skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few shortcomings here

Having filters: Most users may use Inbox as the fall through location for emails. But a lot use filters as a way to move stuff out of the inbox to specific folders as a means to prioritize responses.

eg. My wife, business partner etc, might make it to folder important, my 2nd level priority emails go someplace else, mailing lists elsewhere and so on.

Inbox is whats left and is least priority. How do you account for whats important. What if I don't use priority inbox? What happens when I don't read the email in my inbox at all since it isn't critical to my day to day function.

This also doesn't account for a mail client use or mail forwarding from Google. Since Gmail provides a way to use a mail client or forward mail options, it means that I might read mail on my client but not report back to gmail or just read all the mail from another account.

Anyway, some thoughts to ponder over. May not be a mainstream problem since most users might not be doing what I suggested.
It doesn't matter. WebOS was fantastic too. There is no demand. Consumers want iOS or Android. They don't want anything else. The only possible way they might is to introduce something that iOS or Android do not have ... and none of those operating systems introduce anything that would represent a significant innovation in the consumer space. They do the exact same thing, only incrementally better. That is not reason enough for people to switch.
The contest is sponsored by Google, but is no longer associated with University of Waterloo CS Club (other than several current and former students still helping to organize it). Please don't contact them for anything regarding the contest. :}

Those who have been participating in the beta will certainly have a jump on those starting from scratch. But also it should be noted that some of the basic game mechanics were changed about 3 weeks ago, including the scoring and objective of the game. So it may not be quite as much of an advantage as it first appears.
This is about the same size as a normal point-and-shoot, isn't it?
Honestly, out of all the HTML5 > Flash rhetoric, this probably represents the greatest leap forward when comparing the two. It was really the ability to capture webcam data that made YouTube a success in the beginning. People who look at the YouTube HTML5 player and say, "Flash is dead!" seem to forget this valuable point.
If possible collect the representatives' business cards. I know of situations where people did not get interviews initially, but contacted the representatives afterwards and managed to get an interview slot. It seems hard, but you may end up clicking with a few company reps.

I've gone to a bunch of these types of events. Just be yourself. Don't try to be the person you think the company wants ... you'll only end up looking like everyone else.

Most importantly, have fun and ask lots of questions. Remember, this is your potential employer. Approach the fair like you are recruiting, and not them.
I would definitely stipulate that the clients applied to this metric need to be "clueful". You might give them exactly what you asked for, only to have them discover that what they asked for wasn't really what they wanted; "clients from hell" might ask you to re-write it for free, or at least be cross with you for not reading their minds. In any case, they won't be happy.

Ignore those.
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"You're not reading this article."

But seriously, it probably never occurs to bad programmers that they should be finding articles like this.

Perhaps a better title/approach would be "A Bad Programmer Taxonomy, And How You Can Help."
I agree. Comparing my personal experience with iOS and Android development, it's much easier to make a decent looking app on iOS because the standard UI elements look good out of the box. I said decent, not great. You run the danger of your app looking too much like the Settings app. (Go to the App Store to see what I mean)

However, that can be easily fixed with an SDK update of the UI elements. The bigger problem, IMHO, is Eclipse. Each update of the Android SDK improves the designer in Eclipse, but it's still very awkward to use. The giant properties list is a mess. If Google wants prettier Android apps, it needs to fix Eclipse, or bite the bullet and build a standalone interface builder that treats android views as first class objects. The views are already very loosely coupled from the view controllers, so going to a separate app to deal with the view shouldn't be too bad.

Google also needs to populate the standard template with sane defaults. When I say File -> New project, Google should give me a good looking app out of the box. It wasn't until the latest SDK that the designer defaulted to the Nexus One resolution of 480x800. Before that, they were still defaulting to really low resolutions devices (e.g., QVGA). I don't know anyone in my circle of peers with less than 480x800--and this includes non-techies with old/free/cheap Android phones. Secondly, no one uses the "title bar" and that is the first edit I make to the app manifest and designer. Take that out. The default background is black, but very few of the apps I have installed on my phone use a black background. Most are white. I could go on, but this post is already too long.
Thanks! The only links I had seen to the full CS 229 lectures to date were from a previous instance, and they were incomplete.

So far I've enjoyed CS 229A (ml-class.com) even if it has glided over a fair bit of the math, but I do want to spend time drilling down into the foundations more to make sure I know exactly why it all works the way it does and what kind of inference is valid to take from the results.
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I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

The cost would increase, but would it actually be that much? I don't know and I'm not qualified to guess. Should we not be concerned with working conditions just because it would increase the cost of the end products?

I'm not trying to make a big statement here about my choice to keep using an older phone. I am of course aware that this choice has no impact on who built it. I don't see what's wrong with reducing consumption a little bit and giving a little thought to these issues. That's all I meant to say with my original comment.
Shades of the incompetent Rick Belluzzo who destroyed SGI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Belluzzo
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Not an homage at all.

ICS and Metro are both examples of Swiss style maturing in mobile UI design.

Apple at its best in iOS is similarly executing Swiss style.
I don't need an article to tell me I'm a bad programmer.
What if your "private" data were sold on the open market?

What if your boss checked which sites you visited before hiring you? What if you wanted to keep something from your wife or your children? What if the person you just met at a bar wanted to find out all the pages you visited? What if a stalker wanted to know where you shopped and what you bought?

All of the above can easily be done with just the tracking information the Like button has.
Oy, I used to do this all the time... till I stared sitting down to solve some of those problems. That was about the time I started saying "uh-oh". I (think) I have moved on from this phase fortunately.
I actually think Vista was a really good name - it both plays off of the "Windows" brand (a vista is what you see through the window) and expresses some of the goals of the release (visual appeal, the idea of being connected to a vast world). It ended up being tarnished by problems people had with the product and the ecosystem surrounding it, but that's not the fault of the name.
so, is ml-class.com then more comparable to the CS 229A class that is being offered this year? I'm taking the latter, and was wondering how similar the two are.
Forget webOS even Windows Phone OS itself is way ahead of androind and even iOS in terms of usability. But you are right. People have ignored it so far. All they want is android or iOS.
My recreational pastimes and intellectual interests are my work. Wouldn't have it any other way. (Or I'd find a different job doing those things.)
Reminds me of the old BBC coprocessors, which is interesting as ARM's predecessor was Acorn Computers. Funny to see an idea from the 80's getting a second run out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro_expansion_units
Perhaps in length, but it looks much thicker. It seems like it would be awkward to carry in a pocket.
"You seriously consider malice to be a reason why the compiler rejects your program"

Of course it's malice.
I can see how my message would mean that, since I wanted my point to be brief.

I spend a lot of time reading to my kids and playing with them. I've seen how much they pick up that way. However, I haven't come across a book or way to hold my 2 yr old's attention to get them to learn ABCs and their sounds. She loves to read and see pictures and point at things but she isn't learning letters that way.

She watches about 15-20 mins of Leapfrog: Letter Factory and I was amazed how quickly she started recognizing her letters.

I'm not suggesting TV is a replacement to reading but rather than another medium of learning is a tool that can be leveraged.

Also my point was more towards the article headline (less so the content) in general where a blanket statement like 'watching TV = bad for infants'. Rather we should find a balance between reading, music, outside play and even TV.
If you don't select the option to block Siri without entering a passcode, then you can use Siri without entering a passcode.

Shocking.
I must agree. MVP is getting thrown around and twisted like "pivot" did a few months ago. A video is not an MVP, because it's neither viable nor a product.

A video is great and, if done right, it's immensely useful at quickly explaining the value of the product your're building. It is not a product, though.

An MVP for dropbox would be something like a directory with a git repo that auto-commits everything and has a cron job push to & pull from a remote server every minute.
"I appreciate a good hack, but just can't get past the idea that this is a solution in search of a problem."

I had exactly the same reaction: good hack, where's the problem?

The solution to the problem of too much email already exists, and that solution is ... email. Email is asynchronous, and you get to decide when and what to do with it.
Another take on the same problem is to send an automatic reply saying

Your email has been received.
There are %N emails in my Inbox before yours.
Your email is important to me.
The estimated wait time for the response is %M days.
Thank you for your patience.

:)
I'm in this position now. I'm not a great developer, and I love learning new tricks, but because I'm billed hourly, am constantly interrupted, and get brought in to useless meetings, I'm left with zero time to learn.
Have your tried attending hackathons or startup camps?
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Wordpress does publishing right. The admin is easy and intuitive for writers, photographers, editors and the news production. Ruby on Rails and Django have admins best saved for programmers.

I suspect the time and effort to create a user-friendly admin and publishing system for either framework was higher than just using Wordpress, which already just works and people are familiar with. This makes sense.

But, Wordpress can be a pain for programming teams with front end and back end developers. The code is often embedded, which means both a designer and programmer often have to touch the same file at the same time. The MVC model fixes this problem allowing teams to work simultaneously with designers designing and coders coding, while also simultaneously making the coding easier by creating a model built around standard framework structure.

Wordpress wins for writers. MVC wins for programmers and designers. MTV wins for both.
A link to the study: https://fileexchange.imperial.ac.uk/files/e18b422069/ncomms1...
Siri can be activated even on an iPhone 4S that has been password-protected.
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"Tech companies can wait for the best of the best. Why aren't those software companies hiring that guy who lost his manufacturing job for $9/hr instead? It is because they don't need to. They can wait for the one who is great at the job."

That's not true at all.

A crappy farm hand might harvest at 1/2 or 1/3 the rate of a great one.

A crappy developer will actively damage a project.

It is simply not possible to increase software development productivity by hiring lots of people who don't know what they're doing.
A sign that I found missing from the list: you are totally devoted to a particular programming language and believe it's a silver bullet. All good programmers that I know understand that languages are just tools and all have tradeoffs of some sort.
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Your comment reminds me of my own personal frustration with our governance and current economy.

I have a modest sum of money in various forms. The central bank in the US is basically said to me, "stop saving!" because interest rates are so low and inflation is likely to be high in the future -- there's no point. Saving is out. (You think we would have learned something...)

So, let's look at possible investments. Real-estate? Maybe, but investment requirements for real-estate have gone up dramatically. In fact, I was recently told that if you're self-employed (aka creating jobs) for less than several years and looking for an investment property mortgage that you'll need to put down 50% to invest in property. So, I could find property to buy outright, but it seems that wouldn't being taking advantage of any real leverage.

Stocks? Sure, I have some stocks, but I'm not going to put all of my eggs in that basket after seeing 15 years of market swings and no real growth. (Sorry John Bogle, you may be wrong after all.)

So, I would like to put this money to work in some small way, but I have yet to see a way to actually do that (other than by starting a business, which is exactly what I did, but I'd like some diversity obviously). It makes you realize why more arcane investments like gold and bitcoin and startups are all very volatile, people are looking for something anything to invest in.

Fixing this stalemate is hard, but the government needs to find a way if they want money to come out from under the mattress and become productive again.
2) I can understand why you would want to see each and every email. Although I think some people get so much email that they would happily place some of the burden on the sender in exchange for the time savings.
I'm more successful in pretty much any task when I have no deadline, five highly competent assistants and a private masseur for whenever I'm feeling stressed. But if I was only willing to work that way, I'd be living on the street. Being a professional means getting the job done even in suboptimal conditions.
Nature is paywalled so only the abstract is viewable for me.
Well it looks like people at Nokia have tried really hard to release N9 even if it has problems. It is far from polished and I have hit some critical functionality that has API but is not working on Harmattan (most probably it works on Symbian). As well there are some functions that do not work from UI. I have reported bugs but that's the best I could do (maybe I can fix some of them). Overall I love how MeeGo Harmattan works and I love this OS - I'm happy owner of N950 (I'm using it as my main phone without problems).

Here is another thing that looks suspicious. New feature phones (that will run Meltemi) will have 1Ghz processor and as far as I'm aware N950 must have processor like this (at least I was hinted that it has slower processor than N9). Here I don't get why new OS is written when they have working one. As well it looks illogical to waste experience gained during Harmattan development (having in mind that Meltemi is developed in Germany and not Finland). It looks like not everything is revealed yet from Nokia side.
So, when you have a problem with the system, then to find the bug you have to look in three or four places instead of one.
Yep. Simple CalDav sync from the calendar. Nothing is new on the Siri end.
This is a completely serious question: does mobile opera have a large enough user base to include support for at the MVP stage?
If anything, Dropbox is proof that sometimes "if you build it, they will come" really works. They had already built the entire product, and they're demoing it in the video, it just wasn't ready to ship.

This isn't anymore a MVP than a video game or movie trailer.
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I think this stuff comes from someone who has a colleague with these "symptoms", and is either frustrated because they can't educate them into better techniques, or is a subordinate with no power.

In any case it's pretty unforgiving.

I have had a colleague who fits the bill here, but actually I just let them get on with their work and I got on with mine. Sure, it was hard when he delivered something that was excruciatingly poorly conceived and executed and I had the task of taking it to the the next stage. But you know this isn't a life and death business, he was a really nice guy, and I wasn't going to rock the boat. The next project, I was working with someone else and everyone was happy.

Contrast that with making an issue of it, and you might find yourself being labelled as a trouble maker, even if you did have the best intentions for the development.

If you run the show however, don't stand for it, because it's your business, and it calls for the best at all times.
While Siri is turned off by default, it appears that Siri-while-locked might be turned on by default once Siri is enabled. I wouldn't enable it in the first place if I had seen it, so it was news to me when I saw that it was turned on when I went to change my passcode the other day.

If it's enabled in that manner by default and lets you bypass the lock screen, then there's a serious problem.
Are you saying Steve couldn't train others in what is impotent and what is not? The only choices are "Steve was the only Apple employee" or "Steve had no influence at all"?

None of the Apple execs are the same people they were 10 years ago. This is a joint interaction between them and Steve. Those changes have the potential to continue to guide Apple successfully (but it is by no means certain).

It's not different than my kids following my beliefs if I died today.
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Undisclosed phone recording in some states, for example (not admissible in legal processes, a violation of law of itself, etc.).

Laws like this are a legacy of a time before it was easier to just record everything that happens to a person or in an area than to make decisions about what to record. We're still in the tail end of that era, but only just.

Much crime is economically motivated (not all, but much).

It's estimated that the average American commits three felonies a day (but if you start thinking about this topic and the people around you, it will escalate sharply, since failure to report a felony you know about is itself a felony...). Given this, I think we can safely say that the vast majority of crime in the US is completely incidental and unknowingly committed. Even if laws about recording other people (like police and audio callers) remain on the books, the ubiquity and silence of continuous recording will mean that it falls into the list of things that people do all the time that the state technically bans.
I don't think we're talking about the same thing. My question was whether or not, just as linking to a libelous post is not itself libel, linking to an infringing download would be similarly considered to not be infringement.

If the courts were consistent on this matter, then providing a magnet link to a torernt could arguably be seen as no different than providing a hyperlink to a libelous post. It is the poster/hoster, not the linker, who would be liable.
A good official tutorial would be fantastic, one that walked through something with a little more complexity than the basic to-dos demo. It's not that the official docs are particularly hard-to-read, it's just that it's very much a reference that doesn't give you a good place to start or "big picture" overview.
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I'm curious about the misspelling of Torvalds. Was that a naive transcription of the spoken name, or a naive transliteration from a Finnish character similar to "eth"? ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Eth )
hey fucking retard, there's a difference between saying "i hate to turn" and "i don't want to turn" - the former indicates that while he hates pointing out what a cock gurgling douche rms is, he still has to. the latter is what you assumed he meant. you are wrong, and i hope you die of cancer.
Regularly reversing malware samples, we still see many malware getting their respective remote IP from remote services. This is even used by some recent malware to update the bootstrap DHT with their own IP... In such case, they don't even need to contact directly the C&C.

I don't get why my previous comment is down-voted ;-)
I'm presently repairing a project that violates nearly every one of these principles. Literally, it's like they had a checklist made from this post and went down it to ensure they did everything wrong.
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This article http://flyosity.com/tutorial/crafting-subtle-realistic-user-... specifically and that blog in general have been massively helpful for me in improving my design skills. I highly recommend you give it a read through.
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I see this as something that could potentially lead to abuse, but I don't see how it is abusive by itself, and I don't agree with trying to limit technology because it could potentially be abused unless there's a clear case that the danger of such abuse outweighs the potential benefits. Like the writer of the original article, I haven't seen anyone make that case - it's mostly just people saying "but privacy!"

In your example, those people breaking into your home is wrong. Watching you when you are in public or on their property would not be.
If two people both used that automatic reply, and one of them emailed the other, it would result in the world's funniest arms race.
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That's not an argument against keeping that history. It could just as well be presented in court as evidence for me, or be presented as evidence against people I don't like. I'm in favor of the legal system having better evidence that they can use to reach more correct verdicts.