skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess that stationery is not extremely globalized as of yet. I’m honestly not sure why, though. It seems easy enough to mass produce and export everywhere. Maybe historic standards (different paper formats, different rulings) have created trade barriers that prevent globalization.

My brand new notepad (DIN A5, 5mm grid, spiral bound at the top) for my board game evening today doesn’t say where it was made, just that it’s from a German company (it’s labelled predominantly in German, though somewhat prominently also in English – language designated as “UK” – and Turkish, as well as French, Italian and Dutch in much smaller print).

Googling the company doesn’t tell me where and even whether they produce the notepads. Maybe they just relabel someone else’s notepads and resell them?

All I know that the text on their website makes me want to vomit: “Kyome’s target group is primarily women between 30 and 50 who want to combine the practical with the attractive. SoHos (Small Office or Home Office) are increasingly finding their place in living rooms and kitchens. For this reason, kyome products are surprising, as according to the brand promise, with nice, clever ideas, are pleasantly functional and a long way from grey, everyday office life.”

Firstly that’s some really bad English, secondly that’s insultingly sexist.

But back to the topic at hand: I think the important point is that white paper with some ruling (lines or grid, with margins or without) and bound in some way (left or top, spiral or glue) is a widespread internationally recognizable look for notepads. The details then don’t matter that much.
What about alarms that you forgot you had set?
> In addition to re-reigning in government power, we need similar restrictions on corporate power: a new Magna Carta focused on the institutions that abuse power in the 21st century.

Now we have corporate-friendly proposals in TPP, TTIP, TiSA and RCEP.

Where are the proposals from civil society?
Somewhat depends what you mean by "hire". I've several consulting clients. For one I work ~4 hours per day. At the other extreme is one for whom I work ~4 hours per month.
Pros and Cons of Xamarin Mobile Development
> He seems uninterested in even acknowledging the point that most cameras don't look like that anymore, and there are many (most?) full fledged adults who have never used a camera with a large attached lens.

People say things like this in defence of the recent Apple UI changes but completely ignore the [iOS6 camera icon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/IOS_6_Home_Sc...) vs [iOS7+](http://static1.i4u.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/main_i...)

We went from an icon that literally looks like the iPhone camera to an icon of a point and shoot you and others claim is antiquated and not relevant.
snapchat acquisition in 10... 9...
I'm naturally a sprinter type, so I tend to set up my work the same way. I tend to work more in the winter (55+ hours) since there isn't much else to do anyway, and work less during the summer (40 or less). I'll also work like you suggest for multi-month stretches and then take a few weeks off and go on vacation.

I've tried the steady working, but I just do not operate that way. When there is work to do I do it, and simply have a hard time sitting still or concentrating on something else.

I'm fortunate to be in a field and with a company that is flexible in this way. I also really like this method. When I'm on vacation that is my 100% focus. I'd much rather work a lot and then completely unplugged instead of always working even on vacation.
Probably has something to do with the theory of natural selection.
zsh, i3, ssh, openvpn, pidgin, tmux, vim, firefox, vlc - about everything i need all 6hr working day long

if i want to shortcut communication i simply call mates via dialthrough or skype
Not the original poster, but...

Happiness: For me is calm, equanimity. Happiness can be sustained without negative effects. Happiness is not an emotion.

Joy: Is an emotion which means it is more more intense but also shorter in duration. If someone was always stuck in a state of joy we might start to worry about them (mania?). Experiencing joy is pleasurable but clouds the mind, and is tiring if sustained for too long.

Generally, all emotions put a cognitive filter on the mind: anger focuses the mind on a perceived threat and is known to exclude other information for example.

True happiness unclouds the mind and makes it see more clearly.
In the Netherlands I've had to declare bitcoins on my taxes the last few years.
The point is being able to see the menu bar (with the current date/time etc.) without hovering the mouse over it.
Nodes Found in Anonymity-Protecting Network Tor Are Actually Spying on Users
Might have to due to kids and jobs. If my wife were to start a business it would be considerably less because should wouldn't need paid at first other than daycare. If I started one I would need to replace our household income.
Robert Reich predicting the rise of Trump in 2012
Even if we assume that GMOs have no downsides and they solve world hunger. The problem is actually far simpler than you might think: Solving world hunger is impossible by increasing supply since demand will rise accordingly. The only solution is to decrease demand especially for meat since most plants are fed to animals. If we didn't "refine" our plants into meat then we could have instead fed the entire world population already without GMO. World hunger is largely a political problem and often it's solved by simply freeing up the markets and allowing global trade.

The disadvantages include things such as vendor lock-in into expensive proprietary seeds that you can only obtain from a single supplier with compulsory proprietary herbicide/pesticide and you might become a target of lawsuits because cross pollination cannot be prevented.
I wonder if they would agree to say a special word in the message. "Mention 'bananas' when you call."
The paper does not draw a causation, nor does the article. The paper asks a question, and the article tries to think along the lines of the question and asks some more.

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> I think the answers are pretty obvious. Most people don't kill themselves because they don't want to.

That is a simple conclusion, indeed; and it's not wrong either. The article tries to reason how that conclusion came to be. People who have had suicidal thoughts but didn't go through with it did ultimately not want to do it, but before that decision they did want to, by definition of 'suicidal people'.

The article – inspired by the paper – opens with the premise that 'pain' and 'human cognition' alone should make a human want to 'give up' upon the slightest inconvenience, and then goes on to try and come up with other factors — like your Alice wanting to see her nephew grow up or not wanting to inflict pain on her parents — that prevent 'pain and brain' from having their way uncontested.
The Artist Is Absent: Davey Wreden and the Beginner's Guide
Wouldn't it be far quicker to just answer it (and block afterwards if it turns out to be spam)?
*A* Future for React Development Tooling
> Let other programmers fix the bugs and charge it to support after you release it. Send your main programmers onto the next project. That's how commercial software works.

That's how some commercial software works, but less and less. It's a dying model.

That strategy represents two bets: 1) You can shift a lot of the costs from before release to after (in the form of tech debt), and 2) people will pay you a lot up front before they figure out that your product is buggy and that you can't innovate any more.

That could work with packaged software where you can market the hell out of it and get a lot of people to buy it once. It doesn't make sense for internal software, though. And it mostly doesn't make economic sense for software as a service, where people pay you month by month. With a service, it's better to start small with a core market and then innovate continuously, so people always feel like it's getting better. You can't do effective continuous innovation with high levels of technical debt and your "main programmers" off on the next project. Unless your market has a very high barrier to entry, somebody will spot your weakness, jump in as a competitor, and quickly lap you.

We'll still be dealing with the bad habits from that era for years. But the era itself is over.
Both.

In terms of computing power, think of the Butterfly effect: small changes in initial conditions produce enormous differences in outcomes.

Also, the models aren't constrained by what we think the equations should be. In a sense, the equations are just a model of a more abstract kind rather than physical.

Of course for the reasons that you listed physical models aren't perfect either.
Exactly why I make mine transparent: http://imgur.com/a/AXNy9

Contrary to popular belief these days, contrast is not the enemy.
Monitoring Elasticsearch at Scale
I haven't split-tested, but a decent proportion of my work is theory work, so it's sometimes hard to measure objectively (compare to measuring e.g. lines of code / money)- also my super productive times tend to happen in a burst of energy so I'll spend a couple of weeks doing groundwork at a more leisurely pace, and then when once a bunch of little trouble-spots are done, I go all in and work really hard for a week or so while the critical ideas are all in my head so I don't lose focus
front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12164909
This was news to me that there was any battle to be had here.

I grew up in a part of suburban Chicago where all the residential streets were lined with elms -- it looked very much like the photo of Central Park in the article. I can remember the little papery elm seeds littered everywhere. Over the course of my childhood in the 1980s they all got Dutch elm disease and every last one was removed. The village arborist would come by and spray paint a big green dot on the trunk -- a mark of death -- and a week later it'd be gone.

By the time I was in high school, it looked very bare. Most of the elms were replaced with maples, which are only now starting to look reasonably substantial.
I think your comment has blurred some distinctions that the post takes care to pull apart. Every human inevitably suffers and has reason to commit suicide, so why don't they all want to? Many more people want to commit suicide than do commit suicide, so why is that?

The reasons that you posited for Alice not killing herself were among many mentioned in the post.
if your project was capable of running as just a series of backend driven pages, Ember probably wasn't the right choice to start with. That isn't really what it is for.
American here. Can't say I've ever seen a notepad like that, nor have I heard of Rhodia. For what it's worth, with the cover folded back it looks very much like a legal pad. That wide left-hand margin with red vertical rule with the faint blue horizontal rules are pretty characteristic of legal pads. While you do often see legal pads with yellow paper in the US, whitely-papered legal pads are also readily available (frankly, I never liked the yellow paper and I don't really understand why anyone would...). I've also seen legal pads with pale pink paper, and ones with pale blue paper, but in my opinion both of those were too dark to offer good contrast with ink.
The question as posed is an interesting one, as it sits on the boundary of where the "lizard brain" and executive thought process meet. The instinct to survive is very strong, even when the rational brain thinks (rightly or wrongly) that it's a hopeless situation.

Understanding how and why people cross that line may be a way to identify people at risk and intervene.
HN is very China sensitive with a huge Chinese population. Anything critical of China, no matter how well sourced, will lead to stuff like this. Its shameful. HN isn't what it used to be. It is no longer a place to criticize state run media or state run science from corrupt autocratic states.

The problem with eternal September is that it quickly devolves into eternal political correctness. What is pc is then determined by the majority, so its a classic case of mob rule. Minority opinions are called offensive as a way to censor others. I can't believe HN has become like this.
re etiquette: that's not how I understand the FAQ.
gimme your contact info... mine is in my profile
Doctors and nurses will work with AI
Show HN: Node.js Website Boilerplate
Ask HN: Why did my Cofounder Search post get flagged?
The folder you just changed into has 30,000 files and you're ssh'd in over a slow network.
But does the bitcoin have anything to do with it? What if you buy their car (sell them dollars)?
Sounds like my job, scary.
The story about how we created 0patch for Foxit Reader CVE-2016-3740
I miss Glass.
"against etiquette to submit paywalled links"

NYT, etc, links are quite common here.

Thanks for the link, but they won't let me see the paper unless I share my identity with them.
Good analysis, but you missed the hiding in plain sight -> hiding in general strategy.

Until you're not gaunt enough from lack of food, who's to know you have stored a lot of grain? Water access is a much bigger issue (why aren't you out scrounging for it, showing up at the military water access points if your city is lucky enough to have some, etc.), but if no one knows you're even there in your dwelling, assuming you can store enough water, you might be able to wait it out.

Ah, bigger issue there is probably a general fire forcing you out of it. In which case you're screwed, and should have bugged out long before the first mass wave of refugees.
I only ever bother with same-day alarms (usually within an hour or two) in which case I do turn the volume up temporarily.
I think this presents a false dilemma, ie it doesn't need to be coding vs non-coding. You can code and knowledge share also. Especially if you pair program or focus on collabitive coding techniques. It doesn't need to be one or the other.
Ask HN: Online course
Hi,
I was thinking of creating a startup company which would provide online courses such as real estate, IT related and others.
I would like to get your thoughts and opinion on it?
I was thinking of buying from a company and then selling them on my website.
From FAQ:

> Can I post a job ad?

> Please do not post job ads as story submissions to HN.
Great essay. I missed only one point: why he used Brazil as a succesful example of internet use? Facebook, Google & Twitter sponsored a mob that finished with a coup d'etat here. We are far from being a good example, I think we are the worse and what happened here is been exported to other countries right now.
Fetch API at MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API
Yoghurt as a probiotic is bad simply because it doesn't contain the right mix of gut bacteria. Typically it's a lactobacillus strain, which is present in our gut, but it's only 1 of millions of strains.
I think a lot of commenters in this thread are missing an important point about accessibility. It does not just mean "works with screen readers". It means easily understood by anyone. A lot of people confuse the terms e.g. and i.e. so it is normally better to say "For example" or "That is" because these are natural phrases that will be clearly understood by a greater number of people.

I try to constantly improve my writing style, where improve normally means "simplify". I am personally guilty of overusing these abbreviations through force of habit, but I edit them out when I can. For anywhere with a formal house style, adopting this seems to make sense, even for things like scientific papers. Excessive use of jargon is a common accessibility problem and in most cases, there's no good reason for it other than dogma.

I am also a big fan of the old Borland "no nonsense licence" for similar reasons. For anyone that hasn't read it, here's a link:

http://www.osnews.com/story/22342/Borland_in_the_1980s_Treat...

This just illustrates that even something requiring the precision of a legal document can be written in plain, approachable English. There really is no excuse.
> The paper does not draw a causation, nor does the article.

It does draw a conclusion:

> Indeed, there appears to be a slight elevated risk
> of suicide in people taking some antidepressants,
> especially young people. But the effect is tiny.
> And some people do think antidepressants relieve
> suffering. If depression caused suicide, treating
> depression should reduce suicide rates, but of
> course it hasn’t. This could be due to the
> ineffectiveness of treatment, however.

If depression caused suicide, treating depressing should reduce suicide rates ... BUT ... that assumes we identify and 'rectify' all depression, and that the only cause of suicide is depression, and that the only metric of success for treatment of depression is a reduction in suicide (across the board) ... and if you adopt those three positions then the numbers start to make sense.

'But of course' this isn't the whole story.
According to the link, around 1 in 100 people commit suicide. It could be argued that this is a rather high number. Certainly any other diseases that achieved this would receive significant attention.

What is interesting however, is how suicide rates haven't changed with other things like medical improvements and improvements to quality of life.
Maybe they've fixed it but the address bar had an atrocious amount of glow. It is clearly out of place.
Perhaps for you. But for me, icons are cryptic. I can glance at a list of words and find exactly what I'm looking for. My brain is wired to read and pick out words much faster than little drawings.
While I usually appreciate this kind of talk, it's irrelevant here. How much a theoretical developer could make has no bearing on the median developer salary right now, which is solidly below 118k.
As another datapoint, I don't think I've ever seen a yellow one here in Brazil (other than paper so old that it has turned yellow from age).
Creating Test Suites in Selenium IDE
(American here, but pen-and-paper snob). I literally was walking through my apartment as I was reading this, looked over at the (Rhodia) notepad on my counter, and thought "hmm, looks about right".

I'd imagine Rhodia is pretty correlated with the popularity of fountain pens.
Platform failure: Why the mighty fail
It would create a lot of noise with large folders, but if you want that behavior you can just replace "cd" with an alias in your shell that does what you want.
Perhaps, but Bitcoin is fungible so I don't see how you're being an accomplice just by knowing the person performs illicit activities with Bitcoin.

Would a needle exchange program also qualify as providing support for an illegal activity?
Any excuse to show off that sweet Titanic98 wallpaper!
Interesting. Now I'm curious about the downvote since money and currency are two different concepts.
I second this. I'm writing this on a late 2011 MBP w/8GB RAM and an after-market 1TB SSD. I use it primarily for developing and testing data-driven applications (big data, medium data, small data). I occasionally run Windows and Linux VMs when my development work demands it. This "old" MBP is my primary machine.

I don't have any major performance issues to this date, at least not for my primary use of this machine. I typically run Netflix, Hulu, or some other media while I code, and I actually have more issues with Flash video running in the browser than anything else. This is generally tied to Spotlight reindexing. Killing the index and allowing the machine to rebuild it from scratch usually resolves my issue. But, I digress...

Take the time to understand how your work utilizes machine resources and buy the best machine to get the work done. It might not even be a MBP.
Which to me is a good thing.
Hailo sells 60% of company to Daimler as it merges with MyTaxi
There's this AMAZING scifi story, which I read in 'Writers of The Future' (great series, named after the eminent L Ron. H.). It imagines a future where after a certain age, everyone has a chip planted in them, which makes it possible to kill oneself 'on demand', painlessly, so to speak. It 'naturally selects' away all those who are uhh, more instably minded, and selects for the very very 'stable' minded. I believe the story was about how boring, unimaginative the society had gotten because natural selection had optimized for stability. Great read! You should read it if you haven't. The writer's of the future series is a collection of amazing stories also, and what finally tipped me into the Sciences, despite the somewhat uhh interesting Scientology connection. Anyone remember the name of the story?

This was inspired by @antiquark's comment:
>>Probably has something to do with the theory of natural selection.
Ha. That's a good one.

Employers appear to want you to be in at least a somewhat similar time zone as their core team and have some prior experience working remotely.

Take this hypothetical person living in the sticks. 3.5 years of experience doing local development. No prior remote experience -> not given the time of day by remote shops -> can't get remote experience.
Obviously it should be a cat video, or Facebook.
I'd have thought that what the article refers to as "coding architect" would be a dev lead in many organisations, and the role of "knowledge-sharing architect" is the traditional software architect role, i.e. someone who comes from a coding background and understands code well but isn't one of the core developers (so doesn't risk getting lost in the details, becoming a bottleneck, etc.).
5-20 times a day? Every day.
Spam calls are very distracting and annoying.
Corporate WebSense agrees with you and blocks my access for that reason.
I will document what I did while building my product for data importing
Mine says "Photos" above it.

But what has actually happened is a mess of inconsistent designs. Older apps still use skeuomorphism. Newer apps copy the flat look.

Skeuomorphism implemented a design principle - discoverability. You could argue with the choices made for specific icons, but there was a consistent goal - to make the OS as usable as possible.

The flat look is an anti-pattern - fashion over discoverability. The point seems to be to allow Sir Jony to impress everyone with his aesthetic skillz. User experience has become secondary to internal politics.

That's a huge problem for a company like Apple, because it'a fundamental shift in focus.

And there have been obvious effects. Watch isn't doing brilliantly, precisely because the user experience is nothing special. iOS is creaking under the weight of new features apparently added with no overall strategy, many of which remain invisible to users because the literally never find them.

MacOS is going the same way. Some of the new features are certainly welcome. But the Apple UX generally is suffering badly - from bugs, from questionable design choices, from popular products like Logic and FCP that have been cut down, then more or less abandoned.

There's no one in charge to obsessively fine tune the conflicting needs of product momentum, reliability, UX, and aesthetics.

Jobs was very good at that. Cook doesn't even seem to realise there's an issue.
My petrol car has a long range. I don't think anyone will be impressed by a car with a long range.
How Homer Sarasohn Brought Industrial Quality to Japan
On my browser you get the full paper just by scrolling down.
Remember that it's technically a valid evolutionary strategy to live to, say, 25, have a few kids, then off yourself. Suicide before reproduction is all that would be selected against.