skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to compare experiences with you, actually. I actually am from northern California, and have lived in Berkeley, Sacramento, San Luis Obispo, Santa Monica, Dublin (IE), and most recently San Diego (South Park). My favourite commutes were either long bike rides or short walks, with a long BART commute somewhere in the middle. My worst commutes, by far, have been inching along car-choked freeways.

I think it's great that you have the ability to choose your lifestyle, but the whole point is that your lifestyle is being very heavily subsidized by taxpayers. I consider this unfair, and I'm sick to death of paying for it all while being told cyclists like me are the ones freeloading.

I'm aiming to return to Dublin now after a year spent very much disliking San Diego. I hated the hostility and threats I got as a cyclist. I hated how over 100 of us spoke to the two-faced Todd Gloria and the rest of SANDAG to fight for one. damn. bike lane on University ave, and he shot it down because the Hillcrest Business Association insists on taxpayer-provided parking welfare, dead cyclists be damned. I hate how people just took it for granted that they should put alcohol-heavy events in places with no access to transit (though admittedly Lyft/Uber are options, albeit expensive). I routinely witnessed drunk, or at least not sober, people hopping in their cars and driving off. I hated that I went to the Greater Golden Hill planning meetings where homeowners baldly stated that the reason NO new housing should EVER be constructed ANYWHERE in their neighborhood is because it could mean that their already $800k+ homes might not rise in value quite as fast. I hated conversations that consisted of people bitching about how horrible cyclists are because you know that some of them run lights? Nevermind the drivers who blast down 30th St. at 40+, ignore stop signs, and often are likely drunk. I hated the fact that the only halfway-livable neighborhoods in SD (South Park, Little Italy, etc.) would be ILLEGAL to build now because of parking minimums - San Diego's distinctive residential design where several cottages are clustered around a man courtyard doesn't work when every damn home is forced to have two parking spots by law. I hated the fact that if you ever suggested SD was anything less than sheer fucking heaven people took HUGE offence, as though you'd insulted them personally.

Also, I like SD beer (especially Lost Abbey), but c'mon people just saying "omg let's make a 16% ABV quintuple IPA which is basically just hop tea" isn't actually that innovative.
If you're a Romanian citizen living in another country, you'll have to fly back to Bucharest (even if you've never been there before) for an appointment at the US Embassy there, show your papers including flight tickets and hotel reservation, come back to the UK to move on with your life and then wait for an answer.

If you're lucky and get approved, you might also be double lucky and get the approval before the actual trip happens.

It's not impossible, but it is far away from filing a silly form and paying a bit of cash.
From the first paragraph of the article:

"She was 35, had been with the company for four years, and was told without explanation by her 28-year-old manager that she had two weeks to get out. On her last day, that manager organized a farewell party for her."
TL;DR: Many Android devices don't have the option for arbitrarily upgrading at the user's option. You're limited to OS updates if and when your vendor can be arsed to get around to it.

The versions of Android on which this permission are required are precisely those on which it's a security issue. Ergo: don't use the permission.

Wikipedia's app describes what their intent is. Last time I checked, a large number of software security bugs were the result not of intent but poor execution. Again, applying principle of least privilege avoids this.

You yourself admit this is a dangerous permission.

More generally, there's a whole mess of problems with Android, its security and permissions system, and its app store. I've addressed those in earlier posts to G+, with the upshot being that Google really need to radically re-think where they're going with this and what they want it to be.

I find some attributes of Android hardware compelling. I find the actual environment to be rather a complete clusterfuck.

Last I checked, Google had registered something over 3 billion Android user identities. Relying on that large a population to 1) trust individual software authors with 2) no specific code of conduct or review process and 3) have a high level of familiarity with permissions systems, architectures, and peculiarities of specific releases strikes me as a good working definition of "unreasonable expectations".
Another one which was posted on 🅷🅽 a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8629145
I don't have "contempt". I just try to understand their behavior, like I do for other fields, including my own (which might also exhibit similar behavior in other issues).

And what I see is often a contempt for the designer-ignorant layman.

All the usual caveats apply: what I say is not applicable to absolutely, no exceptions, 100% of designers, but mostly to the particular subculture/demographic we talk about here: Western/US designers from the young/urban/hipster population (which makes for the majority of those of them posting their opinions on design issues on the web).
I wonder if MacOS X had been where it is today stability wise, weather Xserve and the G4 cube would have been such failures. The hardware issues with the cube most likely would have been worked out as they were with the iMacs of the same era.
For Google Chrome the answer is: April 19
> I'd just be there and offer to listen more than I did.

Sorry to hear abut your experience - that's rough.

Just listening is important.

> At the time, I remember feeling helpless and unsure how to help. If I could do it over again,

People might be interested in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) courses.

You don't have to be someone working with people with mental illness or people who have declared suicidal intent.

https://www.livingworks.net/programs/asist/

https://www.mind.org.uk/media/112813/Applied-Suicide-Interve...
[React] proptypes-parser: Define React PropTypes with readable string.
JSX editing utilities for Vim
I maybe have just been confused by the delay/lack of confirmation + the clunky UI. On the second try it worked.
```
const propTypes = parsePropTypes(`{
number: Number
string: String!
boolean: Boolean
function: Function!
date: Date!
object: Object!
shape: {
nested: Number
array: [Number]
must: Boolean!
}!
array: [Number!]!
arrayOfObjects: [{
value: String
}!]
node: Node
element: Element!
message: Message!
any: Any!
}`);
```

is equivalent to:

```
const propTypes = {
number: PropTypes.number,
string: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
boolean: PropTypes.bool,
function: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
date: PropTypes.instanceOf(Date).isRequired,
object: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
shape: PropTypes.shape({
nested: PropTypes.number,
array: PropTypes.arrayOf(PropTypes.number),
must: PropTypes.bool.isRequired,
}).isRequired,
array: PropTypes.arrayOf(
PropTypes.Number.isRequired,
).isRequired,
arrayOfObjects: PropTypes.arrayOf(
PropTypes.shape({
value: PropTypes.string,
}).isRequired
),
node: PropTypes.node
element: PropTypes.element.isRequired,
message: PropTypes.instanceOf(Message).isRequired,
any: PropTypes.any.isRequired,
};
```
I don't know if this will help you, but in my case the only times I've ever felt like I was heading for burnout were when I was when I was writing fairly mundane code under time constraints. If you can move into a job role where you spend more time learning and solving problems than coding everything will get a lot better.
Robust cooperation of bounded agents
The thing is, you can make this argument about any individual thing, and the goal is to lead into the (fallacious) conclusion "none of these things make a difference on their own, so the combination of them wouldn't make a difference either".
Here's a similar project where the dots fade as you get older to indicate chance of death (the opacity is based on actual US mortality data from actuarial tables).

http://www.sampl.us/life-of-dots/
The masses are more likely to use Arial than Helvetica, and that gets almost as much stick as Comic Sans.

Of course the more advanced hipster can be snooty about Helvetica too if need be:

http://www.fontbureau.com/nhg/
1. 600M IPs attached to the [Kansas] home were 10 orders of magnitude
higher than at any other location
X. 17M IPs located in Pav’s home in Ashburn.

Am I missing something obvious? 600M is 10 orders of magnitude higher than 17M?
> making reward results based to avoid becoming a victim of their superior ability to convince you they are worth more than they are.

OT: This sentence was exceedingly difficult to parse. Had to read it multiple times and the next sentence to figure out your intent.
I agree it might not always be the best use of resources, this depends on a wide array of factors within your business.

What I mean is that don't see it anywhere as a hidden cost in the true sense of that word as you know it takes resources and time, but more so about wrong priorities and business value.

As for the other points, they are so easy to solve:

>>Lost conversions

Trade off you need to make beforehand and need to be aware of with the end goal in mind which is to improve your main conversion metrics.

>>Performance

Most decent conversion platforms use fallbacks and also your way of setting up experiments makes a big difference.

>>Confusion

Letting other departments know what you're doing and what's running, might be harder in big corps though.

>>Speed

This goes for everything in a company I think (new feature/product releases, quick fix vs. proper solution etc.). I personally don't mind spending x amount of time to improve y % in conversion rate, so comes down to setting good KPIs and testing what really is important to your business.

>>Focus

Can be done with a proper conversion team that has all these roles covered (bit hard to set up but possible) or making the conversion department a client within the company. Also the teams mentioned work for other departments as well and improving conversion is a win across the board not just for the conversion team.
I think what made the web so successful is how an html document can be easily statically analyzed. Every action (state transfer) a web page is capable of is statically encoded in the page itself. That is, encoded through <a>, <form>, <input>, etc tags. This is the essence of the REST architecture. An algorithm analyzing a web page doesn't have to guess at what actions are available, or run arbitrary javascript in a sandboxed environment to figure it out. I think it's bad for the web as a whole to abandon this architecture. Web developers need to take responsibility for the web as a whole, and not just violate the webs fundamental assumptions and expect others to create complex, clever solutions to a manufactured problem.
Very interesting perspective you bring, I can't say I disagree with anything you've said. From my perspective, most things people hate don't justify hatred because honestly the emotion of hatred is meant to be deployed in more high stakes scenarios, a good deal of which have been removed from our modern sanitized society (especially—to your point—for the middle to upper classes). People get angry about all kinds of ridiculous nonsense.

That said, I don't think design is primarily a social construct. There is actual meat to design. Design can communicate social constructs, but it's not some kind of insider's club for the upper class. There's a basic barrier to entry, but it's no more exclusive than any other form of higher education, which these days is lower than ever.
What's wrong with being an architect?
> I remember briefly using evernote in 2013 and finding it confusing, cumbersome, and pointless. I don't need this huge app to store notes.

I completely agree with this but ours seems to be the minority opinion given Evernote's popularity.
Functional typically implies higher-order functions, of which there are none in that Python code.
> "I just drew a smiley face"

Well done. This is an excellent response to the page and to life.
When Facebook was relatively new, that's exactly what its users (including me) did. In many ways, it was a better short-blogging platform than LiveJournal, and many us of left to enjoy the future of personal sharing.

Then, over time, Facebook added new kinds of content to the News Feed, and added one-click re-sharing. People eventually found it easier to just click mouse buttons than make their own statements.

Next, they started curating people's News Feeds, selecting the content Facebook thought was important, instead of showing a raw stream of their friends' updates. Personal updates were squelched; linkbait and social gaming (Zynga, anyone?) were promoted.

To make matters worse, they stopped allowing subscribers to control their own News Feeds' content. Sure, you could hide updates from certain posters, or express a vague preference to "hide content like this" (whatever that means), but you could only do that one item at a time. There was never a way to control the News Feed to filter out everything but personal content. As a consequence of these maneuvers, Facebook expressed a clear business preference to keep people engaged through low-quality, quick-dopamine-hit content.

And those who continued to try to use Facebook as they'd done before noticed these changes. Their "Like" counts went down. People stopped commenting. In fact it became clear that perhaps what they were posting -- even party invitations -- were never being seen by their friends at all.

So, it's natural that people stopped posting personal updates. For many, if Facebook isn't going to guarantee that your friends see them, taking the time to write starts to seem like wasted effort. And that's exactly what it felt like for me.

So, now Facebook wants us to post more about ourselves. But they created this problem. If they want to solve it, they already know how, because the site made it a great place to do so 10 years ago. But I doubt that they will, because it conflicts too strongly with their profit motive.
Why pitch this to google? If you think there's a useful tool here, why not built it and own it yourself?
That's what you say the problem is, and I could agree, but TFA never makes such a distinction.
Also ammonia can be substitute a refrigeration liquid in some cases replacing freon derivaties. Ammonia itself (not the process used to produce) I think is pretty safe for the environment, compared to say HFCs.
According to Wikipedia Hawking started his work after another physicist pointed out that rotating black holes should emit radiation. Maybe that stuck somehow.

Hawking's work followed his visit to Moscow in 1973 where the Soviet scientists Yakov Zeldovich and Alexei Starobinsky showed him that, according to the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle, rotating black holes should create and emit particles.
The user in question:

1. Purchased the device at a major electronics reseller during a period of specific contingency whilst travelling.

2. Prefers strongly to avoid mail-order purchasing for numerous reasons, including the possibility of in-transit interceptions and undocumented third-party enhancements.

3. Couldn't find a Nexus device at said major retailer.

4. Isn't aware of Nexus devices which offer expandable storage. Device in question has 128 GB of MicroSD storage. Max possible Nexus is ~16-32 GB last I checked, with no expansion possible.

I've explored other options, including a CyanogenMod reflash, though that's less than straighforward.

So, unfortunately, the world involves numerous compromises. I treat the device as hostile though of some utility. I've pressed several other app vendors on permissions, and am batting somewhat above 0.500 for having those reversed.

I've also vented considerable spleen at Google over how it manages Android. Given my previous record with recommendations, I expect to be fully vindicated in about 3-4 years.
It is no longer antimatter after entering the black hole (edit: once reaching the presumed singularity, but either way you still won't see any difference from the outside). The mass is the same, only the charge is different. They'd merge normally.

You might be thinking of negative matter, in which case they'd effectively cancel out, erase each other.
Really surprised they left out those details. Needles have a huge impact on the frequency curve, a lot of standard club needles are bass heavy and/or sacrifice fidelity for tracking.

And on the digital side the ADC makes a noticeable difference. Plus is it isolated from the other circuitry, particularly power supplies?

Ripping vinyl takes enough work, it's worth knowing the few details that make the effort worthwhile.
No one "needs" any of the Apple products or just any electronics in general.

"Want", however, is a different story. All of my family members "want" an Apple Watch but they have no needs for it. They never had a watch nor do they plan to start warning one. Their smartphones (either iOS or Android) act as a watch for them and they always have it on them.
It took 3 years after the iPhone came out to get turn-by-turn navigation, though. Google Glass has been around for about 3 (although I've heard it actually does have some killer apps among surgeons & firefighters and stuff), but the Apple Watch just came out last year.
I can't speak for others, but I used to post a lot of personal stuff when I was hiding behind anonymity, but still had community of people who read my posts; that was Xanga.com.

Aside from the anonymity, there are many aspects of current facebook design that makes it near impossible for ordinary folks to posts more personal stuff.

They're trying to have their cake and eat it.
Inflation punishes people who assets. Poor people only suffer when their nominal wages don't grow to match inflation -- but that's exactly the same as their employers lowering wages in an inflation-free environment. Inflation is only superficially related to the problem of real wage reductions.
Why should restricted devices be forbidden? The device is on the market, you know beforehand it's restrictions, and you are free to buy it or not.
The point is to spend very little energy while no one is home, but converge the house back to a comfortable temperature by the time someone gets home. You are not present to actuate manual controls when you're not home. Programmable thermostats have been doing this with schedules for decades, but they tend to have shitty UIs and not every household runs on a regular schedule.

>for 10 minutes

Whenever we'd come back from vacation, it would take my house at least 3-4 hours to move from ~40 to ~70. Our house was actually pretty small for the neighborhood. Being able to kick the heating back on from a few hours away in the car would have been amazing. I think you have a hilariously overpowered furnace, a tiny space relative to Midwestern suburbia, or an exceptionally temperate climate.
Have you ever met anybody who's tried to actually use a Section 8 voucher? I'm going to bet you haven't and neither has the author of the linked paper.
How dare you?

My grandparents arrived at these shores without a dime to their names, without command of the language, from a GENOCIDE where they endured the trauma of having seen members of their families raped and murdered. They woked their asses off and made it. And they instilled that culture on their children and grand children.

So, yes, fucking stop thinking like a victim. It's insulting.

Yes's there are those who absolutely need help. Stop complaining and go help them. Don't blame others.
A less technical, step-by-step way (also using Audacity) http://transfermymusic.com/vinyl-to-cd-or-mp3/
The company's sorta adopting Amazon's leadership principles. Should I fear that?
I'm an engineer for a well-known media/tech company. The executives are drilling down on company culture, building a clear identity and becoming more efficient. I think that's great.

This year, the company decided it would be great to adopt the OKR system (used at Google, conceived with love at Intel). I'm not a manager, but the push to accurately measure performance and identify pitfalls seems to be reasonable.

We all heard of Amazon's infamous leadership principles. I'm sure there are plenty of tech companies out there that are striving to reproduce Amazon's amazing success (we should be). The sphere of tech leadership where I work (wonderful folk) unanimously decided that we take a page out of Amazon's book of military-grade operation and adopt their leadership principles.

We aren't following the leadership principles verbatim. Those behind the adoption chopped and screwed Amazon's document, manufacturing a customized, Company-esque version of leadership principles. It mostly looks like a summary of the original, with a friendlier, less boarding-school-like tone.

The adoption/adaptation is scary. We aren't robots. We aren't numbers. Not everyone is built to lead (not saying I'm not, but some will take certain things too far). I've already seen the sociopathic nature of those in finance and other industries. More importantly, I'm aware of how depressing the Amazon culture has been to plenty of Amazon engineers (the NYT wrote about it, ask employees of Amazon, and google 'amazon FACE'). While efficiency is important, so is my health. I like where I work, and I haven't been with the company very long, but already, so much has changed—sometimes for better, sometimes for worse if you're at the bottom of the totem pole.

Should I be afraid of these changes? If so, why? Have you dealt with such a transition? If so, how'd it go? I'd ask someone about these changes internally and voice my concerns, but I fear that higher-ups will consider me poisonous to the company for being worried.
>Thus, Apple may say they want to sell a bajillion watches, but what they really need to do is sell enough watches and have enough credibility that if smart watches disrupt smart phones, Apple already has a seat at the table.

That's a fine strategy followed by many companies. It's not usually Apple's strategy though. They pride themselves on being a huge company with a very limited product range. Even in the product ranges they do have they're not usually the first one out with new products. iPod/iPhone/iPad were all very polished products launched into markets that already had quite a few products but still took over. They have a few niche products but the watch seemed to be another of those big bets which is why people are looking at it attentively.
That's a fair question and the next-best option.

1. Wikipedia is of itself a highly useful online resource, and one of a few that stands almost on its own.

2. Chrome browsers universally suck. They suck in different ways, but they all suck. For the purposes of reading Wikipedia, the Wikipedia app sucks considerably less.

3. Specifically, it's fast and responsive, doesn't keel over, offers a number of features (the next-article preview feature especially) which are useful, and allows me to maintain a tabset that's specific to Wikipedia research rather than The Web At Large. I can download/bookmark specific articles for offline viewing.

4. It is lacking bits. Not being able to access article history, talk pages, and other Wikipedia infrastructure among others. I need to see if it can be Tor routed as well.
no.. that's a bit north/northwest of GMU
The EU has a huge internal market and attract tourists from everywhere (2 of the top 3 visited countries are European: Spain and France).

I don't think those tourist dollars are a problem when solidarity among EU countries is at play. Take yours somewhere else.