skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then the owner reupload it again, until you get broke for doing such silly things. And of course the video owner will vlog about it and YouTube will decide that they are just going to decrease the views counter.

This kinds of countermeasures generalizations based on single incidents always struck me as rather silly.
Groovy: We don't control Rails.
Ask HN: News recommendation engines?
I'm looking for "news recommendation engines" as opposed to news readers. It could be a web site / mobile app / desktop app. I may be using the wrong term here, but by "news recommendation engine" I mean something that takes some seed data to create a personalized feed for me. It could be search terms, topics, or social media integration, anything to help it recommend news from sites I may have never heard of before.

What do you use? What apps have you heard of that try to do this?
A quote: "... as proposed by one hundred writers from fifty-four different countries ..."

Letting writers choose a list of "best books" is like letting politicians decide what's best for the country.
> It still seems to me like, if you have thousands of open tabs, it is your browsing habits that need to change- not Firefox.

"You're holding it wrong."

Decisions like these make software that's unusable for some people. It's the Apple Syndrome: You either obey the One Steve Jobs Way or you go elsewhere. Let's leave the Apple Syndrome to Apple, and make software everyone can use.
For people who want to focus but cannot always, GTD is a floor. While doing deep work, he should do nothing else. When he is not, or more importantly when he cannot, he at least takes care of small things and chips away at his big projects until he's pulled back into them completely.

I like a literary analogy here: I would recommend GTD to an obituaries editor for everything. I would have recommended it to Samuel Coleridge to keep him working during his low periods, since they prevented him from finishing his work. I would never recommend it to a busy genius like Shakespeare or Dosteyevsky for fear of ruining their ability to write (I assume I would have recognized their genius as a contemporary; please work with me.)
With VLDBs it matters what you do and how you do it
> That they will try to tie too many "HTML5" apps with OS-related plugins.

ActiveX failed back when Microsoft had a monopoly on practically all end-user systems. Now, with Android devices and iPads and Mac laptops some people actually use and so on, how well could it possibly work these days?
The interest rate on two out of the three student loans is extremely high. My loans weren't government backed due to being a foreign national, so full private student loans. I am paying the minimum on two, and the highest one is getting paid about $200 more than minimum to get rid of it ASAP.

Consolidating wouldn't help, it would actually hurt me in the long run. So for now I just suck it up.
How is this any different on Android/iOS than it is on Windows/Linux/Mac?
"Most of the time this is determined by if they have technical people in the leadership ranks or not.", can you elaborate a bit on this ?

According to my experience, management has always viewed software as binary world: it works or it does not.

About your last sentence, I was about to but gave myself a reason no to; instead of trying to change things, I simply leave them the way they are and stop "bitching" about it. Either way, I will see if good engineering practices are really important or if a team can do without it (and what the potential cost would be).

Now, my only focus is becoming good at spotting bugs, fixing them and implementing features with fewest lines possible (a.k.a Spartan programming) :)
What's that Dilbert management quote? "I can't do it so it must be easy".
Http://www.betapunch.com is nice.
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The idea is as the graph comes 'out of the valley', things become more and more real - so the familiar scenes, which look false to us, stay in the uncanny valley, whilst the less familiar scenes have already climbed up the other side. Just my interpretation / application of the age old theory though, so it's open to question no doubt - thanks for reading :-)
I don't see how this could end well. Not to say the potential privacy violations too.
This is an example of a problem called the Coupon Collector problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector%27s_problem). Short version is that the expected value of number of pulls you'll need to collect all of the coupons (candy in this case) is nln(n), or about 16 pulls in this case. Of course some people are just going to be unlucky (as you demonstrated).
I think the argument is that the valley is further left on unfamiliar scenes, as "can just barely tell it's wrong" is more wrong for those things that stuff we know really well.

Alternatively you could say "Orcs are unreal, so there isn't an uncanny valley at all for them"
Prismatic and news.me come to mind.
Think of every company that has sent you at least three pieces of junk mail.

That's the barrier to entry imposed by a dollar on direct marketers.
Well, you're wrong, at least for a specific segment of hardware and software on the market. The size of a packet is not related to the acceptable per-connection overhead. Some network devices like ASIC-accelerated routers can't handle any per-connection state.

If you don't believe me, hop on any kernel development mailing list and try to convince them they could solve world hunger by only adding 1 KB overhead to the TCP socket structure that tracks actve connection states.
As a person who doesn't have an eye for design these are very helpful, thanks for sharing!
Of course, that's why there is this illusion of "progress marches on" when in reality it's a bunch of breakthroughs under the curtains.
Google has a process set up for doing exactly that. It's less outlandish than it sounds.

http://www.google.com/wallet/prepaid-refund/
> Herbalife shares slide: Bill Ackman calls it a pyramid scheme

Translation: "Bill Ackman calls it a pyramid scheme, then Herbalife shares slide."

Not taking a position on the truth of the claim, only on the sequence of events.
>As a graduate student, I didn’t need better lists of next actions. I needed instead to be training my ability to focus hard on meaningful things for long periods of time — even after it becomes uncomfortable.

This is the part I'd like to figure out how to do.
The book looks great. Just bought it on Kindle and started reading. It immediately gets down to business. I like that.
This reminds me of "Happiness = Expectations - results". You are spot on.

I think I mixed up my personal expectations (as a solo developer) with those of my company. Will keep my work related expectations low and solo developer related high.
Romain Guy - http://www.curious-creature.org/category/android/

Tim Bray - http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/Technology/Android/

Cyril Mottier - http://android.cyrilmottier.com/

CommonsWare (probably the top StackOverflow Android answerer) - http://commonsware.com/blog/

Android Developer Experts - https://developers.google.com/experts/members/
#2 is very important in SF too.

A landlord will never give you a truthful answer to #3 if that would cast the apartment in a negative light. You should try to talk to the prior tenant directly if at all possible.

In California an "entrance at will" clause in a residential lease is unenforceable. The reasons and notice requirements that a landlord may enter a tenant's apartment are set out in law. If you see in it your lease it does suggest that your landlord doesn't know the law very well though.
Well now, aren't you being Mr. OCD today? No need to get all ICD-9 and DSM-V on me.
Sorry but to me the overuse of gold just says 'You can be Donald Trump.' I understand the idea behind it but the contrast between the designs highlights a problem with this kind of project: lack of input.

Exec's current design makes the whole proposition feel more normal and the way they've put the personal elements up-front helps allay any latent worries about somebody being exploited. I don't think this is accidental.

Web designers sometimes forget that visual communication is about so much more than layout, colours and fonts. The visual content is extremely important. And I suspect that with reference to their marketing goals, Exec have done well here. (Of course there's room for improvement.)

FWIW, I think this is the weakest of the designs the OP has presented, and that because of a difference in message. Not at all saying you're bad at what you do, Kyro. Speaking of exploitation, I've downloaded the pack and will no doubt learn something from it. Thanks!
Something I've found with GTD is something that's somewhat alluded to in the book. Granted I don't remember the book outright (perhaps I could do with another reread...), but the gist is that if you're having trouble with a "thing" on your list, you just need to reduce that "thing" down more because it's too broadly scoped as stated.

Instead of "work singlemindedly and with complete focus on MyNewWebApp", perhaps "Write user authentication module for MyNewWebApp" or even "Get basic username/password authentication working for etc."

Just about anything and everything can be broken down this way; in fact I struggle to imagine something that is incompatible with this! The author of this piece even fails to give any examples of what he means by something that couldn't be broken down.

The other thing is that GTD is a framework. You can follow the way the book tells you to do it to the letter, but then you're missing out. Start with the book, add a little, take a little, mix in whatever works for you. Once you've got the foundation, improvements will come naturally. I'm doing a little GTD mixed in with pomodoro right now and it works incredibly well for keeping my ADD-addled mind in check.
Sure, but that's just splitting hairs. Rather than colocate DSA appliances with the origin (which again is not new), they simply run the software on the origin machine.
Like others have said, this is in no way a replacement for a pedal-powered generator, nor is it a replacement for a standing lamp. It's for folks in developing countries who would gladly trade lifting a pound or two of weight for 30 minutes of dim light.

Be cynical about the math, sure, but if the math works, don't assume technology is useless because it doesn't have a place in a 25 year old's San Francisco apartment.
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Catholics believe that there is no contradiction between Christianity ans evolution, and since Catholics make up more tha 50% of Christians, so your claim that most Christians see a contradiction is incorrect.
Unfortunately Walkscore's coverage is pretty variable, and it's downright useless outside the U.S...
True, in which case I think putting the orcs elevated out of the uncanny valley towards reality is probably a strange thing to do! Can't remember the last time I came across an orc on the way to the shops..!
Same theory still applies for panning through scenery or walking thru a marketplace though.
What are some great examples of well-designed personal websites?
My personal website is in need of a redesign but inspiration has not yet struck me. Everyone on hacker news reads a lot or at least visits lots of diverse websites, so post your favorite designs here and hopefully we can all be inspired!
I believe that as developers, it's our role to give the users what they want and not judge them.

Except in cases where we really do know better and the user is likey just digging themselves deeper (e.g., creating security problems). Then they deserve a warning.

If you were WalMart manager and someone came in and a schoolteacher bought your entire inventory of crayons and wanted more, would you not order more for them? Or would you say "you need to change those kids' habits so they aren't breaking all those crayons".
There was also an article in The Sun (British newspaper) about how the Internet was some loopy idea that was never gonna work..

This stuff happens.
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I can't believe how far I had to scroll down the page to find any comment like yours. All flow all the time may be great for individual productivity, but it's absolute poison for team productivity.
I would say that if lots of users are using tabs as placeholders in this way, and I personally know a lot including myself, then it's evidence of the bookmarking system being a bad or poorly designed solution for this problem. Bookmarks are treated as long term archives for links, and more trouble to manage, curate, and organize than is necessary for ephemeral sites you'd like to read later.

Some people mention "read it later" features, which I personally use. Safari has read lists, but I would argue these are also poorly understood and under utilized by most people.

For me, I believe a solution is something like "read it later", but lighter weight, easier to manage, and more integrated so that it doesn't just end up being another out of sight, forgotten backlog of things you wish you had read.
SCNR. I suppose the advantage of clock winding mechanisms is that they can deliver (mechanically) a constant, relatively low level of power. Compared to an LED, a wristwatch uses very little power (about 1µW according to Wikipedia). Of course this lamp may be more comparable to a grandfather clock than a wristwatch; I don't know how much power a grandfather watch requires, but the energy you store winding it up can't be that high since it's not that much work, and the strength of the mechanism is that the stored energy is then delivered over a long time, ie. days.

Also, with clocks, you get to skip the conversion of the energy completely. That immediately gets you a much higher efficiency than this lamp, which is potential energy converted to electricity (losing heat), converted to light (losing heat). Of course energy transmission losses still apply, ie. it's not free to get the mechanical energy from the spring to the hands of the watch.
Lack of plugins is a benefit in my world! :-)

Seriously, there are other tangible security benefits to 64 bits as well. For example, ASLR is going to have more bits with which to randomize DLL base addresses.
Boeing uses potatoes instead of people to test wi-fi
The patents were all disclosed the moment they issued, so I'm not following your argument.
The billions of dollars that could be used to lobby special interests into law is who's trying to say they can't run it on 'their' phones..
I'm with Robert here - I don't own an eBook reader and don't enjoy reading off computers nearly as much as paper. Is the best option to buy a PDF and get it printed and bound at a local print shop?
The first gen Google TV platforms (Sony Bluray player, Logitech Revue) were also x86 based.
Spy is a compact file system watcher for Mac OS X and Linux
Can I buy it for you?
I thought people want electrolysis or 64 bit because they have so many tabs open that they run out of address space; no amount of snappiness will fix that problem.
I'm a bit confused. What is this notion of "pure randomness" that this article and many comments seem to be eluding to? Perhaps I'm just not using the same definitions of terms, but I thought a uniform distribution is still considered random.
If the area you're searching is more suburban or, for any other reason, mass transit isn't a factor, look at the cars parked nearby. New and well-maintained cars reflect positively on your neighbors.
Totally unrelated to the article, but you should CNAME your tumblr blog so that HN et al. show flutterapp.com
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Intellectual property is a farce. Intellectual property is state-sponsored monopoly. Ideas are not property. Reading a book is not theft. Looking at a picture is not trespassing.

The assertion that we would not have a vibrant economy without intellectual property is historically and factually false.

But of course, the response from any defender of non-sensical and arbitrary government intervention is: Not the "right" regulations at the "right" time.
> "Most of the time this is determined by if they have technical people in the leadership ranks or not.", can you elaborate a bit on this ?

From my experience, non-technical managers often don't realize the importance of these processes. Us programmers know how important is to control how the codebase grows—when there are more than a few programmers touching the code, and when the software keeps growing, a good test suite will prevent the team from having to spend a lot of time trying to change something in the future without breaking anything else (often in vain.)

I worked for both kind of people, those who understand and those who don't. I found it was a huge PITA to work for people who don't understand, especially if they can influence the hiring process. They will have a direct impact on the culture of the team, and I don't believe a single developer can change this alone.

This is just anecdotal, but the place where I worked for this kind of people just closed the doors; the software grew to a point where it was unmaintanable and, despite all my efforts to convince them on fixing things instead of putting new features like mad, nobody ever listened. Now talk about frustration...

Edit: of course I don't believe every non-tech manager is like this. There are those who, despite knowing about nothing when it comes to software development, knows how to identify someone who does, hires this person and trusts their opinion. Basically, people who know what they don't know.
Electrolysis also broke compatibility with many Firefox add-ons. The code is not dead, however. It's used in B2G.
Valid point, will do.
SF anyone?
Just noting that based on the valuation of the company he is a billionaire, but GoPro is still a privately held business, so he [probably] doesn't have that sort of money on hand or available as short/safe investments.

There are rumors of a GoPro IPO early next spring though[1], so he may have the cash very soon.

[1]: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-17/gopro-widens...
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That's interesting but then we're talking about another game. If there's a pack of cards indicating dice results you can have the equivalent of a 'warm deck' and a 'cold deck'.

Players can then start counting. E.g.: I know '8' came out 7 times and '6' only came out once, then it changes my strategy because there's a benefit to expand with a new settlement (or make a "city") on an '6' instead of an '8'.

I'm not against it: it's interesting. But it's not really the Settlers of Catan anymore: it's a game which happens to share a lot of rules with the Settlers of Catan but which is definitely different.
Check which ISPs offer service there. For example, if you intended to get DSL, the new apartment might be far from the central office or you might only get a service that the apartment management has an agreement with.
I was under the impression that a uniform distribution is still considered random, but that there are simply many other random distributions. If you have a flat 1/10 chance of receiving a certain item, then sure, you might do the task 30 times without getting it. But if it were programmed such that you will always receive the item at some point within the first 10 completions of the task (i.e. 10% of players receive it after their first completion, 10% after their second completion, etc.) I would still consider that random, and not really more or less random than the 1/10 scenario. I'm not sure what you mean by "real randomness."
I don't think a non-evil carrier could compete against Verizon and AT&T. Human psychology is so susceptible to "pay less now but more later" and "shiny widgets that don't work" that companies cannot afford to do the right thing. Just look at how T-Mobile is considered too weak to survive by many analysts.
And if they use standard police tactics of first trying to perhaps even offer help in wanting to commit the crime, to try to persuade them in a means to meetup, potentially coercing someone to do something they wouldn't actually follow through with on their own..
Many are held by 3D Systems (example: Zcorp has a patent on full color printing via inkjet), some by other organizations. UT Austin has the patent for SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) which is a nylon-based high-resolution 3d print. MIT has the patent for ceramic 3d printing.
> This reminds me of Magic: the Gathering and the misery of mana screw.

Incidentally, apparently people complain about the online versions of the game providing a land distribution that's "too even".

Also, while mana screw sucks, between the fact that you can decide whether or not to begin with a certain opening hand and the fact that you can design your deck around such circumstances (mana fixing, proper distribution of card costs), it's far more fun than the alternative.
what are these "GTD Summary" books you talk about?
Looks like it may prove to have been a good bet after all!

http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/21/apple-statement-on-cancell...
> Ideas are not property. Reading a book is not theft.

You're confused. The two sentences above have no common ground. Reading a book is not theft, but falsely claiming ownership of a book's content certainly is theft.
I'd hoped that rust would have a lot of powerful tools for typing and exposing invariants and contracts— tools to help create provably reliable software. As sexy as new programming tools are, the big problem in software today is that we simply can't manage the complexity of it and as a result _everything_ is full of bugs and unintended behavior. Addon layers like ACSL are hard to use and messy because they work at odds with the language, instead, e.g. of being integrated with the typesystem.

I was hopeful that rust could really advance the art here in the context of practically usable systems (vs academic toys) and I suppose it does, but it also lost features for formal analysis between versions and as its now becoming stable I suppose they won't return.
Yes, it could have been a bit more clear in how they "weren't being aimed". Obviously the Germans did not just point them straight up and light them off, hoping for the best. What this really demonstrated was something more like where the noise floor for the bomb distribution was. They could hit "London" but they couldn't hit any particular place in it. Very important for the military to know that information.
We're only talking about 64-bit builds of Firefox for Windows. Firefox builds for Mac OS X and Linux are already 64-bit. Chrome is 32-bit on both Windows and Mac OS X.
So, I did a quick bit of math. You can pull one piece every hour for two weeks, but sleeping, not playing, missing days etc, meant that I effectively pulled ~100 pieces. The chance of missing a certain piece is 7/8, so missing a certain piece 100 times in a row is (7/8)^100, which is roughly a little bit more than one in a million.

The chance of failure would be 8 times that much because there are 8 pieces you could miss, which comes to about 12.7 per million.
> Oh yes. Our intuition is that random is fair and uniform, but it's absolutely not.

But a uniform distribution is random, isn't it? This sort of phrasing is rampant in this thread, and I'm confused by it. How can a uniform distribution be considered non-random, or "less" random than another distribution?
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Not an unprecedented position: http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/73/Sao_Paulo_A_City_Withou...
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Is it possible that the uncanniness of the more mundane in The Hobbit magnifies our affinity for the more fantastical? I don't doubt The Hobbit has improved on the technology and its applications to film. However, if the mundane is relatively more uncanny than in other films, perhaps a more modest improvement is benefiting from comparison to a lower baseline. That is, maybe the lows are slightly lower, and the highs are only slightly higher.
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