skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a legit complaint. The removal of drop shadows makes designing for iOS harder than before - and Apple does demonstrate poor legibility in some places.

I think we're going to end up moving, funnily enough, to something more like Metro. The design language in iOS7 calls for big photos, and lots of text overlaid - IMO the default don't-think-too-hard-about-it solution is going to be slapping semitransparent colored bars down and putting the text on top.

Which, honestly, isn't all that different from what you used to do. Rare was the app that put text directly on top of uncontrolled (i.e., non-curated) images. Most text already existed on their own surfaces (instead of complex photographs) to begin with.
Yeah, uncomfortably close to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempeh.
I enjoyed seasons 1-5, but season 6 is just rehashing the same old stuff. Past time for the show to hang up.
The line is in the intent.

If I hand the librarian a piece of paper with that SQL-injecting ISBN my culpability depends on whether I was aware of the likely gravity of my actions or whether e.g. I was told to get that piece of paper by a trusted source (e.g. my supervisor) and didn't even read it.
...and that's why I use Spideroak.
NYC actually has an epidemic of persons unlawfully looking through the pockets of black men and I think that should be attended to before restaurant reviews.
Correct, and thank you.
While I agree with your overall sentiment, in fairness it's not hard to explain.

"Well the cheap one is shite, it doesn't really work. The expensive one does work so you want to buy that if you're going to buy one at all."
I would disagree slightly. The idea of high intelligence is lionized, but society does a pretty spotty job recognizing it when they come across it in real time.

In practice, the highly intelligent themselves are often stigmatized. They're often misunderstood. They can have a hard time communicating with others, because at their level, their minds work very differently.

For the record, this article is specifically about kids with IQs at a level several standard deviations above the norm. It's not talking about those simply above average.
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Did you miss the last paragraph of his post. He was comparing live in-studio w/ audience to single camera, saying how a laugh track in live in-studio helps, and then goes on to note how he doesn't approve of canned laughter.
No, because AT&T is a open Business, which needs to be in business zones, following business statues, not personal computers connected to ISP servers. It's more like the brothel analogy I just made:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6435769
Read above. Linked just in case:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6435845
This description made me laugh. Yes, clearly there's >>10x difference between a useless programmer and an amazing one - I've always thought of a "10x programmer" as one that is 10x more valuable than one that is merely good.
Listening != Learning
"all to often I see people use articles like this as an excuse to question those diagnosed with autism"

That's certainly not my intent, and I hope that's not what this is being taken for. I apologize if I've given that impression!

For the record, I have a (legitimately) autistic family member myself.

I think we should work to ease both stigmata: the stigma associated with autism, and the stigma associated with this particular combination of high-IQ + introversion.
From the second sentence of that article: "In some productions the laughter is a live audience response".
They want as many transmitters as possible off to reduce the _chance_ of interference. With in-flight Wifi and picocells it will be possible to have everyone connected without having lots of cell phones trying to connect to base stations far away using high power.
For one it is larger than 7373170279850.
Did Apple really move 9 million units first weekend?
I fly twice a week and have found that the actual rule enforced by flight attendants seems to be, "Don't force me to see it."
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The fact that it's considered an illness and needs a cure or special treatment is, though. I was actually diagnosed with Aspergers as a child (whether it was accurately done so or not, I don't care), and the thing that has had the most negative impact on my life wasn't the Autism, but the diagnosis itself. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, getting told something is wrong with you. And with things like ADD the `treatment' was almost always much worse than the condition itself.
A group of humans united in perverse study of totally abstract formalisms had the idea that somewhere in a theoretical world, utterly disconnected from any known mode of physical or experiential reality, something truly obscure that, temporal/philosophical zeitgeist permitting, may have 'always' been true may in fact now have finally been noticed, or, on the other hand, may not... it may just be a dream

Meanwhile, in a flash of brilliance leading to a derived work of equal philosophical substance, I posit that the sum of the digits of the largest integer which cannot be expressed as the sum of four nonnegative integral cubes is exactly 60, and that this may be evidence of a relationship between the sets of signed integral dervied multi-dimensional primitives and the sum of their maximum component digits.

Ahh, how I wish I had studied maths.
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Oh I've read the article, and many like it. I'm not sure you've read my comment carefully though, because you seem to be missing the main point. Such studies are largely invalidated by their very influence on the phenomenon they purport to describe. Do you think the applicants' belief they would earn 45% (or 70%, or 90%) more has no bearing on the labor and loan markets?
I agree with library analogy
Because it is flamebait.
I'm actually shocked that he can't earn better as an educator of some sort. Seems like a great way to spend your like is 1/3 of it learning, 1/3 of it applying what you've learned and learning more from experience and 1/3 of your life sharing what you've learned with those living the first 2/3's of their lives. If you were successful during the first 2/3's of your live, then teaching or sharing your success with others should be possible.

That's the route that my dad took, but it wasn't planned and he wasn't even aware to seek it out. He was a two-time CEO, and one of the companies he founded and took it to a moderate exit. However after he left the last company, he moved back home to Brazil, where he encountered ageism over and over again. Companies and recruiters basically told him "Look, you're the perfect candidate. Every company looking to compete internationally would love to have someone like you. However they want someone who has your experience but is 40 to at most 50 years old. My dad is 66. After struggling for a while and burning through a lot of his savings being told no over and over again because of his age, a friend of his put him in touch with Instituto Dom Cabral, probably Brazil's best business school, where he easily got a job as a professor doing managerial consulting advice to companies that pay for access to its professors.
Celebrate the ridiculous things in life.
Exactly! In the United States, there are protections for that:
Libel & Slander

Which is why he was convicted of. Harassment laws could also be implemented, depending on the jurisdiction.
Your analogy starts to break down somewhere around point 3 or 4. It's not that few people use a lock on their locker. A closer analogy would be that the gym installed an electronic lock on each locker, but didn't actually make sure they worked.

It also wildly disconnects around point 6. You make it sound like he stole everything that the users had in the accounts. In reality, he just copied their info. He didn't give himself anything from their accounts, like transferring credits to give himself free cable or something like that. Instead of stealing everything and selling it on eBay, it was more like him going through people's lockers, taking a picture of what they have inside, and then selling the pictures.
As a user I don't mind the emails too much and I have successfully been recruited via LinkedIn so it does add value for me.

My big gripe is that clicking through emails on mobile is usually a bad experience. Mostly it either wants me to log in for something I normally would not have to on a normal desktop and it always, always nags me about opening in the app first which is annoying after the 50th time.

I also think the updated recommendations feature is not useful since 1) the UI can take away from the rest of your profile by taking up too much room and 2) people not qualified to give a recommendation for a given skill do so. Your Uncle bob may be qualified to say you are an awesome programmer but mine is sure not.
Wow wow, way interesting. I added what I think your missing citation should be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waring's_problem
On the other hand, if we ever need to know the name of a particular dinosaur, she has us covered.

How did you communicate the "demise" of the brontosaurus?
Despite appearances, there is no paywall. To read the paper, click on "Full-Text PDF" about 7 lines down from the title.
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> How often do you get a request, decline it, then get another request against the same user or account?

Never thought of it. So its possible to always give the information asked and still keep response rate bellow 1%!

"... and statistics".
In the same genre Ian Morris Why the west rules - for now is also very good. ( And if you did not already read it, Collapse by Diamond.)
Thanks to political one-upmanship, confusing language, and uncertain policy, that wasn't clear for a while. http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/04/25/is-congress...
Was it ever known if that was a marketing stunt for Zynga/Words with Friends? The articles I read about the incident pointed out the app specifically, which lead to some speculation.
There is a long history of pubic photography (and longer history of painting public scenes). So there is that tradition of photography and absence of an expectation of privacy in public paces (sometimes there are restrictions on commercialization of such images); private areas such as commercial spaces are not 'public' and they have some discretion on what goes/does not go. Taking lewd pictures of people is covered by a different section of the law --usually state laws or local laws.

Taking creepshots is totally divorced from the private/public issue. It's kind of like trying to make S&M into a private/public debate.
This argument is false. It's a matter of reducing the possibility of interference, not eliminating it (which you can't do). Lithium batteries can and have caused in flight fires, would you start claiming that they physically can't, just because we are still allowed to bring them onboard?
And the social aspect? Is it common for you to obtain the image of the correct finger and then the phone from a stranger?

How do you approach that part of the problem?
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The whole "scrutinize for legality" bit is overwrought and makes me question this whole thing. Are we to expect that every request has been established as perfectly legal? No. Dropbox isn't big enough to fight the government in court, and the legality of FISA requests hasn't been definitively established.
That war drove the rise of -empires- seems no surprise at all (see e.g. Alexander). But is that civilization ("An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society") ?? I'm having trouble decoding the semantics to understand why this isn't trivial.
I can't help but feel that jobs would've had something to say on the majority of these complaints (i.e. they would not exist)
If you want to see that third announcement icon a little more clearly, the lit version is already up.

http://cdn3.store.steampowered.com/public/images/promo/livin...
It is a push to allow Dropbox to publish the NSR numbers. It is also a public relations campaign. Uncertainty can hurt your business.
Haha thanks, I was adding context to my comment and forgot to add the link in!
My favorite nerdy character is Walter "I'm in the http://www.classicempire.com business" White.
War is a driver of technology.
> Where do you get the idea that 500-1500 CE didn't change much?

If we consider military technology, gunpowder had hardly begun to have an impact. Machiavelli's Art of War (1521) still recommends Roman military equipment and methods. Armored cavalry, pikemen, archers dominated the battlefields in 1500 CE; all familiar to Byzantines and Sassanids 1000 years before. And the centers of civilization in the Old World (Fertile Crescent, Mediterranean, India, China) were pretty much established by 300 BCE if not well before that.
The alien cult that hacked British TV
So does that mean if someone picked the lock on your front door and just had a look around your apartment, without doing any damage; you’d be ok with that and just be mad at yourself for not installing a better lock?
Well, in 1950, women were at least six times more likely to die in childbirth.

You're cherry-picking data. 1950 wasn't a utopia. The military was spreading chlamydia and radioactive materials in black neighborhoods "just to see what would happen". But I think considering the level of social consciousness AND technology that existed at the time, things were in many ways better. More to the point, especially with regards to the discussion: If you went to the hospital, your bills were reasonable - you wouldn't go into debt, the quality of service (relative to what could be provided) was high. If you were poor, you would probably be treated pro bono without hesitation.

If your claim is that the technology to save lives really is that expensive, I think you're wrong. Even the oft-repeated mantra that it's rapacious insurance companies is a flawed narrative: http://biz.yahoo.com/p/5qpmu.html (there are rapacious companies in there but it's not insurance) and I would be deeply suspicious of whoever is selling that narrative.

"the government" as if it is something distinct

It is distinct. If you wrong me, I cannot imprison you in my basement. I cannot hire lackeys to invade your home and threaten you with guns and shoot your dog. There's a categorical difference.

>We, the voting American populace, are responsible for its actions.

No, we're not. If you "voted for the other guy", in what way are you responsible? For not trying hard enough? If you're opposed to the war, are you responsible because you didn't go far enough to stop it? How far would be enough? Saying we are is kind of jingoistic. Ultimately, we're citizens of the planet, and any given person has a finite capacity to change it for the better; and expecting responsibility for more is unreasonable.

>If we wanted real change, there would be real change.

That's true, but to get it we need to understand that government is NOT the solution to everything and think real hard about what it should and should not be a solution for.

>We are a selfish, violent people.

I don't see this at all. I think that perception is really a crazy media narrative caused by desperation from the disruption we're seeing in that industry, and partly from (mostly local) government interest groups seeding that impression to justify increased expenditures for specialized crimefighting units. Crime in the US is down over the last 20 years.

>Besides, the only system under which no one has influence over something I don't want them to is a system in which I am an absolute monarch. Do you want that?

I'm not an galtian individualist - I'm not suggesting that my ideal is one where no one has influence over me. My suggestion that we should make people BETTER is, quite the opposite - crafting a better society is, I think important, but to me, what the means to those ends are, is really worth thinking about.
felt the same way when my android phone jumped from 2.3 to 4.0
Agreed. And there's been a few cases of (presumably poorly shielded) laptops in the 90s causing interference, to the point where the pilot would see the effect appearing/disappearing when the passenger turned on/off the laptop. The ban came about as a proactive measure because of these reports.
How about mines?:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6435769

You are welcome to critique, not harass⸮:
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Did you read the whole article? I'm curious, because I don't think you're actually disagreeing with the author on many of your points. For instance, "Autism Spectrum Disorder isn't just that the child is introverted." That's basically one of the core arguments of the piece.

"...there's nothing but anecdotal evidence..."

No, the author actually points out that a lot of the current methodology used to diagnose and test children is limited and at risk of observational or situational bias.

For example:

"Of the two hundred autism assessment programs his team surveyed across the country, many of which were located in prestigious medical centers, only 10 percent emphasized the need to observe a child along with a parent or guardian for more than ten minutes as they spontaneously interacted together. He tended to observe children playing with a parent for forty-five minutes or more, waiting for choice points to engage a child to determine if he or she was capable of more sustained eye contact, elaborate verbalizations, or shared emotional reactions. Dr. Greenspan believed that these conditions of safety and sensitive interaction were essential in order to obtain an accurate reading of a child’s true verbal and social skills."

Here is he saying that we're not spending enough time with children to make conclusive diagnoses, one way or the other. Autism or otherwise.
What are these pharmaceutical and psychiatric therapies given to people with Asperger's syndrome?
This doesn't really translate to an everyday attack vector.

They had to have served the minister a drink that would not cause precipitation to form on the surface of the glass and specifically target him. Then you need to actually process the print.

A better measure would be how easy it is to lift a usable print from a crime scene. But even this has problems. You need to target a person to know whose prints you have.

If you just randomly pick pocket a phone. How do you get the print? How do you identify which finger was used? You need to get lucky or get 10 good prints.

I agree with others. The real question here is, "Is this better than no password?" I think the answer is, yes.
me and my wife are going to start this in the morning. Once I get about 2 weeks in I'll probably bump from 1 set to a second. I would like to eventually get up to 3 sets... I have a feeling that is where the sweet spot might be... a 21 minute intense workout.
My god, I saw this when I was 10 years old and never found out its title but it always stayed with me. Thank you so much for sharing.
"Oh yeah? And who made you the literati?" :)

Totally correct, actually. Makefiles are the cruft of ages distilled through a minimum of ten little-understood tools of the ancients, classically employing a minimum of four distinct languages. Some replacements have been popping up of late... scons seems nice.
Yeesh. Why take his personal experience as some kind of denial of your existence? This article wasn't about you. And citing the membership of a subreddit against him is irrecoverably flawed, since niche Internet collectives aggressively select from the extrema.
Unskilled, no, but the trades pay reasonably well. By the time you graduate from college you could have been a licensed electrician, for example. And if you were willing to go into enough debt to pay for a four year degree you could start your own business.
I agree that it is strange, but here is something to think about:

Imagine a world where people are conditioned to believe that they can't make a very bad mistake even if they want to. Objectively they should be able to make this mistake, but if we allow them to, who is at fault? Is it the person who allowed them to make the mistake? I don't think so.

Same idea for libertarians. If we all knew we were going to be in the battle pit, we'd all done hardened armour, but we mostly think we'll be ok, so we don't.
I guess if I never knew about it, I wouldn't be upset.
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Not necessarily. Avionics fail all the time and it's pretty much impossible for pilots to pinpoint a specific incident to cell phone interference. I've had at least one incident where the pilot came in the PA and asked us twice in flight to make sure all electronic devices were off, because they had problems with the instruments.
I am right in the middle of this right now. In my 40s, looking for a job at the moment. My interviews have been decent to downright bizarre. The trend of the interview approach is very curious to me.

I've been looking at a variety of lead engineer/architect positions to development manager. Many of these positions come with some immediate needs, i.e. addressing large systems as part of a business expansion.

I find myself being interviewed by individual engineers asking heavy comp-sci questions, mostly in the academic sense. In several cases, during the interview, the individuals were focused on specific answers to questions that could hold several interpretations. Ambiguity is a great way to assess individuals and critical thinking, but when someone is looking for the answer...well, it doesn't necessarily pan out.

The kicker, after these meetings, is interviewing with the C-level folks who explain how their technical team can't get product out the door, and wonder how I'm going to help to that end. I've been shipping products for multiple years, in many cases longer than the individuals on the teams I'm interviewing with have been in the industry.

What's funny to me is that I'm a guy that prides myself on being current in technology. I'm not that old dude who is resistant to the latest thing -- I really enjoy seeing where the industry is going.

I'd love to get to depth on my experience -- why we built something the way we did, decisions we made, difficulties and how we addressed those -- it's like those questions are irrelevant. At the last interview, I was asked how much I enjoy playing "Dominion". I like Dominion, but really.
https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~vrn20/Waring_longer.html

Here is a good beginners explanation for people that don't quite understand what's going on (like me).
Depends on the model, if they build a model 'from first principles,' whatever that means in history, then they can probably do something interesting. ( Or if they caution themselves enough.) But of course, without actually reading the paper ( ars did link the wrong doi), it is hard to tell what they actually tried to archive or how they build their model.