skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I share your frustration (wrong word for such a minor discomfort, but anyway) with the two fields in Safari, and I'm often asking myself why Apple hasn't combined them.

I can think of two reasons:

For beginners having 'address is the square box on the left and search is the rounded box on the right' is the sort of simplification Apple likes to bake into their products.

The other is 'The bit of the internet you are looking at is in the square box, and the 3rd party app for search called Google is over there in that rounded box (where it should stay)'.

Both make sense to me if I put on my Apple mindreader hat... although I may be being a bit too cynical with my second reason.
Correct. I got what he was saying but I can see how it could be read another way.

Depression did set in for a while, which is why I allowed myself to get stuck with the unsatisfying job. "Work is work, right?"

I've since kicked the depression from everything that happened in those few years and am feeling great. I can finally see where I need to be and the path to get there... so that feels good. :)
Achieving simplicity in design is more difficult than just throwing a ton of buttons, gradients and drop shadows at the problem. I'm an iOS user, and a huge fan of that model, but Microsoft is doing a good job of crafting an experience that differentiates itself from the iOS (and Android) paradigm of interaction.

Don't mistake a lack of "flashiness" for a lack of taste. Windows Phone is a pretty classy product with a decent chance of success as long as Microsoft doesn't shoot themselves in the foot.
One reality show I would really like to see would be about sending entitled people into low income neighborhoods so we can all watch them realize just how hard working some people are and just how well most people manage their money.

That would indeed be interesting if it were true, regardless of your snarkiness. I'd be interested in seeing a show just like that regardless of how it works out.
This could be useful for embedded development. Booting a new kernel on any embedded device is tough. This could be handy if you're new trying to debug why your board isn't booting up.
I cannot imagine that they are going to be able to carry insurance that will actually cover "anything [that] were to happen to the car".

Sounds like a great concept but, as always, the devil is in the details.
Ideally, any software that runs on the system would be digitally signed by the development shop, after their code review process. Otherwise anyone with direct physical access to the hardware (or to the distribution system for code updates) could add malware like this guy did.
Facebook and COPPA
Which is the best editor for LuaTeX
Mogotix slider as captcha
Click "Contact the organizer" to see a nifty little captcha.
I have no idea how common that is. However that incident taught me why people say, "No comment" to the media. Short. Sweet. Can't be misquoted out of context.
I answer questions, browse my newsfeed and see Quora pages posted in various places but almost never just go there to look up a specific bit of information.

For information and answers, I think the Wikipedia model of crowdsourcing a single response remains better. Quora seems mainly for opinionated answers or answer sets. Which is fine and interesting but ultimately not as useful.
Why are we using a GUI anyway? Instead of using unity to add command line functionality, we should just use a terminal. Not only would commands be easy to add, we can leverage existing ones!
Speaking of saving screen space, images need to go. I estimate we could save 5 pixels per page with this small change.
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One reason I have personal experience with is the massive regulatory headache which accompanies any project that relies using a lot of fresh water from a navegable river or lake. (Google "waters of the United States"). Invariably you get to deal with both the U.S. EPA and Army Corps of Engineers, the Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts, plus whatever state regulations are out there, e.g. CEQA in California. This process can take literally decades and cost millions of dollars: environmental consulting, EIS/EIR, Section 7 & 404 consultations, take permitting, habitat / species conservation plan, mitigation, etc.

I'm not against preventing companies from trashing what natural resources we have left. At the same time, I can see why they'd be reluctant to go that route.
I'd love to work with independent filmmakers. Unfortunately the main market is outside US and for overcoming Foreign Language Anxiety it's important to use movies people already know and love.
I'd be more likely to pay for substantive career coaching from someone who had done work I found impressive. The problem there is that people who have done work I'd like to emulate aren't likely to take money to be available for me to bounce career ?'s off of and give objective, meaningful advice.
I know a lot of poor people who work hard and manage their money well. I also know a lot who could save themselves a ton of money with obvious (if not easy) steps like quitting smoking.
Yes, one size does not fit all. However, a good design keeps simple things simple and difficult things possible.

To do otherwise would be similar to proclaiming that all movies must be made for children, because children will want to watch them.
No. As a designer looking for work I’ve found that the people who truly want to work with me will ask for a portfolio and a friendly chat, maybe a link to my GitHub profile. Resume almost never comes into the discussion. I’ve also been on the recruitment side and understand why people looking for designers don’t really care for them.

But like one of the replies below, someone in finance or even the education might pay for this.
Ouch. Is this because you don't have any insurance?
> No-one has been prosecuted for the financial crisis, I mean the economy was DESTROYED, we are years into it now.

Why should they be proscecuted? We re-elected Barnie Frank.
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You know, sometimes I just want to be told "hey check this out". This is the best way of discovering things I would otherwise not have even know to look for. For instance -- Hacker News regularly points me to awesome projects and sites that I would never have considered without it.

I do however have to give up control -- HN now tells me what is worth reading rather than RSS filters. This is probably good.
I don't want to put words into anyone else's mouth here, but if anyone ever made and wore a t-shirt containing a frequency count of the words in stuff I'd written, then I'd find it kinda creepy and weird.
What part of my brief statement read like a justification?
agreed, this is just a back-of-the-napkin beginner's advice.
Well the post is my reflections on a number of conferences. That's why I said hundreds of people, because I've been to plenty of em. :)
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<quote> I'm trying to imagine visually parsing a program where the function names are merely unique identifiers that don't necessarily relate to their function... </quote>

Just to be pedantic: you're doing this already.

int add(int a, int b){
return a - b;
}
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Any medical data that can be recored in a mechanical fashion should be.

The nurse writing things down is just a temporary artifact of the existing process.
The menubar is useless cruft from the 1980s. Can't believe that it's still such a huge part of the OS X user interface.

Bravo to Microsoft Office, Chrome, Firefox, etc. for abandoning the menu bar entirely in their new versions.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aenglish.aljazeera.net+...

I'm not really seeing this frothing at the mouth you're speaking of, particularly when you leave out Opinion articles rather than reporting. (But HN is really not the place for this conversation...)
I wasn't be able to find any educational license that could be suitable for this project. And I don't know who should I contact in the industry
Contractions are conventional both in spoken and written languages and have been for centuries.

The problem here is that the technology has not changed. We are just trying to hide more of the machine from the operator. This will keep happening until the operator is dealing with such a high level abstraction that they no longer can or will understand the machine. I use the term operator rather than user as that implies less of an understanding barrier.
So far as I can tell, you're simply wrong. So far as I can tell, this is pretty much how standard journalism works.
Even this link is not working for me. Did anyone save the text?

edit: https://gist.github.com/989727
There is a good book, Mediasmart,

http://www.amazon.com/Mediasmart-How-Handle-Reporter/dp/0964...

by a reporter whose work I used to see on my local TV news, explaining how subjects of news stories can turn the tables on reporters by understanding more of the news business. The tips in the book are frank and useful--including sometimes declining to be interviewed.
See also: Chrome removing the "Go" button.
A potential side effect of hiding the address bar is that over time web developers may become less motivated to use "clean" human readable URLs (out of sight, out of mind). This could in turn reduce the ability of advanced users to easily understand the link structure of site, and thereby extrapolate the URLs of other pages (something I do regularly).
Removal of UI elements is not necessarily to save space. It may be done to reduce visual noise, which in turn may reduce cognitive load.
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It seems the obvious thing to do would be to have a site that collects the names and addresses of the doctors and dentists who are so incompetent that they fear reviews.
All machine state should be globally, transparently persisted like this if you ask me. Sort of like a persistent heap.
http://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayern
Funny you mention freelancing - this was what got me into the deepest trouble so far. One bad contract where I couldn't get out easily and had miscalculated milestones badly. And it is hard to concentrate on coding when you start wondering about stuff like "will I manage to pay rent once more next week or will the bank not accept that I go over the credit limit".
"Do you agree?" - "No ..."
I've seen similarly bizarre malfeasance by a reporter from one of the most famous newspapers.

Their fact checking is completely useless. They don't check any of the most important or fundamental claims, only the very trivial. Editors apparently don't care or are incompetent.

In the case I'm intimately familiar with the reporter made no claim or attempt at impartiality. He was actively hostile and came close to threatening. He was on a witch hunt and continued his vendetta over a couple years of trumped up articles until he realized no one else bought his bullshit.

I pray for the day when shitty journalists can't hide under the umbrella of a "respected" brand like Vanity Fair. It's too much power with no effective checks or balances.
Never cared for autohide on taskbars etc, I find it distracting to have things moving in and out. However, I do have two high resolution monitors and therefore like having a real menu bar, and real statusbar. Please, browser makers, quit trying to make that difficult.

Although one thing I'd like, which I've seen no one implement yet is to have links urls as tooltips on mouseover. Perhaps below another tooltip if it existed. Shorter distance to move my eyes.
Well, yes and no. Lisp is an ASCII serialization of the Lisp AST. This isn't true for most other languages. There is no reason why source for most languages couldn't be serialized as a combination of the AST and the stream of lexical tokens. This would have a few interesting advantages. For example, everyone could have the source formatting of their preference.

EDIT: Another example -- someone could implement a language homomorphic with Python without significant whitespace and curly brackets.
The heated water is tempered with cold sea water so it's closer to the temperature of the gulf when returned. This prevents a hot water plume at the outlet, which can cause environmental problems.
> My point being - a point also raised by Joe - is that just "adding dots" doesn't solve anything.

It's visually much easier to parse foo.bar_baz.quux than foo_bar_baz_quux.

Also, It lets symbols inside the module call their friends by quux instead of foo_bar_baz_quux.
In regard to digital measuring devices, they are much easier to recalibrate than say a strip of metal with graduated marks. This can lengthen it's lifetime of use, as well as speed installation and manufacturing time as neither has to be as precise as the analog versions.

Another perceived benefit is that the indicator dial/display can be offset from the scale. I know I've seen some height gauges that partially cover the numbers that indicate their position. Digital solutions allow the measuring marks to be independent of how one takes the measurement.
HN so badly needs a simple messaging system. The most fundamental missing piece.
I still like seamonkey, but the fugly theme from '95 has to go. Feels like Netscape Gold 3.0.
That just sounds illegal. I'm not sure how, but intuitively, it just seems that something like that would be illegal.
Is that your unmotivated opinion, or are you in some position to make a reasonably firm declaration of how judges are likely to respond to this action?

Because you are posting here in a position where you may actually have some small influence on people making decisions that may destroy their companies, or compounded with the error of failing to properly incorporate, destroy their personal finances. Are you sure you don't perhaps want to walk back the certainty of your statement?
On the other hand, if you hang out with journalists you'll start to see it from their side as well.

They've got some short deadline to write a few thousand words on some topic they don't really understand and don't really care about, either... and the consequences for rushing out a just-good-enough article are pretty minimal.

Sound familiar? It reminds me of high school, and dashing off some crappy just-good-enough essay on the night before it was due. Journalists (or the vast majority thereof) are stuck in an endless loop of having to write two crappy high school essays on different subjects every day. I don't envy them.
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> It seems silly that so many datacenters are in central Texas, where not only are tornados and tropical storms fairly common, but it's hot and humid for 7 months out of the year.

I thought most of the data centers were around Dallas or Austin. Those are both too far away to really feel tropical storms and are seldom hit by tornados. About the only thing you seem to have right are the heat and humidity, except I'm not sure 7 months is crediting it with enough.
Did you honestly understand my comment as implying that rule breaking automatically makes you a good person? (regardless of which rules are broken)
you obviously did not get it..
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Ah, but they have a way around that as well.

Journalist: btilly, would you ever rape a child?

btilly: No comment.

Headline: btilly refuses to rule out raping children

Next week they'll ask whether you're running for president, and if you don't comment on that then the cover of Time will be a picture of your face with the caption "Is America Ready For a Child-Raping President?"
Not to be too cynical about it, but I'd trust the move a lot more if the two companies leading the charge didn't make all their money off of search ads.
The hackers solution. A media server running mpd or XMMS2, with the proper metadata organizing utility for your medialib. Plus running mplayer and possibly some ffmpeg tweaking for when you're out in the deep end. Plays anything, anywhere, and leaves the rest up to your imagination.

I guess Miro is great, but any complete solution will always be inferior to the proper tools for the right jobs.
Without jargon, it would be roughly impossible to talk about compound mathematical structures. But I certainly agree that more exposition and a greater number of worked-out examples are a great help when trying to understand abstract math.

It would also be great to have papers written in a hyperlinked format (after so many years of the web...) so that when you click on a jargon term, you get something like a Wikipedia article about that concept with a few examples and some exposition. Wikipedia itself would be fine with me, though academics might want more official peer review (see Scholarpedia).
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Doesn't this do the same thing as Solandra?
I like menubars, and continue to use them every day.
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Unfortunately, this is very x86 device dependent and most embedded devices are not x86.
A possible implementation (not my idea): special comment replies that are visible only to the parent.
A monoculture where developers aren't hindered by supporting a mediocre browser with a breadth of missing features? Count me in.
This is slightly off-topic, but I noticed that you did work on stochastic optimal control. Do you have any books you would recommend on the subject (either optimal control or stochastic optimal control)? Ideally as good as Halmos. :)

I come from a physics/cs background, and find that standard treatments of control are very much intended for EE folks. But this seems like a historical accident-- the techniques would seem to be very broadly useful in other fields.
These "copyright rights" violations are becoming egregious. I recently had to sign an addendum to my apartment lease stipulating that the management company owned my "copyright" and could broadcast, on the Internet, all security footage of me in the building.

What action should I take to get this clause removed? I don't care if they share the tapes with the police when they have a warrant. I do care if they end up on the Internet. I want to walk to my apartment, not have my life broadcast to strangers.
Modules are units of encapsulation.

In my experience, if you have trouble deciding where a function "foo" needs to go to -- you probably have divided your code across arbitrary/poor boundaries.

Modules should have clean API's that do not leak implementation details and of course the implementation itself.

If you break down the barriers between modules, you remain with only implementation details.

A well-written module that's divided across meaningful boundaries can usually be read in separation of the project it is a part of and actually understood as whole.

All that said, I think storage of code could be done far better than serialization in text files, but that's another matter, and whatever code editing form we use, we should still have "modules".
My prior comment posted about another link describing doctors behaving like this remains pertinent:

"I'm a doc. I have no idea of the legality of such "contracts", but it doesn't matter - such a practice is completely unethical.

"Nor is it going to help a physician when a patient makes a complaint to your medical licensing board.

"If you're doing your job as a physician you aren't a "provider" to "consumers" - you are hopefully a professional working in the best interests of a patient or population of patients regardless of your own personal interests - this horseshit obviously has nothing whatsoever to do with that goal."
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Jargon is just a time-saving and precision measure. Try doing without it sometime - it's painful.

It is totally unavoidable as long as people keep communicating with words. The better solution is not to complain about it, but to ask for definitions (recursively) - and then you can reap the time-saving and precision benefits of the terminology, too.
My plan for a summer project is going to be to first make a really basic OS. Then I'm going to bootstrap my own language from nothing like this guy:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/edmund.grimley-evans/bcompiler....
Then I'm going to make graphics with something like mode 13h. Maybe not beginner projects, but extremely interesting and challenging.
Bingo. Banks aren't ACID at all. In actuality, the datastore of record for internal bank transactions usually looks more like a continuous transaction journal with two account numbers and an amount. The snapshot balance of any account isn't much more than a cache computed value. There are, of course, layers and layers of complex systems built on-top of this, but the actual base of all of it is very simple, old school, batch process technology. The original eventual consistency.
Which to be also broadcasts "This machine is completely untrustworthy for financial purposes."

Does it? I've never heard of anyone defrauding a BofA ATM except this guy. And this guy got caught.
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That page comes out black in my browser, but the text is there, just with the wrong color. Select parts of the page and you will see it.
I use Firefox, I love the two search bars. ctrl+L to get navigation, ctrl+K to get search. ctrl+up/down to change which site I want to search, which saves me a good chunk of time in the long run. I'm not opposed to hiding them though, as long as they're still there and show up when I type my keyboard commands. I don't think the https issue is too hard to work around either: just show a lock next to the tab's icon.
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The WB600 is really from the lower-end, but has modes to control ISO, aperture and bracket size.

I didn't deny people can use these settings to make the photos really shine, but for non-professionals, it is -- from my point of view -- wiser to focus on the people you're taking photos of. Amateurs should really master angle, position and so forth before diving into the world of technical minorities - which is often not the case.
Wow, I never heard of EagleMode before. I'm sad it's not more well known. That's the most complete ZUI for an OS I've seen.
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You're right, the risk is fairly mild, but it's still far more risky than what's seen in the Chicago area. It only takes 1 tornado to effectively wipe out a datacenter.
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So it is basically a legal DDOS? There is probably a legal way out of that then.
That's really attractive. Did you automate the layout and color assignments?

(Mmm! Even the font makes me happy! 'something people want')
Done that before...had a variable that was formerly an int:

int foo = 0;

But got changed into a non-integral type:

Thing foo = 0;

Turns out Thing had a copy constructor roughly like:

Thing::Thing(Thing* old)
: field(old->field)
{
}

Needless to say, my program was not very happy.
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