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Which of these interviews specially gave you that impression? I read a few and searched through the rest with various keywords, and I don't really see how you came to that conclusion.

"minimalis[m/t]" - 2 mentions in 11 interviews, Billy Sweeney (described as having a "minimalist aesthetic"), Sascha Grief (mentions "preserving the previous version's minimalism")

"Japan" - 1 mention in 11 interviews, Sascha Grief (described as "Living in Osaka, Japan.")

"taste" - 1 mention in 11 interviews, Timothy Achumba ("As designers, taste and preference can only take you so far.")

You said "the questions are almost entirely about their taste". It looks like most of the interviews have the same/similar questions, and very few seem are about taste. I've taken some of the more common ones and grouped them into topics below. It seems to me that only the music question (1 of 24) is about taste. Even a much looser categorization does not seem to support your description of these interviews as "entirely" about taste. I would say the majority of the interview focus on tools, process and the job.

BIOGRAPHICAL (3):
What do you do?
What led you into design?
How do you keep improving yourself as a designer?

TOOLS AND PROCESS (9):
What does a typical day look like?
Describe your working environment and hardware setup?
What apps do you have in your dock?
What apps do you have on your iPhone?
What’s your design process?
What do you use to plan initial design concepts?
What apps do you use when designing?
Do you have a cool design trick/hack/shortcut?
How do you go about testing your design or gathering feedback?

WORK (4):
What pieces of work are you most proud of?
Where do you go to get inspired?
What’s a great website for inspiration?
What product have you recently seen that made you think this is great design?

TASTE (1):
What music do you listen to when designing?

JOB AND COMPANY (6):
Why did you join your company?
What’s it like working at your company?
What design challenge do you face at your company?
How do you handle design disagreements at your company?
Is your company currently looking for designers?
Any tips on designers getting a job at your company?

ADVICE (1):
Any advice for ambitious designers?
> (#1) Time and experience can cover up anything.

This is simply not true. Time and experience can never cover up for lack of expressiveness, and expressiveness is one of the biggest selling points of Haskell.

In fact, experience can only cover for complexity, and lack of discoverability or intuitiveness. Haskell has all those three flaws, so you see, experience is really needed.

> (#2) So does NodeJS and (on an abstract level) Microsoft Word.

No, they don't. Javascript and macro Basic do not even have enough expressiveness for supporting the kind of library you'll find in Haskell.

> (#3) That is simply negative, right?

That's the inevitable downside of #2.

> (#6) That is a general description of specialty -- unless he means all hard are easy.

Well, not all obviously. You still can't declare "f = solution to SAT in polynomial time" and be done with that. But the sheer amount of hard stuff that becomes easy is unsettling.

About #8, I'll let it open. Experience and investment can certainly not overcome anything as you claim, but I'm still not decided wether to classify Haskell as "the best available for nearly anything (maybe except if you have a killing library in another language)" or "hell, why can't somebody just come and rewrite it as something _simple_", or both.
How bands can leverage data to book tours (viz at bottom)[OC]
Ask HN: What is a cheap Android developer phone?
Hi, I'm an iOS developer trying out React Native and would like to get a cheap Android developer phone. My question is, what is a cheap phone and what phones do developers at startups use? Thanks!
i really like bulma, makes most sense to me. any bulma fans in here?
Interesting article, but anyone using the Blogger platform should know that the UX on a touch interface is a nightmare. There's roughly a 2 out of 3 chance that any action taken to zoom in on the page or an image will result in navigating away from the current post.

Blooger is one seemingly moribund service I wish Goggle would spend some dev time on.
Google will also let you move your Authenticator to a new device with access to the account from another trusted device without needing to 2FA.

So, for example, I can temporarily move Authenticator to an tablet if my phone is lost/stolen using my laptop, which is already trusted.

There are some potential security drawbacks to this but access to a trusted device seems a reasonable compromise between security and convenience.
Someone could just reskin assets, change dialog, etc and revamp Starcraft into any RTS game. The AI and game code is what is really important for Blizzard to retain. It isn't the idea that people will compile Starcraft (Blizzard has released the game for free), it's the possibility that someone may profit off of all of Blizzard's efforts in writing the backend code for the game. I think it seems very likely that there would be a sudden influx of Starcraft clones and other RTS games made from the engine flooding every app store. Blizzard doesn't want people making money off their IP, plain and simple.
In Apple's case it is mostly a labor play.

They have a number of initiatives related to the environment [1]. They are trying to reduce their carbon footprint, and are close to get 100% of their power from renewable sources. They also announced their intention of a closed-loop supply chain (no new mining).

Of course, they are not perfect. The Washington Post documented the horrifying exploitation of cobalt miners in Congo [2]. Some of that cobalt ended up in Apple batteries. Apple said it was addressing the issue [3].

The biggest contribution you yourself can make at this moment is to simply consume less.

[1] https://images.apple.com/lae/environment/pdf/Apple_Environme...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/c...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/03...
Not many. China in the 60s and 70s had a very poor manufacturing base compared to today.
It is not possible to completely replace one with the other without a transition period, and until we solve the storage issue.
That's one important takeaway. But we don't actually know what (synthetic) D2 and (food derived) D3 are doing differently in the body. This is exacerbated by:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4210929/

That there's this much nuance just with this one ingredient is a microcosm of the overall flaw in Soylent's approach.

Optimizing for just the legible dimensions of a poorly understood domain will not result in good outcomes.

For mealsquares we take consilience seriously and combine the inside and outside view (see: reference class forecasting) on human nutrition to try to establish reasonable confidence intervals around nutrition models, and even then we aren't stupid enough to think or claim that mealsquares are just as good as fish, fruit, and vegetables.
I never understood Soylent. Why not simple, convenient, repetitive meals instead? Why not a protein shake and a banana if occasional liquid meal replacements are needed?
I see this project as the next logical step beyond LFS. LFS will help you get one up and running from start to finish, but once you do that, you might want to try it a bit more free-form. That's where this project seems to fit in.
News to me that technology has a nationality.
Okay how about Einstein then? My understanding is that he also worked backwards in order to develop his theory of Special Relativity; he was trying to "fit" a theory to a universe that presupposed that the laws of physics are the same throughout the universe, including a constant speed of light for all observers. Relativistic effects weren't known to be reality at the time this theory was proposed. Much later, scientists developed experiments to confirm relativity.

Maybe we're still searching for the right theory of consciousness to know what exactly we're trying to measure?
> Times are different now

Now. But what about tomorrow?

Neither you nor I can know what tomorrow will bring. But should it revert back to the old status-quo, what then? What if these self-same companies take all of the nice BSD/MIT/non-GPL'd code, package it up, make it better - so much so that people prefer it over the original! - and sell it, and make a mint off it, and it becomes much more popular.

They continue to extend it, but never give anything back to the original authors, and perhaps the original project dies from lack of use by people, and faltering participation of developers because no one is using it.

So now - wonderful open source software goes from being open - to closed and proprietary. The users don't care - they are getting great value for their money, right? But the software, which was once open and useful for the developers, is virtually gone.

Don't think it could ever change back to this? Don't be a fool. Maybe not in 5 years, or 10 - or maybe it will!

History does repeat - or at least echoes loud and clearly. Being prepared for such a possibility is better, in my perspective, than assuming the way things are today is the way they'll always be going forward.
Data was scraped from Bandcamp using Selenium in Python. Then the social graph was generated using the networkx Python package and exported into Gephi.
Middle-Schooler Who Wrote G.O.P. Health-Care Bill Claims He Has Not Been Paid
> ... I am a bit lost

Google "cognitive dissonance" and the "sunk cost fallacy."
The betting is not only interesting, but actually an excellent bet, in fact, very strategic. Learning to drive is only part of the formulas. As I stated this probably 10th time on HN, we need real data about road condition in order to make self-driving really successful. DeepMap is only part that solution, but we still need real data in real time. We need a real network communication in the transportation space. Take flight control, instead of having a person coordinating, we can make computer programs to do that coordination; now apply that to driving. This is not only a data challenge (because there is very little authentic data to collect from to begin with), but also a huge challenge in network communication.
Looking over my call log, I have five incoming from humans I wanted to hear from over the last seven days.

I have 27 from random numbers/places that I know from experience are scams. This is a US number.

If you find your life lacking opportunities to get in to obscenity shouting matches with random con artists, it is great! Otherwise, not so much.
"academic/hobbyist" probably doesn't give justice to the benefit those works provide for languages that implement experiments pioneered in i.e. haskell. I say "probably" because I can't give any exact examples.
From their website https://www.deepmap.ai/ it seems they are focusing on high-definition, centimeter-accuracy maps. Why is that important? It seems with a rough map and training, a robot can find its destination.
This sounds like Aboriginal Linux: http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html
> Yet, no one thinks that cancer originates in quantum effects.

Actually, there are at least some research which suggests quantum tunneling plays a role in random genetic mutation, giving rise to cancer.

Disclaimer: I am not a physicist or biologist.
Ansible/Terraform Tower
Facebook begins selling low-cost WiFi in India
I'm confused. Can you tell me how your comment relates to the article?

The author of the article is sharing his experience with Haskell, explaining ups and downs. He concludes by

> Haskell is a great programming language. It requires some effort at the beginning, but you get to learn a very different way of thinking about your problems.

Are you interpreting the word "different" as "better"?
Haskell works really well for things revolving around languages.

At SQream (www.sqream.com), Haskell is used for CLI, SQL parser, SQL language compiler, SQL optimizations and a variety of tools.

We also use Haskell to generate Python code for testing (think: describing a testing scenario and sets of queries, translating into a runnable, predictable Python script that's easy to debug)
Sex is pleasurable and healthful but if I had to have sex 3-4 times a day or I would get skinny and weak I would begin to hate sex too and maybe look to masturbating as an occasional alternative.
Tanium Demo environment exposes real patient data
Surprise your loved ones with the gift of useless brain activity
Serious question. In the following code, what would be better function / type names? (or you can pick another bit of Haskell code that you know and/or have particular trouble understanding).

class Foldable t where
foldl :: (b -> a -> b) -> b -> t a -> b
Android Studio's minimum-resource-usage-for-sane-performance is enormous. It does some things nicer than Eclipse, but there are definitely times I miss Eclipse's lean-ness, which is not a thing I would have expected myself to ever feel prior to AS.
Don't confuse software developer or entrepreneurs with hackers. Hackers haven't changed - they are still out there, they still exist, and many are displeased with some of the ways things are turning out.
Thank you for checking it out. This "Facebook causes depression (studies show!)" meme is being repeated left and right, even on HN, and it's kind of annoying at this point.
An App Economy for Everything Else
Utilizing multiprocessing for reading and processing jsons (or any type of data) then feeding the output into a shuffle_batch* op works great for me.
I'm not calling it vaporware. We don't understand clearly about our gut bio/digestion/food absorption. It'd be great to hear an expert on this chime in, but my guess they would say "we don't know yet".

I'm not telling you to not eat Soylent or that it won't potentially be great for the human race. But again, we don't know.

Edit: fixed wording
Edit: What if they get something wrong like including trans fats? I know this a "playing to fear" argument, but there is a long history of industrial foods being not healthy. It just takes a new generation of suckers to come of age.
You're grossly simplifying. According to the World Bank [1], since 1990, nearly 1.1 billion people have escaped extreme poverty.

[1] http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/poverty-and-shared-p...
Just because someone doesn't know it's missing doesn't mean they give up their claim on the property.
Ask HN: What happened to AirFlow?
AirFlow seems to be the only reliable app able to stream videos from a Mac to an Apple TV (feel free to suggest alternatives).

Yet it's stuck at beta 7 and there's nothing else on the web site, http://airflowapp.com/

Anyone knows?
Facebook's copycats appear to be crushing Snapchat's user numbers
GraphQL-Europe – Europe's first GraphQL conference – Berlin, May 21st, 2017
I haven't used it yet, but a quick search on F-Droid showed https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=dialer&fdid=..., which looks promising. I fit still works on a current android, but at least F-Droid marks it as compatible.
It's because American's romanticize manufacturing for some reason. They love the idea of someone doing back-breaking labor on a factory floor line, but hate the idea of someone working retail in air conditioning.
The hollowing out of the middle class, the number 'no longer looking for work', the number of underemployed would say that you are wrong.
Also, really close to the fridge. Which helps on budget as well.
If people want to promote the arts of game development, what does copying the code from a 20 year old game do to further today's useful arts? There are plenty of free game engines out there for someone to use and modify to build the next best game. Using buggy 20 year old code that can't run on modern computers doesn't really seem efficient.
It's merely different. It's like using Prolog for the first time, you're likely to find it very unfamiliar.
I've been running Linux as my primary desktop OS for a bit over two decades. If you told me five years ago that the majority of my daily coding would take place in an editor written by Microsoft I'd have thought you were crazy.

VS Code is an awesome editor and is improving at an equally awesome pace. Kudos to Microsoft and the team behind it.
> none of the Altcoins currently have any use outside speculation,

I feel like this is moving goal posts. Take for instance Litecoin has a market not because it is used by various businesses but because it provides faster clearance to bitcoin exchanges (due to faster transaction times). Sure exchanges are dealing on a lower security network but they're ok taking that risk because the value they derive from it (i.e. more profits) is higher than the insurance it would cost them if something were to go wrong.

Similarly, people use Monero because it provides them with the much needed privacy features. They may anchor back in bitcoin to purchase goods, but it doesn't change the fact that the reason why Monero is valued isn't "pure speculation".

Ethereum is currently being valued like a startup, it's product are expected to be very much useful in the future. Almost none of these products really care about Ethers being used to buy and sell goods on Craigslist or on Tigerdirect for computers. Take for instance Golem.

You're claiming that only real valuation of good is if it is being used to exchange for real goods or else it is pure speculation, BECAUSE bitcoin has a clear advantage in that field. It's like Dash saying "No cryptocurrency is as good as Dash because all cryptocurrencies have long names, and only Dash has a short name, so it will be easier to adopt because the name can hang on easily on to your tongue.".
Several reasons

For Fortran's use case you want to turn math into running code and all this C /C++ OOP stuff gets in way.

Also any language that doesn't have arrays built in is not going to get the time of day from a technical programmer.

You want the maximum performance out of your code so Python might be good for prototyping but you want to convert that to the fastest code in production.
The "it will be found and abused" argument is wrong on so many levels. Let's start with the facts:
- All modern software in fact has a public well known backdoor.
- That backdoor is called the private key for software updates.
- Despite being well known feature, no criminals have abused it so far, and we consider it completely safe.
- The argument of "it can't be done" is actually null and void. It was already done and even implemented.
- Why do you trust those companies more than your government. I don't see how a corrupted cop is more likely than a corrupted developer. Being a developer obviously makes your point of view biased.
- Where the government can be limited by whatever laws you choose to implement, those companies and their security practices are entirely up to them.
- It's not a question of whether it's possible, it's a question of whether it should be done, and if so how.
- Open source is not much more trustable. End of the day most of the sane people do not recompile every binary, and with CVEs and security patches coming all the time you still need someone to provide the updated binaries.
Google Play also pairs with set-top box devices like Roku using an audio mechanism, although I'm not sure if it's ultrasound. A series of audible clicks are present while pairing, so I'm assuming it may be a different audio or environmental-based encoding, maybe even just location -> audio correlation rather than data modulated over any kind of over-the-air carrier. Does anyone know more about how that particular setup works? It sounds similar to the Shopkick app in a lot of ways.
> "All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky." - Joel Spolsky

If you learn Haskell you will see this is total bollocks.
I think a lot of us thought that economic indicators would make it hard for the republicans to make the case that things were bad and they could make things good but we forgot unfortunately that perception is all and the actual numbers don't mean anything. Under 5% unemployment doesn't mean anything if you can find enough salt-of-the-earth middle class white people who are struggling, because that is enough to convince people to toss the whole system and start over even if unemployment is low and wages are increasing.

It is truly staggering to have the right now taking on the mantle of income inequality after decades of obstructing any efforts to tackle it, so they can bring back the kinds of jobs that unions helped to define the middle class with after being instrumental in destroying unions all while blaming the left. I know its not quite that cut and dried but I think the left feels like that globalism is OK as long as you are distributing the wealth made from it. It seems like the republicans right now are willing to make us less wealthy and less well off in many ways, as long as the white middle class can benefit (even if the country suffers in general).
I find this claim dubious. I have been in the industry a long time and I have found the opposite.
In the UK we got hardware authenticators for free. And most bank accounts for personal accounts are free too.
Imagination in Apple Licensing dispute selling businesses
> It might not stand up in court, but I do think it's obviously unethical to release patent-encumbered "FOSS" without mentioning your patents and then demand users obtain a license after the fact.

I would be amazed if something like this does not stand up in court. Read the BSD license — it's really relatively simple english.
Can you handle a marathon on water and elecrolytes each day, every day, for most of your career?
I agree. I had a civil lawsuit where the opposing attorney gave a fake subpoena to one of my former employees to get him to testify. Nothing could be done about it.
It's "baitish-feeling at first", just missing the tailing "and here's what happened" --- but --- at this point I think this style is just starting to become assimilated into general "unintended" blogging/writing style..

The other day, I saw some Medium post titled "Functional programming will make you happier". I was furious and about to blast some diatribe on the increasingly infantile-inanity-inflation-in-headlines but looking at the post, the author seemed genuine in taking the troubles to work out their thoughts to the reader, so I refrained.. tilting at windmills, increasingly people are simply growing up with these sorts of titles and develop a primal instinct for what gets attention and clicks --- aka, reads.
First Ever Pirated 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears on Torrent Websites
Can we at least track the usage of a cryptocurrency by IP address? Is there a site which analyzes them?
> I think you completely fail to realize that Fortran does have wide adoption, and that there is a big market for commercial and open-source Fortran compilers, and that these optimizations have already been made.

100 times this. Few years ago I personally edited Makefiles in one HPC project to test GCC and clang as possible replacements for PGI. Lemme tell you this: they were joke. Like, 2x slower.

First of all, commercial Fortran compilers can do all the simple optimizations like inlining, loop unrolling etc. And then on top of that, they come with loads of HPC-specific optimizations like autovectorization, loop tiling, loop fusion and hell knows what else. GCC recently seems to be developing in this direction, maybe they'll become competitive at some point or maybe already are, clang was behind GCC last time checked.

In any case, state of the art Fortran compilers are good. And guess what, GCC has a Fortran frontend too. No need to speculate, you can go and test GCC on your codebase now.

In fact, most modern high performance compilers, open source or commercial, have multiple frontends for multiple languages, usually including C and Fortran.
Product Designer here. Agreed that more designers should make full hearted attempts at innovating in Product vs dressings.

We are out there though few.

My last major attempt [1] was to disrupt the desogn process itself, especially in the consumption of lifestyle products.

[1] http://JuicyCanvas.com