jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Also in Colchester - it's been there a few years now. It confused a lot of people when introduced IIRC.. Although when you get used to them, they can really speed up the traversal from one side to the other.
lolz, if anything "lol" is gaining traction among the internet generation. I work with a bunch of geeks my age or younger, and several of them actually say "lol" irl when they think something is funny, usually accompanied by actual laughter.
Feedbackroulette has been good to me
http://feedbackroulette.com/

But you only really get as many reviews as you give yourself.
I agree. The tv series is better because with 50+ episodes, the creator(s) were able to present a more detailed version of the future described in the movies (I'm talking about the first one from 1995 and Innocence).
Fun fact, the DoD is the largest employer on the entire planet. 2.91 million total employees.
I test drove a Tesla.

Imo, it is cool shit.
I agree. I can't believe how a supposedly "tech" crowd can be so against what looks to be one of the biggest tech disruptions we will see this decade.
Disclaimer: you own bitcoin?
Youll be glad to know most btc mining comes from renewable energy and the existing financial infrastructure uses more energy. Also replacing gold would be a net win for the environment. So really there is no need to fake virtue signal.
> But as a general point of view of Western society in general, I do think it should be less white.

Exactly my point
And you can turn it off. ;-)

I guess the point is not that crash reports and slowdown data aren't useful (they are), but that they tend to give you incremental improvements.

That being said, incremental improvements over a decade can make a big difference, as Apple also demonstrates.
You would still need to be able to handle escaping, right? Otherwise you couldn't have a string with a record separator within a CSV column.
DO definitely had UI, SSD first. But Block Storage, Regions, Snapshots Backup and Load Balancer all were either first on Linode or being worked on for a long time. Linode also had Pooled Transfer and other tidbit for a long time well before DO.

Remember we are talking about early days of DO. Of course later DO innovate more and Linode had to follow. And the new Linode UI is arguably better than DO. Although it did took them years to make it. The beauty of competition.
Sure, as someone who spends a lot of time in China, I know you’re wrong. But sure etymological fallacy.
bo is a vanity project by someone who made billions selling counterfeits and factory rejects as legitimate products to unsuspecting consumers, to produce a rocket that will be obsolete before it ever flies.
When speaking of passing data between applications, I'm specifically thinking of the use cases enabled by Android's intent system. Applications can register their ability to respond to and fulfill certain interactions, and then the OS mediates between them.

Say, for instance, you're in the Twitter app and click on a link. Instead of embedding a UIWebView, the application fires off a message saying it needs something to display a webpage. The OS then looks at the list of applications that can handle that intent and selects the best one available. If you only have one application that can fulfill that intent, it launches and renders the linked page. If you have multiple browsers, Android prompts you, with an option to remember your preference for that intent.

Which means that I can click a link in Twitter and open it in Opera. Or Firefox. Or any third party browser. And then when I open a link in another application, my preferred browser still gets to handle it. The Twitter app doesn't get to own that experience in the same way that it can on iOS, since it's actually backgrounding itself and letting the other application fully handle the task.

This also applies to getting directions, calling people, sending text messages, etc. The necessary data (an address, phone number, or message) is transparently shunted from the first app to the next. That dance greatly weakens the boundaries between applications, but enables some really great workflows.

Similarly, say I'm looking at my photos and I want to share one with someone. I simply hit the "Share" button, and up pops everything that can handle working with an image. In my case: Bluetooth, Messaging (SMS), Picasa, Twitter, Facebook, Email, and Gmail. Even better, were I to get fed up with the official Twitter client and go install Seesmic, it'd also pop up in that list, automatically, and without any changes to the Photo Gallery itself.

Say I install an FTP client. It'll also appear in that list. Google Goggles, too. Any image I can share, I can also send to Goggles for analysis.

As far as I know, there's nothing like this on iOS, but I'd be happy to learn that I'm mistaken.
> iOS, however, takes a different tack, focusing on self-contained, bite-sized apps. You hop into something, use it, then leave.

Right, if you think of the user workflow as a graph, the iOS enforces a kind of star topology on the experience. That's the model it's built on. You start from the homescreen, then jump to an app, then back to the home screen, repeat.

Android is more of a web browser stack model, you jump into an app, that app may launch another app, but you can always hit back and slide one step back, if you hit "back" enough, you end up where you start (or you can shortcut it with the home key). The user workflow graph is more random as people bump around between apps.

It would probably be more appropriate to call Android apps "pages" instead.
Customs dragged him off a plane and searched his phone and computer - not looking for things he may have been smuggling but merely to punish him for being associated with wikileaks.
I haven't, thanks for pointing it out. A superficial look suggests that Locale is simpler and more polished, while Tasker has a wider range of options.
I recently used this algorithm for speeding up an iTunes style search function. Originally I did a strstr over every item in the database, but it wasn't quite fast enough. I precomputed a 32-bit mask - 1 bit per alphabetic char, 5 bits per digits, and the last bit for special characters - for every database item, and used that as an initial search filter. I only needed to use the more costly strstr on items that made it through this filter.
I think it depends on your process, we do all of our wires we do all of the usability and PWD accessibility up front, once completed we take those wires to an "artist" who makes it pretty add related imagery, color scheme, etc based on those wires. We then receive a PSD comp from the artist that we then slice into the HTML templates. This works well and is an integral part of our process. We are firm believers in letting artist do the art and UX developers do the workflow and arrangements. This process works well for us and allow us to use the best skill sets from each contributor. This way we don't have to rely on "secondary skills" as we call them.
I would feel much better with a test at the end of an interview, once I know the interviewer has put in some effort seeing if I'm a fit in other ways, than a test merely to get the interview.

Sure, tests are very logical as a filter if people are just resources to be filtered. If you expect to have a personal relationship with me, as a person, though, starting that relationship with indication that I'm just a resource is not good.

This seems especially important in startup where you want to like your fellow teammates. Reciprocation is an important part of liking - psychologists say so!
Look here: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/geometric_shapes.html
I feel like complaining that you can't take your kids on a helicopter ride to "reduce stress and complexities" kind of puts you exactly in that 1%...
> the only 2 sectors of the industry that are continuing to grow being completely unsuited to TPMs (virtualization and mobile)

A counterpoint is that mobile platforms often have some form of secure enclave, but sadly not standardized. Even AMD's low cost x86 CPUs are adding an ARM coprocessor, which could in theory be used for functionality similar to TPM, DRM, or AMT. Some of those are more useful than others. On the Intel side, SGX will add more enclave options, and complexity, but hopefully will be open and well documented.
Yes, the way Windows locks shared DLLs and requires a restart of the whole OS instead of just the programs currently using the DLL when you install an update is, in a word, obnoxious.

Also, again I dislike the fact that Windows is inherently GUI-centric. Interacting with programs is designed to be done using primarily the mouse or a touch screen. Even Windows Server is designed to be used via remote desktop. Whereas for UNIX-compliant OSes the desktop and mouse are not required for anything, a skilled user can easily be more productive using only a keyboard, and anything a user can do can just as easily be placed in a script and automated.

Package management is also a major deficiency of Windows. Chocolatey is a nice workaround, but is a relatively young project. Windows did not have any package management for a long time.

Also for a lot of programming language packages with native code extensions, it can be difficult or even impossible to get them to compile on Windows. I can think of a handful of Ruby packages that flat-out do not compile, making Rails dev on Windows a non-starter.
The list of unsolved problems by field http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolved_problems
I have done that twice now. It works amazingly well, especially if you have a good grill to finish them on.
Since when does one need to be profitable in order to exit? :)
That's actually a dial caliper, not an outside micrometer.
That's the explanation I've heard given in the past, although I don't know if it's the official one given. The East German Stasi also used to mark typewriters so that they could tell who wrote subversive articles.
Irak, the SUV vehicles, the bullying in schools, people parasiting the welfare system, the predatory banking practices, all those things seem barbaric to me.
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Couldn't this game theoretically be over much faster?

From http://www.hasbro.com/monopoly/en_US/discover/strategy/rules...

Whenever a player lands on an unowned MONOPOLY property he may buy that property
from the Bank at its printed price. He receives the Title Deed card showing
ownership and places it face-up in front of him.

If he does not wish to buy the MONOPOLY property it is sold at auction by the
Banker to the highest bidder. The buyer pays to the Bank the amount of the bid
in cash and receives the Title Deed card for that property. Any player,
including the one who declined the option of buying it at the printed price,
may bid. Bidding may start at any price.

This article doesn't seem to be following the official rules (at least, according to the multiple "Action: None"s scattered throughout).

Faster variation:

Player 1: Rolls a number causing him to land on ANY property. Declines to purchase, but bids the price up such that Player 2 receives the deed but pays all of his money.

Player 2: Lands on community chest, has to pay some amount of money greater than the mortgaged value of property received on last play, goes bankrupt.

Am I missing something?
"True I think I just have a problem with the fact that the University is the one in control of it. If, instead, the social network was the core organization and free to join, and the students rented out/purchased the buildings and equipment, and hired the lecturers and administrative staff, I can imagine it costing a might bit less and having a much tighter feedback loop in instructor, student, and course quality. (Plus, matchmaking would be made an explicit goal, rather than assumed.)"

Students generally don't have any money. Even if those same students put all the money into your new group idea, there would need to be some form of central administration that manages all of the hiring, courses, etc. Also, it's not really free to join if the students need to rent the buildings, equipment, and lecturers (and wouldn't be fair to the ones that pay if it was).
"Whenever you land on an unowned property you may buy that property from the Bank at its printed price. You receive the Title Deed card showing ownership. Place the title deed card face up in front of you. If you do not wish to buy the property, the Bank sells it at through an auction to the highest bidder. The high bidder pays the Bank the amount of the bid in cash and receives the Title Deed card for that property." - http://richard_wilding.tripod.com/monorules.htm#buyingproper...

Player 1 lands on two properties, but this auction does not occur.

This can easily be solved by simply saying "'no auction' house rule". Few people actually honor this rule anyhow. I don't object, I don't think it's a very good rule either. (Then again, I don't think it's a very good game, so my opinion may be suspect.) The biggest problem is the word "auction" is underspecified; it could mean many things and you'll spend more time arguing over it than playing if you try to take this seriously.

I have found it remarkable how few people play by the actual rules, and how few people realize they are not playing by the actual rules. Including some people who claim to hate the game because they are not following the rules. (Often this revolves around not using timers which the rules will often explicitly mention; my version of Scrabble does, for instance, though the online rules I find do not.)
I don't know if I would call a "master" a 3rd party in the legal system. They are part of the court and used--for the most part--to either mediate in hopes a case doesn't have to go to the judge or examine something that would take up too more of the court and judges time.

If you be been through a custody/support case, you probably know "masters" all too well.

I'm sure PC Mag meant a third party within the judicial system, but some may be scratching their heads as to why thar happened.

Disclaimer: I may not be 100% accurate as I a, not a lawyer and only going on what I know or experienced firt-hand
correct, data is based on sampling via devices.
No employee has any privacy from the company on the Corporate owned computer and network
> However, in the public Google calendar I can set up alerts for all the meetings someone else has (useful for secretaries etc.).

The fact that you can do it doesn't mean it is proper for you to do it other than as reasonable for legitimate job duties.

There is no system in place physically preventing me from doing lots of illegitimate things in my workplace, but that doesn't mean that if I do them I get a free pass merely because it was possible to do them.
I'm sure a lot of people agree with you, but I still see putting a war-hawk like Hillary in the oval office as a radical concept.
Of course not, I just think the reasoning is very flawed. Abuse is too strong a word, in my opinion for "any company without a union". Others might disagree. The power dynamic is still heavily in favor of the company. Unions can improve this dynamic, but there are obviously issues with them as well.
In particular, looking at one of the fired employee's Twitter, even in October, they were publicly bashing their employer, calling them evil, etc. pp [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/Tri_Becca90/status/1187460338784055296

It really does come off as if they are using unionizing as a veil for their political activism.

Shitting all over your employer on social media tends to be symptomatic for a certain character style who was long welcomed at Google, and probably felt empowered to take it further and further, to a point of actively damaging the company's interest. It takes someone pretty tone-deaf to do that and not expect to be fired.
I'm sure you have personal interests which would make others roll their eyes at you just as you're rolling your eyes at them. We all have our things, big and trivial, that get us through the day and through life. I think part of growing up is learning not to be smug and belittle the interests of others when those interests diverge from your own. It was for me.

The person scrolling away is probably dealing with some sort of grief & stress like most of us are. The fact she takes a few minutes out of her day to look at something fun and meaningless doesn't make her a lesser person.
The very first class I would teach would be about how to learn what you need to know in spite of what you are being taught. After that, I would teach the same class. Later, I would teach the same class again. Then again. And again. Then a sixth time. After that, I would just make the students ask a new question every day, and then answer it, instructing the teachers to throw erasers at anyone who slacks off.

The erasers are essential. The knowledge particles wiped off the greyboard are physically transferred to the student, and are then absorbed through the skin. The knowledge slowly decomposes, releasing about a microsatori of electromemetic radiation, and the waste metabolites are exhaled into the room to create an atmosphere of learning.

Needless to say, I will never be permitted to design a school program from the ground up.
This is neat tech, of course. I am not criticizing when I ask: Isn't this a solution without a problem?

How hard is it to get out of the car and plug in the charge cord?

Then there's the question of simple alternatives to a highly complex and potentially dangerous robotic solution. Think children in the garage.

Without thinking too hard the first thing that comes to mind is something like the contact rods that electric trams use. These could come out of the top or bottom of the car and make contact with suitably designed safe power delivery system.

Another option would be something like the jacks used to lift Formula 1 cars during pit stops.

Yet another would be a "docking station" you literally drive into, with contacts that connect through the front of the car. With self-driving Teslas this could be symbiotic.

Finally, something like the rig used to refuel jets in flight (probably too complex but I thought I throw it on the table).

I could also see something like a one meter diameter coil assembly that normally lays flat on the ground. When the car parks on top of it the motorized assembly comes up and couples with a matching coil on the bottom of the car for power transfer without exposed high voltage connectors.

In the end I go back to: how hard is it to plug in a cord? Have we gotten that lazy?
I, for one, have no inclination to push my 10 year Minecraft- obsessed son to code. If he wants to, that's fine and I'll support it.

But he loves skiing and backpacking and architecture just as much.

I'm probably biased against coding, being an IT/software guy for the last 20 years.
I agree that space is often lost in modern productions of some genres, mainly folk music. In most other cases however, I'd say loss of space doesn't happen all that much, or isn't a concern. With the most common cases I can think of being:

- You're working in a genre that involves lots of electronic sounds, and space is something that you can go crazy with. Effects that spatialize sound realistically are routinely used and abused by electronic artists. Rock music is also generally mixed with very aggressive panning and spatial effects - it's just cooler that tame realism.

- In the case of soundtracks, mockups might be used instead of getting the music performed. All the good orchestral samplebanks provide a unified sense of space, giving you the choice of mixing near/far mics for example. You might loose some sense of space by mixing different samplebanks, but that's nothing compared to the loss of realism in expressive performance that you'll get anyways.

- In the case of classical music, recording is usually done in a proper, old-school, realistic fashion.
Great way to introduce programming logic at an early age (or all ages) ... http://scratch.mit.edu/
I really really really wish that GitHub's application worked on Linux. Linux is seriously missing a lot of nice GUI applications that OSX and Windows get. Actually, Linux is missing a lot of nice convenient things that Windows and OSX have. It's all technically possible on Linux, but it's intentionally left difficult (or "advanced") for no reason that I can tell. Just the other day I was trying to install Lua on a Linux machine for the first time. Lua for Windows comes as a single installer that includes Lua, over a dozen batteries-included libraries, and a text editor. To get that on Linux, you have to yum install lua, install luarocks from source, then luarocks install every library you want to have.

The only reason Linux is nicer for certain kinds of programming is because Bash and the GNU utils are so great. But why bother when there's a world of people making things so easy and smooth for Windows?
I enjoyed this essay and he makes some good points. There is this feeling though so much isn't said about context and results. The audience seems to be college students.

I have been an avid learner since I left high school but my college experience was more understanding closed systems of teacher/professor goals and requirements (3.8 computer science graduate). I really didn't learn anything except to be exposed to ideas. The real learning always starts after school. What I find is we as human beings are incredible learning machines and learn efficiently already. What the OP seems to really be saying is a watered down approach to making another person happy with what they think you need to learn. AKA, express results within that system.

Goals, curiosity and discovery are tools to learning.
This is what happens when you let people take any action if they scream 'terrorist'.
There was that strange HP iPod (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod%2BHP) which, to this day, weirds me out. (It's also ancient history at this point in time. Apple sold only one gadget back then and it didn't run iOS. It's astonishing how Apple changed in the last five years.) You never know what Apple might do but I think you are very correct when you say that Apple usually doesn't do co-branding.

Edit: Another point I just thought of and wanted to add: Neither Nike+ nor the HP iPod are or were ever mission critical for Apple. Nike+ is nice to have but if it disappeared from the face of the Earth tomorrow Apple wouldn't really be any worse off. Co-branding is apperantly something Apple does when the products have already become stupendously succesful. (Nike+ was added to iPods at their peak.)
I think Netflix and Hulu (along with the internet at large) have already disrupted the TV industry.

Cable painted themselves into a corner -- they leveraged their monopoly of the home entertainment dollar by adding more and more channels that people didn't necessarily want under the guise of "choice," then subsidized those unwanted channels by raising the monthly price. That worked until technology caught up and the internet became a viable distributor of content. Consumers are wising up to this, and cable is shedding half a million subscribers a quarter.

I think the best way for Apple (and others) to really put their boots on cable's neck is either to poach content or compete on content. It'll be interesting to see how House of Cards does on Netflix, for instance.
Are you paying by the word?
Can you blame them? After spending all that money on GPS units it would be a shame to let it go to waste.

/sarcasm. I was digging through DHS procurement contracts until 2am last night and I'm still feeling cynical.
Huh -- yet another wrinkle. If you track by IP address, you may have serious problems in the UK, where many ISPs are filtering all of their users through a few proxy servers (so it will then appear as if all users routed through a given proxy server are all on the same IP...).

http://grimboy.co.uk/blawg/in-the-uk-being-told-youre-alread...