skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forgotten doesn't exactly mean "unliked" though. Unless whatever pages I hit "like" on in some situation make lots of noise, my "like"s are near-permanent - I probably won't even remember it's there. If they do make noise, it really needs to be enough to be seriously annoying before I bother unliking.

Of course, I didn't like his page, but I'm probably not that atypical. A lot of people use facebook once in a great while and make almost no effort to keep their page up to date, reflective of current friends, etc.
> The only thing Gnome and Canonical have to show so far is a homescreen/launcher which is by far the least useful/interesting part of the tablet/mobile experience.

I wish the general public agreed, but the number of awful websites for new desktop wallpapers or icons or mouse pointers or other trivial customisations tells me that a lot of people think the 'home screen interface' is super important, and they don't care (or even know) about other more important things.

Canonical and Gnome have destroyed my previous arguments about the benefits of benign dictators or of directed committees. There's some gentle backlash against Ubuntu (a little bit is from people who know what they're talking about, a lot of it is from people who just don't like the popular Ubuntu) and there's similar backlash against some of the Gnome stuff.

I really wish that tablet / phone / touch interface things were spun off into separate projects, to allow people to continue polishing existing projects rather than focusing on monumental change. That'd allow people to continue using one interface on desktops and the other on tablets. Because they are different, and have different needs, and you can't really kludge one metaphor onto both devices.
Reference:

http://www.ifoapplestore.com/2009/10/28/impressive-stone-flo...
When I saw the title I thought, _that has to be java_. If it had included a "Factory" or "Manager" in there somewhere I would not have needed to look at the link to verify.
How a $20 tablet from India could blindside PC makers, educate billions
Don't install insecure crapware like Adobe Reader. Chrome has an internal pdf reader. I've personally also got Evince installed.
Because it's a great design and people love it ?
The Mondaine design is powerful, timeless, and most importantly popular. By using it rather than designing their own clock, Apple taps into an aesthetic of affluent European influence. This subliminal association is what Apple is paying for, not pixels.
I love this line.

The truth is, I genuinely didn’t realize Frequentists and Bayesians were actual camps of people—all of whom are now emailing me.
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Many people don't go to theaters anymore; Cabin has only been out on disc/streaming for a month or two.

Perhaps adding spoiler tags for Soylent Green or Sixth Sense would be a little silly, but in general, it's common courtesy to alert the reader in case they care (and it's not like it costs you anything).
Is the author 12 years old? I mean, he speaks of using a 286, but then he throws 15 exclamation marks on bold and capital print and claims he has to disconnect from the Internet because Microsoft is spying on him.

How did this make the front page of HN? I thought people here cared about decent site design at the very least.
It is data that fits the "Java is a disease" theory pretty well.
What would you call a function that is globally visible (as in: can be called from anywhere) that serializes a construct called a router_msg_header into xml, and that returns the generated xml as a utf8 string?
David Sze: Next 5 Years Will Create More Value Than Past 15: Techonomy
And this wouldn't need a complicated graph if Facebook offered native "dislikes".
I see, thanks for pointing it out. I always considered it a fundamental limitation of collections, because all or almost all of them are array-backed, and array indices in java are int, therefore the collections are generally limited to 2^31 items.
That's interesting. I believe I submitted the same thing just yesterday (made by a friend). Tss.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4768214
Does your high school manufacture its own clocks?
Well you had to register through eventbrite and I hadn't done that ... People at the entrance checked that. Also, I had no appointment with Matz doing the interview before his talk and people there said it would be very difficult to get an interview from him...
So I "walked" in without registering and interviewed Matz without an appointment - if that makes you happy...
Is this only for command-line guis?
Most architect only use 2d drafting software like autocad, microstation and vectorworks where 'simulation' doesn't apply. There is a move to BIM based tools that would potentially be able to offer this dot of facility, however acoustic modelling of retail space is way down on the list of priorities and resultant design are highly likely to fall foul of value engineering.
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I like that certain companies have balls to make deals and to pay instead of changing things like Swiss clock images, 'Metro style' names... Oh wait
Ah, yes. Java is really just the macro language for Eclipse.
I honestly haven't seen any of the gloating behavior this article's complaining about, on any of my social media feeds. I've seen a lot of relieved people, not a lot of 'poor winners'. This article seems like a lot of hot air.

What I have seen, though, is a lot of pathetic doom-and-gloom and sky-is-falling idiocy from the right wing -- people crying about how "my country is done for" and other such stupidity.
I know these test names might seem insane. And I personally hate the Java FactoryFactory culture of over-engineering. But, the super long test class names are actually pretty nice. I've personally never gone quite that crazy with the names, but I have definitely used more than 80 characters total for the class and particular function named for a test.

These super long names not part of any client interface, no one is ever going to have to type that monstrosity except for the guy writing the test. But when you see the failing test output that prints the test name, you already know what is failing.

You can have a small class name and a (comparatively) long comment, or just a long class name. Considering there is now no need for a comment and the test name is actually useful for debugging failed tests easily (you don't need to "dereference" the short test failure name to get the surrounding comment), this style is actually a win.
OffGrid Cabin with Network: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5rM7QDi_5E
Or, like most people with any taste, none at all.
The issue is the fraud cannot be undone. Unlike your IRS taxes online, there is no IRS to audit trail the vote. And even if there were (cost/privacy logistics aside), the harm is irreprable. If the wrong guy is given power for 2-3 years, its too late to then switch over (justice delayed=justice denied). That is the nutshel of why this "obvious" idea is fatally flawed, IMHO. You are concentrating political power in a black-box not subject to checks/balances, etc. Odd, but paper ballots are the simpler/smarter choice. We just need to lose the clowns administering the elections. Perhaps this should be handed off to a the judiciary or something? Dunno. A good Compromise seems to be (1) national holiday to vote (to increase turnout); (2) IDs (to maintain semblance of legitimacy); (3) simple paper ballot (secure, private, verifiable); (4) computerized registration (to ensure any problems sorted out in advance re(#2).
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Does the term "array-backed" include the possibility of using an array of arrays? That would get you up to about 2^62...
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public string SerializeMessageHeader(string messageHeader)

or

public string Serialize(MessageHeader header)

or if you really want to get fancy Serialize<T>(GenericHeaderObject someObject) which would then be called as Serialize<MessageHeader>(header)
For some absurd reason I read "Cable porn", all the way through the first page of pictures. I was further confounded by that there were indeed some cables (although nothing that super impressive) but none were very prominent and many seemed to have no cables at all in them..
Gah, get rid of the ad pod. Being greeted with a weekend project that blinks at me to "click here to view my arrest record" is not pleasing.
There have been a few high-profile reports in this election cycle of people threatening layoffs with a secret ballot. They tinge it with, if these policies are enacted we will cut hours, not hire, etc to hedge. The Papa Johns CEO was fairly candid, I also think I read of a coal mine announcing layoffs the day after the election, etc.

I'm fairly certain it is a violation of most state civil right laws and probably explicit state constitutional guarantees to discriminate in employment on the basis of political affiliation just as it is race, gender, etc. I know it is in the state in which I reside.

So I think this is a red-herring.
Why Programming Languages Are Hard To Teach [video]
Seconding olefoo's suggestions - and if they're providing images, throw in some actual watermarks.

Hell, it's Bootstrap, just put some copyright/payment reminders in there - it's a pretty honest crowd, I'm sure they'd get their $5 from most people.
I have successfully hitchhiked in western Europe, mostly France. It can take time to find a ride, but I (young middle class white male, clean shaven) was always picked up by ordinary folks just happy to help out. The trickiest part is finding a spot where people have the time to see you and slow down- in my experience, just before highway tolls is best.
Baby poops: a visual guide
I was thinking of a new collaborative way to keep people on tasks but not distracted with reading or manipulating talks. I feel the biggest reason "todo apps" don't work is because the are "procrastinating-dos". I might design a todo app where you may share with friends or co-workers to help keep track of what everyone is doing, but without the hassle of really depicting each task. Everyone on a team should have a goal, whether it be a shared goal or an individual one, you must have tasks that make up that goal. After a goal is complete (meaning all tasks under that specific goal are done as well) the team should review how well that goal was executed. Maybe in the near future somebody will do it. But if that is not the case, I might look into it more.
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I don't think it's actually hate. I'm not precisely sure what it is, but it seems to be the same thing that causes people to gloat when their favorite sports team wins. And sometimes it's pretty mean-spirited in the sports realm as well.
Where do teachers make that? I'm assuming it's starting out, and in USA (you used dollar symbols), but the expected value of becoming a teacher in the US, especially a public school teacher, is quite a bit higher than that.

In any case, no, you're right, it absolutely cannot compete, especially not in the current environment. However, even people that are not in it just for the money can find it hard to live for less than a certain amount each year, and may find it hard to be a teacher if it means going without a car, for instance.
Why do you have to call it anything? Why isn't it a method or attribute on a RouterMessage object?

Then it'd be something like:

RouterMessage.utf8_xml_header

or shorter if you decided on utf8 across the board.
Old-school Okidata dot-matrix printer used for printing on Surface RT (video)
It is Monofur: http://www.dafont.com/monofur.font, IMO it looks better on slides in small doses than in an editor all day long.
13v regulator
Is there a way to design a 'very' basic linear regulated power supply that controls an output of 13v?
I heard the secret service ditched him almost immediately after he lost.....
Coercion by threat is only part of the problem; the bigger risk is buying votes. The threat of prosecution can be dodged by taking offers "off-grid", farming it out to people on the street who have no official connection to the campaign. And to those who are cynical about politics and/or struggling to make ends meet, getting paid for your vote would be mighty tempting.

I do believe secure and secret electronic voting is possible, but I have little faith in the current government-industrial complex to give a shit about getting it right. At least paper voting works, and has a lot of eyeballs on it to prevent fraud.
> 900 years old

Plus or minus, you know, an order of magnitude. The Swiss railway clock was designed in the 40s/50s.
i pathologically pick up hitchhikers, and i agree that it's unlikely to be dangerous. not once have i felt like i was in an unsafe situation, though i am a decent sized guy. but there is a lot of "color" out there - old guys pressing me to get a hotel room with them and get it on, or people with bad drugs and/or tenuous grips on reality. my best experiences have always been around winter resorts - in my experience people hitching i70 in CO or tahoe in CA are almost always chill and pretty local. i'm still happy to do it, but i wouldn't really regard it as ready for prime time as the author.

for what it's worth the ride sharing apps, while interesting, don't seem ready to take the place of hitching in my mind. hitching serves a [casual||down market] segment that smart phone apps aren't ready to conquer (yet?).
No, it runs on top of an X server like any other desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, etc)
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It's good that there are workarounds for employees, but that doesn't affect the long-term effects of prolonged loud noise exposure on the person's hearing. If I was an employee in that store I would think very hard about trying to transfer to another one.
I had basically the same experience. I've done a trip from Riga across north-east Europe down to Italy. Two things stand out in my (short) experience:
1) It was incredible easy to talk with people that did not speak your language.
2) I meet far more women than men. Even alone women and predominantly from North Europe.
I've always been wary of hitchhiking and hitchhikers for that matter but I've taken a few "chances" recently here in Montreal and I've had great results and stories come of it. It really does cut down on the loneliness of long commutes. It's amazing how you still get strange glances from other passing cars when you pull over and let a hitchhiker in, particularly if she's a woman. We really need to get over this...

A company that graduated the FounderFuel accelerator with us, called "Live Rides" (http://liverides.com) has built an awesome app for Canadians to find/offer rides by adding safety through a social layer. If you're Canadian, check it out and give "hitchhiking" a try, it's really a blast no matter what side you're on.
The mere fact of it being illegal didn't stop it from happening...
As the dead user below mentions, one of the issue is that there are sometimes no indication at all on screen on what you can do and cannot do. The problem with such an interface is that it is not "affordable" in the design meaning of the world. It does not provide clues as to what to do next. That is precisely why you had so many videos on youtube showing people testing W8 and not able to find how to shut down their computer. There is no way you can find out unless you RTFM. At least the start button was a way to centralize things. With metro, there is no center anymore and it looks very confusing.
The same exact accusations could be (and have been) leveled at Apple. The fact of the matter is that Apple is a very, very good marketing company; as for revolutionary technology and being innovators, not so much.
Well, some people might, indeed, be educated stupid, though I hope to god no actual Stats 101 class teaches people that p < 0.05 = significant, other than as a convention that people might want to be aware of when they encounter the phrase "statistically significant".

I would be legitimately shocked if even a single doctor were willing to defend that p-test as in principle what it is for something to be statistically significant no matter what thing is at issue, rather than as a decent enough heuristic.

Nevertheless, the parenthetical you highlight is, indeed, probably literally false. I was employing a rhetorical device to convey the degree to which I found the point that, evidently, is the one Randall actually intended to be trivial.
Nothing wrong with using the cloud as long as you really understand what you're getting yourself into.

* Use a vendor specific extension - e.g. EBS + snapshots to mount customer data volumes - make sure you can work around it easily if you move to another provider.
* Backup data inside the same cloud provider? - make sure you backup the backups in case of catastrophic cloud provider failure - not doing that? then you need to understand what your risk profile is?
* Only use 1 provider? What is your strategy if they fail, temporarily or permanently? Where is your data? How do you fail if they fail?

So on and so on - these are standard considerations in a business risk analysis / disaster recovery plan - but I many IT shops in the cloud are staffed by people who are great at code, but have never dealt with the vagaries of business practice - not their "fault" - but it is a blind spot I see quite often.
No, no, and no.

There is no one way to do things that will work every time. Real life isn't like that. Some things call for a narrow focus, while others require you to keep a pulse on trends to decide whether to stay the course, retreat, or even jump ship and start on plan B.

Life isn't like some college exam, where everyone faces the same challenge and some pass while others don't. Life is far, far messier than that. People who tell the tale of their success have no idea how little impact most of their actions had in contributing to that success. They have a sampling size of 1 and extrapolate everything they consider to be a virtue in themselves to have contributed. Yes, our egos are that big.

So the next time you hear someone talking about how they chose something and focused on it intently for years, understand that it only worked because they got lucky. Lucky because their choice was something that they were capable of doing well and enjoying. Lucky because it was something that could generate money for as long as they needed it to. Lucky because they happened to meet the right people to make it possible. More often than not, you aren't lucky, and one of the things in the long chain of required events breaks. What could otherwise have been a smashing success fizzles out instead. When that happens, all you can do is stop, admit defeat, learn from what went wrong, and start with your next plan.
I hitched for nine months in New Zealand, and loved every minute of it. Never felt uncomfortable, had a lot of fantastic conversations.

Full disclosure, a woman was raped and murdered while hitchhiking, only a few km from a town I was staying, while I was there. But I was out hitching the next day, and still had no trouble. I don't know what moral to draw from that.

Still, if hitching comes back to the States, I'll be nothing but pleased.
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If your'e that remote, getting away from tech is usually one of the motivators.

That being said, I'm currently renting a place a bit more conventional then most of the ones linked, and the wireless here is decent. 3 down/1 up; wont' burn the internet down, but it does what I need to do work, and allows me to live where I wish.
MapDB is still too fresh, so there is no documentation or examples yet. But some people are already using it, mostly for parsing large text files.

Previous versions were called JDBM and it has been around since 2001, so it has some solid user base. Problem is that nobody tells me until there is bug, which is not happening that often :-)
>for what it's worth the ride sharing apps, while interesting, don't seem ready to take the place of hitching in my mind. hitching serves a [casual||down market] segment that smart phone apps aren't ready to conquer (yet?).

I agree, these apps aren't ready to take off in many places yet. It's a matter of time for the requisite infrastructure to be in place (smartphone penetration, cheap ubiquitous data, and more societal comfort around collaborative consumption)

The old guys wanting to get it on with you is a pretty funny coincidence. I've had a lot of ultra-left hippie types that live what you can describe as a nomadic lifestyle. "Color" is definitely the best way to put it. Inspiring though!
You know Apple only makes excuses once they have a court order telling them to do so. And even then, they try to get away with it by making the excuse non-sincere.
I'd be curious in hearing more about why the FBI and law enforcement brought on this fear campaign against it. Hippies "irked" them isn't really an explanation.
http://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn
_A_ clock? Maybe.

_This_ particular clock? Very very unlikely. Especially in a company such as Apple where design is so important. It's impossible that Apple were unaware of this design.
The version I saw of this joke also had a version for the biology major:

3 is prime, 4 is prime, 5 is prime... :)
Facebook adopts Tableau for analytics
I don't do facebook but I did add him on google+ as well as Obama to keep abreat on things.

I say this as I was going to remove him the other day and thought I'd leave it a month or two and see if this social media embrasment was mearly a way to get into peoples pants, no I mean votes. So I left him, he gave a good acceptance of the results speech and with that be intersting on what he does now out of curiosity and my weird humour angle if nothing else.
Interesting fact. I wonder why they could not make it go round in 60 seconds exactly. Did you they have to play with some motor limitations for the seconds hand, or was it purely by design ?
I trust you will find the following works, based on following the minimal branches of the Levenshtein Algorithm.

"rick", "irkc": remove the final character of "irkc" (insertion)

"rick", "irk": remove the final character of both strings at no cost

"ric", "ir": remove the final character of both strings at a cost of 1 (substitution)

"ri", "i": remove the final character of both strings at no cost

"r", "": base case, cost of 1.

In summary, "rick" -> "rickc" -> "ickc" -> "irkc".
I'm sorry. That's lame. I recently (finally) got my wife's phone rooted, and it was a pain. The whole experience has me considering writing a scathing critique of the the whole "just root it" culture of Android, which is, I have to admit, very similar to the responses here of "just wipe and do a clean install". It wouldn't be so bad, except that there is so much unintentional disinformation, broken links and general nastiness in trying to prevent people from messing with their own hardware. I've had easier times developing embedded software with sh!t BSPs! I blame not just the manufacturers (Samsung, I will never buy an Android device from you; between rooting my wife's Samsung phone and the Tab from work with it's non-standard port and refusing to charge off anything but the supplied charger, just no), or even the carriers, but the community really needs to get it's sh!t together.
Gnome-Do is pretty precisely analogous to OS X's Quicksilver.
Yep, love my very simple Mondaine Evo. The thing's crazy readable; I can read it in the very lowest of light conditions and from steep angles too.