skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parents go out of their way to install iPhone apps on their iPad. With retina assets (and the fact they still have non-retina screens), it's not crufty looking anymore.

Problem is many apps have universal binaries now so you can't force the lower-res (larger touch target) UIs.
A game I play that is not mentioned in the article: give an estimate in the form of "I will not be done with this before %time." I'll often add in something about giving a better time estimate for the entire thing when that period of time elapses.

I usually build that time estimate by imagining the whole process going smoothly. The vast majority of surprises are negative, and of unknown size, so however long the project takes, it's going to be something bigger than the everything-goes-right scenario.
> Moving isn't hard.

You think scraping together five fucking grand "isn't hard" for someone who's hand-to-mouth poor?

> If you can't afford it, move somewhere that you can.

"What if you can't afford TO MOVE" is the entire point of the post you responded to.
> Lets not forget that these people would be middle class anywhere else.

If they could magically keep their Bay Area income while being anywhere else, they might be.

But since they can't actually do that, I'm not sure what relevance that has.
What I hear you saying is you personally identify with what you perceive as intellectual honesty, what you perceive as rationality, and the freedom to say whatever you want without worrying whether listeners will like it.

The trouble with such identifications, though, is they can lead to logical errors that make your life a lot worse, by causing you to feel as though a question about your intellectual honesty, rationality, or empathy is in fact a personal attack. This happens entirely unconsciously, and repairing it can seriously suck.

I could go into the ways in which I eventually learned that challenges to my own intellectual honesty and rationality ended up strengthening them both once I stopped reacting to those challenges emotionally and started choosing to believe in the good will of the people making them. But that might just be tedious; instead I will say that in my own life, waving the banner for diversity and equality has come along with being happier, feeling more decent, and being more energetically invested in technology than I was before.
ReplyTo aros: The two main criteria I would have are: 1) not an acquisition and 2) important development/developer service. I can't think of any and didn't see any after a cursory look at the list.

I think SLAs are literally worthless since I don't think they encourage even slightly more effort in minimizing whatever issues the customer is concerned about. No one wants servers to go down, no one wants to shut down a service. That a few Google bucks might be on the line would have zero impact.
Computer World says it no longer gets hot, and the fans are quieter: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2895014/new-chromebook-...
Encouraging news, both in terms of results and likely costs of deployment.
Non-Taylor-series explanation of Euler's formula
Five Lessons from the California Code Rush
Odd, I read their weirdly scrolling site twice and came away with the impression it had only one. I sit corrected, now I guess I'll have to buy it. :-)
You may be ahead of the curve!
What real hackers know about the penetration testing industry that you don't
gsutil (the Google Cloud Storage command-line tool) has an rsync option: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/rsync
The GRE math is actually a dumbed down version of the SAT math so it's not surprising there's no signal left among engineering students. Probably most engineering students have gotten better at math since high school.

The GRE verbal is a great predictor of success in CS grad school and any kind of science grad school because it's so heavily g-loaded. Verbal scores are very hard to game and correlate well with raw IQ even when people try to study for the test and artificially improve scores. Antonyms, vocabulary, and reading comprehension are very good measures of the same mental ability that deep cutting edge research requires.

Of course, that doesn't work for non-fluent English speakers.
Apple Multiple Store Services Working Again:

https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

http://i.imgur.com/O7lDwx4.png
The Doll That Helped the Soviets Beat the U.S. To Space
But you could install a custom browser app that does likewise. Only not on an iDevice because Apple says so.
We brought buggy code, dozens of open tickets and a motherlode of Cali swag to NICAR 2015. You'll never guess what happened next
iPads and iPhones have one port and it works absolutely fine, despite what all the naysayers said.
> Nobody complains about how thin their phone is now that the old 30pin connector is no longer the limiting factor on size

Yeah, they do. Ask someone whose iPhone has just died (again) if they'd take it being a bit thicker with a bit more battery, and I don't know anyone who wouldn't make the trade.

And I personally still miss living in a world where no matter where you went you were never more than 5 feet from a 30-pin cable.
Smells of a Whisper legal department gone on overdrive in the litigious UK courts. At the end of the day, it doesn't really change much of the major findings that The Guardian reported on.
xps13 does not have a retina screen.

i don't think i could buy a non HiDPI device anymore.
I'm surprised the authors of the study didn't check proximity to cell towers/power lines or some such thing.
It's not even so much about it being affordable but rather how much it costs relative to other devices on the market. $1300 is a pretty high price point for a laptop and in that range you're competing with high-end notebooks like Apple. A Chromebook fits a niche for lightweight web-browsers, but I'm not prepared to spend $1300 for a notebook built solely to surf the net.
We don't know how long their investigation took and they are doing a lot more to correct the issue than most online news sources do/have. Most hide it away in the footer, here they put it at the very top where you couldn't miss it and even pulled down the opinion piece. Unless it comes out they sat on this information for a long period of time I think the the Guardian handled this very well (Obviously the best outcome would have been not to write the articles in the first place but we all make mistakes, correcting them is what matters and they did that).
Beautiful idea and execution.

Seems to me that you could monetise this by selling to businesses. For example, you say in the comments that amazon still sells some toys that have been recalled. This is illegal and could land them in some trouble. So you can approach them with a price for recall updates matched to their product listings, so they can suspend sales. If you word the licensing right you can then give the service to concerned parents as cheaply as you like, while charging companies for saving them a legal hassle.
Although I agree with you– just to play devil's advocate, I think it's a welcome change from the Sculley days when the Mac nearly died. Rather than appealing to the "true artists and professionals" (which worked out GREAT for Apple /s) during those years, they're appealing to a wider demographic (as they did since the iPhone made smartphones go mainstream). I'm not saying mainstream vs. pro has to be diametrically opposed, but this is a great way to tackle a niche that Apple has been starved of in the pre-iPod era. As a Mac fan, I'm hoping they'll invest this capital back into polishing their software lineup.
For passwords that change I use something similar to the Dominic mnemonic system to add a suffix to the password, this is for passwords that I really need to remember myself.
It isn't just Betty who has problems.

I once went to the Amazon.com homepage and counted the number of clickable regions on my screen. The total was over 100. Practical navigation with such an interface is impossible without a highly trained mental/visual filter. Those who have developed such a filter find it easy. Those who haven't, suffer. Those who can't, suffer endlessly.

So throw a typical web interface in front of people with certain kinds of troubles with attention or sensory processing, and you get a disaster.

And even without those troubles, and with the mental filter, how often do you click the wrong thing? Be honest. Pretty often, I'd say.

And then there are the intentional distractions. I've been webbing since '93. I have never had a problem with ads, per se. I've never run Adblock. But I always run Flashblock. Without it, much of the web is a chaotic mess of blinking, beeping nonsense. The future creeping toward us -- with HTML5+JS animations everywhere while I'm trying to read -- is scary indeed.

So think about the ideas in this post for all of us, not just for Betty.
It's built specifically to help you adopt meeting best practices - hooks into your calendar and prompts you to add agenda items, provides structure to encourage decision-making, enables you to assign action items, makes it easy to send out meeting summaries to invitees, helps you close the loop on action items, etc.
Peter also has some great off-heap libraries. It is relatively easy to bypass GC completely.
I think that is here now.
That may be true, but all they see is the value going down.
Which goes to show how much type systems are really adjuncts to testing, rather than something qualitatively different from and better than testing.
> It's still unlimited, for whatever that's worth, but employees will be required to take a minimum amount of vacation every year.

It's worth noting that in some sectors (including the one I work in), minimum chunks of leave are considered an anti-fraud measure. A non-trivial amount of internal fraud is uncovered when someone is required to take 1-2 weeks off in a block, which is enough to require someone else to stand in for them. At that point, oddities get called out.
> What most people have missed is that USB allows charging and data over the same port. So you can easily get a power adapter that has a charging tip which has on the same cord another USB-C port (socket) which you can plug into your display chain, or port replicator or what not.

What you seem to have missed is that this is nobody cares.

Nobody is going, "I really wish I could charge my laptop through the same port I connect my external hard drive to." This just isn't a problem people have.

However, plenty of people say about the MacBook Air, "I really wish I could transfer data from my external storage hard drive to my thumb drive while my MacBook Air is plugged into my monitor." The new MacBook Air that they've oddly rebranded to confuse with the entire MacBook brand will have a much worse problem in this respect.
And this is why I only drink rain water and pure grain alcohol... to ensure the purity of my precious bodily fluids...
It is naive postulation to dismiss the paper for not addressing a variable, when you have not even read the paper to know whether they addressed the variable.

Further, your cursory read of the abstract somehow missed the clause "after controlling for socioeconomic status"
... would be fine until I want to talk to my mother, who uses Skype. And then it would feel strangely limiting to not be able to do that on my $999 computer.
> Does that merit a revolution or not yet?

Well, if that's what you're asking for, come right out and say it - it is a position that can be debated on its merits. Moaning about democratic processes without being clear about the alternative you're proposing instead is negative because it comes across as a message of despair which if anything makes the problem you're complaining about worse.
How do you then avoid attracting more people from abroad?
Brian from Backblaze here - expanding on Yev's answer a little, a customer has an email address/password that they login to Backblaze's datacenter with. The email address is bound to a Backblaze "Cluster" for life (at least so far we have never migrated a customer between clusters). The cluster contains a variety of services, it's the unit of scaling for our company. A single cluster scales easily up to at least 200 Vaults (probably much more, we'll let you know), and any one customer's data will be spread across pretty much all the Vaults in that cluster with enough time. A customer backs up once per hour, and each time they are told to backup to a vault with spare space on it with no affinity. Theoretically it might be possible all your data lands on one vault, but it's really unlikely.

Vaults belong to a cluster - so your backup only puts data on the group of Vaults assigned to that one cluster, and the vaults in that cluster don't contain data from customers on OTHER clusters.
The action items show up for past meetings, so if you were just playing around and added it to a future meeting, it will show up once it's in the past. You have to click Send Meeting Summary, and it will send it out by email. If you're still having issues, pls email me dave AT worklife
Perhaps. But given that we have several candidate mechanisms, and experiments showing that fluoride really does cause hyperactivity in rats, I wouldn't write this off too quickly.
"we cannot force the cost of living to drop"

That's exactly what rent control does. I guess it's ok to not even try to make an argument on HN these days.
Goat Found Frozen
that is way too logical of a thought
Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed in a Large Corporation
yes. sort of. Basically I was in trouble because I was getting into to many side projects and couldn't focus on just one thing that had the potential to become a product someday.

I am trying to build something that would help me with that and support me with my personal goals.
It's a nice laptop... but underspec'd for me. I'd like to see USB-C and more than 1920 x 1080 resolution. I don't care as much about the resolution on a 13" screen. But I'd like to be able to drive a 4K monitor. It's not clear to me whether it can drive a 4K monitor with its display port.
> it seems that all chrome apps are 32bit applications.

> what could use 16gb memory?

4+ simultaneous processes.
Besides the terms of service violation, if you provide an invalid phone number you're likely to get locked out of something and not able to verify your identity to get back in.
Candy Crush: Minimalistic version
If I want to solve a problem, will a public display of empathy and outpouring of emotion produce a solution? Or will analysis will produce a solution?

Consider, if you will, that people have responded by looking for solutions. A true lack of empathy would be a response characterized by people professing apathy or ignoring this submission entirely.
Goodie, more things to buy.
True! And I'm pretty certain that things will only get better once a substantial fraction of the people making web sites gets into this age and have the same problems.
Yes, the user is the person who runs the program that they didn't write. They don't know that they called strtonum()

testing for errno == 0 is not actually useful, since errno is not set except on error (that is by design of errno, it is always an indication of what the last error was, not that there was an error)

and errstrp doesn't give the Klingon user you mentioned any information at all, since they can't read English.

fafner said it better than I in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9184734

and yes it does matter, for a standard libc function, because if you don't take care about setting standards, then your standards will be a mess.
I wonder if they solved the whole issue of the balloons... lost to sea off the coast of NZ?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/9012282/Goo...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/10182174/Google-to-reimburse...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/60107516/go...
Never heard the term, but by context I would guess "Attack on Hardware Platform" or some such.
Progressive values are in fact the minority. Most people on hacker news (for example, but also in the world at large) do not believe women have rights to bodily integrity, to be respected as people rather than sex objects, and to be comfortable in their communities. This thread from yesterday is a great reminder of that, to anyone who thinks HN is some egalitarian utopia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9168299

In order to have any concept of morality, we must presume that every aspect of our value system is superior to every aspect of any other value system. But this isn't a negative. It isn't ~presumptuous~ to believe that murder and torture and rape are wrong. Likewise, supporting these things is not some mere "alternative" that should be encouraged by some moral-relativist position that all forms of society are equally preferable.

The universe is not fair. There is no law of physics that naturally leads to good triumphing over evil. The history of humanity is the story of the slow climb of our species out of the darkness, away from tyranny and patriarchy and towards freedom for everyone, but this has not come for free. The road to freedom is mortared with the blood of freedom fighters, from Joan D'Arc to John Brown to Bobby Seale to Martin Luther King Jr. to Malcolm X to Andrea Dworkin. In order to continue this slow climb, we have to fight. There is no alternative. This article and the voices supporting it here are evidence of the backslide that would occur if ever we stopped.

It's laughable to suggest that patriarchy doesn't harm people. Read the thread I linked and the comments if you think otherwise. Every rape joke/rape denial is one more brick in the wall of PTSD facing one quarter of women. Every dongle joke is one more pane in the glass ceiling protecting the good ol' boys club. You have the luxury, the privilege, of pretending these things don't exist because you are a member of the social class committing these oppressions. With your silence, you become complicit; and you are not even silent.

It's comforting to know that I'm not alone among hackers. There is no intrinsic aspect of hackerdom that demands being creepy or misogynistic. And one day, just as there are few hackers that are KKK members or Nazis, there will be few hackers that are misogynists. Because the ratchet of history only ever turns in one direction, and once this ground is lost to you it will be lost forever.
How do you decide which of those projects is worth working on and which not?
Hearsay/conspiracy theory... but I heard that fluoride doesn't help your teeth and that a general increase in hygiene occurred the same time that fluoride.
I also heard that it is a byproduct of processing aluminium and they coaxed the government to put it into water rather than disposing of it responsibly.
I wish I could take the "kudos" I gave this post back now that I've read HeartlessCEO's (now dead and hidden from people browsing without showdead=yes) link to this post:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119350/amicus-app-how-tec...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9186294
That is true! However, having empathy is not the same as a public display of empathy.
I endorse zennioptical.com I got my glasses for $28 including shipping. Better than what I get at a chain optometrist (probably where they go to order them). They've got 10's of thousands of frames; all the lens options; bifocals or trifocals and so on.

Costs more for fancier options.
Understanding Wall Street's Conflict of Interests Problem
We would net conserve crude petroleum if we shut down ethanol production today.

Correct, this is the real question, whose answer is debated and depends severely on the production mechanism.
I guess I can't think of a single instance in history where the world was made a better place with the attitude of "life isn't fair, you're on your own".
sure but there is a different between finding them, knowing how to changed them and executing that change. You need to know way more than what process is not working before knowing how to change it and you will need people on board to achieve a working lasting change. If you go in shooting from the hips you are very unlikely to achieve what you want, even if the problem is clear to everyone. If it were that straightforward they would do it without needing someone new
I understand your general point and think it holds true. However, I would say in my mind that the way Apple can decide to change their connector and suddenly make redundant a full range of downstream devices (house and car chargers, general chargers, audio equipment) is a real negative and one of the 3 or 4 things that keeps me from moving back over from Android.
Which someone at Google can likely tie to your real one with zero effort, especially if you've got an Android phone or a Nest.
What if the answer is as simple as "Build more housing for everyone"?

Build enough, and there is affordable housing for everyone. Engineers need places to live too.
I got 2 pairs of glasses from zenni for a total of $40, including shipping. First pair lasted 2 years, still using the second pair 3 years after I bought them. Better quality then any other pairs I've had, including a $400 pair from the optometrist.
Aircraft makers seek lithium-ion battery shipment ban
I cannot endorse this more - I bought an additional 3 yr everything-covered warranty on an Elitebook, and it ended up saving me $1100 in repairs to the laptop. Even Squaretrade warranties are better than nothing.
Show HN: Well Deserved
Shares of Box walloped after massive quarterly loss
HTTP can transfer arbitrary binary data just fine. There is no need to encode it.

I don't know which they use but HTTP traditionally uses a `Content Length` or an empty chunk to represent the end of data.
Just like Thunderbolt? I'm not holding my breath, but I do think USB has a better chance of a successful accessory ecosystem.
Could we have the timer start on first click rather than on webpage load.
> You don't have to understand my preferences. All you need to do is try to respect my right to decide for myself what is best for me.

We might respect it, but you haven't made a convincing case that we need to craft policy around financially supporting it.
Show HN: Paid, an API for invoicing
Guardian retracts most of their Whisper coverage
Or you live in Europe and 2 years of warranty on new electronics is the law, not the premium.
ASUS Chromebook 13-Inch HD with Gigabit WiFi, 16GB Storage & 2GB RAM (Yellow) [http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O5VX2AA/ref=oh_aui_det...]

I've been really surprised at how smooth the experience has been, especially since I'm running ubuntu in chroot.

It's not quite powerful enough to play minecraft, it runs but really slowly.
Spending a grand on a piece of machine that people rarely write software for is a bit of a pickle.
iOS 8.2 Jailbreak iPhone, iPad, iPod using TaiG
Hopefully the charger has 4x USB built in (2x normal + 2x type C)
"White knight" is definitely a term that makes me sit up and take notice that maybe it's me that might be on the worst possible side of a debate.
It's probably just how I consider myself in the context of people I know. I love being well versed in something and offering suggestions to people, but I have always been more of a taker when it comes to music. Normally I'm ready with a book/movie/tv/game/whatever recommendation, but I've never been connected to the music world the same way.

It could also be a sibling thing, as 2 of my younger brothers are very much on the cutting edge of new acts (following tiny blogs, watching new soundcloud accounts, etc.), and I feel like I end up mostly relying on hearing new things through them. There's even a clear delineation in my musical tastes in the early 2000s when my siblings began finding music and I shifted away from relying on my parents' stuff to theirs. It's just something I think about when I'm strolling through spotify playlists most days.
That's what you want to run on your laptop? Android apps?
login: test@test.com
password: asdf

is usable to check it out
California's high housing costs drive out poor, middle-income workers