/developers over do it, e.g. scroll hijacking, lots of heavy JS which introduces horrible lag, and unnecessary pop which ruins user experience.

Sorry, but `novolume.co.uk` is stepping into the the category of over doing it.

Huge, and super low contrast arrow buttons to switch articles. Why?

Italic serif slim and narrow font, from which my head hurts, eyes are twitching and is not readable (and some characters are unrecognisable, e.g. '&'). AFAIK, serif font is more readable then sans-serif, but this is not the case.

Custom scroll bar, why the hell do you need to replicate a perfect native widget my browser has (and this seems to be a new trend, probably replacing scroll hijacking)?

Crazy tilted, on hover shape and colour changing (and low-res) social buttons, why make it so complicated?

At least `novolume.co.uk` loads and renders fast, is responsive and does not have lagging UI.
Disconnecting from twitter was one of the best moves I ever made. Being subjected to a high volume/low quality stream of garbage is not good for the mind.
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Why not just unfollow the accounts which are posting garbage?
Process Tasks by Completion Idiom
Perhaps. I think it's equally likely the story is low-effort clickbait that's fooled over 200 readers at Hacker News.
Family system used to take care of elderly and the disabled, which ultimately meant housewives were supposed to do that, unless you could afford a caretaker (which was socially frowned upon in middle class).

Then women got voting power and family system broke down, replaced by social structure. In a way today's capitalist Europe is closer to what Marx suggested than USSR.
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Keep in mind that the article compares Fitzgerald's effective rate (5.5%) to the equivalent marginal bracket (40%) today. If you are in a higher tax bracket you don't pay that rate on all of your income. I'm not too familiar with US federal and state taxes and other deductions, but I would bet the effective rate for someone in the 40% bracket is closer to 30% (similarly to Canada and the UK).
Because many of them are high-quality articles, and intellectual curiosity is what HN tries to optimize for.

Obviously the discussions on such articles aren't all crappy. Often they're good. That doesn't mean that off-topic generic tangents about paywalls aren't a problem. All generic tangents are a problem, and this was an increasingly common one.

It astonishes me how the people making objections in this discussion ignore that we're talking about articles that are possible for nearly everyone to read. That's what paywalls with workarounds means. It means readable with a bit of a nuisance.

There have been a few legitimate counterpoints—for example, if it's true that in some countries you can't google WSJ articles to read them, that's a problem. But mostly this argument has charged ahead as if we were talking about unreadable content, with lots of indignant points being made on that basis and little stopping to notice that it's false.
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As with many things, I think time spent is best a balance of the two sides (quantity vs quality). Quantity means little if you're constantly distracted, and quality means little if you don't have enough to warm up the engine.
CAP and PACELC: Thinking More Clearly About Consistency (2014)
It is a current design trend, it will be different in a few years just as it was different a few years ago.
Those you listed all look like the layout in the article.
I think the point was that even in your example you have to have friends who will retweet those events for you to see them, there is no banner up top saying "breaking news: thousands gain eternal life in alien invasion" and that is a link to click where everything outside of your normal stream is collected and displayed in a frontpage news kind of way.

I don't personally know one single person I follow on Twitter, I use it mostly for following muscisians and dancers in a weeaboo reality thatonly exists for me inside my head and on social media/YT. I'm never going to see any real news, but it's a service Twitter should be designing and pushing, it would be better than the other guff they inject into my timeline.
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The smarter play may be genuine Kanye doing 100 tweets at a time to 85 people who are identified as Kanye's Most Lucrative Fans In The Town He Is Currently In and 15 folks randomly selected (whose inclusion is for social purposes).

I'm peripherally aware of someone who is one or two orders of magnitude smaller than Kayne presently doing this. I believe the vernacular is "killing it."

(Think of the economics for a touring band which can sell out a 100 seat theatre. The approximate lifestyle is "They plow 80% of their meagre revenues into the costs of producing music, make McDonalds wages, and live in a van." Now, give that band the ability to tweet for two hours, glad hand some fans, and make $10k with no venue cut and no label cut. The specific example I heard was "DM fan123: Hey Dave. Enjoyed seeing you at the last 5 concerts. Got a VIP event coming up Thursday: 12 people, live in studio with us, light drinks to follow. Thought you'd want to know. Tix & details: linkylink. Hope to see you there.")

P.S. Before anyone on says "Wait, Patrick, the economics do not make 2 hours of Kayne's time affordable on the budget of upper middle class Americans unless he is sharded between so many people to not even have the pretense of interacting with all of them" think less "movie tickets" as a comparable and more "season tickets to an NFL team" or "a set of golf clubs" or "a cruise around Europe" or any of the host of big-ticket items which upper middle class Americans actually do purchase frequently when given the chance.
Maybe you can automatically put paywall bypass instructions in the "TEXT" portion of the URL submissions?

edit: The auto-generated bypass instructions will get the top-sorted/top-comment favoritism that we normally try to avoid from users.

If sites don't want people to bypass paywalls, then they would not allow "special" ways to bypass paywalls. The fact that some paywalls have special referrer bypass rules reeks of financially motivated favoritism and entrenched interests preventing competition; the next search engine startup to be created is going to have a rough time of it.
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I hear you, disable colour, ctrl+, ctrl+, ctrl+. OK, now I can read this!
if Ukraine is like Russia, it's rather easy to get a Schengen multi-visa for a year if you already have a couple of single-entry Schengens in the passport (just don't forget ask for it and collect every possibly required document to please the officials). After that it's only 40 eur a year.
They're just pandering to their reader demographics like most publications (have to) do, and sadly HN's demographic has shifted to overlap with that demographic the last few years. It's the circle of life, internet forum edition :) (plus this place is full of people with educational angst who try to make up for their insecurities by being very vocal about their opposition to formal education). Meh, plus que ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
I recently intervened in a situation where a husband was wildly punching his wife in broad daylight. When I walloped him with my umbrella (yelling at him didn't make him stop), his wife got up from the ground where she was being repeatedly punched, and began attacking ME. Saying things to the effect of "how dare you intervene in our issues" and "don't dare touch my husband".

This only reflects a tiny part of the Indian population but, within some circles, Indian women will stick by their husbands sides despite ANYTHING. A saying in Hindi is "Pati dev" which roughly means "your husband is your God".

I'm not trying to insinuate anything by sharing this here except that it was an interesting (albeit anecdotal) experience that I had. I have close friends who have had arranged marriages which are thriving respectful relationships.
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>Can you tell me how 'the ultra rich siphon off wealth from the rest of society?' I see this type of saying thrown around a lot, but I've never understood how those who believe it think the mechanism works, how you sequester wealth away so nobody else can benefit.

One mechanism is the things that go by the name 'unearned income': interest payments, dividends on shares you own, streams of rental income.

Another is simply fraud: http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/bill-black-our-system-so-...

Their money buys condos (which they leave empty) in large cities suffering from a shortage of housing. That's one example of wealth sequestration that hurts everybody else.

>Have you read the linked essay?

I have.

>Do you disagree with the central premise, that a society with no income inequality is a society that is not innovating and getting better?

I disagree with this part:

>Doing what people want is not the only way to get money, of course. You could also rob banks, or solicit bribes, or establish a monopoly. Such tricks account for some variation in wealth, and indeed for some of the biggest individual fortunes, but they are not the root cause of variation in income

With a hand wave Paul Graham dismisses all evidence of fraud which has accelerated income inequality in the last ~10 years and the mere existence of the principal/agent problem and nepotism (which explains how bad CEOs get paid so much).

His argument boils down to "in theory you can be 50 times as productive as someone else" => "nearly all people who are paid 50 times as much as their workers must be 50 times as productive". Just world fallacy.

>When we say that one kind of work is overpaid and another underpaid, what are we really saying? In a free market, prices are determined by what buyers want.

Also this. Unfortunately no such thing as a free market exists anywhere.
Indeed, I've instantly recognized exactly the questions from US visa application form for Russians.
Yes, and for that last few months the "Whats new" message on Google Play has been: We made it easier to add you comments to others tweets - or something to that effect.

I have been saying their problem is they have been too busy painting themselves into a corner:

[v] alienating 3rd part developers
[v] public by default - no organization level settings
[v] keep the cute 140 char limit that is now just an historic artifact

I guess you can add more to that list.
"We're talking about 60% of the GDP being redistributed."

When assessing the amount being redistributed, much of what's paid in UBI should be netted against what's collected to pay the UBI.

That is, if I am receiving $27k/yr in UBI, but paying $30k/yr in increased taxes toward the UBI, really only $3k/yr is being "redistributed" from me.

This is still going to be a substantial sum, but quite a bit less than "people * UBI amount".

Please don't take this as my asserting that I think $27k/yr would be sustainable in the US - for the record, I don't.
Thank you a bunch for saying this, I feel the same way. I cultivate a list of accounts I follow strictly because their posts tend to be relevant or interesting.

If you have a stream of garbage on Twitter, don't follow people who post garbage.

I follow people primarily in tech and programming. Most of them use Twitter to talk about things they work on, issues they have, things that are interesting. Occasionally they share something funny, but I rarely see something distasteful or annoying. Sometimes I follow somebody and after a few days I feel like I'm not getting any benefit from what they are posting--it will be annoying or I will realize that they are trying to reach an audience with a different set of values--and I unfollow them. That's OK, they are not meeting my expectations.

The argument for Twitter being broken because signal/noise ratio is like saying email is broken because your inbox is full of newsletters for sites you don't like. The problem isn't with email, it is with how you are using it. Unsubscribe, clean it out, make a new address...
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Hi, regarding syslog-ng and RFCs:
- The udp driver is RFC3164, the original syslog protocol (also called BSD-syslog)
- tcp driver is the same, just uses tcp instead of udp
- the network driver is just a wrapper for the tcp+udp drivers (it also supports TLS-encryption)
- the syslog driver uses the newer syslog protocol, RFC5424.

HTH,

Regards,
Robert
syslog-ng documentation maintainer
My concern is with the interaction of the "original source" rule and the
"ok for paywalls with workarounds" rule preventing most articles on new
research. The "original source" papers are often locked behind paywalls
(or embargoes) when the insipid announcement mill advertisement articles
start appearing. Even supposedly reputable official university press
sites are thoroughly guilty these overtly promotional teaser articles.
The trouble is, lightweight advertisement articles are often the only
things we can (legally) access when the "news" first becomes public.

As much as I hate to admit it, the sad state of suckage for announcement
mills (including university press sites) actually does have some minor
advantages; which would you be more inclined to read and up-vote?

"Astronomers detect furthest galaxy yet with Keck telescope"

or

"Lyman-Alpha Emission From A Luminous Z=8.68 Galaxy: Implications For
Galaxies As Tracers Of Cosmic Reionization"

Non-Astronomers would be lucky if they understand the details presented
in just the abstract of the paper, and I say this as a non-astronomer
who does _NOT_ understand all of said details. Reading original source
papers takes far more effort than reading lightweight announcements, and
this gets to the fundamental question of, "What do we want HN to be?"

The status quo of interested HN users finding and comment-linking to the
original source papers (if available) on the puff-piece stories is a lot
of manual work and some stuff gets missed, but it really does tend to
work out reasonably well. If we forbid paywalls without workarounds and require original sources, then we will miss out on a lot of great new research. Besides infringement, there is no easy answer for this situation.
> Git push to only one repository.

I'm interested in that aspect. Do you use a single repository for all your code and configuration? Does it also hold the state of your infrastructure (instances, fleet definitions etc)?
World War I officially ended on October 3, 2010
Yes, but the probability that it found the same month and day as iLoch's, depend on the uniformity and independence of the month/day generator, not the distribution of actual birthdays.
> Are there any examples of significant biological advances or discoveries from "garage biology" in the years since this article was written?

No, but I'd argue for a different reason than lack of resources.

I'd argue that it's simply not possible to "scratch an itch" in biology.

For mechanical and electrical engineering, there are projects that intersect with hobbies that people want to do and can do with the right equipment.

For biology, I'm not sure that I can really cough up anything interesting that intersects with many hobbies.

Craft brewing? Maybe? But that sure doesn't require much high tech equipment.
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> "Most car dashes look the same"...

Not sure what cars you've been driving, but search for 'car dash' on google images and bask in the differences.

Saying that all websites should look the same might be reasonable when you're talking about one network or brand, but outside of that, creativity should be explored, encouraged and rewarded.

Who wants a world with every restaurant, bar, urban design or any design looking the same? Good design and UX has nothing to do with copying your neighbour's layout and changing a few colours. Just because that's frequently done, doesn't mean these cookie-cut sites deserve any praise other than "good copy 'n paste job mate".
Yup, Canada too.

In the UK the PAYE (pay as you earn) system means most employed people don't even have to file returns, but for those making fancy income or who are self-employed, the form is literally called the self-assessment form to file your tax owings.
Specifically some canonical instructions on how to harden a cluster would be helpful. Many Starting Guides have nodes use plain http to talk to the api server, thus even deployed containers can do this do.

It took me a while to find a proper kubeconfig example for kubelet and kube-proxy token auth (the one I eventually found was buried in some github issue i think).

Also, I found no information on how on what to put in the authorization jsonl file for kubelet (the given example is wrong, since the kubelet needs to write/report node status to the api) and kube-proxy. Peeking into the code helped, but I guess this information could be helpful for admins.
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Free-Trade Treaties are Anti-Free Trade (2014)
Who cares about Twitter? Sublevel is way better than that crappy thing.
That's a pretty unusual incident. What he's referring to happens all the time.
People who cross deserts and seas to reach Europe not likely to be slackers
Good ads generally require more effort and investment. On some occasions, companies will try to look cheap and affordable with shoddy ads, but generally shoddy ads come from tightarse clients trying to DIY or hiring average designers, etc. Or because that's what's been tested to be more effective with their audience.

Companies often take the cheap approach because they're cautious about the return they're going to get, don't know any better, are cheap themselves and don't appreciate design.
Any construction engineers here? How would one go about building something like this? Do you have to dig a hole big enough to build the whole thing in, then re-fill the sides with sand? Is it possible to gradually go deeper, i.e. build a level under an existing level, or do you have to wait for the dry season and then rush to get it completed before the lowest levels are flooded come the next wet season? That seems impossible, given the size of some of these things.

I'm wondering because I'd like to build a wine cellar similar in concept to these things (a spiraling staircase with an entrance from above only), but I want to get some insight into building methods before inviting contractors. (for anyone who like underground structures, see www.spiralcellars.co.uk ).
Ammonite-Shell: a rock-solid command-line shell running on the JVM
I don't know, as much as the growing money from events being made by musicians is great for music as a whole, I wish we could put money's incentivizing focus back on album production, like the recording companies' golden days. What if, taking this supporter/fan model (which is also more generally available in something like Patreon), we sell tiers for fans to peek into the production of the album at different stages. Like you subscribe with X, you follow all our updates Y, with 2X, all our updates Y and Z, so on and so forth. Using a social network frontend (not unlike twitter or soundcloud) and backend software connecting to something like Ableton Live, musicians could literally share/stream their workflow and assets for people to toy around at home (only for upper echelons of patrons, of course). Those kind of insider views/treats could also inspire and even serve as learning tools for fans to learn into how their idols work. Maybe more niche, then maybe again with all the people getting into computer musicianship and electronic music being as big as ever, not so niche.

That's what I want to see, and I'm willing to code it, just not now.

P.S. I like how my grand parent comment had -1 score before you replied but is now recovering well.
There certainly is too much noise but lists solve that very nicely.