skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably makes sense to print it out on a sheet of paper and put it in there too.
I've just spent three months trying cable and have decided to cancel it. At this point one thing would entice me back: channels a la carte. I like watching sports sometimes and occasionally like watching a Discovery Channel-type show in Spanish and seeing how much I can understand, but aside from those two things, I don't get much out of it that I couldn't get from Hulu.
yes, the mouse may indeed be faster in a mouse-centric UI like that of osx/os9

but i use xmonad and/or dwm. i can tell you that keyboards are faster in interfaces designed for keyboards
It's a joke, guys.
"All the naysayers keep harping on about how bitcoin will never gain mainstream acceptance in the US. They're partially right. The mainstream US is not the target market. Bitcoin will probably enjoy some mainstream acceptance in the US, but it will probably be a long time from now and occur well after it enjoys mainstream success in some foreign market."

Without mainstream success, why would I want to accept bitcoin for my services if I can't convert it to the US dollar or any other type of currency (and if you do this, you will need the help of a bank)?

We also can't forget the huge fluctuations in value that happens on almost a daily basis (I just sold an ipod for $100 in bitcoin and now it's worth $15) and no protection from the government or bank means no oversight or regulation.

With these sorts of risks, I just can't see myself putting any of my money in bitcoin. I know I'm not alone.

It's interesting because naturally, it seems like bitcoin will become centralized through wallet services or exchanges. They will essentially become banks, by a different name.
seriously, it really is.
Focusing on the next Linux client
I was reading about this yesterday and about an hour later, Citi called me trying to sell me their fraud protection. I replied "Did it help the 200,000+ accounts that were stolen from you?" and hung up.
Yeah, even Napoleon Bonaparte once said: "China? There lies a lion, let her sleep, for once she's awake, she will shake the world"

Another point is, I can't remember who (pretty famous analyst) said this, but something like: "There's nothing wrong with China's getting richer and stronger. The only problem is China was once depressed by other countries like Japan, England... And like a child, when he grows up, he will take _revenge_ "

So China is not just-like-every-other-nation like you said
I think the more interesting solutions are deeper in the thread mainly #43, #44, #83.

Mostly just for fun but its neat to see an Erlang solution since this should be right up its alley.
Why is this cyber "warfare" and not just another way of spying - something all countries do without it being an act of war? The only thing we've seen close to "cyberwar" is Stuxnet and that was most likely the U.S. and Israel.
Very well done. I would like to also see this done for various news feed (maybe most popular links on Twitter/Facebook). EDIT: Happy user of URL2PNG.
‘A Frightening Time in America’: An Interview with David Foster Wallace
Nintendo 2011 E3 Expo Analyst Q & A Session
My daily commute is 18k ft - ground, you wouldn't believe how much I spend on gas.
English is the new lingua-franca.
I'll skip how half-baked and confusing their app was, and go to an implication of the idea.

Color relies on having groups of people and really works best in a crowded area. Heck, it relies on two or more people using the app at the same time in an area. I can see it working great at concerts, but it seems to fail at the night out with friends and one person taking shots.

It also seems that it is the opposite of Facebook for rural users. Facebook or Twitter allows people to connect over great distances and see things far away. Me taking photos on Color during my road trip seems like a huge mismatch. It just seems like it cannot be "the goto service", and that makes it vulnerable to never being used.

Lastly, let's assume there was no Twitter at the time of the US Airways Flight 1549 (Hudson plane water landing) and Color was it. Would the wave of information been different? Does that matter to Color?
I was in the Apple store in Covent Garden recently, I knew what I wanted and had phoned in advance to check they had it, so I was just there to pick it up. As a former consultant, I am trained in exactly these sorts of techniques, and can easily spot them, and Apple's training is too good. I don't know how it is to regular people, but the Apple employees I spoke to were downright creepy. Whatever the actual-human equivalent of the "uncanny valley" is. I'll stick to the online store I think and just deal with the hassle of having to be in when I'm expecting a courier.
ESPN makes more then 1 Billion Dollars a year in cable carriage fees. As stated in another response they get between $2-5 per cable subscriber from these deals. This is all subs including many that don't view their channel.

No, $10 a month ala carte is not a better option for them. ESPN likes their position in cable, its hugely profitable.
There's your problem right there. Don't minimize windows in OS X just because that's what you are used to from decades of training on Windows. Hide the window instead (CMD+h). This way when you get back to it with CMD+Tab it magically appears again.

On the original topic. The whole idea makes me laugh. There is no way anyone driving with a mouse is going to be faster than I am with a keyboard. Navigating the filesystem, manipulating the filesystem, editing text esp. is laughable (I love VIM and nothing can come close to the speed I can edit in VIM, esp. not anything you have to drive with a mouse). Very few applications are better done with a mouse/pad (like Photo editing in Photoshop, but even there various keyboard shortcuts are faster than navigating submenus).
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This is a great point - when I was trying to articulate (to myself) why I prefer the keyboard it wasn't necessarily any speed advantage, it was more like the "flow" advantage. Your point speaks to that.

I think there's also a big difference in the amount of physical effort needed when using the mouse. With the keyboard it's easier to keep most of my arms relaxed, and when I need to switch to the mouse everything from the shoulder down has to contract into action.
The equivalence of actions isn't the same, so this wreaks a bit havoc on the argument. Yes, if you e.g. select text in visual mode and the "cursor" keys, then you'd probably be faster switching to the mouse. If you use the semantic movement commands, things are a bit different. Never mind keyboard macros...

It's pretty hard to generalize activity, and you really have to take notice of the tasks and user groups selected for comparisons like this.
One of my less well received interview questions is: "Okay, we both know theoretical lower limits on sorting. Can you come up with a terminating algorithm that is most /pessimal/?"

Usually I get a blank stare. Sometimes I get a great answer.
That doesn't make any sense; there isn't a fixed time between releases ala Chrome or OpenBSD. If you bump things back, earlier releases will happen sooner.
That's very informative, thanks. It sounds like you'll be fine if you're cautious, though.
> "Guideline: The keyboard interface must not dictate the design of the
> visual interface"

that is only a "guideline" because it follows from their axiom that the UI must be driven by the mouse

if you remove that axiom, this no longer makes sense
For Android: Free app w/ ads. Paid version of the app has no ads.

For iPhone: Paid app.
I think context matters here. The article was discussing GUi word processor usage.

When using an app like Pages or Word, the mouse will be faster because keyboard navigation in those apps is terrible. You may be able to save some mousing with command-p, but for general editing tasks like highlighting and moving text, the mouse will always beat the keyboard.

In vim, however, editing via keyboard is well designed and always faster than mousing.

The true test would be to compare editing LaTex with vim versus a rich text document with TextEdit.
I suspect that they only agreed to that once it became possible to retarget missiles very quickly.
I too was talking about the Rails framework. It's actually a really nice read. I've fixed a couple of bugs in it myself.

The thing to remember is that each major release of Rails is fairly well tested. The number of actual bugs you are going to encounter are low. The investment in fixing them is therefore going to be low, should you actually encounter any to begin with.

The Rails codebase is simply an extension of your own codebase. While it is not fun to fix bugs in any capacity, there is no reason to fear fixing bugs in third party code. It is no worse than fixing your own, which also costs a lot of money.

I've been using Rails since around the 0.8 release timeframe. I have seen many major changes along the way. They have all been positive improvements to my workflow and the theoretical issues you describe have never been real issues. I still have one app chugging away on Rails 1.1 and it works just fine. The only problem it has is that it is not nearly as fun to maintain because it doesn't have all the newer major improvements. It would be a sad day if we had to go back to, or were still using, the 1.0 API. The Rails people are doing the right thing.
Theft from whom? Presumably the investors who paid them $41M did more due diligence and know more about the company than any of us.

It's possible that this was a bad investment decision, but it certainly isn't theft.
I discovered that my bank, Banque Nationale, used GET to delete transactions from the History. Then somebody could send a mail to the bank clients with an image linked to this Get action and delete the transactions of the client if he was logged into the bank and reading his emails at the same time.
It wasn't a big risk, but I don't understand how this went live. I mean if a bank could not get that POST is for C_UD and GET for _R__, then who?
Duke Nukem Threatens to Nuke anyone with Bad Reviews
The first rule of interface testing: Test the actual interface, on the actual problem, with the actual userbase.

This classic article is from 1989. You wouldn't believe what a state-of-the-art interface looked like in 1989. My awesome shiny new Mac SE/30 -- an excellent machine -- had a 512 by 342 black and white display (and I do mean black and white, not greyscale) and a 16MHz processor, which was considered fairly powerful.

My point is: We lived in a totally different universe back then. So, admire the methodology, but don't waste time debating the relevance of the results. Do some new measurements on your interface with your tasks. This is especially important now that touch interfaces have finally escaped from the lab: We are only starting to develop experience with such things, and everything is up for debate again.
The Wheels Of Steel: An Ode To Turntables (in HTML)
If I found any sites pulling punches on Duke, I wouldn't trust their reviews any more. It's plenty clear how bad the game is thanks to all the honest reviews, and anyone who stands out is going to wish they didn't.

I'd hope that's a bigger threat than this PR person's.

Also: Why does he still have a job? It's obviously that he doesn't understand that PR is supposed to be GOOD relations, not bad.

His company should be immediately stepping forward and promising EVERYONE that got a review copy that they'd get more review copies in the future, even if they'd normally be blacklisted for being complete lying jerks. (Which someone reviewers are, unfortunately.)
In the general case, yes. But what about when the lack of pulse is caused by the machine? How will forced compression be handled by the machine? Blood may still be pumping, and breathing circulates air, if I'm not mistaken.
SASS = Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets?
So do Macs.
imagine if every doctor and crackpot could attempt to sell his 'medicine' to everybody.

False dichotomy.

Just because we would allow something like that, does not mean there would be no testing, or no government regulated testing and labeling. If you chose you could just stick to the AAA tested stuff. I am not arguing that we ban testing. False choice!
except it's copyright, not patents

their business model seems to be to sell their services to publications - give RH permission to exhort money (and other stuff, like domains) from people, and in return get 50% of the funds, potentially stop people from copying your work and also keep your nose clean. RH did the dirty work, copped the bad publicity and kept 50%.

well, that was the plan...
Samsung's Google Chromebook Cloud Notebook Costs $300-Plus To Make
I think you get the blank stares because half the interviewees don't know what "pessimal" means.
C is for Cardio which means heart. Oops!

I think you meant to ask "What's the P in CPR for if that's true?"
Facebook reportedly readying $100+ billion IPO for 2012 - Facebook
Yeah, we started sharing the library before home sharing. I've been thinking about splitting them and using home sharing but the current pain (oh, will you quit iTunes, I need to sync) is less than the pain of changing how we approach things (oh, I need to copy these songs to my Library to put them on the phone).
The Wonderful Wizard of Woz
Possibly you could stand to up the sensitivity? I can accomplish most of what I need from a mouse using simple wrist rotation.

That said, I live in emacs and spend most of my day on the keyboard. Maybe I'm doing it wrong in a way that only works for limited mouse use.
Pandora shares soar more than 60% in debut
Using arrow keys to manipulate a virtual mouse to move an arrow cursor across the screen is even more hopeless than typing with a mouse on a virtual keyboard. Any device emulating another will probably not show its best face.

(Edited for clarity since people seemed to misunderstand my meaning.)
Pandora & Groupon - Fake It Until You Make It
How have your rates been the past some months? With no change in service, mine have gone up 24% since late last year.

Cry my a river, Comcast.
Google gets into the recruiting business for startups it invests in
Why Building Outside Silicon Valley Helped Grooveshark Succeed
It might have--I mean, when Citi sells you fraud protection for your Citi account, that's basically insurance against either you or them being careless with your account info.
Failing to raise the debt ceiling is not a US default. The US receives more than enough income to cover its debt service, which also has priority. Equating failure to raise the debt ceiling with a default is a political ploy that nobody seems particularly in a hurry to debunk as both sides thinks it serves their purpose; if we're really unlucky they'll turn it into a default for political points. What we don't have is enough income to also do everything else we want to do.

Some level of "default" via inflation I would agree with, though; it isn't "technically" default but it's certainly a way of unilaterally decreasing the amount of wealth the payoff of the debt entails and that certainly has many of the relevant characteristics of a default.
(USS Saratoga was our code name during development of the extended keyboard because of its eerie resemblance to the popular aircraft carrier. Not so much the shape as the size.)

Nice bit of trivia there. I remember the Apple Extended Keyboard being big, but not that big. IBM Model Ms are pretty much the biggest keyboard I can think of.
You have to walk past the Radisson Blue Hotel on Golden Lane. Is it a pub? Debatable. Have I drank there, definitely.

Edit: They address this towards the bottom.
http://hnresources.com/ is one.
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Hi all. I'm the one who made that site. Any questions ask away.
I see what you mean about the implication.

It may vary somewhat between the career and the political members. I actually know a fairly senior SEC staff member (although I have my figures separately from news reporting, as best I remember them), and on that basis I understand that there are levels of management that would like nothing more than to be given the resources to be more effective.

As for some (all?) of the people running the show, in my personal opinion (not speaking for this other person), I agree with you.

They don't express it openly, but in my observation I've watched some of this person's hope, or at least enthusiasm when the topic is brought up, dim as the 1000 headcount bump that was promised a few years ago has continued to be delayed, and delayed... and delayed.

(The bump was orginally intended to boost the roles most needed to increase effective regulation. As described, it actually sounded rather positive. I don't know how that may have morphed, in the meantime -- aside from never (yet) coming through.)
I always like the "shaking box" algorithm:

1. Check if list ordered. If it is, we're done!

2. Randomize order of list. Go back to step 1.

N!
A close look at antibiotic resistance (chock full of charts)
Cool project: The "I need a map of where I am on my 3G Kindle now" demographic is out there waiting to be tapped!

(ps, if the author is reading this: you've misspelt "your" on the homepage.)
LexisNexis Announces HPCC Systems, Open Source, ~4x Hadoop performance claimed
my first reaction was it's going to be O(9^n) worst case - but there is & after f "$1" which spawns its own process for each number. Not bad - maybe its a good algo if all are single digits
Your advice on hiding and switching applies to applications rather than windows. Consider this: you have four terminal windows open. You want to get toggle between two of them. Mac only has rotate (CMD+`), not toggle. There's no equivalent of the alt+tab combination in win32+gnome.
"Read how the HPCC Platform compares to Hadoop"

http://hpccsystems.com/Why-HPCC/HPCC-vs-Hadoop

"on the same hardware configuration showed that HPCC was 3.95 times faster than Hadoop for this benchmark."

Though I am cautious, these things always take time to hash out what's really what (especially when the competitor is the one running the benchmark).
iCloud works on Windows.
Hotel pubs are a contencious issue. It's debateable. I might re-generate it excluding hotels.
Many of you have claimed that a keyboard is faster/'superior' but it really depends on your form of mouse and the application at hand. I recently got a new Macbook and have happily replaced some of my previous keyboard shortcuts with multitouch gestures. With the aid of Jitouch and hotkeys I can easily navigate web history (and go back and forth in folders and other programs), switch spaces, maximize/minimize windows, show all applications, hide all applications, show all spaces+applications, snap windows to the left or right half of the screen, zoom in on pictures or web pages, and other less-used actions.

I am not trying to say that multitouch+jitouch+hotcorners is the best solution for all interactions. Surely for activities like coding it's probably not. But over the past few weeks I've grown to prefer it for web browsing and general navigating the OS.

http://www.jitouch.com/index.php?page=jitouch
Would you sleep in the airport to save money?
Optimize it by making the sleep time be log(x) instead of x or a fraction of x. That makes it O(log n) complexity :). Use any monotone increasing function really.
The framework has nothing to do with not authorizing requests properly. Diaspora had many problems when they first released because apparently they were all inexperienced programmers, like the guy who wrote that in Citi.
"3yy (vs. select block, right-click -> 'Copy')"

Yeah, but then you're stuck counting lines. Whereas with a mouse, you just click and drag exactly what you want.

"p (vs. right-click > 'Paste')"

This is more difficult if you've copied whole lines but want to paste inside a line or replace text with your paste.

I love me some vim, but I do think it's easy to think we're faster than we are. I wonder if I recorded myself and then watched it if I'd think I was as fast as I feel that I am.
Cmd+Ctrl+d: no entries found

I guess it's a mix of optimal and pessimistic. Pessimistically optimal ("This may be optimal, but I doubt it") or Optimally pessimistic ("This is absolutely the worst possibly outcome ever") :)
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." --Benito Mussolini

Given that definition, and the example careers of Our Heros, Hank Paulson, Jeff Immelt, and so on, I have a hard time concluding that America isn't de facto fascist today.
We cut the cable three years ago. And in our community, no cable means no TV. It's probably not the much cheaper, to be honest. The big difference for us has been the cutting random channel-surfing and our family's exposure to loud, mentally corrosive cable TV advertising.
1% of all desktop installations might just as well be 10% of all desktop installations by professionals that use their computer for creating things, though. Assuming it were so: Wouldn't that be reason enough for Adobe to target Ubuntu & Co.?
It's a shame they don't pour more time into making employees happy by giving them better benefits and wages.
It finally happened.

HN cut out the middle man. Instead of linking to something on Reddit about 4chan, we finally just linked straight to 4chan.
Arrington is clearly enjoying this.
I'm in the same boat as many of you, paying the cable company for internet access and relying on Netflix and Hulu for content (I subscribe to Hulu plus, though I confess I was largely looking for some way, any way, to give Hulu some of my money for the service they provide me).

My question, though, for others like me...how many of you have more than two adults and/or teenagers in the house? Right now it's just me and my wife and my young daughter. I remember growing up, though...in my family, we had multiple TVs in the house, with everybody often watching something different. Cable TV provides the bandwidth for that, but I was thinking it may be awhile before cable internet provides enough bandwidth for that use case.

Of course, it could be that as this generation of new parents gets used to not having a cable bill, families may grow used to watching TV together or watching it less overall. That might be the greatest contribution that TV-over-Internet provides us, in the long run.
I love the concept, but I'd rather have the links open in the same window. Just change your target attributes and I will switch over to this solution permanently.
Bogobogosort (http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/bogobogosort.html) would be a good candidate except that it uses random permutation and therefore might not terminate. Maybe if you replaced the random step with a deterministic one that always yielded a not-yet-seen permutation...
I've met hundreds of these boobs in IT shops around the world. There's a huge skills gap between IT and software devs. IT guys are not given the time nor resources to learn and implement all this stuff. Also, they often don't have the skills or curiosity to figure it out themselves. So they really do need a framework that takes care of it all easily.
"Just not having that TV as the focal point of the house is really nice"

This. I've always envied friends who didn't have a TV in their living room. It totally changes the character of the home. It's somewhat perverted that TV literally dictates how people setup their floorplans.

I keep on toying with getting rid of the TV (currently use a 42" lcd hooked up to an HTPC w/ no cable) but spend at least 4-5 hours per week w/ the girlfriend on the couch watching netflix, daily show, TED, etc. If I may ask how does your family consume content? Have something like a 27" iMac in the den?
"If you are taking your hands off the keyboard, you are wasting time"

- One of my Professors
Which is odd, because many CS fields require probabilities (for instance information theory and quantum computing).
This is usually known as bogosort. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort