skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about it. When one reads about speed reading techniques it seems that the thing that limits the reading speed (if you're advanced enough) is actually (physically) flipping pages... Repositioning one's eyes from the end of one page to the beginning of another takes time too, I'm not convinced that it's the best way to read.

Do we have someone who is proficient in speed reading? I would be very interested in opinion of such a person: is paging and associated flipping of pages making speed reading harder or easier than scrolling?
I don't think the economics are there yet to attract such people.
I haven't heard of NXC! It looks like NXC is basically NQC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Quite_C) for the current-gen Mindstorms products?

(I only got a chance to play with the new Mindstorms kit briefly in college to setup a small demo, they got about 25 educational kits as part of some grant. I just used the included software.)

I got to do FIRST Lego League in grade school with the RCX 1.5 and later the RCX 2.0

AFAIK the rules prohibited us from using NQC at the time. I believe we were limited to RoboLab [a separate product sold by LabView] and the stock Mindstorms software. (*Which I should point out is _nothing_ like the current software. It was geared towards very young users, very "flashy", and quite buggy. -- It did, however, include lots of media and examples for the robots in the instruction manual.)

That regulation was probably for the best, as my elementary self would've probably been frustrated by C-style syntax. I knew it existed only because our coach and assistant coach were both software engineers.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. I know the difference.

You are trusting your money with someone who can't even make simple critical updates to an app.

Furthermore: unless some established institution wants to work with bitcoin.. like a bank, then youre leaving your money up to the hands of some individual developers who, as made apparent by this post, dont really have their shit together.

I could be wrong, there could be some massively secured bitcoin bank somewhere with a large team of security experts, insurance, etc... but based on the fact that most bitcoin banks i see use an unstyled bootstrap theme I can't imagine they really know what theyre doing.

cliffnotes: I have yet to see a bitcoin bank website that doesnt look amateur as hell. I bet money that whatever bitcoin bank was hacked had all kinds of pages on it about "how we have a full team of security advisors making sure your money is safe!" yeah right.

bitcoin itself is cool, the mediums used to store your money are what I'm not trusting.
Awesome. I was waiting on documentation before trying this out. I love that they're using Composer now.
Form and HTML helpers have been removed it seems, I wonder why?
What if the service comes with accepting a cookie? A potential "customer" that does not accept cookies is simply a waste of bandwidth.

Not a big fan of DNT, it relies on trust which prevents it from working when you want it to most. If you don't want tracked, don't accept cookies. If you can't use a service without cookies and are not happy using something like Incognito mode, stop using that service.
Do you lead, manage or influence?
"I am one of those that have traditionally found that annoying, especially in a business context. I seems slippery. What does "doing you 'best' mean? Are you truly going to do your very best and drop everything to fulfill the request? I think not. Hence the precision one is aiming for, does not seem like an improvement on the original brevity of the yes/no."

I completely understand this response, I actually really do mean I will do everything I possibly can to meet this obligation, but also recognize my commitment is not equivalent to other commitments by people who might use the same phrase.

I find myself stuck in this dilemma:

1) I can say "no" which cuts off the conversation and makes me appear unsupportive.

2) I can say "No, I don't think I will be able to." Which at least invites the requestor to inquire further.

3) I can say "I'll do my best" which accurately conveys my personal intent but sounds weak to the recipient.

4) I can say "Sure, I can probably do that" where I signal that my intent is yes but I can see issues which may interfere with my execution.

5) I can say "Sure" and 'bet on the come' as they say in Vegas which means that if things outside of my control happen in the best possible way I'll be able to fulfill the obligation, and if they don't I'll fail at filling the obligation and let you down.

I have observed that option 5 is the normal usage. It results in experiences like the one Bruce had where there are lots of commitments and not necessarily a lot of follow through. And at low "value" in terms of the commitment/cost the discussion of how much trust is impacted is interesting.

I've also observed that people in management that always say "yes" even if they only deliver a smaller percentage of the time on their commitments are more successful (in terms of raises, promotions etc) than people who actually only commit to things they actually think they can do[1]. So as a success strategy always saying yes, regardless of your understanding seems like a winning strategy. I personally can't do that though, I'm sure it has hindered my career :-).

[1] There is also a very real thing that you can often do more than you think you can, so sometimes over-comitting gets you to a higher level of efficiency. It still annoys me when someone signs up to do something that I know for a fact they won't be able to deliver, and they get full credit for the signup anyway.
Doesn't this assume all your potential tasks fall in one category or lead to one big goal like an inportant client project or something? What happens if two sets of tasks are unrelated, like dealing with kids vs projects? How do you keep the todo list from having more than one task in this case?
For an analogy, look up brownian motion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion

All those molecules bumping into a particle do cancel each other out over a long time. However, particles do drift noticeably due to this phenomenon.
I like this a lot. I can't stand those image galleries where the frame resizes itself every time you load a new picture. There's a little bug in Firefox 15.0.1 (sorry, not an Administrator):

1) Advance to the last page -- progress is 99.99%.
2) Go back one page -- progress stays at 99.99%.
3) Go back another page -- progress is 57.08% (which happens to be correct).
I don't think this is the right forum.
well, it's more embarrassing when you know i've made observations that measured the amount of that helium... :o(
First Crack in Practice: My Markdown-based CMS After Two Months
This is seen in Berlin, where some houses have several ferienwohnung. People come and go and are usually very loud while staying. People who really live in those buildings complain a lot and for a reason.
The Things iOS app is great for this. Yeah, it's pricey, but I really like the organizational features it offers, particularly the ability to separate completable projects from general life areas. For instance, I've got lists for all of my design projects, then lists for Family, Relationship, Personal, which aren't goals that are necessarily achievable, but areas that need to be worked on, nonetheless.

Mac app is $50... so I'm sticking with the iOS app for now.
Hard to believe that in this day and age, a corporation still doesn't have the right to marry.
> You're saying the UI on Google+ is broken because the header stays on the top?

1. I'm saying the UI on Google+ is broken because the way it's implemented (and it's not the sole offender) means page-wise scrolling as described by OP does not work anymore.

2. But your suggestion that G+'s worthless header has no reason to stay fixed and eat up 20~30% of the vertical space is also correct.
It seems like you might be better off keeping your goals to yourself.

http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_you...
No. A thousand times.

A bit more creativity should be allowed when handling a vulnerability of this magnitude.

For example, publish a patch that escapes all input in curious ways, presumably to prevent SQL injection. Pad it, obfuscate the actual fix with code-noise, make it annoying to read. Then release it as some handwavy, semi-plausible "follow-up" to the previous SQL-injection, urging everyone to upgrade in small caps.

Yes, a handful of blackhats will see through the bluff. However, it will likely be the exact same blackhats that already had discovered the issue after the initial SQL injection advisory.

This would have given the Rails-community a head-start, rather than unleashing every script-kiddy on the planet at once.
Forget about the aspect ratio of the panel - with enough useable pixels, it's all but irrelevant.

I use one of these cheap 2560x1440 displays. 99% of the time, I treat it as two portrait displays, each with an effective resolution of 1280x1440 (8:9 aspect ratio). My ideal monitor would be an enormously wide curved display, providing a similar workspace to a triple-monitor setup but without the inconvenience of bezels.
How would you handle a piece of content that is too long for 1 page, but doesn't deal well with being broken up? Like a tall infographic or block quote? I just think there are too many failure scenarios for this to take off. It is cool though.
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Uhm, who's going to tell them that cliking the link hits their OWA page...
Ask HN: What chat service do you use in your website?
I'm deploying my startup website now and I'm really interested in a Facebook-like chat service that I could embed in my website to speak to clients, but I'm having no luck searching google for it. Do you have any advice?
There are problems with writing back out to source files and keeping pointers in source files from debugging sessions indexed correctly. The change log mechanism handily avoids this.
Just a UX suggestion, but I would highlight the text on the input focus for easy copy/paste.
The first big jump I got was in March 2012, when I added iPad support (universal binary) and also translated the app store description to Chinese (钢琴). It turns out that people will search for their native word for piano! ;-)

Then it grew slowly over the next 8 months. I continued to add song packs and improve the app. I did some marketing on FB, https://www.facebook.com/tinypiano including a raffle where I gave away $50 iTunes GCs to generate more "likes."

In November, I also got a big bump due to Apple's iPad mini launch & piano commercial (Heart & Soul).

In December, I actually made about as much money as I made the rest of the year. Download #s were high, and AdMob/iAd eCPMs were also at their peak. It was a good month.

Relative to Tiny Piano, my 5 other apps are failures.... Collectively, they make about $50 a day. And that's probably because people who like Tiny Piano search for & download my other apps.

Here's an old blog post with some numbers: http://blog.squarepoet.com/post/35196629175/tiny-piano-sales... While my daily revenue is now below the $3K I cited in my post... it's still good enough to pay me an engineering salary every month.
How to Get a List of Class Attributes in Python
Starter League (Rails class) Week 1 experience
Momentum Manifesto: Principles for Leading High Performance Teams
Not to mention that by sharing it, he would be 33% more likely to accomplish whatever is on the list.
Another strabismic person weighing in ;) (Is that even the right word? People just call me cross-eyed...)

I had eye surgerie(s?) when I was very young and don't really remember them. They probably helped, but I've avoided further surgery due to the "guinea pig" impression you describe, and the fact that I don't feel like my vision is severely inhibited. My depth perception is probably worse than that of other people, but I've never known better (and I think my brain has learned to compensate using a strategy skewed toward motion parallax instead of stereopsis).

Anyway, this scrolling method is unreadable to me, for whatever that's worth.
As well as the doubly-linked list http://www.google.com/patents?id=Szh4AAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...
Nothing is impossible, but remotely hacking a bank is pretty damn close. A number of years ago, a friend worked for a large multi-national bank. He once described to me some of the key components of the security system. While the details are hazy (such as I understood them at the time), I do remember that one of the key points was that one of the "very important" servers that handled transactions between outside entities (i.e. other banks) and internal systems was double-firewalled. That is, you couldn't initiate connections from the internet or the intranet. The server would only make connections to hosts of its own choosing, on its own schedule.

Modifying or updating anything on the server required physical access.

That server was located in a secure vault.
The future of social media is engagement.
I love Laravel, it's the simplest and most expressive PHP framework that I've used, and it does everything I want it to do out of the box. I really like that Laravel 4's API is practically identical to Laravel 3, too.

Btw you can browse the code on GitHub if you don't want to download it: https://github.com/laravel/framework
They could offer FLAC and MP3 instead of CDs and MP3...
When I was using NXT in high school for the FIRST Tech Challenge, RobotC was a proprietary IDE with its own C-like language for NXT that had wireless (Bluetooth) download, debugging, and remote control (with support for common PC joypads). I honestly thought it made NXC look like a joke.
No One Will Steal Your Big Idea
Trillion $ Coin(TDC)idea: Born on a web forum.(I was there)
Nice start! It's great to see small initiatives like this grow.

Question: how are results being ranked? I did a search for "creativity" and got a slew of outdated (~22 days) results. Not quite what I was expecting.
As others have said, it is not black and white. You can support patents on "things" and not patents on "ideas." There's a big difference.

I can tell you mathematically how a windmill grinds corn but that does not make my description into a windmill. On the other hand, laying down the mathematical description of a Judy Array IS the array itself!
Good news is that the issue is recognized by the Mozilla team at the very least:

>Pages with position:fixed banners/headers are all the rage these days. But when I try to read content inside one of these pages and hit Page Down or Spacebar, firefox calculates the page length relative to the whole browser window, not just the part visible underneath the position:fixed header. So it scrolls too much, and the first few lines of the next page end up hidden

>Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780345
I just don't get why its close to us. I mean I understand that if stars were evenly distributed there would be one nearby, but they clump into galaxies, and our galaxy isn't one of the 'first' ones so why is it here?
Even using that feature [e.g: to select Google] it doesn't seem to return the same result set that Google's own application does.

I'm not sure if this is an issue with Waze itself, or possibly some limitations built in to Google's 3rd-party API.

---

Unrelated to that:
I've also noticed that Waze is starting to display some advertisements, which really bugs me in a GPS app. If this is how they intend to monetize it, I really don't want to support it. I would gladly pay quite handsomely for the service to get rid of adverts.

(I don't even like the idea of billboards to be honest: IMO any distraction from the road that doesn't directly pertain to navigation is borderline unethical.)
That's no problem, actually, even if it is patented, because Judy Array is not a concise algorithm or a data structure, but instead a compilation of a number of well-known unpatented data structures and algorithms, so you can basically change a couple of algorithms used there, and get out of the patent.
I prefer using tcpdump instead of processlist when dealing with pt-query-digest. You get everything instead of just what happens to show up during the interval specified. This is, of course, assuming that you don't allow localhost socket connections.
Ruby gem to access the Skimlinks product and merchant databases
Exactly. They should have shut down immediately. This is amateur hour for the Bitcoin community, yet again.
Raspberry Pi Document Cracking Cluster
To me the whole copyright extension issue is a good argument for justification of piracy. If the copyright industry side can just replace the social agreement (protection of works in exchange for them going public after a reasonable amount of time) with one they like more, why would it be immoral for the content consumers to to the same?

I'm talking about the ethical side, not legalities. The fact that said consumers lack the lobbying power only makes their actions illegal, not immoral.
The "best match" ranking does not take time into account, but if you choose "newest first" that is the main criterion.
This is insane. The US patent system is beyond retarded.
So you're advocating releasing a "decoy" patch that's intentionally obtuse and doesn't actually fix the issue?

And then downplaying the severity by not encouraging developers to take the follow-up patch seriously?

That's a flat out terrible idea.
Mock Roles, not Objects [pdf]
He has also done a TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_you....
This Technology Wants You to Read Less
Gizmodo tanked this auto-summarization tool which works on most browsers, Android, and iOS (as soon as Apple approves it) Summarize anything on the web, even on your phone.
PHP frameworks are finally becoming sane. Instead of re-inventing the wheel ,they share popular components wether it is from doctrine , symfony , etc ... The PSR stuff and composer is a huge step in the right direction , we are getting there , at last.
another promise framework is Silex based on Symfony , it's easy to wire any symfony component through services and unlike Laravel it doesnt rely on Static methods or Singletons.
silex.sensiolabs.org/
I use this one like a dozen times a day.

user@host$ less /var/log/syslog
Permission Denied

crap...

$ sudo !!
sudo less /var/log/syslog

Woo!
That's exactly my point? You do not technically need cookies to serve ads. You just find it highly desirable to do so. And yes, I am totally aware that ad networks have built their business models around having this information available and that the marketplace has been shaped by these business model. That still doesn't make them needed in a technical sense. If cookies had never existed, then we'd still have online advertising, just as we have advertising in other media that lack this form of feedback.
Since Laravel 4 is Composer based, these have been extracted away. There are ports of the old HTML and Form helpers from Laravel 3, as well as a new package built with Laravel 4 support in mind. See this for more details:
https://github.com/jasonlewis/jasonlewis.me/blob/master/arti...
By 2019 it'll have been 49 years without a single work entering the public domain. And somehow I doubt that we'll even get there, the goalposts will likely get moved again before 2019.

And people wonder why there's such widespread disrespect for copyright.
I haven't looked, but my intuition is that the differences are so pronounced that finding data should not be difficult. I would not want my neighbors regularly renting their apartment while they are out of town. There is already a substantial enough difference in decorum and responsibility between owners and renters that condo associations as well as the mortgage industry (as well as FHA) establish maximum renter to owner ratios.

I live in a high rise that also contains a hotel, but with different lobbies and elevators, and that doesn't bother me. I think this is because a hotel has a management staff that maintains common area decorum and holds occupants responsible for their actions during their stay. An apartment rented on airbnb has no similar oversight or responsibility for common facilities.

[http://delmar.typepad.com/brianbrady/2011/06/owner-occupancy...]
such a cool analysis. thanks!
What are some good, easy to use progress tracking tools that encourage you to keep working or "do one more"?

I've been using http://www.joesgoals.com, but it only really works for one type of task only, as it counts everything together otherwise.
There's also the "four quadrants" shtick - 7 Habits, IIRC.

Divide into Important/Not Important and Urgent/Not Urgent. (And then ditch all "Not important, not urgent" tasks :)
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This makes a lot of sense. By extending copyright even further after their deaths, it will incent these authors to create more posthumous works!
Is there video of this by chance?
Yes, #1. As in number of units sold. That's what #1 means.
They make servers but not storage or other technologies.
You are already a sole proprietor. That's the default designation in US tax law [1]. I'd at least start a one-person LLC. There are liability benefits, and probably some tax benefits (I'm not an accountant). In my case, I started an S-corp.

Either learn enough about bookkeeping and accounting, or hire an accountant.

I remember having to fax some company info over to Apple. There are online services where (for about $2) you can submit a PDF and have the service fax Apple for you.

You can start by setting up iAds. But in my next update, I'd also add AdMob. iAds fill rate is terrible outside of the USA. Its fill rate is "meh" inside of the USA. AdMob fill rate is about 99%.

Good luck!

[1] http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Em...
Here's one I like for testing bandwidth between two machines:

host1$ while : ; do nc -l 6666 > /dev/null; done

host2$ pv /dev/zero | nc host1 6666
156MiB 0:00:17 [9.46MiB/s] [ <=> ]
I remember Bryan Tracy was also talking about that in one of his book - like ABCD planning:

A - must do
B - should do
C - nice to do
D - may do

I may not remember the last one correctly, but it was something like that.
So what? You want me to read the entire book? Maybe you will summarize your thoughts if you've read it already?
> There is no plausible 'consumer protection' story that would explain why building codes for permanent residence are not good enough for temporary residence as well.

Your home is your home, so if you die in a fire it's your look out.

But a hotel, or a temporary residence, is not your home, and if you pay money to someone to provide a service they should meet minimum standards for safety.

This is a good thing. It allows small businesses to compete but without using "safety" as an area which can be cut.
How do you ensure that stuff like filing your taxes becomes the most important thing by some suitable time? I felt Getting Things Done made a compelling claim that any TODO that isn't written down will continually occupy a bit of my brain, due to anxiety about overlooking it (which I definitely have).
Still, shouldn't they decide on some kind of default? (Even if it's third party). What will happen to laravel bundles if everyone uses different form libraries in those bundles? (I assume there will still be something different from composer for bundles?)
No. I was advocating to release a patch that fixes the issue in an obfuscated, non-obvious way. And labeling it as a boring-yet-important follow-up to the previous SQL-injection vulnerability, rather than yelling "LOOK, REMOTE CODE INJECTION HERE -->.<-- !!" on all available news-channels.
This has to be one of the most fascinating articles I've read in a long time.
I have three of these monitors and while they're great for coding, don't expect the color to be anything close to Apple displays. No matter the amount of calibration I do, if you sit one of these next to your MBP Retina, it will look drastically different.

Compare GMail's grey highlights to see the difference.
HabitRPG may be exactly what I was looking for. Do you know any other likes that, or is that the best you know of?