skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to win people over by making their lives easier or by making them look good. This does not necessarily have to be related to code or technology in any way.

Then, after people have a visceral positive feeling about you, make some tiny suggestion for improvement. Make the improvement, and whoever approved it, do something to make sure they associate your suggestion with a positive experience.

Slowly repeat. It is a slight selling of your soul. It is effective.
I'm never impressed with the opinions of people who insist that Microsoft is some sort of failure. The utter lack of incorporating basic observation of reality into these theories is good for people who hate Microsoft, but little else.
The difference between using a web font and using SVG is primarily that you do not break the underlying assumptions of usability software, primarily one that a font contains actual information to be parsed. An SVG icon is not going to cause a screen reader to say 'Unpronounceable'. A web font is going to do this. Among other things.
Windows 10 is not a disaster and never has been.

There's great stuff for everybody. It's the same rock-solid OS that every business depends on, that is still able to run all the software from 20 years ago, yet it also offers a ton of new functionality.

What other desktop OS can you say that about? IMO, there isn't a better desktop OS out there.

Just last night I was actually running some games from 1995 on my 5 year old PC running Windows 10 that is plugged into my brand new 4k smart tv.
> It wasn't her baby.

The buck stops at the CEO for all decisions.
Small fonts are smoothed as well
We're trying to figure this out now — we're friends with both FundersClub and AngelList folks and it's something we've been talking about.
Healthier alternatives to coffee
Thanks. Remaking all of FA Free sounds like a lot of work for little benefit, but I imagine it makes sense in the light of all the extra icons you're adding to Pro.
MQTT as the Center of Everything
The design fail is not taking the obvious and consistent (albeit spaced out) need to charge the mouse into account. It's not like some people don't have to charge this mouse; everyone will charge the mouse at some point, and they will do so consistently over the years.

With this design, I get a first class experience using it when the batteries aren't empty, but I literally cannot use the mouse when I need to charge it. The idea that a mouse should sacrifice such a basic functionality requirement just for the sake of a slightly better design is hilariously backward.
They have advisors that sure as hell know exactly what is going on here. This is a very naive view of how government works. Diplomates don't need to know what code is to make policy.

Are you speculating? Do you work in the diplomatic corps? I get the opposite impression given what I've read in wikileaks releases.

This was a very high-profile attack. Pretty much every intelligence agency in the world has notified their higher-ups on what likely happened and the hammer most definitely fell on this company.

Assuming for the moment that there is any communication made at all regarding this incident, do you really think the Chinese government is going to pressure some small Chinese business to lose a whole bunch of money unnecessarily because an American anarchist group attacked some American websites with said Chinese company's webcams?

Nobody cares.

Chinese businesses aren't exactly known for their good corporate personas and generosity.

What an awful generalization.
Wow, I'm assuming that the creators might not leave with fuck-you-money, but assuming they were relatively profitable or at least break-even, that seems like a great exit for a small-scale-content-company in today's environment.

Wirecutter, like Macrumor's buyers guide, have my admiration for building a vital content service out of a pretty simple idea. Gives hope that content-creators don't have to go the viral-spam-crap route to be a success. Or, at least worthwhile.
The definite ending point is government. The government cannot do anything to restrict anyone's speech. Private organizations can do whatever they want. I don't think they should take that to an extreme, but I think they can.

I don't think it's ethical for a private company to censor everyone they don't like, but they should have that right. In terms of ethics, you're right that there's no definite ending point. Private companies should do what they feel is right, and not try to force themselves to allow full freedom of speech.
4 years is right on schedule for redesigns of the Macbook Pro. Not sure how the current narrative about Macs being neglected got started, but they're not behind at all if you look at the previous cadence between redesigns. The Macbook Pro also got a minor speed bump in May 2015.

The only difference this year is that Intel has been having problems delivering on time (and without problems).
For full transparency: I was Garry's Chief of Staff for 2 years before joining YC.

Garry and Alexis are the most founder friendly investors I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Late nights and early mornings in every time zone were normal for them. When I managed Garry's schedule, he held 3-5 hour blocks every single day to talk to founders. Then, in addition, we'd squeeze in as many calls and meetings the schedule would allow to speak with founders who reached out cold asking for general advice. A nightmare logistically sometimes, but a true testament to just how much they care about helping others.

When stereotypes of fund investors are that they are sluggish to make investments, quick and impatient when it comes to vetting teams and products, it is refreshing to see that Garry and co consistently break that view with their founder-first approach.

It might be an understatement for me to say that I'd recommend Initialized to any founder!
Power management was broken: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/166667/20160623/microsoft-....
The finest compliment is that which the utterer is unaware the recipient can hear (or, more appropriately, 'see,' but that doesn't sound stuffy enough). Thanks for the kind words!

Relatedly, "stuffy enough" is fun to say.
Last I checked keyboards default to 440hz, and most crappy tuning tools default to 440hz too.

So it is normal for everyone to drift towards 440hz... to use 432hz in current era, it is necessary to purpusefully tune for it, including retuning digital instruments (keyboards, synths, etc...)
There is a big difference between a different political view and the words and actions of Donald Trump.

If it was Romney or Cruz or Rubio or almost anyone else I don't think you'd see any of this happen.
> announced very few new products.

Look it up, he's actually announced plenty. Just they're kinda underwhelming. Off the top of my head: MacBook, Mac Pro, iPad Pro, iPhone+,MacBook HDMI Dongle, iPhone Headphone Dongle, Apple Pay, Apple Music, Apple Pencil.
No offense taken.

I agree, it sounds like total BS to me. But, I am not surprised considering it is a cable company.
They were completely inept stewards of FiveThirtyEight, who do some of the most obviously helpful, objective, uncontroversial work you could possibly do in politics.

http://www.cjr.org/analysis/fivethirtyeight.php

The NYT also has no idea how to deal with obvious digital journalism issues like how to flag when major substantive edits have been made to a piece after publication. It's a dinosaur of an organization, trying some new things but fundamentally out of touch with the modern world.
Strange messages coming from the stars ‘probably’ from aliens, scientists say
Honestly, the grid system in 4 is quite inconsistent, especially with vertical centering. But that happens over time with an open source project. Things wander each commit.

Been jonesing to start over for a while. Super excited.
Let is a game changer imo. In the world of tens of dependencies, knowing that your variables are scope restricted reduces your cognitive load. It's one less thing that can go wrong.

I agree with you on classes, but that's probably more because I've never been a big fan of OO in practice. It doesn't really seem to have seen much use in the greater js ecosystem though, unlike let/const.
Post-It Urbanism: The “Map of Every City”
I haven't been following this space in a while. Can you shed some light on why the sizes are changing from 14px to 16px? On the kickstarter page it says it says the new size matches Bootstrap 4's global font size; is that the sole reason? (Edit: this was partially answered since but I'm curious)

I wonder, is traditional incremental versioning appropriate for what users perceive as a 100% stylistic change (notwithstanding the immense effort of a full rewrite of its internals). Do you intend to enhance Font Awesome 4 after the release of 5, or is 4 going to be EOL?
Ask HN: How do I create a chatbot for a specific domain?
Something like this - https://looker.com/blog/slack-your-data but much more in depth. For example, parsing questions like

"how many men are in NYC between the age of 25 and 35 who are single, like to play tennis and love Chinese Food?"

or something like that, assuming I have all the data that is required to run such a query. Are there tools, libraries etc that help process questions like above and help convert them into SQL?
They're saying that if 432 Hz had special properties, then they'd randomly hit upon it because of the random drift of tuning, and notice that it was better than other tunings; if the keyboardist then came along and insisted on 440 Hz, they'd revolt because it was worse.

But they DON'T revolt, because 432 Hz is no better or worse than 440, 450, 429, 490, or anything else in that range.
How Feasible Is the Rapid Development of Artificial Superintelligence?
I know. QNX the OS was great. QNX the company has been a huge pain to deal with for more than a decade. They had a tough problem, though. Who else sold a desktop OS for real money any more? Unlike Microsoft and Apple, they had no other revenue stream. Still, until about 2005, QNX was considered a target which UNIX-like software should support. There was an early version of Firefox (called Firebird) for it, all the command-line GNU tools were available, and the Eclipse IDE worked fine. For three years, while I was working on a DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle, I ran QNX on the desktop.

Photon, the GUI, probably had the sanest internals of any major GUI system.

Dan Dodge, who designed much of QNX, was CEO of QNX, and he retired from QNX/Blackberry to go work for Apple. Apple might end up doing something in this direction. But if they do, they'll never let the internals out.
Hey Init! Congrats on the launch.

Curious, have you funded any startups under Init? If I had to guess, "Our Startups" are startups you (Garry / Alexis /et al) personally invested in.
Cyber attack to blame for grade 10 literacy test chaos- Ontario EQAO Office
They would also have access to everything else, including the entered password.
This isn't about politics.

Trump is a con man, sexual predator and racist and by donating millions to him, Thiel's judgement and ethics should be questioned.
I assume you're talking about the "Cadillac tax" on more generous insurance plans. Its implementation has already been pushed back to 2020 and there's a pretty decent chance that it will never see the light of day.
But is 10 significantly better than 7?
> due to the nature of the censorship on reddit ... there seems to be no concept of being anti-censorship in and of itself

I have spent very little time on reddit, so I'm unfamiliar with what form censorship takes there. That said, viewing Twitter and HN, I wonder if this doesn't have more to do with people pulling tangential topics into discussions. It takes effort to pare down an idea, separating it from others that may be logically related or associated with some bundled collection of ideas.

Also, while two people may share a belief, they may not rank the belief equally among all of the others they hold. Alice and Bob may both think free speech is important, but it's really important to Alice. It's more likely that Alice will want to talk about it than Bob. So perhaps people who end up discussing free speech/anti-censorship issues also tend to share similar rankings of other shared values. That could explain why people discussing free speech tend tend to share other beliefs as well. They hold similar beliefs and similar belief rankings.

I have nothing to back that up :) But it sounds reasonable. Anyone need a research topic?

What do you think? Is there something more going on in reddit's case?
I'm also a mostly Microsoft stack developer, and I looked at remote jobs, and there are very little with this stack.

It's popular with enterprises, which are very much remote-adverse.

I didn't find a solution, although I'm doing a side project in React - now I need to learn either Node or Ruby I guess (my backend is .NET based).

Node has Visual Studio and Azure support, so it would be the least painful I guess.
very cool. i know you guys mention startups, and IMO thats a pretty generally encompassing term. would that include game development?
Bit of a jump there, no? The ethics of building crap commercial software is quite a bit different than the ethics of building mass surveillance or munitions software.
Whisleblower protections typically don't have clauses that protect dumping a bunch of juicy, exciting tidbits so that people pay attention. You're informing the public of what they need to know, not making a Jason Bourne movie.
I understand the separation between business/investment realtionships and political affiliation. Most politicians actions are relatively benign. Hence, overlooking the political affiliation of investors with said politicians is easy. However, there's a point when a politician is advocating for something so egregious that supporting said politician can no longer be ignored.

Currently, Trump is "just" advocating for racism, sexism, etc. Apparently that's sufficiently benign to ignore the investors affiliations when their investment is large enough (at least for YC).

But what if Trump was advocating for something more egregious? Like, say, allowing domestic police to torture suspects. There's always a line. For some, Trump's actions have crossed that line. For others, it hasn't happened yet.
Except they didn't lie. He said he saw them lie to Congress but that was for the open-door, public session. If you think Congress isn't getting the details in closed-door, classified briefs, then you don't understand the relationship Intelligence Agencies have with Congress.

None of this came as a surprise to any Congressman with interactions with Intel Agencies. Hell, none of this should have come as a surprise if you know anything about security/cybersecurity. As long as there are systems which hide info, there will be backdoors and people trying to break them.

The exact same things are being done by every "first world" government on the planet. And sadly, what they do is FAR less intrusive than what Google does. They make text documents out of your phone calls to try and find new products to sell you... They have copies of every text you ever made on an Android device, every site you have visited, every e-mail you wrote or received on Gmail... All the info the NSA gathered that Snowden was "abhorred" by, was less than 1% of what Google has on you. What's the difference? Google will sell it. The NSA may look through it, but they won't sell it to the highest bidder.

Every device Google makes is just another way to gather info on their users. They are, first and foremost, an advertising company. And they are the best in the world at that because of all the info they have on all their users.
I didn't see many when I searched. Where did you find it? Word of mouth or a website? Thank you :)
http://www.edge.org is up and down, but mostly up.

Reddit can be, depending on your community.

But I miss Kuro5hin.
Ah, I thought the GP was referring to when the LPF split into individual fractions.
3D-printed heart-on-a-chip with integrated sensors
Windows 10 is still a schizoid failure to merge the "desktop" and "modern" worlds: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/control-panel-and-settin.... High-DPI scaling is a disaster that is only now being fixed in the Anniversary update: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askcore/2016/08/16/displ.... There are battery life regressions even on Microsoft hardware: https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/3isuu4/windows_10_....
That's completely backwards. If you try to use Siri while your phone is offline, it reads "Siri not available / Connect to the Internet." Google's voice system works perfectly well offline. You can dictate, or you can issue commands that don't require network access.
Just wait until the conspiracy nuts learn about the tunings that affect the distance between notes, not just the shift!
(I'm surprised my double music major is useful somewhere).
I agree that they can and even have the right to, but it's more of a "should they be considered socially irresponsible for allowing it in any way, shape or form" question than about what they can or must do. Personally I don't fault them for allowing it as long as they're sufficiently distant from it themselves and protect their employees from abuse to a reasonable degree.
I like to know about these kinds of tricks so that it is harder for people to use them against me. But I would hate to find myself using them against another person. It's dishonest and disrespectful.

My guideline is pretty simple: Would I be upset if someone used this tactic on me? If so, I shouldn't use it either.
> the BBC required their orchestras to tune to 440 Hz instead of 439 Hz because 439 is a prime number, and the corresponding frequency is hard to generate electronically.

I followed, until this. Earlier he debunks the significance of 432 per second (including that it's a sum of four consecutive primes), because a second is an arbitrary length of time. But now he says that 439 per second is difficult to generate electronically, because it's prime.

I'm not an EE. I'm willing to believe, but could a knowledgeable someone help us out here?
He's certainly capable of hacking the game to move the coin spawner via third-party tools; what the video is demonstrating is that there's no way to move the spawner while in-game using only button inputs on the control pad.
Buzzfeed made a game out of news as their founding principle, and we all lost. We just haven't accepted it yet.
Meaning can give you a sense of wellbeing but it's considered to be separate from "happiness". [1]

E.g., parents rate relatively low on happiness yet are still "happy" that they have children. They have a sense of wellbeing from something meaningful.

1. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-dif...
https://gcaptain.com/ A maritime news site. Fascinating subject matter and the occasional naval disaster video.
Basic Income Could Be the Moonshot of Our Generation
I recently switched to nylon wrapped strings... they also have lower tension. But I mostly did it because I play a lot of americana / folk / rockabilly / blues / jazz and wanted a better slap sound.

Unfortunately they sound terrible arco so now I have to play cello when I play in my wife's orchestra. :(

[edit] it occurs to me that you're talking about electric bass... in which case nylon strings would be a bit strange ;) sorry about that.
Apple Releases iOS 10.1 with New Portrait Mode for iPhone 7 Plus
Their is a feeling that CEOs of these large companies are completely responsible for the direction a company takes. I have never served as a CEO, but I can't help but imagine that large share holders are also very dominant figures.

One of the attributes that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates appeared to share (I have never met either) was a massive amount of trust/faith to run their respective companies (eventually).

I imagine that this must translate to the board room where they were provided the freedom to pursue avenues that a newly promoted CEO would just not be allowed to do.

The author praises Steve Ballmer and Tim Cook for their ability to drive short term growth, but had they failed to do so they may have been replaced by someone more willing to focus on these returns. Eventually as disruption occurs the share holders start to prioritize facing these new challenges.
Scrolling to random places on Google Earth

https://geoguessr.com/
Abortion should be rare the same way that heart surgery should be rare: not by stoping people from having one when they need it, but by preventing the unwanted condition (unwanted pregnancy, heart disease) in the first place.

People who say that abortion should be rare aren't saying that the procedure itself is bad. They're saying that unwanted pregnancies are bad.
`const` means that the variable binding itself is immutable. It only affects the variable binding, not the value it points to.

If it affected the value it pointed to, what would happen in this type of situation?

let x = {};
const y = x;
x.a = 5;
> That's completely separate from ownership of the data

No, it isn't. Under the app-controlled model, my access to my data is limited to what the app offers.

> […] it's what prevents a malicious app from hoovering up all
> of your Tinder messages, or your financial data from Mint.

That's an implementation of access control using the app-owned-data model. It's not the only possible implementation of access control.
Like the article says, just getting lighter gauge strings is just as easy and keeps you in tune. I play guitar, and the Ernie Ball Slinkys work well for me.
It has been 16px as default for as long as I can remember. People designed at 12-14px and it has been trending larger, 18-22px, for quite some time now - at least since 2012-2013. I think larger screen sizes plays a big part in the change, or maybe marketing people realized people dislike small text/prefer larger text? :)

Coders have learned that it's best to not touch the default font size, or resize html/body font size. The ugly 62.5% (16-->10px) is also dying out for accessibility reasons.
And Hilary is a corrupt warmonger who habitually lies to everyone around her.
What is the real value of press for a startup?
tired of sensationalist headlines. The are only talking about one company, Seed fund Backstage Capital , but the headline makes it seems like it's a much more widespread occurrence. Most companies would do anything to get backing by Thiel
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I love the scene in Adaptation where a tripping Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper harmonize the dial tone chord while talking on the phone.
Can you pop me an email with a calendly link and I can pick a time for us to chat? My address is in my username at mit dot edu.
It depends on the definition of negligence, of course. Sometimes you take all appropriate precautions and still get screwed -- OK. We have a situation where companies are releasing products that every competent professional would recognize as a security trainwreck, and it happens with complete regularity, because the incentives simply do not currently align to make corporate executives give a damn.

Due to externalized costs that impact more or less the entire population, this is now a political issue. It's exactly as thorny as environmental regulation, or public safety regulation. Should users truly own their cars and have the ability to disable safety features? I think so, but it shouldn't just be a button on the dash. Should they be able to disable emissions features?

I'm not trying to oversimplify here, but I also don't think we should allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good. If there were real incentives to produce secure products, we could expect to see much more investment in secure software, perhaps even verifiable formal methods, and hopefully more industry collaboration/standardization around open source platforms to mitigate risk. It's a tradeoff, but I so often see front-line engineers faced with situations where acting responsibly/ethically with respect to security puts them at odds with management, and that's a clear sign that we're not getting the balance right.