skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the excessive amount of scrolling and swiping required. Even on the larger display devices the amount of information I can see without scrolling/swiping is a fraction of what I'm used to from iOS/Android. It leaves me with kind of a stuck-in-the-mud feeling that I'm just doing a lot of extra work to access the same amount of information.

This isn't something that even remotely occurred to me, as someone who moved from an iPhone 4S to a Lumia 920. I never noticed any difference, but now that I think about it and how my workflow has changed since I got the new phone, what you said couldn't be more wrong.

Just by unlocking the phone (button press + one swipe, same as iPhone) I can see emails (subjects and sender), text messages (sender and message), calendar events, and notification text (not just a numerical count) for every social network I have an account on. And that's just from the start-screen, without opening any apps or scrolling at all. One additional swipe down and I can see stock live stock information and news feed.

Getting all that information on an iPhone would involve individually opening and checking around 7 different apps.

And even if you ignore the information from the start screen, just from within apps, I'm not seeing any additional scrolling needed, or where extra effort is required to access information. Especially to a level that makes it so arduous that it disappointed you so much that you were compelled to complain about it on the internet.

Can you give specific examples of where all this extra scrolling and swiping that you're talking about is required?
Have anyone noticed that Musk is distrubing too much in two important industries whith billions of bollard involved: military/space and transportation? I am seriously concerned about his health, if you know what I mean...
I heard that it was due to the lack of plugins, and that was in turn due to a tricky and complicated API. Live Picture used some interesting and complicated data structures to work its magic, but all of that complication was exposed to and required of plugin authors.
[Pandora's Star](http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0330518917) by Peter F. Hamilton. A old book, yes, but a part of some of the best science fiction I've read.
Natural Language Processing and the human brain
All the author has proven is that there is an 18% chance that the data does not come from a Poisson distribution.

This isn't right either. You've committed the inverse fallacy [1].

The correct way to read that p-value is: "If the data came from a Poisson(2) process, it would be 18% likely to have deviations at least as different from poisson(2) as the observed data."

The test gives no insight into the probability that the true distribution is Poisson or Poisson(2).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_of_the_inverse
The site is down. Unfortunately the "yellow" status of AWS elastic load balancers in my region have affected this as well -- I'm working to get it up and running in a different region, but I'm also waiting on a response from Amazon.
Luckily we have people here who can spot "real" hackers and make such pronouncements, smh.
It also seems to be from the 90s.

Edit: Maybe I'm mistaken and the linked site is talking about _software_ from the 90s? It's down, so I really don't know. All I know is that they need to stop calling that an "app", then.
I tried to watch a movie rented from Amazon over Roku last night (not Prime) and it was unwatchable. It would get stuck on some scene for seconds to minutes, occasionally letting loose a bit of audio.

The movie was Inception. Maybe there's some irony in there.
I guess you're in the minority then. Most people are more than happy with Netflix.
I dont get it why someone would use Dropbox in the first place? Google Drive is out for a long enough and it never failed for me; it gives 150% more capacity for free (5gb) and its made by folks @ Google (hello?). Just don't see any reason why to use Dropbox...
A lot of the time I read interesting stuff that's perhaps tangentially relevant, but not directly relevant to what I'm doing at the moment. And then I get stuck with this annoying problem of not really remembering what was there when I actually do need that article/advice/news/knowledge. Your tip on searching past links is useful. Thanks :)
A pocket device could work, but the need for a larger than pocket sized screen would be needed in certain scenarios, i.e. I want to go down to the coffee shop and code for a while and not have to squint at a small phone screen the whole time. Actual screen size is just as important as resolution in certain workflows IMO.

The sharable interfaces in every location option I think is further ahead than just a powerful tablet /w full docking options. I think projected interfaces will come around even before that happens though.
Nvidia Display Driver Service Exploit
Right, unlimited everything, got it.

/me wonders why he even tries to point out the folly to people with no clue about how computers work...
You must really be drinking the Apple Kool-aid if you think that one who prefers iOS to Android has the hacker spirit. This isn't a complicated concept which requires people to "spot" real hackers.
Did you actually think before writing that?
This is fucking disgusting, and these scumbags (together with tripadvisor) have polluted Google's search results.

No matter what hotel you're googling for, your search results will be chock-full of these bastards.
The reason this is done is mostly to avoid attaching social stigma to the dead person's family, and for the country to give the parents something, because, you know, their son is dead.

There was a story about a soldier who had deserted, and when MPs found him, he ran away, was hit by a car crossing the street and died. He was considered to have died in the line of duty. You can call that propaganda, or being kind to people who just lost their son.

People here in Israel don't care that much about the global number of dead in the IDF per year as a metric of how bad things are here, and you might see how calling something most people see as kindness granted to grieving people 'propaganda', which is a loaded word, is offensive.

This is, of course, not to say that I think the IDF is right here - I think they're both totally in the wrong and being idiots here at the same time.
Adobe are the incumbent in this space and, seemingly, will continue to be. There is so much in Photoshop (and other Adobe software) that could be improved from an experience point of view. Simple things like the layers palette need a rethink; there are small inconsistencies with many of the tools; and the software is generally buggy. Often when I get frustrated with the software it's usually over something that one infers is still there due to legacy.

There are a lot of more niche tools coming out which do look really promising, but there are a couple of issues:

1. Professional software is often quite pricey, and understandably so. Even if a company offers a 30 day trial, that sometimes isn't quite enough to evaluate a piece of software.

2. The new tools are rarely compatible with PSDs and other Adobe file formats. I have to sympathise with the software creators here, Adobe file formats are a complete mess, nevertheless it's a required feature for anyone who wants to work with other companies within the industry.

It's a shame really, Adobe's monopoly on creative industry type software is holding everyone back, but no one is really in a position to do anything about it.
In and Out of context, there's no such thing as instant and unlimited. There might be fast, and there might be a lot, and there might be faster and more than you usually need. But I repeat, stop claiming utter nonesense.
Nutcase revenge tactics?
May be so, but I have hard time believing that you can find a worse comparison than Atom vs. ARM (in this context).

It just isn't that simple.
My job is to invest in companies like this, so I can offer some insight into the process. I manage a seed fund for digital media startups in frontier markets and spend a lot of time in countries like Zimbabwe, Jordan, and Indonesia--and work closely with local subject matter experts. The one thing to be aware of when looking at potential investments in frontier markets is that many of the companies that are getting international press coverage are spending more time on marketing themselves to foreign correspondents than on building a scalable business; often times the technology doesn't really work or traction really isn't there. There is a lot of smoke and mirrors to cut through because there is so much grant money/NGO activity out there; the access to free, dumb money distorts the funding process for legitimate, high-growth startups. Investing in these markets is very different from the types of deals you read about on TechCrunch.
Moonwalking with Einstein. Not particularly new but a pretty entertaining book on the Art of Memory. Not particularly useful (the book kind of says so itself) but insightful and methods of loci is still a marginally useful skill to have.
It is what it feels like when the amount of experience you have starts to pull alongside your tendency to buy into the hipster bullshit from people who have never written a decent piece of software yet figure they have lots of wisdom to share with us through their blogs.

Why is it always the fuckheads who can't program who feel they have to give you their advice? And why is their advice always "escape to <programming language du jour> and all your problems will disappear". If they knew how to program they'd be able to teach you how to program in the language you are already using.
The Unsubscribe From This List Game: Dear Guitar Center... WTF?
Been using Expedia for 14 years, though not exclusively. Contrary to the post, they often post discounts unavailable elsewhere, particularly for combos. For example recently, the regular rate at Wynn Las Vegas was around $200 a night in December but with an Expedia flight it worked out to $140 a night. This is the discount they usually give their mid level Red Card members, if I recall correctly (upper get RFB).

I've also used Expedia to book a stay in Cancun a few years ago; they had a number of mom and pop hotels listed with rich details, but Ultimately I got a great combo rate at the Ritz Carlton (like $240 - it was about a week before the season really began); this rate was not available on the Ritz website.

I have had some bad experiences with Expedia when requesting refunds or changes, though this has improved over the past 2 years with more software features and slightly better call center agents (ymmv).

Ultimately I'll book direct with the hotel or airline if I have a specific reason to (schedule, FF points, upgrades, etc), but for easy price comparison and research I tend to rely on Kayak and Expedia almost exclusively.

This posting has not changed my mind that they offer a good service - they seem to have issues with their Latin American offices.
How The Search For The God Particle Led To This Cool Startup
I personally knew of one of these 126 people, and there was no conspiracy behind it. Please leave these people alone, their families are having enough of a hard time as it is.
Comments anyone?
Thank you for providing the perspective from an OTA's side. I shouldn't have said all OTAs are bad. It seems as though your organization operates quite differently than the bigger OTAs, and from the list of services you provide, I think your market may be quite different than the one I'm referring to (i.e. higher end, less commoditized).

However, for run of the mill franchise hotels, the quality control is already being provided for by franchises (i.e. Marriot, Hilton, Choice, Wyndham, IHG, Accor, etc). In my experience, third party reservations at these places is only a hindrance because the OTAs don't guarantee room types, so people show up expecting a certain type of room, but the OTA takes whatever is available from the hotel, even if it's not what the guest wants, and then the hotel has to deal with the fallout when the guest arrives.
A cross between Elon Musk
Another option is that they are the products of a dysfunctional medical system. In particular, a pretty common recurring feature is that the shooters turn out to have been on antidepressants which are known to cause aggression and/or suicidal tendencies.
Or maybe because they (the government) think they have a shot to lower the cost of actuals 460M$ launches. Competition is great even for public contracts.

Moreover in this case it seems quite unexpected some peoples have been crazy enough to start building rockets and one day directly concurrence and disrupt Boeing and Lockheed. I'm sure Boeing and Lockheed would never have thought such possibility. It's amazing imo.
yeah you make me sick.
Biography of Steve Jobs. It was truthfully entertaining.
Will the New Ethanol Blend Tank My Ride?
It's very easy to say "X is bad, you shouldn't do X." It's a lot more difficult (and a lot more valuable) to be able to say "You should do Y instead of X, and here is a convincing argument why."
The best book I read this year was not a 2012 release, but HN participants should read it if they haven't already. That book is The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande,

http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/d...

which was mentioned favorably in several HN threads this year. (Thanks to the recommenders here who reminded me to read this book.) The Checklist Manifesto is practical, exciting, and thought-provoking in balance, and it will help you do your work better, whatever you do, and enjoy your family life better, whoever is in your family. It's a great read; don't miss it.
> This already exposes that you are not a hacker.

The irony of discussing the importance of openness in the things you own with such a closed-minded worldview about the people you interact with is palpable.
Yep certainly is a daily task. All the points derive from knowing yourself IMHO. You did a great job sumarizing lots of my own thoughts!
Mozilla and Xiph's new Daala video codec to compete with h.265
Or, someone just prefers the iPhone. One can "hack" without all the "requirements" posted by you. Do you drive a car you didn't build yourself? Then you're no hacker! Read books you didn't bind in the cover your prefer? Not a hacker! Write software in languages other than Brainf*ck? Sorry, turn in your hacker badge.

Any time you feel the temptation to claim that someone is "not an X" based on your own private criteria, I'd suggest rethinking it. Some labels have well defined requirements (a Baseball player is someone who plays baseball). However, many labels are entirely in the eye of the beholder, and pronouncing to someone "Hah! You're not an X" generally makes one look bitter and insecure.
Ah, the People hub. Its integration with social networks I think is an awesome, awesome feature that is not talked about enough. I honestly don't remember the last time I used the Facebook app on the phone. You just really rarely ever need it.
I mostly agree, with the exception of the initializer, something I haven't seen put to much use in controllers. The main thrust of my question was, do you have any links/examples for a DI based rails controller? Other than your "in theory" refactoring?
Wow, thanks for taking the time. Happy to know that ordinary people use FF as well.
I love it! One thing I would like to see before booking a room are dated panoramic images of a typical room, so you have some idea of what to expect. It's not an easy problem though, since each room is different, and someone has to update all the info and verify. The layout and "Our Take" sections are awesome though.
"In the beginning, there was the command line..."
CloudMagic - A better life with every search
Deviations from the Poisson distribution are exactly what he is testing for. The paper you referenced discusses how to model in the presence of overdispersion. Not how to test that as a hypothesis.

Moreover Poisson distributions are generated from events that occur in a very small fraction of all opportunities, but with many opportunities each time period. So, unless the timing of shootings is correlated (again, the thing he is testing for), this is a perfect use case for the Poisson distribution.
Here's a list of books that I read this year and liked. My favorite was Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. The rest are all worth reading. I hesitated to put "The Joy of Clojure" on that list because it's too narrow, but it's one of the best programming books I've seen.

http://diegobasch.com/books
What I'm hearing is that there was a lengthy render time to convert out of the proprietary format.
Manning 50% off everything, ends today (code: dotd1225)
I love recommendation engines as much I love people making recommendations on good reads based on what they think it would be interesting.

I posted this link here just for the sake of discussing the books and maybe learning about new ones.

BTW which book would you like to know more about?
Someone recommended this - at first I thought the title sounded too cheesy, but then again I already had plenty of (bad) management books, so I gave it a try:

http://www.amazon.com/Its-Your-Ship-Management-Techniques/dp...

While not featuring any groundbreaking ideas, it's convincing and straight to the point.
Hoodle - A lovely PDF annotator/note taking program written in Haskell
I don't understand. Why "reading sequentially from hard disk" is getting faster? Is 2012's 5400 rpm different from 2002's 5400 rpm?!
I wish there was a mathematical theory for what 'understanding' is. For instance, I too suspect that whatever we call a function of a system, something that the system does, can not simply occur by random parts coming together.

To be clear, I don't think a layer of sands has the function of filtering water. It does filter water, but it does it in the virtue of static property, in the first of the geometry of the system not the mechanics.

There is something about systems that do something that I can't name, having limited knowledge on the subject.

Could anyone give me a hint on research done on this?
Steam goes down
It seems impossible to login on the steam platform wich makes it impossible to play any game. The support page seems down too.
https://support.steampowered.com/
Since their rep double booked the room I had already booked online (which I told him) and I released expedia points weren't worth shit, I've been using hotels.com. Free night every 10. That's pretty sweet. (Note, I have no affiliation w/ hotels.com or whatever, it's just what works for me).

Wish I hadn't wasted all those nights getting expedia points worth what $10 bux maybe after 20+ nights?

Fuck that.
Not really an authority on this issue, but regardless of the feelings of their current members, it's really not a battle worth fighting. The amount of financial and political capital required is staggering.

That said, at the time, the NRA supported the both the laws that effectively ban machine guns. The NRA's stance on gun control, as well as what the NRA itself stands for has changed throughout its history.
looks up to me?
Funny thing is that I am not a designer too!
I'm a business/web developer usually focused more on the code's side rather than UX side.
This is why I read:
the Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers
Thinking with Type: A Primer for Designers: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students and
Illustrator CS4 for dummies

Based on your question I would go for the first 2 books: they are useful even for word processing and powerpoint slide-making
As the linear bit density increases, the read rate must increase for a constant RPM and platter size.
Craigs list finally has a map view for apartments
... what does this have to do with propaganda?

This is about the IDF keeping secret/private the details surrounding the deaths of 126 soldiers.

jacquesm, you're quite a valuable asset to this community but this is a reddit-level comment.
Don't take words literally. Instant in this context means what jawngee said, that it was so responsive to the degree that people conceived it as instant. Awesome. Layers were unlimited meaning you could add as many as you want. Undo operations were unlimited meaning you could work on it for 10 hours straight and undo to the point it was before you started working on it. I believe that's what everyone gets from these words, except you.

It's not like people will think it's unlimited for real, there's no such thing.

It seems to me you are having problems interpreting words in context.

EDIT: I mean, if he said you could have 8K undos, or 8K layers and the response time is <15ms would that make you feel better? Does it make a difference?
fixed that was a mistake in hurry. thnx i'll for the feedback will look into thing subsidized thing.
"become certified to carry the military and spy satellites"

Elon Musk might become the Alfred Nobel of our time.
I'm pretty happy with Nassim Taleb's _Antifragile_.
http://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-ebook...

It's essentially the culmination of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan.
The article wasn't a convincing argument enough?
I just run the command : find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \; on the top directory of the project (I thought i was in the working files directory). My boss is going kill me.
Couldn't agree with this more. I grew up in the Bronx, and now live in Manhattan. There are plenty of great neighborhoods in the Bronx as well as the rest of the other NYC boroughs.
Yes, the density is much higher, the time for a given number of bytes to pass under the head is declining.
Ideally your thoughts/experiences with all of them but my first two preferences would be Thinking With Type and Understanding Color.
I am learning Linux the hard way :D
Steam Hit by "No Connection" Error Worldwide, Some Users Locked Out Completely
Bedrock Linux 1.0alpha3 "Bosco" released
Okay, please tell me what I should do instead, if you grant me:

(1) I cannot easily garner which big corporations are "evil" and which are good. I do not have any practical way of finding out about hotels elsewhere without going through some large corporation. Whether it be Expedia, Hotels.com, Hipmunk (okay, Hipmunk is probably smaller), Google, Yelp... I have heard complaints about all of them. If I switch from Expedia to something else, am I doing better?

(2) My time is valuable. If two minutes of effort on my part would divert $20 from Expedia to an independent hotelier, and everything would otherwise be the same for me, then I would happily do this.

Sometimes, surely it would. But it is my experience that this often takes more effort than it should, the first phone number I call often turns out not to be the right number, or the price will be higher, or I get put on hold, etc., etc.

And for that matter, don't travel agents charge commissions too? They have to eat, so someone has to pay them. I don't want to pay extra, and if the hoteliers pay the commissions, then is this better than Expedia?

Grant me at least that the solution is not obvious.
I had hoped to have a video up in time to show off the changes with benchmarks and the like, that will have to be delayed a day or two. Apparently my family members are adamant that they are to spend time with me today.
Startups Don't Celebrate Christmas
Well, perhaps your startup does, but mine doesn't. A few presents and a family dinner is all and then back to coding, writing content, and fixing bugs.

While much of the Christian-Catholic world is thinking about anything but work. I couldn't get it out of my mind if I tried nor could I pry myself away from it for more than a few hours for anything less than a grievous injury of a loved one.

Does anyone else find themselves in a similar position on this day? Is this a common dilemma of impassioned founders or is this an unbalanced entrepreneurial lifestyle bound for eventual implosion? Thoughts? Input?

Merry X-Mas HN or whatever you happen to be celebrating during this holiday season!