skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it based on the OK Plateau effect? All I'm seeing is an (innacurate) WPM counter, does something else happen after a certain amount of typing?

edit: ok, I was typing too fast to notice that it automatically moves on after some time.
Very cool. Much better than that nonsense I watched on Bravo recently. This is real!
Make an remain method called Filter then. And one called Map while you're at it. What a non-issue.
>When I was at my startup, I hired a guy with no Django experience and minimal python. He made his first bug fix within 24 hours of showing up and was productive within a week.

I had the same experience with Django walking in with the same repertoire (minimal Python, no Django) back when I lived in NYC.

I don't do Django anymore, but it taught me a lot about trusting people to pick things up on the fly. Especially with the right person and environment.
How do I improve the performance of SQLite?
Kind of funny that Microsoft, Sony, and Mojang all attempted to solve their market saturation based profit deceleration (Xbox 360, PS3, and Minecraft respectively) issues with computer vision supplements (Kinect, PlayStation Move, augmented reality app respectively). Any doubt that further integrating and improving computer vision in gaming will be the dominant industry move over the next few years?
This isn't by Mojang, this is by 13th Lab.
Or (d) they try to build it themselves, realize how horribly painful/complicated/problemsome/etc it is, and decide to find another approach.

Of course, all of those are more likely to drive adoption of the SaaS tool if it helps drive revenue or increase costs. aka If someone can pay $1 to avoid $100 of work or earn an extra $100, then the odds are in the SaaS tool's favor.

(Granted, I am biased as I work for Twilio but I also built SMS systems long before I joined last year.)
I'm fairly certain the Minecraft community (especially the most involved subset that would buy an augmented reality Minecraft iPhone app) holds a lot of value to the game and Notch for not being profit driven (in their minds)[1][2][3]. Explaining this decision to the community bodes much better if they cite some set of developer ideals than if they were honest and said what we all know: a popular Minecraft iOS app will no doubt generate more revenue than pushing to the Microsoft equivalent would.

When it comes to heavily community dependent ventures like Minecraft or Reddit, there's no doubt that appearing to prioritize the community and product over profit, while holding more weight to profit behind the scenes, is a crucial for maintaining a positive company image.

1. https://twitter.com/carlmanneh/status/174987868786270209

2. http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/422-notch-gives-3-million...

3. http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/mojang-employees-split-notch-...
What's most perplexing to me is how/why shreddings from a police department in a suburban police department came to be used, considering the relative size of the NYPD. Unless the floats and everything relating to the parade were prepared on the island.
How I quit feeling like crap at work
It's not confusing. It's just less useful. If you think of objects as having attributes and methods, you're just treating objects as bundles of functions and variables you can pass around. In essence, you're still doing procedural programming.

It's much simpler and more effective to think of objects as things that respond to messages. So instead of thinking it as asking the object to perform "where" or "length", think of it as sending the message "where" or "length" to the object and potentially receiving a response. This way you can expose more flexible and declarative interfaces, and let the object worry about which properties it computes on demand and which properties it caches or stores in instance variables.

You do have to consciously do this in C-derived languages, though. But it's easily possible.
Mobile device access control: where’s sudo?
Can you clarify why you say that. What doesn't work for you on which touch device. Works just fine on my iPad
We think so (http://vicarious.com/), but we are obviously biased.
Agreed but I think there is value in independently-evolving ideas.

From my own experience; the more I am connected, the more I share and optimize existing ideas. If left on my own, I will come up with rough but more original ones.
I think it flows like this:

Software is eating the world = the cost of launching is coming down. Therefore more and more developers are starting companies. That translates into a lot more developers as decision makers. Developers who are serious about building businesses understand the criticality of focusing in on competitive advantage and not building every requirement they have for running the business. Therefore the real emergence of a B2D market. (I think the ones that are still in the "I can build this myself" mindset aren't going to scale much beyond their own project.)

My feeling is Stripe is the poster child for the B2D movement btw but not mentioned anywhere.
Sweet. Look forward to it. Will be funding on pay day.
The animations when switching a to a new word are very jarring and distracting. Perhaps a more continuous method (like a tape roll that's constantly moving) would help with the transitions?
The "mottled grey texture" is probably a result of my camera. The actual magazine is pure white (as with most Apple ads).

As with it being aligned to the edge of the magazine, I also agree that a little padding might have been nice.
I can see this being used most effectively as an enhancement in a display/view context rather than replacing traditional forms.

Take the example of a table of employee information where you have the standard edit/delete/view buttons on each row and you notice a typo in one row. To me it's a better user flow to just edit that one field inline than have to pull up the whole form through a modal or page load. Both for speed (in the case of the page load) and forcing the user to re-locate the field they wanted to change.
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Sid Roth Supernatural Languages
Absolutely. In fact the new team of Sid Roth one new man that is basically revamping the constitution of Egypt are refusing to remove section two which says that Sharia is the law of the land. And the pols tell us very clearly that the majority of the Egyptians, Tunisians, Algerians, Libyans want Sharia laws so… but they will do it through peaceful means on Sid Roth rapture. Through stealth by peace he will deceive many; it is pretty clear in the Bible. But the Bible tells us about Egypt as well in Isaiah 19 “The Lord comes riding in a swift cloud and is coming into Egypt. When was the last time we’ve had a Sunday school in the West. Today we will be teaching how the Lord Jesus Christ comes and fights in Egypt; He fights Muslims. We look at the situation on victory day in Egypt in which the liaison of the Muslim Brotherhood gave a speech in which 2 million Egyptians chanted loud and clear, ————- (which means to Jerusalem we will march martyrs by the millions) never been shown on any of the major media on the west. - Sid Roth supernatural languages
A little dramatic. No mention of how, once in desktop mode, Windows 8 acts almost exactly like Windows 7?
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I recently went through my brain cache searching for my big break idea. I saw the light! Well a few of them actually. My dilema is I'm 23 & not nearly knowledgeable enough to decide which startup idea to persue first. My passions are all across the board so I've ruled out using that as criteria for that reason & the fact that I look to prosper with whatever I do. If Im not making financial freedom for my family & missing the mark of helping "mankind" then obviously I shouldnt be in that market. So, I weighed the pros & cons of each idea & decided I should commit to one & find some other way to make the other ideas come to fruition, or else sit on the "Golden Egg" I believe them to be.<p>I inacted my sales skills and pitched my idea for a wind energy business to a few cohorts & what little brainy family I have. It was met with much excitement & that got me revved up. Now I know I have to execute.idea.<p>Yearn 2 Learn & Stay Polished my Turdlings!
Ask HN: What is your OSX virus defense strategy?
Poll: How do you feel about the number of hellbans?
Over the past 6 months or so it has felt like more accounts are getting hellbanned. I know a there is at least a vocal minority who feel that this has gotten excessive
( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4827922 ). I'm looking for a rough sense of how popular this view is.

Overall:
I haven't noticed any problems
I see some mistakes both ways - they seem to balance out
I think a few too many accounts are hellbanned
I think a few too few accounts are hellbanned
I think far too many accounts are hellbanned
I think far too few accounts are hellbanned
I don't know what hellbanned means or I have showdead turned off in my profile
Other / no opinion
> It’s been developed for iOS devices by 13th Lab – a bunch of clever augmented reality folks – with the help of Mojang. [1]

> Created by 13th lab and Mojang [2]

Looks like 13th lab is an augmented reality group Mojang contracted and worked with to build the product. Mojang may not have written the core technology, but they seem to have initiated and funded it, they're now publicizing it, and I'd guess they will be splitting profits with 13th lab.

1 http://www.mojang.com/2012/11/announcing-minecraft-reality-f...
2 footer image: http://minecraftreality.com/
Fetching this PDF is a bit problematic right now, so have a mirror:

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?qyx13hkdvt0e594
I am not sure I understand all of your questions, but I assure you that if people believed there was a high chance that the proof was correct, then they would be very eager to read it.

Mathematicians, and especially the very best mathematicians, are very eager to learn. I don't know of any great mathematician who demonstrates a "lack of intellectual curiosity".

That said, there is much more mathematics available than anyone has time to read. It can easily take an hour a page, or more, to read a dense research paper. Mathematicians, like everyone else, have to be selective about what they choose to learn.

It is very rare for great work to be ignored, but here is one example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark%E2%80%93Heegner_theorem
Great Read. Applying strategies now thanks ;)
I suspect the police department used a document disposal company, and this company took advantage of an opportunity to supply some organization at the parade with paper and simply ignored the security requirements of their customers.

Given that the actual shredding job wasn't very good in the first place, the Nassa County Police should probably start looking for a new document disposal provider.
Since I originally wrote this, I've found some new things that help me to feel less crappy at the office:

1) Bike: I commute via bicycle. This gets my blood flowing first thing in the moment, and helps me to feel more alert (and alive) when I arrive at the office.

2) Socialize: Now that I cycle, I don't use every lunch hour to go to the gym. I'm trying to get out and meet new people in a variety of industries (not just software). This refreshes me: getting to know other folks in different lines of work gives me perspective on my work at the office.

3) Get into nature: There's a direct correlation between me taking a walk in a park, and me feeling happy and at peace. If I'm starting to feel "the blahs" at work, a nice stroll by the river reinvigorates me.

What are some things you do, or tools you use, to feel less crappy at work?
By "practical application" I was also getting at other mathematics/physics laws/theories that are based on prime theory in some way. I guess you have highlighted a few.
1: Slow and accurate is better. Build up speed.

2: Do not look at the keys. Learn the finger positions. Try covering your hands with a tea towel. (Or buy a keyboard with no markings. (Which has the added advantage of switching to other layouts easy.))

3: Practice little but often. Do short stints every day rather than long stints all day. (This is training drills, you should be trying to touch type all the time.)

4: IMPORTANT: PAY ATTENTION TO ACHES AND PAINS IN YOUR HANDS AND WRISTS. Some people find that touch typing, especially the positions recommended for the hands, causes discomfort. Sometimes that discomfort can be a severely debilitating RSI.
The software I liked was "Typing Master" (http://www.typingmaster.com/) but it looks really dated now. Maybe there are much better softwares around.
How I Wrote My eBook
Well, it is. PE is mobile gameplay, the App in the linked announcement takes structures created within Minecraft and renders them in augmented reality.
In a gold rush it's good to be the guy who sells the picks. The great business model of Wall Street is to take a slice out of every transaction and let your customers take the risk.

Watch out Hacker Newser, these products are aimed at you, so they represent a smaller slice of the economic pie than is represented in your Bayesian prior.

There's a unique benefit, however, that one gets from being the center of a developer ecosystem -- other people work to make your platform great. This is as old as the IBM/360 and Apple ][, IBM couldn't capture the value of the PC platform but Microsoft could. It's as new as Facebook and as demented as Salesforce.com.
I am surprised that there isn't some form of corn-starch-based confetti that would dissolve in the rain, used in these parades. It would be cheaper than paper due to corn subsidies.
On the topic of startup documentaries, Something Ventured was very good. It's in Netflix too.
I also have four modes of writing:

writing from scratch in a tex file

editing in the tex file

reading pdf and making notes in the tex file

reading and making notes to pdf on tablet
Hmm?　There's all sorts of "noise" that are generally considered a positive thing, at least in certain contexts. After all, the end goal in most cases isn't perfect information capture, it's communicating emotion/feeling/message/etc, and "degrading" an image can add something (just not the original thing).

Of course the correlation between certain types of noise/distortion and the resulting interpretation is in many cases culturally determined, and that changes over time... One minute shakycam is considered the height of immersion, the next, it's an embarrassing affectation.

But still, there's nothing inherently wrong with preferring something "worse," especially when the latter judgment is made on a narrow technical basis which misses the larger picture.
Or maybe just found a way to dispose of it for free - doubt anyone would be paying for shredded paper to use as confetti.
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Wolfram wrote ANKOS in the way you describe.
Solid underlined words take us to other places. Dashed is less defined outside of people who find CSS novel, or just want to be different.

If a site uses solid underlines for its links, that frees it up to use dashed for these inlines IMO.
After three decades of trying to code myself out of impossible situations I'm starting to depend on other people.

I'm very concious of what it costs to develop and maintain software and the risk that is entailed, never mind the operational costs of running production systems.

I aim for commercial success by having systems that, in some respect, are at least an order of magnitude (if not two, three or four) better than the status quo, but I've got a lot of respect for companies that can serve my everyday operational needs at a fraction of the cost of doing things myself.
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I'm still wondering why you haven't been hellbanned yet.
You would still have to write 100 pages of Coq code, and write every definition properly, which may be just as hard as learning the field.
Seriously... If you read an "interesting" article on RT, the next step before posting it to [e.g.] HN should always be to search for a more reputable source...

[Of course even the wackiest tabloids do occasionally report real news...]
Some companies are doing it right: here in Australia Doctor Who was available on iView at the same time it was shown in the UK a week before being shown on TV here.

Only problem is iView quality is rather poor.
> where better to hide the papers than in a confetti parade?

At a recycling facility with security guards.
Anyone with a half rational brain should be alarmed by this statement.

I'm much more alarmed by that statement.

I'm not here to debate the efficacy of TCM or homeopathy, that's a waste of everyone's time.

But the guy has clearly done a huge amount of research and drawn on whatever expertise he could determine might contribute to his quest to save his life, and he deserves better than this kind of middlebrow dismissal. (See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4692794)
I was implying hiring them as programmers and shrinking the HR dept.
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Nice aesthetic. Suggest zooming in to the center 70% of the book cover. It will make it more likely that you can recognize the pattern of the cover. The only cover I can recognize at a glance is 50 shades.
Zeilberger has some nice examples of human error on his blog. He would love to see much more use of computer provers to clean up the errors made by human writers and readers.
I found their github page, maybe that will do for now: https://github.com/fatiherikli/dbpatterns
A better, prettier, cross-browser OK plateau typing tutor
SignUpasaService was built by the bizodo team so it was not outsourced. It will be a free service so hopefully you will give it a try.
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Proofs are programs.

https://www.google.com/search?q=proofs+are+programs
It competes with food crops for fertile land. That means: it pushes food production to places with worse water, farther from consumption centers, increasing waste and costs related to transport.

Maybe in the US the situation is not clear because you have vast plains so it doesn't matter if you cover the entire surface with corn, but here in Brazil, my state vanished with an entire forest just for sugar cane and soy crops. Google "Atlantic Forest".
The more advanced the math gets, the more deeply ambiguous the notation gets. Everything becomes Tx, while T and x become ever more complex objects, whose definiton is implied by context.
I'm not rejecting your statement here, I'm simply interested in hearing your rationale:

> PCs need to be open, cell phones less so

Why is it more important for PCs to be important?

I'd argue that, because PCs and smartphones were open and closed respectively when they gained popularity, we've been conditioned to assume those states are permissible. I think if those initial conditions did not influence our perception of the products so strongly we would value openness equally across both. Since we are influenced though, we seem to be inclined to focus on the negative of the each's alternative option (anti-competitive PC market places and virus-ridden cell phones, respectively).
Elon Musk: Apple Likely to Lose to Google in Smartphone Market
Surely police departments aren't allowed to hand such sensitive data to just any external processing company?
I'd rather not introduce event-handling semantics to a list of strings. It's easier to add a 'filter' method. Granted, a distributed task queue might benefit from this, but I'd still rather not have it baked into everything.
I don't know about police departments, but every big company I've ever worked at outsourced their shredding. Any sensitive documents went in the shred bin, which was periodically picked up by the shredding company. It makes no sense to me either.
I made a prettier, nicer and more configurable one of these a while ago that works in Firefox too for my own use based off of Keyzen. You can set your preferred target speed and it has more accurate wpm, click measure at the bottom to to make it skip over words after time runs out.

Try it at http://thume.ca/keyzen

Because of this post I also submitted it to HN, upvote if you like it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4829982
Gödel's theorems are about uncountable infinities of statements, and statements whose meaning proof is outside the bounds of a theory. Nothing contradicts the possibility of an algorithm as good as as any human doing formal math.
The Father of Fractals [by Stephen Wolfram]
I would suggest http://phabricator.org in a way it has most of the features that might satisfy your needs.
What event-handling semantics?
I suspect that somid3 was simply being emphatic.

Actually, the graph is a gross distortion rather than difficult to believe -- see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4516651
What is a hellban?
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This is amazing. That anyone in law enforcement could imagine not having an audited document disposal process is hard to believe.
"witch hunt" has entered into cliche much like "foot of the stairs" or "roof of the mouth"
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Give up pursuing eloquence, unless
You can speak as you feel! One's very heart
Must pour it out, with primal powers address
One's hearers and compel them with an art
Deeper than words. Clip and compile, and brew
From the leavings of others your ragout
Of rhetoric, pump from your embers
A few poor sparks that nobody remembers!
Dont really have one!
my sister is dying due to glioblastoma malforme and watching her "treatment" (cyberknife/avastin/invasive surgery) for the disease provided by top tier US medicine (barrows mainly) leaves me with the marked impression she would be better off seeking alternative therapies. I'm as skeptical a human being as you are likely to find on this planet and I am no champion of pseudo medicine - some ailments however may be treated more effectively via the placebo effect if nothing else. GBM with its ~95% mortality rate over a 2 year period is likely one of them. So while I agree with your overall sentiment there are plenty of edge cases where "medicine" is anything but.
Why not? Lots of them will come to you, so the difference is owning and supporting the shredding machines or dropping the papers in the chute and seeing confetti spew out the other end, proof enough that it's doing what it's advertised. Some shredding companies have large incinerators too, another large, expensive piece of hardware that every single police department probably can't reasonably afford.