skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The windowed slider panel is a great idea. I couldn't agree more with the author's assessment of how confusing normal switches as shown can be, as I've felt the same confusion in the past, and know others do too. Interesting post and great ideas.
I see dead code (homage for intelliJ)
An even more radical idea that is being prototyped in Chrome: Web Components[1].

Angelina Fabbro did an amazing case for it on her talk Inspector Web and the Mystery of the Shadow DOM on JSConf EU 2012.

[1] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/explainer/i...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNjnv-Gcpnw
I like. The vertical variant looks very similar to a <select> element with the size attribute set. Maybe you could take some clues wrt styling from these elements? Not sure how that would look in a horizontal version though.
Agreed. Plus, I think he's way off base when he says that syntax highlighting is equivalent to emphasizing certain parts of speech in traditional prose. It's not. The prose equivalent of not including syntax highliting would be not including and paragraphs, capital letters, commas, apostrophes, periods, bold, italics, or underlines. You're left with something that contains the same information, but is harder to understand.

Also, it bugs me when people try to compare code and prose. Just because they're both typed as text using keys on a keyboard doesn't mean they're in any way related. Calling them analogous is like trying to compare building a house and buying a car. Yeah, they're both life investments, but that doesn't mean you use any of the same strategies between them. Money aside, they're unrelated.
That's like saying it isn't worth cooking a beautiful meal because 48 hours later it will all be poop. That there's no point to love if the body will soon be dust.

What a fantastic answer to that assumption. I'm writing that one down in a corner of my mind for later use (sometime between now and the heat death of the universe). :-)
True creativity as well as true intelligence should INCLUDE THE ABILITY TO INTUITIVELY OR RATIONALLY "UNDERSTAND" WHAT IS THE SIMPLEST SOLUTION - meaning the simplest possible pattern that can be considered to consist of 3 or 6 or 9 shapes, one of which you have to choose in a standard figures based IQ test... "simple" might actually mean "being able to unambiguously explain it in the smallest number of words" for someone with a background in literature and philosophy and something similar for someone used more to the mathematical language... but in 90% of the cases there is an unambiguous "simplest" pattern that can be seen in the figures IQ test (not 100% because it's a statistical measure anyway, but still).

After all, don't we usually think of "smart" people as the ones that can take complicated things and make them simple or explain them in simpler terms (think Feynman, Einstein...).

...now about "cow, hen, pig, sheep" ...this is obviously a biased example by choosing 3 words of 3 letters and one of 5 and can be replaced with something that does not overlap the number of letters pattern on top of the number of legs or animal group one...
Neither of these technologies are in my use case, but rss would be easy to add, so I'll have a look, thanks.
The real takeaway from this excellent essay is that change requires a fight. Wonderfully expressed dcurtis, and absolutely true.
And depending on which country he lived in, this whole episode either cost nothing or has saddled him with crushing debt for the rest of his life
This seems so obvious in hindsight, yet this isn't what everyone comes up with!
The saying goes that the iPad was on the map since a long time but serious work on it kept being pushed back specifically because of hardware limitations. Some go as far as considering the iPhone as a byproduct of the R&D put into the future iPad.

I think that it makes quite some sense.
So this post got downvote/ remove from the frontpage and you repost it ?

Its only a link bait article full of affiliate link from your product?

And finally, the products you are referring to is the best way to getting everyone fat in the office?

Don't you have any shame in what you are doing?
vintage mode with a few minor modifications

iTodo plugin (makes it easy to write simple todo lists in Sublime, with functionality to add tasks and mark them as complete)
This might give you more insight: http://od-eon.com/blogs/alumni/tudor/lua-vs-obj-c/
The sponsored posts on my Facebook News Feed are quite annoying and increase the noise in my social stream. This has led to decrease in my Facebook activity.
> It is a failing of the system at every level that these people fall through the cracks and end up doing nothing with their gifts.

Are we speaking of different groups of people? I agree that young geniuses should be treasured and given all the freedom they need to grow. But as adults, if they take on a job in HFT and stay there, it is not falling through the cracks anymore. They're irresponsible by choice, not because a faceless society forces them to (well, in most cases).

I agree about the double-helix discovery, but does anyone really need to do an IQ test to find out whether they'll be a scientist? I don't want to say "the proof is in the pudding", because there is lot of chance in science, but "the proof is in the job" comes close IMHO :)
Duracell gave free batteries and had recharge stations. Comcast had free wifi for both subscribers and non-subscribers in certain hotspots. NYTimes and WSJ had free access to their site for up-to-date information. Chase allowed people to recharge their devices at their ATMs (http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/121031113932-sandy-c...). JP Morgan waived late fees for people within affected states. UHaul offered 30 days free storage for Sandy evacuees. Walmart donated truck loads of dry food, beverages, cleaning supplies, and board games.

It's a very small cost in exchange for making a strong impact towards existing and new customers.
What about neutral particles?
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You forgot to mention ABBYY.
And cybercrime in Russian school culture is not a crime. It's something heroic.
BTW the tone of the article we discuss here is all about demonising Russia.
I bet you 20 quid, there are more cyber wrongdoers in the US than in Russia.
It is nice, but to my mind, a slider is different to a switch. The classic "on-off" switch that the author takes on is like a light switch - to that end, it does its job pretty well, I think, telling you what state it is in.
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Sure does sound like a talk about the book that Jonathan Snook (@snookca) wrote. http://smacss.com/
I think the way Apple is doing this is much more elegant. The on state is visualized by a contrast background color and the off state is just a gray background. Much more simple and much more visible. This proposed solution with a slightly lighter color as indicator of selection is not very good, sorry.

Also your solution becomes more of a list than a toggle. There are already a lot of similar designed selectable lists.
I didn't so much "leave" as I just stopped going.
I think this theory deserves its own blog post, with a bit more detail.

I am not sure I follow the unpayable debt -> civil unrest step of the argument.

I think the overall theory is probably a stretch, but I think you're really onto something.

For one thing, the creation of massive federal police a la DHS and TSA is extremely scary to me, and something people should be paying more attention to.

For example, hypothetically, what would signifiy the "tipping point" where those with means to do so, should flee the country? Probably the elimintation of free speech, but what if it's too late by then? Take note that "liberals" are already demanding the beginning of the end of free speech under the guise of "campaign finance reform."

Another thing people should be paying more attention to is figuring out the effect of the debt spiral and continual inflation (presumably quantitative easing will continue indefinitely). At what point should I convert all USD holdings to other things? And should those other things include, say, domestic real estate, or should they be only gold (and bitcoin :) )? The answer to that would depend on the earlier "tipping point" thing.

To those who think this is all a meaningless rant: Protection of individual rights (the Constitution) has been eroding for centuries, which is reaching its culmination, and the US is reapidly becoming a police state. Wake up.
I'd love to see this as an easter egg in Windows 8.
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Typical Russian mentality is thorough approach to problem solving and having a good rest afterwards. Russian language itself structurally teaches your brain to be more abstract.
Cool, looks much better :-). Normally, I really like Android's concurrency abstractions, but not for this one :-).
Congrats, you can add a paragraph about related work and an Usability section about arbitrary observed metrics on test groups and submit to CHI :)
I switched to Dvorak about 8 years ago - nothing makes you touch type quicker than not being able to refer to the keys printed on the keyboard.
I agree. I am just not sure what task this is particularly useful for- from experience, it is really, really good for "feeling what an exam is probably about and acing it without studying much" :)
I think this is more elegant than a radio button.
Lockitron also showcases the slider issue in their product video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=...
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You are right, and I forgot that after a couple of weeks that sheet disappeared, especially so I could master ./C/J/W. However, at first it was necessary so I could get through the article in the half hour I had allowed myself at the beginning of the day. Also, the physical reminder on my desk helped me to set the daily habit of practice.
I certainly can't blame a company for taking advantage of existing loopholes and we should challenge our lawmakers to close said loopholes. However, I can question their ethics, stock market be damned.

This whole "it was my duty" mentality and shifting the blame... hmm, now where have I heard that before?
Luckily, I've never had to write any database code that deals with money. If I had, though, I would have insisted on integers where a penny is 1 like this - it just doesn't make any sense to store an exponent for a bunch of values that are all the same order of magnitude anyway.

(I assume that this is how "fixed point" algebra works, although what I assume computers do with floats and what they actually do ain't exactly ever been similar.)
Wow. After all these decades and countless people we would have seen something like this before.

Reminds me of this little change that Apple made and then quickly reverted:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/04/29/inside_mac_os_x_10...
I should note that Codea uses Lua too: http://twolivesleft.com/Codea

You can even code on the iPad itself, and use Codea Runtime to convert it to Objective-C: https://github.com/TwoLivesLeft/Codea-Runtime
Is this anything else than ego padding for those who like beer?
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It would be very nice if you could wrap the post time in a <time> element. I've been toying with the idea of writing a userscript for HN, and it'd be much nicer if I didn't have to parse the post times by hand. Not to mention that right now it's impossible to know the exact time of older comments when they might all say "300 days ago". You could also add a feature to the site itself that would show the exact time and date of a post when you hover over the post time.
Campaign finance reform has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Way to derail your own post
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http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/i... here is another one advocating the same thing.
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I think MetaFilter works because of the relative low number of users, and their selection, since it's a paid website (to comment, at least).

I'm only a spectator there, but I've noticed the threads are much more personal. I think you can even see the individuals that favorited a given story or comment.
But I have to admit that Android's concurrency framework is more about message passing and actors than about fibers or coroutines. The fiber implementation is much more readable here.
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Wholeheartly agree. I made a mockup of just this issue a few weeks ago: http://dribbble.com/shots/747199-Night-Day-Slider-Switch
Watching the news, I'm guessing no.
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Exactly my thoughts. "I'm intelligent because I drink/eat X". Way to go guys.
Looks like your opinion is not welcome on HN anymore. Unless we are bashing Apple and praising Android its not going to get anywhere in afraid. I completely agree with you on all those points, for instance if it was an Apple device it would be 'featured' on HN every day for weeks ripe for the trashing. Its an uninspired device with little to offer, built down to a price to undercut to competition.
It isn't necessarily clear that ForrestN advocates "contributing to humanity." I think that was more of a statement that while goals like "fight the status quo" are ostensibly for the purpose of "contributing to humanity," they're actually motivated by "love, insecurity, and fear of death," without making any value judgments on these goals. That is, ForrestN is explaining how fighting the status quo doesn't even fulfill the stated motives of those who wish to fight against the status quo.
A lot of times when people want to sway the conversation, they include the taxes that employees of Apple pay as well.
Lessig would fault your hit on "campaign finance reform".
...now seriously, what's wrong with good ol' radio buttons and check-boxes? they seem 100x more intuitive and with some effort (yeah, more than it should...) you can make stylish versions of them that will match you design
This.

And let's add the obvious remark that if this 40% is that good, than why it is not firing the other 60%? Why do they keep them?

All in all, this is the kind of poor business talk that makes MBAs so irritating.
This really reminds me of Paul Graham's post from a while ago, talking about things people in the future will think are weird about our time.

One of the things that struck a chord with me from pg's post: In the future, people will get regular health checkups to prevent problems before they happen. I don't know about this particular case, but it makes a lot of sense to me that many people who seem to be in perfect health, might not be. Today, the extent of checking up on yourself is mostly taking a blood sample, talking to a doctor, etc. And it's not done that often, either.

In pg's future world, people would check themselves out several times a year (maybe more), with machines that catch many of the most basic problems. In fact, I'd wager that one of the most promising avenues for advancing humanity is to develop better, more affordable tests to check for common problems that we can cure with some foresight.
He mentions Steve Jobs, and the parallel I see is NeXT. Too many people, too much money, and too much focus on one-upping his previous success.

Then again, maybe in a few years Twitter will end up buying Medium. We'll have a second coming of Ev, followed a Twitter renaissance, wherein he expands on what he learned doing Medium.
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I picked your first example and googled it. The first result is a study demonstrating a positive correlation between divorce likelihood and IQ for people born in the 1940s in the Netherlands, a negative correlation between divorce likelihood and IQ for people born in the 1950s in the Netherlands, and a positive correlation again for people born in the USA in the 60s. The authors conclude that social factors (the difficulty of divorce and the negative social consequences) are important for this correlation.

It doesn't change that there's a correlation, but anybody using divorce rates as an argument for the effectiveness of IQ tests would have to be quite subtle.

(Link: http://www.eui.eu/Personal/Dronkers/English/echtscheidingint...)
My main piece of advice to non-developers hiring developers: don't. Let other developers hire them for you.
It pisses me off too.

Try changing your Facebook bookmark to https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

That might do the trick, until they change the request parameter for sort order.
Proficient users can do: depends on the kind of work you do, if you have to process images or video data or compile large projects, run data analysis tools on large amounts of data then you will need a fast computer. But for everyday work this is right, I can set up a decent enough Linux + browser + text editor and a few more tools on a very low level machine.

Casual users need a good computer: Maybe, but the problems described do not disappear with a better computer. If you crap a small or medium machine, it will only take a bit longer until you messed up a better machine too.
The Supreme Court of the United States disagrees with you.
I interpreted ForrestN's statement much differently: "it really, really doesn't matter what you accomplish." Given that emphasis, I don't think what ForrestN said is incompatible with your analogy.

The point is that the heat death of the universe means that some things, like the drive to "contribute to humanity" are not goals that are inherently superior to other goals, such as "cooking a beautiful meal."

This point is clear when ForrestN says "there's no reason to adhere to anyone else's values, or to feel pressure to do anything in particular. You should do what you want, what makes you happy, even if it's humble." Cooking a beautiful meal certainly falls under the category of "humble things that make you happy."
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Relevant Fry and Laurie sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoAe6LanFkg
This looks like off topic reddit-bait if I ever saw it:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.": http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There are so many other places to discuss politics, and so few that are good at startups and tech... please, let's keep this stuff out of here.
i don't have a problem with the referral links, but all this so - called food is the worst stuff for your health. If you want to poison your employees then go ahead feed this to them.
You should learn a little bit about living healthy.
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A simpler option for a binary choice is this -

+-------+---+
On | | X | Off
+-------+---+
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The best way I know to do it for Haskell is to use haskellConceal ( http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3200 ), it display unicode characters but left the underlying ASCII untouched.
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I thought the same thing. Radiobuttons convey much better that there is a single choice to be made among a list of options. Especially if you have a list of multi-word options, you really really should not be using those radio buttons.

For his example of the different game flavors, it does not make sense at all to have a slider, simply have users click on the option they want to have, and jump to a next page to ask for details and confirm everything. You need to have a confirmation page anyway.
I also made a small command line ruby script to search words. Quite slow but get the work done.
https://github.com/iesta/lettercheat
That's a flattering post. Lua is a much better language than Objective-C and should see more use.
This mostly always works
Scroll down to the end of the article, or search for "Another Alternative".
Peter Parker would not have been Spidey if he had come here
> on the problems associated with the Alcubierre?

You mean aside from the fact that it doesn't exist?

It's a mathematical solution to some equations - it's not an actual physical thing.
My data came from here: http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Apple_(AAPL)/Data/Income_Stat...
CoffeeScript hides the most hideous warts of JavaScript. It's worth it because although messy as Hell, JS has an amazing ecosystem, most importantly/obvioulsy the ability to run in a client's browser.

If I get it right, MoonScript aims at doing the same for Lua. The difference is that (1) Lua ecosystem isn't nearly as unavoidable as JS' and (2) Although some design decisions in Lua aren't consensual, the one thing you cannot call the language is "messy". IMO, Lua's main drawback is that by being so flexible and lacking an interventionist benevolent dictator, it doesn't grow standard coding practices, as Python does. Of course, creating alternative syntaxes isn't likely to improve the matter.

But in the end, it's fun to write compilers, and this is a perfectly legitimate reason to write one.
By the time a trained rescuer arrives, the biker is dead or has massive brain damage from oxygen loss. So whatever you do can only be better than doing nothing.
You have a point, but you go too far. Even in the US, there is no equal opportunity. Just because you, as a white male, don't see any problems for a minority to have the same chances you do does not make this the reality.

It is a tricky subject to be sure, and I too would be nervous about how to actually deal with this problem instead of doing "feel good" work (i.e. "nothing is fixed but we feel that we're doing something!").

I guess my take would be that small businesses be exempt from most rules as they're too small to make a huge impact anyway and are not very likely to ever get very big. Large companies, on the other hand aren't efficient anyway so it's fine to impose all sorts of things on them while trying to address the very real inequality problems.
It's certainly confusing as is, but a good designer will use other design cues like color and depth to reinforce the state.
I think there are good reasons to prefer "Lake Léman".

The lake is split between France and French-speaking part of Switzerland. In French, the name is Léman. I do think using the local name is better, even more when this local name is acknowledged (en.wikipedia shows both Geneva and Léman).

To me, born and raised in Romandy, "Lake Geneva" feels like "Tokyo Country" for Japan or "California Ocean" for the Pacific.
Something I've found useful is to highlight (in bold) the definitions of variables & types, but not their uses; and to otherwise have very little highlighting: http://david.rothlis.net/code_presentation/distracting_synta...
This would, however, totally miss the point that a penny actually isn't the smallest meaningful unit of money used in systems tracking actual money.

Assuming that the order of magnitude is fixed, this is of course doable, but according to my experience the order of magnitude does not converge.
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Teach one person at a time perfectly rather than teaching millions in one shot
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"Do intelligent people enjoy padding their egos?"
Prepare to see this everywhere next April Fool's day