skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a dyslexic person, this actually makes things worse. I have a hard time reading caps, I believe it's because the characters have the same vertical positioning so there are less visual cues to go on. A similar thing with serif fonts, I understand that the tails are meant to aid readers, but I just find it as additional noise.

Switching that font to lowercase doesn't help much (didn't see the link at the top of the page initially, not until I went back to the page in fact). That font feels like my monitor is badly in need of calibration. I get that they're adding a horizontal rule to aid readers to follow each line, but it just looks weird! Maybe things would be different if I grew up with it. Plus I've put in tonnes of time and effort reading 'normal' fonts.

Pro tips:

-Line spacing greatly helps things (things get cryptic when it's removed).

-Small fonts make things harder to read (right now my browser is at 150%, have a 43" monitor so why not). I generally increase the font 20% (even when I have no eyesight problems).

-Contrast! Bright coloured/ contrasted backgrounds (such as black on red) make make things much harder to reader to read (I left that typo in, brain was still thinking about harder and read (er... did it again here) at the same time)). Feels as though there's too much info coming in simultaneously. Similar with black on white, but not as bad. That could just be an ADD/ ASD thing (there's a surprising amount of crossover) as I literally hate the white from some LED bulbs (10k+) - it's piercing.

-Avoid overly long paragraphs (tend to get a little lost in the wall of text).

Dyslexia is a funny thing, it affects people in different ways to different degrees (a friend of mine is a bank manager, yet he can barely write a text message). It's taken me a while to develop strategies, such as: I read any any [duplicate word] text I write at least three times, yet I still have errors. Often sound words in my head as I write, and some words I constantly get wrong. Such as 'field', have to remember it as 'fI-elD' (hard i at the start) - Kind of ironic as the secondary school I went to had field in its name (luckily it was embossed on my jumper:D) and now I constantly work with databases. At school my literacy was appalling, at college it was embarrassing (with tutor corrections on every line), wasn't on uni/ after that I started to get a handle on things. In my thirties I still feel I'm improving, people often judge intelligence in people's ability to write. I'm sure some of my teachers would bet good money that I'd never be able to touch-type (although I'd be lost without spellcheck).

If anyone knows a text reader that isn't a pain in the a (able to read a paragraph or article, and not follow my cursor as I change applications). I'm all ears! ;)
> or better to accept selling your privacy to get a cheaper phone?

Or better to not support propriety and locked down systems to benefit all consumers in the future?

Android vs Apple is not even remotely close to being a black and white morality issue.
Is there any well established study which outlines this? It feels very counter intuitive that masses are better at prediction than specialists of that domain.
I'm looking forward to it. It's fast now because it's at least 4x more powerful than my old one (going by benchmarks), but I won't turn down 40% more. Especially if that translates to better battery life doing average CPU-light stuff.
Why is everyone here talking about iphone and mac products ? I thought the article was about how the Apple’s philosophy has remained true to the customers vs rest of the big sv companies

“We view that privacy is a fundamental human right and that it's an extremely complex situation if you're a user to understand a lot of the user agreements and so forth. And we've always viewed that part of our role was to sort of make things as simple as possible for the user and provide them a level of privacy and security. And so that's how we look at it.”

This I agree with 100%
Did you hack it or just integrate to it?
> Desktop computer market share is mainly due to historical reasons.

Historical reasons like it being an open platform that developers could target without the requirement of third party approval, among other strengths.
They knew of Robin Hanson's work around futarchy[1], and interviewed him[2].

Augur initially planned to implement an automated market making scoring mechanism, but changed the dynamics[3] during alpha testing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futarchy

[2] http://augur.strikingly.com/blog/augur-advisor-chat-with-dr-...

[3] https://augur.stackexchange.com/questions/104/why-did-augur-...
Here is a slight modification to consider: Skin in the game.

If we separate motivation and act as completely as Card suggests, we should separate motivation and personal consequences completely as well.

This would effectively prevent hypocrites and those without pure motivation rationalizing their actions.

Card's 'martial philosophy' mixes western legal tradition (where intention is important) and martial tradition and moral philosophy in a way that perverts both.

Hyrum Graff and bunch of others should have been tried, convicted and executed. Give them hero's funeral by all means. They should have gone into the project knowing for sure that nobody of them will come out of it alive. Horrible act for good reasons should should always be a personal sacrifice.

In many old classical stories in the Chinese and other East Asian cultures the same dilemma would be solved just like this. True warrior should have no desire to kill and should act selflessly. But he should face the consequences under strict legalist tradition (Faija).
The major part of this article that I find convincing is that Card worked hard on the structure of the story to make Ender innocent. Sure, he may guilty and tormented about what he's done, but you and I, the readers, know he doesn't need to. He was tricked! and It was necessary! and all that.

Some deeds may never be good, but it sure looks from the story like what Ender does isn't one of them.
I switched to nursing. At 55 I've now completed nursing school, have an RN, and am looking for my first job (at about 1/5 or less of what I could earn as a developer). Programming had become too easy. Now I'm doing something difficult again. Difficult is what, for me, keeps the fire burning.
Seriously, may as well stick a wedge in the door during business hours, there's no difference.
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1. Remote is not "from your house". Rent an office near home, walk there.

2. Use video conferencing every day without fail. Something very monkey brain makes a human face you are talking to real, and prevents you flipping the doofus bit on people (and they you)

3. Everyone and everything must be remote-first - business and IT. There is real advantage to walking over and saying hello, shaking peoples hands.

4. Meet up in person and work together (pairing, meetings, clarifications) at least once a week. This basically limits the distance you can all be from each other (roughly two major metro areas apart - London and Paris, NY and Washington)

Ultimately this all costs money. it's cheaper to hire crap people and expensive office space.

YMMV
As I see it, things balance out:

1) Young programmers are eager to try new things

2) As you get older, you figure out what works. This is good and bad. It's good, because you don't waste time implementing things which won't work. It's bad because you may not be willing to try something new that may be superior.

If I managed a team, I would prefer to have both perspectives.
Remove Google software.

Unfortunately usually seems to result in a pretty bad experience.
It is important to differentiate between distributed and remote, as well. I work for a very large company that has offices scattered all over the country. We are distributed, and remote exists but is not the norm.

It is unusual to have a meeting that doesn't make use of videoconferencing, even when everyone involved works primarily from an office.

For employees who are remote, this setup is wonderful. It means that there's little difference between being remote and working from a different office.
My HP Zbook at work is the worst laptop I've ever used.

Most of the time, telling it to shut down doesn't do anything except kick you back to the login screen (seems like a bug with ACPI, not Windows).

Behavior with the Thunderbolt dock is abysmal. Simply plugging it in does not work. In order to get my monitors and peripherals working through the dock consistently, I have to boot the machine while disconnected, log in to Windows, put the machine to sleep, connect the dock, then power it back on using the power button on the dock.

The fans run loud enough wile idling that I have to keep this thing tucked under my desk so that it's not blasting in my left ear.

HP didn't fall because of bad luck, or failing to adapt to a changing market. HP fell because they make worthless crap.
I had difficulty sourcing chocolate penises for a gag Easter egg gift. Ended up buying a homemade one off eBay just wrapped in cellophane. I thought it'd be a great business idea – no overhead and not holding unsold stock.
Agreed. It's hard to find data, but based on knowledge of many IT departments, HP corporate-line machines (not the consumer line and not necessarily the small business line) are among the highest quality pieces of computer equipment I know of. So often when I've had to dig in, I found smart, careful engineering down to the smallest details. Also, they publish extensive, detailed, easy-to-find, and accurate specs, which is unfortunately rare.

The results are that they last forever, well past when the user would like something newer and shinier. There's a 12 year old laptop not far away that, after maybe 5-6 years of heavy use, is in perfect condition other than one USB port (IIRC).
Sure we respect coaches, but we also still in every sport pay them significantly less than the pros they ostensibly lead. I personally value both coaches and teachers but it's very clear that we as a people have decided that ability to do is more valuable than the ability to teach others.
They’ve managed to not break even though they’ve been in counties which have been at war (Israel), experienced a military coup (Pakistan), disintegrated (USSR), and experienced terrorism (UK, USA), so none of that is strictly necessary.
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in the bay area, pretty much every offer ive gotten has some sort of signon bonus. Sometimes it was labeled as moving expenses. Ive been in a postition with options at the previous company you need cash to exercise, or having to payback a previous signon for not making it a year. Or the equity in the new company has a cliff of the first year so it kinda covers that delay.

I think the real reason is its easy to say 'your first year cash comp is XXXXXX' and hoping the candidate doesnt realize that second year is XXXXXX*75%.
Unfortunately tipping is how these employers are legally permitted to pay their employees

Removing the tipping without increasing the pay is even more offensive and from my experience is a predominantly tech phenomenon (1)

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17612190
Not sure when this paper was written, but AFAICT Augur was launched with a lot of noise, caused a brief storm in a teacup as assassination markets were mooted/predicted, and then entered a steep decline as it became apparent (as with most blockchain-relates projects it seems) that nobody was actually going to use it, and the daily active users number was only in the double figures.
I think they would definitely also want to send ~5 seconds of the plain audio. Freely available speech to text probably wouldn't recognize local business names. But either way it's pretty inconvenient to ring a doorbell and wait ~30 seconds. You never realize how valuable a receptionist is until you don't have one.
You could hedge the value of ETH in fiat markets, or you could wait until Augur supports betting with Dai.
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I remember reading something similar regarding Chinese restaurants.

It works though, my wife and I spent 2 weeks in Thailand largely because we were so enthralled with Thai food in the US.
> 99% autonomous

IMO the danger only increases as the autopiloted car approaches 100% coverage asymptotically.

As long as there's an expectation for the human to be able to take control I consider the technology worse than useless.
I think this is a critical point. We need to reign in the customer's expectations that have already been set too high. They're already expecting to just get in and go anywhere while watching things on their phone or reading a book... soon. We already see this with people posting videos of sitting in the passenger seat while their Tesla rips down the highway in traffic.

Like anything it should be a graduated phase in. It will handle some of the conditions some of the time, and in time it will get better. It would be like me being frustrated I can't carry on a conversation about philosophy with my Google Home. "... but you said I could talk to it and ask it questions!!!"
Ah, yes, the floating point bug that set the FP error handing to "software" instead of "hardware". Of course, no one thought to inform the application software side of the house, so you were one divide-by-zero away from an application crash because the FPU said "not my problem anymore". You could fix it with a liberal sprinkling of _fpreset(), assuming your language/environment allowed that option.

To be fair, HP wasn't the only one that had that bug. My SWAG is that there was some common library that a lot of drivers used, including HP, that fiddled with the FPU and never set it back.
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> How did Maduro's govt mess up their economy?

By continuing Chavez' policies.
It seems so strange that they wouldn’t have a redundant link (like the various options you suggested) or at least fall back to easily available public data (flight information sites) that would at least help some.
This is already discussed quite a bit in the article:

"Babbage also wrote more than twenty programs that he never published.19 So it’s not quite accurate to say that Lovelace wrote or published the first program, though there’s always room to quibble about what exactly constitutes a “program.” Even so, Lovelace’s program was miles ahead of anything else that had been published before. The longest program that Menabrea presented was 11 operations long and contained no loops or branches; Lovelace’s program contains 25 operations and a nested loop (and thus branching)..."
Interesting, had never heard of gastrodiplomacy or culinary diplomacy. But a few other countries, including the US, have established some of these programs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culinary_diplomacy
Hey, I'm actually looking for a new grad/entry level role currently. Do you know if you guys are looking for those types of roles at the moment?
> By that logic performing surgery is illegal, should Apple remove an app that helps operate surgical equipment?

Yes? That would probably make it a medical device which is also regulated.
> User managed Apps are okay. But: only for private use and never for company use [...]

well, private use is by far the majority use case, isn't it ?
But long-range trucking seems just as amenable to replacement by freight trains if we're building dedicated infrastructure.
These are bad reasons. Top of the line Android phones generally have better/faster launching cameras than the top of the line iPhone and don't have bluetooth broken.

Even some mid-range Android phones would probably outperform the iPhone X in these two areas.

Valid reasons to switch to an Apple product (in my opinion) are

- Privacy

- Better App Ecosystem (arguably, for both MacOS and iOS)

- Faster Processors (for iOS)

- Better idle battery life (for both)

- Battery Life in general (for MacOS)
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Most ambiguous thing I have found about remote work is how a decision gets made in a group, and then who directs the action on it.

It's too easy to talk past one another on conferences. Add flat organizations where you are supposed to be able to read the dynamic between the lines, then local culture differences, and you can end up in passive aggression hell.

Without physical presence, you need clear, logical rules in place.

The article splits the main challenges of "loneliness," and "collaboration," almost evenly. I don't get loneliness, but collaboration and distance are almost definitely conflicting needs.

I would be surprised if the rules for managing distance being a constraint on the dynamic aspect of collaboration was not a hard zero sum trade off.
> In April all of the top ten companies tracked at least 50% of pages, whereas in July only five companies do so.

Looks like the people who predicted this would lead to consolidation among the biggest players were correct.
I wouldn't call it "subsidizing," the profit margins on the iPhone and other flagships are around ~40%+. It's more like padding profit margins. Google is the the main company that makes money from user data, and that is used to subsidize Android development itself, not the hardware.
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According to the article, the new Venezuelan sovereign bolívar is pegged to a cryptocurrency petro, which itself is linked to movements in oil prices. I know the basics of crytocurrency, but I don't understand how this works. Could somebody explain?
Majority of Indian restaurants food doesn't taste like what we eat at home.
Not 40+ -- but darn close, and recently went through a bit of a "midlife career crisis" - this is what I came away with:

- I need a physical outlet: I practice Jiu Jitsu now 2-3x per week and this has literally re-lit the burners on many aspects of my life, career included. Much more energy and stress tolerance when I thought I would be more exhausted -total opposite.

- Family time is most important at this age: Making sure things are all good at home lets me relax and focus at work. Employer should get this or I am in the wrong place.

- Rest / diet: I recently switched over from eating to whatever was at hand (literally), to eating what was healthy and worth putting in my body.

I feel all of the above have led to my having more energy / stamina to do tough projects and get over the unexpected hiccups.

Also - I started listening to this podcast by a former navy seal Cmdr: If nothing else, it checks you from saying "my life is stressful" when you hear an Army Aviator who spent 6 years in a North Vietnamese prison camp talk about his experience:

http://jockopodcast.com/2017/02/22/63-through-the-valley-my-...
> But the fact is that significant number of people do not even fulfill their most basic duty of voting.

The most basic duty is participating in civic discussion; voting is secondary. One of the problems with American democracy is the idea that voting is the most fundamental mechanism of participation.
I have heard variants on this as well but haven't seen any actual data or research that supports this notion. If you come across any I'd be interested in reading that.

There is a tremendous exposure to legal risk both for the contracting company and the company that hires the contracting company if they employ workers who do not have the right to work in the US. Having worked with IBM's legal department I'm pretty sure they run audits on any company they employ to insure they comply will all laws (they are really fussy about that stuff). In the New York Times article the Apple contract janitors weren't illegals either just under paid.

Now the 'gig' economy? Sure. People who hire day laborers from the parking lot of the home improvement store? No question. But running a contracting business? I've not seen anything that backs up that assertion, and certainly nothing that is 'significant.'
It's already happening, but the Fed isn't doing it. Here's what's happening:

1) Trump put tariffs on Chinese imports

2) The Chinese retaliated by devaluing their currency, to negate the effect of the tariffs

3) This had the net effect of strengthening the US dollar

That's why home prices are flat-ish in 2018.
You don't have to put any new buttons if you are not harvesting data.

Apparently, the pre-GDPR business model and UX was built around the user's ignorance and when you're compelled to inform the users and give them a choice, you mıght chose to change your business model or introduce a UI to inform the users and ask for permissions.

I really don't see how this is GDPR's fault. Businesses might have chosen not to harvest user data, therefore not introducing GDPR compliant UIs for informing the users.
One problem with this theory is that the Uber car sensors misidentified the woman who was killed and they were so erratic that they felt like turning them off made sense.
Aroy was recommended to me by a Filipino person.

I like Andy's Thai Kitchen a lot. They've managed to treat my friends and I really well even during peak times. Also, you get a lot of food with your order. (Downside: Cash only)

Ocha in Bucktown is good.
Not OP but I live in SF and appreciate food.

Best guess would be Lers Ros, though Sai Jai Thai around the corner is more understated and has some solid dishes too (e.g. they offer khao kluk kapi, which is near-impossible to find outside of Thailand.)

Worth mentioning too is Saap Ver, around the Design District. Super legit, focus on Northeastern (Isan) cuisine.
This is one area where Julia truly excels and Python falls short
Siglent is a Chinese test equipment company.

Agilent is HP's life science division (test equipment for biology folks) and the electronic test equipment division is now called keysight.

As far as I'm aware these two were spun out since the growth wasn't as good as the consumer electronics division.
I guess as Linux got more popular, more people who didn't really know what they were doing joined in, usually on Ubuntu. The quality of answers dropped as a result.

I think a higher bar to entry often keeps things better quality (coming from the dev world I am thinking about Django deployment versus PHP deployment). Arch was too much of a pain for me to install last time I checked, and its going to be way too much effort for anyone relatively new to Linux.
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This encapsulates one of my biggest gripes with Linux. A lack of appreciation for adequate/good documentation.

> The time you spend on the man page is time taken away from more useful work.

Making sure your users know how your program works, how to use it and what it's capable of seems incredibly important and useful to me.

If it weren't for Arch Linux's fantastic focus on documenting everything to do with Linux, I wouldn't be using Linux at all.
do you actually know this poster?

Or is this some sort of pseudo-intellectual libertarian assumption that functions as 'true' by eliminating all variables which disagree with it?
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