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I'm less than half Betty's age, and I have many of the same problems, both on mobile web and on my laptop (which has a touchpad that does gestures and multi-touch).

Zooming/resizing, in particular, pretty much just happens at random for me. I can't avoid it when I don't want to resize and can't make it work when I do want to resize. I didn't love the old "+|-" UI elements in the old Android (way back in the ~1.3 days, I guess), but I didn't hate them, the way I rage about random resizing. And, it's universal, too. It's not a thing that is unique to Android, or iOS or Windows, or Linux; I have these problems no matter what OS I'm using. Multitouch interfaces are really difficult for me to use.

My mom has an iPad, and she has a hard time with this kind of stuff, too. But, then again, the mouse was also hard for her...she managed to almost entirely miss the desktop/laptop computer age, by leaving my dad in charge of all computer-oriented activity, but now that he's gone, she has had to learn.

Anyway, it's clear that most technology is designed by and for able-bodied people in their 20s and 30s. Everybody else just kinda has to figure out workarounds (my dad used to have the resolution on his display set really low in Windows, so that everything would be big, so he could read it...there are ways to make Windows use large fonts and such, but not all software respects those settings, so he found the most universally consistent way to get big fonts was to work at a very low resolution).
Hence my replying to the parent
ChromeOS is Linux and chrome, with a drastically simplified desktop environment. The hardware is well supported (AFAIK). But it's easier to run crouton atop than reinstall. So most people who want more do that.
thedrop.club is more community focused (user submission, comments, upvotes, etc) while this is more on just pure aggregation. You can optionally submit tracks but its a more automated way and doesn't require people to sign up for there to be content.
If it really is that simple, how marvelous!
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I don't understand how the item matching is working. Do they have textual descriptions of each item (including colors and patterns), or are they somehow building vectors for the images and then doing cross-modal vector calculations?

If it's the first option, then generating those descriptions seems and important thing to mention.

If it's the second, then it's a pretty significant result! I've seen some papers that indicate some possibilities in that area, but never anything working as well as this.
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Id agree but 4th and 5th very much went down the what role your building the character for (tank dps healer controller etc) and stopped some of the more fun parts coming up with a concept and building character to suit.
I know that dots does the same thing. I'm refuting the GP who says the game implements no novel behavior (implying that dots has no novel behavior, and that it isn't ripping anything it off). The box behavior is novel and proves that it is ripping dots off since it isn't a rule that you find obvious.
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This sounds potentially interesting but I don't see anything about the schedule/talks/speakers. Is that available somewhere ?
Here's a link to Dave McClure's feed at this point, rather than the image.
https://twitter.com/davemcclure/status/575740698391134208

Sam Altman's response is in there, I don't see anything from PG, so not sure why you have PG response, unless you're PG is not meaning Paul Graham.

I think McClure's point has a small bit of validity, but Altman's response really hits it on the head. As a VC he knows 7 out of 10 investments aren't going to return, 2 will return at 1.yX (not sure what why is) and the last one will return 50++X.

Investors of course don't want to loose money, but they are supposed to be out there getting big fish, not trying to grab all the minnows.
Would love something like this for hip hop as in my experience it's mostly over the top blogs and mixtape sites.
No, I meant grams/watt, but I glossed over how I derived those numbers.

My back-of-the-envelope assumption was that you get 4 effective hours of daylight per 24 hours. Which means that for every 1W of power generation at peak, you get 1/6W of average power consumption, which translates to 3.33Wh of storage to keep things running overnight. (For a land-based installation you would probably want a multiple-day power reserve to handle cloudy days, but I'm assuming that's not an issue for a stratospheric balloon.)
Any plans on adding subgenres? Without good filtering I suspect I'll end up disliking a lot of the content.
Quoting a witty Margaret Atwood line two years after the fact is not the same as saying "my life was threatened by someone". She's clearly describing a physical reaction to anxiety, hair standing up on her neck at the thought of a confrontation, which reminded her of school. If not she could have answered the simple question "You felt fear?" with "Yes, I feared for my life".
I gave this talk at the Sourcegraph meetup this month, had a great time. Happy to answer any questions here too. :)
I always assumed that this is the far future and life spans are longer so 40 is relatively young
Ultrasound is one of those "safe" medical operations that you don't think too much about

Doesn't really seem that way. The FDA has issued a statement on fetal ultrasound imaging: http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm095508.ht...

The crux of it is:

The long-term effects of tissue heating and cavitation are not known. Therefore, ultrasound scans should be done only when there is a medical need, based on a prescription, and performed by appropriately-trained operators.
Same here. Character generator. Basic. C64.
I think it can be even worse than that. What I've often seen is that "failure" isn't even real business failure, but merely your boss having your idea shot down by the boss above him. The risk is mainly emotional. People train themselves to play an elaborate political game to advance their ideas.
Excuse the pun, but HOLY BANANAS! That is amazing! Thank you for that vid and the info. That is so cool! I had no idea the chimp could be trained like that. Amazing! Thank you!
Ultrasound is not without risk. The general advice is to follow the ALARA principle (as low exposure as reasonably achievable). In the early 90's the FDA under pressure from manufacturers approved a 7-fold increase in the power output of ultrasound. Part of that approval was that ultrasound machines show feedback to technicians on estimated amount of tissue heating. That's one of the main concerns. E.g., in a fetus, heating tissue above 4 degrees or so causes damage and that level of heating is possible, especially around areas of bone.

Good presentation: http://radiology.ucsd.edu/body_image/pdfs/visitors/bohazards...
It's the rubber band effect of trust at work.
You should check out thinky.

Because of the chainable query language you don't have to build a new abstractions. You can just use the same.

Meaning that there is nothing (or very little) to learn yp switch from the driver to thinky.
It sure does, and I'm sure it was a rite of passage for many budding programmers.
Probably: http://science.dodlive.mil/2010/09/01/remote-control-of-brai...
It would seem they also have far better short-term visual memory than typical humans. Or maybe that's the result of practice. Time to find out...
And rune quest is based of how real world cultures/religions/cults and how they develop
You could also think of law as a form of code.
No, independent of whether it's possible to make a geostationary balloon, Google's balloons are not going to be stationary. They are steered purely by changing altitude and riding high-altitude winds.
Yes, but a larger antenna will have a narrower beam width so it gets harder to aim it in the right place especially with a platform that is moving. If the antenna beam width is too narrow, you end up needing mechanically steered antennas to keep on target, which are expensive and weigh a lot.

Just to level set, I am not being a negative nelly here, I think this is a super cool idea. It is just every time I read an article about it there is so little technical information that I am left with a million questions in my mind that I wonder how to solve.
Our local elementary school just announced a program to buy all students a chromebook, starting with 1/3 of them next year. They're perfect for the kids because they can't mess them up too much (other than dropping them).

I presume they're not getting the Pixel models though. I don't know who buys those.
See my reply just above. You ignore high costs of multiple engines, both intrinsic and inter-engine -- including, notably, a memory cycle collector of some sort, with its attendant write barrier costs. See Fil Pizlo on webkit-dev the other year:

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/...

As for your lamenting the lack of Machiavellian market power abuse by Google, it really is not clear that even Google can force Dart down others' throats, or its own throat. Rewriting JS code in Dart is a net lose, as far as I can tell. No Google property yet uses Dart, even with dart2js (I welcome correction).

Ignoring the morality of such market-power shenanigans (hey, I was at Netscape, but I've paid my dues, and someone had to be "first" :-P), it is also not clear "Mozilla would then have no choice". Money AKA energy is not free; Mozilla can least afford follies; there is always an option to reject a neo-standard.

Microsoft could not make VBScript stick in the '90s. I say this is signal, yet again. Multiple and mandatory HTML scripting languages exact high direct and indirect costs. Lack of such an outcome is not a conspiracy or tragedy. It's economics and evolution in action.

Update: WSH, shebangs, wow. You forgot about security!
Paragraphs are written about "race" being racist, but Occam's Razor can apply to make it very simple.

Replace "race" with "species" and all is solved.
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Note that women characters in D&D did, at certain points in the evolution of the rules, did have modifications so that their stats differed from male characters.

https://medium.com/@increment/the-first-female-gamers-c784fb... (this is a long but fascinating article)
This model seems to come up every few years but never quite makes it. Here's a version from 2000 with uglier graphics and more shouty copy, but the same idea: https://web.archive.org/web/20001018093126/http://www.safety... . I remember another version where you scanned your household goods to get recall updates.

Of course, previous failure doesn't mean the model is doomed (see grocery delivery in 2014 vs 2000) but there may be a piece missing --- is this a service that Amazon or Toys-R-Us could provide as a value add? Otherwise I'm not sure how you get CAC below LTV at a scale to cover overhead.
Obviously we can't ban science articles, but the point you're raising is important. Reductionist dismissal of new work based on partial understanding of the marginally related is a tell-tale sign of the middlebrow. It is epidemic in communities like this. I don't think there's anything more vital to intellectual maturity than learning to recognize those dismissive reflexes in oneself and inhibit them. That is the essence of an open mind.

There's an analogy to startup investing here. The habit of dismissing the easily dismissable—the obviously lame, the obviously bad idea—guarantees failure even though it's almost always right. This is what the masters of the art keep trying to tell us.

I marked this subthread as off-topic because it's off topic; it doesn't mean we don't agree.

The post has been hammered by both the flamewar detector and a ton of user flags. We turned the former off, but not the latter. Doing more would probably make things worse.
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Frontend is Angular and Bootstrap, backend I use Parse for account/playlist management and its hosted on Heroku.
Source code is using Raphael.js. I know this because I look at code.
Moving to a black hole puts a new spin on "off the grid".
Where D&D’s race system is somewhat yucky, its alignment system is awesome. Once you learn it you’ll find yourself applying to real people. The alignment system consists of two axes: one ethical and one moral.

This author is, frankly, an idiot. To suggest that ethics and morals are orthogonal, or that each is well-described by a three-point linear system... is utterly absurd. It's such a ridiculously bad roleplaying mechanic that those roleplaying games that are more about roleplaying a character than incrementing a number have no such mechanism.

Given that the author seems to value not straitjacketing a character and celebrating individuality, it's very, very odd that the alignment system should be lauded.
I would love to, any suggestion on how to do this? Problem is, the genre field provided by Soundcloud is not consistent (they can pretty much write whatever they want for the genre). Maybe users can tag songs with the subgenre they think that fits?
If you visit a doctor with a problem, will you go along with possible solutions or you will point out problem and expect solution from doctor?

If you are QA engineer, you will point out issues with the tool but making reasonable and appropriate solution is developer's job. Is n't it?

You can point out the problems with your car but you cannot fix them and may be mechanic/engineer can offer solutions.

So I disagree that people should not point out issues if they do not know solutions.

CEO's need not have to solve all on their own and they can route them to appropriate experts for solutions. If that is not possible to solve immediately, offer a time line. If CEO still think, that is not problem/issue at all, let him offer convincing reason. So we have multiple options here rather than suppressing discussion.

Many managers use this type of logic to suppress debate,dissent,discussion ...etc and gradually people shut their mouths even if problem is right in front of their eyes. I think this is avoidable.
runjake i owe you a coffee if you ever get to nyc!

thank you!
Well, mermaids do have obvious genetic differences (the fish tail and ability to breathe in water) that would make them better swimmers than humans and humanoids.

But I'm struggling to come up with what genetic characteristics about D&D dwarves you assume would make them inherently good at building things. There's nothing obvious that I'm aware of.
This.

My wife accidentally wiped my fully configured Crouton Ubuntu install off the drive when I was first playing with my Gen 1 Pixel. I chatted with a few Google Chrome OS devs right after this happened and managed to convince one that some sort of a setting, even if it's super obscure, would be a good idea, but apparently nothing ever came of it.

Crouton has come along way since then and you can back your chroot off to an SD card now, but it's still a pain point for sure.
Then again, both Orcs and Elves can breed with humans. Playing up the racial part of fantasy settings can be very a very interesting avenue for discussing racism, apartheid etc. The mis-understood neutral good half-orc, the result of a war crime rape, or an illicit love affair? In other settings, where for instance orcs might prefer the succulent taste of human flesh: is it acceptable if you only eat the flesh of warriors defeated in honourable battle? Etc, etc.

It's just a game, but it can also be so much more than just a game...
I have a Dell XPS13 running Ubuntu and I use the vSphere Web Client in Chrome to manage our infrastructure.
Having worked in similar environments with similar polities before, those sorts of policies tend to mean, "whoever has the most shininess in an argument" is the person who is considered to take the best policy, and frankly? innovation becomes stifled as the most political adult wins or stalls out the innovator who thinks further than others.
Because in general, the members of the team are all adults, and we all understand the company, and we are all competent - so it comes down to who has the most appeal in the rhetorical wars. I find it appalling - extroverts and manipulation tends to win.

IOW, I'd rather work for a structured hierarchical firm, where politicians brown nose managers and the managers firewall these people from the rest of the team.

edit: Hum, your name seemed familiar. I attended your LISA talk. You're brilliant and well known (witty to boot, as I recall. :) ). You, sir, will be listened to by default, so you will tend not to encounter the failure modes I described above. But do think about them, okay? Tyranny of Structurelessness really is a great read.
ossreality [dead]:

I can't imagine more than 10% of people ever even see these additional configuration. (just like this comment!)

So meta! Way to work that hellban, 'ossreality!
So it seems I am the weird case.

Ok. Thanks for telling me.

I found this out randomly when testing what can and what cannot be on this handler and how gracefully do browsers handle it. It seems that it's not that easy.
That's a pretty serious accusation to level against a respected journalist[1] writing for one of America's most respected publications. Which items in Schreiber's New Republic piece[2] do you take issue with?

At the very least you are factually incorrect that the article "adds nothing of substance" to your earlier blog post. The things that Schreiber alleges -- being in Boston to handle a lawsuit from a former co-founder without telling your partners, petty lying about purchasing and losing an iPad, concealing the amount of time you'd known about the tax issues, etc. -- were not covered in that blog post and paint a very different picture of your leadership of Amicus than what you've claimed.

And honestly, I wish I'd known about this TNR piece when I read your earlier blog post on Hacker News. I would have seriously discounted your advice if I'd seen how sharply your version of events diverged from those of a respected journalist doing lots of research and making your emails publicly available[3]. I don't know why the parent comment was flagkilled -- Schreiber's allegations raise serious questions about your credibility to offer advice to founders, and as a reader I'd appreciate commenters pointing out the other side of the story.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Scheiber

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

[3] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119351/seth-bannons-email...
The simplest solution might be to use the "Reader view available" button at the top left of the iPad / iPhone. It tends to show just the text and relevant images when it works well.
Why doesn't she just subscribe to a newspaper? The main reason her experience is so bad is she's getting her news for "free" (paying with her accidental clicks).
I'm not sure if the linked article is part 2, part 3 or neither... I was actually hoping for some more tips, but it seems to just be a rehash of the information in part 1. Maybe I'm missing something.

Since I already live this way, here are a few things that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else:

1) Wear a hat all day. It makes a huge difference. A sleeping cap is essential on cold winter nights, but even during the day some kind of hat will really help. I wear a wool cap that makes me look like an old man. My wife seems to be happy with long hair, but still wears a night cap at night.

2) Your feet and hands are the first thing to get cold. I work at home as a programmer, so I'm not often moving around. My wife bought me a kind of pillow with a pocket in it to put my feet. It is amazing. Any kind of pillow with a blanket over it will work just as well, I think.

3) On the same topic, never, ever go anywhere without wearing slippers. As soon as your feet get cold, it is really hard to get them warm again.

4) If you are like me and have a sedentary job, make sure to go for walks at regular intervals. As it never gets below freezing where I live, I also go for a bike ride at lunch. Your muscles are amazingly efficient heaters -- and you will lose weight! (I am always worried about being cold on my bike, but even at 3 or 4 degrees C and the wind howling, the bike is the warmest place to be).

5) Don't get wet. At cold temperatures it takes forever to get dry again. All the while you will suffer. If you must get wet (washing dishes, hands, face, whatever), then make sure to use warm water and be careful not to get your clothes wet. If your clothes get wet (i.e., if you go for a walk in the rain and your socks get wet), change to dry ones immediately. I really can't stress this point enough.

Finally, if you do end up getting cold (your skin feels like ice, or your fingers or toes go numb), then warm up immediately -- however you have to do it. If you start shivering, then you have gone waaay too far and you must warm up. Learning to live comfortably in the cold takes a lot of practice -- it is not intuitive (at least it hasn't been for me!). Do not "tough it out". If you get cold, then realize that you have made a mistake somewhere and try to figure out how to fix it for next time.
This is exactly what happens in the situations I've been in. It's miserable when you don't turn your attention to greasing the political game daily.
I wrote one for my TI-99/4a long ago and had most of my characters backed up on cassette decks :)
Cody Wilson is a very interesting activist. Manufacturing your own guns at home has been trivial for about as long as hardware stores have been selling standardized metal parts, but many people seem to be unable to wrap their minds around it, or consider the implications of it.

What Cody Wilson has done is realize the political potential of 3d printing. It's not a very good way to make a gun, but it seems to be an excellent way to get people talking about making guns.
ChromeOS is a non-starter for any development work I'd like. At one time, before 2 kids and a busy job, I would have entertained and enjoyed tinkering and formatting a brand new machine to load up Linux. Now, I don't have time or the energy to waste on that type of thing. I use to like building my own systems, now I just need it to work and do what I need.

At this very high price point (for a computer that just surfs the web) I wouldn't want to be the guy responsible for making sales targets.
How far does this rabbit hole go, though? Your kid may just as well be the first victim of a yet unknown fault. You can't protect them from everything and trying to do so will only cause you anxiety. Wouldn't you rather spend your mental energy on something more positive?
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Well, the native code is replaced by the use of sun.misc.Unsafe to do the off heap allocation and access (look in io & storage classes in https://github.com/OpenHFT/Java-Lang/tree/master/lang/src/ma... ).

I wonder what this sort of library will look like when Panama is done, assuming it provides the sort of structured off heap storage support I'm hoping for.
Be thankful for the inefficiencies of large organizations. Otherwise, we would all be working for MegaCo by now.
Betty, who is 89, has likely seen technology make what must seem like monumental changes. My nephew, who is 6, has never seen a world without the internet, smart phones, tablets and other things. Betty, who is 89, will likely be dead within the next decade. My nephew, who is 6, statistically will very likely be alive in that same time.

While I think it's honorable to use better designs to solve real problems for real people, I think we much too often attribute age as a factor in both understanding and operating technology. It's just not. Eyesight, dexterity, lucidity, etc. are factors that may change with age, but don't assume that means you can design for an age bracket. Design for color blindness, shitty internet connections or what have you, but not age. It's stupid, judgemental, and a waste of time.