skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Obama visited Sweden last time I wrote a tongue-in-cheek piece in my local newspaper to put him to trial in the Hague for crimes against humanity. I think most of his tries to close gitmo has been half-assed at most. Just moving gitmo to the US mainland without changing any policies around how to treat detainees is not good enough, and it definitely is not the same as closing it.
It appears to be email grab... but this is straight gimicry and is it even legal????
The upvoting of this submission seems rigged indeed.
This was my first thought as well
The Dutch Basketball league (including amateur of all ages) has about 40,000 players. It just isn't popular.
Is there a way to increase the max depth by just rendering the zoomed area, or is it unviable as the mathematics require calculating the entire object?
Now, if we could only get OSX C/C++ programs to compile/use libraries,frameworks on Linux... then we could have one build VM for them all.
Sounds great. I'd be worried about how this could scale but it sounds like a very civilised way to work.
never seen 2.5mil reads on anything in my life
When was the last time you went out for danish, swedish or finnish food? These countries are small and their food isn't known around the world, but that does not mean that it's bad.
Nice job! Have you looked into web components at all? Turning this into a web component would be a great idea.

As someone else said, I'd also look at removing jQuery as a next step and use pure JavaScript http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ is handy for that!
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Dude knew what was up and stuck with it.
Really? Why would anyone do that?

To complain later that they're paying $100 per month?

Here's how to have unlimited outbound minutes: call using Google Voice

Paying for incoming calls is ridiculous already, but people really like to shoot themselves in the foot
Who tests your tests? Mutation testing with PHP and Humbug
I guess upon reading this, there will be a lot of tall women moving to the Netherlands, making the difference even bigger.
It has some of the finest plastic money can buy.
"This is an interview with Jeff Bezos - the founder of Amazon in 1997. It is very clear that Jeff is already on the right track in 1997 (three years after the introduction of NCSA Mosaic). While his words seem obvious now 15+ years later - in 1997 - he was way ahead of his time. The book "Long Tail" by Chris Anderson was published in 2006 (9 years later).

Watch the baby in the background escape from its mother at 2:16 and run towards the taping :) The mother came rushing through the frame to get the baby which caused the edit at 2:17. Taped June 1997 at the Special Libraries (SLA) conference in Seattle, WA. Video courtesy of Richard Wiggins."
I can't recommend this enough. I've worked with a couple of youngsters in a professional capacity through work experience programmes, and the ones with a drive to do well from 16 onwards are those that are given the freedom to make their own choices in tech. They developed their tech habits in the same way that many of us did, they downloaded the same tools we use, and they started building stuff.

One thing I'd recommend, if they still have the tech bug at around 16, is to see if they can do some kind of work experience in industry at an early age, ideally over the summer holidays. A lot of kids benefit from being around those that do tech on a regular basis, and it's a great feeling for them to work on the same stuff as we do. Even if they're picking up some less important tasks, or are re-doing the company site, it's still a great experience for them.
From 0 to 1M to?
There is an endless supply of vitamin D in the sunny Italy or Spain. I don't think that vitamin suplements have a real effect here.

Using the same reasoning, we could find a link between legally smoking Cannabis and being taller.
Same problem. Don't know why namecheap doesn't support 2FA app like FreeOTP. Would make it so much simpler and more secure at least.
Traffic generator comparison: TRex vs. Avalanche
Government policy is a blunt instrument. Whatever the outcome of this post-fact political pandering, it won't be the desired outcome. Vancouver has a long history of speculation by the locals as much as anyone else. Mortgage debt is completely out of control, but people see it as safe or good debt. This could very well trigger a devastating collapse in market value and scare foreign investors from BC altogether, but I live at the other end of the country, so I mostly can just kick back and watch the fallout.
> If such incidents were rare two decades ago and increasingly common today, then clearly something is going wrong

That is just plainly wrong. In the 70ies, 80ies and early 90ies we had more terrorists and more terrorist attacks, that killed people. There was the (P)IRA in Northern Ireland, the ETA in Spain, the FLNC in France and the RAF in Germany, and these were only the most notorious groups. All of them laid down their arms and integrated into civil political groups in the past 40 years.
> it's a shame it doesn't get more love on HN

Probably because it feels a bit like "the old way" for many. A big framework that covers all and brings its own tooling. Today, everyone uses its own stack to build. WebPack, Browserify, Rollup, tsc, Gulp, Make etc.

When I was using Ember, I used it with Gulp, Emblem, LiveScript etc.

Then they pulled this Ember-CLI stuff and some modules told me, that they depend on it. Suddendly I had to learn a new tool and tell it to do my bidding or else I couldn't use Ember add ons (painlessly).

I don't think it's a inherently bad idea, especially for a Framework as old as Ember, which reinvents itself constantly.
I agree, the quality of Dutch cheese is excellent and can often suffice for a sandwich.

But there are many more elaborate ways the Dutch make sandwiches that continue to please me.
Guidelines from 30 years ago dont necessarily get to remain guidelines. Cos stuff changes. We've been using guis for 20 or 30 years now. We dont need to pretend they have shadows or include a realistic depiction of some related artifact in the icon. People just get it now without all that clutter.
New York City Battles on Against Dutch Elm Disease
I can imagine pirate drones attacking these and knoking the contents to the ground.
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Wasn't sure to keep the cryptic subject, but I think that's HN policy. I thought you guys would appreciate how transparent and detailed this "we're shutting down" post by Take Eat Easy cofounder Adrien Rose is (FWIW the other cofounder also wrote another post[1]). I'm just a customer but I feel really sad about this, since I had just started using them a few weeks ago and found the service stellar in all departments (UI/UX, delivery speed, they have tons of restaurants that no other site delivers for, amazing photos for each dish), miles away in terms of user experience compared to JustEat and any other site out there, which ends up being just the same as the rest. Hopefully someone ends up either providing the funding last minute or acquires the service and keeps it running to the same quality standard.

[1] https://medium.com/@chloeroose/the-right-words-to-say-goodby...
Your blog has lovely CSS.
> Why is this at the top of HN now?

Personally I flagged this - there are good sites for codereview e.g. http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ but I don't think HN is, or should be one of them.
And Xmonad is the only one that gets workspaces right in a multidisplay environment.
iPad Pro vs. Surface Pro
Would you consider adding some of the startup valuations from different mutual funds to add context to the valuations?
Your latest valuation for DropBox is $19.10 but various mutual funds have valued them between $9.75 and $12.30 in Q2 2016 [0].
I think it would add context and be useful for buyers and sellers - I'm not sure anyone would buy DropBox for $19.10 today, and it's giving employees with options false hope that they would get that amount.
[0] http://graphics.wsj.com/tech-startup-stocks-to-watch/
Yes, it is legal. As per the event page: The promotion is not an offer to buy or sell securities, nor are the certificates sold in the promotion securities.

Once your purchase is confirmed, we'll send you information via email on how to fulfill your purchase and your certificate. The certificate is redeemable either for securities through a broker-dealer for those who setup an account, or else for merchandise.

All of the proceeds from our Early Is Everything Pre-IPO Pricing Event are being donated to MissionBit, a Bay Area nonprofit that sponsors underprivileged high school students in the San Francisco Bay Area to learn computer development skills.
See wikipedia:

> Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a method of computer access control in which a user is only granted access after successfully presenting several separate pieces of evidence to an authentication mechanism - typically at least two of the following categories: knowledge (something they know); possession (something they have), and inherence (something they are).

So as long as your phone is sufficiently password-protected, that is is still 2fa.
Suggestions for other battles are welcome
It’s not that important a point, but legal pads are a very US phenomena. I’m German and I have never ever seen a yellow pad like that in person. The current notes icon (with white paper) is much more in line with the note pads you would encounter in Germany. Paper people write on to take notes is typically just white. Maybe bound with a spiral on the left or top (and perforated paper to tear off), maybe glued together at the top.

Maybe internationalization was a consideration here? Yellow paper doesn’t read as anything recognizable internationally. (Yellow sticky notes are probably internationally known, though.)

My overall point would also be that taste colors opinions in this case. Or taste at least leaks into them. I think it’s important to be very careful with that and to try and avoid to let taste color too much of what you think. (My taste is very different from that of the author and as such I think many of his points are just plain wrong-footed. There certainly are some good points in there, but taste plays too much of a role.)
Telegram for MacOS logs every pasted message to syslog, even in secret chats
to make explict, does each person get 1 share? so about 110 profit facebook and then 225 profit for tesla. As you can see from my profile i don't comment a lot here, but felt compelled as i personally was put off by the spammy nature.

YMMV.

Just friendly advice and also caution to others I guess. For a site that talks about having institutional investors and having one of the top legal firms in the world this mlm and internet riches type vibe is what I got. Again, you guys may be great, but this is very unprofessional / gimmicky in my opinion
Not quite as much of a no-brainer, if you consider that Yahoo! represents about a third of the competition for the place as default search engine in Firefox. If they can retain this competitor, they might benefit from it more than by cashing in on that billion.
i used to have a 40+ week with fixed hours at my previous employer and it got me close to depression and a burnout in about two years.

now 30h/week (fixed salary). my current company hires a lot of university students to work part time, so this wasn't a problem. we have mostly flexible work time (this might differ between projects). i get comp time but no overtime pay.

in practice i usually work as long as i feel concentrated and productive. this means that i usually work longer hours if there's a lot to do and i have a clear vision what and how to do it and fewer hours if i'm distracted, tired or have urgent stuff occupying my mind.

we're required to be flexible though when it comes to projects - so generally your choices are respected, but there might be occasions where we've got standups at fixed times or longer hours. in my experience those are rare.

imo this benefits both me and my employer and i'm very happy with it even though i earn at bit less than i could. on the upside though i'm usually motivated, well rested and concentrated.
> People just get it now without all that clutter.

That's certainly what the proponents of flat design contend. In terms of measuring usability, I'm not so sure that's true. I've seen people hunting for buttons that didn't quite look like buttons
As long as Python actively refuses to support real constants among some other immutability related features, I think the more recent versions of JS are going to get past Python in sheer elegance of code.
That essay misses the point its trying to refute. It references Chomsky talking about the nature of language and by extension the human mind. It then turns to talking about how search engines work, which is an unrelated topic.
> Why has there never existed an alternative musical notation system thats truely different?

Because musicians tend to be

1. conservative, so that they're unlikely to accept one,

2. elitist/guildlike, so that they don't especially mind barriers to entry, and

3. self-aggrandizing, so that of ten musicians inclined to propose an alternative notation, every one will suggest his own and ridicule the nine other proposals.

Western notation is really as bad as it seems, though - it encourages optical illusions (notes with opposed stems seem closer or further away from each other than they actually are, for instance) and is quite brittle (add a sixth line to a staff in the middle of the page, and many experienced sight readers will just play on and not notice anything is amiss except that the music suddenly got very strange).

Mass music literacy seems out of reach with the current notation systems. Even of people who can sight-read, many (probably most) do so by associating notes with instrument finger positions instead of intervals, so they can't read an unknown melody without their instrument at hand.

I think the most successful, more rational system is the number notation they use in China (which also has been reinvented many times in Europe). Funny that China should have the awkward writing system, but the sensible music notation system.

Most successful alternative notation systems seem to come from religious instructors, who were more concerned with helping the congregation to sing. Mass music literacy mattered from them in a way it didn't for professional musicians. Shape note is an American system (although an adaption of the regular one, still squiggles) and there are number notation systems in Scandinavia developed for the same reason, teaching the peasants to sing in four-part harmony. I wonder if the Chinese system doesn't have roots in missionary work, too - they use western numerals, after all.
My guess is, your account got automatically flagged for whatever reason.
I live in a big city and I set up a police scanner recently. It invokes a mood. It distills a spirit of night and cities that never sleep. Urgent events from a police scanner play upon a feeling of social connectedness.
You are forgetting the time other members of the team are spending explaining things.
What would you say are the big differences between you and Chargebee?
Spam calls are a nuisance in the UK too. Especially on landlines.

If you threaten them with reporting to the TPS (Telephone preference service) and they're not just a robot, they sometimes stop bothering you.
honest question, for the end user, what does Uber offer that MyTaxi doesn't have?
And now you understand that you are not google's customer. You are their product, and they only tolerate you for as long as they can sell your attention to their advertisers for a profit.

Next time, host it yourself, on hardware you own, and you won't receive a letter telling you that all your material is about to be deleted.
Was that on purpose? Milk production waxes and wanes on demand.

I imagine pumping without consideration for that causes over-production (and the desire to pump more to relieve the 'pressure').
Ship hits new Panama Canal wall, sparking design concerns
Agreed.

Fewer hours forces you to focus and work.
The Simple X86 Assembly Code Virtual Machine
Interested (and faintly alarmed) at how the pension side of this works? Are we talking state pension, company pension, or something else?
Somehow this has happened to my parents. No clue how, but they started getting phone calls from me, calls I never made. It was just some call center in india with a credit card scam, so it was obvious that it wasn't me once they picked up.
A fair amount of posts on HN deal with the negative sides of things, so it could be a good sign that Ember does not get mentioned more often while growing >)
It depends on your circumstances. Now that i am 60 I would quite like to cut my average hours per week, not because it is too tiring but because I have a lot of other things I would like to do. But thirty years ago I was able and willing to work a more than eight hour day and then spend three or more hours at home learning more about my trade.

But as others have said, it gets complicated when you consider pensions so I'll probably keep working full time for another couple of years and then ask my employer if they would be willing to to let me drop to 70%. My net income at 70% hours will be a lot more than 70% of my current net because of progressive taxation.

Another option that can work for some people is to work longer hours for fewer days, instead of 7.5 hours per day for five days a week work 9.375 hours a day for four days a week. You save 20% of your commuting time as well.
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I wonder what the results would look like aggregated by ethnic group rather than nationality. Some African groups (such as the Maasai and Dinka) are known for having really tall people, but they don't have countries of their own, so they disappear when averaged with their shorter countrymen.
> I don't know how familiar you are with Vancouver, but housing starts in Vancouver are at a record high and supply has kept pace with population growth.

So, supply has tracked population growth, demand has outstripped population growth, and that proves that increasing supply doesn't work?
Apple Search Ads: What Impact Do They Have on ASO?
The change appears to be a part of the broader trend towards flat design from realistic design in the UI community.
A balanced point of view: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2013/12/infographic-flat-des...
Or: "You cannot regulate nuclear weapons unless you [personally] know how to use one."
Last commit 11 months ago. Node is certainly a moving target. Running in fact.
iPhone App Development Company in India
I agree with the author that OSX has lost a lot of it's personality, but I don't agree with the notion that this is a bad thing. I don't want my OS to have much of a personality. It's a tool for getting things done. The less I see of the OS the better.
The Future of Mobile Application
Also, don't like linking all sorts of on-line accounts to a single uniquely identifiable number? Tough luck!

It is disheartening that in an area of mass-surveillance by governments and advertisement networks alike, the notion of separate identities for separate purposes is seen as obsolete and suspicious.

At least with hard-token 2FA technologies such as FIDO U2F, services you access with that key cannot correlate it with other services accessed with it (by design).
I really agree with this - I thought it was me getting slower but every time I open finder or Dock I have to spend that split second extra effort to discern between the "Applications" folder or "HD" icons etc.
For those on a non-Nexus android phone, True Caller does this function pretty well for me in the UK.
It has evolved, but to suit the needs of professional musicians, not people in general. For professional musicians, barrier to entry is more of a feature than a bug...

Mass musical literacy is possible, as the American Sacred Harp tradition shows - but they didn't use regular notation.
The goal of the campaign is to drive awareness among individual investors and employees, and we're doing so by contrasting the opportunities of today with opportunities in successful companies of the past. We've gotten a great response so far, but thanks for your candid feedback.

Each person is limited to one certificate. The certificate is redeemable either for securities (i.e. a share of Facebook at its closing price as of July 13, 2016) through a broker-dealer for those who setup an account, or else for merchandise. It's structured like this specifically to ensure that we're compliant with relevant regulation.
Is it? I suspect that it is a bit more complicated than that.

Overtime of any type for any type of worker is frowned upon by the authorities here in Norway but I suspect that the UK and US are a bit different.
> Or to put it in a cruder way, reproductive success has strongly decreasing return to scale as a function of economic success. Bill Gates has only 3 children, even though his income is around ~300,000x that of the average American.

This is a recent coincidence. Bill Gates could easily have 300,000 times the reproductive success he's expected to have. It's not a priority for him.
The removal of colour from the icons in the Finder sidebar is the change that feels the most clearly anti-usability to me. It clearly makes the items harder to distinguish and has no benefits that I can see apart from fitting in with the flat design concept.
> that's called paying insurance.

Not really, because there are costs which are not apparent, or are a matter of policy.

- What is the cost of annoying me with drones' noise? I hope the government decides it is non zero.

- I do not know about drones, but I know about a past blunder: what is the cost of operating a nuclear plant? Now it is clear that it must include the non-negligible costs of disposing of nuclear waste and dismantling the nuclear plant. The operators of nuclear plants have reaped the benefits and left society with the costs. I very much hope that we are not so naive this time, and society is able to properly evaluate all costs, and pass them to the operators.
I get PPI and ambulance chasing car insurance calls all the time in the UK.
I used to travel a lot, but even my cheap prepaid (German) SIM card had reception in most of Asia, and I haven't had any trouble with SMS 2FA. In the worst case, I've had to swap my SIM cards for a minute to receive the token.

It was a bit of a hassle, but not enough to be a showstopper.

I wonder how this is implemented - when Apple sends me an SMS 2FA code, do they pay extra because I'm abroad?
I get this argument and I appreciate clean flat GUIs but I also feel without the shadows on buttons they've lost a bit of the affordance and visibility that used to be promoted as important when I studied GUI design.

The classic example of good interface design, I was taught, was the "call lift or elevator" button. The theory goes that no one needs to be shown how to use a lift twice. You see it once and just know what every other lift button does even if they look slightly different.

I realise that that skeuomorphism needn't necessarily map to the computer world but _something_ seems to be forgotten in the current trend for flat, non-skeumorphic designs.