skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foer's book pairs a solid survey of techniques to master memory with a great story about his own disciplined walk through the world of competitive recall. I think you will like it.

And yeah, within a free-ranging story well told, there are introductions to multiple techniques (some of them rooted in the ancient, like the “Method of Loci", and some of them interesting contemporary 'cheats') that you might want to try applying to your retention of dense texts. I totally recognize & share the difficulty you describe.

Recommended...give it a shot.
The government --- and a grand jury.

A TRUE BILL

b r e n d a l h a n n o n
_________________________________
Foreperson of the Grand Jury

scott l garland 9 - 12 - 12
_______________ ___________
Assistand United States Attorney

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
September 12, 2012
Returned into the District Court by the Grand Jurors and filed.

Granted: grand juries rarely refuse to indict. But it's not just the prosecutors behind this decision.
The other thing I like about flip to mute is that it's an easier gesture to execute than toggling a switch or a two or three step mute on some other phones. I can never remember which way is off on the iPhone so I always flip the switch twice until it vibrates.

It's not a game-changing feature, but there are lots of little details like that on the S3 that make it feel like something Samsung really put a lot of thought into.
This is _not_ a site ad (I was trying to post a question):

Would book recommendations (even good ones) without any social/freebie/purchase fluff work, or it is just waste of CPU resources (not counting mental ticks required to make this really work)? Is anybody interested in smart book recommendations?
Grove.io shutting down
I ban the word "pivot" from my startup. Seriously. It costs $10 to say that word.

Next, you and many others interpret "Lean Startup" wrong. It's not a race to launch something, it's a race to a GREAT PRODUCT. And "lean" certainly has nothing to do with how much money you don't have.

As has been mentioned here, your product failed, and your management failed the product. It had nothing to do with finding money. Sorry to be harsh (seriously), but these are important distinctions.
I can't help but think that if this was an iPhone feature you'd love it. It's great. It's easy to see at a glance which way up the phone is, much easier than locating and then checking the position of a small switch.
Because they have to have solar to make the majority of their customers feel that they are green, and the governor has continued to let large corporations make the NC taxpayers bear the burden to the corporations benefit.
It's said they write a song about anyone who eats dinner in NYC, like magic.
Marissa Mayer Just Gave Every Yahoo Employee An iPhone 5
He knew that people didn't like what he was doing. That's why he was hiding etc. That's the not same as knowing that it's illegal.
Add in beaucratical paperwork, a multitude of companies bidding the lowest price to replace said lock and the salaries of the team of people who are going to be spending the next 2 years replacing it and it really starts to add up.
I'm not entirely convinced that those dialogs can't be circumvented.
You do know that a completely free market in education would mean the government getting out of the business of education altogether, including any support for universal education as even just giving vouchers to poor students would violate the principles of a completely free market.

Also, given that teachers are a highly desired resource with strong limits on growth, at least in the short term (i.e. it takes ages to properly train a teacher), I suspect that a completely free market would result in lots of tutors for the very rich and a few schools for the wealthy. Which historically seemed to be the general pattern in countries where education was not socialised to some degree.
That sounds like too much logic is in your UI.
If you're afraid of scratching the screen, you should already have on a screen protector.
Interestingly, "Spanner" is German for "voyeur". Coming from Google it's almost kind of ironic.
Exactly, which is why FB is putting pressure on their dependancies (browser vendors) to give them the tools and features to make mobile web apps that delight people.
Does j2objc ensure that internal exceptions never bubble through framework stack frames? Also, I believe arc itself is not exception-safe.
Speeders are falling for the old "99% of people rate themselves as above average" thing. Most people feel safe speeding because they have never personally gotten into an accident. The lack of consequences creates a feeling of being invincible, or competence at the very least.

The fact is, if you hit a person at 35 they have a much higher chance of dying than if you hit them at 25. We encourage people to drive slowly so that they have more time to react to unexpected conditions and that if they fail to react, other people are not injured. Speeding is like dumping toxic waste into the nearby river: pure selfishness.
ok, but how would I get paid for my app? the only way i can think of is advertisements.
It just seemed like a very extreme example to use to illustrate conspiracy. That's all. You're not the only one I've seen draw such extreme examples. I am being argumentative. But that's only because I think there's an argument worth making. Apologies for singling you out. I probably misinterpreted your comment and chose the wrong time to make my argument.

As long as we understand what "illegal" means and the difference between criminal and civil, I'm happy. I think it's to the benefit of all hackers to know the difference and choose their examples carefully. It matters what you as a hacker think and how you understand these things. If you do not see a clear separation between the civil and criminal, it makes the job easier for those who seek to blur the line to further their own interests.

Anyway, I apologise if I misinterpreted your comment and used it as an entry point for a little rant about the difference between civil and criminal. My bad.
No, it's simply impossible to babysit junior engineers to a sufficient degree as to prevent bad implementation without effectively doing their job for them. It's not worth the effort.
Windows 8 is DPI aware. Windows has actually been DPI aware for a very long time, but with Windows 8, it's moving to a model where apps can and will simply provide upres images and Windows will do the magic to ensure that the correct images are used. App creators are being asked to provide raster images at 100%, 140%, and 180% in order to enable scaling for the expected densities.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/03/21/scaling-to-dif...

Surface and Surface Pro will presumably have 1366x768 and 1920x1080 screens respectively (no insider knowledge here; just makes sense given the marketing materials released). This will correspond with 100% and 140% scaling.

I suspect that many if not most apps will ship at least 140% resources just to satisfy displays such as the Surface Pro will have. And realistically, most apps will probably go ahead and ship 180% if they're shipping 140%, which is sufficient to support pixel densities (slightly) higher than iPad 3.

Disclosure: I work a Microsoft; I don't speak for Microsoft; etc.
Ah, I love when "I can't think of a way to do it" turns into "it's simply impossible".
Love this article. As someone who builds mobile websites for a news organization (not the BBC, but prominent in my country) the prospect of properly assessing a website in terms of its global accessiblity is daunting but incredibly exciting.

The 'why should I care' question is writ large in a community of people obsessed with growth and efficiency — but, as much as I appreciate those aspects of HN's culture, assessing site performance on low quality devices provides a great opportunity to reach for the 'universal access' the web promises.
It was almost certainly leaked by the very people who are writing it, to gauge reactions and gather feedback. This is practically SOP for draft executive orders that are likely to affect a significant number of companies.
Do you mean: for each finite symbol set S, the set of all finite definitions using S is enumerable? That's clearly true. But then you're not really saying that there are numbers with no possible definition, just that there is no particular finite symbol set S that can define them all.

Or do you mean: the set of all finite definitions in any finite symbol set is enumerable? That's not clear. Are there countably many such symbol sets?
First no one appointed you as a judge of "real books" or not, but he read FIVE books on a vacation. Four of them are related to today's world and highly relevant for us and especially for him
Marissa Mayer's brother gets probation
Meh. They all offer different things. I subscribe to all three.
If not for the Netflix movie recommendation service, I would have missed out on some of the best movies and documentaries I have seen in my life. On the other hand I use Amazon prime primarily for free shipping.

What would be a better comparison would be a survey of how real users of these services find them. Each service has its strengths and weaknesses. Comparing the availability of top 100 IMDB movies isn't in my view a fair comparison.
I'm familiar with Ken Thompson, so I'm more puzzled than someone who isn't familiar with his work might be.

What exactly is his unique insight? Do you know any specifics or are you just speaking on behalf of the fact that he's a famous programmer?

I say this as someone whose Planetside2 character is named: "KenThompsonHackerExtraordinaire"
The laws that "matter most" reflect ethics which are "no brainers". "Don't steal", "don't kill", "don't rape", etc.

These are ethical concepts that are easy to understand without resorting to consulting the law. The law in these cases is just an imperfect encoding of these obvious ethics. For the sake of governing, they work decently. However using them in an ethical discussion is using them for a purpose that they were not designed. There are so many better sources that we can look to in order to facilitate discussion.

Trying to use laws as a vehicle to discuss ethics is like examining Cheese Wiz to learn about dairy.
What's wrong with throttled on-scroll?
Without radical change in patent law, Android's ecosystem will die
Indeed, one of the facets of civil disobedience is that you have to be willing to accept the consequences. As much as we may like the activist, we can't support making an exception to the law, because that would invite anarchy.

However, this logic rapidly breaks down when the prosecution is vindictive and the consequences disproportionate, as they are in this case. Before the indictment was expanded, he was facing up to 35 years in prison.[1] Even if he doesn't get that, he'll likely bankrupt himself and his family defending himself, and suffer consequences for years to come. No one should have to "deal with" this. It's the government that deserves the blame for his fate, not him.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/swartz-arrest/
Yep, type punning through a union is nonstandard and unportable, but if I'm not mistaken, it is a documented feature in GCC.
JSTOR said that publicly, and they could well have said that privately. But I'd be interested to know what the various journal companies have said, either to the prosecutor or to the various politicians they lobby and contribute to.
Good men must not obey laws too well - Emerson

(not that I equate JSTOR to slavery)
Hey, look, I'm a big fan of civil disobedience against unjust laws. But that typically means you get arrested.
I'm aware of this post, but as far as I've read, the model is applicable to Metro/WinRt only; I've heard of no plans at all for desktop. I also haven't heard much goodness yet about running Windows 8 on retina macbook pros. Does Visual Studio 2012 ship in a way that can handle 200%? Photoshop for Windows? I've always assumed they would do this for tablet, but what about high-end desktop-only apps? I'm sure it happens eventually, 2X pixel laptops will go on the market, but the transition sounds like it will be a bit painful.

Disclaimer: also work for Microsoft, but all my info about product plans comes from devouring public information.
(Citation needed)

To be slightly less flip at some point you reach the point of duminishing returns where the money could do more good elsewhere. Also, the overwhelming majority of education interventions don't scale.
Sure B-trees are hard to write from the ground up but there are plenty of good implementations already the Internet that can be modified.

The extra functionality is a simple enough addition to any binary-tree-type data structure that I was annoyed that Boost/Qt didn't have it already included.
... or a Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X, HTC EVO 4G LTE, or Nokia Lumia 920.
This misses the biggest "wtf" moment for me as a netflix user when I first started using Hulu plus (ie I was actually paying for the service): there are still ads!
This is disappointing. Grove.io was really awesome. IRC channels seem easy, but are (relatively) hard to get going:

- Finding a server
- Registering it properly
- Explaining it to non-tech people

The last one is way harder than you'd think. With Grove, you just send them a URL and it's easy.

It's a shame they're shutting down. I stopped using because it was too expensive for a channel with a few friends (a channel with fewer than 10 friends was costing $25/month).
Incidentally, do you propose that "too fast for conditions" be the law?

It is the law. The fact that you're even asking this question suggests that I'm wasting my time arguing with you.

You need to consult your state's driver's handbook, rather than asking some random guy on HN. Chances are it uses almost the same phrasing you're asking about. Failing that, have a look at the Michigan State Police's site: http://www.michigan.gov/msp/0,4643,7-123-1593_30536_25802-16... . I didn't read the whole page but it seems to do a good job explaining the difference between prima facie speed limits and "basic speed law."

I find that surprising, considering how much discretionary power that would put in the hands of the government.

Artificially-low speed limits give them that discretion now, which is sort of the whole point of my mini-rant.
I'll just share my news diet and what I think of each of them. I take all news with a grain of salt and try to mix it up. I think it's a mistake to just give up news altogether though.

HN: interesting technical pieces occasionally and good coverage of tech industry but is often an echo chamber (granted one I agree with) and features a lot of fluff pieces written by bloggers lacking original thought and research skills

WSJ: good coverage of business but features a world-view that's almost completely obsessed with money and right-wing ideology, yet the pieces are still thoughtful and original

NYTimes: I occasionally read to find out about world events since they have great breadth and coverage

Local papers: generally a crap-hole of AP content and crime reports but is useful for sports and city council/schools coverage

Slashdot: for teh lulz. but these people share my outrage at government intrusion in our lives so I like reading up

Facebook: I have good friends who link to good stories in publications I would otherwise never read

NPR/public radio: insightful and original story ideas, but they're very much into intellectual naval gazing

AM conservative radio: they're entertaining, and I enjoy hearing their take on recent events which often have a lot of valid points. at least they wear their bias on their sleeves even if it gets in the way of legitimate reporting/analysis

Local TV news: completely pointless and depressing recap of local crime and fluff pieces. useful in the event of local severe weather. decent sports interviews but mostly resorts to flimsy soundbites

Daily Show: you can always count on Jon to call people out on their BS and point out absurdities

Google News: extremely useful for getting up to speed on what's happening but is often trapped in a monotonous cycle of iPhone news, 'radical' health discoveries which are overblown, violence in foreign countries, and gaffe-centric political reporting

Twitter: I follow over a 1000 people so it's like sifting through a pile of periodicals in the bathroom which sometimes turns up some good finds but is mostly just perfume ads
Back to campfire, I guess.
This is dangerous territory - if they make even a minor misstatement about the iPhone, the Apple legal team will come down on them with false advertising / libel lawsuits.

Also, "iOS6 OS" sounds awkward.
This is why I refuse to use external services hosted by small/tiny companies that haven't open-sourced their tech.

Even in this moment, they still don't seem to be bothering to open source any of it.

There's a lesson to be learnt here in terms of gaining buyer trust when you're small.

I continue to use our own setup for IRC.
By the account of their ad, it is a better product.
'ignorance is bliss'.

go ahead, tune out the news. please stop voting though, democracy relies on the informed voter. and good luck in the capitalist economy, that one relies on information as well.

as this is hn, let's focus on the founder's perspective. if you have no clue about what's going on in the world, how can you compete within it? if you have no clue about your target group's current situation? pick anything, like healthcare - great opportunities, but good luck not staying informed.

back to the general reason why this terrible advice:
being ignorant makes you a terrible citizen. it is already bad in the US, if you're only watching tv news you're already clueless about the world. whenever i am in the us i am amazed about the lack of true world news - CNN International is a very different channel than CNN.

as a voter it is your frickin responsibility to stay informed. your worldview baffles me.
I would venture to say most people do, since Prime predates the video part by two or so years.
Show HN: A frac'za rendered in three.js
After vast amounts of effort spent on fancy JITs and fast layout engines, browsers should be able to do this stuff - or at the very least, it would be cool if they could, and it's probably achievable. Editorialized submission title aside, this post is the starting point for an attempt to improve browsers in the future, and in the meantime Facebook has launched their native app to provide the desired experience a different way. Where exactly is the whining?
How was the ride? How does the team feel about shutting it down?
In any case, they lost me at S-Voice. Samsung is going to compare Siri to S-Voice instead of upgrading to Android 4.1 (JellyBean) first and then boasting about Google Now? Really? They are simply delusional.

Also, what are all those terms after NFC which are simply meaningless to most customers?
It's getting a little difficult to trust stuff by Leah Culver. Everything (that I know of) that she has done so far has either shut down or been acquired and shut down.

That said, no hard feelings. It's hard out there. I've never tried to run a company, so I can't judge.
To change the tone of this conversation -- away from being adverserial -- I'll just throw this out there.

re: A more accurate representation of reality

Images have information and utility. Keeping this in mind, you can avoid the notion of accurate/inaacurate and real/unreal and make deeper progress in terms of understanding how images are made and how they are used.

.......
[this is from review of Hyman, 2006 opp cit]

“The longer you work, the more the mystery deepens of what appearance is, or how what is called appearance can be made in another medium."—Francis Bacon, painter

This, in a nutshell, is the central problem in the theory of art. It has fascinated philosophers from Plato to Wittgenstein. And it fascinates artists and art historians, who have always drawn extensively on philosophical ideas about language and representation, and on ideas about vision and the visible world that have deep philosophical roots.

John Hyman’s The Objective Eye is a radical treatment of this problem, deeply informed by the history of philosophy and science, but entirely fresh. The questions tackled here are fundamental ones: Is our experience of color an illusion? How does the metaphysical status of colors differ from that of shapes? What is the difference between a picture and a written text? Why are some pictures said to be more realistic than others? Is it because they are especially truthful or, on the contrary, because they deceive the eye?

The Objective Eye explores the fundamental concepts we use constantly in our most innocent thoughts and conversations about art, as well as in the most sophisticated art theory. The book progresses from pure philosophy to applied philosophy and ranges from the metaphysics of color to Renaissance perspective, from anatomy in ancient Greece to impressionism in nineteenth-century France. Philosophers, art historians, and students of the arts will find The Objective Eye challenging and absorbing.

.......

I hope this helps.
Why don't we just start using the actual unit of Energy (joules) instead of Power times Time, i.e., Energy per Time times Time?
A general model for Ed-Tech to help frame and plan products and business models
Only probation for what was effectively attempted murder. If I was her, I would have shot him. He's going to hurt someone else eventually.
Thanks for posting this. It's most helpful!
What I mean is this.

Given a finite symbol set, the set of all finite definitions is enumerable. And the enumeration is simple. We enumerate all possible definitions of length 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. We order them first by length, and then by alphabetical order. We strike out all definitions that are not definitions, or define a number already defined. This leaves us with an enumeration of all numbers definable with that set of symbols. (Note, a constructivist will insist strenuously that this is not actually an enumeration.)

Given that there are uncountably many real numbers, uncountably many of them are not in that enumerable set, and therefore almost all real numbers cannot be defined using that finite set of symbols.

The possibility of uncountably many possible symbol sets with a similar plethora of possible associated definitions is irrelevant, because any potential symbol set that cannot ultimately be described in the finite alphabet that we use with the language English is irrelevant to us.
Enneff works with ken in the Go team at Google.

As for his particular insight, if you are familiar with his work, that should be enough.

For those not familiar with his work, this interview might be a good starting point:

http://genius.cat-v.org/ken-thompson/interviews/unix-and-bey...
Probably a command called \landscape in the header. Look for that, then remove. LaTeX's default is A4 portrait, if I recall correctly. The source is on Github the website said.
I agree; I'm being mostly facetious when I say that it would be "smart" of them to do that. They wouldn't.

But it's the sort of thing that Microsoft would do well to think about as they move to lock down the Windows platform in the face of increased competition.

As a company, Microsoft has always been possessed of the peculiar conceit that their users run Windows for its own sake. (Hence their insistence on branding their cell phones 'Windows Phone X'.) They don't seem to understand that Windows hasn't been a consumer brand since the Windows 95 release, and is unlikely to become one again in the future.
As long as this is true - http://i.imgur.com/3Jq9Y.png - the movie / TV industry will need to continue working toward a service that's bigger and better than Hulu Plus.

As it is right now, they're giving most users very little reasons to close uTorrent and start moving over to legitimate alternatives.
On that note, any good guides for hosting your own IRC server on your home network (and safely expose it to the Internet) if you have a spare Ubuntu server box lying around?