skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I carry a contractors cliboard in my bag with a stash of regular- and graph-paper (I print them - http://konigi.com/tools/graph-paper), especially like the dotted versions. I shuffle the new sketches and ideas to the back and clean them out once in a while. I do a lot of sketching as well so it's easy to add a clean sheet on top of my latest sketch and re-draw, test various poses and expressions. I've earlier used regular sketchbooks, but I find the contractors cliboard better. Gives you a solid board to put on your lap while commuting, you can easily discard a paper and start fresh, and it let's you store. Also - single sheets of paper is always avaiable.

A great point with using paper is that anyone can draw on paper. Just take out the contractors board, give your co-worker a pen and you're creating something together.

When I'm on the go and have some good ideas lying around I might shuffle them in with the other paper just to develope them further when I get a slot. The good ones get photographed and stored, the not so good I try to give a second round of thought and fresh sketches. If that fails it's straight to the bin.

I also keep a simple notebook app in my mobile which I use just for ideas. Lately I've been testing Trello and also Hollyapp.com, task tracking for nerds. I like the markup syntax of Hollyapp. Very fast to write. I like splitting my ideas to managable chunks and todos since I in the moment of the idea often have a picture on how to accomplish it. I'm writing more and more Markdown for this

A lot of credit to Mårten Agner http://angner.se/ for the sketching techniques I use daily.
That's a fascinating paper, thanks.
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Thanks :) Hi, meshnet_derp :)
> It's just that these very small refactorings pile up and in effect I have a nice script, which is documented and properly structured, and which took twice as long to write than it should.

Ah ha... one solution, then, may be to force yourself to stop when it's only just barely working, instead of continuing on refactoring. :)
TIL you can post an almost 2 year old article (that has no current merit) and it is actively discussed on HN.
One of the side projects I'm pondering is a multiplayer chess variations site, with an engine flexible enough to handle modes like this (and 4 player, etc).

A different variation would be promoted weekly, but you'd be able to play any of them whenever via email or real time.

Would that interest anyone here?

There is a great library of them here, except it's single player only which IMO takes a lot of the fun out of it:

http://www.pathguy.com/chess/ChessVar.htm
Me too. I'll second the opinion of others and mention that paper is hard to beat, but for me paper happens at either end of the idea (jotting a quick note in my notebook/whatever paper is around, and later sketching layouts/business models/user flows/etc to flesh things out) while Workflowy happens in between.

Most good ideas happen when I'm in the middle of another project. By the time I'm able to devote any serious thought to it I've already gone through five notebooks and oodles of scrap paper, so I make a point of entering at least the basic elements of every idea into Workflowy the same day that I initially write it down on paper. Then I have a searchable record, and it's really easy to expand on various points in five-minute chunks or on sleepless nights. That way, whenever I'm looking for a new project I have a bank of ideas to pull back out onto paper.

I also use Workflowy to keep track of goals and sort of the "big picture" TODOs.
Facebook didn't ask him for help. Facebook demanded his full submission and demanded him to behave like they want to, even though he has absolutely no obligation to protect the interests of Facebook in this matter or help them hide the fact that it happened. He might choose to do it if they ask nicely, but he has absolutely zero obligation to do it. And from what I read, they did not ask nicely at all.

I'm assuming that approach is working very well in the US where everybody is scared shitless by the threat of very costly litigation that can be unleashed on anybody just by the virtue of Facebook having tons of money and ability to unleash a team of lawyers on anybody and mess up their life, even if they have done nothing wrong.
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Arithmetic coding avoids the "wastage" of entropy you're talking about entirely - there are no "waste bits" in the middle of the stream like there would be with a fixed-size encoding.
I keep them in a private folder on Dropbox. I can easily sort them by their names and I can access it across all my devices as Dropbox has a client for all popular platforms.
+1 for Trello.
Ah, thanks. Sadly I don't use Windows or Mac OS either at work or on my personal computer, so I haven't been able to try it out.
> If you go to Asia, you shouldn't have any problems. But here in the West where most people are white, and what's portrayed as handsome and sexy in the media, arts, and culturally significant works like movies will predominantly be white people.

Actually, if you go to Asia, the same imbalance is found - white men have an amazingly easy time of picking up women there, without even knowing the local language and/or customs. Asian women who have never even left their home countries and can barely speak English see white guys as handsome and sexy.

In fact, white guys who couldn't get any action in the West (with white women) find tons of Asian women in Asia who will literally throw themselves at them. This applies to almost all countries in Asia, regardless of wealth - Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, etc. Ever heard of Charisma Man?[0]

But can you imagine an Asian guy coming to America and doing the same - not knowing English or anything about American customs but trying to pick up American women? He wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding - he'd be laughed out of the clubs (literally).

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charisma_Man
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If they can't open a tar, there's a good chance they can't open gzip either. I'd be willing to bet they run Windows on their desktops. Sending it as a Windows-standard zip might have been the better option.
I wonder if Sweden has to buy the waste, or if instead they charge for the service.
I use my own weekend project(look in my submissions) and tag 'em "#ideas."
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Disagree with your last point.

A jack of all trades is a master of the unique combination of his relative skill in each of those trades.
What are some of the biggest ideas solved by small startups? Maybe large organizations or established industries are needed to develop some of the biggest ideas and startups are not solving big ideas because that's not their purpose.
Gollum, which is a markdown powered wiki system. In fact, it has all my notes (programming, lifehacking, etc).
> Do Indians count as 'Asians' in the American vocabulary? If yes then I can shed some light on why they become so successful.
No. Asians refers to people from East Asia. The terminology is different in England, I believe.
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Big Business swarms for Israeli start-ups, but has the interest peaked?
I doubt the 'but does this white girl really look 12' defense is going to help
It hasn't been established yet whether this pre-teen white devil knew or had been watching Donte and Justin or whether or not she was a black male watcher and, thus, one of the kind of white girls who fantasizes about black on white oral sex gang bangs. Where was this girl's hesitation before voluntarily riding off with these two presumed strangers? We don't even know if this girl was a virgin or not.
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If they didn't know what tar file is, sending any format to that person would be useless - obviously, it's not the right person to talk to on this question, they are not nearly knowledgeable enough. I would guess it's some low-level support that is probably not even allowed to escalate the issue, and is not able to handle it, most they can do is to put the data into some kind of internal database where it quietly dies.

As for the question how to get the right person, I'd like to know a way...
Ideas end up everywhere in my workspace; in my physical notebook, in a moleskin that's always in my jacket, on the whiteboard (which I sometimes take snapshots off), on index cards, in my homebrew webbased project/life tracking app (I have tons of product ideas stashed in a category), in mindmanager and onenote. Each format has it's strengths and all of them are pretty fun to use. I'm looking to add the Galaxy Note as yet another input tool.
>And a less obvious application is in an easy-to-clean filter: stretch this filter and its pores grow, allowing stuff stuck in them to be flushed through when the filter is washed.

That doesn't make sense to me. If the auxetic threads making up the filter expand, then the negative space between them will shrink, so you'll get smaller pores, not larger ones.
I have a stack of notebooks that goes back over two decades. Anything worth writing down goes in the notebook. No postits, scraps of paper or backs of envelopes unless I'm willing to throw the note away immediately.

One of the things I learned in high school is that taking notes helps me to organize and remember my thoughts - even if I never look at the notes again. I don't refer to my notebooks much, but writing ideas down helps me triage ideas for things worth following up on.
This is an awesome idea and a great next step for duckduckgo. Hack your own search engine FTW!
>I loathe this pedantry worlds more than I loathe pg's observed "midbrow dismissal".

It's not pedantry. The feature is called "tld", and its functionality should reflect the actual definition of a TLD. Since dudus' comment also contained useful criticism (which I was careful to point out and expand on), it is entirely plausible that the creator of this project (or someone else doing something with TLDs) might take all of it to heart.

Since the exact definition of a TLD is (as this discussion shows) a bit subtle and potentially confusing, it would be a Bad Thing for people to start implementing behaviors where the wrong definition was used. It would muddy the waters more and lead to more confusion about the precise meaning of TLD in the future.

>This is probably, and I'm writing this confidently and without exaggeration, the worst experience one can have socially. I've fantasized about killing pedants, and I am not ashamed to admit it.

My comment was constructive and I was careful not to be mean about it. Your comment was pointless, mean, and actually threatening. Maybe you should do a little self-examination here?
Which I think is the point we're making here. Programmer should be paid more, and one of the ways to be paid more is to be more consistent in quality and price.

But it's very hard for a potential client to gauge how good someone is. As opposed to accountants, who you can tell are good by school, company they work/worked for, etc. With programmers, at least today, you really don't have anything near that level of credibility - at most, you can work with firms that have a proven track record, but like you said, they cost a lot more in the long run.
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Less so. With accountants/lawyers, you can usually tell someone is at least decent by school/company they work for/companies they worked for.

There's also a lot of government intervention to make sure they act legally - I'm pretty sure that most countries force CPAs and lawyers to have a minimum level of credibility (studying, passing tests, etc.) This makes it easier to make sure the majority of the population makes at least decent decisions.
I find paper to be the best - I keep both a personal notebook for anything I do on my own time whether it be startup ideas, shopping lists, a short TODO, etc; I also keep a work notebook for any drafting I do in the office. It's great to keep things backed up in an electronic sense, but I find it easier to expand on a thought if I just have it in front of me on paper.
"... a rook's pawn still on its original square could capture the opposing rook's pawn on its original square— not sure whether that should be permitted or disallowed."

It was at this point that I stopped taking this chess variant seriously.
Evernote and moleskines.

My everyday todo and notes are taken in a black a5 moleskine. I go through one every 3 months and have a shelf that I keep all the old ones on, organized by date.

Fleshing out ideas happens in evernote, as well as writing blog posts and longer emails.

I have a couple of notes that I think are relevant to this discussion. 1 is the list of ideas for products or businesses that I would do if I wasn't doing what I am doing right now (and which I might do in the future) and 2 is the list of things I can do if everything ever goes to shit.
Looks like a "General Failure" in statistics/randomness (oh no he didn't) and merely an example of the fundamental attribution error (the Generals - that's it! I mean what does the effectiveness of large hardware on underground entrenchments have to do with it! We just need better leadership - not more guns, grunts, bombs and money).

Battlefields are highly path dependent (lose 50 men on one hill - combined with unreplaced troops on the previous one - you've just lost 10km^2), chaotic (that shell just randomly took out your battleship during a beach rush - no more covering fire - you get slaughtered), subject to the influence of volatile human psychology (sounds and sights can decimate morale, focus and the ability to shoot people in the face at random times), resources (platoon 3 runs out of ammo, bogged down on critical hill - backup platoon can't get to them - out of range of covering shelling - lose the hill and the valley), weather (it's raining - they have tanks and relieved troops), positions (your hill just turned to mud and blood), communications (platoon 1 - decimated - incoherent babble and screaming, platoon 2 - nothing, platoon 3 - incomprehensible, platoon 4 faulty intel) and hell - wind direction (dust blows into your platoons' eyes - but not into the enemies).

None of that has much to do with the general on the ground - it's just shit that happens in highly chaotic, unpredictable, uncertain and resource constrained environments.

I see the same kind of criticism leveled at CEOs.

Granted, many of them are complete morons and can drive companies into the ground. However most are simply doing what appears reasonable at the time, and are just unlucky not to have the corporate/economic/technology winds (or dust) at their backs.

People overrate what people can honestly achieve in highly chaotic environments. 15% of corporate CEOs are replaced every year - notice how companies don't change much from year to year though - I have. However, changing often definitely let's us lionize the lucky ones (see hedge funds, startups, novels, movies, tv shows and any other at scale, highly path dependent, chaotic and random systems).

We failed in Iraq and Afghanistan because we needed 10x more troops on landing and about 15x more resources and a great deal more international support.

This is by far the most predictive of success on any battlefield (and business) - irrelevant as to who is actually running it.
This was just submitted under "CLOUD POWER," have you checked that out?
I use plain paper most of the time. It's convenient, and I've been used to it.

Sometimes I use the iOS's native Notes app for that. It's pretty basic for writing but that's exactly what I want.
Proof that execution > ideas?
A lot of reasons but none of those are related to the device itself. I think it's fairly obvious that you could have waited a while and the software (!) problems you experienced would be fixed with an update. I think you just originally wanted to write a negative blog post about "returning the device". Weird.
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Reversion to the mean always kicks in. Give immigrant Asians 30 more years -and you'll see them well integrated and achieving the same as average Americans

Yeah, just like Americans of Jewish ancestry! A group that came over most poor and not speaking the language very well and with low social capital and mostly did very well, and whose children did very well will revert all the way to average.
Interesting. Thanks for the insider's insight. Is Microsoft really serious about challenging the iPad juggernaut with this kind of inattention to detail?
That's ok, there's plenty of other Monoprice chargers.
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I don't think the choices you offer me are mutually exclusive. A product can also feel rushed because it lacks important features. The first iPad seemed very polished: I could scroll the screen and it was super smooth. It's just that I wanted to do much more than scroll the screen super smoothly. I still have an iPad but I use a Chromebook much more. Makes so much more sense even though it has a very plastic and may seem "rushed" to some, it works for me.
How do you clean your ears?
> Of course not. Such a spec would state what are its inputs and outputs, either as natural language descriptions or as types (say, if the reference language supports it).

So you agree it wouldn't work for specs to be "written as executable reference implementations in a well defined programming language"?

> Everything outside that (e.g. timing) would be fair game to optimize.

But sometimes you want to specify performance characteristics.

The simple fact is that without just embedding a traditional spec within it, an implementation cannot tell you what aspects of its behavior are "specified" and which are just implementation details. This makes reference implementations inadequate specifications. That's all I was getting at.
I use Springpad and its Chrome extension.

Whenever I have an idea, I would add it in an already existung "idea" notebook and if that idea develops then I would create a new notebook just for that project.

Whenever I found content related to the project on an Internet, I would use the chrome extension to pin it to that notebook.
The threads themselves don't expand, its that they re-arrange themselves so the material is larger in total volume, but the voids within the material are also larger. The solid material itself, of course, must be conserved. Think of a sponge: normally if you stretch it the pores get smaller. Auxetic materials can be engineered so the pores get larger, but the amount of sponge stays the same.
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Remote backup is indeed very important. Imagine a fire in the server room. Where was the backup tape? Lying on top of the server? Oops...
Yeah, same here. Raw ideas come to me in such an unorganized manner, it makes no sense to try to write them down. I won't know what I meant when I look at them later.
I find the Apple chargers ideal for international use, because they have interchangeable plug heads for different countries. When I'm traveling, I only need to take the chargers that I need, and swap the plugs as required. That seems to work better than buying 3rd party plug adaptors (which don't always grip well, sometimes causing the plug to fall out of the socket).
I agree it's a real phenomenon. I and my buddy go out a lot in Boston to pick up chicks, we get blown out 80% of the time right away, then conversation/interaction dies 80% of the time before we ask for number, then chick flakes 70% of time after text, then interest dies on first date 70% of the time. Well, but if you get past that all these probabilities and first date, well, the chick is pretty into you that you pretty have to shoot yourself in the foot to screw it up. You just have to be persistent and shameless. Mostly shameless.

Chris Paul is only 6ft tall and he's one of the elite players in the NBA. Also see Nate Robinson (5ft 8), Allen Iverson (6 ft), Isiah Thomas (5ft 8) who at one point scores 15+ pt. What these guys lack in height, they make up for in speed, ball-handling, shooting and playing smart. In fact, there are plenty of guys in the NBA who are 7-footers who are slow-footed, can't shoot and can't play and purely there for their size (see Kwame Brown, Michael Olowokandi, all 1st draft picks).

Now ever seen WASP frat boys hollering their fraternity alphabets, rich boys crusing in their Porsche, Maserati's or preppy guys in ivy league schools clutching onto their Andover/Exeter letter jackets, well those are the Kawme Brown/Kandiman of the world. Let them go to Goldman Sachs/Skadden/McKinsey whatever and I'm sure the groupies, both the Asian-wanabe's and the high-society gold-diggers will follow that well-beaten path.

You and I, bro, we are the lucky one's. We have been dealt the hand of having the opportunity to actually better our circumstances without falling back to a silver spoon that was put in our mouth at birth. I agree, Asian chicks are shallow but so are we. But what doesn't change is that human beings are crass animals. In high schools, they'll love the QB in home-coming games but in mid-twenties, they'll try to get their way desperately into high-society cocktail parties full of doctors and lawyers.

So don't caught up in this whole rat-race pretension-sexual-socio-economical game. Dont' play the coy game, if you want sex, just ask for it and if she doesn't put out, next her. Same thing goes for raises at the job, more responsibilities professionally or asking your buddy to do some social/recreational activity you want to do. You'll get blown out a lot of times, but that's the whole point. Be honest with yourself; no, it's not the Asian girls you are complaining about but the upwardly mobile, attractive white-washed Asian and white girls that you feel sexually frustrated about.

But it's okay, that's what you want to go for; then be prepared to put in the work like CP3 and AI.
> Oh, I don't know, maybe dynamic code loading or secure sandboxing of code? For instance you can compile a custom Google Go without disk IO, but you can't have an app that loads plugins much less one where the app can do IO but the plugin can't.

Sure you can. Spawn a child process with lower security privileges, and communicate over a pipe. It might require you to restructure to reduce chattiness, but on the other hand, you will be much less likely to expose yourself to security vulnerabilities than the Java "sandbox".

If the child process is written in Go, you can even use the -u compiler flag to only allow safe packages (i.e. no assembly, C, only packages explicitly marked as safe and pure Go). You can go even further, and mark package os unsafe, disallowing file system access altogether. Or do what (I suspect) Appengine does, and provide your own neutered implementation of package os/time/net/etc, and mark those as safe.

The Go playground is an example of this, btw. It merely streams stdout and stderr, but you could imagine doing other things with the sandboxed program.

> I think Google Go advocates put blinders on like agentS because if they actually objectively looked at the situation they would have the same thing to say as others do about Google Go: "meh".

I think you are falling prey to the same fallacy of false cause as your GP. "agentS likes Go, so he must not be objectively looking at the language". It is possible to objectively look at the language, and think it useful.
The element-of-blame may shift, but one hit wonders were always part of the music business. One has to consider, that artists usually work their whole life to get that one break-through song - and after that get about 12 month to deliver the next "hit". Relatively unsurprising the number of artists able to do this might be similar to those who can pull off one successful start-up after another.
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