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Interesting suggestion! I really cannot stand this book, but I appreciate all of the things you've gleaned from it and I'm glad it's had a positive impact on people.

I actually really like Pirsig's ideas about quality and balancing analytical and emotional worldviews, but the writing style drives me nuts and feels like I'm grading a weak Philosophy 101 essay.

RE: Mottaini - always-pray is definitely annoying, but I don't think it holds up with deeper strategy. If your opponent is doing it vehemently, remember that you now have absolute control over what actions they take, and find a route that you can exploit much better than them. It's a very strange game, and one that will not match everyone's tastes, but I definitely think it falls right in line with Chudyk's other work and was a great value.

I think that family of ClearType bugs persisted for like 5 years on Chrome for Windows (I only noticed it fixed last fall?) so I'm not surprised people were attempting extreme fixes. The text looked really bad.

EDIT: Sibling post suggests it was fixed in 2014. I wonder what was wrong with my home laptop then, haha...

If anything, their adaptability gives me confidence. They have little power to stop vendors from creating new emojis that are morphologically distinct from existing ones, so they might as well wrangle them into a standard.

Is this a testable claim? Were, say, sheep progenitors easier to domesticate than ibexes or antelope or okapi?

Well, we just haven't found a good control planet yet.

Relatedly, if anyone hasn't read it, Kyle Pittman has a lovely rundown of his attempts at emulating various CRT-effects digitally during development of the indie game Super Win the Game: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/KylePittman/20150420/241442/C...

Of course, most people (Pittman included) felt that configuring the visually emulation too accurately was annoying and/or unbelievable. :P

Yeah I was in a similar position with a lot of code work from a startup that crashed (wasn't the founder, but 1st technical team member, and the founder ended up being useless as a reference) that people refused to look at.

One thing I unfortunately take from that period is a bitterness toward people who complain about whiteboard interviews, because I was never even given a chance to do coding problems. I understand that many of the complaints are rational (especially when the interview skills are totally misaligned from the on-the-job skills), but since I was stuck before that phase, I'd emotionally rather have less early filtering and more code-based interviews.

If I actually came into a position of hiring power, I'd take time to reevaluate and separate myself from the question, but that's the instinctual response my history has brought me to.

Still paywalled?

Seeing this apology (that I didn't think was necessary) just made me more angry about their failure to acknowledge anything is wrong with their culture of harassment.

Obviously they can't actually acknowledge the harassment issues because it would put them in a terrible place legally, but it's funny how that omission makes this such a negative PR move in my mind. Better to say nothing at all and just keep pretending they can unicorn-horn themselves through the rough patches?

It's not canonicalization, it's extracting the hostname from the origin (which contains the protocol and port info as well) without implementing your own URL parsing.

For passersby who were confused like I was: IntelliJ Community Edition has absolutely no support for Javascript or Typescript, which is not noted clearly in the help docs. You apparently need Ultimate Edition to get it.

I was real excited that I could finally use the same IDE for front-end and back-end too... :/

Yeah, pursuing a culture shift that discourages pointlessly-standardized working hours and encourages remote work when possible might even have a tangible effect on traffic.

That said traffic is often one of those unfortunate predator-prey type dynamics, where congestion being reduced often encourages more folks to drive until the system returns to an (unfortunate) equilibrium...

It was also a very useful employee relations move: Bill wasn't "above" the task of a customer support call and demonstrated respect for the support workers by performing his best in their role, even if very temporarily.

I honestly miss LaTeX a lot, especially the quality of documents I could create with it (when I was in academia). Hopefully I'll get a chance to do a white paper later this year and bust out the skills.

But I am totally willing to accept my role as an outlier... I even wrote a small TeX package at one point, so I'm aware it's not a "fun" system. :P

Anecdotally, I feel football is gradually losing ground among younger generations. My sports-watching-est friends seem to be less and less devoted to football in particular and more interested in other, more niche sports. Even those strongly allegiant to football are less insistent on catching many individual games real-time as they are staying informed about the league overall and watching highlights or stream or DVR when they can.

Well "correct" in the case of linear vs non-linear luminance is pretty much exactly about perception (or at the very least, working to prevent perception differences further down the pipeline), even if it is a somewhat minor effect.

"The Importance of Being Linear"[1] which just came up on HN a few days ago, discusses some issues with non-linearity, specifically in the context of 3D rendering.

[1] - http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch24.html

It's amazing for how useful IPA is (at least at providing an reasonable fidelity intermediate form between other, more-accurate representations) how few FOSS projects I've seen use it.

Really what I'm saying is I'd like to see someone build an automated pun-discovery tool.

10 refills? Yeah even here in the states among the heaviest of soda drinkers that seems like a useless limit...

Yes, she runs Sci-Hub. Sci-Hub eventually partnered with LibGen to help host files and reduce Sci-Hub's dependence on donated logins. (Previously all documents were accessed from their "real" journal/repository portals using credentials contributed by sympathetic academics.)

I think she has been publicly linked to Sci-Hub for a long time; by the time of the Elsevier lawsuit they knew to contact her directly.[1] Considering that she's already hiding from extradition, a little more PR probably doesn't hurt?

[1] - http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york...

Yeah I tried that too! It bucks the trend and just wants you to enter the name.

You're overthinking it.

The number of spaces in each row matches the lengths of something you've seen.

Answer is posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13476200

Answer to last puzzle:

You can put the names of the countries into the spaces on the board and add/subtract from letter values appropriately.

This gives you:

L IN E

THEATRE

SHO RE

AM P H I

(Shoreline Amphitheatre)

5/17, 5/18, 5/19 are the dates of Google I/O, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.

EDIT: Haha, I guess we're faster than they expected or this leaked early, since completing it links you to https://events.google.com/io/ which just says "check back soon".

Ahh thanks. Any idea on the next one? :P

EDIT: Nevermind 3 should be easy for most HNers. Wrote that before I even saw it.

I was thinking maybe it was part of a chip bag. Then you could run that fancy subpixel-motion sound extraction algorithm on it pretty easily (fitting with "See What Cannot Be Heard").

But the timecodes are probably a more likely thing...

I don't think such preferences are abnormal, not at all. It is a natural desire for an administration to want softball questions.

However I don't think most administrations would attempt to achieve them by disrupting the press corps. That claim probably can't be tested or evaluated fairly, partially because it's a fairly novel action, and partially because it's a complex hypothetical. I must admit it is just my political leanings driving me to this conclusion.

I guess another (unfair) way to look at is: I would rather have someone appear not to attempt to manipulate public opinion, regardless of if they actually are, because when you are at that level of power, I at least want you to ave your act together enough to keep halfway-decent PR. Thus the fact that it appears to me that they are making such weak attempts to manipulate says something, independent of the ethics of the action itself.

Under another administration I would be hopeful, but the Trump administration appears openly interested in choosing organizations that only ask the kind of questions they want to answer.

Is this a notable photograph for visual elicitation? I saw a cow immediately so I thought the references were some weird sarcastic humor...

(Not bragging about recognition by any means. Grew up in dairy country so I probably see too many cows in things overall!)

Yep, though most of them are "provisional", which means it isn't a formal or permanent definition. Here's the full list:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xht...