skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice mock-ups, but I disagree with most of the premises here. As far as I can tell, iOS doesn't have much problem with people leaving due to some quibble with the UI's supposed lack of sophistication. I'm sure there are some exceptions among HN readers, but among the very few people in my circles on Android, all cite screen size as their main reason. Japan, a country that's been at the cutting edge of the mobile market for decades, is flocking to the iPhone now that it's available on the big carriers - not what you'd expect if there was widespread perception of iOS as "dumbed down".

The only thing I definitively agree with is that I hope Apple supports multiple profiles for iPad. As someone that uses both Android and iOS pretty regularly, I don't think widgets add much that the Notification shade and Action Center don't handle capably. I mostly hope that iOS 8 is invisible - add some APIs for Siri and hooks into home automation, improve performance.
Scotland (as part of Britain) is not metric as far as I know. The imperial measurement system was created by the British after all. The rest of the EU is metric, but not Britain.
I was going to say this. The bits I've read are understandable, they're just not 100% correct.
What percentage would you say are clueless about CS101 basic things?
To a certain extent both have already happened. Worldwide all science is done in metric and all programming is done in English.
It'll be -40 in hell before that happens
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I'm all for going fully metric but a failed TTIP agreement would actually be something worth losing some space probes over.
> (Such that lumber is sold in lengths of 243.82 cm rather than 8 feet.)

It's interesting that you pick that example. In many cases, the "measurements" for lumber don't actually correspond to the true dimensions of the product purchased. For example, a "2x4" has dimensions of 1 1⁄2 inches x 3 1⁄2 inches[0], rather than 2 inches by 4 inches. So, at least for the example you give, it's not clear to me that converting to metric is a bad idea, since the specifications are already somewhat nonsensical. Granted, a "2x4" does have a standard size.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber#North_American_softwood...
Also in Tennessee in the area around Oak Ridge.
I wonder why this got submitted twice? Different URLs? Could the mods combine them?
As a USian I can testify that there's a lot of irrational opposition here. Disclaimer: I don't have scientific sources on this, just subjective impressions from a lot of little interactions and clues.

The resistance seems to be largely: (a) older people who doubt their own ability to adjust (b) right-wingers who are convinced it's a socialist conspiracy or somesuch (these are people who think international cooperation is taking sovereignty from the US, or something like that - they're a bit incoherent) and (c) politicians perceive it as unpopular and risky to advocate (presumably because of a and b) or just not a vote-getter.

I've occasionally tried to promote SI by using units in casual contexts, but it's perceived as pretentious or obnoxious. The situation is better online as I participate only in fora like this where US obtuseness is not necessarily expected. It is hard to even find products like thermometers and measuring cups (for cooking) with all-SI.
> The Paris-based designer kept the “serious look and feel” and stuck with the shade of grayish green favored by Meeker, a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. But De Cubber introduced a dark background—white, he says, is harder to read on a big conference-room screen—and reduced the number of different colors to create visual consistency. Finally, he got rid of an unnecessary color block at the top and the firm’s logo at the bottom to eliminate clutter and create some breathing space.

I'm sorry, but isn't the usual advice that you use dark text on a light background, because in a presentation room with ambient light, the dark background may wash out?
The point is that the US would be half-assed metric whether it wanted it or not because it's part of the global economy. So your choices are half-assed metric or full on metric. There are no other choices.
Free, because no one would pay for it.
Hint: there are other URL schemes.
It is not nonsensical, 2x4 is the rough sawn size.

Edit: Since I can't reply because of HN's helpful 'You're submitting too fast' notice, I will reply here. You can still buy rough sawn for working on existing structures and for aesthetics when exposed.
You're right in the sense that comparing a logo to a font isn't like-to-like.

However, his point for me is wider than that - if the logo triggers a mental link to something else, even if it's a different concept, that's potentially very bad.

The author is referring in lay terms to the legal concept of trademark distinctiveness (ie, not-being-generic-ness) rather than the concept of conflict between two brands (a different legal principle, albeit one that is clearly important). I don't know whether or not this is deliberate, but either way it's done very well.
It's still a transition that's slowed down. I guess it's a generation thing. People I know still talk about baby birth weight in pounds and ounces and height in feet
Yes. Please stop measuring things like hobbits.
And by doing that, you make sexism a less potent weapon for the algae-eaters to use.
There are ~500M people eligible to request takedowns under the ruling, and if 1% of them ask for one link removed per year that's 14k requests per day. If each request takes 5min then you need 143 people working full time. Which high but doable for Google, but at ~20 employees this would be an enormous burden for DDG.

You are making a mistake in your math here, since a sizeable portion of that 500M people use Google, but probably only a fraction of a percent uses DDG.

In other words, if DDG's usage is currently 1% that of Google (which would surprise me), that's 1.43 people. If you are a search company of 20 people, it seems reasonable to me to have at least a few people working on keeping your index clean.
I don't have primary source info, but from the wiki article I linked, that used to be the case, but is no longer the case. All that matters now is the final cut dimensions.
How so?

Is it no one is talking about new Java features is because Java isn't the hot new web stack or JS library? Or because most big Java users move to new things with the speed of continental drift?
all cite screen size as their main reason.

Just one data point, but it was "keyboard" by far for me. The iOS keyboard is horrible and very difficult to customize so I took a risk and switched at my last update (and FWIW, I'm finding Android streets ahead in terms of functionality). Digging the larger screen size is something that came later for me but would definitely be another reason not to go back for me now.
Some thoughts on a conversion that I don't generally see brought up:

* From an economic standpoint, the US is a big enough market that it is profitable to make things in weird US units, you have 350M people to sell to, most of whom are pretty well off by world standards. It makes sense to make a line catering to them. If businesses can start making a true or good economic argument it will happen more.

* Tooling that exists in standard units seems to be a bit of a red herring: I dislike having to own wrenches in both standard and metric units - a transition to one set would actually be nice. At a larger scale, i.e. manufacturing, it would make sense to start replacing things with metric on regular maintenance cycles. With very long cycle things just having a label change.

* Paper would be a nightmare for a while - A4 and 8.5x11 are just dissimilar enough for it to be weird, and paper has a very long lifetime, dual storage systems are a pain.

* A lot of very low level infrastructure has built in assumptions about standard measure that would take a long time to convert, and some would never convert. For example, a lot of cities put roads so that $X blocks is a mile. The midwest from the air looks like a quilt - thats because all the fields are partitioned by roads which are (generally speaking) a mile apart. Land ownership for rural areas is by the fraction of a section, and by acres - it's built in to how everything is laid out. These aren't impediments but it does create a weirdness. I navigate the backroads and a lot of parts of cities by knowing how far it is and just counting how far over and how far up i need to go subconsciously, and it is an issue.

* Now is a better time than ever for doing this in terms of accessibility to the public. Everyone has a smartphone - apps to do conversion in lots of intuitive ways can ease people's discomfort.

* Car, motorcycle and other mechanical equipment manufacturers should be the people to start the transition. They can all agree to just stop using standard things for the 20XX line of equipment. Or be legislated to do so. Similarly gas stations can be required to change on $DATE, and car manufacturers can just send everyone stickers to put near the gas-hole of cars to say "your tank is $X litres". I think this would help tons. No dual labeling, just bam - it's in litres now.

* Housing things are another weird infrastructure thing: they last for a very long time. Codes are all in inches -- doors must be 36" wide, switches must be placed at 48" and so on. The sudden appearance of a second width and height for new stuff would be bizarre, or building it at 91.44 and 121.92 cm respectively would also be annoying.

I still think it's a good idea, but some thought needs to go into these weird cases that are surprisingly common before a transition would be acceptable. But like I said - everyone carries a computer or two these days, so there is probably a lot of work that could be done to simplify the transition via good apps.
This actually makes sense. Does it matter when they started dissecting links? What matters is when they de indexed. Why rapgenius was given break so early? Does Google think people will not know just because they don't have billion dollar in their pocket? lol.
Here is my version of story:
Board decided to purchase nest and naturally they looked at competitors. They send the message down to webspam team and asked them to check their linking profile and if anything is against the guidelines, take their ass down.

You know there are laws but prosecutors decide whether to file charges or not or a police decide whether to pull over or not if the car is driving 8-9mph more than the speed limit. Be polite to them, you can get away or get less penalty. Show aggression to them, you will get charged for much more things than you were initially approached for. Sometimes you dont even know what that means. Once I got a traffic citation after making a wrong U-turn and since I was "showing attitude", I got citation for having foreign materials on my liscense plate?? LOL

Of course attitude= money in this context
And 'Aline' is an actual woman's name, at least in France.
20 years ago, people would have asked what HD is :)
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I've been using this for about 6 months in various parts of the globe and have been very happy. If there is a donate button on their site (my Deutsch language is lacking) I would like to know.
It doesn't matter how nice they are. It's still pretty surreal to be talking to them about your laundry delivery app. At that point, you realize how absurd your life has become, and give up any hope of being taken seriously.
I am not sure if this fully answers your questions, but one of the places where unit conversions happens a lot when doing customary unit engineering calculations is dealing with various constants/properties. For example, you might get the specific heat capacity of some material in terms of gallons, but you're dealing with ounces of fluid, and so you stick a conversion in there. It's certainly kind of niche, but it's really annoying to deal with.

But agreed on the half-assed metrification. I'm from Canada. I still buy pop and beer in 355ml cans, 591ml coke bottles, 600ml pepsi bottles, and 2L big bottles. My wood is still sized in inches (or nominal inches).

(I fully support SI though. In theory, I no longer need to memorize a whole set of conversion constants. In practice, I live in Canada, so I still need them).
True! Unfortunately it's sometimes unavoidable. The specific case I was remembering involved writing a qdisc... it was actually more complex to move that out of the kernel via nf_queue than to just do it in-kernel. (At least some parts of it.)
I think that Limited free plan is good idea. I need to talk about this with my co-founders.
Julian Assange: Antihero for anti-millennials
In the EU, when we had to change from national currencies to Euro, the outcry was big -- because everybody was only able to "measure" money in the old currency. That even exactly this currency changed over the past decades very much, seemed to be not in the minds.

I guess, there are still people out there, which recalculate into Francs or Marks, or whatsoever -- but I think most Europeans have adapted.

So, when "old Europe" can change -- why not "modern USA"?
And really, the Irish shouldn't be expected to change their phrasing because a bunch of fools from Tennessee started a terrorist organization that appropriated the word "clan". Nor should they assume all visitors are from the US.
Probably a host of stuff from one less NASA orbiter crashing, down to not having the sticker on millions of car B pillars printed with imperial and metric tyre pressures.

There are lots of downsides, it's interesting you give a construction example; in the UK we have houses built from imperial bricks. Metric bricks aren't the same size, but a conveniently round number in millimetres. A house I'm buying was built in imperial bricks and someone with not quite enough sense has filled in some old doorways with metric bricks.

The costs of maintaining different systems aren't large but accumulate indefinitely, the cost to switch is finite.
I don't see how a single instance of Amazon misusing their monopoly power, equates to price rises across the board. So far I imagine the overall affect of Amazon has been to reduce consumer prices.
You could also just request access for the Google account you're using.
Or, IOW, can make assesments based on what they know, without necessarily having some kind of forensic level or mathematical level proof.

Which is an essential skill in real life (even in court actually). Seems like a lot of people, especially programmers, conflate real life discussions with theorem proving.
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And I bet you'd be real good at reading those stock market statements.
It's not proportional, but the equation for going from one to another is that of a line.

I would think this would be called linear, but that mean something more specific?
Also less than half the price of Arnold and VRay now...

It's possible they were hemorrhaging money thanks to the Arnold and VRay competition over the past few years.

Looks like ILM are being "coerced" into using PRMan again from what I hear...

But either way, it sounds like either they're willing to take a hit on the profits, or they're expecting to make up for it from renderfarm expansions...
It bothers me when I see statements like '10x faster' ...10x faster than what? Hand coding? Using some other library?
Gov. Kitzhaber seeks lawsuit over Cover Oregon health exchange
There's nothing to that anecdote other than a company getting mad about exposing defects in a product and their lawyer making a nasty phone call.

The CFAA is vague and over-broad, you won't get any disagreement from me on that. Applying it in a case involving a device you bought and own is totally inconsistent with traditional norms of private property. But those are edge cases. The actual prosecutions people get up in arms about aren't edge cases. They pertain to conduct that clearly violates the norms of trespassing on private property, and hackers justify their actions by saying that those norms shouldn't apply to digital networks. Juries, unsurprisingly, don't buy that. So hackers and the broader tech community call them "ignorant."
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I am not sure, if the paper sizes (A4, ...) are belonging to the metric system ... but of course, here a standardization would be nice. At least software producers seem to know (most of them) now, that there are also other formats as the "standard US formats".
Well, the Soyuz does depend on retro-rockets to cushion the final impact. If those don't fire, it's not going to be a soft landing. If I recall correctly, that did happen on one of the Soyuz landings, resulting in some broken teeth from the impact.
Saved the best two for last...
I agree. When I first started watching him I thought he was nervous but after seeing him on increasingly larger, and more important stages I think it's just his mannerisms that give that impression. Dude can handle himself.
Here's some more info about Chrome profiles for whoever is interested (http://www.googlegooru.com/how-to-create-google-chrome-profi...). Like most others have said, I have three Chrome profiles on every computer that I use. It's perfect for maintaining your workflow across multiple devices, as you can open up the same tabs at home that you had open at work.
This reminds me of David Eppstein's fantastic PADS library [1] of algorithms implemented in Python.

[1]: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/PADS/
Digit recognition in F# with k-nearest neighbours
We will add support to Foundation 5 ASAP
Google doesn't help me find things on eBay or Amazon. Both those sites have terrible site searches, although for dofferent reasons.

For example, searching eBay for "16 GB MicroSD cards" and then sorting by price returns a huge list of people selling a choice of an adapter for micro-SD to SD for 99pence or a MicroSD card for £X. Thus, sorting hy price just returns the proce for the adapter card (which I am not interested in).

Searching Amazon is a hideous experience where results are stuff with sometimes hundreds of irrelevant near duplicate results with no way to rapidly jump past them.

One way Blekko or DDG or Bing could earn my undying love is by making site specific search better. I would gladly click on result links even if you presented me with affiliate links.
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A lot of people overplay the defenders of "gender diversity" to look cooler/more progressive to their group (which sometimes is ironically motivated by trying to get laid).
> Irish are catholic not because religion is actually something positive, but because it's a contrast with the British church, and part of their cultural identity.

Hmmm, I think you'll find that Catholicism is older than the Church of England (not that this relates to the metric system in any way). The English changed from being Catholic to Church of England during Henry VIII's reign. The Irish largely remained Catholic.
No, I am equating the profitability of the VC with the profitability on average, of the individual ventures they invest in. That is, the mean profit of the individual ventures.

If the VC is profitable, then the average venture is profitable, and therefore, on average, they have a positive impact on the markets they are involved in.

EDIT: in case it wasn't clear, every use of "average" by me refers to the mean, not median. So 10% vs 90% doesn't matter as long as the 10% is high enough.
Surely they would not be using a resistive touch screen for a dragon capsule? A modern (or enhanced) capacitive touch screen requires something like a human finger to act as a conductor for operation. That is how every modern smartphone and tablet work and why they suck with gloves on.
>Such information would quickly become outdated, which is dangerous if they don't release updated stats often.

Nothing stops them from releasing it once a year.

It's not like people grow older more than a year each year.
"Real" design?

No true scotsman.
For a function to be a linear transform it needs two properties[1]:

1. F(c1 + c2) = F(c1) + F(c2)
2. F(k*c1) = k*F(c1)

Converting from Celsius->Fahrenheit (or vice versa) is does not have these properties.

F(c) = 9/5 * c + 32

F(c1 + c2) = 9/5 * (c1 + c2) + 32
F(c1) + F(c2) = (9/5 * c1 + 32) + (9/5 * c2 + 32) = 9/5 * (c1 + c2) + 64

F(k*c1) = 9/5 * (k*c1) + 32
k*F(c1) = k * (9/5 * c1 + 32) = 9/5 * (k*c1) + k*32

Admittedly, I'm not entirely sure why being a non-linear transform gets the OP so riled up.

[1]http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LinearTransformation.html
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It's not like America is the only country that will have ever transitioned. Many other countries have gone through all those issues without much complaint. It's not some untested experimental process being advocated.

It's not like the US is going to be using weird-arse inches, furlongs, horses and stones forever.
While you are at can you change the date format as well? DD/MM/YYYY instead of MM/DD/YYYY (US). It should go from small to big. The other way around makes my head hurts every time.
In the interests of giving back, and not being a coder, please find below my quick and dirty re-write of the CEO's intro. Note that this has not been copy-hacked or made more sales-y, I've just tried to fix the minor issues with the English. Hope it helps!

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How in less than a year we gained more than 12.000 customers from all over the world.

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Among our customers you will find small companies and startups, as well as big guys from Silicon Valley and from the Fortune 500 list. To ensure the best service for them and efficient design for us, we need appropriate tools. That’s why we decided to create our own app, which could be used by our team on a day to day basis. And suddenly one of us asked, why not to share it with all of you? So here it is, a complete tool which implements our experience & know-how in the design of sexy interfaces and web pages.

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