skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. One of the things people undervalue is the fact that at least some of the US's success comes from being a big populous country. Dominating the world in science and warfare isn't a let capita sort of thing. Absolute numbers and absolute wealth help.
Okay, I'm joking. Obviously. President Obama doesn't have this power. I think.
Must take real effort to hate women this much.
Sure, and it looks nice.. but it still appears to be based on guessing what airline/airport employees do and about their concerns or constraints. How can you know whether a design is better if you haven't even talked to the client?
This seems to be the same model as most gaming consoles.
The one key advantage that Shopify has, as I see it, is that merchants who use Shopify already have their inventory loaded into the system. Synchronizing their online stock and physical stock now has little barrier to entry beyond the cost.
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Abstract (and paper, for purchase) available here: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo19...
Damn, and I JUST deleted my account this morning.
It's surprisingly large: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kcGltYWz3k
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Well, then why didn't he leave last year? When they cut the price of the Galaxy Nexus by $100 at the same time?

It seems that is their plan. Release a phone that doesn't gouge the customer on price, then lower the price a few months before the next release.
I think the bottleneck isn't the willingness of the people to do it but of the government to manage it.
For sure, no discounting the usefulness of a seamlessly integrated solution for people with both online and b&m businesses.

I haven't had the need to dig into Shopify in years but will be curious to see how it handles some of the complexities of multi-front retail.
Interesting, we'll definitely check them out!
How does Shopify do with multiple locations for stock? Say you have inventory in your physical store and then have the inventory you're selling online at a warehouse elsewhere which you also use to re-stock the b&m.
Of course. I already 'vote online' in the sense that I have to sit down with my absentee ballot and spend like 5 hours googling all the down-ticket candidates.

If everybody voted like me, SEO would become the linchpin of our democracy, because I only have like 5-10 minutes to devote to each choice. Obama vs Romney is obvious, most of the lower-level candidates are people I've never heard of.

(I think this is the problem that political parties are supposed to solve, but don't in the USA, since generally there are only two viable ones which both suck balls.)
As she links in the post, she wrote basically this same article almost a year ago. Why are we rehashing it?
I have no firsthand knowledge of the situation, but from the outside, it looks difficult to call Nexus 7 anything other than a huge success.

Nexus 4 is built by LG, and a $249 price looks plausible without losing money. If you can identify one phone that did the most to push carriers to providing reasonably priced month-to-month plans with no overages it would be Nexus 4.

There is plenty to criticize about Android branding, OEM relations, and the Nexus program trying to take on too many issues at once, etc. But the products themselves don't seem to be the problem.
This is an interesting story. Barra leaves for Xiaomi. Ok, so that's moderately interesting... anyone who chooses to leave Google for anything else tends to get some kind of news (a tweet or two?) b/c Google is supposedly an amazing place to work.

Xiaomi is a Chinese company... plenty of xenophobic, insightful, or whatever comments to cover that topic in this thread.

The story sort of hints that Barra's girlfriend was either poached by or traded-up for Sergey Brin (forgive my language, it's terribly sexist... but that little tidbit in the middle of this article is not there by accident and kinda paints that picture). Who knows? I don't... and other than being an interesting HR case study who cares?

What's completely missing from this article is how Barra impacted Android? I've seen him at I/O. Ok? So what else? He's a quick riser... must have done something... but what? What's not going to get done w/ Android now that Barra is not at Google? Perhaps that kind of information will be forthcoming.

EDIT: Spelling, grammar
Good points.

I probably should have been clear that the one column thing was just an example. I agree that there is certainly more to responsive design than that, else it would be much easier!

But, what you mentioned with regard to being more thoughtful about the design and distilling it to its minimalistic essence is partly where I was going, except to a different conclusion. That is, if such a clean, focused design can be achieved, then what results is a Web app that could likely work well across devices.

But, if that minimalistic design leaves much to be desired on the desktop (i.e. a remarkably better experience can be delivered because of the additional available real estate, well then we are likely talking about a fundamentally different design. In that case, I say build it out separately vs. trying to have each page, CSS, etc. pull double-duty.

>Developing a minimalistic version of my Web app in the beginning helped me to focus [...] it's a useful aspect of responsive design

Good point. But, I think that's more a side effect of mobile-first than responsive design.
Do you have an evidence to back this up? They reduced the price on the Galaxy Nexus in a similar fashion last year, so I assumed this was a normal price reduction.
I sort of agree, but on the other hand it's definitely relevant in terms of why he might have left Google.

Plus, gossip sells.
For those interested in learning more about Costco, this is the most informative, fascinating, and mind-blowing report I have ever read:

Understanding Costco by Coriolis Research (namely, Tim Morris).
http://www.coriolisresearch.com/pdfs/coriolis_understanding_...

Some mind blowing facts:

1. They pay their employees $10-$17/hr as opposed to Walmart (as discussed in the article)

2. CEO earned 350k in 2012, only twice that of a store manager at Costco

3. Margins are razor thin. In fact, an employee got yelled at for selling something at a higher margin (even though all the products were successfully sold within a week)

4. ~40% of Californians have a membership

5. 30% of inventory is at the store within 8 hours

*Note: My employer is a consultant for Costco, and I might be too, so I'm definitely bias, but I love the company.
Works pretty good, LOL. I hope it gets fixed ASAP. You can try it out and report via the browser feedback information.
Coming from another UW student, it depends.

If you want to go into post graduate studies then yes grades matter. Some companies do look at grades, so it matters to them. But for the most part, especially if you are looking for employment in the software development sector, grades mean nothing. Well...they mean you have good learning skills but that too is subjective from person to person.

I have shitty grades myself, but I do have a kickass portfolio which is what lands me jobs. Simply put, if you have nothing to show for your skills, then people will look at your grades. Hence if you have an awesome portfolio, dont really worry too much about your grades, but do ensure you pass and clear your semesters :)
The implications of Twitter's new conversation UI
[This may come across as tounge-in-cheek, but I'm quite serious]

I voted yes, but I hope that there will always be people in the community who desire physical polling stations. The reason is that as much as I am disillusioned about politics here in Australia, I am looking forward to the upcoming federal election for one reason:

Garage Sales (Yard Sales if you're from the U.S.)

A couple of elections ago my brother and I (who both love garage sales) realised that if you drive around each of the local polling stations, then there is a huge number of garage sales. As it happens, if you live near a polling station - mostly primary schools around our area - and you want to hold a garage sale when the greatest number of people are going to walk past your house, people tend to pick polling day.

Therefore, we've made a bit of an election pilgrimage to various garage sales. We've affectionately dubbed the term "Garage sailing".
Since Hugo's departure happened right after Nexus 4 price cut, they are very likely related.

Yeah... no.
What advantage would this have over existing systems such as petitions.whitehouse.gov and USPS letters to Santa?
This is obviously not true in many cases. There are countless algorithm problems where decades and thousands of pages of published literature on the problem go by before some researcher manages to make a material advance. Computer science is full of cases like this.

If all of the interesting problems were so trivial to solve, they would not be "problems" by definition. The idea that smart programmers could solve these problems any time they wanted to if they put their minds to it is unrealistic. They are considered "hard problems" precisely because countless smart programmers have failed to find a solution after no small amount of effort.
Online voting has been used on a significant scale in several places, including Estonia, Gujarat, and some cantons in Switzerland. I'm not an expert on how well (or poorly) these experiments have gone, but the following article contains a lot of useful information and pointers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_examples

Estonia was apparently the first country to allow internet voting in a general election. Participation has grown rapidly, with roughly a quarter of votes in the last parliamentary election being cast online:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Estonia

This suggests that a large fraction of the population are unlikely to care about the theoretical considerations that are dominating the discussion elsewhere in this thread.

Voting by mobile phone is also now legal in Estonia.

The latest Python source code for the servers in the Estonian voting system is available on GitHub:

https://github.com/vvk-ehk/evalimine

Incidentally, I got a smile out of the sampling bias inherent in this poll! It would have been even funnier if the question was "Would you ever take part in an online poll?"
That's a great question that I don't have the answer to. I have done some development work for a Shopify site recently. As I recall Shopify's default inventory system would likely be limited for a company with multiple locations.
But can you do it in a way that the people can inspect the system to see that they're not being taken advantage of, and that either/any side is being fair?
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Not secure enough. Especially if it's done by a government contractor that half-asses it and still runs off with hundreds of millions of dollars for the job.
It would be kind of cool to see complaints/suggestions that people have made to various companies
While Clojure-esque bindings don't exist (that I know of), you can always just use direct calls to OpenGL functions via the LWJGL library. Even write a nice wrapper around them that could be open-sourced. Clojure has complete interop with Java libraries, remember :)

You can also check out the nice wrapper around the Processing library called quil: https://github.com/quil/quil
For startups the main thing is culture. Ensure you adjust to the startup culture as somethings may seem off from the start(more informal, chill, etc).

Startups move fast, so it will be hard getting used to the change at first but later on in, you will adjust and move just as fast. Of course you have to put in the extra work from the start to adjust.

Be prepared to work long hours and on weekends. While not necessarily true for all startups, it is quite common.

Get to know your team. Hang out with them, grab drinks, play board/video games, etc. It will make communication much easier.

Always look for ways to improve the company and offer suggestions. Sometimes, due to other work people will acknowledge your ideas. I personally used to go the extra mile put in the extra work and time and make the fixes/changes/build new features myself.

All in all...have fun and learn lots!
The real problem is, why should I trust some online voting on some web site on a computer I know nothing about.

It is the hole voting computer debate again.

Thankfully such a system would be impossible in Germany. Because it is impossible to make as transparent as it has to be so that people who have no idea about computers can understand it and see that it is working correctly.
How many Apple employees are on foodstamps and/or medicaid?
(I think your sarcasm is appropriate given the histrionics that surround Walmart)

I've seen really impressive growth around a truly rural Supercenter opening but it's mostly been limited to chains that satellite the Walmart. Starbucks, Lowes, Jack in the Box, CiCis, Chilis and a handful of other shops that are nationally or regionally owned businesses that would have probably waited out opening in the area had the Supercenter been fought off. There is almost a symbiotic relationship between these concerns and a Walmart or Target super store that opens that is evident if you've ever been to the suburban southwest.

I can't speak to the real economic impact of such a situation (maybe it's great!), but I do suspect that there are real cascading effects to small businesses in this scenario. Pizza places, chinese food places, your random donut shop, the lumber yard... they all take a hit. I don't know, maybe all these places were terrible in quality and service in the face of the efficiency of national chains, but it still seems intuitive that there is a wealth flight around this situation and one has to wonder if it's for better or worse.

But to be honest, I don't know.
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Exactly. Physical polling places allow truly secret votes. Another party cannot see who you voted for, which hinders coercion, bribery, etc.
The iPad POS market is saturated, and Square already has a tremendous foothold. I have serious doubts about the whether this system can succeed so late in the game.

Moreover, I can't really be brought to care about these types of POS systems, primarily because they're all categorically atrocious. Many of my favorite coffee shops have been replacing their registers with iPads, and the universal result has been longer lines and more errors in recording orders. These things have consistently caused a regression of the customer experience in businesses. They're slow, they're unwieldy, and for whatever reason people demonstrate considerable ineptitude at using them. In my opinion, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the cash register. Things like Square should be used only in instances where using a traditional register would be untenable. The fact that companies are needlessly adopting these things and subsequently worsening the experience for their customers is tremendously disappointing.

The iPad will never be better at taking people's credit cards than a traditional register. It wasn't designed to, and companies should stop pretending otherwise.
Indeed. Not sure what that has to do with what I wrote. The history of Walmart is still the same, and that's what
I found so interesting.
In case anyone is wondering about security issues, there is a course[1] on Coursera, starting again in October, about that taught by J. Alex Halderman.

[1]https://www.coursera.org/course/digitaldemocracy
I'm assuming the language is Arabic, since the journal says it's from Jordan. But since I can't read Arabic, that's about all I can tell.
I'm not based in China, but I went to Shanghai on a trip 2 years ago and we had a long afternoon with Chinese investors and entrepreneurs. My takeaways were that there is a growing investment and entrepreneurial ecosystem, but that the attitude is pretty different. A lot of the companies that investors prefer are pretty much Western ideas re-done for the Chinese market. I learned from doing user studies there on Google that there is a slight cultural pushback on "foreign" products, and so there's a big opportunity just to see what works in America and rethink it with a Chinese spin. I'm not sure how well a Western engineer would do trying to produce a Western style company there. Of course, I got the sense that things were shifting quite quickly and so it may well be different now.
Matias did use ALPS switches until the latest models. (Actually the ALPS production was taken over by another company, and finally discontinued in 2012.)

There were various changes to the ALPS line over the years, presumably to reduce costs, and many (including me) believe quality suffered. The Apple keyboards used the earliest, so-called ‘complicated long’ version, while Matias keyboards before the latest used the final ‘simplified’ version. (All these had various tactile and clicky variations.)

The switches in the big Apple keyboards had rubber bumpers to reduce the impact of bottoming out, which might have been the reason they were easier on your fingers. (On the other hand, buckling springs trigger low and land hard, so maybe not.) The latest Matias Quiet keyboard re-introduces the rubber bumpers. (I haven't tried them.)
No, like Costco's sample hawkers, most janitors at tech companies are contractors, and probably not paid all that well.
An idea (would love some reasoned arguments against): so much of our policy-making (around the world, I'm UK based) is based on electing someone on a bunch of promises and then letting them get on with it.

We have to kick up a HUGE fuss to get anything changes (see SOPA etc.), but there are platforms beginning to emerge, like the whitehouse petitions.

How far are we from a system whereby major referendums can be held relatively frequently, mainly online? People can be given a brief for/against argument of some proposed change, they can research as much as they feel they have to, and then can vote?

Do we exclude too many non-technical people that way? Can we assume people even give enough of a crap to do this?
Absolutely not. Until cryptographically-sound voting systems are pervasive and well-vetted, there is absolutely no hope of making online balloting both reliable and secret.
While Java might not be as expressive as Clojure, you definitely take an even harder penalty to performance when using it over using Java. And you can gain some pretty strong benefits of using pure Java these days, what with Java 8 having lambdas, streams (parallel and synchronous), and all the wonderful libraries out there that help with concurrency. (RxJava, quasar, etc.) Among other things, such as a very nice wrapper over the OpenGL library. (LWJGL is utterly fantastic) You do lose a nice matrix library (glm) though.

Of course, Clojure has wonderful concurrency as well, so you can ameliorate the cost of using Clojure by spinning up more threads. However, games are a tricky thing to parallelize, from what I know. Especially as the only place you can actually make OpenGL calls is from the thread a program is started from.

I wouldn't recommend Ocaml for games though. Use Haskell or Go instead. Ocaml might be speedy, but it has a GIL, a la Python or Ruby. Also as far as I've found, there are basically no bindings libraries out there for opening windows or making OpenGL calls. And I might be misremembering, but the libraries that did allow you to use OpenGL used 1.x or 2.x versions, meaning you can't use a modern pipeline.
The question of security is an interesting one. There is nothing but laws stopping someone from opening, reading and modifying paper ballot papers, should online be different? Do we really have a transparent system now?
Low-skill workers might make better use of their time/money to dedicate one parent to raising children full-time instead of what many dual-earner households do which is send their kids to pre-schools, summer camps, and daycares, and then hire a variety of household helpers.

Also, I think our society should still be structured to allow a single earner on minimum wage to support a family of four, without going on welfare of sorts. It's really complicated though, and for every argument supporting one side of this argument you can always find a really good rebuttal.
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have you seen this Ted Talk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izddjAp_N4I

It's not totally "user friendly", but I'd say it's a huge step towards "secure and reliable" voting.
Also Free Rice, which is quite literally a game that donates rice for every correct answer: http://freerice.com/
I don't get this "subsidy" argument. Bob pays $200 for his rent, and $150 for groceries. He applied for a job at Costco and was turned down, but Walmart offered him a job so he took it.

Without government benefits, he couldn't afford his rent and he couldn't afford his groceries. Without his job at Walmart, he'd be eligible for even more benefits. But somehow it's Walmart that's being subsidized, and not his grocer or his landlord? Not to mention Costco, who's paying him $0, while Walmart pays him something, at least.
Got in the US after growing up a decently regulated coutry.

Bought 750min plan.

Used phone first week to do a few conference calls to a 1-800 number.

next week i was already out of "plan minutes" because i had to 'pay' for the 1800 calls.

not to mention SMS costs, and data being billed up to 3x (actual data plan, smart phone plan ($30), tethering ($25-50), plus tax)