Ask HN:Passing through SF for two days to work. Best/cheapest workspaces? - <AUTHOR>

<comment><USER2> It depends what you value more: best or cheap.

For cheap, there are plenty of options: the San Francisco public library has many branches, is clean, quiet, and does not restrict what protocols you use on their wifi. (e.g., ssh is allowed) If you're willing to pay for a coffee, the Capital One 360 Café at 101 Post St also has wifi with unrestricted protocols, as well as any Philz coffee location.

For something that resembles an office, try NextSpace, which is $25 for a day- pass, at 28 2nd Street near Market Street.

</comment><comment><USER3> What kind of workspace do you need?

Definitely stop by Ritual Roasters on Valencia St for an authentic SF coffee- shop experience. [Don't count on a power outlet, though!]</comment>


Ask HN: Examples of 'hand drawn' animations in blog posts? - <AUTHOR> I want to write articles. They have technical content, so they benefit from explanatory diagrams.
I don't want to use formal diagramming tools to make the diagrams, I want to draw them instead.
Does anyone know of any tasteful examples where people use digital drawing tools to do this? <comment><USER2> I like Lin Clark's drawings on the Mozilla Hacks blog: [https://hacks.mozilla.org/author/lclarkmozilla- com/](https://hacks.mozilla.org/author/lclarkmozilla-com/)

<comment><USER3> These are great. Are they done by hand, or with a drawing tool?

</comment></comment><comment> open-source-ux This is not quite what you asked, but still worth taking a look...

Children's publisher Usborne have made available for free some classic computer books from the 1980s aimed at kids. The books use illustrations extensively to explain concepts.

These books have been discussed a few times before here on Hacker News. Scroll down to the bottom of the link below for the free PDFs.

[https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and- codin...](https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-coding- books/)

Don't be put off by the fact the books are aimed at kids. I'll repeat what I said about these guides in a previous Hacker News discussion: Not only are these books well written with clear, concise explanations, they are also more readable and enjoyable than many programming books published for adults today.

I've often wondered why programming explanations don't use simple graphics or diagrams to illustrate programming concepts. Anyone writing a technical guide (of any kind) would benefit from reading these as a source of ideas and inspiration.

<comment><USER4> I really like hand-drawn diagrams from Apache Kafka and Confluent blogs and slides.

Most of them are done with a tablet without "fancy" software.

To do something similar in my presentations, I used an old DIN A4 Samsung tablet with Autodesk Sketchbook with good results.

I found very useful to be able to worki with layers, so I could draw the diagram on the top layer, and fill the shapes with colour in a layer underneath.

But the _best_ part is I could focus on the storytelling, not in redoing again, and again the diagram in Powerpoint. With a hand drawing, you can iterate fast the concepts until you find it good enough.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> I've been fiddling with figma lately for this purpose but I do like some of the examples here.

I will be seeking inspiration from paras Chopra's [https://invertedpassion.com](https://invertedpassion.com)

Quite well done.

</comment><comment><USER6> About 4 years ago, I started creating hand-drawn illustrations for all my tech presentations and blog posts. There are lots of benefits, including being unique and engaging. I've written on the subject many times. Here's the most recent post: [https://reverentgeek.com/how-to-be-a-superhuman- communicator...](https://reverentgeek.com/how-to-be-a-superhuman- communicator/)

Ask me anything ;)

</comment><comment><USER7> Is it the look of hand drawn you're after or is that you feel it will be easier to just draw with your hand? If it's the former you could use something like inkscape to draw the diagrams as SVGs and then use rough.js [1] to render them in a hand drawn way.

[1] [https://roughjs.com/](https://roughjs.com/)

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks for the response.

It's primary because it's easier and more natural.

I'm worried about seeming "unprofessional" or to a lesser extend unorthodox so I'm looking for examples and guidance.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> John Papa draws it by hand

[https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/having-fun-with- no...](https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/having-fun-with-node-and- cosmos-db-8399de1fd459)

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> Self comment: in addition to echeese's suggestions, found this great blog post

[https://jvns.ca/teach-tech-with-cartoons/](https://jvns.ca/teach-tech-with- cartoons/)</comment>


Google Colaboratory - <AUTHOR> https://research.google.com/colaboratory/ <comment><USER2> This has the potential to serve as a general-use collaborative Python environment</comment>


CopperLicht - fast WebGL JavaScript 3D Engine - <AUTHOR> http://www.ambiera.com/copperlicht/index.html

<comment><USER2> Can't seem to get the demo to work on the latest WebKit nightly build:

TypeError: Result of expression 'a.Pi' [undefined] is not a function.

<comment><USER3> Haven't been able to make it work in Chromium either (launching it in webgl/no sandbox mode).

Has anybody sucessfully ran the demos?

<comment><USER4> It worked for me with chromium-bin-5.0.308.0_p37385 on 64-bit Gentoo.

The one thing I had to do (besides launching it as 'chromium-bin --no-sandbox --enable-webgl', as you mentioned) was to create a symbolic link from /usr/lib/libGL.so to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 .

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Can't get it to work either. For WebGL to work do you need OpenGL libraries installed on your system?</comment>


Other disciplines outside the arts also require creativity: we need to teach them that way - <AUTHOR> http://okasaki.blogspot.com/2008/03/creativity.html <comment><USER2> This is a classic example of an article that I want to upvote, I want people to read it, I just don't want it saved in my list.

HN Feature complaint aside, thanks Reg for finding this. Just because something has a right answer (like math) doesn't mean you can't be creative in finding it. And with anything that's evaluated based on balancing multiple goals (like, um, everything) creativity is _essential_ in coming up with new designs or solutions.

<comment><AUTHOR> You're very welcome :-)

BTW, if you like the article, even briefly... consider subscribing to his feed. Very interesting, very eclectic. He is the author of "Purely functional data structures" which goes into some depth on high-performance data structures. He also write fun things about games and thinking and...

Oh for Pete's sake stop reading my rambingss and read his well-chosen words instead ;-)

<http://okasaki.blogspot.com/>

<comment><USER2> Holy schnitzel, it's _that_ Okasaki? Consider me subscrib'd!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> It's not uncommon to hear not-coding Web people (that is, designers, marketers, what have you) refer to themselves as "creatives", and they often say it in a way meant to distinguish themselves from those who do write code.

It's a task to get them to see that writing software does, indeed, demand considerable creativity; it's akin to playing jazz or tending a garden or creating a unique supper.

</comment><comment><USER4> This topic interests me a lot. IMO, most people's concept of existing creativity in computer science is a joke.

In 25 years, people will be amazed at how little creativity there was in computer science and that it took so long for people to realize this and do something about it.</comment>


Tiny barometers in cell phones could tell you how high you are - <AUTHOR> http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/10/tiny-barometers-in-cell-phones-could-tell-you-how-high-you-are/

<comment><USER2> The article is a bit confusing as the author may have missed that many of the current smartphones already come with MEMS barometric altitude sensors.

Well, but he was nice enough to link the original article, unfortunately it is paywalled. [http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/103/14/10.1...](http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/103/14/10.1063/1.4824027)

The paper reports a new type of pressure sensor which uses a cantilever with a tiny airgap instead of a diaphragm. Sounds interesting.</comment>


How Java 10 Will Change the Way You Code - <AUTHOR> https://blog.takipi.com/how-java-10-will-change-the-way-you-code/ <comment><USER2> Why'd they ignore the top survey result, var AND val? It was by far the most popular choice, and it saves you from writing final over and over again, which would hopefully help to encourage better code style/practice for Java developers.

<comment><USER3> Because final on local variables is pretty much useless and var and val looks too similar.</comment></comment>


Unicorns and Poets - <AUTHOR> http://thinkvitamin.com/user-science/user-experience/unicorns-and-poets/ <comment><USER2> I'm getting tired of all of the "geek humor" everywhere ( unicorns, ponies, lolcatz, etc.) however... I fit this description of a "poet" to a T.

At one start up a few years ago, my title on my business card was even "Code Poet".

I also happen to have an undergrad degree in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry.

IMHO, studying poetry gives one practice in saying only what you mean and focusing on the semantics and syntax of language both technically & aesthetically. I also think that one should have an education in Liberal Arts to truly understand great design; whether that's software architecture, visual design, or business models.</comment>


Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language - <AUTHOR> http://nautil.us/issue/26/color/why-red-means-red-in-almost-every-language-rd <comment><USER2> Color perception is a subject that's fascinated me for a long time. Humans are visually rather unique, as unlike most other mammals we are able to see beyond yellow into the orange and red spectral range.

That's probably attributable to trichromacy, having three classes of retinal cones. The article points this out and correctly notes the complexity of visual circuitry without giving much detail. That's OK, the layers involved in translating retinal impulses, the exquisitely intricate slicing and dicing visual information into encodings for shape, motion, texture, surface, depth as well as color are truly mind-boggling.

That suggests to me that trying to ascertain linguistic influences on the visual system may be a form of "premature optimization". Of course it will be no surprise to find out there are cultural effects on verbal color description and communication conventions. OTOH it's also plausible to suppose that humans of various cultures can distinguish colors equally well when color naming is not demanded.

Artists who care about color don't care about the names colors are called by. What is important is being able to distinguish subtly different colors in order to be able to produce results. On the web #ff8844 doesn't have to have a name, it does the same thing anyway.

At the end of the day it's important to determine if language really changes what we see, or only the modes of communication, styles, fashions and all the layers piled on top of actual sensory experience.

Perhaps in everyday activity who cares if a shade is "orange" vs. "tangerine". When fine color discrimination really counts, in art, engineering, medicine, color names are secondary if necessary at all.

BTW if anyone wants to informally test their own color discrimination ability, I'd recommend looking here: [http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test- challenge](http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge)

<comment><USER3> I did the test but found it entirely un-illuminating. I got '19' where '0' is perfect, but I have no idea where that puts me in the distribution (top 10%? bottom 10%? bang on the median?).

<comment><USER4> The same test done more properly with results seems to be here: [http://www.color- blindness.com/fm100hue/FM100Hue.swf?width=9...](http://www.color- blindness.com/fm100hue/FM100Hue.swf?width=980&height=500)

The OP's link did give some information:

It does give a little information:

"A lower score is better, with ZERO being the perfect score. The bars above show the regions of the color spectrum where hue discrimination is low. "

"Your score: 6"

"•Your score: 6 •Gender: Male •Age range: 30-39 •Best score for your gender and age range: 0 •Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520"

It mentions it is the Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Test, which links to Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnsworth- Munsell_100_hue_tes...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnsworth- Munsell_100_hue_test)

The Wikipedia article links to a couple of images which indicate normality of the scale [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Farnsworth- Munsell3.png](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Farnsworth-Munsell3.png) and

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> _Actually_ related xkcd: [http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey- results/](http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/)

<comment><USER6> It is amusing that 'salmon' shows up on the male side of the gender comparison chart. The only time I've ever seen that used for a color is in Halo. Wonder how much that biased the results.

<comment><USER7> Haha, same with teal. I only know it because of StarCraft and WarCraft 3 (and now DoTA etc).

<comment><USER8> I know teal from Windows 95's default desktop background colour :)

Although it must be pointed out that Windows 16-colour VGA teal is a different colour to Windows 256-colour VGA teal.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> > Kay and Berlin took these commonalities as evidence that our conception of > colors is rooted, not in language, but in our shared human biology.

The legacy of the 20th century is the belief that we are nearly completely creatures of culture rather than biology. We're slowly learning that it isn't true.

The interesting part is why we want to believe it. When you believe that human nature is mostly culture, you feel that you can change it with social action, education, and legislation. The surprises come when people realize that change is not as easy as we would like to think.

<comment><USER10> afaik, part of the "legacy of the 20th century" includes the eugenics beliefs and experiments carried out throughout the world, including the holocaust.

I'd say that the actual, scientific development of "nature vs. nurture" carries on healthily in academic spheres, while online you find plenty of hardcore zealots for either camp, from otherkin to racists talking about "human biodiversity" and advocating for gender roles.

<comment><USER11> The 20th century contains thouse beliefs and experiments. The legacy of the 20th century is much more strongly defined by the Holocaust, which poisened the idea of eugentics in a way that we are only now begining to undo, and only in the limited (and somewhat controversial) practice of of pre-birth genetic testing for known diseases.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> A bit OT, but wrt cross-linguistic similarities - I've always imagined this list [1] would be _the_ resource for language origin studies, and I have dug out absolutely no research to that effect. I'm sure there is some - this list _was_ compiled - but not nearly as much as I hoped.

In particular, this could explain many similarities that are usually ascribed to genetics, but are actually only there because of commonalities in environment.

[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross- linguistic_onomatopoeias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross- linguistic_onomatopoeias)

</comment><comment><USER7> I enjoyed this article, but the dispute feels a bit contrived. It seems obvious that:

1\. Language shapes perception.

2\. Biology shapes perception.

3\. External reality shapes language.

4\. External reality shapes perception.

I'm sure the precise form and extent of each of those "shapes" varies, and I can see why there might be a lot of dispute about those details. But while I can imagine some people wanting to strengthen some of those "shapes" to "determines", I don't see how anyone can reasonably deny any of those statements. (Yes, I think positions like "There is no, objective, external reality" are unreasonable.)

And so yeah, I learned a good bit from this article. And empirical study of words for colours is fascinating and should definitely be pursued. And I wouldn't have guessed that the range of basic colours is so wide. But I found precisely none of the results reported in that article surprising or worldview-shaking.

</comment><comment><USER13> Welsh (notable for these purposes in coming from a single root which is about 4k years old, and having branched off along with Gaelic and the other Brittonic languages around a similar period), uses the same groupings. I'm not sure at what point they turn up, but they're currently:

black – du white – gwyn grey – llwyd red – coch yellow – melyn blue – glas green – gwyrdd brown – gwinau (brown to auburn shades) or cochddu (brown to the dark reddish blacks) purple – porffor (also cochlas, which is a reddish blue) pink – pinc or gwyngoch (for white-ish reds or pale reds) orange – oren or melyngoch (for yellowish reds; a slight evolution from the conjunction of melyn-coch)

I'd suspect that oren and pinc are more recent evolutions in the lexicon, with gwyngoch and the associated red spectrum names, and gwyngoch and its cousins more tightly defining those parts of the spectrum, rather than having an all encompassing grouping for them. That's assumption and not based on evidence beyond my own knowledge of British linguistic evolution though, so take it with a pinch of salt.

It'd be interesting to look at common Brittonic and its modern descendants though and see if and when they change, and whether that has broader implications, similar to the point on "wine-dark".

<comment><USER14> I know nothing about Welsh. With white - gwyn and red - coch, gwyngoch looks like it's basically "light red". Similarly melyngoch (with melyn=yellow) looks like it's basically "yellow-red", and a few others (cochddu, gwinau?) look "suspicious" as well. Would these be considered _basic color terms_ [1]? Apparently the differente views have different definitions. [2]

[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term#Basic_color_terms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term#Basic_color_terms) [2] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_color_naming_debate)

<comment><USER13> Welsh occasionally does things similar to German, where things end up squished together to make a new thing. Other examples would be Aberystwyth (aber - river mouth, Ystwyth - the river in question), rhagddodiad and olddodiad (prefix and suffix), trosgais (a converted try in rugby) and so on. So yes, it's a compounding of two other words, but that's kinda how it's done. Not entirely sure if that makes it an argument for or against what you're saying though.

<comment><USER15> I don't know if any language lacks compound words. Your first example is shard with English: (River) Dart + mouth -> Dartmouth (also Plymouth), Dart + moor -> Dartmoor.

<comment><USER13> The difference is English compound words were historically actually separate words, which got compounded together through common usage. Brittanic and German style languages intentionally compound words to form new ones.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> I always thought it was interesting that the Russian word for red is красный (krasnyy) and the words for beautiful are прекрасный (prekrasnyy) and красивый (krasivyj) (though I never understood the difference). So "Red Square" in Moscow is not "Red" as in the color or "Red" as in communism, it's "Beautiful Square".

<comment><USER17> Russian word "krasnyy" did mean "beautiful" before 14-16 centuries, and Old Russian language used other words for the hues of red (including the word derived from worms in other Slavic languages, discussed in other thread here). It is unclear how "krasnyy" came to mean "red". Some say it is because female beauty was associalted with blush, bu no one knows for sure.

Russian has a word for a color that is phonetically close to "red" (or even close to the french "rouge"), but it means what in English is called "ginger" and is used predominantly for hair color.

Also, learning French and English in my childhood that these languages do not have a special widely used word for "light blue" as in Russian.

<comment><USER16> Thanks for clarifying. I am generally not a good student of languages, so I don't typically get very far into any particular one to learn details like this.

But as for the "light blue" issue, what sort of shade are you referring to? Is it голубой (goluboj)? There is Azure--a Latin-root word that came to English through French--or Cyan--a word of Greek origin.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER18> "Grue" referenced in the article as a colour encompasing green and blue reminded me of a Radiolab Episode [1] on the order in which words are established for colours; Across all cultures words for colors appear in stages - Blue being the last colour to be named.

[1] [http://www.radiolab.org/story/211213-sky-isnt- blue/](http://www.radiolab.org/story/211213-sky-isnt-blue/)

</comment><comment><USER19> Rakta: Sanskrit ( an Indo-Aryan language ) Chomapeh: Malayalam (A Dravidian language ) Lal: Hindi / Urdu / Punjabi ( three related Indo-Aryan languages)

</comment><comment><USER20> Interesting to read this article on different monitors to see the colors be rendered so the greens and the blues can be barely told apart on the one monitor and are clearly different on another. I wonder if that was taken into account during the study but it would seem to me to be pretty important since 'red' appears to be rendering mostly correct on all of them.

<comment><USER21> That really depends on what you think of as "red". I tend to categorize automatically into "scarlet" and "crimson" (too many hours spent with oil paints and pastels over too many decades), rarely ever seeing anything as "merely red", and that division is sometimes blurred by monitor calibration (or, rather, the lack of same). It's not so much that I see different things than other people with good colour vision, just that I have learned to do a primary categorization of "red" with two buckets instead of one.

</comment></comment><comment><USER22> Proposal: the following observations: humans chunk color even as infants, language controls the experience of color, make sense together if you stop treating language as a confounding factor and treat it as the goal.

Humans evolved color chunking to be able to talk about it.

</comment><comment><USER23> Reading this article, I found it fascinating how endemic prejudice is to the human experience. I don't mean prejudice in the negative sense, but in the sense of unreasonable bias.

"His professors and textbooks taught that people could only recognize a color as categorically distinct from others if they had a word for it."

"Scientists had no reason to suspect that cultures divvied it up in similar ways."

And then, the conclusion:

"Cultures seemed to build up their color vocabularies in a predictable way."

As humans, we make things up. There is no getting away from it, due to our limited perspective. Sometimes I muse on the fact that we once thought the Earth was flat because at some point, someone essentially "lied".

</comment><comment><USER24> > He noticed that the ancient Greek poet Homer used colors in a very strange > way (for instance: "wine-dark sea")

It could also be the case that Homer was using a complex metaphor that related the mystery of alcohol, and maybe it's brooding hangover to the dark color of the liquid, and linked that to the dark quality of the sea at times, for example before a storm when the sky is overcast.

Great article!

<comment><USER25> You are probably joking, but to get more perspective on this 'blue' color, there is a great resource:

[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hoffman_01_13/](http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hoffman_01_13/)

<q> We may never know for sure, but one peculiar fact casts the mystery in an interesting light: there is no word for "blue" in ancient Greek.

Homer's descriptions of color in The Iliad and The Odyssey, taken literally, paint an almost psychedelic landscape: in addition to the sea, sheep were also the color of wine; honey was green, as were the fear-filled faces of men; and the sky is often described as bronze.

It gets stranger. Not only was Homer's palette limited to only five colors (metallics, black, white, yellow-green, and red), but a prominent philosopher even centuries later, Empedocles, believed that all color was limited to four categories: white/light, dark/black, red, and yellow. Xenophanes, another philosopher, described the rainbow as having but three bands of color: porphyra (dark purple), khloros, and erythros (red).</q>

</comment></comment><comment><USER26> The assumption that we can only see color we have a name for is widely repeated despite being obviously bogus.

I know maybe a dozen words for colors, but that doesn't prevent me from seeing the differences between the different tones in a pantone catalogue.

</comment><comment><USER27> In my language, red (červený) has very similar stem as worm (červ).

<comment><USER28> Do you know if the months červenec & červen are related to the words for red or worm?

edit: or maybe you're not Czech and these months have different word in your language :)

<comment><USER29> The Wikipedia article linked in another reply to parent confirms that. The months in which the worms were harvested were named after the worms.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER30> Because red is the color of blood.

<comment><USER31> Yes. The author suggests the categorizations are either cultural or biological; another possibility is that they're defined due to common human experiences that transcend cultures.

</comment></comment><comment><USER32> Link not working on mobile devices.

<comment><USER32> It looks like the wrong link was submitted. It should be:

[http://nautil.us/issue/26/color/why-red-means-red-in- almost-...](http://nautil.us/issue/26/color/why-red-means-red-in-almost-every- language)

(without the -rd on the end). This link works correctly on all devices.</comment></comment>


Distributed TensorFlow (DTF) Guide - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/tmulc18/Distributed-TensorFlow-Guide <comment><USER2> Great Distributed TensorFlow Guide, worth following through and getting things set up.

</comment><comment><USER3> Nice work. This is very important and advanced guide for most ML researchers.</comment>


[Review] Bad Blood: Secrets and Idiots in Elizabeth Holmes Fake Valley Startup - <AUTHOR> http://audiobookreviewscom.blogspot.com/2018/06/bad-blood-secrets-and-lies-in-silicon.html <comment><USER2> Just finished this book, it had me hooked the entire time. I'm left shocked that the sham went on for 12 years. So much negligence on behalf of the VCs, and so many high profile and well-respected people bought into it, even up to the level of famous Four-star General James Mattis. How was it not a huge red flag that there were no domain experts on the Theranos board?

The reality distortion field projected by Elizabeth Holmes was obviously incredibly effective and powerful. Tragic that she used this capability for deceptive, selfish reasons rather than a greater good or higher purpose.

Finally, the fake deep voice thing she does- so suspicious; how were people genuinely fooled by it?

[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rGfaJZAdfNE](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rGfaJZAdfNE)</comment>


The Dumb Way We Board Airplanes Remains Impervious to Good Data - <AUTHOR> http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-23/the-dumb-way-we-board-airplanes-remains-impervious-to-good-data#r=most%20popular <comment><USER2> _"back-to-front"—the chosen boarding process of most U.S. carriers_

Nobody boards back to front. First class boards first. Then frequent flyers, who typically get the seats toward the front of the aircraft. Then there's some semi-random zone thing whereby big hold-ups occur waiting for people in the front and middle of the plane to put their bags in the overheads.

If airplanes got rid of the overhead bins and really did load the planes back to front, boarding would go a lot faster.

<comment><USER3> > _"back-to-front"—the chosen boarding process of most U.S. carriers_

> Nobody boards back to front.

Just to add weight to this, I've flown on at least United, American, Delta, and Southwest, and in my experience, none of them board back-to-front. These are the very airlines mentioned in the article!

> _(From the article)_ United uses an "outside-in" boarding process by which > people with window seats board ahead of those on the aisle.

I doubt this as well.

The only thing I've found that does speed up boarding is that some (rare) airports support jetways with two doors: one for the front of the plane, and one for the back. (Albany is the only airport I know of.) Getting on/off the back is significantly quicker in my experience. (Practically no waiting, between the gate and the seat. There's still the line at the gate, of course.)

<comment><USER4> Virgin Australia domestic planes sometimes board without jetways (even in airports with jetways). I believe this is to save on landing fees. When they do this, they open front and back doors with stairs. These planes board significantly faster than using a jetway and single door, even accounting for people having to go down stairs and across the tarmac.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Amazing how we assume there is a need to board the plane faster. It likely doesn't matter how quickly you can board the plane, since the process of loading luggage, fuel, and preparing the airplane for flight will still take as long as it does and often takes longer. Have you ever sat in your seat and watched the baggage handlers load luggage?

Deplaning is another matter, of course, and generally I think that is actually quite efficient. People who hold up the lines are usually embarrassed and therefore police themselves. Every once in a while a fool holds up the line, but mostly each person adds no more time than the space ahead of them can allow.

Proof? Ok, how often do you find yourself in a secondary lineup, bag in hand, near the door of the aircraft? Nobody in your way now but the lineup ahead to get out of the corridor.

<comment><USER6> I don't understand why we haven't containerized & mechanized luggage after it passes through whatever mandatory security exists. Those baggage handlers + conveyor belts aren't just slow, they are dealing with things well beyond the weight limit at which average humans are able to set things down gently, and they're doing it at the limit of their arm extension - which often translates into a throwing motion.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> One rule will vastly increase speeds: If you do not bring an overhead carry- on, your first piece of checked luggage will be free.

If the weight limits are the same, this will not significant impact costs and will save airports/airplanes time.

</comment><comment><USER8> I suspect with enough data you could do a bayesian analysis and pick out the troublesome _people_ who screw up the boarding process for everyone. ("We notice that whenever Jane P. Slowpoke is on a flight, it correlates to it leaving 3 minutes later")

A modest proposal: Then take the worst 1% and put them on the no-fly list. Problem solved.

<comment><USER9> >>Then take the worst 1% and put them on the no-fly list. Problem solved.

I think this will just create a new 1% of such people. In the new set you just created.

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> I never understood why people usually rush to board the plane, only to end up sitting in a cramped airplane chair and breathing stuffy air.

I usually opt to sit and wait outside the gate until I can assume that most people have gotten to their seats inside the plane and won't crowd the aisle. The seats are assigned anyway, it's not like I'd get a better spot by being early. So why not wait outside where there's plenty of space and (usually) fresher air?

No, the only reason I can think of is that people want to make sure they have place for their oversized carry on (as the article alludes to). If that's the case I have no sympathy for them, and hope they all get stuck next to a fat person with a cold.

<comment><USER4> I fly often enough that I have frequent flyer status and get access to early boarding.

I find this valuable because of the following reasons:

a) It allows me to enter an empty plane and find my seat and stow my carry-on (correct size) right with my seat. I can do this without squeezing past people.

b) It allows me to get settled into my seat and get set up (music, computer, book, whatever) and so I can be settled into the routine of the flight. This is much more pleasant than milling around in the terminal, where you can't settle into whatever it is you're going to do on the flight (read, sleep, work, etc)

Essentially I don't agree that waiting in the terminal is better than waiting in the plane. I'd much rather reduce my waiting times and move directly from lounge to plane, than have an intermediate step of waiting at the gate.

<comment><USER11> 100% agree as a fellow frequent flyer. Additionally

1) I find that general boarding involves several minutes of just standing in the jetbridge waiting to get on the plane, which is completely lost time. This is often true on popular routes right up until they close the door.

2) If you board late and you're not in an aisle seat you're going to have to deal with the awkward "ask people to let you in and wait for them to shuffle into the aisle" situation.

3) Seating at gates is a pretty big problem at most airports, which simply weren't built to handle the number of passengers they now have. As often as not you're going to be standing at the gate doing email on your phone because there aren't any comfortable seats available.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> The mythbusters segment alluded to in the article is quite interesting to watch. I think they did a quite good attempt at creating a real-life scenario for boarding a plane.

While the article suggests that part of the issue is that the airlines create inefficiency in order to be able to offer perks to get around the inefficiency. That's probably a minor consideration (I can easily see the 'rewards program' suit arguing in a meeting to keep it).

But I think there would be a lot of inertia in changing a program like boarding allocations. There are a lot of procedures around boarding - we don't know exactly what 'hooks' the airlines have around their procedures. We also don't know how more complicated systems test with the general public - including first time flyers, people who don't speak the same language as the airline, and other edge cases. The current methods are quite resilient against these problem-cases, and the more-efficient ones may collapse faster as a result.

Essentially I think that it's easy for outsiders to suggest changes - but we should reflect on that like user requests like 'why don't they just change the UI on this software to make it more like facebook?'. It would be good to get an airline insiders knowledge and comments.

<comment><USER12> I don't like the 5% problem people that Mythbusters added to the mix. Boarding back to front is sensitive to morons, and they literally and arbitrarily guaranteed that 1 out of 20 people would delay the line, causing everyone to have to wait. If they did it at an even increment, that would be the worst situation possible for back-to-fronters.

Couldn't you just integrate over all possible distributions of that 5% (assuming that number came from somewhere) in the line? Seems like this problem could be easily attacked with math instead of experiment.

<comment><USER4> The moron-boarder is a non-trivial issue. I don't think you can adequately model that type of behaviour. Any method has to be robust to problem boarders - people who go for the bathroom, can't find their seat, bring on too much luggage, don't speak the language, etc.

If anything I think the 'morons' in the Mythbusters ep were moronic enough. Certainly anyone who travels frequently wil l be able to cite behviour far worse than they modelled.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> I think this can be summarized as: Airline boarding is terrible because airlines are profit maximizers, not customer service maximizers. As the article points out, airlines are actually incentivized not to make the boarding process better since they can charge more for things like priority boarding and checked bags, as well as encourage customers down the frequent flyer status path. As long as the experience is almost the same across airlines and they are not losing customers, there is no reason to change the process.

Additionally, customers are not rational actors when it comes to boarding. Even if airlines adopted a more efficient method, it would face many problems, like frequent flyers complaining about having to use general boarding and many people holding up the boarding process due to stuffing oversized carry-on baggage into the overhead bins.

<comment><USER13> In WW2, statisticians determined that if B-17s flew their missions unarmed, they would have a higher survival rate. Unarmed B-17's would be quite a bit lighter, and so could fly higher and faster.

But the air crews simply could not tolerate not being able to shoot back.

<comment><USER14> I have no idea about the statistics, but in a wartime scenario this leaves out a crucial factor: number of enemies killed

So if you send out 100 B17s with guns and 80 come back, but they kill N enemy attackers, and 100 B17s without guns and 90 come back, but kill 0 enemy attackers, maybe if N is high enough it's worth it?

<comment><USER13> If you lose 20% per mission, you will no longer have an air force within a couple weeks.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> I fly a lot, so I think I probably feel the pain of this issue more than the average person. And I have to say, I'm kind of baffled by the amount of time that is spent discussing it. Yeah, it's kind of frustrating, but is this really such a huge problem that it deserves this kind of dissection? Or is it just that it's a visible problem, and one that's easy to grasp, so everyone thinks they can come up with a better way to do it? I don't doubt that improvements could be made, but even in the best case, this isn't going to change the world or even make the average person's life significantly better...

<comment><USER16> Actually, if you consider how much time is wasted in an inefficient boarding process and how much anger/frustration it causes people, it probably adds up to an insane amount of lost productivity.

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> This was posted two weeks ago:

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7637783](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7637783)

</comment><comment><USER18> A couple of years back I was stuck in a crappy flight, so mid flight I decided to write a simple simulation of boarding flights[0].

The flight service usually boarded from front and rear, but somehow on that day they did front-to-rear. I also simulated different methods - like odd/even seating.

Now, it's not the best, but I ended up on a brief consulting role that ended up nowhere (the real life data indicated no statistical difference in boarding methods whatsoever). What's interesting is I hadn't taken profit motive into account.

Now that I think about it, there really isn't any motive for airlines to board quicker and take off quicker.

[0] : [http://blog.chewxy.com/2012/04/04/a-better-passenger- boardin...](http://blog.chewxy.com/2012/04/04/a-better-passenger-boarding- system/)

<comment><USER19> I would argue that if they could board/take off quicker they could squeeze in an extra flight a day (possibly), which would reduce their costs. But it might be hard to recoup the amount lost from the early boarding fees.

<comment><USER4> Perhaps the pilot procedures take x amount of time - which is fixed. Whether boarding takes x, or x-10 minutes wouldn't change the ability of the flight to leave.

There is also landing/takeoff slots, which are outside the control of the airline.

All in all, I doubt boarding faster would help an airline fly a plane more often.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> Dumb question - but why is luggage above instead of below the seat? I seem to find that a lot of slowness comes from maneuvering a 35lb bag up over your head. When the plane lands, pulling it down is an act of controlled chaos hoping you don't take anyone out while lowering your luggage.

<comment><USER20> The area at the top of the cabin is pretty much 'dead space' in terms of the airframe. In contrast, there's a metric shit-ton of wiring and various piping under the floor (with easy maintenance access by popping up floor panels). There's also other important things under there, like the wing spar pass- through :) If you raised the seats to put the luggage there, the curved sides of the cabin wouldn't allow you to put a seat near the window, so you'd lose a lot of valuable seating area (which airlines track to fractions of an inch)...

</comment></comment><comment><USER21> If the overhead bins were reserved for certain seats, it seems like boarding would go a lot smoother.

I've flown in countries where they're really strict with enforcing the size limit on carry ons. Boarding was much quicker.

<comment><USER4> Yes, but I bet check-in, or wherever they enforce the carry on, was slower. That is why they don't enforce it regularly - because the customer blowback and holdups at the check-in are the airlines problem. Whereas people bringing on oversized carry-on because a customer-customer problem, and less of the airlines fault.

It's not right, but that's how it is.

</comment></comment><comment><USER22> My solution to boarding airplanes would be that you line up the passengers in lines at the gate in reverse to what the seat number they have, last seats first in queue, lowest seat numbers last in queue. So you reverse the seat number so seat 01A-E boards last. 02 second last and so forth.

Basically you just line people up in reverse to the seat numbers and then they walk onto the plane.

<comment><USER23> They touch on that in the article, it is actually the slowest way to load a plane. Worse than random.

[http://mythbustersresults.com/airplane- boarding](http://mythbustersresults.com/airplane-boarding)</comment></comment>


Hacker News Kansai Meetup: July 26, Osaka - <AUTHOR> http://hnkansai.doorkeeper.jp/events/4818

<comment><AUTHOR> As always, you can see past presentations on our YouTube channel: [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbxKJC9zZJ9C7YDYuZ3m59Q](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbxKJC9zZJ9C7YDYuZ3m59Q)

</comment><comment><USER2> If you get a chance, I highly recommend checking out the HN Kansai group. A really great collection of people working on some diverse stuff, in a wonderful area. Wish I could attend more often!</comment>


I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.4 per hour - <AUTHOR> http://www.breakit.se/artikel/7599/i-spent-two-weeks-delivering-for-uber-eats-and-made-4-4-per-hour <comment><USER2> I friend told me about a guy that picked people up on his commute from work. And would turn the app on when he wanted to the mall. Not sure it's meant be full time.</comment>


GitHub Résumé - <AUTHOR> http://resume.github.io/ <comment><USER3> > As a software startup owner I really enjoy when people send us their résumés > and they include their github account so we can see tangible work they have > done.

I sometimes feel very insecure when I read statements like this. I consider myself a good and a passionate programmer with "above-average programming skills", if there is such a thing. However, I have (so far) never been able to manage contributing to open source projects in any significant way. Sometimes I have been too busy with work projects, sometimes it has been a busy life at grad school, sometimes family, sometimes I have been plain shy, and so on. I have put together a bunch of great hacks at places I have worked, which sadly I cannot open source. But I see dozens of people whom I know who are naturally prolific in their oss contributions, manage to attract a high number of twitter followers, etc. and I wish I were more like them.

Do startups really look at github contributions as the ultimate measure of one's tech chops or are looking for people who go that extra bit and make time in their schedules for contributing back to the community?

<comment><USER4> >Do startups really look at github contributions as the ultimate measure of one's tech chops or are looking for people who go that extra bit and make time in their schedules for contributing back to the community?

When I was hiring, yes. There is no easier and simpler way to evaluate someone before bringing them in for an interview than checking their verifiable OSS contributions. It's low friction.

Doesn't mean we didn't consider others, but for obvious reasons people who actually could prove they had done work went to the head of the line. It's just how it is.

<comment><USER5> "people who actually could prove they had done work went to the head of the line."

You mean "people who proved they would work for free," right? FWIW, I'm not interested in working for your company, but of the code I wrote which has made it to Github, most has been uploaded by people other than me.

<comment><USER6> OSS doesn't mean writing for free. A very large chunk of the code on Github was writing on paid time.

<comment><USER5> It seems like mostly a place where people store config files, mirror code, and dump half-assed work in progress. But would "I wrote this code, and someone posted it on a website" really make someone better than "I wrote this code?"

<comment><USER7> Not better, just easier to verify.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Personally, I like [http://osrc.dfm.io](http://osrc.dfm.io) simply because it provides way more detail and insight into the user. Just my opinion though, this is still pretty cool.

<comment><USER9> Also, I'm really flattered by osrc.dfm.io. According to [http://osrc.dfm.io/jakob](http://osrc.dfm.io/jakob) I'm a "high caliber Objective-C coder" in contrast to [http://resume.github.io/?jakob](http://resume.github.io/?jakob) calling me a "newbie github user".

<comment><USER10> It just displays one of the (positive sounding) adjectives next to the most used language in your profile:

[https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f0...](https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f00ab208bf47f91/osrc/templates/user.html#L17)

Adjectives:

[https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f0...](https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f00ab208bf47f91/osrc/adjectives.json)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> Alright, this website basically turns [https://github.com/mojombo](https://github.com/mojombo) into [http://resume.github.io/?mojombo](http://resume.github.io/?mojombo) , which is uglier than the original and doesn't even add anything new. How did this get 22 points in 50 minutes and is #1 now?

<comment><USER12> To credit the original author, Github profile pages have evolved a lot since this project was created (~3 years ago) and much of what you see now is likely influenced by projects like this.

<comment><USER11> I understand, and I didn't mean to discredit the site itself. I was just pointing out the weird upvote behavior here. It would have been very useful and clever idea back then but why is it #1 today? is what I don't understand

<comment><USER13> Seems to be a yearly cyclical thing with resume.github.com. I don't know why but as the author, I find it amusing :-)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> This project is at least 3 years old. Interesting it has got picked up by HN folks again. For those not familiar with GitHub pages, somebody got username "resume" in order to create this page. I had to explain this because this actually looks like something GitHub launched, just like [http://status.github.com/](http://status.github.com/) but it is not.

<comment><USER15> Glad they're using .io now for user pages. I remember the confusion some of these projects caused.

</comment></comment><comment><USER16> As a guy who routinely has his resume tossed because of a lack of technical degree, Github is a godsend for the auxiliary benefit of companies that want to take me serious can find my code there. I routinely have stuff trend in Objective C and it's slightly frustrating when interviewers think the toughest question is what's different between an NSArray and NSMutableArray because my resume says "Majored in Graphic Design."

I love contributing to the community, and that's obviously the first reason why I push OSS, but that extra hiring benefit is extremely helpful for other coders like me who don't have a technical degree.

<comment><USER17> Same here man. [http://osrc.dfm.io](http://osrc.dfm.io) makes me sound good as well, top 2% Objective-c

<comment><USER16> Woah that's awesome! I'd never seen that site before. Top 5% here.

[http://osrc.dfm.io/bennyguitar](http://osrc.dfm.io/bennyguitar)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER18> Personally, I don't like the idea of a GitHub/OSS resume. While for others this is great, it does not work for everyone. Many of us are not able to contribute to open source projects...

How many professionals are asked by their future employer about the work they do for free in their spare time? Would you ask a doctor how many patients he/she treated for free? Or a lawyer how many cases he/she did for free in their spare time? I don't think so...

By all means, I think contributing back to the community is a noble, great thing to do (and we should all strive to do it), but this should not be considered the sole measure of one's technical skills.

<comment><USER19> No, but I do care about what cases my attorney takes on _pro bono_ or what community service my doctor participates in. It goes to showing what one does to give back to the community, whether it's geographically (putting your volunteer/civic organizations on your resume) or professionally (putting your GitHub account on your resume).

Having a doctor or lawyer who gives back is important to a lot of people, and I'm sure that translates into wanting to hire employees who give back to their communities as well.

<comment><USER18> Yes, I agree. But I'm not sure that for a doctor or a lawyer there is the same pressure to "give back to the community" as for a software developer.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER20> To be useful, this needs to also crawl the projects I contribute to, not just the ones under my account. I am a maintainer of a project under another github account but that completely escapes this tool.

<comment><USER21> Agreed. My modest contributions to widely used projects are at least as important as my personal projects that nobody uses.

</comment></comment><comment><USER22> Hmm. This is missing my most popular repo, [https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/ido- ubiquitous](https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/ido-ubiquitous)

Probably because for historical reasons, my repo is not the "root" on GitHub (it started out an an anonymous snippet on EmacsWiki and someone else put it in its own GitHub repo, which I later forked).

<comment><AUTHOR> (Submitter but not the author.)

It looks like that's because its using GitHub's timeline API, which -- in addition to GitHub's general repository API -- only retrieves repositories which are actually rooted at the given user. Sort of a shame; I feel like most people's most interesting/important open source activity is on repositories which they don't own.

<comment><USER23> At the same time, this probably cuts down on "me too" contributions. I have a repo that has been gaining popularity lately and have been flooded with pull requests that do nothing but add a jshint file or other dev environment changes.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> Some of my most important projects are open sourced under my company's account and this won't show any of them even though I contributed 90% of the code. This only shows my personal side projects that are done for fun. Any chance this could change in the future?

</comment><comment><USER25> One thing that struck me as painfully obvious about this is that the actual coding aspect of someone's job is only a small fraction of what makes them a good hire. Not to mention, they might have JavaScript or what-ever language is good for an open source part of a system, but if they're working in DevOps, DB guru, etc. none of that comes through in this.

I don't think I'd call this a GitHub Resume, more of a formatted GitHub summary that could be part of someone's Resume.

Sure, if you're inundated with so many resumes that you can't decide where to start (doubt this is a problem most companies have) this might be a good place to start.

</comment><comment><USER26> This is awesome and just what I've been wanting. One request would be to show the repos I contribute to the most instead of just the ones on my account.

I went and looked up the open source report card which used to work the same way. Looks like they've recently changed it though to pull from your most contributed repos, so for me is much more accurate of my activity on Github. [http://osrc.dfm.io/](http://osrc.dfm.io/)

</comment><comment><USER27> This is neat.

Improvements might be allowing you to hand-pick which repos to highlight.

Also, I'd love a way to highlight my contributions to popular open source projects on github that _aren't_ in my own repo, or a 'team' repo I belong to. For instance, I have, I think, 2 or 3 commits in Rails -- but you aren't going to find that out from looking at my github account, or from this resumé thing. I have yet to figure out _how_ to figure it out in fact!

</comment><comment><USER28> As I haven't seen any comments about it. Some friends of mine created already a while ago Masterbranch [http://www.masterbranch.com](http://www.masterbranch.com)

It does not only builds your resume from Github but from many other repositories as well. Not sure what is the current status of the project though.

</comment><comment><USER29> This is great.

It reminds me that I need to clean up my github account.

Unfortunately I use github for two separate functions -- putting up projects some other people may be interested in and for throwing up scratchpad projects. So I end up with a lot of garbage on my account.

The bulk of my really interesting stuff is in private accounts.

<comment><USER30> > for throwing up scratchpad projects

I've replaced almost all my scratch projects with gists using the `gist` command [1]. It's a nice utility because it authenticates as your GitHub account, and you can modify existing gists (which can contain 1 or more files) with the `--update` flag. Really works great for those one-off things.

[1] - [https://github.com/defunkt/gist](https://github.com/defunkt/gist)

</comment></comment><comment><USER31> Any employers looking to use this to seriously evaluate candidates -- you are wide open to having your analytics gamed by people looking to get their foot in the door. And commits are much easier to fake out and automate than degrees. :)

</comment><comment><USER32> Kudos. This is a great start. As someone constantly on the look for great technical talent (as both an entrepreneur and investor), I am constantly looking for tools that help me source candidates in a credible way.

I have looked at several sites like this and using GitHub to query and then present is smart. Some suggestions:

1) Find a way to notify the user when their resume has been built. This could be a great distribution tactic.

2) Allow the user to reveal non-detailed summaries of their private repos. This is where the real power of a tool like this would come in. Allowing a generalized summary of the private repo's could lead to an "IMDB for programmers"

</comment><comment><USER33> I would not want an employer to use this to evaluate me because it is called my "github resume" and somehow implies that it is my summary of my experiences, abilities, skills and potential.

You don't need to be an active github user to be a good developer (I am not even a good developer) and you should be able to present your resume as you deem fit.

Obviously if this allowed me to own my account and easily customize how my github works gets displayed I'd be more interested. Until then, this feels like pushing my github work through a meat grinder and evaluating the sausage instead of me.

</comment><comment><USER34> Interesting but deriving anything from this one is near useless. For example, this completely fails to list any of my current open source project because I created them under my organizations name.

</comment><comment><USER35> This doesn't include contributions to other people's repos, which makes it not so useful (and a bummer if someone tries to use it to summarize my GitHub work). I spend the majority of my time contributing to pydata/pandas, which doesn't show up at all. Bummer.

</comment><comment><USER36> This is spiraling out of control

</comment><comment><USER37> Unfortunately, this ignores forked repositories. The open source contributions I'm most proud of were to projects that I didn't start, so none of them are listed here.

<comment><USER38> I think that's probably by design. From the point of view of "project as CV items", most forked items have very little in the way of useful contribution to them - that doesn't defeat your point that some forks are very cool indeed.

<comment><USER37> You're probably right that most forks aren't very interesting - I wonder if it would be possible to parse out actual diffs made by the user on the fork. I've contributed a fair amount of code to BioPython, which is going to be impressive to people in my field. To contribute you work on your own fork and submit a pull request. Under this scheme a single person is getting credit for all the work of the BioPython developers on their own development forks that gets merged into the main repo (or maybe no one is getting credit, as the central repo is owned by an organization.)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER39> It would be nice if it included gists, because I have some interesting non- trivial snippets on there that it doesn't make sense to put into a full repo on Github.

</comment><comment><USER40> See also... _Perl Résumé_ which works of your CPAN account (via MetaCPAN) - [http://perlresume.org](http://perlresume.org)

</comment><comment><USER41> I thought this was a lot more interesting GitHub visualization: [http://osrc.dfm.io/bergie](http://osrc.dfm.io/bergie)

</comment><comment><USER42> This doesn't work for me :( shows me just repositories I create for blog posts, but not the organizations I own to show my main repositories.

</comment><comment><USER43> This is dumb. It merely duplicates the exact same information that is available front and center on everyone's GitHub profile to begin with, but in a worse format. Only idiot VCs would think this is cool or useful. Coincidentally, the creator of "GitHub Résumé" thinks Coin is a great idea and wants to invest: [https://twitter.com/davidcoallier/status/401075383971627008](https://twitter.com/davidcoallier/status/401075383971627008)

</comment><comment><USER44> LinkedIn is better. You rise above all that coding bs as you get older and has a career. Instead of just a code monkey forever...

</comment><comment><USER45> This is pretty fantastic. Some combination of this and LinkedIn will mean I can give up word docs forever !

</comment><comment><USER17> This also pretty cool [http://osrc.dfm.io](http://osrc.dfm.io)

</comment><comment><USER46> On the related note - if you need a solid looking offline resume and don't want to spend hours formatting it, check out Almagreta Resume Templates - <USER2> of 5 great looking Word templates with some cool features.

[http://almagreta.com/resume-templates/](http://almagreta.com/resume- templates/)

<comment><USER47> Or just use free ones of you are unemployed and spend the money on food.

</comment></comment><comment><USER48> The use of percentages within the example resume's made me wince.

</comment><comment><USER49> Intriguing - I was expecting a Jekyll-based static resume

</comment><comment><USER50> reminds me of this: open source report card [http://osrc.dfm.io/](http://osrc.dfm.io/)

</comment><comment><USER51> Great idea. love this.</comment>


Show HN: Music Portraits as Computer Art - <AUTHOR> https://rosshaker.com/wonderful.html <comment><USER2> Thumbs up for the most unusual HN submission I have seen in a long time!</comment>


Go channels in good old C - <AUTHOR> http://devcry.heiho.net/2012/07/go-channels-in-good-old-c.html?m=1

<comment><USER2> As I previously posted here on sometimes ago, please check [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6570785](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6570785) to see there are libtask, lthread and others as well. FYI.</comment>


A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/KillerFeature/WT64 <comment><USER2> Looks cool!

Obligatory note: Cool Retro Term (CRT) [https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool- retro-term](https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term) is pretty cool ;)

<comment><USER3> Is it ironic that a terminal emulator requires QT5?

<comment> yjftsjthsd-h Meh; a lot of terminal emulators use some toolkit (gnome-terminal, lxterminal, xfce's terminal use GTK, KDE-adjacent uses QT, CDE's terminal is a motif app), and cool term is graphics heavy, which I admit is amusing.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> Wow. From:

      64K RAM SYSTEM  38911 BASIC BYTES FREE

to:

      16700332000 KB SYSTEM RAM 3865524000 KILOBYTES FREE

?? Wait a minute... this guy has 16 terabytes of RAM?!?!

I mean I knew we've come a long way... but not _that_ long. ;)

Looking at the code, it's a bug in reset.ps1 that mistakenly appends "000". So just a normal 16 GB system, phew.

<comment><USER5> Maybe not 16TB, but it is possible to have a desktop computer with 1.5TB of RAM (16 RAM slots, with 128GB per RAM stick). It is going to be fairly expensive, though.

<comment><USER6> Worth it, though. Think of all the chrome tabs you could have open.

<comment><USER7> About 6000, apparently: [https://twitter.com/tldtoday/status/1225602339056189445](https://twitter.com/tldtoday/status/1225602339056189445)

<comment><USER8> That's how many I usually had open when Opera had Presto engine ;P

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> If you really want the historically accurate colors there are some interesting resources online:

[https://www.colodore.com/](https://www.colodore.com/) [https://www.pepto.de/projects/colorvic/](https://www.pepto.de/projects/colorvic/) [https://www.pepto.de/projects/colorvic/2001/](https://www.pepto.de/projects/colorvic/2001/)

</comment><comment><USER10> Most importantly, does it support the "WAIT 6502, 1" easter egg?

<comment><USER3> It appears you can add your own commands to the commands.ps1 file.

Edit: There's already support for "SYS64738"

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> This is incredibly cool... But alas I was on the wrong side of the fence when I was a kid - ZX Spectrum all the way, so younger me wouldn't allow me to use it. If it was a BBC in Mode 7 then I could just about get away with that, but a Commie 64 just isn't right.

</comment><comment><USER12> This is great, i get that nostalgia from time to time

</comment><comment><USER13> This is nice. I might write a C128 mode for this :)

<comment><USER14> I had that machine. But I've used it always in B/W in a TV that wasn't NTSC so I don't even know the original colors :D

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> Brings back memories. Love it.

</comment><comment><USER16> Love this!</comment>


Ask HN: Review my startup - typehello.com - <AUTHOR>

-Have you ever wanted to meet or chat with other people browsing the same website as yours?<p>-Have you ever wanted to do a quick real-time chat with someone browsing the same e-commerce website you are in, for a second opinion on a product you plan to buy (say a TV on Amazon or a dress in Macys or a smartphone in AT&T website)?<p>-Have you ever wanted to discuss in real-time, some breaking news or sports news or a new product launch on a webpage with other people reading the same article?<p>-Welcome to TypeHello.<p>-Using TypeHello anyone can create a ad-hoc chat room to message friends or meet new people who are browsing the same website as yours. TypeHello makes any webpage truly social.<p>-If you want an on-demand Social Network, Meet people on any website without Friend Requests and no pesky Ads. You have come to the right place. No Installation necessary. We use Bookmarklet technology.<p>-And There is more If interested head over to http://www.typehello.com/<p>-We are interested to hear your feedback :-) <comment> marco-fiset This looks pretty awesome. I will sure try it out.</comment>


HP TouchPad: Shipping July 1 - <AUTHOR> http://blog.palm.com/palm/2011/06/hp-touchpad-its-a-date.html <comment><USER2> Well it looks like they have already done something better than all their non- Apple competitors - instead of rushing it out half finished they seem to have waited until it's done. Given the biggest complaint about webos on the phone was the power of the processor this stands a good chance of being a nice product. fingers crossed for them

(I'm unlikely to give up my iPad given iCloud now but there really should be a decent competitor in the market place) ((and by decent I mean something a casual purchaser will be happy with and not a tablet that is good enough to make someone happy who pointedly doesn't want to buy Apple and will put up with all sorts))

<comment><USER3> The 500MHz processor in the original Pre really does hold back WebOS. Running an overclocked custom kernel, I have mine set at 1GHz, makes a huge difference to the usability and surprisingly doesn't reduce battery life by much (which is partly due to the custom kernels clocking the CPU back to 500MHz when the screen is off).

It looks like HP/Palm have learned from this and aren't going to make the same mistake twice, the more recent videos of the Touchpad show how much they've optimised the UI to remove the lag: [http://www.precentral.net/webos-3-0-optimizations-make- smoot...](http://www.precentral.net/webos-3-0-optimizations-make-smoother- touchpad-swiping-video)

<comment><USER4> As I was completely unaware of overclocking in WebOS and specifically for the original Pre (which I have), I'll save the user the bit of googling I did to find overclocking. I had no idea it was this easy in preware:

[http://www.precentral.net/why-i-overclock-my-palm-pre-its- ea...](http://www.precentral.net/why-i-overclock-my-palm-pre-its-easier-you- think-video)

So now I have my distraction for the next half-hour while I play with the overclocking options and test the responsiveness.

So thank you for mentioning that. +1 to you!

<comment><USER5> I don't know how many times I said the words "I had no idea it was so easy" when I had my Palm Pre. It really is an impressive OS.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> I have been waiting for this device for months.

It's not the second coming or anything, but for those of us that don't want to buy Apple, and think that android is ugly. WebOS devices are a nice balance.

It's also been true that Samsung has not been able to get clean devices out. They are buggy and expensive.

The TouchPad may not be as fast as an iPad 2 or the new Samsung tablet, but it will be faster than the iPad 1, and most of the Android Tablets on the market. The OS is clean and is easy to use.

If the device sells well the app market is not yet crowded and there will be plenty of room for app developers to create a niche for themselves.

I also think that HP will have better distribution into the enterprise.

Touch to Share will not just be about moving files between your phone and tablet, it will be about moving files between all of these devices including your laptop, your printer, and your mobile, ( maybe even your camera ).

Imagine if Mom could buy a printer, a camera, and a phone and just print out photos by taping her phone to the printer. What if you could print out those TPS reports by tapping your tablet on any one of a hundred printers in an enterprise?

And then there is the touch stones, which wirelessly charge your devices.

Yes, I am excited someone is finally competing with iDevices by creating a better experience, not just a cheaper one.

HP don't just make it cheaper, make it easier to use across all of my devices.

And don't forget that there is that rumor of dropbox integration into webos 3.

</comment><comment><USER7> They are also offering free TouchPads to webOS developers who can demonstrate a working TouchPad app that they intend to submit to the App Catalog. Details on their blog: [http://developer.palm.com/blog/2011/05/show-us-your-app- at-w...](http://developer.palm.com/blog/2011/05/show-us-your-app-at-webos- connect-for-the-chance-to-get-an-hp-touchpad/)

<comment><USER8> Step 1 to get your free TouchPad: get to Paris or Berlin.

<comment><USER9> A company the size of HP can afford to give away piles of TouchPads and Pres to developers that might be mildly interested. HP should have somebody hunting down the twitter accounts of prolific app developers and mailing out starter packs of hardware. Google has been handing out hardware left and right and doesn't seem to be slowing down one bit.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> Just once, I'd like to hear an electronics developer, in HP/Palm's situation, humbly concede, "We realize that we're entering a crowded market. We realize that we're entering late. However, our strategy is simple: ply the development community with incentives which, over time, should help us flesh out our platform into an engaging and useful product."

I've read little but boasting from HP about the new round of WebOS devices. Let's be honest: they have a very tough road ahead if they want to get any market share. They need all of the help and good will that they can get.

<comment><USER11> I could care less about talk in any case. I've been following Windows Phone 7 as of late and it seems that they've made it easy to program for the platform by offering development tools, samples, and instruction. There is scant documentation or examples for Enyo.

They changed app dev frameworks on all of their existing developers from Mojo to Enyo. That can't help either. I think they have a near Herculean task in trying to claw back market share. There seem to be a few evangelists who love the webOS platform and its devices but when it comes to consumers paying at the door that is in jeopardy.

<comment><USER12> Enyo docs are scant because Enyo is still a beta and the docs are under NDA, but they do exist and aren't that bad. There is still plenty of room for HP to improve their docs and more code samples though.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> I still fail to understand on why companies prefer to price their products at the same level as iPad?! Spec for spec, there are not many things that put HP TouchPad to an advantage. No extendable memory, no extra ports, a weak app ecosystem, etc.

Ever since the ASUS Transformer was released at 399$ for a 16GB model, that pretty much became the price to beat for a tablet which wanted to compete with the iPad2

<comment><USER14> I was going to post a snarky comment about how the Transformer can't compete with the iPad because its not actually shipping yet, blah blah, but I did a search first and found out that it shipped over a month ago.

Which can only mean that ASUS really botched the PR on this one. Neither Engadget nor Gizmodo (arguably the two largest gadget sites) have reviewed it, but the few reviews I did find were generally positive.

I've read about tablets from Motorola, Toshiba, and Samsung, but nothing about the ASUS, which looks to be a decent, relatively cheap Honeycomb tablet.

<comment><USER3> Engadget reviewed the UK edition of the Transformer in April and seemed to generally like it. [http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/18/asus-eee-pad- transformer-...](http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/18/asus-eee-pad-transformer- uk-edition-review/)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> One of the cooler things about WebOS when I was using a 1st generation Pre was the large community of jailbreakers and the mods and apps that they produced. Given some of the cool things they made possible on the Pre I'm really interested to see what they'll do with the TouchPad. Here's hoping it's a success, I really liked WebOS.

</comment><comment><USER16> I like WebOS, so it's too bad that the form factor lags behind a generation. A 1.6 pound device will be palpably less comfortable to use than the new generation of 1.3 pound devices (iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1).

<comment><USER17> If that's the case, I think you should go out and do some exercises.

Can you really tell the difference between 1.6 pound and 1.3 pound gadgets ?

<comment><USER18> If you're using them in bed, you absolutely can. Even an ounce makes a huge difference when you're holding it up for hours on end.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> As a webOS fan/user/developer I'm happy to hear this. It's a big step forward for the platform. Sadly though what I really need is a new phone. Where is the pre 3, when is that going to be release? A new phone would do much more for me right now than a tablet.

</comment><comment><USER20> I am a fan of the Android notifications but I have told that the webOS ones are even better! This should be an interesting device all in all.

<comment><USER21> WebOS notifications are nice because you can swipe away individual notifications. But they also take up more screen than on Android (which matters because Palm/HP loves tiny phones). I'd say it's a push overall.

<comment><USER22> It would be really nice if they have a notification tray (or rather a summary area). That would make it the best notification system on any current platform. Right now, once you swipe the notifications away, there's no single place to go and view those notifications. I can't recall if it still keeps a small reminder icon on the bottom.

Ideally, swipe left to dismiss, swipe right to dismiss for now (still listed in the notification "tray").

<comment><USER23> > I can't recall if it still keeps a small reminder icon on the bottom.

It does this if you don't swipe it away and you interact with some other app. So, if I'm writing an emial and a text message comes in, it will show up with the full notification, but if I touch the email again, it will show the tiny reminder icon.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> "Touch to Share capability for sharing web addresses between HP TouchPad and compatible webOS phones"

I'm sure all 5 people who still have the palm pre can barely contain their excitement...

Seriously, what's HP thinking? I think the Palm Pre came out with more fanfare, and that didn't turn out that great. If all that really differrentiates HP's tablet from the iPad is the OS, well, quite frankly, it's been done before with the Palm Pre vs. iPhone, with less than flattering results for Palm.

I just don't see the sensible part yet... if someone else does, please point it out to me...

<comment><USER12> Palm made the mistake of not realizing fanfare isn't the same as distribution. Touchpads are going to be available at Amazon.com, HP.com, BestBuy, Walmart, Sam's Club, OfficeMax and several others within two weeks of launch, not to mention the international push. The Pre was stuck on the nation's 3rd largest network for like 6 months. It really had no chance of competing with current offerings on AT&T and Verizon being that old.

<comment><USER23> Yup, and it took me over two months to get a Pre after it came out. And I was the first to get one from that Sprint store.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER25> Aside from the the hardware and the OS, the most exciting part of the announcement is how HP is using their sizable scale and distribution channels to get the touchpad into the 4 of the top brick and mortar retailers. It will make it far more accessible to the average consumer than the iPad. I wish the price was lower, but sadly if they didn't match the pricing of the iPad then too many people (or worse media outlets) would automatically assume that it was priced cheaper because it's an inferior product (which it isn't).

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> >>HP also said today that it will be partnering with AT&T to introduce a connected version of HP TouchPad later this summer. No details yet, but stay tuned.

</comment><comment><USER26> I think HP's marketing is wrong, they shouldn't be touting the WebOS operating system so much because ordinary people don't care. The operating system is irrelevant in this type of device. In fact, I think something along the lines of Google's ChromeOS is the right operating system for a tablet -- an ultralight web-browsing only device with cloud-connected filesystem for downloads/photos/movies etc. It's the only type of device that I foresee being able to really compete against the iPad.

<comment><USER27> It's important if one of the goals of the TouchPad is to rejuvenate the WebOS brand so they can market it for notebooks and other non-tablet/phone devices in the future.

</comment></comment><comment><USER28> _If_ webOS fails, I think its legacy will be being too ahead of its time twice- one for being a neat smartphone OS back in 2009 with several features that both the iPhone and Android lacked (card system for multitasking, development platform based on web programming languages), and second for getting into the multi-device platform game prior to OS X Lion and Windows 8 (the webOS will run on everything from desktops to printers initiative that HP is currently pushing).

<comment><USER10> Too ahead of it's time? I'm pretty sure it's just that they were too late to market.

(1) they launched on Sprint. Sprint is a distant 3rd now.

(2) they didn't reach Verizon in time.

They had this lovely window of time before Verizon launched the first Droid phone. Verizon users were _hungry_ for a smartphone. Droid got their first and filled the niche.

It's easy to armchair quarterback but, after trying the Pre on Sprint, I kept wishing for them to get a faster Pre on Verizon before Android arrived.

Too little, too late.

<comment><USER28> What you're saying is true, but I still think that mine are true as well. webOS seems to be the first to have:

1\. Certain features like cards, a good notification system, and requiring only HTML/CSS/JS knowledge to develop for, back in 2009

2\. Currently being the only(?) mobile OS out that is designed to be also run on non-tablet/smartphone systems.

So it boils down to webOS being ahead of its time on some technical features, while marketed poorly and thus causing it to miss the boat.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER29> It's a Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-CPU APQ8060 1.2GHz

But they don't mention RAM or cpu.

It runs flash, but doesn't mention java (so it probably doesn't).

<comment><USER30> > But they don't mention RAM or cpu.

How's saying that it's 1.2 ghz cpu is not mentioning cpu? As for RAM, Wikipedia page says it'll have 1 gb.

<comment><USER29> sorry, typo, I meant gpu (or is that integrated into the SoC?)

<comment><USER30> Ah, right, GPU. Here: [http://www.fudzilla.com/mobiles/item/21816-qualcomm- official...](http://www.fudzilla.com/mobiles/item/21816-qualcomm-officialy- announces-its-apq8060-processor)

> ... comes paired up with Adreno 220 GPU ...

<comment><USER29> Thanks! 1080p 30fps seems not quite there yet (though impressive for a tablet).

Preview for their lead game doesn't look "console quality" to me <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY7lUziafr4> Though the first games usually don't max out the hardware and of course tablets will probably go through a few generations before the next console generation (excluding nintendo's Wii U), so it's only a matter of time. Just not there yet.

I saw elsewhere that it's not as powerful as the iPad 2 (though clocked 20% faster...)</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Tumblr Terms and Privacy Policy diff - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/tosdr/tosback2/commit/957775e52dad75012db665f10aa628a6915a241b#diff-2 <comment><USER2> Here are some clearer diffs:

Terms of Service: [https://draftable.com/gmail/compare/tumblr- terms-65f4a0524cb...](https://draftable.com/gmail/compare/tumblr- terms-65f4a0524cb54f77/shared)

Privacy Policy: [https://draftable.com/gmail/compare/tumblr- privacy-6602dd29a...](https://draftable.com/gmail/compare/tumblr- privacy-6602dd29a13cab3e/shared)

<comment><USER3> Wow, that was amazing to look at! Much easier than a github diff of HTML.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> If you're younger than 13, don't use Tumblr.

-Ask your parents for an Xbox or try books.

+Ask your parents for a Playstation 4, or try books.

Playstation 4 confirmed next-gen console winner by Yahoo. Is that good or bad?

<comment><USER5> I wonder how many 13 year olds will read that....

<comment><USER6> I'd wager less than 10.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> _- <p> If you are a registered user, you can access and delete most information associated with your Account

+<p> If you are a registered user, you can access most information associated with your Account_

</comment><comment><USER8> You can get rid of the irrelevant white-space changes by adding ?w=1 to the URL:

[https://github.com/tosdr/tosback2/commit/957775e52dad75012db...](https://github.com/tosdr/tosback2/commit/957775e52dad75012db665f10aa628a6915a241b?w=1#diff-2)

</comment><comment><USER9> Is there a tl;dr of the shocking changes we should all be complaining about?

<comment><USER10> I don't know why this was a link to tosdr rather than Tumblr's own diffs. I am not even certain whether to trust it as the content doesn't seem to be the same as Tumblr's. (That, or maybe I am myself simply confused.) Regardless, here was a "shocking change".

[https://github.com/tumblr/policy/compare/2cfe3c8668...adfff3...](https://github.com/tumblr/policy/compare/2cfe3c8668...adfff367b5#diff- ef5d83620cbf52ab9f327cc48b35975fR46)

<comment><USER11> It's in the official one: [http://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/community](http://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/community)

<comment><USER10> But not in the one linked by this submission to tosdr.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> It's hard to tell which of these changes are minor legal optimizations, and which are actually suggestive of a different relationship between Tumblr and its users.

In the top paragraph, for instance, "personal" is struck from the phrase: "takes the private nature of your personal information very seriously." Are they taking _more_ of my information seriously or are they subtly suggesting that my information is no longer "personal"?

It'd be nice to see a finer-grained diff.

<comment><USER12> Oh:

\+ Don't do things that would cause confusion between you or your blog and a \+ person or company, like registering a deliberately confusing URL. Don't \+ impersonate anyone. While you're free to ridicule, parody, or marvel at the \+ alien beauty of Benedict Cumberbatch, you can't pretend to actually be \+ Benedict Cumberbatch.

</comment></comment><comment><USER13> The first line of diff tells me how serious they took grammar into account...

From _Tumblr, Inc. ( "Tumblr", "we", "us", or "our") _ to _Tumblr, Inc. ( "Tumblr," "we," "us," or "our")_

</comment><comment><USER14> Out of context: "Tumblr may determine your location by using drone technology and live video feeds"</comment>