skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> should the icons represent something "iconic" or something that most people use?

I don't know what you mean by "iconic". If you mean "abstract and without independently-identifiable meaning", then I think in general, no. Icons should be immediately identifiable when possible. The overlapping rainbow paint chips that make up the current photos icon seems utterly meaningless. The camera was meaningful. A stack of photos would be meaningful. An abstracted "photo" like Windows 10 uses (and like Google uses in the sidebar of their online photos app) would be meaningful.

For the record, I think Android/Google's photos icon is also utterly meaningless to most people. I think it's supposed to represent a camera aperture (same as Apple's icon?), but most people probably don't know what a mechanical aperture is.
10 Facts About Live Chat That Will Convince You to Embrace It
Out of curiosity, what do you use for communication tools? Something like Slack or IRC? Do you do a lot of video chat?
Linked article needs more empathy. OP thinks they're negotiating a legal deal in good faith. VC is actually bored that afternoon and is literally telemarketing, or maybe panhandling depending on how you look at it.

Linked article's thought process is exactly whats going thru the mind of an elderly person when a telemarketer preys upon them "Well, he wouldn't say HUD will sue me if I don't pay $500 for him to clean my furnace ducts unless it were true, so I better pay him"

Even if the rate of return is low for the bored VC, at least its not negative and probably not zero.

There is a meta large scale issue WRT the overall market that there is documented proof that at least one VC out there is so bored and sees so few productive opportunities to work on, that their best way to spend an afternoon is panhandling. Now does that prove that there exists one VC thats an isolated idiot which statistically must be true, or is it anecdotal evidence of an overall market slowdown / bubble pop which certainly could be true, or perhaps both?
Fixing Britain's Broken Broadband
The answer is to educate everyone, fast, on embracing the new world order - a world where technology rules and all else is of lesser importance as we all strive toward a better future.

We need to continue to educate, educate, educate, and give to all the powers of the computer, programming, scripting, and google.
For most of us, committing suicide is unimaginable.

Sometimes people find themselves in situations where the unimaginable is a better option than whatever it is they're facing. The act is equally horrific, but preferable to the alternative.

> At least 200 people are believed to have fallen or jumped to their deaths [from the World Trade Centre on 9/11] while other estimates say the number is half of that or fewer.

[...]

> The New York City medical examiner's office said it does not classify the people who fell to their deaths on September 11 as "jumpers": "A 'jumper' is somebody who goes to the office in the morning knowing that they will commit suicide. These people were forced out by the smoke and flames or blown out."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Man
irssi, mutt and pidgin

if i want to shortcut communication i simply call mates via dialthrough, on their mobiles or skype (w/ video sometimes, w/ screensharing a lot, also teamviewer comes in handy sometimes)
That's a fair point, and something that would warrant other solutions. It'd be interesting to read more about the actual numbers involved.

People invoke the 'foreign investor' bogeyman in places like New York City, but it turns out that it is a tiny, tiny percentage of housing there. Sounds like it's different in Vancouver.
Nice work Reflect!
What are your odds of being the tie-breaking vote in a national US election?
And that’s a problem … because?

I get that clarity can be a goal, but it’s not the only goal worth achieving. Clear and unambiguous titles aren’t some self-evidently true virtue, especially not in a medium like podcasts, especially not with a podcast like 99PI that’s very much about storytelling.

I do agree that for the medium of Hacker News ambiguous titles aren’t optimal, but 99PI has not special obligation to optimize its titles for Hacker News. Here I would rather have Hacker News adapt the title than wanting 99PI to change it.

I dislike the “clickbait” accusation very much. It’s so lazy. “Clickbait” is really not the only reason that can lead to ambiguous titles, far from it.

Also, I enjoy ambiguous and creative titles, especially from someone I already trust to put out great content (like 99PI). Under those circumstances I honestly fail to see the problem and if there is a problem then it’s that the title isn’t optimal in circumstances where clarity is a virtue, but under those circumstances it seems better to just manually adjust the title or to add a little abstract instead of wanting 99PI to change.
How does it perform on a face even slightly in motion?
I absolutely love that, and hope that I can one day contribute in a similar way. It's a shame that these people get clumped in the same camp as that college kid who watches bootleg theatre films just so they don't have to pay for an admission ticket. There is a community that attracts these people: https://www.reddit.com/r/datahoarder
I have been writing software for over 17 years and I did Angular for 2+ years before switching to ember. In the last 17 years, I have never been happier and more productive than I am today with ember. It does bother me that it is not as popular as it deserves.

I don't want to self promote but I am sure you can find my other posts, I am creating a web app once every 2 or 3 weeks with ember and firebase - the beauty of conventions over configurations and of opinionated frameworks.

There 50 ways to setup a react or angular project. There is ONE way to do it in ember. You can move into a new code base and know exactly where everything is. (ps: you could change the conventions if you wanted, but why would you do that!!!)
It's sad to see the demise of grand old elm trees due to Dutch Elm disease as those trees take decades to reach maturity, can't be easily replaced, and their replacements are generally also susceptible to the disease. Oak wilt disease is having a similar effect on oak trees across the southeast US.
I posted it without having any relationship with them.
I haven't even used basecamp ever.
No Cell Phones, Wi-Fi Allowed in Small West Virginia Town
Cordial terms with sociopath swindlers? Why?
I agree with most of your historical analysis, and I agree with your final sentence (People want safety; they want security; they want conformity; they want power over others.), but I think, of the four things in that sentence, only the first two are fundamental, and the last two are mostly desired as a means to the first two. I.e., people want safety and security, and see the power to ensure others' conformity to their vision of how the world should be as a means to be safe and secure in the way they want to live.

I think if we can create enough freedom and opportunity for people to live as they want to live, in as much or as little community with like minded others as they want, where they don't feel that their particular way of life is threatened, then we will see much, much fewer attempts to control other people.

This is the basic standard of social coexistence: my right to control my world ends at the equilibrium point between my legitimate interest and yours. John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is really great on this topic.
If you're on Gentoo, sys-devel/crossdev is useful for creating cross-compilers.
We used om next and the untangled framework for this product, and they were really pleasant to work with. Definitely recommend checking them out.

sources:
http://untangled-web.github.io/untangled/

https://github.com/omcljs/om/wiki/Quick-Start-(om.next)
Seven Nation Army on hacked computer hardware
What does "interrupt" mean here? If you don't have video data available to the card fast enough, it's not going to have anything to render.
Awesome! Congrats!
I've just been doing 3 d/w for the last 3 months. Negotiated it on a contract. I did it initially to decide whether to start a startup, but at the same I sorted out loads of admin, bought a guitar, and learnt loads of other stuff. I loved it.

Mind you, where I am is incredibly flexible with me. Last year I worked 1 d/w remotely for the summer (two mornings a week in fact, not even a whole day :-)).

It's probably easier to get this on a contract (and it'll probably help with the IR35 thing if that ever comes up)...
He seems to be under several misconceptions... This one may just be a mutation of the widely accepted idea that we can in principle emulate a brain using our standard computer models, even if it'll take n more decades of hardware advances, the idea that the brain is discretely computable.
My impression was that we were talking about providing new construction in job centers for people who are not currently working. I would see a difference for someone who has already been there for many years, or was displaced recently.

Even in that case, though, I might be ok with telling people that they may have to transfer units if they are no longer working. We are talking about providing free or heavily subsidized housing for people who can't afford it, and there isn't a unlimited supply of this, especially near high cost job centers. There's pain in the displacement you have described, but I was responding to the comment that said that it is a warped point of view to prioritize working people when assigning spots in subsidized housing in job centers. There's a lot of pain in the commutes low income workers must endure to feed their families, too, a pretty heavy human toll involved in soul crushing commutes from the exurbs to the job centers. Would it warped to say to low income seniors: "we will continue to provide you with clean, safe housing, but now that you are no longer working, we will provide this further from the job centers, so that we can reserve the more expensive and scare units near the job centers so that low income workers don't have to commute two hours each way in traffic and rarely see their families."

Honestly, it does seem a reasonable allocation of scarce public resources to me.
And with higher earnings and education, it says, which smells a lot like they're not trying to isolate it as a factor. I'm pretty sure they could add that taller people are better at speaking English and get more vacation time than shorter people.
Inside the warehouse where ex-Googlers are building self-driving trucks
Interactive versions of the data visualizations are available on the NCD RisC website:

http://www.ncdrisc.org/v-height.html
DNA is a self-optimizing program for its own survival. After millions of years of optimization, ones will to live is quite powerful.

The twist is that the optimization mechanism relies on mistakes in copying itself. One outcome of a copy mistake could be a weakened will to live in certain negative life circumstances.
> give to all the powers of the computer, programming, scripting, and google.

One of those is a private company.
That is certainly a lot of leaps you're taking there. There's no evidence to suggest any of those things you've implied.
Curious about the technology stack behind it and its development history.
Yeah, I think they messed this up. In my view they could have charged him with money laundering if they could have proven that the bitcoins he was using were purchased with illicitly obtained funds. The laundering would have taken place when the bitcoins were purchased, not when they were sold.
I don't see what knowing these abbreviations has to do with knowing Latin. They are, to all intents and purposes, English words used in English writing, and people who have had the opportunity to develop a good English vocabulary in other respects will have learned these words too.

(Note, I grew up in England. I have begun to suspect that these abbreviations are used a little less in the US. But there again, if that is the case then the problem still lies with people's unfamiliarity due to not much usage — or perhaps with screen readers' unfamiliarity due to US-centric development — not with Latin.)

(Also, wouldn't the German equivalent of "i.e." be "d.h." which I'm sure I've seen for "das heißt"?)
There is a strong streak of libertarianism, if not outright objectivism, in this industry which recoils at the mere thought of collective action.
I've had mine 20 years.I probably get 1-2 calls a month, some of which I dodge using True Caller.
I agree with your point at the end. The question of what keeps many suicidal people alive is quite interesting, and no doubt complex. I just feel like the introductory question of "Why do so few humans kill themselves?" is backwards: the basic strangeness of human suicide is why we do it at all. Beyond that, there is then the interesting sub-question of why some people feel a desire to do it, but refrain.
How to teach your dog to take selfies and text them to you
They stumbled into an entrenched market position, and now the want to give away some of that to employees.

Wasteful. Most companies reinvest that money into the future growth of the firm, and run their business like a business.
As far as attracting hires, they almost never hire. Which actually makes me sad. I'd love to work there.
The system you are wishing for (i.e., live where the free market guides you) is already, in reality, the system we nearly exclusively live in.

The public effort to encourage mixed-income housing and mixed-income communities in order to fight the effects of concentrated poverty is not just about politics. There are real issues at play here, e.g., societal, economic, environmental, etc.

Also, consider the benefits, to yourself, of living in a mixed community instead of a socioeconomically homogenous cluster.
All UI has gone less Skeuomorphic and flatter. Google's doing it and giving "material design" talks at all the major conferences. Just look at their design https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_Design Windows embraces flat design way more than Apple does, maybe the author needs to check out an Xbox or use a Surface for a few minutes? Websites everywhere are minimalistic and flat compared to five years ago. This is the current design thinking, the author is stuck in the past. On top of that, this article shows the opposite of what it says it does - it's demonstrating how Apple is doing all these "bad" things less than everyone else.
Zipcar used Wrapify to track offline car ad “impressions” for ad campaign
To me, flat design just looks cheap. Maybe texture and shading for icons makes as much sense as tail fins on cars, but even the most strident minimalist designer still wants to convey some sense of quality with the details they choose to keep.
This isn't easier than multiplying by 1.6 at all, but it's also new to me and really awesome. Thank you (and the grandparent poster) for mentioning this!
AMD unveils Radeon Pro SSG graphics card with up to 1TB of M.2 flash memory
> And even if users don't know what a camera is, they can still recognise the other 50% of the icon.

Can they? who prints photos anymore?
It’s M&A Time (IPOs Return in 2018)
You got completely right! Version 2 answered my question, thanks!
When design should get in the way
on the front page already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12165699
Let me know if I’m missing a product category or if you know of any companies that should be listed. I’ll update the list!
On my Android phone, the alarm sounds even if I have the phone set to "silent". If there is a way to actually silence the phone, I'd love to know about it.
Women in countries like Senegal are less free to choose want to do and so this is not surprising.

Not anymore. As a woman in Senegal you can choose whatever path. They are encouraged to excel in school and in their careers just as much as men. From my observation, without data, it would seem the younger generation of women is definitely more successful than the one of men.
ACM and IEEE Computer Society also host meetings "where one of the goals is to connect grad students with companies."

When I was in school, the local ACM chapter had meetings which which even helped undergraduates find internships and jobs.

All of the major ACM conferences have a job fair. Most of the minor ones as well.

> "What is it about applying the same techniques to tech that makes them special"

There is nothing special about tech. The same is true for most fields. Where is your central source where you can hire a chemist?

Usually, the potential chemist hire comes to the site, talks to people, gives a job talk, etc.

> "say they HAVE to give these multi-day long technical screens"

The link you gave to AirBNB says it's one day technical screen, and candidates which pass that screen have a followup with four non-tech interviews. It is not a "multi-day long technical screen".
Money isn't binary.

Any token that can be used to exchange goods and services can be considered "money". Some money is better (read: better store of value, widely accepted, used as legal tender to pay taxes) than others, depending on the specifics of the transaction it is used for.

These tokens can be physical placeholders (dollar bills) or virtual placeholders (debits and credits in a bank account, bitcoin).

M0/M1 is a grouping of extremely liquid forms of money. Bitcoin is also relatively liquid, so it wouldn't be too far-fetched to include it in M1 if it were more stable (read: if it had a government or large corporation backing it).
Interesting!

Regardless of the outcome (productivity -> more / less / equal), I would like to see the same experiment in IT or even other so called white-collar positions. I am sure things would be different.
Here's another blog that documents the decline of Apple's user interface design: http://uxcritique.tumblr.com/
I don't care terribly much what they prefer.

Much more interesting question is what they settle on. That's what determines selection.
Tl;dr

> The company partnered with Wrapify, a San Diego startup that pays drivers to cover their cars with branding and data-tracking technology. Each car is equipped with sensors that feed live analytics to clients so they can see where their ads appear on the road, and how many people can see them. (Wrapify uses telemetry data from the car to track drivers' real-time location on a map, and pairs it with anonymized data from other sources to understand how many cars nearby see the message.)

Am I the only one who finds this creepy?
Iodine is added to table salt in a lot of countries in the world. Why is preventing "physical" diseases ok, but mental diseases not?
Pedantry: The Nautilus article claims that the disease entered the US via a shipment of furniture. This is incorrect. Dutch elm disease came to the US in unprocessed logs. You only need to read the NYT article that is cited:

"The fungus that causes the disease -- Ophiostoma ulmi -- accidentally entered the United States in 1931 on elm logs shipped from France and headed for Cleveland."

These unprocessed logs were destined to be turned into veneer for furniture and cabinetry.
I imagine Basecamp would consider their employees to be the future of their business, so these benefits are reinvestments.
I think they are referring to the effects of concentrated poverty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_poverty
The biggest thing I'd like to see, is fine, DRM everything you want, but file an unencrypted digital master with something long-lasting like the Library of Congress, along with a firm public release date. So much software, media, and books today are not readily available anymore, without a lot of good reason for it. And if it's temporary while copyrights run out, I guess I have to understand that. But my biggest fear is how much of our culture may be lost entirely a few decades from now.

Games should store their source code in similar locations, along with MMO server software and the like. Someday these developers and publishers will be long gone. But hopefully their creations won't be.
Time for a new embedded programming paradigm?
I guess it might make sense to compare to suicide rates in non-human animals (e.g. dolphins which can just stop breathing to kill themselves)
Someone getting mad about feminism in the (modern) US is not too far removed from "the kind of person who tried to keep women in the kitchen in the 1950s."
Hijacking YouTube to transmit your data
Iodine is already added, to salt.
"Hungarian Notation is the tactical nuclear weapon of source code obfuscation techniques"

...never a truer word was said.

(http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html)
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Good introductions can be found in The Case for Peace by Alan Dershowitz and Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman; both excellent books that have sections devoted to detailing Chomsky's thuggish and cranky behavior.
What makes this likely in my opinion is that the author of the article, Christoph Gerber, has already founded one successful startup, Lieferando. He probably has access to legal advice – and he is also not new to the startup business.
>>If there is such a thing as a patriarchal society, Senegal is certainly still an example of it.

Quite frankly I lived in the US since 2001, and I just got back from Senegal. I can tell you there is not much of a difference when it comes to freedom of choice for women. However there is definitely social pressure.

Also there is a night-and-day difference between the Capital where 30% of the population lives, and villages deep inside the country.
But you can use the same roads as the Ferrari owners. Or should they have better roads than you?.
Supporting simple screen readers is a good thing, because it precludes much of the user-hostile crap that web ‘designers’ spew.
As someone who works for an employer who has only very recently begun embracing proper compensation and benefit packages, articles like this are awesome as they draw attention to how far most US based employers still have to come.

I think it's invaluable to have comprehensive break-downs like this published online for companies with some amount of name recognition-- proof that you can take care of your employees and remain profitable.
I know what the exchanges charge for data access, and even if you pay it is in an antiquated format.

Tradier has been providing equity and option tick data for free for years in a clean RESTful API with the capability of websockets and streaming. So thats the answer to your question of who.

Like I said, in this town we call it disruption.
You're already medicated. Fluorine is added to water, and iodine to salt.
> everyone

I lived in Italy for most of the past 15 years, and no not everyone gets that kind of vacation time. A lot of people don't:

* The unemployed. There are a lot of them - with youth rates approaching 40% at one point.

* People who do not have a "Permanent Job", which includes a lot of younger (under 40 is 'young' in Italy) people.

* Even people with permanent jobs are starting to take smaller vacations - 2 weeks, for instance - because the model of "hey, let's shut down the entire country during August" isn't really sustainable when you're competing against people who stay open and stay productive by taking turns taking time off.
One thing that I'm really excited to start working on is aligning the Ember object model towards the new features coming in ES2016+. During the period of JavaScript-the-language stagnation, we had no choice but to add these features as runtime augmentation.

Now that the pace of evolution on TC39 and in the browsers is so much more vibrant, we can start pushing a lot of those features into the language itself.

That has two important side effects. One, it means huge swaths of code can be deleted from Ember. Two, and perhaps most importantly, it increases the chances people will already be familiar with those features once they try to pick up Ember, reducing the learning curve that much more.