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I have almost the same problem. With Poetry, I managed to work around it using this technique, involving a combination of groups and extras: https://github.com/lucaspar/poetry-torch

It's a hacky workaround, but it seems to work so far. It would be much nicer to see this solved in a better way, though!

> I currently hold a position in an academic lab, where we blend design, research and engineering to study social sciences-related question within large data sets.

That sounds very interesting! Care to elaborate?

I strongly agree. Nonetheless, many places aspire to be a second Silicon Valley, and it's certainly worthwhile pointing out how close or far away they are from that goal. In particular, those behind Station F probably want their project to develop in a SF/US-like direction.

It would be interesting to see if there can be a third way - an attractive location for startups with a culture that is open to entrepreneurship without being overly obsessed with quick unicorn money and without being entirely dominated by startups and VCs?

However, as long as you are not directly affected by any of those, e.g. you are not LBGTQ, you might consider staying to defend LGBTQ rights and thereby have a more meaningful impact. Even if you're not a politician, voting, educating your children and talking to friends and coworkers can have a significant impact.

What ethnicities/races are you talking about here in particular?

I suppose African-Americans will probably experience less animosity in Japan than in the US. But I think the ones subject to severe racism in Japan are rather other Asians, such as Chinese or Koreans.

Japan is a very ethnically homogenous country with almost zero immigration, and it is my understanding that that is due to the fact that foreigners are not very well accepted. Since people of different races hence represent almost negligible parts of the Japanese populace, you might consider it less of a problem than in the US, where racisms exists between citizens of the same state.

Disclaimer: I've never been to Japan, please correct me if I have the wrong impression.

Are there any downsides to these free certs? Do they work in all browsers; is there anything that could be better security-wise?

If not, than this is exactly what we need to establish HTTPS as the new standard.

> I'd add that though we've adapted to the look of a cursor, the designer in me cringes at the thought of outlined text (though I'm willing to allow that there are probably applications of this that work elegantly; I just can't picture any).

Outlined text is quite common in videos (e.g. for subtitles or credits). The outline doesn't disturb at all if done properly — it doesn't have to be thick, a subtle shadow will usually suffice.

That's strange — I've always had the impression that the battery usage of GPS was the main obstacle for location tracking services, so that any way to sidestep expensive polling would be a greatly welcomed remedy. I can't imagine that this would be technically impossible.

I haven't used G+' location features a lot so far, but if they are anything like Facebook's, they certainly don't replace Latitude. This comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6019298) seems to affirm this.

I hope this will give rise to some replacement services; Latitude was actually pretty useful. I'm still wondering why they didn't implement "asking" for locations via push? That would save a lot of battery compared to updating in intervals and would be a lot more accurate.

Text in a carousel is a no-go; pausing when hovering is a neat idea, but not possible on touch screens, nor easily discoverable by the average user. Even if the timing is long enough, I still feel stressed out by the fact that I know the text could be dragged out of my sight any time, which stresses me out so much that I can't concentrate at all on the content.

The second terrible mistake is using page indicator dots (which do a good job of indicating the page) for navigation, let alone using them as the only means of navigation!

When you take into account these two things, a carousel can actually become comfortable to use and may no longer enrage its users. But that's still a far cry from being better than showing the content in a regular list:

> I've used them and my clients and the customers of those clients were happy with them. What do you mean with "happy"? Did the customers actually understand how to use the carousel, did they discover its content, did they click on it? Not being annoying does not suffice to qualify as useful.

Not everything that is legal and non-misleading is necessarily moral.

Why wouldn't it be safe? Nuclear bombs don't just explode by accident or when they are hit by something, they need to be deliberately triggered, so I wouldn't estimate the danger of this to be very big.

Furthermore, nuclear weapons have been sent to space before, both for regular long-range missiles and for EMP-like tests.

There never was any official Google Reader API. Every developer was aware of the risk he was taking when using an unoffical and undocumented API.

The "gaining real traction" part is exactly the issue. Of course, we'd all love our governments to force everyone to learn Dvorak or something similar, but usually, no authority worries about our keyboard layouts, and people just use what others use.

How is that? Somebody who doesn't know how to touch type is usually having a pretty hard time locating the keys on a QWERTY keyboard. Tactile typing (I just made that name up) doesn't require exact knowledge of the key placement as you need it when touch typing, but you still need some kind of muscle memory if you want to achieve a reasonable speed.

"Someone smarter than you" perhaps is a bit too bold of a statement, but generally, it is true that using available code should usually be preferred over writing one's own code. It allows you to focus on your main task and spend less time implementing helper functions that someone with more time (I guess that's a better expression than "someone smarter") has already optimized.

Sure, but that will require users to get used to a different layout. Dvorak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard) does this. It isn't very popular though, as it's few people want to spend time relearning how to touch type.

I just skimmed through the project description, but it seems like they're hiring a developer and don't code it themselves. If you're hiring somebody to build this with great attention to details, I can imagine those 100k being quite reasonable. Consider internationalisation as well (perhaps not for Chinese, but to different languages with Latin writing).

I don't even think so. It's just QWERTY without Y axis, after all. I guess that you'll be accustomed to it after a couple of minutes of typing.

What's hard is adapting to entirely different layouts such as Dvorak (which, by the way, could probably increase autocorrect accuracy greatly).

Alright, that sounds feasible, albeit being on an entirely different scale.

See my edit regarding the "dark side". You are generally right, but there is at least one example that turned out well despite occasionally taking advantage of illicit maneuvers.

I fantasize about doing that sometimes, but usually, you can't get into politics without being a citizen — either due to legislation or because you won't be accepted as a representative by the population, for obvious reasons.

But assuming you can get into politics, you'll still have to deal with an enormous struggle for power (be it elections you have to win or powerful people you have to convince) in order to get into a position to even make any change.

Thus, this endeavour is practically impossible — it's already difficult enough to change something in your fatherland.

AFTER tokenadult's EDIT: Your edit clarifies a lot. But fraternalism is still difficult to achieve: if you are from a different race than the native population, you'll have a hard time being accepted as their representative.

An interesting example for this might be Singapore, where Lee Kuan Yew pushed the country from third to first world in 50 years. Although he is Singaporean, he brought in a lot of foreign knowledge as he had studied abroad. And the same issues with corruption/illegal methods some commenters mention here can be observed: in the early days of his career, he arrested his opponents, the communists, without any legal process to prevent them from jeopardizing his plans. Later, he made some radical decisions, that were not widely accepted by the population, bu that led to better results for the country (for example, he tore down old villages to replace them by high-rise buildings).

My thoughts exactly.

I'm hoping for it to spread to impoverished countries or slums. If the price of production is indeed low, this could be a great chance for them.

Then let's hope it doesn't get associated too much with homeless people's food, and the rest of the world might adopt it as well. Once a large-scale production industry exists, there might not be such a high threshold for adoption. People are in a hurry to eat so often, if they could just pass by a place to grab some Soylent, they'd certainly take the opportunity.

Nope, no installer script. If a program needs installer script (to install drivers etc.), you get a package installer (like on Windows), however, they are rather rare and I've never seen any crapware in those so far.

I think this highly depends on the what you consider "news". Aaron mentioned things you find on the front page — those usually are short pieces of the latest information without much context or in-depth analysis. I don't think he wanted to condemn background articles, no matter if they are published in a newspaper or elsewhere (he mentions "longer-form essays or thoughtful books").

With this in mind, I agree with him — I benefit more from comprehensive articles describing long-term developments than from the latest events in some affair that affects me way too little for these details to matter to me. This is not to say that the happenings in faraway countries are something I ought not to know about, however, a short summary after the events have passed would usually suffice.

"4-week RoR bootcamp in South Lake Union, Seattle."

"You do not need to know Ruby or Rails, but it helps if you're familiar with basic programming concepts and tools, like running terminal commands and using a text editor."

Admittedly, the latter is not too precise, but they do state it.

There's Blueseed (http://blueseed.co/) and recently, I read about a planned kind of entrepreneur cruise (I can't find that one right now, perhaps it's organised by Blueseed as well). Neither is intended for families, but in the long run, they might offer that.

He definitely is incredibly good. Did you ever try to fluently speak gibberish? It's pretty hard to come up with something without repeating yourself, not to mention something resembling an existing language.

I think you misinterpret "being left alone". In the sense of being able to do something on your own without anyone being able to see what you're doing — yes. But the reception of unwanted messages, while annoying, does not seem to interfere with privacy, since you can still dismiss those messages and thus not let the sender know anything about you.