skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have always been curious about this, from a healthcare perspective. For example, we encrypt PID information one way (the patient has their own unique data access key, which is then encrypted with their password + salt and some 'other stuff'), so we couldn't hand over any information if a data access request was made, even if we wanted to as we don't have access to that information ourselves!
I found trying to follow this a more difficult experience than watching the actual film.
I'm confused at why some people here are going out of their way to make Da Vinci's achievements sound trivial in the most fuzzy ways without providing any actual clear facts.

'he did not contribute anything new...'
The truth is much of his work was lost and/or only discovered later, so by the definition of 'contributing' to the direct development of particular fields, it wasn't nearly as impacting as it could have been. I don't see how that reflects on his 'genius' in any shape or form. Instead it demonstrates ignorance and it's a point that someone who actually is just a little read up on Da Vinci wouldn't make.

We only have a fragment of his work documented today, and just on that alone, his brilliance in the many fields he was interested is clearly observable.

'he was an excellent illustrator'...
That's like looking at his anatomical drawings and concluding he's a great illustrator without really understanding what he was drawing.

Only fairly recently has it been discovered exactly how well Da Vinci understood the workings of the aortic valve and blood flow. He used similar methods of flow visualisation that researchers used to make similar findings about the working of the heart in the 1990s (source http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00348-002-0478-8...). It took over 500 years for the field to catch up in that respects.

He figured out why the sky appears blue (requiring understanding in optics and physics), the cause of heart disease, created some of the first robotics. If Da Vinci's work was accepted and published out in the open during his time, his impact on several fields would be highly influential.

'Hardly any of his engineering worked'
For a better appreciation of his engineering prowess, maybe check out some of the many attempts to replicate his machines. Granted some sketches (which is what we're left with) don't work as is (if that's what you're expertly judging), but as is the case with engineering, you learn by iterating designs and testing real models, a luxury not given to Da Vinci for each of his many projects.

(And I wonder why people keep replicating his work if he was such an ordinary engineer)

A lot of those experiments to replicate have been made into documentaries and are good fun to watch. Here's an interesting attempt to reproduce his diving suit design http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjzZ1-Plgjs.
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Marketplace is now at a turning point and 2013 is going to be a big year for the site. We're looking for talented C# devs to help us take it to the next level.

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I can see tasks where I might not need multi-windows like generic web-browsing (e.g. reading Hacker News).

But in general I often have multiple things going on concurrently, be it video-chat + work, debugger + IDE, responding to an e-mail (having two e-mails open concurrently is useful), or just any task involving assembling information (e.g. searching with one window while building a "list" in a second).

The Metro/tablet style of interface is useful for content consumption, but as soon as you move into the realm of content creation then it starts to get tricky.
What happened with QuestCompanions? Is it up still anywhere? haven't sen you on IRC in a while.
Without a free press, elections are meaningless.
You could hand over the encrypted data, the usefulness of such data being low however.
I confirm there isn't one listed for me. Probably have to fill out the "about" box if you haven't done so, or something.
Why would you click on something called "Inception Explained" if you haven't seen the movie?

Also, what's the problem with someone using an Amazon affiliate link to help pay for their site / earn some income from the work they put into the site?
A Ghandi-style peaceful protest would fare better than what the occupy movement did. I went to the one in London and saw that the protesters were following police orders to, for example, stay in one place. This is not the way to make your voice heard and it's not what Ghandi did.

You can have an active, non-violent protest. This entails disobeying any and all orders from the authorities (e.g. blocking major roads and refusing to move unless taken by force), blocking access to important buildings, blocking access to police and government vehicles, using smoke bombs - anything which causes chaos but does not physically hurt anyone. The point is to cause as much of a problem as possible without enacting bodily harm to another.

http://www.crvp.org/book/Series01/I-39/ch18.htm

> An avowed pacifist, he saw non-cooperation as a training in self-sacrifice. In Gandhi’s dictum, non-violent, non-cooperation was "a method of search for social truth."

> He cautioned that non-cooperation does not apply to service under private individuals. Its efficacy lay in voluntary withdrawal from the affairs of the State, an expression of popular discord, causing discomfort to government.

> "Satyagraha literally means insistence on truth."
India wants to quadruple scientific output by 2020
I wonder if the evolution of agriculture has been similarly negative/positive for the other animals that do it, namely some species of ants. Ants overall make up 15-20% of this planet's animal biomass, visiting aliens wouldn't be crazy to call them one of our planet's dominant species (and completely ignore the hairless apes).
This is whatever the 2013 equivalent of "requires flash" is.

> HEY THERE! INCEPTION-EXPLAINED.COM IS AN EXPERIMENTAL SITE WHICH USES INTERACTIVE SCROLLING TO ANIMATE THE PAGE. UNFORTUNATELY, AWESOME MOBILE DEVICES LIKE YOURS DON'T HANDLE THAT VERY WELL :( PLEASE DO CHECK IT OUT ON YOUR COMPUTER USING CHROME OR FIREFOX, I LIKE TO THINK IT'S WORTH IT!
Are you implying that Open Source has some secret destructive or creativeness repelling power? Android is open source.
Startups are not cool…
> understanding why the film is structured the way it is (and why Nolan does smaller things like naming the children as they are), is a genuine revelation

Could you expand on that? I had to google for the names - Philippa and James. What is the relevance?
> Although mostly single window, multiple screens kind of person myself

I'm the same way myself. I will say that even with multiple monitors "Metro" (modern) apps don't really perform well.

For whatever reason many of them aren't very information dense. So even if you move each one onto its own monitor for whatever reason much of the available space is wasted with solid colour or nonsense.

Take a look at this for example: http://i.imgur.com/TMSwc.png

Note how little of that is actual information and conversely how much of it is solid green background.
I knew it was an ad. But, I wouldn't be surprised if a professional soccer player could pull that off. Also, could you tell me why you think it is "obviously fake"?
Github profiles (moreso if they are regularly maintained) are an incredibly useful preview for us when we screen CV's.

For what it's worth, we've (Hacker Jobs UK) interviewed a few CTO's & Tech Directors over the last year or so and asked them all the same questions including How much value do you place in a Developers personal projects such as github & demo sites when they apply for a job with your company?.

If you got to our blog and search for 'Hacker Jobs Meets" you'll find the relevant posts. http://www.hackerjobs.co.uk/blog
There's libfitbit - https://github.com/openyou/libfitbit
The issue is that the PID is all encrypted, I wouldn't know if we have a John Doe on our system, we can't see anything to verify that user exists or that they're the appropriate owner of said data. We do have an email (which is also encrypted at a system level, which in theory we could access), but verifying an access request based on an email address? I don't know. The way we solve the problem is by making all the data available to the user once they have authenticated, as long as you can login to our website, all your data is available to you, but if you made a direct data access request to us, like a FOI to our office by letter (the typical way it's done), not much I think we could do.
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Why not just use IMAP for gmail access?
As an old Amiga user, I find the "new" movement to full screen UI's amusing. It's back to the future. 1985 all over again.

And I like it.

I've run most my apps full screen for years, trying to get back to simulating something like the Amiga "screens".

Now, I do need to see multiple windows at times. But I also prefer not to most of the time. On the Amiga this was well catered for:

- You started with the Workbench screen, equivalent of sorts to a normal desktop + explorer.

- Applications could open private screens. On a private screen they could open a "backdrop window" covering the whole background, and treat it as a full screen UI. And/or they could also open floating windows on top of it.

- Applications or a utility could open public screens or place windows on existing public screens. These acted as extra desktops. Say I wanted a shell and a text editor in it's own workspace per project I'm working on.

Most larger applications let you choose between working in a window on the workbench screen, "fullscreen" on a private screen, or in a window on a public screen.

Screens can be "pulled down" to reveal the screen behind, if you for example want to have a quick look without losing your train of thought.

I'm 95% of the way back there now, with Ubuntu with Unity (even got the global menu bar back - yay!), but there are still annoying niggles in my workflow..

Another 10 years and maybe the rest of what I miss from AmigaOS will have made it back into the mainstream (datatypes, more pervasive unified scripting support of applications, user interfaces that don't grind to a halt when the machine is under a bit of load, to mention three...)
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Well, he got what he deserved.
YES. No doubt at all.

But, then again, the article the question are referring to are kind of wrong anyway. The Windows 8's single window thing is meant for tablet and other consumption that is suitable for that kind of thing. His argument about the Windows 8 becoming less usable for power users are completely wrong, the metro interface is meant for the things that you would do on tablet, i.e. not power user-ish things.
Much easier to stay motivated with 25% of a growing company vs a larger share in a failing company. Hopefully she negotiated some better terms, and has some protection from being pushed out and diluted. If so, this could end up being a very lucrative first business for her even if she doesn't make her earn out.
Finally a mobile device that uses html5-apps as they should be used. This was one of the things I were longing for in Meego but as that project went to hell thanks to Microsoft infiltrating Nokia I may now look forward to this.

This seems like a great OS and is very beautiful. I currently have iOS (work) and I hate it with all my heart. I really don't understand why it's so popular.
I will second this: N9 is really nice device. BB10 will do this as well (does this if you have alpha device).
Perhaps people read the explination and think, "I should watch that again now I understand it!".
Would be much better with some click based animation rather than scrolling to give this parallax effect.
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Hmmm. I agree that 'orders' is not an appropriate choice of words.

But I usually don't interpret this kind of claims literally, so I took the GP remark as saying that in practice (IRL) there was no such 'wide gap in productivity', which is opposite to claims/data I saw before (as you mention, 5-20x) and to my own experience.
Could not agree more. I've driven a Zipcar probably about three times a month for the last three years and they've been great.

One time the garage where the car was supposed to park wouldn't open (I was returning it). I called them, they said, leave it somewhere on the street, call and tell us where it is, and we'll deal with it. It was after midnight. Awesome.

Another time the car wasn't back from another driver. They reserved me one a couple blocks away and extended my reservation by an hour to make up for lost time.

Those are literally the only two instances I can think of to complain about, and their service was prompt and helpful both times. The cars are always very clean, and the community is great about keeping the gas above the required level and getting cars back on time, for the most part.

Yeah, the cars get gobbled up on the weekend. Just like hotel rooms get gobbled up around the holidays. There's a finite number of cars and demand goes up and down. Part of the deal. If you don't like it, pay to own your own car so you can have one nearby at the drop of a hat anytime (and pay hundreds and hundreds of dollars per month for that convenience). It's frankly just unrealistic to expect that Zipcar is going to be able to provide you with car-ownership levels of convenience all the time.

I pay about $60 a month with Zipcar and there's zero hassle 90% of the time. If I owned a car, I'd probably pay twice that in insurance per month, plus gas, plus parking, plus maintenance. But yeah, holy shit, I can't always get a car at the last minute on Saturday. What a shit service.
Finally, at 11:54 p. m. we adopted agriculture.

And at 11:59pm we adopted the Enlightenment, egalitarianism, scientific method, self-determination. Just because something was the case for a long time doesn't mean it was by default the best case.
Yes, I agree.
Haxe has been that nifty little platform and language I've been contemplating on the side, tried a little, but never really had the opportunity to use seriously.
Remaining BlackBerry holdouts will get BB10 in the end of this month.
Exactly. But from this ridiculous scenario one good thing could have happened. We wouldn't have Discover magazine.
My guess it that the submitter found it in a response to this [1] recent article on environmentalism. The author of this touches similar themes and also mentions the same studies as the Discover article.

[1] http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/7277
Your IG team will know.

From my understanding, from the yearly IG briefings I used to have, you would be able to provide that requester with information on how to obtain their personal access, and point out to them where they can find the information they have requested.

Information needs to be made accessible, you don't necessarily need to actually provide printouts. For example, FOI requests from news agencies often cover the same topics. This information can and often is posted publicly on the organisation's website and the FOI responses refer the requester to those links.
I find that analogy horrible. Switching rapidly between books in a stack would be slow and cumbersome. When you do spread the books out, on the other hand, you have an easy way of making one of them your single focus: Lift it up until it covers your field of view. With books spread out, you do have access to a single window user interface that way.

I'm all for having a multiple window UI accessible, or getting a rapid overview. But I find myself much preferring to unclutter my workspaces and have a single focus most of the time, and resort to the overview only rarely, especially because switching is so easy - I don't have to move big physical objects around in a stack, I can rapidly flick through a bunch of open windows on a carousel or get a display with a zoomed out overview.

I do find it important to be able to line up multiple windows though. Every now and again a single task will demand more than one window. I think that's where a lot of the disconnect comes from: Multiple windows on screen at once representing multiple tasks is a recipe for mental clutter. Multiple windows on screen that correspond precisely to a single, cohesive task is not.
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25% of something is a lot more than 100% of nothing
> "There is indeed something you can do about it. You can go live in a country where there is no TSA"

In other words, give up?

I find it ludicrous (and terrifying) when statements like this are made. This isn't some web-app whose terms of service you don't like, it's a nation state. People throughout history took to the streets to win freedom/voting right/etc. If no-one's left fighting back then expect to get trampled. Soon there'll be nowhere left to move.
For all our tremendous advances and expansive knowledge, we still have some billions of people that that are malnourished or starving, some that live on less than a dollar a day, some that die by the hundreds of thousands in wars over resources or religion; we have nations and societies that collapse within a few hundred years as they generally grow too top-heavy to function without replacement; we are depleting resources at tremendous rates without care to the cost; and so on.

As the article says, if you chose to be born twenty thousand years ago, there's a good chance you would be born in a tribe with a reasonably stable social and cultural structure that rarely lacked for any major needs. Today, you would most likely be born as one of the masses of poor subsistence farmers throughout the world, but most likely in China or India, who's life and work is miserable/back-breaking enough that they'll choose to make our electronics for 10 or 12 or 14 hours a day and consider it an improvement.

It seems that only in the last decade has modern technology reached the point where it can be provided to the masses and begin what might be a global transformation that leads to better lives for all - rather than better lives for a few at the expense of the many.
We best hope that longest adoption doesn't make for the default best case, or else the dinosaurs are a much better choice than humans.
It's almost as if evolution isn't teleological!!
I love you Heroku.
Ouch. I find myself pulling back from the screen, and then zooming out until it covered a small corner of the screen before I found it readable... At full size I had to move my eyes too much. That's really awful.
Moravec's paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravecs_paradox

> The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard. The mental abilities of a four-year-old that we take for granted – recognizing a face, lifting a pencil, walking across a room, answering a question – in fact solve some of the hardest engineering problems ever conceived. ... the most difficult human skills to reverse engineer are those that are unconscious.
The law of unintended consequences may well apply to such "jury nullification in reverse", by creating jurisprudence. This partcular case seems like very clear-cut fraud to my layman's mind, though.
>I think you get it really backwards... Back in the days IntelliJ was just soooo much more better than Eclipse it wasn't even funny to compare the two. It was just plain sad.

I beg to differ. Eclipse always had a better model of the project and workflow for me. Never could tolerate IntelliJ.

Now, IntelliJ indeed had _more_features_, at least back in the day, compared to Eclipse. But I always found the implementation cluttered and confusing.
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LibreOffice is not Apache Licensed or driven by Apache. It is a fork lead by "The Document Foundation". You can read http://www.documentfoundation.org/.
But as far as this is an experiment, I don't see any problem. It would be a problem if this tried to be a general purpose site.
Why do we need an actual hardware device to get to this data? Don't iPhones and Androids and others have all the internals needed to get the same data, and more, such as altitude, so you can check the incline you are against etc.
i think ios and android have very big marketing lets see what happen in ubantu os.
And single celled bacterium that feed off nitrogen are the best animal ever.
Yet I think he has a point - Metro is the default interface not just on tablet but also on PC. Microsoft are clearly pushing for this to become the main Windows interface, this is clear both in their App store, where regular applications are second class citizens, and the system itself where the regular desktop is a kind of optional interface.
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You made the argument that it was just platitudes and MapReduce is a sufficient model. I was specifically counter-arguing that point; that doesn't mean the claimed model is bad or that I have to reply to every single point in a single comment.
"if you chose to be born twenty thousand years ago, there's a good chance you would be born in a tribe with a reasonably stable social and cultural structure that rarely lacked for any major needs"

If you survived your first year of life, then your first 5 years of life, etc

Then you would have to hunt or do dangerous stuff with precarious tools, no health care in case of accident, etc

Oh and you would probably die by your 30s.

Makes the chinese factory kind of look good.
This might be true for YOUR use case and company. We are talking about Greek high-schools, which use like 1% of the capabilities of Excel,Word or even LibreOffice's calc and writer. So IMHO this point is moot.

If nothing else I would prefer Greek students get used to the emphasis writer places on using styles instead of "ad-hoc" formatting.
It changes with its subculture. The word "hipster" is always used chiefly by members of the subculture to describe what they themselves aren't.
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