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Show HN: Better Youtube academic video comsumption.
demo use cases:
http://bit.ly/uoOuRh

http://bit.ly/vfsn6z

This application came from an education Hackathon (http://educationhackday.org/) I participated in.
It is an easy way to clip long youtube videos without having to chop them up.
Or "git blame filename.py" followed by "git show SHA1".
For a long time that was my first question anytime there was a network problem that wasn't a simple solve on the client.
Step 1: Disable/Enable interface
Step 2: Call NOC: "Can you tell me what this port is autonegotiated to?"
Just an FYI - when someone says "intuitive" in relation to user interface they usually mean "discoverable".

GUI's are usually somewhat discoverable (you can fiddle around and often figure something out) whereas a CLI tends to require study before it is useful (and thus why things like very well written manpages with examples are great).

The better a GUI is at allowing the user to make assumptions that are accurate is the closest I think you can get to "intuitive". That's the product of a lot of good design decisions.
Why hate on Mango? Windows 7.5 has a fantastic UI -- I prefer it to every flavor of Android I've ever seen!
The surprising thing isn't the policy. The surprising thing is the persistence of the policy even after it's no longer beneficial in any way. It's been more than a decade since Ethernet auto-negotiation became reliable. During that decade, that company has paid for a team to go around and do manually what could have been done by an automated process for a trillionth of the cost. That's a staggering amount of waste.
This reminds me of the Ultimate Wallboard contest that Atlassian put out last year http://ultimatewallboard.com/entries
Sometimes you just have to work on less interesting things, there's no way around it.
I like the message, but I think I'd rather my kids didn't say the pledge of allegiance at all.
I was amazed by the laser-guided precision of its emotional payload. The transition from relative playfulness to delivering the realization of the mercilessly impending dread in small portions, always quick to cover it up - only to open it up again shortly after in yet another, more devastating fashion is absolutely ravaging.

Reading it, I was taken by what I imagine to be a homeopathic dose of the feelings that Xeni may have gone through in that situation. The sentences sometimes don't make immediate sense - you have to reread them carefully. And then they hit you. Hit you in a place where you are not sure how to deal with them.
Online user interfaces are intuitive when they match well with the offline interfaces you're already familiar with, so no additional learning is necessary.

This is why buttons look like buttons, and change appearance when pressed. This is why things that are above other things have drop shadows.

You might be smart and experienced enough not to need such 'toy-like' visual cues, but computers aren't just for you.
HOCON: Configuration library for JVM languages
Forget Tweetdeck 1.0, Tweedeck.air is still best, keep using .air
I think procrastinating is one of the most obvious symptoms of low EQ. You are just to emotional, you feel extremely unmotivated because you do not want to do what you need to do(studying etc). You just can not overcome your emotions and you do what ever your emotions want you to do, which is procrastinating and feeling better for this moment of time.

Emotions do not care about what you will feel in the future, they just care about what you feel right now. Procrastinating makes people happy. It is some type of addiction. You just can not ignore your emotions, and you do what makes you happy right now which is procrastinating.
You can't make a good General in boot camp, but a lot of business types today rush into startups armed with an MBA or BBA. Wars produce Generals for the next wars. What you're looking for is somebody in a startup (not necessarily a founder) right now who won't be ready to be your co-founder until they have gone through a big war on their own. Get to know a few of these people and one day over beers and "would have", "should have", "could have" stories of their current or past startup you will find your business co-founder.
If you're dealing with temperatures, a better name than minval or minValueForTemperature might be mintemp, min_temp, or minTemp depending on your style. One reason to use moderately short variable names is so that reading the name is faster. Include the most important information in the name, infer the rest from context. If you find you still need a lot of context, drop something less important from the name (e.g. minval->mintemp).

I'd also avoid putting prepositions into variable names, but that's just a personal preference for keeping things to one adjective plus one noun where possible (less parsing overhead for my brain).
Postmarkapp, Nametoolkit (on Mashape)
Github paid account for life free
The company I work for has had a very similar process for years. In fact, it's stated much better within the first line of text on the homepage.

I think a workflow approach is a better way to go for the client, but even our approach was inspired by other companies who have embraced a transparent workflow methodology such as this.

It's painful to see a company claim it as a first.
A tech-nerd becoming a good businessman is not that common but we have seen many examples and we know its not that hard to do.(Take Eric Schmidt or Bill Gates for example).

Please give me ONE (I repeat ONE!) example of an MBA becoming a rockstar programmer....The fact there is possibly no one like that should give you a teeny tiny glimpse at the future!
I have a problem with procrastination.

Seeing this post has led me to possible solutions to the problem.
This is fantastic advice, especially for many of my fellow Americans. For me, however, I think the problem is that fruits don't fit into my lifestyle. My meals mostly consist of fish, miso, rice, seaweed, tofu and various vegetables seasonally available. Quality fresh fruit is not as readily available at reasonable prices in the winter.

I'm 6'2" and I've never weighed over 175lbs (thanks to running), so it's not an overt health issue. My deep-seated fear is that I'm doing long-term damage to my body by not eating enough fruit compared to the amount of vegetables I consume. Health guidelines almost never make it clear if there are suitable replacements for things like fruits in other food categories.
Show HN: Instapad: Anonymous Instant Publishing
I think maybe changing it to "install" might be good, because it does take someone with basic sysadmin skills to set up anyway.

I'd also consider putting the "find a community" stuff at the top too, since that's probably the first thing you'd want people to look at (and they can install the software if they don't find one).
Not really what I was saying. What I'm saying is that the same zombie falsehoods are repeated in every thread. Even worse, falsehoods are rewarded with upvotes because, more and more, bias trumps accuracy.

It becomes tiresome to correct them over and over again only to see that once again the highest voted comment is based on the falsehood that "Apple is reaping the whirlwind" because "they [took] the first shot."

And inasmuch as you can generalize about a diverse community it's not a great leap to go from the observation that these factually inaccurate comments are often the highest upvoted to say that when it comes to IP Apple is commonly treated here as the big bad.

This is despite the facts that:

(1) Apple is consistently the most innovative company and IP is supposed to incent and reward innovation.

(2) Apple has paid out more for patent infringement then all their innocent lamb competitors (put together?).
The 2-XL is an educational robot with a piss-poor attitude [video]
Klout stack, including node.js, Scala (Play! and Akka), ElasticSearch
This part hit me as well: complain much?

I love the Ribbon interface!

If the point of design is to reduce the total number of clicks required to get to your goal, reduce the total amount of clutter and get as many useful elements in front of the user when they need it (without hunting/searching through menus and help files) than I think Ribbon is fantastic. Of course, it takes adjusting to, if all you're used to is hunting through menus.

If the point of design is to make you feel intellectual and special because you know how to use this set of tools and there's no tutorial, than why are you using a GUI at all?

He constantly expresses his love for Windows 95 and older Mac distributions.

One has to wonder why he didn't just profess his undying love for command line operating systems. No animations, no curved edges, no tutorials, no help.

Just you and the computer.

I'm chalking this up to: "GET OFF MAH LAWN"

(How dare my calendar look like a real calendar! This is a computer, dammit, I expect black screen terminal and green letters!)
Multiple dashboards and dashboard rotation with Leftronic
PACO: Personal Analytics COmpanion
Keeping variable names short is a natural brake on routine length. Like wrapping at 80 columns and using tabs is a natural brake on deeply nested conditionals.

If I need a longer variable name to clarify the intent of the code, it's a signal from the code that maybe I should break the routine into smaller pieces.

I also find that smaller variable names makes it way faster to scan and thus understand.

YMMV ...
Harvest for time tracking, skype, last.fm.
Can we please drop this hyperbolic platitude that "ideas are worthless." You need to have ideas. That's how you decide what to do. In the case that the author describes, your ideas will help you decide what type of "smart nerds" you need to find. After all, there are as many different types of nerds as there are topics to study in depth.

The real problem is thinking that you're just one big idea away from a successful company. A successful company is made up of thousands of ideas and many man-years of execution. The real value creation happens when you have infrastructure in place to separate the good ideas from the bad ones.

So it's true that a single untested idea isn't worth much, but a huge collection of validated ideas really is valuable.
"Over the phone, the clinics all sounded like places you'd take a pork chop to be examined, not a human breast, not a person, and not me."

Our technology is improving. Rigorous, evidence-based practice is the standard of care.

And yet we often fail to help.

Oft-used aphorisms in medical training include, "The secret of care of the medical patient is caring about the patient" and "Recommend to your patients what you'd recommend to your own family". Yet that approach often vanishes somewhere during training or soon after. Some may start viewing people as "consumers" rather than "patients".

Compassion is curative, and by that I don't mean a bunch of hand-waving mumbo-jumbo. I mean that people will seek preventive care, trust diagnosis and treatment, stay in treatment, and work with docs when they feel they'll be heard, when their pain and fears (often unspoken) and questions will be addressed, and when their choices will be respected.

For lack of a better phrase, there remains a science and an art to medicine. Both need to advance lock-step.

Best wishes to Xeni. Her writing has always been brave as it is here, and selflessly sharing what she's going through will help others.
I know exactly what you are talking about. Following a plan can be hard. If you don't have clean socks anymore try to include that into your plan. Say 30min household stuff... nobody will ever see my plan. It is personal, full of probably questionable content for other people, but it is realistic and only when it is realistic you even have a chance to fullfill it.

Also: Iterate. Make a plan for tomorrow, realize tomorrow you are 50% off, ask yourself why...iterate till you can fullfill the plan. Include the stuff that stopped you from fullfilling your original plan, spot problems, experiment with solutions. Beeing honest with yourself can be hard.

And: Only do this for 50-70% of your time. If you plan everything you'll go nuts very soon (At least I do) but don't omit personal goals or problems.

As for the problem of acting on the plan: Think about binary sort... split the problem till you can handle it, then merge the parts. If you don't know how to handle it you can always think about splitting it up.

</endofpseusoselfhelp>

good luck!
Exactly. I didn't fully grasp this until I read some of Bill's letters on what he's working on now.

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annual-letter/2011/Pages/home...

Without considering it, one might think that with billions of dollars, accomplishing any task should be a rather straightforward issue. Reading his letters provides a view on how much work and how big their challenges are.
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I'm sure you all know about www.ml-class.org - if I were to distillate all lectures to bare minimum it would be to learn about support vector machines (SVM).

Contrary to common believes SVMs are a VERY large class of learners. Linear SVM would be just 1 of 10^10 ways of using SVM. It can be used to do regression, classification, clustering, feature selection, feature weighting, feature engineering, projections, and visualizations. That's why I decided to post few links to the prof. Ng's videos (in the comments section to have clickable URLs).
I think Haavard's feelings about Apple deliberately causing delays are mostly based on the previous cases he wrote about, like the one where Apple submitted their disclosure on day 149 of the 150-day exclusion period, and then caused further delays by failing to respond to questions from the Patent Advisory Group. And after this huge waste of time, the PAG ultimately determined that Apple's patents didn't even apply to the spec in question:

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2009/10/30/apple-w3c-patent...
She claimed that she smoked her first cigarette when she was feeling very anxious, and that it helped.

Also, she's never really been very addicted - she only smokes off and on.
Couldn't help but chuckle at the code example

return $hit
It looks maybe a millimeter inset if you look around the edges. Nonetheless, the plastic casing around the edges is pretty clearly extraneous.
Cure for Jurisdyslexia Discovered.
Ones, that I would focus on:

Model selection http://www.ml-class.org/course/video/embed?video_id=62&s...

Diagnosing bias vs. variance http://www.ml-class.org/course/video/embed?video_id=63&s...

SVM Optimization Objective http://www.ml-class.org/course/video/embed?video_id=72&s...

Large Margin Intuition http://www.ml-class.org/course/video/embed?video_id=73&s...

Mathematics Behind Large Margin Classification (Obligatory!!!) http://www.ml-class.org/course/video/embed?video_id=74&s...

Kernels I http://www.ml-class.org/course/video/embed?video_id=75&s...

Kernels II http://www.ml-class.org/course/video/embed?video_id=76&s...

Using An SVM http://www.ml-class.org/course/video/embed?video_id=77&s...

... yep, you don't need to login.
Ever considered moving back to the states now that you're established? I'm the opposite, having moved from .au to California and now using australian bank accounts and investments as my savings vehicles, 6.3% on aud savings + 3% currency is a lovely offset vs a US mortgage.
> Also, "Smart Nerds", unless they are completely oblivious, can instantly disseminate what value you bring to the project. Did you just think up the idea, yet want an equal split of the company with the "smart nerd" who will actually bring the idea into fruition? Fat chance, they will do their own thing and become big their own way.

It's not completely hopeless. There are some smart nerds who want to collect a paycheck every week, sit at a desk, and work on interesting problems. Sometimes 2 and 3 are optional.

That's not necessarily obliviousness, just a case of recognizing your strengths.
There are a million sites on the Internet about procrastination and you found your solution in a mediocre (at best) 15 line blog post? Google. Seriously.
Thanks for your suggestions! I've implemented a couple of them:

* Added delay for every reaction

* Made the page less tall, everything is smaller now (I'd underestimated the size, working on a 27" iMac)

* The easy mode was already there, enzymes lit up when you picked up a substrate. I've added an extra help now: when you hover over an enzyme, the available substrates light up.

* The transporters are only visible (and usable) if enough ATP/substrate is available
I'm guessing that nailer is referring to the fact that QNX is a realtime OS, which could provide decreased UI latency compared to Android. QNX is a "strength" of RIM, so using it to their advantage would "capitalize on their strengths."

As an aside, I always thought it was weird that QNX was owned by Harman for a while...
Not if the iPad patent was filed in 2004.
Princeton students protest banks who co-opt smart talent
Truly. I'm aghast that AutoDesk hasn't ported all of their offerings over to the cloud, too!
Thanks! Will change on our next deploy.
Looks Like We Won't Have To Worry About Parked .xxx Page All Over the Place
Looks like the .xxx people aren't going to let the buyers park their names. Looks like porn only or nothing
You don't actually lose the metadata by commenting the code, thanks to git/svn/hg's blame feature, named identically in each. (I've not used darcs in a very long time, but it had something similar called "annotate".) If the code doesn't look like the comments say it is, you can check the timestamps and if that doesn't help, then you can crawl through old commits to see what's going on. It's useful enough that I've bound a key in my editor to display the blame'd code.
That is not the stated purpose of the tool (to write code in the aforementioned style):

"Include what you use" means this: for every symbol (type,
function variable, or macro) that you use in foo.cc, either
foo.cc or foo.h should #include a .h file that exports the
declaration of that symbol.

I agree 100% with that statement. According to the style, foo.h can never #include anything.
Being in the right place at the right time (by Naveen from Foursquare)
You know, in the 90s and early part of the last decade, I felt way too bitter about Bill Gates. I didn't like Microsoft's business practices and I certainly didn't like their software. Being young and full of piss & vinegar, I seethed with rage.

Now I'm older and Bill Gates has become one of the public figures I most respect. He's changing the world in ways that matter far more than Steve Jobs or Michael Dell ever did. Schultz and the rest should be jealous of him.

This a man who talks seriously and realistically about eliminating malaria. How does selling more or better enterprise software begin to compare with getting up in the morning and knowing that what you do that day will give thousands of children a chance at life?
At the risk of asking an often-repeated question:

I use Notepad++ - at the moment this is predominantly Python + HTML/CSS/JS

If not Notepad++, what else should I be looking at?
We don't have "f-star"; the centripedal force (or the force of gravity in this case) is the product of both the mass of the star and the mass of the planet, which we don't have.
Fantastic delivery, doubly so given the gravity of the subject. I sincerely doubt that I could write this well, given the circumstnces.

Here's to hoping that whatever the outcome, she has a speedy recovery and a long life.
You can keep the old one while putting new ones in place. I'm sure no one is jumping at the opportunity to reuse ⌘^⇧4 once Apple moves away from it.
Here's something I noticed:

If I spend all day browsing around the web unproductively, I don't feel motivated at all.

If I say "You know what, I'm not getting anything done. I'm going to play video games for a few hours.", I feel energized to get work done afterward.

I think it's the fact that browsing aimlessly is like knowing you need to run an errand and then sitting in the car with your hands on the wheel, but not turning the key. It's close enough to what you SHOULD be doing that you feel even worse that you're not getting things done. If I take a break to play a game or read a book or something, it's an explicit transition between activities.
PLisp: Macros for PostScript
I would like to recommend HoloKlip (http://bit.ly/uoOuRh) for managing video lessons. Instead of multiple clips and urls, you just virtually clip one video.
Not to mention, it would probably be a big loss for his foundation. He didn't just pour in the money for it, he engages fiercely with governments and organizations for specific measurable goals with just as much passion as business. Philanthropy may not sound exciting to techies, but at the scale he's doing it (his ambition is to reduce the global death toll from diseases by 80%) it must be pretty challenging.

And another thing: Gates led microsoft in its two most exciting eras (the PC and the Internet). Both of these sectors have now been commoditized, leaving little space for revolution (tablets? meh).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/11/02/the-sec...
They need to remove that bar - it looks like a pain. Also, the speed gain doesn't seem that much with just one set of steps. It would work much better for 2 or more sets. I would imagine more people would use it if it were longer.
Python Interface to the HipChat JSON API
Sounds like they are some experienced software engineers:

>The first 90% of the hhvm project is done; now we're on to the second 90% as we make it really shine.
[my UI opinion] I find Ribbon to be extremely helpful both in having more functions available at a glance, and for teaching keyboard shortcuts (for example, hold alt in Word 2010).
There is no equivalent to epoll on Windows. There is select (that just happens to get slower when socket's numerical id gets larger). There is also IOCP, which is an ass-backward epoll - a typical Microsoftish contraption that was supposed to be better by being more universal, but ended up being a retarded piece of disaster compared to epoll. I killed a couple of months trying to push and shape IOCP back into the BSD style API, and in the end it worked, but the guts were ugly and the process was utterly unpleasant.

So, no, the "subsystem for unix-based applications" is a no go.
Or it could end up dead. No products = no development. No development = dead.

WebOS will have exactly the same fate as so many great OS that had zero commercial backing, let alone products.
Let alone that it'll fall massively behind the current market leaders and never be able to catch up again..
The solution is not on the post, is in the comments.

So you think that the solution for procrastination is google for it? I see this approach going all way around, and making people procrastinate more. Here in hn we can listen to other peers, that have the same problem and have good solutions.
tl;dr: I believe in taking care of myself, and a balanced diet and a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial masque which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
I was just giving my objective and honest personal opinion about Android...Whether any value can be gained from it depends on the person reading it.

What can be said for certain is that there is definitely no value to be gained from your comment...:)..peace!