skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the dials were always a questionable idea :(

The one thing they're good at though is giving information on what's above/below the current option without having to click/tap (unlike a combo box).

Is there a better interaction model for this kind of operation?
That's strange. The transition to the flat switches is one of the things I like most about the iOS 7 design. Previously, I could never figure out which way was on, but post flat design I have no trouble.
OpenWRT 15.05
I want one. Seems like you're saying we can't buy it currently?
Definitely not all ideas.
We work only on 1 idea for 40 days. And of the 10s of ideas we receive, we only select the one where we can help the most.
This isn't clear in the blog post; I'll try to clarify.

The buckets correspond to hash token ranges. For example, the database takes one row from orders_2013, hashes the customer_id value, and gets a hashed value of 1.5B. It then puts it into the second bucket orders_2013_[1B-2B[.

After the distributed shuffle, you end up with orders_cust_id[1B-2B[ on machine 2. So all orders that belong to a particular / disjoint set of customers live on one machine. You can then push down the count(distinct customer_id) to each node, and then add up the results.

We use hash token ranges in pg_shard. I'll include this clarification to the blog post.
I consider this to be the key quote in understanding why the authors ultimately considered LIFO to be superior to FIFO:

"In our framework, we considered agent preferences to be identical and associated with
a linear cost of waiting."

In my experience, this is not true. For me, waiting 20 minutes on hold does not have the same cost as waiting 1 minute 20 times throughout the day. It is likely the same for a business. Having 30 customers wait 1 minute is unlikely to lose a customer; having 1 customer wait 30 minutes and the others wait no time is likely to lose that 30-minute customer. Unfairness has its own cost as well. In my opinion, the invalid assumption of linear cost of waiting makes their framework invalid for application to humans.
Hey, I still use bazaar and aside from some minor quirks it has been quite robust over the years.
Try turning on button shapes. It's been a major help for me. It may not be as clean as the stock setup but it's far more usable for me.

Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Button Shapes.
Like you, some of the high volume sites I have removed from RSS. Others, I have organized into a high volume group or folder of my RSS Reader. Then I use some keyword filters to notify me of when stuff I really want to read comes through the high volume feeds.
Stop using difficult-to-guess passwords, UK's spying agency GCHQ recommends
According to the notice, they were unchanged or mostly unchanged forks of the master.
There have been /many/ attempts. Here's a link to a comment on the sds from redis post (yet another alternative string library) that links to a nice overview of a number of alternatives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7191509

I've used Ustr before, all of them have pros and cons depending on what you are needing.
A rather elaborate response to a pretty childish critique.
At the risk of being pedantic/taking the pessimistic take, "tech is a meritocracy but..." seems entirely in line with my conclusion of "nothing is a meritocracy, although tech enables those with merit more than most"

Someone with a highschool diploma CAN certainly succeed (two of my strongest mentors, one of which a googler, did not have college degrees) but they had _significant_ hurdles to get where they did; and even in my own experience I've run into (nearly verbatim): "Since you have never held a senior rank, we are not willing to look at you further" (turning down any opportunity to "prove onesself" as well).

As I've said in posts elsewhere, tech is as susceptible to needing other signaling channels as any other field, even if we weight the signaling of "personal achievements" higher.

If we're coming at this from different angles around the basis of whether these side effects preclude the existence of a meritocracy, I can accept that disagreement; since I do tend to take a more pessimistic take on things and could see how the opposite could be argued. (and as I said in the OP, I'm not convinced a "pure meritocracy" could even happen, so perhaps that's a vacuous comparison anyway)
They didn't. The master repository did, they probably weren't aware of the issue.
Are the astericks there meant to denote midwest? Allentown is further east than Syracuse, Buffalo, and Bethesda, so it isn't midwest.

It is also worth noting that almost all of the cities listed are heavily impacted by snow which it doesn't sound like it was factored in to the ranking. Dealing with large snowfalls have a huge costs although it might not be factored in to normal home insurance since there is generally minimal property damage. It might be interesting to see a cost comparison between dealing with large snowfalls and other less frequent but more damaging weather phenomena like hurricanes or tornadoes.

Finally, Ohio certainly sees less tornadoes than most of the midwest, but it still receives a lot compared to the western US. Here is a nice visual summary of recorded tornadoes [1]. This one [2] is of especial interest and shows all tornadoes that have caused $50+ million in damage which would be important when talking about insurance. Tornado alley certainly gets more tornadoes, but Ohio is right up with them in terms of damage mainly due to the comparative development of the various areas.

[1] - http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2012/07/interactive-tornado-t...

[2] - http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HlfovbQeMvg/UBFIgq0rAPI/AAAAAAAABP...
Fires will jump over that masonry. Unless you live in a concrete dome, the fire will get across. These are infernos not unlike the fires of hell. Fire is almost raining down on you. Fire resistant doesn't work in the middle of a serious wildfire.
> Valuing an asset based solely on income in a true market is the best way to not get screwed. True markets are few and far between, though. The degree to which your market is regulated determines your external risk.

I think you make good points, but I'd add that certain regulation is necessary for a "true" market: 1) The regulation that prevents the fraud and cheating that distorts markets, and 2) regulation that prevents the market from ignoring the externalities that are not factored into price, such as health, safety, labor rights, and environmental impact.
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/9/122797-the-most-expensi...
I'm sorry. I know it's resource intensive.. Firefox and Chrome have crashed on me many times while developing it, but it froze my whole computer only when there was a memory leak or bug.
Also for those who enjoyed this paper, I think you will also like CMU's Prof. Mor Harchol-Balter's book[1] on queuing theory applied for designing, and analyzing performance of, computer systems.

Personally, I don't know of any other book that covers so well the application of queuing theory to computer systems.

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/PerformanceModeling/book.html
I am screaming internally as I read this article.
I did some research into two way mirror vendors a while ago to hide my TV and stumbled upon this operation out of Ohio. I never ended up finishing the project and as such never ordered from them so I don't know much about the company. They do have a wide range of two-way mirror options.

http://www.twowaymirrors.com/acrylic/
The Apple Extended and Extended II were about as good as you can get in the ISO9995/ISO9241 era. It's been downhill ever since.

“This keyboard represents everything about Apple that I hate.” — Steve Jobs on the Apple Extended Keyboard.
With that argument, at some point you're just advocating pop-up flashing neon banners.
> Microsoft's making similar efforts lately, so that's encouraging to see, and even Google is making strides in reducing the amount of rampant ugly in their applications.

I disagree regarding Microsoft. While Windows 8 was not well loved at least the 2 halves of its modal interface were internally consistent. Windows 10 looks like it was designed by committee by picking bits of Windows 8 desktop and Windows 8 Metro and stuffing them together. There's no clear direction or goal to it all. In addition there's just plain manifest ugliness like some of the icon choices.
Yes it is, and it's actually pretty easy. There are many ways to reduce the chance of a fire hitting your actual living structure and out west there actually are landscaping firms that specialize in doing that. Unfortunately many older homes/properties aren't set up for this so that's when it can get expensive.

Source: I'm a wildland fire fighter. Have seen awesome and terrible uses of fireproofing property.
Still, if the researcher releases IP together with the vulnerability, it seems legitimate for the IP owner to defend itself.
And do a license review to see if the gplv3 license imposes any cconditions on the use of the code.
Taxing CO2! Then how would we breathe! Think of the effect on laborers that breathe more strenuously than the rest of us. They be impoverished! On a serious note, you're implying that CO2 has a deleterious effect. Any scientific studies to back that claim?
Ask HN: Any recent alternative to “”http the definitive guide“
Looking a good book which provide an in-depth overview of http. "http the definitive guide" seems to be getting old. And doesn't cover HTTP2 and Oauth and openID authentications.
Any alternatives?
Form and function are both equally important.
Well... Read the comments on any such demo. Or this page, even. "Crashed my computer." If your website crashes people's computers, they will quickly learn to stop visiting it.
Careful. This is a deeper rabbit hole than you think it is.

Screamers are 100db+. To get that you have to drive a piezo at about 100V near it's maximum resonance point and engineer the case to create a resonant cavity.

To generate that voltage, you're likely going to need an autotransformer. And nobody stocks these off the shelf--they're a custom order magnetics part. (If you find a better circuit topology or a place that stocks the appropriate autotransformer, do please let me know.)

Of course, if you just want a wimpy beep, there's lots of options. :) But if you want something offensively loud, you're going to find that there is more engineering here than you think.

It's a good project, but it isn't "easy".

http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=16855
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-an-Arduino-drive...
> It's not a perfect analogy, but I think he was mostly trying to hit on the amateur/professional split.

Right, and I'm saying that it's inaccurate to claim that either academia or industry research is 'amateur'. They're both professional, just with different funding sources and different goals.
So a worker that works in Houston ought not have flood protection? Who pays when his house floods? "Industry?" Then prices rise for everyone instead of isolating the risk to those that choose to buy flood insurance.
Directors of CIA, NSA, FBI Put on Display of PR and Nobody Bought It
Or not deploy from random repos you don't control.
There's a reason those are sometimes called "pelt maps". :)
Might want to electrical-tape over the phone's front-facing camera, and maybe even excavate out its microphone. Just In Case.
The Shapes of React Native
2 years in college leads me to believe that this allergy is acquired. A person can only "engage" with topics they find to be boring, pretentious, or otherwise time wasting, so many times before "once bitten, twice shy" kicks into gear.

Also, don't forget, we inflict this process on people as part of basic education in the States. Ask 100 people what they think of classics like The Great Gatsby or The Catcher in the Rye, and more likely than not the answers will be mostly negative.

Literary analysis is a subjective affair and turns quite a few people off, moreso when you are being graded on things like having the same opinion as the instructor. You can read something into a piece that may or may not be there, and in any case is more likely than not to be the product of your own experiences and biases, not the content of the work itself.
A string library may mitigate but cannot solve the problem. In C you always need to take allocation/deallocation into consideration.
Ending federal student loans would do more to reduce higher Ed inflation than anything else. It's unpopular because the people smart enough to understand economics aren't the ones continuing to vote for expanded federal loans.
Turning work into performance art by gamesmen (2015)
MLab Internet Observatory
If you've been using the repo for a long time and you didn't have a local copy to use in case github went down, etc, your deploy was already broken. Having local mirrors of third party repos, and pulling those into your build system is fairly trivial, and will save a lot of heartache in cases like this.
GPLv3 doesn't impose any conditions on use. This is LGPLv3, which has even fewer requirements.
Well you're not wrong actually. The Forest Service took over fire management for most of the country in the early 1900's (1910 I think?) and did what fire fighters do best - put fires out. Today we understand that just putting the fire out isn't always the best long term course of action though...

I will say that we are seeing hotter and drier fire seasons than before. While this isn't entirely a result of the lack of moisture, it definitely doesn't help.
> String processing in computers is difficult.

Not in e.g. Java and many scripting languages.
The main difficulty with strings in C is caused by arrays decaying to pointers whenever passed to a function.

My article about it:

http://digitalmars.com/articles/b44.html
Thank goodness GitHub doesn't employ the YouTube 3-copyright-strike system. Otherwise there would actually be an issue with this.
Love this idea, but removing the device (if you have to) is what rubs me the wrong way.

Anyone have any idea on the implications of mounting the device, say, 3mm away from the mirror? I think that would be about the depth of a case... and if you mount it inside a case, you can remove it seemlessly.
"I was a literature major in college. I enjoyed writing (thinking, erroneously, that I could make a career out of it) and reading, so it seemed like a logical choice at the time."

I think you might appreciate degree as you age, or pursue other interests? I know tech desperately needs people who can convey thoughts, or concepts.

Before I read books/articles on tech; I jump right past the introduction, and look for clues that the author can put thoughts together in a logical order. If it's filled with run-on sentences, paragraphs that are out of order, a bunch of unessary words I move on. If you know this material, knowing how to write well will be valuable. If I was hiring a programmer, I would love to see an English major on the resume--especially if hiring for a large company?
Many times, it might be because most people don't like changes when what they have works, and not because the new interfaces are worst.
Also had one of these in high school, but connected to an uplink for a distance learning setup. There were about 20 of us in the actual classroom, and then 3 or 4 other classrooms would get the same whiteboard feed live.
I wouldn't care about any website if it does not come with RSS. I've been using Digg Reader and it's been working flawlessly.
>What I have a problem with is ascribing these to the author without any evidence that they actually meant it that way.

I'll try to find the artist - but they wrote a song and the fanbase didn't "get their message".

The lyrics were supposed to be face-value but people found metaphors where no metaphors were meant to be and devised an entire story around the song that didn't exist. How it related to his childhood growing up and the struggles of his teenage years, overcoming an addiction, etc.

The artist said in an interview (Paraphrased) "That's not at all what I meant when I wrote this song - but it does sound better. So I'll take the credit."
Not that Apple has perfect UI's (The clock dial is awful) but I feel like the ideas expressed in this article are that a UI should be designed as if the user is always using it for the first time. And that simply isn't true. With such a small screen a lot of things need to be considered, such as how easy is it to press a button without moving the hand and if this means sacrificing some natural ease of use - so be it. The user will still quickly learn how the UI works and adapt quickly.
Would love to hear by what % your revenue increased today (or in the next month or so from lag time)
> My pet conspiracy theory is that Apple is trying to kill desktops

I'm not sure that part is a conspiracy theory. Tim Cook just said directly that the maxiPad “is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing”. You're being hit over the head with the writing on the wall.
While it would have to be "large" for a "mega fire," there are a lot of small and inexpensive things you can do to help protect your home. Things like removing any shurbs around your house are very useful. Won't necessarily save your house, but it's a good start.
> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.
Oh the stuff you've (you as in CoreOS) done with raft golang libraries (to test and fix it) is nothing short of incredible. The future with k8s with CoreOS as the base looks really great. Please do keep it up :)
Nope. What about your archives?

I know that for me having an archive of the feeds is pretty darn important.
> Most of the great programmers who inspire me don't write tests but have the deepest understanding of whats going on.

Understanding the code and having tests is not mutually exclusive.

And if you have ever inherit a code base from somebody who "didn't need to write tests", because he or she understood the code so well, you will come to appreciate tests in a whole new way. ;-)
ethanol or methanol will clean it up.
It's funny to read this, because I personally find iOS to have by far the best UI of any mobile OS, and I consider the flat design of iOS7 to be a big step forward.

Other people feel differently, and they consider Android superior, so clearly there is a difference in taste.

The conundrum is that nobody seems to be able to clearly articulate why this is, and this article doesn't really help. For example, it says the timepicker is "awkward, time-wasting, inaccurate". Compared to what? Has anyone been able to measure how much time it wastes and how innaccurate it is?

In the end, this article takes a thousand words to say little more than "This doesn't feel quite right to me", and doesn't reveal any root causes. Do people prefer different UIs because of differences in finger size, manual dexerity, visual attention? Does Apple's UI cater to a specific minority of users? Do biological differences make it impossible to satisfy everyone?
Couple of requests

1. Add comments

There's a lot going on here and very few comments

2. In the README point out the entry point of the code

There are a lot of places one could start reading, give users a hint as to the best place to start.

Your app template.html points toward a /js/app.js file which doesn't exist in the source, which is fine, but if I'd like to read before I run a pointer would be helpful!
Actually, the universities will get more funding from now-wealthy alumni who made their money in industry.
Yes, they are doomed. Doomed!!
National Geographic Is Now Owned by a Climate Change Denier
Thanks -- I had a a query on 9.1 using MEDIAN (implemented in pl/psql) going from 12 seconds to 0.2 seconds by switching to array_to_median(array_agg(the_column)). I found it was faster to actually query a million values and calculate the median in Python than to use that pl/psql MEDIAN so it's nice this can be done easier with array_agg + your thing.
That's a bit of a leap. There is nothing wrong with having your call to action pop, and a lot of thought is given by designers to position, colour, context, text, and texture, in order to ensure that it does.

Maybe a button that doesn't look that much like a button doesn't entice us as much as one that does.
A crowd-sourced social network
It appears to be less true now than in days past, but humans are -first and foremost- storytellers. we like to tell stories, we like to listen to stories, and we -often- better remember lessons imparted in the form of a story.

Moreover, if you're trying to alter someone's opinion about the truth of a matter, you almost always need bolster your core argument with supplemental material. You often don't know much about your listener's background, you probably don't know what motivates him, and he may very well be opposed to your core argument for entirely unreasonable reasons. It's often best to surround your core argument with a large, somewhat varied structure, so that many folks will find some way to latch on to it.
Your list was discussed extensively in the office today and everybody loved it.
CERN+PORTAL,SHIVA+LILLITH+LUCIFER+HELL+ON+EARTH+-+YouTube
That isn't true. It's a law that insurance companies must have the money to pay claims. That's what reinsurance protects insurance companies against. People don't get paid because they didn't suffer a covered loss. I was a catastrophe insurance adjuster for Farmers insurance during Katrina and Hurricane Ike and the unpaid damages where often for damages not caused by a covered event: for example a destroyed wooden floor with no evidence of roof leakage would often be denied unless they had Flood insurance. We also have massive amounts of attempted fraud. People attempting to claim full value on a roof that was 20 years old. The amount of fraud in the property insurance business amounts to literally billions. Also denied claims are easily challenged with a public adjuster. I had plenty of debates with public adjusters and there were time when I did legitimately underpay a claim. Damage estimating is a very inexact science. There are dozens of variables such as material cost fluctuations, damage area material cost gouging, contractor shortages they lead to out of state contractors coming in charging higher than the prevailing rate for a given piece of work. The meme that insurance companies are evil is simplistic. The amount of regulation in that industry is astounding. I had to get separate licenses in 18 states. A few other states has reciprocity agreements but generally I had to pass exams just to step foot in a state in any official capacity. I am definitely not referring to health companies though.. Can't speak to that, but the property and casualty side of things isn't as terrible as it's anecdotally portrayed. During Ike, I wrote 12 checks per day which meant 16 hours a day on rooftops wading through debris and occasionally coming across human remains. Yet less than 5% of the claims I worked were denied and generally only partially.
My company does a lot of paperwork. It turns out people want to work on something that looks like "paper" or the final printed out result. The idea of an interface with buttons may be commonplace to us, but there are many people for whom this is equally impossible.
You might enjoy Barthes' "Death of the Author". (not trolling)