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What are you on about? I don’t get it.

The intuitiveness of an interface is an empirical question. Whether it works or not is not some subjective fact.

The Venn Diagramm for “intuitive” definitely includes “familiar”, it’s just a more generic term where other factors except familiarity can also play a role.

Do you have any examples of someone pushing for something completely novel and unfamiliar under the banner of intuitiveness? That seems like something that doesn’t happen.

Your viewpoint on this just seems wholly weird and just doesn’t ring true at all. People abusing the term “intuitive” doesn’t make it useless.

(Plus, just for a moment going back to the article: This article does not argue for custom scroll bars or anything even remotely similar to that.)
They're children born out of wedlock now.
Java 8 StringJoiner, String.join() and Collectors.joining()
Let's see how your website visitor use your website
> Even if the exchange rate is tied to the dollar by fiat, devaluing it does so against all other currencies, because nobody is going to accept less yuan for their euros than they could get by exchanging euros for dollars and then dollars for yuan.

Depends on the fees at each hop. A small fee could eat up the whole arbitration opportunity for our hypothetical EU or US buyer.
As the article says:

”News of what happened remained a secret for a matter of months - the Germans could not find out about it.

Following D-Day, Operation Tiger did appear in reports and the American Army magazine Stars and Stripes.

In terms of the dead, that was a loss of the men's lives, but a bad day in the office for the admirals - it was one tragedy among many.

There was never a cover-up but the story was lost from the public.”

Reading https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/ref/Casualties/Casualti..., ”a bad day” seems a correct description. 5e US had, on average, about 10,000 men killed each month in 1944, or 300 a day, with over 18,000 in December, over 550 a day. That doesn’t make 800 an extreme outlier.

Also, what do you put on the front page as a journalist in a country that has been at war for years: “a hundred soldiers were killed yesterday, but we made progress”, or “three months back, 800 soldiers were killed in an exercise, but we couldn’t tell because it would have endangered the D-day landings”? I don’t think that, after the initial necessary secrecy, the news needed suppression.
> Agreed. One suspects the concept of quality time came in with the rising incidence of divorce.

I'm old enough to confirm that the etymology of the phrase comes from the divorce generation.

Now my wife uses the phrase as a code for diaper change.
China Pressures Business over Hong Kong. Workers Get Caught in the Middle
By happenstance I just ended up in an apartment that's a 5 minute walk from my office. It's the best thing that's ever happened to me. I go home for lunch. I spend 0 time commuting, I'm basically home as soon as I'm ready to leave.

Compared to my other jobs, which tended to have more like a ~30 minute commute, I feel like I have so much more time in the day. I'm never taking a job where I have to commute again. It sucks the life from me.
Webauthn in Linux with a TPM via the Hid Gadget
In the article you just read, the author writes an entire section: "2. Every productivity system stops working eventually and there’s nothing you can do about it"

If you're like me and have ADHD, you read looking for your next system that will work for a while.
"When code and comments disagree, both are probably wrong." -- Norm Schryer
All I did was submit this Ask HN here. I've not posted a link to it anywhere. As I write the post has 13 points and I have 51 points. Again. I'm sure my life would be much better if only I could escape from the clutches of 51. (I've been down to 49 and up to 52 since I posted.)
If some part of the software has problems, runs slow or has bugs but nobody is complaining, then there's no problem.

This depends very much on context. To pick an extreme example, if you're writing the control software for a nuclear weapon and you know you have a bug that might cause it to activate unintentionally if you eat a banana while it's raining outside, I think we can reasonably agree that this is still a problem even if so far you have always chosen an apple for lunch on wet days.
More affordable and convenient. A fitness trainer doesn't have to make their weeks worth of wages in a few hours if they have more clients in general. Also this kind of work no longer requires hiring an entire fronting agency, just a website ad and a cellphone.
And we should listen to a Microsoft shill because? ....
Unfortunately, that's not an easy thing to do. It's not practical for 90% of people. Being software developers, we're lucky, but even though I love what I do, I often hate doing it for other people.
This question has already been addressed in the US. Luckily there US allows phones to be multiple things at once, so constitutional protections like the 4th and 5th amendments still apply.
I think the parent meant specifically with SD cards. I've personally never had issues using higher capacity cards in devices that didn't officially support them...
The wearable device that allows you to log your mood
My workplace is 10 minutes away, I would hate life if I had to commute an hour every single morning for work.
Well, he's a bad judge then. He should be able to adapt to the situation rather than follow the law literally
Top CEOs Redefine the Purpose of a Corporation
> But it seems like device manufacturers end up testing the biggest card when they make the device

I mean, they can't test hardware that doesn't exist yet, so what is the alternative?

If there's a hardcoded maximum, that's one thing, but we don't know that's what is going on, do we?
Append-only databases and the GDPR conundrum (2018)
Do you honestly believe the rich wouldn't drop an extra $120 surcharge to have someone come to them and do their nails during a teleconference as opposed to taking an hour to go to the salon?
It's false ideas like this that lead to the "we need to bubble wrap our kids" mentality.
What other artificial employment barriers do you advocate removing? They may not all be just or implemented particularly well, but I think there are some (e.g., child labour, work-health standards, etc.) that make sure the economy is serving society and not the other way around.
I thought we were talking about enabling technologies, rather than specific clients, and that it's a given that a suitable and widely deployed client doesn't currently exist. I consider automatic configuration of an ad-hoc network to be a relatively trivial client implementation detail :)
it's a very good point that is lost or buried in 'the west' (e.g. anglophone world) that greek-egyptian connections have been present and fairly strong for centuries and millennia and continue to this day
Blockstack is very easy to get started with and provide user authentication and encrypted data storage out of the box.

About offline-mode, I am about to implement it by my side as this feature is not part of the Blockstack SDK for now.

I am happy that you are taking data privacy very seriously and I guess Blockstack is a good solution to go.
> So I think "working code/application/program" is when it does what it is supposed to do.

And the point of the comment you're replying to is to ask what is "what it is supposed to do". How do you know what the answer to that question is, without documentation or a specification? And if you try to rely on just verbal communication, in a group of people probably larger than about 1, they're going to have different ideas about what the software is supposed to do.

Some of the most challenging problems I've encountered have been looking at code that does something. What it does is clear enough from the code. But why it does it, or should it do that, that is much harder to answer, particularly if the person who wrote it has left the company or it's been >6 months and they just don't remember.
Well in my little corner of the US govt the web certificates are usually expired and I can't log into my work email from home.
If I click a button and it instantly shows me a dialog with a progress bar, and the progress bar progresses smoothly for one hour to complete the task, that is responsive (the UI responds to my click and the background update as quick as anyone could desire).

That the task takes an hour to complete may or may not indicate a problem with performance.

The fact that the task shows a progress bar at all is likely because at some point the task would complete synchronously and without a progress bar in say 10 seconds or 60 minutes. In that case, the programmer mistake was to allow the problematic performance of the program affect the responsiveness of the program.

So a progress bar is used when the performance can't be easily fixed but the program must be responsive.
In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite
If you're the type of person who uses no master password, and every password you would ever create is '1234', then a password manager will be a definite improvement. But if you have the ability to memorize two complex passwords, that is more secure.

My advice is solely for the person who already has a password manager, has memorized one complex password for it, and is willing to memorize another one.
It surprises me that most people in the US wouldn't have at least one cable and one DSL option. After all, cable TV is available most places, and everyone has a phone line (or is at least wired for one).

Or is the issue rural locations which were never wired for cable because they all just got satellite dishes?
Welcome to the DeepMind Podcast
I'd love the see the details of how they remove heat from that monster chip.
behind paywall :(
That was already stated to be the topic of the book, but says nothing about the social implications thereof that the book was stated to explore.
> If it really is a US-centric problem, the solution, for the US, might be to look outward at other countries.

Given the state of other US-specific problems like our dysfunctional healthcare system and mass-shootings, I think it’s pretty clear the US is rarely interested in learning from outside its borders.
Investing in border towns in the U.S. could help solve the language issue. There's a large population of bilingual talent there
I think those services existed before, they would have been more rare and expensive, and as they grow more common the prices on those services will drop.
Most transactions require an OTP to successfully complete, you also get notifications whenever a login to your account is performed.

I think it would probably be a good idea to have some sort of separate 2FA device linked at home but I doubt they'll ever implement it. You would want it separate to your phone because if your wallet and phone get stolen you can login to the online banking account and deactivate your stolen cards without having to go to the bank.
The article mistakenly says "microSDXC slots" when it means "microSD" slot. Because SD, SDHC and SDXC all have the same physical form factor and slot you put them into, but vastly different electrical interfaces and protocols.

And yes, older versions like SD literally did not have the bits to even communicate cards with 512 GiB.
Fifteen minutes does seem a good time, too far to pop in on a whim but not so far that the daily journey is onerous. Bonus points if it’s a fifteen minute walk.
I understand the idea of highlighting the apex domain, due to malicious sites. bankofamerica.com.site.eu/login, and so on. I wonder if they could have done some other kind of highlighting or UI trick to promote the "site.eu" portion of the link, rather than hiding the subdomains.
Not just recent versions -- I just checked my old copy of Blender 2.49b (built on 2009-09-01), and it has the Video Sequence Editor.
It will depend on the climate and date if september is still forbidden. It's not the same every year. Local policing is also highly variable. Calling the national emergency number is the correct procedure I believe (112).
Everyone seriously thinking about productivity is going to mention Little's law. If a resource is occupied for more than 80% the lead time is going to increase exponential.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law
Well for me in the UK they usually ask if I want to see my "usual" doctor or if I don't care. There is sometimes a longer wait to see my usual one. Usually I want to see the same doctor for an ongoing condition but don't much care if it's something new.
I'm English and I rather like fireforests even though this is the first time I've seen it. To me it gives an impression of a bigger problem than forest fire. To me it works like this: a forest fire is a fire in a forest whereas a fireforest is a whole forest on fire, much scarier.
This [1] comic is hilarious and I have it on my background.

All self-help advice is bullshit and useless unless it changes your behavior. Find what works for you, experiment, take what works, discard what doesn't, rinse and repeat.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/5bIKcWR.png
Declaration of Rebellion
How to achieve a productive mentality seems closely tied with individual dopamine and neuroscience factors (e.g. genetics like COMT / rs4680). Maybe these guides should be customized to 23andme results.
>H-1B employees tend to be junior

Junior in the industry, or junior to doing work in the US on a visa?

I'm nearly a decade into my career and considering taking up work in the US coming from Canada -- is there a better way of starting work in the US as a dev?
good to see creativity beyond 'ohey check out my youtube product reviews and live vlogging' (not that I don't benefit from those as well)
This is a "coming of age story". For late 20-somethings.

...No wonder it resonates here.
Data Science at Scale: Neoway Feature Framework
The credible threat of it happening keeps prices low enough to make it unnecessary.

As far as vendor lock in, in general not just with respect to the cloud, there are so many path dependencies and the risk of disruption versus the reward is so rarely worth it, it hardly ever happens.

How much would Oracle or Microsoft have to raise their prices on their database products for instance to make it worthwhile for a large enterprise company to move away from them to an open source alternative?
Professional conferences and the like. For better and worse, it more resembles fields like medicine, law, traditional engineering where most shop talk happens in professional settings and at a specific allotted time, as opposed to online throughout the year during after work hours.
> Your kids will be far better off with two sane single-parent households than one messed-up two-parent household.

Perhaps, maybe even probably — but what about two messed-up single-parent households?
So a product engineer is a PM and software engineer in a single body. In an organization with actual PMs the CEO doesn’t tell this to a software engineer they tell it to a PM. The PM interviews the CEO, customer support team, and engineering team (since the spec depends on whether the real time solution is 10% or 10x more expensive than the daily digest) and produces a spec. As the engineers iterate they uncover holes in the spec which the PM fills in.

Sometimes the old school methods are better than whatever modern crap has the CEO making feature requests to engineering.
I'm not judging whether it's a difficult skill in terms of how likely AI is supposed to automate it, it's a low skilled job in that it literally odes not require significant (academic) training, many people can execute it, and as a result it pays little.

Sending huge amounts of people that have obtained high levels of education at the cost of debt into low productivity jobs that are inequitable is a bad idea.

The question we should be asking is why these people are entering servitude instead of starting businesses, moving somewhere else and increasing economic productivity, which in some countries like the UK has stayed flat for a decade, and is barely increasing in the developed world.

I don't buy the narrative at all that we have somehow started all businesses that can exist and invented everything that can be invented so now we're all supposed to be maidens in cat caffees with 20 years of education.
What is "tidy" parking?
The order is defined. If you supply an object with both keys, you always get the Github return value.
You named your library after an antisemitic meme?
> when the original law was written (in 1914?)

Yeah, no law written in 1914 will even mention computers.

The original crimes act was created in 1914, but in the westminster style systems, acts are continuously updated by new acts. A large central act like the crimes act will get updated multiple times a year.

It looks like that section of the crimes act was inserted by Cybercrime Act 2001. (just a few weeks after 9/11, I wonder if it was rushed through)

>Of course, I could be wrong. Perhaps lawmakers then just wanted law enforcement to have access to ~everything.

>In any case, it doesn't seem as clear to me as it does to you.

That is the school of thought that created this law. Well, not absolutely everything, but everything that they have a valid warrant for.

It's the same school of thought that makes destroying evidence a crime, and it wasn't really an issue before the concept of unbreakable encryption came along.

I'm on the fence regarding that school of thought, but it seems that the judge in this case doesn't agree with it.

>It's certainly not clear to me that the lawmakers who used the word 'computer' many decades ago would have intended search warrants to cover such a wide set of targets.

Put it this way, computers of 2001 were used for storing a bunch of personal information, not just text, but audio and pictures too. The way we used computers in 2001 is almost identical to the way we use smartphones now, except for the fact that phones are portable.

I would say the only reason why they haven't provided a definition of a "computer" in the past 18 years, or amended the law to explicitly mention smartphones, is because they thought it was obvious that smartphones were already included in the definition of "computer"
I agree completely. Dependencies solve problems but not for free - bugs, security issues, versioning headaches, performance problems, compatibility gotchas, churn, &c. I live by the following:

(1) If a problem can be exhaustively specified in a formally well-defined way (mathematical logic), it will be wise to adopt a mature implementation - if it exists.

(2) If a problem can't be so specified, all implementations will be incomplete and will contain trade-offs. I have to address these problems myself to ensure that limits and trade-offs suit as well as possible what the business needs. If I can.

So, (1) says I shouldn't parse my own JSON. (2) says I should avoid the vast majority of what shows up in other people's dependency trees.
Threatening to leave being the only persuasive argument that works on your significant other is a good indicator you're dating someone with borderline personality disorder.
I enjoyed reading this. I've personally found it difficult to shoehorn work into the 8-5. I've found that I work best speaking to people face to face and formulating ideas from 9am to 12pm, and I work best putting together slides and documents from 9pm to 12am. But between the two? I enjoy going out, seeing the world, hanging with my wife, doing life activities.

Now that I know that, how can I fight it? Yes, I'm lucky to do a job that allows me the flexibility to be task-centric rather than time-centric, but I'm just happy that I've found a working model that, works, pun intended, for me.
No need for commit reveal, just do a relative offset for picking the rng. So after you place a bet, 6 blocks later is the block that decides if you succeed or fail.

You can use simple techniques like this to make most use cases secure.
> Dude, work has been by the rich, for the rich, for about as far back as I know of. Probably forever

It’s not new, but it’s a sign inequality is getting worse. A hundred years ago, rich people had live-in maids, and then they (mostly) disappeared.
On Spain you would register on the nearest (or more convenient) health center and you would choose a doctor (if you had a preference. If not, you let them choose one with a free slot for you). From then on, you would always visit the same doctor, unless he/she moves to a different doctor.

When visiting the specialist, that might be a bit different, but usually, during the treatment of certain illness, you would visit always the same specialist for the whole treatment.
I think you're misunderstanding what Federalism is.

FEDERALISM is the decentralization of the state apparatus - the idea that instead of one massive central government, you reserve certain powers to for the individual local or regional governments (States, in the US parlance)...which is what I believe the comment you're replying to is calling for.

The FEDERAL government is, in the US system, the massive central government, which is what I believe you're railing against.
I saw that story surface again recently, it's a perennial pleaser. Those balls are used to cover lakes of processed water which is eventually used as drinking water; that's not a living lake.

This NatGeo article from 2015, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/08/150812-shade... , notes for example that they kill algae and microorganisms, and inhibit water-fowl.

I'm almost certain they'd kill lake-born fish too, preventing growth of water-borne oxygenators (which also serve as a food source, and place for eg snails to live).

Whilst the purpose appears to be to prevent plant and animal life, at least in part, it's possible a stable eco-system might still survive; but it seems highly unlikely to me -- do you have something to show me I'm wrong in my assumption?
The number is enormous, but is inline with the Chinese government figures of 170 million nationally (400 million expected by 2020).

>Or are they all supposed to be some kind of "smart" cameras that detect and isolate faces, vehicles etc

The cameras are part of the "Skynet" (天网) system, which is intended to perform all of those things and a great deal more. It's powered by software from "the world's most valuable AI startup", SenseTime.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2165372/how-...

http://paper.people.com.cn/rmzk/html/2017-11/20/content_1825...

https://www.sensetime.com/en/Service/Security_SenseFace.html
I need just one thing: a way to get rid of a bad habit that doesn't involve changing the circumstances in which I have that habit.

I'm a Web developer with a mindless tic-like habit of opening sites like Reddit and HN all the time. Even a second after closing it. I can't very well get rid of Web browsers.

Edit: ohh, but the tip of going to a place where I've never procrastinated before and sitting down to think what I actually want to do next, that doesn't involve a Web browser. Nice.
Did that quarter-second lag kill anyone? Was there someone who wouldn’t have died if the ePCR was just a little bit faster, fast enough to be usable? And the people who built it: did they ask the same questions? Did they say “premature optimization is bad” and not think about performance until it was too late? Did they decide another feature for the client was more important than making the existing features faster? Did they even think about performance at all?

This seems like a lot of imagining of scenarios that may or may not have happened. Perhaps another way of looking at this is - did the company hired to build this actually care whether EMTs used their software, or were they looking to get a paycheck?

So many health tech firms fall in the latter bucket. Such is the reality of the business - with huge enterprise sales funnels and hospital networks that don't understand the value of UX & great product (and caring a lot about their bottom line), this result isn't unexpected.