skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have used mindmapping a lot lately. I usually create one overview mindmap for the overall structure of more complicated topics and submindmaps for interesting subbranches.

I'm still looking for the ideal process of capturing what I know about a certain topic. Programming is very different from other topics from my experience because you usually want to include syntax or some short examples and so forth.

I think it may be better to use a wiki or something for programming but would love to hear how other people structure their stuff.

Mindmaps works really well for non-fiction books and lectures. I use them as review and overview tools and love it.

FWIW, I prefer doing it on paper because I feel like I'm a ton less creative when using computer tools.

Oh and if someone knows of any online courses a la "learn to draw icons for mindmaps" I'd love to hear about it. My drawing skills are mediocre to say the least and it's something I'd love to work on.
Two live-action TV series from the 1970s about space garbage: "Salvage 1" (with Andy Griffith no less) and "Quark."
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And don't forget that Eli Biham smote Lucifer with differential cryptanalysis, found more than half of the keys insecure, reduced its security to 235, and published a journal article concluding that NSA strengthened the cipher design; DES was better than Lucifer.
Isn't this a meta-comment (albeit in the form of a post)?
Yep! The Observer API does session management automatically. (Some folks don't want that, so the previous `.get()` API is still available.)
Pre-1995 Mercedes last forever.

Then when they finally do break down, there's like a million moving parts, and the one you have to replace is on back order for five years...
Perhaps the amount of data?
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I dislike this for one main reason: Scrolling. HN as it stands now is nice and compact, easy to scan through stories without the need to scroll a page. This breaks that, which creates an obstacle that isn't necessary.

Also, when you select another page, like "new", then the active color of the navigation makes that link invisible.

Overall it just feels like adding white space for the sake of adding white space to try to achieve something that feels modern, but in reality inhibits useability.
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That's actually not the case. Godaddy implements this locally, and arguably in contravention of the ICANN policy.

oBDisclaimer: I participated in the development of the original and amended ICANN transfer policy. I understand that there has been a subsequent amendment and I'm just not interested enough anymore to find out what it includes. You may in fact actually be correct in that ICANN now permits this, although I'm pretty sure that this isn't the case :-)
>"I'm simply saying that assumptions need to be challenged and assertions need data to back them up. "

I hope you have a study to backup that assertion.. :p

(Hint: not all knowledge is empirical)
wow, some definite similarities, but no hadn't seen that site until just now. It's actually based on another site design I'd done a few years ago: http://yourboxseat.com/
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Too much prior art.
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"we might as well rob you ourselves"

Which appears to be the motto for most all of the wallet-thefts so far.
Allow experienced professional educators to shape education policy.

What in particular is stopping experienced professional educators from shaping educational policy now? What are some of the policies that you expect would look different if your suggestion were implemented?
maybe. remember when Apple was going to fade out of the computer business because they refused to make a $200 netbook? do you see anybody making $200 netbooks these days? everybody makes airbook clones at airbook prices.
this is explained a lot better at http://www.mpg.de/6362003/water-ice-crystal :

In ice crystals, the water molecules arrange themselves in a six-sided, or hexagonal, to use the scientific term, spatial lattice. Each water molecule forms chemical bonds, so-called hydrogen bonds, to four adjacent molecules. This honeycomb crystal lattice of water ice requires more space than liquid water, which is unusual. As long as the water clusters have not reached the minimum size for a crystal, the Göttingen experiment presents them with a dilemma. The experiments take place at around minus 180 to minus 150 degrees Celsius - the molecules are therefore much too cold for a liquid. For a crystal, however, they are still too few in number. The tiny clusters escape this quandary by forming a type of liquid that has clotted in the cold: they form a rather disordered, “amorphous” spatial lattice.

If the cluster now grows, the water molecules at its core can change at some stage from the disordered chemical game into the crystalline structure by each of them taking four neighbours by the chemical hand. 275 water molecules thus create the initial beginnings of a real ice crystal with hexagonal structure in the interior of the cluster. To begin with, this structure is still slightly deformed; however, as the cluster grows in size, this interior grows to become a nicely ordered ice crystal, while the outer layers remain amorphous. “When there are 475 molecules, the very core is already perfect,” says Buck.

also, http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/sep/21/how-man...
I hate to say it, but this "solution" doesn't work. It was a good idea worth testing, but it's just not useful.

I'm not a surfer, but if surfers are dying for this kind of info, wouldn't they be willing to pay a subscription fee for access to an up-to-date surf report?

These days with TaskRabbit.com, you can hire someone to go take pictures at multiple times throughout the day. Let's say you can get your costs down to $25/day, which is about $750/month per surf "spot".

You would need to get 38 surfers paying $19.95 per month to break even. How many surfers do you think would be interested in this per location?
What font did you use for the "logo"?
> you accuse someone of being sent by the company

> I work for to discredit you personally

If this refers to me, I was not attempting to discredit anyone.

I wanted to ensure people didn't think this was another "they store passwords in plain text because they don't know what a hash function is" stories we see every few days.

If you are interested in password security, why not write an article about Tesco?
Does it create a monopoly situation?
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In other news, New Zealand's prime minister seems to have issued a public apology to Kim Dotcom:

https://torrentfreak.com/new-zealand-prime-minister-apologiz...
Huh, Koryo Tours. I knew you could get to North Korea from China, but I didn't know there were dedicated tour companies!
Sounds like you were using an exchange server for your work, and you were storing all your information on that server. Could have been avoided by not storing personal data on your work servers and making sure you have the settings set to store them on the device itself or MobileMe/iCloud.

This kind of behaviour is probably something businesses like. Info on company servers stays on the servers.

This isn't an "iDevice" issue, it's a data ownership issue.
Go to https://eyedee.me and create an DASD account

Go to http://crossword.thetimes.co.uk/ - this is a non-Mozilla RP

Enter DASD@eyedee.com - This is a Primary Identity provider, source at [1]

So you see there is no BrowserID provider choosing screen, it's naturally part of the flow. you enter DASD@eyedee.com and the system checks for support and delegates to eyedee.com.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/eyedee.me
Good post, but I think there is too much emphasis in general on tracking and logging workouts.

I find the whole tracking and logging weights, reps and feelings while working out to be daunting and pointless. Maybe it's because I am not a "I'm going to start working out and dieting" type person, rather I just live a healthy lifestyle by design. I don't "diet", I just try to eat healthy in general. I don't have a "work out routine", I just try to be physical every day. It makes the whole exercise process more a part of my natural life, rather than something I have to schedule.

I enjoy going to the gym and getting a good workout, doing whatever I feel like at the moment. The important part to me is working up a sweat and getting my heart pumping, not how many reps with a certain weight I did. I can see if you have a goal of weight loss or increasing your strength to a certain level that can be measured by numbers, but if you are aiming for general health, why do you need to keep a detailed log? Just try to exercise everyday, regardless of what that includes.

If you do keep a detailed log of your workouts, what kind of actionable data does that information provide you? Do you refer back to it daily, weekly, monthly and try to optimize your workouts based on your previous history? If so, how?
Hell, I wish I had that on my Nexy.
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In the legal world, firms align around "Finders, Minders, and Grinders". Finders are the well-connected guys/gals who bring in business. Minders are the intelligent ones who hash out the hard problems. And grinders get all the routine work done at a fast pace. Maybe this applies to tech?
This isn't exactly "patronage", IMO, it is like dropping a few coins in a street performer's hat on the way to work.

It's much stronger than that. It's like dropping a few coins in a street performer's hat on the way to work, and making a commitment to drop the same number of coins in that person's hat every day.

It's even stronger, though. It's like handing a $10 bill (or more) to a trusted person standing next to the street performer, knowing that person will drop the same amount of money in the performer's hat every day. And further, you make a commitment to renew that $10 whenever necessary.

Gittip is removing the friction from making small, recurring donations. That is a powerful model, and if it continues to grow, a not insignificant number of people will be drawing a reliable, meaningful income from their open source work.
I've implemented this for my playground/weekend project site: http://myowndamnphotos.com.

It works quite well, with a few gotchas (mainly in the JS, handling the watch() event). If you're using Python the pyBrowserID library helps with some low-level details although it's easy enough with requests/urllib.
> But the idea is to not make that call at all. That would be prescriptive.

To me, that's not the line between prescriptive and descriptive linguists. I think both say what's right and wrong, but there's different connotations to their answers. Prescriptive linguists see the language as more static and more rooted in the past. Descriptive linguists see the language as more dynamic and based in the present. I think a prescriptive linguist would basically say that "aks" is wrong "because it's wrong", and that a big chunk of the population using it wouldn't make it right. A descriptive linguist would say it's wrong because if you use it you'll sound stupid to most of the population. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with the word, though, and if enough people start using it, it will become "right".

Obviously, this division is very fuzzy and is really a question of degree.

> I'm told that's a regional variation. In other words, in some places, people speak like that.

I'm not aware of any regions where this is actually used by the majority of the population, unless we define regions to be arbitrarily small, in which case we've just gone back to "someone says X".

> That's descriptive. so is "most people speak like that in region A and don't have a problem with it, and most don't in regions B,C,D,E".

This kind of description can be useful, but there's still a judgement call. I might go ask a descriptive linguist about the term "aks", and they might explain that it's common in certain neighborhoods around major cities but that educated urban types don't use it, that in the south rural residents don't use it but some suburban residents around the hub cities do, etc. And that's all great and educational, but then I'm going to ask "Is it American English?" I'm either going to get a hand-wavy "it depends" answer that involves repeating the descriptions above and telling me nothing useful, or a straight answer that is effectively prescriptive.

The questions are not just "does anyone say X?", but also "should I say X?". If descriptive means being unable to answer the latter at all, then descriptive means being nearly useless.
Darn, I was going to say I was flattered.
I'm not sure what you mean. How does DRM add any value to Steam? I.e. what would be worse there if it could drop DRM?

The way I see it - DRM never adds any value, and it's a two fold problem. The practical aspect of it - it degrades usability for legitimate users as you pointed out. And the ethical aspect of it - it's a preemptive policing technology that treats users as potential criminals by default. In my opinion it doesn't have any reason to exist at all. And actually you can dismiss it just for the fact of promoting DRM, since DRM means disrespect to users by default.
The reason it needs all permissions is that some people have their own pages and the data is on there. So you might need permission to crawl those secondary pages for twitter and github (?)

At least I think that's how it works. I could be wrong.
That makes no sense, and defeats some of the protection of SSL. If you're on a secure site, there should be no referrer sent cross-domain, or cross-protocol.
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it will possibly affect registration wall publishers who are open to google referals (like WSJ, NYT, etc.).
Assuming you are working at home, pick an area for your work and don't work anywhere else. If you are on a laptop I recommend getting a monitor and working on that so that you can unplug at the end of the day and still feel like you are in a different environment for home stuff.

Also force yourself to work in a schedule. Get up at the same time and "go to the office" even if that is just your work area. Take a lunch break and then stop in the evening. If you don't force yourself into a schedule then you will quickly get overwhelmed with the mountain of work to do.

It takes discipline but can be done and when you get the balance right it is way better than working in someone else's office.
Do you have examples of sites that don't use Persona as the BrowserID implementation? I'd like to see how sites are handling the user prompt when there are going to be alternative providers to Mozilla's Persona service.
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Awesome work by Mozilla. I've added this to a small project of mine, and it was super simple and fast to do. I really excited to see this gain traction.
Say this Google tablet changes the tablet market from being "lots of early adopters" to "everyone remotely tech-savvy." In that case, Apple would be way happier with 40% of 10x the market they currently have 70% of -- it'd be more than 5x their current business.

Additionally, a popular $99 Android tablet means that Android is now the bargain tablet. Other Android tablet makers will have to compete with Google, leaving Apple the high end, just like Apple currently owns the high end of the laptop PC business.
I enjoy the bucket metaphor. You can't get more water out than you put in, and there will always be loss in-between. I will definitely be looking through these glasses for the rest of the day. Maybe I will learn something new, so thank you.
Sorry, happy to lie if it helps :)
You might enjoy Ringworld.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ringworld_Engineers

> ... many fans had identified numerous engineering problems in the Ringworld as described in the novel. A major problem being that the Ringworld, being a rigid structure, was not actually in orbit around the star it encircled and would eventually drift, resulting in the entire structure colliding with its sun and disintegrating.
Best thing to do is never sync with iTunes. Just detach completely.

I set my iPad up (and my new iPhone) without iTunes at all. iCloud backup let me move from an iPhone 4 to 5 without a USB cable at all and all my data moved over perfectly.

I plug in to my computer to transfer videos that don't transfer using Photostream. I also occasionally will do a sync of movies for a trip.

Music is iTunes Match. Photos are Photostream. Email is IMAP. Contacts/Calendars/etc is iCloud.

It actually works very well and I'm able to move to new devices or restore from a backup without issues.

No iTunes is the answer!
Nice :), though I would consider making your $5 tier free, in order to encourage developer adoption.

Even though $5 isn't much, it's a bit more friction in the decision making process.
Agreed, I don't have any problem with it ending up in a sign up screen, it's good to have a sense of interest. Sorry if it came across in any other way to the OP.

Perhaps I found this more to be an Ask instead of a show? Just thinking out loud for what I might do with my own ideas in the future here.
You're correct. Its the absence of a system of property rights that caused this problem. Its the opposite of capitalism, as is the case with many things that get polluted.

Space is an example of the tragedy of the commons. No one owns space so the incentive is to exploit it now without regard to what happens in the long run.

I think property rights are the answer, but until they are applied to something new, it is non-obvious how to go about it. I have a few, not fully baked thoughts.

What if someone owned the satellite real estate in a particular region of space? They would have an interest in keeping it orderly to maximize revenue.

The owner could charge rent to anyone wanting to put up a satellite in that space. That party would also have to provide a way to remove it and would be charged for accidents that spread debris.

The owners of different regions would compete against each other so we could keep prices reasonable. And other uses of space, such as passage through those regions could be left out of the arrangement.

And if debris from one region impacts another, they owners could sue each other.
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I always thought that the clipper chip died in the court of public opinion and not in a court of law. However, I do not understand your interpretation of circular reasoning.

Lets look at the case where X is regulate the sale of switchblades. The federal government has the authority to regulate the sale (commerce) of switchblade knives between states, the federal government does not have the authority to regulate the sale of a switchblade within a state.
I think there's a lot more friction involved in interacting with a QR code: tapping a phone to a surface is a lot easier than opening the appropriate app and trying to focus (hard in low light) on the code.
Sometimes I truly wanted to tell the customer, "give me the money and trust me". But I guess trust is not easy to come by, especially with new customers.

But I do agree, should not under-charge.
I really like the idea especially for things like blogs and so forth.

I love the picture of the kid reading that you used but I have some reservations about what you use it for.

I think it might be somewhat dangerous to crowdfund or tip for Open Source projects. There's some research in behavioral economics that suggests mixing social norms and market norms is not a good idea.

In essence someone is more likely to help you if you offer them nothing than if you offer them 1$ because if you offer nothing the social norms and "help your neighbor" kicks in whereas if you offer them 1$ they apply market standards and think something like "WTF only 1$...GTFO"

I think anonymous tips might actually not show this effect not sure if there is any research in that regard.

Maybe tipping non-monetary stuff would be better. I.e. keep a counter and once the money to buy item X is reached the guy being tipped gets that. Developer conferences, hardware and so forth are obvious candidates.

[A good pop-book on the topic I liked is "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely...he also has a TED Talk on this iirc]
This looks promising. Nothing that has never been done before, but I really like the support for baked in doctests and contracts. This kind of sugar can make a real difference in terms of quality and readability

#from the website, because it seems to be down for many right now.

class SmallSample
var _random = Random()
def randomString(length as int, alphabet as String) as String
require
length > 0
alphabet <> ''
ensure
result.length == length
test
utils = SmallSample()
assert utils.randomString(5, 'ab').length == 5
s = utils.randomString(1000, 'a')
for c in s, assert c == 'a'
body
sb = StringBuilder()
for i in length
c = alphabet[_random.next(alphabet.length)]
sb.append(c)
return sb.toString
I was going to post this, but you beat me to it!

I'll follow this thread to answer any questions.
You could always install pandoc locally. It's free, and it's the same software docverter is using. (For PDF output, you'd also need to install texlive, but that too is free.)
I currently use http://middlemanapp.com/ to accomplish this. It works really well.
Thanks for posting the process flow. So (https://login.persona.org/sign_in) will always be shown? If so, then how is this truly decentralized with my privacy concerns mentioned above?
This is silly, you are telling me that my way of living sucks and I should change it.

I enjoy this stuff, reading articles, stories. I don't read news papers or magazines, this is how I get my information and news.
Just don't think you should optimize your team for that 3 month process
Tried this on my Nexus 7 and didn't get the redirect so it may be something they're doing for mobile user agents. Its definitely not specific to iOS6
Also keep in mind the amount of money spent on iTunes and the App Store vs. Google Play. Those $99 consumers may spend less where the margins are more.

What Apple should really do is put iTunes on Android.
Literally nobody cares that you don't have the same desires as they do.
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Yea - there was nowhere for me to sign up. I think the problem may be the pop-up did not work on Firefox. I used Chrome and was able to create an account and then everything worked. I also tested on IE8 and had some javascript error, but just hit refresh twice and was able to login.