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Washington farmers tell Trump: We need more foreign workers(seattletimes.com)
7 points by scribu 10y ago|2 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
> First off, never, ever use complementary colors as the foundation for your design. A red green color scheme (for example) will produce a result that "vibrates." That's an interesting effect, but I don't see it in th
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by scribu 10y ago
Someone making a color scheme for a chart needs to be very rigorous indeed, because color is actually how the data is represented, in some cases. The tutorial seems to be aimed at front-end developers that want to put together a color schem
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by scribu 10y ago
tl;dr: The negative values described in that article are possible because a broader definition is used: > In statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, temperature is defined as follows: > 1/temperature = change in entropy/ch
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by scribu 10y ago
> The detection comes by letting users tag stories by content and emotional weight. So what's to stop malicious users from tagging a post they don't like in such a way that the system sees it as controversial?
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by scribu 10y ago
I agree with the ideea that a sport loses its meaning if the athlete is overshadowed by technological advances. However, I'm not convinced by the argument that sports need to keep equipment palatable to amateurs. Consider Formula 1 rac
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In stoicism, you can carry on after hitting the wall by making a turn.
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Google featured snippets are worse than fake news(theoutline.com)
409 points by scribu 10y ago|184 comments
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Conscious consumerism is a lie(qz.com)
2 points by scribu 10y ago|1 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
Is that supposed to be a quote from the article? 'cause I can't find it.
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IMO, the main takeaway from the article isn't that "those 70's developers lacked imagination", but that UNIX is far from perfect. The author even states that UNIX was amazing when it came out, but that doesn't mea
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Looking at your proposed solution again, a question popped up: if the UI can comfortably support an expanded search bar, then what's the point in minimising it, ever?
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Those words are meant for people who have the question "why should I go through all this trouble to implement this pattern?" That said, it is very vague. I think this presentation from Alex Russell does a much better job of demo
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What if, after the initial visit when the user discovers the search bar, the user can't find the search bar anymore because now it looks different? What if they forgot what they learned on the previous visit? Humans do that sometimes,
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> what the landing page of google looks like (it's basically centered and has no magnifying glass icon) The Google landing page does have a magnifying glass on mobile.
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I don't think you got it straight. > Yet another attempt to emulate a full OS-level network stack on top of HTTP The proposed protocol does not work "on top of" HTTP. From the article: > The basic idea is that the web b
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by scribu 10y ago
I never thought about that. It's like a "noncentral fallacy" [1] type of argument in a single word! [1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst...
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by scribu 10y ago
I'd like to think that HN can host civil, fact-based discussions about sensitive issues like these. If it can't, then perhaps the community isn't that special after all.
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They achieved it by making a lot of guesses, based on a huge amount of explicit and implicit knowledge about humans, computers and the world in general. The brute-force approach described in the article, where you just randomly try lines of
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by scribu 10y ago
But you can rename variables in Swift 3 + XCode 8: move cursor to a symbol and press Command + Control + E. Sadly, that's the only refactoring support available right now.
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by scribu 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8402859
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I think the limiting factor is not money, but mental bandwidth. Even if they could just go out and buy a whole extra product team that's up to their standards, they would still need constant attention from the leadership to be successf
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How to Deal with Populism(caracaschronicles.com)
79 points by scribu 10y ago|92 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
I agree, the usefulness of a "distribution" like this is getting some fresh ideas about how to customise the editor. For example, this site listed some useful plugins that I didn't know about, such as https://githu
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This info would be a lot easier to process if the images were juxtaposed and you had a slider to move through the years. That way you could visually track how a particular item evolved.
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Besides the overview of philosophical trends in "serious" music, it also attempts to explain the sociological mechanism through which the avant-garde movement still survives (what he calls The Dictatorship of Difficult Music). I f
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by scribu 10y ago
It's fascinating how easy it is to misinterpret an author, particularly when the work was published a long time ago. I'm currently reading a modern take on the subject of power - "The Dictator's Handbook" by Bruce B
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I've recently started working on an iOS app in Swift 3 and it's a mostly pleasant experience, even though XCode doesn't have Vim keybinds. I hope Swift can break out of the app-building niche, but from these slides it sounds
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Minimum Viable Citizen(status451.com)
2 points by scribu 10y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
For anyone else wondering what "Midori" is, it looks like it was an internal Microsoft research project: http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/

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