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My reaction as designer is different. Today, UIs often get quite complex, and can contain at least few different sizes of the text.

1. Serifs often have uneven stroke weights which make them actually actually harder to read in small sizes (8-15), since the thin parts start to breakdown.

2. Letterforms are more complex and generally create more "visual noise" or the texture of the text gets noisy since you have lot of points and ticks on the screen.

I think serifs can work well on titles that are large, quotes, in print or simple ui like articles where you one column of text, mostly in one size. For UI, especially mobile UI feel like it can be quite jarring in any more complex app.

Legibility also comes from the different factors of the typeface (x-height, open counters, distinct letterforms) not only from the fact that it's serif or sans serif.
What is a “cloud native” application?An architectural trend or just a buzzword?
I'm not sure how to do that because a single UPDATE statement only has one WHERE clause. You'd have to come up with an expression to put in the SET part that gives the right values for different rows.

I guess you can always swap pairs of rows with subtraction, like swapping row 5 and 7 would be:

update t set user_order = 5 + (7 - user_order) where id in (123, 456)

Maybe you could use case statements to make an enumerated function in the more general case of updating multiple rows, but that's a bit ugly.
founders for change is yet another example of today's "do as i say, not as i do" attitude. look at the list of companies these founders are from... i'm sure nearly all are funded by "old white guys" (a term so loosely and arrogantly used today).

if a startup is dumb enough to pass on a round of funding because there isn't "diversity" within the investment group, they aren't worth investing in anyway.

have people forgotten that VC's are in the money making business? come on folks, get real.
Have you done any research into the potential energy release?

Here is a decent primer. At about 26:30 they talk about battery failure testing. They have a 2 ton blast door in the room where tests are conducted.

http://www.pbs.org/video/nova-search-super-battery/
Tesla's powerwall claims 90% round-trip efficiency (AC in vs. AC out) and most SMPS power supplies are also 90%+efficient as well so you are losing <20% capacity (not 100-200%).
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Unions often lead to better terms but lower pay. Europeans are, in general, OK with that.

Americans, in general, value their salary more than anything else, which is optimized by individual bargaining, rather than collective bargaining.

Indeed, if you compare US programmer salaries to (e.g.) UK programmer salaries, the difference is apparent: Outside of specialized industries like finance, the pay in the US is much higher, and the gap grows much more with seniority[0]

I am not aware of any CS union in the UK, but in many senses every European country runs a lot of collective enterprises (healthcare, education), and has strong unions for many other industries, unlike the US; I believe the difference in [0] is, at least in part, due to the "collective" vs. "individual" mindset.

[0] https://www.daxx.com/article/it-salaries-software-developer-...
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A lot of it was stuff that is basic to someone with years of work experience:

* Start assignments as soon as they are given out. Stupid, right?

* Don't be shy about asking lots of questions. Don't be egotistical or afraid about asking for clarification.

* Build personal relationships with the professors and TAs. They are there to help. This is not an adversarial relationship. Show genuine passion for the material.

* Find real-world analogies or applications of the theory. An intuitive understanding is far more important memorization. It is also far more motivational. By seeing how a technique can be used to solve a real problem, the value becomes tangible.

* Be curious. You are there to learn, which means digging beyond the provided material. So many students are sadly focused on the grade or assignment, not on the learning.

I could probably write a book about this...

Edit: formatting
I actually think more or less similar developments are happening in the US and Europe. Instead of the specific term hikikomori, they call it an extended adolescence or something similar. Though, 'extended adolescents' do not necessarily shun society. They do live with their parents in most cases, from my own experience at least.

Having said that I may be completely off base here since I do not know Japanese culture well enough.
To people coming into this thread, let me sum it up "don't do this it's dangerous let tesla handle it"
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I'm agree with you as well except the Rails point.

I have used and deploy Go/Elixir/Clojure to some certain success. One thing I feel is that no code is as beautiful as Ruby code to my own eye.

What make Rails bad in your opinion? Is its performance? I think Rails is just a framework with many utility/helper to help you out.
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Incidently that is how FP in done in Smalltalk as well.

All those methods, and reactive patterns (Observer and such) were already present in Smalltalk-80.
archive.org might be the only way to see what changed.
interesting just came across this: https://github.com/planetjekyll/awesome-jekyll-editors
Let's have a look at WSJ's comments. Just for fun.

"You need to get out and walk, and get a job.
You have too much time on your hands..."

----

"Bet Daigo is a supporter of Universal Income."

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"Pathetic."

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"I bet the girls are just lining up for this guy."

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"These folks should be pitied, not celebrated.
Shame on the WSJ for giving him airtime."

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"I bet the girls are just lining up for this guy."

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"1. He isn't a man if he spends most of his time
playing a video game.

2. If this is our future generation...
we are all screwed.

3. Where did he steal the 70k?"

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"The guy's brain is just going to be oatmeal
in 10 years..."

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"Guy's lucky my parents aren't his.
He'd be out on the street so fast his butt
would be burning from road rash."

And people are puzzled by the hikikomori phenomenon in Japanese society. I think hikikomori exist in any nation/society where self-important "humans" react to another individual human being's life choices like this.

Ironically, these "humans" probably think the completion of daily sudoku puzzles, perhaps the occasional game of something well-regarded like chess, and just doing their jobs, will preserve the integrity of their precious brains. These video game addicts are doing the same thing with "rare characters" i.e. solving puzzles etc.

The automatic assumption that the man is unemployed and leeching his parents' money is also amusing. I have met some of these "whales" that play gacha video games. Many of them have well-paid jobs and simply choose to divert their money towards what may seem to many to be a frivolous and silly, even ephemeral thing like the acquisition of video game characters.

I'm not saying this guy has got it figured out, he's probably neurotic on some level, but these comments are symptomatic of a society that will cause people to go in these directions of neurotic escapism. They're also demonstrative of a society that is itself scared or unwilling to acknowledge the existence of problems that drive people to such extremes, and indicates at a rotten core and an emptiness to the people who are so quick to cast judgement.

There were comments about how the money has been wasted and the man will wake up later in his life and regret everything. What do these people think they will do with their savings, assets and so on? Do they think that they can buy their way into an eternal afterlife? I don't think these people have acknowledged the possibility that when they're dead, that's it, and all the wealth they accumulated is meaningless when you're in the ground.

I'm not defending this person's behaviour. I'm not a video game addict or mentally ill (I smoke, but I don't see myself in this guy, so I don't think I'm biased). I just think there's a problem in any discourse where there isn't a single person playing Devil's Advocate, and I think it's hilarious that the people leaving such comments are so utterly blind to the fact that their attitudes are precisely the reasons why many people end up mentally ill.
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Eh, a powerwall is a well defined product with well-defined uses. “Home battery pack” is nearly meaningless—are you talking about a UPS unit, or something that backs your home power, or is it something that feeds back into the grid?

Not saying you’re wrong, but I think the name is undeniably useful at quickly describing a set of functionality. This could also be a case of poor evangelism on behalf of people who care/competitors.
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I think this is what Medium is trying to be. They introduced members only articles a few months ago where a portion of the subscription goes to the author.
Ask HN: Strong hacker == Strong coder?
While principals are important practically good people spend a lot of time applying the principal that one should do what has the most utility for all. This is to say looking at the forseeable ends and picking the means.
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In which way have Google, Amazon, or Apple had any known breaches like this or even FB back in 2008 having API security "leaks" where everyone could pull down the entire graph?

Facebook is a pioneer in letting others dip into their vast treasure trove with doe-eyed innocence and many apologies.
just last week i worked on integrating google4business and aws login. in the end of the day, i spend half of a day and had never made this work.

one of the steps of their's guide required to create oauth application, assign it some specific scopes and use their api browser to submit some jsons to create some custom attributes for the company users. i spend the whole time figuring out how their oauth works and why their api endpoint authentication never worked for me.

the whole experience left me with a feel of extreme complexity and I feel completely lost in oauth and SAML.

i just checked the guides and it seems there are no changes to the aws integration guide - integration mechanism for aws is still the same :(
thanks, I missed that part from the article.
I’d love to hear more about this. You feel it was worth the cost?

Did you do all classes online or did you go in person for some / all?

Did you work in technology previously?
Is it? I'm sure I will get chided for bias quoting a hill article by Ben Shapiro, but as a Libertarian you really need to read both sides perspective to get the true story here. It highlights how the tactic was almost EXACTLY the same: Access facebooks data to build a database of possible supporters and target political messages to them. Obama's operation was only slightly less deceptive about it than CA and their scummy personality quiz chain mail.

My point is not the tactic though, my point is that the ONLY reason this has suddenly gone critical is because Trump is associated with it. It was ok then, its suddenly not now.

http://thehill.com/opinion/technology/379245-whats-genius-fo...

The key takeaway:

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" “Consciously or otherwise,” The Guardian states, “the individual volunteer will be injecting all the information they store publicly on their Facebook page — home location, date of birth, interests and, crucially, network of friends — directly into the central Obama database.”
Facebook had no problem with such activity then. They do now. There’s a reason for that. The former Obama director of integration and media analytics stated that, during the 2012 campaign, Facebook allowed the Obama team to “suck out the whole social graph”; Facebook “was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn’t stop us once they realized that was what we were doing.” She added, “They came to [the] office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.”

Not so with Trump. As soon as Facebook realized that Cambridge Analytica had pursued a similar strategy, they suspended the firm. "

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Consciously or otherwise ...

Another HN user linked to the opposing opinion:

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/03/21/no-obama-didnt-empl...

I agree with this article also, Obama's team was slightly more above board with the original source of the data. After that it looks pretty similar. Remember that they chided Romney for NOT doing this and being behind the curve.

A question I'm asking myself: Would this have still been a scandal if CA was less scummy in their modus operandi?
For average joes today:

- Facebook: Rolodex

- Apple: Simple, low-hassle, powerful tech

- Amazon: Supply chain, low prices, long-tail product discovery, stellar shopping experience supported by an tremendous economies of scale, compute, internet infrastructure

- Google: Search, email, maps, productivity software, compute, internet infrastructure

For as long as these companies remain dominant in these categories continue to provide value to customers, they will not be replaced. They continue to grow exponentially in major part because of the very real value they provide and the lack of viable competition from outside of these groups.
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One hopes the present system will go away: http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2017/09/peer-review-is-...

The problems are in some ways even worse in the humanities: http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-New-Intellectuals/23835... than the sciences. Or see https://jakeseliger.com/2013/02/12/a-lot-of-academic-researc... .
It's sad to me how many parents fail to prepare children for the world.

As a non-parent (and do not want kids), I feel I have a jaded view on this. Yet, I was once a child.. so I should have some, I guess. I taught myself to shave, learned about sex myself, taught myself to drive, etcetc. I love my parents, but frankly they didn't teach me anything in life outside of passive observations of their behavior. I learned about bickering from them though, in leagues. heh.

I don't get why more parents don't want to be the kind that are so dependable, the child will call them when they're too drunk to drive home at 16yrs old. Or the kind that explains to their kids that all drugs are not equal, some are far worse, some are not bad. Or hell, not just that some drugs are bad, but why some are bad.

So many parents seem afraid to be the one who teaches their child first about the "tough" things in the world like sex and drugs. Yet, the tough things in the world should come first from them, imo. I just don't get it.
Hillary lost because she was the worst Democrat candidate in history. She had MSM, the entirety of liberal America, all major tech companies, most/all colleges, illegals voting en masse -- all of these organizations were united in their support for Hillary, and she still lost.

The Dems had the election on a silver platter and they still lost because Hillary was awful.

Hillary lost the election, if it wasn't her it would've been a win.
This is the first I’ve heard of such a widespread problem. Do you have any examples?
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Oops, I meant to type "council". It was a collective body from what I gathered.
The only issue is that I am hoarding a bunch of copies of the original Computer Architecture editions as the comparisons between the architectures of the day are quite valuable.
The JVM is a container by itself, and it has been able to isolate dependencies and memory requirements for many years before docker was conceived. The JVM doesn't do everything that docker does, for example it doesn't provide overlay file systems, but this is trivial to add via standard tools (e.g. aufs), and it also doesn't limit CPU usage per container but this is also trivial to add without having to deal with the extra complications of using docker. I think docker is great for non-JVM applications that run into conflicts with other applications, dependency-wise or resource-wise, but I don't see the point of using docker for pure Java applications. It just adds an unnecessary layer that provides no benefit.

Edit: If the point is to encapsulate and isolate a Java application as much as possible, I would consider using a unikernel like OSv before considering Docker. This would be more efficient and also more secure.
> A lot of reviewing for conferences is actually being done by Ph.D. students. They have to do it, whether they are on a stipend or not.

Most (all?) PhD students in science and engineering are on fellowships, at least in the US. Major research universities will not admit unfunded PhD students.
And even then, experience tells me one needs to have some luck that the HR people are even willing to listen about those side projects.

Good that it worked out for you.
The article starts with putting Jordan Peterson in the same cohort as Alex Jones and crisis actors conspiracy peddlers. I’m not a Peterson fan, but those kind of comparisons strike me as extremely misinformed and dishonest, and undermines the whole credibility of the article by a lot
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With every re-design, their services get worse. Yahoo Sports used to have easy access to boxscores and game recaps. My Yahoo's RSS content fetching has been broken for a while. Problem is, there are no real alternatives either.
>"Hackers" historically developed such a depth of understanding of some system that it allowed them to modify and subvert the system to suit their needs.

This is wrong on many levels. What you're describing is a scientist.
They seem to state in the article that they will use this in brand and identity but they don't mention use of this in the UI.
They were never distributed as a business, even if they were distributed as a product or as a tech stack. Mastodon allows unconnected people and organizations to make hugely disparate investments in "connection technology" with potentially very different business models. Server A may require a monthly subscription from each of its clients, Server B may be getting micropayments from 0.001% of its clients, server C may be running completely free just for somebody's close friends. All these financial models can coexist on the same platform.
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Here is my wild ass idea. Repurpose the storage tanks to hold beer or wine as it is fermenting. I think 100 psi can be achieved without much training of the yeasts. Maybe energy from the tanks could be useful to brewers for their operations.
If it would not be newsworthy then it wouldn't be upvoted enough to get on first page on HN. It's newsworthy for me that's why I upvoted it and it seems 150+ more people thinks the same. If something is not newsworthy for you dosen't mean it's not newsworthy for others.
It's a little bit different. In most cases for US and Europe, it is because of the high cost of housing and rent. I know a lot of friends who saved up a lot of money by living with parents from the ages of 21-30. I believe most want to stay with parents and save up until marriage.
I may sounds weird but Ruby is what make me look more into functional programming. I get done a lot with Ruby due to all method it has on Array/Object/Enumerable.

The beauty of `&` is awesome and I discover that Elixir/Clojure has that and bring it to next level. I think Ruby has inspired many other language to take that path too.

One of the thing about Ruby is that it optimize for happiness, which sound weird. But I really feel happy to write Ruby code. I feel like the language really care about me.

Who don't want to have stuff like this:

```
10.seconds.from_now
```

Or just call method without `()`, and without even wrapping hash in `{}`.

Of course, lots of these are do-able in Lisp and I like Clojure. But I think the flexibility Ruby gives us is under estimated.
It isn't forbidden, but its very poorly protected.

(Intentionally vague) laws intended to protect kids from serious harm end up being applied to situations where kids are perfectly safe, but some busybody heard a late night news report one time about a kid that got abducted, or fell out of a tree and broke his neck, or got hit by a bus and felt the need to impose their worry on others. So they call CPS, and now the parent is under investigation for doing something completely normal, because CPS has too much power and not enough oversight/due process.

The idea of this law is to send a clear message that parents are NOT to be harassed/threatened by government agencies over these harmless situations. Sometimes the state has to be told where their power ends explicitly.
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that's for internet connectivity checking, and it's an anonymous http request (no cookies). iOS/windows does it as well (not sure about linux), and I can't see how you can implement such a feature without phoning home to some server.
It seems a little tongue in cheek to me. Sampling with no low-pass antialiasing filter in general seems like a different problem from sampling with no low-pass antialiasing filter where you _know_ that they only spectral content above the nyquist cutoff is gaussian noise.

That said, his takedown of their approach makes sense to me. It's hard to really judge it though as my signal processing is getting _really_ rusty these days. I guess that's why we have professors. :)
The question of what version of the OEM system image to use isn't always super clear. I've definitely seen situations where rom devs will mix and match whatever it takes to get their desired results.
"in the event of emergency, e.g., phone stolen." it is also possible that your phone get hacked. If you end up in Can then you are screwed globally. No 2FA works.
For those on cable service with long lasting IP addresses..

You don't use FB, right? But you let your friend you your wireless off his phone, and he had the FB app and location services on. Well, FB now knows exactly where your IP is, for a while at least.
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"... all rights *that are not outlawed". Many institutions have the capacity to regulate law. So if a lower ranking level would out-law, the top level might need to correct.
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There was Yahoo Pipes... and, best of all, Yahoo! Weekly Picks (does anyone remember that?).
Yeah, that struck me as odd, also. Whatever your feelings are about Jordan Peterson, he's definitely not in the same camp as Alex Jones.
Yes, otherwise this new law would be unnecessary. Utah has a child abuse law, and saw that other states were overreaching with similar laws. So they're passing new legislation to amend and limit their own existing child abuse law.
The tutorials on both Linode (https://linode.com/docs/) and DO (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials) are quite good. Once you have the basics down, google.
The old definition of addiction required physical dependency. Alcohol and opioids give this. Other stuff not so much. Stopping alcohol if you have a physical dependence cannbe fatal, so that's one big way it's different to a gambling addiction.

The new definition (preoccupation; seeking; increased "dose"; continuing when you know it's casing harm) is useful because it allows earlier intervention and covers a wider range of things that damage people.