skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like these guys are fighting an uphill battle, not that I'd want to discourage it. It's simply much easier to visualize the path traced when you relate the radius to the circumference of a circle rather than its diameter, since there's only one point to focus on at a time as you rotate around the axis. Pi is insidious as it's only much later that this foundation begins to appear problematic.

[My analogy was not very good. The circumference is the only dimension of a circle stated in terms of diameter, not radius, and so substituting tau for pi is simply relating the radius of a circle to its circumference instead of its diameter. Circumference = tau * radius. This has the benefit of bringing the circumference formula in line with all the other circle equations.

When we look at the area of a circle, tau is not very intuitive, however. The formula for the area of a circle uses the square of the radius, so there's not an intuitive way to factor two into the equation without just making extra mental work for yourself.

For volume, the effect is somewhat neutral. Volume = 4/3 pi * radius^3 = 2/3 tau * r^3. 2/3 vs. 4/3 doesn't seem to add much insight into the equation.

Circumference = tau * r

Area = 1/2 tau * r^2

Volume = 2/3 tau * r^3

4th dimension circle = 3/4 tau * r^4? : P

Maybe there's something to this...]
You can use the PPAPI versions with Chromium if you want to. You just need to extract the so file from chrome package and use it for Chromium. There are readymade packages available in AUR for instance. Of course your point stands that officially Chrome is the only option left.
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The trouble is that your digestive process isn't necessarily time-independent, so the same piece of food could represent different energy fluxes into your body if eaten at different times, and the calorie expenditure of your body isn't necessarily time-independent, so the same exercise (including just sitting around) could represent different energy fluxes out of your body if performed at different times.

Without actually measuring energy fluxes, "a kcal is a kcal" is meaningless.
Sounds like you are mobile first (because you're targeting tablets). Which makes this discussion about native (obj-c, java) vs web for prototyping consumer tech services.

Most consumer tech services are seeing usage move to native apps which emphasis great experience - surely working on that counts towards reaching product-market fit.
Good advice! Another alternative, if you don't need mobile browser tests, is Testling, which runs your tests on Browserling's servers. It's not free, but way easier to get started.
I see this reaction all the time:

"A calorie is a calorie is a calorie. If you want to lose weight, you just need to eat less."

"Well, no, your body can react differently to different types of calories. If some calories tend to induce hunger and others don't, then it matters quite a lot which calories you consume."

"Well, yeah, sure, everybody knows that."

Well, no, everybody may "know" it, but when you're not looking, they'll slip "a calorie is a calorie" right back in.

This matters. Either eating certain foods induces more calories to be consumed, in which case the key to dieting is to eat certain foods and not eat others and decades of consensus and advice are irredeemably, irretrievably wrong, or a calorie is a calorie and these sorts of studies are irredeemably, irretrievably wrong (as this is hardly the first one to suggest lower carb or lower GI diets are superior). Some people seem very comfortable just sort of sliding into the "sure, calorie type matters" whenever it is argued, but somehow not being willing to follow the logic that if calorie type matters, then certain further research and conclusions are called for that are sharply at odds with conventional wisdom, which has been very, very much that a calorie is a calorie is a calorie when it comes to weight gain.

Conventional wisdom and decades of dieting advice have been deeply, profoundly, foundationally based on a calorie being a calorie being a calorie, and if that is not true, the conventional wisdom is deeply, profoundly, foundationally if you like, flawed. There's no two ways around this.

(Though I absolutely, positively guarantee that if it does turn out that calorie type matters that this move will be used to slowly but surely rewrite the last 50 years of dietary history such that the conventional wisdom was always right and never said anything about calorie types not mattering. But it won't be true.)
The graph you've linked to looks too symmetrical to be realistic.
Only allows me the ability to create two lists for free? I'm not going to pay for a service that can be replaced by Post-Its and the bevy of other services/apps that do the same thing. Inability to sync lists with other users is another reason. Friendly UI but that's about it.

Additionally -

Product Marketing 101: If you're competing in a space with [hundreds of] others just like you, you need to have a shortlist of reasons why to choose yours over the others before just dropping people into it.

You should also account for the amount of people visiting your site when you launch so it isn't crawling when people try to sign up for it. I'm trying to traverse the site right now to find where I can see a compare-and-contrast of similar tools and it is useless.

Also just noticed the icon is basically Clear's -- another list/to-do app -- is that intentional? Surely we can find better ways of illustrating lists than using a checkmark so people don't get confused.
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They're only undercutting RTM my $5/year, which doesn't seem likely to be incentive enough for many people.

Remember the Milk also has better device support.

I'm pretty unclear on the value prop.
This should probably link to the actual section of the page that was added: http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto?new#sec:getting_to_the_botto...
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Really? I thought this was known already...you needed to do research to discover this? Now I didn't read the article, but if they did research to discover to what extent the exact differences result in, then that's fine I guess...but judging from the title that's not the case.
No, intelligent design is when they take a metaphor like the one above and presume it's descriptive. Saying that your sky blue eyes are actually pieces of the sky, for instance.
> We should never think that prison "should" be the solution for anything. That's the reason there is 4.5 times more persons in prison per capita in US than in NZ

It's because in the US, prisons are a business venture.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/private-prisons-buy...

"Corrections Corporation of America, the nation's largest operator of for-profit prisons, has sent letters recently to 48 states offering to buy up their prisons as a remedy for "challenging corrections budgets." In exchange, the company is asking for a 20-year management contract, plus _an assurance that the prison would remain at least 90 percent full_"
Or maybe, Google Now will figure out you are working on your design now based on your Google searches and prompt you to check out the latest relevant designs :)
I agree with you that Roberts should be praised for his prudence and pragmatism; he held true to his belief that the Justices are umpires. However, there's a huge inconsistency in this ruling: The Anti-Injunction Act says that you can't file a lawsuit challenging a tax until after that tax is paid. Congress argued that they intend to enforce the mandate by attaching a "penalty," rather than a "tax," and as such, the Anti-Injunction Act doesn't apply. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court upheld the health care act as a tax for purposes of its constitutionality, but not for purposes of the Anti-Injunction Act. Were this construed as a tax for purposes of the Anti-Injunction Act, then the Supreme Court wouldn't have been able to rule on the issue of the mandate's constitutionality.
People talking like you can perform a thermodynamic analysis of nutrition is definitely a pet peeve as a physicist.
+1 on the Mac App.

Looks like Cheddar is going to replace Wunderlist for me. 6Wunderkinder haven't updated their iPad app in ages, and the non-retina graphics makes their product unattractive.
Perl's Catalyst Web Framework encourage you to do it slightly different:

you develop libraries for your business logic and try to make these reusable (or may be even opensourceable on CPAN for other developers to use). These libraries will include their own test, which obviously not require you to fire your main web app and need to be tested once - when installing it on local machine.

What do not fit well into standalone libraries, goes into model (aka fat models). Again, models developed as standalone piece which could be used from command oneliners, web frontend, anything else. Tests for these often are part of web application, but testing of models should not require firing web app itself.

and last piece - controllers and views. these are integral part of web app therefore these require firing web app code to test. but controller code is very thin since it just prepare and route calls into model. views are usually just an adapter, often default scaffolded, for existing templating module on CPAN.

I bet same principle can be applied to Rails framework, but it is about community around framework which encourage you to do things in a certain way.
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Why? That's how BCrypt, for one, works--you create a User#password method which returns a Password object (initialized from the contents of the User's actual #password_hash field or somesuch.) That Password class has an overridden equality comparison method, which hashes the RHS String to test against itself.
Happens to me too on a large screen. While an annoying bug, you can drag the "Create Event" window out from under the flash video.
Doesn't... double clicking the URL bar solve this problem?
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Which is why they're furiously working on MediaSource API (and it's been in Chrome for a while for those who pay attention to their about:flags)
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I personally learned a lot more about how computers work from assembly than from C. One example: C programmers talk about "the stack", but it's an implementation detail, you can learn C without knowing what the stack really is. Assembly will teach you.

As for process spawning, I/O, etc.: it might be that C is just as good as assembly for those, but I would be surprised if either was sufficient. Presumably that's where "hardware and OS-related literature" comes in.
The first step you've linked there for PhoneGap Android is to install Eclipse. The first step for PhoneGap iOS is to install XCode (=> OS X). The first step for PhoneGap Windows Mobile is to install Visual Studio Express (=> Windows).

Regardless of whether you choose to point-and-click or use the command line, Trigger's web-based approach seems to have a huge advantage over all that installation/configuration. Heroku for cross-platform apps, as it were; of course you can assemble everything yourself, but it's a lot more work to get to the "it's easy now" stage which this blog gets to very quickly using Trigger.

It does seem Trigger are sending out T-shirts (see below) - it doesn't count as paid in my book, but then maybe the T-shirts are _really_ nice :-)
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There actually is... what? Variations in local rules do not a market make. Where's the arbitrage between the difference in local rules?
I was pleasantly surprised to see this write-up when I woke up this morning and then sad when I read your first sentence :(

We frequently blog about app development ourselves at blog.trigger.io but this write-up is nothing to do with that and we certainly don't pay for 3rd parties to post on their blog. What made you think that's what's going on here?
Very nice tips. Quite a few things in there that are "obvious", yet I hadn't thought of implementing them. Very helpful.
It seems fair that they wouldn't want to encourage this sort of thing; founders/employees of a company can't just start a new company and use information from the existing one to start it up. Criminal charges seem pretty heavy, but it seems like what was done here wasn't right.
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I meant eating less in terms of calories.
Nice catch. More gold from Google's automated closed captioning on their own promotional video:

"dissented japanese underground you're done"

"to the mountain tell you what internet xxx" (personal favorite)

"fearsome evil"

"graceland"
If there are only two options that add up to 100% it must be perfectly symmetric.
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Startup request: Please, someone come up with a todo/productivity/project management system whose main feature is _motivation_ to use it, not just technical versions of paper todo lists. I don't know if the solution is necessarily technical. I've tried every major app and still rely on the visceral impact of post-it notes next to my computer to get things done. I'd love to switch to an app but nothing is actually making me use one.
The assumption that "natural language grammars" and "logic" are even on speaking terms will only bring you frustration, as you rail against perfectly correct constructions while the world rightly ignores you.
In his essay about property http://paulgraham.com/property.html he claims copyright is like smelling the aroma of a entree. Essentially anything that can be easily copied deserves no copyright. He has intimated that it is fine to pirate AutoCAD and Photoshop, although he dances around and never says anything concrete, so all the downloaders are free to think they are helping his revolution with every copyright infringement.
How is it this same tired argument pops up every time quitting Facebook is discussed? The sweet spot for Facebook is acquaintances. People you would not usually email or call, and only hear about once in a while through the grapevine. It maintains familiarity. Subbed in a co-ed game of ultimate frisbee and met some people? Add them on Facebook.
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I've added them to the read me. I really dig the username tagging feature, so I'm gonna see about putting it in tonight/this weekend.
Kim Dotcom might not be going to America but his money has already flown the coop. He is broke now, the United States will keep his money he will never see any of it back. He won't be able to pay for hosting, and because his servers are here in the United States the government won't let him have them back/turn them on.
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Just in case this flips again later, I have visual proof: https://twitter.com/aaronbrethorst/status/218394479210663937...
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Whoops: CNN and Fox declare Obamacare unconstitutional
Could be a false flag operation designed to discredit one side or another.
Sweet, it's completely useless! I can't dump a task from command line or vim. Can't script it to pull things to the calendar automatically. Can't send an email to put a task directly into it. Can't dump tasks to a text todo list to put at the top of the code or document im writing to remember what I need as I write.

Will not use. And, even if those features show up, won't consider due to lack basic thought in initial design.

I've said before and I'll say it again: todo's are a functionality that are only useful when broadly accessible from many different apps and contexts. Your app (for any your) is mostly useless to me.

Edit: I don't get all the hate this post is receiving. Is it because I didn't wrap it in sugar? Is it because I listed the things I would actually consider paying for? Or is it just because I'm disagreeing with some startup and that's against the local religion?
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Never had an android device, but I would imagine vertical scroll on landscape orientation would be perfect.
In some sense, everybody sees colors that others don't. "Color" is purely perceptual; it does not exist outside the visual system. Objects radiate/reflect/refract light in various ways, and the way they do depends on the wave length of photons. Many flowers 'are' ultraviolet, so that insects can see them well, but humans cannot see that.
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Yes as and no. Fundamentally weight gain/loss really is a matter of calories in vs calories out; if you're burning more calories than you're consuming then you're gonna be losing weight. It's akin to saying that all you need to do to win at golf is to hit the ball really hard towards the hole -- true, but not necessarily good advice.

The reason sometimes we put too much emphasis on the basic-thermodynamics side of things is that we're busy fighting a war against dumb fad diets.

But once you acknowledge the basic calories in vs calories out principle, you can start thinking about what foods make it easiest to maintain a caloric deficit. Even the most 'traditional' of health authorities acknowledge that this is a factor, which is why they won't say "Hey, whatever, eat three slices of chocolate cake a day and nothing else". The first factor is making sure you get sufficient nutrition along with your calories, the second is making sure you feel full while maintaining a caloric deficit. There's a growing acknowledgement that low-carb diets can help with both of these.

This study suggests a third factor: that eating a low-carb diet can actually boost your base metabolic rate. How? Not sure. It would be interesting to see whether it gets replicated in a larger scale study.
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From a UX perspective I think you're at an innovation disadvantage if you launch today without a touch-focused UI. Its a somewhat trivial leap to go from mobile UX to desktop, but much harder the other way around.

Desktop focused products have been making slow and really clumsy forays into mobile but I've yet to see a mobile product translate poorly onto desktop...
WebOS used the term in a similar way, I believe.
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Huh. Section 5.1 (one of the new ones) is presented as this new epiphany about hyperspheres and tau, but I made a post back in 2010 about this ( http://www.blahedo.org/blog/archives/001083.html ), emailed Hartl at the time, and he said he'd already thought of that. Still, cool to see that my observation was worth (eventually) including in the manifesto itself. (He did elaborate on the idea considerably, of course.) ;)
Yes, but the attack is a lot of times all that's needed. I've known a handful of small companies that were attacked in court for their names on completely unjustifiable trademark grounds. However the cost to defend against even the most frivolous claims can cost tens of thousands of dollars before things really get serious. Not many small businesses/startup are in a position to take on this kind of defense. In the cases of the companies I know of, they capitulated and changed their names to avoid having to undertake the cost of the very winnable defense.

The big corps like Google, Apple, MSFT, etc. will fight it out and not really worry about the legal costs. But for startups/small businesses, this can and probably will be a growing burden moving forward.
We weren't. I also didn't think we were parading our medals though clearly I was wrong in that regard. Is it janitors I'm thinking of that arrogantly brag about successes? After all, you seem to be the expert on them ;) I have no desire to take shots at you, so please don't make it so goddamn easy.

37Signals is just a metaphor for any established company. Since you clearly know of them, you also know they take a lot of shit for claims they make. The only reason I would so much as give them a second thought is because of their track record, which, as you noted, isn't yours. In retrospect DHH is far from the idealistic person to ask this which by pure luck, supports my argument even better. Don't take it personally as some sort of attack: I'm just making the observation that there are people who fly around in jets and you are not one of them. Quite simply, this means your really not in the position to make assertations about them.

You're giving marriage advice without ever being married. Any ideal is meaningless until it is thoroughly tested. Your post seems as childish as when people claim: "I will never steal". I call bullshit. Morality is nice and all but until you hold it up when you're fucking starving and have reason to steal, everything you said before is just words on a page.
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Where do you draw the line between "us[ing] information" and applying your hard-earned experience?
13 men and 8 women for 21 total people. The article also mentioned on multiple occasions the small sample size.
+++ That article is absolutely hilarious
Ironically I've yet to find an online todo list I like. My favorite todo list is a pad and a pen, next to my computer. I've not found a feature set in an online tool that works better for me.
Where's Clippy when you need it to tell you to hit backspace when writing yet another todo list app.
Property is tangible. The computer that stores the software is property, the software is merely a configuration of the property. Certain monopoly privileges regarding that configuration (copyright) might be assigned to the company depending on the details of the contract and local laws.

Providing a password is an activity. Whether the employee has a duty to perform that activity depends on the contract and circumstances. In this case, the employee was not assigned the task of writing down the password, so failing to write down the password was not a breach of duty. His boss attempted to negotiate a new employment arrangement involving writing down the password, and negotiations fell through.

Extortion is the threat to perform an unlawful act unless demands are met. This case was not extortion because the employee did not perform any act, let alone an unlawful one.

Put simply, if an employee goes beyond the call of duty, the employer cannot compel them to continue going beyond the call of duty. All the employer can do is fire them.
Thanks! Yes, a lot of these are "duh" moments - we just wanted to note how big of a difference it makes.
I second the micro-framework approach to start. I've used a bit of web.py (http://webpy.org/), and on their front page they show their "Hello, world" app. Install web.py, copy the code, run it, and then fire up your browser and point it to localhost:8080. Boom. I'm guessing the other micro-frameworks have something very similar. Choosing which one is up to you!

I recommend starting out with templating all of your code, because if you do wind up switching to a different framework, you'll regret having your HTML/CSS/JS in with your python code.
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