skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can drop api28.webovernet.com and the other site into your browser to see where they lead, but we’ll save you the suspense: they are actually redirects for the API for a company called Similar Web, which is one of many companies doing this kind of tracking, and selling the data so other companies can spy on what their competitors are doing.

Is that part of SimilarWeb Pro? It's not clear from the website how their service could be used to monitor the web client traffic of specific companies. An independent reference on the quoted claim would be helpful.
That's a rather impressive observation as there were only a few comments at the time you posted this and none of those are "idiotic" or "hateful".
This is a key point. While I might disagree with the parent's phrasing of the issue, we are in a workforce that's increasingly 'workaholic' (as you said), prides itself on working late nights and weekends, yet we still hold all the same social pressures of finding mates -- at this rate, it's basically inevitable that at some point the main place to arrange these sorts of things will be the workplace. That doesn't mean literal harassment is ok by any stretch of the imagination of course, but we should really be mindful of how we're defining these social 'rules' in light of our changing social climate...

To view it from a slightly different perspective, just look to Japan and their current problems with an increasingly disinterested/romantically-jaded population -- their entire culture is based around their work ethic, and now their population rates are dropping: http://theweek.com/article/index/254923/everything-you-need-...
Four cores is really not that attractive... also a lack of ECC with the amount of ram systems have today is starting to seem irresponsible. The probability of getting bitflips is macroscopic.
A question that must be answered by every single modern developer, for that is what (a majority of them) are doing ..

Visual Studio, C#, Mono .. these are all big harnesses, keeping the resources tied to the rock.
Because sex doesn't sell...
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That sounds insanely exciting. As a student entering college this fall, this is my new most anticipated activity for the year.
Rare is not the same as unimportant.

And it's exactly because the people engaging in this behavior know and disregard the "rules of engagement" that it's important to let them know that they will have more to lose.

And the way you do that is by stating it publicly, making YC itself accountable to the public and forcing them to actually act. That way, it's harder for such investors to convince themselves that when push comes to shove, YC wouldn't actually do anything.
That's a really interesting idea, that had never occured to me.

Probably because I'm pretty aware of the close-doors button actually looking like >|< on typical elevators. The vertical line, I guess, represents the opening.

See for instance https://www.google.com/search?q=elevator+close+button&tbm=is....
But it solves the problem of you, after some growth, having received several distinct v4/24s, instead of one huge v6/64...
Some time ago I was stunned discovering how many Windows users had no idea that double-clicking [-] closes the window. I bet that was the main reason for introducing separate close button.
X closes the window not the application. The only intuition you need is to realise that window !== application.
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"It is more important to allow a useful feature than to
prevent every misuse."

That's from his "Design Support Rules" section early on in the paper. I am still going through the paper, but this seems like a good rule and a reason why pointers are still allowed despite the protestations of people who hate C++. Sure, you can get into a pickle with them but that's not the language's fault.

Of course, there has been the rule "use references where you can, pointers where only absolutely necessary" but it's a difficult habit to break...
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"Great, let's turn people into puritan asexual blobs of political correctness. What a glorious goal!"

"This 'ugly gender problem' is so blown out of proportion."

I stand by my comment. Those comments are hateful and idiotic.
> I don't think there is much relevance in the Japanese argument.

I wouldn't discount it; one instance where I'm pretty sure it was taken into account is the design of checkboxes (HTML and otherwise). At least in Germany a checkbox on paper would be marked with an x to represent true - but that would be utterly confusing to a Japanese person.
Nothing is more efficient than, like me, frequently replying to email with "r" and typing my response. That which I'm replying to is directly above, so I'm not sure I follow what you are looking for.

I don't know that this extension purports to "fix" reply. I don't recall Gmail's reply ever working much differently than it does -- an inline textarea under the thread. Unclear what you are gaining from shift-click replying. Anything but inane... and hardly anything near one of the worst UIs... very revisionist.
Well, in Skype (and Windows applications in general) there is a MINIMIZE button for that, next to X and maximize. Why make X also act as minimize?
I think the point being made is that ship cycles are very different between B2C and B2B. I've experienced both (and to be clear I love the idea of frequent small releases) but in a B2B scenario multiple daily releases are simply not possible as you cannot use your customers as testers, I can assure you if you try contracts will be terminated. We ship every two weeks and that has taken a huge effort on our part to help our customers understand the value of a frequent ship cycle. On the flip side I think you can do this in a b2c environment (with appropriate quality controls of course) providing you understand the revenue risks if something is shipped poorly (as you mention with FB and Etsy), at that stage it's pure business priority trade off.
Ask HN: Is a Chromebook suitable for web development?
I'm a LAMP/Drupal/Symfony developer - I also do some front end development using Sass/Compass and slowly getting into using tools such as Gulp, Bower etc.

My main workstation is a Macbook Pro but I'm looking at picking up a Chromebook that I can stick in my bag and have with my at all times. I'd be keen to use it for some development time and wondering what the options are there for it? What tools are available - can I compile Sass files on a Chromebook? Can I run PHP and MySQL on it?

Any advice would be greatly welcomed!
Thanks, I also love mason jars. I hate to point it out, but isn't that Cuppow product also made of ambiguously "BPA Free" plastic? Better than an all plastic container anyway.
Hey! I suspected you guys did that. It's not ULink though or anything fancy like that right?

I've been following Supernauts since you released in December. PM me.
I find your comment pretty hateful and idiotic...
In case of Spotify, that window is the application. And the only window that the application has. Hitting X in that window should quit the application IMO.
I also don't get it. I think models (men/women) on stock photo's don't represent reality. To me the picture looks very unnatural.

One of the sources of sexual harassment is the very unnatural image of men/women created by unnatural (movie) pictures. Not everybody is looking very slim. Not everybody is looking fresh all day. Not everybody likes to have sex every moment at the day. Not everybody likes sexual harassment...

So in the context of this article they should have gone for a more natural picture. Or just a picture of Jessica (http://cdn.ycombinator.com/images/partners/jessica-a1fd7421....).
Long time ago I bought a ThinkPad laptop with a preinstalled Linux distribution that didn't fully support the hardware installed. I should have contacted the seller about it too.
Why? What makes that comment hateful or idiotic. It's a perfectly valid opinion albeit expressed in a less than tactful way. I'll be the first to admit that some opinions do make people sound hateful or idiotic but you're putting that bar extremely low. Either way I prefer people sharing their honest potentially objectionable opinions over righteous political correctness. At least in the former case you can have a discussion with them and possibly change their views on the topic.
Here in the UK I see jobs being advertised in Birmingham for big money for C# but C++ is always lower.

It is a pity. I did do some C# work but preferred writing C++ hence I do it as a day job now (and a sideline for fun too!).

Even Java jobs are offered for more than C++.
Unless I'm mistaken, the fish head upstream to die. None of them will encounter the cannon twice, unless the same river has multiple dams on it.
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It depends on the version of the console. Japanese Playstation Portable and Vita have the O button as "accept" - but I have noticed that not all games respect that. European games played on a Japanese Vita will use X for accept, but on the Playstation Portable most games will use the system settings, rather than their own(there were exceptions, however).
Bioengineering researcher here, who works mostly on analysis of vascular imaging.

Imaging in general is a field in medicine of increasingly growing importance - and as the article suggests its increasingly limited by resolution of the images. I personally see patient-specific diagnostics from image processing to be one of the most promising medical advances to expect in the coming decades. Image resolution is a major thing holding this back, it probably needs to improve ~2-5X for many applications.

This kind of thing is exciting, but probably at least a decade from clinical use, if at all from this particular technique. Use in research is itself quite interesting in at, at least to my knowledge, microvessels can only be observed by micro-dissection, which disturbs the tissue.

Being able to better observe microvessels clinically could have pretty big implications for heart attacks, strokes, cancers, and kidney functions.

The experiment (from the paper) was done on a in vitro (removed) pig heart (and kidneys, reported in the paper but not Medium article). In vitro studies often give much better images than in vivo because there is less

I am sceptical of the ability to retrieve the injected gallium, although I am not terribly familiar with its properties. I believe it is a quite rare and expensive metal, and the volumes needed for this would be small but not insignificant (maybe 20mL/ organ imaged?). I could see retrieving it being an issue, and particularly in the heart or brain, blood flow would need to be restored within a few minutes.

Iodine contrast agent, which this technique is compared against, is pretty nasty stuff. It gets filtered out by the kidneys, and is toxic to them. If anything, there is a movement to get away from contrast-based CT imaging of vessels and towards MRI or ultrasound, where contrast isn't required.
Where you put a tick, you can put a cross?
Here is a recent blog post by codestarter, where they describe the process and list some resources for making a dev machine out of a Chromebook: http://blog.codestarter.org/post/93985346780/how-we-turn-199... . It was featured on HN not long ago, some comments might be useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8143844 .
Similar to how the salmon "learned" to swim back to where they were born, the increased survival frequency of salmon who can efficiently negotiate such a cannon would be expected to change the population.
Perhaps the solution is to not agree to the set of cultural rules that would keep you at work rather than doing other things you might want to be doing as well.
The way you laid out a rational and logical argument, supported by evidence, instead of just displaying your unexamined privilege through an argument by assertion, was very impressive.

Wait, no, the other thing.
Because it is a design artifact that has survived decades, and here on HN there are a significant number of people who are designing artifacts that they hope will survive decades. Context is everything - for those people, this article provides a little context. Yesterday's "X" to close is today's 'swipe to close', and tomorrow's [___?___]. Solve for [___?___].
The finance sector produces a lot of low level code driving business applications directly. But, broadly you are right I think.
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I was turned down for a job at a tech startup because I'm male
Seems nice so far. But the UI seems so cluttered with all the CenturyLink branding / blog roll etc.
F# is supported in Xamarin Studio: http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/fsharp/fs...
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If you buy a PSP or PS Vita in Japan it will use O as accept and X for cancel in the system menu. Not sure about the home consoles.
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SIM cards too.
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> I recall reading a parabolic quote ...

ITYM a hyperbolic quote. A parabolic quote would describe an arc like a thrown ball, which eventually falls back to earth. A hyperbolic quote would escape toward infinity, which is the intended sense of the expression derived from the shapes of conic sections.
The judge crossed out the 'with' and wrote in 'without' prejudice on the note.

Does that mean that if the troll tries this on with someone else, this case can't be cited? Just wondering.
It is even more unnerving that such click bait can have a chilling effect. Really fox newsy type coercion happening in that article with heavy uses of metaphors and unbacked examples.

"runs directly into the deep, dark waters of moneyed (and largely male) gatekeepers."

Why is it dark except to push an 'evil' type of image.
Everything you say here is smart and rational, except:

> the guy literally got dragged around town
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That's not standard. If it's a one-window app, such as Skype, it should close the app. BareTorrent is also sort of a daemon process (where you often want it to live in the systray), and it follows standards. Minimize will put it in the system tray and close actually closes it. It's standard and feels intuitive.
Hmm, Wordnik[1] tells me 'parabolic' also means 'Of or similar to a parable'.

[1] | https://www.wordnik.com/words/parabolic
Do you mean "e-ink" and "e-paper" like in the Kindle? Or do you mean printable circuits?

E-ink and e-paper isn't really ink or paper. It's a display, that requires power (at least temporarily) and electronics to control it, like any LCD.

It's called "e-ink" and "e-paper" because, like ink on paper, whatever you program the display to show will stay there without power, and it will give you similar readability in normal lighting situations as ink on paper (if you had a thick pen on gray paper, at least).

As such, you can't "print out to an e-paper." The closest parallel would be "send to Kindle," that transmits a document over wi-fi or USB and has a program on the Kindle display it on the screen.

E-paper (bistable displays) development kits are generally available now at varying sizes from both manufacturers (like E-Ink) and distributors (like SparkFun or Adafruit). You can also readily disassemble many older Kindle and other e-readers and write your own programs to prototype things on their displays.

If you mean printable circuits, where something resembling an inkjet printer squirts out conductive metallic ink on a non-conductive sheet to make a circuit "board," I don't really know the state of that.
That would be ideal, but trends don't seem to be heading in that direction currently, and no party is even acknowledging the very real possibility of these issues happening.

It'll be a long time before we get to the basic-income/work-optional utopia that will probably be needed to fulfill the entirety of the world's population, and Japan-style workaholism/social issues already seem to be around the corner, so it's really about going with what's the most practical and/or quickest to implement in the meantime.
Actually, it sounds like complete sanity to me - if these people can meet the objective criteria for carrying weapons then why not let them do it?

[NB I'm not in the US and I'm rather glad my country does not have the cultural interest in guns that the US has - I have little interest in them personally.]
I disagree that competitions like this test programming mettle. While they may be beneficial for programming, programming under time constraints is different from typical programming.
SIM cards are smart cards :)
they really need to decouple internet explorer from windows. if everybody could run the latest ie, then it wouldn't be an issue anymore
I'd be more worried about disease propagation. Would need to be self-cleaning, methinks .. super-clean the pipe in between fishy-pilot takeoff with a super-steaming? Hmm .. Combine the two, and we've got lunch. :)
Agreed. Changed the text to better reflect what I was trying to say.
Tangential, but Wikipedia has an interesting but brief description [1] of how the drug is produced. Its a rather complex process involving infected mice, lab-work, and generation of antibodies in tobacco plants. It is understandable that the drug is expensive and only available in small quantities.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMapp#Production
Yeah, I was just thinking it'd be great to have a human-scale version of this .. to get from one Soapy Land to another, perhaps?
> but you're putting that bar extremely low.

It's the 21st century. "Please don't people in the workplace" is not "please become an amorphous asexual blob".
Thanks a lot, I will definitely give it a go :)
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It's not even "our rep" that's the issue.

One or two people die of a horrific disease, western doctors in spacesuits show up and spray the village and tell the locals to ignore their traditional burial rituals. Then loads more people get sick.

To a populace who don't understand what is happening and whose education is not that advanced it's easy to see how they could assume the westerners caused the disease to spread.
This is one way in which a large portion of America is culturally distinct from Britain in a way which many people do not appreciate white people being capable of being culturally distinct. In much of America, use and possession of firearms is a strong cultural marker, like ear piercing or playing football or driving cars. Perhaps it is not obvious at the BBC, where this looks like "Crikey, that's the only way to make guns MORE dangerous," but for people who are in that culture, it reads more like "Blind man triumphs over adversity to claim his rightful place in the civic life of his community."
> It's a perfectly valid opinion albeit expressed in a less than tactful way.

"Less than tactful" is key here. You go ahead and show my an opinion that isn't valid while I question why someone in the right mind would comment that way on the subject of taking a stance against sexual harassment for any other reason than out of spite.
Gave me a bigger jolt than the morning coffee - here's a spoiler in Go: http://play.golang.org/p/YBfxhjvsOB
I think you are rather confused in your head. Being attracted to somebody is not the same as "imposing lustful attitudes".

Your further comment just reinforces my impression that it is you who are severely lacking in the empathy department.
Agreed.

What I observe is that there is more discussion about the discussion. There are more conversations and emotions raised about the tone than the actual content. This a) does not contribute to the discussion and b) discourages discussion even more.
The fact that you can't see the subject (or the sender) when you receive the notification can be a problem (is it spam or a friend?).
But I really love the UI.
Not sure why you got downvoted so much.

It would be fascinating if there was a text mode [x] somewhere, especially if it was in common software.

EDIT: It's not in Norton Commander.
It's not a big ask to require a minimum amount of professionalism.
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To be fair, lots of things will do that, since aluminum is an incredibly reactive element. Once you scratch away/through the oxide layer that normally protects it, you can get all sorts of stuff to react with it.
Yes, okay, but the original quote isn't a parable in the classic sense -- no moral or spiritual guidance present. That led me to consider the mathematical/geometric meaning. Saying that all software projects end up being reimplementations of X windows is certainly hyperbolic.

And, sorry to say, I couldn't locate the original quote either.
I guess not: the troll dropped the case, there was no judicial decision, so there is nothing to cite ?
I like their founder's talks, Derek Sivers[1]. He's also got a good youtube channel[2].

[1]http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_differen...
[2]https://www.youtube.com/user/dereksivers
G+ no longer requires a real name. They still recommend using your "real name" (whatever that is), but you can use whatever you like now.
The delete/rubout key on many old terminals had an X on it. Like this: http://www.cosam.org/images/vt220/keyboard.jpg
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Thanks for the clarification, what about London (city)?

Clearly not all places are equal. :)

I did C++ for many years, was on the C++ side since day one on the C vs C++ wars, since 1993.

Nowadays mostly Java, C# on the job. C++, among others, mostly on hobby projects.

Given my Turbo Pascal initial background I still prefer more memory safe systems languages though. Although modern C++ surely feels good.
I want to work where women wear shirts that low cut.
Yep, pretty sure! As the poster below says, the web is not the internet.
I really don't understand the point he's trying to make.

Don't all firms have roadmaps for their products?
I could see that being true if it's an older actor (a legend in their 70s working on a movie guaranteed to be a hit) but he was in his 30's when that movie came out. Predicting that far in to the future would be stupid considering how much the entertainment industry has changed in the last 25 years (VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, Digital, Streaming) and the fact that the production and distribution companies may not even be around anymore (I think in this case they are but that's a big prediction 25 years out). Also, if the internet hadn't come along the number of people rushing out to buy this on DVD would be much smaller. It's unlikely it would be in stock and by the time it was stocked people would have moved on.

So if you are factoring the actors death into your budget when creating the movie you're either a total idiot or willing to predict:

- An instant-seamless distribution system, aka the internet

- Your company will be around 25-50 years from now

- Robin Williams will become an immensely popular actor

- This movie will be so good lots of people will want to watch it in 25 years

Edit:

I can see this being more likely in the music industry as I think people are much more likely to go back and listen to an old album: they see an artist die, they think, "I used to love that band" and they buy the album. With movies, until the digital era arrived, I don't think people did that as much.
Only if you think "literally" means consistent with actual facts and events, which IMHO it should, but often doesn't:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
You're correct. Perhaps "having the properties of a parable" was an inference too far. I've amended the original post.
But Epigenetics.
Except that 20% of couples met at the work place. But I guess these days people could resort to online Dating instead.