skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is going to be an article on readable web design, it would be a good place to bring up the fact that the font you're rendering your page on shouldn't require the user to have 20/20 vision just to make out.

The problem is, that's exactly the font this (and many other web sites) are using. As an example, my screen is a standard 72dpi monitor, and sits about about 28" from my eyes. This is the recommended distance by many ergonomic consultants (arm's length) At that resolution, the font this website uses renders as roughly the same size as the 32" line on a near vision eye chart. This means that just making out the individual glyphs of their font requires you to have near perfect vision.

This is not, to my mind, comfortably readable. As a simple comparison, pull up any book you have lying nearby, and hold it at your usual reading distance and compare the relative glyph size to the web site's. For me, it takes 2-3 levels of magnification just to make the site comfortably readable.

Web designers, if you're making content you want people to read, please make it readable.
> leads me to believe that perhaps this reporting isn't as balanced as it could be.

That's probably a valid point. Media loves a little guy against huge industry story.

> in several cases, needles detached and were left “stuck in the arms of patients.”

More data needed to make any assessment. We need to compare failure rates of the retractable device with existing devices. We also need to adjust for the skill level of the people using the devices. There's probably an adjustment needed for the patients too.
I fear the GPUs they use. Does it run Linux with 3D effects well?
If:

"Google is giving itself all the permissions it could possibly need"

Then

"We will ask for your consent before using information for a purpose other than those that are set out in this Privacy Policy."

Doesn't mean much, irrespective of the policies of any other business.
If your Facebook password and banking passwords are the same, or you believe your Facebook password is actually protecting anything you do there, then yes, you should be worried.
> I turned out to be everything the company wished they never hired. I had extensive knowledge of economics, currencies, financial markets, and investment strategies. I had interned at a former hedge fund manager’s website and learned to write about financial markets. I had my own financial website, and I tweeted with financial TV personalities on a regular basis. Worst of all, I had a YouTube channel chock full of rap videos I made about my favorite stocks...

Then what the hell are you doing working at a call center?

Call center workers have one job: to read from the script. That's it. People who want to be creative do badly in those jobs, because they are not creative jobs.

If you take a job on the grill line at McDonald's, they will not care if you can make the most juicy, succulent cheeseburgers on your backyard grill. They will not be interested in hearing how you do it. If you start trying to do it at work, they will fire you, no matter how good your cheeseburger tastes. Because the goal at McDonald's is consistency. They hire you to make a burger to the McDonald's standard. Not to make the best burger you can.

And that's perfectly reasonable! There's no way to build a business on the scale of McDonald's while depending on the genius of artisanal burger chefs. It only works if you standardize.

The only way to turn out burgers on an industrial scale, in other words, is with an industrial process. And the same is true of turning out information via telephone. You could never find enough people to do it if each one needed to be a financial expert. The only way to do it is to use less expert people and give them a script to read from.

If that's not an environment where you thrive, I can understand. But the problem isn't with the environment; it works for what it needs to do (answer huge volumes of mostly basic and/or stupid questions). The problem is with you for putting yourself there. If you want to be an artisanal burger chef, McDonald's is not where you should be looking for work.
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In a prisoners dilemma maybe, but as others have pointed out - this show is not a good example for one.
i never said hard work = great products. Just that you can't work 50% less than your competitors and have sustained success. I also never advocated sitting at a desk and banging on a computer. Nor did i dispute giving people a creative environment. You are reading things into the post that aren't there.
I sometimes use zip as a poor man's matrix transposition operator:

>>> m = [(1,2,3), (4,5,6), (7,8,9)]
>>> zip(*m)
[(1, 4, 7), (2, 5, 8), (3, 6, 9)]
That requirement actually isn't as rigorous (or as difficult to implement) as it sounds. The keyword there is "password" instead of passwords. Based upon similar systems, I feel comfortable that this is not a typo.

Whenever the user changes a password, the user has to provide a (single) previous password. This password is hash-checked against the current user password. Then the password duplication rules are applied.

(Note, none of the above should be construed as an indication that I agree with this approach to password policy :) )
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Big bang is not certain. Yes the cosmological background radiation is evenly distributed, and yes Hubble law makes accurate predictions, but these aren't proofs. I watched a documentary recently on this subject and most theoretical physicists surveyed did not believe in the big bang.
I'm not really sure I see how that this is a emblematic of some larger problem. This sounds like a terrible place to work. But there are lots of similarly terrible places to work even in industries where compliance is not a buzzword.
If you are prepared to back your claim up in a way that can be independently verified, why don't you want to criticize the original authors work? Surely correct science is more important than sparing someone's blushes?
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"BD had released its own safety syringes some years earlier. But the ECRI Institute, the Consumer Reports of the health care industry, had rated its best-selling model 'unacceptable' (it was later upgraded to 'not recommended'), whereas Shaw’s product received the top rating."

<anecdotal evidence>
I have a doctor and a nurse in my extended family that deal with Kaiser on a daily basis and I've heard horror stories that would make a battle hardened marine cringe. One that immediately comes to mind was a patient that literally died while waiting for some kind of approval (it's been a while since I've visited) from Kaiser for a kidney transplant.
</anecdotal evidence>
I had to hit refresh a few times to get a page that loaded
Relevant:

http://www.slideshare.net/bcousins/when-the-consoles-die-wha...

Essentially, the presenter makes the argument that the same thing that happened to the arcade industry is happening to the console industry. It really made me reconsider what I thought the future had in store for console games.
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We are a small, extremely motivated team of hackers in the bay area working to disrupt transportation. The way we go from A to B within our cities and towns remains extremely painful if you don't have a car. We are fixing this.

We are well funded, have paying customers, and are in this for the long haul.

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Standard Model Particle Flowchart.
Historically, the standards that have been most successful have been the ones that describe what people are already doing
Can anyone provide insight into how mruby's implementation differs from the reference 1.9.3 implementation?
oh right, that was back in 2011, when the Earth spun the other direction- it's funny how fast you get used to things like that.
>> Until compliance departments figure out how to conduct business without micro-managing every aspect about everything, the problem remains.

This is absolutely true. One can implement compliance that would drive everyone nuts and distract from business, or one could take a more practical approach.

> companies exist to return profits to shareholders, not in the business of fixing the litigious tendencies of Americans (let alone i-bankers!). if a compliance policy is the most efficient way to manage exposure to legal risk, it's a correct move.

Noone is saying that exposure shall not be managed through compliance framework, policies and procedures. The question is how to do it w/o driving employees insane and hurting business.

I am speaking based on my experience of CFO of with 7 years of pharma industry experience [regulated industry].
Congratulations to them! It's impressive, and the product seems really interesting.

But having 9 VC invested in your Company is really not an idea situation. (cf: http://blog.eladgil.com/2012/04/vc-signaling-coming-home-to-...)

I am wondering why they did not want to/could not raise money from one VC only who would have lead the round (with say $3M) with super angels and individuals completing the round. That would have made their Company so much more manageable at the board level...
There's an interesting issue in climate science, and I say this as someone who thinks that dealing with climate change is probably the most important task of our generation. The (small subset of) professional statisticians I've spoken to are both similarly suspicious of climate models (not climate change itself), though for more technical reasons than you mention.

At the same time, the physics dictate that the general sign and order of magnitude of CO2 forcing in climate models is correct, as surely as doubling solar output would increase mean surface temperatures. The physics also don't preclude the effects being even more severe than the models predict. But there's considerable uncertainty involved in both directions, and when people hear "well, things might end up better than scientists think is the average case, and at no cost to us!" they jump for that option and ignore the average prediction, let alone the worst case scenario that's within plausibility.

Coupled with an extremely well-funded group of fossil fuel industrialists putting hundreds of millions of dollars into the outright shutting down of climate research, good scientists and especially not-at-all-scientific activists end up on the defensive, overemphasizing the finality of the models and using them as solid predictions instead of tools to vindicate the general thrust of the physics.

As far as your particular point, think of the the models in climate journals as tools to understand the issue instead of the final word. It is somewhere between very difficult and impossible to come up with a climate model where CO2 forcing doesn't cause significant warming, but individual parts of those models need to be and often are tested. Indeed, those are the main points of dispute in the legitimate research and end up being thoroughly vetted.
Correct. A portion of the original study involved a personality measure like big five (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits). The tests for this are almost all under copyright.
And perhaps which universe we are talking about.
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Whenever I hear about instructors complaining about student procrastination, it makes me think back to when I implemented/managed a system for academics to make a certain type of submission.. and over half of the submissions were always after the deadline during the "last second extension". Physicians, heal thyself :)
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It's meant to be a minimized version of Ruby. Not full-featured, just the bare essentials and meant to be able to run on embedded devices/phones. To do so, mRuby will need to be much smaller than standard Ruby and much faster.
Targeted stikes, yeah, it can work. Massive downloading of gmail account passwords, NOPE. It will set off internal alarms. But yeah, to target one individual, it is indeed possible and they did a string of those when they cracked the rotating RSA key.
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"Passwords should not have more than 9 characters".

This from a financial institution.
I tried to keep the article short and skimable, let me know if there's anything you think should be added or changed.
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The truncated Chebyshev series does not generally minimize the L-inf error among all polynomials of the same degree (unless the function being approximated is a polynomial of degree n+1). Constructing a minimax approximation is typically done via the Remez exchange algorithm, which is iterative, fussy, and prone to convergence failures. However, none of those matter when designing an offline approximation as is the case when you're writing math library functions.
You should press charges not against the driver of the car who kills/injures a pedestrian (on the sidewalk), but the one that caused the accident - he's the ultimate reason why the person got killed/injured.
It would be _easier_ - you still need to know the hashing algorithm and salt.

I suppose since it's the TSA, they may use encryption and an HSM instead of hashes.
I see a few things to think about here:

Will "Steam for Linux" be something that you can just apt-get into your free as in freedom Distro and start running AAA games, or will it in fact be something highly proprietary which is designed for a specific subset of devices which happen to run Linux kernels?

I see a lot of people here discussing "market share" but as has been proved by Apple market share is certainly not everything. In reality the computer market is broken into a number of distinct markets that have overlap and some of these are more lucrative than others.

Pricing structure will make a difference here, I wonder if the Linux games will be the same price as their Windows counterparts? I remember a few years ago there were a number of companies that tried to break into Linux gaming but the prices for the games were astronomical. Many 5 year old games that could have had for Windows for about $10 were selling for $40+ on Linux.

Linux Steam could also focus on other styles of games too, perhaps there is more demand amongst Linux users for highly cerebral RTS & RPG games rather than the latest COD that could be sold at a higher price? All you would really need is one or two "killer" titles that were Linux exclusive (think XBoX and Halo) to make whole categories of gamers take it seriously. Of course it is both a blessing and a curse in the sense that stuff developed for Linux is often easier to port to other platforms than the other way around.

As a Desktop Linux user myself I am not too concerned with "market share" , to an extent I couldn't care less if I am the only the person that uses it. What I really care about is being able to use Linux for all of my day to day tasks (I have a Windows dual boot but I would rather skip the step of having to power cycle my computer at least once a day).
Ah, I see. Yes, looks like Google offers multiple phone-based two-factor systems. I was referring to the oAuth one, which uses time-based tokens rather than sending the code via SMS.
this builds on an earlier theorem, which i haven't looked at (and probably wouldn't understand anyway) which apparently makes rigorous the intuitively attractive idea that if you trace back in time something that is getting bigger then at some point you reach zero.

the reason oscillating universes are caught out by this is that (apparently - this is all just my impression on a quick skim, having never understood things much and leaving astronomy - not even astrophysics - decades ago) even though they oscillate, they need to get systematically bigger to work around some problems with entropy.

another model they considered is a universe that "just sits there" like a seed, forever, until (randomly) deciding to grow. and that has problems with quantum mechanics (which you can imagine - how can something be stable for an infinite amount of time?).

one problem is that it's a paper that really only attacks current models. they don't prove that no other model could be thought up.

you could also argue another weakness of the paper is a reliance on our notions of basic physics (quantum and statistical mechanics) holding true even in the distant past. but then, what else can you do?
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ten years ago ... Employees were more permanent, and if you were hired you were hired to stay.

In 1991, I recall hearing that I'd just missed this happy place by a decade or so.

Perhaps it never really existed.
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If you want to learn to play guitar, the wrong approach is to pick up a book about music theory and a chart showing where all the notes are on the fretboard.

I found music theory knowledge very helpful when learning how to play guitar. In fact, if somebody knows what intervals a minor triad and a major triad are made of, and they know what note each string of the guitar is, then they can work out how to play a lot of chords.
I had the same problems in the foray into call center work after graduating in a down market. Either you become a work horse that assimilates new skills quickly, easily beating your neighbors and depended on to "help" out the team or dinged for compliance.

Places that fall into the first category usually run out of new skills for you to learn. Places that fall into the second are like the place were this guy landed.
* General programming principles; abstract thought patterns.

* The language it is being taught in, along with all of its oddities and quirks.

That's why some people swear by Scheme for teaching. Simple language that exposes principals, concepts, abstract thought patterns with minimal syntax, oddities, and quirks.

http://www.trollope.org/scheme.html (referenced from http://paulgraham.com/avg.html)
display: (table | table-cell | table-row);

Same layout functionality, no abuse of HTML semantics.
Part of what’s hard about social search is that Facebook prohibits outside crawlers. But Riley said he’s confident that he can get Facebook data, because he has gotten advice from Facebook CTO Bret Taylor, and has worked with Facebook’s legal team to make sure everything’s kosher.

This would seem to be a key point. Can anyone provide further details? Facebook hasn't historically shown much inclination to let others into the walled garden: http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/04/how-i-go...

Why would Facebook allow this?
Ha, totally. Or peer reviewing.

I guess the lesson is that deadlines without real penalties are meaningless.
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Haskell I understand, but why do you think Lua is a bad choice for beginners? It seems ideal to me: simple but fairly powerful, with little to no historical cruft. Do you have some experience with watching new programmers figure out Lua?
So far I'm very impressed by these guys and I think they are doing so many things right. However, their UX is not one of them. This is the case where too much love of aesthetic is working against functionality. Their main service is content discovery and their layout is working against that.
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The line between an invalid result and one that looks like it doesn't belong is fuzzy. I believe I was removing the former, but if an independent replicator doesn't have access to the raw data they would never discover that I had been fooling myself.

As to secrecy, there is nothing being hidden, instead it's that nothing in the system requires you to publish all your data, and so because you're pressed for time you don't. Never ascribe to malice what laziness can explain :)
Does that apply internationally? I've noticed that US-based businesses seem particularly concerned about what you do when you're not at work. (The uniquely American habit of drug-testing candidates, for example.)

"You won't work anywhere in the financial industry"

... yes, well. I'm glad of that, personally.
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What I really don't understand is this obsession some people seem to have with jailing people for a mistake that will already haunt them for the rest of their lives.
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* dtrace/strace/lsof for Windows (afaik...sysinternals tools aside kinda.)*

StraceNT

Point: there isn't much malware for Linux

Windows 7 is probably more secure than vanilla Linux. iptables comes with no default configuration or configuration utility. POSIX.1e ACLs are less flexible than Windows ACEs.

Desktop Linux isn't targeted very often, but Linux servers are targeted and exploited all the time.
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That's what LastPass or OnePassword or KeyPass is for.
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Yep. I learned music theory in the course of learning to play single-note woodwind instruments. There's a lot of focus on scales and intervals.
I heard the argument that Intel has a much better manufacturing process. Die size reduction is the only way they can compete with ARM. But first they need to get their foot in the door.
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After reading your comment, I can't come up with any reason other than the blushes. Perhaps I'll reconsider.
Isn't X pronounced as CH in some places?
You're selling to the wrong party. Don't sell it to the hospitals, sell it to the insurance companies.

Hospitals will be thinking

1. "will insurance claims be rejected for non-standard treatment?"

2. "If something goes wrong with my malpractice insurance cover it?"

Even if everything goes correctly, and procedures are better/faster/cheaper the insurance companies will just lower the amount they pay. The hospital doesn't have a lot to gain here.

Conversely if an insurance company hears about a new better/faster/cheaper treatment suddenly that's they only thing they will pay for and the company selling that treament makes a mint, with hospitals knocking down their door.