skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is not that icons are not self-describing (diskette save icon does not describe "save" operation either), but that these icons look like indistinguishable grey circles until you start to focus attention to them.

The same applies to iOS and Android application icons, despite they have vibrant colors. I always can't find what I need, they look the same. I end up using search box if I want to run app that is not on home screen.
I think the idea is that you know what they do from having learned and interacted with the icons. If you're a fresh user, it could be a pretty unintuitive learning curve.
We got Gilfoyle's entire PowerPoint presentation explaining cryptocurrency
Traditionally, it wasn't necessarily considered a waste to give people a positive feeling about your brand even if they weren't the specific ones who wanted to buy, because everybody talks to everyone else.

I think advertisers have been chasing a chimera via targeting, because not only doesn't it work well, but there is a trade-off to maintaining a brand.
That's art-imitating-life though. The look of Metalhead was inspired by the original Boston Dynamics videos of the balance tests.
I agree about it being impossible to make reasonable determinations about alternate histories. This is one of the more compelling arguments against reparations.
Tesla's statement was that the order book was holding solid at around 450k, IIRC. Not bad for something with a multi-year backlog.

I suspect the reason why is because Tesla is only targeting the highest end model 3s right now, and people who have put down deposits are waiting to see what the federal tax credit situation is like, and if I can manage to hold out for the base model since I don't need the 300mi upgraded on (but can afford it, if I wish). Tesla is going after the high margin cars right now (as they should). within the next month (if current tends hold) they will bass BMW, Mercedes and Audi in the premium sedan market with that strategy, all while trying to maximize incoming revenue.

On the other hand it could be a conspiracy to shaft Short Sellers, who are owed a complete collapse of the stock, bankruptcy of Tesla, and Elon being led away in chains.
A look at open source image recognition technology
To add one rung above that, I remember a quote from Jobs's biography to the extent of "I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates."
Original post on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17057377
You're only thinking from a security standpoint. It's valid, but there can be other goals for the system. You can take off a watch to leave at your desk. You probably don't want to chop off a finger.
This could be a cool low cost option. Imaging if a solar panel could spin up a fly wheel which you could then pull power from at night. Cheaper than regular or expensive lithium batteries, and "unlimited" assuming motors don't wear out. I'd love to see something like this to help power my home. Or maybe have it run on the grid at night during free power times and then pull from during the day.
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Technically, it grows as trees
It's fear and a facade to justify moral shortcomings elsewhere.

We might lose our grip on the world if we slow down - and there's not enough to go around.

"So what if we pollute? We're the cops of the world!"

There is way more to life than this.
There are other servers hosted with open registration, like the one on disroot.org
We're having some copyright discussion about reposting John Carmack's "blog" post on HACKER News.

Look, for all you that care that Mr. Carmack might mind; send him a link to the post and if he wants to DMCA it, or ask Dang or Scott to take it down, he can.

I'm personally thankful I don't have to click a link to a tracking-ridden, third-party site that may or may not have the content originally linked two weeks later.
I would recommend reading Bernard Bachrach's review of A Distant Mirror.

"...her generalizations about medieval warfare are grossly inaccurate. Her discussions of individual psychology and group psychology are equally foolish. She seems to have little understanding of what motivated the people about whom she writes and generally resorts to cliches such as chivalry or individual neuroses as explanations."
Like when Google puts it in the cache, or when archive.org crawls it, or when I add it to my Pocket reading list?
>> I have to give away the keys to my account (routing & checking number) in order to transact with my checking account.

What a strange country you live in! :) I do a lot of payments and I had to google what a routing or checking number even is because I never needed one for making a payment. Also, I can't see how giving up your account number would mean giving away control of it. But that might be because in Europe we do not use such a peculiar payment methods as checks.
Ok, I see further down the article does describe some of the assumptions: short strings, very small set size, optimized for negative matching.

Some constructive feedback: move that information up to the "Goal" section, maybe with a motivating example. The fact that the set size is <= 16 is important to know before discussing cycle counts.
What elon needs is a clone of Shotwell from SpaceX. Someone who shares the vision, but can execute the day to day.
Zlack: a minimalist command-line Slack client
Yes, because a flywheel is a very efficient device for producing flying shrapnel. It's already storing kinetic energy, it's simply a matter of letting all that kinetic energy loose. Energy storage flywheels have injured people in the past and even led to some flywheel energy storage startups going out of business[0]. However, with proper safety standards we can prevent many disasters.
[0]http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/sdut-quantum-en...
The sole ethic of a corporation is increased production, profits, and value for the shareholders.

This myopic view is the religion of capitalism.
This meme needs to die. Developed countries produce much more waste than developing countries. The disparity is even more striking if you look at the figures per capita. The US generates almost 3 times as much waste per capital as China.

On top of that, a huge proportion of waste is exported by developed countries to developing countries. The US also only recycles 9% of its plastic waste, compared to 25% for China.

> Europe, the biggest exporter worldwide of waste plastic intended for recycling, depends largely on China: 87% wt. is exported to China either directly or via the Hong Kong SAR. The exported quantity is 46% of the overall quantity collected for recycling, and 12% of the entire plastic waste arisings in Europe. In contrast, Europe exports only 1.2% of its primary plastics products to China.

> The USA is the second largest consumer of plastics in the world and depends mainly to China and HK for absorbing its waste plastics. Neighbouring countries such as Canada and Mexico are also a small market outlet. According to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) reporting data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the USA exported 2.1Mt of plastic waste to China

https://www.iswa.org/fileadmin/galleries/Task_Forces/TFGWM_R...

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTURBANDEVELOPMENT/Resou...

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700782.full
There are so many cheap online manufacturers. I feel like this is more the last gasp of an overpriced overserviced industry, like if there was a consolidation of travel agents in 2003.
An analysis of vgo
Im all for giving the dead their rest, but Steve was in my honest opinion more asshole than legend.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/07/steve-jobs-loophole-clo...

Registration funds important things like police, fire, and public education. Rolling around town as a tightwad billionaire who thinks hes too good to pay for public services is beyond the pale.
> If Scrooge McDuck has $5M in his mattress, his inflation-adjusted net worth increased by $100,000. He can retire and spend the rest of his life living very comfortably on the equivalent of $90k/year, and despite him doing no work, despite him incurring no financial risk, somehow every year he'll get a little wealthier.

He'll have to part with some of his wealth whenever buying something, and eventually it will still run out. It's not a stock that produces dividends, you have to spend the principal to take advantage of the value growth. Think of it as owning a $5M home that you have to sell a part of each time you buy something, even though the house increases in value.

> How is that possible? Who's paying for his life of luxury? Joe Sixpack. Deflation is quite literally a tax by capital on labor.

Joe Sixpack's salary would increase in value by default. As in, by default salaries would track GDP growth, how does that look like a tax to you? Companies will have to actively tell people "we're going to reduce your salary", which helps workers in the negotiation.

> How is that possible? Who's paying for his life of luxury? Joe Sixpack.

Or whoever is after the currency, just like whoever wants to buy a house pays for equity value growth.

> "I think some of that GDP growth created by workers should go to anyone with money." AFAIK this is universally understood to be a Bad Thing (tm) by virtually everyone.

As opposed to "I think some of that GDP growth created by workers should go to banks so that they can charge interest on everyone else and make easy profits."
That still seems to broad of a definition. I get that it is taught to be concerned with the 4Ps, but those can clearly exist independent of a marketing department. Or any discernible marketing strategy.

Consider, as well, that the engineering department is also responsible for the Product. In large, they are also influential in the Price. Yet, I think it would also be unfair to give engineering full credit for a successful product. Even if it was well engineered or poorly marketed.

Which is to further my point that I was not trying to dismiss marketing as a valid area that a company should invest in. I just don't think it should deserve full credit for Coke and McDonald's existing. :)
Several of the anecdotes are about not doing what Jobs wanted him to. Zuck doesn't hold a candle to Jobs' force of personality. I don't know if Carmack has FU money, but if he decides to part with Facebook, he'll have three job offers before he's out of the building.

The only plausible explanation is that Carmack writes on Facebook out of his own free will.
Their product managers and designers spent too much of their "clutter budget" on stupid stuff so they felt they had to reduce the clutter by making those things that should have been icon+text buttons into icon-only buttons.
You can request that the internet archive stop hosting your copyrighted materials...

http://archive.org/about/faqs.php#20

Arguing that copyright laws don't exist because you can find examples of people ignoring them doesn't change the fact that they exist.
>Often even making that straight-faced, respectful, comparable request will end a relationship. It's sad but it must be done.

This is the best way to ferret out narcissists. You cut ties, but they don't necessarily hate you. They just forget you exist. At least until they need something from you again.
Any absolute answer is wrong here.

Native apps will likely always have a place when OS/UI integration are paramount. But web apps will become a lot more prevalent than they have been previous as more and more hooks are exposed to the native core. Which is a good thing for everyone.
Eh we’re all the center of our own worlds. This seems like a slightly embellished but ultimately plausible view into that world. If someone can leverage it to help them achieve their objective then it was worth the time.

I’d like to see the same from a product management point of view. Why do seemingly trivial and broadly useful enhancement requests get stuffed in favor of nonsensical and broadly discongruous features.
No price given. That's the big problem with this technology.
It's expensive. It took Boston Dynamics about $125 million to get to Atlas, from looking at their DARPA contract data.

If they could sell 10,000 units a year, the price might come down to a few thousand. The next big improvement in price/performance will probably come when LIDAR gets cheap. This is about to happen as the various automotive LIDAR companies get their act together.
Once that's a standard auto part, it will be cheap.

They got rid of the hydraulics. That's progress.
If the message is too large to buffer, one might also first just decrypt and stream the plaintext into sha-1.

Once the MDC clears, you can just decrypt again, this time writing to stdout.
How an AI Startup Could Defeat Now Unbeatable Bugs
> I only just skimmmed the article

Great start

> Do you know how you feel now? I bet until I asked you, you didn't

So emotions only exist when they're put into words? Or only emotions that can be described have value?

Emotions are complicated, influenced by many factors, and exist as a composite of conscious and unconscious factors. To think that you can easily monitor emotions in a meaningful way, chart that to be useful data, and alter processes to "improve" emotional scores (whatever that means exactly) is foolhardy indeed.

Emotions exist when they aren't measured. Measuring emotions is hard, even if we directly ask a truthful person, we only get part of the story. Your manager isn't a therapist, nor should they be.
I'm not sure I understand your perspective on that. Ostensibly, the purpose of your defensive forces is to protect you, and don't you want them to be well equipped for that purpose? To me, your statement looks equivalent to saying that equipping the police to do their job is like an investment into the idea that putting people in prison is a splendid idea. I'm not sure that's what you were saying, although you could say that if you are hyper cynical. But even if you were, I know where you will call when someone is breaking into your house at night.
Old school hacking in Berlin #blinkenlights
Unlikely, the NAO Robots have been around since 2008 and they still cost quite a lot of money. The hardware on these things is pretty impressive, and since it's more of a platform for R&D then a general product, the demand for them will be constrained to University research labs and R&D groups at companies able to afford the like $100k+ price tag, so they'll never be mass produced. The same situation exists with the NAO robots.
Facial features cannot be distinguished as exactly and easily as a barcode or RFID tag but they are indeed hard to hide.

But if everyone gets an RFID tag you can be sure their locations end up in a big database the government can track, either because companies roll over each other in their efforts of covering the world with readers or the government placing them itself. Just like the database that records the tower your cell phone is connected to, all the time and basically forever. And you can be sure governments aren’t keeping their hands off that kind of data, they’ll find a reason why they need it.
Isn't that kind of a poor choice then if the intent is to have the user hover over the icon? Also what about touch?

If there was a functional advantage of the icons that would be great. But I'm guessing it was chosen just to "look prettier".
Dropbox down 4% today so far.
Facebook?

No thanks
There have been numerous, widely varied reports of legitimate businesses having their funds completely frozen for an unspecified amount of time - often long enough to sink a fledgling startup - simply because they were new and "made too much money too fast".

Payment processors have also been known to discriminate against perfectly legal businesses for a long list of random things some old jackass in a suit decided were too 'unsavory'.

I think these organizations are wrong to meddle so much rather than being passive facilitators as originally envisioned. They have a right to exclude things which put their assets at risk, as well as a legal obligation to assist law enforcement where appropriate, but beyond that neutrality and privacy should be the rule.
"Intellectual property" is just an umbrella term that rightly recognizes the similarities between copyright/patent/trademark. There may be no legal definition for the term, but nobody's confused about what it means.
I think those 2 schools of thought exist, because those 2 types of employees exist.

I've been a dev for 20 years now, and I've definitely had coworkers that fall into both those categories you mention.

I'm new-ish to management now, but I'm working under the (hopeful/optimistic) assumption that most people fall in the latter category. But I need to find a style that can handle both types of employees.
The spinning wheel has kinetic energy, not potential energy, right?
Bitbucket has recently changed to an icon theme, with genius icons such as:

1. <>

2. </>

3. a one node graph

4. a three node graph

5. a two node digraph

6. the refresh symbol

7. an arrow pointing to a cloud

8. a page

I have no idea what any of these mean and I hate it. Plus, it takes 8 seconds to load anything so if you click on the wrong one it's extra annoying.

If anyone's curious, the answers are:

1. <>: source

2. </>: source, as far as I can tell it's the same button again

3. one node graph: commits

4. three node graph: branches

5. two node digraph: pull requests

6. refresh symbol: pipelines

7. array pointing to cloud: deployments

8. page: downloads
>Of course they're more polluted when they do most of the manufacturing for the world.

The United States, European Union, and Japan all manufacture more than China and are comparatively pristine.

It's time to stop playing the "We're just poor China! You big bad Western countries are too hard on us!" card.

You're either a technological powerhouse, or not. Time to put on your big boy pants.
Tesla claims to be breaking the mould, in terms of technology and organisation and manufacturing.

Not surprisingly, people are interested in seeing how that mould-breaking is going
Public health - would you willing ingest fish or other foods if you new how badly it was tainted?
The article isn't very clear.

The car still has a battery, this goes in the stationary charging system. It's used to increase the current when charging electric batteries. Most electric batteries can accept much more current than commercial electricity drops can provide. This system stores the current in stationary flywheels and then discharges it quickly when a car pulls up and plugs in.

So this provides something like a Tesla super charger, without having to call up the power company to rewire your gas station. They call it a "Kinetic Battery". In the video below, the CEO makes the claim that flywheels are much better for this because you can get many more discharge/charge cycles out of flywheels than with chemical batteries.

You can imagine that rewiring electric infrastructure all over the country would be quite a bit more expensive than just plugging in their system. You could also imagine a solar powered system (off the grid even) slowly being charged and then recharging a car in 10 minutes.

Cool idea!

Interview with CEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxRfPtYmTDE
I found it to be a really great reminder for just that reason. When someone has shown a lot of interest in my product and then just disappear, it's up to me to find a way to re-engage with them. Often it's not lack of interest, they've just become so busy that it fell to the bottom to the priority list. Getting a phone call/email from me usually brings it back to the top.

protip: be persistent :-)
How many websites are you gonna have to "install" to get basic textual and photo information, whatever that means?
NASA Will Send a Helicopter to Mars in 2020
Yes, helped me skip the whole "attention drainage", "mobile detox", "missing the concern while looking at your screen", "stolen privacy" thing...
I've never met anyone that's part of my generation that thinks being chipped is cool. I would argue that older generations are often more likely to "drink the kool-aid" when it comes to corporate policy.
It's not cool that it's a tracking chip. It's cool that you can pay for your snacks and open doors without pulling a card out of your pocket.

Depending on how invasive it is, I wouldn't mind it just for the novelty of the whole thing.
related article https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/tldr/2018/4/17/1724733... (discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862685)
Ask HN: Easy to move from macOS to Linux?
Is it easy to live on a Linux laptop nowadays? I'm a scientist and so I generally need a *nix environment for work. But I am also just a mainstream user, and I also a good chunk of time in in Microsoft Word/Excel, and depend on easy availability of common apps (e.g., Spotify, Slack, Evernote, Adobe Creative Suite, Dropbox).

I realize that Linux has a solution for pretty much every problem, and is extremely customizable. But I really just want it to be easy and maybe 95% the way there.

Any recommended rigs for this?
Every single business has associations, lobbies and industry groups.

The power of collective bargaining it seems is understood with clarity everywhere in business. Except when it comes to labour suddenly the waters become muddied.

Propaganda against organizing and unions remain at the level of one bad restaurant or bank discrediting the entire idea of restaurants and banks and people with IQ see this as credible. Yet without collective action it is impossible to stop this kind of creep.

Capitalism and free markets is all about choice but working and a job is not a choice for most people. Surviving is a compulsion not a choice. True choice includes the choice not to do something which is where the economic power of choice comes from.

If all companies in a race to the bottom adopt these practices what choice does labour have and them being forced to accepting these conditions is anything but meaningful 'choice'. It's coercion.
This heavily depends on the environment and the culture of a company | department. In my experience, managers that actually do care about their employees tend to have much better results than the opposite.
You jest, but Material Design is the new standard for approachable UX design. Looking forward to see what topples it.
Not the owner - just wondered what the project was & figured I wouldn't be the only one to query it, seeing as we get linked to the release notes.

Personally I would pick Scrapy too, but it's good to have competition, and Colly looks like a nice addition to the family.
Isn't this what he already did with Thimbleweed Park?
I have some inexpensive Chinese-made boots that are over a decade old, I think. It can't be the norm that shoes last 4 months, unless you are talking about wearing down the soles of running shoes.
> To what end? Should we waterboard them every day? Should we implant them with pain devices that make their life hell?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Bear_(Black_Mirror)
The "Hacker" in HN is not "someone who breaks the law with a computer" but "someone who does clever things."

I'm not the copyright holder, I don't really care in the grand scheme of things. I'm just posting factual information about copyright. If you want to dispute that information, that's fine.