skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Black on white. That is #000000 on #ffffff.
> You almost certainly will also need a reseller who has an MSA (master services agreement) with the firm, so you don’t have to spend 6 months in due diligence with their lawyers.

How exactly does that work with the reseller? This is a person you pay ~15% to, and then technically your product is sold under their brand to the big corp? If so, how are they found typically?

New to b2b and figuring things out.
Oops! We're in a heavily regulated space. Upside is that it keeps competition out. Your 3rd paragraph is 100% accurate IME
This option sounds like it would be a poor reading for all. You can't please everyone but it seems like you can figure out how to displease most.
I have astigmatism. White on black or black on white both halo. I think both are equally clear.

It would be somewhat surprising otherwise-- the relevant part of vision for this is linear and should work the same in both directions. Though if the room is so dark that my puples will be dilated then that is obviously going to cause a loss of acuity ... but if that is what the author is going for then the advice should be to not present in a pitch black room.

In a dimmer room I have a small preference for white (or green/amber) on black so that the overall brightness isn't blowing out my vision.

Blue focuses noticeably worse, so I have serious trouble reading things like blue on black or black on blue... esp if the blue is some fancy LED sign or something that uses a shorter wavelength.

I think articles like this that don't support their advice with some kind of study of many people ... is pretty low value because it's too likely to just be repeating the author's own personal preferences and disguising them as research supported Truths.

Safer advice would be: Some people have poor vision, make your text extra big and clear even if you could read something less legible.
"The society has no standards" and "the state is organized around cultural jingoism" are inflammatory statements, not a thoughtful exploration of the root causes of poverty in South Africa. It's important, when talking about painful and divisive topics, not to sling cheap rhetoric like that.

If you're saying that your intention was to defend poor people, I believe you; but this is not the way to express it. You'd need to provide a much more patient explanation than that, and then go over it again to take out any provocations.
There is something about the process of getting optimal performance in a system that tells you whether you are moving in the right direction.

The universe speaks to you directly, in the count of cycles consumed, albeit somewhat garbled by incidentals of the CPU implementation and, particularly, caching. But the implementers of the CPU are chasing correctness and optimal performance too, so are always working toward the same goal, at their level. Even the caching, when you get down to counting cycles, reveals truths about your computation.

So, a proof system that is several orders of magnitude faster than another is that much closer to ultimate truth, because there is simply less room for significant errors of comprehension to hide in.

This is the reason that efficient languages and runtime systems are, and will always be, important. Garbage collection is an evil because it muddies the water, corrupting the connection between what your program says and what actually happens in the machine.
We need more DRM-free music instead.
Another reason I've heard is that when you have a multithreaded compiler, the order the threads execute could change, and that could cause the output code to be different.
The Poland Model–Promoting ‘Family Values’ with Cash Handouts
This is hard for virtually everyone to read. I don't think making the reading experience terrible for 99.999% to make it work for 0.001% makes much sense.
Do you really think that the melanin content of your skin has any causal relation to how likely you are to commit a crime, or any other outcome?
I love that idea. It would let people requiring different contrasts etc see the content too.

It won't help with pictures as easily, though a few apps these days do full PDF renders in different colours without much hassle.

I am definitely in the no black background white text camp and on the web I have a javascript bookmarklet to zap the colour CSS and make everything rather plain looking. It's not all text for me, but particularly dense text is unreadable, even with my glasses on.
For some playing could be an outlet for personality traits too crazy for the public or to try out behaviors without risk.
If we don't respect dead peoples' privacy, then living people won't expect their privacy to be respected when they die. This can cause people distress and result in changed behavior, which are real negative outcomes on living people. Currently living people care about their legacies and don't want embarrassing communications to become public after their deaths.

If you're really not concerned about the privacy of the dead and think that time scale is just a quibble, would you be ok with a policy that nude photos and 3d models of all dead bodies, together with personal identifying information, be uploaded to a public searchable website as soon as possible after death? After all, some people might be interested in seeing that.

Not many people are upset about the privacy implications of reading an ancient clay tablet, so this is not as big a concern. The time scale thing isn't just a quibble, it's central to how living people are affected.
What are your sources? Mine are I work for Facebook and worked at Amazon 8 years.
I have irregular astigmatism. In my experience, glasses and normal soft contacts do very little to correct it. Scleral contacts do a decent job with the astigmatism, but they have a few other issues.
Not all astigmatism is easily corrected with glasses/contacts. I suggest reading up on irregular astigmatism: https://www.warreneyecarecenter.com/better-vision-correction...
Huh. I wonder what caused those very few color gifs to be smaller then... maybe an encoder shortcoming?
> By the time someone is old enough to play football they should already know how to cook.

I started playing football (a different one to what OP meant, I'm guessing), at the age of... 2. Definitely not old enough to cook then.

Good luck convincing most male teenagers that they need to learn to cook for themselves, too. I've only picked up those skills in the last few years, and I'm almost done with university!
I don't think Ajedi32 disagrees with you. I think Ajedi32 is saying that in addition to the all the resolutions that are a multiple of 200x100, a few more resolutions should be allowed, such as 1920x1080.
In a way. Transparency at scale is truly challenging because as you grow bigger you naturally end up with more diversity of opinions and thoughts. Diversity (and transparency) isn't easier -- though it is of course valuable. When you combine autonomy at the lower levels with large quantities of diversity your company moves in lots of directions. What they're struggling with IMO is either (1) front-line folks have too much autonomy and are moving in directions that no longer reflect the views of leadership or (2) the beliefs of the executive team do not materially line up with those of the majority of employees anymore.

In either case, it's a tough problem to be sure.
Literally no one is treating race as if it was about "melanin content of [one's] skin", so that's a strawman if I ever saw one.

It's a very visible trait, strongly associated with ancestry, and thus associated with many other, more important, traits.
Democracy Now! is no less neutral than the NYT.
Got news for you, it's not just employees.
That would likely cause some sites to break. Also I wonder how it would interact with CSS. Also I wonder if there would be methods to detect the actual height (such as by testing if something is visible or not, or testing for mouse location, and seeing how many pixels it takes for the mouse to go off the edge).
If the overall environment is really dim, your pupils will dilate. Like opening the aperture of a camera this will make the area of correct focus smaller.

... but if the room is so dark that the presentation background alone is all that is keeping my eyes from dialating, then I'm going to find the presentation uncomfortably bright.
The mystery endures.
The names seem to indicate that, both being similar kind of weapons.
I am pretty confident in stating that this bug impacts roughly zero macOS systems globally.
> security considerations, that is, to protect against malicious code.

Only in the "cannot fuck up your computer" kind of way. All addons I've installed still require "Access your data for all websites", thus have full access to my online life. Thus I only install addons from sources/authors i trust, just like back when jQuery was the coolest thing.
https://imgur.com/a/I1jFrG8
this doesn't seem that bad, but maybe my phrasing of the colors was inaccurate.
That's a stock phrase that I use to acknowledge that internet comments can land in all sorts of ways with readers, depending on their prior experiences and what's going on in the moment: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... It doesn't imply that the GP comment was wrong or annoying—only that if it was, it's still not ok to break the site guidelines.

When I read your GP comment, though, I can see how some people would find it provocative, because it sort of follows an internet snark template: "<mild factual observation>, but <sudden putdown>". Not saying you intended it that way! But intent doesn't affect much, unfortunately. If your comment had stopped before the "but" clause, it would have been just fine.
Agreed, I just found the juxtaposition of the two confusing at first.
If by shuffle you mean that Monty just gets to keep trying until he picks a goat, you're right.

If instead you mean that they randomize all three doors and start over, the probability is 1/2 because half the time that the player has a goat you start over and get to pick again, which perfectly cancels out the double probability of having a goat.

This can be analyzed pretty easily using the three possibilities you outlined earlier. Suppose the player gets door 1 and Monty always picks door 2. Each time they shuffle, you get one of the following with equal probability:

A. car-goat-goat

B. goat-car-goat

C. goat-goat-car

A means the player wins, B means we re-shuffle, C means the player loses. It's pretty easy to see that A and B are equally likely outcomes, so they become 50/50 odds after all the re-shuffling is done.
tl;dr: It would cost $243 billion, or $15,000 for every customer. Also makes repairs a pain in the ass.
It's even worse for people with multifocal intraocular lenses implanted after cataract surgery: they see strong glares and halos around light objects on dark background (including text), and unlike astigmatism this cannot be corrected with glasses or contacts
I am not sure if you want to make a point or if it is a genuine question. If it is a genuine question, why do you need to find such site?
i think this is the 2nd best option, not the best: as someone who deals with artsy stuff more than pure information (or more accurately, i prefer to interpret the goal of transmitting information as an artistic task), i find that too much white tends to overpower any graphics you have on the screen.

the benefits of a physical white background is because your lighting will make background/subject evenly lit, but on a computer screen, the white just tends to overpower.
Cloudflare trying to inject themselves into the middle of yet another core infra component. Shameless.
I was about to joke "Coming soon: SSH through Cloudflare"... but that's in fact exactly what it is.

You might be able to save money on Cloudflare by literally just mailing all your keys to the NSA every week.
Well, here's a few things off of the top of my head that have eroded my trust:

1. Contracts with the Department of Defense

2. Participation in project PRISM

3. The Google Graveyard (https://killedbygoogle.com/)

4. Abandoning "Don't be evil"
The A/B test was against a random ranking.
Researchers transmit energy with laser in ‘historic’ power-beaming demonstration
You don't need to find them, the decision maker in the corp tells their procurement people they want to buy your product, the procurement people tell their approved reseller to reach out to you (someone like these fine folks https://www.trustradius.com/value-added-resellers-vars) for the purchase order. The VAR gives you the PO, you bill the VAR, and the VAR just hands over the license key or whatever to the corp, and deals with things like renewals (if they're good, and sometimes that's up to you). The VAR probably has no idea what your software does.

The corp still uses your software, not some whitelabeled version. This broken-telephone purchasing game is solely there because in a big corp it's really hard to write a check to a new unproven vendor, you'll just be a little line in the invoice they pay to the VAR each month.
A nitpick, Energiya doesn't make rockets this days, rather Soyuzes, Progresses, satellites, upper stages (Block D)... Launchers are made mostly by Khrunichev (Proton) and Progress (Soyuz-2).

Russia tries to develop new rockets, but so far it's really slow and quite expensive. It's possible that when NASA will stop paying for Soyuz transport to ISS, it will become even slower. It's not a particularly good time in Russia for new rockets paid by the state.
My kids play hockey and if they don’t ask me to go to bed by 9pm then they need a little more practice next time ;)
This is all true, but tbh, OP is not going to make this happen.

Backing up a bit, companies have to pick their targets: smb, midmarket, or enterprise (say over $1.5B/annum). There is a vastly different sales motion required for each. Further, there are different sales motions (and different salespeople) even in the SMB vs midmarket world depending on price points: under $5k, under $50k, etc.

But the high level problem is actually really simple. Salespeople who are good at this -- really good -- can easily earn $1m/year in cash comp. That is not an exaggeration. A standard comp plan will have a commission north of 15% with accelerators after meeting quota. So they basically aren't hirable. They may be willing to be a cofounder, but most likely, they will want to work for a big existing company... because see the cash comp above. And unfortunately, to be the first salesperson, you need someone really good. Because they're going to be doing their own prospecting as well.

It is possible to strike it lucky with a salesperson looking for a break, but how do you evaluate that person? That requires sales skills. Just like you would never ask a salesperson to evaluate an engineer, an engineer is going to have a shit time evaluating a saleperson.
Even if you don't underestimate Google, there are really 2 options: current management is not doing the best job, or they're doing the best job but the company size prevents improvements (Google itself should be changed).
Burying cable would cost more than building 25K kilometers of fast rail in China, sure, that totally checks out.
> ActiveX, Corba, Bonobo; they always seem to get so complex and bloated that no one wants anything to do with them when there are other options.

The only experience I've had with any of these technologies that didn't end up inducing nausea was ATL. It made COM/ActiveX tolerable for common, simple use cases. I learned the CRTP while writing ATL components and applied it in my own C++ work to some success.
> any sites you visit can record and track much of your behaviour there (just like with normal browsers)

Tor Browser hides some of your information. For example it hides your IP address (that's the whole point of Tor). There are some other anti-tracking things built in.

> Websites with .onion addresses are more resistant to tracking

Tracking you or tracking the site? The point of .onion isn't to give the user any more protection, it's to give the website protection. With a .onion site you are unable to find the website's IP address.
That doesn't make any sense. The reason SDI is suicide to build is because the countermeasures are ridiculously cheap and compensating for them is ridiculously expensive. It will always be an order of magnitude (or ten) cheaper to build more almost-free decoy warheads than it will be to expand the tracking, targetting, and interception capability of the system shooting down the 'warheads'. You just deployed a system that can handle 100 warheads at once? Next month I'll roll out 100 decoys and 50 legitimate warheads. It'll cost me $2 million and for you to handle an extra 50 will take you years and cost $2 billion. If you want your system to be effective, you have to agree to your own death by economic attrition.
Other things you can do for smaller teams:

- When provisioning keys, ensure that team members put a unique, strong pass phrase on the file

- Set up two-factor verification via the google Authenticator PAM module
I moved this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21357163 to a repost of the OP, because HN doesn't get many bowling nostalgia comments.
Also "Roman room".
If both options cause problems, you should pick the one with the best workaround. Sunglasses can reduce brightness, but increasing brightness is much more difficult, so dark text on light background is correct.
In the US, you and other exploited workers are free to quit your jobs and start your own workers' cooperatives and produce whatever you like and share the results.
“ But many of the questions related to software embedded internally in Google’s Chrome browser that employees worried was designed to monitor large gatherings. The software engages when employees try to create meetings for 100 or more workers.
Pichai and others said the intent of the software is not to prevent meetings or to stifle conversation, but they acknowledged that its implementation was flawed. ”
Not that that means it will display entirely correctly. Browsers generally treat delays of 0 or 1 centiseconds as errors, and instead sit on that frame for a tenth of a second.
I do the exact same thing. Just a text file that these days I store in a Dropbox folder so that no matter what system I'm on I can just "vi ~/Dropbox/notes.txt".

Similarly, several years ago I added a keybind to my .vimrc that, by typing ",a" I'm moved to the bottom of the file and today's date with a separator line underneath. My leader key is "," and I mnemonically associate "a" with "append".

The earliest date recorded in it goes back to 2006 and is about 300KB in size. I still reference and add to it on a regular basis.
As a person with astigmatism and very familiar with halation, I always felt like white on black was almost equivalent to black on white. It seemed to just come down to personal preference or mood...
"the laser that was beaming 400 watts of power across 325 meters, from the transmitter to the receiver, was invisible to the naked eye."

"The photovoltaics of the receiver are similar to those of a typical solar panel, Jaffe said, though they are designed to be sensitive to the single color of light of the laser, rather than the broad spectrum of sunlight. They convert that particular wavelength with much greater efficiency than would a regular solar photovoltaic."

"If we had a way to keep those drones and UAVs flying indefinitely, that would have really far-reaching implications. With power beaming, we have a path toward being able to do that.”

Amazing ...
a gazillion, trillion, million permits of all kind, cost of labor, land buyouts. Compare them to China
NYT is neutral?
I always set my IDE to emulate those green CRT's when I can.

But there is an underlying physiological reason, see: https://gamesx.com/misctech/visual.htm (the website is very old and has aged badly, but makes the point).

Your eye has no ability to see blue in high resolution.
Remember, Id is now part of ZeniMax. I don't think they actually license game engines anymore to studios outside ZeniMax. I know for a fact that they will not open-source anything beyond Id Tech 4.
I'm not convinced that it would be bad for shareholders to properly split the company, instead of having a holding like Alphabet.

I don't think you can mix a defense contractor and an advertising company that has a lot of public scrutiny, for the same reason tobacco companies and breakfast cereal companies tend to be separate entities (despite doing essentially the same thing: selling agricultural commodities to consumers).
So it's not just me. I've considered developing a toy OS as a fun project for a long time, but I was always mystified about what to do about graphics. The whole reason I wanted to do an OS was to do a sort of 'start fresh' thing where I looked at the hardware we have now and designed for THAT instead of designing to support 1970s era software. The first step is if it's a 4K monitor, the first graphics mode is 4K, not 80x25 text. Fonts are vector by default, not raster. Graphical compositing of the display, even when its the initial 'text mode' terminal would be rendered on a 3D isometric projection surface using a hardware accelerated graphics card. And how do you do that exactly? Even if you are willing to limit yourself to a single nVidia or ATi card supported to start? Ah...
Shrug? I can’t remember the last time I needed source forge. What is there and why is it important to preserve that business model? I’m genuinely curious.
I read that he has researchers working for him who worked on the bulb. Then there was the DC motor fix which Tesla is said to have done but Edison didn't pay him as promised
There have been quite a few studies popping up recently regarding this and there does appear to be genetic mutations that account for being a "night owl".

https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/the-genetics-of-be...

DSPD is also seen far more frequently in adolescents.
> If not fractal, then what word?

self-similar?
Well, police don’t perform actions based on the identity of your parents or grandparents. Skin color is evidently a pretty important feature in terms of determining the actions that police may take.

But, let’s follow your logic for a second. It seems you are suggesting that it is acceptable for insurance companies to ask you for the identity of your parents or grandparents to decide what rates to charge you. Does that sound like an outcome that you think would be acceptable?
Implementation of strategy. I.e. change management, strategy program management, follow on work from original strategic planning, etc. They do it all the time. But should have clarified between system implementation.

Also McKinsey, Bain and I think BCG have actual system implementation or at least integration offerings now.
It's common to bring up the decline in profits that the music industry saw but no-one seems to ask the question as to how their profit margins were so high. As I understand it, cassettes and CDs were dirt-cheap to produce but the average consumer hadn't caught on to the fact and on each sale of either the profit margin was tremendous.

Another tangent, maybe it saved the music industry but what effect did it have on our culture? I believe Spotify fundamentally changed our previous read/write-relationship with music to be a read-only type of affair for most individuals.
Recent buyers do, but some Californians have inherited property with assessments based on market values from the 1980s.