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As a mobile dev, this article kind of irritates me. It seems like the author is trying to shift his responsibilities to the client or designer. Here some tips:

- wireframe first. At least on a whiteboard. Build the interface with stock or ugly controls from that, iterate the interaction. Only once that is done, send ugly screenshots to the designer to beautify.

- I believe that every dev should have photoshop, and know the basics. You shouldn't need a 24 hour turnaround to cut an asset or fix a small issue.

- actually talk to the designer. Don't make the client be a middleman. When you feel a screen is done, review it with design first. Try for pixel-perfect accuracy, but don't get too hung up on it, often a five minute chat can suggest alternatives that save hours of work.

- always decide what screens will work in landscape, or portrait, or both, up front. This is easy to forget and sometimes difficult to retrofit.

- not the only approach but one that works for me, pick one device (screen size) to be the "hero" device for a project, and build for that first, then go back and and adapt for the rest. This works better if its a more constrained device, as adapting to a larger/faster device is easier. I often use a 5c as the target.
I always felt that Interface Builder is _for_ designers who want to visualize and use something (only somewhat) closer to photoshop. A developer might more likely come at it from the other direction, not even touching IB and doing it all in code, then maybe adding modular IB elements when the layouts start to make the code unmanageable.
I agree. Here's what Steve Jobs had to say about this, in the context of mobile search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC8LR9cryG0

If we assume that different search queries are better served by different engines then I wonder if it's not possible for someone to develop a "thin" search engine that would do semantic analysis of the query and then redirect it to one or more sites, or show results side by side...
One thing Uber drivers are terrible for: driving while watching the sat-nav instead of watching the road. I do wonder if this contributes to increased accidents, and if black-cabs are less prone to collisions.
There was a definitive study done that showed you can reduce malpractice mistakes by some insanely HUGE amount by changing 1 variable: Leave nurses alone while they're administering medicine. In the study they gave nurses "Do Not Distrub" vests where doctors (no matter how important or urgent) may not disturb the nurses while they are wearing them. Can't find the original study but here is a related piece on hospitals initiating the practice with related resources:

https://www.amsn.org/practice-resources/care-term-reference/...
The article says that a 100-mile 765kV transmission line loses 1.5% to 0.5%. Let's be optimistic and assume we can get closer to the latter and deliver 99.5% of original power over 100 miles. NYC-LON is 3,466 miles on the shortest possible path. Let's call it 3,500 miles. Over that distance, we'd deliver 99.5% ^ (3,500 / 100) = 83% of our original power.

The circumference of the earth at the equator is 24,901 miles. Halfway around the world, we'd deliver 29% of original power.
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Outside equatorial areas, lack of sun coincides with demand for heating. Combined cycle (correction: I meant cogeneration) heating plants are that winter months fleet.
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at that scale, thousands of miles, and enough power to drive a continent, maybe superconducting cables are worth it.
Well, passengers who are booking a tour expect a tour. So... I don't think this compares to the average cab passenger in e.g. London. But I take your point, and I was over-zealous in my previous comment.
I'd like to chat with you about this, share ideas for API, and architectures. Even if we don't work to each others, we can benefit from sharing ideas about what should a next gen framework look like in Python.
I've always been a bit baffled by why it's called ad-fraud online, but nowhere else.

You don't call it fraud if your TV ad is aired and I miss it because I'm making a cup of tea. No matter how many viewers you were told the show has.

It's not fraud if I don't notice your roadside billboard because I'm focusing on driving. No matter how many cars you were told drive by.

Advertising has always been a crapshoot with a lot of supposed "TV viewers, magazine readers, eyeballs, etc.", but those figures have always had an assumption of "nobody knows which advert works". That's why an advert's success is generally measured solely by the increase in sales after it has been displayed (ignoring brand ads for the mo, although arguably they're the same).

It's the same when I've placed internet ads with Google myself. I place the ad, if I get more profit than the ad costs, it's a success. The % of ad clicks that are actually real does not matter. If the ad costs more than I make back, I stop the campaign. As Google run an auction system, if enough people stop bidding, then the ad price will go down and my campaign might become viable again. Either way, I'm not being defrauded anymore than I am by people making cups of tea during an ad break...

I think the only reason why people like to call it fraud is because the internet has given advertisers for the very first time, some hard(-ish) data on how many users are being influenced by their ads. In reality, it's just the old crapshoot, but with a little more accuracy than before.
> It's both unlawful, and unethical to place the burden of feeding hungry people on the shoulders of the grocer as a cost of selling food.

If its the effect of the law and legal system, it is not unlawful for the burden to be placed there, even if the individual takings are unlawful. Whether its unethical or not is debatable; its basically equivalent to the government taxing sales of food and using it to fund feeding the indigent (since the grocers costs of doing business are recouped in the prices charged to customers), which (while rarely explicitly done with food) is actually a not-uncommon model for providing goods or services deemed essential (that is, taxing sales to those who can afford it, and using the proceeds to subsidize those who can't.)
That's an extremely heterodox spin.

I notice you don't cite a single article, but here's one: http://www.salon.com/2014/08/19/canadas_despicable_climate_c...

"In 2010, three years after Harper first introduced the new communications policy, Environment Canada reported that media coverage of climate change had dropped by more than 80 percent. Meanwhile, the Canadian government’s continued to wage war on science, often at the expense of the environment. In 2013, when NSIDC again reported that summer sea ice was melting, Leona Aglukkaq, Harper’s environment minister, downplayed the findings, explaining in a follow-up conversation that it was “debatable” whether the Arctic was warming. Without free access to the facts, one could argue, that’s a pretty difficult debate to have."

And here's a University of Victoria report: http://www.elc.uvic.ca/2013-muzzlingscientists/

"Yet research done by ELC student Clayton Greenwood demonstrates that the federal government is preventing the media and the Canadian public from speaking to government scientists for news stories  especially when the scientists’ research or point of view runs counter to current Government policies on matters such as environmental protection, oil sands development, and climate change. In sharp contrast to past Canadian practice and current US government practice, the federal government has recently made concerted efforts to prevent the media  and through them, the general public  from speaking to government scientists, and this, in turn, impoverishes the public debate on issues of significant national concern. "

I did some googling and couldn't find a slime mold story, but surely you have a link handy?
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It doesn't seem feasible without low cost superconducting power lines.
I too am a highlighter
You want exposed plumbing and wiring. That makes them easily accessible, easier to see what's broken and easier to fix.

This is why military ships do not hide plumbing and wiring behind wall panels.
The US Government, directly or indirectly via funding, publishes more open scientific research than nearly the entire rest of the planet combined. That spans segments ranging from space to medical to habitat to energy.
FDA Makes a Dangerous Abortion Pill Even More Dangerous
I was just musing, no concrete connections at the moment. I don't know if infinity needs self-awareness, but I was thinking that it could prompt one to call into question his/her self relative to the infinite that is being experienced, and in that perhaps adjust one's concept of self through comparison. Or even just thinking about how one can conceptualize such a thing based upon all life experiences where almost everything encountered is finite.
Personally, I like well-columned stuff switching to scroll horizontally.

(It's one of the things I loved about the design style of Windows 8 apps that has been lost in the Windows 8 hate, and admittedly was a part of the Windows 8 hate, because people don't respect a good horizontal scroll of columnar reading material, sigh.)
One area I'm interested in is a legally binding verification of content at a specific point in time - for example: tracking changes to a breaking news article on CNN.

I'm not sure what technologies would be required to implement something like this, but I feel like the Internet Archive would be important and BitCoin might be away of encouraging verification from a globally distributed network of 3rd-party verifiers.
I'm not interested in updates because they never seem to do anything useful, they just move everything around and make thing harder to use without adding anything useful.
There's this odd little rumor/story that gets passed around from time to time that Madden, deep down in the core of its object code, is still running the SNES game engine from the 1990s.

From a blog somewhere else:

"Madden 2015 has a long, dark history. Inside its inmost code, there's a tiny copy of snes9x, linked to a tiny virtual display, used only in memory, never shown to the user. This arrangement has been used to drive every version of Madden since John Madden Football 97, although the emulator then was a custom job written (poorly) by EA."
This is it.

It has to do with border-spacing between table cells -- when you select text that runs into the border-spacing, it resets the selection to go from 1) original cell 2) start of the table 3) next cell.

With more sane styling (ie: setting border-spacing to 0), the selection won't jump to the start of the table.
If You Think Free Money Kills Work Ethic, Your Definition of “Work” Is Horrible
From the title, I initially assumed it was about human tetrachromats being more susceptible to certain cancers. I'm really starting to dislike how companies are using common words for their names, and not even bothering with weird spelling anymore. :/

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy#Human_tetrachrom...
I think this is a great response. There are so many ways to validate your idea via low-"tech" solutions without building out an app.

Your value proposition is not "an app that provides X". It should be the X. Technology is just the vessel.
I don't see how there could be anything wrong with asking around. Sure, it's all on you to solve the problem, and nobody can figure it out for you, but asking other people for advice is one of about two or three ways to work toward a solution to a problem you don't yet know how to solve, and it would be foolish not to do it.

Speaking as a technical person, what I'm interested in is your or your team's ability to excel at the things I am not good at doing, or don't enjoy doing. Mainly what I would care to see is the ability to do market and business model validation, marketing (in its many forms), sales, and fundraising. That stuff can be demonstrated with the sort of legwork discussed in this article, or (preferably) with past success in those areas.

I don't care if you know how to code, and I might even worry that you'll have learned enough to be in a Dunning-Kruger zone where I'll have to worry about you meddling.

Just my two cents!
Do you believe that gives you the right to control every other computer and prevent the writing of entire categories of software?
I'm not sure that would work with a Hollywood blockbuster.
Here's what I haven't found a good answer to yet...

What is the risk when a large percentage of the middle class and others are all in low fee index funds?

This seems on the surface to be ripe for exploitation in some way, or like we'd be all exposed to the same black swan event and thus potentially trigger another major market event simply because everyone is in the same funds.

I am not a super educated investor so if this is impossible due to the nature of indexes please correct me, but I can't help but feel that this push towards the Bogleheads approach may have the unintended side effect of proverbially putting "all of our investors in one basket."

What are the risks if main street investors truly do shift to this style of investing en masse? It seems that the investments of our middle class and upper middle class would all take big hits at the same time which could cripple the nation moreso than if people were in other investments.

Again, I'm probably missing something here so would appreciate being educated on why my fears are invalid. I haven't been able to find any info on this from googling.
I'm in the opposite situation, technical have solved problem looking for business/sales oriented cofounder. Guess what, that's extremely difficult too.
no.. that's not why they fail. They fail because the client wants the sky but his budget barely touches the ceiling. Eventually the money runs out and the thing falls flat on its face.
I have an anecdote about this that I thought was really profound at the time and still think is pretty interesting.

I was travelling once in Europe on a train that had all different levels of seating "class". There were sectioned private cars, business class cars and economy class cars.

My friend's Dad is German and found a hook-up for private car service. We were backpacking at the time so this was strange but we enjoyed it. So we were seated at the front, and then business class, and then economy class, and then the food car.

I got up to walk to get some food, passing through each section. In business class, all varieties of people were represented. You could call that diversity. Same in economy.

Except for one thing. Every single person I walked by in business class was either reading or working. Nearly every single person I walked by in economy class was playing games or watching TV. Over 90% followed this pattern.

I know there are all kinds of caveats and nuances that make this very non-scientific, but I was surprised by the consistency. Business class riders were educating themselves, where economy class riders were entertaining themselves.

I do believe that knowledge compounds, and I am always surprised by how much I learn that I don't know.
This doesn't resolve the issue. The fundamental issue here is that two versions are running in parallel.

* If you push static content and web pages together, you get V1 and V2 of both static and web, and you end up with incorrect static resources served in both directions. This approach is only reasonable if your deployment strategy is to take a service outage to upgrade all machines together.

* If you push web first, you get the ugly scenario described in the article where V1 resources get served with V2 hashes and cached for 7 days.

* If you push static content first, you still have V2 static content being served for V1 web pages. The "cache bust" doesn't matter. Somewhere a cache will expire and someone will get V2 static resources for a V1 page.

You have to deal with the two versions somehow if you want to resolve the issue fully.
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Copyright grants you some protection, but consumers also have rights. In your world where you have ultimate and complete control over the distribution and use of your work, my rights to fair use would be trampled, for example--and I don't like my rights being trampled any more than you like yours.

It's not so black or white, and DRM, which prevents my own computer from doing as I've instructed, is most certainly on the worse extreme end of the spectrum.
There is no blanket treatment for "trauma". One issue with patients is that often the will to fix things is missing, at which point nothing helps. Those people will argue, and in extremer cases even fight just to avoid getting exposed to the real world again.

First step is usually to index what the reactions are that make the trauma last. Those can go from violence, the will to fix it, over avoidance, to panic, and goes on quite a while. At an extremely high level you could perhaps say that you go over them, attempting to eliminate them one by one. But of course "fixing" panic reactions is done very differently (and much more carefully) from establishing the will to resolve the problem. Throwing in the deep end can work very well if the will to face the problem is the only problem. When we're talking about a situation that looks scary in movies but doesn't carry real risk (like non-venomous spiders) that will usually work, and in fact a lot of people will do just that without any help from a therapist. Best to verify beforehand though, as it certainly will make panic reactions worse. Panic is sometimes solved by role play, imagining, where possible, and planning out moves and counter moves before going anywhere near the real situation.

In a way a therapist only shares his own character with the patient. The theory is that this improves the patient, and the therapist is trained to experience minimal impact. It is advised though, that therapists pair up and have sessions with each other to verify that there is indeed only minimal impact, and fix if problems develop.

Throwing people in the deep end is usually unavoidable : people don't have the choice in the medium term, they have to face the real world, and therefore a good therapy should take that into account.
That additional 20°s of latitude makes a big impact on the amount of sun you'll see, regardless of how suitable the site is.
All that said, it is still worthwhile to work through all of SICP, if you want a deeper understanding of how certain tools work. Writing your own interpreter is a very rewarding experience.
"in the sense that the USSR was created explicitly with the end-goal of leading to a communist society"

That startup failed almost immediately and pivoted as a dictatorship. Calling the USSR communist is like calling Nintendo a playing card company.

Communism seems to work better for ants, bees, and termites. It also might, sort of, work for small groups of humans (extended families)

I think that explains why all communist 'startups' with over, say, 1000 people fail very soon.

Socialism has the same problem to a lesser extent. "Everybody has the right to get something" scales to larger populations than "everybody should get the same". Very few people would knowingly let their neighbors die of hunger, for example, but extending that to "come and have what we eat" is a step too far.
Perhaps I just had an odd copy, but I'd note that perhaps you might wish to have slightly darker ink for this book.
The Macintosh may have had a very small market in the 90's but one market that it did dominate was print.
The Ashkenazi Jew intelligence being higher is probably a myth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence
I used to get super excited. I've calmed down a lot based on how many bugs there are that I experience on my Nexus 6p. I love this phone, I love Android, but I finally get understand part of the reason carriers drag their feet and reimplement stuff: they expect higher quality than Google delivers. Careful word choice there: expect, not actually deliver. I enjoy the new shiny, but there are some glari g bugs.
Thats also a Douglas Adams quote from HHGTTG.
While the size difference of Steam vs GOG is huge, GOG is still the second largest digital game distributor (at least it was last time I checked, not sure if there are newer ones, honestly) on PC.

Is that enough to support main game publishers and developers? I have no idea but that's not the point I was trying to make. The point I'm making is that it's obviously profitable for the people working at GOG.

Why does it matter if Steam disappears? Do you think people would just stop buying games altogether without Steam? People use Steam because of the platform it provides, not because of the DRM. If people wanted to just pirate games they could get the GOG version off a torrent site since that is already DRM-free, it's not like Steam's DRM is stopping anybody from distributing pirated copies.
Hi There!

Will appreciate feedback and suggestions from HN community. Any tips to grow and get first 1000 users will be great.

I am just a novice here but hope to see feedback and suggestions for CookNow as a solution.

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Then it's not a centerfire cartridge - there's no cartridge nor primer in an air rifle :)

I thought centerfire + small pellets meant you were talking about birdshot though a shotgun, like competitive skeet or trap shooting. But I guess there aren't too many indoor ranges for that (although there is at least one - the MSZU complex in Germany). Or perhaps one of the .177 cartridges like .17 HM2.

So we're probably talking about lead contamination on your hands, then. You can clean that off by washing your hands, and as long as you did so after shooting and particularly before you eat, I think you'd probably have been fine. But I'm not a doctor.
There was an article recently agreeing with this point--that a mix of fear, selfishness, and guilt imposed by family and friends motivates many to "keep fighting," when they had previously and privately (away from loved ones) expressed their wish to die.

IIRC, the doctor in the article discussed how awful she felt at witnessing and being part of these prolonged treatments.

Can't find it now, but this seems to be a topic with a long history on NYT:

https://www.google.com/#q=site:nytimes.com+doctor+prolong+li...

Also:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/06/when-its-the...
“Yes, you need to diversify... mix your more established growth names–e.g., your Microsofts, your Intels, your Ciscos, your Yahoos, basically, the reliable blue chip stuff–with higher-risk bets–something like an Astroturf.com, or an Iomega, or a JDS Uniphase, that will offer high-powered upside if things work out for those companies. That will give your portfolio balance, without sacrificing growth."

It's really a joke for this portfolio from some TV gurus from that time around '99, as every "blue chip" companies on the list mostly worth significant lower in '16 from their '99-00 heights: >-50%+ INTC, CSCO, YHOO (not to mentions it's on the selling block). Maybe MSFT is an exception. Those high-risk bets? more like busts: astroturf (?, never heard of it), IOM (from $100 to $3.56 when acq'd by EMC), JDSU (from ~$300 to $6 as VIAV and $25 as LITE). I really do not see what growth in such portfolio.

This just reminds me the moment that Jim Cramer and other pundits on TV urging investors to buy and hold Lehman Brothers stocks before its fall in '08 "because it's too big to fail".
NSLib was just a small modification (change argument orders, other HO functions for Map, etc)to the OCaml stdlib that SLAyer used. It's not essential or necessary here, should have been cleaned up before release.