skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR:

Nothing will ever be as good as paper and pen but if you are absolutely adamant about going digital as I was, Noteshelf + my tools is the best solution I've found after spending a lot of time testing things out. Obviously I only tested what was listed below so take that with a grain of salt but I researched and went over others not mentioned.

THE TOOLS:

iPad 3, Adonit Jot Flip Stylus

THE APPS:

Noteshelf, Ghostwriter Notes, Paper (by Fifty Three), Note+

THE BREAKDOWN:

After spending weeks researching, reading, watching youtube videos, etc... I narrowed down my decision on the best note taking apps to Ghostwriter Notes and Noteshelf of over a dozen other apps. Since Paper and Note+ were both free, I downloaded them to try them out as well. Here are the results...

Note+ - Total garbage. Not even worth rating as this app would receive negative points if I could issue such a thing.

Paper - Probably great for other purposes but totally not designed for note taking in mind and thus would be rated incredibly low.

Ghostwriter Notes (paid app) - Sounded sooooo good in theory and in videos but in practice, there were so many things wrong with this app. Regular note taking was completely unresponsive unless you plan on writing in font size 80. The only way around this problem was to use the zoom in writing feature but that left very little writing space at a time and the text in the box were often pixelated and there is still some lag time. The writing guard sucks as it required constant adjustment, etc. In essence, don't bother.

Noteshelf (paid app) - This was THE best option I found. The flaws were few. And while it lacked some options (such as PDF annotation), those are unimportant in just plain note taking if that's what you're primarily interested in. It does the job incredibly well (albeit not 5 stars). This app does a good enough job that I'm sticking with it.

FINAL NOTES:

I own almost everything Apple so iPad has always been my tablet of choice (I've owned all 3 versions). Yours may differ. In terms of picking stylus, I spent a couple weeks researching this as well and going over more than half a dozen kickstarter projects (new and old) as well. Jot Flip ended up being the one I liked best. For awhile, I was debating between that and the Cregle iPen until I saw a review video on YouTube showcasing the iPen (apparently the response isn't base on the tip but a sensor on the side). I then decided Jot Flip was the way to go. I wanted a stylus that resembled a pen tip and note one of those thick rubber heads you often see which I'd imagine blows for actual writing.

As a side note, if you just want a stylus without the pen, you can buy just the Jot or Jot Pro. The difference is the Jot Flip includes an actual pen on the opposite head. I wanted to keep the pen option available and was totally not disappointed. Its a really nice pen.
Isn't he talking about "Backend as a service"? Shouldn't he mention Parse or StackMob or Appcelerator Cloud Services, etc.?
Correct there are ideas that require critical mass / communities --> capital expenditure in order to be valuable. BUT the model should be entrepreneurs who are wet behind the ears should stay far away from those ideas.

Bootstrap something that doesn't require those difficult prerequisites in order to be successful and then use the money from that to perhaps go back to your gazillion dollar idea.
What part of the experience showed that single sex workshops might be better? Because there wouldn't be female knowledgeable jerks (either because women are never jerks, or because they are never knowledgeable, or why?)? Or smart women would not be self-deprecating among other women?
Huh, looks like all of the companies are out of NY and mostly fashion related. Its too bad it was more of a PR piece for these companies, rather than a deeper look at gender and class.
I emailed Jason, and he said Braintree would transfer all the data over.
I've noted this phenomenon around the world in mostly English-speaking countries, where it appears to have historically been derived from American Evangelism, due to access to certain literature, films and song (i.e. culture). South Korea, I imagine, has had a lot of input from the U.S.
You're the kid from that teen entrepreneur contest with the taskrabbit clone! You're site is well designed though, I'll give you that.
I have a tendency to agree with you. But I'd go one step further and say that in college, at least from a classroom standpoint, teachers were the hardest on you, and the least likely to give a crap about you. It was up to you to go home and understand the material, no time for pampering or pats on the back there.
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He also says:

It only goes away when you explicitly delete it with a call to :quit or :bdelete.

This isn't true. :bdelete makes the buffer an unlisted-buffer. :bwipeout actually removes the buffer completely.

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_buffer_FAQ
> All new team members were automatically assumed to be terminated within a month or so.

If I was ever hired in a place with that kind of assumed termination, I'd have to start job hunting again on day 1. Because, in my experience, it takes at least 2 weeks to get through most hiring processes. (Between sending in an application, waiting to hear back from the HR guy, interview 1, interview 2, technical interview, potentially a technical assignment, and then overhead of coordinating everyone's schedules, AND waiting to hear back on each stage of the journey).

And you do that dance (or part of that dance) 3 or 4 times during that month, which having this full time job.

It would be even worse if, while I had this 30 day assumed termination job, that I got an interview with one of these "new hiring practice" companies. You know the ones: "We want to contract you in for a week to see if it works out", or "Can you complete a 30 hour programming assignment for us?"

Even something as simple as, "We'd like a series of in face, 4 hour long interviews with you during business hours" makes you look bad to the job you have-but-may-not-be-retained-in.

Because now you have to make some excuse why you can't show up to a job you know you'll (probably) be fired from, but that very action could be the thing is probably going to be noted on your record, "Brilliant guy, and we'd love to have him, but he missed 4 afternoons because of personal reasons - he obviously is undependable, do not retain."
Interesting to see if he closes Sortfolio down, as quoted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3941504
I remember kids being held back, mostly in the early k-1-2 years or 11-12th grade years. Not much in between. I was in school in the 90s and early 00s.
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Anyone know where I can find a 1 watt wifi repeater with an input antenna and an output antenna? I'd love to hook up a high gain directional antenna to the input and then an omni directional antenna to the output.
I don't like how the article implies this makes me less of a man.

I don't think it does that, but nevertheless, this raises an interesting question that I've been having real trouble answering, so maybe you (or others) could help me out: why do you dislike it when people make such implications? Do you feel you're worth less if you're perceived to be less manly?
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They have the skills and a good idea of what people are prepared to pay for so why do they continue to build bespoke software instead of creating a startup?
I couldn't care less about cars. But I love this show, their banter, and their ability to deduce the problem.
Show HN: Codacy, delegate your programming tasks.
Thinking about code you have to do, but you are busy with something else?

What if you could delegate your problems to someone ready to take it off your shoulders?
That is what we are all about: doing small programming tasks for you, so that you can focus in what is really important.

Already thinking in a perfect example of something you could delegate right now?

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I wonder if it would have been as effective without the male villain. The trope reinforces the moral, but it kind of beats us over the head with it.

The author clearly stated he felt challenged by the display of dominance by another male, and wrote this blog to heal his wounded ego and display his superior abilities at leading women.

So, no, it probably wouldn't have been effective without the male villain. The competing male was a "jerk" and the damsel in distress just needed to be protected from the "jerk" by the knight in shining armour.

All-female classes taught by a single male teacher have proven to be quite effective.
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I get the point you are making and to a certain degree, I agree with you.

Havign said that, they still do get cash from the engine, through existing licensing deals.

I haven't checked this specific license that doom3 was released under, but it's common for the code to be released under a free license for non commercial use, but a paid license would be required for commercial variants.
Thanks for the thorough answer! I originally missed the part about using a real word as the base.

For my passwords, I use 8 character random strings so hopefully I am a little safer. Although, as I'm learning from all of these password leak debacles, you are only as secure as the systems using those passwords.
Apply for jobs and reach out to real people at these companies you're hoping to get hired for rather than just filling out applications online and blindly waiting for a response back.

Do NOT send out your resume unless they explicitly ask for one. Attach a cover letter along with it if they do and explain in a short and brief manner i.e. simple terms, what you said here. Otherwise, allow your portfolio/github profile to do the talking. Work the interview angle as best as you can that way.
Okay, thanks for the answer. I was under the impression that brute forcing takes a long time.
Perhaps there was an ulterior motive, like publicity. After all, they're 37signals and they can do whatever they please.
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Worth noting here regarding the patent issue with Creative.

John Carmack said [1]:

"The patent [2] situation well and truly sucks. We were prepared to use a two-pass algorithm that gave equivalent results at a speed hit, but we negotiated the deal with Creative so that we were able to use the zfail method without having to actually pay any cash. It was tempting to take a stand and say that our products were never going to use any advanced Creative/3dlabs products because of their position on patenting gaming software algorithms, but that would only have hurt the users."

[1] http://newenthusiast.com/carmacks-reverse-still-an-issue-200...

[2] The patent number 6,384,822, "Method For Rendering Shadows Using A Shadow Volume And A Stencil Buffer", can be read here: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=Om0LAAAAEBAJ

Here is the patent work-around in the Doom 3 source code. Check out the RB_T_Shadow method in draw_common.cpp at line 1151 [3]:

// patent-free work around
if ( !external ) {
// "preload" the stencil buffer with the number of volumes
// that get clipped by the near or far clip plane
qglStencilOp( GL_KEEP, tr.stencilDecr, tr.stencilDecr );
GL_Cull( CT_FRONT_SIDED );
RB_DrawShadowElementsWithCounters( tri, numIndexes );
qglStencilOp( GL_KEEP, tr.stencilIncr, tr.stencilIncr );
GL_Cull( CT_BACK_SIDED );
RB_DrawShadowElementsWithCounters( tri, numIndexes );
}

[3] https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl/blob/master/neo/renderer/...

Further reading on the general topic can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_volume
Dave would be wasting his time if he was in a table where he already knew everything. You'd be doing him a favor.
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>Painting men as super villains in some grand 'Dan Brown'ian plot of conspiracy against women will NOT work.

It works because it plays into traditional gender roles. You don't have to be a bleeding heart liberal to believe women are the "gentler" sex that needs the protection of society. Just good ol' fashioned chivalry.
Correction: There is refactoring support in Xcode. But it is quite bad.
We can't reasonably say this is a female specific phenomenon when our only point of reference is a female-only class.

I assumed the point of the author was that this was a female-specific phenomenon, since the theme of his post was gender. Also, because the author said so:

"To me, and I suspect most men, we’d see Dave’s behavior as a call to arms."
I think you're just searching for a reason to dislike Pixar films for the sake of disliking them. That's why you don't seem to be able to articulate your reasons very well. Have you heard of Armand White? He's a reviewer who always gives negative reviews to anything popular on rottentomatoes, so he can get more pageviews by having the one rotten review in a field of fresh ones. You and he would probably get on well.

I, for one, find Pixar's storytelling extremely naive, paint-by-numbers kind of affair.

Our human brains are puny and weird, and programmed to only enjoy one kind of story. Or rather, it's pretty weird that we enjoy any kind of story at all; why would we want to waste our time hearing about made-up stuff that never happened? But we do enjoy it... though only for a fairly narrow range of stories with a fairly narrow range of structures.
As a side note, it was only a few years before this (in 1949) that Robert Busa approached IBM's Tom Watson with the idea of using a computer to make a concordance (of the works of Thomas Aquinas). Tom apparently said it was impossible (IBM was a number-crunching business, and parsing huge volumes of text was an entirely new field). Luckily the company's motto at the time was: “What's difficult we can do straight away, the impossible takes a little longer”

The project is noted by many as the beginning of a computational approach to literature.
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I think he ment engaged on a mental level? not like.. you know engaged.
Probably will get downvoted for this, but I didn't really think this was as vile as apparently everybody else does. Sure it's a bit cheesy and stupid, but the dancers seem to be wearing shorts and a full shirt (essentially standard dance attire) and not doing anything particularly suggestive. As to the lyrics, again stupid attempts at humor but not any worse than what you might see on an evening TV sitcom. Maybe I am just old..
if the someone with the idea has enough pull, (s)he probably simply shuts down any red flags with "it was my idea, do it now!"
> I would have thought that the developer community has come to realize that sexism is out

I was there to see how it worked out. The developer community reacted negatively to this.

During the show, a lot of people backed away to hide in the corners of the conference room. There was loud boo-ing throughout and after the dance. Critical tweets were being tweeted and retweeted.

The community is OK. Microsoft's marketing department are tasteless hamfisted twats.

Some of their earlier Cloud marketing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q1UgUw-4AY
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Sorry, I wasn't lambasting the community at large... I was directing my anger at the fact that Microsoft is insulated enough from the dev community that they haven't picked up on this.
The DRM exists to limit rights of unauthorized people to play content, not to limit the rights of authorized people to play content.

If an authorized user initiates playing the content, DRM shouldn't prevent it from occurring.
My comment was more about them trying to cause it to self destruct as to slow down research.
Somebody else will put this on github then.
There's http://www.cartalk.com/content/puzzlers at least.
I find it especially offensive to women and feminists in the developer community.

People watching it and saying, "OMG what a crap song, and such old-school dance moves. Don't they know developers are too cool for this?", as if that is what the problem is, just show how big the real problem is.
Which is probably why pwpwp didn't specifically refer to the self-selected women in the class, but made a general point about the industry and the ridiculous attempts to impose a completely artificial 50/50 gender ratio.

The comic could have just as easily said "one girl is good at math therefore exactly as many girls as boys are good at math."
How about http://99designs.com/ ?

You could choose the one you like best, and approach the designer for additional work.
it's not the things they did or any particular word or formulation that ticks me off. It's the sentiment and (if it succeeds) the baseline of emotions it seeds for that event or evening.

Now we can all say that everyone needs to grow thicker skin or something, but in the end it's simply bad taste to alienate significant parts of the crowd. That being said, if I would have been there, I would have been more embarrassed at the stereotype they apparently decided to appeal to than offended, because it was so over the top stupid.

YMMV.
Remember 'investors' here means VCs not just the founders

You can't go taxing the rich - this is still America
Where is the goddamned outrage? Stop being such a member of the intelligentsia and get angry.
Yes their devious plan to air reruns of a successful show, repackaged so only the most entertaining parts are included. Going to be hard to represent it as new material when they announced their retirement. You ought to crank down the sensitivity on your "things I get grossed out by" meter.
great idea! two suggestions though: 1. fix the english grammatical mistakes (sorry, I realize you're programmers but it doesn't look or sound professional) and 2. drop bootstrap or modify/lessjs it so that it doesn't look like a website someone threw together in 10 minutes.
I'm yet to meet anyone who denies evolution. It's actually a product of strawmanism, which is absolutely an American political habit.
So, are you saying that women can't or aren't willing to deal with drama or cope with shit that involves dicks and egos?

Where there's muck, there's brass. Are you saying that women have no brass?
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>Nonetheless, the fact that it probably wasn’t written by an experienced hacker is what allowed it to go so long being undetected. Ironically it’s lack of evasion techniques let it evade detection.

So what you're saying is that it sucks, and the fact that it sucks is what made it so successful?

Have you considered the possibility that the Flame authors are smarter than you?
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I hear no loud boos "throughout" the routine. I do hear laughter. I see people crowded up to the stage, not "hiding in corners". There are some possible boos after the routine, mixed in with applause.

And what's clueless about that Cloud ad? That's an extremely mainstream corporate ad.
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Yes. Even knowing Microsoft's general marketing clumsiness, it's very impressive how out of touch they can manage to be.

Also, when they were referencing the speakers, "Lea Verou will make your dreams come true" might have looked good on paper, but in this context it was just unbearably creepy. Totally agree they need to donate some millions to inclusive causes to make up for this.
It was a good meeting
I think teaching 101 covers widely discredited education theories (stuff like Myress-Briggs, visual auditory and kinesthetic learning styles, and the like) rather than practical teaching tips. There's a practicum to teach them how to teach.
Or Buddy?

The data in the infographic is pretty interesting, and the author's gist is correct, but it is sad that an article about "mobile backends in a box" doesn't even try to list some of the key players.
Unfortunately the result is usually pretty crappy.

I'm looking for great designers like those who advertise on Sortfolio, not just a "cheap" one, which seems to be whom 99designs is targeting.
Scroll the page to the bottom, scroll it back up, then go do your other things.
I usually like these demos, but effects break the act of scrolling DOWN a page, I'm not a fan.
One would think that at this stage, all the decent malware writers would be in their forties. Like the guy says, ten years ago [or even more] viruses had to be far more sophisticated in order to spread. Kids these days don't know how to write malware!
I see. And if I point out that the KKK is all white dudes, then I'm also being racist? What a meanie I am!

Pointing out the unbalanced composition of a group meant to solve society's problems is not in any way racist. It's a specific application of the general rule that humans have hard time understanding the experiences of people different than themselves, especially when there's privilege involved.
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The current machine translation systems work with parallel texts, and they will for the foreseeable future. However, to properly translate you need to understand the meaning of a text, not just look up words or phrases in a table as is currently done (and using statistics does not address this). In other words, you need to have a connection between language and world, which is something only an intelligent agent has, hence the problem is AI complete. In terms of the nuances that were cited, it's not so much that they are infinite which is the problem, as other potentially infinite combinatorial systems such as syntax can be analysed effectively by computers. Rather it is the fact that choosing the right nuance depends on a completely arbitrary amount of context, such as the whole history of Russia when you're translating a Russian novel. So the problem is not impossible, but considering that even humans need years and years of study to do a good job at translation, I'd say machine translation that replaces humans is quite infeasible.
If you can find a way to produce equipment that costs what you feel it should then a large market awaits you.
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Wasn't the term "computer" at one time used to describe usually female mathematicians who worked in all female groups at DoD?

Perhaps the problem isn't women, and it isn't men, but instead the urge to force them together and then demand they suppress their natural gender differences?

Based on experience I would guess having gender segregated groups of technical workers could be quite productive. But anyone trying would immediately be hit by lawsuits from the discrimination lawyers.

Too much drama. Too much shit to cope with, that involves dicks and egos.

Absolutely, and from the other side, forcing a man into a mostly female group is going to drive him crazy with what he perceives to be the petty female group dynamics.
Watching this (as a woman) I actually felt more embarrassed for my male colleague sitting here with me - he knew how stupid and misogynist it is. If anything I was rather impressed they thought it so considerate to add 'vagina' to what was an already absurd line.