skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Anti-Mac Interface (http://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/) argues for the advantage of text over GUI in a more vivid way:

> The see-and-point principle states that users interact with the computer by pointing at the objects they can see on the screen. It's as if we have thrown away a million years of evolution, lost our facility with expressive language, and been reduced to pointing at objects in the immediate environment. Mouse buttons and modifier keys give us a vocabulary equivalent to a few different grunts. We have lost all the power of language, and can no longer talk about objects that are not immediately visible (all files more than one week old), objects that don't exist yet (future messages from my boss), or unknown objects (any guides to restaurants in Boston).
Open Question: do we think that we basically understand all the laws of nature at this point?

If that were true, we should expect few new fundamental breakthroughs... ever. We will simply explore the vast combinatorial space of what is possible within these laws, essentially remixing the 20th century forever.

I am personally skeptical of this. I think it might be an illusion created by dogmatizing what we have now and being a bit too satisfied with that. Same thing happened with the wisdom of the greeks, taking us over a thousand years to finally realize heavier objects don't fall faster.
I thought exactly the same. There are poor examples and for a strong title there is little substance.
To draugadrotten, I found it odd that someone would link to an Asian news source for information about Sweden, rather than a more local source like http://www.thelocal.se/20151009/tents-to-provide-shelter-for... which also gives more context.

So I looked at your history, which is more odd since I can't figure out why a Scandinavian like yourself would post a link to Channel NewsAsia.

As it turns out, the text is from Reuters, which is a news service that provides content to many newspapers and news sites. A better source for this Reuters piece is therefore http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/10/09/uk-europe-migrants-... .

I see from your history that you've done this before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10095517 considers your link to an FT article as "blogspam", because of FT's paywall policies, and instead suggested you link to the original Reuters article. Indeed, I cannot read the FT page you linked to, but I can read the one from Reuters.

So as a suggestion, when you want to link to a Reuters piece in the future, link to the actual Reuters one.

Regarding the topic, we need mandatory quotas for all European countries, now. And the US should feel itself morally obligated to take in many more refugees as well.
> E.g. this reads easier for me: len([x for x in xs if x > 10])

At the expense of allocating a new list, maybe. But the `sum` convention is faster, space-efficient and cleaner. It's also pretty obvious once you've seen it.
Possibly not, but an attitude of "I'm going to skip everything difficult that I don't NEED to know" isn't going to do you any favors...
Ok, we changed to that from http://www.lewis-clark.org/article/790. Thanks!
CTO cannot be the product manager. A product manager must align technology with market, and does so by providing the correct input to the technology group. CTO must focus on execution and innovation, while a product manager focus on what needs to be executed and how to align innovation with the market. It's different skillsets, indeed, and they are rarely aligned.
This is a classic example of poor resource allocation by underpricing. If you give away parking (already a scarce resource) and charging for free, rational people will use as much as they can get. The problem is compounded by the fact that it costs money to run conduit to a charging space, so businesses tend to put them as close to the building as possible, making the space even more valuable.

I have met personally with ChargePoint representatives. They have data that shows that if you charge $0.30 or more per kWh, then only people who NEED a charge will occupy the space. Couple that with an occupancy fee that ramps up dramatically when the car stops drawing current, or after, say, 2-4 hours, and people will start moving their cars. Even at this rate, you're still only charging $0.10/mile for electricity, which is on par with what you'd pay for gasoline these days.
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Nuclear is pretty much non-polluting as well. People overestimate how much waste is being created in the plants; it's entirely manageable and you can easily store it without (barring accidents) having it interact in any way with the environment, patiently waiting to be reused as nuclear fuel in the next generation of reactors.
It is certainly better (because it doesn't mess with the way scrolling feels), but also isn't bug free: the scrollbars partly cover text, middle-click-scrolling is broken and according to the bugtracker there are issues with iOS.
What is totalitarian capitalism? Can you give an example?
I found this paper [1] which tends to show that pre-Soviet Russia wasn't that bad off. However, it's only based on data from St Petersburg and Moscow, so it's difficult to say how representative the conclusions are compared to the rest of Europe at the same time period.

As for the Tsarist Duma, come on. It was only established after the revolution of 1905, and after 1907, the electoral laws were engineered to favour the ruling class and the pro-Tsarist currents, and the Tsar retained most of his authority.

1: http://www.ehs.org.uk/dotAsset/62d8a367-8beb-4dd0-b21f-d98b4...
It's a combination of reading the threads, reviewing user flags, and software.
Do we really need all those trucks? Trains can ship goods, and rail is much cheaper to maintain than roads.
So your answer is to make the user experience miserable because you don't like doing work?
interesting but i can't get how generating billions of pages can get him traffic
That's only true if our goal is to minimize consumption, which I'm not sure is advisable for the majority of roads, especially once we switch to electrical vehicles. A subsidized transportation network is pretty effective at encouraging commerce.

That being said, I do think there are localized areas where we want to decrease usage. So the future probably involves a combination of tax-free electrical vehicles and substantially more toll roads/congestion-charged zones.
Not just any reality show, Trump has starred in Wrestlemania specifically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMKFIHRpe7I
Huh? The data is only on my devices and no where else. I transfer the password database to the app via iTunes file sharing.
I'm a fan of aneutronic fusion but lacking that I'd be pretty happy with molten salt reactors, like what Transatomic, ThorCon, Terrestrial Energy, and Moltex are doing. They'd be inherently safe, proliferation-resistant, and produce very little long-term waste. These aren't commercially available yet but they just need straightforward development, not any fundamental breakthroughs.
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I should add that we need to step up enforcement on non-chargers (whether ICE or Tesla or Leaf) parking in charging spots. The handicap space analogy is a bad one, a better one is parking in front of a gas pump. Police and property owners should be giving out large (multi-$100) tickets and towing/impounding. I guarantee the behavior would stop.
Personally, I don't think infinite economic growth will be a problem once we stop caring about it. Right now economic growth is something we measure and try to keep (and increase); e.g. some people look at the growth rates and try to create programs to make them go up. At some point I think we'll reach a level on which we can just stop caring and enjoy living. People will naturally want to improve lives for themselves and their children and yes, this would register as economic growth, but there's a significant difference between just observing it and trying to affect the metric on purpose.
In Thunderbird I set my "saved" folder to be my Inbox, so that all related messages are together, and when I'm visually searching for something I see it no matter who sent it.

In Outlook I do similar, but I have incoming messages redirected to my Sent folder, because you can't (I think) change where sent messages are saved. "It's Sent, why would you want sent messages to go anywhere else?"
I think that's a bit anecdotal. Sure, there is the lore of the systems programmer who took LSD (I wonder if he reads HN :) ) and solved his design task elegantly. But to actually claim that psychedelics makes one more creative would require psychological studies with blinds. You take the sugar pill, I'll eat the mushroom - and vice versa. Which could be done, there are metrics and tests for that - if and when the stuff becomes less controversial.

A lot of people also get new ideas and solutions to problems after a good nights sleep. I knew a person in university who swore hangovers were the most creative period for him. Humans are capable of pretty friggin amazing things au naturel - drugs can modulate performance, but to draw any conclusions in the large would require actual science to draw a distinction between personal learned habits and reproducible effects.
Property tax is more painful to low income people and already makes it so schools in low income districts suffer. Use taxes are much more fair and immediate so it doesn't require future budgeting.
"I cannot imagine Photoshop [...] to be text based."

ImageMagick is amazing. There are certainly tasks for which the interface is more awkward than Photoshop (or GIMP), but there are tasks for which the opposite is true. For instance, I was easily able to write a script for "take a screenshot, detect where the variably-sized error message box appears within it and crop to it".
> Out of the 6M Polish casualties 3M of them were Jewish

These numbers don't really add up and it's the upper bound Polish historians quote. The problem is that there were roughly 3M Jews in Poland before the war and census before and after the war showed ~3,5M population drop in total. So not only 6M seems excessive but 3M seems unlikely given that this would mean that roughly every single Jew died in the result of WWII. 3M/6M figures are never verified, PRL figures.

> but if you ask the Poles would they rather be armed and fighting or be the next inline for complementary train tickets you would probably get only a single response and that is we rather fight

Sure, most of us would rather fight. But this piece isn't about our will or ability to fight. I actually find it offensive that some random dude from across the ocean is using pieces of my history to justify his own agenda. One that has absolutely NOTHING to do with fighting against oppression, aggression or genocide but EVERYTHING to do with interests of gun manufacturers. I find this kind of articles dangerous in how cynical they are in exploiting fears we all have, that a group I'm a part of could be targeted, to push particular agenda. It's disgusting.
Thanks for the answer :). I really appreciate the work you're doing here. Actually, the very fact that moderators are visible in discussions, pointing things out when needed, makes HN a nicer place :).
It's actually more complicated than that. CPython will cache constants within a scope, so

a = 500
b = 500
a is b

will give `True`. But the REPL forces each line to compile separately and CPython won't cache across them. However, there's a global cache for integers less than 256 so in that case they're `is`-equivalent even in the REPL.
Glad to see this suggested. This is very similar to why OO programming was such a more humane system.
Right. Like I said, the US half-assed it.

We don't lose in real wars that we care about, such as ones where rebel states cause an existential threat.
The question if they want too, they'll not only have to design a CPU but an entire eco-system around it.

I personally see ARM becoming a potential player through another vector.

We already have various "open-cloud" alliances that design their own reference servers, network equipment and storage.

As ARM being a relatively easy ISA to license it wouldn't surprise me if the likes of Google and Facebook would license it them selves and then come out with their open server architecture which will include an ARM based CPU.

Facebook has released their ethernet switches and server reference designs a while ago, HP has only recently released OpenSwitch which is opensource OS for networking devices, Intel is also getting into the game with their own echo system "Intel Open Network Platform".

To me this form of market penetration seems to be much likely than a slow attempt to creep into the market and in one form or another is pretty much mandatory current datacenter users to switch to ARM en masse.
Especially considering just how fragmented the ARM market is, there are allot of different ARM ISA's and even more implementations of those ISA's which aren't necessarily directly compatible.

If we take Exynos as an example then the custom ARM cores that Samsung developed caused quite a bit of software compatibility issue which is one of the reasons why Exynos devices aren't that popular in the Android development community. Heck it was even an issue for 1st party Samsung software anything that didn't run in a VM had to be compiled/redeveloped for Exynos which meant that even software like Samsung GearVR didn't work on Exynos devices initially.

Which is precisely why i think that a uniform compatible ISA and design from an investment consortium is required for ARM to work out it's kinks and take on the server market. Anything that was compiled for x86 for the past what 30 years will work on Intel's current CPU lines. Yes newer CPU's with additional features, extended instruction sets and their respective supported compilers will enable you to run you software more efficiently if you want to invest additional development resources, but if we talk about low level programming the same cannot be said for ARM in all cases which is a big issue at least as I see it.
True, but that might be because PC keyboards don't have emoji. There's no other option. People certainly don't use a macro on mobile; they use a an emoji keyboard because that's what they prefer.

I actually set up the few emoji I use as macros, so I don't have to switch keyboards. Then again, I fall into the power-user category
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Stopped at "require oxygen." Terrible and clueless.
ftp_getdataport() should return a char with sprintf, not an int. The port member of ftp_t could then be the same as the port member of skod_t, negating the need for two different tcp_connect functions.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10368844 and marked it off-topic.
You've posted several links to the-brainiac.com in the last 24 hours.

The answers on that site are at a level more appropriate for children, and not HN readers.
You got a small fine. At no point were you at any risk of facing incarceration. You were also probably doing something stupid and very annoying like stinking up the floor in a dormitory. This illustrates how the drug laws in practice work.
Indeed. Not all taxes are about getting money; some are just about aligning incentives.
Orange is an unfortunate color for links, since many people are probably used to it signifying "this link is invalid" from wikipedia.
Is anyone really surprised by this? US deliberately created immigration crisis in Europe to weaken EU position in TTIP negotiations. Creation of ISIS was also American doing, because such military-oriented country is in desperate need of having an enemy. If there were no terrorist in this world how would you justify spending billions of dollars on military equipment?

EDIT: If anyone has hard time believing that this was US who created ISIS think about simple fact: Just two or so weeks after Russia started bombing ISIS Obama announces the end of 500 mln $ worth military support program for Syrian "democratic oposition" :)
He's doing a good thing, and that should be lauded, but it can't make him the biggest hero on the podium.

It's an obvious oversimplification, but it be useful to think of measuring the good you do in the world in terms of game points.

Basically, if you're benefiting unfairly from a system since birth, you've started off with negative points. You owe the world something to balance off what you've gotten "for free" (really, at others' cost).

If you hate the system, you recognize the unfairness, and you actively fight against it, you can certainly move into positive points, but you're not starting off the same as people who grew up with the short end of the stick.

So when (for example) the vast majority of the white Australians at the time seemed perfectly happy with the awful system in place, and Peter Norman wasn't, and actually made this statement in a very public way, that was 10 minutes of serious bravery (and then many years of paying for it, afterwards -- which he surely knew was coming).

Also to his credit -- see the quote above about the statue. He pretty clearly wasn't putting himself in the position of "greatest hero on this podium" either; but rather probably shamed that more of his countrymen weren't even taking the smallest steps in the same direction.

-- edit -- I'm not saying he's "not a hero"; I think it's awesome what he did, and I'm not at all sure I'd have had the courage. I'm just adding some context to why saying he was "the biggest hero on the podium" rubs me the wrong way (and it would have rubbed him the wrong way as well).
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Stop posting online and go underground and vanish for a while. Although you have a large following online, your safety is more important. If something happens to you, you won't be able to post anyway and those large following won't matter. Just disappear.

And when the FBI is investigating you, they don't need a smokescreen. I'd take them seriously if I were in your shoes.
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An+Introduction+to+Gradient+Descent+and+Linear+Regression
If you have a larger office just post it in the break room.
This is possible and I'd be surprised if no one has done it. The methodology is to inject subjects with a mildly radioactive drug that has a lower binding affinity for a given receptor than the endogenous ligand (e.g. [11C]raclopride for dopamine receptor occupancy) and then measure how much of this drug is bound to the receptor using PET. If more of the drug is bound, then the level of the endogenous ligand is lower. I don't know much of the literature here, but the technique is well-established and should be substantially more accurate than anything that measures urine or saliva.
If you tell your boss "I am going to take tomorrow off", and they say, "Actually, you're scheduled for an interview, can you please come in? But take Thursday or Friday off by all means", you're going to still go to work, right? Informing, in practice, is identical to requesting, and this is really just a language thing that makes it clear that you (a) should inform somebody you'll be gone and (b) you can take any day off except maybe 5% of days have critical meetings or whatever.

It seems reasonable to think this is codified this way because the alternative language of informing doesn't imply suggestion (b), but sure, it could also be due to the founders being control freaks.
Ask HN: HCI Careers at Google/Disney/Microsoft?
I'm currently working as an iOS / OS X developer, but my main passion and interest (which includes my MSc work), lies in Human-Computer Interaction. I'd love to work at places like Google ATAP, Disney Research, or Microsoft Research in the HCI field. Do careers like this require a PhD? Does anyone have advice on transitioning from software development to HCI research?
Snowden isn't explaining anything here, he's just posting a link on Twitter. HN guidelines ask you to "please submit the original source".

The original source is:

Dirtbox - Devices on Planes Used by Government to Target Cellphones (2014)

http://www.securitycurrent.com/en/writers/mark-rasch/dirtbox...
Let's face it - in this year's election eleven million people decided they could stand them which is why there's a Tory government. How is a group of protesters outside a party conference evidence for your point?
Hmm? Modern Seoul dialect only has seven simple vowel sounds (ㅏ/ㅓ/ㅗ/ㅜ/ㅡ/ㅣ/(ㅐ=ㅔ)), not counting semivowel combinations. Even the (largely unrealistic) "standard pronunciation" only has ten vowel sounds (ㅐ and ㅔ are considered different sounds, and ㅚ is considered a simple vowel instead of a diphthong).

So it actually has less vowels than English.

By the way, any scholar who still claims that modern "standard" Korean has vowel length distinction hasn't been paying attention for the last 50 years or so.

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology#Vowels
`is` means "do these things reside in the same location in memory?", and the runtime is merely required to give a plausible answer.

For inequivalent values or `True`, `False` and `None`, the result is defined. Identity is also preserved across assignment. For everything else, the answer is "whatever the runtime feels like". PyPy, for instance, will always say True for integers and floats.

It's not just hard to predict - it's inherently unpredictable. The runtime gets free reign as long as you can't prove that it's lying.
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/990/005/721...

Were doomed then...
Mark Zuckerberg and Oculus’s Michael Abrash – On Virtual Reality [video]
> Is that just a thought experiment, or do you really think that would work?

That's how it already works. Money is taken from capitalists and redistributed to bureaucrats and military and some expended to appease the populace.

> Because I don't think it would work. Why would producers give bombs to the government?

Because it's good money and government has already plenty of bombs to force people to make more bombs for them.

Similarly you could ask, why on Earth any company supplies stuff to IRS. Because it's profitable and because you could face consequences if you openly refuse.

> Why would they give food to the populace?

Because populace will pay them with money, for the cheapest, best quality food they can make. Money will come almost in full from producers pockets, but it won't be a problem for them because as long as competition pays the same or more then it's all good.

> Why would they submit to taxation when they have more power than the entity trying to tax them?

Wait!? US capitalists have more firearms, bombs, tanks and planes than US army?

What I am saying is that it's not some scheme that will get established. I'm saying that it's already the case. Governments are still stronger than corporations, same way North Korea is stronger than South Korea. Technologically and socially way behind, but with huge army.

I'm basically saying that monopoly on violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence is the factor that keeps capitalism from eating us, and right after that, itself.
The very first time I saw an e-cigarette was an infomercial on tv. Its central message was "now you can smoke in a non-smoking environment," which rather pissed me off. E-cigarettes probably aren't particularly healthy--they're certainly not sufficiently clearly so that manufacturers will try to market them as such.
Slack is not text. Slack is an engine designed to provide multimedia in specific, arbitrary formats. The fact that you can modify things by typing text does not make an argument that the future of UI is text.... maybe event streams and highly leverage-able tools, but that's not intrinsic to text.
But it isn't. If it were, the UK could then remove the citizenship of current UK citizens who become ISIS admirers avowing violence against Britons and Britain. Currently they have difficulty with that because it's not possible to make someone stateless.