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Desktop UIs were once amazingly consistent and intuitive too. Anyone over 30 probably remembers the standard menu, context sensitive help, standard keyboard shortcuts, etc. This was before abominations like Office "ribbons," skins, themes, and Electron.

UIs seem to be like Egyptian monuments. The greatest pyramids were built first. By the new kingdom they just bored holes in the ground.

We knew how to design damn near perfect desktop UIs by 1998 and damn near perfect mobile UIs by around 2010. What happened?

I think it's because tech is as much fashion as function and fashion must constantly change. It doesn't matter if a UI is excellent if it looks 5 years ago. Each new platform begins with a well thought out UI but then it must change, and change, and change. Good design principles must be thrown out if they might make your product look old.
31% of San Franciscans are car free [1].

In 2015, at least, over 50% of trips in San Francisco were made without a personal car [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_...
[2] https://sf.streetsblog.org/2015/02/03/new-data-shows-most-tr...
>>A sizeable portion of Trump's base believes that they are in danger of becoming a minority in "their own" country and will sidestep the economic benefits of immigration to retain a demographic majority.

Actually they are simply pissed at that fact- since the end of slavery and colonialism, life has gotten simply too hard.

Also you have to live in the situation now where you are continually reminded you are no racial superman, and some one you thought was way beneath your station is now routinely beating you in highly intellectual activities.

This is not new to the US. Bulk of Indias current social friction problems happen because the previously lower caste people are doing well off in life now. Now economy might be a growing pie on the longer run, but on the shorter run, its just competition for limited resources at the end. If you previously were a upper caste person albeit not very capable, you could still succeed easily, given only your castes were allowed to study and prosper. Today with more people having an opportunity to compete, you just don't stand a chance. Now imagine being a upper caste person who only until recently had to merely exist to succeed to now having to compete and routinely be beaten by people whom you think are beneath you.

Things don't work well.

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> They absolutely do have a single, coherent plan, just as all businesses do: make money

Do you mind if I quote you on this?

My team has had a stressful time on our project and I think our manager could use a good laugh.

There isn't a coherent plan to make money -- or even accepting that as the primary goal -- at many or even most large companies, because people have different ideas of how you make money (particularly over anything more than 12 months).

My point was that one (S)VP that was tasked with handling a broad part of the business and blew a call badly, misusing broad authority over PR to retaliate over unfavorable coverage. This became public on Friday and PR had a statement ready on Tuesday. The timing makes me suspect that senior executives caught wind of it Friday evening/over the weekend and shut it down Monday. However, they stalled a day to get their PR ducks in a row, since they didn't see an immediate mass reaction on Monday.

Their one-day delayed PR release on an immediate (business-week) shutdown of that behavior came out concurrently with other PR releases and ended up looking reactive.

(Pure conjecture, but it smells like this.)

I doubt Disney backed down in a weekend if all of the senior executives were in agreement about strategy -- this sounds like the head of PR was given rope and decided he liked nooses.
Not only for JavaScript. Googles duo app uses webrtc for instance
> The value of an engineer's work doesn't magically adjust downward because of the circumstance of his or her location

Yes it does!

It's only absurd if you assume every person is able, willing, and has no barriers to relocating. But there are plenty of engineers with families and/or established ties who don't want to move. One of the main reasons Facebook, Google, and Apple have engineering offices in Seattle is to attract engineers from Microsoft/Amazon that don't want to uproot their families and move to the bay.
The cost is definitely bandwidth, Snapchat doesn't have much of a storage problem as snaps have an actual TTL.
Lol, started working with it a month ago... Pretty much
The 15k benefit by triple byte (live in SF) conflicts with the 50k premium by Indeed if living in Austin.
That's really surprising considering that we've seen beta releases of iOS for quite a number of years now.

Isn't the point of a beta release to make sure that the OS is battle-tested with users who would use it like they do in real life?

Would have thought it might have covered most of the typical real-world use cases. Especially since it probably has one of the highest number of users/testers of any beta software programs.
Man, I’d sure love to see the costs of POWER chips come down a bit, given the Intel Management Engine and AMD’s equivalent. A good general purpose CPU that doesn’t contain a backdoor is great, but it looks like getting a workstation will run you >4k$
Yea, I was saying it in reference to the article :)
Nope. Flickr was the quintessential Web 2.0 app, and it wasn't very JavaScript heavy at the start. Web 2.0 was fundamentally about user-generated content.
I did (well nearly, started in 1984 on 8-bit home computers), and the only thing that was dramatically slower than today in normal day-to-day tasks was loading data from cassette tapes, floppy disks or via modem.

Since I've been on computers with hard discs (Amiga 3000 early to mid-90's) it's definitely true that responsiveness either hasn't improved much, or got even worse (I remember how confused I was when I first saw an application with a splash screen, to hide the long startup time). This sort of carelessness has been spreading like a plague since then.
Another way to look at it: the absolute amount of money you save matters, especially if you're young. It's better to make a lot and save a lot. And I don't think it's too hard to save money with a $160K salary, unless you have kids.

That is, the salary to expenses ratio isn't the only thing to look at.

For example, if you save 10% of your money in SF and make $150K, that's $15K a year in savings. If you save 14% of your money in Austin and make $100K, that's $14K a year in savings.

Even though you went through 90% of your salary in SF and only 86% in Austin, living in SF is better, because you saved more money in absolute terms. You can move elsewhere and take advantage of that savings.

If you only care about money, the ideal strategy is probably to move to SF in your 20's, make a high salary, and then move out of SF. A lot of people these days don't have kids until their 30's. (Anecdotally that seems to be what a lot of people have done in the past decade -- move out of the Bay Area when they want to have kids.)

This also doesn't account for the fact that SF has more "outliers" and more choices. You might be pleasantly surprised by the kind of job you can get or the kind of money you can make in SF. In most cities (certainly not all), you probably won't be surprised. The job market is what it is.

(I'm assuming something about their methodology here, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.)
This article made me pretty sad and made me think of this too. I think what an ethical investor needs to do is not deploy capital to any industries that don't add real economic value or wealth or whatever you want to call it. Also, ethical founders should refuse capital from orgs that fund these projects. Basically starve these projects out, but that's sort of idealistic.
Thanks this looks like a really solid list.
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they can turn your app into an addictive drug

I think that's exactly their elevator pitch.
Honest question: how do people use influxdb for monitoring and alerting? Our metrics feed into influx, and I cannot get answers to simple questions like “what is the failure rate” because arithmetic across measurements isn't possible [0]. I could shoehorn things into a schema to make it work, but in the limit I end up with one mega measurement.

[0]: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/3552
on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15642856
>>Why did you put scare quotes around "their own"?

Because these arguments just condense to 'We got here first' talk?
You're wrong. Neither Digg nor Flickr had anything to do with AJAX. You're thinking of the "Web App" era precipitated by Google Maps. That's a whole 'nother thing.

"Web 2.0" and "crowdsourcing" were more or less one in the same.

Maybe people (including Graham) have been trying to revise "Web 2.0" to include more things, to simplify the taxonomy. But when Web 2.0 first started being discussed, it wasn't about JavaScript, it was just about interactivity, specifically writeability.
Snapchat launches redesign as growth disappoints
in the demo when a response is massive it takes a long time to load. example: https://groups.goodoldweb.com/topics?id=33

It needs to limit entries to a certain number of characters where you can click a "see all" button to see the rest of the long entry.
Interesting... of course 70 characters of Mandarin would be the equivalent of over 400 characters of English. I suppose that plus goog-Translate would be another even less readable way to avoid the limit... since Chinese language speakers by and large just use WeChat.
With deletion of one wallet, $280M in Ethereum wallets gets frozen
SQLite is great. For an unusual application see actordb.com - a server side database that uses a large number of independent SQLite databases.
Obviously, it’s a stunted metric. Cost of living handicaps don’t factor in the quality of life that bigger, more diverse cities have to offer. It’s more than just the cost of “rent, transportation, and groceries.” Some people value that and others don’t and that’s fine. But don’t pretend it’s an absolute, universal metric. I know plenty of people who moved out of SF only to lament what they’re missing and in several cases, move back.
The targeted systems rarely have an MMU. How can this provide any real isolation?
Assuming half of it is bandwidth costs, that means that a daily active user is using ~380 MB/day (assuming $0.01/GB). That seems pretty hefty as an average. Especially if you consider the encoding snapchat uses puts each 10s video at about 1MB in size. 380MB is a little over an hour of snapchat quality video, that seems excessive as an average. If I were a major stockholder I'd be pushing to see why these hosting costs were so high.
There are two relevant senses of context: what has already happened in the email thread and what a given person thinks he is responding to. Top posting is better for an outsider who is just reading through the thread while inline replies help the people in the thread understand where a given author is coming from.
Giving open-source projects life after a developers death
They are being recorded and posted to YouTube as unlisted videos. You can find links to some of them on Twitter[1] and ResearchGate[2]. It looks like highlights of the lectures are being posted to Twitter and the full lectures are being posted to ResearchGate.

[1] https://twitter.com/stats385

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/project/Theories-of-Deep-Learni...
they did, they're at the Santa Monica airport now.
Woah, that's awesome! Any performance information anywhere?
Sure. And they're all selling themselves short.
Just a small point, but I'm curious if the road rights of way are significantly different there to the UK. I ask because in the video there's a bit near the end where the car pulls out of a smaller road in front of a red car that I'd normally have considered to have the right of way. Obviously they left it in intentionally, so is that kind of manouver simply not against the right of way there?
> your normal dB driving some web-based CRUD app

That can totally be handled with SQLite.
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It should be easy for Amazon to start delivering my meds: Convince my employer. Right now, I walk two blocks to Target for new prescriptions, and I'm required to buy any refills from Express Scripts. My clinic also has a pharmacy on site that I could use. I'm betting that refills (i.e., stuff that's taken chronically) is the bulk of the prescription drug business, but it would be interesting to know if that's true or not. I don't see much fat to trim.
To be fair, all the case studies they list [1] utilized their service to improve users' personal habits -- diet, exercise, etc.

Behavior shaping isn't necessarily morally wrong to use, though companies like Facebook and Google are almost completely incentivized to use them against users.

[1] http://www.usedopamine.com/assets/pdf/Dopamine%20Labs%20Case...
It uses Firebase i think
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I don't see GemStone there...
You mean like the roaring success FaceTime is in the messaging space? And how .pages beat out PDFs?
I think you can get better results with ctrlp when using cpsm as its matcher. fzf.vim always starts at the top and cpsm actually minds your current file.
Blizzard make damn fine games.
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The price of an engineer's labor isn't determined solely by the value of her work. It's a function of supply and demand. Demand is driven, in part, by value. But supply is driven, in part, by cost of living. In other words, if more people were willing to endure San Francisco's cost of living, supply would be higher and prices (salaries) would come down.
The red car had a stop sign too. You can see the back of the hexagonal stop sign.
Jeez. Use a formatter and skip all this.
Racism is as racism does.
How did you get a job so easily (if it was easy)?
I never saw anyone on the street with Spectacles and that signals to me it is a failure. I find this rule works for portable consumer electronics.
This still works on Reddit unfortunately
Facebook launches website plugin, rivaling Intercom and co
alreaady on the front page for most of the day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15642856
Not to mention the sampling bias of people who used the Hired platform.
Gee, the founders can't have been happy with that title (different than on HN). What can founders do to avoid being represented in a negative light like this by the press, HN? Try to be the first to frame the conversation? Or is all press good press and it doesn't matter?
Nope, offshorinng to non-US companies is the most preferred alternative in the real world. Just look at the fact. Offshorinng has been existing for a long time. Building dev center in Ohio and Montana is much more difficult and costly.
Probably just written for self-fellating film auteurs..
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15648080
But will it be worse than taking public transportation?

In my experience Public transportation sucks. It's fine for getting around locally, but is terrible for commuting.

For a short 3 month period I found uberpool to be far superior to taking a train. Some days it cost a dollar more. Some days it cost less. The travel time was pretty much equivalent plus it was more comfortable.

I hate driving in rush hour traffic but as a passenger I didn't mind.
> Perhaps the key (ha!, pun) is that you're talking about using RAM _and_ disk with the RAM being for caching/fast access that eventually hits the disk.

This is closer to what I mean but not quite. Specifically, in-memory (or main-memory) is a technical term that talks about a specific type of database that focuses on doing operations /mostly/ in memory, with some spillover to disk as necessary, but only as an edge case. You usually then handle persistence with a sequential transaction log, perhaps in NVDIMM storage if you have some. This is in contrast to other systems where the memory is a buffer, but the "actual stuff" happens on disk. There is of course many hybrid schemes - it's really more of a spectrum. Some examples: SAP HANA, ArangoDB, MapD, MemSQL, MS SQL Server Hekaton.

There's also a lot of techniques that come with this style of thinking - often these are column stores, and often since these databases don't really hit disk, the bottleneck is moving data in and out of memory to the CPU caches, and sometimes just CPU speed. Often these use lightweight compression and SIMD instructions to tackle those problems.

So SQLite's "in-memory" database scheme doesn't quite count as something like this, it's more of a disposable database. But that's ok - it's not bad, it's just a different thing.

> Whereas, I think, in this case sqlite is either on the disk, or in RAM. There is no multiple tiers.

See the thread above - I kind of assumed this was the case, but like you mentioned, it looks like with the LSM implementation it does kind of sort of have a memory component - it lasts until you close the database "connection", and gets flushed often.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15648080
More recently, it would seem that you could add various barbell-using disciplines to the list of physical training areas programmers are drawn to. Powerlifting, weightlifting, etc.
Return on investment for advertising is very simple:

net present average customer lifetime value acquired per unit of advertising cost

If it's over unity, you're making money with advertising, if it's not, you're wasting money on advertising or need to increase your CLTV or decrease your discount rate.
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I read that as: it gives the impression it's been here forever, it's still being actively maintained, and will be for the foreseeable future. Benefiting from the “future” (sqlite4/perl6) at a slow but steady peace. So, really like Perl 5.
Their Dopamine service seems much more heinous and detrimental, especially in a society where many social media application's algorithms tailor user's experiences to accustom and promote each individual's personal beliefs for the sake of ad revenue. I imagine the truly unethical could take advantage of this service and develop applications which leverage what our SM platforms are doing currently, and make quite a lot of revenue as a result.
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Yes. Facebook gives you a unique visitor id when they see the ad that persists and is included in the sale form. It's completely linear, and is tracked from beginning to end. Every click is tracked, and users are tracked even if they leave the website and return later.

There's hard, direct evidence involved in every step of the way.
I love CLI projects that use the terminal as a live display. Can anyone point me to some links to awesome terminal projects that are similar to this?
Can someone please explain something to me? I’ve had this question for a long time, and finally decided to ask it...

Why does anyone rely on TOR for security? Obviously bugs happen, but it seems pretty easy to hack by any large organization....or government.

For instance, according to this page ( https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html ), there are less than 7,000 relays in the TOR network. To me, the US, British, Russian, or Chinese government could easily control most of those (i.e. running their own nodes) without anyone knowing, and use that to listen in (or at least infer) what TOR users are doing.

At that small of a scale, I’d bet a large corporation could even run a bunch of nodes.

How can that be protected against - or can it?

Am I missing something?
Even old feature/flip phones supported breaking SMS into multiple messages. I would use them all the time.
Toei[0] has been experimenting with it; the Nippori-Toneri line from Nippori is a driverless monorail. The trip is fairly normal albeit jerky.

Awkwardly enough, many of the stations do not have attendants either, so if you have a problem with the gate, you have to call back to Nippori and ask for help, which is a huge problem when you can't hear well enough...

[0] Toei (都営) is the Tokyo Metropolitan Government-operated rail system (mostly subways and buses), not to be confused with Tokyo Metro, which is a private rail system (mostly subways), or JR, which operates mostly above-ground trains.
You can emphasize things by surrounding them with asterisks. No need for all CAPS.
Given inflation, it seems like payroll taxes have fallen.
30k is (per https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=3...) $397,964.84 dollars.

I'd suggest looking at the following for a reasonably good look on the progressive tax rate, historically.

http://www.teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-histori...
The tipping point for Apple users is around $30/hour. If you make much less than that Apples advantages aren’t worth it. If yo make more than that, it’s foolish not to use Apple products. Your time is too valuable to cheap out on less productive equipment.
Consider this: would Disney have changed this practice should it proven to not be a PR firestorm? If they thought they could actively reduce costs or increase profits with this plan, I highly doubt they would change. that is my point: if something is actively producing profit, the plan is to increase profits. Whether or not the actions people within the company effect this does not matter in the slightest, because the only thing people measure or care about as a meaningful indicator of improvement is increased profits.

> Do you mind if I quote you on this?

> My team has had a stressful time on our project and I think our manager could use a good laugh.

I'm not sure you intended this but the wording of this pretty offensive
> Be consistent. Be predictable.

That's what we do. I use only gmail, drive, analytics, Adwords, google play and youtube.
I'm treating everything else as unstable or beta. Even their cloud offerings.
Note that "crafted USB device" is a bigger attack vector than it sounds like; if paired with vulnerabilities in USB devices themselves, you can have hosts that infect USB devices and USB devices to make them infect other hosts.
>>Mediocre student somewhere in talent concentration point is screwed - he's where the top talent of the world is, and has to compete with them for any nice opportunities. It is hard.

This is why its never a nice idea for most people to work at a place like Google.
We need bring your own processor tech now.
Google sheep view :-)
Einstein's brain has a similarly tumultuous history. It was carried around in two jars by a Princeton pathologist, sliced in countless pieces and studied by people around the world.
Within bounds, they'd rather the community moderate itself. There aren't many moderators. The guidelines are in part an exercise in getting the community to reasonably handle most of this stuff autonomously.

Noodling meta is generally bad, but this story is actually inappropriate for the site, and I'm generally comfortable hijacking inappropriate stories for meta.