skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, colors are hard and pigment based color systems are harder. One can't just punch in a Hex value.

When manufacturing products, Pantone is fantastic as a resource because one suddenly has a definitive chip to point to thats standardized everywhere. Specifying a product with a Chinese vendor that is two different shades of black would get nowhere without Pantone. "Black" and "Dark Black" don't translate well.

Othertimes and other colors, Pantone just doesn't have the exact right shade. Especially in pop-ier neons that were in style in the late '00's. Pantone released a supplement booklet but even that is limited. One can go deeper and work with Pantone to develop your brand's own color which they will keep on file and not release to others. International Klein Blue. Tiffany. All have interesting histories.

Get it right though and it's magic. Your textile ribbon that holds in your batteries will match your plastic will match your manual will match your packaging. It's a great feeling.

If you want to test your color acumen, give this site a shot: http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge - if you can pass it without batting an eye then you may have a good career in Pearl sorting or factory quality control ahead of you.
And at the same time another group at Google is working on Singular, again cross platform development for Android, iOS & Web (web is not for Flutter), which works in AnuglarJS-like fashion. There is a difference though, Singular doesn't go into widgets (you should use platform specific). Maybe they will be able to merry them, but I doubt, so we will need to choose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdPP3ldo1ww

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9010424
When you're actually in YC, Hacker News is regarded as a hype machine and something to be ignored, for the most part.

You're basically told: Focus on the real stuff, not the hype machine. Hunker down, ignore HN and the press, and focus on making something people want.
The history of geek culture and its exclusion of women
there's also a cool company called Primer that does the same for mobile onboarding screens on iOS

https://goprimer.com
Hackers, gamers and cyborgs
When Women Stopped Coding (2014)
I'd prefer to imagine that it's because the majority of the HN readership reads Nature for their regular dose of science fiction: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7194/full/453562a...

Alternatively, I'd be OK imagining that it was subconsciously chosen here not at random, but because I used this reference for an example in the previous thread.

Is South Park another journal worth reading? Are they open access?
It may not be demographically diverse, but it definitely is intellectually diverse.

I've seen threads where people hard-core nerded out to the following topics:

- any/all programming languages

- processors (anything on silicon, really)

- tractors

- genetics

- Chinese law

- meteorology

- geology

The list goes on...
"If the idea does not really excite at least some people the first time they hear it, that’s bad."

Reconsider(https://medium.com/@dhh/reconsider-41adf356857f)
Would you be more likely to kernel panic with more non-ecc ram? Won’t a bit flip probability be linked to the size of the critical os code size and that should be the same if you have 2 GB or 64 GB of ram?
Well, Google and Facebook are both extremely profitable, so the wages they are paying their employees aren't hurting them at all.
Yet an example where Windows (10) Mobile is left out. I think we might have to get used to two monoliths in this market.
Pantone just sells color samples. An authority on color is the Color Association of the United States.[1] They issue "color forecasts" as to which colors will be "in" next season. This used to matter more when the US had a clothing industry.

They also used to orchestrate the color cycle of consumer electronics, from grey to beige to black to white and back again. (You thought that happened by accident?) But they no longer have enough clout to do that.

[1] http://www.colorassociation.com/pages/6-forecasts
> Most UI layout doesn't involve that much computation. JS is definitely fast enough.

The performances of editors like Atom or Brackets tell us another story.

Web UIs might be fine for an LOB app but then, an LOB app doesn't need to be a desktop app. No, current JS engines (JS is a language, it doesn't have performances) are definitely not fast enough. Compared to the kind of performances that can be achieved with the JVM or QT.
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From the point of view of commercial ones:

- Compilation to native code AOT

- Tooling

- Performance (CL has value types and way better ways to go downlevel, if needed)
Supporting Windows requires a lot of resource allocation and unfortunately their global mobile market share cannot justify it yet (http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp). Microsoft can give a hand though, since it is open source.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this is Google's longer-term solution to the Java problem. It's clearly not tenable for them to stay on Java 6 forever so they either need to make web-based apps first class citizens on Android or put forward their own new stack.
I think the more fundamental flaw in PG's argument, which is just as present here, is that it assumes the populations are otherwise identical. That's obviously not the case -- there's no random assignment for bias -- so this sort of test can't tell you anything direct about casuation.

Any credible statistical test for bias should be framed in the language of causal inference, e.g., as described by Judea Pearl: http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r350.pdf
I pay about USD$2,400 a month for a 650 square foot 1 bedroom in downtown'ish Seattle. I envy your AUS$2,000 2 bedroom :)
The git repo has some examples of what Flutter apps actually look like (just the code I mean, not screenshots):

https://github.com/flutter/engine/tree/master/examples
I think the point is that users can choose to share on ad networks if the desire or not. I often share stuff to Twitter. However, at its core, Ello itself is ad-tech-free. It's an oasis where I can relax and never worry about targeted ads, tracking or deteriorating UX because of ad tech. The team seams to really care about this and has been transparent and responsive in my experience.
Windows 10 Mobile can run Android apps using "Windows Bridge for Android", a.k.a. Astoria.

I've tested it with some simple apps, it works as advertised. The Windows device shows up in Android Studio as if it were a KitKat phone.

Since Microsoft has done all that work already, I don't think it makes sense for 3rd party frameworks to bother supporting Windows 10 Mobile separately anymore.
I can't speak for anyone else, however I can say that the reason that I, as an American, do not own an American made car (but I do own a car made overseas) is because I have no respect for the quality of engineering, workmanship, or value that those cars offered at the time I purchased.

Event today, the only American car I can truly be proud of is a Tesla; and that is because in it I see quality engineering, workmanship, and, even as expensive as they are, value. Literally the only poor things I've ever heard of relating to Tesla's involve rare owner error, more frequently error on the part of others on the highway, and occasionally a design flaw that the company owns up to and fixes.

I think most people who complain that X (car company) or Y (big bank) should have been allowed to fail (controlled orderly liquidation) see it as a lost opportunity for something smaller, nimble, and filled with the vitality of new ideas to take it's place. Being allowed to fail is the fire of the ecosystem of industry; in it's wake the green sprouts of a new better thing are possible.
Doesn't Atom use a web rendering engine? We're not talking about the DOM here, just pure JS.
Why not a native app framework for Go on Android? Sigh. Been waiting so long.
I'm not ready to throw in the towel just yet. The security issues and user updates with Android are making me consider Windows. If Windows 10 can run Android apps (as rumored), that will be icing on the cake.

The thing people need to realize is that Microsoft has been around for 40 years. They're in this for the long haul. Until Microsoft quits, it is not game over.
The problem you're not seeing is that no law will ever be passed that goes against it because the rich people that have been ruling you for the past 200+ years don't want it.

You don't seem to be historically literate at all. I suggest chomsky. And the book by the trilateral commission.

Book link:

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

Crisis of democracy - chomsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117
This looks really nice. I like Dart a lot (used it for the "edit in browser" feature of The Brainstormer app). This seems pretty well thought out too.

If it's easy to mix with native code, this could be really useful to me.
Similarly as Ubuntu Phone or FirefoxOS. This is a chicken-egg problem - no one will invest in supporting platforms what has not that big market share. Windows is now probably somewhere on the balance point whether support it or not. In some countries it is popular and then local applications have Windows version.

But actually with Windows ability to run Android & iOS apps, it will be less of a problem I guess (http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/29/8511439/microsoft-windows-...)
Yes. Like movies and music, games is a "hits" business. The model is wholly dependent on churning out 99% formulaic content and having 60% of it at least break even (and 10% breakaway hit, making back many times production costs to pay for the 30% of projects that don't meet expectations).

Games may have a longer shelf life than movies, but at the macro level, the same principles apply. EA and Activision are the MGM and Paramount of the games industry because they know and practice this. As unpopular as it may make them among industry insiders or hardcore fans, this is the way the hits business (as applied to conventional notions of a stable company) works.
Windows 10 is a still an insignificant blip in the phone world. For sure, the two largest ones by far are iOS and Android, and everything else (Windows 10, BlackBerry, Tizen, Sailfish, Ubuntu Phone) is basically crumbs.

If anything Windows 10 is a special snowflake in that it does not have an underlying posix-y kernel, which makes it less likely to get anything cross-platform, even if it does get slightly more prevalent than the other crumbs.
Great redesign. Too bad they didn't bother with higher resolution images as it does look quite blurry on a retina screen. At least the logo could be an SVG.
One reason is that because hordes of Java developers would not like the looks of it.
Always nice to see a Cross-platform mobile framework that's not cross-platform itself :) *nix only for now.
Did he?

Well I applied for YC Fellowship and didn't make it. That was a pitty also given the naming coincidence - "fellowship" is the core concept in Svven.

http://youtu.be/iQx-e4KPNaE
It's funny that due to the fact that the iOS code is compiled, it can't self update like Android can, despite iOS having significantly more update friction.
The real question is, why did they have 22 employees? I think this would have been an incredibly profitable one-man business (think TinyURL) but it tried to be something that was very hard for it to be.
China makes it illegal for foreigners to own controlling interests in Chinese companies, so your last proposal won't work.
Damn, they won't even show this page without subscription ;)

Edit: Maybe I overreacted. I just tried the direct link again, and it loaded. The first time, loading stalled with a blank popover.
Sure, if you use a platform that has something like react native. But the desktop app for the calculator used NW.js, so it used a nice, slow DOM.
From the Paul Graham article:

>You can use this technique whenever (a) you have at least a random sample of the applicants that were selected, (b) their subsequent performance is measured, and (c) the groups of applicants you're comparing have roughly equal distribution of ability.

So yes, OP is ignoring the entire premise of PG's argument.
"Gregory D. Smithers is an Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University"

Speaks for itself.
Looks like it's more suitable for making games, since it "uses its own high-performance rendering engine to draw widgets" -- non-games typically don't reinvent widgets.
Url changed from http://qz.com/538034/science-says-dancing-with-friends-is-go..., which points to this.
> JS is a language, it doesn't have performances

This is not true. Unless you have a god-compiler that takes your JavaScript and spits out compiled code that doesn't use dynamic typing or a GC, the nature of the language has a significant influence on performance.
> The atmosphere is becoming a greenhouse. The surface of our planet is now warming, with unpredictable consequences.

Our planet would be frozen solid if it weren't a greenhouse ;)
>This never made sense to me

There's a lot of naive people that will allow their trust to be exploited if there's a carrot dangled in their face. Now it makes sense.

Most investors will flat refuse to invest in a startup that pays anything more than low-mid-range salaries. Contrary to your theory that the greater risk should be rewarded with a greater tangible wage, I've personally seen investors pass on companies because the founder(s) wanted a 100k salary, even though it represented a 40% haircut in wage for the founder(s).

While the investors don't want you to think it, and do a lot to try to stop it from being thunk, Silicon Valley and tech culture make a lot more sense when you just realize that wealthy, seasoned investors are exploiting naive, just-out-of-college young adults as practically free labor, primarily compensating them in idealism and empty promises instead of dollars.
The permissioned blockchain mirage beguiling both Banks and IT Vendors
geoengineering as a concept operates with a High Modernist ideology, and overwhelming confidence in humanity's ability to reshape the natural world, society, the State, in a desired fashion. i think relying on policy and markets and the state makes sense public works cleanups, removing tax breaks and subsidies for industries that produce externalities, restructuring labor into environmentally-minded industries and sectors....but i'm ultimately skeptical of a technological fix, sprinkling oceans with lead or growing mass plankton farms or whatnot. sounds like snake oil to me.
It's your device that roam, it'll chose the AP with the stronger signal, regardless of channel as long as the other parameters match. The APs arn't coordinated, unless you use a controller based setup(which is more an feature of enterprise APs.)
I'm going to copy-and-paste the important bit in case nonsubscribers need to read it. I wouldn't normally do this, but I figure it's an important announcement rather than a creative work:

On Oct. 31, 2015, one of economist.com’s vendors, PageFair, was hacked. If you visited economist.com at any time between Oct. 31, 23:52 GMT and 01:15 GMT, Nov. 1, using Windows OS and you do not have trusted anti-virus software installed; it is possible that malware, disguised as an Adobe update, was downloaded onto your PC.
If nothing else, the cost savings in no longer having to actually worry about that vector of data corruption are well worth the small delta in cost.

I'm actually rather amazed that at least error /detecting/ ram isn't more common.
>I have maintained for a long time that our society should focus on apprenticeships - not education

Problem is corporations don't want that.

The corporate attack on education:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbMP-cy1INA
Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world (2014)
There are so many python developers out there who are not (yet) mobile developers, so why doesn't Google support kivy?
Which follow when you send in the money. Not because throwing more cash at something is a magic fix, but because people that are capable of earning more money won't accept less.
I was actually a little annoyed the author didn't explain more, it felt like it was a half finished article.
Yeah, I can totally see my mum doing that.
I don’t disagree - it is silent data corruption I really worry about not the odd kernel panic.
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There's an RFC for that too: RFC 2321: RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent".
It doesn't appear to be paywalled (a smart policy for a security update).
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The engine’s C/C++ code is compiled with Android’s NDK, and the majority of the framework and application code is running on the Dart VM. The Dart VM generates JIT-compiled optimized native code on the device. (In other words, the Dart VM is not an interpreter.)

So Google is officially making its stand as Dart being the future of Android (the Swift of Android?).

Anybody who has worked on this and Kotlin, care to compare ?

EDIT: how does this work inside Google ? I mean you have legendary heavyweights behind Go. Were they designed as domain specific (Go for server and Dart for mobile)?
This is one of the most impressive security disclosures I've ever seen. They identify the precise window of exposure; they identify the systems which could have been affected; and they provide details which may help people determine if they were attacked.

I'm also impressed with how quickly they fixed the problem: Apparently it only took 83 minutes to discover and shut down the malware distribution.
I can recomend you a trampoline if your desk can be set high enough. I use this setup myself and walk slowly on the spot or jump a little bit.
Morocco moves to ban plastic bags
Well, it's Google that is reinventing the widgets, not the app developer. They say it is especially good for Material Design apps, which would seem to indicate non-game apps. Admittedly it might look a bit out of place on iOS, but hopefully they've done a reasonably good job at making widgets that look at home on iOS.
That is because the site loads all 50 articles and their 61 images at once.
Ugh. To paraphrase PageFair's website, ads keep the internet free, but the way ads are implemented today also keeps botnets around.
I really think d) is the most significant one here. It's pretty visible if you look at the problem structure. In a competitive environment, the first one to give a solution wins, at least initially. Since it's easy to hide bugs and unfinished features for the release, the ones who skip proper design will ship faster and thus win and preserve on the market. "Good solution today is better than perfect one tomorrow" turns into "worst solution that's still acceptable today is better than decent enough solution tomorrow".
Audi's 3D printer works in metal
It's not funny. iOS has significantly more update friction because of policy rules forbidding you from self updating. It's the whole reason.
Dropping outliers can be done when outliers cloud the analysis, but doing this in an analysis of startups is inane since startup investors' entire goal is to find outliers.
And to me this is a great shame. Unique industrial design adds appeal to a product and can improve its user experience.

Kai's power tools were a fantastic experiment in visual UI design. I'm left wondering why games are the only brand of software where ui innovation "is ok".
Developers will eventually care about Windows 10 as an important native platform when universal apps start to matter. As Apple and Google move in this direction, Microsoft starts to look stronger here with desktop and xbox plays. This happens when app experiences start floating across screens more easily and consumers lock into an ecosystem (for good reasons)
Yep. One of the main allures of credit card processing is that it's instantaneous. Bitcoin's confirmation system is a non-starter as a competitor against credit cards unless you have special circumstances that make it the only practical option (can't trust customers to refrain from filing chargebacks and/or conventional financial institutions won't have anything to do with your business). Ultimately, while Bitcoin may maintain some value, it's not very convenient as an everyday payment instrument (just like gold, actually).
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>With all of the new whole-genomes available, we can start to ask even tougher questions. And with more data available from more people, we can start to get some real confidence behind our predictions.

What I'd like to add to this is that we can spend more time and less money on "hobby" projects!

These are the projects you don't really have explicit funding for, but you do anyway, using leftover money from various pots [1]. We have two PhD students who work on "hobby" projects.

These projects include "outlandish" questions or "basic" research the funding committees didn't see the reason to fund.

In our case, these two PhD students work with less studied plant organisms no-one else really looked into so far, but which have some interesting attributes. Some of these hobbies have been fruitful (interesting novel salinity resistance proteins found), some of these less (but it's always good to populate public databases from data of less well-known organisms).

Cheaper genomics allow us to do so much more of these projects, exciting times!

[1] See http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1431

(Of course, now the cost bottlenecks move somewhere else - it has become cheap to sequence an entire plant population, but it's still expensive to grow & especially phenotype that population - if you're into computer vision and are looking for a new project, automatic plant phenotyping is a field that still has a lot of work to do!)
Not a subscriber and I had no trouble viewing the information thanks to ublock and noscript.
Ain't going to happen. There is no real support for Go on Android at first place, sure you can compile Go programs on Android , but that's about how useful Go is on that platform. And frankly have you ever tried to write a desktop app with a GUI in Go ? Because you'd know how painful it is.
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That's the unicorn way. Tech companies are encouraged, practically forced, to overspend in an attempt to show "hockey stick growth". This strategy has two positive properties for the investor: it ensures that the entrepreneur will be back before the VC to grovel for more cash in the next 24-36 months, and it gives the VC a way to kill investments he doesn't believe in anymore, despite what is a conventionally respectable and sustainable growth rate, by refusing to provide that infusion. Since most founders are naive 20-somethings, this trick works.
To be fair , so is React Native, calling itself cross platform but not running on Windows ( not even sure it runs on Linux either, AFAIK it's mac only ).
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When I worked for other people I had great success by cold-calling firms that interested me and that I felt could use my skills. They didn't always have job listings but they liked my genuine interest in their products.