skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The contrast of the blue text(62a9e3) in the dropdown menu against the pure white background fails all WCAG guidelines. So it is not perfectly usable.
Google's only design philosophy is to arrange content in a way that maximizes the profit. If on top of that you can make it look good, cool. If not... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ask HN: What are your thoughts about Google I/O 2015?
Why does it matter? (for reference I went to a decent university having had a poor upbringing).

Are we substantially better off in a world with 1000 arbitrary people going to e.g. Cambridge vs one in which 1000 upper class children go? (expand the concept to university in general if you wish).

You still have unbalanced outcomes based on what eventually comes down to a lottery of some sort. Even if you choose the absolute best 1000, are the next 10000, 20000, 30000 actually materially worse?

Going beyond that, surely the concept of prestige in and of itself is problematic? Should you get a better life because you have a higher IQ? Why? Do we actually want that? Would we design the world that way if we actively chose?

I certainly wouldn't... why should my friend have a shit life due to quirk of birth? Why should my other friend have a dramatically better life due to the same?

We seem to strive to normalise things that are/were seen as handicaps, like race, disability, sex, etc. etc. But we are seemingly unwilling to accept that the idea of ranking humans is broken. It only makes sense as a hack to encourage productive behaviours - it might not even be needed any more soon.
Bernie Sanders’s Message Resonates with a Certain Age Group: His Own
For payment in store, it is standard EMV contacless payment (with some specificities for HCE) like for contactless physical credit card. Therefore you should be able to pay with any NFC enabled Point Of Sale connected to payment networks (Visa/Mastercard at least I assume for Android Pay).

This payment solution relies on tokenization. Tokens are mapped to physical payment cards (Google will probably act as a Token Service Provider). Tokens once provisioned on the mobile hold among other things a Digitized Personal Account Number + a set of single use payment keys (or limited use keys) for payment.
Plan for Unexpected Complexity or Be Overwhelmed by It
I don't think a quadcopter can hold cameras with enought distance apart from each other in order for a shot to be any useful, I mean think about it, whale jumping or a football players bodies are much bigger then a quadcopter radius, so the 360 views will most probably be useless
Lumber Liquidators isn't exactly a global mover and shaker. You can always punish the little guy. You can always name a person to take the fall, but it doesn't restore balance to the force.

Wake me up when HSBC sees meaningful fines or when Putin has his $70 billion in illegally acquired wealth confiscated.
Hardware Lessons from Nomiku
So, IIUC, Polymer and FB React are competing visions of how to build web components.

Does anyone have direct experience with both, and can compare them from a real-world usage viewpoint?

Thanks!
"Maybe it's like that in other European countries too"

No, it's not. In most of the nothern or eastern european countries peoples are easily learning and speaking english and other languages. The frenchs are just the french exception. :)
Show HN: Flimr – swipe through all videos on Reddit in seconds
I'm curious how they are planning to record audio. Binaural sound can give a sense of presence even without video. The common approach to recording it is by placing microphones in your own or a fake heads ears and that won't work in VR. It'd be interesting to see an array of microphone elements perhaps in a cleverly shaped mold to go along with this.
Vincent van Gogh on How to Live
I think the Black Buck missions during the Falklands war are among the most impressive combat missions of any conflict. The most comparable mission I can think of is the Doolittle raid in WW2. But, considering the technical complexity, environment and potential for disaster, Black Buck was much more risky.

Back in the 90's I spent many hours playing Harpoon, a naval and air war simulator. It was easy in a game to send planes on a mission to the far limits of range and capability, bombers that flew past fighter cover with little or no radar coverage. That such a "crazy" mission was actually done is very impressive.

Sad to see the last one stop flying, wish I could travel to the UK to see and hear it in person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck
What do am and pm stand for?
> We care deeply about your privacy. Paperspace is a ‘zero-knowledge’ company which means we do not have access to your personal information on your Paperspace desktop.

i wonder how that works exactly if everything is "in the cloud"
Get a book on Tarot (or the I Ching).

Get a set of cards.

Shuffle, Deal, Look.

Repeat.

Works on my machine!
If your company depends on controlling people's hours when they'd rather actually just leave, other more disastrous interpersonal issues are in play.

I often get more work done walking around the park and thinking about better approaches to a problem than I do by sitting and trying to grind on a problem incessantly for hours.

If you can't trust your employees to do the right thing, you have captive slaves, not useful creative problem solvers.
It could be that the adapteva model(which talks about a highly focused design) fits a small number of start-ups, that are as a generalization, less appealing to VC's due to smaller markets and returns, and most other companies require lots of funding - say $30+ million ?
TISA: Yet Another Treaty You've Never Heard of Makes Secret Internet Rules
How to get a free lunch and a new job
True, it's sad that it was going to overrun costs. But it was ambitious--imagine how ahead of its time it was if it could have achieved 40TeV 20 years ago.

It's also depressing when you consider what we did decide to spend money on. The cost of air conditioning alone in Iraq was $20B. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/21/air-conditioning-mi... Edit: I'm not suggesting we go to war and not keep our troops air conditioned--it was a necessity given the conditions. I'm suggesting that when such a tiny fractional cost of the war more than the cost of the SSC, maybe our sense of relative costs was warped.
It would be cool if other non-Silicon Valley founders from the HN community share their thoughts on this.
no the reward is temporally separated from the input. It's thought the brains mechanism to do this is somewhat reenforcement learning like (Basal ganglia)
React does not let you build Web Components, it's a monolithic framework in the same vein as Angular, Ember, etc.

Real world usage, you can import and drop a Polymer element on your page and it just works. With React, your whole app has to be React.
Always reminds me of Thunderball.
MIT researchers pioneer technique for mass-producing graphene
Haha I was reading the parent and I was like "Pre-sense?" "What would that have to do with feeling immersed in VR?" This cleared it up, thanks.
I'm very happy to see that one-way binding is now supported within templates, with syntax that sets it apart from two-way binding:

https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/docs/devguide/data-bindi...

That option may have become available some time ago, but I haven't looked at Polymer in quite awhile. Two-way binding can be a great and convenient thing, but having it as the only option, in the early days of Polymer, led to many headaches (for me, at least). The reason is that two-way binding can make it practically impossible to reason deterministically about data flow when several or more bindings come into play.
> We'd either defeat ourselves first

It's common knowledge that startups self-sabotage through either founder personality conflicts, running out of money, or not making something people want (then running out of money).

Rarely is a startup destroyed by "competitors."
Where are the women in the history of open source?
Agreed. This is the main reason I root my phone, so I can run Xposed + App Ops.
The French are big with preserving their language. They once fined GE 600K€ for not translating some manuals into French.
Fired from Apple, Steve Jobs Allowed One Photographer to Document His Comeback
Each of those 16 GoPros have microphones, so I think you could get great results by processing all of those audio signals.
Expertly put and exactly what I'm trying to say - thank you.
What I see missing, that Xposed + App Ops gives me is the "Keep Awake"... having revoked this permission from almost all non-Google apps, my battery life is a full 50% longer than other people with my phone report.
Go live in Iraq without air conditioning for a year and see how willing you'd be to give it up.

There has to be a balance. Yes, we should invest in sciences. No, we will not convince people to give up things that may not matter in the long run, but matter very much in their day-to-day lives. Honestly, you should have used the defense budget as an example.
For One Second, a Supercomputer Mimicked the Human Brain (2013)
Seems fine for me on Firefox 38.0.1 on Arch Linux, with an i5 2520M
No, f·g = ∫f(x)g(x)dx.
Middle clicks on links are also pretty broken. Sometimes they do open the link in a new tab, something they open the link in the same tab, sometimes they do nothing.

As someone who use mainly workstations with a at-least-three-buttons mouse, I feel web browsing is getting increasingly annoying.
It should be said that psychohistory is not taken very seriously by most historians.
It might look kind of cool at first, but it puts additional barriers in between the user and actually doing something useful like entering data in a form, booking a flight, etc.

For example, if I haven't been to the site before, I might have to explore the interface a bit before I get to the part of the interface I want. Clicking on those tiles makes things shift and bounce around, the content portion of the screen constantly moves left to right.

Way too much difficulty for doing something so simple.

Designs should be visually appeasing, but not at the expense of ease of use or ease of understanding.
It's very difficult to get photons to strongly interact with each other. An optical transistor would revolutionize both classical optical computing and quantum computing.
http://www.google.com/design/spec-vr/designing-for-google-ca...

My browser window is 1350 pixels wide and the headline is still cut off: "Designing for Google Cardboar"
Conspicuously absent:

- Read external storage

- Internet
#define G_UNLIKELY(expr)
Well, if you have 16 quadcopters - each with one camera... :-)
Only thing worse than material design is web animations.

I am not sure if its a side effect of designers getting carried away but I find most of the web animations useless.
Concurrency was the primary selling point for Go. Setting GOMAXPROCS=1 not only failed to deliver on that but also ran the risk of people not noticing concurrency issues because all of their development happened without parallel execution.
I'm very happy to see that one-way binding is now supported within templates, with syntax that sets it apart from two-way binding:

https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/docs/devguide/data-bindi....

That option may have become available some time ago, but I haven't looked at Polymer in quite awhile. Two-way binding can be a great and convenient thing, but having it as the only option, in the early days of Polymer, led to many headaches (for me, at least). The reason is that two-way binding can make it practically impossible to reason deterministically about data flow when several or more bindings come into play.
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Welcome to the English language. Enjoy your stay.
I'm sure Jaynes would have made the same argument against your example that he did when others told him about examples of consciousness in The Iliad, "they are later additions or mistranslations."

A pretty convenient and unconvincing argument on his part.
And this is relevant because ... why? There's no trademark or service mark, and as we've already discussed, the GIMP copyright allows this sort of use.
I've found a lot of / increasing variation amongst units of the same clothing item, here in the U.S. For jeans and casual slacks, for example, I've become accustomed to taking several units of the same measure to the dressing room and selecting those that fit best. Individual units often vary quite significantly, even when from the same stack in the same store.

I'm not much of a clothes hog nor shopper, but LL Bean has had the most regular cuts that I've found, in my quite limited experience. I used to be able to order an item and, if the same size in that item had previously fit me, count on the new item fitting. Although more recently, while using one of their stores, I found more variation in their jeans. I'm glad I didn't order my last batch by mail and have to return 1 or 2 out of 5.
It also loads each tile on demand; if you're scrolling quickly, all you see is a bunch of empty colored boxes with titles.
FOUR DRINKING BUDDIES CAME UP WITH THIS CRAZY, UNLIKELY PLAN TO STOP INFLATION, YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!
I can see that in some social media clickbait site.
It doesn't scale down well either, on mobile everything is too spaced out so the information density is terrible. The calendar app on android is a farce.

They've also released the 'improved' notes app, you now have to press buttons twice just to add a note, it's frustrating and totally idiotic. A hard to use notes app, great job Material.
It does have meaning. An obvious difference is that you can have concurrency with one processor but not parallelism requires at least two.
That's not a very graceful way of handling that though. I'm not saying it's not ok to break the grid, but at least make it logical. The element isn't even visible without interaction.
Yep the SSC would have cost almost $20 billion in the end. I'm not sure how you put a price on the knowledge.
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Some good tech stories - Failed Startup Stories
Looks like some CSS or something was broken earlier today, because I had the same experience, but now everything looks fine.
The most permissible thing is not the most used thing (&T is far more common than Arc<RefCell<T>>), and Rust's goal is to be explicit about costs. The extra typing directly correlates with extra cost.
This is just stupid. Rackable was already way better known brand in datacenters/cloud than SGI. Who nowadays even remembers SGI?
Free app that uses strong crypto and steganography protect sexts
He/she probably means grammatical case declension for subjects, objects, possessives and whatnot. _Der_ Hund beißt _den_ Mann. _Der_ Mann gibt _dem_ Taxifahrer _das_ Geld.

German has four cases, Polish seven(?), Russian six(?). In English it's mostly gone, but we occasionally have to go to the effort of distinguishing between subject and object (I/me, he/him, she/her).
Most brands of jeans do the same cuts every year - just different washes. I personally am a fan of diesel jeans (waykee).

Shoes are more tricky...
Or they could have originally defaulted to GOMAXPROCS=2 to uncover these races while still minimizing the problems from their gorountine scheduler.
Either meaningless nonsense, or displays a complete ignorance of jazz. You pick.
That's right. The shipping itself was fast but orders would just sit for days and sometimes weeks before being shipped.
I didn't disdain your position. I thought it was odd, strange, maybe to the point of amusing as it seemed to use a particular word "war" that was a much more apt description of the state of societies interaction with unions many years before your supposed "start".

You've already revised your position, to one that I think is still overly broad and simplistic, but one that I think is common and thus not bizarre.

If I were to describe my thoughts on the particular point in history its that Reagan's action was an effect of the decline of labor unions, that occurred because in many ways they had accomplished a lot of their stated and most approachable goals. The only reason he could get away with it was because the unions had lost so much of their sway. They didn't lose their sway because he fired striking workers.

You also see that it was not confined to the US as Thatcher was doing similar things in the UK.
That attitude seems naive. Google took a stab at replacing Wikipedia with Google Knol, Yelp (or was it Foursquare) with Google Places, and that's just two examples that spring to mind. It seems expected that Google would mine its own data for trends and look at how they could use that data to drive new app development or make existing third party apps irrelevant by rolling new features into Google Now, even if that data is mined only "in aggregate".
What if the company were always owned by the FRC, and you just didn't know? What options would you have other than quitting, once you learned?
> Google would be able to understand what you do, when you do it, who your pals are, who you go out to movies with, who you chat with the most, are you looking to quit your job, are you about to break up, are you going through a depression and so on...

Sounds a lot like the NSA.
I just happen to be cramming for my English 3001 midterm tomorrow so I'll give this a go.

So firstly. Syntactically speaking, languages generally have become more complex over time.

When it comes to sound change (phonology) though, things are getting simpler. This is due to external (language interaction) and internal change. Internally, we tend to ease articulation over time, we tend to evolve words to increase perceptual clarity and we tend to introduce sound systems with symmetry. By symmetry I mean, for example, sounds which activate your larynx (AKA "voiced" as in "b" in "boy") naturally create room for an unvoiced pairing like "p" in "pair". Or a vowel sound from the lower back of your mouth like "a" in "father" will incentivize a lower front sound like "a" in "sat". A high back sound like "oo" in "pool" will lead the way for use of a high front sound like "ea" in "seat".

Lots of internal as well as external processes at play which tend to evolve things towards a more efficient and simple phonological system.

On a more complicated level we have the interaction between morphological (word formation) and syntactic (word arrangement) components. According to my notes the motivating force behind morphological change (and to a lesser extent, syntactic change) is analogy. Not analogy as in the common definition; but analogy as in the process in which one form becomes like another form with which it's associated. For example, "kine" has been replaced by "cows" so that it better conforms to expected pluralization practices. Think of the mistakes children make saying things like "foots" and consider this an untainted window into our brain's natural grammar system. Analogy here serves to remove irregularities and this might be what has you thinking things are getting less complex.

You also might be interested in the evolution of English from a more inflection based language to a more analytic one. Inflection languages create grammatical distinctions with morphological affixes. Like prefixes or suffixes, they are attached to words for things like tense. An analytic language like Modern English has lost a lot of it's inflection and uses word order and function words (prepositions, articles, conjunctions) to indicate grammatical relationships.

I've got a 70% right now and the guy beside me has a 95%... so that's the best I can do in this moment. Thanks for forcing my procrastination into productivity.
You're right. And ditto for cos(x+delta) vs cos(x).

Of course that assumes that arclength is well-defined. The standard approach to which is, of course, Calculus.
> The obvious solution is birth control. It's not that there are too few jobs, it's that there are too many people.

Jobs aren't fixed, such that reducing the number of people will align people with jobs. Reducing people will reduce jobs, so if you commit to that method of trying to get them in alignment, you'll end up tail-chasing with more and more aggressive population reduction efforts until you recognize that the approach doesn't work.
sure, but now some programs will break. This is a breaking change.
Material is very different from Metro, I would suggest reading the environment guidelines, they're very core to understanding the distinction between the two: https://www.google.com/design/spec/what-is-material/environm...
Savings rates: US 17% India 32% China 51%. Apparently the Chinese manage to save without having that "baseline of living" sucking up all their work. Yet Chinese people earn far less than Americans .

How is that possible? It's almost as if your "baseline of living" is actually "living high on the hog as if tomorrow doesn't exist".

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNS.ICTR.ZS
Alan Moore (he of Watchmen fame) invokes the Roman god Glycon in ceremonial magic, even though he knows Glycon was exposed as a sock puppet in the second century. Nonetheless, the magic works (for certain values, presumably ones meaningful to Mr Moore, of "works").
You can get the same reaction from playing any other game with an element of surprise on just a normal display.
Yes, we don't know the profit per article, but we do know some of their internal costs.
Tell me, there's been various minimum wage enacted in the U.S. since the 1930's. If a minimum wage is so bad for the economy, wow come during the last ~80 years, the U.S. has been the world's foremost leading economic engine?

How come the minimum wage has been raised many times throughout history, and somehow business keeps trucking along?

Nobody is suggesting raising the minimum wage to $100/hour, that's a false argument.

The market is full of distortions. Indeed the entire creation of the ideology of capitalism was about how best to regulate and harness the powerful market forces.
Since our product bridges the gap between bookkeeping, accounting, finance and engineering, and because this is aimed at developers, we're building the knowledge up from bookkeeping in part 1, to accounting basics in part two.
Actually, it's unlimited for "high resolution" versions, not for the originals, which is sad. I guess I will stick with Carousel or Flickr.
You don't need a CS degree to be successful but it'll be a lot easier to get in the door.

Most top-tier tech companies (google, fb, twitter, etc.) won't even interview a non-cs candidate for an engineering or product role unless they have incredible (like, you built instagram) evidence of their talent.

It's also a lot harder to skip the degree and still learn what you need. I did, and it's taken me 10+ years of constant curiosity (and tons of nights and weekends) to be on par with my peers who have degrees.

That all said. You gain other skills with a liberal arts or science degree that CS majors don't get. I'm a much better communicator and manager than many of my engineering colleagues, and that has allowed me to outpace them in terms of career growth.
Just to play devil's advocate -- and taking several levels of cynicism as a given -- the energy security of the USA is worth far more than what we ended up spending on the Iraq war.

For all the money that the EU has spent on the LHC, it hasn't really paid off to that extent. Even if you consider "the web" as part of that payoff, it's not the equivalent of guaranteeing every person in the western world stable access to cheap energy.

(I'm not saying I agree with that rationale for our adventures in Iraq, I just don't think it's quite fair to make the comparison you're making. There's more at stake in Iraq than a stable democracy for a small country.)
Reliably and repeatably crashes Chrome on iOS on an iPhone 4s.