skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see a study on this issue rather than an uninformative rant. I recently made my homepage text dark grey on just off-white. It's hard to tell quickly what I really prefer though. Conscious preference doesn't necessarily correspond to readability (measured by speed, comprehension, eye strain, ...).

Reading from a monitor isn't the same as reading from paper. There was a comment on a story recently from someone who'd worked with television saying they never use pure black or white.

I notice that, for example, the BBC news uses a very dark gray for the body text of its website's articles. Do they really not know what they are doing? Also Google uses large blocks of grey text in blogs, help documents, etc. Aren't they notorious for testing everything?
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The claim about high contrast is definitely valid, but explicitly stating that it should be black, when the stylesheet says #373737 - seems a bit questionable.

I would much prefer to look at font in a very dark grey on a pale color, than the stark look of black on white.

Still, the high contrast argument it is totally valid, and it's very annoying when you see pages that require text highlighting to be read without strain.
Would you do me a favor, go check out the volokh conspiracy. In Chrome with adblock plus off, but disconnect on, no comments can be seen. Disconnect seems to find a google tracker that it blocks (but provides no other information on.)

Thanks.
That's another way of phrasing the "if you have nothing to hide" argument. A simpler example of the link between privacy and democracy is that voting is private. There's a reason for that.
To me it's seems the real problem we're having with privacy today is there's nothing protecting our privacy beyond a thin layer of legislation. The best real solution I've come across is providing individuals with apps and services that generate fake data about you, masking your real behavior. For example your photo gets tagged at some bar. In response you have a tool able to tag you in 30 other photos supposedly taken at the same time but in different settings.
Looks like they've fixed this specific problem.

http://consumerist.com/2012/06/newegg-no-well-totally-take-r...
Why not gevent or eventlet?
Dark gray text on a not-quite-white background - FTW.
Not surprised to see Erlang come out on top. As I understand it, this is precisely the type of problem Erlang is good at - doing lots of little lightweight things with minimal overhead.
gedit's not bad, but try and work your way into vim/emacs. This will allow you to use the same development/debugging environment that you use on your laptop on remote servers, which will vastly improve your earning potential.
It's not that hard to find a meat-free diet that supplies all the nutrition that you require. Meat-heavy diets come with their own problems, and there's no point in replicating those with something "indistinguishable".
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Yes, I agree, but too late for that change probably.
Plus I'm sure someone will point out that they are not actually necessarily constant by strict definition either.
An easier way to think about it is that they are essentially clever compile time template systems which output CSS... It's totally unrelated that their input also happens to look a lot like CSS - it isn't.
Why is that language necessary?

What, "clown"? That's about the least offensive way of expressing frustration at people there is -- why is complaining about it necessary?

"Squatters" buy something with the hopes of reselling. Exactly what is wrong with that ...

All the usual problems with speculators, really: inflated prices, leading to non-speculators being priced out of the market; market instability as the speculators stampede one way or the other, being bubbles in the extreme case; etc etc.

They can provide a domain name that you want.

That's misinterpreting "provide nothing of value", and you know it.

You have a serious anger problem.

Because, of course, a cartoonish description on the internet of hypothetical violence is indicative of "a serious anger problem". And I'm the Pope.
Right. I'd also add a general guest account where you, the device owner, can sandbox the available apps as well as permissions (no download, no installs, no cellular network data, etc.).

The device owner/admin should be able to create and disable users as required. If you have kids, you might want to create an account for the kids that only offers them certain apps and limits a number of capabilities.
That argumet is seldom present in these discussions and it's the one I value the most.

A coup is never off the table.
Thanks for the info. I guess it's more complicated than I thought.
The only way to stop existing terrorists may be to kill them. The things that go into stopping prospective terrorists from becoming actual terrorists are more complicated.
That ("fixup") and the other leak-to-Google stuff ("keywords") are probably the first two things I turn off when I start using a browser. I had too many mispastes turn into potential data leaks before figuring that out.
Of course, best thing would be not including the addresses at all (that's what professionals would do), but if they deemed it necessary, "obscuring" the addresses would at least stop the most rudimentary harvesters.
Also, why the downvotes? Have I offended anyone?
PRC might have a rightful claim and a right to protect it, but that's not what the issue is about here.

Actually, that is exactly the issue here, like it or not. Yes, the article explains how the app has been of great benefit to them. That is a good thing. The issue, however, is PRC's right to protect what they feel is theirs--even though I personally detest it and they (and Apple) are the assholes here.

It's possible to be in the right and still act like total assholes.

Of course it is. And that is clearly what is happening here on the human scale. I don't think anyone disputes the asshole behavior of PRC or Apple's reaching too far by removing the app.

I both read the article and a bunch of others on the author's blog. The thing pointed out in my comment, and your parent's, is that the author steps too far in the direction of taking the personal aspect to the point of hyperbole, where it is clear that the app has added a greater amount of convenience to two-way communication, not allowed communication that did not otherwise exist or cannot exist through another medium, with more effort. The author is reacting to a threat to that convenience, and the changes it will bring in communication they've enjoyed with their daughter, which is an awesome thing in and of itself.

Neither I nor your parent comment were saying the author is wrong in being upset by this. I'd be completely upset if I enjoyed enhanced communication with one of my children and suddenly felt like that was threatened. But I wouldn't help my case by making hyperbolic statements about how losing this app means I can't communicate with my child at all anymore. That's what was pointed out here.

It's amazing that conversation on HN is in such a state lately that a well-reasoned comment pointing out a different dimension of the issue is downvoted, while a two-liner calling someone "a dick and an imbecile" isn't downvoted to oblivion.
Funniest bit about the .app: 13 applicants picked ".app", not a single one went for ".apps", the obvious second choice with no competition.
The question you should be asking is which one of the many complex problems haven't been solved. Company building is a secondary stage. Of-course you'd want to solve a problem that would make you rich.
You don't have to throw away your car over a small amount of damage (unless it is the frame), but you might have to replace a thousand plus dollar component the size of a macbook.
Neat - but I didn't expect it to tweet my entry. I really wish you had mentioned that. Out of nowhere it looks like I'm spamming my friends with some domain I own.
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If you look at the downside and upside for Apple, the decision makes perfect sense. And 8 GB should be OK for almost all their users for the next year or two.
While we're there, we may as well add the 453 non-native resolutions that nobody in their right might ever wants to use.
Oh yeah, that would be Windows.
That's my point: It could've been a cheap Android clone; but it wasn't. It was an iPad. Why? (who knows, but maybe) because Jobs & co., with their fiendish desire to create a useful device, were able to create something that people would actually use, create apps for AND purchase from its curated (and sometimes, unfair) stores. IF there wasn't a curated store, and a good device, maybe there would not have been an SfY right now; someone would eventually create something like this, but that could've been 5 years from now (IF Apple had not created iOS, Android wouldn't be what it is NOW, because of competition. It would be as good as it is in 3-4 years, but not right now). So, little Maya would've been voiceless for the past months; as she couldn't use those $15,000 devices.

And, personally, I really don't care about intents. Some believe there is a God and he judges based on your intents. I like to be more pragmatic and judge by impact. Lewis Carroll was a pedophile, so Alice shouldn't be called a great children books that millions of kids have had a great time reading. I couldn't care less if he was a pedophile, or Mother Teresa's assistant. Likewise, I don't give a damn if Jobs was a money-loving, dictator bastard. He was a major component in PC revolution, smartphone business and tablets. So, I respect him and credit him for a lot of lives that has changed by these devices. If I could, I would create a big statue of him, just to inspire others to take lead from him (it doesn't mean that I think he's a saint or I agree with more than 1% of the things he has done in his life, it just means that I think this guy, with all his faults and shortcomings was at least somehow useful for the world; what most of people are not and die without trying to change the world a better place).

Your world view very well might be different than mine, and that certainly changes the way you feel and think about Jobs, Gates, or other rich people. :)
As for me - I'm waiting for a non-Apple laptop that can fit this screen, it's 1.6:1. (I'm writing this on a 1080p 15" thinkpad with a swapped screen)
How refund policies should be.
An actual, disruptive solution to the US healthcare crisis. There's a ton of economic value to be created, but the current ecosystem is shockingly resistant to non-incremental innovation.
Site completely fails to load without Javascript, and only does a half-assed job of loading with JS enabled. No graceful degradation at all.
* How is drilling mental math any less mechanical
than the unconscious familiarization/ingraining
of algebraic concepts of this app?

There is a difference in that with mental arithmetic you have, or can have, a direct connection with an underlying reality. This seems to be entirely divorced from any reality, and the rules can, if you don't already know what's going on, appear completely arbitrary.

I can picture asking an adept "why do you put the same thing on each side?" And getting the answer - "Cos that's just how it works."
Check this out http://www.quora.com/Neural-Interfaces/How-did-Stanford-use-...
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https://testflightapp.com/ enough said. :)
I bought one the day they came out, I really just needed a faster machine with more hard drive space. I currently use an AIR with 120gb SSD and I have to constantly keep deleting files to free HD space. The 4GB of ram I have also wasn't cutting it. So I went with the 500gb SSD and 16GB of ram in the Retina MBP. Expensive, yes, but I think it is a great machine and I spend 40+ hours a week on the thing and run my businesses through it so it's an expensive I'm willing to make.

I also do a lot of design work so the Retina display seems like it will be worth it.

The only thing I wasnt sure about was that it will be heavier and seem larger than my air, but 80% of the time it sits on my desk anyway... We'll see what happens when it gets here next week!
Software patents are supposed to be (and should be) illegal. The fact that this bullshit continues stands as testament to the dereliction of the USPTO and our "representatives."
Thanks. (to all the commenters under this thread).

I was thinking about vim just a bit ago (I hear emacs pinky is a real bitch). Maybe I'll put eclipse on my ubuntu too and check it out (dunno if it has support for python or not. I tried IDLE and didnt like it ... )

I have kind of stalled out a bit lately. maybe it's time for an IDE anyway
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Django still powers a lot of the DISQUS infrastructure. That said, we're in the process of breaking certain parts of it off into independent services and out of Django. But Django will be the main component for the foreseeable future.
it seems from their store pics the 15" has no line in either.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macboo...
Keep us updated. I wonder if the concept could be tweaked enough to be sufficiently different from the patented ideas, but as/even more effective?
How's it different? For once there's more friction in buying land. There's more paperwork involved, there are zoning rules, and so on. More importantly you can't buy a piece of land for $10 and sell it for $50K a few years down the road. And just because there are similarities it doesn't make it right. In some countries you cannot own land at all, would you use that as an argument?
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I agree with your hypothesis that they learn just enough to accomplish x. That has always been how I do anything. I didn't learn how to write websites that interact with a db, I had an idea that I wanted to accomplish and I learnt enough to do it. This has helped me learn how to tie into a db, create interactive services and perform FFT on thousands of devices to identify bad cables based on their preequalization data.
Why is this on the front page of this site? We all know where Engadget is.

Why not just re-post every story from every vaguely tech-related Web site on here then?
So's the hardware, I'm not sure why that would matter much.

Battery is already soldered (basically), nobody cares. Aftermarket RAM upgrades only matter insofar as their historically being way overpriced at Apple, this seems avoided for now on the new MBP ($200 for the 16GB upgrade, Crucial asks for $160 for 2x8GB SODIMM so the markup extreme — least of all on a $2200 machine), the HDD -> SSD upgrade is irrelevant as it's already an SSD and if it's the same as the Air (no reason for it not to be), it's a semi-proprietary caseless and low-profile SSD module... for which there are third-party alternatives (or will be, in case the pinout is incompatible with 2011 Air pinout, which would be surprising)
These researchers are helping to remove one of the big problems with BMI chips - the wire protruding out of the head.

But these BMI chips still suffer from one other major problem. Over the course of a few months to a few years, scar tissue will start to grow around the chips. This tissue not only interferes with the electrodes on the chip, but also endangers the living tissue around the chip. The chips eventually have to be removed.
"It's genuinely fun to play" is huge, from a pedagogical perspective, when it refers to the actual bits of the game that involve learning.
He thought you meant that open source makes the world worse.
We are currently in beta and want to gain traction before starting paid plans. We have been accepted to Startup Chile and paid plans will be available once we put a payment gateway in place.
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One of my heuristics here is to look for misuse of technology. Look for people persisting in their use of a tool unsuited for a particular task. It means they really really want something new, and might even pay for it.

An example: some of the biggest projects on Kickstarter (in terms of dollars) are about totally unanticipated uses of the site, like consumer electronics and game development. Surely this means something.
Some of us don't like to be extorted by Apple when looking for BTO options.
Where are our fuel cell cars?
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Thanks for that warning. Kept me from making that mistake.
> I'm over 2 years in on my 2010 MacBook Pro, and checking the battery right now I see its designed capacity was 6,000mAh while its current, fully-charged capacity is… 5,786mAh.

I don't know what the capacity is on mine, but I used to get about 5 hours on battery, now I'm lucky to get 2.5 hours. Mine is same model, 18 months old.
I thought that it was written to prove that the supposedly declarative data format of xml still is vulnerable to imperative misuse. :)
I'd like to double that.

Also even if you uncheck the tweet checkbox it posts to your twitter stream.
If you use Disqus on your site, I'm not going to comment on it. More than once comments I entered via Disqus have vanished into the ether. Disqus claims that the site owner deleted my comment, but the owner publicly says they have done no such thing. Disqus then refused to do anything further.

Since I don't know whether Disqus comments will actually stick around or not, it seems like a waste of time to participate. The fingerpointing from their support staff didn't fill me with confidence.
The purpose of you writing a kernel is to share a Millennium Technology Prize?
> But if something like a RAM gets toast on my machine, I would like to get that replaced instead of replacing the whole machine.

Historically, Apple tends to be pretty good on support worth the price. If something like a RAM chip is toast, they'll usually replace the board, or even the whole machine.
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Yeah, I might. I think https://github.com/github/email_reply_parser might come handy here.
I'm not sure why we keep saying things like this.

"X MB/TB of resource Y will be plenty for a while" is almost always something we laugh about 2 years later.
And for a simple, reliable captcha just use reCAPTCHA.
Reminds me of SoundExchange, ASCAP, BMI and Sesac and other PRO's. "Not our fault if you don't claim the money we collected on your behalf!"
Because consumers don't always know what they want. They can be influenced by marketing and word of mouth (as shown in the Vista vs Mojave experiment).

On another point, Facebook is by far the most popular social network, and it can hardly be argued that Facebook's policies are good for the users.
I studied pre-Algebra in the 6th grade - about 12 years old. The author's child is learning the same things from Dragon Box at 5 years old. That gives kids nowadays a 7-year jump on the standard American public school curriculum. It's amazing to think of how much more kids will be able to learn and accomplish with their lives with iPad based learning tools.
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For those who haven't read about Maya, please look here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103344

It's not just about Maya, but others too that rely on such apps.

It's time like this where I wish developers/designers/people would unite, and create a kick ass free & open source solution to solve problems like this.

First of all, maybe by creating a web app, which, if it could be, cached on an iPad. Otherwise, just a web app that can be run on an iPad (even though you;d have small lag while getting the audio, which could possibly be generated via Google's Voice API?)

Secondly, create an Android version. I'm not sure if Speak For Yourself is planning/making an Android version, but software patents is the main issue here. It literally disgusts me.

Who here would be interested in helping? It's just an idea, but an idea I'd love to execute.
Funny that you would say this just as I am dealing with the fallout of a failing drive...
I don't want to dis IDE makers. There are folks such as jetbrains that make an amazing product. But at the end of the day, for us linux-type professional developers, it's all text. You have maximum leverage with unix text editing tools. Refactoring 50 files at once by doing something like:

grep -lR 'old_method' | xargs sed -ie 's/old_method/some+other()+expression/g'

is just plain awesome. Want to find out what libraries a process is using?

cat /proc/$pid/maps

Want to find out where that process is logging to?

ls -hal /proc/$pid/fd/

Basically it's often hard to use a gui ide to accomplish an arbitrary task if the IDE wasn't built for it, or if no one has taken time time write plugins. At the risk of gushing, the command line is just one of the most extensible, composable environments ever invented, and it's success over the past 40 years proves it.
> That there is a whole generation of developers who come out of school thinking that "building" is the action of pressing a button in an IDE GUI

Why? I mean, the fact that a newbie developer just needs to know how to press one button to build their code is actually pretty amazing. Plus, how many school projects are complex enough to require much more than that?
> In fact, one of the very first things I do is buy more RAM for my MBPs because it is more economical to do it yourself.

While that is historically true, it's not really the case for the new MBP: the 16GB RAM update costs $200, 2x8GB sticks cost ~150 at crucial. Meh.

> Then if you wait 2 years, you can again double your RAM for extremely low price.

Unless the chipset is at its physical limits, which is usually the case if you upgraded the RAM once on purchase.
I should have applied for .localhost.
LOL wut.
Wow, that flipped amazingly fast.
I stopped using readability when it changed from a simple bookmarklet that would work on any page, to a browser plugin/service combination. It's a shame, really, it was brilliantly useful then, and I haven't found anything that properly replaces it.
Congrats on getting on the front page of HN -Ray
Cool stuff. The functionality I needed a while ago, and dropped my project because it was not there.

Will try again.
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Just curious, what is the actual pain point for you? Is it the actual paying of the bills, remembering to pay them, splitting them between people, or something else?
For perspective, here is my story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4106825

I am no "genius", but I am multi-domain for sure.
Read the above link. As I already explained it there... the depth is quite like "master" versus "grand-master", at least with me. And I don't know for sure, but it's possible that I become a grand-master at one of my domains at some time (I am still young ;)).

I will try to make a comparison with DaVinci. He was probably a "master" of Medicine (Anatomy), and I am sure that really helped him become a "grand-master" of painting. In my case I am a master of medicine, and especially things like genetics, immunology and physiology. Believe me or not, but these things have a whole lot (at least regarding the way of thinking) in common with programming. Especially with how Erlang programs are structured (actor model). Today, Erlang is the programming language I consider my best. I hope, one day I might become a grand-master at programming. Time will tell.

And there is another "secret" if you want to go this way. Try to pick relatively "obscure" domains. Being merely a "master" of Erlang, might not be a drawback for my career, but things are probably not the same with Java (just a wild guess).