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I thought the same, but this book [0] absolutely staggered me by the creative ways people made 8 by 8 fonts

[0]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Arcade-Game-Typography-Pixel-Type/d...

I use my face and my arm to engage with people, and prepare and eat food. I don't generally use my arse for these activities.

Thanks, I've found it hard to understand the French study. Do you have a good link to an (English, sorry) summary or critique?

Here's the official announcement, perhaps should switch link to this

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2020/march/...

I like tripit. You forward emails to it so you don't have to give it access to your inbox. Their app is a bit janky, and the website more so, but I've found it really useful.

This doesn't seem to be true: see pages 83 and 84 of the link below, suggesting around 20% of UK PM2.5 emissions come from road transport - this is not negligible.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Pure speculation: HNs perhaps more likely to have a personality type that values personal time and extreme concentration, which open plan might be less useful for. Also HNs perhaps have tendency towards being contrary or iconoclastic, so as open plan popular, articles decrying it popular here

See discussion from when this was posted (the original article) three days before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17457000

I understand what you're saying, but a huge number of people commute by rail or bus (perhaps more so outside of the US, I don't know). Watching video on the Tube (London Underground) is fairly common, as it is on commuter rail into London

I enjoy using http://www.stealmylogin.com as it seems apt (and works)

Ars covered this particular story and were deeply skeptical, attributing the findings to selective use of p values:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/a-critical-analysis-...

Google has every right morally and legally to not wish to provide a platform for hate speech.

I don't have the contacts to know if my opinions with Android are even vaguely representative. I'm interested in what your network think is wrong with Android Lollipop, and without any sarcasm or snideness can I please ask who your network represents just to get a sense of how representative it is?

Really impressed by this, especially the 3:2 ratio screen which will be great for writing and for browsing, and amazing for photos. The pen looks great. I've recently been given an iPad by work as part of a trial. It's great for quick e-mails, but really seems hard for me to get 'proper' work done. This might be the thing - shame I have to pay for it.

I think this unduly conflates his displeasure at the automated scanning of emails to target advertising and the NSA etc. bulk access to data. The former doesn't make the latter any more likely. All webmail services must hold their customers' emails, and they are therefore open to being read by a government or third party. Users could encrypt their emails, but it's very hard to do this while also making logging in and accessing anywhere fast easy for all users.

I like the ability to have different glyphs for lower case L, capital I and numeral 1. Many fonts achieve that with a tail on the lower case L, but this seems a valid alternative. By the way, I believe this is the default Firefox Android font.

This is the lump of labour fallacy. It's largely regarded as fallacious now; there's a decent Wikipedia article on the topic if you're interested.

The typeface 'Transport' used in the UK seems to have solved most of the problems identified in this article. The article notes how good Transport is, but says it is too wide. I wonder if just reducing the spacing on Transport a little would have been a shortcut - the results appear remarkably similar to my eye.

Wikipedia article on Transport: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_%28typeface%29

I fear I may be a different kind of chap than Mr. Gundotra, but if my friends were posting on Google+ then I don't think they'd be sharing tips on the best microwave to buy.

I don't really understand why Google+ is so stagnant. I know I'm not attracted to it as no one I'm interested in posts there. I guess this is a classic (lack of) network effect. There's nothing much wrong with the interface, but with no reason for me to visit I can't see it going anywhere.

Most damningly I do not know a single person in the real world who is also on Google+ and has posted more than once. A few have signed up after I nagged them, posted once and then given up, but the majority have not even got that far.

Google need to find a feature that attracts users to Google+ in the first place. So far I can't name that.

I don't think I understand how it could sound different to my ear. My understanding is that my ear doesn't have the sensory equipment to detect signals above ~20kHz - this is what I was told at university, and a decent trawl of the web suggests this is still true. If there is any sound that is in the range 20Hz-20kHz then why doesn't the microphone pick it up?

Or am I wrong, and the ear is able to detect frequencies above 20kHz?

There will always be people with slightly wider sensory perception than others, but are you honestly saying that you can easily hear sounds "well above" 20kHz? Have you tested this in a double blind test? I know that sounds like a lot of effort, but it would be interesting. You would be somewhat unusual if you could hear, say, 22kHz.

Hey cmer, thanks for posting

I don't think I understand quite what you're saying and wondered if you could explain more. You and the article both say that humans can't hear above about 20kHz. If there are higher frequencies that create a harmonic at a lower frequency (e.g. a 33kHz harmonic that produces a sound at 16.5kHz) then surely that lower harmonic (16.5kHz in this case) will be recorded by the original recording equipment assuming it is recording at a frequency at least twice that of the highest audible frequency (let's say that this would be 48kHz, although there might be other DAC-related reasons to go higher).

I'm possibly being very daft here!

Off topic, but why does the text on this website look so awful in Chrome 15 in Win7 64? There are actually gaps in the letters. It looks awful in a different way in Firefox 8 - clumpy letters with awkwardly variable line width.

Update to clarify that it's the text that looks weird

I'm surprised you see the issue in such black and white terms. Certainly some of Mr Assange's comments might lead some to suspect he sees conspiracy where there is none [1] and that his judgement is not impeccable. Wikileaks and Assange have also turned on their partners, notably the Guardian, when circumstances have suited them [2] and their concerns for the safety of those mentioned in their releases have not always appeared sincere [3].

I'm not saying that these pieces of evidence point towards Mr Assange being guilty, evil or anything else, but they do suggest he's human and fallible, and perhaps not 100% pure in his intentions. I don't mean this as a criticism of him, but it does make me question any entirely polarised assertion about the man.

I've not been able to spot anything untoward in the way the UK courts have treated Assange, and I can't help but feel that if the charges are 'clearly false' they can be demonstrated as such in Sweden - a country that Mr Assange himself has in the past admired [4], but now seeks to label as the 'Saudi Arabia of feminism' [5]. Clearly going through such a procedure must be harrowing for all involved, and I'm not dismissing the stress lightly, but accusations of criminality being investigated is a key principle of society and in the Swedish legal system formal charges occur after extradition and questioning. This seems reasonable.

If Wikileaks' cause was noble it does not mean that Assange is automatically innocent, or that any investigation of him is a conspiracy.

[1]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/01/julian-assange-j... [2]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/wikileaks-un... [3]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14765837 [4]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/02/assange-... [5]: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/02/why-is-julia...

While I understand your cynicism, my experience in Shanghai and Beijing suggests that Google Maps are some way off between satellite and streetmap modes. I have not found the same problem (or at least to anywhere near the same level) in the UK, Chicago, Michigan, Korea, Japan, Germany, Slovakia and many other countries. There does seem to be an offset applied.

An example in Shanghai: http://g.co/maps/m34n8 An example in Seoul: http://g.co/maps/4gk3t

Note the near perfect alignment in the latter, and way-off alignment in the former.

I'm not quite sure what point the consultancy is making on the future mobile-data rates. The article says:

However, it claims forthcoming 4G technologies will significantly reduce those costs. "Forward-looking estimates which take account of the transition to LTE [Long Term Evolution], additional spectrum and traffic subscriber growth... puts the cost to the mobile network operators at under €1 per GB,"

Does that include the cost of the 4G licenses? In the UK these haven't been issued yet. If an operator pays £4bn [1] for the license and has 10m customers it needs to charge an extra £1 to every customer every month for 33 years to cover the cost of that license. That's not an inconsiderable amount before we begin talking about data.

[1] Costs based on UK 2000 licenses: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/727831.stm

Private Eye has a good piece here on the self-aggrandising nature of Assange:

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=stree...

Wikileaks has become his personal toy - he's long given up the original mission of what was a worthy organisation.

Because I use Chrome, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere and more and all of these run without the slightest problem in Windows 7, and all of my past Ubuntu experiences have ended with someone suggesting I edit ~conf.something and removing the number 7.

Yeah - that is annoying. I mean my Toaster keeps being upgraded to newer versions of tOaSt, and I require the bread to remain compatible...

...there is something different about software, evidently. I want something I use to still work if Android gets updated to version x, and a dormant app doesn't normally promote confidence that this will happen.

There's a good Eurogamer/Digital Foundry article on this here:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ps3-securit...