skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the type that refuses to tell you if they think, completely ballpark, whether something will take a day or a week or a month

Software development is about figuring out how to do something. Sometimes you can still kind of estimate how much time something will take, especially if it is some grunt work. But truly meaningful changes are unestimatable. If I told you 'I want you to make me some Japanese kuhoo kuhoo. I wont tell you what it is, what goes into making it and if it is even a real thing that can be made. Now tell me how much time it will take', how can you react to that ? I am not saying you acted this way, but I have seen managers act this way.

> but if they disagree with a tiny aspect of the feature you've brought them, the deep domain knowledge you were hired for and dozens of customer visits you've done are nothing in the face of the awesome might of their computer science degree

Why not just let the developers do all these things ? We have been asking our product managers for customer visits for years. Would that be the end of the world ?
Looking at all the controversy surrounding GMO foods, many of which have had decades of scientific study, it does not portend well to getting the general population to accept this. In addition, if you do get this accepted, any food-borne illnesses related to this (even if not the fault of the producer) or allergies will result in tons of bad publicity.

As some posters have already mentioned, this is not a field where you want to be the first.
With diamonds, unless you are a professional and are looking through a magnifying device, you cannot tell the difference. If anything, the synthetic looks clearer and better. I have done the test myself.

If you can't tell the difference, how does it impact signaling value? If you are optimizing for signaling value, synthetics are better since you can afford a larger and clearer one.
All things are possible...

I would imagine it's more a question of risk. If you're changing an interface inside your application boundaries, you can figure out pretty easily where the changed API is called and what you've got to do to fix it. If it's something on the edge of your microservice that is public, so who knows what unknown bits of code are open to breakage if you change your API, that's harder to track down and fix.

I don't know a ton about actually implementing this sort of thing, but from the outside looking in, this seems to be a common reason for API versioning.
Ask HN: Why does Java continue to dominate?
It seems with Clojure, Groovy and Scala (among others), that Java itself as a language would at least be leveling off. But according to the TIOBE index [1], it is gaining momentum, it seems. Why is this?

[1] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

Edit: correct spelling
Gesture input is ultimately pointless without force feedback, or else you don't feel the interaction and the lack of intuitive feeling makes you want to go back to comfortable interfaces.

I remember being really excited for the Wii and swinging my sword for the first time in Legend of Zelda. My sword was blocked; my hand kept moving. Immersion gone.
from the article

“It’s a very clean source of power, the cleanest you could possibly wish for. We’re not doing this for us but for our children and grandchildren.”
Considering who's putting money into ignition research and alternative modes of fusion (General Fusion vs Tri-Alpha Energy for example) I'd say we should have at least one successful ignition experiment on or before 2020. I would honestly be shocked if nothing of note in that regard didn't happen by 2030 though.
Hi folks, thanks for the suggestions.

I know about pragmata pro and unifont. I've tried Unifont, I think it hurt my eyes a bit but it sure has lots of glyphs. Pragmata is very pretty and has great coverage but it's not free and I don't see that it has more glyphs than free fonts, for instance with DejaVu mono I have a subscript for j which I don't see in Pragmata. Or, the APL glyphs for instance; unifont has them too and it's free.

I'll give ReactOS a try, thanks. I had given up hope to be honest, I guess Unicode is just too big to implement fully.

Edit: Ok, Pragmata costs €19 for just the regular weight- I thought it was costed by unicode range. I could definitely give that a try, so thanks for the hint mietek.

2nd Edit: Ouch, no- the mono font is €59. That's too high again :)
> Fehler: Die Webseite 'www.ipp.mpg.de' ist momentan nicht verfügbar
TL;DR: Bill Gates shares, "I knew everybody's licence plate so I could look out at the parking lot and see, you know, when people come in." Paul Allen confirms Gates would "prowl" the parking lot on weekends to document who had arrived at work.
Direct access to the stream : http://webcast.nc3-cdn.com/clients/mpg/2016/02/03/en/
This post should be pinned to the top of Hacker News.
I wonder if he will be able to recover any of his losses from this company? I know he is reviewing these cables, so hes taking a certain amount of risk, but imagine if someone bought this cable for their new device. I would be pretty pissed if I bought a new device and a new USB cord to charge it and poof out goes the magical smoke and my USB didn't work anymore.
You can read JSTOR's statement here:

http://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-statement-misuse-incident-...

"The criminal investigation and today’s indictment of Mr. Swartz has been directed by the United States Attorney’s Office. It was the government’s decision whether to prosecute, not JSTOR’s. As noted previously, our interest was in securing the content. Once this was achieved, we had no interest in this becoming an ongoing legal matter."

They genuinely weren't interested in making him an example.
Wendelstein and ITER are supposed to verify whether it's possible to generate net power… with improved designs. So, assuming Wendelstein works as hoped, we will, in a few years, know whether we can start planning an actual fusion power plant (as opposed to a net-negative research reactor).

Then we will need to actual design and build one. If we're lucky, we'll see the first pilot plants in 15-20 years.

So, we're on the same level of "fusion practicability" as in 1960.
I'm glad you like IAT! I am indeed the developer.

I'll continue to maintain IAT! as long as it can work in Firefox.

Firefox is changing its security model for extensions to make it more like Chrome's. Eventually, it will be impossible for IAT! to work as a pure extension anymore.

Over the years, I've been working on IATED (https://github.com/docwhat/iated) which was meant to be a replacement for IAT! -- a sort of IAT! next generation.

IATED would be two parts: a server to open the editor and an extension that talks to it.

But I've become distracted and disheartened by figuring out how to make it as simple to install and use as IAT! yet remain secure.

Some issues:

* I know enough security practices to know I'm not even close to being an expert. IATED has the potential to do really bad things if insecure. Letting a malicious page read random files on your file system (or worse, write them!) is the obvous vector.

* I would want to support the same platforms: Linux, OS X, and Windows. But each platform has very different requirements. Windows users are going to be confused if IATED is purely command line driven, for example.

* What language should I write it in. I have several false starts, with the current 'master' branch being JRuby. But depending on the JVM seems horrible. 'golang' is pretty new and maybe the way to go. I'm not sure.

* I work on IAT! mostly alone, though xOneca has been a great help. Writing IATED by myself is discouraging. I'd love to have someone who knows about golang or Windows or security help me write IATED.

Anyway, that's roughly the state of IAT! and IATED at the moment.

Ciao!
I was being flippant and did it for the yucks :-)
Building a nuclear power plant, something we already know how to do inside and out, takes 5-7 years. Barring miraculous breakthroughs in non-magnetic confinement technology, the chances for fusion power on the grid are pretty close to zero.
What did you expect from a fair, balanced and accurate source like Buzzfeed?
"Bad review" is misleading. They sued because they outright lied in the review (saying the battery died when it did not). Not really any different from NBC rigging the Chevrolet truck explosion back in the 90s, in which NBC lost tons of credibility and was sued by GM for libel (and settled for $1mm). Both were journalistic bullshit, but everyone loves Jeremy too much to call him on it.
Sure. It's the original TV soap model. I guess what's more interesting in this context is the potential that Amazon and/or Netflix have in directly mapping shows to sales.
Another way to frame things is:

- Where We Were
- Where We Needed To Go
- How We Got There

A variation on this:

Visualize being on one side of a chasm. Describe this side of the chasm, emphasizing the bad stuff. Describe why we want to go to the other side, emphasizing the good stuff. Describe the chasm, emphasizing how deep, wide, and impassible it is.

Now describe the bridge you built, your role in building it, challenges you faced, &c. But always start with describing both sides and the chasm. You can use any format you like for describing the bridge and your role in building it, the important thing is that the reader has the chasm firmly fixed in their midn while reading about your accomplishment.
Very possible. I just installed it and started typing as per normal, I didn't do anything special to make it learn my style. Unfortunately the first (and only) two days I used it the output just wasn't good enough. Maybe I'll try it one more time and stick with it for two weeks while exploring learning options.
Automatic Windows 10 installs begin but how easy are they to stop?
Funny that you mention Jinja.

This is actually a feature that's been in Jinja forever that I've always wanted in Go's text/template

http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#whitespace-contro...
It's not 'pleasant' enough for that, plus I'm not sure this 'ASMR' thing works with voices.

Rather, it's a combination of his accent and the 'meditation voice' thingy that just makes it sound nice to me. His voice is meditative enough to not feel like it interrupts, but "blokeish" (a certain British accent, I guess) and distinct enough that it doesn't feel too high-falutin and triggers my still rather primed anti-everything-new-agey senses.
For reference it worked fine for me with uBlock Origin enabled.
271 is rather small. Which means this fake prime was quite easy to generate.
She's also the daughter of a priest, so we basically have all bases covered :)
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Its not a slight fezz-up really though. They reversed positive and negative on the power connections. That is a very basic mistake and one that often at least blows a fuse, if not worse.
It was not a slight fezz-up. It was miswiring in a power cable. It's like electrician wiring the live pin into ground pin and then wondering why one gets electrocuted by so many devices.

No specification can defend against a hostile, or sufficiently incompetent, implementer.
Now tell me why students should know about these things.
You only have the upper hand if they can't replace you. If push comes to shove, and they can 3 people to replace you, that's not as strong a hand.
Same thing happened to me. If I hadn't dug around a little I would have assumed it's a Windows-only app and moved on.
Great insight on compensation data.
"35 countries"

That's the real issue, they could be building a toaster and it would be 3x over budget.

PS: The ITER project was formally agreed to and funded in 2006 with a cost estimate of €10 billion ($12.8 billion) projecting the start of construction in 2008 and completion a decade later So, it's not really massively over budget yet, they just decided to build something else.
Look at the design of this thing.

http://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978...

Beautiful
For a free alternative I recommend MacDown

https://github.com/uranusjr/macdown
He might have a case. It was sold as an USB cable but clearly it is not actually an USB cable. False advertisement if not anything else.
The markdown-to-pdf resume toolchain I'm currently using is:

(1) Render with https://github.com/joeyespo/grip (with a few minor CSS tweaks)

(2) "Print" to PDF with Chrome

The documents it produces are quite sober, but I find it works very well.
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If you have time, then add them into the font yourself with FontForge.
From the review:

> I directly analyzed the Surjtech cable using a Type-C breakout board and a multimeter, and it appears that they completely miswired the cable. The GND pin on the Type-A plug is tied to the Vbus pins on the Type-C plug. The Vbus pin on the Type-A plug is tied to GND on the Type-C plug.

Although I haven't read the spec, following the spec is a key part making use of a standard.
I'd love to see an actual measurement of this, if only a simple test. Two otherwise identical websites, one kerned by a professional designer, and one just using some default. Serve each of them to a random 50% of your customers and see which one converts more users or sells more widgets or whatever the metric is. Does the kerned version bring in more value than it cost to have the designer fiddle with the fonts?

My belief has always been that all design work should be measured and have to withstand the "does it actually provide value" test, since otherwise, how do you know one design is better than another?
SharePoint is really good for shared files. But that is what it was created for. It is called Microsoft Office SharePoint. If you turn on Publishing Pages you can make is work as in intranet portal. But you have to work at it, there is a bit of friction involved in doing something as seemingly simple as making a webpage. The issue tracker/tasks feature is... "usable". I wouldn't use SharePoint for anything else than those features.

P.S. I've been involved in rollouts (as a subsite admin, not IT) of SP2007 and SP2013.
I had a few of his issues, and didn't use LSD or any mind-changing substance, but a few events realigned my "desires" and now I aim for cleaner, organized. Half based on altruism too (family living with me are happier when this way). The brain is a complex spinning wheel.
The running joke is that it's always been 15-20 years away. Since 1960.
I humbly suggest that sitting atop large quantities of explosive and riding the blast wave up into space is inherently dangerous, too.
That's interesting, may I ask which startup is that? Is it still alive?
How is this suppose to work?
> Go as a completely unnecessary move-along-now-nothing-to-see-here project

I don't like Go type system, but it handles concurrency quite nicely. It's fairly easy to learn and to use so I can see why managers chose it. And it's backed by Google so it can give a sense of safety and it can be used as an argument to sell the language. So it's a bit unfair to say it's unnecessary. It can help when performance is a concern and one doesn't want to go down to C or C++ for some reasons.
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clanking_replicator
It's a forked project with leadership-drama issues, but several ongoing audits haven't turned up any serious security issues.

The original anonymous maintainers apparently tried to kill it, for reasons that aren't clear, by saying that it's insecure. It seems to have been a red herring, and their suggestions of alternatives were comically bad.

Lots of people are still using the last Truecrypt release, or one of the several forks that have sprung up that have attempted to improve upon it in various ways (sometimes in incompatible ways, though). Hopefully the situation will stabilize with one clear winner in the future.
Tomay-to/tomay-to.

Yes, USB C can also be used to provide power (which is also a form of signal), but again my point is that a cable like this is largely expected to be a passive component.

That a crap charger can do bad things would probably surprise no one, but hooking a good charger up to a good unit shouldn't be able to fry anything, ever.

Wasn't USB C supposed to make our lives easier? If we need to ensure all our USB C gadgets, cables and chargers are all not-exploding certified, in parts and in combination, I may just go back to plain old regular USB.
Note that this fusion experiment is also very 'political'. Without reunification and the wish to promote science in the former East Germany, this experiment would a) never have been funded and b) it would have be cancelled because of steep cost increases and delays. The fusion device was built in North/East Germany, whereas the prior research was done in South Germany.

Thus it is fitting that Chancellor Merkel attends this event.

It's a great experiment and a wonderful achievement, but probably we had different priorities and even different scientific priorities - especially considering the large amount of money invested. There are lots of competing science areas which lack this funding.
Automatically art-directed responsive images
China seeks food security with $43B bid for Syngenta
Those look absolutely terrible. If someone sent me that, I'd just throw it away. I'd think it was interesting, but totally unreadable.
Sounds like a PayPal customer experience
This post by Eric Portis explains how to adapt your images according to the art direction of your website's responsive layout using the HTML5 picture element, while dynamically generating cropped and resized versions of the images in the cloud using Cloudinary.
Indian company claims breakthrough in developing vaccine to fight Zika
If it makes it less likely that some errors get out, and doesn't do anything against other errors, then overall it makes it less likely that errors get out.
Did he jump out of the window because he wanted to end his life, or because he thought he could fly?
If you look at the fonts used in Atari and Commodore computers, you'll see double width vertical strokes, few serifs and an overall nicer-looking font, very readable.

It's also worth noting they had no such restriction on their TTL-based monitors.
No software is bug-free. The problem here is distribution. If clients were using Servo instead of WebKit, they'd still be stuck on old insecure and/or buggy versions.
It seems that the rules are pretty well defined. Why can't computers auto-kern?
It's not really that simple. I'm not trying to be dick about, because I do think that resumes from markdown is a good idea.

The grey borders/lines, they need to go. They serve no purpose.

Contact information goes on top, not buried under the profile.

Technologies, can go after the "job description". It makes sense to list them in relation to the jobs though.

Know one cares how many time your project was stars or forks your project has. If that was relevant they would have contacted you :) Just link to your GitHub/Bitbucket/whatever- page.

Writing and favourites can go, unless you a famous blogger, but then I would just list it as a job.

The entire resume takes up to much space. It's country specific, I know, but I think it needs to fit on one A4 page.

Personally, I just don't like the layout, sorry.
Agreed. Plus the source is an even bigger mess, which negates one of the biggest benefits of using markdown in the first place (ie, if you can't easily parse it in Notepad then you might as well just create the document in HTML, ODF, DOCX or, better yet, send it in as a PDF.

I think even the joke JSON resume was easily to parse and the JSON format wasn't intended to be human readable / editable.
I fail to see what's so "kludgy" about it.
Even more "traditional" VR/AR devices would benefit from techniques to make thinner lenses. Advances in optical engineering will have as big a part to play in that sort of thing as processing power and faster chips.
Attributing modern life to Apple, nice one OP.
No Apple won't change "mankind", are you kidding me mate? Mankind, why not the whole universe?

Maybe they'll discover God or create a new one. In 2000 years people will eat an apple every Sunday in memory of Apple our Lord and Savior. You could be in the book too, you are already talking like an archangel.
As to your first point: the USA does not have government-owned mines. Some public lands are leased for mining by private corporations.

As to your second point: apparently you neither read the fine Wikipedia article nor followed up on any of the references provided.

Here, read just the two first paragraphs of this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

and you may become satisfied that, without restraint, some private employers will kill their employees.
I would think being highly competent and good at building political consensus that promoted the good for the people would be the most important things, no matter what gender or profession, no?
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Well that is an entirely different story. I thought that the cable was plugged into a phone and his chromebook (Just like parent).

I was concerned that this might be a flaw in the chrome book, not the cable. The USB bus should be fine to use such a cable, charging is another thing.

When you add the external power source, that completely changes the game.
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Not logging into HN is also a good one.
Is Twitter Dead?
Am I missing something or the actual turning on was not shown?

Perhaps later today?
Yeah, you're in the minority. Technology is more or less a popularity contest. I've seen plenty of really good programming languages that simply die out because they don't have high-profile personalities behind them. And there's plenty of "meh" or even terrible languages that make it big because the hype is strong with this one. It's not great but at the end of the day, bits are bits and bytes are bytes, most programming languages are all pretty decent ways to manipulate them. You'd have to do pretty badly to go so terribly wrong that nobody should ever use your language, and I don't think I've ever seen a language that bad.
I don't see drawing/diagram support as a needed thing - at least not in my use-case. My ever-note is entirely full of text.

But I agree that speed is critical. The most important features of a note taking program for me are speed and durability (in the database sense - no worries about data-loss). If it's long to navigate to the last viewed spot in my shopping list or my workout log, I'm annoyed.
I think the only PC ever to ship with composite video output was the PC Jr. (edit: sadly, no, it wasn't)

I became fond of the white on blue scheme with the MSX machines, but kind of abandoned it when I moved to PCs.