skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Berkeley is arguably the poster child for many of these problems. They continue running on a deficit.
> Personally I would expect a reminder button to have a bell icon.

Likely because you've associated a bell with "alarm", and you're associated "alarm" with "reminder", but that's likely a learned association because of these systems because alarm really means danger. An "alarm clock" is probably the origination of that association, but I think the terminology could have just as easily gone with "notification clock" or "wake-up clock" originally, and we woulnd't be using "alarm" as we do much of the time now.

I think what this actually points to is that while some icons have become normalized over time, (settings is usually indicated by bars, or the "hamburger" icon, power has a well accepted icon now), there exist people that still don't know them well because they either haven't used modern devices enough, or used older devices without a standard enough that it takes longer to recognize the convergence.

I imagine any proposed icon standard probably has about a decade before it's widely understood by most people, because of the lag in usage in popular applications, which lags exposure to people, and the large number of people that use technology where it would be present sparingly enough that it takes a long time to become obvious and accepted. In the end though, I think that's what's needed, as skeuomorphic and conceptual based icons have problems as noted here.
Why Crypto Is the Biggest Disruptor to Hit VC in a Decade
I disagree that individual action will ever move the needle on use of plastic. Policies set and enforced by governments is what is necessary. This can take the form of rules and bans for packaging itself or taxes that drive up the cost of plastic. So we can all do our part by advocating for these rules.
That's Dr. Gene Ray, Cubist and Wisest Human to you.
I don't think the law has any place adjudicating canonicity, so I just plain don't consider it a problem. And to the extent that it does, trademarks can do the job just fine.

"It would be like Tim Cain making another Fallout game, even though Bethesda owns the rights to the franchise now."

A very bizarre choice of example, since Fallout is precisely what got made because they couldn't get the rights to make Wasteland 2, so Fallout is already "another Wasteland game"! http://wasteland.rockdud.net/fallout.html
Hey John, thanks for Doom and Quake. I had lots of fun, and you and Abrash introduced me to 3D rendering techniques and advanced assembly programming techniques for which I am grateful since those skills put a little bread on the table long, long ago.

Would you ever team up with Romero to make another game? I'd love to see your guys' take on a battle royale game. I'm having lots of fun with PUBG, but a game like that needs your engine optimization-fu.
All these vulnerabilities, rarely matter
http://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41593-018-0147-8
The immediate precedent I see for this is Drop/Box, but there are indications that their particular dispute was settled privately (https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-Box-go-after-Dropbox-for-tra...).

I don't see that happening here.
Ex-Amazonian here (for real). Put up with almost 4 years of what I would now consider some serious sweatshop practices from my managers (had a few in that time lapse), for not much at the end but it felt good to leave the place. After that, I took two months off to recover from stress and work exhaustion. Work only, no life. Crunch mode was a daily pill. The mission sounded cool and staying that long because it felt that we were helping each other in a prison camp with my team. Frugality is a joke, because top execs will get rewarded. I would never consider this company again and never will recommend anyone to work there.
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I really like this idea.

Also, challenges like this might be a good way to surface existing projects which are trying to attack some broken system or problem, but don't (yet) have a lot of attention or traction.

Sometimes what we need is to not invent an entirely new solution, but to iterate on or fork an existing one.
Having a distinct brand for the storage shared (currently) between Drive, Gmail, and Photos rather than calling it Drive Storage is sensible.

The actual brand is distinctly non-communicative, and the vague ideas for ancillary benefits seem a bit odd with no relation to the core product.
The name editfight.com is kind of a historic name and every time I've suggested changing it, all the regulars incite in an uprising and demand I leave it alone. Sorry for the confusion though. I just updated the site to shows the rules and a brief explanation of what it is when visiting it for the first time. Thanks for your feedback :)
It's a very good recommendation. Simply being aware that TeX/LaTeX is a thing (it's very recognizable) is something that I tend to appreciate in an engineer.
I haven't taken the stance that all docker containers can run untrusted code, but I've certainly done my best to harden my docker containers as much as possible. If you took a look at that write up I cover it.

I run with the flags: --net=none --cap-drop=all --cpus=1 --read-only --tmpfs=/tmp:rw,size=1g,mode=1777,noexec

This gives it no way to communicate with the outside world and drops all capabilities so it's not allowed to interact with the kernel at all. Setting CPU limit to be 1 also prevents DOS attacks internally.

I also run the process under the nobody user which entirely avoids the "container root is system root" issue.

I'm also only sort of running "untrusted" code. I'm running tensorflow models which can do arbitrary computation but are more secure than just running raw code.
I think the fundamental problem is that providing "meaningful" credentials requires critiquing your own customers in a complex and non-quantative process. A school needs to amass a major amount of social and other capital that it risks losing when it gives all students an A and even then it is often too tempting to placate the lazy customer (see Harvard undergad scandals such as grade inflation).

The expensive coach and sports team is part of a complex signal of an organizational reputation being risked when the school backs little Bobby-Billionaire Low-IQ's transcript and also accepts a new wing from Bobby's dad.

I wanted to see MOOCs lead to a rise of separate standardized tests to replace integrated education and credentials, but I also recognize that teaching to those tests would end up ruining many MOOCs..
I've heard the "this call is recorded for training" message for decades. Now it's training a machine algorithm instead of a human one. Nothing really changed.
There are some cool "practical" consequences like building time machines. But you need some serious civil engineering equipment: First take a mass the size of a star. Squeeze it into a thin really really long cylinder, make it rotate very fast ... and boom! You can travel back to the day you created it.

[0] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1976PhDT........61T
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipler_cylinder
That's certainly not been my experience with Linux. Simply trying to get something to work over multiple distributions is a very frustrating exercise, especially if we're talking anything with a UI, and backwards-compatibility with prior versions is a big issue:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/137434/are-there-an...

Edit: also just found this, which does a way better job than I could of describing the issues:

https://github.com/phusion/holy-build-box#problem-introducti...

Re: Standard installers: you aren't required to use an installer, but it makes things easier. You could just copy the .exe to a directory and run it. Most utilities work that way.

Re: \Program Files: you aren't required to install your application there, it's just good practice.

Re: installing other products with dependencies: you would install them just like any other product and would use their installer. It's up to them to make sure that they keep their dependencies in order. I, for one, certainly won't defend MS in terms of how they distribute their applications. I personally think they're a rat's nest of overly-complicated dependencies, but that is not determined/caused by Windows itself.
Scihub link: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41593-018-0147-8
>they are tapping in to renewable energy supplies that make us less dependent on the whims of middle eastern dictatorships

Middle Eastern dictatorships like those in OPEC? OPEC doesn't have teeth anymore thanks to US shale.

https://www.icis.com/resources/news/2017/02/13/10078321/us-s...

Ironically (or by coincidence) shale gas gets turned into plastics in the US Gulf Coast.
2018 DBIR Report – Daniel Miessler
Don't forget launching airplanes off aircraft carriers
>Just stop using email to deliver secrets.

At the least I'm not sure this is legally feasible under ERISA electronic delivery requirements, to name a single one amongst a host of other often incredibly complex regulations. It might be ok under the UETA, but either way that wouldn't be my call.

I am 100% sure that it wouldn't be ok with coworkers, customers, and in turn bosses, so demanding to cease all usage of email would get me fired. I mean, even entirely plain text email isn't sufficient to get anyone to stop using it to deliver secrets. It's been a real improvement just to have the MUA<>Server connection be encrypted, and even that is probably still not universal!
> 6 different fonts

Dear God, is that really what they're looking for? Tech hiring gets more ridiculous every day.
We've been able to source enough IPv4s for our needs so far, but we don't expect that to last forever. ARIN is cutting off the allocations, but there are still a decent amount available for lease.
You linked to a TED Talk from Ray Dalio at Bridgewater - a company that has hired McKinsey and BCG frequently. It's not as simple as just communicating.

The reality is that strategy consultants sell services targeted at senior management at large corporations, a category that ~0% of Hacker News falls into.
I would like to here what they say when you say yes.
Ok, but I'm addressing zck's comment "I assume not, or Tesla would be charging them that quickly."
Because we're hackers.
This is a perfect example of why accessibility features are not only for visually impaired! Accessibility done right can bring value for a wider audience.
I don’t use GMail. Clock is time-related, so I guessed this icon is for “save for later”. Right-pointing rectangle? I would guess it is for moving mails between folders.
> If this is really the case, then I would say the name sucks. It's hard to know what 'Google One' means from just the name.

It’s also hard to know what "Google" means from its name. And "Windows". And "Bing". And "Facebook", "Twitter", "WhatsApp", "Amazon", "Yelp", "Pocket", "Chrome", "Firefox", "Safari", "Uber", "Steam", and many more.
> In fact, there is no way to just 'send a user a message' in Matrix: instead, you can only synchronise your copy of a room's state and history with someone else's copy of it.

I've read in a different thread that sending a message in Matrix can be easily achieved with a simple curl. Is it true? Synchronizing my copy of room state doesn't sound so simple. Maybe it's optional or I misunderstood the "message via curl" post?
Is it $25k per site? Suppose I want to ISP several buildings. Should I budget $25k per building? How far apart can be?
Kinda, I mean they're not really spending half their tuition on breaks so much as overstating tuition by 100%.
Kidding? I've had MS reps call me for even free products. My paid Gmail got shut down and I couldn't even get a human to answer me.
What's the harm of a single "premium" no-ads Google that most people don't use? The ongoing cost to maintain two versions that are differentiated that way seems pretty low, given that it's really just removing some very self-contained UI modules... They could price it in such a way that it is just as profitable as running ads for those "high value" users, even if that further reduces adoption and still be able to reap a lot of good faith.
Just because a party calls itself something nice doesn't mean they are. The NAZI, as far as I know, weren't really socialists. So too antifa. Antifa uses physical violence against peaceful assholes. Let neo-nazi parade themselves with their tiki torches. Make fun of them while and after they do it. Show them love if they want to repent. Don't punch them in the face with a padlock.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/05...
I emailed Jon about unblocking me on Twitter once and he did. Made me appreciate him as a person a lot more.
HR first and foremost needs to justify their own existence to the company they work for. And the easiest way of doing that is basically showing how they look through hundreds of candidates only to find those rare ones with the correct buzzword in the CV.
I would never sign up for a Google subscription service a la Prime, because I have absolutely zero trust that they wouldn't yank any random service out from under me ten months later.

By contrast, every Amazon service I've dealt with has been either explicitly experimental (and not "experimental" in the Google sense, but something that actually seems like a distinct trial run) or has lasted for years at a minimum.
This is why a qualified peer review process matters in research
> Google one isn't a consumer product

It's a paid consumer product whose core element is storage space for use with other Google services.
The other answers don't quite address why you would prefer this specifically versus Fusion 360 or TinkerCAD (or OnShape, SolidWorks etc).

Simple answer: they (cadquery and OpenSCAD) are free and open source. Fusion 360 for example is free for most hobbyist use, but it's still a proprietary package and you're depending on AutoDesk's good will. This has historically been a bad idea, AutoDesk has done the bait-and-switch routine many times and are not exactly benevolent. I genuinely think Fusion 360 is probably the best all-round CAD/CAM package available and it's nice that they currently offer it for free, but I'd be hesitant to really go all-in on using it. AutoDesk could pull the rug out from under free users at any moment, leaving you with the choice of paying up or losing the ability to edit your projects. Or they could go out of business at some point in the future; since Fusion 360 is heavily cloud based that might leave you in quite a pickle (a bigger concern for smaller operations like TinkerCAD).

Free is also important compared to products like SolidWorks, which is priced way outside the price range of most hobbyists. Not to mention, most commercial CAD packages aren't cross platform (with exceptions), while OpenSCAD and CadQuery both run on Linux.

These are not necessarily decisive concerns depending on your priorities, but they are significant. I use both OnShape and Fusion 360, but I also don't really care about long term access to my designs.
That's one of the things that I do think is neat about Twitter; there is actually a pretty reasonable chance someone whose book I admired, or whatever, will read and respond to my message.
AEAD was also a hipster scheme that literally nobody used. That's the whole point.

In Twitter you even linked to Adam Langley's post where he suggests something exactly like STREAM/CHAIN!

Which modern cryptosystems handle this problem? Tahoe-LAFS is the only one that comes to mind. Not being snarky here, I'm genuinely interested in knowing this.
I am a Project Fi customer that bought a Nexus 5X through them. After abotu 16 months of use, I ran into the well-documented "bootloop" issue that went along with these phones. They replaced the Nexus 5X with overnight shipping.

I experienced the same issue with the replacement device about 2 months after the original warranty expired. They replaced it out-of-warranty, with overnight shipping, for free.

Each time, I interacted with Project Fi support via web chat.
> There is no substitute for you, the person reading these words, to stop accepting plastic bags and as much similar things -- coffee cups, utensils, etc.

There is: regulation by the government, restricting use of items harmful to the environment.

It appears naive to suggest that the tragedy of the commons can be avoided by individual action, when the financial interests are not aligned.
OS Fund – Building a Global Biological Immune System
Um, there are lot of biographies of influential people who still are alive.
Diagnosing Disease from Immune Repertoires and Reference to Source Code
Wouldn't an ASIC capable of executing hundreds of types of algorithms more or less just be a GPU anyway? At that point why not just use GPUs?
I'm not sure I understood your comment correctly - did you return to the same institution 10 years later, or did you go to a new one?
This is a pretty touching story. John has definitely been one of my heroes for a long time in the field as has Steve. At the end of the day, they're human. It sucks that he regrets not getting back in touch with Steve before his passing. We can't turn back time unfortunately. I guess the lesson here is we can get focused on the hero worship and the little details and forget we are dealing with someone's ego and feelings. Some constructive criticism from John and a declined phone call broke up their relationship. :(

Steve could be rough to work with but they obviously had respect for one another, so it is sad to see in the end there was some bad blood. At least John tried to get back in touch. I think the line at the end really says it all, "...but elements of the path that led to where I am today were contingent on the dents he left in the universe. I showed up for him."

Edit: If you're reading this John, thank you for all the gaming joy you've given the world over the years. I remember asking you programming questions and you were always responsive. You've left dents for others too.

Edit: Regarding the snide comment Steve made that you could write your own OS. He might have secretly feared you would. He knew you could.
"Our hiring philosophy at Alto leans on hiring for experience as opposed to potential."

Wow! Refreshing.
> Challenge HN: Improve Gmail Icons

Text buttons. Done.
One of the reasons i prefer an independent storage service is because i don't want to have everything in one basket. I use Google for Gmail and Photos. I would rather keep my files with someone else. e.g like Dropbox or iCloud.

The downside is that Dropbox is expensive although it blows all the storage companies in terms of features and stability while icloud is too basic.
They mention several times that they require you have $25k of capital to join the program. However, that probably only covers network deployment and other costs like marketing so I would expect the actual outlay to be quite a bit higher if you want to be successful.
Also, the "Mark as unread" button is only present if you are in your inbox with the email selected. There is nothing analogous to the desktop's "Mark as unread" which is at the top of an open email, and returns you to the inbox when used. Also, there is no indication that the emails are selectable at all. The icon to the left of each email is a portrait of the sender, which in no way corresponds to the action of selecting an email.
I guess what I meant by "hard to know" is less confusing. All the names in your example cannot be easily confused with other product or brand. But "Google One" is the other way around.
Sorry, I'm just not nearly as familiar with the intricacies and differences between them, know that you definitely know your stuff on crypto, and always thought Matrix seemed cool/interesting.
In addition to large amounts of new construction, administrative staff has expanded massively [0].

Between 1975 and 2011, the number of full-time, tenured faculty at universities grew by 23%. The number of administrators grew by 369%. The trend seems to be to hire part-time and untenured faculty to keep salaries down, then hire more administrators.

[0]: See "Full-Time Nonfaculty
Professional" at https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/files/2014%20salary...
I've found them to be excellent the few times I've contacted them. They even debugged some networking issues within a few hours when my phone was having trouble switching to a Japanese data network, all while keeping me updated on their progress. The Fi vs every other carrier delta is the primary thing keeping me from an iPhone. I've been a bit less impressed with the hardware reliability of the Pixel, and Android's software experience isn't quite as good as iOS'.
I think the first year F1 had kers some of the teams used flywheels, but I think since then everyone seems to have moved to standard battery pack type systems, so I assume there are downsides to them.

At least if you drive a bit above the speed limit when commuting :)
A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows Productivity Boost of Working from Home
I like it. Any downsides to know about? Thanks.
of course, specialised hardware will always outperform general purpose hardware. all that is indicative of is the question you’re trying to ask in malformed.

suppose, for instance, you could parameterise a merkle-damgard construction, such that a fixed physical network for calculating hashes could not exist (of course, there are many avenues of pitfalls with that suggestion, my gut tells me they are soluable). something that could be calculated from previous block values, somehow.

now you have an ever changing hash function that lives for 10 minutes, requires strictly general purpose hardware to operate, and would solve (one of the) issues i identified in my opening reply.
Starting an ISP is relatively easy... get an uplink, some rack space somewhere, a router, hire a smart high school kid for tech support, and you are off to the races.

The really hard part is last-mile connectivity. You are either on someone elses lines (cable, DSL, etc), dealing with NIMBYs to bury your own lines, or working around line of site to do wireless. It isn't clear that you've solved this problem (or even from your website what you are using for last mile).
Subtractive manufacturing is not the same as additive manufacturing.

Formlabs has demoed a 3d printed camera lens, but it's a far cry from the optical quality of eyeglasses. https://formlabs.com/blog/creating-camera-lenses-with-stereo...
Some candidates, depending on their backgrounds, may be wary of being thought of as complainers or being "difficult." Something to look out for.
But the trend, and the default GMail settings for UI spacing is far too spaced out. I'm finding it difficult to use some of the newer UI's with such wide spacing, without using the app fullscreen. Microsoft CRM, I'm looking at you. It's 100% not usable unless it's full screen.
Only if your icons are bad. Otherwise this problem wouldn't exist.
I'm confused by which side you're comparing to the bit in your last sentence to. All they did was fit in and talk? That's not enough.

You have to be able to navigate the work environment and find a way to get stuff delivered. Which your "design and implement" part captures, but "cultural fit and great talker" doesn't.
lucidchart.com - been using for ~5 years now, really great s/w. And no: I'm not a paid sales rep, but a happy customer.
No, I havent used the service.

I dont think its fair to make a conclusion without having evidence.
When did you last try? I'm a small-time blender dev and lots of work is being done to improve the usability. Any comments you have would be appreciated