skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immediately, I noticed the usage of doughnut charts to display project status. Suboptimal visualisations significantly impede the adoption/market differentiation of task and project management solutions and hamper their usability, once adopted. I thought about what I might want in such an 'at a glance' widget.

TL;DR: https://i.imgur.com/hFpftp7.png

I suggest a vertical stream chart with a top legend (keeping the legend to one line, abbreviating the status labels to save horizontal space if needed but expanding them on mouse-over). In order to emphasise the present status, a stacked horizontal bar chart placed immediately before the stream chart but after the legend emphasises the current state. The inclusion of a stream graph along with a stacked horizontal chart maintains the square overall shape of the widget and the design's present temporal focus. Colour variations can use the second dimension to represent changes in velocity on a per category basis further increasing the information economy of the design, without cluttering its appearance.

However, usage of space in the suggested design is much improved. In using the same quantity of space as the presented widget, the presented design communicates the current state, as well as, a large chunk of the projects history with an emphasis on the near past.

Increasing the interactivity of the visualisation is a natural thought. Such additions might include a contextual (mouse over or fade discover) highlight on the chart (milestones/releases, key dates). Perhaps a forecast feature allowing you to mouse over the chart and using the (mouse wheel nudge or touch drag) into the future. If you (pinch zoom or mousewheel) a past area the graph could rescale to emphasise that point in time.

In short, a bit more attention to the visualisation design would yield a much more substantial and powerful widget without increasing cognitive load and complexity on the user's part of the interaction. I think that, with a bit of focus, a well designed information retrieval and processing platform for project planning and management could easily differentiate itself in the marketplace even in the presence of gratis competition.
Hey there,

Just wondering the reason why you posted a 2 year old article. Is the point to show that the situation has changed very little, or that most of the info is now outdated?

Fro example, in this 2 year time span, Skybox has been bought by Google and became TerraBella, while NovaWurks has disappeared and planet-labs has changed main website :).

It could actually be interesting to have a more updated article!

EDIT : My bad, NovaWurks still seems to be alive : http://www.novawurks.com/. The main page simply has changed.
Clonazepam belongs to a class of drugs called benzodiazepines. It is not benign. It can cause a range of side effects and withdrawal symptoms that are often mistaken for other problems. You may want to check out http://www.benzo.org.uk/votsymp.htm
I have the same issue on React components as well. Had to implement setTimeout in componentDidMount.
The complete history of the fallout shelter sign (2011)
As a dissident under the Soviet system, Korchnoi didn't have the chance to prove himself in international competition in his twenties or thirties

I don't think he was a dissident in his twenties or thirties, and he did play in international tournaments.
Is any of the data of flavor compounds open source?
I would love to invent new recipes data science way.
I'm not entirely sure I buy the arguments that "made-up words" are a bad thing. All words were made up at some point. And the English language on the surface seems extremely redundant in its vocabulary, but each element of a cluster of words can contain separate nuance, so we keep them around. Perhaps this doesn't have a place in computing, but perhaps it does. Consider, for example, the most jargon-y field of mathematics of all, category theory:

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/computational+trinitarianism

Proofs = Types = Categories; all related, all translatable in terms of one another, yet all different. New words in a technical vocabulary let you be both concise but also on occasion familiar.

I find arguments about obfuscation maybe a bit more credible. It's hard to say. I'll venture that getting people to pay attention to your ideas by throwing you off of previous convention could potentially work, but time will tell.
Hopefully in this case the nail is comment plagiarism and the hammer is more careful pattern matching in moderation systems.
BuzzFeed pulls out of $1.3M advertising deal with RNC over Donald Trump
> Are there any studies on modern days supersititions

Yeah, lots of different organizations (e.g., Pew Research) periodically conduct surveys about religious beliefs.
> Cisco is a sales driven company not an engineering company.
> Barring a few business units (and that too I'm being generous)
> there is absolutely no innovation or drive
> to build new products.

this is _exactly_ right. for example, nick-feamster (formerly gatech, and now at princeton) hosted a google hangout with nick-mckeown (stanford)
as part of his sdn mooc on coursera. the hangout video is approx. an hour long, and is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abXezfJsqso

initial 15-20 minutes of this video describes the experience of these n/w researchers (mckeown, cassado etc) when they
presented their (sdn) idea to execs at csco, their (exec's) rejection of the said idea, which indicating to them (the
researchers) that it (the idea) passed the so called 'idea-smell-test' :)

if you have time to spare, watch it !
> May I argue that it is uncomfortably low?

You may; but it is certainly high enough to lend credence to those concerned about false accusations.
GE Considers Scrapping the Annual Raise
Very slick. But something seems wrong with the two finger zoom (or I misunderstand it). It zooms, but it also scrolls a little... so the thing I was looking at will go off screen.

For example if I have Sunday the 10th at the top of the screen, and I two finger scroll/zoom, I'm preplexed why the date at the top shifts to earlier or later dates. This happens both directions. Maybe it's intentional, but it's unexpected (for me). I either want to zoom or scroll, not both.

I hope you take that as constructive. I really like it otherwise :)
It's a very sobering but realistic thought. Plenty of past human civilizations that were powerful and dominant in their day are now but decayed ruins of varying levels of mysteriousness. I do very much enjoy and benefit from being part of this civilization in this time and place, but I have no delusions that hundreds or thousands of generations from now, assuming the species survives, the works of here and now will similarly be puzzling ruins.
I know next to nothing about Rust, which makes this all kind of opaque. Can you link a good Getting Started for Rust that pairs well with these?
Ford tried to do the "No inventory" dealerships in the late 80's and it was a spectacular failure. While buying a vehicle isn't the same as Amazon's same day delivery, do you really want to be the person who just told someone who dropped 80K+ on a vehicle that they won't be able to get it until it's driven off the line?

Cadillac has an image and an innovation problem. Have you driven a Cadillac recently? The entertainment system is buggy if you have an iphone -- you'll be driving down the road listening to something on the satellite radio and it'll just switch over to your iPhone...even though there's nothing playing on your iPhone. Disable everything's microphone access...and it's still randomly connecting to your iPhone. GM's blaming Apple...Apple's blaming GM...who cares, just fix the damn thing. You're paying a premium for features that should just seem "standard" if you're buying a luxury vehicle (Heated/Cooled seats are a 3K upcharge, you can get them standard on the Kia Forte EX). Unfortunately, the In-Car Entertainment has been the same for the last three years.

I realize that GM is trying to innovate and do things outside the box, but, I really think that they should step outside the comfortable world of badge engineering and try to create something that is out of the box...and unique to the brand.
True, but the term is "project management" , not "planning management" :)
> Think about open places, to inspire and generate positive emotions and so on, well their guidelines was to entrap, confuse, isolate and promote whatever kept people playing longer.

> She eventually quit and became a housewife.

I think she ended up working for IKEA.
I wonder if it's because it looks like three sets of pincers. I feel like the effect would be muted if the outer circles were consistent width and didn't end in points.
They leave out that Ken Kesey was participating in the Menlo Park CIA sponsored LSD tests in 1959.
It is a really cool film. Looking at the Tesla Turbine and the avrocar one wonders if you could improve its efficiency to get the necessary thrust. The oblate disk is a pretty poor flight shape but it does provide space for decent fuel and cargo. Time for someone to build one using a high efficiency brushless motor and a couple of batteries. All of the stabilization electronics now weighs about 12g!
Respice post te. Hominem te memento.
IBM Joins R Consortium
You can start with this https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
How the Top 5 PC Makers Open Your Laptop to Hackers
Ask HN: Why is there so many lisp variants?
and which of those are likely to be used professionally (if lisp could be used for such)?

I don't have any experience with lisp or with any of its variants but I've seen a lot of codes written in it.
To be fair, the odds that our ancestors will have figured out how to "solve" radioactive waste seems much slimmer than that our ancestors will be digging in the remains of our civilization for scraps to survive. In that case, this is really about taking the bare minimum responsibility to our distant progeny by warning them of the danger.
Worth learning. Not so easy to do I am afraid.

Nock is very nice.
Hoon bends the mind, which is actually a nice thing.

This whole thing bends my mind anyway.

A good option for avoiding Alzheimer by training those neurons... interesting internal feeling trying to grok it for sure.
New Look for Google Search Results
Actually, after a couple of hundred years it's no more dangerous than the ore from which it came. No one worries about putting up signs around natural uranium ore bodies.

Saying that "x has a long half-life" is exactly the same thing as saying "x is not very radioactive". By definition.
Its not that hard if you are living in Europe, USA or some other County with a decent economy and currency. It might take a little longer depending on the county.
For me it started easy, after backpacking for a month through Europe as European I could feel this desire to travel more. So 2013 I set my lifegoal to travel arround the world. One year later I specified it to travel for one year till end of 2018.
I googled a little and found a Worldtrip costs 10'000-30'000 Fr.- per year. So when starting my first real Job I knew how much I need to save to make my lifegoal become true. So I addapted my life standards to this income.
Fast forward, its 2016, I got a poor russian Girlfriend in Russia which I can't leave for a year. So know it means to save a little more and divide that through 2.
So the base question, can you save 200$ a month? Then do it for 5 years. Can you save 400$ a month? Then do it for 2.5 years. Can you save 1000$ month? Do it for two years, because you can easily afford a nice world trip.
Maybe its because most Swiss get raised to save money but its not that hard. Split the income as follows: 1/3 renting, 1/3 living, 1/3 saving. Put the money to save (automatically) on another account the day you get your salary. Its easier to save money you never had.
So if a worldtrip is desires, set the goal of your near future life and live with the consequences to save those 200$.
Apparently even babies have an innate fear of spiders (and snakes)(according to at least one study).

http://www.livescience.com/2348-fear-snakes.html
http://www.toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Dioxin

Has a worst case half life of 50 years.

http://www.ejnet.org/dioxin/

Lists very small quantities as still quite dangerous to reproduction or causing cancer in exposed subjects.

But on a 10,000 year scale I fail to see how it would still be a problem. A few hundred, definitely still risky.
Rust-metrics – Coda Hale inspired framework
'of Fable fame' is practically blasphemous.
In the full report [1], there actually is a sample short story or "scenario" (page F-139, "5.1 Scenario for the marking system (MFK)"). Extract:

> Jo climbed down and walked over, the sand squeaking beneath her boots. She followed Steve’s head around the shape, only to find another shape behind it. The sand had shifted in between the two, but the writing was still clear. She stood next to Steve and looked. There were faces, two of them. And there was writing, in many different forms. “Hey, I think that’s Chinese -- I saw something like it in my ancient history class,” said Steve as he knelt to get a closer look.

> “So send a picture to Cindy in Remote -- you know she likes that old stuff,” shrugged Jo. “What did they want around here? Those faces aren’t scary. That one looks scared and that one looks sick, I’m not impressed. ” She stepped out between the pillars and looked around. They had stopped just before the center. There was nothing there but sand and scrub. She squinted and saw that every passage way was blocked by these little shapes sticking up in the middle. She sighed. All this stuff for... nothing?

[1] http://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/access-control.cgi/1992/92138...
The change in the brains from early protohumans to homo was a change of kind not quantity. We evolved new mental apparatuses.

On the other hand, from homo habilis/erectus to human, I do not believe there was a drastic change in kind of mental capacity, but rather, in a slow build in the technology of language made possible by our new mental apparatuses, which finally provided us a means for expressing and exploring complex ideas.

The brain is a very complicated system. Like other complicated systems, it is very easy for it to break from small changes (and thus we see mental disorders). On the other hand, it is nigh impossible to make a very complicated and robust system more effective -- a small change here or there generally won't do it.

So, barring us finding major physical differences in the brains of the general populace, they would seem to me to operate with roughly a uniform capability.

The difference that people ignore between the evolution of the brain and visible traits like skin color, is that skin color is a very simple system. We can expect it to change quickly. On the other hand, for human mental capacity to change would require enormous amounts of time because of the complexity involved.

It's possible there are modicums of difference in their operation, but it is unlikely to make a measurable difference between humans when compared with differences in the software of nurture, of culture, of 'thought'.

As with computers, you'll get more out of a little software tuning than you will by shrinking transistors by a nm, and software tuning is much easier.

As for twin studies, see my comment above.
Reminds me of a story I heard on the radio with a DJ reminiscing about his pot days. He and his friends decided that the stuff came up with while high was comedy gold and decided to write it down so they could remember it.

He looks at it the next day to see what they were rolling on the floor about, and there was one word: "Fart."

Some of the paintings here made me think of that. Perceived creativity while in an altered state of mind, vs actual creativity.

I remember someone describing a shroom experience where they felt like they understood life, the universe, everything, and were at peace with it. At least I think it was shrooms... maybe MDMA or something, I don't remember.

I was intrigued by this because it was a change in the way they felt that was the life altering experience. Something very intangible. Having dealt with depression for a long time, I see how this can be, and yet it really struck me as interesting. Perspective matters.
Ask HN: Is My Google Cloud Network Private?
If I have instances that communicate with each using plain text through their internal IP address.Using the 'default' settings of my project, can other people sniff/eavesdrop my cleartext messages?

I am using compute engine instances to talk with each other and with app engine instances as well.

Thanks!
Not sure why they couldn't just create these functionalities inside Microsoft Project. (Probably because it might be harder to implement on an older code base?)
It's annoying that you can't retract your votes. What is the point with that?

Also, I can only upvote. Are you given the power to do the opposite once you're seasoned enough or something?
I can't scroll the page using my trackpad on Firefox because the scroll events seem to be captured by the simulated phone and not passed to the page.
actually, Lebanon back then did not exist. the whole region, which is now Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan was known as the Land of Syria.

So, Phoenicians are Ancient Syrians who lived on the coast area of syria (which part of it right now is called Lebanon)

The Alphabet system was created in city of Ugarit, which is located inside Modern Syria
Cadillac needs to make better cars.
I visited the GM building in Detroit a few years ago where they have a number of new Cadillacs on display. I sat in a few an was surprised how cheap they felt, like a nice Chevy.

I thought maybe it was just one model but all of them from the lowest price point on up felt cheap to some degree.
Maybe they will come here and do so?
By the way, how strange is it to use the term "bucket" every day?
All Kanban-inspired applications use the term "board" I thought
Protocol Oriented Programming
This looks very promising, with a few improvements I can easily see this as my preferred calendar app.

Feedback: Is it possible to selectively enable/disable individual calendars? I have a "birthday" calendar from a large social network that results in multiple birthdays each day completely dominating the calendar. If I can't turn that off, it's virtually unusable for me unfortunately.

I tried to assign up for the Android beta but just received a confirmation email that I'd subscribed, no link to install the app. Is that to be expected?

[Edit: I just received a download link in an additional email. Thanks!]
Webhooks, their essential role in business
They were recently merged:
https://ixquick.com/eng/ixquick-merging-with-startpage.html
This is incorrect, at least it was in April this year:

The head engineer of Opera for computers Krystian Kolondra: “Currently WebRTC and plugins are still not routed that way”[0]

The technical difference between a VPN and a proxy is typically that the proxy works at the application layer (layer 7) of the network stack, whereas a VPN creates a new network interface and operates at the network layer (layer 3).

The practical implications (which you asked about) are:

i) With a proxy, there's no new system network interface, so no way for other apps to use it

ii) A proxy is application-specific (in this case HTTP and HTTPS) so other protocols (even those that opera supports, like WebRTC) can't go through it.

[0]https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/04/22/opera-browser-vpn...
Timezones are so last century. We have wobnits now. They are like nanoseconds, but that's just a metaphor which is dangerous if taken too literally.
How can it be called "The Notebook for Hackers" when there's no Linux support?
Different generations different games. Not everyone played Populous.
I'm pretty familiar with various approaches to implementing Lisp / Scheme, and seeing projects like this is almost heartbreaking. What's been done here (which I might call the "mechanical" approach to implementing Scheme) seems to attempt to emulate an underlying LISP machine instead of emulating the language itself, and that's fundamentally problematic because, for the most part, that's the wrong abstract machine. If the author took the time to work through the first four or five chapters of SICP, they'd have the knowledge to construct a much cleaner machine (based on CEK) that would, ultimately, end up far more performant and faithful to the end-goal semantics. All of this mucking about with allocation and free-cells for expressions and the like is orthogonal to building a LISP interpreter in C. (And, if the author is really interested in that sort of thing, the LISP machine is well-documented.)

If anyone else is interested in starting a project like this, getting down and dirty, I'd urge you to start with the first part of SICP and then move into Dybvig's dissertation (at http://agl.cs.unm.edu/~williams/cs491/three-imp.pdf), which directly and plainly describes multiple approaches to producing efficient, reliable Scheme implementations.

(Also, why doesn't this link to the Github page instead of the blog?)
Ironically non-inclusive, elitist language is a mainstay for leftists too.

EDIT: Read Marxists.org, it's incredibly unapproachable to the layman that didn't complete high school let alone middle school.
I love VS Code and have been using it as my main editor for quite a while now, but the lack of project-wide find and replace is why I still keep Atom around:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1690

This glaring omission combined with the proposed performance improvements in the Atom 1.9 beta might just be enough to tempt me back to the Atom side again.
Oh that is fun, too bad if you dig straight down from Silicon Valley you end up in the Indian Ocean. Of course it would make an excellent hyperloop route, San Francisco to Mumbai in only 10 hours :-)
> Given false claims epidemics you have in the US these days

Citation needed.
No Musky. Feudalism Is Best for Mars
I really wish Google Maps wouldn't be pushing these reroutes by default. A friend was pulled over a few days ago in a small town off the Interstate (the sort of place with bored LE) and got embroiled in all sorts of legal nonsense thanks to this "feature". There's only one obvious route (and I know it well), so I couldn't figure out how she was "caught up" in the aforementioned city. She said Google Maps had redirected her off the Interstate and that she had spent 40 minutes driving back roads. I didn't believe her.

The next day I was driving as she played navigator with her phone. It was a highway route that I know well. Several times it redirected us around "slowdowns" and (what it referred to as) construction. Out of curiosity due to the prior events, I begrudgingly obliged it's instructions. It was completely nonsensical... Not only did it not save time, but it added a whole new dimension of additional stress driving through unfamiliar, unsigned, back roads.

I don't know that I feel comfortable using or recommending the current incarnation of Google Maps navigation to others. It's great and all when you already know exactly where and how you're going someplace. The traffic estimates can be invaluable. However until they scale back this rerouting business, I'd be really weary of using it any further. There are plenty of decent "dumb" navigation apps that won't fuck you like this.