skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's obviously little point in continuing this further. I originally wanted to point out that you were making some bold assertions. I also admitted ignorance, but I pointed you to Michael Albert's work, who both theorizes about and follows experiments in self-managing workplaces, where you'll be able to read that what you've pointed out is a valid concern and how they propose you get around it. Also, if you read it carefully, you'll also see some other small inaccuracies in your summary of Nobel's argument.

I didn't think I was being flippant or rude and I'm sorry that I've come across that way. If I did have knowledge or an informed opinion about this, I would've shared it. If I could've stated my opinion better, I would've. I shared what I knew. However, you also have a certain responsibility, if you want to be taken seriously, to study at least partially the material you criticize.
The smallest uninteresting number
OK, so basically the difference between conscious and subconscious motivations.

There's a lot of good self-help material dealing with getting those better aligned. Tony Robbins comes to mind.
Ha okay - working on a more detailed comment.
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I don't think the original posting was taking aim at copyright infringement. I think it's just a neat idea that appeals to the hacker instinct - which is why it keeps popping up again and again.
Honestly I don't understand the constant whining and whinging about ubuntu/canonical commercialization.

Fucking shock horror they want to be profitable, while releasing quality open source software.

Big Fucking Deal. Microsoft? Apple? Anyone?
A profitable open source Linux OS vendor is a real benefit to open source software. It can provide much needed investment in open technologies and drive hardware and software vendors to releasing linux friendly products.

I truly don't understand all the ubuntu hate I keep seeing lately...
It's not a disease it's a condition. Sorry just a lot of people would find that word offensive.
I'm not really saying the old OSes were better. In many ways we have come a long long way. Yes the command lines in the old OSes were better. They were easier to learn and understand. They had features that seem to be missing in many shells today. Things like autocomplete for example. But mainly I think we need more new stuff. Stuff I don't know is missing. I don't want a return to the old but a look to what would be new.
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There's an ios app called "Minecraft Reality" which uses camera tracking to put models into physical spaces. It's not seamless by any stretch (you manually download each model from a list of nearby placements before viewing) and it loses sync if the scene is changed too much, but it does a pretty good job of accurately placing the objects. I imagine that maybe taking advantage of 3d sensors like leapmotion could make it a lot more robust.
When reading your post it reminded of my own "sally". She is straightforward , kind hearted, truthful, caring etc. When we find such a person in our lives , the love that comes out is purely unconditional! We finally realise that no matter what this person says, looks, behaves, what she does or does not, or if the world may come to an end, no matter what we will love with uncondition love. Its a gift (love) to the pure hearted from god himself!
If they were written in a portable language like C, maybe, but you will have to recompile them. I think the point of their WCH tool is to rewrite the machine code from x86 to ARM without having the source code, so it's a much harder problem than recompiling.
> There was an essay a long time ago, a writer had been filing every link and every note into a pre-Evernote piece of notetaking/hyperlinking/PIM software, something with an X or a Z in the name, but I can't recall it or the piece. The essay was about an article he was writing during which the software brought up a saved article and a note he had written, and forgotten about, in a creepily timely and seemingly prescient moment. He wondered at what point the software needs to get credit for providing the research and the associations.

Would life-logging help us find this essay or would the essay still be tricky to re-discover?

(Frustratingly, Wikipedia "Lists of X" is in fact "Lists of X where each item on the list must have a Wikipedia article". That's probably great in some respects, but it makes for a lousy comprehensive list.)
The notion that SSL is a cost keeps it from mass adoption.
have we really seen that much improvement in UI over the years? I wonder how much more we could see if the underlying OS was more supportive.
$54 per hour for what? Is this simply the cost of running the instances? It seems to me like pinterest is throughput bound and the vast majority of their costs would be accrued via transit and storage charges.
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Very nice article. My primary question: when I need to document the process, how do I best encode the culture and values into the document?

Should I aim to explain the values that we're upholding (code quality, documentation quality, test quality, etc.), in every step?
You could break servers down that way too; each new server has a footprint in terms of the energy it uses, and the carbon footprint in creating and transporting it.

If 10,000 people take this pledge, and take it seriously, does that materially have a cost too?

Thought experiment.
I'm hoping for multitouch gestures via the existing synaptics driver. Converting millions of existing laptop touchpads into multitouch pads would make a far more exciting announcement than launching a new tablet or phone or whatever.
Don't forget that Ubuntu draws on the many volunteers behind Debian, and then gets most of the credit.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a terrible idea? Normal people don't have the time to vote on every single issue; we have our own jobs to do. A system like this just means he'll be voting with the loudest minority for everything that comes up.
"Sorry you're permanently broken as a person. Although i feel a strong affection for you, you're just not someone who should ever be in a romantic relationship. Because obviously you're just going to end up hurting anyone who gets close to you in the long run, and be hurt when they leave you. Have a nice life. Glad i don't have your problems!"
Highly recommend you try Skritter in addition to Mandarin Tap. No affiliation, just completely and utterly blown away by how much faster I could study Chinese during a year long intensive immersion course solely by using Skritter (threw away my notecards).

From experience, Skritter can reduce your weekly study requirements from hours of painful rote memorization to "roll out of bed at 9:30, study 20 minutes before weekly quiz and ace it every time". It's fun and enjoyable to use, and furthermore you can load vocab lists from textbooks, and work through them in the proper order. This means building your vocabulary in logical ways while also learning how to write Chinese.

I wish I had Mandarin Tap too though. In Skritter you can load from textbooks and customize long sentences, but I like how Mandarin Tap gives you neat categories from which to pick. This can be more expedient than working through a textbook, though working through the textbook can still be irreplaceable.

TLDR; get skritter too, it's truly an amazing piece of software. Wouldn't be surprised if the founders are on HN. It's also $10/mo recurring whereas this is $3.

[feedback after purchasing and using Mandarin Tap]

- The app's title on iPhone 4S is "LearnFastIOS", not Mandarin Tap. You can do better on the icon.

- The app doesn't scroll smoothly on iPhone 4S

- Interface is really lacking

I'm really busy today, but I may come back to Mandarin Tap when I'm more focused on refreshing my Chinese. I'm overall not impressed, for $3 I want an interface better than a poorly scrolling big long list.
Note: The original title for this HN post was "Dear Michael Arrington, Perhaps You Are Bored Because You Are Boring" but somehow got edited to "Perhaps You Are Bored Because You Are Boring."

If someone can tell me why the original HN title was wrong, that would be greatly appreciated.

No big deal, just curious.
For now they really only saved $300k/yr, which is less than the cost of two engineers. Though I guess cutting a nontrivial expense that is likely to grow by nearly a factor of three is pretty great and probably worth investing in.

That said, this adds complexity to their systems with the only benefit being cost savings. Given that we can assume that no code is perfect, it's likely that at some point the auto-downscaling will cause an outage or period of slow responses, which could easily lead to lost usage and trust that costs them as much as they're saving on ops.
So, if I pay into Social Security and expect to see something when I retire, but am opposed to government control of, say education, or the postal service, I'm an ignorant hypocrite?

I guess Dave missed the lessons in college on informal logic because he would have learned about strawman arguments and the part to whole fallacy.
Why Rails' ActiveQueue got moved to a branch
Ideally less? We should have adopted zero tolerance years ago. Letting end users' machines be pwned to save 1 ns not checking for a buffer overrun is absurdly bad engineering.
That's pretty interesting. I've been frustrated in the past by both AWS and GoGrid (and I'm sure every other cloud provider) that keep incurring VPS instance costs even when the instance is shut off. I understand that even if I'm not using the VPS the resources need to be kept in reserve (in theory), but the solution of destroying and reprovisioning instances sucks pretty bad, way to time consuming if you are dealing with only a handful and operationalizing it is not not worth it.

I'd love to move to a provider that let me provision an extra instance or two for either failover or testing/staging but not be charged for it if I wasn't running traffic to it.

EDIT: I stand corrected, I might have been thinking of Rackspace's cloud (can't remember what it's called now) instead of AWS. But I know for a fact I am right on GoGrid (and pretty sure Azure) because I have a long email chain arguing about charges for provisioned instances in off states.
Jeez, I thought I had a lot of side projects, but I think you have me beat. You've inspired me to make my own list:

Scrollorama
http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrollorama/

What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design
http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrolldeck.js/decks/responsive...

Scrolldeck
http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrolldeck.js

Scrollorama2:SuperScrollorama
http://johnpolacek.github.com/superscrollorama/

Are You A Brogrammer
http://areyouabrogrammer.com

BigVideo.js
http://dfcb.github.com/BigVideo.js/

Channel of Awesome
http://dfcb.github.com/channel-of-awesome/

Responsivator!
http://dfcb.github.com/Responsivator/

stacktable.js
http://johnpolacek.github.com/stacktable.js/

controldeck.js (2013)
http://dfcb.github.com/controldeck.js/
Oh, I'm sure I have it saved somewhere, but your point is apt: if all you remember is the general concept, but none of the key phrases used, nor a specific enough timeframe, when you've been saving things about wearable computing for fifteen years (as I have), how do you find it? I don't know that that's a solved problem yet.

At least, it would only be fifteen years of personal saved items to go through, instead of the entire internet.
I do. It's hard enough to bring people out of closed OSes while Ubuntu is free. I still think Canonical should do like many successful startups these days: make a large userbase and only then start to deploy the business model.

We're not going to bring many people to OSS if we make it as expensive as the system they're locked in. One more obstacle.
It's interesting in that it's trying to learn from newer efforts and back-port aspects of them into OpenID, while maintaining backward compatibility. I'm still not sure who it's for, though, since OpenID shows that URL-based IDs are really hard for the general public...

That said, I wouldn't go as far as dreamdu5t in suggesting that we as a community stop working on alternative solutions. I work on Persona and think it's fantastic, but no identity system is a panacea.

Of course, I would really love to read a more thorough post from the author regarding his decision to roll his own system.

PS: ecaron, I think I owe you a coffee and a much belated email. :)
Can this work for web / SaaS apps?
Visual Studio + ReSharper is a dream come true. As someone who learns by doing rather than studying, ReSharper's refactorings and inline code reformatting suggestions was an invaluable source of idiomatic C# knowledge (second only to great code reviews from one of my C#-clueful coworkers). And Visual Studio's debugger lets you move the program counter backwards, which is just awesome for interactive REPL-esque development.

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If more people danced naked in a garden the world would be a better place.
We only have acoustic guitars at my house. Will this work with them? Should I use an amp? (1 has a pickup).
All of the jobs I looked at the description for have "Min Experience: Experienced." I just graduated in December; is Tumblr looking for new grad hires?
Mercedes-Benz is now costly up to 3%
Designing For Resiliency Will Be So 2013
>The fact that you are fluent in English and have internet access suggests that you much more educated and wealthy than the average Indian.

I agree I cannot speak for the poor in India. Both my parents were employed and my annual income was 5 times the per-capita income in India.

>You get to have your cake and eat it as well. The poor in India do not. And they would rather eat the cake (have development, rather than freedom). Because they are not even really free.

I agree they are not free. But I do not see how you can speak for them.
Aren't you lucky you don't have a severe mental illness? Obviously anyone that does should be avoided like the plague, regardless of how many good qualities and virtues they have about them. If you're that broken, you just don't deserve romance and love. But obviously life is still worth living, so don't kill yourself silly!
Sounds like a great idea. The senators wouldn't be forced to vote based on the population's "feedback" in all cases, so you'd still have a republic, not a real "direct democracy", and in the same time they'd get much better and more accurate information about what their constituents really want, compared to how they get it now through the "experts" (lobbyists).
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Direct democracy enables citizens to vote for every service imaginable and vote to pay no taxes for them.
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I'm suprised this doesn't get said more often, I've seen dfd (and gfw) linked many times, on many forums, but rarely are these sources critisised.

Also, your first paragraph is ambiguous, I'm guessing it means: drd is a guide to 'derailing' tactics used on forums, that is itself used to...
I second taking notes as you go, here are mines (from 2 years ago, in french): https://github.com/romainl/dotvim/wiki/Notes

Bram Moolenaar's seven habits has great insights about this subject: http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html
Yes it works with any guitar and you don't need a pickup or any cables. Because it listens thru the microphone, you can just sit near your computer and play your guitar like you normally would.
Well this is just polling, it still is a stupid idea even from just poling point of view.

To tell the truth I would like to see the 17th Amendment repealed, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...

if there is interest I am willing to write up why, but now I need to make coffee
But it is NOT as expensive as the system they're going to. Ubuntu is and always will be free. It's also open source. The majority of users are not thinking of freedom when choosing an OS and price is only part of the story. In the end, like it or not, Users choose OS's based on a number of factors, including the eco-system of the operating system, software availability, hardware and device support. etc etc.
Ubuntu users are not getting locked in. They can still do whatever they like with their operating system once ubuntu is installed.
It seems to me that this may already be the case?
Is cost savings really the only benefit? It seems to me that this is a better engineering outcome.
Excellent comment! But I take issue with a few points.

I think that recording everything is almost useless, without a good filter (approaching AI levels). The real power, I think, comes in recall and referencing. Just as an example, I've been reading "The Stars my Destination" and two words came up that I didn't recognize (epileptoid and asthenic - funny, FF doesn't recognize them either!), and it would have been handy to just look them up quickly.

As to "forgetting", people already abuse current mnemonic devices (such as photos) to "hold on" too long, and using people's words against them is a problem with or without perfect recall.

For trade secrets, etc, you do what any high security facility does: recording/transmitting devices left at the door, outside, and simply accept the crippling that comes from lack of instant access to information.

Also, what's wrong with living inside Emacs? ;P

Edit to followup: Works of fiction I've found interesting in this vein include "The Final Cut" (even with the poor execution) and "Strange Days"; anyone have any recommendations along these lines?
I imagine it was deemed uncivil. The point gets lost of we starting debating about whether or not we like Michael Arrington as a person.
Gregory's iPhone contract
It's not money to cure the condition with! It's living expenses. How much do you live on per month?
I think it is safe to justify calling someone a douchebag when they attempt to claim ownership of a very generic style and concept.
Math.random is not CSPRNG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographically_secure_pseudo...
Ideally that wouldn't matter. People who care about an issue would vote on it.

That opens another can of worms, though - not enough people know or care about issues that will directly or indirectly affect them. People who do usually have some vested interest at stake.

The key to success IMO for a system like this is preventing the real-world equivalent of bots and voting rings. Bots are one thing, but I'd imagine voting rings would be very difficult to mitigate in a system like this. I guess it depends on the parties involved raising awareness effectively.
For fun I wonder what they'd make if they just put one advertisement per page from Google's ad network on each pageview. There's enough textual content on each page for Google to probably provide relatively targeted ads.
I have recommended skitter in the past and received a lot of positive feedback from hn. Their mobile app is top notch. Plus they integrate with many other Chinese and Japanese learning tools so you get a good experience.
It's not ideal (what is?!) but I'd take that over deciding based on what their richest donors want - which is how most people in Congress vote these days.

Besides, voting based on what most vocal/active constituents want is usually a pretty good idea, because they are the ones who usually research the topic the most, and have good solutions, and want their voices heard. And a senator would still have to make a judgement call and think about the whole population he's representing.
For some people, the freedom to go to a restaurant and understand the menu is considered valuable.
For the most part, it seems to be people going to a lot of trouble to save a dollar or 2 on app purchases, the type of people that were unlikely to buy anyway.

People still aren't able to make arbitrary in app purchases for free? If that is the case piracy might end up making the developer more in the long run.
Show HN: My holiday hack to validate more ideas
I've been been working on this over the holiday and I hope it's useful to some startups.
"The kernel for the Intel architecture is, I think, at this point mostly figured out. Microkernel had its shot and on Intel we have seen that it's too slow"

Does that judgment include QNX? I'm under the impression that it has quite a good performance for a microkernel.
Nice work. What did you use for the voice over in your demo video?
Can a Smartphone Be Considered a Body Part?