skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That all makes sense. To be honest, my innate feeling so far is that servers > paper. But this happened to spark the question in me; is this actually true?

Thanks both for the info!
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I use lynx or links to browse hacker news. Useful too.
Not for me.

I like paper. I like pens. I like to get away from my computer and phone. I like to scribble, sketch, doodle, draw and take time to discover thoughts.

Paper will always be in my toolbox.
I agree that making a port to ARM architecture is a process and will never be perfect. What I meant was that making it possible to run legacy apps (even if it is only the top 100 most popular ones) will go a long way towards making Windows RT tablets more popular. If it is possible to make a DirectX audio/video application like SC:BW run (seemingly well) on Android, then it should not be so hard to do normal apps like archivers(winrar/7zip) or media players (VLC).

Perhaps the problem is performance - the original StarCraft ran on a 100Mhz CPU with 16MB RAM.
Forty minutes? I'd have guessed cameras and other security systems would trigger an alarm.
Finding out that someone you already care about has a mental illness is really tough. What do you do? Run for the hills, or stand by their side? If they were physically sick, it would be a no-brainer: it could just as easily be you who's sick with the flu or cancer or what have you, and you'd want your friends to be there for you.

But when it comes to mental illness, it's different. Those afflicted are somehow no longer a part of our in-group, and it becomes easier to turn our backs on them. This post is a sort of therapy for me as well, you see, as I've turned my back on two similarly afflicted former friends. Difficult decisions indeed.
Wow, what a douchebag. There is no excuse for getting someone fired over something as petty as this. When he got that guy fired, he could have also been affecting that guy's wife and children, who are completely innocent and depend on the guy's salary to live.
That figure was what actually sparked this thought in me - because that's a meaningless statistic without something showing this is a worse impact than using all digital :)
Why shoot the messenger? Tech is so boring nowadays that bloggers lose their interest in getting exclusive scoops (and Pinterest is revolutionary? Yawn). Also, where is the evidence that Arrington is boring?
Not sure if I've been banned here or not... my account seems to have been wiped out... but whatever.

I think part of what people are picking up on is that for all his generosity of spirit and love for Sally, he's decidedly unsympathetic to anyone else which suggests to me he's underestimating things. Was Mr. WoW a horrible human to begin with? Did he know what he was doing? Did he have the support structure you excellently advised about creating in your other post? Did he just love WoW or did WoW become his only escape from a situation he could no longer handle? Those aren't questions for anyone, just ones I might ask myself.
http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/

You can download a thing called GNOME-3.6.0.iso. Package management is presumably using jhbuild. I don't actually know what the rest of the technical details are, but it is branded as just GNOME.
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Ebooks are usually used to read books, and their physical versions require way more than ink and paper. Shipping alone has a big environmental footprint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_shippi...
Don't forget your passwords.

In all seriousness, though, I wonder about how people store their personal documents. What is everyone's favorite search utility for their desktop?
It's difficult to weigh costs once you're at a static scale, but while bandwidth and storage is growing, cloud services tend to offer substantial savings. In this case, the cost benefits for S3 compared to owning your own servers are tremendous.

There are always concerns and risks involved with hosting personal data, but it's not fundamentally different based on cloud hosting compared to colocation (or even managing hardware at your own location). There's mild complexity because 3rd parties are involved, but this is quickly becoming the norm.
> multiple user-defined namespaces

All namespaces are user defined. You probably meant something other than what you posted, which is why I clarified what you communicated.

> Your vitriol is uncalled for, and since it's only your second comment ever

It's not my second comment ever. Second comment on Ycombinator, is true, not that it has any bearing.

> you should pause a moment to consider whether Hacker News is the community for you

The "community" that users declare around individual sites, is an imaginary wall. If you considered my comment an attack on comprehension, that's accurate. I think your ability to communicate is limited by poor understanding and you should rephrase to make an actual point. Or don't.
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This is a question of taste really. Do you favour continuous improvement or stability? Personally I prefer the continuous refinement approach that rails takes. It's definitely not for everyone though.
I think the notion of "effective annual interest" for such short-term and small-principal loans is a little stretched, and can easily yield crazy sounding numbers. The core problem is that any costs that are fixed-per-applicant but zero-per-dollar get amortized over a very small principal amount.

Suppose, for example, that each loan application has some fixed cost for evaluation, diligence, regulatory compliance, etc. Say it's $1 per applicant, and that one in ten evaluated applications proceeds to a loan. This means that for every loan made, one has spent $10 before any money has even gone out the door to a borrower. So now consider the effective annual interest rate of a zero-profit loan for various size/duration combinations:

1) $200, 2 weeks => 255% [100*(210/200)^(52/2) - 100]
2) $2000, 2 weeks => 15% [100*(2010/2000)^(52/2) - 100]
3) $200, 1 year => 5% [100*(210/200)^(52/52) - 100]
4) $2000, 1 year => 0.5% [100*(2010/2000)^(52/52) - 100]

As you can see, even for a lender making zero profit, small durations and small principal amounts dramatically increase the effective APY. Now if you assume your borrowing costs to be zero, and all you want for profit is a 50% gross margin after the diligence costs, we'll be asking for $20 upon repayment instead of $10. The numbers are now:

1) $200, 2 weeks => 510% [100*(220/200)^(52/2) - 100]
2) $2000, 2 weeks => 30% [100*(2020/2000)^(52/2) - 100]
3) $200, 1 year => 10% [100*(220/200)^(52/52) - 100]
4) $2000, 1 year => 1% [100*(2020/2000)^(52/52) - 100]

I don't know if the inputs I used are reflective of reality ($1 per applicant, 10% conversion rate), but if they are close to accurate I think using the effective annual rates on short-term small-principal loans to call them "predatory" is misleading.

[Edit: I'll add that there's a lot of buffer for overly-pessimistic model inputs in that I've assumed 0% delinquency among accepted loans.]
This group sounds at least semi-professional. It sounds like they cased the store for a while to analyze the habits of the janitor, picked a really convenient evening for a heist (what's everybody doing on NYE? exactly), knew there'd be a security guard inside and had the drop on him, then ignored display items since they're more likely to be protected against theft (customers of the store touch them daily).

They sound smart, honestly, so I wouldn't be surprised if they disabled any alarm as well.
Dammit Mark! Will you make me retire my notebook before its first birthday?!
I made the switch just recently to making my perosnal site HTTPS only. It was surprisingly easy to do with nginx.

StartSSL gives free 1 year certificates - although each certificate is good for only one sub-domain and the root.

I do wish wildcard, and multi-domain certificates weren't so expensive though - it would give me so much more flexibility.
There are lot of bad decisions done on the platform and people on the interwebs have said enough regarding this topic, how another opinion is going to help you ?
That's actually interesting on a wider note: are those FSC woodland?
"Posted by Meredith Blackwell, Product __Marketing__ Manager"...
$1 million? What's that, three laptops?
I guess they get sold on ebay and the like and the only time one of those identifiers turns up is when a poor guy walks into an apple store and tries to have a faulty part of his "brand new" macbook replaced.

Maybe somebody finds a pattern and gets the thieves, but I'd bet against it.
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I see. In theory, like any idea, sounds cool. I've actually taken real world pictures around my building to mockup a possible UI sometime.

The issue is that, as far as i know, geo-location (GPS at least) has a +-10 meter precision, so placing content at a specific spot is, fuzzy.

ps.: by placing content at a specific spot, i mean grabbing the latitude/longitude/height and possibly direction from the device and allowing anyone around it to see it by pointing a device (smartphone/tablet/glasses) there.

edit: of course, the precision is really an issue depending on what your'e "tagging". If you're adding stuff to a town square, +- 10 meters don't make any difference :-)
Let's not forget the most important part. Blimps are cool.
You should mention what your company actually does :).
voting is how you state your preference, I don't think we need self-appointed policing as replies. Noise indeed, how ironic.
The site I used was
http://rumkin.com/tools/password/passchk.php

How would an attacker know what the first letter is? Yes an attacker can guess if sentence passwords are used that (a|A),(the|The),and (i|I) would be very common starters but after that the bigger search space complicates things.

https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

Read the sections on entropy and padding. Just using sentences alone does present attackers the ability to use an encyclopedia attack, but a few randomly placed symbols (padding) turns the endeavor back in to an exhaustive search.
I'm with you. I've got all this technology around so usually about twice a year I feel the need to take advantage of all these smart devices and go paperless. Each time, I eventually end up back at paper.

To me, paper is frictionless. I can focus on capturing my thoughts without getting distracted or sidetracked. When reading from paper, I can write in the margin. When I've got a lot of thoughts, I flip over the page and write or draw on the back. It's great.

I've got a stack of scrap paper (old one-sided print outs) that I use, so I feel less guilt about the 'waste'.

I can't solve a hard problem without paper. Writing words, drawing lines, making physical connections makes the ideas flow for me.
The one place where this sort of thing could be a real plus is to help treat people with deficiencies in this area.

Yes, some research shows that reviewing the things an Alzheimer's patient did that day, along with other pertinent facts, slows the degeneration. I've long wondered if memory loss behaves similar to traditional forgetting of facts, if you could do training similar to spaced repetition to combat it long-term, or if it only works in early stages.

For the last several years, I've been considering the greatest beneficiaries of a perfect digital memory may not be ourselves at all, but our descendants: I am also aware that I will not care about every minute of footage in 20 years. The problem is, I don’t have the foggiest idea which minutes I’ll care about, and I am not ready to let go of any of it yet. http://web.archive.org/web/20100529070919/http://diveintomar...

You have no idea what your children will find interesting or important, and to presume to edit your life down or to not record it at all, while entirely within your right, might perhaps be considered negligent in the future. We all have crazy uncles and adventuring grandfathers whose stories we have only heard fragments of, which we'd love to know more about. Wearable computing and lifelogging may be an answer to that, a way to enable that sort of generational storytelling.
I can't speak for psychotic episodes, because I don't know anything about those diseases, but I think that employers are at fault for this. These packed, open-plan work environments are awful and create a lot of mental health problems. Being fairly neurotic myself, I'd be a bit unsettled if someone was having a psychotic episode at a desk 5 feet from me... but there really shouldn't be a desk 5 feet from me.

I wouldn't want even a well-treated schizophrenic flying a plane, but for most jobs, I think it's possible to make an arrangement where the person's health problems don't pose a safety risk or freak other people out.

Regarding "99% of the time they are fine", how many people don't have 2-3 sick days per year? If nothing else, that rules out everyone with kids. I suppose it depends what they are doing during that other 1% and how easily they can manage it, and when it comes to psychosis (with which I have no experience or expertise) I am way out of my depth on that one.
In the hopes of making this thread more than just an over-glorified classifieds, I would encourage everyone to leave one of the following comments either here (for everyone), or on the individual posts:

1. If you are looking for a freelancer, list the three most important needs you are looking to solve with a freelancer. I think we can all get so caught up in listing everything we think we need, that we forget the few things that are actually important to get the job done. Once we take a hard look at what we need, and match it up with #2, I think we can go along way to meeting expectations on both sides.

2. If you are a freelancer, list the three areas you are strongest. Are you amazing with game mechanics? Do you have a track record of successful social media campaigns? If all we list is our technical abilities, then HN who's hiring just becomes another place for outsourced development. Lets be better than that, and show our domain expertise.
> Why? To save trees/paper? Or to save the planet?

For me a major driving factor to digitization of "paperwork" is searchability. I don't know about you, but if I want to find some relevant hard copy that I don't know where it is exactly, it requires a non-insignificant amount of time to find. I have started scanning and OCR'ing things, in an attempt to make that process much quicker/easier.
The premise that paper requires less servers is odd, in my opinion. Documents come from servers anyway, the main difference is whether they go to your printer or your screen.
Dude... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4442499
He didn't set out to get the guy fired. There's no way you can justify calling him a douchebag for criticising a website's design.
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India does look like a chaos that rarely resolves into a solution and keeps hurting low and slow (Muslims vs. Hindus, hunger and poverty, Naxalites, etc.).

But China looks like a pressure cooker without a release valve that once in a while explodes into gigantic tragedies (Taiping rebellions, Civil War & Communist Revolution, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, ...).
There should be a name for this strange ultra-capitalist subjectivity, perhaps iI?

The first, little, i masquerades as a self, but is actually a corporate identity.
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Startup: My own, since there was nobody doing anything there that required my skills I simply made my own project. China-focused multilingual hotel reservation system, with integrated global SMS, digital fax, from-scratch diskless Linux-based VOIP call center.
To be perfectly honest your re-formatting is actually worse, to my eye. Which is surprising because Z is already ugly! You've made it longer, moved the condition away from the if (that is really mental!), and added a rather spurious looking comma (which has problems that I describe below). Actually, Z looks a lot like Common Lisp or Elisp, fully normalized. Let's say “fully normalized” means: indent everything that could be, aligned with the operand. E.g. here's Z:

defun map f xs
if unit? xs
unit
cons f car xs
map f
cdr xs

Here's Lisp:

(defun map (f xs)
(if (unit? xs)
unit
(cons (f (car xs))
(map f
(cdr xs)))))

I don't think any Lisper would really complain about that code if she came across it. That is actually how I would write it when coding in Elisp or Common Lisp, with two exceptions: Perhaps for the that "defun" and other def-* forms are often indented only two spaces after the parent's offset. Now, I thought about allowing that, and that's a good point, stylistically. But it seems not to change the overall z-expressions point much. To argue about needing editor support would also be to argue against Lisp or Python, in which case there are other people interested in arguing about that.

The Lisper might also complain, if she were being stringent, about the “map f …” being line-separated. And for that I'll say, ok. Too bad. Personally, I find myself line-separating arguments in Haskell and Lisp more often than not, so it's not a use-case I would feel the need to optimize.

Regardless, you can pretty much ignore all I said above, because it's just an aesthetics thing, kind of irrelevant to the core concept. The whole point of the indentation and right-associative application is for the Markdown-inspired macros: everything after the name is up for grabs for a macro (or special operator). The idea of adding a comma pretty much negates that and the whole point of z-expressions. If I could have commas, if I were to make that concession, I'd just have parentheses, and use s-expressions and reader macros.
It might be an Ubuntu phone they were shopping around for partners for a while back.
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
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Thanks for this - I've been contemplating something similar for a while.

Out of curiosity:

A) Which model do you recommend / use?

B) How does it perform for scanning ~40 page documents in? I've been thinking about looking at a auto-feed scanner but curious about how this might perform instead...
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What exactly is the problem there? (considering context)
This seems like it gets posted every week. I have to say so what? Is it not totally understandable? I mean, cartography is an invaluable tool and because there information is public knowledge there has to be some way to stop those would cut corners and copy a map. Does it lead people astray sometimes? Sure. But is it causing so much harm that the practice needs to be called into question? No.

I'm not really sure why this gets posted here without any context though. Is this supposed to be a statement about copyright? If so, I have to say I'm really sick of these clever attempts to show how copyright is bad. Copyright is not good or bad in and of itself. It can be both and any discussion of it in absolute terms is ridiculous.
That's hardly a meaningful source. Junk numbers have often been posted all over the place, but that does not mean there credible.

10,000 / ~ 250 work days a year = 40 pages a day. That seems really excessive even if your counting books. For example, I have not printed anything in over a year, so while there are some books and papers people give me it's no where near 40 pages a day.
I wouldn't be surprised if something akin to the Remembrance Agent ends up on Glass. For his PhD thesis, Brad generalized the ideas of the Remembrance Agent to the broader notion of JITIR - Just-In-Time Information Retrieval. He built a web sidebar in that work, but that probably isn't the right app either. However the idea of doing a continuous search based on what you're doing would fit it well. Before it was just searching your own stuff, but now they'd hook in more generally to Google's search. Couple that with something Siri like where the speech recognition is feed as input for a proactive search.

I'm still not sure this is a compelling application for a wide audience, but for several of the early everyday users of wearable computers (including myself) it had a lot of appeal.
Commentary is all opinion. I shared mine on the comment, as well as voting it down and flagging it. The problem is that it's a cheap Microsoft shot and there are a lot of people that will upvote that, even though it has no place here. I've watched it waffle back and forth between gray and black since leaving my remark. Now it's beating an actually informative comment that I upvoted, so its traction concerns me; therefore, I said something.

I mean, what discussion potential is there from reprinting a CNET comment that is basically just sniping at Microsoft? "Ha ha, Microsoft is so terrible." The OP didn't even add anything to the comment, just a laugh. There is absolutely no value to the comment or any discussion that could come from it.

You're sharing your opinion, but it's also self-appointed speaking for the community if you read your comment carefully. You're doing the exact same thing I am, but giving me grief for it. I only had to go to page 3 of your comment history to find you doing the exact same thing to somebody else[1].

We're all friends here, no need to be snide.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4616911
... and your point is? This is exactly the sort of activity I'd expect a marketing manager to be involved with. "Marketing" isn't a dirty word.
We're making no secret that we're driving this.

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We're also proud that while this was originally our idea, we've found great partners who agree this is a worthwhile cause: Google, Fujitsu, Manilla, Expensify and Xero
Hmmmm... So, even if it was all managed woodland, someone still needs to fire up the chainsaws, put the trees on an 18-wheeler, convert it to something usable at another factory, put it on another truck that delivers it to another location, etc...

There are 7 billion people on the planet, heading for 9 billion by 2050. In general, we should consider how we all impact the planet in aggregate.
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For what it's worth, there are many, many smartphone apps that enable this, both using augmented reality and not, and many other research-level prototypes in the literature.

If you've never heard of any of them, perhaps that's because in practice it's not as great an idea as it sounds.