skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, why are we attacking flat buttons, rounded borders, and non-gradient backgrounds when it's the incestuous nature of ideas in the Valley that's really the problem. I mean, in the article, the guy spends time at the beginning puking flat-rainbows, then goes on (much later) to say the real problem is that we're not being humanitarian or actually useful enough.

While I agree the next best share-your-photo-and-or-chat app is all another sack of shit and you're a shill if you or your company is working on such an app, I don't see why or how it make sense to attack san-serif fonts, plain backgrounds, or flat buttons. Compared to the real concern that the stuff we build doesn't help our users make more money, find meaning, discover long term happiness, or really do anything other than get them addicted to wasting their time, the existence and popularity of flat buttons and thumbnail carousels just don't seem like problems at all.

Another thing, why this obsession with "saying 'fuck you' to the status quo?" This is 2014 and we're all adults (maybe), why are we still so obsessed with this rhetoric of disruption, competition, and being a general nuisance? What happened to the entrepreneur who says stuff like "Oh hey, it looks like those guys in the trucking industry have a lot down time between jobs, let me build this service to help all the trucking companies find stuff to load everywhere so they make more money." Unless you're either our RoR overlord DHH, or the latest incarnation of Dante from DMC, no one builds a successful company by saying "Fuck you" to everyone.
They started as health in 1999 - National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
Once I click "Try It Out" I can't easily get back to the page I was on before -- both the logo and "home" link to a login page.
No affiliation. I am sure my account is not the only one recently created. Merely a coincidence.

I own a DS411J. Really happy with it.
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I have what some would consider strong opinions on health care.

- First, all medical and pharmaceutical companies should be non-profit. Health care is a basic human right, not a privilege reserved for those who can cough up the sick prices for treatment.

- The government should run all medical schools so doctors graduate without debt. You serve for 10 years as payment for the schooling. After this, you are free to pursue other goals.

- Pharmaceutical companies should hold no patents, no trademarks. Companies should be merged so their collective brain trust can solve the world's medical woes. Non-profit company results. R&D payed for by taxpayer money.

I severely dislike for-profit business in general, but more so when medicine is concerned. Human beings always should trump profits. Always. Doctors should become doctors to solve problems, not enrich themselves.

Sadly, I have several medical conditions which need repair, but even with insurance, I cannot afford the co-pays, upfront deductible costs, and other sick for-profit BS I would need to meet in order for my insurance to kick in at 100%. I have seriously toyed with moving overseas simply for tax-payed health care.

I'm in IT (non-profit), make OK money, but I refuse to enrich the for-profit system. I simply do without, because it's sick when your insurance costs equal 1/3 of your paycheck.
If you want to be thick-headed, obnoxious, and obtuse to feel better about yourself, have at it.

Given the love of litigation in this country and the cost of legal services, shitty business practices enshrined in the all-powerful contract can wreak havoc on someone. If a group of people who have not given patronage to a business otherwise with to make known that businesses vile practices and horrible attitude, then more power to them. This isn't bullying, this is a group of folks making damn sure that we know of the true bully here, this hotel and it's abusive business practices.

Is this whole thing a giant feel-good circle-jerk? Sure as shit is. But you know what? It isn't a bunch of jerks ganging up on a defenseless victim. The jackasses running that business brought it upon themselves by treating their customers like shit and making sure to abuse their position in the business-customer relationship.
Thanks for pointing this out . We are fixing this now.
There may have been less people that would call themselves designers, but I would wager it is still larger than the body of folks you and this link have in mind.

Further, and here is where it is exactly survivor bias. You have to show that there weren't other people trying to be designers. That the ones you are focusing on are the ones that were successfully doing it, is what makes it survivor bias.
Because a ton of people ~5 years ago decided to do entirely separate mobile sites instead of responsive designs and we have now ended up with the mess everyone said we'd end up with.
but it shipped. how many projects do each of us have that just sit in a repo somewhere that we never ship because "it's just not ready yet" or because we fear public scrutiny of our code. i'll speak for myself because there's easily a handful of projects that are probably ok to "ship" but that i let stagnate because i worried about this sort of comment.

and honestly, it doesn't matter. the author has no responsibility to you or to anyone to write hardened production-ready code. if his app gets rooted, it's on him, and it's honestly the responsibility of everyone that runs it to determine if that's a risk they're willing to live with.

but the quality of the code has little bearing on the fact that this product didn't exist some while ago and now it does. maybe it'll influence somebody to create a desktop version or to contribute some security fixes, or maybe it'll just spark some design discussion. it shipped and irrespective of its quality, it's making at least one person more productive.
I prefer Font Bomb

http://fontbomb.ilex.ca/
Agreed that this is ugly. This project would make so much more sense if it were developed as a static site. I haven't looked at the codebase, but if it doesn't require a DB, can it not be ported to Jekyll or Pelican or so? Then it would be extremely easy to host it on S3 for peanuts..
This little program walked out on stage. What it did next blew the compiler away.
Marc Andreessen's Ignored Advice To Marissa Mayer: Fire 10,000+ People Now
I'm looking at it on a macbook pro 17". I can't see what's happening in the video because the recorded area is too big and the video plays by default too small. This isn't a mobile issue, and on desktop when going fullscreen the video is blurry.

For me there won't be a "future" release because the landing page itself (the looks of the app) turned me off. The color scheme is garish, at best.

I'm not trying to be rude just give very honest feedback.
Yeah, I do that with French and German especially. For very well-known people and places, the English article is usually good, but if you want something only moderately known, like a French writer who is historically important, but not Voltaire-level famous, there's a good chance the other (in this case French) article will be more complete. Also true for Japanese Wikipedia articles on Japanese people and places. But Google-translated Japanese->English is hard to read, so I unfortunately rarely consult those.

On the other hand, some of the smaller-language Wikipedias can be quite one-sided and nationalist when it comes to local topics, especially disputed history.
this is crap. this describes almost every geek out there and chinese/rtl users who use numbers where they cannot type in their script. Looks like another self-proclaimed snake-oil-salesman-turned-security-guru bull shit.

honestly... frack the internet, you'r giving it too much weight
question: anyone know of where the pronunciation of "!" to be "bang" came from? I always called these exclamation points but see a lot of programmers calling them "bangs." anyone?
Yep, it's a browser vendor's reaction to a developer-tilted monoculture. On repeat.

On the plus side, User agent strings are moving closer to being useless as conditional branches for features. Hopefully, vendor-prefixes won't be far behind.

I guess developers just don't grok abstractions when it comes to the Web. They know their preferred browser, but somehow fall short of abstracting their development to "work on the Web" rather than "Works best in Chrome on an iPhone 5S."
WhatsApp Beta adds support for Android Wear
Gotta love our Visa system.

Oh, you play videogames professionally? Have a Visa!

Oh, you are starting a business? Our economy's bad, but we like it that way. Starting a business might change that. Why don't you learn to play League of Legends or become a fashion model and then try again?
Dunno really - all your stuff seems fairly specialised to particular niches. I'm not a PHP guy and don't understand that stuff too well. But maybe put up some sales pages for your products with "buy for $30, money back guarantee if not happy" or similar and an explanation of what the stuff does in a way that people who need to, for example, "develop on latest PHP and deploy on PHP 5.2" can find you with Google?

Plus blog the odd 'how to' article with links to your stuff again so people can find it?
Related - Steve Yegge's account of his intelligent, exploring, and apparently eventually depressed beta:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/programmers-view-of-...
I think you're being way too generous. They're trashing them because they can and it makes them feel powerful. A virtual vigilante mob without any risk.
In case you're unaware: Font Bomb is a (gimmicky) solution for literally "blowing up" text. Blast.js, in comparison, is a robust text parser for real-world typographic manipulation.
Using important is only going to fix the problem if you have defined a style for that element. For example, if you have not defined a border then the client will still be able to add one.

Most sites use iframe for embeded widgets for this reason.

I think Stripe's checkout doesn't use iframe. They just define every single style with very specific rules. From what I remember.
"Yo" is the pet rock of our generation.
You can see that there has been hacks of synology products, right?
Hang out around Embarcadero Station during evening rush or 4th & King sometime. It's a real mess. I've seen 4 busses running back to back, and some mornings I'll see 5 or more trains backed up. Not to mention the entire system already runs at a snail's pace. I generally bike, and I will usually get there in about 1/2 the time. Compare to Chicago where there's no way I could outrun a CTA bus, let alone the trains.
On the one hand, this interests me because I am a unix user and I hate faxing so, so much.

But on the other hand, this just promotes faxing. Faxing needs to die, immediately. Nobody anywhere should be faxing anything for any reason, ever.

The only reasonable response to (anything to do with faxing) is this:

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0042/9942/products/hatedeat...
Hey! I just made a Terminal.com snapshot with EtherCalc. You can take a look on it at: https://terminal.com/tiny/Kw4sdNWtUu
I think it may be that as a general population, we spend a lot less time with animals and a lot more time only with other humans than we used to.
I recently asked for $30/hr.

I'm based in Italy.

I plan to somewhat raise the rate if the work is enough to allow me to open a "partita IVA".
> If all we're saying is it doesn't pass the "reasonable person" test, then it's not obviously illegal. Some may feel it is reasonable to communicate the terms of the non-disparagement clause you've signed to the members of your party and that it is reasonable to expect the party's sponsor to pay a fine if the members fail to adhere to the rules.

I didn't claim that it was (il)legal or (un)reasonable, only that I wasn't convinced that language of this sort (where you are being held responsible for the actions of people when they are not under your immediate control) was common in contracts.
To continue the analogy, most people chasing gold then did it with little shovels, sifters and human eyes. Today gold is mined with massive machines, extracting invisible specks of dust from hundreds of tons of sand.

The market of visible gold nuggets or quick MVPs may be over-saturated. Gold diggers invest a minimum of thought, equipment, know their chances are getting slimmer and depend mostly on luck.

Very few startup gold diggers can try a different approach, because it's all about starting with minimum capital and preparation. Big capital got mismanaged too often, so there's an over-correction.
Hey Aruggirello - I'm one of the core developers of PHPCI (https://www.phptesting.org)

I really like the sound of #1. Would you consider building a PHPCI plugin for it? I think it would be quite popular, especially the version targeting reporting.
Should have mentioned, we're on Github, of course: https://github.com/block8/phpci
And the survivor bias. Do you really think there were no other folks doing design work back then? Remember, the claim is that design as a whole was more instrumental in social change and whatnot.

For that to be true, every other person doing design back then would have had to have been just as political.
Two quotes from OA

"if you can’t find an honest-to-goodness, human-centric, non-rich-white-person problem to solve, even if in your spare time and without financial reward, then perhaps design is not a field you should be working in."

and

"(For the record, I’d consider designing flyers for your local corner store better than what’s touted as ‘design’ in the Valley.)"

I live in a non-white area in a city a long way from the 'valley'. We have local printers who do flyers rather well. I get plenty through my door advertising everything from pizza to halal Chinese food through spiritual enlightenment.

And we have designers who are non-white as well as designers who are white, and clients who are non-white and clients who are white. There seems to be plenty of good basic communication and design going on.

Has OP read Lee McCormack's work (and not the books about bikes)?
Am I sure? No. That's why I said I didn't know if they were waiting for dispatch, or something else. But I find it implausible that those sorts of delays would cause nearly every departure to be 10+ minutes late at the start of the route, as they seem to in these plots.

Also, I have a lot of direct experience with drivers on certain lines just sleeping in the back of their buses until past the departure time.
It is more profitable. That is why relatively little R&D money goes into finding cures or creating new type of antibiotics.

Pharmaceutical companies have a long history of despicable behavior.

"Pfizer Bribed Nigerian Officials in Fatal Drug Trial, Ex-Employee Claims" (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pfizer-bribed-nigerian-officials...)
> But SLoC is a management metric here. Reducing the total lines of code would upset the applecart.

God... what a horrifying situation. That seems like exactly the opposite of what management should be doing. I get satisfaction when I can refactor copy/paste, unparameterized code with something more concise and easily testable. I hope you find a better place to be soon.
How about people who are injured during the course of risky sports? Or while drunk? Or from tobacco? or fromvovereating? By what moral basis should society be paying for the consequences of such willful risk taking and harm?
If you treat rather than cure, in the case of a transmitted disease such as Hep-C, eventually you have no remaining market share since the disease is in essence eradicated.

In this light it makes sense that Sovaldi costs so much. Gilead needs to get back their research costs and make as much profit as possible while there is a market for their product. A lot of these profits are going back into their research costs for HIV; this is the next disease they are trying to cure.

Even with a genetic non transmittable disease, such as Type 1 diabetes (which I have), there is less profit to be made with a cure and so there is a need to charge more for the product.

Right now I have to pay monthly for 2 forms of insulin, needles, testing supplies, hormones, pain killers. Due to the long term circulatory, liver, and kidney problems that come with this I can look forward to increased costs from additional medications and treatments over time (think blood thinners, ace inhibitors, dialysis). On top of this there is all of the cost for recurring labs and other medical testing that I have to go through on average about once every 3 months.

So yeah; give me one big expensive cure and a healthier future to look forward to and I will take that any day over "managed treatment" and control programs that will still lead to poor life conditions for me in the long run.
I would bet money that this technique is already well known and has been used by certain intelligence agencies.
The pricing should be clear up-front. How does one delete an account?
I agree. It's stupid stupid, hands down.
Homeless Fonts
I'm sorry about this confusion, 278 is total Tumblr employees.

The team responsible for all of Tumblr's perimeter (Perimeter-SRE) is comprised of 6 people (including one manager).

This article is describing the architecture of the portion of our perimeter responsible for blogs serving, one of our more highly trafficked perimeter end-points.
Are you suggesting America join the rest of the first world? Socialist! (shakes wrinkled fist)
I have the same feeling, especially in the mobile world. If you look at the App store and the stats about how mobile devs are making money it appears clearly that most of the apps are failures financially speaking. When you have hundred thousands of free games, you better come up with a deadly addictive smart buzz generating game if you want to make any living out of it!

But then there is also an other point: how people see things. Let's take the "To do list" example. None of my friends and coworker are using the same app, they all are die hard fans of their app. That's what happens when everybody comes with it's vision of how the to do list should be done. You end up with hundreds of app doing the exact same thing and they will almost all find their users, because nobody agrees on what should be the standard. That is inherent to software and human nature, lots of the startups are not creating anything new, just re-implementing their version of something they think must be done differently!

That being said, as the number of startup grows and the number of garbage projects/products grow you see also crazy ambitious and life changing stuff emerging. I think the analogy to the gold rush made by an other guy here is very pertinent! While most people are ending up with a handful of dirt, some rare lucky diggers got trucks full of gold!
The economical dynamic created by the Startups in SV and everywhere else is bringing wealth to the US like crazy. Eventually everybody benefit of it to some extent. But that's only my opinion.
Pet rocks could hypothetically teach someone responsibility. Yo is closer to the eye ball used on that pet rock, useless by itself.
You hit the nail on the head with your assessment of Yo as a "Hello World" app. There's literally nothing else to it. Yo is another example of the tech/startup industry drinking Kool-Aid. Nobody would even take this noob app seriously if it wasn't for the fact that it has already gotten funding. I guess the question is whether or not investors are really nothing more than poker players.
What's at play is the sampling theorem. Using instantaneous shutter, considering the speed of sound is very high*, every part of the image is resonating essentially the same sound; the sampling theorem says you can only perfectly reconstruct up to F/2 hertz if you sample at F frames per second. The rolling shutter introduces regular variations at at much higher frequency, allowing much better sampling.

- Actually, doing a quick calculation shows that at 1khz a 1/2 wavelength is just 17cm. I wonder how precise spatial scene/source information has to be to allow this diversity to contribute significantly to the sampling. If you had a planar source and precisely spaced two objects it shouldn't be too hard to increase spectral resolution. The complementary possibilities are also be interesting -- with precisely laid out N objects and a good spectral resolution for each afforded by the shutter you could perhaps resolve the sound into N distinct sources, allowing to determine the origin of the sound; with precisely known source locations you may be able to extract some object location information.
iOS 8 Beta 5 Out
I was asking about the concern of immigration officer - why should they have this presumption if you're, say, an experienced software engineer or similarly high skilled educated professional. Nobody with these skillset are going to stay somewhere illegally and work [without permit] in "dirty"/heavy job space.
China regulator says Microsoft should not obstruct anti-trust probe
The problem with completely free health care is that there's no incentive to be healthy. In other words if you smoke etc it has no negative impact to you financially. So there has to be some kind of balances to check for things like this. This drug is a very bad example but a lot of the arguments are for free health care and research, and this is one of the big issues with that...
I also was going to contribute to the site - adding locations to San Francisco, and also adding Minneapolis as a city (and adding locations for that).

But I am not creating yet another web login and set of credentials and blah blah blah ... and no, I am not "part of the tribe" (whatever that means).

You shouldn't charge people (in the form of time, energy and mindshare) to give you free content.
Docker sells dotCloud PaaS to CloudContol
We changed the title to the first sentence of the article, which makes this clearer.
There is probably a great deal more you can do than that, even without a diagnosis. A proper diagnosis would empower you to do yet more, even if doctors don't have the answers. You can do a lot to reduce the current load on your liver, to support the liver nutritionally, etc. That would improve your quality of life and extend your window for finding real solutions.
This seems similar to bounceexchange[0], and I think the idea is generally good. Try to grab people's attention at the last minute when they're already planning on leaving your website anyway. Last-ditch effort that can't really upset too much, especially since you already lost them.

Of course it depends on how spammy those popups end-up being, but at least from a couple of sites that I've seen and who use bounce exchange, they do seem to get pretty spammy-looking in my opinion.

What I wonder the most is who would actually pay for this. The 'exit intent technology' as dubbed by bounceexchange can be easily done with a couple of lines of javascript. Perhaps it won't be as sophisticated, but it would achieve very similar effect. We ended up borrowing a small snippet from an open-source project[1] that does this and it's looking fine so far. All it does it checks if the mouse y-coordinates is below a certain threshold and then triggers the modal.

Perhaps the popups themselves and having them pre-designed or having a WYSIWYG editor and integrated without any coding would be a selling point here? (not being sarcastic, genuinely curious about the potential customer base for this).

[0] http://bounceexchange.com/
[1] https://github.com/carlsednaoui/ouibounce