skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am on Samsung's side, if there really is "a side" to this issue.

I have had computer gadgets since 1977 when I bought a single board PDP-8 that I had to code in machine language. I have bought myself and my family a huge number of great computers and various gear since then but I have never had any other gear that I have liked as much as my Galaxy S III. Samsung nailed it. You could take away my MacBook Air and my iPad and that would be OK, but I have no idea what I would want to replace the S III with, except the new S IV that is soon being released :-)
If you like that....
There's a chrome extension that makes .com look more like their other properties:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/neue-face/pjjeeinb...
If anything, after reading OP's second article, I think he's too humble.

OP has accomplished a lot, but his article overall seems to be VERY humble to me.

Impostor syndrome is an accurate assessment. FWIW.
ads are removed. seems like this is less about style and more about removing things we are annoyed by, no?
The software is called Team Sheet and it provides a cloud-based timekeeping monitoring service through Android tablet and iPad apps.

It's designed as a replacement for sign-in sheets/logbooks. The tablet apps provide a quick interface that allows staff to clock in using ID numbers and PIN's set by their manager then the app will snap their photo and the employee can go to work.

It's much more efficient than sign-in sheets and leaves no margin for error in tracking worked hours.

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What is the Best Programming Text Editor?
Been using it for a long time and love it's cross-platform abilities - as well as the speed of development and easy to understand language - and it's power!
Seeing the vote breakdown for alternatives could be one of the best features of this site. Can users vote easily without leaving comments ?

Being able to get a quick overview of community sentiment on what's the best library/tool to use for XXX on/in YYY could be very helpful when one is researching alternatives.
Does anyone else find the disclaimer at the bottom odd? Any ideas why it was included?
Ironic this is the same company that produced this ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwT6mgXsZvU
Hmm, that's a dick move. They were called cochlear implants before a company decided to call themselves "Cochlear".

Just in case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlea
http://www.metaio.com/products/sdk/

They have 3D tracking in the SDK so it must be doing 3D modeling based on realtime video stream.
How so?

I can order a very wide variety of quadcopters online, or build my own - including a camera gimbals with zero interference from any governmental agency.

These can be flown anywhere right now.
'User styles' is a common name for user-applied CSS stylesheets; it's not necessarily about applying styles in the English sense of the word. According to the author, these stylesheets remove some of the clutter, which presumably includes some or all ads.
Annoyances are not always ads. Looking at twitter it's also removing annoying "features" like trending, who to follow, and the extra navigation box from the left column.
I find that with large forts the "rolling resource shortage" problem is really obnoxious. Things like "oh, my idiots turned all the wood, the wood I needed for beds, into charcoal" get my goat. Actually solving the steel shortage problem is really difficult; ERP is not a bad comparison for that, which is made especially difficult because as your dorfs get better at tasks they get significantly faster. A master armorsmith can kill 100 bars of steel in very short order.

I will admit I have more sophisticated desires / needs, though.
My son got the blood test because of a tertiary condition that warranted a blood test.

It may be just that people aren't going around getting blood tests.

My guess is it would surprise the heck out of you how many food related allergies are not just in people's imaginations.
No, MSN Messenger did change it for the sender, too. The receiver of a message's settings determined whether they saw the image. You could turn it off in the Text Formatting options, just a simple checkbox.

So I'd disagree with the 'utterly useless' aspect.
We're directly targeting businesses who typically buy/rent expensive sign in machines, e.g. Fingerprint scanners, barcode readers etc; and those who pay for bespoke systems to be built for them.

Team Sheet is cheaper than those systems and readily available.

We just launched on Sunday night. New features including a staff memo/notice board function are coming within the fortnight.
Thanks for posting about this book, I've been meaning to get into Django for a while, but I didn't find the official tutorial to be terribly enlightening beyond the basics.
Plus there's a whole heap of non-code related environment stuff which I want to have best practice for too.

If anyone knows of any other good first-up books / websites (are there any interactive tutorials Treehouse / Codecademy style?), please let me know.
That doesn't appear to be the focus. Facebook and Twitter timeline ads will remain, obviously (does anyone actually click on the floating ads on the right of the FB UI), Daring Fireball retains it's very subtle image ad (but, who are we kidding, it's one big Apple ad anyway, amiright?).

It would be ethical to include the ads though.
Breaking Meeting Addictions
I'll merge in a branch in a bit which gives you the ability to set $._messengerDefaults.messageDefaults

edit: merged!
True, instead of editors, we could be talking about video games targeted at software developers.
Probably to head off inevitable complaints by people assuming that this is a criticism of those sites' designs.
On the Art of Ambition
What tool/extension is being used to apply the custom stylesheets?
First time I learned about gluten or gluten-free diet was when I researched links between ADHD and food, and didn't give it much thought.

Then I read on HN about Taubes and then keto, which led me to /r/keto and I tried it for fun (for science !) for two months (I don't need to lose weight). I did feel A LOT better and lost 2 Kg (which isn't much but I'm 1m76 for 62 Kg).

Improvements were :
- no more sleepiness during the day. I had suffered about this since forever.
- less headaches (and nauseas).
- less belly bloating (I always thought it was normal)
- (slightly) better sleep.

Since then I eat an egg & bacon for breakfast, and eat a lot less bread and pasta (and carbs). I miss baguette (I'm French) but I feel great overall.

I guess it's just +1 for anecdotal evidence ! :)
I can finally read TechCrunch again!
As a guy with a light-text-on-a-dark-background blog I've got to ask, is it really that bad? I've always thought that light on dark was easier on the eyes, not harder. This is especially true if you make the font size reasonable, which is something Daring Fireball isn't so great at.

Could those of you whose sight is starting to go comment on this?
It depends on your definition of trust.

I would trust my doctor to some extent, but I wouldn't blindly assume that anything s/he said was correct.
as comic book guy would say "Worst Idea Ever."
Credit cards, Square and now Affirm. Yet another way to spend all your money without really keeping track of where it goes. :-)

But seriously, looks promising. Really hope someone would crack the mobile payments market.
That's beside the point. The original post was about defending his public statement of his ability. The one you are replying to tried to counter it by saying that a public showing of humility is usually the better option.

Because regardless of your ability - whether you think yourself "important" is another issue altogether. There is valid concern over how much sense it makes to write a blog post like he did and whether it shows him just displaying concern for his own importance.

Dunning Kruger is very specific about concerning ability and confidence, noting that the distinction between the able and the not able is that the not able tend to be full of themselves (because they literally don't know better) while the able know enough to know how little they know. Which is another definition of humble.
Possible bug report: I searched for "thunderbolt LCD" and [recently ended graph] doesn't seem to match up with prices in [recently ended table].
I've always thought this was an interesting exchange, if true:

(05:13:21 PM) bradass87: oh, btw… china has a massive botnet
(05:13:21 PM) info@adrianlamo.com <AUTO-REPLY>: I’m not here right now
(05:13:31 PM) bradass87: 45+ million, grows 100,000 every two weeks
(05:14:44 PM) bradass87: it pings eucom and pacom servers every two weeks at the same time… spread out slightly to prevent the bandwidth from being detected (it was identified at 20 million in late 2008)
(05:14:54 PM) bradass87: *2008 )
(05:15:53 PM) bradass87: 45+ million ip addresses… i figure they must have a pre-installed system on consumer electronics
(05:20:00 PM) bradass87: are you familiar with the Byzantine problem sets?
(05:22:15 PM) info@adrianlamo.com: nope
(05:23:10 PM) bradass87: Byzantine is the code word for all the chinese infiltration problem sets… the ones that get .mil info… as well as penetrate google (like what became public earlier this year)
(05:23:16 PM) bradass87: yahoo, etc
(05:23:23 PM) bradass87: mostly .gov and .mil
(05:23:46 PM) bradass87: there are several sub-problem sets…
(05:24:15 PM) bradass87: Byzantine Candor, for instance
(05:24:51 PM) bradass87: its what 95% of information warfare people work on in DoD
(05:25:15 PM) bradass87: china can knock out any network in the world with a DDos
(05:25:20 PM) bradass87: *DDoS
(05:36:07 PM) bradass87: their gateways throughout the world are clearly identified, and are being tracked carefully

-- http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/manning-lamo-logs/
I showed this to my high school programming class not two hours ago. They weren't impressed until Gaben showed up. What does this say about inspiring students to code? It syas that Minecraft has probably done more for the Java than Sun Microsystems ever did.
It all depends on what we mean by "trust." Realistically, you should be cautious when trusting any company with anything.
What happened to console.log() ?
Are you from Japan ? :)
Indeed, as ececconi says, it is taking extreme examples. Maybe at the Bora Bora St. Regis these exercises make economic sense, but at a Marriott Courtyard that caters to government contractors? Probably not.
Document mode changes JS compatibility, at least in IE9. I doubt they dropped that in IE10.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/03/24/ie9-s-document...
As long as you maintain line of sight to them, then yes, but calling these "drones" betrays the word "drone".

If you want a true "done", that is: something that flys autonomously, that you don't have to watch, you need to apply for a Certificate of Authorization (COA) from the FAA.

The people who are allowed to apply for these are major universities, and government contractors.

Here is a list: http://www.scribd.com/doc/114639754/COA-Sponsor-List-as-rele...
An honest question: I've always referred to this condition as being "hard of hearing" but the author implies that it's impolite to call it as such. Is there a better term that we should be using?
Awesome feedback.

1: That is a really cool idea and something I have been thinking about since day 1. I want to be able to show a graph that displays the relative change in opinion over time, annotated with the addition of new citations to the Viewpoints. So when someone updates the Ember Viewpoint with new information and the citation for it, you can do some basic "cause analysis" on what changed,when and why :)

2: Absolutely makes sense. We are still debating the best way to do this, but one simple solution is an editable comparison matrix that shows the simple features/specs that the Viewpoints have. The ULs would then be used to further flesh out the more significant points that can't be explained in matrix format (for eg how nice the UI is for a particular app)

3: Again, we debate this point all the time. What do you think about the phrasing "What are the different programming languages suitable to learn first?" or something along those lines?

4: Awesome idea, we are going to add additional login options soon, but the idea of bringing in external rep is very interesting!
Screencast: Hole-driven Haskell
After reaching Twitter token limit, Falcon Pro now priced at $132
Is anybody else's Chrome on Mac crashing frequently? I'd like them to fix that first. Also, the whole no Flash on Linux thing.
Designing for Behavioral Change in Health
"Wheat has been a key part of human diet for something like 10,000 years."

Thats an interesting anthropological question. That is almost certainly wrong for almost anyone other than descendants of certain rather small cultural areas. I've always found it interesting how some Roman Empire products like wheat are still very popular while others like garum are not so popular. It might have something to do with garum being really gross and donuts and bread being yummy.

None the less its humorous how narrow minded anthropologically some people are. All of us, and I mean ALL, only have ancestors who lived in Switzerland and drank cow milk and lived in southern Italy and ate bread and pasta and no other cultures nor their descendants exist, just us Europeans...

I genetically resemble that culturally imperialistic outlook on history, but I sometimes wonder just how many generations you'd have to go back on my wife's side to find a nation where basically no one drank milk or ate wheat, or at most it was a weird and unusual snack. I'm thinking only about 3 generations. And now hundreds of pounds of that weird stuff getting shoved down the throat per year, that's gotta be a shock to the carefully evolved gut. Go back 200 years and tell my wife's ancestors that my wife would be expected to consume hundreds of pounds of cow milk products per year, and those ancestors would likely be all "uh, and WTF is a dairy cow?" No 10K years necessary. In fact if you told my parents that I'd be expected to eat 20 pounds of soy per year, they'd sound about the same "uh, and WTF is a soybean?" Its just not part of my ancestry, even my very recent ancestry. In fact I'm almost 100% certain my grandma would have had no idea what a soybean was, and now they're shoved down my throat.

Finally ask any biologist, you've gotta go way the heck further back in history that 10K years to find a common biological ancestor who primarily ate grains (like a proto man-cow, I guess). If a space alien landed, after it got tired of sticking probes in the rears of hillbillies and reading the funny resulting tabloid stories, then the alien started dissecting earth animals, looking at our innards it would probably be pretty surprised to discover we like to tell ourselves we're supposed to be grain eaters. Why those idiots are obviously evolved to eat fruits and nuts and meats, WTF are those idiot earthlings doing eating cow-food like grains?
How crazy would it be if Samsung was looking for a Search Engine? Can you imagine Bing, Blekko, or DDG on all the Samsung phones? Totally cut google out. Things might get interesting in search again.
Because ctdonath proposed nuclear weapons as an exception to the rule that governments shouldn't be exempt from laws and regulations.
Javascript Ambient Drone Generator
You can vote without leaving comments, but you have to create an account to do it.
It seems to happen when a session expires for one of the accounts. I keep my browser open for long periods and almost never reboot, and also have two accounts open, a gmail account and a school account. Generally there is no problem, but...

Scenario 1) I have both open, and log out of my gmail account. It redirects to my school's "goodbye" page. I just reproduced this. Not a huge problem, but indicative of a bigger issue.

Scenario 2) Now log out of the school account. I am greeted with a login for my gmail account. This is pretty close to the problem in Scenario 3, below.

Scenario 3) The real issue. The problem is not so much that it has happened, it's that there is no way to recover if you don't have the password. The other week I logged into my wife's laptop to grab a document from gmail to print, since it was hooked up to the printer. She didn't use it for the next few days. When she went to her work email's address (a .gov domain), it prompted her for my gmail password. There was no way to 'change account' at that point. No way to log out. Go to the .gov domain, get a prompt to login as <me>@gmail.com. No way to authenticate. I couldn't figure it out, and finally just logged in as myself then logged out, after which I was redirected to the .gov boodbye page, but it allowed her to log in after that.

Edit: Scenario 4) Go to www.gmail.com/a/umbc.edu, which the google help pages say is the correct way to go to the school's site. I just tried this, and it sent me to my gmail.com inbox. It is pretty much a crap shoot which mailbox I get when I first load the page. Sometimes it's aware I'm signed in under different IDs, sometimes not, so I can't always change accounts, and must go through login/logout hell to get them clear. Perhaps I could just clear my cookies but I don't like doing this en masse.
Stylebot perhaps?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm...
> A solid guarantee of non-termination of services

If they terminate your account, it's because they had a reasonable suspicion that the account violated their TOS. So I guess this one is actually related to not knowing what the violation was, and accordingly assuming it was for no good reason. I didn't work on the Policy team - I was a dev - but I seriously doubt anyone there could terminate peoples' accounts without reasonable suspicion of a violation and get away with it. The checks and balances are too tight.

> Real customer service

Google does have "real customer service". However, as far as I know, it's reserved for the people who are paying Google money for whatever reason. In general, any of Google's free services have so many tens of millions of users that it would be ludicrous to guarantee any level of service for every single one of them.

As to the general complaint about the very real possibility of being cut off from your data, that's a risk wherever you go. Drives fail, servers get hacked, someone accidentally hits "delete everything" instead of "refresh monitoring dashboard"... etc. At least with Google Take-Out, they make it incredibly easy to download whatever data you have on there periodically for the purpose of doing backups.
These small developments are hugely exciting to me, primarily because they move us a little closer to the inevitable future of biological machines in our bodies.

Imagine little robots that crawl through your veins clearing out cholesterol, or hunting down cancer cells and signaling the immune system to attack them. We'll get there - probably sooner than most people think.
If Samsung had anywhere near the software chops to make this happen, wouldn't even at least their midrange phones run Bada? And the desktop analogy falls flat when you consider the fact that some of the most important apps are well integrated services - maps, Siri/Google Now, Gmail, etc.
First sentence in article: "In New Hampshire, an aerial photography ban has raised more questions than answer as fears regarding drones heat up - measured reaction or overreaction?"
Without any other information, how can you possibly implement max() without going through the whole array?
I think this is awesome, especially since I asked about this exact thing just hours ago before you posted.[0] I'm really excited and I can't wait to see you take off!

[0]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5286601
Ask HN: How do you prepare for PM interviews?
What resources do you use and how do you approach them?
Works best in Chrome. This is just an experiment, please forgive the "works best in _____" clause!
Herding Code 158: Nat Friedman and Joseph Hill announce Xamarin 2.0 (podcast)
> What sort of sites do you think it doesn't apply to?

Single page webapps. In those cases the html/js is normally static and already CDN'ed and the data is a JSON API which varies on a per user basis.

There would be some gain as the dictionary would learn the JSON keys but I doubt it would be very dramatic vs deflate compared to the content sites referenced in the article.
I know there's a part in the ear called the cochlea but I thought the company just added the letter r to the word and made that their name; I didn't know the word existed before the company. Thanks!
Thank you. The unintentional irony of people who've completely misinterpreted a very short, accessible paper and then try to use it to make fun of other people's intelligence...
It doesn't, your translator is wrong.
I think most hiring practices are seriously broken. I love the approach Heineken took in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Ftu3NbivE
Count the number of times he is vague, and count the number of times he quotes people 'familiar with the matter'.

Makes for a poor read and is apt to make the sceptic in me shout 'speculation'!, but hey, maybe this is what passes for news these days.
They silently delete such emails, not mark them as spam.

Also, I've never seen real spam advertising porn - mostly it's fake watches, penis enlargement and fake social media or other identity theft scams.
Archos 80 Titanium: Just Rebadged From China
In the David Sanger article published in the Times attributing Stuxnet to the US/Israel, this bit really struck me -

"One day, toward the end of Mr. Bush’s term, the rubble of a centrifuge was spread out on the conference table in the Situation Room, proof of the potential power of a cyberweapon. The worm was declared ready to test against the real target: Iran’s underground enrichment plant."

And i don't mean to stray off Stuxnet here, but just really quickly: The chosen-prefix collision attack used in signing the Windows Update malware (FLAME) also suspected of being from the US was a never before published variant.

The computing power alone was on the order of $200k, and makes you wonder what else the NSA or the national labs have up their sleeves.
> Physical violence is the last resort for enforcement of all laws.

That's true, but even though all laws are enforced by violence, there's still a notable difference between laws that prohibit violence ("don't murder or else we will use violence against you") and tax laws ("give us money or we will use violence against you").
This guy doesn't seem to have ever stay @ a day inn or something!
Yeah. Samsung makes great hardware, awesome LCD panels etc but their software is not so great (although it's been improving). E.G: Samsung's Smart TV software
> but you can get a job just fine without a degree.

I have a few relatives who are well versed in computers but cannot find employment. I'm sure they would be reassured by your comment.
Not much different, really. The biggest practical difference is that Python generators implement the iterator protocol which means it's possible to easily iterate over them with for loops, etc.
Falcon_android: Twitter emailed me. They refuse to extend the token limit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_traveler

39 countries so far. Plenty of perspective...
Agreed and local government tiers worldwide should STF and stick to the local issues and not get disillusions of grandeur and get involved with things that are above their pay grade - though Germany is even worse their counties have there own secret police FFS.
The fact that Sublime Text 2 is the most upvoted and Emacs only got 2 Votes is baffling.
Fair warning: 2 Scoops definitely assumes some familiarity with how Django works, specifically models, views, templates, and forms. It won't introduce these concepts to you but will help you use them better.

The official Django Tutorial is still a great starting place for getting your head wrapped around that stuff -- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/