skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone should find their own way. I agree. But being able to enjoy quiet time is something you can learn.

A common problem for people who can not be without stimuli is that they can not disassociate from their thoughts.

That means just looking at your thoughts or whatever other inner processes are going on and letting them pass by without getting attached to them.

This is what you train when you meditate and it does not come over night, but it gives you the ability to gain more control over yourself and quiet time or time you use to meditate becomes rather entertaining...

There are a lot of scientifically proven benefits for doing meditation as well.

Doing this is a lifestyle choice. There is nothing wrong if you enjoy drinking sugary soda drinks every day if that's you choice that's what it is.

I do meditation since several years and also studied the science related to it. This is meditation in a nutshell for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sspY43lxqhE
Bayesian methods are also inconsistent wrt infinitely small changes in priors. See Wasserman's blog for more details. If you're worried about the Likelihood Principle causing "frequenting" inconsistency then you're taking a bitter pill in that not everyone actually believes the LP, the assertions leading to it can be debated, and, further, Likelihoodist methods (like most of Fisher's work) are not affected by it while still worrying themselves with coverage instead of posteriors.
I dont think its really the cognitive effort that I find annoying but rather the time it actually takes to move my hands from the keyboard to the mouse.

I am firmly in the know thy shortcuts camp and find anything that forces me to move hands away from the keyboard has a negative effect in terms of my productivity. With a mouse and keyboard at least your hands are moving in the same plane.
Sure.
Louis CK feels the same way, so do I. And I'm a black guy. Neither word really bothers me.
What's your point? There's a difference between co-founders and employees, and there's a difference between a company with co-founders and employees and a company with a single founder and employees.
It's true they hang around for more but it's also probably harder to gain those 13 votes.
Intel implements Microsoft's C++ AMP on OpenCL
I think most consumers don't do much due diligence when upgrading/moving, they just go with what's new when they buy a PC. If where they're at is really bad, they might bother to upgrade.

Windows 7 had the advantage of coming after Vista. Vista sucked. People knew it sucked. Apple made funny commercials making fun of it (the MIB security dude). People wanted to leave it.

Windows 8 may or may not be good, but Windows 7 is good and a lot of people must be disinterested simply because they're fine at Windows 7.

Windows 7 is this year's Windows XP.
Haha,

"12 years"

"soon as that"

"I don't want to be so old that I can't go" (to mars)

This guy does so much, so right. Unlike most people in high positions he doesn't seem to have a negative side at all. (not that it really matters too much if he did, its just really interesting.)
Apple’s OS X 10.9 Reportedly Bringing Siri, Maps Integration To The Mac
Intel CEO Paul Otellini retiring in May after nearly 40 years with the company
With the grasshopper technology the cost of a flight to orbit basically is the cost of rocket fuel, which is 1% of the total cost of the flights currently going into orbit. That is 100x cost savings.
That I can definitely agree with. I think you'd have less haters if you left out the 'bitch please' portion of the argument.
Clojure/conj 2012
...you think it's untrue that ad-blocking does not kill sites, because two sites likely to be ad-blocked more than the average are very, very successful?
Multiple ways to perform string formatting in Python
You're addressing the wrong issue: The price is not the problem. The extremely misleading page is.

And with regard to price: I bought one of the tablets you list from Amazon in the UK for less than your stated price many months ago. A single one, via a UK reseller.
Contrary to what other people say, I thoroughly enjoyed your article. I also think that the title is very much apt. Others - If you've been following the alternate universe of online memes, "bitch please" is a very famous meme used to indicate controversy [1] and this title exactly fits the article.

Please don't justify things on your blog for what other people think about the title or your article, we live in a free world and we are free to speak out our minds without justifying or being bullied by anyone else.

Really, it's a great article. Thank you very much for writing.

[1]http://www.troll.me/images/yao-ming/bitch-please.jpg
> If you're reading Techdirt, and the ads we serve are not good, you have every right to use an ad blocker. It's your browser, do whatever you want with it. I, personally, do not use an ad blocker because I don't find most ads annoying -- but if you do, more power to you. You're absolutely welcome here on Techdirt.

I know I'm in a minority so even posting this is absolutely pointless, but... if I don't like the adverts that a website runs I do one of the following: pay them to not have to view them (if they have a subscription option), don't visit the website again or begrudgingly view them.

Yes it's "my browser" but it's also the websites content. If they didn't want me to view adverts they wouldn't have adverts, so the assumption is the adverts are there for me to view them. Either I view the adverts or I don't visit the website. If techdirt doesn't mine me blocking adverts, great, but why not make it a profile option? Sign up and get the option to disable adverts!

Maybe I'm crazy, but I view access to websites, media and items (eg: biscuits) the same. If I want access / ownership / consumption of something and the owner wants me to pay $10, view an advert or give them my email address then I do that or I don't get the content. Just like I would hope everyone thinks the same of the content I'm involved in the production of (although I don't run adverts on the websites that I own...)

As an aside I know of a website that has been around for a long time now that is suffering because of sticking to their guns regarding advertising. They don't want to sacrifice the "spirit" of the website so they're losing advertising options fast (some of the content is not advertiser friendly...) and this is going to lead to them shutting down soon, which is a shame because it's a website that matters a lot to me and has a significant userbase and is a part of the internet history. Sometimes sticking to your guns to the death isn't the best thing for your users...
This is very cool.
Re-use of these sorts of parts is already done in terrible conditions in developing countries, with parts re-entering the supply chain as counterfeits or sold as 'new'.
But you probably won't see this accepted by manufacturers until there is a reliable way to identify parts, and identify if they are fakes or reused parts. Even then, it will probably take regulations from Europe to bring it into force, like with lead-free solder.
And like with the mandate to use recyclable plastic in cars, the first generation will probably also have a higher failure rate.
"If you run a company, it's your responsibility to put together a business model that works"

He's not saying it's not happening, he's saying it's not the users' fault.
BTW I looked around a bit and found another similar system, based on QEMU instead of Valgrind, claiming to be faster, ie less runtime overhead while tracing, and also supporting kernel mode:
http://wiki.nss.cs.ubc.ca/Tralfamadore

Edit: never mind, the program does not seem to be publicly available, just papers
I think you are confusing the issue here. This is not about religion. Bal Thakrey is a politician not a religious leader.
I tried similar things to play with the Mechanical Turk and Google Ads - especially since they give coupons like candy.

In the end, it is still glorified advertising, while IMHO the core purpose of a business is revenue!

Advertising is very important, but securing paying clients does not depends nor requires advertising.

IMHO again - advertising however is a tool for growing, but just one tool among many others

This whole thing must have taken say half a day total - to say whether it was a good or a bad thing for them, you must consider the opportunity cost

And IMHO again, diverting just one mind away from important problems (to fix side issues instead) is a bad idea.

Focus matter the most.
Ok I know this is nitpicking but...

I'm not sure I would want a 13.3" tablet on my lap or in my hands. There must be a reason the standard letter page size is 8½ × 11", right?

The diagonal on the standard letter is 13.9". The evidence Jeff cites completely undermines his point.

I'll just assume it must have been a really long time since he actually held a piece of paper.
>"Ad Blocking Is Not Killing Any Sites"

That's only because it's not really prevalent to the general masses. If it was, e.g if browsers came with Ad Blocking pre-installed and enabled as a default, thousands of news sites and blogs would suffer and crash.
SSL certiﬁcate validation broken in many applications and libraries
I do get the feeling that Atwood has become a MS marketing tool. I wonder how much free stuff he is getting for these posts.
I might be wrong but the word meraki is one of those greek words that cant be translated in english and means passion to work and develop something. Try it on google translate as μεράκι !
One of my friends uses this philosophy in competitive gaming -- each point lost, each teammate death, each tower destroyed is his fault -- to inspire him to become better.

It's too easy to find scapegoats for our blame. I try to remember this when I find myself sliding back into mediocrity.
In this context successful should be synonym of profitable. Which, last time I checked, reddit is not.
While I never used w3schools to learn anything, their DOM and CSS references are of immeasurable value and I constantly find myself hitting that part of their site.
and this article makes that point pretty well. It might not say it explicitly, but by the end of the article that's the message I got.

I've been guilty myself of looking for the "solo-founder how-to" guide. Like the person above, inevitably I was always disappointed because none of the answers said what I wanted them to say.

Great writeup.
I think I did.

The argument here was "well, if Apple can assume that users are going to learn a list of shortcuts, why can't Microsoft."

The answer is because the keyboard shortcuts on OS X are actually shortcuts, not required for using the operating system. The gestures Microsoft has incorporated in to Win8 are the only way of doing things, whereas I can do things a few different ways on OS X.

Let's stick with closing an app. Apparently the gesture is swiping from top to bottom on Win8. On OS X, I can do that by clicking the red button (arguably the most intuitive method), by going to the File menu, or the keyboard shortcut, Command-W.
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I don't know why Google thinks Eclipse + their shitty emulator is an acceptable toolchain. Must be all the Java devs there, they're used to abysmal start up times.
We have news channels in the US which twist facts and make their own party a hero as well. One thing you won't find us calling for is censorship. Censorship for "someone's own good" doesn't work in practice. Work on education instead.
Honest question: For a multi-billion product like Windows, doesn't Microsoft conduct usability testing?

Neilsen had 12 participants in his study and discovered quite major usability issues. I wonder if their internal testing came up with similar issues and now they are having an Emperor's clothes moment.
If he's right that touch is here to stay, we're going to see a major split between workstations and consumer devices. This is novel. Until recently, the workstation has been the anchor-point by how close they come to being as effective as the workstation. The workstation isn't going to go away, but neither is it going to support touch - multiple screens and comfortable posture are features for that setting.
> And everyone knew the huge amount of software in C++. Why the list?

Perhaps the submitter just likes watching HN'ers fall all over themselves to reflexively point out all the reasons why C++ is, like, the worst language ever? (Someone even mentioned coding Windows in ML-derived languages, I can only imagine Raymond Chen's reaction to that)
Thank you so much for breaking that down.
Facebook lets admen have a rummage through your shopping bags
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4804474
I was one of those who was vehemently anti-C++. Then I read the source code for LLVM (or, large chunks of it...it's a rather large code base). Now I am of the opinion that beautiful things can be created in C++ as well, it just takes considerably more talent than were you to use any other language.
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> It's not about you.

There's the biggest problem. You only consider two criteria and leave all the rest. If you care about community and people, you care about raising all ships. We have a huge problem in computer programming that the financially well off are going to be the only ones who can put the years in to be very good. The kid whose parents cannot afford the piano isn't going to become a virtuoso without help and computer have been there since the late 90's.

I wonder how many people arguing only for those two criteria use the word "fly-over" or talk about middle America like everyone is mentally deficient.

I was refused an internship because the area code of my high school and the area code of my college were the same. That's socio-economic, because the state has one area code, no local help or guidance about getting scholarships (no internet either), and state school had scholarships & recruiters. Opportunities are not lost only because of two attributes.
As duiker mentioned, getting those 13 votes is likely quite a bit harder. HN on the weekends is a pretty insufferable place to be, and the activity present seems less like the type to be surfing /new and making quality discussion so much as it appears to be the sort of mob who runs around making pithy snark, and upvoting others who engage in like behavior.
The "App economy" needs risk management
The argument against w3schools is simple: Use Primary Sources Wherever Possible.

If you want to learn about the history of the Holy Roman Empire then Wikipedia is great. The relevant primary sources are numerous, and many of them are probably written in languages you can't even read. But if you want to learn about web development, the primary sources of documentation are few, easily found, and authoritative.

If you want canned solutions to your problem, look to StackOverflow. W3Schools can die in a fire.

The thing that is more annoying than w3schools is that if you tell Google to always exclude w3schools results from your searches, it won't. So I have to manually append "-w3schools" to every.webdev.search.I.do.
It's not pointless to post, it's interesting to get a range of views.

I do use an adblocker, because I think like the techdirt guy - it's up to me to decide what my browser displays, and I don't like noisy, colourful, moving distracting ads. It's not just the net though, I generally dislike ads everywhere and resent the way we let our world be taken over by them.

That said, it's the site owner's right not to give me any service. To that end I fully support people that want to block the blockers like me. I don't have to load ads, you don't have to supply the content I ask for.
>> ...you are arguing that the government can force content creators to cede their works to consumers after a certain time has elapsed.

That's like saying I force you to fall to the ground by not holding you up.

Works are inherently copyable. Copyright is an artificial monopoly which society spends money to create and enforce. It does so in order to get the benefit of encouraging creation of works. The whole goal is to have more works available as a public good.

This is exactly what the Constitution says:

>> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

If those works are made less useful to society by remaining locked up forever, there is less benefit to society, and less reason to spend money and effort creating artificial monopolies.

If it were shown that monopoly incentives were actually not very helpful in encouraging the creation of new works, copyright should be abolished.
It would be a cost to society without a benefit to society.

Notice that the creator never enters as a concern here. Society shouldn't make rules to protect the income of specific groups, be they bricklayers, nuclear physicists, or writers. We should work together only for the common good. If you want to work exclusively for your own good, that's fine, but do it by yourself and stop trying to get the laws to serve you.
As the author states in the last paragraph, this is exactly the same argument as with piracy, but the OP is in a worse position to make it because the author has to pay for traffic - unlike pirated music/ebooks/software, where pirates generously share the bandwidth costs.

And the impression I get is the same as with piracy. A few % have no problem because they are huge, have a devoted following, another income stream or because they post link-bait without mercy. It's like the lottery winners calling other people stupid for not winning. (Same reasoning in the software world: Adobe still exists despite lots of people torrenting Photoshop, Apple doesn't even bother to add copy protection to its OS, so then why are all the little crybaby studios whining about piracy?! Similar examples exist for games, music...)

The headline, as explained in the article, is also a tautology. Because if a site goes bankrupt due to ad blocking, it is the staff's fault, and therefore the site did not go bankrupt due to ad blocking. Besides, it is conveniently hard to prove for what reason a site went bankrupt - same story as with pirated goods again.
Nope. The Supreme Court unfixed it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/supreme-court-gets-it-...

Congress has the authority to take old works out of the public domain, permanently.
Yup, this is exactly what I've found. Weekends are harder to get votes on, but the posts last much longer once they get traction.
Sedona Arizona. Do a Google image search :-)
I think what he was trying to say is that Cisco's R&D efforts are largely focused on refining the wireless stuff that it already does, if it wants something radically new AND that something is being done already it's easier to just buy the company and their research instead of spinning up a new R&D effort to reinvent the wheel.
I was under the impression Rust was being developed by Mozilla to eventually be their language of choice for implementing software like Firefox precisely because C/C++ leads to too many (security) bugs among other things. At least one of the reasons, anyway..
No he's comparing the annoying way to censor yourself, while making everybody else read it in their head. It's not very responsible.

"You're a b." You read it aloud in your head right?
I wonder how they can hire programmers out of a research grant?
I agree with your point completely.

However, on the magic formula bit, I do highly reccomend beginning investors read Joel Greenblatt's book,"The Little Book that Beats the Market", in which he outlines the "magic formula". www.magicformulainvesting.com is the associated website with it. The magic formula basically sorts the US public investing universe by return on capital (EBIT / (net fixed assets + working capital)
), and earnings yield (EBIT/ EV).

I do believe following the formula will likely outperform the S&P500 if your time horizon exceeds 3-5 years. Same goes for most proven value strategies, such as buying baskets of low P/E, low P/B, high piotrosky f-score, or net-net baskets.
You make it sound like an either-or (income or shot at $10M-100M exit), but it's not.

I was pulling a 500k per year in income from a web business I founded AND got a $10M+ exit. It depends a lot on the business model and multiples.

My advice would be to continue to build the business and balance income and reinvestment until someone makes you an offer that allows you to retire.

Btw, my definition of "allows you to retire" is $250k/yr after tax, drawing no more than 2% of your portfolio indefinitely with a 95% chance of portfolio survival at age 95 assuming below avg market return of 4% and above avg volatility of 10%. If you're in your 30's, that's probably going to be around $20M. It goes down as you get older.
I spoke too soon:

Build Status: OK
Last Build Time: 45 hours

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Code Coverage: 70.4%
Test Failures: 103
Expected Test Failures: 44
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A major failing of this article is that it presupposes that people actually considered the quality of advertising in their decision to run ad blockers.

When running an ad blocker, most ads are blocked by default on every site. Therefore the user never even has a chance to see if the ads are "good" or not.

The question is, what happens if everyone starts using this software? Granted, it's a very unlikely scenario since it takes effort to install and manage ad blockers. But it's not hard to imagine that a relationship would exist between marginal increases in ad blocker usage, and marginal decreases in ad revenue.

Most of the "good" examples in this article are not even ads, they are sponsored content. It's roughly analogous to using product placements in TV shows to replace revenue lost to ad skipping software in DVRs. But not many websites are big enough (like TechDirt is) to command the special attention from advertisers to create these "one off" deals.
There's a good argument that copyright should be quite short. Corporations generally want a return on their money within five or ten years (or however long the CEO's stock options take to vest), maximum, so a five or ten year copyright term will secure exactly as much investment in copyrighted works as a 500 year term will.

There's a second good argument that Congress ought not to extend the terms of works already created, since that is always just a giveaway to the copyright holders and never does anything useful for society.

The article is making the second argument, not the first.
Do you get dizzy screaming at the ants from atop your pedestal?
notable absentee (and probably the most ubiquitous piece of software) - the linux kernel.
This comment says more about you than it does about any of us.

That's a pretty cheap thing you're doing there, but if you enjoy it then have fun. I hope that you'll never have to rely on others to help you solve a problem larger than what you yourself can cope with.

To reduce this to some ploy to take advantage of 'gullible HN'ers' is utterly ridiculous.
Thanks! Turns out not everyone knows/accepts the meme use of 'Bitch Please'. Since I didn't want the discussion to gravitate towards the title, I changed it.
2013 - The Year of Application Optimization for the Device-Driven Internet
At Bloomberg, we just published our lowest-level C++ standard library (and plan to add more layers on top).[1] Everything we do is based upon this library and all the higher level layers which are not OSS yet. (i.e., No external 3rd party libs in any of these lowest layers) We CC-BY-SA'd our code standards as well if you're interested.[2]

[1]: https://github.com/bloomberg/bsl
[2]: https://github.com/bloomberg/bsl/wiki/bdestds.pdf
... with noise-canceling headphones. I just discovered these a couple of years ago, and I was - am still! - positively shocked at how well they work.
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