skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have multiple todo-lists in the iOS Reminders-app. They are labeled after things like the app I am currently working on (where I use it like a poor man's ticketing system), private life, and even a shopping list.

I write down things as they come up and check regularly. Some lists get checked each time it makes sense (when I go to the store or open up XCode for a few hours of coding), others get checked every day or every week.

Things that are obsolete, done or no longer important, get checked off or deleted. I am ruthless about it. The fewer items, the better.

I think the secret of success is to have ONE place where every task, idea or project goes. If you have that then putting things there becomes almost an automatic reflex.

And I neither store things like big life goals in my todo-lists, nor do I write down all the steps required for each task. I can think of the steps when I start working on an item.

Also, it is nice that the Reminders-app is simple and clean, but at the same time that it syncs between all my devices. If I was using different systems I might try a service like Catch or Evernote to share my lists.

My recommendation for everyone is to come up with a system for themselves and stick to it. It becomes easy after a while.

Most of all, it gives you peace of mind. Because if you write something down, you can forget about it. Until you check your list again that is.
There was actually a high-profile incident not too long ago with one of the big banks' online banking system. Users could view other people's account information just by incrementing an integer in the URL as I recall. It's not necessarily so much that banks are secure, but hacking them is much riskier than hacking Bitcoin sites, especially for white-hats.
I can't seem to clone the repo anymore - can someone push it to github?
some critics:
http://sotosearch.com/search?query=android&ordering=best - results page is a mess of many languages, it would be better to detect language of page and user (by browser language) and use it for ranking
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Okay. I guess we can agree to disagree, although I think at this point we're arguing semantics.
> The moral of this story: if you own bitcoins, make sure they are stored in a truly secure system. Many Bitcoin exchanges claim to be -- but really aren't -- truly secure!

Then how do you know what storage locations are truly secure? If you have to be a computer security expert to safely use bitcoins, then that will surely decrease the demand for the currency and therefore reduce its value.
I'm not saying nobody should but I bet a shitload more people go with natively supported, which might be a better term than default.

And yeah this isn't at all specific to C#. Anything not natively supported suffers - just ask Flash who in a handful of years have gone from a defacto standard to a dinosaur.
Uh-oh, Windows RT, Samsung’s got second thoughts
AutoRip for books would be a miracle
At the moment, it's mostly an overloaded buzzword. :) The best definition I've found is that it's a culture of collaboration and integration between development and operations, rather than a role for one specific person.

Ben Rockwood from Joyent has a good conceptual talk at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5E--QSBVBY , "DevOps Demysitified".
No, some inventions are describable with math. Some 'inventions' are math. A Wankel engine is not math. You can model it and describe it with math, but that is irrelevant.

Any equation that you can make will merely describe a Wenkel engine, not be one. Equations for mathematical concepts are those concepts (expressed in a particular format).
Shoulda sudone it!
> I want the world to scroll this way

I don't. The idea looks revolutionary and fun the first time you try it. Then you scroll back, start to read, and notice it has no advantages.
I wonder if the period of 2009-2015 will have a bumper crop of content entering the public domain in Europe because so many young people died in the Second World War.
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I don't. I think smooth vertical scrolling with inertia, works quite well.
ok, that results page really is messy. The crawler does actually do language detection, but it isn't perfect. Soto currently only offers search in English actually.
Several people are saying that this is already a free service from airlines and so this won’t work. Not quite.

1. Airlines tend to estimate delays optimistically. They don’t want to look bad. I’d rather rely on a third-party.

2. Airlines offer very bland services. This service could offer a better experience. For example, will airlines tweet my delay? Or send me a Facebook update? Or text me? Or call me? There might be useful options here that airlines are not providing.

3. Airlines might not notify my friends and family. Generally, notifying me is less important than notifying them. If I get notified my flight is delayed but I am in the air and have no internet then the notification is pointless. This service could notify other people that I add to my flight’s notification list.

The fact that the airlines provide this service is not a sign that this won’t work—rather it’s a sign that this is something valuable. You can use the airlines’ service as a starting point and then build this into something a lot better.
>If you don't trust Nokia, don't use their phones.

You are right. And now I don't trust Nokia, after reading this news.
I've been a pretty big fan of the Reader button on mobile Safari, this looks even better.
Meaningless without consideration of the precedent. sloppy drafting, I agree, but we need to question whether 'person' is used in the context of ownership/liability here (in which case it makes perfect sense) or in the context of driver and passenger (in which case it doesn't, but which courts have likely settled already).
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> I think the point is that a decision is an affirmative act. Nobody decides to forget to do something.

But didn't they choose not to ensure they remembered?

That sentence sounds ridiculous. But if I care about something I'll ensure that I get reminded somehow so I can't forget. The experimental subjects that didn't provide a review either explicitly chose not to, or acted in a way that made it possible for them to forget.
I'm not worried about criminals though. I'm worried about legitimate businesses that will do things I object to. The criminals will do what they want, and I have remedies available to me in case I am victimized. But if some over-zealous startup with an API key screws me over, there's nothing I can do about it assuming they didn't violate any of the LinkedIn rules (and almost nothing even if they did, since LinkedIn would be the party that was wronged).
Right, but you get very misleading impression if you try to treat a word used by a handful of people as a 'normal' word. If you adjust each one down 10000x to factor in how many people would actually use them then you no longer have this horrible distasteful revelation by reading urbandictionary. You only have a couple distasteful words, per region, but each region has a unique set.
This is an interesting concept and I once tried to build a company around it. Productizing the concept led to me understand some of the problems inherent with goal setting, and what you can do to counter them.

Most people share a similar set of vague goals. "Eat healthier." "Make more money." "Do what I love." "Fall in love." But very few want to take the time to break down how they would accomplish it. The more time you spend on this step, the closer you'll get to understanding challenges you might face and learning how to overcome them.

The act of sharing your goal makes you put less effort into achieving it[0]. We get a kind of high from imagining ourselves completing it, and this partially satisfies the urge to complete it.

How do you set a time limit for your harder goals? And what happens when you don't achieve them within your established timeframe? For many people, failure can be depressing. Know in advance that timelines are fluid and that missing a milestone is okay.

It's hard to group daily life tasks under your broader, overarching goals. Take time out daily (ideally at the start of the day) to remind yourself why you're doing what you're doing. At the end of the day, review whether what you did helped or hindered your stated long-term goals.

Just a few suggestions from a year's worth of seeing how 20,000 people try to accomplish their goals.

[0] http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_you...
On the other hand if he's the sole board member and the articles and his laptop with all the work were in the car, how could it not be in the car ;)
Hackers say coming air traffic control system lets them hijack planes
That looks great. I'll see if I can update it tomorrow.
Actually it seems perfectly doable with a custom pdf reader.
How much does Canada's terms differ from the US?
Also not all airlines might provide it. What if I am flying on no-name carrier that doesn’t provide this service?

Plus the service is a useful record of all my flights. This record might be useful for tax purposes. I know for immigration paperwork sometimes they ask you how many days you have been out of the country. This service could easily provide this data to you.
Yeah so keep the useful senses of the definition and not the harmful senses (unlimited political speech). This is not paradox inducing.
No, they should allow the header to scroll with the rest of the page.
You're confusing several things there. Bitcoin the protocol and rails the framework are not the same thing. Bitcoin was never compromised, rails was, and if these devs would have done their work and patched their servers they'd have been fine.
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So is JPEG's complexity the cutoff for you? What do you think of the LZW patents then? LZW is simple as hell.
Unless you are a patent lawyer/expert specifically in someone's employ, pointing out that in your layman's opinion that "something appears to be patented" isn't doing anyone any favors, and may in fact be harming them.

Patents use their own specific, strange language. The claims, as modified by other precedents, only apply in certain specific situations which may be different than what a casual reading would imply. And, for any of dozens of reasons the holder may not be interested in ever trying to enforce the patent.

So simply by raising the possibility, causing attention to be drawn, and uninformed discussions to be spawned, people's time is being wasted. If they become uneasy, or start spending engineering effort to 'work around' something that they hardly understand and that may never be enforced, more time is wasted.

And by getting more eyes on the fuzzy patent, you may have put more people/projects at risk of treble damages for 'willful infringement', in the rare case where the patent is actually enforced later, or undermined their ability to make a case for obviousness (because many teams came up with the same approach without seeing the patent).

The better policy is to ignore such "appears to be patented" reports, unless and until there's a credible threat from the holder(s) to enforce in specific ways, as checked by experts. Let these patents (and panicked overbroad interpretations) wither away in unenforced obscurity.
From my limited understanding of law (based on what I found when I was looking to incorporate):
There is a 'natural person' and 'legal person'.
A natural person is also a legal person, but a legal person doesn't have to be a natural person.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_person

Legal person doesn't have all the same rights, for example I don't think corporation can marry, and thus have a right to not testify against it's partner. (I believe married people can plead 5'th in order to not testify against their spouse.)

Please don't take legal advice from this post, it could be utterly wrong.
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Gold does not have that much of inherent value either.
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All software patents are patents on complicated math.
You're right on the mark with this. There's a book for adults with ADHD that recommends the exact same prioritization scheme. I've used it for years to prioritize tasks as A, B, and C to great effect.
Depends on the country: some have explicitly extended the copyrights for people who died in the war. For example, writers who died in active service of the French military have copyright for 100 rather than 70 years postmortem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_pour_la_France
Dock item sizes are controlled in the Dock Prefpane

If you want to go the resolution: They're set per user, so only the people with reduced vision need the more visible resolutions

http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html can change fonts all over the place for MOST apps.
Safari, Chrome, all the non-Windows phones (iOS, android, bada, blackberry, and webOS) and some lesser uses. I think some of the embedded Netflix implementations use it.

It's pretty important.
There are two competing interests here. First, Disney wants to keep control of Mickey Mouse cartoons, and it doesn't feel unreasonable at all that they should. Second, the rest of the stuff that is of little commercial value but of potential cultural value should be freed from uncertain or uninterested ownership.

The answer feels trivial to me, which means I'm probably missing something. Fixed term for a few decades from the creation of the work, maybe 30 years or 40 years. After that, you need to give a copy of the work to the Library of Congress, pay a nominal fee, and you get a 5 year extension. Take as many of those as you want.

This greatly simplifies everything. If you find a work that is older than the base term, you look it up in the copyright extension database. If it's in there, you can find out who owns the rights to it, and try to license rights. If it isn't in there, it's public domain. If somebody doesn't stay on the ball enough to renew their rights every five years, it probably isn't all that commercially valuable, and moves into the public domain.
The visualizer looks awesome for newbies. http://learn.adafruit.com/webide/using-the-visualizer
That was the place to be back then :)
It saddens me a good deal that most of us can come up with very compelling arguments that un-restricting these works would benefit society, yet there seems there's very little we could do to make even a splash of change.

In fact, I gander the comments here will soon be filled with of "here's how I would do it" comments, none of which will make a mote of a difference.

What can we do, really?

It seems insane that the reasons given hold any merit beyond a money-grab. And while I may be a bit myopic here, the "motivates content-producers" feels flimsier still than monetary arguments.

Do most creative works really need even ten years of protection? Do you suppose Shakespeare would have made more plays or less if copyright existed in his day?
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> It's impossible to grant some patents under subjective premises and be fair at the same time.

Is that not the job of patent examiners?
My wife's parents still use a lenovo desktop from the ~'89 and it works fine. My 2 year old laptop, on the other hand, has had several problems (especially with hibernation/wake-up) and the battery life is and has always been only about an hour.

I know it is just anecdotal, but it put me off the brand (which I was bullish on before).
My 2013 resolution is: merge all my todo-lists in just one, with a very few tasks, no more than 5 per day, that I really need to accomplish.

The reason is simple: the more I had fed them with tasks and didn't accomplish them - hard working is a recurrent reason - the more I got frustrated.
Glad I'm not the only one to use Workflowy for that. It's perfect for the job! My lists are much deeper, and categorized within life goals. So I have a top-level item called "Move to Europe" with nested TODOs representing all that needs to get done for that to happen. The deepest item in that list is my current contract project's tasks. Seems unrelated, but I'm not moving to Europe until I finish my current project. From time to time navigating up and down my lists, I "accidentally" stumble upon the whole point of all this - moving to Europe. It's a wonderful workflow, and keeps me in tune with what matters in my goals. Seriously, I may be overselling - but Workflowy has changed my life :)

After that, I use my own https://habitrpg.com to keep me on task with my Workflowy.
Does ChromeOS support PNaCl now? I think they said it was coming by the end of 2012.
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“I've read a teacher's writeup of his student's efforts to recreate Mondrian's Composition (I think). Not easy.”

Here you go:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-elkins/post_1036_b_75666...
Patent law is not a black-and-white subject, and you certainly don't have to support all of it to support some of it. All law necessarily involves line drawing, and line drawing is subjective. Welcome to the wonderful world of being human and dealing with human society.
As a fan of responsible disclosure, the sad state of the universe is that telling people "upgrade to X now" on an open-source project makes it very easy for anyone to diff to find out what the fix is, which makes it very easy for people to figure out how to exploit it.
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I think you're underestimating the creativity of patent lawyers a bit.

For instance, just off the top of my head, consider this: "OK, you can distribute the source all you want, but as soon as you compile it, you've created a patented product, the binary of which you can't distribute."

After all, the patent itself is supposed to give all the description one needs of how to implement the patented invention, it's when you fix the patent into something real that you violate the patent.

Edit: What drove me to mentioning the separateness of patents and copyright was some of the discussion around GPLv3, e.g. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/gplv3/patents-and-gplv3.en.html#Ex...
Exciting! I've been using Laravel for all my new freelance PHP projects, and I'm really happy with it.
I think this will require too much manual intervention to be viable. Customers not being able to withdraw their funds because they've been sent to the cold wallet makes them unhappy with the service.
Apple blocks Java 7 Mac plugin in OS X
I've noticed this problem with using the spacebar. But a top and bottom header will never add up to more than 1/3 of the vertical height of the browser window. Should be poss to build a javascript overlaid scroller button than only scrolls pages by 2/3 of window height at a time, in either direction?
Looks great Michael!
I'm using a Mac mini and Plex (a fork of XBMC). I'm very happy with the setup.
> So you're saying the working solution doesn't work on sites with completely broken UIs such as Google+? What a surprise.

You're saying the UI on Google+ is broken because the header stays on the top? I love that feature - more sites should implement it.
True with Java/ObjC you get very view verbs/nouns in the same "sentence" length.

But ObjC and Java developers also have the habit of writing long undebuggable sentences like:

response = object.veryLongMethodName(object2,object3).anotherLongMethodName().yetAnotherLongMethodName(object4)
I picked up my first Lenovo (Y580), my first Windows based PC since 2007. Worked great but didn't care for Windows too much. It is now running Ubuntu 12.10 without too much trouble except for mis-reporting the battery life on occasion.

Though much of my decision on buying a laptop rests on how nice the keys feel. I was originally looking at a Samsung laptop but the "feel" was wrong for me.
That's a reasonable compromise, but copyright law for the 20th century was anything but about compromise. It was about ensuring big corporate content producers are given a default of "copyright forever" with no costs or effort on their part.

After all, it is society, not the content producers, that pays the price for having no culture returned to the society that birthed it. Right up until a company like Disney finds there is no more public domain for them to take ideas from. But, like most problems we Americans have, we'll let a future generation worry about that.
omg, the scrolling line was so painfully slow, why is this the top hn story.
> The free market still applies: on top of getting their money back, customers can take their money to more secure banks.

Unless the bank goes bankrupt. Basically, if the bank plays fast and loose with customers' money the customers shoulder the risks whilst the bank owners get the rewards - and there's no way customers can tell whether this is happening, since they neither have access to the bank's internal records and systems nor the skills and resources to make sense of them.

Actually, the only reason the baks have to return the money in the first place is because of Government intervention, and even that's not enough. Unfortunately, thanks to binding arbitration the US has a free market of sorts in dispute resolution, and the banks and financial providers have so much more market power than consumers that they can effectively pressure arbitrators into siding with them. If they don't, the bank won't do business with them and they can't find work, whereas most consumers only need to use arbitration a few times in their lifetime at most.
Print publications have circulation audits. TV has ratings. Cookies ad similar legitimacy for websites. It also enables much more in depth accountability which has created a massive new advertising market that could not exist without it (good luck with CPC without cookies). If the same could happen in print or broadcast it most definitely would be used.
> When you want to sue one, who will you sue?

Okay, since I'm sensing this is about to become a type theory conversation, let's start with the function definition:

sue :: Person -> Claim -> Person -> Maybe Money

Now you're basically saying that, given the above definition, we have no choice but to have Company implement the Person typeclass. Unfortunately, there is a lot of code already using the Person typeclass for purposes that are absurd when a Corporation is passed. Consider:

valid_for_carpool :: [Person] -> Boolean

So what to do? One option is to send out emails telling our colleagues to be very careful when using the Person typeclass. The other option is to create a new Suable typeclass, and implement it for both corporations and people.

Which one do you prefer?
To add to others' recommendation, here is a submission from a couple days ago discussing Trello with numerous comments about how people are using it (including the Trello team).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5026584
OLEDs have larger color gamut, but larger is not always better.

“The Color Gamut is not only much larger than the Standard Color Gamut, which leads to distorted and exaggerated colors, but the Color Gamut is quite lopsided, with Green being a lot more saturated than Red or Blue, which adds a Green color caste to many images. Samsung has not bothered to correct or calibrate their display colors to bring them into closer agreement with the Standard sRGB / Rec.709 Color Gamut, so many images appear over saturated and gaudy.” – http://www.displaymate.com/Smartphone_ShootOut_2.htm
Do you have a link to that video ? I didn't see that on the video I watched (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ZNXQujgXw).
They would drift apart from each other, in a manner somewhat similar to the brownian motion. Essentially, small-scale foam would be similar to a slight inherent "blur" of the vacuum for gamma rays.
Awesome, an idea: have it on tablet or phones with eye tracking so we don't have to set the # of chars/sec. Brilliant idea!