skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run an ad blocker on all my browsers except IE (which I generally don't use unless a site like Fandango has made it impossible to finish a transaction while using Disconnect/uBlock, in which case half the time I'll just abandon the site and go to a different vendor). I make a habit of whitelisting sites that I find valuable and don't engage in sketchy advertising practices. I even pay for Newsblur as my RSS reader so that I can pull the actual page up in the viewer and allow for the site to get my clicks. The rules laid out in TFA would go a long way to easing my blocking even further, and when I used Ad Blocker I enabled the acceptable ads list. In the past few years, though, I've also started to see advertising networks as potential malware threats and think advertising standards should incorporate security standards, as well. When I go to a page that NoScript shows has 30 or 40 scripts with unrecognizable names, I'm less likely to go back to the site at all, much less whitelist any of the blocked domains. If I was running an enterprise IT department, I'd be more likely to blacklist advertising domains than timewaster sites because of the threat of malicious payloads through those advertising networks.

TFA lays out ways to make advertising more humane for viewers, but I am curious how aware or involved with technical approaches like VRM or Kantara Initiative's User-Managed Access (UMA) to making permission-based advertising more feasible. In the past year I bought two new high ticket items--a new car and a new laptop. I had to do two phase of research for each of them--what is even out there as far as features and then who offers the features I think are interesting. I would expect that a highly qualified lead would have made any advertising much more lucrative during either of those phases (advertising that I would have actually welcomed) than a bunch of simple broadcast ad views (which I mostly blocked anyway). I would love to see advertisers and browser developers work with groups like those to make advertising not just less obnoxious but something that I could actively consider useful.
What crazyness is this? A DMCA we're not raging against??
My impression is that a heated driveway would actually make things worse because it'd melt the snow into ice, which is harder to drive on and get rid of and a general safety hazard.
ahh but the poem does not state that he took the less used road. It states that in the future the man will state that the road he took was less used.
And they are down....
"This repository is currently disabled due to a DMCA takedown notice"
This seems to happen a lot with Robert Frost poems... "Mending Wall" seems to be about enjoying working alongside a neighbor to fix their stone wall, but it's really more of a lament about the walls people build between each other.
Usually we define "good" for the environment to be the state it would be in without human interference.

The Great Oxygenation wiped out most life on Earth, which sounds like a bad thing. But clearing out so many species leaves the way for an evolutionary boom to fill all the new niches. So... we can't really even say that mass extinctions are bad.
Nice POC. :)

It ran smoothly (around 25/40FPS) on my 8 years old PC using Firefox 42. :p
Thanks for the comment! This is exactly what I've seen. How do you enforce that changes are made?
We're definitely being pedantic, but what I'm saying is it's a meritocracy because your skills are far more important than your pedigree or seniority.
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Readers here may appreciate: I spoke with the dev for a piece on OptiKey: http://www.businessinsider.com/an-eye-tracking-interface-hel...
Especially if you want to be sure that a version you pegged exactly for stability will be around in a year or two (looking at you node land).
what about Holo theme? The action overflow on the top left, and row'd list of features and options was clean, intuitive, consistent, and was by no means confusing.
I totally agree. Blackbox is particularly kicking butt in Russia. I recommended Go because it's mainstreamed with all benefits that entails for developers and employers.
Same here, but I graduated as an engineer.
Don't move to Georgia (I assume when considering Georgia you meant Atlanta or suburb of Atlanta).

Pros: Low cost of living, lots of space relative to other places, people are probably friendlier than they are in NJ.

Cons: Traffic is absolutely horrendous (only LA has worse traffic), high crime (in the city--it varies by suburb), really hot and humid summers, terrible mass transit (combine that with terrible, terrible traffic...), backward politics (I'm saying that not as a conservative or liberal, but rather as an observer. In 2012, the GA Secretary of State basically openly endorsed the idea that Obama may not have been born in America...), bad schools.

The tech scene is decent thanks to Georgia Tech. But you can do better than here.
What is the "OO copy function" you mean, and how was it different from the "copy" operation on the Edit menu in the Mac UI?
They're distributed because people need/want to access the data that way.

It's a somewhat efficient way to distribute a gigabyte of data to a hundred people so that they all have access to it now despite all sharing a lousy wifi at a conference center.
You get the think about form when you've optimized function.
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Thinking you press F5 for compile/run? That's the kind of shibboleth that outs the QuickBASIC heathen!
Clear cutting absolutely did happen in the US. Take a flight over the Pacific Northwest and you can clearly see the effect decades later. Get out into remote areas and you can also see just how stark selective cutting is compared to a pristine landscape.

Second growth is only a step in the ecological process of producing a mature forest. Most of the east coast's regrowth is not representative of the original species, though it is often farther along in the process compared to the west coast. These places take multiple centuries to come back to their former pristine state.

Why does it take so long? Plant species are sensitive to available light and moisture. Canopies regulate this on the ground, but also rely on established plants for their development. Immature, modified or non-existent canopies cannot support the same life.

Selective cutting modifies the canopy. Established growth underneath does not survive, even if it is still alive when the crew goes home. When the canopy recovers in a single century the lower plants can thrive once again.
And, consequently, your flood insurance premium.

http://realestate.heraldtribune.com/2014/02/15/bubil-facing-...
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Terminology like "mobile robotics" or "mobile manipulation" can help clarify that the system is doing perception, mapping, autonomous navigation, etc, in additional to the domain-specific tasks dictated by the application.

These phrases also to distinguish from classic industrial manipulation, where everything is bolted to the floor.
> solving problems is easy, it's understanding what the problem is that's hard

Great way to lay it out. How many hours have I spent debugging just to come to the conclusion that the code does everything according to the requirements — it's the requirements which are buggy.
Just like going to all the lectures and not doing any homework isn't going to prepare you for finals. Videos introduce and explain ideas, but you need to puzzle through problems yourself to gain a real understanding.
If I recall correctly, there were a couple of people (I don't remember if they were astronauts or cosmonauts) in orbit at the time of Starfish Prime, whose space capsule passed through the radiation belt on its orbit. The space agency in question was pretty nervous about them getting fried as well, and was kind of upset they weren't informed ahead of time.
I was even more impressed when I googled Truffle and Graal as I had not heard of them until this.
Yes, I agree. Even picking the right function that truncates a string for you, or whatever, seems incredibly fraught. Footguns.
You can get SQL over Cassandra or almost everything other database (even MongoDB) via Spark. And CQLSH is SQL-like at least.

And personally I have always thought putting business logic in stored procedures is a truly dumb idea. You forever lock yourself to that database and there is always a point that you can exceed its capabilities and need to implement functionality in the application layer anyway.
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A basic version of this already exists from Monoprice: http://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=13166

Plug in a microUSB device and it can only charge; you have to hit the button in order to enable the data pins.

But I think this is designed for risks going the other way, i.e. to protect your cell phone from data-scraping USB-A female ports in airports and the like.
Have a set of whitelisted USB sockets on the computer in a different color that are meant to be used for your primary input devices.

Then for any USB input device that's plugged in another physical socket (e.g. where you'd plug things that you believe are just mass storage) the OS can require acknowledgement from the user before it is connected and allowed to send input data.
I think that there are a significant number of men that are opposed to the idea, even among the men that concur. Plenty of men are afraid to voice their true opinion because they fear being shamed as being sexists or worse, cowards, not men. Seriously... consider this.

Do you think that the irrational behavior of the third group of your list is a good sign, or something that should be easily dismissed? Yet another demand is made from men to change the system to accommodate women. When is it ever enough? Never.

Why is it that we cannot expect more from women, instead of always expecting more from men? Why can we not demand that women, if they so badly want to be a part of a male dominated system, become more assertive, aggressive, learn how to deal? Why, in a society that believes in democracy, must the majority adapt to the minority? Because women are different, special beings that are in need of ubiquitous protection?
> Minimalism in software is achieved by simplifying feature sets,
> not stripping away pixels.

<rant>

Simplifying feature sets should not mean reducing functionality. That is the lazy way. Simplicity should remove the extraneous, redundant, and inefficient; functionality is not that. Functionality with simplicity requires things generality, orthogonality, composability....

Good software engineers eventually learn to be able to do this for the code they produce (whether the business case allows it is a separate question). It should be possible for good UI designers to do likewise.

</rant>

Edit: I am not disagreeing with the article author here:

> It’s not minimalism to rip away the very things your users need.
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We're playing around with related ideas here [0]. It's understandably slow-going, because it's a hard problem to make a system 1) respond correctly to highly-specified custom queries, 2) easy to use and 3) scalable/performant.

[0] https://github.com/Mec-iS/mild-QL/issues/3
Please don't use shortened links - HN will shorten overly long links on it's own and bit.ly links hide the ultimate destination.
> Certainly better than the keyboards provided as standard by any other major computer manufacturer.

What?! Every OEM makes "inoffensive", reasonable keyboards just like Apple. They only differ in visual design.
lol nice try
As far as the balance sheet, less code means lower costs and more projects from development. Because it costs less to maintain less code than it does large, convoluted codebases. Are you better off with a codebase that has similar value (functionality) but much lower maintenance costs? The value of a codebase is the functionality it provides, not the number of lines of code in use.

Instinctively management will try to through more resources at a problem instead of paying off technical debt before it becomes unwieldy.
Ulrich Drepper was the maintainer of glibc at the time:

https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2000-08/msg00061.ht...
Half the reason you go with solutions like Oracle is because of (a) enterprise support and (b) easy access to talent pool. PostgreSQL has neither of these. So it may be fashionable but I don't know anyone who is doing it.
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>The man in the poem while reminiscing

This is not true. This may be the reason for the misreading! He is not reminiscing. he is commenting about reminiscence itself. The author says that in the future he will look back with a sign and state that.
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Comparing flat UI design to Swiss design from the 50s is missing the obvious difference that minimal Swiss design was about presenting information, not creating an interactive interface.

Yes – they're different. Obviously so – there's 60 years between here and there. The point is to compare the minimalist approach, and point out that there is precedent for it. There is no absolute, guaranteed, 100% 'ideal' user interface, and it's something that we are still working on – iterating on design is how we do that.

it becomes harder to separate interactive elements from non interactive ones and harder to tell "on" from "off" (I STILL can't tell if iOS's shift is on by looking at it). The desire to present information in a modern/minimalist way is at odds with this.

The iOS shift key is a good example of where this had failed (and I do hope it is fixed). But here's an alternative take – presenting information in a minimal fashion can help to draw attention to interactivity, rather than distract from it, thanks to the elimination of visual noise. The point is, it's far from clear what the best approach is.

My personal opinion is that what you call "wider design context" is pure fashion. Yes, flat is fashionable, but it's just not as good at the job of communicating the nature of UI elements to the user.

I don't think that's a case, or that such design can be called a 'fad'. Design is still an evolving field – devices and the way we use them is changing, and design is no different. I won't deny that there's an element of fashion, in the sense that the popularity of design styles can influence other designers. But isn't that equally explainable as a desire to avoid completely 'off the wall' interfaces that will be unfamiliar to users?

FWIW, I don't find flat interfaces to be an issue. Metro, for example, was simple and elegant, while allowing for useful approaches to clearly displaying and exploring information. And the iOS approach, though it has inconsistencies, actually makes a lot of sense, with the 'content is king' and 'depth through translucency' approaches. Most of the problems with the latter appear to be to do with the expression of state.
The problem with literary studies (as generally found in universities anyway) is that it's less about the author or the work and more about the critic. It's basically a pissing match to see who can construct the most impressive interpretation based on an arbitrary piece of literature.

I can accept that Literature is not about science as much as it is about defining the (intentional or non) meaning a literary work carries for its audience, but at university levels it certainly likes to present itself as if it were a science (rather than an art in itself) and embraces an obscene cargo cult effigy of what real science sounds like -- exactly like new age pseudo-science.

Furthermore, by presenting itself as a science, it gives undue authority to other social "sciences" that seem to get away with asserting falsifiable claims with no attempt to provide empirical evidence, which in turn transfers that false authority to political interest groups.

The world could do with a good amount less woo than it has now.
Getting stale data does not break consistency.

The link to the network partition I'm talking about is buried in this presentation http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/
well people here are infringing a GPL license by stripping it from the original code. I agree with that. All my projects on github are GPL so I'd do the exact same thing in the same circumstances.
For a comparison to a minimal design that has to support interaction consider the 606 Universal Shelving System [1] designed by Dieter Rams. Note that even though it's minimalist, every openable door/shelf/drawer has affordance that indicate where and how to open it - whether they're handles, holes for your hand or ridges you can grab onto.

Modern UI design has pushed past this stage of minimalism into something that's user hostile. Like those shelf doors where you have to push one side or the other to make the door pop out a bit and become actually grabbable - and it's not clear which side of the door needs to be pushed.

[1] https://d2lsod3xpjaepj.cloudfront.net/files/assets/1000/219/...
The default video bios mode is used as-is here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_BIOS

There is no terminal emulator here. This hello world text is written directly to video memory -- and yes, there is a character rom, so placing a string of words in memory OR'd with bits set for video attributes (the #defines there) make it color.
The DMCA is only bad when it's used to defend non-free copyrights.
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Seems like the difference in timescale between soil creation and wood decomposition would argue against sequestration occurring "most of the time." Soil biomass might represent only 1% or so of decomposition products. But I haven't seen any actual figures...
Funny you say that cuz I picked it for future proofing. I specifically wanted it to be the legacy language instead of C++ in case the talent was short many years down the line. That proved out haha. ;)
How about "Web File Server"? I think mentioning "FTP" in the "It's like" column is reasonable, but I thought it was confusing in the name.
And here I am. At the end of a comment feed with many opinions about a poem everybody knows. Wondering if I should have known this poem before I read it today for the first time. Or if I could wave it away as just a USA thing. Written by USA who falsely claims everybody outside US also knows the poem. Pondering, which road did I take?
I put off lots too, but I think I am more like Bartleby. There is just an endless array of stupid, boring shit that I do not feel like doing. And it doesn't matter how hard I try to screw up the gumption to power through tedious shit - I really would prefer not to. I suppose on some level I feel that it is wasted time either way, so, might as well enjoy wasting it in some modicum of comfort.
Nah, the CMU Robotics Institute folks they're talking about were almost certainly paid.

Not by Silicon Valley standards, but they did receive actual money. These were faculty and employees, not students.
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Interesting- I think you will have a hard time convincing people here in the U.S to go with you. For $9,000 a promise to fix 2 of their main problems in 40 days isn't enough for the very savvy ones.. But all the best to you..:)
> About half the team was told they would no longer be eligible for raises because their salaries were above the top of their IBM pay band

IBM most likely spent (speculating here) several millions of dollars on the acquisition, and they can't afford to pay the devs? This is completely messed up.
I've already made this rant so I'll just link to it but WebGL is an atrocity and the sooner it dies and is replaced by something useful the better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4845889
:)

You can see a demo version using the horse and the other free models instead of SC2 at http://alexis.lart.no/emh/snapshots/rts-free.git/
Furthermore, see an example of setting the mode explicitly from PC-DOS: https://github.com/johannesl/EditANSi/blob/master/ea.asm#L23 and http://fleder44.net/312/notes/18Graphics/index.html
You appear to know nothing of the history of computing.
I'm a CMU grad as well. And CMU has a long and storied history of being raided for talent like this. 40 at once is unusually big, but this story plays out regularly.

It's good for the profs, it's mostly good for the school, and it's part of why we have such a good reputation in industry -- so it's good for alums like you and me personally, as well.

With that said, sure, 40 is a lot. But the Robotics Institute will recover.
Safari has a feature to ask you if you'd like to use plugins (like flash) for a website. It's also seeing WebGL as a plugin. It's insane how many websites use WebGL. The only thing I wonder is what those websites use WebGL for as I see nothing special.
this is exactly the misreading!!

The paths were the same. He is saying that far in the future he will look back and say that whatever path he took was less travelled, whereas in reality it wasn't.
Trees are big and take up a lot of room, but there's way way way more dirt than trees. Good soil is actually upwards of 5% organic matter which is non-trivial. 5% of all the good dirt left in the world is a very big number and probably dominates the weight of trees on the planet.
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Or a white board pen. Just paint over it with an erasable pen, and it will all go when wiped.
IIRC in a demo they were copying a UI element, a whole panel or a window. It felt like a live object playground. AFAIK other OSes where limited to semi-type strings.
It actually generally heats the pavement long enough that all of the water evaporates, leading to a totally dry, unsalted slab of pavement.
Best i recall there was no discussion. At least all i read was a patch note. Sadly i didn't save a link...
> which in turn is descended from Python.

I think you meant Pascal?
Yeah, the thing I miss most from Spotify is the "Recent" menu, which was basically just a list of the last 20 - 30 albums you listened to. It really clicked with how I (and a lot of people) listen to music - we tend to repeat a certain subset of our music depending on the mood. This is the rare case where I feel like Apple has barely tried to look at how customers use the thing.
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What is the context of this?
I think i was thinking of youngstown ohio - i updated the list

As for ohio, I count 6 tornados on there, maybe 7? (i might be reading it wrong)

since 1950?

I'd say thats pretty low risk.

How many earthquakes have we had in that time?

How many hurricanes have caused billions of damage in that time? Floods/draught/etc

> which it doesn't sound like it was factored in to the ranking.

I dont think it was, it was ranked by natural disasters - so unless its a major blizzard it probably wouldnt be measured. (oh they probably didn't include hail either, which is uncommon, but more damaging to property)

I also dont think snow is on the same level as a natural disaster from an insurance risk perspective, but it likely results in greater or at least similar fatalities overall so i think its a fair point.

I'm not arguing the midwest is immune to all danger, i'm only saying living there puts you at lower risk of being affected by a natural disaster - /and/ - that the land there isn't already owned by 'rich people' (to take us back to why i commented in the first place)

Also - i wish that tornado map was interactive, would be great to see more of the filters
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Porn sounds would probably work best.
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