skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welp I did not know that. I stand corrected.
Who exactly is paying for this? I honestly don't see how something like this is economically viable or desirable.
Since it enables you to make things you can't imagine, lots of people will make a large variety of things--a long tail of objects. For any subset of examples that people give you, it's easy to dismiss it as gimmicky. You'll need to find your own subset that means something to you.
Each bank is different. Some banks have shitty IT and other ones have dynamic IT that can adjust to fit changing realities.

The reality is that you and Eric are right.

Banks depend on techniques based on double book keeping accounting to reconcile accounts at end of day. Different data about transactions are stored in different places by different organizations and they compare books to make sure that balances are correct.

You cannot depend on every transaction to be recorded perfectly. You must have the ability to compare books and reconcile accounts. This is simply how the world works.

Trying to make every perfect and depending on storing data in a central place with the assumption that it's always going to be consistent is too much of a liability. It doesn't work because the systems required by modern financial systems are incredibly complex and availability during markets is the highest priority. You ARE going to have faults and you ARE going to have problems. The ability to take hits gracefully and give yourself time later on to fix stuff after the fact must be built into your systems.
The list of faces bugs me too. It's also heavily used in Facebook demos. But in real life people are either ugly or don't have a sensical profile picture from which you could recognise them.
> Pay in cash, and the retailer gets the resources?

Huh? The retailer is paid the same amount (sans the transaction fee) either way. The cashback incentive is to get people in debt.
This is of course good news. Now I'd really like to know how exactly this policynis phrased, or at least look at an official yahoo statement, but this article doesn't have non paraphrased source as well.

In a different branch of yahoo under some conditions, it was possible for any new parent to extend parental leave (stay away from work but take a salary cut during that time). There was also work hour arrangment or going down to half time for up to one year and half if wanted.

I am curious about how the new policy affects various cases (the new mother can't take care of the baby for e.g.). Or if t is really phrased in 'mother' and 'father' terms, and not in more specific terms accomodating for different combinations.
For quickly multitasking, I find that I can more quickly recognize the last screenshot of an app I was just using than its app icon. I vastly prefer the multitasking design of the jailbreak tweak Auxo. http://www.cultofmac.com/214983/here-are-the-very-best-jailb...
> I would do it now; it's not going to get easier later.

Rails 4 may be stable, but there are a thousand gems to still be brought up to speed. It very well may get easier later.
Good to know;

Some math from that will partly answer my question (only partly because there is likely a causal relationship where being a single parent increases your chances of falling into poverty, so we can't say how much of this is "poor people end up as single parents" and how much is "single parents end up poor"

Poverty | Not Poverty
Single 16% | 11%
Not Single 8% | 65%

So knowing that a child is in an impoverished household, you would say they are twice as likely to have a single parent, whereas knowing that they are not, then they are nearly 6 times as likely to not have a single parent.
> iOS's popularity is largely due to its intuitive UI.

I think that's true, which is why I'm so interested in iOS 7. IMHO, iOS has become much less intuitive—where I once found that ordinary users could understand and use most of the functions of the device, I find that no longer the case. For example, I find it unintuitive that the Home button does different things depending on how many times it's tapped, or for how long. The notification center gives no indication that it exists at all. The multitasking tray must be swiped left—twice—to reveal a volume control. Etc, etc.
Those are just updates that were underway already. There has been nothing in terms of software ever since Marissa took over. She has done a lot of policy changes that have affected engineering. In a way that hurt morale. She has to have them ship something new developed under her administration. That will allow them to build trust between engineering and management. All I hear from Yahoo hackers is that they don't trust her. Shipping code can help that.
The icons are amazing.
"don't take a job where you're the smartest person in the room" is probably more important.

a four hour commute can be mitigated (eg: work from home 3 days a week, or a mobile hotspot and pre-tax public transport commute programs, or if they want you enough a driver/moving bonus).

not having a peer to bounce ideas off of or review your code can't be mitigated.
In reality, if you can’t afford it, you simply don’t hire more employees. This is just one of the things you have to factor in, just like there’s always a chance that one of your employees gets seriously ill. People aren’t robots, you can’t expect them to work at 100% efficiency all of the time.

In countries that have provisions for maternal and paternal paid leave, companies have adapted to it and they remain competitive.
3 years seems a bit much to ask of a commercial company. Do they get government subsidies or anything?
I would argue that the lock screen is a special case since it is totally divorced from the rest of the OS in terms of usage, it may be common to go from app to multi-tasking tray and back etc but I would argue that locking and unlocking a device is a special scenario.

There is also that part of me that naturally thinks "If I can fold it using action then I can unfold it using the opposite action" which would not work in this case.

Although seeing as how someone else commented that this is available on jailbroken iphones I think I am on shaky ground on this one.
Mine is in the mail. I can't wait to put it together and play with it.
Wow. Did not know that. Thanks.
The Death Of the URL
How on earth is that the very first practical question?

You should be asking yourself questions like 'What do I want to influence the user to do more of', and 'What's in it for them', and 'Is it worth the added complexity' and 'What ways are the most fun for them to start thinking of the things we want them to do as accomplishments'.

Talk of levels is like asking how many seats there should be on an airplane in 1900. Yeah, it might be a trivial consideration at some point in the distant future that will color people's impressions, but the practical questions are how the hell you push something through the air in a controlled, sustained fashion. Seats are irrelevant to the big questions, and they don't even have to be relevant in an actual implementation of cargo planes - the 'levels' abstraction isn't always a useful one in making things more fun.

Based on what I've seen, 'gamification' as business topic appears to be rife with cargo-cultism. Even the best implementations don't add a ton to the experience, because there's no big incentives to work towards, no story to unlock or benefit to be had.

On StackExchange I have an indication of how prominent I am that I can show off to other people and potential employers, in addition to the small-scale competition to help people solve their problems. On Steam, badges from most games are little more than a funny phrase shoved in my face for five seconds unexpectedly. As Foursquare Mayor of my local chinese Restaurant, I get nothing.

To discuss this more, we would need more specifics of your startup.
I hear you, it's a complicated problem with many sides to it (I was also involved with call centres from the software side). In my particular case, I was just disappointed with everything from the implementation of the actual free trial, their silent changes to my billing details, adding penalty fees when it was clearly their mistake, daring to deny me access during a month I'd already paid for, completely indifferent call centre agents, and lack of any response from their management when I pointed out the original problem to them (multiple times). And this was a small company who supposedly pride themselves on service - I suspect they've grown in size sufficiently to be flooded with support calls now.
https://github.com/vrypan/btsync-keys

being shared at RR745RPH5URZVEWS7NSY2KR2V3DKKPBGU
Winky Google Glass APP - hacked into Google glass and enabled winking control
I don't know where the 3 year figure comes from, never heard of anything like it. More likely is that you'll see the father taking 2-5 months and the mother 7-10 months. The parental leave you have is also available during the first few years, so many don't take the full duration right away. I also believe the money comes from the state, not that the company has to pay during that time.
It depends both the point of view and the country:

* to employees, countries provide parental or paternity leave, that this is through a mandate on the employer is an implementation detail

* a number of countries pay (either in part or in full) for leaves through their social security system, the employer involvement (aside from "normal" social charges and not having the employee during the leave) may well be nil
Scientists find key to ageing process in hypothalamus
so google glass runs on modified android :D
Am I missing something, or was the authors lack of free time due entirely to the fact that he was commuting 4 hours, and not at all related to working at a startup like the title suggests?
I think you're missing the forest for the trees here. The point of the article is not the specific semantics of ATMs, but rather the whole system of banking and how it accounts for CAP theorem.
> In reality, if you can’t afford it, you simply don’t hire more employees.

That line of thinking would put pretty much every startup that's ever been through YC or shown up on HN out of business.

This is yet another example of why, no matter how hard they try with things like tax incentives and other policies, when other countries make claims like "_____ is the new Silicon Valley of Europe", I know it really isn't. You can lament the price in some aspects of quality of life, but it's hard to argue with the results of US policies on entrepreneurism, particularly things like "at-will employment" in California.
Yet I wouldn't write "(I) have dirty hands" where I mean "(I) get (my) hands dirty".

We'll all choose our own words. Good luck to us all, and may the best of us succeed.
While this is true, I'm not sure it's the "employers" in those countries that offer the paid leave to mothers / fathers. Rather, it's mandated by law, leaving them very little say in the matter.

I also suspect that the tax structure is set up to make this possible - i.e. I don't think it's individual companies that pay for the leave (this would kill many small companies), but rather the government uses part of the income tax to reimburse companies with employees on this type of leave. I'd love some confirmation / addition info from anyone who actually knows how it works.
> Although seeing as how someone else commented that this is available on jailbroken iphones I think I am on shaky ground on this one.

Just because some people like it, and even choose it, doesn't mean that it makes much sense. One minor issue is that if it were to fold in a way that felt physically realistic it would require going slightly above and below the screen, which it can't do (due to it being a screen), so there's something slightly unrealistic about watching it fold: some people don't notice, but some people will; the people who do notice may never be able to get past it.

However, we actually can ignore the whole problem of squishy design arguments: how do you deal with the PIN code lock? If you have a PIN set, the actual implementation of Unfold seriously unfolds the lock screen to show... another lock screen (?!)... that has the PIN keypad (ok, I guess)... and when you type in your PIN it disappears using the original animation. That's just... weird, and almost looks like a bug it is such a kludge when you see it.
I see you point, but in Sweden (at least) it is the state that pays the money to the person on paternity leave. It may of course still be a problem that a person is away for quite some time from work and in Sweden you would not be allowed to terminate their employment for this reason, but you would not have any costs for them specifically.

When you are on paternity leave you get paid 80 % of your salary, but at most about 950 SEK ($147) per day. You can more or less divvy up the 390 days you get how you want between mother and father.
... and why would they do that?
The truth is they are both right. Technology is accelerating but it is also changing directionally. It is no longer accelerating along a physical axis but instead along a virtual one. What Peter Thiel doesn't see is that the virtual curve will be even more transformative than the physical one. Physical technology has had hundreds of thousands of years to evolve but virtual technology will obsolete it in just a few decades. How? The answer starts out looking a little like Angry Birds but probably ends up more like the Holodeck.

The issue of measurement IS important. The problem with all of Peter Thiel's metrics is that they are inherently indicators of external activity. The triumph of the virtual curve reveals itself in the only metric that really matters: time.

All forms of technology have the same purpose: to optimize the utility obtained during a finite lifespan. Some forms of technology increase the utility per unit time, others simply increase the units of time we have left. Therefore, more and more time spent in virtual space is an indication that virtual technology is out competing the substitutes provided by physical technology. As we go higher up the virtual curve and technology becomes more advanced at fulfilling our emotional and psychological needs by moving bits instead of atoms, eventually physical progress will slow to baseline: literally life support (maybe with gamified life extension projects taking place in virtual land).

Alas, the last technology invented by man will not be the singularity, it will be near perfect virtual reality; closer to Angry Birds than Skynet.
Gawker is also banned on many sub-reddits. Maybe this?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/16/reddit-gawk...

http://www.dailydot.com/news/gawker-reddit-banned-adrian-che...
why go through so much trouble, just host your anonymous content using www.boopoohoo.org they also have an iphone and android app for those who are keen
Well given that his thesis is that banking has always worked this way, and since banking is older than computers, I don't think there was any implication here that it was an engineering choice.
So now we no why the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is so far over budget.

The Chinese tweaked the plans so when they tried building the thing nothing would fit.
I only know about the UK policies, where I believe the first few months are covered by the state, but there is a period that the company has to cover as well.

Also the money is only part of the problem; if you have 5 people in a company, every one of them is a key, integral part of that company. Having one away for 7 months would be disastrous.
I'm not sure this is a PR coup, I think she simply changed the policy to attract all the talented women who tend to get pregnant in their 30s. It's true that this particular policy change is not revolutionary in itself but the fact that what Sheryl Sandberg and Marisa Meyer did at google is propagating to other large influential companies is revolutionary as it indicates this will soon become the norm.
This is a feature, not a bug.

Certainly, the Casino didn't know about it. Imagine you sign a legal document you don't 100% understand (you miss sg). Who cares? You are bound to it. The Casino didn't fully understand the "contract of the machine". Who cares?
Wow, while this may be acting on stereotypes but I am surprised and have to hand it to the security guard who worked through that train of logic on the fly.
I know, I was asking the person I replied to, if he thinks ETM is dramatically undercharging. 9->10 is a pretty small difference with a potentially outsized effect on conversion.
Rereading your comment, I did kind of skim past that bit, sorry. I was mostly referring to the little bit at the end in regards to 'lots of people really liking' it.
This is an example of why analogies should never be used (except perhaps if trying to explain a concept, not something tangible).

ATM software has nothing to do with the backend storage of the data. My point is that I bet when the data is actually written to durable storage in the backend, the set of data being written will be wrapped in an ACID transaction.
> https://astrid.com/home/export

I get an infinite redirect loop trying to https://astrid.com/users/sign_in with google.

By the way, Keep doesn't do reminders, its only purpose is simple note-taking.
See my other comment, but the salary is really the lesser part of the problem. Every person in a 5 person company is an integral part of that company, if one of them takes an extended leave but you have to have that position still open for them when they come back, it's a disaster.
E.g. in Hungary, it can be up to 3 years:

http://www.budapestagent.com/hungarian-mothers-longest-paid-...

I.e. you don't receive your full salary for the period, but your employer is basically required to give you back your position after 3 years, if you chose to take that long (most people will take only 2 or so). With multiple children, you could actually stay at home for quite a long time.
I'm one of those folks who suspects that projects which were written in Java might be slower that they otherwise would have been. I also bought Minecraft some time ago (back when it was roughly €7).

Having used Minecraft for a pretty long time, I don't feel like it's the sort of thing someone should hold up as exemplary of how fast Java is / can be. Instead, for me at least, it's more evidence of Java apps having troubles making use of available system resources (particularly many cores and/or larger amounts of RAM) as well as demonstrating that portability still can be a problem with Java apps (as in OpenGL v OpenGL ES; MCPC v. MCPE, MCPI & MC360; and even windows v Linux & Mac).

I get that it is possible to write Java such that certain things run pretty fast. I also don't think that these sorts of metrics should be used as the only metric every developer uses to decide what language to use for their projects. Therefore, I don't feel that these are reasons to conclude that someone else should or shouldn't use java for their project (as surely they have their own priorities which they base their own decisions on).

On the other-hand I don't think that any software programming language having advanced features which allow for efficient use of these various other system resources matters much, if many (most?, most popular?, many popular?) projects don't use them (or perhaps don't use them correctly). For that matter the same goes with hardware... it hardly matters if some chip has amazing super powers, if few projects use them.

Back to why people think Java app can be slower than they ought to be. My experience has been that when Java first began to become popular, it became the language of choice in many universities. Not long after that it was common to find poorly designed & implemented projects to be written in Java. While this has changed by now, nearly all of the Java projects, that I have experience with don't have an obvious priority of maximising performance by using all available system resources as efficiently as they can be.
Is there something like a prebuilt tor2web-like-gateway server image? The best response to takedowns would seem to me not to be to create your own gateway (just moving your Single Point of Failure), but rather for lots of people to run "open proxy" tor2web servers, so that no individual server can enforce any takedown policy (because they'll just switch to a different server in the pool, run by someone else.)
http://domainnamewire.com/2010/06/14/yahoo-settles-lawsuit-a...
Depends on who you are, and what you're using it for. If you're printing stuff out that other people designed, more likely than not, you're willing to wait.

If you're designing the object, a shorter iteration process means faster learning and better creative flow. There's a significant difference between being able to think something up and try it out within an hour vs waiting a week for it. If you're a programmer, it's the difference between having a REPL and sending a deck of punch cards for overnight batch processing.

The current designs of single head FDM machines average about 60mm/s. The fastest XY heads can achieve 400mm/s, and the deltabots are around 300mm/s or so. There is an upper limit to how fast you can move a head around, but it doesn't feel like we've hit it yet.

In addition, I think as the FDM designs get explored and played out, we'll see explorations in other possibly faster methods. So as the home desktop printers get faster, I believe it'll find a niche that's different than what you'd do with online 3D printing services.
Of course they do... I wouldn't be surprised if its close to 100% paid by the government.
That looks interesting, and a nice integration with SF2!
I'm going to check it out with my teamlead, thanks!
Sweet, maybe they can afford to address some of the insane bugs they have accreted. I normally defend developers/software when people I know complain about an app - but this is like a year and a half of really bad/frustrating bugs. Disappearing tasks, duplicated tasks, inability to enter tasks at certain times of the day.... And ultimately not responding to emails regarding these issues. If you are going to provide an app which is in essence an augmentation of someones mind you should take the responsibility seriously.
I would argue that in the past couple years, both Microsoft and Google—and not Apple—have been setting the trend in software design, notably in the growing rejection of skeuomorphism and the embrace of flat design.