skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The examples you mention (e.g. programming, then looking something up in documentation) only require you to switch between apps rarely. In those cases, it makes sense to let each app take up the whole screen. The additional screen space each app gets is worth more to you than the mental cost of having to switch between screens.

In other cases (e.g. writing a cover letter or a job application while looking up information about the company on their website), you constantly refer to two different apps, so it makes sense to allow both to exist on the same screen.

There are valid use cases for both behaviors.
My bet is that neither is right...

Eat when you're hungry. Stop when you're full. Laugh often. Play (physically) more than occasionally. Drink and be merry. Stop worrying. You'll live forever.

And even if you only live a short while, it's better than living a boring life for a slightly longer while.
Not sure who downvoted you instead of explaining this:

There are plenty of popular "knee-jerk" charities like the Red Cross that squander their donations. However there are also plenty of smaller, more focused charities that give a huge percentage of their donations directly to their causes and are extremely efficient. The catch is you have to research a charity before donating and most people cannot be bothered.

These days with the internet, there is no excuse for not researching:

http://www.charitynavigator.org/
Oracle will have plenty to differentiate themselves from 'any other software company.' Even if all they are offering is support, they are a trusted brand name among middle-management.
It's a real nuisance to have US currency where there's stacks of identical looking bills that have wildly varying amounts, though usually after shopping they end up being heaps of $1 bills. You look like a gangster, but you only have $30.

Coins might be heavier, but they fit in parking meters, vending machines, and so on. Ten dollars in change isn't a whole bucket any more.
All your arguments below, about WebM not being supported and hardware accelerated on every device, apply equally to your hypothetical better than H.264 codec. So it's a bit simplistic to say only quality matters, and Google's has created more hardware (and software) support for WebM than I thought possible.

It's likely that getting that support was aided by being clearly patent-free so certain compression techniques and wide support are probably linked.

Of course, a better than H.264 codec isn't hypothetical. THere is H.265 and VP9 coming, neither of which has hardware support or patent royalty demands or wide usage by pirates. The level of support for VP8 is likely to influence how those things pan out in the future.
Check out webOS. The apps there do a good job dynamically resizing themselves. I suspect there's enough space on a tablet for both, say, an email message and a web browser, even at 1024x768 pixels. In fact, there's an iPad web browser that allows you to look at two websites at the same time, although its name escapes me at the moment.

By the way, I'm not suggesting a windowed UI like on a desktop OS. Rather, I'd like to see simple tiling, where two apps each occupy half the screen.
Spherical coins would be interesting.
I'm assuming the parent was talking about publicly available patches, not internally developed Red Hat ones. In that case, you could determine B and C out of a list of possible values by brute-forcing.
As a corporation Apple profits massively from society.

One might say they owe something back.

With the extreme loyalty of it's userbase, they could set some very nice examples.

Why Steve Jobs isn't personally charitable with $5B in the bank is a rather depressing mystery.
Hey, a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to some real money.
I thought Beau demoed something on demo day with our batch...but I may be misremembering.
True, but you also don't get outside feedback/comments/help. You only get the paying customer(s) with the issue and RedHat developers.
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Well, I have zero of those habits. I suppose it's good that I wasn't planning on innovating anytime soon, then.
I don't understand what you were hoping for with your random choices: If you choose randomly, you'll win, lose, and tie each one third of the time, no matter what your opponent's strategy is. Your results are consistent with that prediction.
shortage of supply, therefore demand goes up. Simple economics. Definitely not a true value, you can call it bubble, or you can call it whatever you want.

I would just ignore it.
Ah, the joys that being born in right place brings for you. Anyways, that sort of stuff happens all over to million of people travelling everyday.

Let me recount my last year experience. My friend and I had to travel to Portugal for a summer intern from India. To keep transit headaches to minimum, I booked flights such that transits occur in Istanbul. No visa crap, just walk across to international transit and board the next flight. My friend on the other hand made a mistake to fly Lufthansa, and transit through Frankfurt.

Now, we were given a National Schengen Visa, one that was although granted under Schengen agreement, was valid only in Portugal and no other place. However, it allowed transit through other countries only while going to Portugal, and not while returning. Thus, my friend was detained in Frankfurt on his way back, searched and interrogated for 4 hours, and put on some Schengen no-fly list. OTOH, I walked like king in Turkey and enjoyed their hospitality.

So there you have it, all 1st world nations are assholes, including US, and I find it little hypocritical when somehow only US gets picked for it. I guess US is equal in discrimination of all people in transit.
A $1 coin should be more along the lines of the British Pound. It needs a nice, reassuring heft that tells you, "yes, guy who won't adopt metric, this really is a dollar."
Although you say that you're deleting records after 24 hours, in the US (I think) there are data retention laws, at least locally depending where you are based. This, in combination with the overhanded and perverse trend of the US government to go after "pirates" of copyrighted content (this isn't the government's job), makes me ask how you will handle the inevitable demands for user records.

People will immediately use your service to download "illegal" content, aka movies and tv shows, and then download from you to themselves. How do you plan on responding when the government comes a knockin?

Beyond this, I love the entire concept. Its a novel business idea and exactly the kind that the reprehensible trend towards copyright restriction is going to snuff out.
Why not list actual complaints? So far you've just been making generalizations. What software are they not sharing? Are they violating the GPL?
I got that one too, and misinterpreted it as I always do and made it stupidly complex in my head. For a minute, I thought it was asking for the least real, i.e. most imaginary, zero.
Indeed:

"The third reason we took Sequoia’s money, specifically Sequoia and not another VC, was we deal with a lot of these different API providers. It’s very important to us to maintain very good relationships with a lot of these companies because we have a higher than average volume of requests that we have to make to them. And finally, we thought Sequoia was the best place to go for this because they’ve had their hand in or know someone at almost every interesting tech company in the world, and that network is super important to us."
Hmm interesting, I tried to play as I would against a human and got some interesting results.

Over 20 games I end up tied in wins/loses with the untrained version plus greater than half straight ties. It seemed I should be able to add one more layer of "predict" to my crazy rock-paper-scissors reasoning and win solidly but it didn't seem to change the results at all. I wonder if it just progressed evenly with me.

On the other hand, I firmly beat the trained version with 80-90% win and mostly ties making up the remainder.

I'd be interested to see the algorithm behind it as I get the feeling the untrained version was making good choices for all the wrong reasons and with a slightly more complex game it would show.
(Disclaimer, I'm not an expert, but I can squat well over 1.5x my weight for several reps)

For squats, you should make sure to go parallel and "sit back" at the bottom of the movement, while pushing your knees out to the sides as you go down. This takes the stress of the weight off of your knees and onto your posterior chain. Otherwise you'll get hurt knees just as you described.

Not sure what could cause that deadlift problem, other than maybe trying to lift with your back before the bar clears your knees (which until that point your legs should be doing most of the lifting).

FWIW, it took me a long time to really get comfortable with my technique in the heavy compound exercises, but I've seen remarkable gains from them once I learned proper technique.

If you're really serious about doing the core exercises with proper technique, I strongly recommend picking up a copy of Mark Rippetoe's "Starting Strength" book. It goes into great detail the correct technique and mechanics behind the exercises.
While RAND terms are generally better than having Microsoft or Apple able to pull the rug out from under you at any time, they are very specific in what they mean by "reasonable" and "non-discriminatory".

The most obvious example of this is that it's not "reasonable" to charge usage royalties on FLOSS software. There is a school of thought that flat-rate royalties don't clash as badly since you don't need to track usage, but since we're talking about standards produced for the public good, obviously royalty-free would be better. Either way, by assuming and enforcing a business model from the hardware days, it is "discriminating" against certain busineses.

Similarly, they've dropped charges on free web video, which is a clear attempt to break into a market they've had trouble in before. So as a class of users at least they can charge you more if they think they can get away with it.

Finally, it appears that the (highly successful) video game industry thinks that royalties designed for the TV industry aren't particularly reasonable for them and so avoids MPEG audio and video formats whenever possible.

So while they perhaps made sense 20, or even 10, years ago, RAND terms are no longer RAND.
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This is fantastic. Thanks for spending the time and effort to produce it.
This brings to mind a recent article about solving the "hacker news problem". It occurs to me that requiring an entrance exam of some sort could weed out users unprepared to constructively contribute to any domain specific online forum.
I use indentation provided by IntelliJ and it has always helped me indent my code.
Ask HN: Collaborative UI/UX Designing Site. Do you see any demand for it?
I don't know if anything similar exist but I think I would like to use it if any such web application exist.

In short it should be a mini web based inkscape/illustrator to quickly design prototypes, UI/UX designs. It should have following features -

1. We can use the HTML5 Canvas for this.

2. We can provide a toolbar of graphics objects such as rectangle, circle etc.

3. Library of UI Controls such as label, input, button, menu etc.

4. Save/Download designs in png/vector formats,

5. Designers can invite others to collaborate on a design project.

6. Designs can be public/private and may have commercial/opensource license.

7. Search/Browse public designs.

8. Rate and Review Designs.

9. Sell/Buy Designs.

10. Portfolio/Profile of Individual Developers/Design Houses.

What do you think. Is there demand for such web application?
If you really believe the patent system is that bad, then it's just as likely that a rogue patent reads on H.264. Although popularly believed, the MPEG-LA doesn't provide patent indemnity for H.264 so you can pay the small licence fee and still lose your entire company in a lawsuit.
No, he's wrong. Natural selection doesn't speed up or slow down, it just is. Each passing generation there are pressures put on the spreading of human genes, and those pressures are the manifestation of natural selection. Whether those pressures are different now than before, or whether they shape "the future" is irrelevant to the biological impact of natural selection.
Sadly it is not so simple for an increasingly large number of people suffering from diabetes, obesity, arterial and heart diseases.

They are looking for solutions to get healthy so they can enjoy life in the ways you are presenting.

So far the 2 main camps claiming to have the solution to everything are pushing 2 completely opposed strategies, none of them seemingly more proven than the other...
Charity is morally neutral. I believe that being good means making the most of your own life.

If you want to help someone, or even a lot of people through charity, that's fine, but it should not earn you any moral credit.

Moral credit should only come from what you've truly achieved, and that means creating value somehow (invention, scientific discovery, beautiful art, and honest work of any kind). Anyone can give away fifty million dollars, but not many can actually earn the same sum in their lifetimes.
What made you design it that the user has to give the passcode to the calling server and not the other way around like with TXT?
Ruby is probably the most zen thought interpreted OO programming language.

Example: http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=IpkcxQEdui

Rails is probably the most zen thought web framework.

Compare Rails#has_many with Django#foreign_key , which feels more natural?

The sum renders the benefit of cognitive discharge that lets you focus on important stuff and not tinker on details.

The rest is huge community, huge documentation, large mature ecosystem (mostly web stuff, python's SciPy pretty much way-ahead, all tough ruby can do science too), lots of best practices from the start, github-lead, mature implementations etc
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XP is also unfixable. You just know more about web development than you do about permissions security.
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A link to the original study:
"Factors influencing the temporal patterns of dyadic behaviours and interactions between domestic cats and their owners"
http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/uploads/tx_ttmedienportal/f...
5-14-1 veteran.
Which then opens the print dialog, so actually two :P
Apple benefits from individuals. Why are strangers entitled to their profits?
I can't find the link right now - but a guy did a study and found the most efficient way of demonstrating against a listed company was mass-shorting of stocks by protesters. I think he targeted Coke. I wish I could find the link.

Seems relevant right now. Vote with your money.
If you want to appear more legitimate, put up a bunch of use cases for things like linux distros and data sets, that way you have plausible deniability... more than now anyway.
The other direction?

You mean that people don't know how to talk to me? I don't have tentacles growing out of my head you know... Could you elaborate a bit?
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Ask HN: How to quickly get a product out?
I've been working On an idea since October, mostly alone but its been a slow yet quick-to-change process, but I feel that it's about time I get something out there. I'm really just wondering, how do people get these startups up in running in such a short time like a month or even two months?

I'm not sure if what I'm creating is more complex than most (it probably is) or if its that I'm essentially doing this alone with the exception of occasional questions that I ask one of my smarter friends about.

It could also be my work ethic, as during the week I have a maximum of 3-4 hours to work on it and eat dinner, and exercise for about an hour and a half and then shower & sleep

Most of my time is spent refining the idea, and the times when I got something working I quickly realized a much better way to approach it, and that has happened a few times. Should I just do it and slowly improve or continue this agonizingly slow process of refine, create and redo?

Or rather, how do I leverage the time I have to create a useful utility quickly?
ASK HN:There are 3rd party application why not 4 or 5 or n party application.
there are 3rd party application why not 4 or 5 or n party application.
“Over the long run we find things for people to do. The harder question is, does changing technology always lead to better jobs? The answer is no.”

Overall, I have to disagree. Letting machines do all the mind-numbingly boring work leaves the rest for human beings. And we pay a lot less for the final products, leaving resources for new jobs, which will also have the boring parts automated.

Disagree? Hire a hundred people to do all your drudgery. Then pretend you're paying them hardly anything. I submit your life will suck less.
You can't have it easier than assembler.

On x86, for example, you've got a couple of registers and a bunch of instructions that operate on them. Adding two numbers goes something like:

mov eax,23
mov ebx,42
add eax,ebx

That's easier to reason about than what Python/Ruby/Whatever is doing behind the scenes when you do "23 + 42". In Python, for example, that expression is syntax sugar for 23.__add__(42). Both 23 and 42 are objects. How do they come into existence? How is the __add__ method looked up? How is it called? Where are these objects stored? How do they get cleaned up?

Assembly is not hard. It's just tedious. I'd rather do "23+42" and have the Python interpreter spit out the result than move numbers into registers, add them, and then figure out how to call C's printf from asm so I can see nicely formatted results.

PS: the best way to learn asm is to read GCC output in Intel syntax. The worst way to learn asm is to read GCC output in AT&T syntax.
Well, by nature, perfectionism can be crippling. The DSM doesn't classify it as a mental disorder, but most people in the field note its similarities with something like OCD and other anxiety-related disorders.

Personally, I've found perfectionism can be beneficial if one embraces the reality that they will never achieve the perfect X. The journey is in the trying to get there (and of course, knowing when to stop.)
One would assume that they simply block any infringing torrents once those have been identified by a copyright holder, or something like that, though I honestly don't know what they do. But I would assume that they do something, because they're likely to be talking to a lot of lawyers soon if people start using it for piracy.

That said, I'm not sure how letting people download it from their servers is any better than sending it on a DVD, and an envelope full of enough DVDs has a much higher bandwidth (and a much higher latency) than most internet connections in the USA.

If anything, the fact that a human would probably have to handle the DVD to put it into the mail would be a better copyright filter than most programs. "Oh, hey, this is that new movie. Nice try. tosses DVD into trash"
Have you seen Back to the Future?
Well imagine my surprise when I saw an article about an event using just this sort of weeding on page 2 of hacker news...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2288469
After playing a few rounds, you can click on "See what the computer is thinking" to see the reasoning behind the next choice.
So, are you saying that Windows 7 is significantly more secure than XP can ever be?
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If it were so easy to break down the process of innovation into an objective list of attributes then these people wouldn't be writing these articles they'd be founding companies and changing industries.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, write articles about doing.
make website , use social networking , patch with any ad agency . Start with lots of ads to your targeted user.

Start small contest which relates to use of your product.
There are two big problems with that: one problem is that, unless the torrent itself is encrypted, they'll know what they downloaded. After all, they're the ones encrypting it.

The second problem is that judges won't look kindly upon any attempt to blind yourself to what's going on. You'd be a lot better off making a good faith effort to comply with the law, even if you're not perfect at it. Otherwise, people will see it as a wink-and-a-nudge kind of thing, which is exactly what you don't want if you're trying to run a legitimate business.
Whenever a thread comes up about someone taking a sincere interest in nutrition and making difficult sacrifices to try to enjoy a better life, you start to see people come out and mock it and make jokes and assert a certain "well I'm having more fun" type superiority.

Well, I'm not so sure about that. Most of the people I know who work to live really healthy have the guts to go counter-cultural/counter-mainstream in other ways too. They live good lives filled with adventure, have lots of fun, live healthier, and on average die later. Smoking is cool - I used to love good tobacco. Red meat is amazing. I used to love good steaks. But funny enough, the net pleasure you have after quitting that stuff doesn't really go down. It's hard to do, but you really do live better across the board if you're willing to put in the initial willpower and sacrifices.
"One might say they owe something back"

One could say that they are giving something back, by using those profits to develop ways to make computing more accessible and useful, something they're better at and more willing to invest in than anyone else.
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Is Steve Jobs an disciple of Ayn Rand? There sure seems to be a number of indicators pointing in that direction.

If he is - then you can't really blame him can you? He could hardly justify charity as moral.
"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t....
I wasn't referring to marketing... I literally meant out, as in released.
Quora meet Foursquare: LOCQL.com a location based QA site
This site is very interesting, it's a location based QA, basically it is exactly Quora meet Foursquare, this is something I personally looking for a while. They are in private beta, but it seemed they send out invite pretty quickly.
Re: #4, Disruptive Mindset - I'm reading Christensen's third book on disruption, where he talks about 1. the "shield" of asymmetric motivation (competitors don't care about this market - but you do); and 2. the "sword" of asymmetric skills (where over time, you build up the skills of making your technology work, reaching your customers, and making money out of the business model - but your competitor hasn't).

And I'm thinking it may be applicable like this: 1. work on creating a product/service that you personally would find interesting and worthwhile as a user. This automatically won't be what the established companies are doing (it's boring); yet will have some benefit to it, even if the initial version doesn't yet exhibit it. 2. find customers who also value that, and serve them. Work hard at making the business work.
I was thinking that there should be a non-random variance to take advantage of if they're trying to exploit human non-randomness.

But maybe I committed a statistical fallacy somewhere in that line of reasoning, because it sure didn't win.
Yes, I didn't see why such a job - combing through thousands of printed pages to find possibly relevant material - should be preserved, either.
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I just played 30 rounds. 10-12-8. As far as I can tell, it's pretty much random.
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is he contributing to SENS?