skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Sold Activists' Data into Racial Profiling
Speaking of pedantic, what is the difference between "high resolution screens" and "high DPI screens"? Assuming, of course, that screen and display mean the same thing.
Is it the stylization, or is it feature-overload and overall "bloat" of software and web apps?

Or, is it the overload of 3rd party scripts meant to harvest your information and sell it off to affiliate marketers?

Or is it some of all of the above?

I think some of the newer age design techniques, such as responsive design, are very elegant compared to any slight performance costs of some of CSS3's new features.

As another example, iTunes was really soul-killing at its introduction of Apple music, making most of its tabs functioning related to Apple music. You can tell the Value decision was to make Apple Music take more precedence over management of one's own music.
From a "stylistic" or aesthetic standpoint, the Desktop iTunes hasn't changed in its overall "design" from iTunes 3 to iTunes 11 (bit of an opinion here). Now, more recent versions did add more icons which makes the UX more miserable, but my take is iTunes/iOS music app was killed off by its feature overload.
:ED: clarification on final <p>.
This same discussion from January 2009: https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/why-are-so-many-sites-...
Yo, Where's My Wifi? – The Julian Assange Story
You can make nodejs front facing, use the same code for views on server and client, and still defer your real backend (any language, probably APIs only) behind nodejs.
> Having "lost patience" isn't being "a perfectly open-minded person"

Having lost patience is a function of applying heuristics to the never-ending, time-consuming task of evaluating information. I'd say open-mindedness refers more to an outlook, a goal or an attitude. They're not mutually exclusive. I get that the language is imprecise.

A person who simply dismissed every incoming datum which fell into the "This Clinton scandal will totally blow your mind!" category would have been right very close to 100% of the time, which is a pretty good heuristic. If need be, that same person can simply wait for the evidence to mount and then alter their opinion.

I have pity for anyone who really feels obligated to separate the wheat from the chaff (in the interest of open-mindedness!) when it comes to every outraged Clinton news item.
This essay, especially the part detailing the I.-C.-F.E.T. retreat, reminds me of his brilliant description of AA meetings in Infinite Jest and the bizarre rituals that people undergo to help one another behind closed doors. Reading thru this essay, you definitely get a sense of how tight his prose is - what would be egregiously long and cumbersome run-on sentences for any other writer are fluid and make perfect sense as spiraling thoughts.

I'd recommend "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story," D.T. Max's biography of DFW. It gives a good outline of his life without straying too far into speculation/psychoanalysis. I usually try to approach books without any knowledge of the author but I feel like knowing DFW's history enhanced my enjoyment of his writing (especially non-fiction).
I don't owe any taxes, but finding the ones that do is a good way to find cheap properties...
I have long thought it would be a great idea to force all pornographic material into a porn TLD, say .xxx

To access .xxx, you would submit your name, address, proof of age to whomever runs the regime and be given access. Sharing pornography should be a crime, especially if shared with minors. In a perfect world... Since we don't live in a perf3ct world, I'd be happy to see a forced TLD. Violators lose rights to any and all domains in perpetuity and are forbidden to start new ones. A 1M fine should suffice.

It's a proven fact pornography harms everyone involved. Men who are chronic users suffer impotence issues with real women. Pornography demeans women and lowers them to the status of sex machines, there only for the enjoyment of men. Women that are lured into the industry suffer horrendous self-esteem issues, die young, suffer from diseases, some fatal, and are reviled if/when they escape the industry. Not a good scene no matter how you slice it.
Minding the Gap – Traversing the London Underground Guided by Bluetooth Beacons
Your head is in the sand if you think risotto is the only thing revealed by the Podesta leaks.
Instant Articles is just RSS, isn't it? How is it less open than Amp?
Yes, You Should Be Optimizing for Distributor Profitability
>I'd like to see some evidence that today's sites are less readable than those that went before us. Otherwise, it just looks like nostalgia for the 'good old days'.

Usually evidence is only really needed when there is no direct empirical validation.

>Both then and now, the reason for the bad sites is that they are made by amateurs. They're the same people that make those terrible leaflets with 20 fonts and loads of clipart. Just because they exist, it doesn't mean the web is getting worse. My anecdotal experience is that it's improving.

Your complaint seem to be about amateur sites and designs. The concerns of the post and most here are about sites and apps done by handsomely paid designers and large companies. It's more about great UI paradigms being buried under designy graphics and hipster aesthetics than about tacky or 200-fonts bonanza issues.
> What I don't get is how come the cable part is such lousy quality compared to the sophistication in the PSU part

Design
If you can handle a server failing and you have good reporting, you can handle many of those random issues by simply rebooting the affected server. So I can see them taking out things like "load up the memory" or "load up the CPU". Logic errors (bad RAM, corrupted packets, high packet loss) are another story, but I don't know if V1 did those.
I think it's a problem with 3rd party sellers being chronically incapable of listing their products correctly.

Overall the platform would benefit from at least a small amount of manual curating.
They are both great languages but rust is clearly the one that experts in both generally prefer. I have some friends who make some strange arguments for c++ but I continue to be interested why people don't want to make the switch. That being said LEGACY
Rust produces standard linkable system libraries. You can produce dynamic libraries or static libraries on all supported platforms.

For actual examples of using Rust with other languages through these libraries this site is great: http://jakegoulding.com/rust-ffi-omnibus/
That's a great link. I agree with all of it.
Show HN: Curated content about #nightcash
It does get substantially more difficult, but (judging by data points I've gather in RL and from around here), only to a certain degree. Which is to say -- age discrimination is very real, and (other skill factors being equal) will definitely start to bite you by a certain downward multiplier (and undoubtedly far more so in extreme hiring markets like SV).

But again -- only to a certain degree. And more so: there a different ways of looking at it, and more importantly, certain things you can do about it -- such that if you groom your skills carefully, and pick the roles you apply for carefully, also -- you can turn your age into an upward multiplier, rather than a downward one.

That's my quick take. The main thing is, please don't give up hope -- there's still a lot one can get out of the very substantial skill investments one has made by that age, provided we don't fall into certain traps (perhaps the most insidious being: believing all the crap that SV and a good chunk of the industry believes about the magical advantages that very young hires have over older ones).

Am swamped for time at the moment, but perchance, may get back to this topic in a couple of hours.
54 yr old here, 32 of experience in programming. Working on a startup, learning something new every day. Never short of offers, grateful for that and for having a rewarding profession.
>Source? a good percentage of the people I know from Europe does.
Well, I don't just know people from Europe, I am from Europe.

Me too. My "Source?" question is still standing.

Computer programmers and geeky types are not representative of the general population.

That's not the people I referred to when talking of who knows about ESA.

>They should refuse to do anything that was against (or far from what was in) their program. Leaflets hardly reflect all of a candidate's program.
Maybe they should though? Why allow for non approved/requested by the public policy changes that they come up on their own?

Leaflets are small pieces of information that are supposed to be simple and direct. Do you expect details on NASA funding in an A5 piece of papers that barely contains a face and a slogan (and perhaps a few phone numbers and a Twitter handle)?

Even better, ask in a direct democratic way for anything not in the program (yeah, within reason -- they could do trivial things and directing).

Ask any political scientist why this is not a good idea.
Those are some string keyswitches - I have seen a few people recommending against them if you have hand pain.
Why the Film Industry Hasn't Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5
Just released a new free Bootstrap template called Standout. I hope you like it
Thanks for the details. In the US, typical judgments go beyond just medical expenses. (pain and suffering, loss of work, etc) I think it will vary a lot between different states, too. I think a lot of the reason for this is because of insurance- I bet people that don't have insurance are far less likely to be sued for these types of incidents. But with the advent of insurance, has come an attitude of "oh well, they have insurance, so it won't cost them anything, it'll just be the insurance company that pays for it!". The insurance companies in turn use these large settlements/judgments to support their case for why you NEED their product. That is my theory, any way.
Twitter. Unfortunately, I don't have a link handy. You can also go to the blogger's personal site and find his resume showing an end of full-time employment.

There were a number of people who did not like his combative style in disproving liberals' claims, who banded together to complain to his full time employer.
"ESA Flight Operations Director Michel Denis has confirmed that they have lost contact with the probe.

The team is now hoping to pick up a signal from the Mars Orbiter, but it's not looking hopeful"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/10/19/exomars-space-...
No, the ITER robot needs to deal with heavy loads, micro G means even small forces add up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Servicing_System did not need to be that strong. http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kibo/about/kibo/rms/ was also relatively weak. Also, don't forget without people they could send 3x the science payloads. So, scrapping things and trying again really is viable.

Consider, fixing Hubble was a big thing, but we could have sent 3 of them up for less money.

As to micro G, we could send a mars mission with simulated gravity. Which is something we really should be testing instead of simply yet another long stay in micro G.

PS: Some of the most interesting recent experiments have been flame studies in micro gravity. But many of these can be done with 20 seconds of vomit comet zero g time or just a simple drop test like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZTl7oi05dQ
They perhaps didn't notice or care, but counterfeit chargers and cables can be very dangerous, as they usually have a complete disregard for electrical safety. It could kill you, or kill your device, or burst into flames.
There are a couple pieces to that, not the least of which is Canonical wanting to push their new 'snap' format, for better or worse. The other thing is that Apt is not a good fit for the task - say it's daemonized programs instead of live patches. Apt only takes responsibility for downloading the bits onto the machine and unpacking them, and init/systemd is responsible for actually running programs.

However, for live patches, it's critical the program be running/the patch installed, and Apt doesn't manage running processes, nor does it have a UI whos purpose is to report on patches that have successfully downloaded but fail to install. These aren't fatal problems, but those aren't features upstream apt is likely to want (maybe systemd wants to swallow apt), so then you're forking apt, with all the work that entails. Might as well just write your own thing in that case.
Police video here: http://www.rferl.org/a/czech-police-detain-russian-hacker-su...
Any source? Direct communication to Earth was expected to be unstable, but there is a satellite monitoring the lander as well...
> Your government and your election is controlled by money and corporations.

Do "money" or "corporations" get votes? Or are people persuaded to vote in ways you don't like by people with money? There's a big difference.

> You are correct that USAs leaders have much more power than the leaders of my country.

That's not what I mean. In domestic terms, the Presidency is a very weak office. In many respects, the President is a figurehead that mostly matters for foreign policy purposes.

And again: who decided your PM would be PM? Voters? Or was it an internal decision made by a party without voter input? How can you claim that the US is less democratic than that?
> Traditionally ARMs have never used any kind of common boot process because they come out of the embedded world where every system is bespoke --- the focus is always on individual products, rather than building a platform.

This is something I did not know. In the mobile world the boot happens in the UEFI mould right? So when someone licenses from ARM they get to design their own boot sequence?
that's the orbiter. the lander status is unknown; ESA is waiting for signal replay from mars express.
Yeah, it's hard to find a market for this.

One unique proposition that Private Forms has is a form-builder so you can create custom forms rather than just contact forms.
I see these are available to buy in the UK now (has singles from other retailers http://uk.farnell.com/bbc-microbit-reseller). http://uk.farnell.com/bbc-microbit?CMP=AFC-AN-UK-ALL-473347
Anyone how to buy a single one in the US? My 8yo was going to get an arduino robot for Christmas but this might simpler to use I think.
Of course there is a big difference, your perfectly packaged charger is more than likely a fire hazard and you might not be able to tell based on the exterior or the first few weeks of usage.

http://www.righto.com/2016/03/counterfeit-macbook-charger-te...
Sorry, not even going to try to deal with propagandist mouthpieces like RT or freep, but lets look at the others.

What you have are _concerns_ about voter registration and indications that some people may have submitted multiple mail-in votes. Please note that none of the cases mentioned in these articles touched in-person voting. They primarily talking about things like dead people still being on voter registration rolls (because dead people have this annoying habit of not filling out the paperwork to properly close accounts after the die it seems), cases where registration information does not match data on other government databases (because we all know that data entry is a perfect science and so any case where we have two different records for the same person is obviously a case of attempted fraud), and a few cases of people who submitted absentee or mail-in ballots and then also voted in person.

Lots of 'alleged', a few instances of 'concern' regarding what might possibly happen, and a small handful of cases where voting other than in-person polling was abused.

In short, you have a big, fat, nothingburger. Over the billions of ballots cast in the past decade this is the best you can do I guess, which proves my point that this is not a problem.
I've seen rats do the same when poisoned.
> MarsExpress has started transmitting the @ESA_EDM landing recording. Even at light speed it will take 9m47s to reach Earth #ExoMars (seconds ago)
Ask HN: When was the first text file?
I'm trying to convey that text files are probably the most future-proof, and would like to say something like "computers as far back as XXXX used the same text files we use today." Unfortunately, I can't seem to come up with the right Google terms to unearth this bit of computer history. Any leads?
> "Designers are ruining software in general. iTunes, the iOS music app, and Google Maps are just a few pieces of software that started out relatively usable"

Did it ever occurs to you that they had far less functionality when these examples were created? Backend programmers kept piling functionality into these apps and at some point no matter how good a designer is it just gets overwhelmed.
A pet-peeve of mine. While NASA made everyone holding their breath with overpriced RC rovers that scratched a few rocks, ESA had launched a boring orbiter that "just" gave a map of the water concentration on Mars ( http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RrgXNFu0ocA/Sg_ldzogLlI/AAAAAAAAAE... ) <- I had to dig through a PPT to find that map on slide 20.
> I have no idea why people think that cities are bad for kids (apart from the cost of lodging).

I think the cost of living is that main reason, and can't be overstated enough.

Cities are great environments for most people (including kids) -- but cities are already the most expensive places on the planet for living / working / schooling. Trying to house a family there (with the extra stress of daycare costs, educational costs, larger housing needs, etc) just makes it all that much more impossible to afford.

If you imagine cost of living as a 100-foot wall around major cities, a single person can just get themselves over and be ok. But for a family, they likely have to scale that same wall 2x, 3x, or 4x times.
I don't think this is a very good argument. The term blacks was likely arbitrarily chosen and wasn't meant in a derogatory or disrespectful manner.

Also, where in the world have you lived? I just moved out of Harlem a few months ago and experienced everything the OP mentioned and more. The fact is, Harlem (at least East Harlem) is a dangerous and predominately black community. Crime there is driven more by circumstance (upbringing, low income, environment, etc.) than skin color, obviously, but I don't blame anyone who wants to move out of a dangerous area.

Also, "don't live around poor people" is basically saying "why don't you just make more money?", and is incredibly thoughtless. I didn't choose to live in a crumbling walkup in the bad part of town, I had to because that was my only option, and I got out as soon as I could.
the Russian response

History has taught us that it is very hard to pull the truth out of Russian response. You have to observe what they are doing and not what they are saying.

So this by itself does not conclude anything. Also not the opposite, or nothing about the other state level actors.
This speaks to a higher level perception about software. Bugs and crashes, however inconsistent, irreparably damage the sentiment about using a technology. Younger folks grew up in an age with these inconsistencies and are less perturbed by them. To older folks though, manual systems rarely "fail" during use. The bar of acceptance is a great deal higher when your reliability and availability are compared to pencil and paper.

Long story short: quality is always important. as the median age of user rises, quality requirements increase dramatically.
A Design Workflow Tutorial for Developers: How to Deliver Better UI/UX on Time
Not sure this really says anything bad about Microsoft. Is it really hard to imagine an NFL coach losing his temper with something let alone a computer?
It's definitely not every time. I haven't had any problems with Apple cables for example. But I still buy more on occasion because I have misplaced them, or because I need extras for traveling, for the car, for the office, etc. I am really curious what everyone complaining about Apple cables manages to do to theirs in order to cause so much damage. I suspect most people could benefit from learning how to properly coil a cable. https://www.wired.com/2013/08/tnhyut-coil-cable/
A four year gap in employment is a much more logical conclusion to a reduction in salary than your 44th birthday. Even if it was something like an accident (I'm glad you are better now BTW), candidates are sometimes reluctant to share medical issues on resumes/cover letters (and rightfully so in some instances) which can lead to the reader making all sorts of assumptions about why you haven't had a job in n years.
Not the OP, but I did a talk on an incremental rewrite of a C library to Rust [1]. Rust has good FFI capabilities with C and other languages through that [2].

[1]- https://github.com/carols10cents/rust-out-your-c-talk

[2] - http://jakegoulding.com/rust-ffi-omnibus/
How do you detect whether the components inside a counterfeit Apple charger have the same expected life or failure rate as those inside a genuine one? How do you detect latent manufacturing or handling defects? Just because they perform exactly the same out of the box or for the first few months does not mean they are equivalent in materials and workmanship.
That was one of our concerns, to receive information you can setup different "boxes" with an expiration date. Each box as an hard to guess url (such as https://hawkpost.co/box/19f1e7b9-f200-47ec-b5ff-918a9483a546), so only the people you shared it with, will know how to access it.

You can also set the maximum number of messages you wish to receive through that box.

I think these measures will help users avoid spam.
Get the ebook.
And we French people wanted to go with our American friends but didn't want to anger the Russian giant... so we went with our own "spationaute"
> There's no such thing as "being good at math". You either put effort and practice to learn it, or you don't.

I agree with your second sentence, and, as a mathematician and a teacher, I think that I agree with the spirit of the first, but I think that it's probably not worded as you mean. Think of the same sentence with, say, 'baseball' in place of 'math': I think that most people would agree with the second sentence, but not the first. By the same token, there's no such thing as "being inherently good" (or, for that matter, inherently bad) "at math"; but I think that it would be silly to pretend that the effort and practice don't make you good (or at least better) at it.
I do not think decision making is a good model for this concept. Culture is. In particular:
Traditionalism vs. Progressiveism
as cultural influences: the former acts to not overfit current conditions, while the latter tries to fit current conditions. Both influences have been critical for human survival.
It's a massive book, but it really is very entertaining as well. Give the first chapter a go, and if you're totally sucked in and laughing, you might be just glad that the book is as big as it is. If you aren't enjoying it on a page-by-page basis, it's probably almost impossible to power through. It's one of my favorite books, but it doesn't contain the meaning of life, or anything.
According to the flow chart, one doesn't need to "Look for an existing bug report before reporting the bug" if one doesn't like the software.
So HASHTAGthankful and HASHTAGblessed to have been part of such an amazing thing at an amazing time. Their HASHTAGjourney is only just starting, but my HASHTAGjourney has a different path. My HASHTAGjourney is one of HASHTAGpassion and I'm so HASHTAGblessed.
Wow, the news coverage is really awful. They have not confirmed anything yet.
There is a known cure for early Alzheimer's.
https://www.aging-us.com/article/9R5JsRe8k4Jq7uTXj/text

Bredesen DE. Reversal of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease.
Aging (Albany NY). 2016 Jun;8(6):1250-8. doi: 10.18632/aging.100981.

Bredesen DE. Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program. Aging (Albany NY). 2014; 6:707-17. doi: 10.18632/aging.100690.
I have a vague hope that one day the dual-core VPU on the Pi will be usable for time-critical real-time i/o in much the same way as the PRUs on the BBB are used.