skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> average table, pencil, glass, fork, spoon, text-based book etc. is fairly standard (save for few ornamental details).

Except that's the point of the OP's comment. These items actually do not have any explicitly declared standard like this design standard published by the government. Design became standardized through people landing on a good design, not through a government mandate.
Here's a simpler diagram:

did you do it?

Y -> address "do you want to die" question

N -> "I don't deserve to either die or spend my life in prison" -> rely on the justice system to do the right thing
Advertising is a brilliant business to be in for Google, and the main cash cow. Nothing wrong with success. The ads are paying my salary indirectly.

(If all ads were like Google ads, I wouldn't have bothered installing an ad-blocker in the first place.)

> I remember reading somewhere that there is a (underground?) group within Google dissatisfied with the dominance of advertising at the company, both in business and product decisions.

We have very vocal employees. You can find people complaining about everything. (Including the lack of M&Ms in some micro kitchens.) I am sure there are also people dissatisfied with ads.

If you want to hear me complain, ask me about the choice of programming languages we are using. Or about open plan offices.

Still the best run company I've worked for.
Sounds like he dodged a bullet.
The "disappointing" part is likely the recent drop in oil prices. Higher revenues from a commodity like that can finance all kinds of risk.
Right? I shudder to think what kind of cat and mouse game they'll be trying to play with uBlock et al. JS URLs will get banned, iframes will get hidden, so on and so forth. You can't monetize ad-blocking traffic, because the ad-blockers just get better; you have to block the users who use them if you want to keep making money.
/me clicks link, sees blank page

You're right! The back button does work as an effective solution!
All of their papers linked to describe what addblocking is, and why it is wrong. None describe the technology they use, or how they "monotize addblocked traffic".

The closest I could find is that it is based on a polymorphic encryption algorithm, which does not inspire confidence in me. Combined with the fact that they claim to support all addblockers, and addformats, and I am calling snakeoil.

They also say it is patented, so I will see if I can dig up said patent.

EDIT:
I did a search on the patent office for "adblocking AND polymorphic" (with variations of adblocking), and found no results.

EDIT2: Also, no information on how to buy their "product" beyond a generic contact us.
What really blows my mind is the difference between the iPhone 3 and 3GS. I think that it may even have the most eye pleasing camera of the lot. The other generations are marginal compared to 3->3GS
Splunk CEO tells tech sector to hire more women
Momentum Grows for Jack Dorsey to Be Twitter’s Permanent C.E.O
Vice released a special last night about mass incarceration related to non-violent drug crimes. It included President Obama visiting a federal prison and interviews with Former Atty. Gen. Eric Holder.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjWSW94-P3Y

Article: https://news.vice.com/article/president-obama-heads-to-priso...
"If you walk into a school, start shooting and are captured alive - I think you just forfeited any claim on life or potential rehabilitation."

Unfortunately most of the people who do this are children. They're usually in situations people would rather ignore. They're desperate. They want attention and they get it at some price that's ultimately... above market.
Prosecutors have almost absolute immunity. A prosecutor can intentionally cheat the system, get a conviction, put a person in jail, and if caught, there is no lawsuit that can be filed against them and it's almost impossible to get them disbarred.

There are incentives to cheat; as long as there are no ramifications for it, it will continue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqChMa4GV3w
One vote is nowhere close to making a difference there? And that is the edge case, 99.9% of elections won't even come down to that.
The really big news is shell think the entire basin is low yield which means others are unlikely to want to go there in future.
They also burn an absolutely astronomical amount of money in the process of trying to kill these people.
Couldn't agree more on everything.

I don't think Evan have a good track record of turning startups into profitable businesses, but he does have some great product ideas.

I really hope this one will be good for him but like you I have my doubts.
> There is nowhere to go, not with the available physical space.

While true, also false.

Take something like the Sony Nex series; mirrorless digital system camera. Not much larger than a (big) smart phone. Sure, bigger than an iPhone. But it might not be that difficult to fit the "rest" of a smart phone into one of those. In fact, it probably have all the parts: battery, (touch?)screen, microphone, wireless radio (not cellular, but that could be changed), speaker (maybe needs to be added).

But a better way to go would probably be some kind of light-field technology. I think that holds more promise for better pictures in a similar form factor, and the possibility of ease of use.
See what you did there?

You called attention to the strategic upvoting.

Which means you get downvoted.

Welcome to real HN where groupthink is the only think.
- google doesn't know if people are active on non-google sites -

I don't have numbers, but I know that the overwhelming majority of sites I see in a given day, week, or month use google analytics. A helpful 'free' tool that gives site owners excellent stats, and gives google insights into almost all of the off-google browsing that happens...
Wait but isn't YouTube actually profitable?
I know little about this stuff, but my impression is that there are so many different variations of life and also so many variations that can live in the most bizarre conditions, that we haven't even scratched the surface of classifying them all.

Something could survive the trip, grow, be found and still be entirely unknown to us. And it probably wouldn't be all that unlikely.

Take this study, that swabbed people's belly buttons and found thousands of unknown bacteria, bacteria only found before in foreign countries the person had never visited and "extremophile bacteria that typically thrive in ice caps and thermal vents"

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/1-458-bact...
That doesn't answer the question. Without some sort of countervailing policy to concentrate wealth, it would seem that growth ought to lead to broad growth.
That's a bit unfair — you're talking about an expository and introductory Medium post. Compare that to the first sentence of the guide itself:

Open source UI components and visual style guide to create consistency and
beautiful user experiences across U.S. federal government websites.
"We can't just selectively enforce or not enforce laws."

No one is suggesting the DA pick and choose which laws to enforce.

The point is that there appears to be reasonable doubt that he committed the crime and therefore, according to the very laws you demand be enforced, should be acquitted.
That was a bit harsh, but oh the irony that C syntax is now considered "normal". Yuck.

I admire the bravery of Guido the Python guy for giving C layout orthodoxy the finger when he designed his language. But of course Python doesn't have variables with explicit types to worry about where to put them :-)
Link is broken (404), should be - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/us/oregons-legal-sale-of-m...
It is nitpicking but this is an incorrect use of the term "cel". A cel is a transparent sheet that is used in layers to make up a frame. The article talks about cels as if they are frames. Cels are useful because it allows picture elements like backgrounds to remain unchanged frame to frame.

edit: nm, looks like they address this later on in the article.
This is really impressive, and the result is beautiful.

How is the lens attached to the iPhone? How is the focus controlled?
How Universities Work, Or: What I Wish I’d Known Freshman Year
I've been using node-sass (libsass wrapper) recently, which hasn't been too bad compared to less (which is native to node/js). Seems to be working fine with bootstrap-sass, and surprisingly fast, compared to less, so I imaging the ruby sass implementation would be similarly slow by comparison.
Dropbox open sources Zulip – Group chat service like slack and gitter
For languages with type inference, this syntax makes the code somewhat cleaner overall.

As for Groovy, it's barely statically typed so not really an option for me.
Seeker Central – new way to search
"is it possible to create a shared set of tools to provide consistent, beautiful, and easy-to-use government websites?"

Yup: http://gov.uk

They even copied the colour scheme: https://playbook.cio.gov/designstandards/visual-style/#color...
There seem to be a lot of questions of the form

Have your candidate tell you about a time _______

I hope they're giving their candidates time to prepare answers to these. I feel like I wouldn't be able to think of anything during the interview.
Single Women: There Aren't Enough College-Educated Men Out There
The fact that the egregious examples exist is proof enough of the insanity and incompetence that's permitted by the justice system. The appeals processes seems too restrictive to allow for proper review in many cases. Just because a system has existed for a long time doesn't mean it's ideal in any way.

The murder of Meredith Kercher is another prominent example in another country. All evidence pointed to one murderer, who was duly convicted. And then the state decided to spend years prosecuting two innocent people based on some odd behavior and not the slightest shred of credible physical evidence. They're just lucky they finally got a sane judge at the highest level.
Look at the front page on HN :

More relevant is how often you come across Medium articles outside of the context of HN - occasionally via twitter, and that's about it.

Still, they must have been able to show something is going right.
Hence why you have short sprints before you 'take a break' (of zero days) and start again.
Kotlin has almost exactly the same declaration syntax as Pascal, which would seem to me to be the platonic ideal of "language your dad used". Postfix type annotations go way back. They permit somewhat less ambiguous syntax for things like function types (see C's infamous function pointer declarations) and play more nicely with type inference (it makes more sense to drop the ': int' in 'a: int' than the 'int' in 'int a').

It's certainly not a radical or nonconformist choice to make while designing a language. It might seem unusual to people whose experience is with C-style declarations, but it really is just replacing one well-known syntax with another, equivalent well-known syntax.
when the margin of victory is under 1%, then yes, a relative handful of people can swing an election

Far more than 0.01% of elections have narrow margins of victory, particularly less well known ones like attorneys.
StrangeLoop 2015 Videos
How We Got 10x More Great Ideas from Our Team (and why I was nearly fired first)
Child rearing was always considered an important task. The particulars have changed over the years, but the idea isn't new at all.

I don't think it's so much that women are subconsciously setting the bar too high. Rather, as in any competition the level of the bar gets set in the aggregate. Some combination of the media and their social circle.
So yeah - if you think the technical interview process is broken, take a look at this and realize that at least in our business there is hope. Hiring someone for non-technical jobs? This is the best you can do.
I'd say "the notation x/y means a fraction, and cannot be used for coordinates. Likewise, (x, y) means a coordinate and cannot be used for fractions. They are related but should not be conflated."
From their white paper:

The technology used by Secret Media makes
sure that each ad gets a specific URL that cannot
be nor found not added to EasyList by the community.

I don't quite understand why they think this would work. Surely ad-blockers can filter by domain? Are they using well camouflaged URLs from legit domains? Or do they have a never-ending supply of throwaway domain names, in order to stay one step ahead of EasyList?

Either way, I'm genuinely curious to see what they have in mind...
The Architecture of SQLite
You are literally strolling into a subject you know nothing about and putting forward an opinion that amounts to "wow, these guys sure are dumb, huh?" It's a very common way to comment on science stories and it's absolutely infuriating.

Why not this?

"So, I don't understand what's going on here, this seems weird because of X, Y, or Z, can someone explain what's going on?"

Or this?

"Is NASA really so dumb that they would do X, Y, and Z given that A, B, and C seem to be at odds with that?"

Instead we get: "Hah. NASA is so dumb." Even though we live in 2015 and the results of even 15 minutes of effort involving google and wikipedia could clear up a lot of these misconceptions.

Why are people so heavily invested in maintaining their own ignorance? Why do people insist on jumping to the conclusion that thousands of top tier scientists couldn't POSSIBLY have thought of the same things that occurred to them in the few moments spent thinking about it before deciding to make a post?
One possibility, perhaps very unlikely and perhaps somewhat likely, is that Earth life could actually survive and adapt to Martian conditions and subsequently destroy existing Martian life.

That seems almost comically improbable, but given that we've found that lichen can survive in the vacuum of space for a year and a half [1] and the mere existence of life on hydrothermal vents and inside Chernobyl[2], I think we can safely say that life is surprising.

[1] http://www.astrobio.net/topic/origins/extreme-life/lichen-or...
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20080424001002/http://www.science...
Amen to that. We copy/paste the same Vagrantfile from project to project, making minor adjustments and improvements (typically after some part of the previous file failed on us in a strange way and we dug around for a fix).

The odd time we have some special requirement (a work queue perhaps?), but most of the time it's language + store + web server and we're off.
With 57 million bucks you think they might be able to make it so all the text doesn't jump to the side when you click the page? That drives me nuts.
Evapolar: World's first personal air conditioner
Oklahoma court denies Richard Glossip’s request for a stay of execution
Define backwards?

Singapore has the death penalty. Taiwan has the death penalty. Singapore is probably the most advanced economy in the world. one of Taiwan's main exports is computer engineering R&D for most of the hardware in your PC (as the hardware itself is now manufactured and assembled in China)

Taiwan has nationalised health care - score 1 for Taiwan over the US.

I consider any country implementing the death penalty to be a cultural backwater. Many parts of the US are basically the definition of a cultural backwater anyway.
Extensive prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10290793
In response to: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/jeff-atwood-learning-code...
Agree, 4 was a good improvement, but 4S made it it really usable one. I've updated from 4S to 6S and this weekend had a chance to capture some scenic ocean cliffs. The difference is definitely noticeable and I've got some very nice shots, but nothing to rage about. I would have happily kept using 4S if not lack of RAM made it's use hellishly slow.
You make the process seem a lot easier and foolproof that it actually is.
That wasn't the choice given. It was "Accept this deal for life in prison" or "Have faith that your innocence will prevail in the court of law and you will be exonerated."

If I, an innocent man, was given that choice... I would probably try it out in court. I would assume my innocence would prevent the court from convicting me.
Sad to see they still have the cranked noise reduction, which really ruins faces. If you look at the enlarged portait pics and compare the 4s and 6s you'll see what I mean: the 4s has details in the skin, the 6s has a near-impressionist blurred mess.
To add, there was a slightly less than 50% rate reported for a low level of literacy, but this isn't the same as illiteracy. Most developed countries have definitions that put around 10% of people as functionally illiterate, but also have definitions that put 20-30% of people as having very low levels of literacy, in fact the study that put Detroit at 47% puts it at roughly 25% nationwide. Further, this rate is based on an extrapolation from data from 25 years ago, done 22 years ago.

Lastly, the literacy as the study defines it is based on a Congressional act which stipulates literacy in English. Those who don't know English are considered functionally illiterate in this study (and many others), despite being fully able to read and write in another language. e.g. read Spanish news, email, things at work, cooking recipes, software, manuals for their electronics. This obviously isn't optimal, government letters in English wouldn't be readable directly, but it's a world of difference compared to someone who is fully illiterate (which is a proxy for general education, too, and in this case often not applicable due to literacy/education in another language).

Lastly the 47% figure carries a warning that it has confidence intervals larger than (-)5 at the 95% confidence level, how much it doesn't say but not a single other city carries this warning except one which has a 57% figure, and the rest of the country (and similar socioeconomic areas) are half the rate, so I would be completely uncomfortable ever citing this figure even in the context of 25 year old data, without at least finding out the actual confidence interval.
Would subdomains do the trick, say, very-very-long-cryptokey.publisher.tld ?
Vatican Research Observatory
No, because then we can build whitelist-based ad blockers (e.g. RequestPolicy, NoScript).
According to http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-m... the average age of mass shooters in general is 35.
That was my thought at first glance too, however it is already really easy to just download a sites assets and make a mock up.

Sometimes you just have to trust that people are going to pay attention before submitting sensitive information on the net.
I'm always amused when I look at the Date/Time settings and see that the West Coast runs on Cupertino time
The hope is probably that they can be bought up for profit, as opposed to being a profitable company in the long term. That's what comprises a business model in startup land.

And let's be honest - it works enough of the time that people keep doing it.
To be fair, isn't type projection a Scala feature? Have you ever seen another language that can do it?
No? Why would it be? What is design's purpose in your mind?
The Display Advertising Technology Landscape (built with Jmpress.js)
http://www.secretmedia.com/manifest.php

TL;DR "If you visit a web page, you surrender the right to decide what happens to your computer."
No city is a utopia, of course. Yet there are cities where you can take a stroll downtown on a wednesday night and you'll be fine even if you don't really know where you are. I grew up in Rio de Janeiro, where you have, HAVE to know where you're going, and I also took many long, random strolls in Tokyo after midnight. HUGE difference.
I really like this, but as someone who recently went through the federal loans process I know that the interface isn't the only thing holding back our government's web presence. Can we adopt a standard work flow? Something that behaves as expected when you submit forms?
It's less than an inch across, and viewed typically at arm's length. Yes, you're only displaying a few relatively large words. They're not trying to display 80 column text on a watchface.
Quartzy (YC S11) is hiring a product designer
It would be interesting to see a new teaching methodology develop around teaching mostly just the concepts that people get wrong with the assumption that most people don't need much help with the stuff everyone is getting wrong.
If it's patented then they have nothing to lose by opening up their source.

Proprietary is code for incompetence and an excuse not to expose said incompetence.
Ha, you are correct, I meant disingenuous.
Thanks! Pardon my ignorance but what if the content url itself came encoded in the same manner?
Let me know if you ever get some serious, treatable disease, and you refuse to go to the hospital because they have crappy wi-fi.
This article by Bill McKibben made a pretty big splash, and is a good place to start:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-te...
I live in a country with a terrible human rights record. Yet, since 1991, it never had a death penalty applied. [1] You might get sentenced to a death penalty (on extreme cases), but it's not applied. The law still legalise it but there is some pressure to remove it currently.

I find the news that 1) a death penalty is about to take place in the U.S, 2) hastily and 3) with little evidence really shocking, disturbing and unacceptable in a country which is supposed to be at the front of defending human rights.

1: http://www.deathpenaltyworldwide.org/country-search-post.cfm...
I think that material design works well for applications in particular... a lot of the time too much is shoveled into applications without a concern for information overload, material design enforces this to some extent.

That said, even looking a step back towards, for example twitter bootstrap, it's about keeping things clean and orderly. One of the examples I appreciated was the password prompt, too often what is allowed in a password isn't clear, and to be honest, I'm almost in favor of allowing pretty much anything, I wish people would use "passphrase" instead of "password" and encourage multi-word phrases, even a full sentence. "Fear is the mind k1ll3r." for example.
It seems almost pointless to even have a formal death penalty when law enforcement officers are given effective blanket immunity against homicide charges.
But in the real world a simple limit can't be enforced. We're unlikely to avoid going over the limit unless we put a price on carbon emissions to make burning fossil fuels more expensive. Searching for cheaper fossil fuels is exactly the opposite course of action.
Chicago is #3 by population, so all other things being equal it should have the 3rd highest number of murders.
If they fix the crime and schools (and utilities), land won't be dirt cheap anymore. At least not at the levels they're at now. Those are exactly the factors driving the land prices down in the first place.
Me thinks they will regret this line.