skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The icons need color for easy differentiation. These crisp monochrome icons are nice in theory, but when you're quickly scanning for an icon it all goes to mush in your vision.
I'd love to have answers to the same questions, but it will vary a lot according to what is being done and who is doing it.

If you're just typing simple text documents, the current Word is not going to save a massive amount of time over WordStar, but it will save some thanks to spelling corrections etc. And even a few seconds per hour per worker can represent a lot of value for large organizations.

If you're doing an essay or a brochure with headlines in different fonts, double-column text, embedded pictures, math equations etc, then the time savings will be massive. Just the ability to move a pic while text flows around it provides huge benefits.

When my son was in his early teens, I watched him use Microsoft Office to create complex documents that would have taken an IBM PROFS mainframe user weeks, or might have been impossible. His homework looked more professional than IBM's corporate documents.

I guess there are plenty of workers who use Word at the same level as they used WordStar, or who reckon that (back on topic!) LO is just as good. (Yes, LO is almost as good as Word if you just want to replace WordStar.)

But are those our criteria? Should we ignore the fact that people who have open minds and a willingness to explore (like children) can quickly and easily do new things that they can't?
Have you ever tried contributing to a popular FOSS product? I have. Expect to be downvoted, yelled at, etc for suggesting change, especially change that's an emotional issue for geeks (implementing a ribbon-like interface, you know the one started by the 'evil' microsoft). Linus's childish attitude is pretty much the poster boy for this attitude. Namecalling is the norm.

There are so many cultural and management issues with big FOSS projects, you could write 100 phd disserations about it. Its not generally a welcoming and innovating environment. Generally, from what I've seen, its the products with the very small teams (or sometimes one person) who seems to make the breakthroughs and everyone eventually just copies those guys.

Can you imagine someone with great credentials and a great portfolio trying to engage the LO team on a novel interface? Can you imagine the Linus-like comments aimed at her way? That's a major demotivator for innovation, change, and success. Oh god, heaven forbid you're a woman in FOSS telling men to make a change. That's an even worse nightmare right there.

This is why, I think, so much FOSS stuff looks like shit and has poor documentation. The artsy crowd, visual thinkers, UI nerds, and the writers are systemically kicked around to the point where they don't contribute much, so a lot of UI decisions are made by coders, who typically are creatures of habit and have a "if it aint broke why fix it" mentality in regards to interfaces and other features.

This is also why OSX is such a wonderful product. Apple took all the strong BSD code and dismissed the linux and BSD WM's and put a WM on there that didn't suck. Apple had the management structure to implement effective change without a "coder's veto" so many FOSS products suffer from. Or how Apple took KDE's khtml/webkit and wove both Safari and mobile Safari around it.
Static website generators seem to come and go -- would anyone like to comment on one they like that seems to be lasting the test of time? The obvious one seems to be jekyll (possibly with octopress on top of it), but I'm interested in any others.
Yeah, my alma mater has one of those too.

Michigan is a... unique beast. Anything worth doing is worth doing a minimum of twice, preferably with no knowledge of other attempts. This is why there are two entirely separate radio stations.
I genuinely think this is a grey area, and it's far from "insider" trading. Is it moral, I don't think so. Should Capital One sanction these employees, probably. But I think this is far from ilegal.

Huang and Huang had access to a db which is not open to everyone, granted, but they had to extrapolate the stock direction based on data from a subset (customers who buy Chipotle with a CC), of a subset (with a Capital One card)... and then compare that to analyst expectations, etc. but then, would it be insider trading if I stood outside a Chipotle polling customers who exited on the dollar amount spent? That is also proprietary information, and one I can use to trade stocks on. I'd like to know if they did any trades where the return went south. I know of sector investment funds which pretty much do this all day long, forecasting all sorts of industries, and it's not ilegal.

I'd like to know what others think.
an unused parameter should probably be removed.

It doesn't have to be completely unused to be avoided. In a case like:

if a then b + c else c + d

a and c are always evaluated, only b or d is evaluated not both. Removal isn't an option because b and d maybe used.
Actually my experience is entirely different. Extremely good service, even in remote locations. Whereas in the UK, most providers except very expensive ones are a nightmare.
The NSA was also wiretapping the connections between Google's datacenters, so they were victims of the NSA too.

(Until we know more about their relationship with the NSA, I also don't condemn them for the PRISM allegations.)
The mobile site it is totally broken
What do you see as my corresponding extraordinary claim?
"Could a company nullify gag orders if it was their policy to post ALL their correspondence on their website?"

Not a US-based company, because we have these nefarious things called National Security Letters. The penalty for knowingly breaking the gag order with the intent to interfere with an investigation is up to five years in prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

Do you know any business owners willing to go to prison for five years for one of their users?
What makes you think that it would grow its adoption rate at all? If I were to take a guess, I'd say most Wordpress installations are done by people who don't care about server load, and don't fret out over a 2s load time instead of 200ms.
I'd say it fits my intuition of walking around in DC.
Interesting, as the article notes - if Capital One had terms and conditions that said, "we can use sales data for unrelated purposes", they would be able to trade on that information themselves. I wonder who else has information that they're willing to use/sell to third parties... Facebook? Google? I wonder how predictive e.g. the ratios of likes of McDonald's/Starbucks/Chipotle pages are. Or clicks on display ads for Puma/Adidas shoes.

> Surely lots of Wall Street firms -- Chipotle is followed by 31 analysts -- and asset managers are doing tons of research to try to estimate Chipotle's sales. They're visiting branches and calling investor relations and talking to pork suppliers and surveying consumers and generally getting paid a lot of money to build a robust estimate of how many burritos Chipotle is selling. One more piece of data -- one credit card company's charges at Chipotle -- would be helpful, but come on, not that helpful.

Could we get this data any other way? How about putting cameras in front of a few flagship Chipotle stores and using CV to track the number of people going in/out? That's legal, AFAIK.
Here's the CEO insulting founders who sell or quit (he just did both): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605027
I thought that if Keating didn't agree to (b), her channel would be removed?
If anyone follows this, what’s the current with LibreOffice vs OpenOffice.org? Is one objectively better than the other now? What has the community momentum?
Only if you're thinking of icing on roads (or in hockey), but not if you're thinking of icing on top of a cake.
> But the case represents “an amazing Catch-22,” he said.
> Google doesn’t “have the strongest right to challenge the
> scope or the reasonableness of the warrant. The only people
> who really have that are the targets of the warrant, and
> they don’t know about it. So essentially the government has
> carte blanche to get whatever they want.”

Shouldn't in cases like this the gag order go to the target of the warrant. I imagine it could go something like this. Google hands the information and inform only the target. The target can't publicize or inform anyone else, but now have the knowledge and right to defend himself.

Not informing the target would restrict his ability to defend himself.

In a similar note, why even involve Google at all. Why not require the target to hand the information.

Maybe the fact that the targets are in different countries a problem to this approach.
not full apps, but some demos off the top of my head:

http://tympanus.net/Development/SidebarTransitions/

http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/CaptionHoverEffects/index.html
Probably because it uses more traffic than simple text messages, and someone sending tons of pictures would break their price calculations.
Once again: the idea that computer science is unique among virtually all the professions in that performance at the median level of competence requires, like a concert violinist, exposure at the earliest possible age. This despite the fact that most of what programmers do is simply plumbing and diagnostics.
SDN, Docker and the Real Changes Ahead
Funny how this strategy seems pretty clever if you read it thinking it's a transcript of an actual interrogation :)
Are there frameworks to automatically analyse html for accessibility and perhaps provide a certain rating based on set guidelines? I think that might be a very interesting project to work on if such a thing does not exist.
Canada Spies on Internet Downloads
I don't know about "lasting the test of time", but I recently used Hugo (Jekyll clone written in Go) and found it impressive.

http://gohugo.io/
"I love the idea that the most accurate way to describe someone relies on a link to Breitbart."

I said 'far more accurate way' to describe 'Shanley Kane' - not just someone. The most accurate way is of course her Encyclopedia Dramatica page and her twitter feed.

https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Shanley_kane

https://archive.today/HaMTn

"You were being ironic here, right? Well played: a trenchant commentary on the absurdity of personal takedowns."

Your balls dude. They're between your legs. Read the links. Shanley Kane is a horrible, profane, disgusting, rage-filled human being who is only tolerated in the tech industry because she's a feminist.
That might assuage the franchisee somewhat, but there is still the effective loss of revenue from that particular hotel as well as indirect costs the franchisee will have to bear, such as lost business and time spent dealing with FCC enforcement actions.
Pelican I've had great luck with so far, but I can't testify honestly to whether it will last. Since it is Python and makefiles, I have found it very easy to modify myself just with my background knowledge.
Hacking the Samsung NX300, Part 3: Firmware Mods
It's referring to system updates. The need to update your MySQL version, or your Bash version when there's an new vulnerability. All the things you have to do to keep a server on the internet secure and operational over time.
Those priceonomics guys really care for their SEO. They are one of the few websites that writes totally unrelated articles to sell a product.

I kind of feel used when I see them pop up.
As I said in the post, you just need to google for it. Here's one I found that helps you with $scope: http://csharperimage.jeremylikness.com/2014/11/the-top-5-mis...
He informed me the clip is 525WPM. Impressive!
"why even involve Google at all"

"So essentially the government has carte blanche to get whatever they want"

I think your quote answered your own question.
I gather you assign a lower prior to cognitive variations - that's fine. No point debating that at the moment, it's just an example to show what evidence might look like: a downward sloping graph with your predictor on the X-axis and %female on the Y.

You don't have that graph. All you have is vague theories like "bog-standard human behavior prevents women from entering a field". This theory predicts that every historically male field should remain historically male, which is false.
This must be an older version of Ruby. I can't reproduce the issue.
Can you trick behavioral assessments?
> And if the corp decides they don't want to have the conversation on the record, then they don't get to have the conversation at all.

I think a problem with this approach is that in most cases, the individual loses more by not having the conversation than the corporation does.
There is a lot out there, for everything from case management to practice management to discovery to legal research to legal composition to litigation support ...
Adaptive Tearing and Cracking of Thin Sheets, SIGGRAPH 2014
Crop aspect ratio matches the "Size" setting, located one screen earlier; so it's a feature for now. I plan to revisit the crop screen sometime in future and bring more control there. Thanks for your comment!
You Will Need These 13 Tools to Build a Mobile App Startup
Equivocate came up in https://books.google.com/ngrams. Looks like the linked tool isn't quite up for it after all.
LibreOffice has all the momentum, all the brain share and all the innovations. They made massive changes and miraculously brought a crufty code base full of technological debt back to life.

Now they started to care about aestethics. And suddenly people notice. :-)
This one bit me too, and I was/am livid that an assumption would be made that user data is merely an expired cache to be deleted without warning.
"I'm sure there are stats out there"

(The link supplied by @lutorm contained some stats.)
Sorry if I was unclear, I was saying sessions _could_ be handled by communicating directly with an API.
Yes, that's where I thought you were coming from.
Thx for sharing that. That article says nothing about SCOTUS ruling so I wonder if this will eventually be challenged at the highest court.

I can't imagine a business owner going to prison as you suggest.
Excellent - thanks for pointing that out :-)
Comcast thinks my husband is an a**hole – and they put it in writing
1950s films looked washed out. Little green in outdoors Westerns or indoors movies.
Michael Geist has done the most to explain the new laws. Since they just came into effect there are many articles like the following that explain the details:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/01/08/michael-geist-copyri...
Ha ha ... That's interesting :).
It's a bit more technical, but most of my projects use Gulp with the necessary plugins to handle the specific requirements of the project.
> performance at the median level of competence requires [...] exposure at the earliest possible age.

I never claimed that, though. I think my actual claims were pretty mundane:

1. Children who play with computers have an advantage when, later in life, they're learning programming.

2. Young girls, in many places, are not encouraged to play with computers the way that young boys are.
"I think a lot of anti-vax stuff might be fixed with a compelling documentary."

I am, sadly, not optimistic that this would help.

The anti vaccine crowd, much like other groups and belief systems (even ones you and I might be part of) are as much a statement of politics and self actualization as they are of any rational belief system.

The "facts" are simply after the fact justifications,
conveniently chosen, to bolster their existing viewpoints.

So, no, unfortunately, I don't think a better presentation of the facts is going to change a lot of these minds.
BitHound puts out features, not fires
FreeBSD Performance Observability Tools
“Intermittent” is a Dirty Word
while this feature makes LibreOffice gather more users, in the long term this strategy IMHO will not pay off. "Microsoft formats" is moving target and playing "catch up with microsoft" game all the time - wasting resources which otherwise could be poured into making product itself nicer, which in turn will convince users to switch based on features, not just on the fact, that it is free. I hope my idea make sense :)

I guess balance between two is necessary. You can't totally ignore MS formats, but focusing only on it - will stale this project.
logged into another app. Then refreshed and got this.

'use strict';
define(function() {
var itcApp = angular.module('itcApp', [
'ngRoute',
'routeResolverServices',
'angularFileUpload',
'global_services',
'global_directives',
'global_filters',
'form_elements',
'ngCookies',
'angulartics',
'angulartics.adobe.analytics',
'ngSanitize',
'pasvaz.bindonce'
]);
itcApp.config(
['$routeProvider', 'routeResolverProvider', '$controllerProvider', '$compileProvider', '$filterProvider', '$provide', '$httpProvider','$locationProvider','$cookiesProvider','$analyticsProvider', '$sceDelegateProvider',
function ($routeProvider, routeResolverProvider, $controllerProvider, $compileProvider, $filterProvider, $provide, $httpProvider, $locationProvider, $cookiesProvider, $analyticsProvider, $sceDelegateProvider) {

$routeProvider.when('/', {
template: '<div></div>',
controller: ['$window',function($window) {
$window.location.href='/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa';
}]
}).otherwise({ redirectTo: '/' });
}]);
return itcApp;

});

So they load angular then redirect to another page? Lol
If Shanley is the touchstone of good tech feminism, then it's time to give up and pack it all in.
American children to be beheaded by isis
Syncfusion Essential Studio Community License Free for Individual/small Business
Reminds me a bit of "trianglify", a low-poly background generator built on d3.js: https://github.com/qrohlf/trianglify
Ask HN: Anyone found a job while on h1b visa?
I am a seasoned (10+ years experience) Microsoft stack developer (.Net, ASP.Net, MS SQL Server etc.) with an ERP solution developed ground up for a mid-sized company in Ohio. For a year or so, I have been venturing into developing with open source technologies like Node / Socket.io / MongoDb as required with couple of successful add-on tools for ERp already in production. Also developed a personal learning project for Google Chromecast for streaming local computer media on TV (its on github). Have been trying for 6 months now to switch to a better paying job and have been contacted by numerous recruiters only to reject my application because I am on H1b. Any suggestions on how to go about it?
P.S. - I have been with my current employer for 7 years now and they filed a green card for me in EB3 category. But the wait is zillion years to get it...
Any suggestions / recommendation are highly appreciated...Thanks
> and if I want Ross to help me sue IBM, does Ross act independently? :)

I know you are joking, but your comment is a good response to the other commenter who wished for a future when law is administered by a "benevolent AI". Who writes the code for the AI?
They aren't opposed to an experience changing them. And most things are guidelines to make choices, not absolutes. In this case, going on a mission was a higher priority, and the most effective way to get to the target was via air travel. If there was an alternative then they would take it.

This decision matrix isn't unique to the Amish -- people do it every day. For example, I want to save money. But I also want to work at a job. To get to the job I have to travel. I choose to drive to the job (incurring vehicle expenses), whereas I have the alternative of walking (would take several hours) or cycling (too lazy, too cold). Therefore I choose to spend money on gas instead of either not working or walking to work.
Chromium proper is indeed developed in the open, but the Chromium browser as a whole is not, perhaps that's what was intended above, so there might be a confusion of terminology here.

For example, v8 - a very important part of Chromium - is not developed fully openly: major features are developed secretly and land as surprises, like CrankShaft and TurboFan, and also daily development consists of patches landing with little or no public discussion behind them.
Minified JS runs on JavaScriptCore
I think you point out the problem of dialog. It is assumed anti-vaxers are anti-science, religious, uneducated or anti-gov. Although this may apply to some, it doesn't explain the majority and the rapid growth.

There is no shortage of educated doctors, former employees of drug companies, and data from CDC etc that is used for the anti vax argument.
To convince someone of a point, one needs to not start from the position the other person has any of these stereotype labels. You need to start from educating yourself of their opposing argument and realize it is supported by real data. Then the discussion becomes more appropriate around the validity of data, its interpretation etc.
The requirement used to be open-source and publicly available

It is now only publicly available
I'm curious about how well this works on videos...
Heroin still requires growing poppies. Aspirin can be be synthesized.
Apple could devour Qualcomm's baseband processor business
To join in, I too loved the use of color in Limitless. I personally associate vibrant autumnal colors with clarity, not sharp blues, so when the characters go on NZT, it feels fuller, not just sharper. It looks like something a person would actually want, as opposed to losing one's humanity in a soul-crushing washed-out green or blue usually seen in sci-fi.
Ask HN: What all does React leave on the table?
Could I get some clarification on React? Basically, it works as the V in your classic MV* framework e.g. Angular. Ok, I understand that, but where does React fall into play when it comes to building an actual app? In other words, what all is being left on the table when using React instead of something like Angular.

What I am trying to figure out is what other libraries do I need to learn if I focus on React instead of Angular. For example, let's say I want to build an app using the mean stack, but I don't want to use Angular. In that case I need to switch out Angular with React + what else?
Stats 101 - A sample of the total customers is sufficient to calculate the monthly average. As long as the sample size is sufficient (capital one credit cards) and the sampling method is not too biased (or in this case stedaily biased month-to-month). So yes this information appears highly valuable for forecasts as it gives customer amount and sales amount ahead of reporting.
One thing that definitely can be improved is using "Controller As" syntax. It solves most of the $scope issues.

Here's a good writeup: http://toddmotto.com/digging-into-angulars-controller-as-syn...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4105485

Even more: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20Privacy%20Matters%20even...
I'll put in a vote for Hexo: http://hexo.io/

Node.js-based, lots of plugins available via npm, sane themeing syntax. I have a script that generates my site and then pushes it to S3.

My site, such as it is, is available here: https://github.com/drhayes/drhayes.io
Legally it is very clearly insider trading: they misappropriated material non-public information and traded on it.
Building an Internal Cloud (scaling shopify to 8k reqs/s)