skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen this article before, and every time I've said to myself, "Gosh, how non-intuitive. I'll have to remember that"

Today, I had a little time and a little more skepticism, and said "Gosh, I wonder if it's actually true".

I, too, replicated the experiment, and for me, at least, it's completely wrong.

Conditions: Microsoft Word 2003, 12-point default, whole page view, 15-inch laptop screen, 1200x1920 resolution

Text: the paragraph of Peter Deutch's letter

Keyboard: 128 seconds
Normal mouse: 167 seconds (30% slower)
Lenovo Trackpoint mouse: 228 seconds (78% slower)

Yet another disadvantage of the mouse (and Trackpoint) was that the task required far more attention and generated more anxiety: it was difficult, error-prone, clumsy, and frustrating--I kept wanting to stop and rest my fingers. That is yet another reason that the mouse is a poor choice for this kind of task. With the keyboard, I could work much longer without anxiety.

I hypothesize, but have no idea of how to test, that this greater comfort results from not relying on eye-hand coordination for the details of the task, but rather being able to coordinate with a mental model of knowing what the cursor keys will do without having to see it happen on the screen.
You can still find it in university staff positions. They are notorious for never firing even the most incompetent, do-nothing workers. Salaries are not great, but benefits and vacation time tend to be extraordinary.
I like to talk the guy on the other end of the phone through computing a secure hash of my personal data, by hand.
But in practice, the vast majority of quality jobs are 40 hours per week minimum, and its somewhat difficult to get a comparably good job for less. If I had to guess, I would guess that nearly everyone I know with a full time job would take an extra few weeks of unpaid vacation if they were allowed to without stigma.
YMMV ;-)

But, yes, your point can be equally valid too. When it comes to visual arts, the whole thing is soooo open to interpretation.
The mismatch between OO design and function composition
What do you do when softpedia scrapes you projects?
But how does that impact the ability of a "middle class" person to earn a decent living?
My thoughts on how startups can 'steal' traction.
I meant $1 per 1,000 views. My calculation of $5,000 for 1,000,000 views was meant as an extension of the calculations for those that wanted to work out the total.
Al Capone did fail to pay income tax. How is that similar?
Hear that clicking sound? It's your generation gap getting a little wider. Happens to everyone.
When considering an 'acqui-hire' where the product itself gets abandoned, another factor to consider is the value of a 'gelled team'. (I'm surprised this isn't mentioned in the discussion at Dixon's original post.)

While in any acquisition there's a massive risk -- perhaps >50%? -- that the group won't thrive in the new corporate environment, they have at least, via their prior delivery of a competent product with some traction, shown that they can work together to create something real.

Picking the same N number of people off the street, even N great people, might not fit together productively with even a 50% chance.
Gangnam Style is a poignant example of a world-wide entertainment trend that wasn't started in America. Most of the world doesn't even know what the lyrics mean, but that didn't keep it from sweeping the globe. It did so without advertising or great expense, using Internet platforms like Youtube to get reach.

I've seen Gangnam Style covered in places like the New Yorker, the Economist, and the Wall Street Journal. These are places that don't generally spend time discussing pop music, but that also felt Gangnam was worth consideration.

Musical tastes vary, and nothing says you have to like it. But PSY's hit seems to be indicative of a global increase in cosmopolitanism, and that's a trend that affects many entrepreneurs and investors.
Keeping the client and server separate is a new thing? Isn't that what most of the world is doing already?

Since the purpose of a service is to provide a service, why would you be limiting it to specific clients in the first place?
And yet they have different colours, different tastes, different blah blahs....

Look, its Saturday today, we both have a lot of time, and this can go on and on, but I think we both know what I wanted to convey :-)
What happens to us existing users now all plans are paid?
The Flow and The Balance
Clearly, you are motivated enough to read (allegedly) the entire article and open the link and comment here about how you have never watched it. Yet, you still are ready to make an assumption of its alleged crappiness without having watched it or experienced it. I am puzzled: What is it exactly that you want? a recognition of the obscure nature of your tastes? Or..?
We're starting to see these kind of pieces in the mainstream press... from the "I'm glad I'm not dead" pablum in the NYT to this. Why? Whose interest is served by trying to convince people that the worst economy and employment situation in most people's lifetimes is "really not so bad ... be glad you're not dead."
I think those 1200 pages that he received were not even complete. If I remember correctly, the tracking data collected via the "Like" buttons was missing.
This is what someone said about why the times don't seem to get easier despite everything being seemingly more advanced:

> Die kapitalistische Produktion strebt beständig, diese ihr immanenten Schranken zu überwinden, aber sie überwindet sie nur durch Mittel, die ihr diese Schranken aufs neue und auf gewaltigerm Maßstab entgegenstellen. Die wahre Schranke der kapitalistischen Produktion ist das Kapital selbst, ist dies: daß das Kapital und seine Selbstverwertung als Ausgangspunkt und Endpunkt, als Motiv und Zweck der Produktion erscheint; daß die Produktion nur Produktion für das Kapital ist und nicht umgekehrt die Produktionsmittel bloße Mittel für eine stets sich erweiternde Gestaltung des Lebensprozesses für die Gesellschaft der Produzenten sind.
(Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Bd. 3, S. 260)

> Capitalist production seeks continually to overcome these immanent barriers, but overcomes them only by means which again place these barriers in its way and on a more formidable scale. The real barrier of capitalist production is capital itself. It is that capital and its self-expansion appear as the starting and the closing point, the motive and the purpose of production; that production is only production for capital and not vice versa, the means of production are not mere means for a constant expansion of the living process of the society of producers. (Karl Marx: Capital, Volume III, p. 249)
I had 5 good friends when I was in high school. They were all extremely intelligent, and motivated people. Right now, 1 is a security guard at a fireworks factory, another works in a print shop loading stacks of paper, another just dropped out of college to join the army (due to financial reasons), the fourth works 4 part time jobs to live in a crappy apartment, and the 5th is unemployed.

Why do they have a negative outlook? Because none of them are doing what they went to school to do, or even want to do.

I feel lucky, i've been programming since I was 13 years old. I love my job, and i get paid extremely well to do it. Sometimes it can be hard to understand why all of my friends have so much trouble, its easy for me to think of all the things they could have done differently. But the point is, life for non techies is not really great right now, and if you're young with no experience its even worse.
CSS is not that hard. Many developers simply put off doing it at any cost, then throw together a messy unorganized stylesheet and blame the language.

I'll agree with you on the layout shortcomings, such as using excessive floats etc. But once flexbox is fully implemented as a standard, this will become much easier.
Yes it is misleading indeed. From the description, the program extrapolated the emotional responses collected from 100 people for 500 paintings (??) to other paintings. No explanation is involved here to justify the use of "why" in the title as you point out. The title is likely to have made the original authors cringe.

Also consider this - the predictive power is dependent on the features tracked by the machine vision algo, which is decided by humans in the first place. We can ask whether the prediction would be as good as 80% if the vision algo only processed monochrome images. So was the "explanation" baked in beforehand?
Latinos in the valley
Hi Dan, the campaigns will stop running for older campaigns, but if you give me a shout at dave@recon.io I'll set you up with a free month of Pro.
Huh?

I think the defining problem with cocaine is that it is in fact, awesome.

So fucking awesome that you'll ruin your life to get it.
The High Price of Nickel-and-Diming Doctors
Presumably youtube's userbase has grown since then. Also Psy's song likely has more international appeal than either of those.
This is an astute observation, and I think it could benefit from more examples:

On abstraction layers: ZFS was able to achieve something very novel by cutting across all abstraction layers which accumulated in storage management over the decades. I think there is still a lot of work to be done in this direction. I also think the progress here has to go through the cycles - first we pile on abstraction layers in our struggle to wrap our minds around the problem area, then once the problem area is understood we cut through abstract on layers and create an integrated design (co-design in your terms), and then the cycle starts a new. Breaking up the problem into abstraction layers is akin to a child learning to write - at first he has to do it letter by letter, but as proficiency is gained, the letters blend into words, and words into sentences. Beyond spelling, learning to compose a good text follows a similar pattern.

On separations of concerns between client and server: resilience of data is given by the article author as a server concern, and I think that's one great example where separation is actually harmful. I have recently designed a system where a server and a client (a mobile device) would cooperate in preserving data, achieving much greater resiliency than a server alone could achieve without expensive investments on the server side. In other words, separated design is more expensive.
You don't even need to speak Korean to understand it's satire. The very opening visual is something you could analyze for a high school English essay. Not saying it's terribly deep, but it is satire.
NOTE: "MISOPHONIA" was/is the term I was looking for to describe this condition. (not "hyperacusis" as I noted below)
>Assume everyone asking for such things are scammers.

That's excellent advice, and everyone should follow it. Unfortunately some banks disagree and will cancel your credit cards when you fail one of their fraud check phone calls.

> And guess what, the only way to be sure that it’s your bank you’re talking to, is to call them yourself. Period. Some callers tell you details of your account as a way of identifying themselves.

There's a scam in the UK where they call you, and ask you to call them back. You hang up, then pick up the phone and dial the number. But because they initiated the first call the line doesn't clear until they hang-up, and they don't hang up while you're dialling the number. (And the sometimes play recorded ring tones before they "answer").
I know some people who used an electronic system which printed out a barcode encoding a cryptographic hash of each entry, which could then be stuck in a paper notebook with numbered pages, and dated and witnessed.

This combined a legally admissible chronological record in physical form, with all the benefits of electronic records.
That's a mod, right?
TL;DR A bug in Google's internal systems took his Apps account offline for a week. Slow customer service upset him greatly.

To be fair to Google, this was hardly an assassination...
+1 for "Gangnam Style is a poignant example of a world-wide entertainment trend that wasn't started in America". You said it.

I wanted to say that too, but didn't feel it was necessary within the discussion context taking place (where I was first replying). Since you've mentioned it, here's my view. There's a certain "uninhibitedness" to the video that's very recognisably asiatic (as in there is no 'Made in USA' cultural feel and reference to it) and that also that shouts out "I am not a packaged deal, I was spontaneously made". I think that freshness is what's keeping the momentum going.
Hmm, as a researcher I've generally found university staff pretty helpful. I don't get the impression that it's a very secure job, either; every place I've been in the past few years has had significant staff layoffs. Now if you can get to be upper management, that's probably a nice gig with no consequences for poor performance.

But in any case, my main point isn't that no secure jobs exist, just that they're less common and there's no real clear path to them, whereas there used to be multiple clear paths to one, in both blue-collar and white-collar directions.
Remember, to receive prompt support for failing Google services, you need to contact Google via a story at a famous blog, a major social news site, or (ideally) The New York Times.
Yeah, ComputerCraft (http://www.computercraft.info/). It's also in Tekkit
It's really exciting to see that they're pursuing this from a free standpoint. A lot of people love Minecraft, and anyone looking to learn from an established codebase is going to benefit from this.

The only question I have is whether or not they'll do something with x86 or just let people use the new API instead.
Did both of your parents have to work to support the family? Then if one of them lost their job did you have to wonder if you were going to lose the house? Or if someone in your family got sick would you have to worry about losing your house or going bankrupt?

Did you have to take out large amount of debt as soon as you reached adult age to go to college in hopes that you chose the right major so that you could have some hope of paying that back before the interest started compounding against you?

Did you ever witness an attack on your country's largest city on live TV while sitting in a classroom with no idea why someone would do this? Then in response have your government send people you know to fight in a war to destroy wmd's that didnt exist and had nothing to do with the attack?
Do you guys have any favourite spin offs of Gagnam Style ?

The structure is always the same like taking some memorable
moments of the video eg at the start the plane or the guy shaking his pelvis in the lift , then take some other stereotype or celebrities in it. So I actually wonder how many more views came from the parodies.

Last similar wave I remember was the "shit says " series maybe 6 months ago that had a similar formula.

here some examples:

Mitt Romney style

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTs_TKk5S2M
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6830834/mitt-romney-style-...

Eastern Europe Style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY1MVQeeStY&list=UUFjCy-D...

Eton Style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaJl_qOVcf0
I thought the menu pattern for canvas-based games is to use DOM elements and display them above canvas.
> What could I do to restore email? Migrate the MX entries to another provider?

Yes.
On the other hands, mediocre systems often times win in the market due to their greater predictability. Working with isolated system is iterative, if inefficient, but working with integrated system requires deep insight which is not always available.
Team is as good as its Leader
My grandfather worked as a bar manager (not owner) and his wife did not work. They were one of the first to get a TV and washing machine on their street, had a car, went on foreign holidays every few years and had 5 children.

What wage would you need to be in a similar position today?
Much simpler is to establish a "shared secret" when you open the account.

"This is XYZZY bank calling about your account, your pre-established secret word is 'plugh.'"

Then you know with some certainty that the caller is legit. Assuming you remember what your secret word is.

Still better if you initiate the call though.
Note aside, the singer seems to be a wise, generous and simple person with a sense of distance. I was greatly surprised and pleased to see him in interviews. Doubly refreshing.
Well, the song isn't as good.
Very cool, but as someone developing real-time, browser-based games this troubles me:

"If the browser supports it SockJS first tries to open a native WebSocket connection. Depending on a network and server setup it may work or fail. The failure should happen quite fast, unless the client is behind a badly misbehaving proxy - in such case it can take up to 5 seconds to timeout."

engine.io's approach of starting with the lowest common denominator, JSONP, to get communication up and running immediately seems much better to me.

Starting with the LCD connection and upgrading to something more performant also works around the below issue:

"This is one of the reasons why SockJS avoids using Flash transports - Flash connection can take at least to 3 seconds if port 843 is blocked"

There's a bunch of nice stuff in this library too. The built-in support for load-balancers is sweet. That's often something of a frustrating afterthought for library writers.

The large number of fallbacks is nice as well.
Yeah well no.

Nuclear war didn't happenand really after Cuba it should have been clear that it wouldn't happen.

As for crime being higher -- what matter is the _perception_ and in that regard, crime has gotten a lot worse, because there are now so many news papers competing to tell how bad the world is.

As for race riots -- well they happened (in places like LA) and that must have been bad, but really are they worse than the riots in Canada or London?

And you are entirely forgetting terrorism, unemployment and the fear of the government. You didn't have the TSA and the NSA wiretapping everything (granted, properly only because they couldn't do it, technically).
thanks. i'll give it a try... it wasn't on my radar. :)
Or just store the account PIN outside the affected service.
I'm a fervent believer in the notion that despite short-term setbacks, humanity as a whole is improving on all fronts - social, political, technological, and economical. However, there is tremendous inequality in where the real improvements are occurring, especially when compared to segments that experience turmoils.

While your generation faced a real, visible threat of political violence, the next few generations face gradual, hidden threats that the current generation has no solution to:

1. Low-skill jobs are going away - be it outsourcing, migrant workers, logistical improvements, advanced software or robots. Imagine the spike in unemployment when Big Box stores automate shelf stocking and implements RFID checkouts. Sure, you will need humans to make, sell, and maintain the robots and new tech. but they will be skilled jobs and most likely fewer in number. You will still have servers and cooks at restaurants but when 50 year olds get laid off from Walmart and Target, they will vie for the same jobs that teenagers trying to support themselves through school do.

2. American Dream is getting harder to achieve - because of global competition, decreasing assistance (from family, society, government), and requirement for higher skill sets. 30 years ago a person could get a college degree with good high school grades and government grants, buy a house with down-payment assistance from family, and have a steady job for decades with a promise of social security and pension. That is rare today, though not impossible. There may be more college graduates today but they are no longer valued as they were a few decades ago. So while blacksmiths and farmers could buy a five acre plot of land and build a house with a barn in 1970s without taking out huge loans, their kids cannot do the same today. If you're 30 and don't make enough to rent a place on your own because of student loans and car payments, things will start to look gloomy. Of course there is a choice of going to cheaper college and buying an $800 car but 30 years ago college graduates had a better standard of living.

3. New problems that the current generation cares about that past didn't as much - Climate change and global equality. I know environmentalism started decades ago and anti-war protests are nothing new. But today's generation no longer considers dictatorship and oppression in distant lands as something you can ignore. I'm not saying every kid with an iPhone in US is actively fighting Kony or Morsi but today they are more aware than ever of injustices happening around the world. Knowing that a thousand people were just killed or imprisoned in a country you want to visit next year makes things look pretty gloomy. Similarly realizing that climate change is happening and is not being addressed by those in power is enough to scare those who hope to be alive in 2050.

I'm not saying world is getting worse. I am saying there are things happening that aren't outright frightening and abrupt like global wars but are still severe enough to worry those who expect to inherit them.
Raspberry Pi is not a platform - you can't port something to it. This just means that minecraft has been compiled for ARM Linux.
Ok I think there's been a miscommunication. I said advertising ruins things because it knows no limits, it doesn't know when to stop and overdoes itself. You are correct in saying that advertising is necessary to sustain free services. We wouldn't have radio, tv, content, free apps, search engines, etc... without it.
Will you file an issue with a reduced test case please?
No, Apple can do what they want. We make them the censor to the extant that we rely on them for distribution.

As for lawsuits, I doubt that B&N would be sued if they offered this book in hardcover, coffee table format. Which is probably a better format for something like this anyway.
Side point, but in the U.S. at least, dishwashers and washers/dryers were pretty common in the 1970s. In my mind they're even very postwar 1950s/60s culturally. My grandparents living in a small 1930s house in LA weren't that well off, so were behind on acquiring such things, but even they had ditched the backyard clothesline by sometime in the 1960s. Admittedly, they didn't have a Roomba.
Isn't this confusing the point a little. There have been lots of talent acquisitions, but I'm not sure how you'd classify Instagram as one.

For example it's been 7 months since Facebook took over and its still going, also they seem committed to keeping it going. Instagram was the most likely of Facebook's 1000s of competitors to actually grow big and disrupt the market. If they hadn't bought it Google would have bought them - since they desperately want a social network that has product/market fit.
EDIT: Thanks for making my weekend. All the videos were Hilarious! [snip].

London Mayor Boris Johnson has gangnam'd too: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/video/2012/oct/09/boris-j...

Here's a another one:
http://opalang.org/gangnam.style.html

EDIT: Just curious, really, why the downvotes?
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Depends what you mean by similar position, absolutely or relatively?
In other words, what would be equiv lifestyle be today?

A holiday every year, a new car and a house full of apple stuff?

In the UK you could get a TV and washing machine off craigslist for not very much. You could fly to continental europe and back for less than £100 pp. You can pick up a car for maybe £2000 or so.

Difficult to say what a bar managers salary is today, I've seen very vary from marginally above minimum wage to maybe £50-60K.
A lot of phones don't support 5Ghz though - so you would have to account for that in your results.
David Simon on Treme, the CIA and Why TV Isn't Journalism