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It's because Android has to scale across such a wide range of device types and sizes. If you look closely at Material Design, you'll notice that pretty much everything can be implemented with vector graphics. The primary colors serve a similar purpose. Not every phone has the ability to display high resolution images, but even the lowest of lowest-end Android phones can display "red" and "blue". The same thing applies to the information density. Displaying information at a comfortable density on something like a Nexus 4 means that the same information displayed on a Nexus 6P (or Samsung Galaxy S7 or what-have-you) is going to look blown-up and sparse. It's even worse when you go to tablets.

I think Google has really dropped the ball when it comes to designing their own apps. Rather than putting in the time and effort to make apps that scale properly (e.g. displaying different amounts of information on different screen sizes) they took the lazy way out and just scaled up the white-space between list and UI elements. And of course, Android application developers are following Google's lead in this regard. This is why there are so few applications that are designed for Android tablets. Whereas Apple's iPad apps look and work substantially differently from their iPhone counterparts (as you'd expect), Google apps on Android tablets look like scaled up and blown out versions of their phone counterparts, with the attendant losses in usability.
All valid points, but think of all the open source projects, even browsers, that could be improved with this compression method if it wasn't proprietary.

Perhaps it's time to attempt to "free" such software via a cooperative effort, e.g. by talking to RAD about a one-time payment for an open source release and organizing that as a Kickstarter project.
Oh, now they care about privacy.
It is something that rich people do to show they are a philanthropist by selling shares of their company or donating them to the charity or organization they control and their children will inherit.

It goes way back over the years to the Rockefeller family and others.

Not only is it a tax shelter, they can control what the charity or whatever does. It is a good way to avoid paying a capital gains tax by donating shares to their own charity or organization.

A pity the taxes on the shares could have been collected by the federal government and used to pay off our national debt or create some good paying jobs.

People who aren't billionaires have to pay a capital gains tax if they sell shares that have a value more than the original investment.
"Even in 'bad' interviews, there is an argument that there's value there."

You must have lost your mind.
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This is a very good idea. As a soon-to-be grad student, the accomplishments of top-tier professors seem almost unattainable. When I get to see the failures of such a person, it gives me more confidence in my abilities, and reinforces the fact that no one is always successful.
A jack of all trades isn't inherently better at all trades. There's great value to be found in a specialist.

And if you're hiring a front-end pay him as such. If you want him to know more than front-end beforehand, pay him extra.
seriously Mark? Seriously?

You keep control AND get the money and try to sell it with charity?

This is what the 0,0001% wants us to believe...
> But unlike many of those tech companies, Mr. Ulukaya is giving his employees a piece of the company after its value is firmly established.

I wonder how they set this up tax-wise. Stock grants are income, even before you sell. In tech companies, you typically get the stock when it's super cheap, so the tax hit is minimal. But here, since the value's pretty firmly established, the employee is potentially on the hook for quite a bit. And depending on the details of the grant, it may not be possible for employees to sell off their stock to pay taxes.

There are several ways to solve this. The employees could be getting options (set up so taxes are deferred until they exercise). Or the company could just eat the tax themselves. But kind of curious which route they took.
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Either IMVU has changed massively since i poked at it, or the comparison to Sims is way out there...
Mixing code with documentation is one concern. Another issue is that extracting the information needed to create a Swagger from source code is hard, especially when using dynamic languages (JavaScript, Python). One approach is to use dedicated annotators to relate code with parts of an API spec - but then you have the first problem again...
Re:computation. I wonder if there are talks between OpenAI and BOINC to open up some of their computational resources. With the new OpenAI environments platform they include a peer review/validation process. That may help concerns that BOINC resources would be used commercially.
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Apply HN: Food-allergy centric “yelp”
A common food allergy is gluten. It is difficult to find all the gluten-free food options nearby. One can use a service like yelp to find restaurants that specialize in gluten-free food, but this actually leaves out most of the options actually available because most restaurants do have some subset of dishes that are, or can be prepared, gluten-free. The problem with yelp is that all the metadata (tags/review/etc) are at an establishment level, but what is needed for this use case is metadata at the dish level instead. If one can search by dishes nearby that are gluten-free, the number of options available is much greater. This will enable one to find significantly more restaurants that someone who has a gluten-free diet can eat at and what dishes to order. Additionally, this helps find more restaurants that suit groups that have a mix of those with gluten-free diets and not.

There are also other common food allergies, such as peanut, tree nuts, milk, egg, soy, fish, shellfish that this concept can be expanded to include.
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>instructed us that the entire testimony be thrown out

This is moronic. Human minds aren't able to just discard information and biases like that. The fact that so much is allowed to be said in a courtroom, to untrained people, then simply reasoned away with "well, it's not evidence" is insane. I'm thinking of the lawyer's arguments, too. They get to present things under the guise of non-evidence.
> I am also NOT an economist so I have a rather limited perspective.

No worries, and thanks for responding.

> Personally, I would consider public perception outside of a traditional "market" model...but like I said, I am by no means an economist. Another external market force would be government regulation (take for example the recent government laws forcing retirement investors to put their clients first).

Speaking as an economist, I'd say it's pretty standard for economists to consider public perception (brand value) to be part of the decision-making model. In fact, it's essential - plenty of decisions can't be explained rationally unless you account for intangible assets and revealed preferences.

Likewise, it's common for non-economists to think of government regulation as an exogenous force, but from an economic perspective, government action is very much a component of the market - it exists as part of the market, not outside it.

> Companies can only sell products to people that can afford them, so by keeping wages low, they are actually pricing themselves out of the market.

This is a common talking point among advocates of wage floors (e.g. 'minimum wage'), but you'd be hard-pressed to find an economist who agreed with that statement as written, even if you're looking only at economists who already advocate for wage floors. (There are some economists who advocate for wage floors, but rarely using that line of reasoning). Labor economics is a complex subfield, though, (not to mention politically charged these days), so I'll just say that companies do price in risk-adjusted expected future costs (just not always with complete or accurate information, or with the outcomes one might like), and leave it at that.
>... the incident is being viewed as a possible suicide.

...

> On Tuesday, Apple reported its largest decline in earnings in years, and the first ever decline in iPhone sales...

Is it just me or is it an enormous stretch to put this here as if it were related and not bother to even hint at a connection between the two. IMO the production suicides are not-likely-related to anything in R&D (which is what I assume makes up much of 1 Infinite Loop).
Just a thought, you may want to think about changing the name if you're going after enterprise. Feels a bit amateurish/not serious.
specialist != only know one thing

specialist = know one thing well, many things a little

only know one thing = useless one-time-use-tool whom i will contract for exactly my one-time-problem and then move on from
I heard that the founder is Kurdish. Pretty interesting company.
> I wish other companies would take a cue from them and be as transparent about their goals and progress. (...) Who needs a marketing team when you can casually throw out your plans to go to another planet within a few years and have people know you mean it?

I wish. Most other companies can't do that simply because they have no grand goal worth talking about. It's understandable. I don't want my local bakery to talk about feeding the world, because I know their sole purpose is to provide for people working there in exchange for bread customers need. Most companies are like that, and it's OK.

Personally, I value honesty. I despise of companies that try to pretend they're doing something grand, or working towards some idea, when in fact they're just in it for the cash. Not trying to fix the world is totally fine. Pretending to do it for a marketing boost is not.
Neither am I. I would be curious to know if this particular error is associated with a particular mother tongue.
"char" in C/C++ can't be misaligned.
You haven't been paying attention to Mark Zuckerberg's past philanthropic initiatives if you think that this is just a tax scheme. He wants to have an impact on the world.
In this case, I think I trust vested interests (teachers unions) more than unaccountable external parties with billions of dollars.

I also question whether it's "philanthropy" or just plain business - meaning these foundations see a way to make a profitable "omelet" by breaking the public education "eggs"?
That's the rub though, you're talking about a one-time payment.

That isn't a sustainable way to keep a company running. The amount of work that RAD puts into stuff like this, BINK, and their other tools if you wanted to do a OTP you'd be looking at something in the neighborhood of 50-60M.

Everyone uses their stuff in games since it's that good. You'd have to replace licensing costs not only for each game but each platform those games ship on.
That's what parallel construction is for :(
There's too many projects named Kraken:

* http://krakenjs.com/ - Javascript framework

* https://www.kraken.com/ - BTC exchange

* https://kraken.io/ - Image Optimizer
But you can't exactly use that on a plane or a train.
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More details from Techcrunch [1]:

> Dispatch audio obtained by TMZ suggests that a female employee was injured and escorted from a building on the Apple campus by the company’s own security — but the Sheriff’s Department did not confirm that anyone had been injured except the man who was found dead. The audio also indicates that a body was found in a conference room and a gun may have been found along with it. The recording has not been confirmed by the Sheriff’s Department and may contain inaccuracies.

> A Sheriff’s Department spokesperson declined to discuss the audio with the Mercury News. “I can’t confirm any information regarding a manner or cause of death, or any weapons,” the spokesperson said.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/27/body-found-in-conference-ro...
Ask HN: How to proceed?
I've been a professional programmer since 2000. I work remotely and I've had a number of accomplishments over my career. Always gotten positive feedback from coworkers/managers. I'd planned to change jobs at the end of 2015 and I also hit 40 recently. I've focused on remote jobs. I feel it is important to grow and aim above where I am currently at.

My search started 6 months ago. I've submitted 35 applications. 14 received no response. 9 responded with rejections. 3 had screening tests (e.g. HackerRank). 5 had code challenges of 8-12 hrs. Of the 5, 2 followed up with just a rejection. 2 continued on to more interviews. I did a paid trial project for 1 company. I interviewed with 8 companies. 6 went multiple rounds and 2 made it to final round interviews. More details here: http://pastebin.com/R2BjGAiW.

After many hours, stress & sacrifice, I am questioning my next steps. I assumed (based on the ‘hot’ the job market and many recruiter requests) I'd have offers in a month. I’ve never had such difficulty passing interviews in the past and it seems way harder than say 5 years ago. Seems like interviews are more geared towards evaluating junior engineers and deeply discount experience.

Any advice on where to go from here? Should I just persist? Is this age bias? Should I use a recruiter like TripleByte? Should I switch to consulting? I’ve read comments that networking is key. Being remote I don’t get a lot of face time & my colleagues tend not to move often, limiting opportunities. Perhaps study CS fundamentals and interview with Google. I don’t want to relocate, but having it on the resume might help a lot.

I could really use some wisdom on how to move forward. Anyone know of career counseling for people like me? Anything constructive that the community can offer would be greatly appreciated.
Highly successful company's don't need to spend a lot of time on the tax code. The ROI of focusing on the tax code is finite and you really quickly hit diminishing returns. Accept you might possibly be paying a little more and move on.
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Good point. I added that in the FAQ section in the Guide, but really it should also be on the pricing page. I'll add it.
Will it have a steering wheel?
> One thing you may have noticed is that I am using standard ASCII characters in my implementation, whereas in the movie they are clearly using some kind of extended ASCII character set.

Gawd I'm older every day... Those glyphs are obviously the ones burned into every VGA card's ROM chip from at least the 286 era through the pentium II era.

You know, these: http://zehfernando.com/2015/revisiting-vga-fonts/
> and used it

You couldn't get more biased than this kind of selection for that sort of study. It's like saying that the chance of spending time in a holding cell is very high, if you only look at subjects who have just been arrested that day. And it's symptomatic of how Kleck is used - he does a study that is heavily specific to the conditions, and then it's quoted free of context from day 1 and generalised to things it shouldn't be generalised to.

Similarly, 'carrying a gun' is very different to 'carrying a gun and using it' - you have to be able to access and use the gun at the right time, and you don't always have the drop on your attacker. I once did a bouncer certificate course, and the instructor said that in a study in Sydney, the most use of a gun in an encounter with an armed security guard was the guard's own gun used against them - people were getting the drop on security guards and turning their guns on them. And one place where women tend to meet their rapists - bars and clubs - is a place where guns are usually restricted even in US states where gun freedom is common. Texas, for example, has a 51% law, meaning if a business makes 51%+ of it's income from alcohol, you can't carry a gun there. Women in these higher-risk places can't legally carry this supposed magical defense item. Specifying "and using it" ignores all the issues around actually getting the gun into play at the right time, which aren't trivial.

Ultimately, "carry guns" is a bad argument to make for personal safety, because it's treating the symptom, not the cure, and short-circuits discussion to actually cut social problems off at the source, I find.

Re: the nationality thing - I never suggested you were American, but that's the place in the modern Western world that is doing the "guns as defence for normal citizens" thing (and it's where Kleck does his stuff). That's why it's a US-centric counter-argument. :)
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I'm surprised to see no mention in the article or on HN about how this might affect writing crypto code in Rust. Maybe it's a little tangential, but I'm dying for constant time operations.

Avoiding branches, etc. in Rust doesn't mean LLVM won't add some as an optimization, which is frustrating to say the least. It would be awesome to be able to define a block - similar to "unsafe" - that tells the compiler to disable optimizations that could introduce non-constant time operations. When I started reading the article, I though maybe this new development would open the door to something like that, but it doesn't appear to be the case.

There's some work to do constant time ops in rust, but it's very experimental and untrustworthy. :/
I take it you've never had a failed backup restore?
This was true from day 1, he IPO'd a multi-billion dollar company while still retaining majority control. He's been gaming the system every step of the way.
> Google has been trying to dumb down their services and products for years, to the point where the UI is something even a baby or old person with dementia can use it.

In the process they're making it that technical people cannot (or, have great difficulty) using them, such as gmail. (I very often don't notice attachments, or can't find them, I have great difficulty following threads, I have to hit a button to cc: or to change the subject, etc etc etc)
Fair enough, I meant to Firefox itself.
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The intro to this piece struck a chord with me (pun intended).

My mother recently gifted me her old Martin classical guitar that my grandfather handed down to her. I've been having a musical itch I needed to scratch after going over a decade without really playing an instrument after I had been section leader of the clarinets in HS band class and taken piano for a year or so.

I'm now learning guitar with the help of JustinGuitar.com (seriously amazing totally free site) and a guitar-obsessed co-worker who has been super helpful.

The most jarring experience to me about learning this has been the fact that I physically cannot play certain notes yet, and changing notes is extremely physically challenging. Not just in a muscle memory sense--but literally the process of getting my fingers to move in these incredibly unnatural ways and distances.

I remember back in the day what it felt like to be proficient with the clarinet and not have to think about how to play a note or change keys. Building that muscle memory up again is incredibly humbling, and frustrating as hell.

That said, there's something immensely satisfying the first time you struggle your way through a basic song (in this case Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds" with three chords) and all of a sudden, you can gradually make out the actual song in the midst of all the incorrect fingering and delays in chord changes.

I hope I have the mental fortitude to persevere as I love the sound of guitar and the idea of playing one. I expected a learning curve with memorizing notes and finger positions and such, but christ did I not envision it being anywhere near this difficult to physically play. When I see a talented musician playing I now have massive newfound respect when I see them whipping through chord changes during 16th notes for example.

Not much more to add here, but seeing things like this that dumb down the experience are disappointing. Sure it might be a way to help people have early success, but I'd guess those people are a lot less likely to jump to the real thing if they seek out the easy road like that.
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Between now and September when Apple is rumored to announce the iPhone 7, Apple will be under top-line pressure. Whether the iPhone 7 is the elixir of growth won’t be known until Apple’s earnings call in January 2017, after the company has a full quarter of iPhone 7 shipments.
You mean in addition to jury duty, citizens would have legislation duty? Seems legit.
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That's what I thought at first too, but I suspect it's too late and most companies won't care much. Key is to have an enterprise edition with a support agreement and a higher price (as identified elsewhere in this thread).
Absolutely true. Having trouble coming up with a name. Open to ideas. Currently I'm thinking "Tabularity", I've bought the domain. Not 100% set on it, but I'm definitely set on changing the name.
They probably get both. The former are ones who stay, the latter are those who leave and complain, because SpaceX is not geared towards people who just want to pad their resume.
Since this is before the LLVM passes, it doesn't really change anything, and can't.
MITM isn't really relevant for the purposes of this discussion. We're talking about a different application with different threat models.
That seems like the most likely explanation to me too.
Kind of don't need a source to tell you that world governments are having to go to great lengths to deal with global warming, do we?
I've given up worrying about conference paper reviewers. The last paper I submitted got a strong accept from one, and a reject from the other (the overall decision was accept). Interestingly the reasons for accept/reject were almost exactly the same - the stuff one guy liked, the other guy hated. It's completely luck of the draw, so don't be disheartened.

In any case, I pick conferences largely based on their location (if I can get paid to go) rather than their academic merit. That's what journals are for!
While I don't follow the autonomous vehicle news too closely, this is the first article I seen that really directly confronts the potential limitations of AVs in edge cases, and how that may affect development of them and how they're used. If would have helped to see some discussion of wether the taxi fleet approach could be financially feasible in less densely populated parts of the US.
I really don't think that was his intentions. But you point still stands. The FailCV of all the people that did not get his job would also be great to look at and compare to.

Also, notice the FailCVs of other people that he links to. Some of those FailCvs (or the sections of them) are very very short. Likely that is due to not wanting to spend time on something that is painful like this, or that this just takes too much time for a side project. Still, are the FailCVs of successful people shorter in general, accounting for their successes? (IE you don't apply for as many jobs when you have one). Are the successful actually more successful when controlling for the stochastic nature of awards?
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Holds up just fine if you default on a vehicle lease (repossession, you're on the hook for the remaining balance). Why would solar panels be different? Because its on your roof instead of in your garage?