skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm honestly curious if you think this is a valid form of protest as opposed to a form of apathy or laziness.

Personally I don't believe you can change the system from outside the system without replacing the system (i.e. having a revolution), and currently the number of people who are acting to replace the system from without is sufficiently small (and with a sufficiently large number of ignorable fringe elements) not to have any real effect.

Any protest that involves quietly sitting at home cannot have any real effect unless a large enough population does it to make the rest of the people realise that something is very wrong, rather than the usual hefty percentage of apathetic or otherwise uninvolved people.

On the other hand you've got people like Lawrence Lessig and the Mayday PAC (https://mayday.us/) who are actively trying to change the system from within, by electing candidates who support wide-ranging form. This is a way to change the system, but it requires engaging with the system on its (current) terms, not sitting it out because of, y'know, reasons.
Maybe it'd be more precise to say 100% of startups believe they're developing breakthrough products?
Related -- Due to Han unification[1], many glyphs you see on the screen in different languages share the same Unicode codepoint. The problem with this is that you no longer have an easy one-to-one mapping to have certain languages render in a desired font. It just so happens that Chinese business users prefer a much more traditional font than Japanese users. This doesn't necessarily affect "documents" that can have a defined language, because the language selection will be taken into account when the font is chosen. When you are writing software, however, that can mix any/all available languages on one screen (e.g. displaying a list of news headlines or even tweets), the programmer has to make a hard choice whether to do all the extra work to send down an explicit language tag (if one exists) next to each group of text elements that share the language so the font system can choose the correct font for a codepoint such as U+5168. If that work is not done (or parts of the pipeline don't carry that information along), the best you can have is a global setting that users can pick "I favor Japanese fonts" and then a Chinese headline could wind up rendered in two fonts -- all of the unified Han codepoints rendering in a much more modern looking Japanese font.

edit: [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
It seems incredible to me that the varnish on the wood has a bigger effect on the sound than the shape. It seems counter-intuitive at first, but the more I think about it, the more it seems that the shape of the resonance chamber at the edges doesn't really matter. Interesting takeaway!
Because people who matter still see an elite MBA as a useful imprimatur.
Well, that's just it. I trust the blockchain (and other open source methods), but not Satoshi. i.e. when it becomes easier to use cryptocurrencies, I'll use dogecoin, litecoin, or something else.

However, right now, they just seem too hard to use. And solutions that are easy to use, like non-bank banks such as Mt Gox, well you know how that turned out.

and I used to trust bash and openssl
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No I would rather argue that the difference is that software is not visible / tactile. When a construction project runs into a problem, you show the physical problem to the client and he gets it.

When a software project runs into trouble, the client has to trust what the developer tells him and immediately the client starts to doubt the developers' competence.
N4 is getting lollipop.
some random biz guy with no track record and "an idea"?

Now that's delusional. Clearly you wish that to be the case. It is not. SV is all about the gate-keepers, and they are all about profiling, which they call "signaling". If you don't fit into that mold, you are not going to receive a warm welcome; I don't care how good you are.

Read Peter Thiel's Stanford class CS183 notes. Peter explicitly says this, "It's like getting a degree at Berkeley. Okay. It's not Stanford. You can [have] a complicated story about how you had to do it because your parents had a big mortgage or something. But it's a hard negative signal to get past."

If you are a white male, in your early 20's and went to Stanford, go for it. If you're not, don't even try to play the game; it's rigged to use you, not help you.
It's even more interesting because it's part of book. Just setting the expectations, because it's not an apple-to-apple comparison.
Although they're already sold out, so you'll have to pick one up on the used market. ;)
Do you really expect a one-size-fits-all answer for such a complex thing like a UI?
I don't agree with Doug Casey on a lot of stuff, but his five reasons not to vote are pretty funny and an excellent foil to the constant & unexamined appeals that we vote:

http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/doug-caseys-top-five-r...
Does anyone here have any insight into some of the practical applications of knowing the exact resonances now? Certainly an interesting read, going to do some more research into this interval arithmetic subject.
Their problem may not be with what you said, but how you said it.

I fear the particular "brand" of space tourism offered by Virgin is probably frivolous in that it's at a level not too far removed from the "Vomit Comet" that astronauts, and paying customers, frequently use.

Space tourism that does reach Low Earth Orbit is probably a play-thing for the rich as well, but I see that as a stepping stone to a greater voyage in our solar system and beyond.

We're getting better at recycling our waste products and there is already a ton of research coming from the ISS on long-duration living in space. These alone have already contributed immensely to our understanding of the world around us and have lead to new technologies that are already in use or are about to enter the market soon. Likewise, space tourism will bring its share of productive advances.

Let's not forget that it took millennia after the invention of sailing to get to flight. Although it only took decades from flight to space travel, it's unrealistic to expect such exponential advances in the next phase of our exploration. I doubt we'll have humans landing on Mars in my lifetime, but I wouldn't put it past the lifetime of the next generation.
My country has an up-coming election of self-governance officials (city mayors, etc.). I don't see myself voting as not only there is absolutely no one worth voting for, but this year candidates try to one-up one another in the contest for most stupid election poster.

Just take a look at some: http://joemonster.org/link/pokaz/58169/Kwiatki_kampanii_samo...
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I'm pretty sure the ... menu in the top right should be for the _least_ used actions, not the most frequent..
The byte code here is an implementation detail of an interpreter for the Python programming language. Wikipedia seems to have decent coverage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytecode

Someone at Coverity would likely be interested in understanding it to use in analyzing source code. They use automatic analysis to find defects.
>This is why the windows on your 737, 747, etc are now rounded.

This always sounded apocryphal to me, considering ships have had round windows for ages before planes even existed.
I thought there are 94 you (and universes) that seen one result and 6 that seen the other.

Then there are irrational probabilities :)
I'm in the same boat, I live in Texas and the Congressman for my district has been in office since before I was even born and the other candidate is Green party with no chance of winning.

As for the gubernatorial election, after hearing the insane amount of mudslinging on TV and radio from both candidates, I definitely wouldn't vote for either. I don't feel as though any candidates on the ballot, for any office, represent me or my beliefs.
Put my tech career on hold to travel; first stop: drive down the PCH
The OS navigation are the least important buttons for the app, and since the user is (supposed to be) familiar with them need the less amount of emphasis.
Do you not have kids or rarely interact/play with kids?

Kids are no, even though I know the relevant laws of physics and was intellectually not surprised, I was still in awe and it still violates my instinctive expectations. A visual equivalent to stepping onto a broken escalator.
Here are the actual Material Design specs: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introducti...
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copying the data was probably the bottleneck, not malloc.
Per GB it's 4c - and S3 is 3c - I wonder why? Maybe internally Amazon teams have to pay for S3 so the 1c is Cloud Drives margin...
the existing model has been to subsidize newspaper sales with advertising for a very long time. This same model carried forward through radio and television.

The alternative is a pay-per-view service, or subscribing to wires. I haven't done any research into the viability of that type of service, but it is a paradigm shift.
Part of the reason for the “weirdness” is the blatant fact they’re fixed-width, which is hugely important as so are kanji. That way you can intermix the two and the spacing won’t completely fall apart.
Can someone explain to me the last part about the items standing still and no force acting on them? Isn't gravity acting on them, pulling the earth and items together?
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Agreed... I managed to finished all my courses towards a PhD in high-energy physics without ever having heard of pilot wave theory before. I'm an experimentalist but we still have to take all the same standard QM/QFT courses as the theory guys.
Yup, makes sense, like statistical mechanics' Energy function in configuration space. Thank you!
He's following the wrong accounts.

Some human journalist is going to occasionally talk about cooking steak instead of technology or journalism.

@melpa_emacs and @TinyToCS never talk about cooking steak.

People and brands on twitter are just spam, not worth following. Focused announcements are surprisingly not bad...
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This comment seems to come from ignorance of basic physics and chemistry rather than an acute awareness of it.

The specific energy of the best batteries we have at the moment is only about 2% of that of gasoline. And gasoline isn't that great for a rocket. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densities...

If you want to talk about taking a jet to mach4, well, now things are starting to get really nuts. Airplanes only work because they can produce lift in excess of their weight. Putting enough batteries on an airplane to make it fly is completely doable; just look at RC airplanes and quadcopters. But getting to mach4 is bonkers at the moment. Drag goes up by speed squared. Doubling your speed quadruples your drag.

Of course, air breathing craft to get above most of the atmosphere are totally viable and so are space elevators (maybe not today but in the future) and the launch loop might be feasible too from a basic physics and material science standpoint.

Once you're in orbit ion drives still aren't awesome at least for human-scale space exploration, but they become viable.
The only thing that's fundamental, that's physically "real", is the wavefunction. So you have your mirror and your photon and you, and all that's described according to some wavefunction |P(t)>, evolving according to the laws of quantum mechanics.

Now we observe that after the photon passes through the slit, we can decompose the function as |P(t)> = sqrt(0.94)|Q(t)> + sqrt(0.06)|R(t)> where Q and R are independent, each individually evolving according to the laws of quantum mechanics. This is already derived rather than fundamental, but the phenomenon is real, because the causality relation is real. Our neurons under Q (and of course a "neuron" isn't really fundamental, it's an interpretation of a particular group of particles behaving in a particular way, i.e. of particular aspects of the wavefunction) have no effect on our neurons in R and vice versa.

All that is physically real; the only remaining question is what we should expect to subjectively experience. Since our neurons in Q have no effect on our neurons in R and vice versa, it seems like we'd experience either being in Q or being in R. With what probability? Well, whatever it is it had better be conserved; it makes no sense to say that we'd experience R with 4% probability in 5 minutes and then 8% probability in 10 minutes. If we send another photon through in Q, splitting the wavefunction further into |S(t)> + |T(t)> + |R(t)> where Q = S + T, then our subjective probabilities should be such that the probability we find ourselves in S or T = the probability that we found ourselves in Q before sending the second photon.

What's the probability-like quantity that's conserved by quantum evolution of a system? Why, it's the norm, ||P>|^2. I guess that's what we'd expect to be the subjective probability then.
Java's library is on the whole better than C#'s. But if you want an example of a stdlib that really sets the bar then I would point to Go. In particular the io packages. They are so composable and simple and easy to use that it makes me want to cry at their beauty sometimes. Go has one of the best written stdlib's of any language I've ever used.
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You're suggesting a super PAC to solve the problems with US politics? There's something unsettling and ironical about that.
To add one additional bit of supporting evidence, Snapfish (owned by HP) is currently offering a promotion for users of their mobile app (iOS & Android): 100 free prints per month for a year. Yes, 1200 free prints, all from your phone or tablet, as long as you store them at Snapfish.

http://www.snapfish.com/snapfish/storepage/storePageId=page-...
I voted (and will continue to vote) in every election since I was old enough - didn't matter how big or small. I always look at it as you don't vote you don't have the right to bitch about things :).
Your company may not be directly dependent on Slack, but if I pay you to use your bot with my Slack system and then Slack pulls the plug, I'm dependent on Slack and your bot working together.

If Slack pulls the plug on your integration and enough of your income is from users who are integrating with Slack, your business could indeed be impacted.
A rule I learned from my father:

Multiply any software estimate by pi.
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Similar tool available for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/converter/

Just started using it, happy to be able to excise that bit of pervasive ignorance from my life.
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Forgot to mention that we're open to fully remote work as long as you're close to the UTC+1 timezone.
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The torque is also massive - 687 lb. ft. but still this car seems totally impractical to me. If you drive it like a sports car which does 0-60 in 3.1, you would most certainly drain the battery twice as fast. Charging it every 100 - 150 miles doesn't seem very convenient.
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They aren't creating all of this software just because they are having fun in their free time.

Sorry, but this is an invention of yours. No one said they're doing anything flippantly.

But they may be doing it ignorantly: Success in one field (in this case turning a mail subscription business into a stream service) doesn't imply technical innovation or leadership, and often is despite it.

This industry is absolutely rife with people creating solutions to problems they themselves invented and caused. In the case of Netflix, an enormous amount of their solutions have been founded around the notion of deploying on huge numbers of miserable Amazon EC2 instances, and then dealing with the problems related to that. Others simply deployed distributed data centers hosting their own purpose suited, reliable hardware with big fat storage arrays, and the problem is solved. It's like trying to build a car out of toothpicks and then detailing the innovations you created in toothpick redundancy and robustness.
I find the floating buttons a bit of a bizarre choice, to me they look like they should be dragged, not clicked.

Then again, it's just a picture, but why should we listen to what they're saying? They keep getting their own products wrong.

One recent example is the android gmail app, where it's never clear when it last refreshed the data and you find yourself constantly pulling down to get it to refresh, it says it has, but then a minute or two later suddenly emails from hours ago appear. I've just switched to myMail and it's honestly a lot better.

And the new maps interface is really rubbish, you constantly feel like you're fighting it, things have stupidly slow animations for no good reason, it's not actually clear what's, what. And the navigation in FPS mode is so bad and has been for years.

Hell, and this one has always bugged me, they still after 7 years, hide the really important apps you have on google apps for business in a stupid little drop down hidden in a "more" link which isn't even clear it's a more link. Meaning the "platform" it's supposed to be is actually just a mail app with some links tacked on.

Like Apple don't say much, but then release something and nail it, while Google talk as if they're an authority but consistently release complete messes.

This is actually getting me pissed off. How can they be thought leaders? Even their own site has rubbish UX choices:

http://www.google.com/design/spec/components/buttons.html

Just look at the menu, it's a complete disaster UX wise. Click menu choices just open accordion sub menus, they make the cardinal sin of forcing the user to click again and do extra work. And one of them, the "Material Design", that just opens another menu with just one, YES JUST ONE, option of "Introduction". How can you call yourself thought leaders and yet get something as basic as a menu so wrong? It's like some sort of joke I don't get. Did no-one at google try and use their own site to see how useless it is? It's not a good UX. So how can you design good UX for the rest of us if you can't get that right? And they even have .html in their paths. Argh. Hello 1990.
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You get the irony then. If Mayday succeeds, it'll render itself obsolete if not illegal. This is entirely deliberate on the part of the people involved.

However, and more to the point, Mayday is an example of trying to change the system from within rather than from without. The system is currently too powerful to try changing without engaging with it on its own terms, so it can only be changed from within.
"I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating." - Boss Tweed quoted recently by Lawrence Lessig

While I believe the above statement is fundamentally true I"m still going to vote. For me personally, I think I'm doing that as a some sort of ritual to hold onto my belief in democracy even though I recognize that our current system is badly broken.
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Legitimate question: I wonder what their definition of a "photo" is? For example do they support RAW files? Or is it only JPG/PNG? On that subject I wonder if even BMP is supported.
And a couple of days ago Microsoft announced that Office 365 subscribers gets unlimited OneDrive storage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8517475). Which also can upload all your photos...
I assume the GP is referring to the De Havilland Comet.
Is RAW supported?
Imagine being inside of a closed box like an elevator. Without leaving the box there is no way to tell the difference from being in free fall towards Earth versus floating in interstellar space. Therefor, general relativity take the perspective that gravity is a fictitious force (like centrifugal force) that arises from the shape of spacetime.
I thought Firefox was mostly written in C++? Pretty surprised that raw realloc()s are widespread enough to warrant a note like this.

I agree that it's better to know how much space you need up front - even if it turns a one-pass algorithm into a two-pass one.

One of my happiest moments as a programmer came when reading a co-worker's code to render 2d parametric functions smoothly in screen space. It recursively divides down the parameter interval until it's small enough, then draws line segments. The code is written iteratively and manually manages a stack to simulate recursion. The stack is a fixed-size static C array instead of a vector. "Aren't you worried about overflow?", I asked. But he had computed the number of divisions in half to get from a FLT_MAX-length interval down to an FLT_MIN-length interval, and made the array big enough to hold that many steps. Goodbye malloc(), hello one not-really-that-big static array that stays warm in the cache.
Sure, but universes are cheap. There were those who said that the theory that "nebulae" were distant galaxies should be dismissed according to Occam's Razor, because it meant vastly multiplying the number of galaxies, stars etc. in the universe. But it was a simpler theory than the idea that nebulae were some new kind of object, and it turned out to be correct.
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That's a common aphorism, but it's not logical. Declining to vote doesn't negate your right to bitch about the political system or even individual politicians, any more than voting and your guy winning negates your right to bitch about that individual (which is slightly more logical, but still doesn't pass muster)
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One of the biggest mistakes I see developers (and development companies) make is to define the edges of their project too narrowly.

Almost any piece of contract software development is intended to fit into a much larger system that has already seen heavy investment. Yet, often developers treat the software as an independent "thing" that they are creating.

For example, redesigning/rebuilding a corporate website is not (just) a web development project. The corporate site is one (often comparatively small) component of an operation that might include press relations, investor relations, social media, advertising, partner relationships, retail relationships, supplier relationships, etc.

Looking holistically at what a company invests in their corporate identity and marketing does two things. First, it provides very valuable guidance on the web site project itself. The new site is going to have to fit in with all these other activities. That's a set of very useful constraints.

Second, it puts the website project in its proper perspective. The company is not "replacing a building." They're replacing one component of a large multi-million-dollar marketing operation.
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Every few years, a new generation of design graduates will enter the industry and "rewrite the rulebook" by simply doing the opposite of what the previous generation did. We will thus have to live with the five-year flat/unflat fashion cycle for the foreseeable future.
I wonder what the definition of "unlimited" is?
The other thing to consider is that the persistent navigation should recede into the background - drop shadows on everything would detract from the app's content. I would assume that the affordances are also less necessary because the persistent navigation is more commonly used.

Anyway, this might not be the reasoning by the designer, and it might not actually work in practice, but it could be one justification... rules are there to be broken.