skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: Incremental approach could prevent disruption benefits.
That is entirely intentional. It is still possible to read. At least short wods, and the longer ones you recognize, and can infer from context. The jumping text is mostly distracting.
Especially when the first and last letters aren't changing as in this example.
My main machine is still a T420s and it runs every Linux version I through at it without fail. I haven't heard any bad things about more modern T series (or W series) with Linux, not sure about the L series though sorry.
> kids who are breast-fed tend to do better in life in terms of health or being better from a psylogical point of view

Not as much as you've been led to believe:

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/sibbreast.htm

"A new study comparing siblings who were fed differently during infancy suggests that breast-feeding might be no more beneficial than bottle-feeding for 10 of 11 long-term health and well-being outcomes in children age 4 to 14."
> the problem is my brain is already moving forward and
> the word I read is often not the word written on the page.

Either I have dyslexia, or that's how everyone's brain works. Sometimes when I'm reading out loud, I'll completely make up words that are not on the page.
> One of the things that we’ve done for a number of years is to recognize that if you’re going to solve a problem, and you think you need to solve it in a new and novel way that can’t be solved with the technology stack or the patterns that we already have — then that’s fine, it’s just that we need to be explicit about the operational costs of doing so. Introducing something new and different can bear a huge long-term cost to the organization.

I just fought with people on my team about this yesterday. When you're talking about services in production, the more boring the better. It's unfortunate that Java isn't as cool as your cool thing you'd like to YOLO out to production, but the rest of us have to bear the on-call responsibility for your cowboy shit. Just use whatever we already use and keep it boring.
I'm not dyslexic, but I can relate to this. To me it usually happens when I'm talking, which is why I prefer typing since I can type at the same speed I'm thinking.

Have you tried speed reading techniques? They're designed to get around your urge to "vocalize" words in your mind as you read. This enables you to read at the speed your brain can process at.
i just want to point out that the fail-safe was abandoned due to sanctions against Iraq. I hope people remember things like this when they openly promote sanctions against countries whose leaders we disagree with. We aren't hurting the leaders, we're hurting the citizenry. And we are certainly not bringing them to our side. We are causing real suffering and death of innocent people.

for example, clinton's iraq sanctions were one of osama bin ladens stated justifications:

UNICEF: 500,000 children (including sanctions, collateral effects of war). "[As of 1999] [c]hildren under 5 years of age are dying at more than twice the rate they were ten years ago." (As is customary, this report was based on a survey conducted in cooperation with the Iraqi government and by local authorities in the provinces not controlled by the Iraqi government)[35]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq#Effects...
The product page doesn't mention Echo as a requirement, AFAICT.
That quote is a great description.

A lot of people think dyslexia is this fixed level of degradation but in reality a lot of things impact how dyslexic the same individual is including: tiredness, stress, fitness, age, concentration, and so on.

Although those things don't impact dyslexia in the obvious way (less stress == less dyslexia, less tiredness = less dyslexia) for example I suffer less from dyslexia when I am tireder/sleepier. Why? Maybe the part of my brain that causes dyslexia is more active when I am not fatigued. I don't really know.

But every time people talk about words literally jumping around on a page or strange colour changing because of dyslexia I honestly wonder if we have the same condition at all...
The first amendment protects communication of ideas between people. What idea is communicated by a new gear design? What idea are you communicating when you write a function to lock a user out after 10 tries?
Well yeah, but not every company has "meaningful" work for everybody. Not every "facebook for hedgehogs" startup is going to motivate people to work by offering an austere workplace.

And most of the time you have to do the slogging kind of work, even in a place that is building something pretty cool. Somebody has to sweep up. Somebody has to wash dishes.

So yeah, when I see articles that are about how pay and perks don't motivate people more than meaningful, engaging work, I agree but ...

A place that is simply unwilling to give better pay and perks when it has the cash is, simply put, de-motivating.
He must have not hit the I Accept the EULA.
Pirates hack into shipping company’s servers to identify booty
It can be interesting to explore what makes good typography, but we should be cautious. Typography is a field surrounded by an awful lot of dogma but very little science, particularly in the context of web pages. In this case, while I appreciate the author’s efforts, I will respectfully disagree with the conclusion: I don’t think a strict vertical rhythm matched to a baseline grid is a good idea for a lot of text on the Web.

Unlike a printed page, there is no concern on a screen about text on the other side showing through. There is therefore no possibility that mismatched baselines will reduce the contrast in leading areas between lines as a result.

For a single-column article such as the one we’re discussing here, there is no concern about whether text in adjacent columns may look untidy if the baselines are slightly misaligned. Nor is there any concern that a reader may inadvertently continue reading across columns if baselines do line up and there isn’t a clear enough separation between columns. (However, these might be relevant concerns in other layouts.)

But mostly, by trying to keep to some artificial mathematical pattern, we might actually be making the reader’s experience worse. Spacing between paragraphs usually winds up much wider than it traditionally has been when this kind of strict baseline grid is present. The same goes double for headings being moved further away from the material they introduce. We know human perception is influenced by proximity, and if spacing between related items becomes too great, that connection can start to weaken. That might become an issue here. (If you’re familiar with your browser’s developer tools, you can go ahead and try this for yourself: there are p+p and h2+p rules for this article, which you can vary to see whether you prefer tighter spacing even though it doesn’t follow the baseline grid.)

Despite huge amounts of advocacy, there seems to be little evidence that the kind of strictly uniform baseline grid recommended in this article actually makes anything better. Does it improve readers’ subjective personal reaction to a text? Does it improve objective reading performance in some way? I’d be interested in any relevant research, and very willing to revise my opinions if proper studies say I’m wrong, but sadly in typography hard data is often hard to find.
That would go a long way to correct for differences resulting from maternal leave, but there would still be issues such as single people, and especially single men, being favored (since it is rare for them to have a child who they must then take mandatory leave to care for).
Looks cute. It's nice to see someone following their dream.

Clickable: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1082793702
If you disable Maximize Compatibility you also lose compatibility with current programs from Adobe itself, such as Lightroom. So while it seems like a good thing to turn off old crufty stuff, it actually is horrible.
Umm, newspapers enjoy freedom of the press because the 1st amendment explicitly guarantees freedom of the press.

> Congress shall make no law [...] or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press
There's a narrative about new businesses and startups that politicians and pundits in the U.S. like to tell.

It's a magic wand that creates jobs and economic activity without any public policy or investment - it solves problems without any effort on anyone's part - heck, you don't even need to go to college, they'll tell you, so we can cut education funding too.

It's also appeals to the idea of rugged individualism.

Unfortunately, the world doesn't work that way. I'm willing to bet that the next big Silicon Valley success won't be founded by a minority person who grew up in poverty, but by a white male, probably college educated, from a middle-class or wealthier background. Most other people don't have access to these opportunities.

Also, the idea promotes the 'gig economy', an unstable, poor-paying alternative to real employment.
I've literally seen the opposite interviewing as distributed computing person, most people ask for a distributed engineer and then want someone to stitch together Hadoop and Spark or how to effectively leverage HDFS. When you start talking about concurrency issues, Lamport clocks, consensus algorithms, etc. their eyes glaze over and they ask how to efficiently rotate an array. Clearly something is broken but I'm not sure it is how we use language.
"We have no clue how to handle this."

We know exactly how to handle this: war.
Oculus Rift Won't Support Mac Until Apple Releases a 'Good Computer'
We do know how to increase aggregate demand. The formula:

D = C + I + G + NE

D = Demand
C = Consumer spending on private goods and services
I = Business investment in capital goods
G = Government expenditures on public goods & services
NE = Net exports (Exports - Imports)

Right now there is a huge economic opportunity to increase G due to historically low interest rates (cheap to raise debt) and stagnant wages (cheap labor). The economics are clear, but the way forward through fiscal policy roadblocks is not.

Read for more details: https://sites.google.com/site/kocherlakota009/home/policy/th...
It came close... For me individual lines do this not the paragraph at large but sometimes I accidentally jump ahead.

There is a font called "Dyslexie" which is the only typeface I would use if I had to read a speech aloud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexie
Genetics of cancer tumours reveal possible treatment revolution
Postmodern critical theory teaches me that this article is simply incorrect.
The 24px are somewhat arbitrary, based on the idea that 18px/1.25 line height are comfortable to read.

The circle is trying to illustrate that repetition sometimes feels oddly satisfying to us. I don't think the text does a good job of explaining it. I"m not sure there even is a known explanation, but it's certainly a phenomenon everywhere from dance music to architecture. I'd venture a guess and say the brain actually hates all the pattern matching it has to do and enjoys stumbling on simple rules that explain something.
I'm not advocating for fathers to take time off instead of mothers, I want them both to have leave.
I kind of agree, they are not as awesome as they used to be but I don't know if that is totally Lenovo's fault. Back when ThinkPad's where an IBM product laptops were bit and chunky, then we had ultrabooks and Lenovo had to compete. I believe IBM would have had to compete in the same way just like Dell and HP have had to. The Latitude series isn't as great as it was 5+ years ago. As they get thinner and lighter with less removable components they become less end-user friendly.
"I have to say, wouldn’t it be nice if these options were in addition to, instead of a replacement for, higher salaries?"

That was a kind of pointless observation. I too would like a pony.

Obviously the jobs with both flexible work options _and_ high salaries are going to be very fiercely competed for, since they're the best jobs to have.
For me the shorter words are actually harder because they are more similar to other words and they often don't attract focus in a sentence so your mind spends less time on them.
Israel to launch one of the most advanced missile defense systems in the world
I agree. High-end audio manipulation will remain native, but I think for a simplified use-case (composition, lower quality renders) the browser is a good sell.

That and the tooling is almost here with MIDI.js[1], Web Audio[2] and Web MIDI[3] as a working draft.

[1] https://github.com/mudcube/MIDI.js/

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_A...

[3] https://webaudio.github.io/web-midi-api/
Google head Schmidt just joined the Pentagon (from Wikileaks)
The game looks really cute. Will take it for a spin on the weekend (wife has an iphone while I get stuck with Android). I assume you used SpriteKit? Did you do the graphics yourself or hire someone? They look simple but very professional!

Also .. where are you based (trying to judge cost of living of areas vs mine)?
Who cares. It's been known about for decades and predictions of impending disaster made for a dozen years. At this point I don't care one bit what happens to anyone. This is totally and utterly foreseeable. Not my problem. Liquidate your assets and send your donations to Iraq if you want to help; quit trying to whip up the bleeding hearts to spend other people's money.
"Coming out of uni/grad school, male and female salaries are equal in comparable fields."

Given that there's more female that graduate now, there's still bias in the process, just not the bias people hope to find.
It can be turned off now:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di...
A while back, I decided that if I got a downvote on a comment, I'd accept it as evidence that my comment was not well written or it did not add anything to the discussion or that I didn't clearly communicate my idea.

Based on that assumption, I started editing my comments to make them better. Then, I sometimes I would delete my comments. Both have been useful to me in trying to write better comments.

Good luck.
The best way to fix this is to create a social pressure to be open about salaries. Some want to fix this by teaching better negotiation skills to those who are poor at it, but as long as the social pressure is to hide this data, it is going to keep being a problem regardless if the cause is racism, sexism, classism, or just difference in negotiation skills.
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Beat me to it. The episode is basically an interview with Claudia Goldin who is about as qualified a person as you could hope for to speak on this matter. [1]

tl;dr women start out with equal pay, but trade pure monetary compensation for flexibility and/or fewer hours when they have kids because society still sucks at gender equality when it comes to enabling parents to equally contribute to certain aspects of parenting due.

[1] http://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/biocv
It would definitely favour gay men, though they could still adopt and take paternity leave.
My Experience with the Uberman Sleep Schedule
The rise of continuous assessment models and the ability to track students’ every interaction with digital learning content may allow for broader, more holistic evaluations of student potential.

This is merely a complex way of saying "metrics". Welcome to the real world Oxford kiddies.
Or, rather than multiple policies, one policy that takes a player vector as an input along with the board position. Players that you predict will make the same move from a given board have their vectors adjusted toward each other and away from a random sample of other player vectors.

If it works, you would be able to perform player vector math ala word2vec. (No idea if it will work)
I was experimenting with character substitution too, but it won't work well with a variable width font, since the words at the end of the page moves a lot.
In STEM? Far fewer women graduate with CS degrees than men. I think that percentage is actually declining.
do New Yorker authors get paid by the word or something? Tl;dr They cheated by adjusting a tray to different positions to convey different meanings.
I've never seen an OO article / book that managed to demonstrate composition even at 1% that the average Haskell book does. I'm trying not to take sides too much, but I grew up in OO-land, left and keep getting mesmerized by what the FP guys have been doing. Most recently monadic thinking (I know, monads) but bind as an abstract composition operator is maddeningly beautiful. Although I've heard that Monads themselve don't compose ~_~;
My wife couldn't produce milk. My wife's niece wouldn't latch. There are a lot of people in these situations where, even if true, your reasoning does not apply.
Medium is Offline
Great post, I agree. It's also interesting that the constant increase in demand leads to continuous and increasing destruction of the environment and consumption of natural resources. Perhaps less demand will be better in the long run. Can we reach a new healthier equilibrium without escelating social unrest?
So instead of creating a simple tool that solves a specific problem (even if its been solved in other ways) the author should have built a whole startup instead? Go outside.
I really liked the animations in this article. I found them very useful in visualizing the authors points about the potential pitfalls of various product development strategies, even if they exaggerate the effects a bit. Also neat that they're SVGs instead of the usual GIFs.
Well, beta for the _next_ release is already branched; it would be the one after that, at the earliest.
The Best Mobile Game of 1984?
If anyone is curious, I created a google doc with the pay gap for each occupation based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for 2015: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15vJGu8IMbvrVz6FqCg3r...

source:http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat39.htm
> But to me that was more of an advanced (one hopes) end-user. Someone who could take a bunch of large, mostly-complete logical components that somebody else engineered and then use them to stitch together a solution by integrating these existing frameworks...

I don't find this distinction very useful. We're all end-users at different layers in the stack. Building HDFS from scratch is also mostly taking others' components and ideas and stitching them together. That's what progress and innovation looks like. I think you're looking for engineers at a lower level in the stack than the applicants you received.

Additionally, if you're building the next distributed filesystem, you'll be much more successful if you're also an end-user of existing distributed filesystems, so you know the strengths, weaknesses, user preferences, etc. of the existing products. If you're building something without knowing how it's going to be used...well...you're probably not going to build the right thing.
I disagree with your position on assertions and much prefer Bryan Cantrill's, because it results in bugs actually getting fixed:

Hope is not a strategy, including for your
software. If your state has become corrupt,
it is incumbent upon you to die and donate
your body to science, where it can be
debugged.
The idea of dyslexia that has always resonated with me, is that the brain is thinking in more than one dimension, or direction, at parallel times. Thinking dynamically, when being asked to do a linear task. I don't know where I heard this, but I have taken a little poetic license with the idea.

In the example of mixing letters up,a it would be more about seeing potential possibilities and not just selecting one.

I'm not proposing this as a model for all, but it certainly makes sense with how dyslexia isn't necessarily negative.
> Currently there is a gender asymmetry in that maternity leave is normal (and required by law), but paternity leave is frequently non-existent, or discouraged.

In the US, at the federal level, maternity and paternity leave (both unpaid) are covered by the same mandate (FMLA).

In California, paid maternity and paternity leave are covered by the same mandate.

That doesn't negate the social asymmetry, of course.
Killer who kills hikers picks up a killer who kills the people who pick him up
Here is a 2015 paper with a detailed technical analysis. The first author on this paper is the Iraqi engineer interviewed in this Guardian article.

http://pure.ltu.se/portal/files/102425643/Vol_5_3_8.pdf
That was crazy, I was able to read the article in the dyslexic font way faster than before.

I wish I could change all fonts to be this.
We already suffer from declining birthrates in the west. Your solution would make not having a child the best choice for "go-getters."
P2P Live streaming using centralized architecture
> It's strange to me that HR never seems to pick up on things like this!!

I don't think it is strange at all -- after all, it is in the company best interest to pay the employees as little as necessary. Engineers benefit company by building products. HR benefit company by (among other things) figuring out how to save money on salaries.
Yes, it's a subconscious affliction. Reading is slower and more taxing because your conscious brain has to be more involved.

For me the biggest challenge was b and d and p and q. When I was young, I would have to stop and consciously think about which letter was in front of me, when most kids around me immediately knew the right letter without any conscious thought.

The closest thing I've experienced to dyslexia is learning to read a foreign language with different glyphs. You go very slow and you have to really consciously think about what the symbols mean.
They need UX/UI people
So? As long as there are substantial number to whom it does apply, it will remain a real on-average sex difference.
Does this help:
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#pro...
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#pro...
I didn't know that Lightroom had that restriction, actually. Is that tested with CC 2015 versions of both programs?

I do know that Maximize Compatibility doesn't affect usage within Illustrator and InDesign documents, though, which to me are the more common use cases for a PSD anyway, so I'll probably stick to unticking that box.
This is a great read. It's a fairly coherent summary of the things I intuitively felt great about Kubernetes, and discusses it plainly and explicitly.

Towards the end of the article, the authors mention the open challenges.

Unbeknownst to me, I had been working on something that attempts to address some of that. It is my sixth attempt at a tool like this. It came out from when I saw how many dev environments attempting to use Docker Compose ended up with a large, ad-hoc collection of Bash scripts.

The project is called Matsuri, and it is found here: https://github.com/shopappsio/matsuri

It's intended as a framework for programmatically generating manifests and executing kubectl commands. It doesn't try to have a lot of opinions (at least, opinions that you can't change). The idea is that your platform support tool is like any other app, and should be tailored to your specific collection of apps.

It also has a notion of Apps, which are a bundle of K8S resources declared as dependencies. But that's as far as I gotten -- it has a fairly anemic convergence tool. I was more concerned about standardizing builds, pushes, updates (collection of rollouts, migrations, etc.), shell commands, "console" commands, etc. These are all achieved by expecting Apps to define callback hooks for those actions.

I don't know if this is useful or interesting to anyone else. But if anyone is interested, feel free to contact me about it.
Hypothesis – property based testing library for Pythom
All Democratic Superdelegates – cool visualization
Does it use bittorrent mutable keys BEP?