skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's your job to stay current, and read hundreds and hundreds of articles to see what is relevant, then yes, I could see a tool for managing "information overload" being useful.

My tool for managing "information overload" is to be more picky about what I choose to read in the first place (HN and Reddit definitely help), and to deal with the fact that I can't read everything. I'd rather read 20 articles in full than read 200 articles in soundbite form. My brain isn't going to retain the information anyway, so I can only hold onto the coherent stuff.

I'm still waiting for a good e-reader with enough resolution and update speed to facilitate rapid scanning. Paper is amazingly fast to read; I can scan through a newspaper much much faster than the equivalent electronic form.
I wonder if it’s worth having any media organisation run a comments section. With so many commenting platforms that are available for the masses (Twitter, Medium, Reddit, etc.), I wonder if a comments section is more or less a relic of days when there wasn’t a plethora ways of getting your opinion across.
Yes - shipping with Modernizer and targetting `.no-flex` browsers to provide fallbacks of course.

80% of the time we use it for vertical centering so the fallback can be `display: table` with the children being `display:table-cell` and it rarely gets more complex than that.

If you need something very complex to do what you want - I have a strong hunch the markup is the problem and not the CSS. Or you're trying to avoid using Javascript and are instead relying on a bunch of half-supported and new CSS features to hack your way around things. Which means you probably aren't coding for production anyway. :)
Used to be the case, but it's happening less and less.
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Yeah, I do still use vim on remote sessions where I know I'm just going to be making a small change and then be done with it -- losing your entire environment or history is a lot less worrying in that case, and it's way easier than mounting the server locally or something.

However, as someone once said: "The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it." If you don't close vim and keep it open for weeks, then all your environment changes are going to keep on building up, only for you to lose everything the next time you need to restart your system, or upgrade your editor or terminal, or your OS crashes, or there's a power failure, or your computer catches fire.
I guess I was thinking of cruft differently. All the messaging and bots are reducing UIs back down to CLIs again. Which is pretty much the sparest UI there is. Except perhaps for voice, the other UI gaining traction on mobile. So, yes, the physical size of mobile devices is reducing practically all the cruft.
When I read about a topic I'm not very familiar with, I often go to the comments to see other perspectives. If an article leaves me with a nagging suspicion that the author's evidence is weak, that's a strong predictor that I won't get to see what other readers thought.
I'm not sure if I like the example with the integration of the circle circumference into the circle area. Yes, it sounds intuitive. But here's another problem with a wrong solution that sounds intuitive: to compute the hypotenuse C of a triangle with other (perpendicular) sides A and B, you can simply replace the hypotenuse by a staircase of infinitesimal steps, and hence you find that C = A+B. We're overlooking something here, but that is not the point. The point is that the proof should be constructed so that we cannot possibly overlook something.

Conclusion: don't rely on intuition with these kind of problems.
The doc of deps chapter is for source build. It's released as docker container.
Is Amazon still refusing to support ePub on their devices? It looks like that from the spec and conversions didn't look correct last time I tried.
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Its only better for the company
What makes it doubtful that it'll make it to mobile Safari? (Not questioning it, just wondering.)
As with medicine, college is now an industry with third-party payment and no third-party control.

In other words, the student (patient) and the university (doctor/hospital/pharmacy) agree to do business, and the government (insurance company) pays regardless of the price.

That obviously creates major price distortions. Expect college to get a lot more expensive before it gets cheaper.
Can you expand on that?
Almost every second article written by Jessica Valenti, or many others that argue regressive (anti-free speech) leftist (pro-social justice) viewpoints.
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I don't really understand your problem -- this is how array comparison is implemented in C++, Python, Ruby, Java (when using the default isComparable on most array-list types) and Haskell (from the languages I use frequently). Javascript is the only weird outlier.
Didn't Firefox just announce that future plans include moving to Chromium?
Since the growth of third party sellers there should be no "even Amazon" about it. The image watermark makes it pretty clear it's a 3rd party seller.

I do wish Amazon would vet the stuff they permit sale of on their site though.
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Chip-Camera-1080P-CCTV/dp/B00YMEV...

We're sorry. The Web address you entered is not a functioning page on our site

Wonder what Amazon is doing right now...
> Every interview I go on, they want to know what I can do to help them reach, court, and convert young people.

I don't think it's going to happen. The younger generations have been raised on a culture of collective, forced participation rather than voluntarism. Ironically, the community service many of them were forced to perform in order to graduate taught them not to volunteer. They are not members of churches, of civic associations, of non-profits: instead, then tend to call for others to fund their desired initiatives (i.e., for taxes rather than donations).

This is not an unintended consequence: a collective state cannot tolerate free association.
Maybe, maybe not. If you restrict it too far, loans won't be made to people who need it. What bank wants to lend $100k to a student who is going to graduate, declare bankruptcy, then get a $150k/year job with no liabilities? Obviously it's a contrived example, but the real trick of all this is lending money to someone with no assets. Somehow you have to pay for those who can't pay on their own: either interest rates go up, number of loans goes down--neither of which is particularly good outcomes.
Yes. Type A->Type C cables, according to standard, are only allowed to charge at Type A speeds. The only way around this is to buy a non-compliant cable with the Type C-C resistor in it (and be very careful what you plug it into to avoid causing a fire/explosion/worse).
By calling it "fancy unicorn stuff" I mean, it is really hard to come by in real life. Because generally people avoid it and when they don't, they usually use it in a completely wrong way.
I saw a Singleton pattern which made me carve my eyes out. And that came from a guy, who was a Senior Developer.
And most of the times being a developer is about working with legacy code and trying to fix loads of problems, which wont be fixed in the end because there is not enough time, money and energy and so on and so on and...
This makes loads of experienced people move in to management, or creating their own business, because they had enough of the trench work. That's why you won't see talented people on the market. Because they know...

Oh and no, I'm not from that school. But having tests doesn't mean the tests are any good. You can have loads of methodologies, patterns, principles. If you can't tell when to use a Factory Pattern, or how to implement SOLID, then it doesn't matter how much you like, or want them.
The API and internal code is still expected to change. He very recently finished a large breaking refactor, so it is not mature. Having said that it is a nice editor with a lot of promise.
>Our thinnest Kindle ever

*except for the half of the device that makes it the thickest Kindle ever

Almost as bad as HP advertising their new laptop as being as thin as a AAA battery: http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/384/908/4/S3...
It's an interesting problem. Doesn't it mean that in long run, with this set of mind, military will be filled in by people who "care less" about killing people - therefore making the world "worse"?

Maybe having in military people with author's principles is what we need the most?
Good stuff,

The EAT_BURGER seems slightly odd, as i've never hit a situation where I would allow a second one to be fired while the first is still pending. I.E. upon EAT_BURGER.start i would disable the UI for the EAT_BURGER action to be fired. I guess that's an idealised world and you've hit something more complicated that requires it though, and the solution is good

I particularly like the async call tracking - very simple and neatly solves your issue!

Cheers
Thank you for the feedback! Will improve the landing page. As of now, could you take a look at https://freeter.io/user-guide if that makes things clearer.
There's the cynic in me who thinks that the year of the linux desktop is when everything runs in the browser anyway. After switching away from windows, proper web clients have been a godsend for those programs that think: "linux port, lol nope". Considering I'm working in China right now and there's a sizeable population still running XP, that's happened quite a bit. Anything that makes that easier to do is a win in my book.

If I wanted to spartanly text browse the web, I'll point emacs at an URL. Not gonna waste cycles on all those silly stylesheets.
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Most likely because they use mechanical turk (people) as per this reddit discussion :) https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/356e76/ask...
Same for me, it looks good but £270 is too much for me to justify.
Were you able to handle paste-from-word? If so, would you mind sharing that bit of code on github? I would love to make a custom solution, but 90% of the content being put into our CMS is copied from Word. To clean it effectively, I resort to using CKEditor to clean it for me and then storing as HTML. I'd love to not do that, but CKEditor seems to have figured out all the problems, especially when pasting tables or adjacently aligned content.

My users won't learn markdown and expect it to just "work". For complex Word documents, I never came up with a viable solution to parse it.
I noticed, however, that they've added sorting by "Recommendations" (i.e. "likes"/"upvotes") recently. That's something that was sorely missing earlier.

I still don't understand why the default sorting order is "Oldest", which is basically the most useless - sorting by "Recommendations" gives best user experience, sorting by "Newest" allows new comments to be rated, what does sorting by "Oldest" do?!
Not directly related to what you said, but this "a fair and competitive wage" jumped out at me.

What's a fair wage? It's a competitive wage - it's a wage similar to what other people doing that job get.

What's a competitive wage? It's a wage high enough that you are willing to work there, rather than somewhere else.

Or in other words, both conditions already happen automatically. That's kinda the whole point of capitalism.
I think emacs is fundamentally a better system but I'm using vim because that's what my computer could run better when I was 15 in the mid 90s.

Shackled by my past...
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> Basic People/Company/Industry research capabilities, it's the most under-utilized tool on Linkedin.

good point

> On the burden of Linkedin update spam, you can control your notifications.

Point taken. Updated my settings - still something I really don't want to have to think about.
I checked out Jessica Valenti's posts[1] on The Guardian. All of them have comments.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessicavalenti
Unless you have a staff of experts, you're not going to be able to secure the device yourself. So Apple has to be involved in almost everyone's security whether you like it or not. Putting the user in charge is good for freedom, but it takes you from one failure point to two failure points.
a color ebook reader for comics would be like a gaming console for kids
I'd like to know how they are identified. Is it just because they've checked a box along the way?

I'm relatively certain these people will not be required to submit a doctor's written diagnosis of whatever causes their total and permanent disability.

It will probably be more like the gov sends a form to a list of people (aggregated somehow), and if they fill it out and return it, then they get to legally avoid their loan obligations.
Comics can be black and white - I grew up reading one called The Phantom decades ago printed in b&w, and more recently I read The Walking Dead comics that are b&w too.
It's not, those people at the top are being run by the organization as much as they're running it. What information they get, what considerations are possible for political/stockholder reasons.. and even after those it's never 1 human but an emergent set of factors that effectively makes the decisions.
That looks to me like the non-drive-side is thicker, rather than the drive side.

It also depends on the bicycle. I've got a '53 Schwinn three speed that's made out of what seems like gas pipe and it's perfectly symmetrical. A number of my old steel road frames look similarly, and so does my current titanium road frame.
When evaluating a proposed regulation, which will decrease individual liberty to promote safety, it's absolutely necessary to ask if the exchange is an effective sacrifice.

Life and Liberty are core human rights. Sometimes a little of one must be exchanged to preserve the other. And let me be clear that I am not suggesting that we surrender all liberty to maximize safety, nor the other way around. Instead, reasonable compromises must be made.

Unfortunately, while there are units of lives to measure the one, there are no units on liberty.

But exchanging what is subjectively lots of liberty through warrantless phone searches to save a few lives is not a good choice when you also have the option to exchange a little liberty to save more lives through legislation on smoking. Yes, we could do both, but the former is a poor value and the latter is much more effective, making it not a false Appeal to Worse but an honest value comparison. And while there isn't a strictly limited budget on liberty before we reach "1984" - we can always inch fractionally closer - the same decision-making must be made.

Similar value comparisons must be made on other fronts as well: we have spent a lot of money and are very certain find that an overal cure for cancer is going to be hard to find, but it could definitely cure many people - say a 20% chance (sorry, my pessimism is showing through) that a cure can be found for $100B that will save 600,000 US deaths a year (and going back to the earlier topic, 150,000 of those are due to lung cancer...), or 5% that an additional $100B will find a cure. Contrast that to spending less than $100M for the first studies of Zika. Treatment is probably a vaccine, well understood as a tool to combat viruses, likely a just a few years out. Stopping Zika will save millions of lives. Or, alternatively, hundreds of millions of people suffer from malaria and millions die, and known treatments exist, and it's been eradicated in the US and Europe.

What would you spend the most money and liberty on? For some reason, our current answers are cancer and digital surveillance.
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I went a different direction; I gave it:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Pe...

And it came back with, "I'm not really confident, but I think it's a person on a surf board in a skate park."
Let's hope not.
A Washington Post post on Medium? Quality seems more stooping down than lifting up.
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It's nice to see the paperwork hassle removed for something like this, but the cynic in me can't help but think of the bank executives all across the country popping corks on champagne over the multibillion dollar lump sum settlement on loans that would have otherwise only trickled repayments in as people manually filed paperwork. Essentially this means they're earning millions on the billions that they can now reinvest immediately.
Not enforcing this can lead to a proliferation of inconsistently named constants

Can you explain this further? Our team uses the ACTION, ACTION_SUCCESS, ACTION_FAILURE pattern, and we haven't run into any issues. I like it because it's a bit easier to parse the sequence of actions in the console at a glance, and async actions are more clearly distinguished from synchronous ones. The main downside is having a bit more boilerplate.
I fed it the "Wat" meme and it thinks it's Pope Benedict.

>I am not really confident, but I think it's a man is smiling for the camera and they seem . I am 99% sure that's Pope Benedict XVI

Source Image: http://memesvault.com/wp-content/uploads/Wat-Meme-Old-Lady-0...

Needless to say, my errant habits of trying to break stuff shine through once again.
Windows 3.1 had a macro recorder that allow to automate task over a GUI.
I really don't understand why they aren't targeting students that have to carry a ton of heavy textbooks. Why not target medical students with a product? Why just make a device with a screen that can only accommodate a novel?
It is also rare to find managers that will stop monkeying with the product.
There needs to be CRC/SHA for video. Once that is figured out identifying these sorts of things will be trivial.

I would in fact pay someone to develop this as I think it is something humanity needs. Or I could pivot it into a startup and offer content creators a "safe harbor" to let them know whenever their stuff has been pirated.
You need to weigh this perspective with the alternative point of view, that the US tech industry wouldn't have developed as quickly or be as world leading as it is if it wasn't for what has been accomplished because of the long hours. I don't disagree with you entirely, but I think we ended up in a good enough spot that it's much more productive to focus on the future than dwell on the past.

What gets me is the dichotomy between "big tech" and everyone else employing programmers/designers/UXers doing exactly the same kind of work but for 1/3-1/2 the pay. But hey, when those companies have quarterly EPS above $5, they might start paying better, too.
They probably already thought about it ten years ago and probably working on it. It's not some groundbreaking and original new idea you're suggesting, it's natural that once you're able to read you want to write. I at least had the same thought the first day I bought my first kindle. Probably the reason we don't have it is because of implementation details.
4GB in 2016. Amazon, it's not funny, really! Or actually it is very funny... Good luck!
Yeah, cities that are not in the active earthquake zone lovingly called The Ring of Fire. Remember, the approach to the Golden Gate Bridge cost 1 million per foot of road up to it.
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>why investors cluster in SV

A lot comes down to the seed planted when Shockley co-invented the transistor and then moved to be near his mum's place in Palo Alto. The whole thing went from there. The 'traitorous eight' left his company and:

> would go on to found other companies after that, including legendary venture firm Kleiner Perkins, AMD and Intel. Over the next 20 years, 65 companies would be started by first or second generation defectors from Shockley Semiconductor Lab, giving it a legitimate claim as the birthplace of the chip industry that gives Silicon Valley its name.

And then the people who made millions/billions from those invest it in new ventures in the tech field they understand. It's pretty hard to reproduce that else where.
These are federal loans.
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Thank you for this thoughtful reply. I really appreciate the advice, and I'll try to emulate it as best I can.
your network shares have public, routable IP addresses? that, in my opinion, would be a far bigger issue than 'leaking' a hosts IP address.
I also have a gen 4 Kindle and a few months ago bought a Paperwhite. The Paperwhite backlight is fantastic, but what really stands out for me is the improved layout engine.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046678/the-kindle-finally-gets-...
use the VI plugin for eclipse. At least can handle :w and :%s
Or if it assumed it was actually an American football player and would have answered the same for all the sports on green fields...
Yes, a lot of people use "NPR" as shorthand to mean all programming that is associated with public radio stations in some way (often because they don't know that there is a distinction). But that doesn't make it correct--especially when the distinction is quite relevant as in the context of this article.
There are laws in some countries barring governments from declaring welfare schemes in an election year. I hope this is not Election year pandering.
This isn't meant to be snarky: How does a company like Amazon, that sells damn near anything you could want, vet everything that they sell in an efficient manner? Even if you vet everything the first time around, what about updates? Software and hardware devices/gadgets are obvious, but this includes other physical goods that undergo a redesign as well.
Journalism is in an extremely sad state of affairs as a whole, and that includes the radio stations such as NPR and BBC. If they want to survive, they need to be less about being stenographers for power and outlets for operation mockingbird style propaganda, and instead actually do something hard hitting.
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