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I'm not sure that font choices are entirely subjective. Legibility matters, and it's not impossible that better legibility means fewer bugs and less eye/brain strain.

It would be cool if there was objective research into this. (I don't know of any, but I haven't tried searching very hard.)

I can't look at M+ without seeing M+. With other fonts - I'm old-fashioned and like Menlo, but I've tried many others - all I see is code.
I love how everyone has their favorite Classical Mechanics text and how they are almost all very different, though Goldstein and Marion almost always top the lists.

I learned from a less established text by Taylor: http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Mechanics-John-R-Taylor/dp/1...

Looks unavailable, but a PDF is very clearly the second result on Google for "Classical Mechanics Taylor" so it may be a good option for the tight budget :)
I worked at a game company where "they" brought in someone to teach us to game-ify our work. We rejected it during the meeting. We already make games for a living, we don't need to add another layer of gaming on top of that.

The basic concept of competition WITHIN the company is counterproductive to a creative workplace. We should ALL be working TOGETHER to make the best product. We have plenty of competitors outside the building, don't need to add to the list.
:) I meant to say that you let run for longer than 1024 and can actually read.

Also, my ultimate point is that reading text at a normal size that goes longer than 1024 pixels before wrapping isn't exactly pleasant.
Yeah, DejaVu Sans Mono is perfect, though sometimes I also use the new Source Code Pro and the old ProggyCleanTT (like when I'm working for several hours and my eyes need something more sharp).
Yeah. A major reason null is called the "billion dollar mistake" is that once you finally do get a NullPointerException (or the like), it can take a huge amount of time to track down where the null value originated.

If you take the head of an empty list in Haskell, you get an exception right away. Not a poisoning of the well, like you do in so many other languages.

That's absolutely a benefit of Haskell worth touting.
I think a lot of people here are making too much out of the fact that there's no extradition treaty with the Maldives. An extradition treaty would simply mean that they were more or less obligated to extradite the hacker if the US requested (and vice-versa for the US).

But the Maldives are a sovereign nation--if they are OK with the US taking him into custody, their government is free to let that happen, treaty or not. The only thing which would indicate wrongdoing is if the Maldives filed a protest against the US for the abduction (suggesting it wasn't complicit).
Maybe rather than OCR, just keep the pictures - confirmation then is only required to verify that the pictures are legible. Maybe some effort can be put into triangulating an exact indoor location for each pic, or the order in which patients were visited.
The title is horribly misleading. I think that the research article has a better title: “From the “Brazuca” ball to Octahedral Fullerenes: Their Construction and Classiﬁcation”

In fullerenes, all the molecular bounds have (almost) the same length. It’s very strange that in the new molecule the length of the bounds are very different. Is this molecule really stable? Is this molecule possible?? Perhaps this is not a molecule, but only a mathematical solid.
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This will probably eventually by TORs undoing. Eventually there will be a major media event and there will be people beating the drums for action. By definition many of the people with legitimate uses of TOR will not be able to say anything since doing so publicly would defeat the purpose. And the TOR network may still exist after congress eventually passes legislation or a federal agency suddenly discovers its right to regulate TOR deep in its charter. But the organization would be gone and distributing/using TOR in the US could be a crime.

The most useful thing in keeping TOR alive would be for the community to continue to show how important something like SecureDrop is in the face of global electronic surveillance. That way any attack on TOR is an attack on free speech. All the comments on how the lawyer is so stupid and doesn't understand technology misses that the people that may ultimately decide the fate of TOR also probably don't understand technology.
That's not the issue. Let's say Alice shares a link to a Drive doc with Bob, https://drive/secretlink. If that document has an embedded link to Eve's website, http://some/thirdparty, and Bob clicks the link, then Eve (as the administrator of the third-party site) will see the HTTP Referer as https://drive/secretlink, and she will be able to access Alice's document.
In the early eighties there was a TV show on German network television and I remember them presenting this puzzle, and I figured out the "cheat solution" as a kid.

It was this awesome TV game show that consisted entirely of Martin Gardner-style puzzles and other fiendish physics/biology puzzles, and contestants who were all scientists. Does anyone by any chance remember the name of this German TV show? I would really like to look up more information about it! It deserves to be remembered.
>This is news? Come on! You give anyone a link to your data and you expect security!

Yes. I expect security from my bank, from my insurance company, from state agencies, from my email provider, etc. I surely don't expect them to leak my data, and if they do, cause of a bug or incompetence, I want them to fix it.

And I want to be informed when they have breaches or fail to secure my data.

>Hello! If I gave folk a key to my house I doubt I'll have any my A/V equipment or computers when I come back after a long weekend.

People hire babysitters, cleaning stuff etc, give them the key to their house, and expect to have their A/V equipment when the come back.

If a cleaning person is reckless, and e.g leaves the door unlocked when he leaves, or a babysitter brings her pals over and have a party with my stuff, they get fired and/or sued, and people hire a more trusty person. Businesses that want to keep our private data should be kept to the same, or actually much higher, standards.

The "helloooo, is this news, of course it's unsafe, whaddaya expected" etc attitude doesn't help raise the bar on data safety.
However, if you want your Computer Science majors to be able to create [...] they need to learn C/C++.

It doesn't have to be the first language introduced. It should be second. My other comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8004582

CS is about understanding the underlying models and concepts rather than a language.

Programming Language implementations are exploratory tools critical to understanding those underlying models and concepts. Indeed, in my experience the "CS is about understanding the concepts" logic is more often than not used as an excuse NOT to teach C.
Of course, the "impact factor" of the journal also counts, however it is gamed too. For instance there are publishers which artificially increase the impact factors of their journals by requesting that authors of accepted papers cite a few articles recently published in their journal.

Now, I would like to come back to the "article" you cite. Let me get this straight from the beginning: this text (by John Bohannon) is a piece of shit. Let me explain why:

The article aim to compare open access journals and closed access ones.
The method that is used for that purpose is quite remarkable.
It consists in sending a paper of very poor quality with wrong results in it to many gold open access journals (this means that there are what is called "Author Processing Charge": the authors pay the journal to publish), and to see how many of those will accept the paper.
What happens is that a bit more than half of them accept the paper with, of course, not a single sign of peer-review happening.
The author then conclude that open access journals are for the major part of poor quality, implying that they are worse than "traditional journals".
This conclusion is eminently ridiculous.

First, if you want to compare open access and closed access journals, you also need to actually test the closed access journals.
You can't just assume that they are good, especially when it's implied and not a single reason to think so is given (trust me it could be hard in many cases).

Second, the method makes no sense. No researchers sends his or her paper to unknown journals.
When a paper is submitted to a journal, the journal is chosen depending on at least two criteria: on one side its prestige, because the more prestigious, the more read, and the goal of an academics is of course to be read by the other researchers in his domain;
on the other side, for the seriousness of the journal (which is tacitly known in its academic community), because the peer-review process is very important for the authors (no academics like to have a paper published and then discover that there is a mistake in it).
Amusingly, this is something that scientific news magazine such as Nature and Science are not that good at.

Third, the real conclusion of the poorly carried experiment that the author makes is that the bibliometrics pressure on researcher (“publish or perish”) coupled to their desirable and natural wish to be more widely read, and thus to publish in open access journals, gave birth to an unhealthy publication business that is harmful to research and science (I recall that the author only experimented with authors-pay open access journal, calling it simple "open access", as if he was, strangely, paid by publishers lobby to increase the already existing confusion between gold open access (where authors pay) and open access, which exists in many different models).

To me, the real solution to all these problem lies in Diamond Open Access and Open Peer-Review.
To an extent. Sites like bostonglobe (and google plus) take it to give more columns the wider you are.

This is no different than how newspapers are done. Just because you have a giant piece of paper doesn't mean you should let the text flow completely across it.
You seem to be conflating competitive games with using game mechanics to achieve a result. Gamification goes well beyond points, badges and leaderboards and helps managers tap into intrinsic motivators (like personal satisfaction) to achieve results. Done poorly, its all PBL all day and doesn't work for the reasons you've outlined. I think its fair to say that "bad gamification" doesn't work, but its a big leap to toss out the entire field based on the narrow selection of "bad execution" that you use in your example.
The real reason is that one of the standard bootstrap layout examples was used. The 'bootstrapped' web today is extraordinarily boring. It is the same big banner followed by striped two column grid again and again and again.
I'm the first author of this piece, happy to answer any questions. Much of my previous research on re-identification (http://33bits.org/about/) has been discussed on Hacker News.
Not guaranteed.

I'm aware of a story where a local credit union assigned account numbers strictly sequentially. A customer setting up direct-withdrawal typo'd their account number by omitting a digit, i.e. their acccount number was '12345' and they entered '1234'.

Since the numbers are sequential, '1234' happened to exist. For about a year, the company in question cheerfully direct-withdrew from the inappropriate account, and the original owner of '1234' never noticed, never complained, or had their complaints ignored. To my knowledge, the error was never rectified.

End of the day, direct-draft is a badly-architected system from a security standpoint.
I agree with you for the most part, but I still think there is value in understanding certain motivating elements of different genres of games, from RPGs to trivia. I think in many cases we can leverage these learning's in workplace activities.

But just slapping some badges on a web profile and putting people in competition based on their everyday work activities is not very productive.
>The elephant in the room is that gamification does not work in the workplace. Work, a place where we spend most of our time and energy in our entire lives, is something most people want to be meaningful and important—treating it like a game is the opposite of purposeful.

Here's a cool, PROFESSIONAL, gamification strategy:

Do something better, more useful: get PAID more.
One theory is that if people aren't forced to expand the economy via polluting methods of producing just to make enough money to live, some of the climate change alleged to be caused in part by that industrial activity will be ameliorated.
I'd rather have the opportunity to re-test and re-deploy one component at a time than be forced to do "big bang upgrades".

In the long run I hope we start seeing distros or tools targeted specifically at building minimal Docker images. E.g. if I'm going to deploy a Ruby based web app in Docker, the stuff I need present in the container is _very_ limited.
Exactly what I was thinking of, brilliant!
No, if your environment is standardized and stripped down you can run something that is very close to prod in your dev environment.

Note docker isn't the only answer for this, for instance, you can use ordinary VMs with vagrant, but docker does it at ludicrous speed.
The conceptual leap that I missed initially is the use of volumes, either mapped to data containers or to directories on the host system. These allow the persistent data used by the application in the container to live on, and for the container itself to be seen as immutable and easily replaceable.
>"only people who have the link AND a google account for your company"

I'm not on my work computer, but I can't remember there ever being an option for only let people with a company google account see this. If that was the case, why wouldn't that just be on by default (which I would argue is everyone's expected behavior on corporate google drive).
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I'm developing my first Android application and am beginning to work on the interface in earnest.

Can anyone recommend some good tutorials or guides for producing elegant layouts that respond well to different screen sizes? I understand the basic mechanics and laid out in the dev guides, but I'm a bit lots when it comes to putting it all together elegantly.
> That means no lazy loading of code.

And then you lose the main advantage of requirejs over browserify.

People came up with techniques to "lazy load" angular components,but as some point one has to ask,is all that complexity worth the effort?
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Sorry from the movie I cannot see what's the point. Very slick design, nice documentary. Yet, 4 years into the project already and there no implications at all of the research ... There's not breakthrough there's nothing of impact.
This is shocking ... he even got project money for the blue brain project (same goal) and did not deliver. Now he got the brain project (and won't deliver as well I guess). Markram is amazing in getting funding!!!

I agree with you on the farmrs part :)
As I write this the parent comment is sitting at 0 points (downvoted by 1). Given that everyone here is looking for the "next big thing" and given that I expressed a potential market for a product which doesn't exist, I would think people might say "impractical" or "too limited a market" But I don't get the person with enough karma to down vote, doing so without a comment. I would love to know what they were thinking.
Yeah, but that was before 9/11, and since then we've won so cle--oh. Well fuck.
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Are we royally screwing up two-factor authentication?
This never made sense to me, why was this behavior defined this way and why has no browser challenged it? A more rational rule would be something like "only send header if the referer url is http, or if the referer and destination have exact match hosts"
Correct, which violates least surprise and is almost certainly not intended behavior.

However, the meta-point rishabhsagar touches on is that with an authentication-free access model, this is but one of possibly many potential failure modes. The risk surface is undefined size, but probably larger than your IT professionals are comfortable with.
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Agreed, gamification might be a bad idea in a work context (where it's imposed on people who are competing with each other), but I think it's still a really useful tool for individuals who need a little extra motivation. I usually classify myself as a person who hates exercise, especially cardio, but I'm playing Zombies Run right now and it's great. I find myself doing more than the workouts require to get the extra bonuses/achievements. Meanwhile my free weights (the only exercise I've voluntarily done, previous to this) are still gathering dust in my closet. (Anyone know a good weight training game? :))
Regardless of this particular issue, it's ironic that people think their Google docs are private.

Doesn't Google already have the right to parse your documents in Drive to show you ads?

They just recently pledged to stop parsing the paid Google Apps for Business emails to build ad preferences to show on other Google properties like YouTube.

I wonder if they're already scanning documents, and if we'd even know unless they were forced to stop making misleading statements acknowledge it in a court case like in the lawsuit over ad profiling students email in Google Apps for Education.

Not to mention that Schidmt or Nadella could have read your email or seen your company docs this morning and traded stocks based on them and Google/Microsoft are not even legally obliged to inform you that it happened.
Haven't looked into the product yet, but I have to say the web page itself is one of the most beautiful I've seen, from a pure aesthetic standpoint- No dumb animation, uncluttered, distinctive, consistent theming with appropriate use of color, full use of available viewport space, thumbs up to the designer!
We are still trying to figure it out. Right now we do both.
We have people who come to buy the scrolls as a gift. And some other people really love the analytics and backup thing.
This buzz around Yo app is becoming really annoying.
You have it confused. That is when we're talking about clearly personal / subjective issues (e.g "Banana is the best ice cream flavor", "Obama is the perfect president", etc). This is not the case here.

An article saying "Medicinal drug X is better" (meant as a personal opinion) is not "good writing style". It's downright misleading.

And nobody said he has to do it for "every sentence". A clear "Here's why I think M+ is the best programming font" on the beginning would be enough.
I've tried different programming fonts, and finally settled on the old Source Code Pro font. I don't like overly narrow font. It's just a personal preference. There's no "best" in subjective personal taste.
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Looks like it only applies to a "Preview" feature, so I imagine they're already parsing the contents to render the preview and are either adding a redirect or a no-follow attribute.

Native-native docs wouldn't have a referrer because they wouldn't be rendered by the browser, so links would be a direct hop.
It's called humor.
It's a bloody terrible algorithm from the London maps I've seen - "most beautiful" takes you down Kingsway (which is utilitarian at best); "most quiet" takes you across the Millennium Bridge (extremely busy footbridge).
> It would be nice to set the anti-tax-and-spend libertarians against the military budget, but they don't seem interested.

Of all the people you pick to blame here, you pick... the libertarians? Really? Really? The guys that have Ron Paul as their spokesman? You know, the guy that has spoken out every chance he gets about military spending and the cost of wars.
Just randomly looked up one of the publications. It's not my area, so I can't talk about the meat of the paper itself, but what does the discussion section have to do with anything?

http://waset.org/publications/11354/applying-half-circle-fuz...
I know that most soy sauces have wheat in them.

Maybe once I've had more time post-diagnosis, I'll trust salad bars again, but shortly after my biopsy confirmed that I have celiac, I ate at a salad bar and was sick for days.

Far more insidious and scary are lentils, which should be fine, but are often processed with barley, or anything in the bulk section of the grocery store. My wallet certainly wishes that I could buy from bulk bins again.
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I would say the metric, at least in fields with a lot of money, is actually the amount of funding you bring in. Of course, publication record has a big influence on that, too.
No message? No image? No thanks.
Founder of Eventjoy here. We unbundled some of the core experience at Eventjoy to roll this out as a separate product. Would love any feedback.
It's nice to have logically independent code bases on separate environments just so that they don't step over each other toes with dependencies etc. and can be moved around easily.
Are you sure you want to spend your life catering to corruption? It seems better to resist corruption than to profit from it, both for your own personal life and for the lives of those your product would be influencing.

Someone's 3rd party tool is hard to game and manipulate, but something home grown can be screwed around with so the "right" people win, both preselected peons and preselected lower level mgrs. Don't sell an incorruptible black box, nobody wants that. Sell a toolkit, something where you can pick the winners ahead of time and then generate the "proof" you were correct.

On one hand, this is something people clearly want, and YC's mantra is "make something people want." On the other hand, your life would be subservient. Indeed, you'll be directly subservient in that you'll be answering to the will of those who are corrupt, and indirectly subservient in that you'll be perpetuating corrupt systems.
"Retina Displays"

So I guess it looks bad on high resolution screens that aren't on apple devices? Why do people even use this term when not referencing magical apple lingo?
Why is it so ridiculous? It's pretty cheap these days.
Thanks Jon! Will definitely do
I pointed that out in a thread about patents once when a poster said we should poison the water in East Texas. I pointed out that no one ever says we should poison the water in Hollywood despite their repeated attacks on the internet, so why the double standard?

The response was "he didn't say to poison all of you, just East Texas!" as if I shouldn't be offended because I lived (at the time) in San Antonio.

facepalm
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