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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17815352

Aside: Although iTerm2 (on macOS) doesn't appear to work with this, iTerm2 actually supports full-color inline images, and has an "imgls" script which does something similar. (There's also "imgcat".)

https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html

isomorphicon Top Paying Tech Companies of 2018

I touched on geography in another comment, but another idea to show this data would be to normalize it somehow for region. E.g., divide salary by metro area median income.

isomorphicon Top Paying Tech Companies of 2018

It'd be interesting to see the top-paying tech companies outside of the Bay Area, not on the west coast, and not in the US.

comp.fyi may have the underlying data but it's not sortable by location. One would need to download the Google spreadsheet and run it through a geo database, since location is given as "City, State" (and no country).

isomorphicon Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten Industry

For details see Ill Wind, The Andromeda Strain, probably several other (wildly) speculative novels and stories I'm unaware of, etc., etc.

isomorphicon SpaceX Operating Margin on Rockets Increases Over 10% to 74+%

I'd speculate labor, testing, and other quality assurance cost more than the materials. The fairings have to handle ridiculous thermal and mechanical stresses, then have to separate reliably and cleanly before payload deployment. There can't be flaws.

You don't want your "cheap" fairings developing a pinhole while being hurled through the atmosphere at great speed; this obliterates your ultra-expensive payload.

isomorphicon In which Apple destroys my daughter’s iPad forever

Convince the police or FBI you're a criminal or terrorist. They will unlock it for free.

isomorphicon SourceForge Hiding Fact That They Have Lost the Latest Revision of SVN?

Hey, maybe SVN can host its source on GitHu--oh, wait.

Seriously though, everyone loves GitHub now but it is a giant single point of failure, just like SourceForge was back in the day. Git is more resilient (local copies of history), but we would still have to go through the exercise of migrating projects to a new home, notifying package maintainers and everyone else, etc., etc. I mean, I like GitHub, but I also remember when the Internet was federated.

isomorphicon Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising

Absolutely. You can see Mozilla attribution in the Google URLs. (Unless you've modified your search engines--which Mozilla has made harder to modify.)

isomorphicon Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising

It's not a shitstorm until Facebook announces subsequent quarterlies with a material decrease in revenue. Then it will be a shitstorm. Until then any stock movement is just Wall Street.

isomorphicon Carl Icahn dumps $31M in steel-related stocks before White House tariff talks

> passed a useless health care act

This is unsupported opinion and does not serve to strengthen the rest of your statements: While the act certainly may have been useless to you, it was literally a matter of life-or-death to some Americans--for example those with "pre-existing" conditions. [1]

Furthermore, and of some interest to the Hacker News community, any step to divorce (American) health care from employment is of great importance to startups (small business), those in the gig economy, and should help to improve the overall "liquidity" of the employment market.

If by "useless" you meant that the act did not go nearly far enough, then we would agree. I'm not sure that was due to Obama's corruption but that of his opposition (with ties to the health insurance industry).

(As for the hypothesis that American government has been corrupt for decades, I would also tend to agree. Eisenhower warned of it and I'm sure it was going on decades before him.)

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamac...

isomorphicon Intel Warned Chinese Companies of Chip Flaws Before U.S. Government

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

I think you mean "overtly mandatory" in China's case.

isomorphicon Isomorphic Go

It still feels a little like abuse of the (more common) mathematical usage of the term, but the same sort of abuse is ongoing with the term "serverless." These things have moved into developer vernacular, so there's no point fighting it, even if I'm a little biased.

isomorphicon NTSB Issues Investigative Update on San Francisco Airport Near Miss

I don't think GPS is accurate enough for that sort of thing, you'd need ground radar, working with onboard computers that understand which runway you're cleared for, etc. (I'm not a pilot, I'm speculating.)

If you read the Guardian article from planetjones' comment:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/aug/03/air-canada-...

Quoting:

The investigators said that as the Air Canada jet approached the taxiway just before midnight after a flight from Toronto, it was so far off course that it did not appear on a radar system used to prevent runway collisions.

The next paragraph states they are working on improving that.

isomorphicon PSA: Don't force quit apps on iOS

> There are many such loopholes.

Exactly. I force-quit apps for privacy reasons, not because I believe I'm better than software at memory-management and caching.

I realized how sad that statement is just as I was writing it. Our phones do not belong to us; they belong to the companies releasing the software that runs on them.

isomorphicon Redesigning Google News

If you view the new Google "News" from a desktop browser with a narrow width (well, narrow for these days--1024 pixels, so I can actually have other windows on my screen), the "content" takes up about a third of the page. The other two thirds is wasted.

Even within the "content," tremendous amounts of space is wasted, and less information is present than before.

isomorphicon Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads

> offering you goods and services you may be interested in

The thing is: never, not even once, has Google offered me an ad with goods and services I was interested in.

isomorphicon Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia

As an aside, I added Twitter to that for a sense of scale: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Facebook... (Short version: Facebook dwarfs Twitter.)

However, the "Interest by region" is amusingly topical.

isomorphicon U.S. government begins asking foreign travelers about social media

The benefit is to normalize unreasonableness. And to add another scene of "doing something" to the never-ending production of Security Theater.

isomorphicon Pebble CEO explains why he sold to Fitbit

Also note that Fitbit can cover some of its costs (or enhance its profits, however you look at it) by wholesale spying upon its users.

isomorphicon Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit

> remind you that we’ve lived a bold and daring adventure around the solar system’s most magnificent planet

Other than the one we're standing on, you mean.

isomorphicon Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

The US$19.99 price is a bit steep to buy sight-unseen. That's more of an App Store problem than Blink's fault. Obviously the price is fine if it works better than Prompt.

isomorphicon The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weather buoy

One of the things I take away from this graph isn't just the peak wind speed, but the amount of time you'd be under hurricane-force winds.

A couple minutes of 90mph winds is one thing... hours of 90mph winds is entirely another thing.

isomorphicon Improvements in Firefox for Desktop and Android

Searching about:config for e10s, I see I'm in the "disqualified-control" "e10s.rollout.cohort". Looking further, I see "extensions.e10sBlockedByAddons" and "extensions.e10sBlocksEnabling" are both true.

So, one or more add-ons are presumably incompatible with the feature, but even if I uninstalled those (which ones?) I might still be in Mozilla's control group, and there's no clear way to override that.

isomorphicon APFS in Detail

I agree; no checksumming of user data is very disappointing. If there were performance issues, they could build checksumming into the filesystem, but make it a volume-specific option. No checksumming on the watch, strong integrity guarantees on the Mac Pro.

Their filesystem goals are in some ways consistent with Apple's (marketing) vision: Users would never have terabyte libraries of anything, as the various iServices would (should) be hosting that stuff in the cloud (where one presumes it is stored on a filesystem that actually includes data integrity). Since users won't be storing much of anything locally, Apple needn't care too much about data integrity. This is of course, nonsense.

The idea that Apple's storage devices are error-free is arrogant--but even assuming that were true, there can still be bit errors in the SATA/PCI bus, errors in memory, race conditions, gamma rays, etc. Apple uses ECC memory on their Mac Pro, so obviously someone still believes that sort of thing is possible.

isomorphicon Google Fonts Redesigned

Blank white page on Firefox 47.0, OS X El Capitan, cookies disabled.

isomorphicon Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test

I have multiple WAN connections (multiple ISPs). This actually (correctly) reports the aggregate download speed!

Obviously if they are "downloading multiple files," they aren't waiting for them to complete synchronously.

isomorphicon Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics

Collecting telemetry data without letting users even know about it (much less opt in) isn't cool, either.

isomorphicon Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics

For posterity, Homebrew is using curl to talk to Google Analytics. You will have to selectively block curl by destination in Little Snitch (or only allow the various other hosts Homebrew uses).

isomorphicon Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics

I block Google Analytics in my web browser, too...