skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was reading the article, excited by the prospect when I realised, we have a hard enough time identifying planets dozens of light years away, from direct light, that surely the reflected light from a massive object 3000 light years away would be orders of magnitudes more difficult. Perhaps impossible. Theoretically possible yes, but what sort of technology needs to be invented to actually do it?

edit: turns out I should have just finished reading the article.. bigger telescopes!
Totally. Vayant are on the open ended fast query wavelength. Tom links to them in the last paragraph
In theory, yes.

In reality, most ISPs (that I've dealt with, anyway) do prefix filtering to prevent just this sort of thing.
In case drapetomania doesn't tickle your fancy, try hysteria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria
"They may lose their jobs, but I'm sure there's people willing to make that small sacrifice for defending liberty."

Are you? It's remarkably easy to say that getting fired from your job to make a point is but a "small sacrifice" when it's not your job, your livelihood, your family and/or home on the line.

If it's such a small sacrifice, perhaps some people could game the system - apply for a job with DHS (they're hiring! https://dhs.usajobs.gov/JobSearch/Search/GetResults?Keyword=...), and do this to make a point. In fact, I volunteer you for this noble, but small, sacrifice, that you're so willing to suggest others do.
I wince at the choice of name. Mir, the space station, didn't help anyone get to the Moon. It was eventually crashed into the ocean, on purpose.
MetaMed: Evidence-Based Healthcare
Much as I would love working from home, I can't imagine that it would ever be considered a necessity - at least for the employee. I know of some employers who require that their employees work at home at least once a week to save on real estate. Of course, they provide the employees with the equipment, internet access and tech support to do so. If only I worked for one of them. . .
Myself as well. The only difference is that I have a greater appetite when I'm off it. Considering that I am overweight by just about any metric, that isn't a totally bad side effect, because I don't stop eating, I just don't eat as much when on it.
Generally color swatches are paired to give a suggestion for a complementary or accent color that is determined according to prevailing color theory. Sometimes you'll see the primary color with 2 to 4 other swatches, depending on the color relation used (tertiary, complementary, etc).

I use compass-colors to apply this concept to my stylesheets.
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You really think it would have helped to resist? In a war?

Also compare the fate of the native Americans who resisted.
However small the chemical difference, there is an enormous practical difference.

Meth can produce an intense high. Adderall, not so much.

I don't have any experience with meth so I can't compare Adderall and meth directly. However, I'd compare the extremely limited "high" from Adderall with... what a person with no caffeine tolerance feels when drinking a medium latte from Starbucks. And, like caffeine, you quickly grow accustomed to Adderall and no longer feel a high from it.

So while it's true that they're chemically similar, and that we shouldn't be demonizing anybody in my opinion, I don't think Adderall and meth are very similar in a practical sense.

While Adderall is obviously misused by some, it is seldom abused in the catastrophic ways that meth is.
But are there enough people who think that way?

We're betting that there are - or that there would be if they were given the option.

Think about it this way: if you were to build the perfect online travel product from scratch today, would you say "it will be a better product if we only let people search narrow origin/destination/date options; it's fine for people who have flexibility to just spend hours submitting hundreds of different searches"?

We think we have sound basis for believing there's huge demand for a more flexible search product with a company culture that excites people, but it's pointless to debate it here; we're very happy to let the market decide.

The argument that Expedia/Priceline/Kayak etc have the market sewn up is one we've lived with daily for the 5+ years we've been in the space.

Once you examine it closely, it's surprising to find how small a share of the total travel market these companies have, and how little affection and loyalty they command from ordinary people, even within the US, but particularly outside of it.
They also announced the successor to Unity will be based on Qt/QML...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5320633
We've done this too, and the reason is this: dropping people who don't read your newsletter increases your open rate, and decreases your spam reports. This makes it less likely some large mail host will drop your newsletter entirely.

The reason you send an email is for people who don't turn on images or click on links, but still want your newsletter.
I guess he meant those guys were already "Yodas" way before 1980 (when the character first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back).

Or, of course, he could be mistaken by one whole year. :)
Agree with most of the usability comments here but have to give kudos for the color selection. They are phenomenal. I'd love to see a bootstrap theme implement these. Maybe I'll whip up the sass vars file later.
Work is already underway. Feel free to contribute.
"Romantically I became schizophrenic, smashing hearts on purpose or falling head over heels with a one-night stand, exhibiting neediness that disgusted me — yet I rationalized that becoming a self-loathing depressive could be filed neatly into my persona as a tortured New York artist, material for stories I would surely write someday. The problem was, it stopped being a persona, and became who I was as a person: uninspired, unproductive and miserable."

This sounds like it could just as well be a symptom of New York rather than Adderall. Or being a lawyer in New York rather than Adderall.
Bertrand Russell and F.C. Copleston Debate the Existence of God, 1948
Is that what constitutes "original work"? Use a slightly different color?
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The site looks beautiful, and the UI for the search results is really flexible & powerful. Just a fantastic job.

But the search box, it requires educating the user, and this is your initial and most important functionality on your site. The funny thing is, you allow your user to type in the search as if they are speaking to a person which is a great idea and obviously the way it should be, but that is not how users have been trained to interact with random websites. I am sure you are aware of this, I am sure the search box is very important to you, but I think you should revisit the search box and homepage.

Here are some ideas, feel free to love them, hate them, praise them, trash them. I hope they are good and if not I hope they give you some new ideas.

* Home page - plain white & bare, logo centered, add airplane or luggage to logo so you don't need to describe what you are offering, text "Where do you want to go?", text box, and nothing else. (Format it like google and people will be more inclined to use it like google)

* Automatically figure out where they are coming from. Google analytics knows already, so I am sure there is some way to grab that info. Assume this is their starting point until they tell you otherwise. It currently is defaulting to LA.

* The first question anyone answers when traveling somewhere is "Where", thus the only text on your page asks, "Where do you want to go?".

* As the user types in his destination / search, the website immediately responds informatively and aesthetically.

* Once you have matched a destination, the background of the page changes to a beautiful image of that location, the vacation doesn't start once you get off the plane, it starts now. Going from plain white bkgd to a destination image bkgd ideally will slowly start to pull your user into a vacation mind set.

* Once you have matched a destination, the text on the homepage changes from "Where do you want to go?" to "When? You could type next week, or 03/22".

* If the user deleted the destination before entering "When", repopulate the input field with both the destination and when they want to travel text, he will now understand that you just keep entering information into the field as if you are talking to a person, or searching on google.

* Once you have matched when, introduce new imagery of activities you can do there and/or native food dishes. You are continuing the theme of providing your user with an vacation experience now, not later.

* Once you have matched when, the text on the homepage changes from "When? You could type next week, or 03/22" to "For how long? You could type a few days, or a weekend"

* After you have all needed search data, proceed to results, and if possible continue vacation now theme

* The search box should still work as originally intended as well.

Keep up the good fight, don't let them leave the home page without thinking "This is cool!", and I would love to one day hear people say "I need to adioso!"
The color swatches paired up very nicely!
> the fact that her colleagues had to do similar unhealthy shit in order to compete with her

You are asserting that the law firm's long working hours were caused by her med use. Do you think you might have that backwards?

> the author's self-absorption, the victimization tone

She had a substance abuse problem. She's warning others that it's a slippery slope. Show some compassion.
The first paragraph is just rampant self praise. Basically these engineers decided to be really clever, painted themselves into a corner, smashed a hole in the wall so as to escape from said corner, and then bragged about how great they are.
Overall, the core of flat UI which is : solid shapes, contours and hierarchy are good elements to have. But, its an extreme. Gradients, shadows, highlights,etc... give UI elements dimension and help them to occupy space, there has to be some of those pieces to help users distinguish between different types of elements.

I am personally not a fan of this trend either. But, I consider it a trend of extreme minimalism with no middle ground which will not work well in the wild. If you look at it, very few products or companies are able to utilize it successfully.
I think it's often not that cynical. I worked for a fairly large B2B email newsletter company and we would periodically clean the list mainly because we wanted an honest, accurate count of our list size.
Yc douchepocalypse
> Anyone can hijack any IP address

Not quite.
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I only hope that Tom Howard has the sense to check the criticisms rather than just voting them down and pretending they don't exist. Maybe it's time Tom showed off some of the criticisms about Adioso on his posts instead if all the roses. If people aren't complaining about Adioso then people aren't using it.

You kidding me? I put the major criticisms right in the post. And we welcome criticism - one of the major reasons we publish posts like this is to attract criticism to help guide us in what our priorities should be. And I've never downvoted a polite/civil critical comment fwiw.
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Caffeine junkies like you disgust me. The use of an artificial stimulant to gain an unfair productivity gain is unethical, you CHEATER.
What's wrong with actual XBMC? The TV is an officially supported target platform and works quite well.
> The whole thing struck me as melodramatic and narcissistic.

She's a young aspiring writer living in New York City, as well as a UCLA grad... shouldn't be a surprise...
How to Think About Risk When Investing in Your Career
Ubuntu Building Own Display Server, Unity To Switch Back to Qt/QML
Cake is a nice little tool. It could be detached from CoffeeScript and turned into a separate module, but it isn't hurting anyone.

When you're writing a node.js or browser project it's good to write build scripts in a language not too far from the main one, and it has the advantage of being able to use the whole node.js module ecosystem.

Take a look at this build script: https://github.com/ryejs/rye/blob/master/Cakefile#L52-L79 using flour[1]. I don't think you can get more succinct than that with any other build system, and it's blazing fast thanks to asynchronous I/O.

[1] http://github.com/ricardobeat/cake-flour
Great work!

If I may, here's some feedback...

But before that, let me explain why I'm interested in this kind of app. I like graphing stuff out - eg when reading some books recently I've drawn a visualisation of where the characters have gone in the story and what has happened. I've found there's no easy way to do this with most drawing/note taking apps on the iPad because you're restricted by the imprecision of your fingers when drawing. I've resorted to pad and pencil.

Therefore, the most important aspects for me are:
- zoomable
- ability to draw anywhere
- ability to add a text note anywhere
- neatening up (ie shape recognition) is a nice to have

So, feedback for your app:

- Zooming position - I expect the zooming to be centered on the midpoint between my touches rather than the top left of the screen/canvas.

- Zooming levels - I really want an infinite canvas...

- Line width - can there be a mode/setting where the line is the same width no matter the zoom level?

- Moving the canvas around - there needs to be some work on the gesture for doing this - after zooming in or out I found myself trying to use one finger to move the canvas and it of course drew a line. I know this is a really difficult problem! (I'm working on an iPad app myself with these kinds of UI problems). Perhaps, after zooming, switch modes to a move canvas mode and the user has to tap on the pencil icon to go back to drawing mode.

Anyway, keep up the good work and let me know if you want me to beta test.
> carrying a serving tray with her hand made Sachertorte mit Schlagobers (whipped cream)?

What am I reading
Well, that's a great way to get me not to read your mail ;-)
I'd say we already see the benefits of having so many people work together on WebKit. Would we be better off if Google had to create and maintain its own desktop and mobile web rendering engine from scratch? If there's a monoculture problem in mobile web browsing, it's due to the disproportionately large percentage of it that's done using Mobile Safari on iOS. Single-vendor/closed-platform will always be a problem. WebKit is neither.

Yes, over-use of vendor prefixes in CSS and other browser-specific features is bad. But that's an authoring issue as much as it's a WebKit issue. Having -moz-, -o-, and -webkit-* plus JavaScript shims to hide the differences in multiple browsers is a great argument for standards, but not a great argument for a larger variety of independently developed and maintained web rendering engines.
Nice - posted my own side project - would love some feedback on the idea from HN. https://breakpoint.io/153-bento/
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You are right, we are not losing our rights, we are losing the facade.
My mother owned a travel agency, my father a pilot. I was an airline pilot too. We learned how to use various reservations systems that the author seems to just ignore existence.

Amadeus and Sabre pretty much offer all those functionalities and much more than that. I can do that exact search Dustin wanted on Amadeus with 2 lines on a terminal.

All those websites building frontends to Amadeus and Sabre really should stop stating they are doing something different from what already exists. Just because expedia is an awful website it doesn't mean there is something magical or impossible behind what you did.

I hope you guys are not just an Amadeus/Sabre/ITA wrapper, because if you are, you are not profitable.
Thanks for the feedback. We will keep these in mind for further enhancement
Spend a weekend building a tiny project with CS. Or use it to add a small feature to a project you already have.

You have to constantly be on the lookout for new tools that will give you new capabilities or make it easier for you to do the things you already do. So you should be willing to try something different like CS -- recognizing that it's a learning experience and it might not work out.

It's fine if you decide that CS isn't the best, and you want to stick to plain JS. Not every tool works well for every person. Sometimes everyone raves about the goodness of technology X, you try it and agree. Other times, you try it and hate it.

Sometimes you come back months or years later to a technology that gave you bad experiences, and due to changes in both you and the technology, you're pleasantly surprised. Or a long-proven technology that you've been using for years has slowly but surely been surpassed by something else, and is now nearly obsolete.

So it's not guaranteed that CS right now will work out for you, but you don't know until you try. And even if it doesn't, you should keep it in the back of your mind and take another look in a few months or years.
As Math Grows More Complex, Will Computers Reign?
Yes it is. #00bd9c vs #00b290, I doubt you can tell the difference with the naked eye.
My interpretation (and apologies if this is obvious to you) is that they will define certain interfaces between the driver and the outside world, and any manufacturer will be able to provide something (a library or a daemon, I guess) that implements those libraries.

When they say "cross-platform use-cases", I think it means they want to make it easy to build the Mir driver and Android driver from the same source tree - and quite possibly the Windows and OS X driver too. So hopefully they will have some quite general interfaces.

I think the ideal scenario is that the driver interface they define has a very general interface, and then there's a wrapper that turns that interface into an Android driver, another that turns it into a Wayland driver, another that turns it into an OS X driver, and so on. But I don't know if graphics drivers would accept the performance penalty of even a very thin wrapper.
> I'd say we already see the benefits of having so many people work together on WebKit.

Of course, as I already agreed before. There are benefits to centralization.

It's a question of degree, not absolutes. As I said, 10 or 100 might be too many rendering engines, while 1 is too few. 2 or 3 seems, to me, to be optimal, but again this is a matter of degree so others may prefer a little more or less.

> Yes, over-use of vendor prefixes in CSS and other browser-specific features is bad. But that's an authoring issue as much as it's a WebKit issue. Having -moz-, -o-, and -webkit-* plus JavaScript shims to hide the differences in multiple browsers is a great argument for standards, but not a great argument for a larger variety of independently developed and maintained web rendering engines.

Agreed, this is not just a WebKit monoculture issue - plenty of other problems in that area as well, as you say.
> we the people are too apathetic, or too unaware, or too stupid, or too anything at all to yield our immense power

This is what has been happening: We've been too hesitant to wield our immense power, meaning we've been yielding it by default to those who are willing to use it.

(The autocorrect error here was way too apropos to pass up.)
The linked article isn't about hacking the AppleTV to run apps. It's about figuring out what the API looks like today as a way to guess what it will look like if released. The point is not to do interesting things today; the point is to be among the first to release an app if the ecosystem does open up.
That was great! I'm particularly impressed with the smooth learning curve, especially the dynamic legend.

I sometimes didn't notice when a new narrative appeared. I would just glance over once in a while to see if something new had happened. Maybe bring more attention to that, like having it blink once instead of fade in? Sure it doesn't look as nice, but you want the player to focus there.
"Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders."

From:http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty...
FWIW, I think it's great you shared your troubles, it's not a discussion that's easy to have in any context. I think you and your team have a good eye and mindset and I hope you find the solution/pivot to your current problems (or else I wouldn't waste time with writing out criticisms)
I'm sure most people will dismiss this with "just use email," but I'd love to have an inbox where people could message me. In situations where a comment thread is better suited for a one on one convo, it'd be great. Also a nice way to keep your email private unless necessary.
Love the design. It's exactly what I need for a project I'm working on.
I think GP meant something like a build process that inlines the bytecode, not the source code itself. I don't see why this is unreasonable, especially compared to what they actually did.
I agree with you, but I volunteered to see what I could do to help. Criticism is easy.

That's a long term strategy that I'd back.

but......

Is there any technologies in the short term that might help?
The comments to this article mainly focus on the medical benefits and side effects of Adderall.

I don't want a larger truth to get lost here...

While I've been prescribed Adderall for part of my adult life, and feel Adderall has benefited me, I'd like to say that there's far more to successful ADHD treatment than medication:

- Proper environment
- Getting enough exercise
- Getting enough sleep
- Support and understanding from loved ones
- Strategies/systems that allow frictionless organization

While nobody here is explicitly characterizing it as such, please... nobody fall into the common trap of thinking that successful ADHD treatment is just a bunch of pill-popping.

(Unfortunately, many psychiatrists do treat ADHD treatment as nothing but pill-popping. Mine does. There's a good chance yours will. If you're seeking ADHD treatment I'd urge you to do your own homework and read up on ADHD life strategies and consider seeing a therapist in addition to a psychiatrist. Whether or not you decide to go the medication route, those strategies will really benefit you. Good luck!)
It works for GNOME and KDE. ;)
They have their own fast, local price cached graph 'wingtip' but it only has data from selected low cost carriers. With this redesign they have felt the need to fill in the gaps via calls to Expedia's api's which are slow.
It's not in the OS, it's in the individual VM that Facebook is running in. Every Android app gets it's own VM - if they mess it up badly enough then it'll just crash.
"If you don't understand an issue, how do you make a good decision that represent YOUR interest? "

You follow the advice of someone you trust who has similar interests to you. Don't overthink it.

"Requiring at least x% of people to understand an issue before the vote is legit would be a logical choice."

No, it's a silly nondemocratic choice that can only end with the foxes running the henhouse. Who really understands this 2000 page telcom bill other than the Comcast lawyers that wrote it? Oh well I guess only they can vote. That's an absurd extreme but it's illustrative of the problems you're asking to introduce.

The solution to low information voters is not disenfranchisement on a large scale but instead to go back to the core of republicanism: vote for some person or party to represent you and who's job it is to be informed about the issues. In it's purest form the voter at large only ever makes that one choice although he can change that vote more frequently.